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... of Occupational Safety andHealth (NIOSH): National Occupation Research Agenda Washington, D.C.: U.S Department of Healthand Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIOSH; ... and Seamus Rogan, Jerry Poplin and Margaret Spencer of the Environmental Occupational Health Unit, The College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA References National ... Statistical Analyses Part One Functional Movement Screen Data was coded using Stata 8.0 For exploratory data analysis we used bivariate methods The primary hypothesis was assessed with multivariate...
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... markers on calcaneus and first metatarsal head The distance between the floor andthe line in standing position between the markers on calcaneus and first metatarsal were added afterwards ND was calculated ... analysis All data except age were parametric and therefore the Pearson product moment correlation was used The Spear- man's rank correlation was used in the analysis of age Correlations and stepwise ... MSR took part in data acquisition, made the statistical analysis and interpretation of data, and helped drafting the manuscript OS and HL took part in revising the manuscript critically for important...
... Dandona P, Aljada A, Chaudhuri A, Bandyopadhyay A: The potential influence of inflammation and insulin resistance onthe pathogenesis and treatmentof atherosclerosis-related complications in ... scleroderma or atherosclerosis or tuberculosis or AIDS in addition tothe acute condition that caused their hospitalization What were the results for such patients? Was the condition ameliorated or exacerbated ... inflammation, and insulin has anti-inflammatory properties (e g inhibiting production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and super-oxide radicals, macrophage migration inhibitory factor) [5-7], and...
... each block (GE Medical Systems, Lightspeed, USA) at 120 kV and 200 mA Analysis The data obtained were stored in a digital format (DICOM) and transferred toa personal computer for further analysis ... concerned, radio-opaque barium titanate particles appeared in the permanent cavity along the bullet path The cavity was covered with barium titanate particles along the entire bullet path Analysis ... both a direct evaluation of the barium titanate particles deposited in the gelatin block to be conducted anda comparison with a possible contamination with bacteria to be made Despite those advantages,...
... Ui and U) are used as the notation fora random variable or a random vector; and lower case letters (e.g u i and u) are used as the notation fora specific value of the random variable or the random ... expression for PEV unbiased PEVunbiased = Var (ai |data) = Ev|data Var (ai |v, data) + Varv|data E (ai |v, data) the first term Ev|data Var (ai |v, data) = Ev|data Var (ai |v) (because p (ai |v, data) ... ρ , a i = Var (ai ) Var (ai ) Using the formula Var(aibp ) = Var (ai ) − E Var (ai |data) (follows from ˆ Var (ai ) = Var E (ai |data) + E Var (ai |data) ) and inserting in the expression for...
... Introduction xix Market Instability Derivatives and Mathematical Modeling Senior Management and Staying in the Game Macroprudential Financial Regulation and Cycle-Proof Regulation The Way Forward Conclusion ... Bonuses anda Moral Dilemma A Distorted Remuneration Model Unsuitable Personal Behavior Conclusion CHAPTER Bank Capital Safeguards: Additional Capital Buffers and Reverse Convertibles Capital ... statistical modeling used to value (and rate) CDOs was seen to be inaccurate The same was true for MBSs Rating agencies had applied quantitative analysis and statistical modeling as part of their...
... tothe ordinal arrangement of values As our data contains some tied values, we calculate Spearman’s correlation by using Pearson’s correlation onthe ranks Table presents the Pearson’s and Spearman’s ... error andthe margin size, while ξij are nonnegative slack variables that measure the degree of misclassification The optimisation problem is equivalent to that forthe classification modelon pair-wise ... and linked to meta-data about the question prompts, the candidate’s grades, native language and age The FCE writing component consists of two tasks asking learners to write either a letter, a...
... 835 a Figure 2: Example of a simple grammar lattice All grammars generate a common lexicon for all the grammars) A Grammar Lattice as a Search Space for Grammar Induction a Rule generalization ... heads are flat feature structures These constraints are learned together with the grammar rules The ontology-based constraints represent the validation onthe ontology, and are applied tothe body ... composition and one for ontology-based semantic interpretation The partial ordering among nonterminals allows the ordering of the grammar rules, and thus facilitates the bottom-up induction of these grammars...
