measurement and determinants of poverty application of logistic regression models

... questionnaire is short and quick to administer (5-10 min) and welladapted for studies in general populations Strategy for identification of type and determinants of missingness The type of missingness ... probability of missingness depended neither on its subscale score nor on any (external) predictor variable Logistic regression models [20] were constructed to identify the type and determinants of missingness ... GH4, RE2 and all items of VT, SF and MH subscales) and missing not at random for the others (items PF2-10, RP2, RP4, BP1, GH2, GH3, GH5, RE1 and RE3) No item was missing completely at random (MCAR)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... SCHWARZ - SOUND and TV BROADCASTING – CCIR and FFC tv standards – Printed in the federal republic of Germany 18 3GPP2 C.S0011-C, version 2.0 – Recommended Minimum Performance Standards for cdma2000 ... Compatibility: Principles, Measurements and Technologies -1996 IEEE Press 16 Walter Ciciora, James Farmer, David Large, Michael Adams – Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice and Data communications ... coding and modulation systems for Broadcasting, Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite applications (DVB – S2) 14 Tim Williams – EMC for Product Designers – Newnes Editor...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 20:44

... teams change and adapt with the project tasks at hand Expanding and shrinking team boundaries are at the core of the definition of virtual R&D teams Conclusions and future trends The use of virtual ... importance of transnational virtual R&D teams goes hand in hand with the availability of talented engineers and scientists in an increasing number of centres -of- excellence around the globe and our ... development and production of the combustion chamber and turbine blades as well as final assembly of the turbine ABB Mannheim was responsible for R&D and production of rotors, requiring profound technological...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... models attempt to overcome the above mentioned shortcomings of structuralform models These include Jarrow and Turnbull (1995), Jarrow, Lando and Trunbull (1997), Lando (1998), Duffie (1998) and ... presented by Jarrow and Turnbull (1995) and Jarrow, Lando and Turnbull (1997) Jarrow and Trunbull (1995) used matrices of historical transition probabilities from original ratings and recovery values ... International Research Journal of Finance and Economics - Issue 30 (2009) 109 Measurement and Capital Standards” document, published in July 1988 Furthermore, the treatment of market and operational risk...

Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 21:13

... measured and simulated on horizontal plans made at four heights (3.8, 4.7, Spatial distribution of MAR 503 Figure Vertical variation of the mean and standard deviation of reflectance and transmittance ... profile of simulated and measured phytochrome photoequilibria Φc in shaded and sunlit areas under clear sky conditions Spatial distribution of MAR 507 Figure 5b Variation of the simulated and ... simulated and measured of the ratio transmitted/Incident Blue Fluence in a vertical profile in shaded and sunlit areas under clear sky conditions Figure 7b: Variation of the simulated and measured of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... transmittance of the sun’s beam Agric For Meteorol 55 Lang ARG (1991) Application of some of Cauchy’s theorems to estimation of surface areas of leaves, needles and branches of plants, and light ... reflectance of the understorey This PAR reflectance is defined as the ratio between incident PAR and reflected PAR An example of variations with time for a day of measurements of the PAR reflectance of ... measurewere tem of the ments, the recorded values were the 15-min average of measurements taken every 10 s For this study we had a complete set of measurements (direct and diffuse PAR at the lower and higher...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... motivated and 11 (2.2%) respondents were not at all motivated to take HAART (Table 3) Determinants of patients’ nonadherence and nonreadiness to HAART Results of multivariate logistic regression ... Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia 2Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Medicine ... College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Bahir Dar, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 3Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... statistics and logistic regression of the dependent variable and time (year of survey) were used Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression was used to identify the main correlates of comprehensive ... accurate HIV and AIDS knowledge about transmission and prevention is important for avoiding HIV infection and ending the stigma and discrimination of infected and affected persons Over 90% of the Kenyan ... negotiate for safer sex and may be unaware of extra-marital affairs of their husbands, ever married women are likely have assumptions that marriage is protective of risk of infection and may assume they...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... Telfer and Woodburn: The use of 3D surface scanning for the measurement and assessment of the human foot Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2010 3:19 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... number of companies now take a 3D scan directly from the impression box and use this to Page of guide the machining of the orthotic This is a fast and inexpensive method of obtaining the shape of ... standard errors of measurement were found to be up to 5.9 mm for girth measurements The authors concluded that the device was a fast and reliable method of obtaining 3D anthropometric data of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... All determinants used in this paper were addressed at T0 Determinants of a poor clinical outcome Determinants of outcome are classified according to Andersen’s behavioral model [22,23], and include: ... description of the untreated and treated patients is given in Table The course of depression and anxiety Figures and show the results of the multilevel repeated measures ANCOVA’s, examining the course of ... course Apparently, receipt of and need for care are not independent of symptom severity in predicting the outcome of depression and anxiety Similarly, utilization of professional care appeared...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... cause of death in the ICU Malignant tumour disease and exacerbation of chronic cardiovascular disease were the most frequent causes of death of critically ill Table Definitions and grading of organ ... predictions on the likelihood of survival in the ICU and future quality of life Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy in most cases included cessation of cardiovascular support and/ or extracorporeal ... data entry or processing Definitions and patient management All codes and definitions of study variables were established before the beginning of the study and were uniformly docu- Available online...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... coordination of the project, data analysis, interpretation of the data and the drafting of manuscript WCW has involved in the conception and design of the study, interpretation of the data and revising ... 15.1% and 2.8% respectively Furthermore, students who were male, of younger age, moved from other places and of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and ... maltreatment subgroups Logistic regression models were also conducted to measure the independent effect of different variables on the occurrence of maltreatment All the possible determinants including...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Science and Technology of China (2006CB101902), the '863' Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (20060102Z1097 and 2006AA10Z185), and the National Science Foundation of China ... position of XVRs in the genome of Xcc 8004; 2, the circular representation of genome of Xcc 8004 (CP000050), map scaled in CDS; 3-7, BLASTN results of the CDS set of Xcc 8004 with that of each ... involved in the virulence of Xcc The genetic determinants for host specificity of Xcc Genes involved in the host specificity of Xcc are of central interest in this study All of the Xcc strains used...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... not normal and their findings broadly confirm those of Miles and McCue (1984) and Hartzell et al (1986) who find evidence of non-normality in terms of skewness and kurtosis, and Myer and Webb (1994) ... Ri and R j are random returns of the investments Markowitz’s main innovation of risk measurement is in the measurement of the risk of a portfolio via the joint (multivariate) distribution of ... favor of complete variance-covariance models The measure of the linear dependence between the return of each security and that of the market, β , led to the development of the main pricing models, ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:07

