... Central Banking Studies Bank of England Email: haroon.mumtaz@bankofengland.co.uk (3) Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division Bank of England Email: konstantinos.theodoridis@bankofengland.co.uk ... Time-varying parameters, stochastic volatility, VAR, FAVAR, forecasting, Bayesian estimation JEL classification: C32, E37, E47 (1) External MPC Unit Bank of England Email: alina.barnett@bankofengland.co.uk ... models that incorporate a gradual change in parameters and also include a large set of explanatory variables particularly well as far as the inflation forecast is concerned recording gains (over...
... L2 and L3 in some ways characterize the limiting cases of context-sensitlvlty that can be achieved by TAG's and TAG's with local constraints In (JoshI,Levy, and Takahashi,1975) also shown that ... The language Ll has equal number ofa' s ,b's had c's; however, the a' s and b ' s are mixed in a certain way The Language L2 = {a~ b~e cn/ n O} is similar to Li, except that all a' s come before all ... a composition operation called adjoining (or adJunction) which composes an auxilia~ tree ~ witha tree ~ • ~t tree witha node labeled X and let ~ ~ an auxiliary tree ~th the root labeled X also...
... WS participated in the co-ordination of the study JE, WS and JW carried out the data collection JE and MK performed the statistical analysis and prepared the manuscript All authors read and approved ... WJM, van Straten A, van Exel NJA, van Wijngaarden JDH, Klazinga NS and Huijsman R Stroke service: a reduction of length of hospital stay and discharge delay? Submitted to Cerebrovascual Diseases ... home-based care: an overview and cost analysis Pharmacoeconomics 2002, 20(8):537-52 Andersen R and Newman JF Societal and individual determinants of medical care utilization in the United States...
... Tsuchiya A, Williams A, Yfantopoulos J, De Charro F: Acomparisonof EQ-5D time trade-off values obtained in Germany, United Kingdom, Spain In The measurement and valuation of health status using ... analyzing and collecting the data All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements This research was supported by a grant from Chulalongkorn University The authors thank diabetic ... versus equal or above 7%), and presence and absence of diabetic complications namely neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy and cardiovascular Mann-Whitney U tests were used to The distributions of EQ-5D...
... Viau A, Levin MF, McFadyen BJ, Feldman AG: Reaching in reality and in virtual reality: Acomparisonof movement kinematics [abstract] ISEK, Boston 2004 Gowland C, Stratford P, Ward M, Moreland ... Motion Analysis System, Northern Digital Corp.) Each trial was divided in two phases: 1) reaching and grasping the ball and 2) ball transport and release For the first movement phase, temporal and ... from the edge ofa real or virtual table, reached forward by leaning the trunk and then placed the ball within a cm × cm yellow square on a real or virtual target (Figure 1) Care was taken to set-up...
... by a grant from the Canadian Arthritis Network (a National Centre of Excellence) Dr Marra is supported by a Canadian Arthritis Network Scholar Award, anda Michael Smith Foundation for Health ... determine quality of life of an individual are captured and summarized as a global score In VAS and SG valuation methods, however, the individual evaluates his or her own health state based on a holistic ... directly "assesses" and "evaluates" a health state on a scale of 0.00 (death) to 1.00 (perfect health) The health states that are evaluated in the direct approach can be hypothetical or can be the...
... and within mature trees, additional samples were used to confirm the variation of soluble ellagitannins with heartwood age MATERIALS AND METHODS Materials Variation within trees A core was taken ... is also apparent and the data were log-transformed, resulting in more homogeneous variances A balanced, nested analysis of variance was used to compare the variation between and within trees and ... is the heartwood age; T is the a concentration of ellagitannins at age aand oh T where a = This gives an estimate for b of -0.0219 witha standard error of 0.0007 and an R of 0.988 Therefore,...
... treatment of schizophrenia: acomparisonof costs among Texas Medicaid patients Pharmacoeconomics 2003, 21:683-697 Santarlasci B, Messori A: Clinical trial response and dropout rates with olanzapine ... 159:255-262 Gargoloff PR, O'Halloran RA, Boland JM, Brunner E, Dossenbach M, Levitt L, Valencia H, Landa E, Gonzalez C: Change in clinical status and side effects of patients treated with either olanzapine ... psychiatric and medical comorbidities, substance abuse behaviors, use of concomitant medications of any type, level of suicidality, display of aggressive behaviors, pregnancy, and lactating status...
... Ion et al AIDS Research and Therapy 2011, 8:5 http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/8/1/5 Page of Table Mean, Standard Deviation, Median and Min-Max Values for Components/Domains of MOS-HIV and ... coordination of the study, assisted with the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript EP assisted with development and interpretation of the statistical analysis and helped to draft ... Gonzalez A, Pedrol E, Gatell JM, Azuaje C, Llibre JM, Aranda M, Barrufet P, Martinez-Lacasa J, Podzamczer D and the COMBINE Study Team: Health-related quality of life in HIVinfected naive patients...
