... number of equally spaced time periods The order in which the participating hospitals receive the intervention (i.e., enter the ‘active’ phase) will be determined at random and, by the end ofthe random ... collaborative goals and objectives, and to outline the rationale behind therapeutic hypothermia The passive phase will occur according to the stepped wedge timeline, and marks the start of study participation ... translate the guideline to the bedside and increase the use of therapeutic hypothermia in all eligible patients (’cooling kits,’ checklists, reminders, stickers for cold intravenous fluids, and defibrillators)...
... absorption or scattering and offer promising clinical application especially inthe area of cancer imaging by increasingly proving themselves to offer alternative angles in examining the same biological ... z-stacks of a series of confocal optical sectioning of CNE2 cells shown on the top and right side ofthe en face image show the staining on the cross section side profile ofthe cells The top and ... Optical imaginginbiopsy Amongst the various imaging tools available for use in laboratory research or clinical imagingof pathological conditions such as cancer, optical imaging finds its niche in...
... teaching speaking, andthe significance of teaching speaking Also, concepts related to CLT, types of CAs used in teaching speaking, andthe roles of teachers and students in speaking classes, interactions ... role in CLT as “negotiator – between the self and learning process andthe object of learning – emerges from and interacts with the role of joint negotiator within the group and within the classroom ... at exploring the effectiveness of CAs in teaching and learning speaking skills and how they improve the language interaction of students in speaking lesson as well as how they have influence...
... Knowledge managementof software engineering lessons learned, in Proc 10th Int Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE98, 1998 41 R Bergmann and M Găker, Developing industrial ... process improvement in software engineering: The Software Experience Center, in Software Quality: State ofthe Art in Management, Testing and Tools, eds M Wieczorek and D Mayerho, Springer Verlag, ... ask whether the introduction of a knowledge management system improves the quality of software, only one ofthe studies, from the Software Engineering Laboratory gives a clear answer Asking if...
... depending on the type of peer teaching activity being undertaken These include: levels of formality and informality, emphasis on individual or group learning, and learning goals of individuals and ... reviewing, organizing, and consolidating existing knowledge and material; understanding its basic structure; filling inthe gaps; finding additional meanings; and reformulating knowledge into ... over another, the relationship between today’s task andthe rest ofthe programme, the choice of doing the task in groups or individually, inthe classroom or inthe self-study centre; the arrangement...
... assigned the class ofthe majority ofthe items which reached it during training The trees were grown using recursive partitioning; the splitting criterion was reduction in deviance Using the Gini index ... From the complete set of documents, we constructed three pairs of training and test sets for training the feature classifiers The test sets are mutually disjunct; each of them contains positive and ... overfitting We varied both the number of codebook vectors (10,20,50,90) andthe initialisation procedure: during one set of runs, each class receives the same number of vectors, during the other, the...
... result ofthe linearity inthe rules, the stack ~/a associated with the object inthe left-hand side ofthe derivation andthe stack j3cJ associated with one ofthe objects inthe right-hand side ... follows Let the state set of M be the nonterminal and terminal alphabet of Gw: i.e., Q = VN U VT The initial state of MG, is the start symbol of Gw, i.e., q0 - S' The input alphabet of MG, is the stack ... from the initial state of M e , The set of states reachable from the initial state includes only the set of nonterminals in objects that are the distiguished descendent ofthe root node in some...
... second within that story Correlates indicates the story inthethe number ofthe sentence 316 seeing for t h e first time The relative clause, on the other hand, is more presuppositionaL The writer ... material andin their pref~ence for certain forms to convey grounding The literary style of a discourse will therefore influence the design of automatic text processing programs The style of news ... adverbials The following main clauses use the present perfect, but since they are non-initial, the states and events referred to in them must have occurred before the main event inthe story ("O'Neill...
... Albert, and Hernando A Mispireta Thanks to Alex and Kathleen for sharing their story ofthe loss of their daughter andthe wonderful photographs ofthe rituals they used to help inthe healing process ... initial planning, organization, and setting up ofthe group This initial stage can easily be bypassed inthe interests of time andthe desire to begin the group The time spent in planning, however, ... symptoms may be the way the body and mind deals with the shock and seeks release ofthe energy of grief Bereaved people often find themselves questioning their beliefs in God and their assumptions...
... to investigate the reality of using teaching aids, kinds of teaching aids and how to use these aids effectively in teaching English It explores the benefits andthe difficulties of using teaching ... children In theory, it hopes to find out the reality of using teaching aids in teaching English, the most commonly used kinds of teaching aids as well as the ways of using these aids effectively In ... interaction is occurring) They can see and hear the attitude ofthe persons involved (the interlocutors) They can hear the linguistic registers andthe appropriateness ofthe language within the situation...