... wafer Vp : volume of bakeplate Vw : volume of wafer Aps : surface area of side of bakeplate Awt : surface area of top of wafer Aws : surface area of side of wafer p(t) : heater power : bakeplate ... conductivity of air and wafer respectively h is the convective heat transfer coefficient ρp and ρw are the density of the bake-plate and wafer respectively cp and cw are the specific heat capacity of the ... the baking of a flat wafer and 2.2(b), the baking of a warped wafer The system consists of basic sections: the bakeplate, the air-gap and the silicon wafer We assume that the wafer and bakeplate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 12:50

... definition and classification, the evolutionary development and features, and the dissemination and applications of WIS Thereafter is a survey on the development of the service quality assessment and ... that the concept of QoS in IP networks should be clarified and standardized Lack of an internationally agreed term and definition of QoS has resulted in various sets of assumptions and ad hoc definitions ... development of WIS quality assessment This is due to the complexity of information systems per se, in terms of the type of WIS, the type of users, and the characteristics of WIS Understanding users’...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... and healing of wound and the sense of taste and appetite Chromium is necessary for the proper utilization of sugars and other carbohydrates by optimizing the production and effects of insulin ... the measurement, distribution and fate of heavy metals in the marine environment have been reported for a number of countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and China (Menasveta and ... 2002): ™ Mining and processing ores: Digging a mine, removing ore from it, and extraction and processing of the minerals may destroy habitats, farmland, and homes; produce soil erosion; and pollute...

Ngày tải lên: 10/11/2015, 12:34

... Japan and Korea are both well-known for being resource-poor countries, and because of the shortage of farmland and the higher degree of industrialization, they are highly dependent on imports of ... (1986) and Balassa and Bauwens (1988) find that OLS and logit models give similar results as to the significance of coefficients and the overall explanatory power of equations in studies of IIT ... Xi and Mi stand for exports and imports in industry i respectively and n is the number of industries taken into consideration It is an unweighted average of trade overlap for each industry and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2015, 13:33

... essential for the induction of BRP-39 in models of allergic airway inflammation Thus IL-13 KO and BALB/c control mice were exposed to weeks of HDM As previously reported in models of allergic airway inflammation ... between BRP-39 KO mice and WT controls in terms of the BAL inflammatory profile (Figure 6B) We observed similar numbers of mononuclear cells and eosinophils in the BAL of BRP-39 and WT mice Flow cytometric ... cytometry pseudo-dot plots of data generated from for the lung digests of day smoke exposed lungs (A,C,D) and smoke- and OVA-exposed mice after month of cessation and days of rechallenge with OVA...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... of compound activity, the modeling of potency values, and the profiling of ligands against a panel of related targets Aside from the development of LBVS methods, understanding the resulting models ... development and interpretation of machine learning models for drug discovery To this end, it describes the design and application of computational models for specialized use cases, such as compound profiling ... decision trees and their ensemble in random forests for instance offer to assess the importance of each feature in terms of the number and order of splits they appear in Feature contributions of na¨ıve...

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