... 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 ... 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 ... In order to evidence the variation of the strength of phase synchronization between two uterine segment bursts, we used the intensity of the first Fourier mode of the distribution, given by γn,m...
... 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...
... 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...
... picture of the pattern of brain perfusion immediately after administration Therefore, the effect of sedation on measured rCBF should be negligible Thirty minutes after the administration of 99mTc-ECD, ... Clozapine group Table shows the comparisonof the mean values of relative perfusion in schizophrenic subjects pre and post treatment The results show that the mean rCBF values of the schizophrenic patients ... Lieberman J, Hoffman E, Bradford D, Sheitman B Effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotics in patients with treatmentresistant schizophrenia: a review and meta-analysis ofrandomized trials...
... 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...
... 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 ... responses of cells initially expanded using anti-CD3/CD28 beads, analogous studies performed using cells initially expanded using soluble anti-CD3 gave qualitatively identical results Comparisonof ... number of viable cells detected per well by flow cytometry using the formula: The proportion of cells undergoing 0-6 divisions could then be quantitated based on the pattern of CFSE fluorescence using...
... 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 ... developed using LabVIEW software that stored data on a computer and provided visual feedback for volunteers Visual feedback consisted of a bar chart that visualized the magnitude of exerted Page of...
... others to 94% for ADL Table gives the impact scores (extent of impact, importance ofimpact and overall impact) for each of the life domains and the results of the significance tests between the ... distribution of UK versus US responses for both the extent of the impact and the importance of the impact We also computed an overall impact score by assigning a ranking order to the product of the ... percentage of UK and US respondents endorsing some impactof their muscle disease on each of the life domains Figure The percentage of the UK and the US samples endorsing the direction of impact...
... ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 50 percent or more, a grade of an LVEF of 35 to 49 percent, a grade of an LVEF of 20 to 34 percent, and a grade of an LVEF of less than 20 percent www.nejm.org ... the comparisonof radial-artery grafts with native-vessel stenosis of 90 percent or more with radial-artery grafts with native-vessel stenosis of 70 to 89 percent † P=0.24 for the comparisonof ... of 90 percent or more with saphenous-vein grafts with native-vessel stenosis of 70 to 89 percent ‡ The P value is for the binary comparison, with the use of the McNemar test, of the absence of...
... Consequently, the swards of grasses were demonstrated to mitigate the acidification of soil solution and the leaching of basic cations of Ca and Mg from soil This study aims to compare impactof 20 year lasting ... exception of phosphorus in Ah horizon There was significantly more phosphorus in Ah of PP soil With the exception of magnesium, the content of nutrients rapidly lowered with increasing depth of soil ... saturation of the adsorption complex with bases Mean weight of dry matter of litter/weed horizon was very similar – almost 48 g per soil pit Soil under Calamagrostis showed higher accumulation of dry...
... recommendations Briefly, 250 μL of the homogenated samples was mixed with 750 μL of TRIzol and incubated for 15 at room temperature Following the addition of 200 μL of chloroform, the mixture was centrifuged ... GAPDH detection, μL of cDNA obtained by reverse transcription described above, 0.5 μM of each primers and 16 μL of i-StarMaster mix solution [0.25 mM each of dNTP mixture, 10 mM of Tris-HCl (pH 9.0), ... Loading was executed three times with μL of PCR products in order to obtain statistical analyses of the band densities Pictures were taken of each electrophoresis using Gel Doc XR (Bio-Rad Laboratories,...
... to 50% TCP The emphasis of this report is on normal tissue complications, incidence of which is kept low This often leaves the parameter D50 lying outside of the range of clinical data Despite ... This makes the choice of the model critical Presently the choice of NTCP models is driven by personal preferences, availability of software and historical reasons A practice of selecting a model ... doi:10.1186/1748-717X-6-61 Cite this article as: Moiseenko et al.: A comparisonof dose-response characteristics of four NTCP models using outcomes of radiationinduced optic neuropathy and retinopathy Radiation...
... 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...
... to test the main effects of two covariates and the effect of the interaction of the two covariates We extended this method to the functional linear model The comparisons of all groups in this section ... article as: Wang et al.: Measuring the impactof apnea and obesity on circadian activity patterns using functional linear modeling of actigraphy data Journal of Circadian Rhythms 2011 9:11 Authors’ ... the evaluation of the combination of the main and interaction effects which should be consistent with a 2-way ANOVA using simple classical statistical methods However, large amount of information...
... was performed in all patients using a FIO of 1.0, a V T of mL/kg, and a ventilator rate of 12/min, then adjusted to maintain end-tidal carbon dioxide tension (E TCO2) of 25 to 30 mmHg (Servo 900C; ... initiation of OLV, patients were randomly assigned, according to a computer-generated random number table, to one of two groups Group A: OLV was started by VCV (OLVVCV) using a VT of mL/kg, PEEP of cm ... of the lung was not allowed A power analysis based on a previous study [15] revealed a total sample size of 38 patients was required to achieve a power of 80% and an a of 0.05 for detection of...