... E-SDM) systems was investigated in the fading environment where both TX and RX were fixed, and scatterers were moving during the experiment It is said that the effects of moving scatterers in the ... spectrum in Section for both SISO and MIMO cases To investigate the performance of MIMO E-SDM systemsin actual environments, we first describe the systemsin Section Then, a procedure of applying ... evaluation of the system performance in an indoor timevarying fading environment is given in Section Based on the measured data, the performance of MIMO E-SDM systemsin the environment is evaluated in...
... Faculty ofMedicinein Beira, integrated into the Catholic University There is talk of a third Faculty in Nampula The Beira Faculty ofMedicine is a recently established institution, functioning since ... diversity of health care sectors [2] The training curriculum introduced after independence remained unchanged up to 1982 In 1985, the teaching of several ideological subjects (Marxism-Leninism, and ... being implemented [2] Concerning the selection ofmedical students, there are – in several countries including some in Africa – programmes based on affirmative action aiming to increase the intake...
... Account of the Foxglove and some of its by William Withering 10 ingenious and accomplished Mr Charles Darwin, informed him of its being used by his father and myself, in cases of Hydrothorax, and ... scrophulous tumour of the eye, a remarkable swelling of the upper lip, and painful tumours of the joints of the fingers, much relieved; but the medicine was left off, on account of its violent effects ... be cautious of its use, for it is of a vomiting nature In these things begin sparingly, and increase the dose as the patient's strength will bear, least, instead of a sovereign medicine, you real...
... Account of the Foxglove and some of its by William Withering 10 ingenious and accomplished Mr Charles Darwin, informed him of its being used by his father and myself, in cases of Hydrothorax, and ... scrophulous tumour of the eye, a remarkable swelling of the upper lip, and painful tumours of the joints of the fingers, much relieved; but the medicine was left off, on account of its violent effects ... be cautious of its use, for it is of a vomiting nature In these things begin sparingly, and increase the dose as the patient's strength will bear, least, instead of a sovereign medicine, you real...
... shows the effect of using linear (two-point) interpolation to fill in a sinusoid of period At the top are three traces: the original sinusoid, the linearly-interpolated result of using points per period ... all of whose energy lies in overtones of the original sinusoid As the number of points increases, the error gets smaller in magnitude Since the error is the difference between a sinusoid and a ... INTERPOLATION 41 original best fit interpolated −1 0.2 0.1 error −0.1 −0.2 Figure 2.11: Linear interpolation of a sinusoid: (a) the original sinusoid, the interpolated sinusoid, and the best sinusoidal...
... established an Institute for Training and Research inFamily Planning (ITRFP) in Alexandria in 1972 This was the first institute in the Middle East and North Africa providing specialised training in the ... training in the field of population andfamily planning It has since become involved in training for reproductive health and rights, and was involved in some of the youth 37 UNFPA and IPPF Evaluation: ... the central office and the partner Institution for Research and Training inFamily Planning (ITRFP), in terms of designing manuals for training young people High turnover of staff at senior levels...
... security and reliability ofelectronic voting systems, including improving voting system standards, developing a process to facilitate testing systems against the standards, and supporting state and ... producing printed records for election auditing, and meeting vote counting error rates);16 upgrading systemsin general; improving the administration of elections; or educating voters and training ... voting equipment for use in casting and tabulating votes Election day activities include opening and closing polling places and assisting voters in casting votes GAO-02-3 Page GAO-05-956 Electronic...
... which also include maintaining availability and security of the file collection over time Production and management ofelectronic documents - Digitizing printed documents: options and choices ... of scanning and OCR software: (http://www.readiris.com) OmniPage website: example of scanning and OCR software: (http://www.omnipage.com) FineReader website: example of scanning and OCR software: ... project planning and management for digitizing and providing intranet access to exam papers Production and management ofelectronic documents - Digitizing printed documents: options and choices...
... DOCUMENTS The process of converting a stack of books and magazines into a set ofelectronic documents includes the following phases: 1) Registering the documents SCANNING 2) Scanning the documents ... process and that are ready for spellchecking and layout Final Final Documents that are in final format and can be returned Production and management ofelectronic documents - From hardcopy to electronic ... editor, publisher and publication date are all included For chapters in a book, also include the title and author of that chapter and the original page numbers in the printed version of the book For...
... to support usersin finding and accessing documents in easily understood ways STORAGE PROVIDING ACCESS Production and management ofelectronic documents - Creation and processing ofelectronic ... increases, the process she follows for creating and delivering documents is becoming obsolete In fact, it is mainly for delivering documents in print and unlikely to favour electronic dissemination ... contact Production and management ofelectronic documents - Creation and processing ofelectronic files - page 15 Maintaining the workflow Once you have the standards, tools and roles in place, how...
