... achieve interpretability of PRO instruments The evaluation and use of PRO measures requires detailed understanding of the meaning of the outcome of interest Achieving this understanding presents a considerable ... particular change in score in an individual patient and a change of the same magnitude in the mean score of a group of patients [18] From the point of view of the individual, a worthwhile change may be ... include standard error of the mean [47] and a reliable change index [48] As a measure of variability, investigators may choose between-patient variability (for example, the standard deviation of patients...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
... addition of 0.25 mL of 40% potassium hydroxide solution and 0.25 mL of methanol, the cell suspension was boiled for Products were extracted three times with 0.2 mL of hexane and evaporated Pyridine and ... aglycone of the major soyasaponins is soyasapogenol B, and glycosides of soyasapogenol A are minor saponins in G max This abundance ratio strongly suggests high level of transcription of 22- and 24-hydroxylase ... shown), none of hydroxylated triterpenes and their glycosides has been identified The lack of understanding of triterpene metabolism in A thaliana makes it difficult to identify the function of each...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Child Health Outcomes and Abandonment. pot
... number of abandoned children Next, we use the variation in fertility and child abandonment at the regional level and find that the immediate impact of abortion legalization on child abandonment ... abandonment, our findings suggest that the lift of the abortion ban has decreased the number of abandoned children in the total live births Using regional variation in fertility and child abandonment, ... of Legalized Abortion on Child Health Outcomes and Abandonment Evidence from Romania# Andreea Mitrut† and François-Charles Wolff ‡ Abstract: We use household survey data and a unique census of...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20
reasons of identity a normative guide to the political and legal assessment of identity claims nov 2009
... practices and selfunderstanding diVer from some or all of the practices of the larger community As with individual identity claims, some of the claims of groups might be expressed in terms of ‘collective ... claiming and the heightened awareness of how identity claims are being interpreted (and by whom) means that this kind of decision making is, understandably and properly, the subject of intense ... treated as sacrosanct In the case of FGC in Africa, understanding the function and importance of the practice in the ways of life of people in Senegal and elsewhere, and the processes by which the...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:25
Báo cáo y học: " RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access One-year risk of psychiatric hospitalization and associated treatment costs in bipolar disorder treated with atypical antipsychotics: a retrospective claims database analysis" doc
... for each of the numeric covariates, and gave equal share of the categorical covariates, and then calculated the log mean of the fitted gamma distribution based on these covariate values and the ... design and coordination of the study, statistical analysis of results and manuscript preparation Competing interests Edward Kim MD, MBA, Min You, MS, and Yonghua Jing, PhD, are employees of Bristol-Myers ... quetiapine and 1,485 on risperidone Propensity scorematching enabled matching of: 461 aripiprazole and ziprasidone patients; 737 aripiprazole and olanzapine patients; 770 aripiprazole and quetiapine...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22
introduction to knowledge discovery and data mining chương 1 overview of knowledge discovery and data mining
... [3], and Chapter is with [13] Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Chapter Overview of knowledge discovery and data mining 1.1 What is Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining? Just as electrons and ... Process of Mining Association Rules The Problem of Big Data Strengths and Weaknesses of Association Rule Analysis Chapter Data Mining with Clustering 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Searching for Islands of ... Discovery and Data Mining Contents Preface Chapter Overview of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 What is Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining? The KDD Process KDD and Related...
Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2014, 07:23
automated generation of metadata for mining image and text data
Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 13:02
corporate governance of oil gas and mining companies listed on hanoi stock exchange
... discovered oil and gas is mainly concentrated in deep water and offshore areas (in Phu Khanh, Tu Chinh, and Vung May basin, and Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Island) The reserve of oil and gas is illustrated ... support the raising of awareness and understanding of good corporate governance practices in the Oil Gas and Mining companies 4.2 Assessing the corporate governance of 24 Oil gas and Mining companies ... assigned and in front of General Assembly of Shareholders and Law Hence, the coordinating principles for the three above boards are: - Members of the Board of Directors, Board of Supervisor and Board...
Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2014, 08:49
Application of knowledge discovery and data mining methods in livestock genomics for hypothesis generation and identification of biomarker candidates influencing meat quality traits in pigs
... processes and pathways in androstenone biosynthesis and metabolism in terms of individual QTLs, SNPs or candidate genes Two experiments were devised in thesis to demonstrate the use of data mining and ... enzmes involved in androstenone synthesis is given in Figure 2.6 3α-androstenol and 3β-androstenol are the final metabolites of androstenone in both testis and liver In liver, androstenone under ... adipose tissues can be the result of either a high rate of testicular synthesis of androstenone or /and a low rate of hepatic degradation (Robic et al., 2008) One of the widely practiced methods...
Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2015, 13:26
An evaluation of EBP material “english in economics and business” for economics and business management students in hanoi university of mining and geology
... training objectives of the Hanoi University of Mining and Geology? What teachers and students think of the appropriateness of the material? Design of the Study The thesis is composed of three main ... Faculty of Economics and Business Management: FEBM Hanoi University of Mining and Geology: HUMG Vocational English as a Second Language: VESL iii LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Figure Diagram of business ... percent of teachers and 83.8 percent of students chose “poor” In item 31, teachers and students had the same thoughts.100 percent of teachers and 90.8 percent of students chose “adequate” and “good”...
Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2016, 18:19
09 handbook of statistical analysis and data mining fixed
... the ability of the technique to serve the tasks of a data mining project A SHORT HISTORY OF STATISTICS AND DATA MINING Analysis of patterns in data is not new The concepts of average and grouping ... Postscript 117 TABLE OF CONTENTS II THE ALGORITHMS IN DATA MINING AND TEXT MINING, THE ORGANIZATION OF THE THREE MOST COMMON DATA MINING TOOLS, AND SELECTED SPECIALIZED AREAS USING DATA MINING Basic ... the Future of Data Mining and Text Mining as Part of Our Everyday Lives Preamble 755 RFID 756 Social Networking and Data Mining 757 Example 758 Example 759 Example 760 Example 761 Image and Object...
Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2016, 16:24
Automated generation of metadata for mining image and text data
Ngày tải lên: 06/06/2016, 10:45
Chromium speciation in municipal solid waste: Effects of clay amendment and composting
... Ecosystems and Environment, 27, 493-503 Qiao, L., Hofstede, H and Ho, G E (1993) The mobility of heavy metals in clay amended sewage sludge and municipal solid waste compost In: Proceeding of 9th ... fixing of the free metal ions through metal precipitation as hydroxides and carbonates, adsorption onto oxides and mineral surfaces and chemisorption or complexation with inorganic ligands The ... 1993) In order to determine the long-term fate and potential hazard of land application of MSW compost, it is necessary to investigate the speciation of heavy metals Difficulties in studying this...
Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2012, 14:48
Báo cáo khoa học: " Medication errors: a prospective cohort study of hand-written and computerised physician order entry in the intensive care unit"
... the remit of the local ethics committee Prior to introduction of CPOE, local standards of prescribing existed specifying the tenets of good practice, including the avoidance of the use of abbreviations ... decision support, in several ways We compare the rates and types of MEs and the potential outcome of intercepted and non-intercepted errors Materials and methods In April 2002, University College Hospitals ... for days; and 18 December 2002 for days Available online http://ccforum.com/content/9/5/R516 Table Types of medication errors before and after implementing CPOE HWP (no of errors and % of total...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39
Báo cáo y học: "A Comparison of Immuncapture Agglutination and ELISA Methods in Serological Diagnosis of Brucellosis"
... Brucellacapt and Coombs tests in terms of sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis and follow-up of brucellosis and it was concluded that the results were similar in the follow-up of patients ... purpose of this study is to compare the diagnostic values of Immuncapture agglutination and ELISA methods, which are used for the diagnosis of brucellosis with reference to Coombs test MATERIAL AND ... 1/5120 positive and 1/10240 positive ELISA results, on the other hand, were divided into positive and negative and a distribution table was structured according to the results of immuncapture...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56
Báo cáo y học: "Parvovirus B19 Nonstructural Protein-Induced Damage of Cellular DNA and Resultant Apoptosis"
... case of specific integration of AAV We present here evidence suggesting that NS1 is attached to DNA in a covalent manner, and that both DNA-helix distorting and single strand nick forms of DNA ... multiple types of DNA lesions and that are often caused by collapsed replication forks (44) NS1 could easily cause double strand breaks through the simple mechanism of nicking both DNA strands a short ... evidence for an interaction between NS1 and PARP Since PARP is active at the site of single strand DNA breaks, and single-strand nicking is a known activity of NS1 protein, it is likely that NS1...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18
Báo cáo y học: "omparative Efficacy and Tolerability of 5-Loxin® and Aflapin® Against Osteoarthritis of the Knee: A Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Clinical Study"
... comparative efficacy and tolerability of 5-Loxin® and Aflapin® in the treatment of OA of the knee Materials and Methods Study materials BE-30 (5-Loxin) is a novel Boswellia serrata extract standardized ... Hematological and biochemical evaluations For assessment of safety of 5-Loxin® and Aflaseveral parameters were evaluated in serum, urine and whole blood of all subjects at each visit of the study ... software to evaluate the efficacy of 5-Loxin® and Aflapin® in comparison with the placebo group in terms of improvement in pain and physical function scores at baseline and on days 7, 30, 60 and...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40
Báo cáo y học: " Post-traumatic glioma: Report of one case and review of the literature"
... imperative because of the relatively low prevalence of head injuries and the low incidence of brain tumors Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists References ... use of CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), some of the pathologic criteria can be replaced or supplemented by imaging criteria CT/MRI, which elegantly reveal the severity and location of ... occurrence of the tumor corresponded exactly one to the other; and (4) there was a more than one year interval between trauma and the appearance of the tumor As regards the pathogenesis of post-traumatic...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48
Báo cáo y học: "Ultra-low microcurrent in the management of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and chronic wounds: Report of twelve cases and discussion of mechanism of action"
... mellitus High levels of free radicals and the decline of antioxidant defense mechanisms lead to damage of cellular organelles and enzymes, increased lipid peroxidation, and development of insulin resistance ... Popliteal and pedal pulses were absent bilaterally with poor capillary refill The left foot was red and inflamed up to and including the medial malleolus The lateral aspect of the great toe and second ... continued to improve and heal, and her remaining gangrenous toes eventually fell off Her blood pressure at admission was 166/53 with use of Lisinopril, which was dropped and eventually ceased...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39