what is the cost effectiveness of imaging in children with occult spinal dysraphism
báo cáo hóa học: " A radial basis classifier for the automatic detection of aspiration in children with dysphagia" doc
... (2) In the above, ni is the observed frequency in the ith bin, and ˆ mi is the expected frequency in the same bin under the null hypothesis of a normal amplitude distribution Dispersion ratio Dispersion ... observation of swallow initiation In this manner, the time code on the analog video corresponded to the time index of the digital recording of the vibration signal Methods Representation of swallowing ... aspiration is especially prominent in children with dysphagia, occurring in an estimated 94% of that population [11] The occurrence of diffuse aspiration bronchiolitis in children with dysphagia is generally...
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Báo cáo y học: "Impact of the introduction of new vaccines and vaccine wastage rate on the cost-effectiveness of routine EPI: lessons from a descriptive study in a Cameroonian health district" potx
... FIC since no dose of Penta was administered With the cost of vaccines and consumables ignored, the cost per FIC for the district remains higher with the outreach strategy, and with the cost for ... http://www.resource-allocation.com/content/9/1/9 Page of Figure The Map of Cameroon showing the ten regions coverage and efficiency This is because the quantity of vaccines is determined by the central level on the basis of administrative ... Figure The Average cost per FIC, Dose Administered and Dose Used in FCFA Discussion One of the main findings of this study is that vaccine coverage is lower for the outreach strategy than for the...
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What Is the Cognitive Neuroscience of Art… and Why Should We Care? ppt
... fields; raising the profile of aesthetics and the philosophy of art within the profession of philosophy; collaborating with academic societies of aesthetics in other countries; fostering common interests ... We ask: is there a role for touching in the aesthetic division of labour, which is indisputably dominated by the seeing and hearing that seem to safeguard the distance between the work of art ... functions in the brain, but it would be a mistake to see this as the primary goal of this research Part of the problem has to with the way neuroimaging findings are reported, especially in the media...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "What is the Minimal Set of Fragments that Achieves Maximal Parse Accuracy?" potx
... side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of r corresponds to the frontier labels of t Indices link the rules to the original subtrees so as to maintain the subtree's internal ... accuracy.) 4.4 The impact of structural context Instead of investigating the impact of lexical context, we may also be interested in studying the importance of structural context We may raise the question ... seen, there may be several distinct derivations that generate the same parse tree The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum of the probabilities of its distinct derivations Let tid be the...
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The Cost-Effectiveness of Military Advertising - Evidence from 2002-2004 ppt
... the advertising as reported by Nielsen) is highly correlated with the general cost in ation reported by the Television Bureau of Advertising 6 The Cost- Effectiveness of Military Advertising: Evidence ... Bureau of Advertising and reflect the changing cost for inserting a 30-second television spot as well as the diminishing prime time audience reached by that ad Over the last 17 years, the cost of ... larger portion of the budget to magazine advertising, and increasing the total advertising budget During this time period, the Army was hurt by competing Service programs In comparison with earlier...
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Báo cáo y học: "Dynamic models of immune responses: what is the ideal level of detail" pptx
... pathogenesis and pathogen time-courses The number of components [7,36] that can be modeled is smaller than in discrete models because of the increase in the number of parameters The state of the variables ... relationships; this issue is dealt with by the techniques of reverse engineering [40] Observations taken at many time-points minimize the uncertainty about the behavior between the observations The availability ... combinations are compatible with the existing experimental knowledge on the pathogenesis The distribution of the parameter values for each immune component in the model tells us about its role in...
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Claudin 1 is the direct target of RUNX3 in gastric epithelial cells
... function in the sealing of the TJ (142) The crucial task of claudins in the TJs was highlighted by the following evidence Firstly, claudin-1 co-localizes with occludin in the most apical regions of the ... and the myosinbinding molecule cingulin (150-152) Claudins bind to the PDZ-domain-containing proteins such as ZO-1, -2 and -3 through its PDZ-binding motif at the C-terminal region As ZO proteins ... the other hand, was found to be down-regulated in the intestinal type of gastric cancer (167) All these reports pointed to the link of the diminished level of claudins and gastric carcinogenesis...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Health-related quality of life in children with cystic fibrosis: validation of the German CFQ-R" potx
... health state at the time of questionnaire administration is available in 112 of the 136 children included in the study Since there is only one child with severe disease, only two disease severity ... tools for including schoolchildren in the analysis of HRQoL in patients with cystic fibrosis http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/97 This study tests the psychometric properties of the revised German ... impacts of a disease on daily life, they allow investigations in large populations Considering the advances in CF therapy and with regard to the recent increase in interest in PROs, the German CFQ-R,...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Measuring health-related quality of life in children with cancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module" pdf
... the same factor, reducing the number of factors to In mainland China, parents generally believe that the fear of injection, surgery or other invasive treatments is the main reason why their children ... institution was involved in the analysis of interpretation of data, in writing the article, or in the decision to submit the paper for publication The authors are indebted to all participating practitioners ... to the design of the study, the conception and interpretation of the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript SYC conducted the statistical analysis, contributed to the interpretation of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "A phase I radiation dose-escalation study to determine the maximal dose of radiotherapy in combination with weekly gemcitabine in patients with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma" doc
... because of the evidence of evolutive disease with a gastric outlet obstruction and in another patient because of persisting inoperability at exploratory laparotomy In the remaining three patients, there ... (MTD) of escalating doses of RT delivered concurrently with a fixed dose of gemcitabine (300 mg/m2) administered on a weekly basis within the same overall treatment time in patients with borderline ... achieved by increasing the fraction size in increments of 0.2 Gy, keeping the duration of radiation constant at weeks The starting dose was 30 Gy (in Gy fractions) and the final dose investigated...
