... acquisition of the HRQL data, carried out the statistical analysisand interpretation of the data, and drafted and revised the manuscript 15 WP contributed to the conception and design of the study, ... long period of follow-up, it included different types of missing data, and depending on the period of follow-up, there was a rather substantial amount of missing assessments Patients andMethods ... compare results from different methodsofanalysis in a data- set where missing data occur in order to show the value of each typeof statistical method used to summarize data In many studies, HRQL...
... consists of a set of evaluative criteria, set of weights indicating the importance of those criteria, a set of alternatives, and a set of performance measures indicating the performance of each ... added, “The quantity and quality of information (input data) needed and difficulty in obtaining them, ability to handle uncrtaines and availability of user friendly software were also concerns” Ref ... interviews and consultations, technical and environmental criteria were assigned with a weighed factor ofand the economic and social criteria were assigned with a weighed factor of 1.5 for analysis...
... some these methodsand their features. In comparison with the ranking and rating methods, pairwise comparison and trade‐off analysismethods both have more precise and objective underlying theory. ... costs of a constructed wetland depend on the size of the wetland needed, which on itself depends on the amount of flowing wastewater. The advantages of the constructed wetlands ... condition for the time being. From scientific point of view, the complexity of environmental problems makes necessary the development and application of new tools capable of processing not only the ...
... practical way of handling the data in the computer, than a way of understanding the data The profound effect of unfolding occurs when the multi- way structure of the data is ignored, and the data treated ... diverse types of problems provide strong evidence of the advantages of multi- way analysis For instance, the examples of enzymatic activity dataand sensory data amply show that multi- way analysis ... analysisof the data, and the goal of the analysis Several decomposition and calibration methods will be explained in the following Most of the models will be described using three-way data and...
... contributions Study conception and design: PK Data requirements: PK, PGG, SV Data acquisition and extraction: SV, PGG Analysisand interpretation of data: PK, SV Drafting of manuscript: PK, SV Critical ... by a factor of the independent variable, other things being equal Survival analysis The study period and the longitudinal nature of the data enables the assessment of the number of patients that ... to 61.2% of the original patient total Of the total number of patients who entered in each quarter of 2005, at the end of the study period (after 12, 11, 10 and quarters for waves 1, 2, and respectively),...
... direct labeling of immunoprecipitated DNA without further PCR amplification Results and discussion Design of the virus chip Microarray technology allows the analysisof thousands of genes in a ... single product of the appropriate size Failed amplifications resulting in multiple bands, or in bands of the wrong size, were printed but were flagged and excluded from subsequent analysis Figure ... the microarray dataand printed the arrays NM printed the arrays and participated in some of the expression studies AP performed many of the expression studies and the ChIP-chip analysis VL performed...
... (15Ω and 33Ω) of the transistor type pulse generator set-up and RC type pulse generator set-up 116 Figure 5.11 Graph of spark gap along no of electrodes obtained by using transistor typeand RC type ... as the tool material A series of x Summary experiments were conduced using brass tools with different numbers of square multiple electrodes and the surface quality of the micro-holes and the ... obtained by using (a) transistor type pulse generator and (b) RC type pulse generator 99 Figure 4.44 EDX analysisof a hole machined by using transistor type pulse generator 100 Figure 4.45 EDX analysis...
... Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia Multi- Carrier Digital Communications: Theory andApplicationsof OFDM Ahmad R S Bahai and Burton R Saltzberg Principlesof Digital Transmission: ... then may be set to For the simple case ofandandand are set to to the output of the IFFT is: where Of course the scaling by a factor of two is immaterial and can be dropped This real orthogonal ... concise summary of the present state of the art of the theory and practice of OFDM technology The authors believe that the time is ripe for such a treatment Particularly based on one of the author's...
... retrieval of grammatical results, interpretation of syntactic constituents in terms of arguments, disambiguation of lexemes with multiple readings, and grouping of all morphosyntactic variants of MWEs ... Proceedings of MT Summit X, pages 79–86, Phuket, Thailand Validation The tool also provides functionalities allowing users to create a database of manually validated MWEs from among the candidates ... high proportion of the lexicon of a language, and are crucial for many NLP tasks (Sag et al., 2002) This section introduces the tool we developed for augmenting the coverage of our monolingual/bilingual...
