3—hisp impact using randomized assignment comparison of means

... terms of the usefulness of the data collection tool for cross-country comparisons, and in terms of country-specific findings relevant for HRH policy and planning Methods The Assessment of Human ... software templates were also developed for all data entry operators, by means of the SPSS Data Entry Builder software program [11] The instruments were translated to meet the language needs of ... Mozambique, the sample of facilities was changed during the course of fieldwork in some areas because of an unanticipated lack of personnel available for interview In Jamaica, a number of the smallest...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... case of WLCC and bootstraps in the case of CWCF The choice of the type of surrogates depends on the way the surrogate is resampled in the particular method We used the bootstraps in the case of ... Cross-scalogram is a measure of the similarity of power, at different frequency bands, for two separate uterine signals It gives a “direct” estimation of the correlation of two uterine activities ... In order to evidence the variation of the strength of phase synchronization between two uterine segment bursts, we used the intensity of the first Fourier mode of the distribution, given by γn,m...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... decrease saturation Comparison of two means arising from unpaired data The most common comparison is probably that of two means arising from unpaired data (i.e comparison of data from two independent ... t-test is as follows t= = sample mean of differences – SE of sample mean of differences sample mean of differences SE of sample mean of differences (2) The SD of the differences in the current example ... assess the magnitude of any difference, it is essential also to have the confidence interval calculated above Comparison of two means arising from paired data A special case of the one sample t-test...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... Unfortunately, because of the presence of E1-like factors in many cell types, vectors with the E1 deletion may still express a certain amount of viral gene products in vivo The expression of viral proteins ... models The roles of the viral genome and the sources of BMP cDNA in the process of bone formation were determined in this study 98 MATERIALS AND METHODS Cloning and identification of rat BMP4 and ... each of which was labeled with digoxigenin by using the DIG-Chem-Link Labeling and Detection Set (Roche Diagnostics Corp., Indianapolis, IN) Detection of DIG-labeled nucleic acids was performed using...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08

... picture of the pattern of brain perfusion immediately after administration Therefore, the effect of sedation on measured rCBF should be negligible Thirty minutes after the administration of 99mTc-ECD, ... Clozapine group Table shows the comparison of the mean values of relative perfusion in schizophrenic subjects pre and post treatment The results show that the mean rCBF values of the schizophrenic patients ... Lieberman J, Hoffman E, Bradford D, Sheitman B Effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotics in patients with treatmentresistant schizophrenia: a review and meta-analysis of randomized trials...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:12

