... established air quality standards consistent with air quality criteria in a fixed time schedule • Gave states primary responsibility for action, but a very strong federal authority was provided • ... have been in their air pollution control courses at Vanderbilt University, Western Washington University, Gonzaga University, and Education Services of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers ... Velocity and Particulate Traverses 5.3.3 Isokinetic Sampling References Chapter 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Ambient Air Quality and Continuous Emissions Monitoring Ambient Air Quality Sampling...
... Positive Negative 34 22 Table Sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive and positive predictive values of tests used in comparison Test Sensitivity Spesifity PPD NPD ELISA 90,0 66,7 91,1 63,6 ... sensitivity and specificity were found to be 45.5 % and 97.1 % for Ig M and 79 % and 100 % for Ig G respectively (10) When the two ELISA Ig positivity were evaluated together, sensitivity and specificity ... than STA and Coombs methods has higher sensitivity and specificity (4) In a study conducted by Casao et al on 123 sera samples, the compatibility ratio between the brucellacapt test and the Coombs...
... combination of rigidity and flexibility There is rigidity in: the mandatory layouts for the balance sheet and profit and loss account; the valuation rules and notably the limited possibility to depart ... flexibility in: the true and fair override; the many options both for member states and for companies; the fact that the provisions of the directive are minimum requirements; and the possibility to ... and partnerships are a legal form of business entity and come within the scope of the Commercial Code which requires all forms of legal entity, both incorporated and unincorporated, to keep good...
... explore the stability of IDF so that system designers can make an informed decision regarding how many documents should be included in the IDF calculations We explore the stability of IDF in random, ... understanding of IDF stability may enable us to make specific system recommendations such as if the collection increases by more than n% then update the IDF values To explore the sensitivity we compared the ... 22.545 27.507 Table Examples of IDF, ISF and ITF for terms with increasing IDF IDF sensitivity The stability of the corpus weighting scheme is particularly important in a dynamic environment such...
... additional target positions increases the flexibility of transducers in the translation application without an adverse effect on computational complexity• On the other hand, we restrict the source ... one model over another were achieved through an increase in model complexity We looked at three measures of model complexity for the two systems, with the results shown in Table The first was the ... difficult There is also an inherent difficulty in evaluating the translation task: a single source utterance has many valid translations and the validity of translations is a matter of degree Despite...
... that twelve weeks of high intensity ST significantly improved several indices of quality of life, including self-efficacy, mood, physical function, pain, vitality, and role emotional health [13] ... pain, a global index of health-related quality of life, or vitality [9] To our knowledge, there are no existing data concerning the effects of PT on quality of life Therefore, the purpose of this ... self-reported disability Respondents meeting the eligibility criteria, who received written approval from their primary care physician, and who passed a resistance training safety screening (see...
... Arthroplasty: [http://orthonet.on.ca/emergingtrends/notes/Femoral%20Offset.htm] [9] Ranawat CS, Rao RR, Rodriguez JA: Correction of limb-length inequality during total hip arthroplasty J Arthroplasty ... implications on patient quality of life The aim of this study is to compare biomechanical hip reconstruction in hip resurfacing, large-diameter femoral head hip arthroplasty and conventional total ... gait, joint instability [7] and dislocation [8] A discrepancy in such restoration is the leading cause of patient dissatisfaction [6] and has profound implications on patient quality of life Therefore...
... the degree of integrity of photoStrasser et al, synthetic membranes 1987) In addition, water stress often pro- - Experimental time course acceptors ; p (A motes susceptibility to photoinhibition ... following day/night conditions: 16/8 h; air temperature, 22/16 °C; relative humidity, 70/95 % Photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) at the top of the plants was maintained at 300 μmol m s -2 -1 ... free air and obscurity (LWC was reduced from 70 to 30% in h) to ensure that R , fd and t could really 1/2 be affected by strong stresses, and that the previously observed stability was not an artefact...
... the 11-gauge and 8-gauge needles of the Mammotome®-System with regard to a) diagnostic reliability, b) complication rate and c) subjective perception of pain both immediately postoperatively and ... benign histology were diagnosed All papillomas which were included in the study showed no signs of atypia and were completely removed under sonographic imaging Therefore open biopsy was not performed ... (61%) with the 11-gauge needle An overview of the results is shown in table Diagnostic reliability The mean diameter of the lesions using the 8-gauge needle was 16 mm (4–50 mm), and with the 11-gauge...
... sensitivity and specificity in this study In this dataset the sensitivity was 0.39 and the specificity was 0.47 If an exact match of the genotype was required as well as location, then the sensitivity ... (sensitivity 0.22 and specificity 0.77), SNVs in PBMCexpressed genes (sensitivity 0.59 and specificity 0.84), and SNVs in PBMC-expressed genes without paralogs (sensitivity 0.58 and specificity 0.90) ... specificity again rose from 0.67 to 0.72 In contrast, for SNVs in exons of 33,331 transcripts from genes with paralogs, the sensitivity was 0.38 and the specificity was 0.45 (sensitivity 0.81...