... particular, the mean B-factors of Met121 at ˚ ˚ theAand B chains are 26.67 A2 and 49.26 A2 , andthe ˚ and 79.30 A2 , respect˚ B-factors of S atoms are 38.14 A ively It is therefore reasonable to ... binds at one site at all stages of the reaction The best explanation for these results may be that the reaction of SDTG at the binding site of one subunit changes the conformation of the other ... shown) indicates the absence of any structural perturbation caused by the mutation Aminoacid analysis of the SDTG-modified Phe51Ala mutant and determination of its total amino and carboxy content suggests...
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... analogs The 'second generation' ONs contain nucleotides with alkyl modifications at the 2' position of the ribose They are less toxic than PS-DNAs and have a slightly enhanced affinity DNA and RNA analogs ... Prevention and Treatment via targeting on viral mRNA Targeting viral mRNA is one of the most active areas of research and development Several strategies have emerged over the years and are being ... analogs display superior sequence specificity and are resistant to nuclease degradation These third generation AS -ON have limited non-specific interactions with other genes and, therefore, have...
... Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications New Jersey: Erlbaum Assoc; 2002 Arthur K, Booth KS, Ware C: Evaluating human performance for Fishtank Virtual Reality ACM Transactions onInformation ... distract or augment the performer's attention, and perhaps most important to therapeutic intervention, motivation forthe performer In the group of papers that I guest-edited for JNER, the application ... rehabilitation Assist Technol 2004, 16:54-62 Sherman W, Craig A: Understanding virtual reality: Interface, application, and design California: Morgan Kaufmann; 2002 Stanney KM: Handbook of Virtual...
... in one animal) Some animals infected with the intermediate and late variants also had no length variation, while others demonstrated extensive variation (up to 80% in one animal) Although animals ... replication To determine whether the increased virus evolution observed among animals infected with the intermediate and late variants was due to random accumulation of changes or selection, we calculated ... uninfected control animal was then added to attain a final concentration of 1:100 In addition, fresh human peripheral blood mononuclear effector cells were added at an effector:target ratio of 10:1...
... analogs The 'second generation' ONs contain nucleotides with alkyl modifications at the 2' position of the ribose They are less toxic than PS-DNAs and have a slightly enhanced affinity DNA and RNA analogs ... Prevention and Treatment via targeting on viral mRNA Targeting viral mRNA is one of the most active areas of research and development Several strategies have emerged over the years and are being ... analogs display superior sequence specificity and are resistant to nuclease degradation These third generation AS -ON have limited non-specific interactions with other genes and, therefore, have...
... in Banach spaces,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol 225, no 1, pp 20–30, 2009 15 A Tada and W Takahashi, “Weak and strong convergence theorems fora nonexpansive mapping and ... Pure and Applied Mathematics, pp 15–50, Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, USA, 1996 S.-Y Matsushita and W Takahashi, “Weak and strong convergence theorems for relatively nonexpansive mappings in Banach ... Theory and Applications Using this functional, Matsushita and Takahashi 2, studied and investigated the following mappings in Banach spaces A mapping S : C → E is relatively nonexpansive if the...
... 2.27 Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank the referees for valuable suggestions onthe paper and thank the Center of Excellence in Mathematics, the Thailand Research Fund, andthe Graduate ... and Applications, vol 116, no 3, pp 659–678, 2003 S Atsushiba and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorems fora finite family of nonexpansive mappings and applications,” Indian Journal of Mathematics, ... Reich, “Weak convergence theorems for nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 67, no 2, pp 274–276, 1979 T.-H Kim and H.-K Xu, “Strong convergence...
... data transformation onthe input data Eight 8-bit data elements are regarded as a set and fed into an × binary matrix In the successive transformation on each row and each column by using these ... by the chaotic binary sequence in (3), (4), (6), and (7) The row transformation belongs tothe type of value transformation andthe column transformation makes the position permutation in each ... derivation and illustration as well as the analysis on complexity and security In Section 3, we perform the software simulation, randomness measurement, and sensitivity analysis of parameters in the...