To the Editor:—Rivenes et al. have presented evidence that sevoflurane and isoflurane preserve forward output in patients with congenital heart disease. Their conclusion that cardiac output is maintained with little change in contractility with sevoflurane and isoflurane is not accurate. The data in their table 4 indicate that systemic vascular resistance decreases with both agents, whereas car...

To perform statistical disclosure control (SDC) on tabular data is a challenging task because we need to ensure that every suppressed cell of a table has a suffi cient width of a confi dentiality interval under the presence of linear relations among cell variables. However, we fi nd that the existing SDC tool (i.e., τ-ARGUS) does not effectively support an output checking process of the on-site...

......................................................................................................................................... iii Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................v I. Description and Characteristics of the Canadian Diamond Industry...................................1 A. The Rise...

up to three decades ago, economic statistics could systematically meet the statistical needs and economic views quantitative analyses requirements (known as growth – centered views) in the framework of national accounts and input-output tables. however, owing to the insensitivity of these views to simultaneous survey of socio-economic issues, no attention has been paid to systematizing social s...

Introduction: Best radiography practice involves operational optimal machine performance, delivering cost-effective healthcare services under appropriate safety conditions for workers and the public. The present study aimed to investigate the safety status of diagnostic X-ray installations in Mizoram, India. Material and Methods: Lineari...

This article proposes a framework that will help analyze current and future output multimodal user interfaces. We first define an output multimodal system. We then present our framework that identifies several different combinations of modalities and their characteristics. This framework assists in the selection of the most appropriate modalities for achieving efficient multimodal presentations...

Input-output economics has become a popular tool to analyse the international fragmentation of value chains, especially now that several multi-regional tables that cover large parts of the global economy have become available. It has been argued that these tables, when analysed with the help of the input-output economics toolbox, can provide better insights about global value chains than can be...