... estimates of HAART effects on QOL in WIHS by minimizing indication bias and further adjusting for theeffectof informative drop-outs using several innovative statistical methods By balancing the distributions ... recommendation In addition, one summary score is generated from six domains (physical functioning, role functioning, energy/fatigue, social functioning, pain and emotional well-being) onthe basis of ... important initial information of QOL change for women inthe HAART era In summary, we evaluated the effects of HAART on QOL among women inthe WIHS HAART did not show any long-term effecton QOL...
... employees to stay inthe organization considering the costs of leaving In continuance commitment, the employees consider the disadvantages of leaving the organization and avoid quitting Continuance commitment ... explaining the purpose ofthe study to the prospective respondent General 33 instructions on completing the questionnaire and the importance of completing all questions were included The covering ... gaining new sights into the phenomenon; undertaking preliminary investigation before a more structured study ofthe phenomenon is done; describing central concepts and constructs of a phenomenon;...
... Questionnaire The questionnaire consists of 28 questions on a five-point scale This indicated that the whole spectrum ofthe five-point scales was utilized inthe reflection of quality of life ofthe ... allocated into the intervention and control groups respectively The mean age was 72.9 (SD ¼ 9.5) for the intervention group and 76.3 (SD ¼ 8.4) for the control group The Chinese version ofthe Geriatric ... The questions were further categorized into four domains, including physical health domain, psychological domain, social relationship domain and environment domain The Cronbach alpha values Int...
... significance, the pattern of improvement is fairly consistent Conclusions We investigated the consistency of human assessors inthe area of summarization evaluation We considered two ways of measuring ... measuring assessor consistency, depending onthe metric, and studied the impact of consistent scoring on ranking summarization systems and onthe performance of automatic evaluation systems We found ... Correlation between the original summarizer ranking and the ranking after excluding topics by one or two worst assessors in each category we should examine the potential impact of inconsistent...
... deformity of bone contour Theeffectof doxycycline for canine osteoarthritis treatment 241 of lameness by veterinarians, following palpation on hip joint for joint mobility and pain evaluation The ... progression of established OA in this patient population It provides the first proof of concept ofthe effectiveness of anti-MMP strategies for developing disease-modifying drugs Inhibition ofthe MMPs ... following the use of a subantimicrobial dose of DOX up to months in doubleblinded, placebo controlled, multicentered studies [29] These studies examined the effect, or lack of effect, of sub-antimicrobial...
... Figure Theeffectof temperature, water stress and seed size on germination of E globulus a) Effectoftemperatureon germination capacity of an unsorted lot b) Effectoftemperatureon germination ... germination stopped The rate of germination was estimated from the reciprocal ofthe time taken to reach 50% ofthe final cumulative germination, T50, under the test conditions following the beginning ... observed The GEI effectively integrates the area under the germination curve and takes it as a proportion ofthe area as defined by the product ofthe time to maximum germination and the germination...
... example, inthe first probability the pair of alleles from I is ofthe non-recombinant type This pair is copy of either one ofthe two non-recombinant or one ofthe two recombinant gametes of D Thus, ... of W and the mother of G, and Y the father of G Again, O can be written using two-locus computation As W , G inthe parent-offspring case, there are only four probabilities that are non-zero because ... relationships, after several generations of selfing, are given in tables II and III In this design, individuals in generations i are the offspring of selfed individuals from generation i The numerical...
... fact of considering only one ofthe channels inthe regression (either the change, which given the MASTER THESIS: THEEFFECTOF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH negative correlation, would lead to ... for the male individuals go inthe same direction than with the whole population, confirming thereby my previous results Conclusion The literature onthe effect of education on economic growth ... to invest in schooling As a conclusion, those policies targeting the bottom tail ofthe ability distribution inthe population are bound to lie below zero since they force people who would otherwise...
... capital infusions This provides additional information about how the banks changed the pricing on their loans along with the risk profile The nominal interest rate ofthe loan is one ofthe loan ... risk In this paper, we consider theeffectofthe TARP capital injections on bank risktaking by analyzing the risk ratings of banks’ commercial loan originations during the crisis The results indicate ... on Size of Infusion We next consider the degree oftheeffectof TARP on risk-taking based onthe dollar amount ofthe capital infusion The TARP process of capital replenishment allowed the Treasury...
