... parameterizing their model with behavioural and biological data in all ofthe ways that Sawers and Stillwaggon outline as necessary fora realistic model, although all incorporated some forms of ... one ofthe world’s greatest public health crises Acknowledgements The author thanks Aditya Khanna, Susan Cassels and the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and assistance with the ... rapid spread of HIV” Few of these models have the goal of accurately reproducing the rapid rise in prevalence that was observed in parts of sub-Saharan Africa from the 1980 s until the early 2000...
... quantitative methods where coding of qualitative data was analysed in a two-step process Firstly the coding gave rise to a data set for analysis and then the original data was scanned for themes ... who had completed the language appraisal at the beginning ofthe academic year were approaching the end of their taught classes The interviews centred on a theme of reflection upon the academic ... from Language Appraisal September 2011 In my language appraisal last year I wrote that a lot of people are afraid of speaking English because it‘s not our first language People are afraid of making...
... collated the data and assisted with statistical analysis HM performed the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript TO helped perform the statistical analysis and contributed to draft ... especially if they can change the performance of physicians and/or improve the quality of life of patients [69] Ethics Approval Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee ofthe Medical Faculty of ... medical associations, but only received the information ofthe specialisation ofa QC at the first phone call The consequence was that many QCs moderators refused to participate at that time because...
... collated the data and assisted with statistical analysis HM performed the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript TO helped perform the statistical analysis and contributed to draft ... especially if they can change the performance of physicians and/or improve the quality of life of patients [69] Ethics Approval Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee ofthe Medical Faculty of ... medical associations, but only received the information ofthe specialisation ofa QC at the first phone call The consequence was that many QCs moderators refused to participate at that time because...
... L, Mazzulli T, Drews SJ: Validation ofthe TaqMan Influenza A Detection Kit and a rapid Automated Total Nucleic Acid Extraction Method forthe Detection of Influenza A Virus from Nasopharyngeal ... AE carried out the Combimatrix testing, JB assessed assay design, SB analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript, SJD conceived the idea forthe study References Subtype analysis of influenza A ... The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity ofthe CombiMatrix influenza A detection system for influenza A subtype analysis compared to the Luminex RVP assay, an...
... Philippines; Macro is in Thailand and Taiwan, Carrefour from France is in Taiwan; and Wellcome is in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Singapore Major Japanese department stores are in most Asian cities ... it already has 27 supermarkets in China and has an ambitious expansion plans ofa chain of 1000 supermarkets operating across the country by the year 2005 Meanwhile, WalMart with its openings of ... to cater forthe top end ofthe market They are markets ofthe futures What took 20 years to achieve in Hong Kong and Singapore has been achieved in less than 10 years in Taiwan And what has been...
... Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Hospital Association, and the Federation for American Hospitals The same organizations provided financial support Major financial and staff support ... representatives from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the Foundation for Physical ... expanded research efforts on PAC rehabilitation so that relevant research can be used as the basis for policy and funding decisions The planning committee sought to develop an agendaforresearch that...
... temporal artifacts in the halftone videos Therefore, perceptual quantitative measures for evaluating these artifacts are desirable Quantitative assessment of temporal artifacts can facilitate comparison ... dirty-window-effect Forthe perceptual evaluation of each artifact, a particular instantiation ofthe generalized framework, was presented and the associated results were EURASIP Journal on Image and Video ... This instantiation ofthe flicker assessment framework is depicted in Figure In Figure 9, K, Q, and R each have a value of L, and S have each a value of P has a value of −1 The “Artifact Map” is...
... Nazarpour, S Sanei, and J A Chambers, A novel semiblind signal extraction approach incorporating PARAFAC forthe removal ofthe removal of eye-blink artifact from EEGs,” in Proceedings ofthe ... signature of factor The spatial signature of factor (c) (d) Figure 6: The extracted factors by using PARAFAC; (a) and (b) illustrate, respectively, the spectral and temporal signatures ofthe extracted ... clean signals coming from nonfrontal areas 3.3 Performance evaluations In order to provide a quantitative measure of performance forthe proposed artifact removal method, the CC values of the...
