... limitations and seek professional advice whenever it is needed, if only for reassurance Medical statistics is a scientific discipline in its own right and a medical statistician fully achieves that ... Medical Statistics, edn Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2001 Campbell MJ, Machin D: Medical Statistics: A Commonsense Approach, edn London: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 1993 Kirkwood BR Essentials of Medical ... years of training and practical experience Most academic departments, and also many clinical departments, include properly qualified medical statisticians and they should be consulted as early as...
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... al established, but the role for metal dyshomeostasis in all aspects is clear In the AD affected brain, metal dyshomeostasis is evident in the form of a substantial increase in the levels of extracellular ... biological mechanisms that trigger the development of AD Identifying these mechanisms will substantially facilitate the development of more effective therapeutic strategies Metal dyshomeostasis and ... as Cu ⁄ Zn-superoxide dismutase (Cu ⁄ Zn-SOD), tyrosinase, and cytochrome c oxidase (COX) In these enzymes, the redox potential ofthe metals is harnessed to provide the enzymes with their electron...
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... to the concerns about the accuracy ofthe HP filter towards the end of data sets (an issue to be discussed in more detail in the “risks” section), the qualitative analysis of each ofthe trends ... data as the data available at the time of this investigation, March 2012, are late enough to represent the revised versions of many ofthe numbers used The issue ofthe “timings” ofthe data is addressed ... Kirkegaard suggests that “supply-side structural reforms” may be necessary to address the competitiveness crisis 85 When considering other potential responses to these interrelated crises, one must keep...
... typed A single message may transfer up to the entire address space of a task msg_send(message, option, timeout) Send a message to the destination specified in the message header msg_receive(message, ... option, timeout) Receive a message from the port specified in the message header, or the default group of ports msg_rpc(message, option, rcv_size, send_timeout, receive_timeout) Send a message, then ... techniques Other systems ofthe time, such as the IBM System 38 [6] and Apollo Aegis [13], also used the single level store approach, but limited its application to the management of files For the...
... regjeringen.no/nb/dep/hod/dok/regpubl/stmeld/19992000/stmeld-nr-431999-2000-.html?id=193493 Office ofthe Auditor General of Norway: Riksrevisjonens undersøkelse av akuttmedisinsk beredskap i spesialisthelsetjenesten (The OAG s investigation of emergency medical preparedness in the ... genital system Y Z Male genital system Social problems The statistical analyses were performed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS version 15) Standard univariate statistics were ... problems as the most common one In the category A05 “Ordered mission” cardiovascular symptoms were most common, and in A06 “Inconclusive problem” loss of consciousness was the most common symptom The...
... admissions, or unexpected death Competing interests Commentary The authors declare that they have no competing interests Previous studies have suggested that MET systems reduce the incidence of ... SL, Bishop GF, Simmons EG: Rates of inhospital arrests, deaths and intensive care admissions: the effect of a medical emergency team Med J Aust 2000, 173:236-240 Buist MD, Moore GE, Bernard SA, ... Certainly, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center wherethe MET concept has been implemented for more than five years, there is widespread agreement among the physicians and nurses that this approach...
... disease activity scores (DAS), as assessed by physicians using the DAS28 [23] and the Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) [24], as well as a bio-repository with banked DNA, serum, and plasma ... characteristics ofthe VARA participants measured at the start of each treatment episode were evaluated Because the characteristics of VARA patients at the start of non-biologic DMARD treatment episodes ... PPV ofthe administrative data-based effectiveness algorithm was 75%, and the NPV was 90% The sensitivity ofthe effectiveness algorithm was 75%, and its specificity was 90% If patients were restricted...
... consume processed meat Analyses excluding subjects with chronic diseases at baseline showed the same pattern, although the RRs associated with processed meat intake among overweight and obese ... BMI was categorised according to WHO obesity categories [15] The likelihood ratio test was used to assess the significance ofthe interaction terms All analyses were performed using SAS (version ... 12.35% of study participants did not consume any processed meat Smoked meat was consumed by 37.51% of study participants, while 81.31% of cohort members had consumed salted/preserved meat and...
