statistical issues in analytical methods

... same statistical issues apply to public health data however published, but interactive web-based systems make certain issues more acute In addition, identifying and addressing these issues for interactive ... in maintaining the willingness of the public and health care providers to participate in data-gathering activities that are in the public interest Although confidentiality concerns are like Statistical ... dissemination systems, for instance, typically include epidemiologic surveillance data on infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, and, increasingly, bioterrorism Cancer registry data are included...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20

... useful in assessing the importance of these links and other possible “indirect” influences of ageing, defined in the sense of a changing age-distribution, on health spending One key source of information ... importance of ageing in the increase in health expenditures per capita during the period from 1940 to 1990 in the United States He found that that ageing, in the sense of an increasing proportion ... health spending in year ‘t’, ea(t) is the average per-person health spending in age-group ‘a’ in year ‘t’, and Na(t) is the total number of individuals in agecategory ‘a’ in year ‘t’ In principle,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... current study to binary data, we further investigate conditions that not invalidate inferences based on FST when dominant, instead of codominant data, are used for estimating FST In Chapter 4, we ... Statistics in Population Genetics CHAPTER 1.1.0 INTRODUCTION The present thesis is an attempt to address several issues of interest, from a statistical point of view, in the discipline of population ... nucleotide contains a nitrogenous base, of which there are four types: adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine These are commonly referred to in the biology literature using their capital initials (that...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:26

... mere mechanics of running and maintaining instruments Designing experiments and interpreting the results in a wider context were primary motives, and the advent of computerized instrumentation added ... Editor J D WINEFORDNER VOLUME 153 A WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PUBLICATION JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC New York / Chichester / Weinheim / Brisbane / Singapore / Toronto Statistical Methods in Analytical Chemistry ... offers insights for all of them, whether they are mainly interested in applying statistics (cf worked examples) or in getting a feeling for the connections and consequences (cf the criminalistic...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... mere mechanics of running and maintaining instruments Designing experiments and interpreting the results in a wider context were primary motives, and the advent of computerized instrumentation added ... Editor J D WINEFORDNER VOLUME 153 A WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PUBLICATION JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC New York / Chichester / Weinheim / Brisbane / Singapore / Toronto Statistical Methods in Analytical Chemistry ... offers insights for all of them, whether they are mainly interested in applying statistics (cf worked examples) or in getting a feeling for the connections and consequences (cf the criminalistic...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... results were not taken into account in the final grading of the systems The overall ranking for all systems (excluding the T E C H corpus results) is given in Figure 2, in terms of the Sent and ... Target-Text Mediated Interactive Machine Translation Machine Translation, 21(1-2) W A Gale and Kenneth W Church 1991 A Program for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora In 29th Annual Meeting of the ... and Machinereadable Dictionary Data for Building Bilingual Lexicons Machine Translation, 10(3) Lueie Langlois 1996 Bilingual Concordances: A New Tool for Bilingual Lexicographers In Proceedings...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:21

... terminated early due to a convincing adverse risk of clotting problems as evidenced by increases in stroke, pulmonary embolism, and deep vein thrombosis In addition, there was an increase in breast ... who did (did not) initiate hormone therapy in month m as “initiators” (noninitiators) in trial m 2.4 Ascertainment of CHD Endpoints and Confounding Variables As in the original GPRD analysis ... risk factors within certain minority groups in the OS Also, key CT subsamples are weighted heavily in favor of the inclusion of minority women in order to strengthen the study of intervention effects...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 12:20

... preventive maintenance frequency may minimize production interruptions due to maintenance or machine failures, resulting in high machine reliability 3.2 Definition of Notations The notations used in this ... manufacturing system A managerial issue investigated in this research is preventive maintenance, which is widely implemented in manufacturing systems for improving machine reliability Although analytical ... insufficient maintenance, resulting in improved production rate In addition to machine unreliability, imperfect production may also substantially increase the cost of a manufacturing system In...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:16

... 2,6-Pyridinediamino 2,6-Dimethoxy-3,5-diaminopyridine 1-Methyl-2,6-di-( -hydroxyethylamino)benzene m-Aminophenols m-Aminophenol 4-Amino-2-hydroxytoluene 2-Methyl-5-hydroxyethylaminophenol 3-Amino-2,4-dichlorophenol ... Colouring Agents in Decorative and other Cosmetics Analytical Methods THE DETERMINATION OF HAIR DYES IN COSMETICS Thus, bearing in mind the above-mentioned observations, it is obvious that the analytical ... Toluene-2,5-diamine o-Aminophenol m-Aminophenol p-Aminophenol 2,4-Diaminophenol Hydroquinone 1-Naphthol 2-Naphthol Pyrogallol Resorcinol a INCI, International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients...

