... tests PSA whatisthe difference between total PSA and free PSA? What isthe normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen in the blood that there is no ... cancer.Source(s):http://cancer.about.com/od/prostatecance…http://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/…http://www.psa-rising.com/med/info/psa.h…PSA is a protein produced by the cells of the prostate gland. The most frequently used PSA - prostate-specific antigen test - isthe total PSA, which measures the sum of the free PSA andthe ... 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 àg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and...
... to recall their initial state, and the judgement is based on their present state and workingbackwards. Any measure of change that reflects the unbi-ased difference betweenthe final and initial ... correlations with the initial state, supporting thishypothesis. The length of time between 1st and 2nd assessments wasup to a year, which is far larger than the timeframes usedin other studies ... purposes)Health and Quality of Life OutcomesOpen AccessResearch What istherelationshipbetweenthe minimally important difference and health state utility values? The case of the SF-6DStephen...
... tttttYYYYεθθδ+∇+∇+=∇−−− 22111 The t-stat is: )ˆ(ˆδδSEt = (7) The null hypothesis is: the time series had a unit root. The alternative hypothesis is: the time series is stationary. A p-value ... Table 5 displays 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 ... 2, 2009 THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEEN DEFAULT RISK AND INTEREST RATES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY RESEARCH INSIGHT ABSTRACT Understanding therelationshipbetween credit and interest rate risk is critical...
... Science, Nutrition and Health PromotionMississippi State UniversityMississippi State, MS 39762Accepted for publication November 8, 2005ABSTRACT The relationshipbetweenthe consumer acceptability ... differences. These irregular trends in the interaction among panelists could mean that the panelists did not distinguishdifferences among treatments or that no perceivable differences existed among the ... Logistic regression is very similar to multiple linear regression. The only major difference in the analyses isthe nature of the response variable. Inmultiple linear regression, the response is...
... Because of this reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding therelationshipbetweenthe corporate culture andthe innovation ... Firstly, whatis corporate culture? Andwhatisthe innovation of management accounting? Secondly, what istherelationshipbetweenthe corporate culture andthe use of management accounting ... therelationshipbetween corporate culture andthe use of management accounting innovations. Moreover, this survey also focuses on the purpose and role of this relationship. To conduct this...
... policy-maker would wishto return inflation to the target rate. There is no clearlink betweenthe length of the horizon that is relevantfor the NRR, andthe preferences of the inflation targeterover ... definition. Furthermore, we argue that there is a difference between thinking about what real interest rate is neutral over the medium run, andwhat real interest rate is neutral at the current ... inflation, the inflation target, and an estimate of the output gap, thenwe can solve for the term that is required to make thisequation hold at each point in time. This term is equal to the NRR plus the...
... of landscape. There are three reasons tobelieve that this is not a problem. First, the existing literature and our own results find that the cross-sectional relationshipbetween landscape and ... obesity and either of the landscape variables. This confirms our prior that dealing withmen and women separately is important. In light of this, it is surprising that none of the studiesdiscussed ... movers. The key is that Plantinga and Bernell study nlsy79 respondents between 1996 and 2000, rather than between 1988 and 1994 as we do. This is crucial because at that laterstage in their lives...
... is there a role for touching in the aesthetic division of labour, which is indisputably domi-nated by the seeing and hearing that seem to safeguard the distance betweenthe work of art and ... nominalism and idealism about the relationshipbetween a musical work‚ and its tokens or performances‚, the contro-versy between ctionalism and realism, etc.); (c) questions concerning thepsychology ... meaning, the link between music and text, the distinction between struc-ture and content, the controversy between representationalism and expressivism, etc.); (e) problems regarding the understanding...
... M. Siika-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 ... Cel7A and all of themare situated in the catalytic domain; five of them are buried and four are situated in the active site tunnel, stackingagainst the cellulose chain. The fluorescence emissionmaximum ... change the pH optimum, and at the same time improve the thermostability at the new pH optimum. Whether these changes can be achievedby a rational design or by directed evolution approaches is an...
... acknowledge and welcome the comments and discussion of participants in the Social Security Workshop held jointly with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs andthe Viet Nam Academy of Social ... retire because earned income by others in the household isshared and replaces the earnings of elderly people, or whether this is a reflection of the characteristics of the elderly person being lessble ... entitled to other provision and howcould this be paid for? How much additional poverty reduction at what costs is achieved if the age requirement is lowered to 70 and to 65? How do the costs and coverage...
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... attributes. The tourist is satisfied if the total experience compared to the expectation results in gratification feeling; and he is dissatisfied if the comparison results in the feeling of displeasure ... positive effect with the satisfaction of the current visit to the same destination, and then the feeling of satisfaction in the current visit affect intention to revisit in the future.A recent ... the outcome of the comparison between expectations and experiences, the difference between expectation and perceived performance, andthe “fit” between tourist expectations and host destination...
... design and development; data collection, data management and analyses; interpretation of results andthe preparation of this thesis. This PhD research program andthe study presented in this thesis ... depression and health 30 2.7 The association between stress and depression 33 2.7.1 Conceptualising stress 33 2.7.2 The association between stress and depression 34 2.8 The association betweensocial ... depression among adults in this community in central Vietnam? 2. Whatisthe nature and extent of the association between SES and depression among Vietnamese adults? Isthe socioeconomic-depression...