The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to assess levels of compliance with the intervention bundles contained in a clinical pathway used in the treatment of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, and to analyze the pathway’s impact on…

Findings from a qualitative research study of the context of adolescent pregnancy are presented. Participants were 21 pregnant adolescents from Medellín, Colombia, and nearby villages in the region. Data were collected by means of 21 qualitative interviews, and analysis followed…

El género Apteranthes Mikan se considera constituido por unos ocho táxones, en su mayoría distribuidos por el norte de África. Sin embargo, algunos de sus componentes han sido infravalorados en las revisiones más recientes del género, pese a estar bien…

One of the main concerns is the nature of the missing values. Let’s consider extremes for simplicity. If missing at random we have not to care about. But if missing shows structures that covariate with substantive variables we have to…

En este artículo exploramos diversas opciones para la adaptación a tarea en
reconocimiento de habla y las comparamos con desarrollar el sistema nuevo desde cero.
Comparamos adaptación a tarea mediante MAP y MLLR, y ambas en serie, en dos
reconocedores…

The name Lavatera x columbretensis, recently proposed for a hybrid growing in the Columbretes Archipelago (Castellón, E of Spain), is transferred to Malva. Additional data on nomenclature of other related taxa of ‘L. sect. Anthema’ and ‘L. sect. Axolopha’, are…

Several surveys have indicated that many data warehouses fail to meet business objectives or are outright failures. One reason for this is that requirement engineering is typically overlooked in real projects. This paper addresses data warehouse design from a business…

Data mining is at the core of the knowledge discovery process. However, an initial preprocessing step is crucial for assuring reliable results within this process. Preprocessing of data is a time-consuming and non-trivial task since data quality issues should be…

As a part of a taxonomic revision of Ethesia Raf., a new species, E. tanquana Mart.-Azorín & M.B.Crespo, is described from the Tanqua Karoo in South Africa. This new species is at first sight similar to E. haalenbergensis (U.Müll.-Doblies &…

Objetivo: El objetivo de esta revisión de la literatura es examinar qué se ha publicado sobre variabilidad de la práctica clínica desde el enfoque de la enfermería. Métodos: Se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica en las principales bases de datos internacionales…