... witness it all first hand was deeply satisfying And yet at the same time it was utterly distressing because this was their end The whole city was in a spasmodic state of panic Within a matter of ... the ceremonial center, wherethe wanderer was swept by the grandeur and dwarfed by the immensity ofthe enormous pyramids and temples At the same time, he was repulsed by the repugnant odor of ... emanated from the main structure, the Templo Mayor The stench was strong enough to overwhelm his sense of smell As they commenced to glide above the residential and market areas toward the sister city,...
... enterprises will be failure on their business due to the lack of essential nutrient sources, land ownership, financial sources and information assessment under the climate and regime change It does ... aqua-ecological systems Coastal and estuarine mangrove forest wetlands and other submerged aquatic vegetation as habit and nutrient sources for fish species affected by sea level rise All farmers and agricultural ... world s top suppliers of this staple It meets more than half ofthe country s fruit and seafood needs, and the majority of seafood exports This food production adds up to about 20 per cent of the...
... al speculate that propranolol makes subjects less sensitive to punishment signals, thereby altering decision-making As a result, subjects become less riskaverse than controls Neither of these studies ... failed, as well as the ways in which we succeeded Erase our memories, and we leave ourselves at the mercy of impulses ofthe moment The person who erases their failures from their memory risks being ... repress them Experiments have shown that subjects instructed to forget items, such as a list of words presented to them, have some success at the task: though their ability to recognize words as...
... in terms ofthe classic frequentist statistics of sensitivity (if the patient has the disease, is the test positive?) and specificity (if the patient does not have the disease, is the test negative?) ... secret of statistics It is the aunt that no one wants to invite to dinner If mainstream statistics is akin to democratic socialism, Bayesianism often comes across as something like a Trotskyist fringe ... medical and mental health professions might understand more easily and more objectively than statisticians Two philosophies of statistics There are two basic philosophies of statistics: mainstream...
... flows however must sum to zero Trade surplus: X-M [exports - imports] Gov surplus (Federal): G-T [spending – taxes] Capital surplus: I – S [investment - savings] Profits surplus: y - π [received ... must rise Ditto output 2) Wages and employment rise 3) Likewise for rents and stock of structures 4) Reverse for downward demand shifts 5) Supply Elasticity and the Magnitude of price versus ... state s economy (Income or Output) : imports (M), Federal Taxes (T), consumption or savings (S) and profits earned in the state (π) • Other variables are determined by forces largely outside of the...
... meaning based on metaphoric mechanism in Vietnamese class of words is stronger than that of English English class of words exposes the tendency to use more the metonymical mechanism The rules of semantic ... Analytical result ofthe definitions in dictionary of these words allows us to define 17 forms ofthe types of semantic transference that are used in this class of words ( this classification is based ... classes of words show the tendency to preferring using metaphor to metonymy ( Metaphor used in Vietnamese class of words is 55% and in English is 49% meanwhile metonymy used in Vietnamese class...
... appraisal 93) The assessment group presented two models based on the same trials as used in the manufacturer s models The models were simple-state transition models with costs and effects calculated ... additional singlearm studies of cetuximab In two of these studies all patients had received two prior chemotherapy regimens Results from these studies confirmed the effect seen in other studies of cetuximab ... are also important 2.5 The most frequent site of metastatic disease is the liver In up to 50% of patients with metastatic disease, the liver may be the only site of spread For these patients surgery...
... because society is slow to forget these aggressions which are followed by mourning, disabilities, fears and madness, and a profound valour and sensation of lack of meaning, of defencelessness and ... plots, the “significant presence of disease”, where it plays an important role in the screenplay, as in As Good as it Gets (1997) by James L Brooks and films wherethe disease “central to the plot” ... and patients as examples in the classroom1,3,7-9 The object of this approach is to improve lectures and classes with relevant discussions by reducing the time for viewing these films to a minimum...
... evidence ofthe existence of this association in urban settings Within this framework, the overview guiding the design of this study is establishing categories of urban places from the perspective of ... were statistically significant, the T-test for related samples was used As with the Restorativeness Scale, places in the city considered the most attractive obtained the highest scores in all the ... cognitive models, some studies have used preference judgements as a unit of judgement to delimit landscape categories that are important for users The results of such studies show that one ofthe underlying...