... individual items are standardized (via the sample standard deviation in the items) before they are averaged Second, to enable the appropriate calculation ofthe variance of this summary measure, the ... empirically, the law changes have a larger impact on total years of primary and secondary schooling than they on total years of full -time education Presumably that is because the extra year of secondary ... 1933 quarter 2, ν is a random normal variable with standard deviation of 1, and η is a random normal variable with standard deviation of Here we allow for the coefficients onthe cohort trends and...
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... was proposed, before and after a teaching course on radioanatomy and radiotherapy techniques of lung cancer irradiation We evaluated the influence ofthe teaching course onthe variability of ... INTRODUCTION: The variability among radiation-oncologists in the delineation of GTV for lung cancer has already been described [1-4] These variations are a major source of error in the planning and ... under exactly the same conditions, with the same tools andthe same clinical information as the residents; the contours were done after a training session on lung radiation similar to that taught...
... shows the mean and standard deviation of several loan and bank characteristics Each statistic is differentiated by the period before and after TARP and whether the bank was a recipient of TARP ... recipients around thetimeofthe TARP capital infusions We use the STBL data because they contain risk rating information ona quarterly measure of loan originations for a broad sample of US banks of ... Treasury and non-TARP banks are banks in theThe TARP participant data was unavailable after December 2009 Based on NIC, we then use the identity ofthe topholder to construct a data set at the...
... treaties and transnational law He has published numerous articles on domestic and international tax issues, and is the author of International Tax as International Law: U.S Tax Law andthe International ... international controversies, public and private He is the author ofa major treatise on International Economic Law, as well as casebooks and textbooks on conflict of laws and aviation law anda series ... Regional Science and Urban Economics andthe Canadian Journal of Economics His current research is onthe empirical impact of taxation on international production and location decisions of multinational...
... 3.1 Effects of Cu application on plan growth and Cu accumulation in plant The results ofthe effects of added Cu on plant growth and heavy metal accumulation in Brassica juncea L plants are presented ... also the role of phosphate in reducing the uptake of Cu by Brassica juncea L 2.2 Sampling and chemical analysis Plant and soil samples were taken and analysed at the harvest time (45 days after ... combination of phosphate application on heavy metal uptake [1, 4] The main purpose of this research is to investigate the relation between contents of Cu in soil and Cu accumulation in plant, and also...
... practitioner, had good sitting balance, anda minimum shoulder forward abduction range of 50 degree in one hand as assessed by the case occupational therapist The participants were randomly allocated ... that Qigong has a similar effect to antidepressants (Yu, 1999) This may be because Qigong practice has an emphasis on breathing relaxation When the body and mind are calm, a person’s physical and ... traditional remedial rehabilitation activities under the supervision of qualified professionals so as to neutralize theeffectof staff’s additional attention during the Qigong practice The Geriatric...
... understand, they may lose the control over the information and have to take the risk of misunderstanding the information However, the incomplete product advocacy can significantly increase the effectiveness ... for advertising managers Limitations and Future Research One of this study’s limitations is that the participants were asked to read leaflets and answer the questionnaire in a limited period oftime ... Sieben 1992) and information processing (Alba and Hutchinson 1987; Bettman and Park 1980; Johnson and Russo 1980; Rao and Monroe 1988) Bieha and J Bus Psychol (2009) 24:485–491 Chakravarti (1983)...
... To measure the viability of DCs, we analyzed the DC population using cell size-based flow cytometric analysis The population of viable DCs in the dot plot was gated and confirmed based onthe ... demonstrated that taxol induces the altered maturation of DCs and increased their viability in comparison to the medium alone [6] However, the mechanisms by which taxol enhances DC survival have ... experimental approaches to immunotherapy have focused onthe application of DCs in combination with chemotherapy, specifically taxol [3,23] This study has demonstrated that a popular anticancer drug,...
... presented their data as a median and range, and asked if they could provide their data as means and standard deviations, unfortunately, these data were not available Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis ... literature searching, data extraction, editing/revision of document RPA data extraction and interpretation; statistical analysis/interpretation, drafting of original document, editing/revision of ... that presented their data as mean hours on ventilation were compared Figure Results ofthe meta-analysis onthe incidence of atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery, for patients with and...
... affect patterning along the apical-basal axis [31,32] FW2.2 and FAS control fruit mass via increases ofthe placenta area and locule number, respectively, and thus affect patterning along the medio-lateral ... ofthetimeonthe same day as the first flower, and 1% ofthetime two days after the first flower and so on In general, consecutive flower opening occurred at one-day intervals 75% ofthe time, ... flowers that opened at oneday time intervals at the position onthe inflorescence listed onthe X-axis The white bar indicates the percentage of flowers that opened at two-day time intervals and the...
