... method. Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 àg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% for percentage of fPSA. Relative differences ... IMMULITE, ECi, and DxI methods. At 20% fPSA, the relative difference was more than 10% for all methods except the AxSYM. Additional harmonization is needed for tPSA and fPSA methods. IntroductionProstate ... total PSA level between 4 ng/ml and 10 ng/ml. A PSA level of 4 to 10 ng/ml is considered slightly elevated levels between 10 and 20 ng/ml are considered moderately elevated; and anything above...
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... improve yourodds and that is by improving your criticalthinking and reasoning skills.What Are CriticalThinking and Reasoning Skills?To improve your criticalthinkingand reasoning skills,you ... “think critically”? And just what are “reasoning skills”? This lesson willanswer these questions and show you why criticalthinkingand rea-soning skills are so important.115 – CRITICAL THINKING ... their sense oflogic and reason.Practice1. For practice, imagine this scenario—buying anew car and apply criticalthinkingand reason-ing skills to it. First, critical thinking: What dif-ferent...
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... literature inclu des Ball (1999 and 2002), Svensson (2000), Taylor (1999), McCal-lum and Nelso n (1999 and 200 0), and Galí and Monacelli (2005). Taylor (2000 and 2001)presents an interesting ... contractionary-depreciation Thailand. I draw from McCallum and Nelson(1999 and 2000) for parameters of shock persistence. The two I use in thepresent paper are f= 0:5 and x= 0: I also reset McCallum and Nelson’svalue ... (2003=100)Thailand (2003=100)Source: IMF.45ECBWorking Paper Series No. 548November 2005 by Smets (1997), Smets and Wouters (1999), Kim and Roubini (2000) and Cushman and Zha (1997), a...
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... impose narrow norms and methods on scientific practice and today emphasizes the diversity of methods and of the means of discovery and justification [4,5]. The scientific method is what scientists ... theformulation and testing of null hypotheses. This stancecan be countered on a historical and methodologicallevel: the scientificmethod is a historical and philosophi-cal myth and null hypothesis ... uninformative,Flint also employs an analogy between poultry transport and long-distance migration that is highly misleading.DiscussionThe myth of the scientificmethodand the trouble with significance...
... throughout:R and C denote the real and complex numberfields, and N is the set of nonnegative integers. z denotes the complex conjugate of z ∈ C.(· )and (·) represent the imaginary and real part ... right-hand side, the limits limn→∞Rn and limn→∞xnex-ist and X= limn→∞xn> 0. For t he sums on the right, since∞n=0Rnis convergent and {1/xn}∞−1is positive and decreasing, ... analogue of these properties and some relations between them. In studying in-equalities involving expression (1.1), such as HELP (after Hardy, Everitt, Littlewood and Polya) and Kolmogorov-type inequalities,...
... understands it or realizes its impor-tance. Strong presentations require both content and style.Content without style goes unnoticed, and style withoutcontent has no meaning. 38 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC ... presenters mistakenlyassume that no alternatives exist.By showing you the differences between strong and weak presentations and by identifying, for you, the er-rors that presenters typically make, ... effectively critique, reflect on, and learn from yourown presentations until they become outstanding. 36 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONScome back to the shallows and then examine the resultsin...
... expense and importance of scientific pre-sentations, scientists and engineers should strive to com-municate effectively and efficiently in those presentations.Also, because scientists and engineers ... Still, if any of TheCraft of Scientific Presentations Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to AvoidMichael AlleyWith 41 Illustrations 24 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONSFigure ... the last time that you sat through two and a half hours of a scientific presentation and wishedthat it would go longer? Unfortunately, such responsesto scientific presentations are rare. Granted,...
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... AccessEditorialSpecifying and reporting complex behaviour change interventions: the need for a scientific method Susan Michie*1, Dean Fixsen2, Jeremy M Grimshaw3 and Martin P Eccles4Address: ... oracute illness, and in health professionals and othersresponsible for delivering effective, evidence-based publichealth and healthcare. In the field of implementationresearch, thousands of studies ... ofevidence-based practices and programs [18,30-34]. Forthose interventions that are supported by a series of rand-omized controlled trials (RCTs) that are theoretically and methodologically consistent...