reviewing evidence on accuracy of a test

... Educators’ working conditions in a day care centre on ownership of a non-profit organization Bianca Kusma* 1, 2, Stefanie Mache 1,3, David Quarcoo 1, Albert Nienhaus and David A Groneberg1 ... main (hh:mm:ss) Categories Documentation and administrative tasks Child care Meals Afternoon nap Contact to parents Educational work Cleaning Continuing education /Supervision Individual contact ... agreement of 86% was achieved Data collection procedure Participants were monitored a complete work day by a trained observer Data collection took place only on weekdays (Monday to Friday) Each...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L8, Canada Authors’ contributions SSP conceived the idea, made substantial contributions to the analysis and interpretation of the data and drafted the earlier versions ... 12 Panesar SS, Cleary K, Sheikh A: Reflections on the National Patient Safety Agency’s database of medical errors J R Soc Med 2009, 102(7):256-8 13 National Patient Safety Agency: National Reporting ... versions of the manuscript BP made substantial contributions to the acquisition and analysis of the data and drafted the earlier versions of the manuscript BM made substantial contributions to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S4L8, Canada Authors’ contributions SSP conceived the idea, made substantial contributions to the analysis and interpretation of the data and drafted the earlier versions ... 12 Panesar SS, Cleary K, Sheikh A: Reflections on the National Patient Safety Agency’s database of medical errors J R Soc Med 2009, 102(7):256-8 13 National Patient Safety Agency: National Reporting ... versions of the manuscript BP made substantial contributions to the acquisition and analysis of the data and drafted the earlier versions of the manuscript BM made substantial contributions to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... performed by AJ and MR SOR and ADG concentrated on the synthesis of SPIONs, magnetic characterization, and interpretation of results The magnetic incubation and loading of SPIONS were carried out ... impregnation/attachment, primarily on the surface of the micro test tubes From Figure 5a, b, it appears that the nanoparticles remain attached only on the upper portion of the pore walls with no trace ... images of SPION attachment on array of micro test tubes (a) and (b) are the cross-sectional and top view respectively, showing substantial deposits of agglomerated particles Figure SEM images of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... for each trial A second Java program (Analyze.java) was developed to analyze the saved files containing the received packets Since the transmitted data is known, this program can easily calculate ... by an increase in distance separation of only a couple of meters Although this paper focuses on home automation, there are other similar applications that would benefit from physical layer assessment ... (how many of these packets are to be sent within one second) Passing these arguments to BaseStation.java increases the flexibility of the testbed and allows the parameters of each trial to be changed...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 18:20

... propagation model However, the application of this equation assumes the availability of detailed information about the antennas gain/losses, the overall losses due to transmission line attenuation, ... implementation of a unique and general purpose testbed can be very difficult One alternate solution is to create additional testbeds for this kind of experiments One example of application of this new testbed ... testbed and the realization of WUSN experiments are challenging This work provides a set of guidelines that result in a balanced approach between high accuracy and a practical implementation of a WUSN...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... Isac, and Th M Rassias, Stability of Functional Equations in Several Variables, vol 34 of Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, Birkh¨ user Boston, a Boston, Mass, ... Boston, Mass, USA, 1998 [2] J Acz´ l and J Dhombres, Functional Equations in Several Variables, vol 31 of Encyclopedia of e Mathematics and Its Applications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ... Journal of Inequalities and Applications Banach algebra Ꮽ They have shown that if a mapping f : X → Ꮽ satisfies f (x ◦ y) − f (x) f (y) ≤ (3) with some > 0, then there exist a commutative C ∗ -algebra...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... is a circle Author is grateful to Alexey Pakharev for help in preparation of this text References [1] A V Akopyan Rotation of isogonal point Journal of classical geometry:74, 1, 2012 Moscow State ... that locus of points P is a circle It is clear that the transformation which maps H to P is a composition of an inversion, a parallel transform and rotations Indeed, denote by zx the coordinate ... Q A) = ∠(BQ, QA) + ∠(BQ , Q A) = ∠(AC, CB), so F is on (ABC) We know that A AH ∼ B ∗ BH, so ∠ (A A, AH) = ∠(B ∗ B, BH), hence AF HB is inscribed in a circle From that it is clear that H is on...

