three stages of icap operation

... 38 Figure A.1 Three Stages of ICAP Operation p A-3 Figure A.2 Schematic Overview of ICAP Operation p A-4 xi List of Acronyms AQVM ASAP CD CIHI CMA CMG CO COPD E/RF ELOS EPA ERV H+ ICAP ICD-9 MCS ... application far beyond the boundaries of Ontario 1.2.2 ICAP ICAP (Illness Costs of Air Pollution) is a computer model developed as part of this project The purpose of ICAP is to provide an analytical ... impacts of air quality on human health and related economic damages ICAP includes all of the elements included in the scope of this project ICAP was designed specifically to make the results of this...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... cost of providing a given volume of output as a function of an exogenous vector of input prices and the volume of output The purpose is to determine whether hospitals are cost-minimizers (profit ... (63%) [69] Figure shows the three regression lines of levels one, two and three hospitals, respectively, plotted against the log of GDP per capita (the Y-axis is log of cost per bed-day) The regression ... Public Private for profit USA Natural log of cost per bed day in 1998 I $ Natural log of GDP per capita in 1998 I $ Natural log of occupancy rate Dummy variable for inclusion of drug costs Included...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... neurological findings and NIHSS of 2; however, the constellation of the above findings led to our clinical decision not to administer thrombolytics in the setting of a seizure diagnosis The patient ... Corresponding area of increased cerebral blood volume (b) and increased cerebral blood flow (c) FLAIR MRI brain (d) without evidence of infarct Guerrero et al International Journal of Emergency Medicine ... Follow-up FLAIR MRI brain imaging did not reveal evidence of stroke (Figure 1) Discussion Stroke mimics account for 5-30% of “brain attacks.” Of those patients receiving thrombolytic therapy in the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... knowledge of the number of signals to be resolved, and it is not affected by the correlation of the signals arriving from different directions The output of the algorithm is directly the angles of arrivals ... consisting of N elements The output of these elements is a vector x of size N × Generally x corresponds to a linear combination of signals from different directions If we consider ith and jth elements of ... signal vector of size N × will be a linear combination of the columns of D plus noise Hence, detecting the DOA problem will reduce to finding correct linear combination of the columns of D When the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... HSDs of the 4’-OH flavonoid radicals ranged within limit of the HSDs of commercial antioxidants above As many cites, flavonoids are candidates for good antioxidants when their molecules possess three ... antioxidant activity of flavonoid Another approach described for determining the priority of radical couples and evaluated the in vitro antioxidant potential of flavonoids on the basis of the one-electron ... reduction potential of flavonoid It was found that the strong antioxidant respond to the low in the value of reduction potential at pH (E7) of the Fl-O•/Fl-OH pair and the stability of radical Our...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 06:20

... (reciprocals of marginal likelihoods) and the MCMPM estimates of heritability for each of the data sets and the lengths of the sampler The estimates of the integration constant for data sets and of table ... marginal posterior mode of heritability was computed by a grid search of the Rao-Blackwell estimate (eg, Gelfand et al, 1990) of the marginal posterior density of aand a change of variable to h or ... the autocovariance structure of the sample of heritabilities This entailed calculating an effective sample size as the ratio of variance of samples to the variance of the sample mean computed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... variance (CGI-I ratings of and were not included because of under-representation) Ratings of very much improved corresponded to median reduction of 58% on PANSS-EC; ratings of much improved corresponded ... Global Impression of Severity Montoya et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:18 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/18 Page of 11 Figure Distribution of the percentage of reduction in the ... patients Another report [6] identifies a cluster of mania-like symptoms through the use of PANSS-based factor analysis of data pooled Page of 11 from three patient samples This factor shows good...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... however, the high cost of this new generation of treatment The main objective of the present study is to provide an evaluation of the total cost of chemotherapy in the early stages of breast cancer ... register of cancers in the region of Casablanca A total of 5,414 cases of cancer were registered in this region but only 3,336 were living in the region, of whom 1,833 were women In this region, of ... as possible the burden of breast cancer under the constraints of limited resources In this paper we aimed to evaluate the global cost of chemotherapy in the early stages of breast cancer in order...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... definitions of false positive cases [6,7] The aim of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of emergency physician CCL activation for patients with suspected STEMI A variety of definitions of ... characteristics of the patients are shown in Table The cardiologists’ review determined that 105 of 117 patients (89.8%) had STEMI and of which patients had left bundle branch block Of these 105 ... especially during offduty times, out of concern for unnecessary CCL activation To assess the appropriateness of CCL activation by emergency department physicians, a clear definition of inappropriate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... use of sires, given the composition of groups of herds and sires and genetic connections between groups of herds Use of sires Groups of herds Groups of sires Genetic connection between groups of ... scenarios of selective use of sires, simulated and expected breeding values were calculated for three values of EP Chosen values were median values of EP of groups of herds 1, and in the case of herd ... the application of CF is that low numbers of daughters per sire might lead to problems in predicting breeding values The number of records from daughters of a sire is the number of data points...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... round of iteration, estimators of the elements in G c are: and those in c R are: where N is the total number of observations, f is the number of levels of the fixed is the quadratic form of the ... at each iteration, of direct inversion of a matrix of size equal to the number of parents This burden was reduced by tridiagonalizing the coefficient matrix through a series of orthogonal transformations, ... sire and dam of each selected sire For each of the selected sires S in (1) and (2), choose sires S at random i j i among those whose offspring are contemporary to those of S For each of the sire...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... aim of spintronics is the control of spin and charge degrees of freedom of carriers in a single system It represents the magnetic control of electrical properties and the electrical control of ... spectroscopy of Ga–TiO2 films with different doping concentrations of Ga 71 Fig 4.1 XRD spectrum of TiO2 film deposited under a N2O partial pressure of 10-3 torr (the inset is the XAS of the ... Schematic diagram of the deposition chamber 31 Fig 2.3 Diagram illustration of Bragg‘s Law 40 Fig 2.4 Scheme of an atomic force microscope 43 Fig 2.5 A schematic diagram of XPS processes...

