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... complications of cancer and cancer treatment Pediatr Clin North Am 2003, 32:613-624 State of Florida: Agency for Health Care Administration Hospital Inpatient Data File 1999 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts: ... (Microsoft® Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA), and conducted analyses in Data Desk® (Data Description Inc., Ithaca, NY, USA) and in SAS® (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA) Results IncidenceOf the ... 1999 State of New York: State of New York Department of Health SPARCS: 'Expanded Administrative Releasable' Data 1999 State of Virginia: Virginia Health Information Public use filePUF1 Patient...
... population (person), agriculture area (m2), urban area (m2) and forest area (m2) In the case of agriculture area, as it contains paddy field and cultivated land, the total area was calculated as an ... respective drainage basins were taken as explanatory variables In the case of agriculture area, as in the simple regression analysis, the total area was calculated as an equivalent area based on the ... No.2, 2011 Land use data of each drainage basin was extracted in GIS and the areaof each land use type was calculated (Fig 6).Building data with floor area were also acquired from Kanagawa Prefecture...
... successes and failures of fear appeals, and fear is reincorporated as a central variable in the model According to the EPPM, the evaluation ofa fear appeal initiates two appraisals of the message, ... messages Ninety-eight studies met the criteria for inclusion in the meta -analysis (All coding information for the main effects and the interaction effects for each study are available from the authors ... that cited fear appeal work, used traditional fear appeal methods and measures, and varied the level of either fear or threat ina message were retained foranalysis To be included in this meta -analysis, ...
... function for two or more groups display DIF In the case of determining cut points for passing a subtest, as is the case for the MEAMS, a formal test of the validity of the cut point is the absence of ... necessitated by another factor which has also been Table 5: Final pass scores of MEAMS, adjusted for age and educational level for use in Turkey Subtest Orientation Name Learning Naming Comprehension ... hospital staff, relatives of hospital staff and relatives of patients All participants gave informed consent Potential subjects for MEAMS administration were questioned regarding their health status...
... pre-processing SNR of downlink data symbol Note that all data streams to the same user have the same SINR because we not consider the power allocation strategy for all data streams and each data stream ... obtain a closed-form expression for (22), the integral is fairly straightforward to evaluate numerically, at least when min(M, N) is small (in practical communication systems, the number of antennas ... causes array gain loss while CSI delay causes diversity gain loss At high SNR, CSI delay causes more performance degradation than channel estimation error Especially, our research is valuable for...
... algorithms are able to function properly are investigated Secondly, instead of simply implementing a heuristic algorithm, we perform a thorough analysis on the system performance and obtain a ... frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channel witha delay spread of Tm Since the spread spectrum system can resolve multipath signals with delay larger than one chip duration, for an SC-DS-CDMA system witha chip ... data, Tb is the transmission interval for each block of data, pτ (t) is defined as the rectangular pulse waveform with unit amplitude and duration τ, ωq and φq are the frequency and random phase...
... fluctuations instantaneously HRV computation The time series of RR interval is called tachogram Errors in peak detection are corrected based on timing analysis rather than amplitude analysis Missing ... encountered in frequency-domain processing is the nonstationary behavior of heart beats Even fora normal healthy person, the heart beats tend to be timevariant This is because the interbeat interval of ... Burke and Ms Jane Richmond from the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia for their assistance for the labeling and interpretation of the EEG data used in this study M B Malarvili et al...
... 40 Displacement U (mm) Fig Uniform load – displacement curves for meshes M2, M4 and M5 Table2 Comparisonof displacement at mid-point of the beam with formulation of shear stiffness matrix [Ks] ... 2.2 Elasto-plastic Timoshenko beam analysis 2.2.1.Timoshenko beam theory This theory allows for transverse shear deformation effects while Euler-Bernoulli beam theory takes no account of transverse ... each element having differential stiffness matrix is especially adaptive for analyzing some thick-walled pipes structures made by composite material! Elements containing differential material...
... estimating forest leaf area, Agric For Meteorol 57 (1991) 107-128 [5] Chen J.M., Optically-based methods for measuring seasonal variation of leaf area index in boreal conifer stands, Agric For Meteorol ... takes into ) 90 account alarge part of the variability in azimuth of the gap fraction A sharper analysis (K and K leads to a ) 22 45 smaller but non-negligible increase in K 3.4 Leaf area index ... error in the theoretical case of composed of leaves having all the same inclina- canopy tion For α ranging from to 90°, the function G(α, 0) was calculated for the &thetas; angles corresponding...
