... it be replicated and confirmed in other samples and other settings Summary Confounding bias, chance, and causation – these are the three basic notions that underlie statistics and epidemiology ... around One can randomize, and not blind a study (open randomized studies) and this can be legitimate Thus, blinding is optional; it can be present or not, depending on the study; but randomization ... disabuse us of our mistaken clinical observations Randomizing liberals and conservatives, blondes and brunettes How we engage in randomization? We it by randomly assigning patients to a treatment versus...
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... men and 0.1–0.6% in women [2] The prevalence rises to 4.4% of men and 1.8% of women over the age of 65 [4] A two-fold increase in incidence of gout has been reported in the USA and New Zealand ... of diuretics, weight gain and alcohol consumption A low carbohydrate, high protein and unsaturated fat diet has also been recommended as it enhances insulin sensitivity and may reduce serum uric ... range of flexion and extension His health history included two hip replacements, two previous episodes of gout in both first metatarsophalangeal joints (2 and years prior), and hypertension Medications...
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Changes of temperature data for energy studies over time and their impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The case of Athens and Thessaloniki – Greece
... cooling demands is 28.5% and for Thessaloniki 13.2% Obviously, directly proportional to the energy demand for heating and cooling is the fuel (diesel oil) and electricity consumption and hence ... indicator and the basis for calculations of heating and cooling energy demand [1] or for estimating bin data and heating and cooling degree-days at any base [2, 10, 11] Table shows the monthly and ... energy consumption information Energy and Buildings 2008, 40, 394-8 Jenkins D., Liu Y., Peacock A.D Climatic and internal factors affecting future UK office heating and cooling energy consumptions...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
Laying Out GUIs and Setting Properties
... These commands include xlabel, ylabel, zlabel, title, gca, gcf, and findobj HandleVisibility — On Handles are always visible when HandleVisibility is on IntegerHandle Setting the IntegerHandle property ... from Command Line) • Other (Use settings from Property Inspector) The following table summarizes how the four Command-line accessibility options configure HandleVisibility and IntegerHandle in ... its boundaries Copying, Cutting, and Clearing Components Use standard menu and pop-up menu commands, toolbar icons, keyboard keys, and shortcut keys to copy, cut, and clear components Copying Copying...
Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 20:20
iec 60255-5 electrical relays - insulation coordination for measuring relays and protection equip
... International Standards transparently to the maximum extent possible in their national and regional standards Any divergence between the IEC Standard and the corresponding national or regional standard ... on measuring relays and protection equipment - Section 2: Shock and bump tests - IEC 60255-21-3:1993, Electrical relays Part 27: Vibration, shock, bump and seismic tests on : measuring relays and ... expression "measuring relays and protection equipment" in this standard In particular, this standard, specifies the following: - definition of terms; - guidance for the selection of clearances and creepage...
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iec 60255-6 electrical relays - measuring relays and protection equipment
... -1.1 ii Standard reference values of influencing quantities and faclors anYsrandurd values o j t h e i r riomi.wl and extreme ranges Siandard reference values of influencing quantities and faclors ... Licensed by Information Handling Services 255-6 O IEC -7- ELECTRICAL RELAYS Part 6: Measuring relays and protection equipment SECTION ONE - GENERAL Scope and objecí This standard specifies the general ... frequente la tolérance peut eire prli\ gr:iiidc.Quand le relais es! tr¿s sensible a la friquence et quand on demande une grande précision, on pourra deniander des toliranccs plue faibles - Dans IC...
Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 10:49
iec 60255-22-5 electrical relays - electrical disturbance tests for measuring relays and protecti
... report on ONE STANDARD and ONE STANDARD ONLY Enter the exact number of the standard: (e.g 60601-1-1) Q6 standard is out of date standard is incomplete standard is too academic standard is too superficial ... International Standards transparently to the maximum extent possible in their national and regional standards Any divergence between the IEC Standard and the corresponding national or regional standard ... 5: Insulation coordination for measuring relays and protection equipment – Requirements and tests IEC 60255-6:1988, Electrical relays – Part 6: Measuring relays and protection equipment IEC 61000-4-5:1995,...
Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 10:50
Tài liệu BEST PRACTICES for: Monitoring, Verifi cation, and Accounting of CO2 Stored in Deep Geologic Formations doc
... pre-operational and operational phase monitoring techniques for GS project based on mandatory monitoring requirements and proposed Class VI requirements Primary technologies are listed with black text and ... pressure, heterogeneity, and gravity as controls on migration • Better understanding pressure and capillary seals • Developing and assessing the effectiveness of existing and novel monitoring tools • ... 3.0 Developments in Monitoring Techniques from DOE Supported and Leveraged Monitoring Activities 3-1 3.0 Developments in Monitoring Techniques from DOE Supported and Leveraged Monitoring Activities...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Regulating Football Commodification, Consumption and the Law pot
... threads and angles to regulation, moving away from public order and criminal issues and into the areas of civil law (contract and tort), and wider commercial issues such as broadcasting and merchandising ... understand and believe in it for Context and Development of Regulation 21 themselves; and achieving safety is not a one off but a continual process The FLA’s approach is to educate, advise and persuade ... ground in England and Wales used occasionally or temporarily by such a club, Wembley Stadium, any other ground in England and Wales used for an international association football match, and Shielfield...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 00:20
PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION TO THE AMATEUR IN COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND SETTING UP NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS OF ALL KINDS doc
... in conclusion, work hard, study hard, and look to good modellers and painters — and not to bird-stuffers — for conceptions of form, arrangement, and colour, and in the end, believe me, you will ... half-hidden crags; and yet, though you could see the white war of waters, but the faintest murmur of this battle between land and sea could be heard — below and halfway up, the puffins and guillemots ... tract of land and water specially fitted up with nets of the sorts most suitable for taking ducks and similar birds, and near which it is unlawful to fire a gun For a thoroughly exhaustive and interesting...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20
ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION: PRIORITY PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS pdf
... Habitat change and resource competition due to water and land use Demand projections indicate, however, that the consumption of some metals and oil and gas will outstrip supply and may exhaust ... understand the relative importance of specific resource limitations and environmental problems, the ways that production and consumption affect the environment and resources, and which production and ... environment and tropical grassland and savannah causes especially severe impacts The exploitation of tropical forests and coastal regions is considerable and increasing Expanding forestry and pasture...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940 docx
... Phonograph rolls and discs Cinema and live entertainment Cinema and live entertainment Cinema and live entertainment Cinema and live entertainment Cinema and live entertainment Cinema and live entertainment ... role of wider consumption routines, skills and capabilities in the evolution of demand through processes such as selection, replication, imitation and modification and through random 21 If we ... sources relevant to understanding how the consumption of cinema grew are identified and analyzed in depth, and national differences decomposed in those due to technology and those due to taste Section...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20
Alternative Data U.S. Consumer Credit Reports: Measuring Accuracy and Dispute ImpactstsMichael A. Turner, Ph.D., Robin Varghese, Ph.D., Patrick D. pot
... Reports: Measuring Accuracy and Dispute Impacts Abstract This report, titled U.S Consumer Credit Reports: Measuring Accuracy and Dispute Impacts, assesses the accuracy and quality of data collected and ... Consumer Credit Reports: Measuring Accuracy and Dispute Impacts and attributes of data furnishers, and so any thorough exploration of socio-demographic variations of disputes and modifications should ... both inaccurate positive and negative scores (and credit standings) Potential changes in loan portfolio performance and capital allocation are beyond the scope of this study and not examined here...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20
Monitoring maternal, newborn and child health: understanding key progress indicators doc
