sources of data in surveillance of viruses

... test score data in value-added modeling Longitudinal test score data commonly are incomplete for a large percentage of the students represented in any given data set For instance, across data sets ... educational agency of interest each year create data with dropout, drop -in and intermittently missing scores Even statewide databases can have large numbers of students dropping into and out of the systems ... and pay), and the sources of missing data include the following: students who failed to take a test in a given year due to extensive absenteeism, refused to complete MISSING DATA IN VALUE-ADDED...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... the data one must interpret it into meaningful information There are various methods of interpreting data Data sources are broadly classified into primary and secondary data  Importance of Data ... accidents records are all developed from data Data is important in computer science Numbers, images and figures in computer are all data 2 Types of Data Primary Data Data that has been collected from ... if he relies on the data available in books and on internet he will collect information that does not represent the real facts Sources of Primary Data Sources for primary data are limited and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20

... of glaciofluvial deposits in northern Maine He determined soil maps are somewhat successful in showing the distribution of lacustrine silts and clays Using soil surveys as potential sources of ... faster rate of mapping than conventional geologic mapping affords Lindholm enjoyed this rate of mapping because of the availability of soil survey maps of the area In turn, cost efficiency increased ... Colluvium originating on a kame terrace Organic swamp originating as a blanket formation Residuum originating as a veneer surface Table The origin of Kite’s point data identified at 248 stations in the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... fertiliser supplies Data in Table on the financing of fertiliser deliveries to smallholders in 1999/2000 give interesting insights on how the market operates in Zambia Table 1: Sources of Finance for ... main reason, however, is linked to the views of marketing companies concerning opportunities of successful contract farming in the area The leading agro-marketing companies such as V&M Grain ... wisdom of converting marketing support projects into export trading companies The private marketing companies regard the chances of these NGO companies surviving in international commodity trading...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... satellite data and ground survey data to assess, detect coastline erosion and lagoon inlet change in Hai Duong – Hoa Duan, period of 1980 – 2005 Final report Stored at Institute of Marine Environment ... measure 10 ground control points of height The data such as tide, wave in the area were collected for determining the wave height and sea level at the time of obtaining images to identify mean ... terrain has elevation of to 2m and flooded level from to 1m of height (zone 4) where the terrain has elevation of to 1m In those zone, the area of zone and are higher more than the zone and In...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 14:07

... stable (Figure 1) During the last time period, 1990-95, there is an indication of a leveling off or slight decline in the overall incidence rates for each of the 5-year age groups (data not shown) ... numerator of the rate is the number of cancer cases found in a particular 5-year age group in a defined population divided by the number of individuals in the same 5year age group in that population In ... Brain/CNS - III 25 Sympathetic Nerv - IV Retinoblastoma - V Renal - VI Single year of age Hepatic - VII For all sites combined, incidence varied by age with the highest rates in infants The incidence...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... Diversions Consumptive Use Intrabasin Interbasin Minnesota Data Sources: Water use data for Minnesota were provided by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Waters Please contact ... Pennsylvania Quebec Wisconsin 13 Illinois Data Sources: Water use data for Illinois were provided by the Department of Natural Resources Office of Water Resources, and the Illinois State Water Survey ... 0.00 17 Indiana Data Sources: The Indiana Department of Natural Resources—Division of Water compiled the 2006 water use data for the Indiana Lake Erie and Lake Michigan basins The Indiana Business...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 22:20

... quadratic in the routing distance, and linear in the number of bits sent The proposed algorithm transmits information between neighboring sensors and requires the transmission of a small amount of information ... prediction of dynamic fields Online optimization of this criterion by adding or removing kernel functions from the dictionary also seems interesting Finally, in a broader perspective, controlling the ... A H Sayed, “A spatial sampling scheme based on innovations diffusion in sensor networks,” in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’07),...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... reordering or data defragmentation operations Reference data are stored in the database as small records Figure shows the web browser interface From the data telecommunication point of view, one of ... Schizas, “Multipurpose health care telemedicine system,” in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS ’01), vol 4, pp ... usability From the GPRS network point of view, two different kinds of terminals were used for the test The smartphone having + timeslots with a CS2 coding scheme resulting in 53.6 kbps downstream and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... were rarely detected Distribution of OTUs in soil, forage, and feed samples Of the 47 OTUs included in the database, 43 were found in the field samples, including the soil and/or the forage samples ... year VOL 74, 2008 SOURCES OF MILK CLOSTRIDIA 6351 FIG Histograms showing the number of occurrences of the 47 OTUs distinguished in DGGE profiles obtained from the complete set of PCR-positive dairy ... Canada) Recombinant clones were then examined by DGGE to match an individual clone with one of the migration positions already present in the database A selection of clones representing the various...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 00:20

