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... current care and optimal care [4] An important part of the diagnostic analysis is the identification of barriers and facilitators to change Until now, studies identifying barriers and facilitators ... guideline for breast cancer surgery in day care is a complex process that involves changes on the organizational and management level, as well as the level of health care professionals and patients ... manuscript, the acquisition, and interpretation of data, and has been involved in drafting and critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual content All authors have read and approved...
... responsible for the data analyses and prepared the first draft of the paper and the final manuscript AB assisted with the interpretation of the data, provided the main background content and provided ... amphetamines (74.8%) at least once in their life As shown in Figure 1, the initiation age for legal substances (alcohol and tobacco) was approximately 15 and the age for cannabis was approximately 16 Most ... a typical party night with at least one being an illegal substance, such as cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines or opiates The collected data were analyzed using SPSS statistical software for Windows,...
... normative database and standard analysis Table 2: Quick reference simplified set of normative data for electric activity obtained by surface EMG for masseter and submental group + platisma during ... be a very timely addition to our evaluation techniques 16 Summary 17 Surface SEMG of swallowing is a simple and reliable method for screening and initial evaluationof dysphagia and odynophagia ... oesophageal – of causes for dysphagia or odynophagia Each stage has its mean normal duration and its specific graphic pattern Each pair of electrodes has a third electrode as ground Electrical impedance...
... most valuable as a tool for high-throughput evaluationof new CCR5 and CXCR4 inhibitors and in vitro evaluationof their therapeutic potential in combination anti-HIV therapy Materials and methods ... used for HIV replication assays andevaluationof antiviral compounds [28,30,35,37] Importantly, U87.CD4.CCR5 cells support infection of all evaluated R5 and R5/X4 HIV-1 (and HIV-2) strains and ... HIV-infection assays and wrote the manuscript SH participated in the design of the studyand critically evaluated the manuscript KV carried out the p24 Ag ELISA assays EDC critically evaluated the manuscript...
... measurements of daily solar radiation are in a good agreement Statistical analysis of these comparisons indicated that the daily solar radiation made by Meteosat-8 was very suitable for solar ... RMSE and MAE was winter which characterized with some rainy days and relatively high relative humidity and autumn season which have low ozone and some dusty days Table Statistical measures of validation ... estimated values of daily solar radiation are very comparable Statistical analyses for these comparisons were carried out Figure and illustrate the residual between measured and estimated daily...
... Spohr and the late R U Lemieux, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada di- and oligo-saccharides and starch at comparable rates [23,24] The sequence classi®es a- glucosidases in glycoside hydrolase ... substrate for all enzymes were smallest for the 6¢-deoxy analog and largest for the 2¢-deoxy analog, while intermediary losses in activity for 3¢- and 4¢-deoxy analogs did show small variations among ... Inohara-Ochiai, M., Okada, M., Nakayama, T., Hemmi, H., Ueda, T., Iwashita, T., Kan, Y., Shibano, Y., Ashikari, T & Nishino, T (2000) An active-site mutation causes enhanced 734 T P Frandsen et al...
... (e.g farmer characteristics) This approach reduced the data into a more analytical and readable format anda new way of thinking about the data The new transcripts were then interrogated for patterns ... emerge Data was then subject to qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis as appropriate This approach complements the intricate and unique nature of each farmer’s reaction, and allows for further ... additional data • Testing for diseases in seed, quality of feed and disease sample analysis during growout • Collation and reporting of all BMP monitoring and compliance data • Liaison and coordination...
... need for objective and automatic speech evaluation We examined speech samples from laryngectomized speakers and patients after treatment for oral cancer As a precondition for the evaluationof ... other hand, Spearman’s correlation coefficient was used Contrary to other agreement measurements, such as Kappa and Alpha, correlations are suitable to compare the averaged scores of the raters and ... gap between the exact description of morphologic impairment by endoscopic and imaging methods and the standardized perceptual evaluationof the individual handicap ASR will enable precise evaluations...
... Notes in Mathematics, vol 404, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Florida, 1999 Z M Guo and J R L Webb, Large and small solutions ofa class of quasilinear elliptic eigenvalue problems, J Differential Equations ... Hai and R Shivaji, An existence result on positive solutions fora class of p-Laplacian systems, Nonlinear Anal 56 (2004), no 7, 1007–1010 S Oruganti and R Shivaji, Existence results for classes ... classes of p-Laplacian semipositone equations, submitted Maya Chhetri: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 27402, USA E-mail address: maya@uncg.edu...
