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... reduce bias introduced by each of the methods [28] Each feature was measured and ranked according to its merit in both methods The measurement of the merit for the two methods is defined as follows ... subset of SNPs that maximizes the Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational Medicine 2009, 7:81 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/7/1/81 performance of ... calculated sensitivity, the proportion of correctly predicted responders of all tested responders, and specificity, the proportion of correctly predicted nonresponders of all the tested non-responders...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... concentration of 100-150 ng/µl, and the template for this concentration was used in a normal PCR reaction of 50 µl volume (25µl of master mix, Comparison of Diagnostic Methods for the Detection of Parasites ... Comparison of Diagnostic Methods for the Detection of Parasites in Fish and disadvantages, depending on the purpose and target of study For parasitological investigation, the classical methods ... 20% prevalence of metacercariae1 (trematodes) present in the abdominal cavity of perch The names of cestodes1 and metacercariae1 were not determined The mean intensity of eye flukes of bream ranged...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

... where: S – optimal road spacing (m), Croad – cost of the construction and maintenance of m road length (€/m), Ctravel – cost of travelling of m3 of logs to m distance (€/m3/m), V – stand volume ... constant hourly machine cost regardless of the load or speed Then the sum of roading cost and forwarding cost was plotted as a function of road spacing The sum of roading cost and travelling cost ... Slope (%) Stand age (years) Pre-harvest stand density (n/ha) 3 Number of trails Table Table of the analysis of variance Sum of squares df Mean square F Significance Regression 9,381.36 4,690.68...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 04:20

... perhaps because of the small decrease in the breeding value of ES Heritability of LS decreased as pg did ES , oR Thus a small heritability of LS could be due either to a low heritability of its components ... existence of genes with large effects on ovulation rate and number of fetuses in pigs selected for ten generations using (Suppl 1), Rossant an index of embryo survival and ovulation rate J Anim ... regarding the degree of fit within trait no Previous results assumed a genetic correlation between OR and ES(pg ) Es , oR of -0.4 Consequences of using different values of the genetic correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... of the study were the initial rate of temperature decrease, expressed as °C/h and the percentage of time the temperature was out of range during the first 24 hours of treatment (defined as more ... cooling rate as clinically important With an estimated standard deviation (SD) of 15% and a significance level α of 0.05, a sample size of patients per group was calculated to reach a power of 90% ... The use of inotropic agents was comparable between the groups Hypotension or use of inotropic support was not related to speed of cooling or occurrence of overshoot cooling Malfunctioning of a cooling...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... genomic studies This kind of highthroughput gene expression profiling requires the use of high quality mRNA Likewise is the quality of mRNA of major impact on the reliability of the results in quantitative ... s t ab le g e ne s ::::> Figure Determination of the optimal number of reference genes for normalization Determination of the optimal number of reference genes for normalization The GeNorm program ... Tombal B, Gala JL: Preservation of RNA for functional analysis of separated alleles in yeast: comparison of snap-frozen and RNALater((R)) solid tissue storage methods Clin Chem Lab Med 2007,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... electrode To allow calculation of the true physiologic value of MTT, we assumed a constant additional delay of 13.3 seconds This value incorporates the known constant of 11.3 seconds for the indicator ... during the postoperative period Assuming a type I error rate of 5% and a type II error rate of 10%, we estimated that Table Measurements of intrathoracic blood volume (ITBV) and extravascular ... measurements were excluded because of the poor quality of the indicator-dilution curve, leaving a total of 52 paired comparisons All lithium dilution curves were of adequate quality EVLW volume...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... probability of bird k, progeny of a dam of age i and born in hatch j Here, DAi stands for the fixed effect of the ith level of dam's age (i = 1, 2, , 18); Hj denotes the random effect of hatch j ... controlling the false discovery rate at level 0.05 [26] The proportion of significant SNPs in a subset was the end-point Comparison of using extreme sires vs using all sires This comparison addressed whether ... error rates, and by a large margin For example, with K = 2, error rates of NB were about half of those achieved with either BN or NN Therefore, NB was used for further analysis Evaluation of SNP...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... the current genotypes of the parents of i; gti = [gti1 gti2 gtij−1 gij gt−1 gt−1 ]; iN ij+1 (13) Oi is the set of offspring of i; gtkj is the current genotype of offspring k at locus j; ... where Ni is the set of non terminal offspring of i; gtok j is the current genotype of the other parent of k at locus j; gtol j is the current genotype of the other parent of l at locus j; (15) ... accuracy of the four methods used for genetic evaluation, the maximum of the absolute errors was computed for each replicate As a result, for a given situation, each of the four methods generated...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... or arising out of the use of this material Downloaded by [McGill University Library] at 07:35 15 December 2012 Comparison of the Methods for the Determination of Surface Acidity of Solid Catalysts ... The measure of the specific catalytic activity of a single site is given by the slope of the linear portion of the curves of the type reported in Fig 20, while each point of the curve of Fig 21 ... distribution of the acid strength of the centers by means of where B is the quantity of adsorbed pyridine and qo the heat of adsorption of benzene Neglecting the small temperature dependence of the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2015, 02:27

