... (0.11±0.01 normalized relative intensity) for adipose is more than for tumors (0.09±0.01 for carcinoma and 0.07±0.02 for fibrocystic change) as well as for fibroglandular (0.08± 0.01) Table tabulates ... Evaluation of optimum scattering angle - In order to obtain the optimum scattering angle, the diffraction profiles of a test adipose sample were measured over a range of scattering angles from ... values compared with other tissues The width of the curve for tumors is noticeably greater than for adipose tissue Table gives mean values for the peak positions and widths It can be seen that the...
... risk factors by each of the others in turn (List 1, see Appendix), initially ignoring multiple influences[21,22] We adjusted for the multiple comparisons by requiring 99% confidence For risk factors ... gifts? Forcing sex with someone you know is not rape Competing interests Forcing your partner to have sex is rape Subjective norms about sexual violence Do most people in your community feel forcing ... were also associated with violent altercations: forcing one's partner to have sex is not rape (OR 1.23 99%CI 1.10– Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) BMC Women's Health 2007,...
... during taskoriented tutorial dialogue Confusion was selected as the focus of this work for several reasons First, confusion is known to be prevalent within tutoring, and its implications for student ... emotion for the task of dialogue act classification 2.3 Categorizing Emotions within Dialogue and Discourse Sets of emotion taxonomies for discourse and dialogue are often application-specific, for ... fashion (Forbes-Riley et al., 2007) Moreover, implementing adaptations to student uncertainty within a dialogue system can improve the effectiveness of the system (Forbes-Riley et al., 2009) For tutorial...
... derivation for an LFG-DOP representation R is a sequence of fragments the first of which is labeled with S and for which the iterative application of the composition operation produces R For an illustration ... f-structure unit (see Bod 2000c for some illustrations of these metrics for LFG-DOP) 5.1 Comparing the two fragment estimators We were first interested in comparing the performance of the simple RF ... A Formal System for Grammatical Representation", in J Bresnan (ed.), The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass J Maxwell and R Kaplan, 1991 "A Method for...
... patients had signed the informed consent forms Additional information was obtained from medical records Figure Algorithm for selection of patients for the study of factors associated with delay ... treatment for pulmonary TB in patients living with HIV, in referral centers for the treatment of HIV, and to identify the factors associated with this delay over, who had initiated treatment for pulmonary ... by 23.9% Sputum culture was not performed in 65.1% of the patients, and was positive for 11.8% No information was available concerning sputum smear and culture for 0.7% and 19,4% respectively,...
... probability, derived from the Forward algorithm, of an observation sequence to inform the agent’s learning process r = +1 forfor -2 for P (w0 wn ) for -1 reaching ... detail for the instruction corresponding to the user’s information need We evaluate the learnt content selection decisions in terms of task success For surface realisation, we use HMMs to inform ... user reaction=‘perform desired action’ [perform undesired action, wait, request help] user position=‘on track’ [off track] Figure 1: Example annotation: alternative values for attributes are...
... opportunity - Key factorsfor a successful online community - page Organizational and environmental factors Key factorsfor a successful online community ORGANIZATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: SOME ... work for the members rather than imposing one culture upon the whole community Online Communities: a new opportunity - Key factorsfor a successful online community - page Social and cultural factors ... communities; and • less for short-term events • Culture Online Communities: a new opportunity - Key factorsfor a successful online community - page Social and cultural factors Defined membership...
... m)1Æcm)1 for diol dehydratase [35], 112 100 m)1Æcm)1 for glycerol dehydratase [49], 58 140 m)1Æcm)1 for DDR [35], and 86 500 m)1Æcm)1 for GDR [37], respectively Assays of reactivating factors ... reactivating factors H Kajiura et al more specific for the dehydratase partner than DDR, and that a large subunit of the reactivating factors principally determines the specificity for a dehydratase ... reactivating factors are determined by the capability of reactivating factors to form complexes with apoenzymes A modeling study based on the crystal structures of enzymes and reactivating factors...
... behavior for any weight-distribution possible in the STSG model (Prescher et al., 2003) give a more formal treatment of bias and consistency in the context of DOP (7) f P6 i for i = for i = ... that is, we like an estimator to be consistent The STSG formalism, however, allows for many different derivations of the same parse tree, and for many different grammars to generate the same frequency-distribution ... weight-distribution test for the whole class of STSGs, we argued earlier that this test is not the appropriate test either Both estimation methods for STSGs and the criteria for evaluating them,...
... gender differences for these levels, i.e., 19U/L and 30U/L for girls and boys, respectively (33, 34) 4.2 Radiologic Diagnosis The image-based diagnosis of NAFLD is usually straightforward, but fat ... 2006, hospitalization increased from 0.9 to 4.3/100,000 for NAFLD, and from 35.5 to 114.7/100,000 for obesity Obese children followed for y To determine the course of obesity associated NAFLD ... significant associations between insulin resistance and NAFLD, and similar risk factors and protective factorsfor these interrelated disorders Waist circumference and the ratio of apolipoprotein...
