... APracticalApproachto Water Conservation for Commercial and Industrial Facilities APracticalApproachto Water Conservation for Commercial and Industrial Facilities Mohan Seneviratne ... Sao Paolo New York Mumbai (Bombay) Los Angeles Calcutta Shanghai Dhaka Delhi Buenos Aires Jakarta Osaka Rio de Janeiro Karachi Japan Mexico Brazil USA India USA India China Bangladesh India Argentina ... Buenos Aires APracticalApproachto Water Conservation urbanisation and water stress in regions around mega-cities as a ratio of total water withdrawals divided by estimated total availability...
... Measures of Central Tendency and Variability With measurement, you have data that you need to analyze, understand, and turn into information The most basic analysis is to understand the data’s ... details on each approach) and define levels of capability and maturity For example, the staged INTRODUCTION approach defines five levels of organizational maturity: Initial Managed Defined Quantitatively ... 13 and use that to drive the appropriate definition of a measurement program Standards and approaches such as the decision maker model, GQM, and GQM2 provide ways to answer that question Regardless...
... correlates poorly with liver histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >1 is a dependable marker for cirrhosis [28,29] Increased INR and thrombocytopenia ... HCC, and mortality In addition, HCV infection has been linked toa variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia Some ... University of California, Irvine, California, USA His current research interests include the natural history and management of hepatitis B and C and chemoprevention of hepatocellular carcinoma Int J...
... patients has positive HBsAg anda low level of HBV load (i.e < x 105 copies/ml) Clinically, these patients have normal transaminases (i.e ALT and AST) and no symptoms related to HBV infection Histologically, ... years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB Thus, ALT level in combination with HBV DNA level and histological activity has been used as a determinant for HBV treatment ... normal transaminases have historically not been considered as candidates for HBV treatment based on the assumption that these patients usually have a slow progression and evidence that these patients...
... of Cardiology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA, USA List of Abbreviations 6MWT AAA ABG ABI ABPM ACC ACE-I ACR ACS ADA AF AHA AI AIVR AMR AR ARB ARVC ARVD 6-min walk test abdominal ... Maranda, and Sharon Hunt Section IV Valvular and Vascular Disease Chapter 10 Valvular Heart Disease, 119 Reza Ardehali and Ingela Schnittger Chapter 11 Diseases of the Aorta, 139 Michael Ho and David ... Arvindh Kanagasundram and Victor F Froelicher Chapter 25 Cardiac MRI and CT, 303 Chandra Katikireddy and Michael V McConnell Chapter 26 Clinical Cardiac Hemodynamics, 326 Shirley Park and Euan Ashley...
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... Between forward and back translations After difficulty ratings After back translation Between forward and back translations After back translations After forward and back translations After pre-testing ... local PI and translators Translators anda facilitator synthesize a translated version of the questionnaire from the forward translations Not part of the process Back translation(final language ... quality of life measures (Continued) Total number of formal translations At least forward and back translations At least forward translations anda consensus version, i.e Back translations At...
... Between forward and back translations After difficulty ratings After back translation Between forward and back translations After back translations After forward and back translations After pre-testing ... local PI and translators Translators anda facilitator synthesize a translated version of the questionnaire from the forward translations Not part of the process Back translation(final language ... quality of life measures (Continued) Total number of formal translations At least forward and back translations At least forward translations anda consensus version, i.e Back translations At...
... Emily and Len Brizzi, Gino and Donna Albertario, Vahan Janjigian, Annette and Clint Welch, Don Horenstein, Mark Wachs, John Mihale, Mark and Roberta Aaronson, Rocco Papandrea, Milan Miletic, Maris ... the challenges were overcome thanks to those whom I am proud to call friends and colleagues Many thanks go to Jason and Jane Welsch, Bharath Chandar, Joseph Roccasalvo, George and Andrea Fulop, ... government, and the markets and, thereby, quality original investment research Thanks to the PC and the Net, an investor has at his/her disposal the essential communications and analytical tools to capture...
... plastic, marked and stored in a suitable place To be used as soon as possible Check if actual storage-places are suitable Check if dirty Packaging material exists in storage or intermediate storage ... Conveyor, Accumulator, Straw-applicator, Re-Cap, Tray-packer, Shrink or Palletiser are not damaging the packages Note that an Accumulator might make the traceability in a troubleshooting case difficult, ... the raw product within the company specifications/ AQL? (AQL= Acceptable Quality Level) 2.2.2 Raw Material What type of raw materials are used and what about the microbiological quality? Apart...
