... body of research on the effects of air pollution on human and animal health 14 | Addressing the Impactof Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Healthof the Poor Implications for Policy ... indicators and systems for data collection at national level andfor poor rural and urban communities where the need for information and action is greatest | 15 Addressing the Impactof Household ... of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Healthof the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures 6.4 Estimates of Costs The estimation of costs for scaling up and...
... Joint Health Surveys Unit of the National Centre for Social Research and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Scotland, Northern Ireland and ... status (SES) andhealth (see, for example, Wilkinson and Marmot 2003) Specifically the relationship between the healthof children and the income of their parents has been the focus of much research ... log of number of children in the household, year and month of survey dummies, and region of residence at time of survey.28 Table 2a and 2b present our benchmark estimates assuming that income and...
... Singapore for the reward of research scholarship and Department of Pharmacy for the support of all resources and opportunities In addition, I am very appreciative of my PhD committee members for their ... 83 6.3.1 Base and ensemble model performances for SJS/TEN study 83 6.3.2 Base and ensemble model performances for TdP study 84 iii 6.3.3 Base and ensemble model performances for serious psychiatric ... similar software programs and it is completely free to the public The main purpose of this thesis is to develop and apply computational methodsand tools for ADR and toxicity prediction The methods...
... number and degree of performance requirements are reduced and a score of two is allotted if no performance requirements exist The impactof combined score for incentives, i.e., a sum of scores ... the treatment of foreign firms, lay specific standards of investment protection and contain provisions for the settlement 34 of disputes, have an important impactof FDI inflows BITs and regional ... countries of South, East and South East Asia, for the period 1980-81 to 1999-2000, after controlling for the impactof economic fundamentals of the host country The impact is analysed separately for...
... instead of test data We used the held-out data sche (2005) and Smith and Eisner (2006) for other to select the best-performing set of reranker features, approximations to expected f-score andmethods ... fsisted of all sw[23]∗.dps files, held-out training con- score of 0.838 on test data The results as indicated sisted of all sw4[5-9]∗.dps files and test consisted of by the f-score outperform state -of- the-art ... Dorr, and Richard Schwartz ings of Human Language Technology Conference and 2004 A Lexically-Driven Algorithm for Disfluency Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural LanDetection In Proceedings of...
... Pollution and the Healthof New Yorkers: The Impactof Fine Particles and Ozone Overall, older adults (65 years of age and older) have much higher rates of respiratory hospitalizations and account for ... pollution on New Yorkers’ health, the health benefits of addressing it and the costs of inaction 37 I Air Pollution and the Healthof New Yorkers: The Impactof Fine Particles and Ozone References ... mortality and illnesses Air Pollution and the Healthof New Yorkers: The Impactof Fine Particles and Ozone I of deaths, hospital admissions and emergency department visits (Tables and 2) Ozone...
... further our understanding of the embodied simulation account of esthetic experience as it may apply to dance MATERIALS ANDMETHODS PARTICIPANTS Twenty-two physically and neurologically healthy young ... understanding of the embodied simulation account of esthetic experience, as well as the relevanceof the present data to prior work on expertise and aesthetics We conclude with consideration of possible ... each of the dancers) of the 3-s videos of the dancers standing still in a neutral position The intertrial intervals were pseudologarithmically distributed between and s A schematic depiction of...
... a useful guide for understanding the progression and latest methods on impact evaluation xiii Foreword I recommend this Handbook for its relevance to development practitioners and researchers ... well-designed impact evaluation are therefore long term and can have substantial spillover effects This book reviews quantitative methodsand models ofimpact evaluation The formal literature on impact ... nature and timing of evaluations To isolate the effect of the program on outcomes, independent of other factors, one should time and structure impact evaluations beforehand to help program of cials...
... the commands of its platoon leader, who would be responding to the commands of his company commander, who would be responding to the commands of his battalion commander At a certain level of losses ... Reliability and Its Effects for Future Forces, being conducted within the RAND Arroyo Center’s Military Logistics Program for the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology ... traveled from the start of the engagement 12 RAND’s Unix-Based Version of JANUS: The Army Standard for Training and Analysis • • • • • • Air-land combat Uses NIMA digital terrain and features data...
