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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"current baseline"”.
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A survey of clinical research education and perceptions among research staff within an urban hospital setting
… 44 clinical research professionals for their current baseline of research competency and perceptions, within a single medical campus in Michigan, to obtain the current baseline of education research competency for the suggested development and implementation of a future clinical research …
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Is commercial livestock farming environmentally viable within the Orange and Fish River catchment area (OFCA) of Southern Namibia?
There are neither historical nor current baseline information relating to the productivity of the OFCA veld and a definite link between the current crisis and the possibly that it is suffering from the effects of having farmed the OFCA veld into a state of durable suboptimal productivity remains to …
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De-identification of free-text clinical notes
… systems. Notably, models built using recurrent neural networks achieved state-of-the-art performance on the de-identification task. Since the competition, new architectures based on transformers have been developed with excellent performance on general domain natural language processing …
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Estudio de mejora en el aprovisionamiento y la gestión de almacenes de la empresa Tuesta Consultores y Ejecutores E.I.R.L.
… index, inventory coverage) that will measure the current baseline and the future one after the implementation of the improvement study. To do this, the causes of the problem were analyzed, prioritizing them in order to determine solutions and improve procurement and warehouse management, …
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Improving clinical decision making with natural language processing and machine learning
… (CRT) outcomes with better precision than the current physician guidelines for recommending the procedure. We combined NLP features from free-text physician notes with structured data to train a supervised classifier to predict CRT outcomes. While our results gave a slight improvement over the …
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Testing new potential fuels for ion electrospray propulsion systems
… xerogel emitter substrate as an alternative over current glass emitters. This substrate was found to fire stably and with higher stable currents than the glass alternative (1.5 - 2 times the maximum stable current). In addition, this work analyzes and evaluates two new high conductivity ionic …
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challenges in running evening class programme at the institute of adult education of Moshi municipal centre in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania
… further studies that a similar study along the current baseline may generate data for comparison purposes and enable county policy make to have appropriate decisions on adult education curriculum and implementation strategies
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Sustainable agricultural management : a systems approach for examining food security tradeoffs
… that reallocating resources to meet or exceed current production can lead to 96% gain in net revenue as resources over an estimated current baseline. Resources in this case are moved to high-yielding cash crops. Imposing a self-sufficient southern diet which depends on rice reduces the gains to …
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Throughput optimization of multi-agent robotic automated warehouses
… are estimated to increase throughput by 10% over current baseline.
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A Systems Analysis of Trace Element Cycling in the Great Lakes
… cycles of various chemical elements, however current baseline concentrations remain unknown and biogeochemical controls underlying their sources, mobility, and fate remain unknown. This thesis utilizes an environmental systems approach to investigate three topics: 1) accumulation dynamics in …
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Lifelong Learners Study in Virginia
The purpose of this study is to identify the current baseline for lifelong learners (age 50 and better) focused on post-secondary education in the Commonwealth of Virginia (VA), the resulting academic services and public policy implications. While the aging research to date is overwhelmingly …
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Defining Business as Usual in Preschool Interventions for Challenging Behavior
… research to practice gap by ascertaining the current baseline intervention practices utilized to manage CB in preschool classrooms and identify areas for improved teacher training and coaching.</p> <p>Manuscript one presents a systematic literature review of reported preschool classroom …
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Accelerating Learning of Quantum Systems using Prior Information
… can be exploited to reduce resources over current baseline methods. In the first part, we consider the problem of quantum state tomography and identify a class of quantum states that are hard to simulate classically, to be learnable in sample complexity growing polynomially in the number of …
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Predictors of acquisition of Russian language listening skills by army intelligence specialists
… experience provided an increase over the Army's current baseline (predictor set Multiple R = .509 vs baseline = .359). For AIT, the Army's current predictor variables did not show up in the final equation. Again, an increase in predictive power was demonstrated with study habits, verbal ability, …
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Decommissioning the UKCS: increasing flexibility of approach through proportionate regulation and evidence based practice.
… study approaches - was used to investigate the current regulatory framework and the resulting decommissioning methods that are employed to achieve compliance. The development and impact of the current decommissioning framework was investigated from both the published literature and the research …
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MCAO for Extremely Large Telescopes: the cases of LBT and E-ELT
… study to improve the angular resolution of the current and of the future generation large ground-based telescopes (diameters in the 8-40 m range). The subject of this PhD Thesis is embedded in this context. Two MCAO systems, in dierent realization phases, are addressed in this Thesis: NIRVANA, …
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Barcoding alien invertebrates and biological control agents in South Africa, with a focus on the natural enemies of Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick)
… change underscore the need for comprehensive baseline genetic and distribution data of alien invertebrate species and biological control agents. Such data are important for mitigating and managing biological invasions. A useful genetic tool in this respect, is DNA barcoding, which uses a short …
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Pinnipeds as sentinels of antimicrobial resistance: mapping antimicrobial resistance genes in the waters of the United Kingdom
… but a formal assessment and synthesis of the current situation is lacking. This study aims to create a current baseline and characterization of the grey seal gut resistome and use associated telemetry data to evaluate possible sources and sinks of AMR in the waters surrounding the UK.<br/>In …