... Health for Infrastructure Services Industrial Safety and Health for Administrative Services Industrial Safety and Health for People -Oriented Services Reese/Industrial Safety and Health for People -Oriented ... HANDBOOK OF SAFETY AND HEALTH FOR THE SERVICE INDUSTRY Industrial Safety and Health for People -Oriented Services Charles D Reese Reese/Industrial Safety and Health for People -Oriented Services 53841_C000 ... Health for People -Oriented Services 53841_C001 Final Proof page 10 28.8.2008 4:50pm Compositor Name: VBalamugundan 10 Industrial Safety and Health for People -Oriented Services data give us some information...
... combinations that lead to an increased QOL decline is important for the individual care of patients, and for public health purposes [12] For older patients with an eye condition it is not yet known ... and performed data analyses; PJR helped to draft the manuscript and revised the manu- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:18 script for important ... July 2000 and January 2003 The eligibility requirements for inclusion in the non-randomized study were referral to low-vision services for the first time by an ophthalmologist, age over 50 years,...
... Ratio (RR) of 8.0 for MRSA colonisation in patients from NHS nursing homes, compared to patients from private care homes Much of the evidence for United Kingdom guidelines for MRSA prevention ... injury’ Values are given to three significant figures, except for p-values, which are given to two decimal places Patient outcome was assessed for significance (p < 0.05) and strength of association ... Statistical Analysis Cases were imported to SPSS 14.0 for Windows® Data was analysed using Chi-Squared testing Patients were grouped into categories for ’age’ and ’time from original injury’ Values...
... Chiapas received a blood transfusion for woman, spouse used other drugs for woman, spouse had sex with other women for women, and no risk factors were identified for women The HIV prevalence among ... Mexico: lessons learned and implications for developing countries AIDS 2002, 16:1445-1457 Abstract Zuma K, Gouws E, Williams B, Lurie M: Risk factorsfor HIV infection among women in Carletonville, ... hospital based, with 24% of our patients having no prenatal care before delivery and 54% having or fewer prenatal visits; therefore, this was a high-risk population.[3] In contrast, the CENSIDA...
... the direct and inverse scattering problem on the half-line 0, ∞ for the boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 In the case ρ x ≡ 1, the inverse problem of scattering theory for 1.1 with boundary condition ... Section 2, the scattering data for the boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 are defined In Section 3, the fundamental equation for the inverse problem is obtained and the continuity of the scattering ... called the scattering data of the boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 The inverse scattering problem for boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 consists in recovering the coefficient q x from the scattering...
... the direct and inverse scattering problem on the half-line 0, ∞ for the boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 In the case ρ x ≡ 1, the inverse problem of scattering theory for 1.1 with boundary condition ... Section 2, the scattering data for the boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 are defined In Section 3, the fundamental equation for the inverse problem is obtained and the continuity of the scattering ... called the scattering data of the boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 The inverse scattering problem for boundary value problem 1.1 – 1.3 consists in recovering the coefficient q x from the scattering...
... analysis was performed in three steps First, descriptive statistics were calculated for baseline characteristics There were expressed as mean (standard deviation) or medians (quartiles) for continuous ... goodness-of-fit test for each model using the definitions of responder This article does not show the results about thresholds All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 13.0 for Windows A significant ... in the WOMAC.” Statistically significant predictors for a better outcome were high level of education (no formal education/higher than no formal education) (OR = 3.77; IC: 1.12–12.7) and absence...
... of the risk for low birth weight in Sao Paulo state and Brazil, the specific evaluation of the prenatal follow-up and control of these factors have not been widely and uniformly performed in Brazilian ... for an adequate follow-up and prevention of sequelae in these children should also be a political priority Therefore, the contribution of this study to the area is to show that risk factorsfor ... model”, which considered all factors involved in one only model simultaneously For multivariable analyses, p-value, calculated by Wald test, was considered significant for p ≤ 0.05 [29] To determine...
... 2 Journal of Inequalities and Applications where Δ is the forward difference operator and tn denotes the nth term of the matrix transform of the sequence {sn }, where sn := n=0 ak k Thus tn = ... N, pn | summability factors of infinite series,” Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol 15, no 6, pp 651–656, 1984 –– [2] H Bor, “A note on | N, pn |k summability factors of infinite ... O(1/n), and hence that Δλn = O(1/n) by condition (iv) Proof Let Tn denote the nth term of the A-transform of the series we may write Tn = n ν =0 anν ν m n (an λn )/(nann ) Then n λ i λ i aλ = anν =...
... important foundations for the definition of intention for the performance of new behavior (Fishbein and Ajzen 1975; Ajzen and Fishbein 2005), For example, the studies done for the compilation ... well for the performance of internet transaction I Think that I am completely aware of all the dangers and problems for performing internet transaction… I believe, I have enough knowledge for ... behavioral and attitudinal factors in the securities stock exchanges of Iran, the aim of this research is therefore, to study the effective and decision-making factorsfor the acceptance and use...