a critical appraisal of the literature

... 90% of the area of an American football field, and the area of a hectare is approximately 225% the area of an American football field The area of a square kilometer, on the other hand, is equivalent ... probably easiest to visualize the area of an acre and the area of a hectare in terms of the area of an American football field, i.e the area of the field inside the out-of-bounds lines (see Table ... Similarly, according to Diamond, the civilizations of the Polynesians of Pitcairn Island, the Anasazi of southwestern North America, and the Maya of Central America all failed primarily because of these

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2016, 10:07

... Lüdenbach and Hoffmann (2014) on the one hand indicate that a “significant” decrease might be a one-off decrease in the fair value of 20 % or more against the cost of a financial asset On the other ... evaluate analyst forecasts of banks regarding an individual accounting standard change which affects a large segment of Trang 21their balance sheet As such, this change can be compared with the ... investors as a sign of weakness on the accuracy of previous data, and hence, of bad work Besides the fact that analysts only incorporate new information gradually, prior literature (e.g Bernard &

Ngày tải lên: 26/04/2020, 21:48

... 7% and an interassay CV of less than or equal to 10%, and at concentrations greater than 0.3 ng/ml the intra-assay CV is less than or equal to 3% and the interassay CV is less than or equal to ... different antibodies in the calcitonin and katacalcin regions of the protein Results of the measurement are available within one hour, and only 20 μl of blood serum or plasma is needed for the test The ... increased more markedly after surgical repair of Tetral-ogy of Fallot than in those undergoing repair of ventricular sep-tal defect or atrial sepsep-tal defect [50] Intraoperative factors have also

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... patients: a systematic review of the literature Matthew E Falagas*1,2, Efstathia A Zarkadoulia1, Paraskevi A Pliatsika1 and Email: Matthew E Falagas* - m.falagas@aibs.gr; Efstathia A Zarkadoulia ... setting of the study, the patient population, details of the medical treatment (monotherapy, Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy – HAART), data relevant to SES, the measure of adherence, the overall ... important strategies Additionally, the physician being consistent, vigilant, available, and explanatory can motivate the patient to adhere more to the antiretroviral treatment [1,38] Warning the patients

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... criteria against pathological diagnosis The role of bacteriological data in improving the accuracy of a clinical diagnosis of VAP Many studies have evaluated the value of bacteriological data in ... than for Gram-negative microorganisms Although the presence of bacteria on Gram stain appears to have a reasonable accuracy compared to quantitative culture available two to three days later, the ... ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) The aim of this qualitative review was to compare various criteria of diagnosing VAP in the intensive care unit (ICU) with a special emphasis on the value of clinical diagnosis,

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... pooling of the data and no direct comparison of data across the studies was possible Instead, a qualitative data analysis was conducted There was broad consensus that patients with either type of ... proprioception associated with ageing may add to the alterations caused by the neck pain Overall, the lack of data available, no conclusions can be drawn regarding a possible relationship between pos-tural ... statistical analysis RF and BW helped with the design of the study and drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare that they have

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... but rather as cultural narratives, serves to dramatise certain deeper conflicts of values and institutional agendas On the one hand, the popular representation of these youths as a desirable capitalist ... influence various other academic disciplines There is little, if any, exaggeration to the claim that almost any field of academic research that targets the vibrant world of youths, whether media studies ... entrepreneurial energies On the other hand, though, this same scenario has also been thematised in a negative light within the media narratives as examined in Chapter Four, through the variety of heated accounts

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:33

... runs and avert credit crises But these actions, although critically important, are not the end goal of classical central bank policy in and of themselves Rather, they are ancillary and incidental ... will bankrupt them.) The high rate has the advantage of encouraging retention of the stock of the gold component of the monetary base at home as well as attracting additions to that stock from abroad ... keep the rates high to avoid a foreign drain rather than penalize banks In other words, Bagehot was addressing the need to maintain gold reserves in the face of a panic As for the latter, given the

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2015, 08:53

... regard to the research and qualitative research approach  I extend much appreciation to Mrs Bytheway for the editing and grammarian check of this paper The financial assistance of the Mauerberger ... operate and enforcing the functioning of a health system The aims of the NHA, as provided in the preamble to the National Health Act (Act 61 of 2003), are:  to unite the various elements of the national ... to the measles and smallpox outbreak, the Contagious Disease Act No 1 of 1856 was enacted and promulgated in 1868 In 1874, the Medical Tax Act was passed The workers of the time opposed the Act;

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2017, 08:59

... 15 The financial crisis of 2008 has encouraged the formulation of newproposals of global governance such as the establishment of an international bankruptcy court, a world financial organization, ... disclosure and the right to a hearing Concerning the latter, the volume will address, interalia, legal questions like the standard of proof and the shift of the burden of proof, as well as theevidential ... by The World Bank Views and opinions expressed in the adaptation are the sole responsibility of the author or authors of the adaptation and are not endorsed by the World Bank The Bank has also

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2020, 10:09

... of rivalstates and the fundamental importance of these data for the balance of power, theutility of political arithmetic as a calculating aid for statesmen becomes evident, as it reduced balance ... book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Walter, Ryan. A critical history of the economy: on the birth of the national and international economies/Ryan ... phenomena, usually via one elaboration or another of thestates and markets pair.7 Part III describes how counsel on trade was altered by the forms of argumentadvanced by Adam Smith and David Ricardo

