what imaging based screening methods are available and how do they compare with fobt sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy
báo cáo sinh học:" Non-European Union doctors in the National Health Service: why, when and how do they come to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?" pdf
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18/06/2014, 17:20
... healthcare in the United Kingdom and Great Britain As many as 30% of its doctors have been trained outside the Europe [1] In some regions, overseas doctors comprise up to 50% of all junior doctors ... United Kingdom and Great Britain Main Reason for migration to United Kingdom and Great Britain Number of respondents: 1615 policy are more active in organisations representing overseas doctors More ... and needs of doctors who have already migrated to the UK are likely to disrupt the career paths of many non-European doctors, many of whom have spent a considerable duration of time working and...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Fatness and fitness: how do they influence health-related quality of life in type 2 diabetes mellitus?" docx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... reproducible measures of adiposity and fitness to compare people with and without diabetes Based on prior research [12-14], we hypothesized that reduced adiposity and higher fitness levels would ... symptoms and aspects of life [24,25] The SF-36 was used as it is both reliable and valid in these populations, and allowed for comparisons between groups with and without type diabetes However, ... recruited between 7/1/99 and 11/30/03 for the study in people without type diabetes and between 5/1/04 and 12/28/07 for the study in people with type diabetes Study design and sample This study...
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Báo cáo y học: "Correction: Sports participation, perceived neighborhood safety, and individual cognitions: how do they interact" pot
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14/08/2014, 08:21
... participation, perceived neighborhood safety, and individual cognitions: how they interact? Mariëlle A Beenackers1*, Carlijn B.M Kamphuis1, Alex Burdorf1, Johan P Mackenbach1, Frank J van Lenthe1 ... References Beenackers MA, Kamphuis CBM, Burdorf A, Mackenbach JP, van Lenthe FJ: Sports participation, perceived neighborhood safety, and individual cognitions: how they interact? Int J Behav Nutr Phys ... realized that formula and formula in the Statistical Analysis section of the Methods were incorrectly listed Since the formulas were correctly used in the analysis, this correction does not affect...
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Government Bonds and Their Investors: What Are the Facts and Do They Matter? ppt
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15/03/2014, 07:20
... Working Paper Fiscal Affairs Department Government Bonds and Their Investors: What Are the Facts and Do They Matter?1 Prepared by Jochen R Andritzky Authorized for distribution by Martine Guerguil ... paper also finds that domestic institutional investors are associated with lower yields, but public sector holdings are not Regressions show that lower yields are associated with domestic institutional ... Ireland, and Spain While other intragovernmental holdings are often available for other countries, social security and public pension fund holdings are readily available only for Canada and Japan...
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high throughput screening, methods and protocols
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11/04/2014, 09:46
... choice and assay method to ensure that a biologically relevant and robust screen is configured Every screening From: Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 190: High Throughput Screening: Methods and ... most predictable, most relevant, and easiest to run These factors, however, are not always known in advance And even worse, they can be at odds with each other and thus must be balanced to arrive ... of the assay, and compared with the NSB controls to which they should be, ideally, fairly close A careful analysis of these control plates allows identifying errors in liquid handling or sample...
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Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics A MATLAB-Based Introduction_2 ppt
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21/06/2014, 07:20
... clients, your prospects, and your industry contacts will provide you with tremendous insights into each of these areas What are they thinking and observing, and how does this apply to your practice? ... clients and your prospects about them Your objective is to discover what differentiates them and makes them strong, what compelling strengths they offer as an advisory firm? What are they known ... geography, net worth and income, special interests and special issues, and how they became your client See if you can identify a common thread in this client base Your goal is to discover what you need...
