... officers); and disaggregated densities of doctors, nurses/midwives and health officers Following previous studies, variables on GDP per capita, female adult illiteracy and land area are also included Data ... described in Anand and Bärnighausen, the logistic functional form of the dependent variables addresses both upper and lower boundedness between and [11] Our empirical analysis expands upon the ... service in rural areas for physicians, the introduction of contract-based employment for physicians and nurses with salary incentives to serve in rural areas, and the introduction of a performance-based...
... and three general hospitals in the Netherlands between July 2000 and January 2003 The eligibility requirements for inclusion in the non-randomized study were referral to low-vision services for ... statistical analyses, and helped to interpret the data; JGJH drafted a preliminary version of the manuscript and performed data analyses; PJR helped to draft the manuscript and revised the manu- ... those of the initial analyses andare therefore not reported here To gain more insight into the prediction Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009,...
... a nontrivial task to compare different clustering results of the same data set and many efforts have been made for such clustering comparison (e.g., [13]) For hierarchic clustering, comparison is ... hierarchic clustering results for the same data set In the following discussions, N1 and N2 are the numbers of clusters in {H1 } and {H2 }, respectively, n1i and n2 j represent the data point ... the agreement and matches, we show an example of two hierarchic clustering results in Figures 3a and 3b These two hierarchic clustering results, {HA } and {HB }, arefor the same data set of 1000...
... were paired, randomized, and blinded for sequence, and were presented to each reader independently on a reading station consisting of high-resolution monitors linked to a computerized data recording ... Exercise I Inter-reader agreement for Exercise II was assessed for each reader pair for both the single joint inferred assignment of repair and progression and the whole hand/foot direct assignment ... Exercise III Complete sets of hands and feet were available for 60 cases included in the first and second exercise, and these sets were presented with a blinded time sequence to two readers experienced...
... BDTNP We are grateful for the frequent advice, support, criticisms, and enthusiasm of its members We thank Mark Stapleton, Brandi Grondona, and Ethan Bier for DNA constructs, and John Reinitz for ... briefly discuss those that are most relevant for understanding of our subsequent analyses Further details are provided in Materials and methods BioImaging Database Images Image Analysis Segmentation ... patterns Datafor both wild-type embryos and embryos mutant for three maternal regulators of the early network (bicoid, gastrulation defective, and Toll) are available We have released more data...
... manuscripts and thesis revisions Thanks to MSc supervisor, Dr Andre Choo, for his suggestions and insight as well as Dr Steve Oh for his patience and providing motivation to persevere and succeed ... Theodosia Tan, and Tan Yew Chung for their technical and personal support The author would also like to express gratitude for the wonderful discussions and advice from Dr Valerie Ng and Dr Jason ... Institute (BTI) and the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) Thanks to Prof Wang Nai-Dy, Prof Miranda Yap, Prof Tan Bor Leung, Prof James Chen, and Dr Paul Robson for their guidance,...
... ceranae and Enc bieneusi genomes contain genes that are absent in Enc cuniculi; however, the novel sequences in these genomes are apparently all hypothetical ORFs or transposable-like elements, and ... cultured O bayeri strains and provided DNA and RNA samples required for sequencing JFP performed bioinformatics analyses and drafted the manuscript DE provided the raw sequencedata on which all presented ... assigned functions genome Enc.80O bayeriand1we identified in identifiedcounterparts that arebayeri bayeri proteinsassignmentwe and their and motifs SequencesforEnc cuniculi and the putative in...
... this thesis to my husband, my parents and my brother for their i Acknowledgment great care and endless love to me throughout the years I will be forever indebted to them for all that they have ... )dt (3.12) ∆Tk Xk and Yk are defined as follows It is easy to prove that Xk and Yk are two independent and identical Binomial random variables due to the random property of bk and ak i n γk Xk ... and PSD In Fig 1.1, the emission limits and spectral mask assigned by FCC for indoor and outdoor UWB communication systems are illustrated Figure 1.1: FCC regulated spectral mask for indoor and...
... Association of College and Research Libraries has proposed a set of five standards for information literacy, with, under each, a host of specific Performance Indicators and desired Outcomes for measuring ... Differences between scholarship and quick information seeking The disservice consists in assuming that there are no differences between scholarship and quick information seeking, and, as a result, in failing ... books that are catalogued quickly at “minimal level” or in “batch processing” fail to show up within the conceptual categories and webs of cross-references that are defined by standard (and more...
... the Coreference Resolver on hij and the best hypothesis for each of the other sentences, generate entity results for each candidate name in hij (c) Generate a coreference feature vector Vij for ... (Ji and Grishman, 2004) we proposed a name tagging method which applied an SVM based on coreference information to filter the names with low confidence, and used coreference rules to correct and ... sum of all the link weights between mijk and other mentions in eijk , 0.8 for name-name coreference; 0.5 for apposition; 0.3 for other name-nominal coreference FirstMentionijk is if mijk is the...