... Monitoring maternal, newborn and child health: understanding key progress indicators WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Monitoring maternal, newborn and child health: understanding ... MDGs and Countdown focuses on coverage of effective interventions for maternal, newborn and child health and coverage determinants, including health systems and policies, financial flows and equity ... • • track results and resource flows for women’s and children’s health at the global and country levels; identify a core set of indicators and measurement needs for women’s and children’s health;...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Measuring Importance and Query Relevance in Topic-focused Multi-document Summarization" doc
... Journal of Research and Development, 2(2):159–165 C Manning and H Schutze 1999 Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing MIT Press A Nenkova, L Vanderwende, and K McKeown 2006 A ... understanding conference In Proceedings of AAAI’05 L Vanderwende, H Suzuki, and C Brockett 2006 Microsoft research at duc 2006: Task-focused summarization with sentence simplification and lexical ... might make the task more challenging and allow more room for advances in query expansion and other summary focusing techniques References J Conroy, J Schlesinger, and D O’Leary 2006 Topic-focused...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20
Experiences and Lessons Learned on Child Labour Monitoring: Rubber, Salt and Fishing Sectors in Cambodia docx
... improve and develop the best approaches in monitoring child labour and to reach labour standards through advocacy and direct intervention with working children and employers Experiences and Lessons ... sectors Responsibilities and duties of monitoring teams Child labour monitoring in rubber plantation Child labour monitoring in salt production Child labour monitoring in fishing and shrimp processing ... programme and savings mobilization; and Vocational training opportunities Experiences and Lessons Learned on Child Labour Monitoring: Rubber, Salt and Fishing Sectors in Cambodia Fishing and shrimp...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20
Milk and Dairy Products in India – Production, Consumption and Exports doc
... Production and consumption of butter and ghee from 2002 to 2013 61 T 7.3 Consumption of ghee from 2000 to 2013 62 T 7.4 Consumption of table butter from 2000 to 2013 63 T 7.5 Ghee & Table Butter – consumption ... 6.1 National milk and milk products consumption 50 6.2 Milk per capita consumption across states 54 6.3 Milk & milk products consumption trends 57 6.4 Milk & milk products consumption – drivers ... Evolution of Butter and Ghee Production 2002-2013 62 C 7.3 Ghee and Table Butter production and consumption from 2000 to 2013 64 C 8.1 Movement of WPI for milk, butter, ghee and food articles from...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20
ONCOGENOMICS AND CANCER PROTEOMICS – NOVEL APPROACHES IN BIOMARKERS DISCOVERY AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETS IN CANCER pot
... in spindle formation and cell cycle progression during the G2 and M phase (42) Wu and colleagues showed that the extracellular matrix and metabolic pathways were activated and the genes related ... tissue and normal tissue from a 57 years old female patient They detected 1660, 1528 and 941 significant differential genes (DEGs) between the CRC and adjacent tissue, the CRC and normal tissue; and ... part in the breast and usually have high prognosis Stage and cancers are treated with lumpectomy or mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation and usually have poor prognosis and high risk of recurrence...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20
Energy consumption and economic growth in vietnam threshold cointegration and causality analysis
... causes energy consumption (reject A, but not reject B), (c) there is a bi-directional feedback between energy consumption and economic growth (reject A and B), and (c) energy consumption and economic ... bi-directional causality in Thailand and the Philippines Aqeel and Butt (2001) used the ECM models Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Vietnam: Threshold Cointegration and Causality Analysis to ... energy consumption and economic growth as well as between energy consumption and employment for Pakistan The results inferred that economic growth caused total energy consumption Soytas and Sari...
Ngày tải lên: 27/05/2014, 22:53
basic instrumentation measuring devices and basic pid control
... the controlled and manipulated variables; • sketch a simple block diagram and indicate set point, measurement, error, output and disturbances; • state the difference between open and closed loop ... pressure cylinders; • state the advantages and disadvantages of RTDs and thermocouples • state the effect on the indicated temperature for failures, open circuit and short circuit; Flux • state the ... fluid pressure; and erosion • identify the primary device, three-valve manifold and flow; transmitter in a flow measurement installation; • state the relationship between fluid flow and output signal...
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