objective methods for measuring change in neuropsychology test scores
Methods for Measuring Cancer Disparities: Using Data Relevant to Healthy People 2010 Cancer-Related Objectives doc
... relevance when we are interested in measuring the overall disparity (i.e., across the entire population) For instance, suppose we were examining alcohol consumption at two points in time in a population ... healthy)? In regard to reducing income disparities, we are comfortable as a society in considering the need to reduce the incomes of the advantaged via taxation in order to increase the incomes ... information about the sources of increasing or decreasing disparity as indicated in a summary statistic In public health, decomposition often is used to capture differences in summary rates For...
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advanced experimental methods for noise research in nanoscale electronic devices
... out This is left for future papers Conclusion In conclusion, we pinpoint in this letter several properties resulting from introducing phase-locking in Pegg-Barnett quantum phase formalism We recall ... is the fluctuating number of increments in time intervals of identical length With increasing sampling intervals there increase both the average and the variance of the number of increments Randomness ... therefore noise-oriented design could be of importance in nanoengineering To so, one needs principles and rules born out from the fundamental knowledge, which cannot be obtained without finding...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Response shift, recall bias and their effect on measuring change in health-related quality of life amongst older hospital patients" pdf
... Williams GR: Defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life J Clin Epidemiol 2003, 56(5):395-407 Sullivan M: The new subjective medicine: taking the patient's point of view ... Conventional change scores were calculated by subtracting the baseline assessment from the discharge assessment Patient perceived change scores were calculated by subtracting 'then test' scores from ... conventional change scores and patient perceived change score (with and without adjustment for recall bias) are presented in Table Within individuals, discrepancy between conventional longitudinal change...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " The modified general iterative methods for nonexpansive semigroups in banach spaces†" ppt
... certain conditions Using the viscosity approximation method, Moudafi [9] introduced the following iterative iterative process for nonexpansive mappings (see [10,11] for further developments in ... proved Reich’s results hold in reflexive Banach spaces which have a weakly continuous duality mapping In the last ten years or so, the iterative methods for nonexpansive mappings have recently been ... J Following Browder [7], we say that a Banach space E has a weakly continuous duality mapping if there exists a gauge for which the duality mapping J (x) is single-valued and continuous from...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Biometric Methods for Secure Communications in Body Sensor Networks: Resource-Efficient Key Management and Signal-Level Data " potx
... small changes in the input results in significant changes in the output (i.e., the avalanche effect [9]) In other words, it is possible to generate a pseudorandom set using simple indexing changes in ... variations in Hamming distances, Gray coding can be utilized in the binary encoder This allows for incremental changes in the input signals to be reflected as the smallest possible Hamming distances ... for the morphing index mindex The cardinality of M should be small enough that mindex (e.g., a short sequence of to bits) can be sent as side information in COM The input to the morphing function...
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Báo cáo y học: "Preliminary evidence for a change in spectral sensitivity of the circadian system at night" potx
... were videotaped for one minute twice in the dark prior to light exposure, three times during light exposure, and, again, twice in the dark following the light exposure During videotaping, subjects ... melatonin suppression In other words, a simple increase in the relative contribution of the melanopsin-expressing RGCs near morning would account for the smaller difference in melatonin suppression ... suppression of melatonin for the LED lighting condition was significantly higher than for the Hg lighting condition, even though the pupil areas for the LED lighting condition were smaller Since pupil size...
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Báo cáo y học: " Comparison of two non-bronchoscopic methods for evaluating inflammation in patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure" doc
... and mini-BAL sampling techniques, indicating that these procedures cannot be used interchangeably for studying the lung inflammatory response in patients with acute hypoxaemic lung injury Introduction ... and mini-BAL techniques, suggesting that these procedures cannot be used interchangeably for sequentially studying the lung inflammatory response in the distal air spaces Except for use in patients ... online http://ccforum.com/content/13/4/R134 Key messages • No data exist comparing mini-BAL and s-Cath for assessing lung inflammation in acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure • Using protein...
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Báo cáo sinh học: " Power of three multitrait methods for QTL detection in crossbred populations" doc
... an increase in the number of parameters to be estimated due to an increase in the number of sires in the design, the (co)variance matrix being estimated within half-sib families For example, in ... segregation of the QTL alleles in the grand parental populations in an intercross design METHODS Multitrait methods and the single trait method (ST) were compared These methods applied to a mixture ... traits The linear combination which best discriminates the putative QTL effects was established at each tested position To calculate the linear combination, groups of progeny were distinguished,...
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ICP design methods for driven piles in sands and clays
... organisations for which they work or the publishers Printed and bound in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow ICP design methods for driven piles in sands and clays Page CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ... bearing database in sand .49 5.4.2 Degree of fit for the ICP end bearing method in sand .50 Page 5.5 ICP design methods for driven piles in sands and clays Base resistance in clay ... 87 RING SHEAR TESTING METHODOLOGY 87 ICP design methods for driven piles in sands and clays Page A1.1 Principle of test 87 A1.2 Specimen and interface preparation...
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Analytical methods for performance enhancement in unreliable multistage manufacturing systems with imperfect production
... manufacturing system is also investigated in this thesis An algorithm is formulated for determining the placement of inspection machines in such a system With the inspection allocation scheme indicated ... pertaining to preventive maintenance and inspection, which are two important strategies for improving performance of manufacturing systems 2.2 Performance Measures of Manufacturing Systems The increasing ... machine and profit of the system under different THk 77 Table 4.1 The processing or inspection rate for machines in Case E 100 Table 4.2 The processing or inspection rate for machines...
