... MAR MAR - MAR MAR - MAR MAR MAR MAR KAT Baseline months 12 months 24 months MCAR MAR MAR - MCAR MAR MAR - MAR MAR MAR MAR MAR MAR PRISM Baseline 12 months 24 months MAR MAR - MAR MAR - MAR MAR ... of symptomatic versus intensive biphosphonate therapy for the management of Paget's disease QoL was assessed at baseline and then annually [8] Each dataset contained a proportion ofpatients with ... analysis method Complete-case analysis (excluding patients who have incomplete data) will only be unbiased (although not optimal) if the data are MCAR Under MAR, available case analysis such as...
... by a grant from the Canadian Arthritis Network (a National Centre of Excellence) Dr Marra is supported by a Canadian Arthritis Network Scholar Award, anda Michael Smith Foundation for Health ... determine quality of life of an individual are captured and summarized as a global score In VAS and SG valuation methods, however, the individual evaluates his or her own health state based on a holistic ... Columbia's Behavioural Ethics Committee Three hundred and twenty patients took part in the study and data were gathered at three intervals: baseline (Assessment A) , after months (Assessment B) and after...
... papers [17] anda number of papers contained summarized dose-response parameters in a form ofa table or a graph, typically showing a significant spread in these parameters These comparisons are ... curves substantially deviate at doses beyond available clinical data (Figures and 3) Table lists the calculated model parameters and confidence intervals For the considered RION and RIRP data, log-logistic ... Haberkorn U, Rudat V, et al: Changes in salivary gland function after radiotherapy of head and neck tumors measured by quantitative pertechnetate scintigraphy: comparisonof intensity-modulated...
... is only waiting to be discharged to another care facility [7] Reason of stay has been recorded for all patientsand all days of stay in hospital In most regions the main reason for patients occupying ... among stroke patients, we analysed the relationship with disability after stroke andpatient characteristics as age, gender, and place of residence before stroke The last column of table clearly ... WS participated in the co-ordination of the study JE, WS and JW carried out the data collection JE and MK performed the statistical analysis and prepared the manuscript All authors read and approved...
... Serodiagnosis of Human Brucellosis Clinical And Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 2003;4:612-5 Ordun A, Almaraz A, Prado A, Purıfıcacıo M, Gutıerrez N, Garc a- Pascual A, Duen A, Cuervo M, Abad R, ... Clinical Infectious Diseases 1997;25(4):939 10 Memish ZA, Almuneef M, Mah MW, Qassem LA, Osobad AO Comparisonof the Brucella Standard Agglutination Test with the ELISA IgG and IgM in patients ... IgG and IgM in bacteremic and non-bacteremic patients with brucellosis J Chemother 2001 Apr;13:54-9 15 Araj GF, Kattar MM, Fattouh LG, Bajakian KO, Kobeissi SA Evaluation of The PANBIO Brusella...
... Jayaraman Krishnasamy, Mark J Jakiela, and Daniel E Whitney Mechanics of vibration-assisted entrapment with application to design In International Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE, April ... equivalence classes of stable states, and it then automatically categorizes the state (and hence, the equivalence class) of each part as the part exits the gate Experimental Results All of the ... systematic comparisonof quasi-static algorithmic and Monte Carlo simulated approaches to physical experiments [13] Krishnasamy, Jakiela, and Whitney analyzed vibration-assisted entrapment of both...
... interactions with patients, greater use of alternative media (including audio-visual materials) and opportunities for patients to discuss information with health care professionals and other patients ... literacy • Many people cannot understand print materials alone More interaction with patients is essential Alternative media may help get the message across • Materials should address patients ... of health information: A multihospital approach Patient Education and Counseling, 24 (1), 73-78 Garden, A. L., Merry, A. F., Holland, R.L., & Petrie, K.J (1996) Anaesthesia information: What patients...
... operators of conventional dairies that go through what can be a challenging and costly transition process Many changes in such areas as animal husbandry, land and crop management, sourcing new and ... farms adopting the organic approach because of access to high quality pastures and the ability to manage pasture as a dairy feed source These areas also have a long history of small dairy operations ... standard normal density function and Φ is the standard normal cumulative distribution function evaluated using the first stage estimates Characteristics and Practices of Conventional and Organic...
... relations are derived from nature and society and appear to be essential for the social activities of man, e.g actor and action; the bearer ofa quality or ofa state and the state; action and an ... 2.1 we accounted for the Systemic part of Halliday's approach It is now time to deal with the Functional part Halliday takes a Firthian approach to situation anda basically Praguian approach to ... the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters And God said: Be light made And light was made And God saw the light that it...
