2 assessing potential bias inherent in rcts

... gender issues in science and engineering, including innate differences in cognition, implicit bias, and faculty diversity • To examine institutional culture and the practices in academic institutions ... Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (U.S.) Beyond bias and barriers : fulfilling the potential of women in academic ... academic science and engineering / Committee on Maximizing the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy p cm Includes bibliographical...

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... However, clinicians may test prolactin levels routinely in patients who take antipsychotics known to increase prolactin, even in the absence of PPAEs Disproportionate prolactin testing in risperidone-treated ... hyperprolactinemia during treatment, % With prolactin test during treatment, % With potentially prolactin-related symptoms during treatment, %* With head/brain MRI or CT scan during treatment, ... and hyperprolactinemia: Risperidone × hyperprolactinemia Clozapine × hyperprolactinemia Olanzapine × hyperprolactinemia Quetiapine × hyperprolactinemia Ziprasidone × hyperprolactinemia Haloperidol...

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... collection of samples The intestinal regions were defined as follows: the pyloric intestine (PI) included the intestine with the caeca; the mid intestine (MI) included the intestine between the most ... protein sequences have a serine proteinase cleavage site in the N-terminal part of the protein (Figure 1) in a comparable position of the serine proteinase site in the human PAR-2 protein Expression ... and the appearance of transverse folds of the luminal surface and the increase in intestinal diameter; the distal intestine (DI) included the intestine between the distal end of the MI and anus...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22

... point of material form, studies on exchange bias can be relatively divided into categories: exchange bias in particles, exchange bias in nanostructures and exchange bias in (continuous) thin ... research in FM/AF thin film systems In the point view of the AF material form, studies on exchange bias in thin films can be divided into categories: exchange bias with insulating AF films and with ... shift) [13-15] or to increase in the superparamagnetic limit in magnetic recording media [16, 17] Hence, in fine particle systems, exchange bias studies may be particularly interesting not only for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... defined as income of household in thousand Vietnam Dong per year Income would include value in cash and in kind payment of Income from wages, salaries of members, Income from renting / leasing ... An increase in landholding has both a direct and an indirect effect on income In addition to directly increasing production, more land affects the distortions in the allocation of production inputs ... concentration of minority population we include it in the analysis Households of Chinese origin tend to be relatively well-off in Viet Nam In term of returns to land the author find that the marginal returns...

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... that the domain direction (270-300 deg.) form prevailing direction at all this stations, These results are important for planning wind turbine installation or in erecting wind machine to direct ... The resulting seasonal pattern in wind availability is characterized by high mean wind speeds during the hot season reached 2.4m/s in July, but cold season has minimum monthly mean wind speed ... low wind speed frequency) In this regions wind speed is strong enough to energize a simple mechanical wind pump nearly all the time indicating the feasibility of wind powered irrigation in this...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... the NVQs in Business and Administration has been included in Annexe D It has been developed by the Council for Administration in partnership with employers, training providers, awarding organisations ... understanding and skills essential for working in a business and administration environment, such as communication skills, working with others and managing and improving own performance What are the potential ... Edexcel Level NVQ Award in Business and Administration (QCF) Edexcel Level NVQ Certificate in Business and Administration (QCF) Edexcel Level NVQ Diploma in Business and Administration (QCF) August...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... different packing configurations can be obtained within one preparation AFM images allow the differences in protein packing and interaction within the membrane to be visualized Within the packed ... zoomed -in image of the areas indicated by the dashed line in Fig 1A (area 1) Inset: 3D enhanced close view showing weakly protruding LH2’s (black arrows) in between the strongly protruding zig-zag ... in Fig 6F, as compared to the zig-zag, 90° square-packing lattices represent a less packed configuration, indicating that dense packing may induce the specific interactions leading to zig-zagging...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... Learning 2.0 to Support Sales 2.0 Best practices from the Learning 2.0 training model are increasingly being leveraged to provide leading-edge Sales 2.0 training Sales training in the Learning ... radical shift in thinking from the delivery of learning to the enabling of learning As learning becomes less hierarchical, learning leaders become knowledge “merchants.” Learning staffs relinquish ... transformative business results for its clients Since its founding in 1999, Intrepid has rapidly established itself as one of the leading providers in the learning business process outsourcing marketplace...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... activities in on-line discussions In Proceedings of the Workshop on Educational Data Mining at the conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), Boston, MA Soo-Min Kim, ... 2006 YALE: Rapid prototyping for complex data mining tasks In KDD ’06: Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, pages 935–940, New York, ... moderation in a large online conversation space In Proceedings of ACM CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna Austria, pages 543– 550 Mitchell P Marcus, Beatrice Santorini,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 03:20