... enrolment and obtaining informed consent, an explanation of the handling of the QL-recorder to participating patients, interpretation and use of results during the consultation Training sessions ... practice, (ii) training of practice assistants and physicians in handling the electronic equipment and interpreting HRQoL scores, andin effi- What barriers may hinder wider application of this approach? ... routine medical care: cient provision of instructions and information to patients, (iii) continued analysis of any barriers affecting the usability of HRQoL data in daily medical practice and...
... association of painful DPN with sleep impairment [15] The present study examines perceptions of sleep in an international clinical trial aimed at evaluating the efficacy and safety of the pregabalin, ... neuropathic pain had interfered with their sleep It consists of a single-item with an 11-point numerical rating scale, ranging from (pain does not interfere with sleep) to 10 (pain completely interferes ... weekly mean sleep interference score and the weekly mean pain score at baseline were used to define groups of patients differing in severity Since patients had to have pain at baseline to qualify...
... Journal of Mechanical Engineering Qingsong Xu received the B.S degree in mechatronics engineering (with honors) from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2002, and the M.S degree in ... terms of kinematic modeling and optimization, workspace determination, dynamic modeling, and so on, which will be performed in detail in the following sections III KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEDICAL ... economic point of view, the simpler the architecture of a TPM, the lower will be the cost In view of the complexity of the TPM topology, including the number of mechanical joints and links and their...
... cases should be studied and included in an Ishikawa diagram to remind clinicians of relevant information during their clinical reasoning processes For example, the Journal ofMedical Case Reports ... evidence-based medicine edition London: Arnold; 2001 Vandenbroucke JP: In defense of case reports and case series Ann Intern Med 2001, 134:330-334 Kidd M, Hubbard C: Introducing journal ofmedical case ... Starting with a clinical vignette, facilitators can help medical students and junior doctors to identify the main presenting problem of a patient, conduct brainstorming sessions and search in the literature...
... talked about the importance of offering practical support, often in the form of transporting clients to appointments and acted as an advocate within Turning Point in establishing a no-cost treatment ... friendly and dependable Continuity of care in terms of seeing the same treating doctors and nurses and building relationships was viewed as a key advantage of HCL Having the HLC embedded within a ... themes and issues using Nvivo 7™ The evaluators presented findings from the qualitative interviews to a panel of experts including key members of the HLC team and experts in HCV, addiction medicine...
... is due to the parameter settingsin scanning and personal criteria of defining boundaries (4) Artifacts and noise [16] Noise and artifacts are introduced in the process of image acquisition These ... using the thin plate spline model and the minutia point correspondences between pairs of fingerprint impressions In order to obtain the template or “baseline” model that is representative of ... has a higher intensity 29 In the following example, we are interested in obtaining a set of disjoint regions that correspond to individual bone and background A CT image of the spine (Figure 3.2...
... aspects of daily nursing andmedical routine Arrows demonstrate periods of nursing handover (red, up-pointing arrows), the beginning and end of the daily medical shift (green, down-pointing arrows), ... analysis of the level of utilization of a MET service over a 24-hour period and found a significant increase in the number of MET calls around periods of nursing handover and routine nursing observation ... Conclusion In our institution, peak levels of MET service utilization occur around the time of routine nursing observations and nursing handover, and the majority of calls occur after hours Our findings...
... provide written informed consent Use of other natural health products, including glucosamine and chondroitin, one month prior to study and during the study, other than multivitamin and mineral supplements ... containing vitamins and minerals as the sole medicinal ingredients Use of concomitant prohibited medication (narcotics, oral NSAIDs, topical NSAIDs) within four weeks of randomization Use of acetaminophen ... instructed to take two “sugar pills” in the morning to protect blinding and two UC-II capsules in the evening accounting for a daily dose of 40 mg UC-II containing 10 mg of bioactive undenatured type...
... chlorinated, dechlorinated, and then discharged Figure is a photograph of the algae growing in the launders The algae are a combination of several coexisting species including Cladophora sp and ... Healthcare, Bucks, England, UK) between the wavelengths of 400 and 700 nm in increments of 10 nm The peak absorption of light in the red portion of the spectrum was between 650 and 680 nm, and light at ... cells and analyzing its quality, (iii) increasing the quantity of algal oil to generate a reasonable amount of biodiesel fuel, and (iv) conversion of algal oil into a usable fuel Collection of filamentous...
... and on the system total cost; (iii) ranking of system components into main, secondary, and remainder; (iv) identification of the predominant cost (exergy destruction or investment) for main and ... end of the procedure, Xf = (x1,f, x2,f,…, xn,f), contains the final values of the decision variables, and is associated with the final value OFf; of course, OFf is improved relative to OF0 Indeed, ... that a final design point is obtained The initial point is generically denoted by X0 = (x1,0, x2,0,…, xn,0), and possesses an associated value of the objective function, OF0 The point obtained at...