BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to scrutinize Public- Private Partnership (PPP) models in public hospitals of different countries based on performance indicators in order to se-lect appropriated models for Iran hospitals. METHODS In this mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study, systematic review and expert panel has been done to identify varied models of PPP as well as performance i...

OBJECTIVE To develop a flow cytometric assay to quantify platelet-derived microparticles (PMPs) in equine whole blood and plasma. SAMPLE Citrate-anticoagulated whole blood from 30 healthy adult horses. PROCEDURES Platelet-poor plasma (PPP) was prepared from fresh whole blood by sequential low-speed centrifugation (twice at 2,500 × g). Samples of fresh whole blood and PPP were removed and st...

This study investigates the validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis as a long run equilibrium condition for thirteen Asia Pacific economies using a generalized error correction model. The results of the generalized dynamic specification appear to support PPP for more countries than do standard tests for unit roots. Out of the thirteen bilateral exchange rates, evidence of PPP is fo...

von Willebrand factor (vWF) multimers were examined in fetal, umbilical cord, and neonatal platelet-poor plasma (PPP) specimens. Sixty-five of 65 (100%) fetal PPP samples aged less than 35 weeks and seven of ten (70%) fetal samples aged greater than 35 weeks had unusually large vWF (ULvWF) multimers. Thirty of 46 (65%) cord PPP samples from neonates ranging in gestational age from 34 to 41 week...

We examined the proliferative behaviour in tertiary culture cells of human skin fibroblasts (HSF) as well as cells of the rat 3Y1 diploid fibroblast line placed on a plastic substratum in a nutrient-rich medium containing high concentrations of platelet-poor plasma (PPP). Autochthonous human PPP was used for the HSF cells and heat-treated (at 56 degrees C for 30 min) bovine PPP was used for the...

OBJECTIVE The primary objective was to estimate the national prevalence of psoriasis and palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP) in Japan. Secondary objectives were to determine (1) whether psoriasis and PPP disease activity varies by season, and (2) whether disease severity is associated with concurrent diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidaemia and hypertension. SETTINGS Patients with a psoriasis or PPP diag...

This paper analyses robotic signals in the perspective of fractional dynamics and the pseudo phase plane (PPP). It is shown that the spectra of several experimental signals can be approximated by trend lines whose slope characterizes their fractional behavior. For the PPP reconstruction of each signal, the time lags are calculated through the fractal dimension. Moreover, to obtain a smooth PPP,...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) [1] provides a standard method for transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links. The PPP Compression Control Protocol [2] provides a method to negotiate an...

SUMMARY This paper describes a new presentation of continuous speech in terms of the probability of all phoneme types as a function of time. The presentation is called a phoneme probability presentation (PPP) and can be used for phoneme recognition of continuous speech. As a technique ,,0 produce the PPP, we have employed hidden Markov models (HMM) with time duration information. This informati...