Ngày tải lên: 01/10/2015, 17:27

... mud initial with stages lapse of of time 90 uptake for all the dye of dye decreased concentrations curves monolayer increased from were single, smooth coverage of on dye and outer of adsorbent 20 ... Fe(III)/Cr(III) Namasivayam of dairy (11) and coworkers from employed solutions of using containing congo fly ash and coal(g) et al (12) have of nickel of this a textile such of chlorophenol study ... represented of The the containing model assumes valid a surface The for finite uniform and no transmigration by the equation ‘ e -=-+ is Langmuir monolayer number of energies of of adsorbate...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2012, 14:47

... part of the vein in all animals and in the distal part of the vein in of the animals Edema (Grades 1-3) was found in the proximal part of the vein in of the animals and in the distal part of the ... DEX Infusion of a 0.6-mg/mL solution of VNR for 30 at mL/kg/hr (the control group) caused slight loss of venous endothelial cells (Grade 1) in the proximal part of the vein in out of animals In ... intravenous infusion of antineoplastic agents reduces the completion of chemotherapy The causative factors of phlebitis include the pH and osmotic pressure of the solution, the size of the vein used,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... properties of the soil used for training of the MANN models are shown in Table Class Relative Importance (%) Table Properties of the soil used for learning of the MANN models Range of values Water ... database for the physical properties of the soil and results of consolidation test, to learn the database, and to predict the properties of consolidation SELECTION OF STRAIN RATE r= V − Vmin Vmax ... pressure ratio increases as the increase of strain rate and their trends are similar to those of the previous research In the case of sample D, the predicted values of ANN model are slightly different...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... promote the role of leader as well as define the effect of human resource in applying these standard In term of practical aspect, it studies real situation of maintaining the efficiency of the quality ... 2008 The profit of the company also increased Profit in 2008 increased 11.3 % compared with 2007 while profit in 2009 just increased 7.8% compared with 2008 Although the annual revenue of Viet A ... the awareness of officials and workers about the effects of the implemented processes of the quality management system in organization In detail, opening short-time classes to teach officials and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2013, 17:09

... were filled with 10 to 20 mL of a solution of C parvum (106 oocysts/mL) For run (Table 3), actual sludge present in city water was used and adjusted to a turbidity of about 250 NTU before being ... gradient of the change in inactivity varied in the case of the pulse lamps with 80 mJ/cm2 as the turning point Fig demonstrates that the pulse lamps displayed superior ability in terms of inactivation ... accuracy of 95%), and a limit detection sensitivity of about 1ogs UV dose [mJ/cm2] UV dose [mJ/cm2] ● LPUV □ Pulse-Lamp ▲ 1kW-MPUV ● LPUV □ Pulse-Lamp ▲ 1kW-MPUV Fig Inactivation effect of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... 6mL/min (or space velocity of 0.98-1.47m3/m3h), pH of 7-8, and initial arsenic concentration of 0.1-0.5mg/L, to obtain a breakthrough time of more than 100 hours The operation of the column is very ... with a total volume of 1000mL This stock solution has an arsenic concentration of 1000mg/L - 44 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 6, No.1, 2008 Table Composition of synthetic groundwater ... 70.19m²/g, pore volume of 0.00062cm3/g and pore size of 126Å Preparation of AC-Fe AC from coconut shell was taken from MAPECOH, Inc (Philippines) with a particle size of 0.45-0.71mm after sieving...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... The observation of storm-runoff events is not so easy to carry out sufficient times of the observation Then, the samples of storm-runoff loads were supplemented with the storm-runoff loads calculated ... monthly data of Ci of the water sample reserved in the deposit sampler and Qi of the volume by ILM The annual net-load (unit load) of TN was 35.8±4.05 kg ha-1 y-1 on the average of three years ... rate of TN was significantly affected by plowing of paddy soils L(R) method L(R) method was developed in order to evaluate storm-runoff loads by using precipitations in cases of limited data of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38