... other gene products These approaches, however, have poor sensitivities and specificities since none of them alone is useful forthe majority ofthe BC and none of them is specific for cancer or breast ... for Bc1 in all groups The relevance of this finding is that it was the result ofthe first subgroup analysis for these biomarkers Bc1 should therefore be studied in terms of tumoral development ... evaluate the actual performance of these markers Jinang Li, from the John Hopkins Hospital, is the first to explore proteomics in early diagnosis of BC, who also enabled the advance of proteomics...
... of perceiving, of thinking, of understanding and of interacting spring out ofthe boundaries of ”humanity,” spring out ofthe boundaries of ”nationhood,” and spring out ofthe boundaries ofthe ... According to them, ten of Harold’s foreign words were of Old Norse, the language ofthe Vikings and the precursor of modern Icelandic, and these words were actually used by the Vikings The other twelve ... or the height (or strength) ofthe wave length According to survivors of near-death experiences, the higher the level ofthe spirit the brighter the light shines, and the lower the level the...
... Prepared forthe Office ofthe Secretary of Defense Approved for public release; distribution unlimited The research described in this report was sponsored by the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense ... mix forthe entire force, with large variations at the occupation level The authors, therefore, argue that the career content forthe force as a whole is most effectively identified as the sum of ... range of questions on the utilization ofthe individual, the conduct of job training, and the individual’s overall performance The supervisor was first asked to describe the productivity of a...
... risks forthe sustainability ofthe ecosystem services provides by the Ganga Proposals have been made to reduce the amount of untreated raw sewage deposited in the Ganga The most noteworthy of these ... whether and how much the Indian public values any efforts to reduce pollution levels in the Ganga via reduction ofthe amount of untreated raw sewage deposited therein through the improvement of ... aggregating the average WTP over the population ofthe municipality and comparing this figure to the operating and upgrading costs ofthe STP The result of this revealed that the annual taxes the residents...
... question the relevance ofthe case study, the modern equivalent ofthe allegory, as a basis for formulating hypotheses for further (quantitative) research, but many would contend, as Matthew Miles ... research may cover all ofthe forms of investigation used by any ofthe other research designs - It is even possible for experimental isolation to offer the potential benefits of experimental research ... not as remarkable as the revelation ofthe techniques used to manipulate the process and the data These two design parameters, the number of sources of data, and the number of cases studied, provide...
... Understanding theValueofthe MBA, Bruce Figure shows the distribution of values forthe MBA Degree scale and Figure 3, the distribution of values forthe School/Program scale Figure Distribution of MBA ... ofthe overall valueofthe MBA, as well as to those on the frontline of MBA program administration whose goal it is to enhance thevalueofthe MBA for their students Contact Information For ... quickly the investment is recouped, the higher the rating ofthe overall valueofthe MBA The overall valueofthe MBA is also related to the job satisfaction of alumni In MBA Alumni Perspectives...
... immediately from the expected NPV if the project is delayed for one year, we get an estimate ofthevalueof information Thevalueof information rises as: • the initial capital cost, K, rises; • the return ... prevails q is the probability ofthe high price prevailing (1-q) is the probability ofthe low price prevailing r is the rate of interest The expected valueof information is: The expected project ... level ofthe return in the high price environment, RH, does not affect thevalueof information The NPV Rule If there is no additional information to be obtained by delaying the project, the NPV...
... before him, Danto's greatest concern is with the well-being of art faced with the overwhelming presence ofthe commonplace The theory's openness to community formation, therefore—its notion of ... glimpse ofthe universality inherent in the exclusivity of aesthetic experience the fact, that all of us is limited to our own Like forthe dying Lester, very often the experiences that mean the ... traded the fervour of a Vienna at the turn ofthe century for a retreat into insitutions on the model ofthe Tate museums in London And even though these institutions eschew elitism and pride themselves...
... which trainingfor teachers is developed, in the specific area of health education The second defines the field of health education in schools, and the role of teachers The third contains the theoretical ... express themselves and think for themselves The aim of this first section is to make explicit the way in which the issue ofthetrainingof teachers in health education is approached As there ... provision of biomedical information to a more holistic view of health; rather, it is a complete shift in the role of schools This is true forthe field of health, and for many other areas of social...