... FFM and thus higher fatness in both genders In a non-randomly selected Swiss population with healthy 70– 79-year olds, average FFM and fatness was 41 kg and 36% for women and 56 kg and 25% for ... epidemiological and impedance data, Lauren Lissner was responsible for the Geriatric and Gerontologic ¨ Population Studies and the Population Study of Women in Goteborg and contributed to study design and ... PRESS, each subject in the total data set is excluded, one at a time, and a regression analysis is performed The value for each omitted subject is predicted, and the difference from the Body...
... coli T- and P-proteins share numerous structural and kinetic similarities Besides being native dimers (com- Table HPLC retention times and molecular masses of T-protein fragments and standards ... curve fitting options in the KALEIDAGRAPH program (Abelbeck Software) N-terminal analysis Samples of the proteolytic bands were prepared for N-terminal sequencing by electroblotting from the SDS gels ... deoxycholate and protein precipitated The samples were centrifuged at 20 000 g for 20 and the pellets were immediately dissolved in SDS/PAGE loading buffer containing dithiothreitol, boiled forand analyzed...
... and thus masks that are selected will be treated as any other sequenceand no filtering will occur Genetic Data Environment 27 3.2 Editing and Aligning Sequences 3.2.1 Manual Alignment andSequence ... Genbank format The GDE format retains essentially all of the Eisen 38 information seen in the GDE window, such as alignment, sequence groups, andsequence notes For more information on the GDE format, ... entered into the sequence, as well as how external programs handle the sequence when it is selected foranalysis The DNA/RNA and protein sequencesuse the standard nucleotide, amino acid, and degenerate...
... of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom and Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom and Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Churchill Hospital Oxford, ... Health and Disease Marta Gwinn and Wei Yu 63 PART II Methods and Approaches forData Collection, Analysis, and Integration The Global Emergence of Epidemiological Biobanks: Opportunities and Challenges ... Fundamentals of human genome epidemiology revisited and T3 and T4 research currently are rare (except in newborn screening, and selected testing for genetic disorders such as hereditary breast and ovarian...
... demands of the organ and, therefore, is permanently oxygenated and nutritional substrates are added as well as cre- Table 3: Basic experimental datafor isolated kidney experimental groups andfor ... to be distinguished from each other Therefore the x, y dataare transformed into logarithmic scaling and linear lines instead of curves are resulting for constant values of the creatinine clearance ... mmHg for groups A, B, D, E with significant exceptions for group CON (17.4 mmHg) and the albumin group C (16.8 mmHg) Laboratory parameters for both blood and urine are presented in table for the...
... experiments and prepared the manuscript, EJL propagated and purified the phage; and together with YS contributed to the proteomics P-JC sequenced the ends of the genome; and AV contributed to the genome ... protein bands can be assigned based upon the extensive knowledge of these phages, and the mass of the protein bands compared with the in silico analysis of the proteins based upon genomic analysis ... phage Berlin and coliphage T3 Results and discussion Pyrosequencing (454 technology) has been used to determine the sequence of the genomes of Bacillus thuringiensis phage 0305φ8-36 [7] and coliphage...
... below ≈.5 Figure and compare predicted and observed EQ-5 D utility values, andare representative for the other mapping algorithms investigated in this study Step one Figure and indicate that ... these scores, standard mapping algorithms are likely to overpredict utility values More conservative and somewhat arbitrary cut-off values we determined are > 2.0 for HAQ-DI and < 45 for the average ... not informative for the application of mapping algorithms Here we explored the use of condition specific measures (that we aremapping from) to indicate the expected accuracy of a standard mapping...
... image, if the spots are in a single block, it is highly likely that they are in the form of a regular sequence So we compute a set of regular sequences for an entire microarray image and then cluster ... Part for batch analysisAnalysis results Figure 2: A flow chart of our automatic image analysis system Part is responsible for performing automatic gridding by using the extended δ-regular sequence ... regular sequences and to correctly locate the positions of spots and blocks Definition P = { p1 , p2 , , pn } is a regular point sequence if P is collinear and equally spaced A maximal regular sequence...
... and KB performed the animal experiments DK and HJT performed gene expression profiling experiments XY and DK performed the bioinformatic analysis SI conceived and designed the experiment XY and ... the gene cluster are graphed and the major biological activities for each cluster that were examined by functional clusteringanalysisare indicated on the right Candidate genes for the small-effect ... susceptible and resistant strains at both the genomeand transcriptome levels At the genome level, F2 progeny of the CIA susceptible (DBA/1) and resistant (FVB/N) strains were generated and a genome- wide...