... 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...
... Long-Term Model ofthe U.S economy to estimate the overall net economic effects ofthe House Budget.8 The adjusted GI March 2011 long-term model baseline represents the most likely path ofthe U.S economy ... interaction with the fiscal revenues and spending variables The feedback effects further increase or decrease the longerterm impact ofthe 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 ofthe ranges The...
... evaluation ofthe shape differences ofthe dose volume histograms (DVHs) for the different calculation geometries using the clinical treatment plan and (ii) comparison ofthe 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...
... an approximation ofthe variance-covariance matrix One ofthe 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 ofthe u-component of ... Let y ofthedata variance-covariance matrix be the vector ofthe 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...
... below, using theanalysisofthe ComK-regulon in B subtilis and the in silico prediction ofthe CcpA-regulon of L lactis Prediction ofthe CcpA regulon in L lactis As is the case in other bacteria, ... Demonstration ofthe power of visualization in transcriptome analyses Figure Demonstration ofthe 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...
... depend on l Suppose the principal axis is directed from P to Q Then the closer the value ofthe signal to 1, the more likely that the corresponding stretch ofthe chromosome ofthe sample r belongs ... the average of g Note that the level l of a wavelet is defined as the logarithm base 1/2 ofthe halfperiod p ofthe wave, where period is measured as a fraction ofthe length ofthe entire signal: ... for StepPCO results for the other chromosomes from these three individuals) As described in the Overview ofthe Method, the number of SNPs per sliding window ofthe StepPCO analysis is allowed to...
... 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 ofthe 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, analysisofthe database was restricted to descriptive statistics, as individual-level data cannot...
... of onset of asthma or amount of maintenance therapy), management, ventilation strategies, complications and detailed evolution ofthe 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 ofthe entire population because thedata were...
... 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 ofthe study In 2003, we project that there were 1,172 admissions to ICUs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland of...
... is enhanced by the number of units contributing dataThe CMPD is recognised to be of high quality, meaning that thedata used in this study are reliable Limitations ofthe study The CMPD was not ... analysed the effect of leukopaenia on outcome, this is not the same as neutropaenia Theanalysisofthe 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 ofthe goodness -of- fit ofthe SAPS II, APACHE II and ICNARC physiology scores Strengths ofthe study The present...
... that the mixed HMM provides a good fit to thedata sets simulated in this study The advantages ofthe HMM over other approaches are the prediction of health or disease status, the reduction of confirmatory ... Evaluation ofthe accuracy ofthe estimates The estimates ð^ti ; r2 ; r2 ; r2 ; aÞ ofthe parameters ðlti ; r2 ; r2 ; r2 ; aÞ were l ^0 ^1 ^a ^ a computed, after burn-in, as the means ofthe posterior ... dependent upon the genetic make-up ofthe cows The fit ofthe HMM was assessed on simulated data based on parameters obtained in a survey of clinical mastitis cases Bayesian estimates ofthe parameters...
... overview of these techniques Most ofthe teams used the spot quality indicators provided by the scanning software (Bluefuse) to make decisions about excluding spots from theanalysis There are ... Presentation ofthedata 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 ofthe ... including the up-regulation of superoxide dismutase and the down-regulation of interleukin Theanalysisofthe microarray data identified two putative genes that may be indicative of S aureus infection...
... 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 theanalysis 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 thedata set and is based on an empirical...
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... outside ofthe training test Moreover, it can lead to the linearly growth of number of parameters along with the size ofthe corpus 32 LDA, on the other hand, is a more completed topic analysis ... are close to the others The cosine ofthe 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 ofthe internet, there came the rise of online advertising It in turn has been playing a growing part in shaping and supporting the development ofthe Web...
... both extremes ofthe emotional spectrum were shown At the end ofthe videos, the brachial artery constricted for five minutes and was then released In fourteen ofthe twenty volunteers the artery ... expression (27) Therefore, the crux of individualism is the ethnic diversity of various individuals It is not the particular view ofthe 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 ofthe condition regardless of a “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant...
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... includes the rationale, the scope ofthe research, the aims ofthe research, the methodology and the design ofthe research - Part 2- Development: This is the main part ofthe thesis and has three ... aware that the wider the range ofdata 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, thedata we ... background information ofthedata in order to provide the contextual basis for a better understanding and a more thorough analysisofthe news discourse The test came on the heels ofthe Six-party talks...
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