... during the experiment Inthe case ofthe species Sorbus sudetica, growth could be favourably influenced by the actual determination ofthe acidic environment during the hydrolysis of agar The ... very Comparing cultures in sand andin agar J FOR SCI., 53, 2007 (2): 88–92 After the completion of cultivation, it was determined that when using sand, the starting pH of 5.8 remained essentially ... was used in laboratories ofthe North-Bohemian Museum in Liberec and later also ofthe Botanic Gardens in Liberec I consider the following properties as the principal advantages ofthe described...
... table and figure Only one ofthe authors, JEB, a psychiatrist in training at the time ofthe study, was aware ofthe registration of time from the senior psychiatrists decision to the actual day of ... non-payment of rent, destructive and disturbing behaviour) The patients waiting inthe acute wards used the services ofthe department to the same extent as the other patients, they were not "idly waiting" ... observed for instance inthe airline business If waiting is necessary, we should avoid waiting at the most expensive slots inthe chain, i.e in acute wards for psychiatric treatment[14] The financial...
... They then experience a process of grief andthe acceptance of pharmacotherapy seems to coincide with the acceptance ofthe psychiatric diagnosis It is the final proof of what they fear They realize ... inform the parents on the efficacy and safety of treatment, and then take into consideration the opinions and attitudes ofthe family Only by paying attention to the desires, fears and beliefs of ... may change the attitude ofthe parents is whether they themselves would accept medication [13,14] Inthe literature there are only a few reports regarding the attitudes and opinions ofthe general...
... determine rejoining without the inference ofthe apoptosis Figure illustrates the effect of abrogating apoptosis in NP18 cells from a xenograft, showing clear differences between initial and residual ... importantly inthe conception, design ofthe study and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing ... without the interference of apoptosis On the other hand, the intensity of apoptosis could be easily estimated by subtracting the total DNA released in unirradiated zvd-treated cell-plugs from the...
... followed the law of disminishing returns as shown in figure Finally, the relative advantage of higher number of alleles also increased as both the number of candidates andthe number of markers increased ... as minimizing the variance of family sizes The use of minimum coancestry matings is another important tool for delaying the loss of heterozygosity and is especially efficient for maintaining the ... one to increase the efficiency of conservation methods Chevalet and Rochambeau [8] proposed a selection using an index equal to the inverse ofthe product ofthe frequencies ofthe alleles and more...
... generation of selection This increased rates of gain by 64% inthe first generation of selection Increased numbers of offspring per dam Inthe previous situations, the number of offspring per dam ... generations The response inthe first generation of MAS comes from the estimates ofthe paternal and maternal QTL alleles ofthe animals in generation - 1, which are based on the EBV of their sires and ... predictions of rate of gain from the many alleles model are reasonably accurate, but the longer term rates of gain depend on the number of alleles, the distribution of allele effects, andthe initial...
... ranked in 17th position on the socioeconomic and infrastructural development index, 22nd inthe Health and Development Index and 42 nd inthe Health institutions density among 75 districts in Nepal ... pain near the side of heart Infections Infected wounds, skin wounds, wounds, infection, infection diseases Pain Headache, stomachache, rheumatism, body pain, leg pain, backbone pain, joint pain, ... included tortoise bones andthe horn and urine ofthe Himalayan musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) The Amchi traditional method of maintaining the good quality of herbal medicine is unique For centuries,...
... representative ofthe dominant society reminding Aboriginal people of their loss of cultural knowledge, access to the traditional healing system, bush medicine and other healing processes repairs some ofthe ... Aboriginal women if they had the responsibility of taking care of their children and grandchildren, impacting on the choices made between using traditional healing and medicine so that they did ... may assist and support the improvement and sustainability of Aboriginal Traditional medicine and healing in Australia Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...
... myoepithelial carcinomaofthe right maxillary sinus Patient suffering from a myoepithelial carcinomaofthe right maxillary sinus After resection ofthe tumor the transport of tears into the nasal ... option in these patients To get an optimal outcome, we recommend marking ofthe sweating area by Minor's test and then dividing the sweating area in "boxes" using a waterproof pen The injections ... Botox® The number and locations of points depend on the individual character ofthe disorder in each single patient An important, increasing field of application is the use of BTA in different pain...
... participated inthe design ofthe study, inthe collection, analysis and interpretation of data (CD was the statistician for the study), inthe writing ofthe manuscript andinthe decision to submit the ... the design ofthe study, inthe collection, analysis and interpretation of data (CD was the statistician for the study), inthe writing ofthe manuscript, inthe decision to submit the manuscript ... histogram indicating the appearance in normal lung andin emphysema, andthe derivation ofthe densitometric indices that were used inthe current study 15th percentile point is defined as the cut-off...