... Conversational Analysis: APractical Guide Paul ten Have Using Foucault's Methods Gavin Kendall and Gary Wickham The Quality of Qualitative Evaluation Clive Seale Qualitative Evaluation Ian Shaw ... Researching Life Stories and Family Histories Robert L Miller Categories in Text and Talk: APractical Introduction to Categorization Analysis Georgia Lepper CATEGORIES IN TEXT AND TALK APractical ... organization’, examples andpractical exercises demonstrate how categorization analysis can be applied toa variety of empirical questions Finally, an extended case study illustrates the use of a variety...
... 85(3):221-228 Tateishi-Yuyama E, Matsubara H, Murohara T, Ikeda U, Shintani S, Masaki H, Amano K, Kishimoto Y, Yoshimoto K, Akashi H, Shimada K, Iwasaka T, Imaizumi T: Therapeutic angiogenesis for patients ... Bossolasco P, Deliliers GL: Differentiation and expansion of endothelial cells from human bone marrow CD133(+) cells Br J Haematol 2001, 115(1):186-194 Asahara T, Masuda H, Takahashi T, Kalka C, Pastore ... was determined by using an ABX Micros 60 (Horiba Diagnostics, France) Migration and Invasion Assay A total of × 106 BM-MNC collected from acute myocardial infarction patients subjected to standard...
... surface gradients and the albedo and also perform blind image restoration The surface gradients and the albedo are modeled as separate Markov random fields (MRFs), anda suitable regularization ... reached It may be mentioned here that p, q are all matrices γm and τm are real values corresponding toa particular source position and σ is also a real value As already mentioned, we use the albedo ... fast as compared to other approaches that use global optimization techniques like simulated annealing Thus our approach is useful in practical applications where computation time is a constraint...
... spinal-epidural analgesia and anaesthesia 63 26 Spinal analgesia 67 27 Caudal analgesia 69 28 Spinal and epidural opioids 69 29 Inhalational analgesic drugs 72 30 Systemic analgesic drugs 74 31 Non-pharmacological ... This page intentionally left blank Analgesia, Anaesthesia and Pregnancy Apractical guide A thoroughly updated edition of this well-established practical guide to obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia ... to oxytocics For a termination of pregnancy at less than 15 weeks, standard concentrations of volatile anaesthetic agents not appear to pose a risk and may be used to maintain anaesthesia Analgesia...
... able to create meaningful data valid in large scale analyses (across herds and veterinary practices) Such veterinarians would generally want to focus on possibilities for across-herd data analyses ... provides insight into potential errors (bias and random error) related to data based on clinical examina- Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 ... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part of a collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters...
... as we have seen it also has syntactic implications 2.2.2 Gradable and non- gradable adjectives According to L G Alexander (1988, 108) adjectives can be also divided into gradable and non- gradable ... up to now C .A plays an important role in learning a foreign language as a main subject at most language universals According to C James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study anda central ... central concern of applied linguistic As a matter of fact, C .A has had much to offer not only topractical language but also to translation theory, the description of particular language, language...
... heritage are valued We are Christians and Jews, Appalachians and Easterners, Black and White, men and women, young and old, graduate students and faculty All contribute their own unique and useful ... want to sit in a wheelchair okay So my husband pushed me down to therapy the first day And this big man approached me and said Tm here to help you I'll teach you to walk.' He said, 'You'll stand ... the American Nurses Association, the American Psychological Association, and Sigma Theta Tau International She is a board member of the International Council on Women's Health Issues anda charter...
... team The database analysts and the programmers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass information back and forth between the interface and the database, and the requirements analysts and ... (creating new software packages), hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers or software), database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and access), hardware ... Project managers usually employ a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) such as the sample in Table (PMI, 2000), and OD scholars have advocated similar approaches in teambuilding and organizational...
... the traits they had identified appeared to come and go at random, varied from leader to leader, and only became apparent after people had achieved leadership positions This was a natural consequence ... Soon after Waugh was appointed in January 1998, John Inverarity, a former captain of the West Australian cricket team and an international player, gave a talk on leadership toa group of my MBAs ... MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE as an engine of organizational change, and leadership/management development, for 20 years He was a regular visitor and teacher at the Institute and conducted half-day leadership...