... 80% of patients with AF convert to
SR within 24 hours. The use of β-blockers before the start of
AF and the absence of diabetes and left ventricular hyper-
trophy were independent predictors of ... amiodarone: descriptionof three cases and
review of the literature. Crit Care Med 2005, 33:128-134.
112. Maisel WH, Kuntz KM, Reimold SC, Lee TH, Antman EM, Fried-
man PL, Stevenson WG: Risk of initiating ... KA,
Goodman SN, Powe NR, Bass EB: Efficacy of agents for phar-
macologic conversion of atrial fibrillation and subsequent
maintenance of sinus rhythm: a meta-analysis of clinical trials.
J Fam Pract 2000,...
...
considered as a model ofNew Town in Vietnam. It
is located in a strategic position (on the third ring
road of Hanoi) and considered as one of two new
urban models of Vietnam. Its design ... DAM NEW TOWN - SOLUTION FOR THE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT
OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF HANOI
Quyền Thị Lan Phương
Faculty of Natural Resource and Environment, Hanoi University of ...
ABSTRACT
The study focuses on Linh Dam New Town in the south-west of Hanoi - the biggest and most diverse new
residential area of the city with many projects ofNew Towns. Hanoi expansion to the...
... làm.
Jobs and Life of Rural Women Working Part-time in Hanoi
ABSTRACT
At the present, about 53% female rural labors work partime in Hanoi. With a low literacy level, they often choose
jobs ... by poor facilities, insanitation and
unsafeness. They always feel lonely and home-sick and lack of leisure time. Both internal factors (literacy levels,
ages, health status, marital status, job-orientation) ... conditions and relating policies) were identified as the determinants affecting to jobs
and daily life of female rural labors working part-time in Hanoi. Some policy measures were proposed to be taken...
... 1974,
Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance and Regression
(New
York: Wiley).
14.1 Moments of a Distribution: Mean,
Variance, Skewness, and So Forth
When a set of values has a sufficientlystrongcentral ... of integer powers
of the values.
Best known is the mean of the values x
1
, ,x
N
,
x=
1
N
N
j=1
x
j
(14.1.1)
which estimates the value around which central clustering occurs. Note the use of
an ... 610
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... add new access methods.
A complete extended type system should allow:
1) the definition of user-defined data types
2) the definition ofnew operators for these data types
3) the implementation ofnew ... involving
a single relation can be processed with a scan of the relation, a scan of a portion of the primary index, or a
scan of a portion of one secondary index. Joins can be processed by iterative ... extended to support automatic
generation of optimized query processing plans, utilization of existing access methods for new data types,
and coding ofnew access methods. Only the last capability...
... 1974,
Applied Statistics: Analysis of Variance and Regression
(New
York: Wiley).
14.1 Moments of a Distribution: Mean,
Variance, Skewness, and So Forth
When aset of values has a sufficientlystrongcentral ... of integer powers
of the values.
Best known is the mean of the values x
1
, ,x
N
,
x=
1
N
N
j=1
x
j
(14.1.1)
which estimates the value around which central clustering occurs. Note the use of
an ... the mean is not the only available estimator of this
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of a set of numbers,
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Copyright ... of research: Are the visible stars
distributed uniformly in the sky? (That is, is the distribution of stars as a function
of declination — position in the sky — the same as the distribution of ... function of declination?) Are educational patterns the same in Brooklyn as in the
Bronx? (That is, are the distributions of people as a function of last-grade-attended
the same?) Do two brands of fluorescent...
... collected in such a way that the sum of the R
i
’s is necessarily
equal to the sum of S
i
’s, then the number of degrees of freedom is equal to one
less than the number of bins, N
B
− 1 (that is, knstrn ... then the number of degrees of freedom is N
B
− 1. If he takes his data to
be all the birds he saw on a random sample of days, the same days in each year, then
the number of degrees of freedom is ... limiting values
Q
KS
(0) = 1 Q
KS
(∞)=0 (14.3.8)
In terms of this function, the significance level of an observed value of D (as
a disproof of the null hypothesis that the distributions are the same)...
... . .
1.
red
# of
red males
N
11
# of
red females
N
21
# of
green females
N
22
# of
green males
N
12
# of
males
N
1
⋅
# of
females
N
2
⋅
2.
green
# of red
N
⋅
1
# of green
N
⋅
2
total ... entropy
hx
of the x distribution, the
entropy
hy
of the y distribution, the entropy
hygx
of y given x,theentropy
hxgy
of x given y,
the dependency
uygx
of y on x (eq. 14.4.15), the dependency
uxgy
of ... number of events, the sum of all the N
ij
’s. Let N
i·
denote the number of events for which the first variable x takes on its ith value
regardless of the value of y; N
·j
is the number of events...
... find their own structure or
understanding of the organization of an area of study.
Multimedia provides an opportunity to offer a variety of different ways of structuring
knowledge. A CD-ROM or Web ... to what extent, if at all, do these new media change the forms and nature of
knowledge? It is argued that the new media will profoundly change the nature of
knowledge, what is considered authoritative, ... than the sum of all students in the class. This
then raises the question of the validity and authority of knowledge gained over the
Internet. How can the learner be sure of the sources of information?...
... respectively, the number of data points in the measurement of r
1
and r
2
.
All of the significances above are two-sided. If you wish to disprove the null
hypothesis in favor of a one-sided hypothesis, ... Statistics Guide
(New York: McGraw-Hill).
Fano, R.M. 1961,
Transmission of Information
(New York: Wiley and MIT Press), Chapter 2.
14.5 Linear Correlation
We next turn to measures of association ... y)
2
(14.5.1)
where, as usual,
x is the mean of the x
i
’s, y is the mean of the y
i
’s.
The value of r lies between −1 and 1, inclusive. It takes on a value of 1,termed
“complete positive correlation,”...