... African countries, notably Angola, Kenya, Madagascar, and Namibia, where there is room for negotiation between the central bank and the government In Asia and the Pacific, there are some important ... this law will establish the remuneration, duration and procedures for repayment of all assistance granted to the State as at that date Saudi Arabia Title: Charter of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency ... than its own direct transactions Middle East Azerbaijan Title: The Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the National Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan Chapter III Relations of the National Bank...
... study [1], the patients were carefully stabilized and CBF was in the normal range CBF values are expected to vary considerably due to sedation and the age of the included patients, and in my opinion ... with the methods used Therefore, in my opinion, the fact that global CBF was normal at the time of measurement does not add to our understanding of SAD Whatcan CO2 reactivity tell us? CO2 reactivity ... Nevertheless, assuming that disturbed cerebrovascular reactivity is a consequence rather than the cause of SAD, it could inform on the extent of the effect of inflammatory mediators on the brain Investigations...
... replication; and we have already mentioned the HA and the NA, and members of the viral polymerase complex Apart from their effects on viral infectivity and replicative capacity, the way that these ... comparatively recent Any vaccine that is capable of some replication has the advantage that it can be used at lower titer, but the disadvantage that its safety is less secure than that of a killed ... disease in humans infected directly from birds, but have not to date been transmitted between humans What determines whether new animal virus variants that can pass from animals to humans can also...
... G, Blajchman MA, Marshall J, Martin C, Pagliarello G, Tweeddale M, Schweitzer I, Yetisir E, the Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care Investigators for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group: ... that this was the case In the ABC study transfused patients were older, had a lower baseline hemoglobin, had higher Sepsis-related and Organ Failure Assessment scores and Acute Physiological and ... transfusions JAMA 2003, 289: 1941-1949 Leal-Noval SR, Jara-Lopez I, Garcia-Garmendia JL, Marin-Niebla A, Herruzo-Aviles A, Camacho-Larana P, Loscertales J: Influence of erythrocyte concentrate storage...
... ratios relative to funding thresholds and an analysis of the quality of evaluations From this work wecan for instance map the areas subject to economic evaluation in Australia against the existing ... arrangements in guiding the health sector towards a more efficient allocation of resources across modalities and across diseasestage [16] Abbreviations used A$ : Australian Dollar; ABS: Australian ... appropriate (marginal, clearly described, sources of price and quantity data cited) or inappropriate Each evaluation was rated as having sensitivity analysis performed or not performed Data abstraction...
... advocate the social and political equality of men and women As an animal behaviorist, I want to learn as much as I canaboutwhatthe animals I observe are actually doing, and why In both of these ... other process, or whatwecan say about how and why they developed I examine a range of views as to their possible adaptive significance and the state of research into parallel behaviors—and the ... aboutwhatthe sexes are like can potentially change our ideas aboutwhat it means to be male and female Information aboutwhat particular animals really exposes some stereotypes that, I have argued,...
... events; and even then, we usually find the inconsequential errors When Berger and Kichak [3] analyzed studies by Bates et al [4,5] and focused on consequential errors, they found the reality is that ... Berger and Kichak [3] make the critical point that studies of prescribing errors overwhelmingly count errors that not affect patients We almost always count potential errors, not actual adverse ... consider that among CPOE systems’ many virtues is their ability to reduce errors that seldom reach patients (which neither negates their many valuable contributions nor precludes their extraordinary...
... Lechloer and Theresa Pharms Thanks to graduate research assistants Sho (Lisa) Ngai, Meghan Sullivan, Norbismi Nordin, Brian Depew, Zahra Meghani, and William Hannah and undergraduate research assistants ... distinction between the work of stakeholders and that of analysts Stakeholders also analyze the situation; analysts have some stake in the situation 18 WhatCan Nanotechnology Learnfrom Biotechnology? ... social, legal, and ethical2 impacts of a controversial set of technologies? What issues stem from these impacts? Are there unambiguous answers to these issues? WhatCan Nanotechnology Learn from...
... heater along the axial direction, and an asymmetrical one with the upper end of the thermocouple placed at the same axial height as the heater and a lower reference, placed at a certain distance ... approaching a circle Whatcan be learned fromthe analysis of such ellipses? 3.2.1 Evaluation of sap flow from infrared heat field images There are basically two phenomena involved in the dynamics of the ... so far away perpendicular to the sap flow axis, because it is transported along with the sap Figure (A) Mathematical representation of an ellipse in standard (right part of an ellipse) and polar...
... requires that a body of evidence is available to allow the appropriate calculations As the rather disparate examples in Figures to show, it is unusual to have a coherent set of data available for a single ... J, Saperas E, Santolaria S, Rodrigo L, Balanzo J, Bajador E, Almela P, Navarro JM, Carballo F, Castro M, Quintero E, Investigators of the Asociacion Espanola de Gastroenterologia (AEG): A nationwide ... in the data, and the table additionally shows the rate and frequency of additional events The calculations used a mortality rate of 10% for gastrointestinal bleeding and 30% for cardiovascular...
