... categories, for example, if they had both a PTCA and a CABG before the study, or they had a PTCA before the study but would go on to have a CABG during the study, they were put in the category of the ... respectively, and just under 30% of the variability was explained The addition of the ECS scale of the SAQ to the model accounted forthegreatest variability in the EQ-5D index (43%) and gave the lowest ... scale and logit transformed as the outcome variable forthe OLS models There was little difference in prediction results whether these transformations were applied or not, and so the non-transformed...
... and Holroyd, 2000), a member of the Hypericaceae family Its yellow flower has been gathered forthe feast of St John the Baptist andthe word “wort” is the Old English word for plant (Gaster and ... exposure anddisease outcome), except forthe treatment exposure If neither the investigators nor the study subjects know who was allocated into the treatment group or the control group, then the ... study design, performance, and analysis, with a focus on randomization of the study subjects, blinding of the investigators and study subjects, andthe handling of dropouts and withdrawal of...
... Hurons, the Algonquins, the Iroquois, the Outagomies, the Mohawks, the Senecas, the Sioux, the Blackfeet, andthe Crowfeet red-faces, were the undisputed possessors of the soil They held the mine, the ... 190 The "President" and "Belvidera" 191 The "Frolic" andthe "Wasp" 192 The "Macedonian" and "United States" 193 The Lords of the Admiralty 194 The "Constitution" andthe "Java" 195 Capture of the ... Bay, and to the southward into the great lakes andthe St Lawrence, take their rise The icy breath of the distant north and northwest sweeps down such rivers as the Ottawa, the St Maurice, and the...
... mechanical deformation in response to the force and electricity, therefore maintaining the set-point height or force by adjusting the distance between the cantilever tip andthe sample surface In the ... driving them to extend along the duct and initiating the structural transition from initial random coils to the β-conformations There is a draw-down taper at the end of the duct, where there is ... during the artificial synthesis of silks and in the fracture surface of natural silk fibers [41, 42] Therefore, it is speculated that the formation process of the silk fibers start first fromthe formation...
... andthe influence existing policies and community programs have had on the health and well-being of girls and women B The Need for a Multi-disciplinary and Gender-specific Approach The need for ... opportunities and social support for boys and men to be active, while simultaneously limiting them for girls and women The constraints are also reproduced by women and girls themselves fromthe social ... activity andthe psychosocial dimensions of health and well-being These were the Articles First, andthe Humanities and Social Sciences indices Articles published from 1990 were selected for review The...
... the 25th percentile Twenty-five percent of the people in the group earn less than this amount The line across the bar andthe dollar figures represent median earnings forthe group The top of the ... deliberations The story told by the indicators in this report is that education does pay It has a high rate of return for students from all racial/ethnic groups, for men andfor women, for those from ... PINC-04; The College Board (2003); calculations by the authors The blue line shows the cumulative earnings at each age forthe average high school graduate who enters the workforce full-time at the...
... high The gas velocity can be ascertained fromthe balance of forces acting on a suspended droplet The thrust force of the gas Kψ must be equated to the gravitational force Kg minus the lifting force ... wall factor lifting force gravitational force resistance force surface force shear force viscosity force constant K1 and exponent K2 for determining the resistance coefficient for single-phase flow ... represents the operating costs of normal pressure rectification Depending on the difference between the temperatures at the bottom tW and at the top tD of the column, and on the price of the heating...
... courseware The most appropriate methods depend on the goals of the training (for example, to inform or to perform); the learners’ related skills (for example, whether they are familiar with or new to the ... training and human resource practitioners and gives them products to their jobs better We deliver proven ideas and solutions from experts in HR development and HR management, and we offer effective and ... Chapters 15 and 16 Because these types of lessons require learners to solve a problem and learn from its solution, they impose more mental load than the directive architectures Therefore, they are...
... by negative emotions They form beliefs for accepting the condition that ushers in thepotentialfor participation in life activities Diseaseand individual characteristics, and environmental factors ... reimbursed forthe time they served as recruiters on the study Data analysis SPSS for Windows 14.0.2 [29] was used to recode and score the instruments Descriptive statistics were used forthe General ... completed one booklet and a parent/ caregiver completed the other One week after the packets were mailed, families were contacted by telephone and asked if they needed any assistance Forthe third study,...