... Central Banking Studies Bank of England Email: haroon.mumtaz@bankofengland.co.uk (3) Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division Bank of England Email: konstantinos.theodoridis@bankofengland.co.uk ... Time-varying parameters, stochastic volatility, VAR, FAVAR, forecasting, Bayesian estimation JEL classification: C32, E37, E47 (1) External MPC Unit Bank of England Email: alina.barnett@bankofengland.co.uk ... models that incorporate a gradual change in parameters and also include a large set of explanatory variables particularly well as far as the inflation forecast is concerned recording gains (over...
... missing As the managing partner ofa Big Nine Zurich office said, we will always have harmonisation in areas that are not important" (p 118) Blake and Amat (1994) offer an analysis of the obstacles ... are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nordic Federation, South Africa, the UK, and the USA There are two co-opted organisations, the International ... the approval of all exposure drafts and standards as well as the general management of IASC The board is supported by an advisory council to promote both financing and the use of International Accounting...
... initial fast phase of the reaction, but decreased the rate of the slow phase of oxidation in the presence of EDTA Acomparisonof rough and smooth LPSs of E coli and S minnesota in the presence of ... of pH on the auto-oxidation of Hb A0 has been the subject of several studies Mansouri and Winterhalter [5] reported that the oxidation of the a chains of Hb A0 was 10 times faster than that of ... pH range from 5.3 to Tsuruga and Shikama [21] confirmed that the fast phase of oxidation was due to the a chains and the slow phase was due to the b chains Tsuruga et al found that the beta chain...
... corpora and vocabulary Understanding the relationship among document, sentence and term spaces also has practical importance The size and nature of text corpora has changed dramatically since the ... index was stored in an Oracle 10i database Journal ACHRE4 ANCHAM BICHAW BIPRET BOMAF6 CGDEFU CMATEX ESTHAG IECRED INOCAJ JACSAT JAFCAU JCCHFF JCISD8 JMCMAR JNPRDF JOCEAH JPCAFH JPCBFK JPROBS MAMOBX ... provide another perspective of the alternative spaces, we calculated the parameters of Zipf’s Law, K and θ for each event space and journal using the binning method proposed in (Adamic 2000) By accounting...
... paragraph as important, and the other sentences as not important We included this approach merely as a simple baseline 2.2 Word-based approaches Word-based approaches to summarization are based ... Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press Daniel Marcu 2000 The theory and practice of discourse parsing and summarization Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Mandar Mitra, Amit Singhal, & Chris Buckley 1997 Automatic ... statistical tests, we collapsed the data for each text for the WithParagraph and the NoParagraph condition, and treated them as one experiment Figure shows that when the data from Experiments and...
... Thibaux, and D Klein 2006 Learning accurate, compact, and interpretable tree annotation In Proc of ACL A M Rush, D Sontag, M Collins, and T Jaakkola 2010 On dual decomposition and linear programming ... Hockenmaier and M Steedman 2002 Generative models for statistical parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar In Proc of ACL J Hockenmaier and M Steedman 2007 CCGbank: A corpus of CCG derivations and ... Dawborn, J Haggerty, J R Curran, and S Clark 2010 Faster parsing by supertagger adaptation In Proc of ACL A F T Martins, N A Smith, E P Xing, P M Q Aguiar, and M A T Figueiredo 2010 Turbo parsers:...
... relative to the baseline, by close to ½ a percentage point in the case of the EU and Japan and around a ¼ ofa percentage point in the US In absolute terms the EU’s and Japan’s annual average ... PERIOD 2000-2050 EU15 Annual Change Average Relative % To Change Baseline US Annual Change Average Relative % To Change Baseline Japan Annual Change Average Relative % To Change Baseline Employment ... PRIVATE SAVINGS BEHAVIOUR Demographic change and private savings behaviour: Crucial to any analysis of the likely economic impact of an ageing population is its impact in terms of saving rates Ageing...
... L2 and L3 in some ways characterize the limiting cases of context-sensitlvlty that can be achieved by TAG's and TAG's with local constraints In (JoshI,Levy, and Takahashi,1975) also shown that ... The language Ll has equal number ofa' s ,b's had c's; however, the a' s and b ' s are mixed in a certain way The Language L2 = {a~ b~e cn/ n O} is similar to Li, except that all a' s come before all ... b's TAG's are not powerful to generate L2 The so-called copy inguage L3 ~ {w e w /w 6 {a, b} P } also cannot be generated by a TAG The fact that TAG's cannot generate L2 and L3 is important, because...
... Selection ofa word and acceptor to start an entire derivation Monolingual Relational Models We can characterize the language models used for analysis and generation in the transfer system as quantitative ... Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language, 89-97 References Alshawi, H and A. L Buchsbaum 1997 "StateTransition Cost Functions and an Application to Language Translation" In Proceedings of the International ... is that the systems were closely related, having identical sublanguage domain and test data, and using similar a u t o m a t a for analysis in the transfer system and transduction in the transducer...