... position of the investment curve in figure will depend on factors related to the productivity of capital, or in other words, how profitable investment in capital is The productivity of capital ... world were to lower their real rate of interest, say per cent below its ordinary level, and keep it so for some years, then the prices of all commodities would rise and rise without any limit whatever; ... Before doing so, we discuss how the NRR, as we define it, may be used by monetary policymakers There is one particular time when we need to use a point estimate of neutral This is when we use the NRR...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
How can we speak math?
... any relationship with division We can nevertheless speak it as “ cap p wedge b { cap s } cap p quantity over quantity cap p { roman while b roman cap s} cap p wedge neg b” We will have to say ... primitive stage in which we can use the Microsoft grammar for recognizing tokens (numbers, symbols), but cannot actually depend on it for parsing It is true that with some effort one can write ... and so we cannot be definite about how TTS speak every number given to it as ascii text Here are some examples We ve marked with a (*) those that seem open to debate • 123 is one hundred twenty-three...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 19:15
... Serious infections in British patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: hospitalisations and mortality Lupus 2009, 18:682-689 Abu-Shakra M, Urowitz MB, Gladman DD, Gough J: Mortality studies in systemic ... peptides) [6] The benefits of anti-malarials in patients with SLE go beyond preventing infection and include prevention of disease flares and accrual of damage, with some studies also showing a reduction ... patients with SLE Guidelines are in place recommending the influenza vaccine and pneumococcus vaccine for patients with rheumatoid arthritis but similar guidelines have not been developed for SLE With...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22
báo cáo khoa học: "How can we improve guideline use? A conceptual framework of implementability" pps
... enhance the ease with which the guideline can be employed Validity Evidence is summarized and presented such that its quantity and quality are apparent, and it can be easily reviewed, understood, ... implementability domains emerged, including adaptability, usability, validity, applicability, communicability, accommodation, implementation, and evaluation (Table 2) Based on the implementability framework, ... policy making) knowing that sensitivity and specificity would be limited Two individuals independently selected eligible items Eligible titles included empirical quantitative (meta-analyses, surveys,...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23
Báo cáo y học: "Percutaneous dilatation tracheostomy: which technique is the best for the critically ill patient, and how can we gather further scientific evidence" pptx
... tracheostomy with respect to practicability and the specific risks involved for patients in the intensive care setting However, some drawbacks in their study design limit the ability to draw valuable ... information for the institution where it was conducted, because the data have probably already been used for institutional quality management in intensive care medicine However, the same information ... between the two time periods, when one technique was applied exclusively This could have influenced the results, partly accounting for the apperant contrast with current literature (e.g fewer...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo y học: "Gastrointestinal dysfunction in the critically ill: can we measure it" doc
... patient One would want to know how reproducible these criteria were when measured by different observers, and whether they showed a graded correlation with mortality risk; the simple measure of ... Sensitive to clinically important change in function Recognizable to clinician Increasing abnormality associated with increasing risk of adverse outcome These shortcomings notwithstanding, however, ... acalculous cholecystitis, and diarrhea [11] None of these have satisfactorily met criteria for face validity and utility as summarized in Table 1, and for this reason, gut dysfunction was omitted from...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
Báo cáo y học: " Ethics roundtable: ‘Open-ended ICU care: Can we afford it" pptx
... acute neurology ward with a tracheostomy and PEG or RIG (radiologically inserted gastrostomy) feeding The situation could then be monitored over a number of weeks or months However, in this case, ... you let them If there is one condition that can defy expectations and from which patients can emerge after months and months in coma, it is SE in a young patient with normal brain imaging and a ... encephalitis The literature, in fact, is replete with reports of similar patients recovering from coma after several months on pentobarbital One of our more memorable patients at Columbia [University,...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo y học: " The lateral trauma position: What do we know about it and how do we use it? A cross-sectional survey of all " ppsx
... doi:10.1186/1757-7241-19-45 Cite this article as: Fattah et al.: The lateral trauma position: What we know about it and how we use it? A cross-sectional survey of all Norwegian emergency medical services Scandinavian ... This study shows that the majority of ground EMS use LTP The majority of those using it also possesses written protocols and is provided with training in the use of LTP Fattah et al Scandinavian ... performing LTP Limitations Our results should be interpreted with caution We not know how large a proportion of the population is served with personnel familiar with LTP The Fattah et al Scandinavian...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20
Service-Oriented Architecture: What Is It and How Can It Help Your Business?
... which can further benefit a business Conclusion Essentially, a service-oriented architecture can be a huge benefit for any company that uses Web-based applications It can provide new functionality ... existing services new functionality How Service-Oriented Architectures Can Benefit a Business When used by businesses, service-oriented architectures can make it possible for the establishment ... service-oriented architectures and are wondering how they can affect your business as well as how they can be of use to you By looking at it from both a real-world perspective as well as a technical...
Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2013, 12:15
Can i freeze it how to use the most versatile appliance in your kitchen
... inches You can have a built-in icemaker as well With these, you can pull out the whole drawer—no secrets in the back or bottom of the freezer They also come combined with a refrigerator drawer above ... plastic freezer wrap, then either place in a plastic freezer bag or cover with heavy-duty foil 20 Can I Freeze It? Tropical fruits such as papaya, mangoes, and passion fruit can all be processed into ... Stilton can be stored for up to three months It may become a bit more crumbly but it is good for salads Vacuumpacked sliced cheeses can be stored for up to one month Butter and margarine can be...
Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 11:01
Báo cáo khoa học: "How Much Can We Gain from Supervised Word Alignment" potx
... order of magnitude larger than similar corpora Without it this work would not be possible Conclusions Our experiments showed that even with human alignment, further improvement in MT quality will ... special links were marked with special tags to distinguish them from regular links, we can selectively remove them and check the impact on MT performance Figure shows an example sentence with human ... each scheme does not change with corpus size, the results indicate that alignment errors are less harmful with more training data We can therefore conclude the small magnitude of the gain using human...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20
How Are We Presenting: A Look At How We All Present And Where It All Goes Wrong
... Keynote Other 9% 7% Prezi 0% 12% 10% 5% 3% Learn what to with PowerPoint, not just how to use it Presentations Viewed and Delivered per year How many presentations you view per year? 47% 25+ 22-24 ... Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Unsure Learn what to with PowerPoint, not just how to use it Where does it all go wrong Top factors as voted by respondents 68% Too much text Presenter ... which you can find @ www.clearpreso.com If you need help with a presentation just let me know! • You can email me at Ed@clearpreso.com • Or if you are on twitter then lets connect, you can find...
Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 11:53
Báo cáo sinh học : "What do we know about influenza and what can we do about it" ppsx
... reproduced with permission from Figure 10-17 of: DeFranco AD, et al Immunity Oxford University Press; 2007 disease in humans infected directly from birds, but have not to date been transmitted between ... underlying mechanism of host specificity in this case is not clear Influenza Epidemic strain Can the ability of a viral variant to pass from human to human be predicted from its nucleic acid sequence? ... may also be critical for determining infectivity There is emerging evidence that elements of the three-component viral polymerase complex (PB1 and PB2) can influence transmissibility [4], though...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Can we reconstruct deer browsing history and how? Lessons from Gaultheria shallon Pursh" pdf
... post-hoc test We compared total stem height between deeraffected and deer-free categories, between islands within each of these two categories and between sites within each island We used categories, ... frequencies/stem between deer-free and deer-affected islands using Student t-test in situations with equal variances or with Welch’s approximate t-test when variances were unequal [47] Finally, we estimated ... comparisons [47] to test the similitude or the difference of age structures between sites within islands, islands within a geographical area and between geographical areas We used age structures to assess...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21
Báo cáo y học: "Remission in psoriatic arthritis: is it possible and how can it be predicted" pdf
... parameters showed the greatest response within the first months, however significant improvements were seen between and 12 months, residual tender and swollen joints were more common in RA patients The ... remission, as we here Individual variables including tender and swollen joint counts, CRP, patient global VAS and the HAQ showed significant improvement in both patient groups, most parameters showed the ... this criteria It was interesting to note that male PsA patients attained significantly lower DAS28 scores than females 1.88 vs 2.65 at one year (P < 0.05) Since the initial DAS28 in PsA was lower...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Prehospital advanced trauma life support: how should we manage the airway, and who should do it" ppsx
... on-scene and that it does not improve longterm outcome [3,13–17] However, there is little scientific evidence to support either opinion Most of the studies favouring prehospital endotracheal ... immediate availability of appropriate salvage airway devices [23] and monitoring [24] However, if adequate skills are not available, then critically traumatized patients may rather benefit from adequate ... respective provider It seems unlikely that prehospital endotracheal intubation by itself may influence outcome after severe trauma, because it mainly reflects the overall standard of prehospital medical...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Goal directed therapy: how long can we wait" doc
... preoperative optimization [3-5] show that it is possible to reduce the high morbidity and mortality of high risk surgery [10] It may not matter what particular blood flow monitoring method is used [1,4,11] ... Eur Heart J 2001, 22:472-478 Audit Commission: Critical to Success: the Place of Efficient and Effective Critical Care Services Within the Acute Hospital London: Audit Commission; 1999 National ... achieved It makes sense that this aggressive resuscitation with fluid and inotropes, if necessary, occurs as soon as possible in the operating theatre [11], if not preoperatively, and that it should...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21