5 pitfalls variable quality of included trials
Báo cáo y học: " A Novel Variable Number of Tandem Repeat of the Natriuretic Peptide Precursor B gene’s 5’-Flanking Region is Associated with Essential Hypertension among Japanese Females"
... approved by the Ethics Committee of the Nihon University School of Medicine and the Clinical Studies Committee of Nihon University Hospital [10] Table Characteristics of study participants Biochemical ... assess the contribution of confounders (gender, BMI) [17] A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant Figure A: Nucleotide sequence of the 5’-flanking region of the human NPPB gene ... initiation codon; Underlining, the variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) consists of the nucleotides (TTTC) This figure shows the 11 repeat types B: Nucleotide sequence of the 11 and 16 repeat allele...
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Báo cáo y học: "Sustained High Quality of Life in a 5-Year Long Term Follow-up after Successful Ablation for Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia. Results from a large Retrospective Patient Cohort"
... scores Irrespective of the well known shortcomings of the Symptom checklist because of the nonspecific nature of a number of the symptoms asked for and the lack of assessment of functional status ... distribution of categorical data is expressed by absolute and relative frequency The comparison of the distribution of the categorical variables before and after ablation concerning two variables ... the McNemar Test More than two variables were compared using the Chi-square-distribution For the comparison of the distribution of categorical and ordinal variables of independent random samplings...
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Tài liệu Psychometric properties of the quality of life scale Child Health and Illness Profile-Child Edition in a combined analysis of five atomoxetine trials pdf
... sub-domain (item 1: ‘‘How often does your child have a lot of fun?’’ and item 4: ‘‘How often does your child feel happy?’’) The items of the SPS sub-domain Psychometric properties of the CHIP-CE composed ... discussion of the impact of ADHD on QoL as measured by the CHIP-CE can be found elsewhere (Escobar et al 2005, 2010) Internal psychometric properties of the CHIP-CE Missing values The proportion of CHIP-CE ... endpoint Only the EC and FI sub-domains fell short of a consistency of 0.7, which can be used as a helpful cut-off (DeVellis 1991) However, no such cut-off was previously discussed for changes over...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Self-reported physical and mental health status and quality of life in adolescents: a latent variable mediation model" doc
... other aspects of the quality of life of older people Soc Indic Res 2001, 54:239-274 Michalos AC, Thommasen HV, Read R, Anderson N, Zumbo BD: Determinants of health and the quality of life in the ... effect of physical or mental health status on global quality of life as mediated by one of the life domains Sum of all indirect effects for physical and mental health status explaining global quality ... ratings and factor structure of the Quality of Life Profile-Adolescent Version J Adolesc 2002, 25:261-274 13 Edwards TC, Huebner CE, Connell FA, Patrick DL: Adolescent quality of life, part I: conceptual...
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Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in WiMAXFig Part 5 pdf
... requirements The state of the system represented by a set of N -1 binary variables {s1: sn-1}, where each variable si indicates whether traffic in the corresponding queue qi [24] There is not variable corresponding ... downlink of a cellular WiMAX network where a number of base stations need to communicate simultaneously with their respective active users Each of these users has typically a certain Quality of Service ... backlog of data to be transmitted 106 Quality of Service and Resource Allocation in WiMAX Will-be-set-by-IN-TECH The rest of the chapter is organized as follows In Section 2, the different kinds of...
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Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems phần 5 docx
... modules of a spoken dialogue system can efficiently be optimized towards environmental factors These factors influence global aspects of the quality of the provided services Chapter QUALITY OF SYNTHESIZED ... terms of a transmission rating factor R [0;100], which can be transformed via the non-linear relationship of Formula 2.4.2 into estimations of mean users’ quality judgments on the 5-point ACR quality ... prediction outputs of the Emodel For R, the recognition rate has to be adjusted to a range of to for MOS to a range of to Based on the R values, classes of speech transmission quality are defined...
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Báo cáo y học: "The shunt from the cyclooxygenase to lipoxygenase pathway in human osteoarthritic subchondral osteoblasts is linked with a variable expression of the 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein" doc
... numbers of molecules and the values for each sample were calculated as the ratio of the number of molecules of the target gene to the number of molecules of GAPDH Western blot analysis of cyclooxygenase-2 ... production of PGE2 and that of LTB4 in OA osteoblasts, we then determined the effect of the addition of PGE2 to osteoblasts or of an inhibitor of PGE2 production on the expression of FLAP by ... synthesis of LTs is linked to the tight regulation of FLAP expression, not that of 5LO Moreover, the basal synthesis of LTs is linked to a variable expression of FLAP in OA osteoblasts as a result of...
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A MANAGER’S GUIDE TO THE DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF CLINICAL TRIALS - PART 5 potx
... Checklist of information for inclusion in reports of clinical trials Ann Inter Med 124:741–743 Begg C; Cho M; Eastwood S; Horton R; Moher D; Olkin I et al (1996) Improving the quality of reporting of ... clinical trials of your competitors To avoid problems, consult CenterWatch’s Drugs in Clinical Trials Database (http://www.centerwatch.com/professional/ cwpipeline/) or that of Current Controlled Trials, ... before the start of their clinical trials but not using the results of this run-in period as an entry criterion Of the 431 participants in their study, 66 (15%) who took less than 80% of the prescribed...
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Báo cáo y học: "Does switching from oral extended-release methylphenidate to the methylphenidate transdermal system affect health-related quality-of-life and medication satisfaction for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder&
... Eiser C, Morse R: A review of measures of quality of life for children with chronic illness Arch Dis Child 2001, 84:205-211 Connolly MA, Johnson JA: Measuring quality of life in pediatric patients ... satisfied with the efficacy of the study medication on their child's attention The majority of caregivers (93.1%) indicated a high level of satisfaction with the duration of effect of the study medication ... dose of drug delivered depends on the surface area of the patch and the length of time that the patch is worn, which allows for tailoring the duration of medication effect with reductions of first-pass...
