... laboratory investigations [8]. Therefore, many
lung transplant programmes use iNO routinely during early
reperfusion ofthe lung. Bearing in mind that the concept of
ischaemia/reperfusion injury in clinical ... an increase in serum protein associated
with an increased small aggregate/large aggregate ratio in
lavage of transplanted lungs. This finding led to the
hypothesis that leakage of plasma protein ... considered. This interesting approach was successful in
the experimental setting of acute lung injury and needs to be
verified in clinical indications other than lung transplantation.
Competing interests
None...
... to them. They roll off the tongue and flow with the blog."
"I see. And what about this one? This one is long, has five words, and they're even
misspelled. Is this a bad domain name? "
"Ponder ... tell me the answer on the last day."
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Table of Contents
The Zen of Blogging 1
What isthe Sound of One Hand Clapping? 2
Table of Contents 3
Up the Mountain 4
Day ... changed. The snow melted away in a brilliant flash
of sunlight. The clean mountain air was filled with the sounds of chirping birds and a
babbling brook. My aching joints and muscles felt the pain...
...
sentences, resulting in a total training set of 4,040k
sentences. We believe that our result is quite
promising for the future of unsupervised parsing.
In putting our best f-score in table 4 into
perspective, ... domain or the LA Times domain.
Although the effect of adding LA Times data is
weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that
the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA
Times domain ... 3 indicates that there is a monotonous
increase in f-score on the WSJ test set if NANC
text is added to our training data in both cases,
independent of whether the sentences come from
the...
... know the price of a mousetrap?
Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts
making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the ...
undertaking a Return on Investment (ROI) without taking into consideration the time value of money,
or where applicable, foreign currency exposure.
The title of this ebook hints at the error in this ... I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud
services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast
majority of...
... smoking, drinking, ex-
ercising and the body mass index - contribute to explaining the gradient. The size
of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of behaviors rather
than ... behaviors inthe immediate past. Inthe former case, we find that the effects
of education on smoking, drinking, exercising and eating a proper diet account for at
most 23% to 45% ofthe entire effect of ... The European Survey of Health, Ageing and
Retirement in Europe (SHARE), theEnglish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
and their retrospective interviews, satisfy these requirements. SHARE is...
... on what entails success inthe
microfinance industry also makes a systematic review of
the evidence ofthe impact of microfinance timely.
And inthe latter half of 2010 the microfinance industry ... Details of 35 studies included inthe map 83
Appendix 4.1: Further details of 15 studies included inthe in- depth synthesis 85
Appendix 4.2: Narrative synthesis of findings relating to the impact of ... Robinson 1995). One
aspect ofthe commercialisation ofthe microfinance
industry is its formalisation, i.e. microfinance institutions
(MFIs) transforming themselves into banks and turning...
... It
is therefore, inmy view, preferable to examine measures of
that kind inthe light ofthe Treaty rules rather than to
remove them from the scope ofthe Treaty.
79
In the light of these ... but this is nothing more than whatthe Treaty on
the Functioning ofthe European Union (and previously the EC
Treaty) actually envisages, and isthe logical consequence of a
finding that the ... access
plays the central role inthe argumentation, the intention ofthe
ECJ is not to revise its view ofthe certain selling arrangements as
expressed in Keck, nor to revise the conditions...
... series of case studies of nine ofthe SSI projects.
In a report of a secondary analysis of all nine case studies, Clune (1998) identified the goals ofthe study as
testing the central thesis of systemic ... perspective ofthe landscape, I believe this is a
fair representation ofthe state of knowledge inthe field. Adding further pieces of high-quality work would
certainly influence the details ofthe story ... is at these other levels one must look to deter-
mine the impact ofthe NSES on the science curriculum inthe nation’s schools.
82 WHATISTHE INFLUENCE OFTHE NSES?
Student Accountability
The...
... is initial rationalisation
policy has the twin benets of minimising tooling sup-
pliers with their distinct varieties of tools, while en-
abling bulk purchase of such tools from the remaining ... inthe nal product isthe result of ‘wetting’
by the liquid present upon sintering. e extent of this
‘wetting’ during liquid-phase sintering, being depen-
dent upon molten binder metal dissolving ... consist of:
ã
Pure ceramic – this isthe traditional tooling in-
sert material, consisting of aluminium oxide. e
alumina is white in colour and is produced by cold
pressing powder in the...
...
Staff training is an integral part ofthe overall development strategy ofthe business.
Staff are not trained or not trained fit isthe main cause leading to the current state enterprises are ... how to maintain working
atmosphere. Because the performance of an individual in a
large organization where the air is due to work or the work
culture ofthe organization that brings
3. Increase ... sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working.
ã
Organisational skills are sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working.
ã
Organizational skills...
... which the
target audience is likely to read, inthe belief that this will
lead to changes in practice. The recognition ofthe failure
of this model has led to greater awareness ofthe role of
other ... number of strategies to facilitate the
implementation of research findings by using these social
influences. One strategy generating considerable interest
is the use of opinion leaders.
Opinion ... was
14.8%.
Discussion
In this study, we have used two different 'off -the- shelf'
methods of identifying opinion leaders across a range of
different professional groups inthe UK. The study utilised
existing...
... and the linea alba, and the VAT was
defined as the distance between the anterior wall of the
aorta and the internal face ofthe recto-abdominal muscle
perpendicular to the aorta. When the aortic ... stringent homeostasis model assessment of
IR (HOMA) cut-off (>or = 1.95 as insulin resistant) [16].
Exclusion criteria were a history of infectious chronic dis-
eases including hepatitis B ... inthe hepatic
parenchyma. Mechanisms involve low-grade inflamma-
tion in adipose tissue that contributes to insulin resistance
(IR) [3]. The pattern of adipose tissue distribution, i.e.,
visceral...
... findings suggest that although the
Zhang: Investigating the Role of Metacognitive Knowledge inEnglish Writing
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(2) English Writing
To gather data on their English writing, the ... address the lack, this paper aims to investigate the role of
metacognitive knowledge intheEnglish writing of Chinese EFL
learners, inthe hope of shedding some light on the teaching and
learning ... English writing. Their negative
beliefs of their ability in using English and their frequent monitoring
of errors concerning spelling and grammar found in this study suggest
that poor English...
... rows decl and int/perif in
table 1), which is not the case in English. While in
English, the verbal complex is placed inthe 2nd
position in declarative, or inthe 1st position in in-
terrogative ... problem:
(6a) I think that the discussion would take place
later this evening.
(6b) I think that the discussion place later this
evening take would.
The English collocation in (6a) consisting of the
verb ... correctly.
Another problem which was often observed in
the baseline isthe omission ofthe verbs in the
German translations. The baseline translation of
the example sentence 3 in table 5 illustrates...
...
(Nuffield Languages Inquiry, 2000). This is also the purpose of those who are learning
English as a foreign language. The widespread ofEnglish leads to a surprising increase
of English learners nowadays, ... the content ofwhat they
are saying rather than the form. They will use a wide variety of language, and the
teacher will not intervene by telling students they have made mistakes in their English ... inEnglish speaking classes. By means of research instruments, the reality of
teaching and learning speaking in general and applying communicative activities in
particular are discovered. The...