... situation for scientists and clinicians who need to be cognizant of the most recent advances in gene transfer techniques This volume of Gene Therapy of Cancer: Methodsand Protocols in the Methods ... strategies for the treatment of particular malignancies Gene Therapy of Cancer: Methodsand Protocols does not provide comprehensive reviews of all methodologies currently used for gene therapy of cancer ... Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA PATRICIA A BRUSO • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer...
... Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 5Department of Surgery, University of Verona Medical School, Verona, Italy Page 10 of 11 Authors’ ... at 96°C for 10 min, cycling conditions were 96°C for 15s, 60°C forfor 40 cycles The viral DNA in each sample was quantified by comparing the fluorescence profiles with a set of Ad DNA standards ... all genes of potential relevancefor pathways analysis [25,26] To verify the relevanceof the gene selection in spite of the low significance threshold a permutation test [27,28] was performed following...
... severity A cut-off value of 10 has been Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Healthand Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:19 reported to have a sensitivity of 0.88 and a specificity of 0.88 ... Healthand Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:19 Introduction Diabetes represents one of the major challenges forhealth care systems all over the world while consuming a lot ofhealth care ... scoring The number of smokers was 117 (8.4%) Health related quality of life Table shows means for the eight domains of the SF-36 scales and the two component scales for the total sample of patients...
... emotional and cognitive) and social functioning [11] The measures are seen as methodsof capturing patient's opinions and feelings regarding their disease and treatment, their perceived need for healthcare ... provides an overview of the hypotheses for the impactof infusion ICT on the QoL of patients with iron overload In thalassemia, the impactof infusion ICT on QoL is most profound, since patients ... patient QoL rather than the impactof ICT on patient QoL However, mention of the impact on QoL of infusion ICT appears in a number of instances In one such study, over 50% of patients reported that...
... transmission andfor N Î {2, 4, 8} neighbor nodes and P leaf→relay = In Figure 10, the probability of transmission of a relay node is shown as a function of the probability of transmission of a single ... throughput) for the leaves, the relays, and the sink In the Configuration A (Figure 9a) the throughputs of the leaves, relays, and sink are increasing functions of q for small values of q and reach ... observed that ζ(z; s) (i) saturates for z ® ∞, regardless of the value of r; and (ii) has the shape of a decreasing exponential function of z (for a given value of s) The ζ function can be approximated...
... + μb , (1) σPAN where μPAN and μb are the mean of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively, and s PAN and s b are the standard deviation of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively This technique ... between each band of the LRMS image and HR images to sharpen the former It models the relationship between the pixels of each band of the HRMS zb, the PAN image x and the corresponding band of the LRMS ... characteristics of the PAN image match those of each band of the MS image or match those of a Page of 22 transformed image based on the MS image Unfortunately, this is not usually the case [16], and those...
... medium spruce forest site type The question is also density of studied forest stand which was not included in the paper Dry matter of humus layers in Norway spruce mature forest stands of mountain ... the forest decay of Norway spruce forest stand caused by air pollution disaster RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Table Thickness of soil horizons (cm) Heterogeneous groups are designated by letters of the ... plant biomass and undecomposed litter Consequently, the swards of grasses were demonstrated to mitigate the acidification of soil solution and the leaching of basic cations of Ca and Mg from soil...
... Acknowledgements: To Prof Dr H Spiecker, Institute of Forest Growth, University of Freiburg for helpful comments and to Andrew Haywood, Institute of Forest Growth, University of Freiburg, for revising ... program FOREST – Growth and reproduction simulation for mixed species even- or unevenaged forest stands In: J Fries (Ed.): Growth models for tree and stand simulation, Royal College of Forestry, ... increment of Norway spruce and Silver fir in selection forests of the Black Forest He recommended crown ratio as a sound criteria for estimating growth potential and vitality of trees in selection forests...
... of the whole classification that can serve as minimal standards for the reporting of functioning andhealthfor clinical studies and clinical encounters (Brief ICF Core Set) or as standards for ... development of ICF Core Sets [22], the patients now will be explicitly involved in the process of the development and validation of ICF Core Sets As standards of functioning andhealth in research and ... s810 Structure of areas of skin Yes Yes s830 Structure of nails Yes Yes Yes Yes International Classification of Functioning, Disability andHealth (ICF) categories of the ICF Core Set for rheumatoid...