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Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics A MATLAB-Based Introduction_3 potx
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21/06/2014, 07:20
... all questions are equally effective Good questions provide you with specific and targeted 44 PR ACTICE M ADE P ERFECT FIGURE 3.2 What to Ask and How to Ask It Sample Question Tips and Comments ... don’t leave too many open-ended questions Preferences Do you think it’s important for your financial adviser to provide educational opportunities? Don’t just ask how you are doing; find out what ... customized and then provided to the adviser for mailing to clients, and the reports are returned to a central processing center There, the data are evaluated and interpreted and action steps are developed...
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Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics A MATLAB-Based Introduction_6 pptx
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21/06/2014, 07:20
... compensation philosophy what they believe and what they want to accomplish with their plan ! They develop the compensation plan in a void, with no strategic context ! They don’t relate compensation ... PR ACTICE M ADE P ERFECT ! They focus too much on the total dollars to be paid—the what — and not enough on how that compensation will be structured— the how and what they re trying to accomplish—the ... good understanding of the total pay package ! The employer and employee are not in sync regarding the job and its expectations More and more, we see disconnects between how the manager and the employee...
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Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics A MATLAB-Based Introduction_7 pptx
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21/06/2014, 07:20
... risk and reward, variable and base pay? ! Who will be eligible and at what level? ! What kind of behavior are you trying to encourage? ! How will you evaluate and measure that behavior and performance? ... diluting it? ! What is the value of ownership? ! How much ownership will be shared? ! Are the other partners willing to share control? ! Are there structures in place to compensate and evaluate ... built on and how the plan relates to your overall business strategy Make sure that the participants in the plan will have ongoing access to performance results and feedback on how they re doing...
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Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics A MATLAB-Based Introduction_8 pdf
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21/06/2014, 07:20
... learning how to recognize the symptoms and what they truly indicate Such understanding begins with an analysis of your financial statements Are they organized in a way that provides insight? Are there ... advisers can control what their asset-management, financial-planning, and consulting fees will be They also control retainers and what they charge for other services that are not subject to a ... financing, and obligations for purchases of other practices Sometimes shareholder loans are categorized as long-term debt, but in reality such loans should be counted as equity because they rarely are...
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Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics A MATLAB-Based Introduction_10 pdf
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21/06/2014, 07:20
... update and standardize your business practices to prevent roadblocks to success Do your people know what they re supposed to be doing and how they re being evaluated? Do they know what they can ... don’t exist; it’s just me If my staffers need to talk with me, a) they are comfortable walking through the door and talking with me b) they have been told they can stop by anytime, but they don’t ... valued, and to provide them with the kind of service that they ve come to expect or that they truly desire You should put together an operating plan for how you will serve these clients and with what...
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Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics A MATLAB-Based Introduction_11 doc
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21/06/2014, 07:20
... compare? How will the total compensation compare? HOW TO USE COMPENSATION BENCHMARKING AND SALARY-SURVEY DATA 213 What impact does the location of your firm, the employee’s level of experience, and ... Repairs and maintenance 30 Software and hardware expense 31 Tax and licenses 32 Training and continuing education 33 Travel and entertainment Source: © Moss Adams LLP 34 Utilities, phone, fax, and ... discussion with the median base salary 48.9% % reporting commissions Commissions Median 212 Does the position typically receive a bonus? What will the bonus be in your organization? How does it compare? ...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Potentials of on-line repositioning based on implanted fiducial markers and electronic portal imaging in prostate cancer radiotherapy" docx
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09/08/2014, 09:22
... providing the random errors for the different error types (Table 3) As expected the random errors are larger than the systematic errors and finally amount to total random errors of ± mm in SI and AP ... For our patient group the standard deviations of systematic errors (Σ) and random errors (σ) are listed in LR, SI and AP directions Then the margins from CTV to PTV are calculated in all three ... margins (without correction) of 7.0 to 9.5 mm (RL, SI and AP direction) according Table Similar margins (without correction) are reported by Kupelian [38] with 10, 10 and 12 mm, McNair [40] with...
