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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"withheld"”.
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Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of ‘good’ end-of-life care for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld: A North Island non-metropolitan ICU nursing study.
… discussions, when treatment is withdrawn or withheld. The focus turns from cure to comfort for the patient and their family. Providing a ‘good’ death for the adult patient who has had treatment withdrawn or withheld is a challenge in an environment where the emphasis is on cure. I designed a …
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An analysis of the proposed annual mark-to-market taxation of the capital gains of long-term insurance policyholders
… gains tax (CGT) which has been 'effectively withheld' from policyholders by the insurer. Having gained an understanding of the mark-to-market proposal and its intended purpose, the proposal will be measured against the following criteria: Does it succeed in recovering capital gains taxes …
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A retrospective review of strong opioid use in the last 6 days of life of patients with HIV/AIDS or cancer at the in-patients unit of St. Francis Hospice
… was not recognized and therefore analgesia was withheld until the HIV-positive patients were close to their natural death. Objective: To compare pain control and sedation practices for terminally ill patients with HIV or cancer.
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Compliance with surgical antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines: a prospective descriptive study at a tertiary level hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
… SAP was administered in 149 cases (82.8%) and withheld in 31 (17.2%). This was appropriate in 91.9% (137/149) and 77.4% (24/31) respectively. Twelve patients (6.7%) received inappropriate antibiotics and in seven (3.9%) it was inappropriately withheld. Of the 156 patients who should have …
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Measuring and Manipulating State Representations in Neural Language Models
… they are presented with texts that have piece(s) withheld, and asked to generate the withheld portions of the text. By simply scaling up such training, LMs have been able to achieve remarkable performance on many language reasoning benchmarks. However, sentences generated by LMs often still suffer …
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Corporate voluntary disclosures of pre-decision information
… news is disclosed and favourable news withheld if the signal is more informative about common factors. On the other hand, favourable news is disclosed and unfavourable news is withheld if the signal is more informative about firm-specific factors. Comparative statics show that the …
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Leonard Bernstein's Piano Music: A Comparative Study of Selected Works
… works held in the Library of Congress have been withheld.</p>
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Measurement of residual stresses and solving the inverse problem to infer dislocation distributions
… of measurements and components of strain are withheld. The aim is to develop a technique to reduce the number of residual strain measurements necessary to fully characterize the residual stress in a manufactured part.
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A systematic review of outcomes associated with withholding or continuing angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) prior to noncardiac surgery
… surgery, where ACE-I or ARB was either withheld or continued on the morning of surgery. Primary outcomes included all-cause mortality and major cardiac events (MACE). Secondary outcomes included the risk of congestive heart failure (CHF), acute kidney injury, stroke, intra/postoperative …
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Equipping Leaders for Discipling Public-School Adolescents in Chinese House Churches: A Mixed Methods Study
Chinese adolescents who attend house churches play a vital role in growing the body of Christ and leading the church to flourish. Hence, the church must assist them to establish identities in Christ and achieve spiritual prosperity so that they will be able to grow unto Christlikeness. However, …
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Business as Mission: The Effective Use Of Tentmaking In North Africa
Marketplace Ministries, specifically BAM and tentmaking, can be used in North Africa to effectively share the gospel in culturally impacting ways. Chapter 1 introduces the concept of BAM by presenting various definitions of BAM and finding a desirable definition for the purpose of this study. After …
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Reconstructing Signaling Pathways Using Regular-Language Constrained Paths
… that RegLinker exhibits superior recovery of withheld pathway proteins and interactions. These results show the promise of our approach for prioritizing candidates for experimental study and the broader potential of automated analysis to attenuate difficulties of traditional manual inquiry.
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INTERNAL CUSTOMER VALUE CREATION AND COMMUNICATION CHOICES
… studies revealed that employees disclosed or withheld firm-damaging information based on the social and functional value characteristics presented in available communication options. The second essay examined the motivating factors behind front-line employees’ decisions to convey brand …
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The distributed air wing
… a high-risk endeavor. If a carrier must be withheld from the battle or is put out of action, the entire capability of the air wing is lost. The Systems Engineering process was applied to this problem by exploring a concept called the Distributed Air Wing (DAW). This high-level concept …
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Assessing the Potential Aversiveness of Vicarious Reinforcement Arrangements in Preschool Children
… behavior is reinforced and reinforcement is withheld from observers’ behavior (Gureghian, et al., 2013). The purpose of this study was to experimentally examine the extent to which a VSR positive arrangement may be aversive for young children by arranging conditions under which the observer …
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