... the mess that she shuts the drawer and starts doing something else only to ask herself two seconds later why she just shut that drawer or where the stamp is The instruction to herself to look ... Daniel Schacter puts it, one of the “seven sins of memory. ” A dramatic illustration of this is the story of the missing Stradivarius A string quartet has just performed a concert in Los Angeles, ... learn to be less stressed, lower the demands on ourselves, and take life easier: slow cities, slow food, time for reflection, and so forth It all has its place But this book sends an opposing and...
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... of breast lesions During the assessment of different tumor characteristics it was observed that the mass margins and mass shape are important aspects in the assessment of images of breast lesions ... using smaller sample sizes Scores related to mass margins, mass shape, vascularization, and mass size were provided by all respondents For both MRI and PAM II, data was missing with respect to ... beliefs to an expression of these in a statistical form [13, 14] Where AHP uses pairwise comparisons to measure the impact of parameters, expert elicitation methods directly assesses parameters and...
... Attested N/V pair stress patterns v.) stress We use the notation {Nstress,Vstress} to denote the stress of an N/V pair, with 1=´ σ, σ 2=σ´ Of the four logically possible stress patσ terns, all ... perceptual factors, listeners systematically mishear some sound α as β, but rarely mishear β as α.7 We call such effects mistransmission Asymmetric mistransmission (by individu6 “Forms” here means any ... not a stable state Stability of {1,1}, {1,2}, {2,2}: These stress patterns correspond to stable states (for some system parameter values) Observed stable variation: Stable states are possible...
... grammars [11 Discussion The three main characteristics of the CLG processing model are the use of constrained terms to represent partial descriptions, the lack of systematic rewriting of constraints ... constraints associated with terms come in fact in pairs, the second element of which is omitted here for the sake of simplicity and contains essentially negated literals and inequations The reason ... terms andeither computing a unifier of those terms or failing Associating with a term t its usual denotation IItB={St E TO} (where S denotes a substitution of terms for variables) the unifier t of...
... problems, nor bear the cost of doing so – There are many worthy causes • Business must approach its social agenda proactively and strategically • Business must address society and social issues where ... Availability of local suppliers and support services (Sysco s locally grown produce; Nestlé s milk collection dairies) • Access to partner firms in related fields • Access to a cluster instead of isolated ... Supporting Industries Sophistication of local customers and needs – e.g., strict quality, safety, and environmental standards Availability of suppliers and supporting industries • Many things matter...
... the nonresponded bias Free gifts such as sun glasses and facial cosmetics could be used in the future, in response to a patient 's response and could bolster patients impressions quite cost effectively ... was responsible for primary study design, manuscript drafting, statistic and interpretation, and manuscript submission AB served as a LASIK consultant, assisted with data collection and assisted ... relation to physicians was 78.22%, also significantly lower than this study [33] The results of this research demonstrated that the SERVQUAL instrument is a useful measurement tool in assessing and...
... calcaneus Although we did not separate our results into yearly age groups for statistical analysis to avoid dilution of statistical relevance, it is interesting to note the values of Bohler s angle and ... and adult groups was also statistically significant (p = 0.004) Table illustrates the individual group results from our study Table displays the results of the statistical comparisons performed ... angle of Gissane 0-2 year age group comparisons was therefore defined as a p-value of less than 0.01, while for all other comparisons it was defined as a p-value of less than 0.05 For the statistically...
... calcaneus Although we did not separate our results into yearly age groups for statistical analysis to avoid dilution of statistical relevance, it is interesting to note the values of Bohler s angle and ... and adult groups was also statistically significant (p = 0.004) Table illustrates the individual group results from our study Table displays the results of the statistical comparisons performed ... angle of Gissane 0-2 year age group comparisons was therefore defined as a p-value of less than 0.01, while for all other comparisons it was defined as a p-value of less than 0.05 For the statistically...
