... people in a meaningful way This would invalidate any statistical treatment of data that failed to take measurement error into account It does not constitute an argument against the use of Delta It ... reliability for the task at hand; they should provide interpretable data; and thus any discriminations made should be 'real' My argument is that the degree to which a discriminative instrument actually ... considering are valid discriminations Ferguson's Delta [5] is computed on the assumption that the measurement is valid and reliable to the degree that the instrument produces a valid rank ordering of...
... applications of this renovated identity have been made This can be attributed to the lack of data availability and marginal quality ofthe ones available While cross sectional and panel data studies have ... proper awareness of environmental issues, in the academic world and at the level of institutional policies and international organization is quite recent and dates back to the mid 70’s Climate change ... capita emissions analyzing approach - for a global climate change impact, and their trends, in a sample of treaty such that negotiations are reduced developing to two manageable variables framework...
... populations The data was tabulated and analyzed through qualitative analysis ofthe gathered data, which reveal the behaviors and decision making patterns in lower income populations towards ... behavioral and attitudinal aspects of individuals An in-depth analysis in each ofthe broad parameters revealed the following: Educational Facet Education plays a vital role in shaping up a personality ... expectations The academia in Pakistan may facilitate the MFIs in producing relevant research work in understandingthe broader social paradigms of borrowers, which may actually lead to the success...
... particulate air pollution and hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases Jama-Journal ofthe American Medical Association 2006, 295:1127-1134 21 Sunyer J, Basagana X: Particles, and ... DAG have made substantial contributions to the conception and design ofthe review, acquisition ofthe review data and have been involved in drafting and revising the manuscript All authors have ... 11 Glantz SA, Parmley WW: Passive smoking and heart-disease Mechanisms and risk Jama-Journal ofthe American Medical Association 1995, 273:1047-1053 12 World Health Organisation (WHO): Tobacco...
... documentary evidence was also gathered, anda significant amount of data accrued from informal conversations and observations while on-site at the research locations The qualitative data analysis ... reveals that far from capturing the text ofa case and making it accessible to others in the organization, CBDS applications merely abstract certain salient attributes—‘observable facts’ and ... technologies, as happened previously with DSS, EIS, and expert systems, for example The dream ofthe knowledge-management paradigm is to capture the knowledge of organizational actors and make it available...
... 10 years He began his career as a Database Application Programmer and quickly developed a passion for the SQL language, data processing, and analysis He entered the realm of BI and data warehousing ... such as data analysis, data architecture, data modeling, data migration and integration, ETL, data quality, data cleansing, business intelligence, database administration, data mining, and enterprise ... instance, it can perform transformations on the source side as well as on the target side You can also dedicate some database or schema for the staging and transformation of your data, and can have...
... Editorial Team Leader Aanchal Kumar Manoj Das Manas Deb Prasen Palvankar Meera Srinivasan Acquisition Editor James Lumdsen Technical Editors Alfred John Aanchal Kumar Manasi Poonthottam Indexer Hemangini ... accessing and interacting with the tasks These APIs are abstracted and wrapped in an Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Data Control (ADF DC) The ADF DC allows drag -and- drop binding of user ... scope and goals ofa BPM initiative, and any gap between the required and available maturity levels for any ofthe capabilities, if not remedied, can be a potential source of risk adversely affecting...
... 10 years He began his career as a Database Application Programmer and quickly developed a passion for the SQL language, data processing, and analysis He entered the realm of BI and data warehousing ... such as data analysis, data architecture, data modeling, data migration and integration, ETL, data quality, data cleansing, business intelligence, database administration, data mining, and enterprise ... instance, it can perform transformations on the source side as well as on the target side You can also dedicate some database or schema for the staging and transformation of your data, and can have...
... effective As assets increase, profit also increased 4.2 Analysis ofthe profitability of assets Similar to the above analysis, the criteria can be studied separately for each type of activity can also ... motivation for employees, attract and retain talent Individual employees ofthe company are active and creative In iThangLong, the brand has the contribution of each individual brand - the best ... business path and development Currently, iThangLong headquartered in Hanoi anda branch in Ho Chi Minh, with the system of organization and management comply with the ISO standards andthe software...
... cytosolic-enriched and mitochondrial fractions (despite the addition of rotenone), the activity was calculated from the ADP generated, which was determined by a standard assay [61] The hexokinase activity was ... degradation of glycogen (high lactate formation in the absence of added glucose; Table 2) and amino acids (elevated concentration of pyruvate; Table 3), the products of which bypass hexokinase, the ... to other pathways, and hence changes in the flux of glycogen synthesis and degradation, pentose phosphate cycle, and glycerol and triacylglycerol synthesis might affect the concentrations of these...