... core-oligosaccharides of E coli F653 (R3-core) and determined NMR chemical shift values MATERIALS ANDMETHODS Bacteria and bacterial LPS E coli strains 2513 and F653 were cultivated and used for the isolation of ... NMR-spectra were recorded of samples of deacylated LPS (11 mg each of R4 oligosaccharides andand 10 mg each of R3 oligosaccharides and 4) in 0.5 mL solutions in D2O using a Bruker DRX 600 Avance ... assignment of H-7a/b and C-7 of L,D-Hepp residues F and H The chemical shift of H-6 of residue F could also be assigned in the latter spectrum The chemical shift of the H-6 proton of residue...
... classes: The more tools are combined, the greater the recall of the generated descriptions, and the recall of combined tools often outperforms the recall of individual tools The three tools that provide ... performs part of speech and morphological analysis (Schmid and Laws, 2008), (iv) two PCFG parsers: the StanfordParser (Klein and Manning, 2003) and the BerkeleyParser (Petrov and Klein, 2007), and (v) ... with TIGER-style parts of speech and syntax (by members of the TIGER project) None of the tools considered here were trained on this data, so that it provides independent test data The ontological...
... is handled using classes Data types have both a logical and a physical form The definition of the datatype in terms of an ADT is its logical form The implementation of the datatype as a data ... representation of an array as contiguous memory locations An abstract datatype (ADT) is the realization of a datatype as a software component The interface of the ADT is defined in terms of a typeand ... I Preliminaries 1 Data Structures and Algorithms 1.1 A Philosophy ofData Structures 1.1.1 The Need for Data Structures 1.1.2 Costs and Benefits 1.2 Abstract Data Types andData Structures 1.3...
... is handled using classes Data types have both a logical and a physical form The definition of the datatype in terms of an ADT is its logical form The implementation of the datatype as a data ... representation of an array as contiguous memory locations An abstract datatype (ADT) is the realization of a datatype as a software component The interface of the ADT is defined in terms of a typeand ... I Preliminaries 1 Data Structures and Algorithms 1.1 A Philosophy ofData Structures 1.1.1 The Need for Data Structures 1.1.2 Costs and Benefits 1.2 Abstract Data Types andData Structures 1.3...
... between dataof different ages and the temporal andcomplex nature of health for persons with HIV/AIDS, whereby the availability of ARVs and the workforce interact with social determinants of health ... purpose were Botswana, Swaziland, Thailand, and Zimbabwe These four countries were selected on the basis of 1) high levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and 2) the presence ofdata for the potential ... the merged data set OLC performed the data mining EAM performed the multiple regression analysis The generation of the idea and writing of the paper was a three way effort in drafting and revising...
... Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia Multi- Carrier Digital Communications: Theory andApplicationsof OFDM Ahmad R S Bahai and Burton R Saltzberg Principlesof Digital Transmission: ... then may be set to For the simple case ofandandand are set to to the output of the IFFT is: where Of course the scaling by a factor of two is immaterial and can be dropped This real orthogonal ... concise summary of the present state of the art of the theory and practice of OFDM technology The authors believe that the time is ripe for such a treatment Particularly based on one of the author's...
... 935.13), and P and K determined using inductively coupled argon plasma (ICAP) analysis (AOAC 985.01) A one-way analysisof variance was conducted on growth and nutritional response datausing SAS ... 3.3 Multi- element interactions Vector diagnosis is used to interpret and improve understanding of multi- element interactions at the deficiency (Fig 4A) and toxicity (Fig 4B) ranges (Figs and ... Effects of nitrogen fertilization on growth and ectomycorrhizal formation of red oak, For Sci 16 (1980) 529–536 [3] Bigras F.J., D’Aoust A., Hardening and dehardening of shoots and roots of containerized...
... will use the MPLUS, version 5.21 [97] This software allows conducting both path analysisand multilevel analysis with linear and non-linear data, and allows estimating specific indirect effects ... individual and organisational factors (independent variables) predict EHR adoption by healthcare professionals Dataanalysis Descriptive analyses of the data at each level (organisation and individual) ... theoretical models or by examining antecedents and moderators of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness Individual factors Theories of reasoned action and planned behaviour Several theoretical...
... adoption of the innovation Discussion The purpose of this paper is to identify the key challenges and facilitators for OEYC data analysts and managers in the uptake of mapping and mapping software Data ... consist of the innovation (mapping software and maps), the potential adopters (data analysts and managers), and the environment Several of the challenges that emerged from the data are modifiable and ... from the data are not modifiable with any GIS tool For example, access to accurate and recent census data, inconsistencies in the definition of the data analyst role, and usefulness ofdata required...