... advanced disease, but within this gray zone only 25% have cancer, and controversy exists whether these are the patients who have early-stage disease and would benefit from detection or whether these ... with the ARCHITECT i2000 SR comparison 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 µg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% ... this phenomenon, the other problem was the lack of calibration against a universal standard In an effort to standardize PSA methods, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a standard, the...
... found betweenthe response to the GRoC question andthe SF-6D score at initial assessment across the nine studies The combining of the "somewhat worse" and "somewhat better" groups assumes the ... for the summary estimate of the MID was then calculated [31,32] We also used a distribution-based approach and calculated a standardised response mean (SRM) Since the standard error of the SRM is ... that the reliability and validity of the global scale has not been established and that the judgement of change is psychologically difficult [19] Another limitation of the global rating is that is...
... the Pearson’s correlation coefficients and their p-values for the paired variable in each time region The null hypothesis is that the correlation is equal to zero The alternative hypothesis is ... slow the economy Therefore, we may conjecture that therelationshipbetween default risk and interest rates is sensitive to some measure of where the economy is in the business cycle and/ or other ... cited above, the main goal of this study is to analyze the empirical relationshipbetween interest rates and default risk Moreover, the structure of the analysis focuses on understanding the dynamics...
... with the other cheeses (7- and 12-month) The 12-month-ripened cheese had the lowest mean score of liking of 5.75, which is categorized as between “like slightly” and “neither like nor dislike” ... to the eigenvalues (percentage by which variation is explained in the biplot), 70% of the variation is explained by dimension 1, and almost 15% of the variation is explained by dimension This ... Logistic regression is very similar to multiple linear regression The only major difference in the analyses isthe nature of the response variable In multiple linear regression, the response is...
... from the research (Cooper & Schindler, 2006) The use of hypotheses testing involves two statistical hypotheses; the research hypothesis, which is usually symbolized by H1, andthe null hypothesis, ... stockholder theory and agency theory as the foundation for its approach and consequently is limited by the theory itself According to Veliyath and Bishop (1995), agency theory predicts that there is a ... which is usually symbolized by Ho For the purpose of statistical analysis, the study’s hypotheses are presented in the null and alternative forms Statistical analysis allows the researcher to either...
... of this company Therefore, this research aims to: i Systematize the basic issues of corporate culture andthe management accounting innovation ii Understand whatistherelationshipbetweenthe ... receive the enthusiastic supports from all managers, chief accountant and other accounting staff who are involved in the survey conducted in this thesis Although therelationshipbetween me and those ... focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding therelationshipbetweenthe corporate culture andthe innovation of management accounting This research only...
... of the NRR over The currency risk premium was then derived from actual interest rate differentials between New Zealand and Australia and New Zealand andthe United States the 1990s Given the ... course, the disinflationary impact of the Asian crisis of of the NRR Hawkesby et al assume that there is no default the late 1990s may counter-balance the impact of these or liquidity premium between ... ordinary level, and keep it so for some years, then the prices of all commodities would rise and rise without any limit whatever; on the contrary, if the leading banks were to raise their rate of...
... with the differences discussed in the text 27 The 17 in the sample of movers The key is that Plantinga and Bernell study nlsy79 respondents between 1996 and 2000, rather than between 1988 and ... of landscape There are three reasons to believe that this is not a problem First, the existing literature and our own results find that the cross-sectional relationshipbetween landscape and weight ... in the cross-section This is confirmed by their longitudinal results, where therelationshipbetween sprawl and weight vanishes 29 Ewing et al (2006) use a ‘random effects’ estimator Unlike the...
... afflicting the recent and multidisciplinary debates Whatis AE for? Is AE an adaptation or a by-product? Whatistherelationshipbetween AE andthe goal of knowing? Has AE a mental distinctiveness? What ... ontology of music (the clash between nominalism and idealism about therelationshipbetween a musical work‚ and its tokens or performances‚, the controversy between fictionalism and realism, etc.); ... ask: is there a role for touching in the aesthetic division of labour, which is indisputably dominated by the seeing and hearing that seem to safeguard the distance betweenthe work of art and...
... Comparison of the Cel7A unfolding with and without the substrate either at pH 8.0 (Fig 3A and B), or pH (Fig 3C and D) shows interestingly that the unfolding of the protein andthe release of the ... aho and R Suihkonen for construction of the Cel7A mutant, and for the purification of the wild-type andthe mutant protein K Rautajoki is thanked for the help with the fluorescence measurements The ... H Boer and A Koivula (Eur J Biochem 270) histidine side-chain X-ray analysis showed that there were no major differences betweenthe mutant and wild-type cellulase structures other than the designed...
... data on thenumber of days in bed from illness and disability over the past year and this is a clearer indicator of severity of ill health and disability Figure 12 shows that the overall number ... can be misleading as the elderly may continue to work but reduce their hours as they age rather than abandon work altogether Figures, and show the weekly hours of work for men and women and additionally ... is not recorded in the survey) and this is linked to location andthe history of emigration from certain locations in Vietnam during and immediately after the war On average social security and...
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... tourist satisfaction H1 - h: There are positive relationships between logistics and tourist satisfaction H1 - i: There are positive relationships between food and tourist satisfaction H1 - j: There ... from Thesis Adviser This Student Tran Hong Hanh, whose thesis entitled “A Study on therelationshipbetween service quality and customer satisfaction in Hanoi’s tourism”, is under my advisory and ... H1- a: There are positive relationships between core tourism experience and tourist satisfaction H1- b: There are positive relationships between information and tourist satisfaction H1 - c: There...