... function: s ® M(1 -s) +s (f) is strictly monotone increasing and continuous on [0, ∞) Proof (i) Suppose that ϕ, ψ − ϕ ∈ C+ (I) For each s ≥ 1, put s = (1 - s) + s Since sm s = + s( ψ - ), ... mean inequality as an application of our results Lemmas This section is devoted to collecting some lemmas which we will need in the proof of our main results The first lemma is to describe geometric ... λc, s1 , s2 (x) = s2 λc,ϕ,ψ (x) + − s2 (s1 = 0) (3) and λc, s1 , s2 (x) = s2 s − s1 − s1 s1 λc,ϕ,ψ (x) − s1 −1 s1 (s1 = 0) (4) for each x Î I\{c} If s1 = 0, then it is trivial by (3) that λc, s1 ...
... general expressions are known for coloured Dyck paths (these are modelsof adsorbing copolymers), except in the simplest of cases [16] Further investigation of these models [26] suggests instead that ... situation is true for modelsof bargraphs, since both edges and vertices may lie in the adsorbing line (which is the X-axis) See figure This distinguishes these models from Dyck path modelsof directed ... Bargraphs The techniques of Section may be applied to other models, and in this section we consider a model of adsorbing bargraphs There are also two possible models; the first a model of vertex-visit...
... upregulation of MMP13 and tenascinC From a clinical point of view, the possibility of differentiating successive stages of OA progression by means ofearlyand late disease markers is quite an ... and evaluated histological samples MI assisted with surgery and evaluated histological samples ES participated in the design and evaluation of molecular analysis, and contributed to the manuscript ... levels of severity or 'doses' of injury have been suggested by others as a possible reason for regional changes in mRNA expression [9] Our study, however, lends little credence to this suggestion...
... possible risks in a matter of decades in case of success IMRT was feasible even if anaesthesia was necessary and resulted in good local control rates for this group of children who represents ... interests Authors' contributions FS is responsible for data acquisition, literature research and writing of the manuscript ES is responsible for data acquisition, statistical analysis and writing of ... because of the same surrounding risk structures as discussed above Especially with respect to the benign nature of these tumors a well balanced toxicity profile is vital as described by Kuppersmith...
... D: Considerations for the use of the Beck Depression Inventory in the assessment of weight-loss surgery seeking patients Obes Surg 2007, 17:1097-101 Basker M, Moses PD, Russell S, Russell PS: The ... indices, indicating the robustness of this model within samples of students across cultures The loadings on the general factor of the bifactor model provide some insight into the nature of the specific ... the structure of an assessment instrument from three perspectives J Pers Assess 2005, 85:17-32 Steer RA, Ball R, Ranieri WF: Dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory -II in clinically depressed...
... natural hosts for SIV appear to be disease resistant when infected with SIV, whereas nonnatural Asian macaque hosts such as rhesus macaques exhibit progressive CD4+-T-cell depletion and AIDS [1214] ... gradient ofto 30% sucrose was used to obtain 11 fractions as described in Methods assembly and release of SIV with full length and truncated Env in dividing and non-dividing cells We also compared several ... vivo, because of its sensitivity to the humoral immune response [47] This is a possible reason why a most viruses with truncated Env were derived from tissues of immunocompromised macaques, or from...
... methods reports It is useful to distinguish between the concepts of stochastic and systematic measurement error Systematic errors are due to imperfections or biases in the experimental system, and ... edge-sets will be different) Obtaining such subsets allows us to generate a two-way table, T, to compare Si against Sj If the first method is used to generate the subsets Si and Sj, then we must still ... the presence of biases in the assay that systematically affect certain subsets of proteins, and stochastic variability in the measured interactions In turn, these three characteristics can benefit...
... associations between SES and eating habits among adolescents seemed less robust than the association between SES and eating habits among adults Within the FVMM study previous longitudinal analysis has shown ... and ‘Fruits and vegetables are very suitable as snacks’ Perceived accessibility at home had a possible range from -10 to 10 and was assessed by: ‘At home we usually have fruits and vegetables ... increase in accessibility and preferences than low SES children This increasing disparities regarding SES differences in adolescents FV intake, accessibility and preferences of FV is the opposite...