... [2-4], andthe Severity of Illness Rating Scheme [18] Families that returned completed questionnaires were offered an award of $5 forthe first study, $10 forthe second study, and $30 forthe third ... Grant fromthe University of Michigan Office for Vice President for Research The author wishes to thank all individuals involved in the recruitment of subjects, and all participants for their ... Native American (n = 8), Other (n = 2), and Pacific Islander (n = 1) with other families (n = 7) not reporting Return rate Forthe first two studies, of the 318 paper -and- pencil packets mailed,...
... diagnosed pituitary tumors, the first by expanding the patient base andthe second, directly In this context, using claims data, we examined whether there was potential bias in the reporting of pituitary ... calculated fromthe date of the last prescription available in the database, plus the number of days for which it was supplied, unless preceded by patient disenrollment fromthe health plan or the end ... treated with 'other typicals' Interaction terms forthe other antipsychotics were not statistically significant Among the other variables in the model, increasing patient age and male gender...
... defined, freeing the application developer fromthe need to enforce the constraints and reducing the probability of errors and/ or inconsistent information in the data Comparison to other TF binding ... the database The rate limiting step for input of data into the database is the manual reading of papers by annotators and their reformatting of the published sequence positions for sites to the ... the top of the page with the number of TFs and TF binding sites (TFBS) and a list of the sites and their locations In detail, every site is listed along with its location, sequence, whether the...
... the UCSF Chancellor’s Fellowship to CG, the Sandler Center for Basic Research in Asthma andthe Sandler Family Supporting Foundation We also thank Lisa Brooks and Jean McEwen (NIH/NHGRI andthe ... sequences at affordable prices The sequencing of individual genomes raises concerns about potentialthreats to privacy and other ethical issues Although the USA recently passed the Genetic Infor a ... Project andthe next generation of deep sequencing platforms will provide is unprecedented and will have important implications for genetics and health as we move closer and closer to the era of the...
... to the FORTRAN 95 programming language FORTRAN, which stands for FORMula TRANslation is still the most widely used language for programming engineering applications and is easier to learn and ... of the digits that make up the number, the other of the exponent The exact way in which a number is stored depends on the hardware used For real numbers, either or bytes could be allocated for ... collects the sum of the distributed arrays F1, of length Ndofs, from all processors and returns the result to F The KIND of the arrays would have to match the Fortran REAL*8 precision The significance...
... statements read the information necessary to allocate the dynamic arrays andthe integration order to be used forthe example Here we use two files INPUT.DAT and OUTPUT.DAT for input and output The input ... presented forthe one-dimensional finite boundary elements and N t1 ( ) and N u1 ( ) are the same infinite shape functions as forthe one-dimensional element with substituted forForthe two-dimensional ... to all the subroutines in a MODULE and all programs which use them via the USE statement The dimensions forthe array Ni, which contains the shape functions, depend on the type of element and will...
... tractions for load case for computing W21 The theorem of Betti states that the work done by the load of case along the displacements of case must equal the work done by the loads of case along the ... where u(Q) and t(Q) are the temperature /potential andthe normal derivative respectively at point Q on S, and U(P,Q) and T(P,Q) are the fundamental solutions at Q for a source at point P The integration ... of these points and this will be the major drawback of the method The source points must be placed in such a way, that they not influence the results In our case, the best place is inside the...
... assemble the coefficient matrices and then solve forthe boundary unknowns and another where the assembly and solution are intermixed The analogy to this in the FEM is the direct solution andthe ... used, then the number of unknowns forthe problem is reduced to the nodes on the right hand side of the symmetry plane and on the plane itself The only additional computational effort will be the ... region In the example shown in 6.11 this is (0 , 1) for sub region and (-1 , 0) for sub region If a uniform subdivision is assumed the Jacobian J forthe transformation from to is for all regions...
... the size of the system is significantly smaller The output fromthe program consists only of the values of the unknown at the boundary The unknown are either the temperature/displacement or the ... rhs _and_ diag, which merely omits to form Lhs, but otherwise forms F and Diag as 219 PARALELL PROGRAMMING before At the end of the loop, the element matrices are stored The section adding the ... new subroutines form_lhs and get_km The first of these combines element dUe and dTe matrices appropriately andthe second gets the appropriate part of Diag for its addition into the matrix*vector...
... General_purpose_BEM It reads the INPUT file which is the same as the one read by General_Purpose_BEM and contains the basic job information andthe geometry of boundary elements The results of the boundary element ... convergence of the algorithm In the case where a contour does not start fromthe boundary a search forthe starting point of the contour may be carried out fromthe boundary Further details can ... Compared are the maximum deflection at the free end andthe bending stresses at the fixed end Note that the maximum bending stresses are obtained directly fromthe analysis (these are equal to the tractions...