... line) and at hemodynamic decompensation (orange line) Medical Systems, Natick, MA, USA) If cardiovascular variables or BIS indicated a reduced depth of anesthesia, additional propofol and sufentanil ... Beer-Lambert law and absolute concentration changes are calculated by proprietary software (Hamamatsu Photonics) ICG was injected as bolus in the proximal port of the PAC at a dose of 0.1 mg·kg-1 and ... Software, San Diego, CA, USA) Variables were analyzed with one way repeated measures analysis of variance with Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons; values are expressed as mean ± standard...
... data available, BiPAP was associated witha trend toward increased risk for new onset acute myocardial infarction compared with CPAP BiPAP can reduce work of breathing more than CPAP can in patients ... the meta-analysis Authors' contributions KMH had the original idea for the study, conducted data extraction and statistical analyses, and drafted the manuscript KW conducted data extraction and ... 325:1825-1830 Agarwal R, Aggarwal AN, Gupta D, Jindal SK: Non-invasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema Postgrad Med J 2005, 81:637-643 Chadda K, Annane D, Hart N, Gajdos P, Rapael JC, Lofaso...
... similar in relation to age, sex, severity of back pain and leg pain, and functional disability (Table 1) The median age for both groups was 48 years and there was almost an even distribution of ... R, Carrino JA, Deyo RA: Imaging strategies for low-back pain: systematic review and meta-analysis Lancet 2009, 373:463-472 Jarvik JG, Deyo RA: Diagnostic evaluation of low back pain with emphasis ... back problems with or without radiculopathy, (2) duration of the actual episode being a maximum of two years, and (3) appropriate treatment that was unsuccessful in the primary care setting A...
... extracted data, performed statistical analysis and tabulated quality indicators of the studies IS and SM carried out the primary study search and extracted data AL carried out statistical analysis and ... any discrepancies Data were collected on study characteristics and quality, demographics and baseline characteristics (that is, clinical/biochemical parameters at initiation of RRT), and details ... meta-analyses Additional File 2: Summary of search strategy Detailed summary of search terms and strategy used for systematic literature search Abbreviations AKI: acute kidney injury; AKIN: Acute...
... Serodiagnosis of Human Brucellosis Clinical And Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 2003;4:612-5 Ordun A, Almaraz A, Prado A, Purıfıcacıo M, Gutıerrez N, Garc a- Pascual A, Duen A, Cuervo M, Abad R, ... Clinical Infectious Diseases 1997;25(4):939 10 Memish ZA, Almuneef M, Mah MW, Qassem LA, Osobad AO Comparisonof the Brucella Standard Agglutination Test with the ELISA IgG and IgM in patients with ... immuncapture agglutination and ELISA Ig M and Ig G tests, which are based on sandwich ELISA system, are standardized tests that have high diagnostic value and can be used interchangeably Titer is found...
... Whereas in many countries and in the European continent, handshaking is done when meeting and departing day in and day out and even the same assortment of acquaintances, in England as well as Great ... than men are In Afghanistan, for example, men and women have their own ways of greeting strangers A man will greet by saying manda na bashi (may you not be tired) Anda women will raise her hand ... friendly and to talk with the other 1.2.3 Types of language In fact, there are many kinds of language: language of music, language of science, language of art, etc And they are used to communicate...
... Jayaraman Krishnasamy, Mark J Jakiela, and Daniel E Whitney Mechanics of vibration-assisted entrapment with application to design In International Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE, April ... equivalence classes of stable states, and it then automatically categorizes the state (and hence, the equivalence class) of each part as the part exits the gate Experimental Results All of the ... systematic comparisonof quasi-static algorithmic and Monte Carlo simulated approaches to physical experiments [13] Krishnasamy, Jakiela, and Whitney analyzed vibration-assisted entrapment of both...
... operators of conventional dairies that go through what can be a challenging and costly transition process Many changes in such areas as animal husbandry, land and crop management, sourcing new and ... farms adopting the organic approach because of access to high quality pastures and the ability to manage pasture as a dairy feed source These areas also have a long history of small dairy operations ... information, such as farm income and expenses, and farm assets and debt, as well as farm and operator characteristics The 2005 ARMS included a version that also elicited detailed information about the...
... relations are derived from nature and society and appear to be essential for the social activities of man, e.g actor and action; the bearer ofa quality or ofa state and the state; action and an ... 2.1 we accounted for the Systemic part of Halliday's approach It is now time to deal with the Functional part Halliday takes a Firthian approach to situation anda basically Praguian approach to ... a relation of constituent to subconstituent Feature Associating Realization Operands Preselect associates a grammatical feature witha function Classify associates a lexical feature witha function...
... missing As the managing partner ofa Big Nine Zurich office said, we will always have harmonisation in areas that are not important" (p 118) Blake and Amat (1994) offer an analysis of the obstacles ... are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nordic Federation, South Africa, the UK, and the USA There are two co-opted organisations, the International ... the approval of all exposure drafts and standards as well as the general management of IASC The board is supported by an advisory council to promote both financing and the use of International Accounting...