... contains at least two kinds of antibodies which recognize LM4 and LM5 from the nonreducing terminal The weak agglutination inhibition activity of the b-1,2 linkage-containing heptaose obtained ... suggesting that the three-b-1,2 linkage-containing oligomannosyl side chain does not behave as factor Discussion In previous papers, we reported two different lengths of three b-1,2 linkage-containing ... two-b-1,2 linkage-containing and a three-b-1,2 linkage-containing oligosaccharide and that the assignment results for the b-mannose units were incorrect Fig Enzyme-linked immunosorbent inhibition...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... dehydrogenase domain of a surface antigen from Neisseria meningitidis J Mol Biol 269, 129–141 32 Perham, R.N (2000) Swinging arms and swinging domains in multifunctional enzymes: catalytic machines for ... stimulated our interest in the potential interplay between the 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase complexes and thioredoxin via the complex-bound lipoate Unraveling an in vivo function of a thioredoxin species ... to solve this problem through revealing specific protein–protein interactions promoting chemical reactions In particular, mitochondrial thioredoxin rather inefficiently regulates the enzymes which...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

... capability? Or, how increases (or decreases) in funding levels in fuels support programs change capabilities relative to comparable funding changes in civil engineering? Are sustainment investments sufficient ... Continuing requirements Time RAND MG815-3.3 the FYDP) This difference arises from ongoing commitments incurred from the initial contingency and causes D to remain nonzero In the case shown in ... timing and duration Two additional factors involving time play a role in determining resource requirements and the necessary programming to meet them First, the length of the planning timeline...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... chains lining the cavities of Par j and Par j could provide more revealing insights into the proteins function than the cavity size An asterisk in Fig indicates residues contacting the lipid in ... reducing agent appears to be essential for comparing the thermostability of these proteins and the effect of OLPC binding Par j proteins contain eight cysteine residues potentially involved in ... methyl group binds, surrounded by hydrophobic side chains from the protein Thus, the binding site results in a polarized cleft in the interior of a basic container with two main openings to bulk...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... immunosuppressive cytokines Another potential reason may lie in inherent differences in lymph nodes draining subcutaneous sites and those draining internal sites In any event, coadministration of IL-2 ... antitumor activity resulting from inclusion of IL-2 in therapy, we determined the relative proportions of activated T cells in tumor-draining lymph nodes This was achieved by determining the ability of ... immunotherapies, including IL-15 [23] and IL-21 [15] Since IL-2 can be associated with toxicity, it would be of interest to determine if these cytokines can be of benefit against orthotopic disease in the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... fixed in 10% bufferedformalin and paraffin embedded Sections of μm were stained with haematoxylin-eosin, and haematoxylin-van Gieson For immunohistochemstry, μm sections were incubated in a microwave ... the intrinsic chemoresistance of malignant melanoma, novel strategies are currently being investigated in order to increase tumor control, such as ASOs These agents have shown convincing in vitro ... promising activity against a wide variety of tumors in preclinical studies [2]; moreover, phase III trials incorporating G3139 have recently been completed in different advanced cancers, including...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... strain injury, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, deQuervain's tendonitis, or medial epicondylitis The screening examination consisted of a neurologic examination of the upper extremities, including ... in NSAP and that our results not simply reflect a training effect Interestingly, the group of subjects with LE actually showed increases in MUP size relative to the control subjects, suggesting ... potentials due to fiber diameter variations [17] In neuropathies, classic EMG findings include increases in MUP duration and amplitude caused by increased fiber number and density as orphaned muscle...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... rapidly in the spinal cord during sensitization, along with the production of prostaglandins like prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) [1] Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is also up-regulated following inflammation and induces ... Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK); Enzyme immunoabsorbent assay (EIA); Retinoic acid receptor (RAR); Retinoid X receptor (RXR); MAP kinase kinase 1(MEK-1); Jun N-terminal kinase, (JNK) Competing interests ... were plated in 6-well plates 24 h before transfection The cells in every well were then incubated h at 37°C with ml Opti-MEM (Invitrogen, CA) cointaining complexes of μg lipofectAMINE (Invitrogen,...

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