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Automated optimization methods for scientific workflows in e science infrastructures
... [Wolstencro2009] In turn, providing these advanced methods within SWMSs would require extended control and larger changes or extensions on SWMSs Therefore, bioinformaticians are missing a platform to ... writing over 2500 workflows [UoM2007]) originating from different workflow types and domains, such as bioinformatics, physics, chemistry or geoscience Initially, its aim was at supporting bioinformaticians ... means dealing with a rugged fitness landscape, maybe not including many gradient information Therefore, only non-linear optimization problems will be part of the following investigation Non-linear...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Magnitude and meaningfulness of change in SF-36 scores in four types of orthopedic surgery" ppt
... normative values of 95% CI: 12 points for PF, 23 points for RP, 15 points for BP, 18 points for GH, 16 points for VT, 26 points for SF, 28 points for RE, and 24 points for MH sub- http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/55 ... an individual level are essential for interpretation of intra-individual change as they help to determine clinical meaningfulness of the observed change in individual scores Estimates of individual ... performed best, with no floor or ceiling effects and large changes in patients' scores following surgery however it had low sensitivity to change in individual or group scores Our results also indicate...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Comparison of four different methods for reliability evaluation of ecotoxicity data: a case study of non-standard test data used in environmental risk assessments of pharmaceutical substances" pdf
... execution, methods for data analyses, and the reporting format for the test data Non-standard tests, on the other hand, are tests performed according to any other test method Regardless of whether a test ... published in scientific journals Standard tests are often performed according to GLP, whereas non-standard tests are seldom performed according to GLP The primary objective of the OECD Principles ... endpoints, could be developed in the near future Adjustments of current standard tests could increase the biological relevance for testing pharmaceutical substances Therefore, a potential way forward...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Experimental comparison of methods for simultaneous selection of two correlated traits in Tribolium. 2. Index selection and independent culling levels : a replicated single generation test" potx
... selection intensities for egg laying from the index line were in general smaller than the corresponding values obtained in the independent culling line, while selection intensities for adult ... 12 p 100 for adult weight and egg laying, respectively The selection intensities for egg laying and adult weight in both lines are shown in table In the independent culling line the intensity ... independent culling line The difference between average gains in egg laying was significant (tabl 3) The mean value for adult weight increased in all replicates of the index line, increasing in replicates...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Comparison of four statistical methods for detection of a major gene in a progeny test design" pptx
... directly, by using for instance the EM algorithm defined by Dempster et al (1977): see appendix This is the algorithm we used for the ME2 test in order to obtain more extensive information on critical ... have stimulated interest in new techniques for detection of single genes Various tests have been described concerning livestock (Hanset, 1982) Their general principle is that the within family distribution ... power in the best case (though FE involving only 400 animals), very poor performance of the I statistic, intermediate power for ME2 l knowledge of heritability is ME prefer the I statistics against...
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nondestructive test methods for evaluation of concrete in structures
... resulted in more reliable and faster testing systems that are less subject to operator influence both in testing procedure and in the analysis of test results Two distinct groupings of stress-wave methods ... selected nondestructive test methods for determining structural properties and conditions Information derived from conducting these types of tests is important in evaluating the integrity of a concrete ... flux amplitude increases, and the sensing coil current increases Thus, the presence of the bar is indicated by a change in the output from the sensing coil For a given reinforcing bar, the reluctance...
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Tài liệu Step-by-Step Guide for Creating and Testing Connection Manager Profiles in a Test Lab doc
... Configuring the Initial Test Lab Configuring and Testing a Dial-Up Profile Configuring and Testing a PPTP Profile 29 Configuring and Testing an L2TP/IPSec ... implement in the lab or of general test lab operations For links to conceptual information, general deployment information, and product details, see Related Links at the end of this paper The instructions ... (as shown in the following figure), and install CMAK Install Phone Book Administrator Open Windows Explorer, and browse the installation disc for Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition Install PBA...
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Tài liệu Instructions for Form 3115 (Rev. March 2012)-Application for Change in Accounting Method pptx
... respect to the change in method of accounting is demonstrated as follows: Beginning inventory for year of change under proposed method Beginning inventory for year of change under ... Adjustment Line 24 Ordinarily, an adjustment under section 481(a) is required for changes in method of accounting However, for certain changes in method of accounting, the taxpayer must make the change ... line 4, to indicate the accounting standard used for financial reporting.) Line 13 For each applicant, including each member of a consolidated group, each separate and distinct trade or business...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "An API for Measuring the Relatedness of Words in Wikipedia" docx
... (1995) Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy In Proc of IJCAI-95, Vol 1, pp 448–453 Seco, N., T Veale & J Hayes (2004) An intrinsic information content metric for ... useful in many NLP applications such as word sense disambiguation (Kohomban & Lee, 2005; Patwardhan et al., 2005), information retrieval (Finkelstein et al., 2002), information extraction pattern induction ... http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Wikipedia 50 Using the API The API provides factory classes for querying Wikipedia, in order to retrieve encyclopedia entries as well as relatedness scores for word pairs In practice, the Java...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Generalization Methods for In-Domain and Cross-Domain Opinion Holder Extraction" pdf
... Christopher Manning 2005 Incorporating Non-local Information into Information Extraction Systems by Gibbs Sampling In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ... FICTION contains more out-ofdomain language Therefore, RB (which exclusively uses domain-independent knowledge) outperforms both learning-based methods including the ones incorporating generalization ... is, indeed, an improvement by adding information from RB resulting in a large boost in recall Already the application of our induction approach Induc results in an increase of more than 8% points...
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