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Báo cáo y học: "Statistical methods for detecting and comparing periodic data and their application to the nycthemeral rhythm of bodily harm: A population based study" ppsx
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10/08/2014, 09:20
... of serum total, free and bioavailable testosterone and of SHBG in middleaged men compared with those in young men Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2003, 58(6):710-7 Placidi GP, Oquendo MA, Malone KM, Huang ... least squares with orthonormal regressors are applied From a linear algebra perspective we choose a specific set of vectors forming an orthonormal basis and change basis Statistical methods are applied ... the regressors cos(2πfjt) and sin(2πfjt) are an orthogonal basis of Rn Estimating a and b with ordinary least squares against the normalized regressors yields independent and normal distributed...
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estimation and control over networks using event-based transmission methods
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13/11/2014, 05:59
... performance of control system designed without considering it and can even destabilize the system Packet on random access networks are affected by random delays, and the worstcase transmission time ... sending out messages and, if there are message collisions, a collided node stops transmitting and waits a random length of time to retransmit messages Hence, due to the random binary exponential ... size, and maximum token holding time Typical examples of token-passing control networks are ControlNet [5], MAP (IEEE 802.4), and Profibus [6] CAN -based network (Control Area Network) protocols are...
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Registration, atlas generation, and statistical analysis of high angular resolution diffusion imaging based on riemannian structure of orientation distribution functions 1
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08/09/2015, 19:24
... diffeomorphisms and the ODFs and present its numerical implementation Our experiments are shown on synthetic and real HARDI brain data, and its advantages over the DTI -based registration are well-validated ... tracts and show that there is an excellent correlation of fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity between the automated and the individual tractography -based results Lawes et al [23] show that ... commissural, and projection connections and study the inter-subject variability between left and right hemispheres in relation to gender based on this atlas O’Donnell et al [27] and Yushkevich...
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Registration, atlas generation, and statistical analysis of high angular resolution diffusion imaging based on riemannian structure of orientation distribution functions 2
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08/09/2015, 19:26
... maps, and logarithm maps, are available in closed form, as illustrated in Figure 2.1 Figure 2.1: Illustration of the manifold of square-root ODFs (picture token and modified from [1])) √ The square-root ... with s-derivatives having finite integral square and zero boundary [88, 89] In our case, we model V as a reproducing kernel Hilbert space with a linear operator L associated with the norm square ... denotes the identity map and vt are the associated velocity vector fields The vector fields vt are constrained to be sufficiently smooth, so that Eq (2.6) is integrable and generates diffeomorphic...
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Registration, atlas generation, and statistical analysis of high angular resolution diffusion imaging based on riemannian structure of orientation distribution functions 3
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08/09/2015, 19:27
... these three tracts when compared to affine, LDDMM-FA, and LDDMMDTI Figure 3.11 shows the average sKL values for the CC, CST-left, and CST-right Moreover, Figure 3.12 shows the averaged Dice overlap ... RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING BASED ON RIEMANNIAN STRUCTURE OF ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS where denotes the matrix transpose and ei is a × vector with the ith element as one and the rest as ... the neighborhood of xi , and wj is the weight of xj based on the distance between φ1 (xi ) and xj The exponential maps and logarithm maps can be computed via Eq (2.4) and Eq (2.5) respectively...
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Registration, atlas generation, and statistical analysis of high angular resolution diffusion imaging based on riemannian structure of orientation distribution functions 4
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08/09/2015, 19:27
... and kV respectively as kV Id3×3 and kV Id3×3 , where Id3×3 is a × identity matrix π π and kV and kV are scalars In particular, we assumed that kV and kV are Gaussian with kernel sizes of σV and ... Expectation-Maximization Algorithm We have shown how to compute the log-likelihood shown in Eq (4.2) in §4.1 and §4.3 In this section, we will show how we employ the Expectation-Maximization algorithm ... Expectation-Maximization algorithm and derive the corresponding update equations Finally, we illustrate the HARDI atlas constructed based on a Chinese aging cohort and compare it with that generated by averaging...
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