background and purpose: implementing the guidelines to prevent vap has been shown to have a significant effect on reducing the incidence of vap. studies indicate that icu staff have poor knowledge and low implementation rate of the standard preventive measures related to vap. the present study aims to evaluate the knowledge of nurses in the intensive care unit in university hospitals of sari. m...

and analysis J. W. Murdock J. Fan A. Lally H. Shima B. K. Boguraev One useful source of evidence for evaluating a candidate answer to a question is a passage that contains the candidate answer and is relevant to the question. In the DeepQA pipeline, we retrieve passages using a novel technique that we call Supporting Evidence Retrieval, in which we perform separate search queries for each candi...

after a long march of history of developments, hermeneutics, the theory of text interpretation, totally focused on understanding, has nowadays been wider scope that eventually includes artworks. hermeneutics refers to different approaches due to its theoretical versatility and associated applied paradigms including ricoeur’s textual hermeneutics. the latter may be best described as text-oriente...

conclusions evidence-based post-insertion recommended care practices were not consistently and uniformly implemented in the intensive care units. establishment of a program for the surveillance of adherence to recommended guidelines is required for improving compliance by health professionals and the quality of preventive care. background healthcare-associated infections (hais) are acquired by ...

A common aspect of the practice-oriented side pre- and early modern mathematical astronomy was computation ephemerides, that is, tables displayed daily positions planets in a synoptic calendrical format. Even though medieval Europe no exception this regard, existence ephemerides period region has gone largely unnoticed, owing both to terminological difficulties low survival rate actual specimen...