analysis of the collected data

... does come at the cost of limited documentation of treatment detail For example, the SEER database did not include type of surgical resection In a recent meta -analysis of patient data for ONB ... reviewed the SEER database for OFN cases and performed the statistical analysis MEP, TLM, MM, and AKS wrote the manuscript All authors reviewed the statistical analysis results, contributed to the ... description of this cohort can be found in Table There was a unimodal distribution of ages with most cases between the ages of 40 and 70 years old (mean age was 53 years, SD of 18) The majority of cases...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Long-Term Model of the U.S economy to estimate the overall net economic effects of the House Budget.8 The adjusted GI March 2011 long-term model baseline represents the most likely path of the U.S economy ... interaction with the fiscal revenues and spending variables The feedback effects further increase or decrease the longerterm impact of the policy, providing a quantitative picture of whether the economy ... so, the extensive margin (expanding the labor force).24 The change in the labor supply variables were adjusted by the macro-labor elasticity of two, which is a middle estimate of the ranges The...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... evaluation of the shape differences of the dose volume histograms (DVHs) for the different calculation geometries using the clinical treatment plan and (ii) comparison of the number of monitor ... assigned data and CT data for the lung patients The exact same treatment setup was used for the two geometries, including number of MUs given The DVHs have been normalized to the maximum dose from the ... assigned data and CT data for the brain patients The exact same treatment setup was used for the two geometries, including number of MUs given The DVHs have been normalized to the maximum dose from the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... an approximation of the variance-covariance matrix One of the main advantages of this method is that it mimics the mixed model equations of Henderson [23] making the estimation of fixed effects ... P the contribution of random effects to the model with u being a (q x 1) vector of * scaled deviations, zi the corresponding row incidence vector and !!! the square root of the u-component of ... Let y of the data variance-covariance matrix be the vector of the 1) first categories y observed cumulative proportions of response in (!i y!, , y!/ the (J Let y i ( ’f !2!, , !z J) be the (J...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... below, using the analysis of the ComK-regulon in B subtilis and the in silico prediction of the CcpA-regulon of L lactis Prediction of the CcpA regulon in L lactis As is the case in other bacteria, ... Demonstration of the power of visualization in transcriptome analyses Figure Demonstration of the power of visualization in transcriptome analyses The dataset used is from Hamoen and colleagues [24] The ... Genome2D to correlate the occurrence of ComK-binding sites (K-boxes) to ComKdependent expression of genes, with the aim of testing whether the presence of a K-box upstream of a gene can be used...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... depend on l Suppose the principal axis is directed from P to Q Then the closer the value of the signal to 1, the more likely that the corresponding stretch of the chromosome of the sample r belongs ... the average of g Note that the level l of a wavelet is defined as the logarithm base 1/2 of the halfperiod p of the wave, where period is measured as a fraction of the length of the entire signal: ... for StepPCO results for the other chromosomes from these three individuals) As described in the Overview of the Method, the number of SNPs per sliding window of the StepPCO analysis is allowed to...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... the assessment period To determine the number of procedures relative to the number of people enrolled, the number of eligible people for the last quarter of each year was extracted from the database, ... publicly accessible version of the MBS database we used does not allow for the extraction of individual-level data For each category of procedures, the proportion of item numbers documented All ... pertain to the foot, the incidence of foot surgery reported here is an underestimate Finally, analysis of the database was restricted to descriptive statistics, as individual-level data cannot...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... of onset of asthma or amount of maintenance therapy), management, ventilation strategies, complications and detailed evolution of the condition within the ICU stay are not collected as part of ... before the source of admission was any location in another hospital Readmissions to ICU within the same hospital stay were identified from the postcode, date of birth and sex, and confirmed by the ... years) there were slightly more males than females (65 versus 53) The sample of paediatric cases is comparatively small and may not be representative of the entire population because the data were...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... entry to ICU on the basis of severity of illness; rather, it raises the issue of whether late referral or acceptance of dialysis patients to ICU is influencing the findings Some of this difference ... raises the possibility that there could be a denial of access to the ICU for the dialysis population on the basis of age The greater serum creatinine and lower haematocrit observed in the dialysis ... the chronic renal dialysis population and the total population for the years of the study In 2003, we project that there were 1,172 admissions to ICUs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... is enhanced by the number of units contributing data The CMPD is recognised to be of high quality, meaning that the data used in this study are reliable Limitations of the study The CMPD was not ... analysed the effect of leukopaenia on outcome, this is not the same as neutropaenia The analysis of the effect of haematological diagnosis on outcome was also limited by the grouping of different ... Calibration plot of SAPS II, APACHE II and ICNARC physiology scores scores A comparison of the goodness -of- fit of the SAPS II, APACHE II and ICNARC physiology scores Strengths of the study The present...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... that the mixed HMM provides a good fit to the data sets simulated in this study The advantages of the HMM over other approaches are the prediction of health or disease status, the reduction of confirmatory ... Evaluation of the accuracy of the estimates The estimates ð^ti ; r2 ; r2 ; r2 ; aÞ of the parameters ðlti ; r2 ; r2 ; r2 ; aÞ were l ^0 ^1 ^a ^ a computed, after burn-in, as the means of the posterior ... dependent upon the genetic make-up of the cows The fit of the HMM was assessed on simulated data based on parameters obtained in a survey of clinical mastitis cases Bayesian estimates of the parameters...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... overview of these techniques Most of the teams used the spot quality indicators provided by the scanning software (Bluefuse) to make decisions about excluding spots from the analysis There are ... Presentation of the data 2.1.1 Comparison of E coli vs S aureus elicited mastitis in cows using transcriptomic profiling The outcome of an udder infection (mastitis) is influenced by the species of the ... including the up-regulation of superoxide dismutase and the down-regulation of interleukin The analysis of the microarray data identified two putative genes that may be indicative of S aureus infection...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... between the genes and the phenotype of interest Although the purpose of these methods is the same they are quite different in terms of methodology and in the genes included in the analysis Despite the ... and centred Data from the E coli data set is shown on the left, and from the S aureus data set on the right Multivariate gene expression analyses 661 DAVID database A similar number of bovine ... tests for differential expression of a priori defined gene sets using either the GlobalTest [13] or the Fisher exact test [6] The GlobalTest uses all the genes in the data set and is based on an empirical...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... distribution with a mean of zero The variance of the observations is estimated by the average sum of the squared negative log ratios Under the null hypothesis, the distribution of the average log2 ratio ... width of portion of the peak above the significance cutoff, 'array density' of the peak, and the P value for that peak The array density value is defined as the average number of arrayed elements ... selected then the user is prompted to enter the peak height; for option the user is prompted to provide the significance P value cutoff; and for option the user is prompted to provide the number of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 15:20

