... average duration of clinical symptoms The assessment of family psychosocial burden will include the number of hours of sleep missed by the child, and the stress experienced by the primary caregiver ... to the specific purpose ofthe study nor to which intervention arm each hospital has been randomized Parents of children with croup will not be told ofthe overall purpose ofthe study nor the ... To determine which ofthe three intervention strategies are most effective at lowering the rate of hospital days per 1,000 disease episodes The null hypothesis is that none ofthe intervention...
... XmlReader that contains the results ofthe SQL query The ExecuteXmlReader( ) method can only be used with SQL statements that return XML data, such as those with a FOR XML clause The ExecuteXmlReader( ... Discussion SQL Server 2000 introduced support for retrieving data in XML format using the FOR XML clause The NET SQL Server data provider SqlCommand object has an ExecuteXmlReader( ) that allows ... also be used to return ntext data containing valid XML For more information about the FOR XML clause, see Microsoft SQL Server Books Online [ Team LiB ] ...
... [18] Taken together, the results of various signal intensities ofthe three PrPC bands are accredited to the development ofthe truncated isoforms, to the epitope recognition ofthe antibodies ... analyzed by calculation ofthe percentages ofthe di- (d), mono- (j) and nonglycosylated (m) isoform as arithmetic means of separate gel runs The number of gel runs for the analyses are given ... using the antibodies indicated (B) Signal intensities ofthe di- (d), mono- (j) and nonglycosylated isoform (m) of PrPC were quantified and calculated as percentages ofthe total signal The glycoforms...
... heavy traffic The closer one is to the tailpipe of vehicles, the greater the exposure to pollutants, and the greater the health risk Given there is a finite amount of public space in the city for ... summarizes ofthe morbidity and mortality estimates that result from application of AQBAT to the traffic-related pollution data modelled by the Toronto Environment Office The results show the number of ... underestimate ofthe true burden of illness resulting from exposure to the combined mix of pollutants This analysis likely underestimates the true burden of illness given the limited number of morbidity...
... but was allowed until the birth ofthe child Out ofthe total number of eligible children in the study area, 61 percent participated in the study at birth In total, 9778 mothers with a delivery ... quality ofthe modelling approach [14,15] In this paper we describe the design of studies focused on the effects of air pollution exposure on various health outcomes in mothers and children in the ... concentrations at these stations are considered as the sum ofthe background concentration and the contribution from local emission sources We modelled the contribution of local emission sources to the PM10...
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... 1, there is more variability in these hydrophobic peptides eluted off the column after 40 min, compared to the peptides eluted off the column earlier The consistency ofthe platform is further ... was the case with the small sample sets, the consistency of profiles from this large number of plasma samples was excellent To illustrate the performance ofthe LC-MS platform at this scale of ... confound the accuracy ofthe proteomics analyses However, intra-group CVs of less than 10% for LC-MS proteomic profiles that simultaneously measure hundreds of proteins is excellent The behavior of the...
... and the pairs of two dentists in the same clinic at the same time with regard to the year when all the use of copper amalgam had ended, the year the use of Dentomat started, and the year the ... year they reported having ended using the specific method Thus, the methods used in the same clinic at the same time, and the year for the start and end ofthe use of a method should have been the ... spills of mercury, whether the amalgam was soft or firm, and whether they were the ones who filled the Dentomat with mercury and alloy In the questionnaire they were also asked about spills of mercury...
... one was contacted directly to the sample and grounded as a cathode, and the other was placed an arbitrary distance, d, apart from the edge ofthe sample as the anode The tungsten tips were connected ... feed-through in the vacuum chamber to apply and sense the electric signal for field emission Figure 4a shows an optical image ofthe graphene sheets on SiO2 layer The thickness ofthe layer was ... of tungsten tips controlled by the nanomanipulator After adjusting the position ofthe tips, a positive potential was applied to the second tip The current was then measured during a voltage...
... implies that the dimension ofthe row space of R is |S| − So the dimension ofthe solution space of Rx = is equal to |ES | − |S| + Next we consider the case when Γ(S) = ∅ Assume v av Rv = By the definition ... v av Rv = 0, then av = (∀v ∈ S), and so, the dimension ofthe row space of R is |S| Therefore the dimension ofthe solution space for Rx = is |ES | − |S| Remark Let us consider the case when ... Let NG (S) = (VS , ES ) be the neighbor graph of a subset S Then we define the S-matching polytope PS of S to be the convex hull in RES ofthe characteristic vectors of all S-matchings: PS := conv{χM...
