THE VALUE OF RE USING PRIOR NESTED CASE CONTROL DATA IN NEW STUDIES WITH DIFFERENT OUTCOME

... Unfortunately again the AUC values were below the 0.70 for Bc1 in all groups The relevance of this finding is that it was the result of the first subgroup analysis for these biomarkers Bc1 should therefore ... periods of time might have resulted in changes in the protein content, affecting especially the results of Bc1 The present study and the study by Mathe...

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... attainment of accurate pronunciation in a second language is a matter substantially beyond the control of educators’ They qualified their findings by stating that variables of formal training and ... teaching pronunciation in the classroom and attained proficiency in pronunciation; the strongest factors found to affect pronunciation (i.e native language and mo...

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... of perceiving, of thinking, of understanding and of interacting spring out of the boundaries of ”humanity,” spring out of the boundaries of ”nationhood,” and spring out of the boundaries of the ... THE THEORY OF THE MEANING OF LIFEN 5.1 THE VALUE OF BELIEF (1) THE RATIONALITY OF CHOOSING THE ”NON-SCIENTIFIC” (2) WHAT WE MEAN BY ”A FEELING ......

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... The Value of Improved Public Services: An Application of the Choice Experiment Method to Estimate the Value of Improved Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure in India Ekin Birol International ... of Improved Public Services: An Application of the Choice Experiment Method to Estimate the Value of Improved Wastewat...

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... re-evaluation of cases Reliability is most important during the data collection phase, and involves the use of case study protocol as well as the case study database already mentioned Validity and ... underlying the case study itself is of a holistic nature Case studies may either focus on a single case or use a number of cases: A single case may...

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... based on the classification of the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association of the USA (14) Statistical analysis Comparisons between variables were tested using the chi-square ... fibrosis and inflammation may play important roles TB infection is associated with airway fibrosis and the immune response to mycobacteria could cause airway inflammation, a ch...

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... concentrations of elemental carbon reported in some urban areas may confer increased risk of lung cancer Thus, if the diesel exhaust/ lung cancer relation is causal, the public health burden of the carcinogenicity ... of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and Mustafa Dosemeci, formerly of the National Cancer Institute, for their wo...

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... sensitivity and specificity of CDX2 expression and the CK7−/CK20+ phenotype in differentiating colorectal adenocarcinomas from pancreatic and gastric adenocarcinomas Methods: CK7/CK20 staining pattern and ... with CK7+/CK20+ or CK7−/CK20− profiles The CK7−/CK20+ immunophenotype is more specific in differentiating colorectal adenocarcinomas from pancre...

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... 6.7–9.2%) of the S aureus isolates collected from these six hospitals In contrast, the USA300 strains accounted for 3.1% (range 0–5.0%) of the S aureus isolated from the remaining nine hospitals ... either USA300 or USA400 strains (Fig 3) The six hospitals with the greater prevalence of USA300 strains all serve neighborhoods located in the eastern section of...

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... et al.: A case report of pseudoprogression followed by complete remission after proton-beam irradiation for a low-grade glioma in a teenager: the value of dynamic contrastenhanced MRI Radiation ... Tsuyuguchi N, Iwai Y, Yamanaka K, Higashiyama S, Takami T, Ohata K: Diagnostic accuracy of 11C-methionine PET for differentiation of recurrent br...

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... sampled at any autosomal locus of a given animal has a 0.5 probability of originating from its sire, and a 0.5 probability of originating from its dam Similarly, it has a 0.25 probability of originating ... third approach based on probabilities of gene origin but accounting for bottlenecks in the pedigree; and (3) to compare these three methods to each other an...

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... this article as: Ramsay et al.: Using the theory of planned behaviour as a process evaluation tool in randomised trials of knowledge translation strategies: A case study from UK primary care Implementation ... 1988 Ajzen I: The theory of planned behaviour Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes 1991, 50:179-211 Armitag...

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... function of number of controls per case, with dashed lines representing studies with new cases and prior data, and solid lines representing studies with newly sampled controls for studies with (a) ... within each of the NCC studies (2) Our interest here is in re- using prior data from the prior study of disease A (both cases and controls) to invest...

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