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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"BSI"”.
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Standardising the city: A material-discursive genealogy of CPA-I_001, ISO 37120 and BSI PAS 181
… city services and quality of life. And BSI PAS 181 recommends practices for smart city leadership in the integration and management of government services. My decision to focus on the development, circulation and implementation of these standards prompted the use of semi-structured …
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A ten-year review of ESBL and non-ESBL Escherichia Coli Bloodstream infections among children at a tertiary referral hospital in South Africa
Introduction: Bloodstream infection (BSI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children (1). There are few descriptions of Escherichia coli (E. coli) BSI in children, particularly in Africa, yet E. coli is increasing in importance as a cause of antibiotic-resistant infection in …
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Blood stream infections in oncology patients at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town
… on the epidemiology of bloodstream infection (BSI) in sub-Saharan Africa. To address this knowledge gap, the present study was conducted at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH) in Cape Town, South Africa. Methods: Structured literature review: From 1 April 2016 to 31 May 2016 a …
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Candida bloodstream infection among children hospitalized in three public sector hospitals in the Metro West region of Cape Town, South Africa
Introduction Candida bloodstream infection (BSI) causes appreciable mortality in children. There are few studies describing the epidemiology of Candida BSI in children living in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Methods A retrospective descriptive study was conducted at three public sector …
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The Relationship between Childhood and Adolescent Family Environment and Adult Psychological Functioning in Females Who Experienced Childhood Sexual Abuse
… measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI; Derogatis, 1982), made by CSA, measured by the Early Sexual Experiences Survey (ESE; Bartoi & Kinder, 1998), childhood SES (Hollingshead, 1975), parental bonding, as measured by the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI; Parker, Tupling, & Brown, …
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Defining the Aetiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of the Predominant Bacteria Associated with Bloodstream Infections at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Bloodstream infections (BSI) are among the most common critical diseases that require intensive care and continuous surveillance. According to many multinational antimicrobial resistance surveillance schemes, Asia represents a substantial reservoir of clinically relevant antimicrobial resistant …
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The prevention and diagnosis of central venous catheter-related infection
… catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI) on a bone marrow transplant (BMT) unit and Siaphylococcus aureus recovered from 6 cardiothoracic surgery patients with surgical site infection (SSI) following median sternotomy. This epidemiological investigation revealed that common strains of …
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Kukorica (Zea mays L.) hibridek biogén szilícium tartalma és a termésbiztonság növelésében betöltött szerepének alapjai
… arra, hogy a később fejlődő hajtásvégi levelek bSi akkumulációja intenzívebb, mint a fiatalabb növény hajtásvégi levelének bSi akkumulációja. A bSi-ot leginkább akkumuláló szerv a buroklevél, amely a hipotézisünk szerint növeli a generatív hajtás ellenállóságát a biotikus és abiotikus stressz …
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Development of a Planar Capillary Electrophoresis device coupled with dual refractive index and fluorescence detection
… is coupled with backscatter interferometry (BSI) detection. This refractive index (RI) detection method is capable of universal detection of analytes including small inorganic ions, amino acids, and proteins. Due to the rapid separation capabilities, it can also be used to detect binding …
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A Comparison of Symptom Severity Between University Counseling Center and Community Mental Health Center Clients
… health center. The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) was completed by clients at intake, and the results were subjected to statistical analysis. A significant difference was found between the two service units on the Global Symptom Index and all nine scales of the BSI. There were no gender …
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Institutional and Patient Level Predictors of Multi-Drug Resistant Healthcare-Associated Infections
… aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections (BSI), system-level factors associated with implementation of infection control policies and MDRO rates, and the current knowledge on the use of infection control policies on the national level. In the second chapter, I use data from a national …
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Using Silicon Isotopes to Trace the Biogenic Silica in the Southern Ocean
… eukaryotic organisms that form biogenic silica (bSi) frustules. The use of stable isotopes and physicochemical factors (temperature, light, and trace metal) provides a promising method for understanding how Si and C fluxes will change in response to future climate change. The Si cycle in the …
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Using Silicon Isotopes to Trace the Biogenic Silica in the Southern Ocean
… eukaryotic organisms that form biogenic silica (bSi) frustules. The use of stable isotopes and physicochemical factors (temperature, light, and trace metal) provides a promising method for understanding how Si and C fluxes will change in response to future climate change. The Si cycle in the …
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Validity of the Clinical Assessment of Depression with the Brief Symptom Inventory
… three of the five scales on the CAD with the BSI Global Severity Index. Moderate level correlations (.20 to .60) between dissimilar scales supported divergent validity between the two measures. The correlations between the measures generally supported stronger relationships between scales of …
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Software component testing : a standard and the effectiveness of techniques
… project is based on the development of the BC BSI Software Component Testing Standard and the BCS/BSI Glossary of terms used in software testing, which are both included in the portfolio. The papers included for this project consider both those issues concerned with the adopted development …
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Laser Processed Materials for Advanced Solar Devices
… In this device, the lights are trapped by the bSi and the heats are transformed to the emitting cathode via the copper foil between the bSi and cathode. The thermal collected from bSi and passed to the emitters then enhances the threshold field of the emitters and electrons are launched via …
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Effects of Parental Incarceration: Strains, Negative Emotions, and Mental Health
… emotions, and the Brief Symptoms Inventory (BSI) or any of its subscales. Further, there were only two statistically significant relationships between parental incarceration and the BSI Global or its subscales; parental incarceration and somatization and parental incarceration and paranoid …
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An evaluation of a psychosocial intervention for orphans on HIV treatment: A phase II RCT of memory work therapy at PASADA, Tanzania
… questionnaires used, Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (SES), Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), and Self Efficacy Questionnaire (SEQ). Groups were compared at each time-point using multivariable linear regression controlling for baseline characteristics …
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A genomic investigation into gastrointestinal antimicrobial resistance and clinical infection in patients undergoing transplantation
… bloodstream infections (AMR-BSIs) claim 1.5 million lives annually. High-resolution sequencing data allows us to derive novel insights into AMR-BSIs. Immunosuppressed patients have a disrupted gut microbiome; therefore, transplant recipients provide an ideal reservoir for …
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Functional, Psychological and Community Integration Changes Over Time in Persons With Major Burn Injury
… in this study were the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), the Burn Specific Health Scale (BSHS), The Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ), the Pain Analog Scale (PAS) and the Functional Assessment Screening Questionnaire (FASQ). It was hypothesized that 1) both areas of functioning and community …
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