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Báo cáo y học: "The Nordic maintenance care program: what are the indications for maintenance care in patients with low back pain" pot
... written in bold, and where the majority of the practitioners agree with the research team, the answer is also in italics The use of maintenance care based on patients with a history of one episode of ... program is being conducted in the Nordic countries trying to illuminate the use of, the indications for, and the efficiency of MC So far, it has been determined, that there is a large degree of consensus ... and"mainstream” use of MC Neither the demographic data nor the use of MC was associated with the" mainstream” answers in the analyses Discussion The results of this study indicate that our study...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Effect of dexamethasone on quality of life in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a prospective observational study" pdf
... now reaching about 80% With increased survival rates, issues concerning the Quality of Life (QoL) of these children become increasingly relevant This is reflected in the steady rise in studies ... performed the statistical analyses, drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript MG: participated in the coordination of the study, ... However, since the peak incidence of childhood ALL is in young children, obtaining self reports will be a continuing problem in QoL studies during treatment Although it would have interesting to...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life in children with newly diagnosed cancer: a one year follow-up study" pptx
... conducted with pediatric cancer patients during the acute phase of the disease, i.e., during ongoing oncological treatment Taken together, these studies suggest that HRQOL in children during therapy is ... more boys taking part in the study This is consistent with findings of several international cancer registries [18] Most families were from the upper- or middle-class, probably due to the language ... toxicity during the initial induction phase of their treatment protocol This particular toxicity is less pronounced for children undergoing treatment protocols for brain tumors This is the first...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Double disadvantage: a case control study on health-related quality of life in children with sickle cell disease" potx
... Proportions of children with SCD and healthy siblings with impaired HRQoL (≥1 SD below the mean of the Dutch norm population of the KIDSCREEN-52) The dotted line represents the 16% of children in the ... [22] for comparison of the proportion of children with SCD with impaired HRQoL to the proportion of children in the Dutch norm population In the Dutch norm population, 16% of children have impaired ... examine whether reduced HRQoL in children with SCD is related to consequences of the disease or to the low SES of most patients Therefore, we investigated self-reported HRQoL of children with...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Effect of dexamethasone on quality of life in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a prospective observational study" pdf
... now reaching about 80% With increased survival rates, issues concerning the Quality of Life (QoL) of these children become increasingly relevant This is reflected in the steady rise in studies ... performed the statistical analyses, drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript MG: participated in the coordination of the study, ... However, since the peak incidence of childhood ALL is in young children, obtaining self reports will be a continuing problem in QoL studies during treatment Although it would have interesting to...
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Báo cáo y học: "Pathophysiological aspects of hyperglycemia in children with meningococcal sepsis and septic shock: a prospective, observational cohort study" docx
... development of other assessments The fasting glucose-to-insulin ratio and homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) of insulin resistance have been proven to be useful estimates of insulin sensitivity, also in ... glucose level of greater than 9.8 mmol/L was independently associated with an increased risk of death (relative risk of 2.59) In our study, insulin levels on admission were the lowest in children ... catecholamine administration), is the main pathophysiological mechanism of hyperglycemia in critically ill patients [32] Concerning therapeutic interventions, glucocorticoid and catecholamine use in insulin-resistant...
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the impacts of incorporating total quality management (tqm) principles towards the cost effectiveness in the steel industry
... about the indirect impacts of TQM Therefore, in this thesis, indirect influences of TQM will be clarified with the supporting of ABC costing method The same as World Class Manufacturing, costing ... affect the performance of organizations indirectly Therefore, in this thesis, the author wants to research deeply in the indirect effect of TQM on the organizational performance through the costing ... level of involvement of employees in decision making process and productivity improvement during the 1930s These changes remarked a huge change in the management accounting Following the inventions...
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Báo cáo y học: "Value of anti-infective chemoprophylaxis in primary systemic vasculitis: what is the evidence" pdf
... role in the aetiology of the disease itself [44] Disease stage and phase of therapy In PSV, and especially in SVV, the therapeutic approach usually consists of an induction of remission and a maintenance ... [45]) For induction, more aggressive regimens, including Cyc and higher GC doses, are utilised Furthermore, in SVV the selection of drugs depends on the stage of the disease: in the localised and ... events, including severe infections in 31% [40] Schmidt and colleagues [41] reported a relative risk of severe infections - that is, infections leading to hospitalisation - of 2.44 in the first...
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Báo cáo y học: "What is the role of surfactant and inhaled nitric oxide in lung transplantation" pps
... 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 ... solution The remaining grafts were perfused with low potassium dextran (LPD) solution the hypothesis that this combination prevents intrapulmonary shunt more effectively than does either intervention ... transplantation In the cases of graft failure, brain death and infection of the donor lung, reduced surfactant function is aggravated by preservation of the graft, ischaemia and reperfusion Therefore,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Science review: Carnitine in the treatment of valproic acid-induced toxicity – what is the evidence" pot
... diagnosed within days and treated with intravenous L-carnitine survived Although these observations are interesting, the comparison with historical control individuals is a serious limitation in the interpretation ... Conversely, there is no evidence for accumulation of valproylCoA in brain tissue, suggesting that the effects of VPA in the CNS are independent of the formation of this metabolite [80] Development of ... than 3% of VPA is excreted unchanged in the urine [10,14,15], much of which is in the form of valproylcarnitine [27,28] Elimination of VPA follows first-order kinetics, with a half-life ranging from...
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