... method. 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 àg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% for percentage of fPSA. Relative differences ... measure free PSA in patients with a total PSA level between 4 ng/ml and 10 ng/ml. A PSA level of 4 to 10 ng/ml is considered slightly elevated levels between 10 and 20 ng/ml are considered moderately ... In prostate tests PSA what is the differencebetween total PSA and free PSA?What is the normal range? In addition, how can it be that...
... start-up costs for the FTTX build-out.Distribution Architecture: Hardened Connectors vs. Field Splicing Distribution Architecture: Hardened Connectors vs. Field Splicing Page 2A more economical ... choicesbefore deployment begins. This paper specifically addresses the cost comparisons between using hardened connectors vs. splices in two basic areas of the FTTX network– the distribution plant and ... project for a 192 home subdivision, featuring eight homesper block. Distribution Architecture: Hardened Connectors vs. Field Splicing WHITE PAPER ...
... literature).The present paper revisits the link between interest rates and exchangerates in small open economies under ‡exible exchange rates, distinguishing between cases when depreciations are expansionary ... library at http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=839229.THE LINK BETWEEN INTEREST RATES ANDEXCHANGE RATESDO CONTRACTIONARYDEPRECIATIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 1by Marcelo Sánchez21 This paper has benefited ... sponses between large and small shocks aÔecting exchange rates. Empirically,however, Caputo (2004) does...
... art of architecture carries anyvalue within the parameters of environmentalism, but whether environ-mental architecture can afford not to value the art of architecture. Cansuch an architecture ... betweenarchitecture and nature. Theseinclude traditional and current definitions of nature and of architecture, shifts of emphasis in concepts of function, structure, and beauty,tensions between ... an architecture that holds both environmental designand architectural expression in tension, neither privileged over the other.This is vital if the term ‘environmental architecture (as architectures-in-general)...
... above the threshold for a satisfactory value.Relationship between the GHQ-12 and the VS The correlation between the GHQ-12 and the VS scoreswas investigated and as expected a significant negativecorrelation ... 32:327-331.Table 2: Descriptive statistics and correlations between the GHQ-12 and the VS (n = 217)CorrelationsMeanSD1 23451. The VS score 22.4 7.4 1.002. GHQ-12, anxiety and depression 7.8 ... Vitality Scale (VS) The Subjective Vitality Scale (VS) is a seven-item instru-ment that was developed by Ryan and Fredrick to measurevitality [7]. It has two versions: an Individual Difference Level...
... addition, the paperintroduces the IDRA architecture, which is designed specifically to enable connectivity between heterogeneousresource-constrained objects. The IDRA architecture has the following ... bepossible at runtime, without breaking the activecommunication between devices.III Related architecturesThere is a need for new protocol architectures thatinherently support these requirements, ... overview of architectures that are designed tosupport direct network connectivity between heteroge-neous networks. Two main approaches are discussed: (1)incremental ‘evolution ary’ architectures...
... 94325, 15 pagesdoi:10.1155/2007/94325Research ArticleRelations between Limit-Point and Dirichlet Properties ofSecond-Order Difference OperatorsA. DelilReceived 24 July 2006; Revised 6 March ... conditionalDirichlet, weak Dirichlet,andstrong limit-point is considered. Also, connections and somerelationships between these properties have been established.Copyright â 2007 A. Delil. This is an open access ... consideration, see [1–10]. Here, we introduce thediscrete analogue of these properties and some relations between them. In studying in-equalities involving expression (1.1), such as HELP (after Hardy,...
... V¯ξandlimn→∞(uξ− u¯ξ)(n) = 0forallξ ∈ V¯ξ. STABILITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS OF FIRST-ORDER DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS LYING BETWEEN LOWER AND UPPER SOLUTIONSALBERTO CABADA, VICTORIA OTERO-ESPINAR,AND DOLORES ... conditions to ensure the stability ofperiodic solutions of first order difference equations lying between lower and upper solutions,J.Comput. Appl. Math. 176 (2005), no. 1, 45–57.[4] E.N.Dancer,Upper ... [10], have proved the stability of solutions of adequate ordinary differentialequations that lie between a pair of lower and upper solutions. In this case, fixed pointstheorems and degree and index...
... entities. This type of analysis A distance measure between plant architecture 455organization of the connections between their entities.These differences between two topological structureswere evaluated ... reference plant T1. When the difference in the number of entities between a givenplant and T1is large, the distance between the plants cor-responds to the difference in their number of elementaryentities. ... different aspects of the treemorphology. A distance between two trees was definedfor each global variables corresponding to the difference between the values for this variable in the two trees.Three...