... of CMR evaluation chiefly through cardiac catheterization and/or echocardiography To provide homogeneity in the pathology of AS, patients were excluded if there was aortic or mitral regurgitation ... Chambers J How often we operate too late in aortic stenosis? J Heart Valve Dis , 4: 428–30 Kato, Y, S Suehiro, T Shibata, Y Sasaki, and H Hirai 2007 Impact of valve prosthesis-patient mismatch on long-term ... present Figure Demonstrating that, despite marked afterload mismatch in a 55YOWM with an LVEF 23% and LV mass of 251 g, surgical relief of afterload in a patient with demonstrated myocardial reserve...
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... that enveloped the nation after September 11 The greatest fears of Americans and their leaders in that period were of further attacks from those who had demonstrated that they were capable of ... number of interrogations that involved “cruel, inhuman, or degrading” treatment Both categories of actions violate U.S laws and international treaties Such conduct was directly counter to values of ... litigation, international export controls and sanctions, corporate international relations, homeland security, and corporate investigations and compliance. He served in the administration of President...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22
The Report of the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms for ICT for Development - A review of trends and an analysis of gaps and promising practices ppt
... has catalyzed rapid growth of the sector in developing countries The opening of markets and privatization of national telecommunications operators has led to an influx of tens of billions of US ... Telecommunications Sector Following the early waves of privatization of national PTTs and opening of markets in the industrial countries – led by the breakup of AT& T in the United States and the public offerings ... as well as inexperience with many of the key areas of need Many of these new areas of attention will depend greatly upon the active and creative participation of local entrepreneurs and SMEs,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20
A Checklist for Retrospective Database Studies—Report of the ISPOR Task Force on Retrospective Databases pot
... not reached full market penetration In those cases, patients studied may be systematically more or less severe than the ultimate population of users of that medication, which can impact effectiveness ... researcher Examples of important quality checks include missing and out -of- range values, consistency of data (e.g., patient age), and claim duplicates Other examples of approaches that can be used ... easy access of claims data, the opportunities for unsystematic data exploration are significant Accordingly, it is particularly important that evidence of a well-developed a priori data analysis...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20
American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening 2008 pdf
... issue have often delivered an odds ratio (rather than a true risk ratio) that describes the risk of adenomas among relatives of a patient with colorectal cancer” instead of the risk of colorectal ... describe the risk of CRC in firstdegree relatives of patients with adenomas could be considered to have evaluated the reverse risk, i.e., the risk of adenomas in first-degree relatives of patients ... to risk Certain other subgroups of the average -risk population might warrant initiation of screening at an earlier or later age, depending on their risk For example, the age-adjusted risk of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY 5-2008
... functions of one complex variable, and let A and B be complex n × n matrices If the application of such a function to a matrix means applying the power series of this function to the matrix, prove that ... is a strip of √ width covering all four points, and demonstrate that if no strip of √ width less than √ covers all four, then the points are the corners of a square of side (A strip of width w ... Note that λ < −ρ By Stirling’s formula, one sees that (kλ)k (nλ)n < ∞ k! n! k,n≥0 March 2008] (1) PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS 263 Thus by Lebesgue’s Dominated Convergence Theorem, the expectation of the...