... erythropoietin, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and glucose transporter [9–11] Work by Haddad [12,13] has demonstrated that proinflammatory cytokines also activate HIF-1α stability and DNA binding ... injury by endothelial barrier dysfunction mediated by VEGF and recognized clinically as increased pulmonary vascular permeability Haddad [1,2] discusses in detail how hypoxia and inflammatory stimuli ... mediates TNF-alpha-dependent regulation of HIF-1alpha FEBS Lett 2001, 505:269-274 Haddad JJ: Recombinant human interleukin (IL)-1beta-mediated regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF1alpha)...
... Higuchi K, Arakawa T, Yano Y, Hasuma T and Otani S PPAR-gamma ligands inhibit growth of human esophageal adenocarcinoma cells through induction of apoptosis, cell cycle arrest and reduction of ornithine ... troglitazone, an activator ofthe PPARgamma receptor, in patients with chemotherapy-resistant metastatic colorectal cancer Cancer J 2002, 8:395-399 165 Yamamoto Y, Nakajima M, Yamazaki H and Yokoi ... anti-inflammatory actions of PPARgamma agonists are mediated via upregulation of PTEN Curr Biol 2001, 11:764-768 129 Brockman JA, Gupta RA and DuBois RN Activation of PPARgamma leads to inhibition of anchorage-independent...
... functions, and innate character of organizational behavior are greatly variable and highly adaptable across social and physical geography, and across history Individual human consciousness, by contrast, ... 37:73-83 Laxmisan A, Hakimzada F, Sayan O, Green R, Zhang J, Patel V: The multitasking clinician; Decision-making and cognitive demand during and after team handoffs in emergency care International ... Simons and Chabris [25] detail a particularly spectacular example of IAB A videotape was made ofa basketball game between teams in white and black jerseys Experimental subjects who viewed the tape...
... minor, and include headache, nausea, insomnia, and abnormal body odor [62] Dalbavancin Dalbavancin is an investigational lipoglycopeptide with a bactericidal mechanism of action similar to other ... staphylococci, and is highly active against both MSSA and MRSA Dalbavancin is also active against VISA, although MIC90 ranges are higher at to mcg/ml However, dalbavancin is not active against enterococci ... glycopeptide antibiotics [65] Ortivancin has similar in vitro activity as vancomycin against staphylococci and is equipotent against both MSSA and MRSA It also has activity against VISA and VRSA, but...
... volume of physical activity to daily totals and show a general association between trip frequency and physical activity This may reduce the heterogeneity ofthe data and weaken the argument about the ... volumes of MVPA are low and suggests that the walking component of trips made by public transport may be made at a brisk pace Although active travel and use of public transport are associated with ... decisions checked and confirmed by another researcher who was familiar with the data The date of data collection was used to identify the current season and allow determination of seasonal influences...
... statistical software packages incorporating model-based joint analyses on bivariate traits are available55, and much more effort should be devoted to this area 20 Table Summary of analytic approaches ... hyperopic eye, and are generally quantified using the spherical equivalent (SE; the algebraic sum ofthe value ofthe sphere and half the cylindrical value) Various categorisations have been applied ... myopia was an interesting exploration It is also my pleasure to acknowledge Dr Akira Meguro and Dr Isao Nakata for kindly sharing their data in the replication study and stimulating discussions Many...
... dirty pages • Data manager floods the cache This is rather similar in nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious ... for another thread in that task • Server tasks which cannot tolerate changing data, or which must ensure that all ofthe necessary data is available, may use a separate thread to copy that data ... it initiates a cache replacement A data manager may restrict the use of cached data by issuing a pager_data_lock request, specifying the types of access (any combination of read, write, and execute)...
... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... financial cost and resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International ... G, Markogiannakis A, Papaparaskevas J, Daikos GL, Stefanakos G, Zissis NP, Avlamis A Differences in the changes in resistance patterns to third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and piperacillin/tazobactam...
... Most articles of criticism in the US e-newspapers have a very clear style They give the main points and state the criticism at the top in the headline andthe lead paragraph(s) The body ofthe articles ... integral to learning andunderstandinga language Culture may be defined as "what" a society does and thinks, and language is "a particular how" of thought The common misconception is that language’s ... discrimination via the picture of their new president Barack Obama andthe confirmation that “we’ve moved beyond race” Also, graphs and maps are used to clarify data presented in a critical story and...