... CGGGCAAGAAGCTGCTTCT CCACACCGCAGGGACAAACCCT CCACACCGCAGGGACAAACCCT SP-D ACACAGGCTGGTGGACAGTTG CCTCTCCACGCTCTGCCGCGT TGTTGCAAGGCGGCATT 36B4 CCACGCTGCTGAACATGCT AACATCTCCCCCTTCTCCTTTGGGCTT TCGAACACCTGCTGGATGAC ... (Corporation, Carlsbad, CA) Statistical Analysis All data were presented as means ± standard error ofthe mean One-way ANOVA was used to compare the difference between two or more groups Appropriate ... deidentified organ donors whose lungs were not suitable for transplantation and donated for medical research through the National Disease Research Interchange (Philadelphia, PA) andthe International Institute...
... correlations of total and abnormal accruals with these variables The first two columns show that all variables are significantly correlated with the absolute values of total and abnormal accruals, ... in the value ofa variable between 1996 and 1995 are indicated by ∆, the absolute value ofa variable by |variable|, t refers to the year 1996 and t–1 to the year 1995 Abnormal Accruals = the abnormal ... to limit theeffectof measurement errors in the estimation of abnormal accruals by (1) using a categorical variable rather than the magnitude of abnormal accruals as the dependent variable, (2)...
... Pandey J.P., Neeraj Pathak and Amit Tiwari 2010 Standardization of pH and Light Intensity for the Biomass Production of Spirulina platensis J Algal Biomass Utln 2010, (2): 93 – 102 Richmond, A ... London:Chapman and Hall Jensen GS, Ginsberg DI, and C Drapeau 2001 Blue-green algae as an immuno-enhancer and biomodulator J Amer Nutraceut Assoc 2001, 3(4):24-30 Kemka H Ogbonda, Rebecca E Aminigo and ... Spirulina was determined by miroscopy andthe biomass increasing 2.2.6 Data analysis method Microsoft Excel and SPSS software were used for data analyzed RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 3.1 Theeffect of...
... Jordan Rwanda Mauritania Malta South Korea Saudi Arabia Malawi Nicaragua Sri Lanka Syria Niger Netherlands Mauritius Turkey Nepal New Zealand Malaysia Tanzania Pakistan Sweden Panama Uganda Chad ... Figure Class 1a, examples for Germany and Japan MASTER THESIS: THEEFFECTOF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH 21 1a 1b 2a 2b Austria Argentina Bahrain Cameroon Benin Switzerland Australia Bolivia Comoros ... being the mathematical strategy to obtain projections of educational attainment in the past and in the future 14 ALFREDO ALARCON YANEZ In the regressions I took information about GDP per capita...
... insoluble particulates and accumulated in the activated sludge process (Nakajima and Mishima, 2004) Onthe other hand, the smaller amounts of coagulant dosage sometimes result in a good efficiency of ... decreased after 90 days It was reported that the amount of coagulant in the activated sludge was decreased by the removal of excess sludge after the cease of coagulant addition (Mishima and Nakajima, ... remained constant in each run In Run1-1, PO4-P concentration in the anaerobic phase was higher than that in the other runs andthe maximum PO4-P concentration at the end ofthe anaerobic phase...
... functions One ofthe most important concepts in data communications is how connection and connectionless protocols are related As a data message is created, an assumption is made that if a connectionless-oriented ... reflecting the fact that 1460 bytes of data plus the 20 bytes in each ofthe IP and TCP headers andthe 18 bytes of Ethernet header and trailer will total 1518 bytes This is the maximum size of an Ethernet ... segments and one additional acknowledgement Additionally there is a significant additional delay (in time) If we repeat the efficiency analysis, we find that: Total data bytes transferred = 8000 Total...
... rank, averaged the highest rate of task abandonment and was among the lowest in latency of erroneous response More than half of all participants abandoned their task when confronted with BeamTrees ... based on an online survey and part ofa larger study onthe role of aesthetic within data visualization [16] The online survey method was utilized for the following reasons: • • Validation - A large ... information visualization techniques as a group • Conveyance – All data visualization techniques conveyed the same information ofthe identical hierarchical dataset of 53 files and folders In the...
... interactions between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext ofthe neighborhood one lives in andthe availability of basic educational ... such analysis is that of Gortmaker (37) He estimated models for infant mortality based on data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics in the National Natality and National Infant ... ona variety of indicators, the task ahead is to decompose this effect further and to explore the interaction of poverty with other disadvantageous conditions and behavioral variables (again see...