Ngày tải lên: 18/07/2014, 22:48

... ureter) TAs are paired and usually originate from the anterolateral or lateral aspect of the abdominal aorta The TA is a long, thin vessel that arises at an acute angle from the abdominal aorta, at ... renal and testicular arteries The persistence of many mesonephric arteries may lead to multiple testicular arteries [24] The anatomical variations of TAs are of clinical importance as well as ... Although anatomical variations of the middle suprarenal artery are common [18], reports of variations of the inferior and superior suprarenal arteries are rare [2,19] The phenomenon of a common origin...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... specific application have made inorganic nanomaterials suitable for a wide variety of applications Traditionally, these applications have included sensors, catalysis, electronics, surface enhanced Raman ... Figure Absorbance and first derivative spectra of keratincapped Ag Nps at dilutions l max is an average of the derivatives (at ∂OD /∂l = 0) to surface plasmon resonance, a feature common to sols of ... data arrays, Eq (all equations are discussed in the Methods section) was used and the various growth parameters (k and tm) were determined Analysis of variance was performed on both parameters and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... Scrotal ultrasonography revealed a normal contralateral left testicular prosthesis (figure 1) and a ruptured right prosthesis with reverberation artefact described as a “stepladder” pattern [7] on ... unilateral testicular implant rupture in a selected series of patients who had undergone transgender surgery with concomitant neoscrotal formation and bilateral implants All of these patients had ... had a history of trauma or suspected intraoperative puncture and all underwent exploration of the affected area [10] Conclusions Although we describe a unilateral rupture in a patient who had...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... that only 14 patients had late relapse between the 5th and 10th year after primary treatment with a calculated annual risk of 1% In two patients, late relapse occurred later than 10 years One of ... clinically insignificant In 1984, the patient’s histopathology revealed a mixed tumour, a choriocarcinoma and an embryonic carcinoma, with retroperitoneal and pulmonary metastases To treat this, an ... than five years after the primary therapy This regime is recommended in the latest 2009 update of the EAU guidelines on testicular cancer as written by Albers and his co-authors Abbreviations AFP,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... data pairs, patients received mechanical ventilation with a mean tidal volume of ± mL/kg, a mean fraction of inspired oxygen of 0.6 ± 0.1, a mean peak airway pressure of 23 ± cmH2O and a mean ... calibrations, and ventilatory variables minute-by-minute Statistical analysis Statistical analysis was performed using the statistical software R (R Foundation, Vienna, Austria [17]) and GraphPad Prism ... increasing the time interval between calibrations of PCCO results in decreased agreement between PCCO and COTCP Only rare data are available about the usage of PCCO calibrations in clinical practice...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... points and let O1 be the circumcenter of A B C Recall that the circumcircles of triangles ABH, BCH, CAH all have equal radii as they are reflections of the circumcircle of ABC over the triangle’s ... images are lines that all have the same distance from H So H is the incenter of A B C (that’s the key!) We construct point M as the intersection of A C and the circumcircle of A B H As M was ... BC be the longest side of a scalene triangle ABC Point K on the ray CA satisfies KC = BC Similarly, point L on the ray BA satisfies BL = BC Prove that KL is perpendicular to OI where O and I denote...

Ngày tải lên: 15/08/2014, 16:55

... channel In addition, w e only pay attention to uniform antenna arrays in this section, that is, all an tennas are aligned and equally separated in the tran sm it and receive antenna arrays 8 2.2.1 ... peratio n, a scaling operation and an o th er rotation operation H - UDV in w h ic h U e C (3) an d V e C 'V are un itary m atrices, and D is diagonal m atrix w hose l/V n o n -d iag o n a l ele ... r spread A s w e shall see, th e effect o f an te n n a correlation on capacity d e p e n d s on the c h a n n e ls ch aracteristics at the transm itter a n d receiver A dditionally, c h an n...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2015, 11:04

... spatial distribution of the boundary layer is studied and boundary layer regimes are mapped out in a phase diagram spanned by the La¯ grangian abscissa s and nondimensional time t The boundary ... all have observed the waving of a flag under a soft breeze or the chaotic motion of a loose garden hose The mechanisms at play here are similar: a fluid (air or water) and a solid (a flag or a hose) ... three-dimensional effects appear for 23 Chapter Literature review plates of large aspect ratio (greater than 2) As a matter of fact, flutter is no longer purely one-dimensional as the plate exhibits...

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2015, 15:19

... Reduction, Pilanesburg, Published by Rapid Prototyping Association of South Africa (RAPDASA), South Africa, 2007, CDROM version only Paper in preparation: Savalani Monica Mahesh, Liu Yuan, Ian Gibson, ... Savalani Monica Mahesh, Muhammad Tarik Arafat and Liu Yuan, The use of multiple materials in Rapid Prototyping, Proceedings of the third international conference on Advanced Research in Virtual ... material itself On the other hand, the reality of RM is that the advantages of materials only give a blueprint There are only a few dozens of RP/RM materials commercially available in the market,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 09:47

... schemes alone They include evaluations of microfinance programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda and Zimbabwe, and include ... credit and savings interventions, and two were of savings schemes alone They include evaluations of programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), ... International Community Assistance Financial Sector Deepening Trusts in Kenya and Tanzania Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network International Labour Organisation International Network of Alternative...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 22(1):79–86, March Peter Turney and Michael L Littman 2003 Measuring praise and criticism: Inference of semantic orientation from association ACM Transactions ... Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2003) Kushal Dave, Steve Lawrence, and David M Pennock 2003 Mining the peanut gallery: Opinion extraction and semantic classification ... collection pair We vary the values of K and C, and find that K changes the absolute scale of KL divergence but does not change the rankings of four conditions Rankings among four conditions is consistent...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... two catalytic domains, such as somatic mammalian ACE, whereas Asl-tACE, with less than 700 residues, is likely to display only one catalytic domain, such as mammalian gACE Interestingly, data mining ... failed to exhibit any signal (not shown) A leptodactylus testicular ACE activity assays To determine the enzymatic activity of the testicular A leptodactylus ACE, an activity assay with a radioactive ... several stages of reorganization in which chromatin density and pattern of distribution change on several occasions In the last stage, there is actually a decrease in density of nuclear material [16]...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20