... without the human immunodeficiency virus We had no language restrictions The titles (and the abstracts, when available) in the MEDLINE and EMBASE printouts, andthe reference lists of all primary and ... proportion of patients who were excluded post-randomization, whether cointerventions were described, whether the endpoints were assessed by investigators blinded to the intervention, andthe outcome ... acids, and ascorbic acid) against Osmolite and Traumacal and found a trend toward lower pneumonia rates in the modular tube feed patients [29] There was no difference in pneumonia between trauma patients...
... process for sales, the signs of the predicted relations and correlations (other than earnings changes) andthe results are essentially unchanged Therelationbetween sales and cash flow from ... test The exception is the correlation betweenthe predicted and actual correlations between current changes in accruals and future changes in cash flows The sixth column of table reports the correlations ... a t-test for the mean of the pairwise differences betweenthe actual and predicted correlations 47 Table Correlation between predicted and actual correlations at the firm level and portfolio...
... the mass of the air enclosed in them may picture In the case of the electrified bodies to ourselves that we the connection between them andthe ether around them is established in the following ... and that two balls C and D A A and B by rods hinged at and B, then the balls rotate about the rod they will tend to fly apart, and as the balls move further from the rod their are attached to ... finite mass andthe system caused to rotate round A and B, the effort of the ring to get away from the axis distance between them andthe law same as if A and B to approach each other, of approach...
... differences between controls and patients and less interaction with disease grade (AS) For the triceps surae reflex torque, the opposite would occur: differences between controls and patients, and in between ... the mathematical models and wrote the manuscript JG co-designed the experiment, assisted in the data processing and interpretation and writing of the manuscript KS conducted the experiments and ... Difference between controls and patients Stiffness, viscosity and reflexive torque from the triceps surae significantly differed between controls andthe stroke patients with an AS of one and higher...
... regression (with thepatient fitted as the stratum variable) The between- subject cross-sectional association between DDAVP and hypernatremia (with the 130 patients classified according to the occurrence, ... might explain the residual relation we found between hypernatremia and death Further studies are needed to provide support for this hypothesis Finally, therelationbetween hypernatremia and mortality ... hypernatremia and ICU mortality Patients who died on days and of their ICU stay had the highest increase in daily average serum Na between days and 2, while receiving DDAVP more often than the others...
... changes in the level andthe slope I measure the level of the Treasury term structure with the three-month Treasury bill yield, denoted YT,104, t , and measure the slope with the spread betweenthe ... 2226 The Journal of Finance ues of the call options Therefore therelationbetween Treasury yields and yield spreads of callable corporate bonds should be more negative than therelationbetween ... medium-maturity and short-maturity bonds, therelationbetween yield spreads andthe slope of the Treasury term structure is weaker, andthe thirty-year yield no longer summarizes the relevant information...
... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used H- CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) betweenthe relations predicted by O- CRF and R1CRF and includes the result in the feature ... indicate therelation among them Knowledge extracted by an open system takes the form of relational tuples (r, e1 , , en ) that contain two or more entities e1 , , en , and r, the name of the relationship ... example and then used to generate a prediction for the leftout example The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, andthe true label as given by the...
... effects on GR (top row) and on K (left row) versus the values of MAS for the elbow (left column) and ankle (right column) The scatter of the points andthe low values of the correlation coefficient ... properties were estimated using the difference betweenthe slope/intercepts of the paretic andthe slope/intercepts of the nonparetic side Since abnormalities in the GR and K of the ankle joint in people ... of the points andthe low values of the correlation coefficient (r2 < 0.31, p < 0.01) indicate that there was no significant relationbetween these variables, and consequently between our quantitative...
... results on therelationbetween holomorphicity of a valued-complex function and pluripolarity of its graph Namely we prove the following result Some Results on theRelationBetween 277 Theorem ... Mau Hai and Phung Van Manh pluripolarity of graphs andthe holomorphicity of Hartogs type and of Forelli type (see Theorems 3.2 and 4.1 below) The paper is organized as follows Beside the introduction, ... On the other hand, E2 = D2 \ A2 is pluripolar Hence fz1 = fz1 on D2 Thus f = f on D1 × D2 andthe proof for the case N = is completed Now we assume that the conclusion of the theorem holds for...
... write the manuscript JL analysed the data, performed the statistical evaluation, and helped to write the manuscript MR and JS helped to write the manuscript JB helped to conceive of the idea for the ... by anti-TNF therapy in this and other studies after years [35,27], there are also other factors [4] to be considered to explain this major difference to response to therapy between these two diseases ... method was the most specific and also the most sensitive to change for the depiction of structural spinal changes in patients with AS as compared with assessments on thepatient level or on the basis...
... flow theory, asymptotic response from a single cycle of selection is calculated as the sum of the product of the asymptotic proportion of genes deriving from the different age-sex classes and their ... cohort in which the newly arising variation (i.e the Mendelian sampling term) is generated The product of the long term genetic contribution andthe Mendelian sampling term quantifies the impact of ... differential for the kth sex age-group expressed as a deviation from mean of the whole contemporary sex-age group andthe sum is taken over all sex-age groups Furthermore, in conventional gene flow theory,...
... in the design of the study, recruited patients, performed the vascular assessments, conducted data analysis and drafted the manuscript DC, GK and JVVZ participated in the design of the study and ... Pearson’s correlations were used to assess the relationships between microvascular and macrovascular endothelium-dependent function Results Thepatient characteristics are presented in Table The majority ... endothelial function requires further investigation using newer and more accurate assessments of endothelial function Accordingly, the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between...
... exchange rate andthe balance of payments in Vietnam in the future New contributions of the thesis The thesis Therelationbetween exchange rate andthe balance of payments – The theory and reality ... general theories and analyse the reality of the causal relationbetween exchange rate andthe balance of payments in Vietnam, the thesis proposes the orientation and solutions to improve the positive ... following issues: - First, the thesis examines overall theories on the relationbetween exchange rate andthe balance of payments - Second, the thesis investigates the reality of the balance of payments,...
... contributions of the thesis * Academic and theoretical contributions On the basis of the theoretical and empirical researches, the thesis analyzes and clarifies the reality of FDI attraction and economic ... macroeconomic and microeconomic levels The thesis applies the VAR model to measure and analyze therelationbetween FDI and economic growth during the 1990-2012 period The thesis’s new approach lies in the ... and space: - The thesis analyzes therelationbetween FDI and economic growth during the period 1990 – 2012 - The thesis evaluates the impact of FDI on local enterprises and on the input of enterprises...
... strengths and weaknesses, and can complement the cross-country studies These studies are of uncertain generalizability However, they allow one to: (i) study the association between governance and performance ... Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi We approached all firms in the BSE 200 index with central offices in these cities; these firms include 26 of the firms in the BSE 30 index and 131 of the BSE 200 firms.3 ... subindices and Tobin's q is somewhat different for BSE 500 and non-BSE 500 firms On the other hand, Black et al (2009) report similar results for large and small firms We also find that the association between...
... the budget The paper analyzes the interdependence betweenthe cohesion policy andthe EU budget, indicating the direct connection betweenthe expenses made from the communitarian budget andthe ... design of the cohesion policy The paper presents the parallel evolution of the European Union budget, on the one hand, and of the cohesion policy, on the other hand At the same time, the changes ... repurchase the brand (“Will you repurchase the same brand next time?”) andthe intention to recommend the brand (“Would you recommend the brand you bought last time to others?”) The data regarding to these...