... work absenteeism) were not included Hospital service utilisation was determined using standard hospital administrative records and included the number of intensive care and standard care in- patient ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 10 No Vonkeman et al with NSAIDs) with the appropriate pharmacoeconomic information Materials and methods The pharmacoeconomic evaluation was linked to a 26-month ... nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial Ann Int Med 1995, 123:241-249 Vonkeman HE, Fernandes RW, Palen J van der, van Roon EN, Laar MA van de: Proton-pump...
... work absenteeism) were not included Hospital service utilisation was determined using standard hospital administrative records and included the number of intensive care and standard care in- patient ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 10 No Vonkeman et al with NSAIDs) with the appropriate pharmacoeconomic information Materials and methods The pharmacoeconomic evaluation was linked to a 26-month ... nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial Ann Int Med 1995, 123:241-249 Vonkeman HE, Fernandes RW, Palen J van der, van Roon EN, Laar MA van de: Proton-pump...
... comprehensive approach aimed at making the healthy choices available, affordable and attractive involves taking account of mainstreaming nutrition and physical activity into all relevant policies at local, ... putting in place a comparable set of indicators for health status, including in the area of dietary intake, physical activity and obesity IV.4.2 Under the health determinants strand, the Programme ... (calories per gramme) and with a greater role for fat and added sugars in foods; increased saturated fat intake (mostly from animal sources) and excess intake of hydrogenated fats; reduced intakes...
... Education and Training (199 1a) Australia’s Language: The Australian Language and Literacy Policy Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service Department of Employment, Education and Training ... literacy instruction Among those mentioned by van Kraayenoord and Paris as having had a key role in influencing approaches to the teaching of literacy in Australia are Marie Clay (1972), Brian Cambourne ... well as a range of other skills including the interpretation of visual material, the use and understanding of mathematical concepts and notation, computer ‘literacy’, and critical thinking A narrower...
... Argentina Estonia Poland Australia Germany Romania Austria Hungary Russian Federation Bahamas India Saudi Arabia Bangladesh Israel Slovakia Brazil Slovenia Bulgaria Lithuania Turkey Chile New Zealand ... • audit tests to evaluate administrative process, financial and operational activities; and • management performance indicators that are in line with the mission, vision and goals of the organisation ... facilities Retaining minority shares in privatised companies In Hungary, the Herend China Manufacture Company was privatised through a The state retains an agreed percentage of the shares, in management...
... across farms may aid in reduction of viral spread within a region, enhancing the success of areabased control and eradication programs. Suggested reading The information on PRRSV transmissionand biosecurity ... risk of PRRSV introduction to their herds and maintain a high standard of swine health and production on their farms. In addition, broad application ofa comprehensive PRRSV biosecurity program across farms may aid in reduction of viral spread within a region, ... The chamber must also contain an exhaust fan designed to clear all the air in the room ina certain time frame, i.e. 15 minutes, depending on room volume. To aid in evacuating contaminated air, “clean” air is drawn into the chamber ...
... richly parameterizing their model with behavioural and biological data in all of the ways that Sawers and Stillwaggon outline as necessary for a realistic model, although all incorporated some ... parameterize them using biological and behavioural data Since Morris and Kretzschmar had Following the Morris and Kretzschmar papers, a large multi-disciplinary group of statisticians and social scientists ... of absurd parameters is simply wrong; considerable work since then, andin particular, recent work building off of new behavioural and biological data, anda decade of intervening methodological...
... Q, and R each have a value of L, and S have each a value of P has a value of −1 The “Artifact Map” is Fi Fi (m, n) has the form described in [1] We evaluate Wi differently in this paper For clarity, ... temporal artifacts in the halftone videos Therefore, perceptual quantitative measures for evaluating these artifacts are desirable Quantitative assessment of temporal artifacts can facilitate comparison ... USA, January 2000 [13] B Girod, “The information theoretical significance of spatial and temporal masking in video signals,” in Human Vision, Visual processing, and Digital Display, vol 1077 of...
... (W) (4) t back and leading surfaces against the machined surface We can calculate the cutting power also by means Defining the value of individual parts of force F of the torque according to: is ... increase in its value at the beginning of the penetration ofa tool (circular saw) into the cut, then there was a certain decrease in this value, which was caused by the inertia ofa circular saw, and ... dimension of cutting work Ac on condition fer in the tooth profile andin the way of sharpening that the cutting resistance is constant in all phases of The tooth profile and the way of sharpening...
... a subgroup of the normalizer of Γ0 (N) Moreover, any element of Γ+ (N) is 0 an Atkin-Lehner involution of Γ0 (N) Recall that an Atkin-Lehner involution wq of Γ0 (N) is an element of determinant ... (A SA) (A 1 (w)) = A 1 (w) Since v = w, we see that A 1 (w) = A 1 (v) = ∞ Therefore, A 1 SA has two different fixed points Since (A 1 SA)(∞) = ∞ andA 1 SA ∈ N (Γ0 (N)) , A 1 SA = b/h for some integer ... ∗ and therefore a a∗ = ∗ cN/h2 q c N/h2 q ∗ A simple calculation shows that q = q ∗ Then it follows that A 1 T Aand B −1 SB have the same order and therefore T and S have the same order That...