... comprehensive view of drug-protein interactions Such results can play an invaluable role in understanding and predicting a compound's clinical effects and in guiding its use, including predicting secondary, ... the strain in the compound Features used in learning drug targets We defined the following 20 features for use in machine learning for predicting whether a protein-compound pair physically interacts ... the instance compound targets the instance protein, inhibiting the heterozygous deletion strain, then coinhibiting compounds would be more likely to inhibit the strain as well Page 14 of 17 Co-inhibiting...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21

... data persistently in a database In contrast, the desktop-based array CGH software solutions load the data from text files and store them in internal data structures Thus in each session the input ... MySQL relational database to store its source data In particular, two different kinds of data are stored in two separate databases: genome annotation data (as available in the Ensembl database [37]) ... amplified [42] The minimal region including KRAS is shown in a red box Mader et al Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2011, 1:20 http://www.jclinbioinformatics.com/content/1/1/20 Page of 12 is located...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... quitting smoking, but continuing to use nicotine, by switching from smoking to this product? 90% (86%, 94%) 60% (54%, 66%) 56% (50%, 62%) Reasons for not considering switching1 I believe that using ... readers that interpretation of these is still only indicative of random error In surveys such as this, and indeed most epidemiology, the largest sources of error when extrapolating the results ... of adult smokers in public outdoor areas in Edmonton, Alberta where people were smoking during five days in September 2007 The public outdoor areas included designated smoking areas outside of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... areas of diseases as shown by Staubach et al (1998) in case of Echinococcus multilocularis in foxes Description of the sources of the data used in the GIS in the field of veterinary epidemiology in ... by-product of introduction of GIS, the system of collecting, storing and managing data can be improved Last but not least, keep in mind: The maps will never be better than the original input data! ... ODBC interface A goal of the introduction of GIS is to have maps continuously displaying the situation for each of the diseases included in the Norwegian Surveillance Program By the use of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... the problem of missing data in the field of HRQL and lung transplantation, and secondly to compare results from different methods of analysis in a data- set where missing data occur in order to ... investigation Irrespective of the reasons for, and the magnitude of the missing data problem, two methods of analyzing data are commonly performed in studies regarding the effects of lung transplantation ... the missing data problem is prevention Missingness of data caused by patient related factors is more unpreventable The missingness of data has two major undesirable effects First, if missingness...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... Shujing Huoxie Tang (containing Fangji), Chuanqiong Chadiao San (containing Xixin) and Longdan Xiegan Tang (containing Mutong) (Table 4) About 97.5% of all AA-CHPs were prescribed for treatment of ... profile of AA-CHPs in Taiwan between 1997 and 2003 based on the NHI reimbursement data, including an estimate of the total amount of AA herbs consumed and the target population requiring continuous ... three times a day Furthermore, our investigation of the 2004 database found an alarming number of cases of CHPs containing AA herbs (Tianxianteng or Madouling) prescribed after the ban was announced...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 1stStreet, Rochester 55905, USA 2Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 ... not only the determination of Vd/Vt or capnography derived indices but their evolution during the first 48 hours following intubation could be used in accessing the outcome in Results Variables ... been an emerging need for a new or expanded definition of ARDS as the definition includes a heterogeneous population, thus creating noise and hampering therapeutic advances in the field In addition...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... keep inbreeding under control No hormonal, light or other treatment is involved during mating Lambing takes place between late October and April, with about 40% of all lambings occurring in November ... with a study of the Mérinos d’Arles breed [11] reporting a 28% rate of spontaneous out -of- season ovulatory activity, determined in the same way The high proportion of ewes cycling out -of- season ... procedure of determining spontaneous ovulatory activity, as described in a study of the Mérinos d’Arles sheep in France [11], was followed Briefly, spontaneous ovulatory activity was determined by investigating...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... purpose of the investigation In order to contribute to the resolution of these questions in cattle, the distribution of baseline SCEs, as well as different variation sources, were investigated in ... were set up in duplicate, grown in the dark, and harvested following 72 h incubation at 38°C including a final 1.5 h colchicine treatment (0.05 Ilgjml final concentration) Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) ... evaluated in fitting the observed distribution of SCEs to either the normal, Poisson, or negative binomial distributions The results of the goodness of fit tests are given in table II, and indicate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22