... Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 µg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% for percentage of fPSA Relative differences ... universal standard In an effort to standardize PSA methods, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a standard, the WHO (90:10) (National Institute for Biological Standards and Control ... 1antichymotrypsin and 10% fPSA.[15] Recent studies evaluated automated methods using this standard, and although bias between different methods has been significantly reduced, results between assays...
... CPB) Study Protocol For those patients enrolled, detailed data collection was performed All data were extracted using standardized case-report forms and entered into a central Access 2003 database ... clinical, physiologic and laboratory data for the pre- and intra-operative periods were summarized as means (± SD) or medians (intraquartile ranges [IQR]), and numbers or proportions and compared using ... obtained data, analyzed data and wrote manuscript CS obtained data and provided critical revision of manuscript PW obtained data DR and MZ developed the study protocol and provided critical revision...
... not in complexes and WGD pairs not found within complexes more fundamental basis The difference in functional divergence between duplicates observed between the two sets (Figures and 2) can be accounted ... with that term) and S(t1, t2) is the set of all parent terms shared by t1 and t2 For two genes a and b with sets of annotated terms A and B, we define the semantic distance D(a, b) between those ... interactions shared between the two proteins, and n1 and n2 are the number of interactions for ORF1 and ORF2, respectively Semantic distance To assess the functional differences between each member...
... college student might fail the class and be suspended for a year In some colleges and universities, a student or professor caught plagiarizing might be told to leave and never return Using information...
... This literature includes Ball (1999 and 2002), Svensson (2000), Taylor (1999), McCallum and Nelson (1999 and 2000), and Galí and Monacelli (2005) Taylor (2000 and 2001) presents an interesting ... 1999, Brazil in 2000, and Peru in 2002 Among Eastern and Central European countries, EU new member states Czech Republic and Poland have also moved to comparable monetary and exchange rate policy ... Smets and Wouters (1999), Kim and Roubini (2000) and Cushman and Zha (1997), a number of papers have addressed this matter in the context of EMEs (see, e.g., Ma’ ckowiak, 2003, Fung, 2003, and...
... throughout: R and C denote the real and complex number fields, and N is the set of nonnegative integers z denotes the complex conjugate of z ∈ C (·) and (·) represent the imaginary and real part ... expression on the right-hand side, the limits limn→∞ Rn and limn→∞ xn exist and X = limn→∞ xn > For the sums on the right, since ∞ Rn is convergent and n= N N {1/xn }∞1 is positive and decreasing, both ... for all λ ∈ C and M is said to be in the limit-circle (LC) case, see Atkinson [11] and Hinton and Lewis [6] Note that in the limit-circle (LC) case, the defect numbers are equal and the limit-point...
... and interpreted the data and wrote the draft of the manuscript MK was involved in designing the study protocol and statistical analysis and interpreted the data SG was involved in designing and ... there was no remaining significant differencebetween the groups (5.63 ± 3.11 kPa versus 5.36 ± 2.17 kPa; P = 0.654) There is also no significant differencebetween the groups at the final values ... higher in patients with ROSC The difference from the first study [12] is shown in the first and the second minute of CPR In this study the significant differencebetween the two groups remains...
... pg), C elegans (0.10 pg), and P dumerilii (0.89 pg) There are, however, many exceptions to the correlation between an organism’s morphological and functional complexity and the absolute size of ... create several problems for cells and perform various functions [15,16] Jeffares et al [17] have recently reviewed the process of intron gain and loss They and others have demonstrated that intron ... first step in understanding their intricate evolution in animals and other eukaryotic taxa Biologists have recently gained access to genomic information from dozens of eukaryotic and hundreds of prokaryotic...
... understand the relationship between credit risk, including the risk of default, migration and recovery, and interest rates Toward this goal, we analyze the relationship between interest rates and ... rates and real interest rate, and a strong positive correlation between default rate and lagged 2-year real interest rate We find negative correlation between changes in interest rates and default ... positive correlations between instantaneous default rate and interest rate Lin and Curtillet (2007) take another look at the relationship between credit spreads and interest rates, and try to reconcile...