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Situation of recruitment of TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd; recommendations to improve the quality of recruitment.doc
... related to this kind of recruitment The following is the chart of internal recruitment sources of TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd: Figure 2.2 Chart of internal recruitment sources of TOTO Vietnam Co., ... environment of the company The quality of employees from this kind of recruitment is very high Therefore, to improve the competition, the company should pay attention to this source of recruitment ... Ceremony of 1st Factory: 27 August, 2002 Opening Ceremony of 1st Factory: 01 March, 2004 Oversea export: 15 March, 2004 Ground Breaking Ceremony of 2nd Factory: 28 February, 2005 Opening Ceremony of...
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Báo cáo y học: "Determinants of improvement in quality of life of alcohol-dependent patients during an inpatient withdrawal programme"
... Predictive factors of quality of life on admission Two-thirds of patients had a Physical Component Summary score of >42 and two-thirds of patients had a Mental Component Summary score of >25 The factors ... including seven variables explained 20% of the total variance (Table 3) Predictive factors of improvement in quality of life during the inpatient programme Analysis of the distribution of the values ... state of general health The World Health Organisation (1) has defined health not only as the absence of disease but also as a state of physical, mental and social well-being The idea of quality of...
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Quality of Service in IP Networks
... Fast Retransmit o Probability p of choosing a given flow is proportional to the rate of the flow l more packets of that flow, higher probability of choosing one of its packets Queue Management ... l one packet per clock tick o Variable size packets l number of bytes per clock tick o Packet loss if buffer filled B r Queue Management 11 Token bucket arrival of tokens : rate r B packet buffer ... Alternative to Marking and Policing: allocate a set portion of bandwidth to each application flow; can lead to inefficient use of bandwidth if one of the flows does not use its allocation o PRINCIPLE...
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GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND SPERM QUALITY OF STRESS NEGATIVE PIÉTRAIN BOARS AND THEIR HYBRIDS WITH DUROC
... were the only effects included in the model Table Results of the effect of genetic group (PiDu 25, 50 75, PiCC and PiCT) and season on growth performance and semen quality Variable Genetic group ... Performance and Sperm Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars and Their Hybrids with Duroc REFERENCES Dang Vu Binh, V.D Ton, N.C Oanh, (2008) Productivity and meat quality of fattened pigs of crossbred ... F1(PietrainxDuroc)xF1(YorkshirexMong Cai) Journal of Science and Developement - Hanoi University of Agriculture Vietnam 6: 418-424 Ha, Xuan Bo, D.D Luc, D.V Binh (2011) Evaluation of Semen Quality of Piétrain Rehal Imported...
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Sewage Water Quality of Phnom Penh City
... lower SS concentrations Mean value of SS in points to15, except for point 8, was 34.4 % of that of points to so 65.6 % of SS in sewage deposited at the bottom of the channels and lakes during the ... unit of pollutant load, it was assumed that 47% of the daily sewage flow, 47% of COD, T-N, T-P, and SS and 59% of surfactants were discharged during the sampling period One hundred sixty liters of ... Japan, Ministry of Construction, Japan (in Japanese) Ministry of Environment (1994) Cambodia First State of The Environment Report 1994, Ministry of Environment, Cambodia Ministry of Planning (1998)...
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Dispersion modeling in assessing air quality of industrial projects under Indian regulatory regime
... development of a computational tool in the form of a software for serving the designers in evaluating the effect of power plant operations on the ambient air quality in terms of concentration level of ... the State of West Bengal He is a Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Water Resource & Protection of Scientific Research Publication, and a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of International ... International Journal of Environmental Science & Technology of Iranian Society of Environmentalists Dr Bandyopadhyay is a Life Member of several professional bodies like, The Institution of Engineers...
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Quality of Service
... is not covered in this book.) Some of the problems QoS cannot solve are propagation delay (no solution to the speed -of- light problem exists as of the printing of this book), codec delay, sampling ... use the CID to index its table of stored session contexts 139 cRTP can compress the 40 bytes of header down to to bytes most of the time As such, about 98 percent of the time the compressed packet ... classes of service You can base policies on IP addresses, port numbers, protocols, or the size of packets You can use one of these descriptors to create a simple policy, or you can use all of them...
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ON APPLICATION-PERCEIVED QUALITY OF SERVICE IN WIRELESS NETWORKS
... throughput reflects the Quality of Service from the viewpoints of the application and user The focus of the thesis is on the influence of the network on the applicationperceived Quality of Service and ... Department of Telecommunication Systems Department of Telecommunication Systems School of Engineering School of Engineering Publisher: Blekinge Institute of Technology Blekinge Institute of Technology ... analysis of application based active measurements mimicking the needs of streaming applications is presented The results reveal clear influence of the network on the application-perceived Quality of...
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Real-Time Digital Signal Processing - Chapter 5: Design and Implementation of FIR Filters
... midpoint of the FIR filter The frequency response of the type I Center of symmetry l (a) Center of symmetry l (b) Center of symmetry l (c) Center of symmetry l (d) Figure 5.7 Coefficients of the ... coefficients of the FIR filter This equation describes the output of the FIR filter as a convolution sum of the input with the impulse response of the system The transfer function of the FIR filter ... 5.5.1 Software Implementations The software implementation of digital filtering algorithms on a PC is often carried out first to verify whether or not the chosen algorithm meets the goals of the...
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