... Lieffers V.J., Hall R.J., Messier C., Spatially explicit modeling of PAR transmission and growth of Picea glauca and Abies balsamea in the boreal forests of Alberta and Quebec, Can J For Res 35 (2005) ... better distance-independent (basal area of competitors) and the best distance-dependent (CRWD) index are provided in Tables IV and V and Figures and The combination of basal area and transmissive-crown ... functions: a simple linear function (Eq (1)) anda log-normal function (Eq (2)) These represent two strategies to model the balance of leaf area and maintenance demands as well as allocation changes as...
... Pignon JP, MetaAnalysis of Radiotherapy in Carcinomas of Head and neck (MARCH) Collaborative Group: Hyperfractionated or accelerated radiotherapy in head and neck cancer: a meta-analysis Lancet 2006, ... Figure Mean dose and probability of complications for the parotids Mean dose, Dmean (above) and probability of complications, PI (below) in the ipsilateral and contralateral parotid for each of the ... (Figure 3) Spinal cord, parotids, oral cavity and mandible are some of the most important organs at risk in radiation therapy of patients with head and neck tumours Other Ferreira et al Radiation Oncology...
... described Using harmonic frequencies the data are modeled as a sum of sine and cosine oscillations anda Fourier transform is performed In our case the Fourier transform equals an ordinary least squares ... Quantil-quantil-plot of residuals Quantil-quantil-plot of residuals of d6 and d7 against standard normal quantiles (black cross) The gray line joins the first and the third quartile The absence of large deviations ... this article as: Stroebel et al.: Statistical methods for detecting and comparing periodic data and their application to the nycthemeral rhythm of bodily harm: Apopulation based study Journal of...
... feet and hands Digital radiographs of both feet, ankles and hands will be obtained for all participants Weight-bearing dorsoplantar and lateral views of each foot will be obtained Roddy et al Journal ... Vohora; staff of the participating general practices and Haywood Hospital, especially Dr Jackie Saklatvala, Carole Jackson and the Radiographers at the Department of Radiography; Alison Hall who ... Dimensionality and clinical importance of pain and disability in hand osteoarthritis: Development of the Australian/ Canadian (AUSCAN) Osteoarthritis Hand Index Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2002,...
... performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript GJD initiated the original idea of the studyand helped to draft the manuscript MK, JF, and SARW helped analyse the data and draft ... discrimination ability of the admission APACHE II model and the worst 24-hour APACHE II model was similarly poor in patients with sepsis, pneumonia, gastrointestinal perforation, and cardiac arrest, and ... thank Dr Geoffrey Clarke and Dr John Weekes for their part in initiating the Royal Perth Hospital ICU database, and thank all ICU consultants who have been recording APACHE II data for every admission...
... trial Intervention The treatment was randomized at an individual level usinga fixed randomization scheme with equal allocation of patients to the intervention and control group The patients and ... diarrhea > days and the mean length of hospital stay was also estimated The proportion of children with diarrhea > days was estimated based on the results of the Indian community-based studyof ... medical costs calculated by us by comparing it to the charges of non-profit hospitals Similarly the cost ofa day's stay fora patient, at the diarrhea treatment and training center or at the...
... technology and scanning probe technology for data storage, aiming to achieve further million rpm And this should be capable of storing vast amounts of data and handling them at rates of up to 300 gigabytes ... 50% of Peak Value RAMAC Random Access Method of Accounting and Control RBW Resolution Bandwidth RMS Root Mean Square SMART Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio TAA ... gigabytes a second-hundreds of times faster than the rates that are currently attainable [6] 1.2 Construction of Hard Disk Drive and Head-Media Interface Characterization A hard disk drive is basically...
... carriage at the velocity uc against a disturbance force fc Note that fc is a general variable to account for external forces actuating on the carriage, which can include machining forces and coulomb ... screw can be considered as a straight bar with three fundamental types of deformations: axial deformation, by traction or compression, angular deformation, by torsion, and flexural deformation ... deformations, and the coupling increases as the trasnmition ratio increases It means that the axial and angular deformations are both important About the character of this mode, Vicente et al (2008)...
... Monitoring andEvaluation Impact Evaluationof SME Programs in Latin America and Caribbean Editors: Gladys Lopez Acevedo Hong W Tan April 2010 Poverty and Gender Unit Poverty Reduction and Economic Management ... post-program performance of treatment and control group firms could lead to inaccurate estimates of program impacts Impact Evaluationof SME Programs in LAC CHAPTER Year start program To clarify the nature ... survey data maintained by national statistical offices (NSOs) to create the non-experimental panel data set, with information on establishment characteristics anda range of performance measures...