... 2E8{chunnam,rgreiner,hsiuchin}@ualberta.caVickie BaracosDepartment of OncologyUniversity of AlbertaEdmonton, AB T6G 1Z2vickie.baracos@ualberta.caAbstractAn accurate model of patient survival time can help in the treatment and care of ... survival analysis, and the Kaplan-Meier Curve. Journal of the AmericanStatistical Association, 83(402):414–425, 1988.[14] D. Gamerman. Dynamic Bayesian models for survival data. Applied Statistics, ... lung cancer that s/he has a 50% 5-year survival rate.In general, today’s cancer survival rates and median survival times are estimated from a large group of cancer patients; while these estimates...
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... of trace amounts of chemicals.We have extended the application of EESI to instantlyfollow organic chemicalreactions in a straightforwardmanner, with a rather simple setup. Two important chemical reactions ... heterogeneous chemical reaction, and reactions involving catalysts). Compared withother available techniques, EESI-MS allows a better control of chemical and pharmaceutical reactions due to ... intermediates. The simplicity and rapid response of EESI-MS make it a valuabletechnique for on-line characterization and full control ofchemical and pharmaceutical reactions, resulting in maximized...
... between a messuage The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the Posts, Mail Coaches, Coach Roads, and Railway Mail Services of and connected with the Ancient City of ... date of Allen's death: Allen may have been a Freemason. [By permission of Mr. Sydenham, of Bath. TOKENS COMMEMORATIVE OF PALMER'S MAIL COACH SYSTEM. [Pg 51] It is to Mr. Sydenham, ... four Parliaments of 1801, 1802, 1806, and 1807. Francis Freeling, who succeeded John Palmer in the Secretaryship and General Managership ofPost Office affairs, was as a youth a disciple of his...
... regular and at an early stage in relation to each year’s audit.ACCA also encouraged trilateral meetings between the regulator, auditor and audit committees of major institutions, as the failure ... Concerns are invariably raised when companies fail within a short time of the balance sheet date. Accusations may be made that the auditors should have been aware that the company would fail and ... part of being an accountant and a blanket ban on the provision of non-audit services to audit clients would start to position audit as a specialist activity, rather than a central part of business...
... date technology to ensure vital information can be shared quickly among professional staff, duplication eliminated and that the latest diagnostic and treatment tools are available. Changes ... that organising emergency care separate from elective care makes better use of the infrastructure in hospitals. Information is key. As a system we have a huge amount of data but poor data ... Northern Ireland average; • 50% higher rates of smoking related deaths; and • 120% higher rates of alcohol related deaths. Health and Social Care alone cannot fully address the inequalities...
... Average Kd(nM)AAAGACATG + + 0.25 A GAGACATG ND –AAGGACATG ND –AAATACATG ––AAAGCCATG ––AAAGAGATG + + 1.5AAAGACCTG ND –AAAGACACG ND + 4AAAGACAT A ND –8p=0.01765Fold increase ... was similar (3.0 ± 1.1) to that A BCshifted123123456bandProbe1.00E+008AAAGAGATGAAGGACATGAAAGACCTGAAAGACATGKd=1.2 nMAAAGAGATGKd=0.29 nMAAAGACACGKd=4 nMAAAGACACGAAAGACATAAGAGACATGAAAGACATGAAAGCCATGAAATACATG8.00E+0076.00E+0074.00E+0072.00E+0070.00E+000141612108Fluoriscence340Fluoriscence340640.00 ... oligo-nucleotides, namely A GAGACATG (P2), AAGGACATG(P3), AAATACATG (P4), AAAGCCATG (P5), AAAGAGATG (P6), AAAGACCTG (P7), AAAGACACG(P8), and AAAGACAT A (P9), and their complementarysequences CATGTCTCT...
... they are not always available.770age and gender. In International AAAI Confer-ence on Weblogs and Social Media.Mark Hall, Eibe Frank, Geoffrey Holmes, BernhardPfahringer, Peter Reutemann, and ... online behavior features with good accu-racy; these are all features that are availablein any blog. While features representing writ-ing practices that emerged with social media(e.g., capitalized ... pre-social me-dia and post- social media bloggers. We examinelexical-content features such as collocations andpart -of- speech collocations, lexical-stylistic fea-tures such as internet slang and capitalization,and...
... Ennis,Janna Hastings, Martin Zbinden, Alan McNaught,Rafael Alc´antara, Michael Darsow, Micka¨el Guedj,and Michael Ashburner. 2008. ChEBI: a databaseand ontology for chemical entities of biologicalinterest. ... of the variables has a domain, which is the set of pos-sible values the variable can take. For the reasonsnamed above, we are working with graph variablesand graph domains. The number ofchemical ... supporthumans by means of research in the area of infor-mation retrieval, data mining and information ex-traction. Term identification is of great importancein these tasks. Krauthammer and Nenadic...
... for at fair values, andwhile it has the advantage of presenting currentvaluations on assets and liabilities of banks ratherthan historic cost valuations, it also has somenegative implications. ... thecapital to be held against assets? This is a ques-tion of accounting as much as regulation. Since1998 the Financial Accounting Standards Board(FASB) in the U.S. Statement of FinancialAccounting ... capitalagainst loans, while off-balance-sheet vehicles of banks—the SIVs and conduits—are not. Thisarrangement offers banks a clear incentive tominimize the capital requirements by creatingoff-balance-sheet...
... sediment–water, andother natural water systemsw11x. Active alumina, dueto its high surface area, mechanical strength and thermalstability has found several applications as an adsorbentand catalyst. ... 335.w213xT. Hano, H. Takanashi, M. Hirata, K. Urano, S. Eto, Wat. Sci. Tech. 35 (1997) 39.w214xS. Tanada, M. Kabayama, N. Kawasaki, T. Sakiyama, T. Nakamura, M. Araki, T. Tamura, J. Colloid Interf. ... increase of surfactant concentration, a gradual change from monolayer aggregates to aggre-gates with reverse orientation is postulated. Bilayersurfactant aggregates called admicelles are formed....
... object-relational database system Illustra [I11941 provides database support for time-series data along with relational data. A time-series is an ADT(Abstract Data Type) value implemented a& amp; a large ... and Par- adise [DKLPY94] allow an attribute ofa relational record to belong to an Abstract Data Type (ADT). Each ADT defines methods that may be inyoked on values of that type. An ADT can ... between data items. Sequence data” refers to data that is ordered due to such a relationship. Traditional relational databases provide no abstractionof ordering in the data model, and do...
... of the general nature of a candle that I can possibly give. The fuel provided, the means of bringing that fuel to the place ofchemical action, the regular and gradual supply of air to that ... me a source of heat, and I am about to shew you what that vapour is. Here is some wax in a glass flask, and I am going to make it hot, as the inside of that candle-flame is hot, and the matter ... only need a little shaking, and out they fall. In the same way are made these candles of stearin and of paraffin. It is a curious thing to see how wax candles are made. A lot of cottons are hung...