... protein produced by the cells of the prostate gland. The most frequently used PSA - prostate-specific antigen test - is the total PSA, which measures the sum of the free PSA andthe cPSA (complex ... PSA what is thedifferencebetween total PSA and free PSA?What is the normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen in the blood that there is no prostate ... method. Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 àg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% for percentage of fPSA. Relative differences...
... BRIDGE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN BUSINESS STRATEGY AND DESIGN FINALLYA brand is not a product. A VISUAL PRESENTATION BY MARTY NEUMEIER The three most important words in differentiating your brand: ... for whichpeople believe there’s no substitute. SOLUTION:BE DIFFERENT. IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY IT IS. AND HOW. A modern definition of brand The five disciplines of brand-buildingWHAT YOU’LL ... information. READY? In other words… THE FOCUS TEST:Who are you?What do you do?Why does it matter?123 THERE ARE 1,349 CAMERAS ON THE MARKET.HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHICH ONE TO BUY? BRANDNAMECOCA-COLAMICROSOFTIBMFORDMERCEDESHONDABMWKODAKGAPNIKEPEPSIXEROXAPPLESTARBUCKSTHIS...
... to the increase in aggregatedemand, while also being instrumental to the strengthening of the exchangerate via the UIP schedule. The latter strengthening in turn helps ease excessdemand and ... line with the backward-looking natureof etin (15). The initial interest rate increase oÔsets the excess demand in the goods market and thereby the in‡ationary pressures stemming from the shock. ... currentoutput, prices and nominal exchange rates. With this information, and knowl-edge of the structure of the model, they are in a position to deduce the sourcesof the shocks that hit the economy....
... infrastructure andthedevelopment of local content and culture. The three entities are the Internet Society (ISOC), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) andthe United ... country and these proxies are attributed to the country of origin. These measures focus only on the country of origin of the content and do not take into account the language of the content or the ... transcending the old distinction betweenthe “North” and the “South”. Knowledge-sharing and cooperation would allow for cross fertilisation between different experiences and diverse development...
... 1.1, is the difference between the upper cutoff frequency f2 and the lower cutoff frequency f1. The gain at thesecutoff frequencies is 0.707 of the gain in the midfrequency plateau. If the percentile ... Chebyshev, and Bessel. Each of these filter responses has advantages and disadvantages, and it is the designers task to find a suitable compromise that best fits the task at hand. Table 2.5 sum-marizes the ... 30Hz. The Butterworth response (also known as maximally flat) is nearly flat in the passband and rolls off smoothly and monotonically. In addition, it has virtually no ripple in either the passband...
... serve on the team full time from the time of thedevelopment of the product ãconcept until the product is shipped to the customer.Members report solely to the team leader.ã The marketing, design, ... Integrated Product and Process Designand Development for the U.S. government varied between 3% and 4% and for moderate growth public companies, the rate varied from 10% to 12%. The effective discount ... clarify design objectives and sub-objectives andthe relationships among them. [Chapters 4 and 5]Establishing functions To establish the functions required andthe system boundary of a new design. ...
... system, the licensing, the availability of source, the build system, and so on. Emdebian is Debianoptimized by size. The Debian core remains the same; only the way packagesare built differs andthe ... was the Apolloguidance computer developed by Charles Draper and his team. Later theyfound their way into the military, medical sciences, andthe aerospace and automobile industries. Today they ... to the above problems.After reading this book the reader willⅢ Understand the embedded Linux development environment.Ⅲ Understand and create Linux BSP for a hardware platform.Ⅲ Understand the...
... (2004), Dwyer and Korablev (2007), and Dwyer and Qu (2007). 12 between credit spreads and interest rates (level and slope) differ based on the maturity, credit ratings, andthe sign of the relation ... studies the correlation betweenthe changes in 3-month Treasury bill yield, the changes in term structure slope (defined as thedifferencebetween 30-year and 3-month Treasury bond yields), andthe ... over the change in the 10-year Treasury bond yield, the change in slope (defined as thedifferencebetween 10-year and 2-year Treasury bond yields), the convexity, the change in leverage, the...
... 1b and 1c indicates that the benefit of formingCH···S and SH···p H-bonds, even weak ones, is worth the stretching and bending of the SH···O in 1b. The next minimum on the surface, ... transferred from the N lone pair into the s* anti-bonding orbital of the SH bond. This transfer is facili-tated by the overlap of the N lone pair with the lobeof the s* orbital proximate to the S atom, ... sets[38,53,54] and in excellent agreement with exper-imental energetics.[55]Binding energies were computed as the dif-ference in energy betweenthe dimer andthe sum of the opti-mized energies of the...
... (Murray and Delahunty 2000) and the Cheddar cheese lexicon (Drake et al. 2001). Some of the referenceterms, definitions and food references from these lexicons were screened and modified by the panel ... from, and depending on population segments and regional locations, flavor preferencesof consumers also vary. Therefore, understanding thedevelopmentand varia-tions in taste that occur during the ... and textural attributes. The overall order of consumer preference (P Ͻ 0.05) for the three cheeses was9, 7 and 12 months of aging time, respectively. The trained panel characterized the 7- and...
... Definitions and OverviewDay 2 - Software Design Software Development Day 2 - Software Design Reviewing thedesign - objective The objective is to increase the likelihood that thedesign is the ... of the component requirements plus create, lay out and describe, review, improve, and approve the design. Day 2 - Software Design Design includes an evaluation of the adequacy of the ... Software Design Day 2 - Software Design AnalyzerequirementsCreate design Analyze and reviewCorrect and improveUtilize prototype to investigate and resolvekey requirements and design...