... brucella The purpose of this study is to compare the diagnostic values of Immuncapture agglutination and ELISA methods, which are used for the diagnosis of brucellosis with reference to Coombs ... type of antibody (3) Obtaining negative results in agglutination tests is a common phenomenon One of the reasons for this is blocking antibodies One of the methods used to show existence of blocking ... titers and the advantage of identifying different classes of antibodies in comparison to other agglutination methods Different results may be obtained depending on the nature of anti-globulin This...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... ratio of the UV-absorbing peak indicated it was composed mainly of nucleic acid In the profile of the NaOH-extracted polymer (B), the elution volume (80 ml) of saccharide corresponded to that of ... isolation of bioflocculants Thus, NaOH extraction was the most effective method for the extraction of bioflocculants from activated sludge, followed by steaming extraction SDS and washing extraction methods ... the elution profiles The profile of steaming-extracted polymer (A) contained two saccharide peaks (at elution volumes of 70 ml and 90 ml) and one UV-absorbing peak (at elution volume of 95 ml) The...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... AND COMPARISON OF BASIC ICA METHODS methods In some cases, however, the algorithm and the estimation principle may be difficult to separate The properties of the ICA method depend on both of the ... NONLINEARITIES 277 discussed in Chapter Comparison of, say, the traces of the asymptotic variances of two estimators enables direct comparison of the accuracy of two estimators One can solve analytically ... is the value of for whitened data Several robust estimators of the variance of ^ T or of the covariance matrix of are presented in the literature; see reference [163] The robustness of the estimator...

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... Numbers of Classes, Manifest Variables and Dependencies, and Goodness of Fit for the Models Model Number of Latent Classes Number of Manifest Variables Number of Dependencies between Pairs of Tests ... several of them, we can not consider them as reference TB cases The advantage of LCA compared to the composite reference standard is that, in our study, LCA allowed for the estimation of the ... part of routine examination For HIV testing, specific informed consent was asked and counseling offered Approval for this study was obtained from the relevant authorities of the Ministry of Health...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormons) than non-church members Therefore, two internal rates of return for BYU will also be calculated A total of 65 internal ... the value of an MBA involves a number of factors When financial investments are evaluated, the cash outflows are often compared to the incremental cash inflows and the internal rate of return ... While a student’s official state of record is assumed to have no effect on salary, it often has a significant effect on cost Public universities often have higher tuition for out -of- state students...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... not reported by any of the four evaluation methods: date of start of the test; method of preparation of stock solutions; the recovery efficiency of the method; the limit of quantification in ... settings of the room or chamber are stated? criteria The OECD guidelines also recommend that date of start of the test; method of preparation of stock solutions, the recovery efficiency of the ... traditional and widely accepted statistical methods Page 11 of 15 Summary of the evaluation of existing reliability evaluation methods The four reliability evaluation methods are described and compared...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... was coded at a bit rate of 32 kbps with a sampling rate of 16 kHz Video bit streams were coded at a picture size of 176 × 144 pixels, a bit rate of 128 kbps, and a frame rate of 12.5 frames per ... UEP Error rate 6.9% Without UEP With UEP Error rate 13.8% Accepted Unaccepted Figure 8: Overall acceptability rating of UEP scheme losses of reference pictures, it stopped decoding of any subsequent ... occurred A reference picture is stored and maintained as a prediction reference for inter prediction until it is no longer used for reference according to the reference picture marking process of H.264/AVC...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... the choice of method For example, a comparison of sites separated by large distances requires either punctual measures, or some type of mobile integrated measure In addition, some methods require ... height of the seedling); Rep.: number of repeated measurements at the same place and at the same hour on different days; Pts = number of sampling points; Meas.: number of measures = (number of sampling ... rather than comparison of samples, because we had light variables of different kinds (PAI, PARint, sky openness, etc.) without any direct estimates of these variables that could stand as references...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21