... this article as: Fattah et al.: The lateral trauma position: Whatwe know about it and how we use it? A cross-sectional survey of all Norwegian emergency medical services Scandinavian Journal of ... Trauma 2005, 58:933-9 Berlac P, Hyldmo PK, Kongstad P, Kurola J, Nakstad AR, Sandberg M: Prehospital airway management: guidelines froma task force fromthe Scandinavian Society for Anaesthesiology ... the use of LTP At the same time, minimal changes to the spinal position may be harmful to the trauma patient The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent LTP is actually used on patients,...
... 2000) Learners are expected to deal with data in significant contexts and should take a critical stance on the analysis and interpretation of data, and especially the abuse, of data and statistics ... Franỗaise de Statistique (SFdS), Avril/April 2010 ► RECHERCHES ET PERSPECTIVES Training teachers to teach statistics: whatcanwelearnfrom research ? characteristics of a mathematical model are ... reason about real-world data It is important that teachers are able to (a) recognize what concepts can be addressed through a particular data set, and (b) implement effective learning in the classroom...
... categorizing failures, particularly operator error, can be tricky For example, was reimaging the backup machine after the primary had failed really an operator error, if the operator was unaware that the ... configuration and system state before and after each change, who or what made the change, why they made the change, and exactly what changes they made would help operators understand how a problem ... accompanied the problem reports The data presented in this paper was therefore gathered by reading the operator narrative for each problem report, rather than accepting the pre-analyzed database data...
... make the data public 1.3 Long-Range Energy Forecasts are Not Validatable Hodges & Dewar (6) distinguish between whatthey call validatable and nonvalidatable models In their terminology, validatable ... identical An additional difficulty in assessing the risk associated with policies based on forecasts is that experts usually cannot evaluate the probability that a forecast was based on a flawed model ... such as solar and biomass Each participant was asked to rate each study fromthe perspective of analytical strength, attention (from the media), and impact, assigning letter grades fromA (highest)...
... 10/24/03 What should weabout missing data? Page 13 of 60 are dropped In addition, it can lead to biased coefficient estimates if any of the above assumptions are violated For the LAMP data and our ... not a standard component of the major statistical packages, although macros are available for several Most packages have readily employed tools for randomization and internal sampling, which allow ... miss_pap_final_24oct03.doc Last revised 10/24/03 What should weabout missing data? Page 23 of 60 Bayesian bootstrapping requires an algorithm to generate the bootstrap samples (these are available either as features...
... years years Math* years years years years Lab Science** years years years years Foreign Language years years years years Academic Electives years years years years * selected from algebra I, algebra ... of Financial Aid Since we already discussed the more than $122 billion in financial aid, we should point out a few facts aboutthe types of aid that are awarded You can receive financial aid in ... Biology? Then we get to the real-life examples of people who majored in bio as undergraduates and are now working in related careers Here we ll ask them to talk about their lives They ll explain what...
... therapy elicits malignant progression of tumors to increased local invasion and distant metastasis Cancer Cell 2009;15(3):220–31 Marathe SA, Dasgupta I, Gnanadhas DP, Chakravortty D Multifaceted ... Curcumin treated DCs are not only immature, they are also maturation resistant This means that curcumin treated DCs not mature under inflammatory conditions Maturation resistant DCs can find application ... was associated to earlier progression to malignancy [15] These studies revealed that curcumin was able to decrease the paraprotein level in about half the patients having a high concentration...
... 2 Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology / Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 2006 References DOI 10.2310/7480.2006.00005 Minegishi Y, Lavoie A, Cunningham-Rundles C, et al Mutations in AID in patients ... with hyper IgM syndrome Clin Immunol 2000;97:203–10 Zhu Y, Nonoyama S, Morio T, et al Type two hyper-IgM syndrome caused by mutation in ...
... resistance In these cases, the airway pressure may be allowed to drop below PEEP to facilitate expiratory flow The advantages or disadvantages of this method remain to be elucidated New modes and ... direct measurement of tracheal pressure and triggering fromthe tracheal signal This method has been proposed by many, and advanced by the group from Gainesville [7] Additionally, although the lung ... coworkers [11] failed to show any advantage of ATC over PSV or T-tube trials This would appears to support the findings of Maeda and colleagues One issue not addressed in the study by Maeda and coworkers...
... http://labs.ripe.net/ipv6day Raw data availability – http://labs.ripe.net/datarepository/datasets/ripe-ncc-active-measurements-of-worldipv6-day-dataset Robert Kisteleki 21 Conclusions - whatwe learned ... Raw data: Dan Wing (http://banjo.employees.org/~dwing/aaaa-stats.html) Robert Kisteleki 18 Long term effects - Content • Linear extrapolation: – • Exponential extrapolation: – • ~ an IPv6 year ... NCC Measurements - World IPv6 Day • IPv6 Eyechart and 6to4 (not in this talk) • Active measurements – Sources: 40 vantage points (RIPE TTM, CAIDA Ark, ) – Destinations: 53 participant or already...