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... question of representation—the question of what a face means in terms of hiding or expressing some meaning; authenticity remains allusive in a posthuman world of artifice, generating yet another ... health professionals, police, educa-tors, insurance companies, and so on, can begin to assess ‘at risk’ individuals through the profiling of information that can be used by any particular insti-tution. ... take, inviting designers who are aware of their complicity in shaping the ecological environment and the political and influential role that the American National Association of Schools of Art and...
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... budgets, many companies have made incremental changes to plan designs in order to help manage the rising cost of health care. In previous years, these changes have included increases in point -of- care ... informed in choosing health care services. Performance inan Era of Uncertainty | Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health 15 Looking ahead, many companies will provide a soft landing ... workforce planning, administration and nances. This is an important time for employers to revisit their total rewards philosophy and strategy, and understand the kinds of changes that may...
... corrupted. Means of corrupting information are many—ranging from “spoofing,”which means changing the content of information collected and transmitted, to deception, which issimply creating bad information. ... Industrial Revolution in terms of bringing in new and disruptive technologies that drive societal change through their ubiquity and pervasiveness.Since computing and communications go hand in ... detailedsearches, lasting many days, are completed.• Short line of sight. Urban combat occurs inan environment of extremely short lines of sight.Intense firefights between neighboring rooms in a housing unit,...
... syntax. Knowledge of semantic analysis can be localized, and duplication of the same knowledge can be avoided through the use ofan inheritance mechanism. Introducing a new semantic element is ... Kameda,M.; Makinouchi,A. An Experimental Interactive Natural Language Programming System. The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics and Communication Engincerings of Japan, 1984, J67-D(3), ... / paxannter Figure 3. The 8emmtlc nlununts HI Understanding of Japanese KIPS understands Japanese program specifications in two phases. The sentence analysis phase analyzes an input and generates...
... Lauterbach K: An Empiri-cal Study Evaluating the Organization and Costs of HospitalManagement. In Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Infor-mation Systems Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; ... ownershipResults of the univariate analysis showed a significant dif-ference regarding working schedule. Physicians in publichospitals worked significantly longer hours than physi-cians working in private ... start until an inter-observer agreement of 85% was recorded in each medical field.Data analysisAll working events were documented in real time andentered into an Excel database (Microsoft Cooperation®)for...
... gathering and transmitting information will boost productivity in the economy as a whole, pushing wages up and thus making people's time increasingly valuable. No one will be interested in ... piece of information they download) will be a big incentive to make use of electronic intermediaries (and agents in general too) as searching for information and/or services inan "unintelligent" ... it;4. Information Access and Management:Information access and management is an area of great activity, given the rise in popularity of the Internet and the explosion of data available to users....
... operative initialtraining and checking. Pre-hospital ETI is performed atthe discretion of the treating physician, and a variety of anaesthetic drugs are available to facilitate ETI. Writtenguidelines ... headinjuries. Working Group for Neurosurgical Intensive Care of theEuropean Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Intensive Care Med 1998,24:1221-1225.11. Winchell RJ, Hoyt DB: Endotracheal intubation ... Pre-hospital intubation byanaesthesiologists in patients with severe trauma: an audit of aNorwegian helicopter emergency medical service. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency...
... outcome of ZES and PES in unselected patients treated in daily practice remains controversial. The long-term safety of DESs remains in question (10-11). Despite the results of meta-analyses of randomized ... maintain acti-vated and clotting timeof 250 to 300 s. Patients re-ceived intracoronary nitroglycerin (0.1 to 0.2 mg) to achieve maximal vasodilatation before undergoing their initial and ... initial and final angiograms. The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was administered at the operator’s discretion. All patients maintained an- ti-platelet therapy following the procedure...
... therapy, and this change likely played a role in the MACE events observed in the PES and SES cohort. Of those continuing dual antiplatelet therapy, 96% were in the SES cohort, and 93% were in the ... our study and several others in which the SES and the PES have been compared, uncertainty still remains re-garding whether any real difference in clinical out-comes exists. Ong and colleagues8 ... limitations—mainly, the small number of patients, lack of direct randomiza-tion, and relatively low compliance with angiographic follow-up. CONCLUSIONS On the basis of the clinical results of this...
... mucin is a feature of various cancers including cancer of the co-lon [33]. The amino acid analysis of the purified mucin gave high amounts of ‘mucin-like amino acids, serine, threonine and ... proline. Serine and threonine are points of O-glycosylation found in the tandem repeat regions of mucins and their ratios can vary with the site of secretion and whether the organ is in a ... gradient SDS-PAGE of purified mucin stained for protein (Lanes 1-3) or carbohydrate (Lanes 4 and 4). Lane 1: Molecular Weight marker Lane 2 and Lane 4. Purified mucin. Lanes 3 and 5, mucin reduced...
... Japan Industrial Standard Association, Tokyo (in Japanese). Obara, H. and akai, M. (2004). Available phosphate of arable lands in Japan -Changes of soil characteristics in Japanese arable lands ... two-thirds of the land in Japan), delayed thinning of conifer plantations (covering approximately 40% of all forests) due to depopulation and aging of the local population is recognized as one of the ... delayed thinning of conifer plantations was responsible for increased amounts of pollutant runoff, as determined by comparing the pollutant loads from a watershed with delayed thinning and a reference...