... Hospital antenatal clinic, an urban setting, and also from three rural health units at county level in Ibanda, Bwizibwera, and Kazo, that were each implementing PMTCT Mothers received information about ... urban parts of Mbarara, a district in southwestern Uganda The PMTCT program in Mbarara district started in August 2002 at Mbarara University Hospital, the regional referral hospi- http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/2/1/10 ... number of women pregnant for the first time (prime gravida) was the same in the rural and urban areas Radio ownership was high in both rural and urban areas but higher in urban areas Table shows...
... tomography angiography ofa 59-year-old patient revealed an asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm, anda solitary pelvic kidney, and the composition of the renal vasculature One renal artery originated ... the single fused renal mass lying in the middle of the pelvis and containing two separate, well-formed andof normal size and course collecting systems It was apparent on the one hand that no attempt ... AAA Kaplan et al first presented a patient with a single renal artery arising from the right common iliac artery [7] The AAA was successfully repaired endoluminally with a tube stent graft, and...
... modelling longitudinal data, and the conduct and analysis of controlled trials and interventions in mental health KK Trial Manager for the WebGAD prevention trial and Research Assistant to Professor ... Expertise in statistical analysis and data management of large-scale behavioural research studies, and experience in the design and implementation of longitudinal studies JK Professor Kenardy will ... downloadable from the site during weeks andof the intervention, although they are freely available at any time Mindful Meditation is a type of meditation which involves using awareness of breathing...
... was made by the investigator based on patient report of colour of sputum Statistical analysis Continuous demographic variables were analysed using two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and categorical ... Moraxella catarrhalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus Monitoring of changes in gastrointestinal flora was conducted by collecting rectal swabs from a ... Schering Pharma, lead statistician; Barbara Hampel, Bayer Schering Pharma, clinical lead; and Jeff Alder, Bayer HealthCare, lead microbiologist This study was supported by a research grant from Bayer...
... toxicity A quality review of each RCT was performed by examining details of randomization, generation of random numbers, details of double-blinding procedure, information on withdrawals, and concealment ... DerSimonian R, Laird N: Meta-analysis in clinical trials Control Clin Trials 1986, 7:177-188 Mantel N, Mocarelli P, Marocchi A, Brambilla P, Baretta R: Stratified analysis of multivariate clinical data: ... meta-analysis that has examined the effectiveness of prophylactic antibiotics administered via the respiratory tract against the development of ICU-acquired pneumonia Some data from animal and...
... no efficacy and also by utilising a waning rate [15]) and utilisation ofa vaccine repeat dose at 10 years after first dose, vaccination coverage rates by age, health care costs, vaccination costs, ... QALY and £32,809/QALY gained respectively Another sensitivity analysis assumed a 10-year duration of full vaccine efficacy and, in addition, that 50% of the remaining healthy vaccinated population ... pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (64% [21]) was seen as the absolute maximum attainable vaccine coverage rate for the vaccine against HZ Thus, the selected rate of 40% was perceived to be an attainable...
... severity of coagulation abnormalities in the lungs [10] Such results suggest that the beneficial effects of inhaled APC may result from reversing alterations in coagulation and fibrinolysis, which are almost ... Rezaie AR: Receptors of the protein C activation and activated protein C signaling pathways are colocalized in lipid rafts of endothelial cells Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007, 104: 2867-2872 Mosnier ... activated protein C ameliorates endotoxin-induced lung injury in anaesthetised sheep Crit Care 2009, 13:R51 Kotanidou A, Loutrari H, Papadomichelakis E, Glynos C, Magkou C, Armaganidis A, Papapetropoulos...
... messages Creating and enhancing uniformity of from family and school (regarding rules and messages to parents and children by: availability of food) - Involving parents in environmental and policy ... research provided the rationale for developing a general and standardized intervention framework However, local and cultural adaptation was necessary to make the intervention feasible and to enhance ... cultural adaptation The primary aim of integrating opportunities for cultural adaptation was to implement a culturally equivalent version of the overall intervention framework in all participating...
... Literature review 1.1 Grammar and its status in language teaching 1.1.1 Definition of grammar There have existed various ways of defining grammar - a very common and familiar term in language teaching ... teaching and learning grammar at first- year classes at EPU As mentioned above, the current situation of teaching and learning grammar at first-year classes at EPU is dealt with questions 2-6 in ... understand and memorize a lot of grammar rules, but knowing a lot of vocabulary and grammar rules does not mean that the learners can automatically use the target language for communication To be able...