... to alarge volume of lung could be much worse than alarge dose to asmall volume in functional lung damage So we think that the lung received asmall dose of radiation as low as 10 Gy to alarge ... the study and performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript HW, RY, FL and BX participated in acquisition of data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... radiochemotherapy with vinorelbine plus cisplatin or carboplatin in patients with locally advanced non -small- cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and an increased risk of treatment complications: Preliminary...
... utilization of informatics system by providers and patients 161 Decision support 131 Collaborative care and informatics 129 Health information and data 126 Positives 98 Negatives 68 Barriers to informatics ... informatics quotations did not generally integrate well with findings from the other codes, and thus would not have been appropriate for incorporation into other publications (although some individual ... Mental Health Social Worker Non-clinical administrator Medical center or regional network manager Care managers (RNs specializing in depression disease management) 19 Bonner et al Implementation...
... gemcitabine alone orin combination with capecitabine in patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a randomized phase II trial Ann Oncol 2003, 14:97-104 Berlin JD, Catalano P, Thomas JP, ... E, Taùeb J, Faroux R, Lepere C, de Gramont A, GERCOR and GISCAD: Gemcitabine in combination with oxaliplatin compared with gemcitabine alone in locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer: ... Page 10 of 15 Figure Comparisonof gemcitabine plus platinum combination with gemcitabine alone A, gemcitabine/platinum versus gemcitabine alone on 1-year survival; B, gemcitabine/oxaliplatin...
... listed in table S1 in Additional file Statistical analysis Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS and Sigma Stat programs A P value of < 0.05 was considered significant Competing interests ... family of cysteine proteases, are central in the process They consist of initiator caspases (caspase -8 and -9), that relay death signals to effector caspases (caspase -3, -6 and -7) Effector caspases ... staurosporine was used as an apoptosis inducing agent In addition, transcriptional changes in cells infected with different ISAV isolates were investigated Both the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways of apoptosis...
... facilities are available, a clinical officer or nurse initially assesses patients If malaria is suspected, the patient is sent to the laboratory for malaria investigation A laboratory technician or microscopists ... registered in the facility However, laboratory related capital costs were allocated based on the number of analyses for malaria as a proportion of the total laboratory analyses for all diseases Recurrent ... reducing RDT efficiency against the alternatives were increases in RDT and AL costs, reducing accuracy of the RDT, an increase in the malaria allocation factor (malaria visits as a proportion of all...
... surrounding a portal triad) and Rappaport’s liver acinus (adjacent triangular acini share a common base and comprise a diamond with central veins at the tips of the long axis and portal triads at ... consequent leakage of perfusate, it maintains the normal anatomical position of the liver during perfusion and it assists in keeping the liver warm and moist Maintaining the normal Rowe et al Comparative ... causes an increase in hepatocyte permeability and high intrahepatic pressure following death forces sinusoidal plasma into the hepatocytes Alternatively, fluctuations in pressure during IPRL may have...
... Macrosialin (pAcGFP-MS) F-TATTAATGACCAAATCTACAGGGAGAACCC VspI/Eco47III R-AGCGCTAGATGCTCAGACCAGCTA EMR-1 (pAcGFP-EMR) F-TCATATGGAATTCTTTGTTTAGGTCTGTATGC Beta-5 Integrin (pAcGFP-B5I) F-CCGATTAATATTCAAACGCCTTAGGTAGGTTT ... .TG .A TG .A CGATCACATG C A T A T AAGCAGCACG A T A T ACTTCTTCAA T T Reverse primer GCGCACCATC AA .A T A AA .A T A TT Figure Sequence alignment of GFP variants in GenBank showing ... RT at 50°C for 15 min, initial denaturation at 95°C for min, 45 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 15 sec and annealing with extension at 60°C for 30 sec Fluorescence data were collected at the...
... inter-linkage between formal and informal financial markets the.unsatisfied demand of households for formal loan flows into informal financial sector and put demand for informal loans to rise up Secondly, ... Purpose of credit analysis: Credit analysis is a process of collecting information, analyzing information with sciences method for the aim to understand clear about clients and their business projects, ... from weakness in the infrastructure that supports the financial system Thirdly, another perspective on fragmentation of credit market argues that formal and informal financial sectors are parallel...