... large given the size ofthe population, perhaps the more impressive numbers relate to the growth in the proportion ofthe population using credit Forthe past 35 years, federal policy in the U.S ... regarding the use of credit bureau data is to preserve the consumer’s right to authorize release ofthe information To balance the consumer's valueof privacy against business need for information ... either the likelihood a loan is repaid (and thus, the cost of a loan) or the availability of credit These results highlight the distinct tradeoff between 1) limiting the collection and use of...
... viii Thevalueof Arts-based Initiatives in business Introduction The benefits of ABIs for organisations The Arts Value Matrix: mapping thevalueof ABIs The polyvalent nature ofthe impact of ABIs ... linking the organisational beneficiaries of ABIs 3.3 The Arts Value Matrix 3.4 The four value zones ofthe arts 3.5 Overlapping the four value zones ofthe arts with the Arts Value Matrix 4.1 The ... and business performance 4.6 The conceptual dimensions ofthe Arts Value Map 4.7 Template forthe definition ofthe Arts Value Map 5.1 Arts-based strategies 5.2 The management cycle of ABIs: a closed-loop...
... companies and the market around the date of each acquisition In fact, when the team calculated the impact of these declines on the total valueof EG, they realized that the decline in EG's total value ... Country of shares) campaign in support ofthe privatization of Deutsche Telekom The subsequent strong performance ofthe shares ofthe privatized companies gave a boost to the popularity of stock ... also good forthe economy and other stakeholders Page 17 2— TheValue Manager In Chapter 1, we argued that value creation is the ultimate measure of performance for a management team This chapter...
... II ofthe book goes beyond arguing for a particular reading of ‘humanity’ in the humanity formulation There are two main goals ofthe second half ofthe book The first is to fit the humanity formulation ... about the theme of Kant’s conception of value, and how it is central to this book Chapter 6, the first chapterof Part II, offers an answer to one ofthe most basic questions about the imperative of ... own right The first chapters of Part II, Chapters and 7, focus mainly on issues of exegesis of Kant’s moral theory Chapter offers a reconstruction of Kant’s argument forthe humanity formulation...
... collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering committee ofthe CIC Immunoassay working group The authors of this group acknowledge the concept ofthe Minimal Information About T ... did the final approval ofthe manuscript MK, MP, LMcN, TC, JY, KO and AH were driving the conception and design ofthe study, selected the donors forthe study, interpreted the data and wrote the ... in the interpretation ofthe data and manuscript writing SJ did the overall project management, coordinated the distribution of material forthe study, helped to interpret the data, wrote the...
... across subjects ofthe normalized errors for each training section, as well as the results for each subject The relative performance ofthetraining sections confirmed the trend ofthe non-normalized ... forthe subject i using thetraining section with a length of x (T is for Threshold-based) We then normalize the error for each training section with respect to the overall index of ability for ... reducing the confusion ofthe rest class with other classes Figure displays the error rate of each pair of feature set and classifier when thetraining was exclusively performed on the static part of...
... collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering committee ofthe CIC Immunoassay working group The authors of this group acknowledge the concept ofthe Minimal Information About T ... did the final approval ofthe manuscript MK, MP, LMcN, TC, JY, KO and AH were driving the conception and design ofthe study, selected the donors forthe study, interpreted the data and wrote the ... in the interpretation ofthe data and manuscript writing SJ did the overall project management, coordinated the distribution of material forthe study, helped to interpret the data, wrote the...
... history in the diagnosis of patients with suspected injury ofthe pars interarticularis because it is more sensitive than radiographs for localizing the site of bone stress and because CT ofthe spine ... sequence) through the area of abnormality on SPECT, is recommended to confirm the diagnosis and stage the lesion If SPECT is negative, pars stress is unlikely to be the cause ofthe low back pain ... predict the probability of ultimate bone healing [22,23] However, CT ofthe spine results in higher ionizing radiation exposure compared to bone scintigraphy [24] Furthermore, there are reports in the...
... or other sources of false positive cytoplasmic signals; and (3) lack of association between the levels of expression of nuclear transcription factors and the state of differentiation ofthe tumor ... to retain the cytokeratin profiles ofthe epithelium from which they arise [13] In his review article, Tot summarized the results of 29 studies containing more than 3500 reported cases of adenocarcinomas ... predictive value (92.6% and 74.8%) than the CK phenotype The specificity of CDX2 expression did not reach the level of specificity of CK7/CK20 phenotype at a >50% level, either (84.6%) DISCUSSION The...