comparison between diagnostic value of different methods of visualization

... ELISA, because it has similar diagnostic characteristics Despite the similar diagnostic characteristics of the different ACPA tests, we found that the agreement between the different available assays ... agreement between five different ACPA assays and RF in a cohort of patients with established RA Materials and methods Study population Study population was established to evaluate the diagnostic ... Chicago, Il, USA) Results Diagnostic performance of the AhFibA assay for RA and comparison with the anti-CCP2 and RF assay in population The previously proposed AhFibA cut-off of OD ≥ 0.12 corresponded...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... (b) histogram of the distribution of pore diameters in AAO films anodized for two steps including h in both in the first and the second steps S93 of current up to the same value of the first step ... formation of barrier oxide layer on oxide-free surface of substrate [7,9] The fabrication process and durations of steps were chosen so that the effect of the first step on the size of the ordering ... develops the porous layer of AAO films The current transient curves show plateaus regions in a range of 0.6–0.9 mA/cm2 during first step which may be an evidence of the growth of porous film on the substrate...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 16:47

... harvested, Field performance of cuttings and seedlings of E Globulus 839 Table III Comparison of means (and associated F-test) between cuttings and seedlings and variances values for Family and Family ... background of their offspring, the other half being determined by the pollen contribution of unknown value The genetic merit of the mothers is expected to be better than the average of the fathers ... effect of maturation on the growth and form of vegetative propagules and seedlings of Pinus radiata, N Z J For Sci (1973) 191–210 [33] Sweet G.B., Wells L.G., Comparison of the growth of vegetative...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... IL 60108, USA) and the Microsoft calculation software Excel V 12 (2007; Microsoft corporation, USA) To identify associations between SSc symptoms and the occurrence of anti-topo I antibodies, chisquare ... control cohorts (n = 487), the detection of anti-topo I antibodies revealed a diagnostic sensitivity for SSc of 23.9% (23.2%) and a diagnostic specificity of 99.6% (99.8%), as determined by LIA ... years; Figure 3) For the evaluation of the diagnostic impact of a biomarker such as anti-topo I antibodies and for the comparison with other studies, the interval between antibody detection and clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... anti-MCV-positive (using the recommended cutoff value of 20.0 U/ml), whereas those from 137 (21.7%) tested positive in the anti-CCP2 assay (recommended cutoff value of 10.0 U/ml) Anti-MCV and anti-CCP2 ... non-inflammatory diseases (8.0 U/ml; 2–101; p < 0.001 for each comparison according to the Mann-Whitney U test) For direct comparison of the diagnostic values of the anti-MCV and the anti-CCP2 assays, we performed ... comparisons of the diagnostic value of anti-MCV with IgM-RF should be interpreted with caution due to the retrospective and incomplete retrieval of the IgM-RF The sensitivity and specificity of IgM-RF...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... performances and cut offs of all the serological assays used in this study have been initially validated in Caucasians Thus, we decided to identify the most discriminant cut-off values of the different ... presence of elevated background levels of IgM RF in African controls (16% of IgM RFpositive healthy controls when using the recommended cut-off values) is probably caused by non-specific activation of ... Author details Unit of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon 2Division of Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Geneva, 26 Avenue...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... addition, real-time PCR increased the diagnostic yield of positive samples by twofold compared with conventional methods (viral culture and DIF) Whereas conventional methods identified no multiple infections, ... mixture contained 80 µl of eluted RNA, 20 µl of 10 × RT buffer, 5.5 mmol/l MgCl2, 500 µmol/l of each deoxynucleoside triphosphate, 2.5 µmol/l random hexamer and 0.4 U of RNase inhibitor per microlitre ... 300–900 nmol/l of the forward and reverse primers and 75–200 nmol/l of each of Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/2/R61 Table Demographic and clinical characteristics of children with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... difference between AUROC Figure of FibroTest of the AUROC Meta-analysisdiagnostic value observed in published studies Meta-analysis of the AUROC observed in published studies of FibroTest diagnostic value ... cutoff (91%), as was the negative predictive value for excluding significant activity at the 0.36 cutoff of AT (85% negative predictive value) The positive predictive value of the 0.72 cutoff of ... differences were observed between AUROCs when there was a two-stage or more difference Table 6: Summary of the diagnostic value of ActiTest for the differential diagnosis of all grades of necroinflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... highlight the utility of a new panel of biochemical markers (ST) for the prediction of steatosis of different origins A cut-off of 0.30 had 90% sensibility and a cut-off of 0.72 had 90% specificity ... that the combination of 12 parameters allowed a very significant increase in the diagnostic values of isolated GGT or ALT The diagnostic value of ALT was better than that of GGT, as assessed by ... validation groups The diagnostic values of ST, GGT and ALT according to cutoffs are shown in Table For the diagnosis of grade 2– steatosis, the sensitivity of ST at the 0.30 cut-off was 0.91, 0.98,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... 