... work ofthe Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) collaboration, an 'international collaboration of researchers and policy makers working together to improve the quality and ... purposes) Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Poitras et al Table Domain scores and overall assessment ofthe guidelines Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation domain EULAR [6] Ottawa Panel ... http://arthritis -research. com/content/9/6/R126 Table Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation ofthe guidelines Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation criterion EULAR [6] Ottawa Panel [11]...
... consisted of five sections Because theresearch presented in the present paper was part ofa larger research project entitled 'Investigating the added value of conjoint analysis forthe evaluation of ... it is often the case that facilitators can partly compensate for barriers These limitations associated with the methods that are currently applied in implementation research have revealed the need ... think of breast cancer surgery in day care Also, the cooperation ofthe ward nursing staff and management was considered highly important Cooperation of patients and patient organizations was considerably...
... consisted of five sections Because theresearch presented in the present paper was part ofa larger research project entitled 'Investigating the added value of conjoint analysis forthe evaluation of ... it is often the case that facilitators can partly compensate for barriers These limitations associated with the methods that are currently applied in implementation research have revealed the need ... think of breast cancer surgery in day care Also, the cooperation ofthe ward nursing staff and management was considered highly important Cooperation of patients and patient organizations was considerably...
... set formation model, and the availability function approach (Cascetta and Papola, 2001) that approximates choice set formation The study separates the responses to CWD risk and new information ... can be estimated using standard econometric techniques Among Haab and Hicks, IAL and von Haefen models that are tractable for our data However the von Haefen approach employs a theoretical and ... and CPA1 The signs are same, but the magnitudes are larger Error variance is higher in year relative to year (scale is lower), and variance is higher in the SP data than in the RP data, but the...
... to assume that standard teaching methods will accommodate all students Because theresearch has indicated that further research on student learning styles and teaching methods was warranted, adult ... White/Caucasian Black Hispanic Asian Other Question asked the students for their major Student major categories were Accounting, Business Management, Marketing, and other In the Accounting major the ... Most accounting professions deal with factual, black and white, information Many management and marketing careers look for people who can think creatively and make decisions that are not always...
... de-innervation ofthe joint and removal ofthe entire end-plate receptors that adhere to the bone and capsular tissue Limitations ofthe current study include a lack of comparison group and lack of blinding ... 71% of 21 patients at one year follow-up with laser denervation ofthe dorsal facet capsule Li et al treated patients with RFA ofthe dorsal rami Three patients had durable response after to 16 ... men; mean age 64, range 22-89) were included Length of follow-up was at least years with a maximum of years Location of facet pain was cervical in 45, thoracic in 15, and lumbar in 114 patients...
... resulting mathematically integrated patterns ofthe abnormal indexes are then compared for their degree of abnormality to the abnormal index patterns in the reference database to reach a final diagnostic ... to an amplitude histogram, which generates a large inventory of normalized mathematical indexes of abnormality It is the pattern of these mathematical indexes of abnormality, obtained from analysis ... in the included trials and were analyzed using the same software and hardware located at the central server location in New York All MCG analyses in this database have been validated against the...
... and water quality analysis ofthe biogas plants were conducted BACKGROUND Study area Bangladesh lies in the northeastern part of South Asia, and has an area of 147,570 km2 It is one ofthe most ... populated countries ofthe world, with a population of about 129 million in 2001(Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2002) Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh, and Bauniabad is one ofthe urban ... quality analysis ofthe biogas plant system, it was revealed that the anaerobic digestion ofthe biogas plants did not perform well as designed, and the water quality ofthe discharge from the...
... Overhead view Fig - Schematic diagram ofthe AUFB reactor Reactor Setup and Operation forthe Formation of Aerobic Granular Sludge Two AUFB reactors were used forthe formation of aerobic granular ... (suspended biomass) to form aerobic granular sludge for all the experiments was obtained from an aerobic basin ofa municipal wastewater treatment plant (Tokyo, Japan) Table - Wastewater composition ... (including a gas-solid separator), an internal diameter of cm, and a height of 3.2 m, were used for all experiments The schematic illustration ofthe AUFB reactor is shown in Fig Although the AUFB reactor...