... terms of the usefulness of the data collection tool for cross-country comparisons, and in terms of country-specific findings relevant for HRH policy and planning Methods The Assessment of Human ... software templates were also developed for all data entry operators, by meansof the SPSS Data Entry Builder software program [11] The instruments were translated to meet the language needs of ... Mozambique, the sample of facilities was changed during the course of fieldwork in some areas because of an unanticipated lack of personnel available for interview In Jamaica, a number of the smallest...
... case of WLCC and bootstraps in the case of CWCF The choice of the type of surrogates depends on the way the surrogate is resampled in the particular method We used the bootstraps in the case of ... a difference between sets of uterine bursts during pregnancy and labor Table 1: Information on the segmentation of the bursts used in the analysis Before burst Burst After burst pregnancy 0–50 ... Cross-scalogram is a measure of the similarity of power, at different frequency bands, for two separate uterine signals It gives a “direct” estimation of the correlation of two uterine activities...
... true impactof EHR use on quality of care, costs, efficiency, and patient views [24] This study is the first we are aware of that attempted to assess the impactof EHR use on the quality of the ... which often lead to refined lines of inquiry Similarly, physical placement of computer equipment (such as in corners, or around the perimeter of a room) could make sustained observation of patient ... and Scholarship MS is a professor of Internal Medicine and the Associate Program Director of the UNM General Clinical Research Center Scholars’ Program RB is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate...
... decrease saturation Comparisonof two means arising from unpaired data The most common comparison is probably that of two means arising from unpaired data (i.e comparisonof data from two independent ... t-test is as follows t= = sample mean of differences – SE of sample mean of differences sample mean of differences SE of sample mean of differences (2) The SD of the differences in the current example ... assess the magnitude of any difference, it is essential also to have the confidence interval calculated above Comparisonof two means arising from paired data A special case of the one sample t-test...
... in the presence of Mn++ or Mg++ cofactors, respectively The solid and open squares represent ASV IN activity in the presence of Mn++ or Mg++ cofactors, respectively B Comparisonof the IC50 values ... development of a number of novel metal chelating inhibitors of HIV-1 IN, several of which were found to be effective in blocking both processing and joining in the presence of either Mn++ or Mg++ Of special ... cofactor responses with HIV-1 and ASV IN A side-by-side detailed comparisonof the cofactordependent joining activities of purified HIV-1 and ASV IN proteins used to illustrate the utility of...
... Pinheiro et al.: Estimation of lung vital capacity before and after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a comparisonof incentive spirometer and ventilometry Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery ... arises the necessity of an inexpensive alternative method which can reflect in a reliable manner the VC The aim of this study was to evaluate the incentive spirometers as a method of assessment VC ... capacity (DVC, ml/Kg) measured by ventilometer and Incentive spirometer before and after CABG surgery The execution order of DVC techniques measured with ventilometer and incentive spirometer were...
... methods, before- after study design was used to evaluate the impactof a six-month multi-faceted KB intervention on PTs’ self-reported knowledge and use of the motor measurement tools measured using ... University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and University of British Columbia Informed consent was obtained from all participating KBs, PTs, and administrators Measures Evaluation of uptake of the ... did not have a significant impact on the change in familiarity and use of the other tools Discussion This is the first study we are aware of which evaluates the impactof a multi-faceted KB intervention...
... Table 3: Comparisonof fertility results using different packages and thawing temperatures P values and chi-squared (25-days NR- and lambing rates) for the comparisonof fertility results using ... intra-uterine motility of motile sperm on fertility of ewes Proc Austr Soc Reprod Biol 1986, 18:9 Eppleston J, Evans G, Roberts EM: Effect of time of PMSG and GNRH rate on the time of ovulation, LH ... use Ewes and artificial insemination During a period of about five weeks, from the middle of November to the middle of December 2004, a total of 719 Norwegian Crossbred ewes were inseminated artificially...
... Unfortunately, because of the presence of E1-like factors in many cell types, vectors with the E1 deletion may still express a certain amount of viral gene products in vivo The expression of viral proteins ... models The roles of the viral genome and the sources of BMP cDNA in the process of bone formation were determined in this study 98 MATERIALS AND METHODS Cloning and identification of rat BMP4 and ... each of which was labeled with digoxigenin by using the DIG-Chem-Link Labeling and Detection Set (Roche Diagnostics Corp., Indianapolis, IN) Detection of DIG-labeled nucleic acids was performed using...
... pain scores of 30 mm and a standard deviation of 15, with a power of 0.8, a P value of 0.05 was considered to be significant Data were analyzed using Jandel Sigmastat statistical software (San ... 1/3 of patients after sufentanil and fentanyl based analgesia while almost always necessary in case of remifentanil based analgesia The necessity of anticipation of postoperative pain in case of ... were used for comparison between groups depending on distribution RESULTS Six patients were withdrawn from the study: out of for prolonged surgery for the presence of cancer, and out of for surgical...