... strategies include the establishment of Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs), the offering of incentives, the preparation and dissemination of investment guides, and, notably, the conclusion of international ... form of protection for investors in case of expropriation or deprivation of operating rights than is available under the law or inthe courts ofthe host state The answer ofthe proponents of BITs ... Canadian constitution does not contain a property clause at all Most Latin American constitutions contain variations onthe concept ofthe “social function of property.” Typically BITs contain a stricter...
... as a sort of ‘art painting’ 3.3 Procedure 3.2 Online Survey The findings published in this paper are based on an online survey and part of a larger study onthe role of aesthetic within data visualization ... Latency in Erroneous Response Complimenting accuracy ratios are timings of erroneous response and speed of completion, measuring the duration in which a participant probed in expectation of retrieving ... N Cawthon and A Vande Moere, "A Conceptual Model for Evaluating Aesthetic Effect within the User Experience of Information Visualization," in Tenth International Conference on Information Visualisation...
... also contribute to the conformational stability of holo-lMb Consistently, they are maintained over the 1.5 ns ofthe simulation (Fig 2) A comparison ofthe hydrogen-bond distances in Figs and indicates ... Asp60 in apo-lMb based onthe structure at approximately 0.5 ns ofthe simulation coincides with the beginning ofthe unfolding of helix E described above (Fig 2) Therefore, the formation of this ... retaining the bound heme The structure of apo-lMb was obtained by additional excision ofthe heme ligand Likewise, the starting geometry for the simulations of apoMb were obtained by deleting the...
... ionizing residue that is involved in binding the 2¢-phosphate of NADPH Theeffectof pH onthe initial rate kinetics is consistent with two ionizing groups inthe enzyme active site involved in ... to give the inhibition constant for the slope effect For inhibition constants involving intercept effects, the reciprocal ofthe apparent Vmax was plotted against the concentration of inhibitory ... inhibitory product and the inhibition constant for the intercept effect (Kii) was determined from the intersection onthe inhibitor concentration axis For pH studies, determination of pK values has...
... transform the standard deviation ofthe coefficient inthe original equation to the standard deviation ofthe impact on population probabilities For example, a listed standard error of 0.0098 onthe ... independence of years indirectly by evaluating the sensitivity ofthe results from the first part ofthe model using conditional logit, a method that does not assume independence We performed conditional ... days Effects on total days for each variable were calculated by multiplying three parts: theeffectonthe probability of a year with at least one day, the mean effecton days conditional on any...
... and educational attainment The inclusion ofthe vector X can, potentially, reduce the residual variation inthe outcome, thereby improving the precision ofthe estimates Its inclusion should not, ... status The HSE contains some of these, obtained from a nurse visit to consenting respondents In panel B of Table 5a we report estimates ofthe effects of education onthe probability of being obese ... the individual sampling variances account for the covariance across the individual estimates The sampling variance ofthe summary measure is then a function ofthe sampling variances ofthe individual...
... With Ha Tinh being among the poorest of Vietnam’s 58 provinces, all provinces inthe survey rank inthe lowest income quintiles inthe country with their population predominantly engaging in small-scale ... output inthe year ofthe survey With paddy rice being one ofthe most widespread and commonly planted crops, the regressions look at the relation between the incidence of drought and the price of ... estimated response ofthe 20 Regarding the power ofthe instrument, we find the p-value inthe first stage below 0.000 which provides sufficient confidence inthe relevance ofthe instrument 21 The quartiles...
... the distribution of There are four equations inthe model; therefore, k consists of four vectors each representing the set of heterogeneity 14 parameters in one ofthe equations Conditional ... inthe obesity equation, theeffectof childcare decreases from 0.016 to 0.010 and the interaction effects decreased only by 0.001 with the exception ofthe interaction effect for the child of ... our finding of an opposite, favorable direction oftheeffectof using non-parental childcare may also in part be explained in part by differences inthe education level ofthe mother and the...