... outside of the training test Moreover, it can lead to the linearly growth of number of parameters along with the size of the corpus 32 LDA, on the other hand, is a more completed topic analysis ... are close to the others The cosine of the angle between two strings measures the similarity of them It defines how similar they are For a web page p and an ad message a, let wpi be the weight associated ... COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY With the rise of the internet, there came the rise of online advertising It in turn has been playing a growing part in shaping and supporting the development of the Web...

Ngày tải lên: 20/08/2014, 09:36

... both extremes of the emotional spectrum were shown At the end of the videos, the brachial artery constricted for five minutes and was then released In fourteen of the twenty volunteers the artery ... expression (27) Therefore, the crux of individualism is the ethnic diversity of various individuals It is not the particular view of the individual that makes them an individualist, but it is the differing ... conditions, and then to specify the name of that condition If the participant failed to indicate the name of the condition regardless of a “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... ………………………………………………………… Design of the research …………………………………………………………… CHAPTER – THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ………………………………… 1.1 The history of Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis …………… 1.2 Theories on ... Table Over-lexicalization of the North Korea’s missile launches in VOA Table Over-lexicalization of the North Korea’s missile launches in Nhan Dan Table Quotation patterns of news reports in VOA ... activities in VOA Table Positivization of the US- Japan coalition’s activities in VOA Table Lexicalization of North Korea’s activities in Nhan Dan Table Lexicalization of the US-Japan coalition’s activities...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:39

... includes the rationale, the scope of the research, the aims of the research, the methodology and the design of the research - Part 2- Development: This is the main part of the thesis and has three ... aware that the wider the range of data we achieve from, the more reliable the research results will be However, within the constraint of time and the limited length of a minor thesis, the data we ... background information of the data in order to provide the contextual basis for a better understanding and a more thorough analysis of the news discourse The test came on the heels of the Six-party talks...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:39

... Japan, the nature of their involvement and the roles they play in those processes reveal a positive representation of this coalition by VOA On the other hand, the transitivity analysis of the headlines ... Korea In the news discourse under analysis, the activities of North Korea are often told from the perspective of the US and Japan When reporting about the missile launches, for instance, the US ... The activities of the US-Japan coalition, on the contrary, are often quoted from high-ranking officials from the US and Japan, and the North Korean voice is not heard It can be seen through the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:39

... phản đối biện pháp trừng phạt thêm Mỹ Triều Tiên 21/07/2006 Note : The news reports marked with (*) are sampled for full-text analysis III ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:39