... remains fixed in the cells after uptake, its distribution provides a picture of the pattern of brain perfusion immediately after administration Therefore, the effect of sedation on measured rCBF ... Thirty minutes after the administration of 99mTc-ECD, each subject was given sedation in the amount of 10 mg Diazepam to decrease motion during scanning Ten minutes after injection of Diazepam, ... significant changes before and after treatments The occipital region only showed some non-significant changes Table 4: Severity index was calculated as; degree of severity x number of hypo/hyper-intense...
... about the reliability of microarray technology for analyzing differential expression, because of the lack of reproducibility across laboratories and platforms despite the use of highly similar protocols ... profiles of the four histopathological subtypes of lung cancer cells in relation to gene networks and statistical analysis would be a valuable and meaningful undertaking Because the analysis of ... ratio of cancer cells to control cells, based on the relative intensities of the two fluorescence signals, was calculated using ArrayGauge *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 with Dunnett’s test gave a total of...
... data sets Iterative cycles of refinement and manual fitting were carried out using programs CNS [24] and O [25] To monitor the progress of the refinement, a total of 10% of the reflections were set ... shape of the tetrahedral corresponding to the sulfate ion In the final model, two conformations of residues A10, B10 and A123 of CTX were refined There were also signs of other conformations of surface ... A70, A83, A110, B32, B37, B57, and B70 of CTX The final model was evaluated with PROCHECK software [27] Comparisonof family 11 xylanases The coordinates of 10 different family 11 xylanases were...
... Features of Different LCA Models Fitted to the Data Numbers of Classes, Manifest Variables and Dependencies, and Goodness of Fit for the Models Model Number of Latent Classes Number of Manifest ... Lancet 2003; 362: 887-899 Glynn JR Resurgence of tuberculosis and the impactof HIV infection Br Med Bull 1998; 5: 579-593 Cantwell MF, Binkin NJ Impactof HIV on tuberculosis in subSaharan Africa: ... the public wards of internal medicine of CHK, a 600-bed hospital of national referral center in Rwanda Three hundred consecutive patients who were hospitalized with a cough of at least weeks...
... effector phenotype [23-26] To compare the impactof beads and anti-CD3, the expression of these markers on CD4 and CD8 cells was assessed before and after 2-3 weeks of in vitro stimulation The results ... Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:104 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page of 15 Figure Comparisonof T cell phenotype 14 and 21 days after primary stimulation of MNCs ... cases, Li and Kurlander Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:104 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page of 15 Figure Comparisonof the impactof anti-CD3/CD28 beads and soluble...
... incremental costs (cost of drug A minus cost of drug B) over incremental QALY (QALY of drug A minus QALY of drug B) The Japan valuation study is a quasi-replication of the UK MVH protocol using the modified ... (Yaxis) and the meansof scores (X-axis) The mean of the differences (d) and the limits of agreement were indicated by dotted lines The 95% limits of agreement were obtained by using the following ... additional evidence of validity for the use of the EQ-5D index score in Thai settings Moreover, we would examine the impactof differences in the EQ-5D scores on the outcome of CUA employing hypothetical...
... summation of PCSA of all flexor muscles, ΣPCSA extensors is the summation of PCSA of all extensor muscles, PCSAflexor is the PCSA of the flexor muscle used for training, PCSAextensor is the PCSA of ... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/8/1/56 Page of 12 Half of the summation of PCSA values for non-primary flexors was added to each of the two primary flexors while a third of the summation of PCSA values for nonprimary ... trained using SEMG signals to be retrained frequently regardless of the model utilized Table Effects of passage of time and electrode displacement on joint torque estimation Model After hour After...
... post-operatively Before anterior release, the magnitude of thoracic kyphosis of CS patients was larger than that of IS cases (t = -2.21, p = 0.041, Table 1) After posterior surgery, the difference of the ... Correction After Halo-Femoral Traction (%) Cobb Correction After Posterior Fusion(%) Thoracic Kyphosis correction After Posterior Fusion (T5–T12, %) Loss of Correction (Coronal%) Loss of Correction ... classification of congenital scoliosis [8], patients were classified as defect of formation, patients as defect of segmentation and 16 patients had combined anomaly The average age of the patients...
... compare overall functioning before and after AMI [25] In addition, each patient reported his or her level of optimism using another four-level scale to rate expectations of returning to a normal ... work status and their ability to return to work using an instrument developed for the Study of Economics and Quality of Life [27] As a final measure of physical and mental functioning, we created ... the non-diabetic group was significantly better than that of the diabetic group (mean difference of -10.6 (95% CI -14.0, -7.2)) After year of follow-up, both groups showed modest improvements in...