3) At the end of the first week of the ICU stay, there was only significant elevation of mean value of CRP in septic patients There was no significant change in the mean value of serum leptin, ... Page of Table Mean values of CRP, leptin, IL-6 and, TNF-a levels at the fourth day of ICU stay CRP mg/dl Leptin μg/l IL-6 pg/ml Table Mean value of CRP, leptin, IL-6 and TNF-a levels at the end of ... groups (Figures 1, 2, and 4) On the fourth day of the ICU stay, a significant elevation of mean value of CRP occurred in septic patients The mean value of serum leptin, IL-6 and TNF-a declined in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... not reported by any of the four evaluation methods: date of start of the test; method of preparation of stock solutions; the recovery efficiency of the method; the limit of quantification in ... result of this exercise is that many of the aspects considered important in the different evaluation methods are not reported by the authors of the selected studies Examples of aspects often omitted ... Ågerstrand et al.: Comparison of four different methods for reliability evaluation of ecotoxicity data: a case study of non-standard test data used in environmental risk assessments of pharmaceutical...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... relations of amplitude and phase between two uterine electrical activities As we are interested in identifying the nature of the relation between EHG signals, we choose to use two different methods ... 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 ... use m = n = (4) The values of CWCF range between (no amplitude correlation between X and Y) and (X and Y are totally correlated in amplitude) The application of these methods on EEG signals has...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... a lower rate of C0 uptake and an appressed/non-appressed membrane ratio of about In the present study, a tion was found between negative correla- N P and the ratio of the length of appressed ... middle of July (Fig B), but remained typical of sun-exposed leaves (below 1.3) During this period, the low rates of C0 A uptake recorded (Fig 2A) were possibly caused by decreased availability of ... thylakoid structure typical of shade plants (Lichtenthaler et aL 1981Part of this reorganization in thylakoid membranes might also be due to ageing, since the area of plastoglobuli of chloroplast area...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... genomic studies This kind of highthroughput gene expression profiling requires the use of high quality mRNA Likewise is the quality of mRNA of major impact on the reliability of the results in quantitative ... require different fixation and storage methods, clinicians and researchers are often faced with a multitude of different vials, and fluids in order to retain biopsies In addition, the applications of ... comparable (RIN-values above 8) Comparison of RNA quality obtained from biopsies of patients revealed superior quality of Menghini NaCl biopsies compared to Menghini water sampling (RIN-values up to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... [7] recently reported the results of the first randomized, double-blind, controlled trial of two different intensities of warfarin treatment on the prevention of recurrent thrombotic events in ... combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy group showed an INR before the recurrence of 2.0, so the possibility of inadequate treatment can not be ruled out Table Baseline characteristics of ... was to examine the effects of these regimens on recurrence of stroke So, the primary endpoint was occurrence of stroke This study was approved by the ethics committee of Tokai University, and prior...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... The accuracy of the result depends on the definition of the nodes The definition of a good mesh is crucial to find the optimum between the smallest number of nodes and the accuracy of the results ... made of aluminum profiles) to the external wall surface of the building This first layer defines the visual appearance of the building The next layer is an opened air gap with a minimum of cm ... Vol 35, N Pp 305-311 [8] Yilmaz, Z Evaluation of energy efficient design strategies for different climatic zones: Comparison of thermal performance of buildings in temperate-humid and hot-dry climate...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... employment of reference Let’s see the table below to make comparison between the original text and the two translation versions in terms of cohesive devices and see the point of view of translating of ... stylistic features of the source text (p.47) 22 An extremely interesting discussion of the notion of equivalence can be found in Baker (1992), who seems to offer more detailed list of conditions upon ... shining like cascade of brown waters” 2.3 Ellipsis The appearance time of ellipsis in The Gift of the Magi is more than that of substitution In fact, the readers may be confused between ellipsis...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... comparative methods - Statistic method - Descriptive method Design of the study Part I: Introduction Reasons for choosing the topic Aims of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Design of ... permissible degrees of directness, politeness, and formality and they affect many of functions of communication such as: offer, request, refusal, compliment, etc For different functions of communication, ... are many kinds of language: language of music, language of science, language of art, etc And they are used to communicate Speech (and words) is the fastest and simplest method of communication...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 09:36

... Understanding the Value of the MBA, Bruce Figure shows the distribution of values for the MBA Degree scale and Figure 3, the distribution of values for the School/Program scale Figure Distribution of MBA ... ignored in studies of overall value of the MBA When R2 is used to indicate effect size for the three models, the analysis of the statistical significance of differences between pairs of models shows ... of the multiple regression analysis show that both the MBA Degree and School/Program variables contribute significantly to prediction of the overall value of the MBA, regardless of the type of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... VIEW OF THE DISPARITY BETWEEN THE TWO CORPORA IN TERMS OF THE SELECTION BETWEEN VERBS AND NOUNS .152 6.3 A DETAILED LOOK AT THE DISPARITY BETWEEN THE TWO CORPORA IN TERMS OF SELECTION BETWEEN ... CONCORDANCES OF ‘V UP’ IN LOCNESS 319 xi List of Tables TABLE A SAMPLE OF SOME STUDIES WHICH HAVE NO COMPARABILITY BETWEEN EACH OTHER 44 TABLE COMPARISON OF SOME PARAMETERS OF COLEC ... disparities between the written English of a group of non-native speakers (NNSs) and that of a group of native speakers (NSs) It is hoped that the identification of similarity and difference between...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20