difference between scientific method and critical thinking

in prostate tests psa what is the difference between total psa and free psa

in prostate tests psa what is the difference between total psa and free psa

Ngày tải lên : 21/03/2014, 12:19
... method. Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 àg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% for percentage of fPSA. Relative differences ... IMMULITE, ECi, and DxI methods. At 20% fPSA, the relative difference was more than 10% for all methods except the AxSYM. Additional harmonization is needed for tPSA and fPSA methods. Introduction Prostate ... total PSA level between 4 ng/ml and 10 ng/ml. A PSA level of 4 to 10 ng/ml is considered slightly elevated levels between 10 and 20 ng/ml are considered moderately elevated; and anything above...
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problem solving and critical thinking for designers

problem solving and critical thinking for designers

Ngày tải lên : 31/05/2014, 01:33
... time. Developing critical thinking skills is essential in the complex world we live in today. It is a necessary skill in both your profes- sional and personal life. Thinking critically is what ... Printer Name: Courier Westford, Westford, MA THINKING CRITICALLY 9 Criticism of or by leaders, managers, clients, and even peers is not what thinking critically is about. Disapproving of the client’s ideas ... skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and de- cision making. Improving these skills makes you a more sought- after employee and designer, effective business owner, and ful- filled individual. The...
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Báo cáo y học: "Difference between pre-operative and cardiopulmonary bypass mean arterial pressure is independently associated with early cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury" pps

Báo cáo y học: "Difference between pre-operative and cardiopulmonary bypass mean arterial pressure is independently associated with early cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury" pps

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 09:22
... clinical, physiologic and laboratory data for the pre- and intra-operative periods were summarized as means (± SD) or medians (intra- quartile ranges [IQR]), and numbers or proportions and compared using ... pressure and flow, are by in large founded on empirical practices and lack the scientific basis to serve as evidence-based guidelines [11,33]. The literature surrounding pump hemodynamics and effect on ... t-tests and chi- square tests, as ap propriate. In the event of missing data values, data were not replaced or estimated. We evalu- ated delta MAP and CPB flow both as continuous vari- ables and...
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Critical Thinking and Reasoning Skills

Critical Thinking and Reasoning Skills

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 14:20
... improve your odds and that is by improving your critical thinking and reasoning skills.  What Are Critical Thinking and Reasoning Skills? To improve your critical thinking and reasoning skills, you ... “think critically”? And just what are “reasoning skills”? This lesson will answer these questions and show you why critical thinking and rea- soning skills are so important. 1 15 – CRITICAL THINKING ... their sense of logic and reason. Practice 1. For practice, imagine this scenario—buying a new car and apply critical thinking and reason- ing skills to it. First, critical thinking: What dif- ferent...
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The Craft of Scientific PresentationsCritical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to AvoidMichael docx

The Craft of Scientific PresentationsCritical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to AvoidMichael docx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 18:20
... smoke overlapped in random turns and curls—such a flow was turbulent. Because under- standing the difference between laminar flow and turbu- lent flow was crucial to understanding the work, McMurtry ... have faced and are interested in your designs and results. The audience also usually includes engineers and scientists from other fields. Although these engineers and scien- tists might understand the ... expense and importance of scientific pre- sentations, scientists and engineers should strive to com- municate effectively and efficiently in those presentations. Also, because scientists and engineers...
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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 548 / NOVEMBER 2005: THE LINK BETWEEN INTEREST RATES AND EXCHANGE RATES DO CONTRACTIONARY DEPRECIATIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? doc

WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 548 / NOVEMBER 2005: THE LINK BETWEEN INTEREST RATES AND EXCHANGE RATES DO CONTRACTIONARY DEPRECIATIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 23:20
... literature inclu des Ball (1999 and 2002), Svensson (2000), Taylor (1999), McCal- lum and Nelso n (1999 and 200 0), and Galí and Monacelli (2005). Taylor (2000 and 2001) presents an interesting ... contractionary-depreciation Thailand. I draw from McCallum and Nelson (1999 and 2000) for parameters of shock persistence. The two I use in the present paper are  f = 0:5 and  x = 0: I also reset McCallum and Nelson’s value ... (2003=100) Thailand (2003=100) Source: IMF. 45 ECB Working Paper Series No. 548 November 2005 by Smets (1997), Smets and Wouters (1999), Kim and Roubini (2000) and Cushman and Zha (1997), a...
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Comparison between the Matrix Pencil Method and the Fourier Transform Technique for High-Resolution Spectral Estimation

Comparison between the Matrix Pencil Method and the Fourier Transform Technique for High-Resolution Spectral Estimation

Ngày tải lên : 26/03/2014, 00:29
... by Rife and Boorstyn in [11]. Figure 19 provides the (5.2.6) comparison between various windows and the TFBMPM.here I 0 [r] is the modified Bessel function of the first kind and order zero and b is ... frequency com- Ferna ´ ndez del RıB o, J. E., and Sarkar, T. K., Comparison ponents, and A m is the complex amplitude at fre- between the Matrix Pencil Method and the Fourier Trans- quency f m . form ... the SNR range. On the other hand, and in spite of the smaller bias presented by the Standard window (see Fig. FIG. 15. Comparison between the inverse of the variance and 20), the Kaiser window...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Migratory birds, the H5N1 influenza virus and the scientific method" docx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Migratory birds, the H5N1 influenza virus and the scientific method" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 01:20
... impose narrow norms and methods on scientific practice and today emphasizes the diversity of methods and of the means of discovery and justification [4,5]. The scientific method is what scientists ... the formulation and testing of null hypotheses. This stance can be countered on a historical and methodological level: the scientific method is a historical and philosophi- cal myth and null hypothesis ... uninformative, Flint also employs an analogy between poultry transport and long-distance migration that is highly misleading. Discussion The myth of the scientific method and the trouble with significance...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Relations between Limit-Point and Dirichlet Properties of Second-Order Difference Operators A. Delil" pdf

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Relations between Limit-Point and Dirichlet Properties of Second-Order Difference Operators A. Delil" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 19:20
... throughout: R and C denote the real and complex number fields, and N is the set of nonnegative integers. z denotes the complex conjugate of z ∈ C. (· )and (·) represent the imaginary and real part ... right-hand side, the limits lim n→∞ R n and lim n→∞ x n ex- ist and X = lim n→∞ x n > 0. For t he sums on the right, since  ∞ n=0 R n is convergent and {1/x n } ∞ − 1 is positive and decreasing, ... analogue of these properties and some relations between them. In studying in- equalities involving expression (1.1), such as HELP (after Hardy, Everitt, Littlewood and Polya) and Kolmogorov-type inequalities,...
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The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid pptx

The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid pptx

Ngày tải lên : 27/06/2014, 05:20
... understands it or realizes its impor- tance. Strong presentations require both content and style. Content without style goes unnoticed, and style without content has no meaning. 38 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC ... presenters mistakenly assume that no alternatives exist. By showing you the differences between strong and weak presentations and by identifying, for you, the er- rors that presenters typically make, ... effectively critique, reflect on, and learn from your own presentations until they become outstanding. 36 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS come back to the shallows and then examine the results in...
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The Craft of Scientific Presentations Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid pot

The Craft of Scientific Presentations Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid pot

Ngày tải lên : 27/06/2014, 08:20
... expense and importance of scientific pre- sentations, scientists and engineers should strive to com- municate effectively and efficiently in those presentations. Also, because scientists and engineers ... Still, if any of The Craft of Scientific Presentations Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid Michael Alley With 41 Illustrations 24 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Figure ... the last time that you sat through two and a half hours of a scientific presentation and wished that it would go longer? Unfortunately, such responses to scientific presentations are rare. Granted,...
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