... about the reliability of microarray technology for analyzing differential expression, because of the lack of reproducibility across laboratories and platforms despite the use of highly similar protocols ... profiles of the four histopathological subtypes of lung cancer cells in relation to gene networks and statistical analysis would be a valuable and meaningful undertaking Because the analysis of ... ratio of cancer cells to control cells, based on the relative intensities of the two fluorescence signals, was calculated using ArrayGauge *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 with Dunnett’s test gave a total of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... Features of Different LCA Models Fitted to the Data Numbers of Classes, Manifest Variables and Dependencies, and Goodness of Fit for the Models Model Number of Latent Classes Number of Manifest ... Lancet 2003; 362: 887-899 Glynn JR Resurgence of tuberculosis and the impact of HIV infection Br Med Bull 1998; 5: 579-593 Cantwell MF, Binkin NJ Impact of HIV on tuberculosis in subSaharan Africa: ... the public wards of internal medicine of CHK, a 600-bed hospital of national referral center in Rwanda Three hundred consecutive patients who were hospitalized with a cough of at least weeks...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... accumulation of an unusual number of either Arg (18 Arg out of 133 amino acids) or Lys (18 Lys out of 128 amino acids) at the mature protein (Fig 1) Mutagenesis studies indicated the involvement of positive ... (C) Sequence alignment of RNase and RNase primary sequences Secondary structure elements of RNase are depicted at the top The sequence alignment was performed using ESPRIPT software (http://espript.ibcp.fr/ESPript/ESPript/) ... bacteria) An aliquot of mL of exponential phase cells was incubated with lM of each protein Duplicates were performed for each condition activity was detected in the presence of S aureus cells,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... cases, Li and Kurlander Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:104 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page of 15 Figure Comparison of the impact of anti-CD3/CD28 beads and soluble ... responses of cells initially expanded using anti-CD3/CD28 beads, analogous studies performed using cells initially expanded using soluble anti-CD3 gave qualitatively identical results Comparison of ... number of viable cells detected per well by flow cytometry using the formula: The proportion of cells undergoing 0-6 divisions could then be quantitated based on the pattern of CFSE fluorescence using...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... incremental costs (cost of drug A minus cost of drug B) over incremental QALY (QALY of drug A minus QALY of drug B) The Japan valuation study is a quasi-replication of the UK MVH protocol using the modified ... (Yaxis) and the means of scores (X-axis) The mean of the differences (d) and the limits of agreement were indicated by dotted lines The 95% limits of agreement were obtained by using the following ... additional evidence of validity for the use of the EQ-5D index score in Thai settings Moreover, we would examine the impact of differences in the EQ-5D scores on the outcome of CUA employing hypothetical...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... summation of PCSA of all flexor muscles, ΣPCSA extensors is the summation of PCSA of all extensor muscles, PCSAflexor is the PCSA of the flexor muscle used for training, PCSAextensor is the PCSA of ... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/8/1/56 Page of 12 Half of the summation of PCSA values for non-primary flexors was added to each of the two primary flexors while a third of the summation of PCSA values for nonprimary ... developed using LabVIEW software that stored data on a computer and provided visual feedback for volunteers Visual feedback consisted of a bar chart that visualized the magnitude of exerted Page of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... JL-8 antibody (1:5000) (Clontech) anti-V5 F igure Comparison of E6-mediated ubiquitination of p53 and MAGIComparison of E6-mediated ubiquitination of p53 and MAGI3 Panel A p53 ubiquitination in ... transfected cell lines [26] The fusion of GFP to the N-terminal of E6 therefore enabled the detection of E6-GFP by immunofluoresence and Western blot analysis using anti-GFP antibodies since antibodies ... analysis First, the levels of p53 and MAGI-3 degradation were similar when both proteins were co-expressed in the presence of HPV18 E6 Second, comparison of a panel of HPV-33 E6 variants suggested...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... others to 94% for ADL Table gives the impact scores (extent of impact, importance of impact and overall impact) for each of the life domains and the results of the significance tests between the ... distribution of UK versus US responses for both the extent of the impact and the importance of the impact We also computed an overall impact score by assigning a ranking order to the product of the ... percentage of UK and US respondents endorsing some impact of their muscle disease on each of the life domains Figure The percentage of the UK and the US samples endorsing the direction of impact...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 50 percent or more, a grade of an LVEF of 35 to 49 percent, a grade of an LVEF of 20 to 34 percent, and a grade of an LVEF of less than 20 percent www.nejm.org ... the comparison of radial-artery grafts with native-vessel stenosis of 90 percent or more with radial-artery grafts with native-vessel stenosis of 70 to 89 percent † P=0.24 for the comparison of ... of 90 percent or more with saphenous-vein grafts with native-vessel stenosis of 70 to 89 percent ‡ The P value is for the binary comparison, with the use of the McNemar test, of the absence of...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... Consequently, the swards of grasses were demonstrated to mitigate the acidification of soil solution and the leaching of basic cations of Ca and Mg from soil This study aims to compare impact of 20 year lasting ... exception of phosphorus in Ah horizon There was significantly more phosphorus in Ah of PP soil With the exception of magnesium, the content of nutrients rapidly lowered with increasing depth of soil ... saturation of the adsorption complex with bases Mean weight of dry matter of litter/weed horizon was very similar – almost 48 g per soil pit Soil under Calamagrostis showed higher accumulation of dry...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... say that π is of form 1B Note that there must be an occurrence of 2413 with πi playing the role of the 4, since any occurrence of 2413 must have its to the right of region If π is of form 2, we ... #R31 π are of form 1A except the one resulting from inserting n to the left of π1 , which is of form 2A Proof Inserting n anywhere to the left of πi+1 cannot create an occurrence of 42513, as ... permutation of form 1A has k + active sites: the leftmost k sites and the site immediately to the left of πi One child is of form 1A, one is of form 2A, and the others are of form 1B Proof First,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... recommendations Briefly, 250 μL of the homogenated samples was mixed with 750 μL of TRIzol and incubated for 15 at room temperature Following the addition of 200 μL of chloroform, the mixture was centrifuged ... GAPDH detection, μL of cDNA obtained by reverse transcription described above, 0.5 μM of each primers and 16 μL of i-StarMaster mix solution [0.25 mM each of dNTP mixture, 10 mM of Tris-HCl (pH 9.0), ... Loading was executed three times with μL of PCR products in order to obtain statistical analyses of the band densities Pictures were taken of each electrophoresis using Gel Doc XR (Bio-Rad Laboratories,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... (1989) Effect of dehydration and high light on photosynthesis of two C3 plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L, Elatostema repens (Lour) Hall f) Planta 177, 84-90 O (1987) Comparison of the effect of excessive ... controls by means of a pressurevolume analysis using the transpiration method described by Hinckley et al (1980) and Dreyer et al (1990) Three shoots were severed from well-watered seedlings of each ... independently of the drought treatment (fig 5), which may be interpreted as the maintenance of the same equilibrium, at a given efficiency, between thermal deexcitation of PS II and the reduction status of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... to 50% TCP The emphasis of this report is on normal tissue complications, incidence of which is kept low This often leaves the parameter D50 lying outside of the range of clinical data Despite ... This makes the choice of the model critical Presently the choice of NTCP models is driven by personal preferences, availability of software and historical reasons A practice of selecting a model ... doi:10.1186/1748-717X-6-61 Cite this article as: Moiseenko et al.: A comparison of dose-response characteristics of four NTCP models using outcomes of radiationinduced optic neuropathy and retinopathy Radiation...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... in the presence of Mn++ or Mg++ cofactors, respectively The solid and open squares represent ASV IN activity in the presence of Mn++ or Mg++ cofactors, respectively B Comparison of the IC50 values ... development of a number of novel metal chelating inhibitors of HIV-1 IN, several of which were found to be effective in blocking both processing and joining in the presence of either Mn++ or Mg++ Of special ... cofactor responses with HIV-1 and ASV IN A side-by-side detailed comparison of the cofactordependent joining activities of purified HIV-1 and ASV IN proteins used to illustrate the utility of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21