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2016, 18:08

... 177 4.2 Colouring Agents Regulatory Aspects and Analytical Methods 177 Analytical methods for determining colouring agent components Analytical methods are continuously developed in order to implement ... certification in a cosmetic renders such product adulterated within the meaning of the FD&C Act DETERMINATION OF COLOURING AGENTS The importance of determining colouring agents in cosmetic products ... declare their ingredients in descending order of predominance using the INCI names However, colouring agents may be listed in any order after other components As previously mentioned in Section...

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2016, 18:09

... in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... results in the infant becoming involved in a growing number and variety of social relationships In summary, none of the views discussed above provides an adequate account of moral standing In looking ... I 37 G E N ER IC ISSU ES IN P R E G N A N C Y Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten 39 HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... in 1605 the different kinds of luminescence in relation to its origins and writes: ‘‘sugar shineth only while it is scraping; and salt water while it is in dashing; glowworms have their shining ... light only in an alkaline medium, allowing the titration of bases as well as acids when including hydrogen peroxide in the indicator system Lucigenin can be considered the most satisfying indicator ... esters in immunoassay Obviously, the related applications of BL and CL imaging techniques in analytical chemistry, and the increasing importance of these techniques in DNA analysis—including the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2013, 10:19

... encrypted messages being exchanged Such information could be useful to the attacker as it can reveal useful information in guessing the nature of the information being exchanged [2,3] In general, passive ... inserting a record in a file Interception This is an attack on the confidentiality of the network such as wiretapping or eavesdropping to capture data in a network Eavesdropping is easy in a wireless ... eavesdropped from outside the building where the network is operating In most wireless networks, there is a kind of link level ciphering done by the MAC entities Jamming Interruption of service attacks...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 21:20

... determined by periodically measuring the oxygen concentration in the aquatic phase by opening the flasks [60, 65–67], by measuring the change in volume or pressure in incubation flasks containing ... plastics or packaging materials containing cellulose [41–46] 269 270 11 Analytical Methods for Monitoring Biodegradation Processes 11.5.1.3 Drawbacks Caution must be taken in extrapolating enzyme assays ... monitoring monitoring monitoring monitoring accumulation of biomass the depletion of substrates reaction products changes in substrate properties In the following sections, different test methods...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 08:20

... interventions and cloning trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testing speciWc inherited conditions and restricting access through guidelines that limit which ... pertinent Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recognized in ... with a possibly diminished sense of individuality and personal autonomy, belong to the same analysis Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Perhaps feminist psychoanalytical arguments...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... certainty Before the issue of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment can be considered, the present condition of the infant must be assessed in the Ethical issues in withdrawing ... termination is often now a logical and legitimate choice for the parents ∑ The third area in which these issues arise are the term babies who are Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining ... be severe gastrointestinal abnormalities and renal agenesis making death inevitable from renal failure within a very few days Consideration of withholding or withdrawing life-saving medical treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... Opinion in Infectious Diseases 12: 21–6 UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998) Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in ... disappointing that at the time of writing, President Mbeki of South Africa appears to be reversing this positive trend Rather than endorsing a programme of national funding for perinatal zidovudine ... least in resource-rich countries) since 1994, anonymous antenatal testing inexorably continues in the UK and in several other developed countries (Nicoll et al., 1998) This may be justiWed in countries...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... health care, resulting in increased immunization coverage and greater use of family planning methods The community members themselves are involved in choosing the health care methods as well as ... not incompatibility between universalist and relativist reasoning or between individualist and collective ethical positions per se First, within Multicultural issues in maternal–fetal medicine individualist ... that a woman’s rights and interests (in remaining free from outside interference and control) should have priority At other times the child’s rights and interests in having a decent quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p 1) At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... specialized training in infertility treatment can and prescribe infertility drugs without utilizing techniques that would minimize the risk of high-order multiples Whether administered by generalists ... to ‘termination’ Although ‘termination’ is the more honest description, a fair and adequate deWnition of the procedure needs to include the aim of maintaining the pregnancy by preserving some...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... to be evaluated in terms of the quality of the additional information obtained and the costs involved in obtaining it It should also be noted that collecting that information in person or over ... the customer is involved in an ongoing relationship with the agency The use of a mail procedure can increase this feeling of anonymity We intentionally avoided using identifying information on ... this type of benchmarking in mind, when it states that "each agency shall use [customer satisfaction] information in judging the performance of agency management and in making resource allocations."...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:15