... evaluation of living human cartilage ofthe elbow and knee during mosaicplasty for osteochondritis dissecans ofthe elbow: an in vivo study Am J Sports Med 2008, 36:2345-2353 Page of (page number ... Ikeuchi K, Tsutsumi S, Nakamura T: Estimation ofthe mechanical property of meniscus using ultrasound: examinations of native meniscus and effects of enzymatic digestion J Orthop Res 2007, 25:884-893 ... Y, Tomita N, Ikeuchi K: Measurement ofthe mechanical properties of regenerated articular cartilage using wavelet transformation In Tissue Engineering for Therapeutic Use Edited by Ikada Y, Umakoshi...
... area under the chemiluminescence intensity curve after the addition of fMLP until its return to baseline and peak time – the time (seconds) from the addition of fMLP to the appearance of pCL were ... In the subgroup of patients with severe OSAS, the ratio of positive H2O2 readings were 4/11 and 2/11 for the evening and morning measurements For CPAP-OSAS and the control group, the ratio of ... of sample incubation in their contribution to FRAP Therefore, we additionally analyzed the effect of apneas-induced IH events on FRAP obtained after various times of incubation Figure shows the...
... stability/instability ofthe genetic locus at which the HA was inserted and the host cell responses to the HA protein are some ofthe factors that might affect the stability ofthe HA transgene or the loss ofthe ... speculate that the structure ofthe inserted HA transgene, the promoters driving the HA expression, the direction ofthe inserted HA transgene relative to the surrounding genes, the inherent stability/instability ... corrugated surface similar to the structure of VACVWR [28] The virions of MVA-HANP are pleomorphic with half ofthe virions being brick shaped and the other half round The observation is in concert...
... stability/instability ofthe genetic locus at which the HA was inserted and the host cell responses to the HA protein are some ofthe factors that might affect the stability ofthe HA transgene or the loss ofthe ... speculate that the structure ofthe inserted HA transgene, the promoters driving the HA expression, the direction ofthe inserted HA transgene relative to the surrounding genes, the inherent stability/instability ... corrugated surface similar to the structure of VACVWR [28] The virions of MVA-HANP are pleomorphic with half ofthe virions being brick shaped and the other half round The observation is in concert...
... the analysis of cost we added the SMST-Q license and the cost ofthe SMS The estimate ofthe cost for the same volume of questionnaires as the number of SMS sent to the patients is based on the ... and Therefore, the plausible total for the whole year could have ranged from the sum ofthe obtained week's data plus for the missing weeks to the sum of obtained weeks plus times the number of ... the longer periods of recall In relation to the 1-year recall there were some missing answers obtained via SMS-T-Q over the 1-year trial period For example, if one ofthe weeks was missing, the...
... absolute error the best vi is the median ofthe values in the interval [104]; for the maximum absolute error it is the mean ofthe maximum and minimum value in the interval [75]; an analysis of respective ... least one ofthe partition sets of an optimal segmentation and bad otherwise We observed that one run of GDY often finds at least 50% of good samples Because ofthe stochasticity ofthe GDY, if ... is the total error ofthe algorithm and B is the optimal total error given by the V-Optimal The next two graphs at the bottom are the proximity graphs The proximity graph shows the proximity of...
... (Figure 1) The image data were processed in pairs (baseline and one year follow up), the readers being blinded to the order ofthe image acquisition Because ofthe higher rate of change in the medial ... coronal image showing the regions of interest used in the current analysis (b) Same coronal image with the total area of subchondral bone (tAB) being segmented in green, the area ofthe cartilage surface ... No significant effect ofthe presence of lateral JSN at baseline was observed on the rate of change in the medial compartment for age, sex, and BMI, and to test whether the continuous variable...
... for the presence of at least mild plaque (Agatston score of greater than 10) The choice of these cutoffs was dictated by the statistical distribution of Agatston score in our young population The ... model The second objective ofthe analyses was to test the hypothesis that, among those with CAC, Agatston scores will be directly proportional to sUA concentration The distribution of these ... to the time point of analysis; however, this is not a major consideration in the CARDIA study as the main cause of mortality in the first 16 years was non-cardiovascular in the vast majority of...
... are also grateful to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and to the Department of Preventive Medicine ofthe University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine for financial ... of severe sepsis in the United States: Analysis of incidence, outcome, and associated costs ofcare Crit Care Med 2001, 29:1303-1310 American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care ... characteristic of other administrative datasets We cannot directly assess the accuracy ofthe data Misclassification of sepsis-related death can result from errors in diagnosis and in the completion of death...