... [26,27] The investigation of evaluation methods for pulmonary function with high sensibility and specificity has Figure Correlation between DVC measured with ventilometer and incentive spirometer ... 26.98 ± 11 ml/Kg 0.859 BMI: Body mass index, DVCV: direct vital capacity measured with ventilometer DVCI: direct vital capacity measured with incentive inspirometer Figure Correlation between DVC ... cientifico na prática clínica Rev Assoc Med Bras 2000, 46:285-288 26 America Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society ATS/ERS statement on respiratory muscle testing Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002,...
... control (VC) PRVC (n = 44) PIP (cmH2O) VC (n = 44) 20 (19-23) 24 (23-27) P < 0.0001 Results Forty-Four patients with acute respiratory failure were included No patient was excluded after randomization ... patients failing the assigned mode of ventilation; Survival = survival in the two groups The risk of type error for an overlooked difference of 10% failing VC is only 20% with 1-b = 80% Further studies ... consisting of few patients Author details Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Hvidovre University Hospital, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark 2Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Slagelse Central...
... monitor inter-rater reliability Initiation of a study at any site required evidence of inter-rater ESRS reliability and certification of raters Inter-rater reliability required that ≥ 80% of item ... 1.02 0.12 ± 0.73 CGI of severity of parkinsonism (item 59) 0–8 0.08 ± 0.46 0.11 ± 0.45 CGI of severity of dystonia (item 60) 0–8 0.05 ± 0.37 0.04 ± 0.31 CGI of severity of dyskinesia (item 58) 0–8 ... 3.60 2.23 ± 3.17 CGI of severity of parkinsonism (item 59) 0–8 1.08 ± 1.44 0.15 ± 0.38 CGI of severity of dystonia (item 60) 0–8 0.92 ± 1.50 0.08 ± 0.28 CGI of severity of dyskinesia (item 58) 0–8...
... This research was done at: LUND UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF LAW HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF LAW SUPERVISORS: PROF HANS HENRIK LIDGARD ASST.PROF LÊ THỊ BÍCH THỌ ... Ho Chi Minh City University of Law Date and time: This dissertation may be found at following libraries: - Vietnam National Library - Library of Ho Chi Minh City University of Law - Library ... Treaty of Maastrichtestablishing the European Union in 1992 This Treaty entered into force from November 1993 and became the EC Treaty Articles 85 and 86 became Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty...
... within the framework of the joint doctoral program between Lund University Faculty of Law and Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, supported by SIDA’s “Strengthening legal education in Vietnam” ... I will never forget is the support and encouragement of the Lund University Faculty of Law and Ho Chi Minh City University of Law during my research I would like to express my gratitude to Prof ... Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty and used to be called as Article 81EC, Article 82EC The Treaty was further amended by the Treaty of Amsterdam25 and the Treaty of Nice.26 Then, on 13 December...
... achievement by ethnicity 197 5.3.1.2 Employment and unemployment pattern by ethnicity 200 5.3.1.3 Ownership of capital assets by ethnicity 210 5.3.1.4 Monthly mean income by ethnicity 213 vi 5.3.2 ... mobility, intellectual diversity and division of labor, protection of property rights, and social and economic equalization In Todaro’s view (1992), these changes are meant to help a society achieve ... responsibility, and accountability; and has the potential to release people from poverty as state legitimacy is recognized and entrenched Therefore, bringing about improvements in the quality of life...
... probabilities fall off again This may indicate some type of wrap-around behavior in the space of designs We would like to investigate this possibility further Conclusions Dynamic simulation is a potentially ... equivalence class consists of twelve states formed by rotating the part about its major axis in thirty degree increments LT LB 3.4 Simulated Designs Direction of Motion Figure 4: The six cylinder ... the track can be easily reconfigured for a number of discrete settings (through the use of thumb-type screws for making the adjustment) 3.3 Part Modelling We model the cylindrical sleeves as solid,...
... using the quantity of labor used for dairy production, as reported in the survey, times an imputed wage rate The wage rate reflects the opportunity cost of farm operator labor Opportunity costs of ... operation, and costs for non-real estate property taxes and insurance Total economic costs are the sum of operating and capital ownership costs, plus opportunity costs for unpaid labor and land, and ... to farm assets or equity Even when income from non-dairy farming activities was added, the implicit return to unpaid labor and management was only $4.34 per hour A sensitivity analysis also indicated...
... of modality Bvii Speech is 'homeostatic" (op cit p.46) Ong means by this that an oral society has a large variety of lexemes covering the immediate needs and environment of the community Such ... and assesses the validity of what he is saying (modality), this does not seem to be an unjustifiable step On the other hand, however, Danes does say that the choice of modality and mood and tense ... - the staff at the University of Al-Azhar, Cairo, who plied me with tea and provided much of the data on which this research is based - my colleagues at The University of Salford, who have borne...