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báo cáo khoa học: "First-in-class, first-in-human phase I results of targeted agents: Highlights of the 2008 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting" pot
... 10% of patients Immunogenicity to the chimeric antibody was seen in 14% of patients, with one anaphylactic reaction documented Out of 41 patients evaluated, patients showed some evidence of stable ... surface receptor Patched1 (Ptch1) Surface localization of SMO initiates a signaling cascade that leads to activation of glioma-associated (Gli) transcription factors [15] The hedgehog pathway normally ... in uptake of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Moreover, these patients all attained high steady-state serum concentrations of PF-00562271, indicating that PET scanning as a bio-imager may accurately reflect...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20
A JOINT PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION AND THE ACCOUNTING PROGRAMS LEADERSHIP GROUP pdf
... subpopulations A subpopulation’s sample count was extrapolated to the population by taking the ratio of the assumed subpopulation size to the sample size in that subpopulation and multiplying that ... Directors’ Estimates of the Number of Current Ph.D Students in Various Teaching Specialties Extrapolated to the Population of Schools with Ph.D Programs Estimated Number of of Ph.D.s Graduating Sample ... (4) the nature of their program offerings A total of 331 program leaders responded to the survey Of those responding, 56 (19.8 percent) schools indicated that they offer academic programs at three...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Market Making and Reversal on the Stock Exchange (Journal of American Statistical Association 1966) pptx
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 10:20
the american bar association family legal guide phần 5 potx
... amount of time or the deadline stated in the offer; • the offeror cancels the offer; • the offeree rejects the offer; • the offeree dies or is incapacitated An offer is also closed, even if the offeree ... that person's promise is not enforceable Q What is an offer? A Offer and acceptance are the fundamental parts of a contract, once capacity is established An offer is a communication by an offeror ... receiving the offer) must receive it In a contract to buy and sell, for an offer to be valid, all of the following must be clear: • Who is the offeree? • What is the subject matter of the offer? •...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21
Medical Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease - part 5 pot
... three deciles in terms of SSPG concentration) are at greatly increased risk of presenting with one or more of the manifestations of syndrome X If 25 to 33% of the population at large is sufficiently ... that a high-LDL cholesterol concentration increases risk of CHD, or that lowering it will reduce the incidence of CHD Unfortunately, the situation becomes much more complicated when a cluster of ... majority of studies aimed at defining the risk factors involved in the development of CHD have demonstrated a highly statistically significant relationship between plasma TG concentration and risk of...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20
Techniques for improving listening skills FOR gifted students at Foreign Language Specializing School - College of Foreign Languages - VIETNAM National University, HANOI
... the data above that a lot of students at FLSS are not aware of the self-study of listening at home Only a few of them spend some time listening to it every-day, most of them have no habit of self-listening ... means that the students are to plenty of pre-listening work of an appropriate type so that they will succeed in what ever listening tasks they are asked to It is clear that this stage is aimed at ... of offering support or instruction before listening are varied and depend on a number of factors: time, material, the ability of the class, the interest of the class, the nature and content of...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:26
Developing critical reading skills for first year students in English department, college of foreign languages, Vietnam national university, Hanoi
... text? What is the source of your information? What is the source of information in the report? What assumption has led you to that conclusion? Suppose you are wrong? What are the implications? ... Would you agree that …? …? Table - Samples of questions of each type and level Basing on the functions and features of each sort of questions, teachers can differentiate strategies in designing ... pieces of texts and exercises at preintermediate level which are designed in ascending order of complication The tests last fifty minutes and the complication and levels of difficulties of the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 1
... words in the dictionary, what did you often do? a looked at its meaning only b looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then pronounced it in mind c looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then ... this What can we to protect the nation’s places of interest? Shopping is a waste of time and money To what extend you agree with this statement? V Appendix 3: READING PASSAGES PASSAGE 1: JOB SATISFACTION ... the United States It supervises almost seventy-eight million hectares of forests, grasslands, rivers and lakes It is an agency of the Department of Agriculture The first is the threat of fire and...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 2
... marks in mathematics and literature rather than in English Question 5-8: Pronunciation learning at secondary school As a matter of fact, when the issue of pronunciation comes up, one of the most ... language learners aim at achieving native-like proficiency, it is necessary that there must be a provision of negative evidence, which is information about what is ungrammatical This is particularly ... conducted at the first week of the research This aimed at collecting personal information of the students, particularly that related to their studying at secondary schools and their attitude toward...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
Motivation in learning english speaking of the second year tourism major students at tourism and foreign language department, sao do college of industry
... motivation refers to the efforts learners make to learn a foreign language Motivation is one of the keys that influence the rate and success of language learning Park (2002:2) believes that motivation ... nature and amount of feedback - rewards - the nature and amount of appropriate praise - punishments, sanctions Sense of agency The learning environment - locus of causality - comfort - locus of ... mean that all the positive influences that originally made up the motivational basis of a behavior have been got rid of It only means that a strong negative factor restrains the present motivation...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01