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2020, 15:00

... like an appropriate application as it has been a part of the popular culture for at least 30 years The main objective of this systematic review is to examine the literature for research evaluating ... Population: Inner city population at a library, a Department of Motor Vehicles office, and a fast food chain location 20–25 % of the population in the area was under the age of 14, 49–65 % had a ... review of the literature was to identify and evaluate research that had used interactive media approaches to educate parents * Correspondence:aaannaim@gmail.com 1Department of Medicine, Division of

Ngày tải lên: 27/02/2020, 13:27

... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessWhat do bereaved parents want from professionals after the sudden death of their child: a systematic review of the literature Joanna Garstang1*, ... analyses Data extraction, analysis and synthesis We undertook data extraction and coding separately for quantitative and qualitative papers but used the same process Firstly, we read the papers ... Ibanez Fanes, R Florensa Palau and J Moreno Hernando [ 59 ] (translated from Spanish) 1992 Attitude towards parents after the death of their newborn infant in a neonatal unit Parents of infants

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2020, 15:42

... serve as an instance of how power and ideology are achieved through language It is also hoped to enhance the awareness of the role of language in general and of Critical Discourse Analysis in particular ... Components of a multiple theme Table 4: Summary of transitivity analysis data Table 5: Summary of thematic analysis Trang 8LIST OF APPENDICES Appendix I: Hillary Clinton‟s speech Appendix II: Transitivity ... Components of CDA: Critical, Discourse, Analysis In order to understand what CDA is, an overall understanding of the three components of CDA namely: Critical, Discourse, Analysis, is mandatory a Critical

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2020, 22:13

... serve as an instance of how power andideology are achieved through language It is also hoped to enhance the awareness of therole of language in general and of Critical Discourse Analysis in particular ... James Paul Gee emphasizes that “In fact critical discourse analysis argues that language in use is always part and parcel of, and partially constitutive of, specific social practices, and that ... of CDA: Critical, Discourse, Analysis In order to understand what CDA is, an overall understanding of the three components of CDA namely: Critical, Discourse, Analysis, is mandatory a Critical

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2020, 12:08

... Trang 2Journal Pre-proofEarly enteral feeding after pediatric abdominal surgery: A systematic review of the literature Douglas Greera, Yasiru G Karunaratnea, Jonathan Karpelowskyb,c, Susan Adamsa,d ... Trang 1Early enteral feeding after pediatric abdominal surgery: Asystematic review of the literature Douglas Greer, Yasiru G Karunaratne, Jonathan Karpelowsky, Susan Adams Please cite this article ... This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive

Ngày tải lên: 23/08/2021, 14:59

... design, analysis and interpretation of the data; Alexander DD, Bylsma LC, Elkayam L and Nguyen DL contribured to drafting of the article; Alexander DD, Bylsma LC and Nguyen DL contributed to critical ... Faster gastric emptying, in turn, was associated with a higher prevalence of adverse postprandial Trang 8symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea, sweating, and retching Based on these results, the authors ... comprehensive literature search of Pubmed and Embase databases We manually screened articles that examined nutritional and health outcomes (e.g., growth, disease activity, gastrointestinal impairment,

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2022, 02:03

... units b The EC, represented by the ATP+ADP+AMP/0.5(ATP+AMP) ratio, was calculated at the indicated time points and expressed as % of the control (100%) Values are the average of three separate experiments ... based on the transformation of pyruvate to lactate by LDH, at pH 7.5, in the presence of NADH coenzyme The transformation of NADH to NAD+ is accompanied by a decrease in absorbance (A) at 340 nm, ... Trang 1of Rottlerin and UncouplersEmanuela Maioli, Claudia Torricelli, Vittoria Fortino, Filippo Carlucci, Valentina Tommassini, and Adriana Pacini Abstract Rottlerin is a natural product isolated

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2022, 09:48

... et al [3 – 5, 11, 33, 48] for diagnostic criteria of MCI and a-MCI. Trang 6sample size of 4 of the studies was smaller than 147 cases, and half reported a mean follow-up time of less than approximately ... many studies by a small panel reviewing all the clinical diagnoses Diagnostic misclassification of incident cases may have occurred as AD is still a clinical diagnosis; this has led to substantial ... reported, a sample size of at least 100 patients with MCI or a-MCI at baseline, followed up for at least 12 months, and published in the English language between January 1, 2006 and January 3, 2012 Accepted

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 16:13

... in the parametrial areas [35], whereas Levenback found 9% of the sentinel nodes in the paraaortic area, 11% in the common iliac, 71% in the external iliac, and 9% in the parametrial area in a ... Of the cases, 90% are squamous cell carcinomas, while the rest are melanoma, adenocarcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and sarcoma [7] Nodal metastasis in vulva cancer is the main prognostic factor, ... Although majority of the nodes are located in internal iliac and external iliac areas, nodes have been found in also presacral, parametrial and pararectal areas [33] In a sentinel node study carried...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21