1.0 BACKGROUND By letters dated March 13, 1998, and March 12, 1999, PECO Energy Company (the licensee) submitted a response to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Request for Additional Information (RAI) dated November 14, 1997, related to Generic Letter (GL) 92-08, "Thermo-Lag 330-1 Fire Barriers," for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station (Peach Bottom), Units 2 and 3, and Limerick G...

Action update, substituting a prepotent behavior with a new action, allows the organism to counteract surprising environmental demands. However, action update fails when the organism is uncertain about when to release the substituting behavior, when it faces temporal uncertainty. Predictive coding states that accurate perception demands minimization of precise prediction errors. Activity of the...

Objectives. To analyze the pH-monitoring records of patients with suspected extraesophageal reflux (EER) using three different parameters (number of refluxes (NOR), acid exposure time (AET), and reflux area index (RAI)), with a view to determining which type of analysis is best at selecting the patients who will respond to a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). Methods. Demographic data were obtained a...

BACKGROUND this paper provides an overview of the Minimum Data Set/Resident Assessment Instrument (MDS/RAI) training programmes in eight countries where the system has been introduced into nursing homes. Formal education and training in the skills of assessment and care planning of nursing home personnel is reputed to be poor. In response to this problem several researchers and clinicians view ...

The ability to anticipate and detect behaviorally salient stimuli is important for virtually all adaptive behaviors, including inhibitory control that requires the withholding of prepotent responses when instructed by external cues. Although right fronto-operculum-insula (FOI), encompassing the anterior insular cortex (rAI) and inferior frontal cortex (rIFC), involvement in inhibitory control i...

BACKGROUND Radioactive iodine (RAI) is widely used for the treatment of thyroid cancers. However, information on associations between RAI dose and second primary malignancy (SPM) is lacking. METHODS Patients without antecedent cancer age 20 years or older and newly diagnosed with thyroid cancer were recruited from the Taiwan National Health Insurance database between 1997 and 2010. Standardiz...

Este artigo trata sobre as tensões e lutas pelo poder entre dois grupos sociais de pessoas que moram na aldeia Faulara: os originais do local (rai-na’in) imigrantes (la’o-rai). Nele, analisaremos um documento escrito em 2003 dirigido para a então administradora subdistrito Liquiçá no la’o-rai pedem o reconhecimento oficial suco Laueli-Lau (conhecido localmente nome Faulara) por parte da RDTL. M...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of the implementation of the National Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) system on selected conditions representing outcomes for nursing home residents. DESIGN Quasi-experimental, pre-/post-design, with assessments at baseline and 6-month follow-up. SAMPLE Two thousand one hundred twenty-eight residents from 268 nursing homes in 10 states before RAI implem...

Objectives: To evaluate a pilot study to introduce the outcome-based home care as part of a comprehensive client assessment system in Czech home care agencies. Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted with 13 home care agencies. Nurses were instructed to assess their home care clients with the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC), an internationally developed compre...