... the area of Specialty and Inpatient Hospital Care (see Table 3) Overview of analysis oftheDynamicsof Care We conducted a series of analyses on theDynamicsof Care assessment to better understand ... representative sample of clients' concerns for further discussion in theDynamicsof Care assessment, we first asked respondents to rate their satisfaction with services available to them in each ... identified at the three month time point (see discussion of measure below) TheDynamicsof Care assessment TheDynamicsof Care assessment was designed to capture patients' experiences of care in detail,...
... ATGGGGTATTTGAGGGTCAG TACCCTCCTTGCGCTCAATC GCGATTCCTTTTGGAGAAGAC TCGATATCCACATCGTCAGC CCGTCGTGGAGACGTCAA CGAGGAGAGGACACAAAGCT TCCACAACTGCTTCCTGATG CACACGACTCAATGCGTACC Subsequently, cDNA was amplified ... in the dark Larvae responded tothe onset of darkness with a strong startle, causing a maximal peak on the speed actogram, then their speed decreased as they adapted to darkness The habituation ... testing using zebrafish embryos among scientists (Figure 1. 2A) as well as legislators: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has standardized the zebrafish embryo test for waste...
... were analysed via variance analysis with Welch 's and Gamess-Howell 's tests, which have been recommended for use in cases of unequal sample sizes and unequal variances [44] The main data analyses ... Professor Anna-Mari Aalto from the National Institute for Health and Welfare, who participated in designing the questionnaire; to assistants Tiina Tala, Saara Ojala, and Heidi Korhonen from the EBMeDS ... respondents These may cause non-response bias and, accordingly, problems in interpretation ofthe results [45] Since an internet-based webropol format was used, the response rate can be assessed by using...
... care doctors Statistical analysis In all statistical analyses, the three targeted tests are reported and analysed separately In order to test the representativeness of our sample from within the ... to obtain data on individual primary care doctors’ requesting patterns from the administrative data systems The implication for statistical analysis was that some measure of practice-level psychological ... was calculated as the mean of all items contributing tothe construct Cronbach s alpha was used to ascertain the reliability of each ofthe scales If reliability was lower than 0.7, an exploratory...
... back at Table 6, SPREAD is the least signi"cant explanatory variable in the model across the entire group of stocks This may re#ect the incompleteness ofthe bid}ask spread as a measure of liquidity, ... bid}ask spreads, at least for the 16 stocks in this study over the two periods being examined Thedynamicsofthe bid}ask spread and its relationship to volatility may also have changed since the ... across adjacent price thresholds, but a joint test rejects the hypothesis that all eight models are statistically identical Of course, these tests not have standard distributions as the estimates...
... was well versed in Malay and Cantonese So the reader fully accepts the situation illustrated above as natural, that is, the narrator understands the languages spoken, and thus can translate them ... Here, the man called Stark speaks Malay tothe servant and English tothe narrator The switch from one language to another is only obvious because ofthe phrase “said Stark in Malay” at the beginning ... use of different levels of SingaporeMalayan English have gradually replaced vernacular transcriptions What makes a characteristically Singapore or Malaysian novel is the use of any of these strategies...
... this distance between them so as to bring language as close as possible tothe observing gaze, and the things observed as close as possible to words Natural history is nothing more than nomination ... truth; that is, the types of discourse it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances that enable one to distinguish true and false statements, the means by which each is sanctioned ... can say”.49 This statement raises two questions, one having to with the statement itself, and the other its implications for his own histories As far as the statement itself goes, there is a...
... Kawasaki s Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan For this assistance, the research team expresses its most sincere gratitude REFERENCES Abhijit M., Sunando D G., Jayant K B and Sirshendu ... both LA and AC-Fe as shown in the values ofthe regression coefficient r2 Therefore, adsorption process of arsenic onto LA and AC-Fe may be described by Langmuir isotherm and the adsorption capacities ... silica with positive surface charge under normal conditions Therefore, LA can adsorb anionic contaminants as As[III] and As[V] (Larsson et al., 1999) A number of researchers (Larsson et al.,...
... ofa finite density ρ of flowing grains The analysis of Case A is straightforward, and was undertaken really only to explain features ofthe more complex Case C; that of Case B shows satisfactory ... smoothing: Cases A and C manifest this in the species h of stuck grains, while Case B manifests this in the species ρ of flowing grains We reiterate that the fundamental physical reason for this is the ... Firstly, the impact ofa constant flux of saltating grains knocks grains out ofthe ‘bare’ surface, causing them to hop along the ripple surface and land in the layer of flowing grains This is the underlying...
... the systematic factor of changes in the exposure to interest rate risk is closely related tothe (past and present) steepness ofthe term structure The results shown in Table make it possible to ... literature ofthe banks’ interest rate risk (See Staikouras (2003) and Staikouras (2006) for a survey) The first one is about the determinants ofthe banks’ exposure to interest rate risk, and the ... month may also change systematically For instance, it may be the case that there is a cluster of observations of banks with large exposure to interest rate risk in certain months To show the problem...
... bank and for the local market For individual banks, these are bank size (measured by the log of total assets), bank size squared and the share of deposits to total assets (lagged with one year ... mergers vary substantially across studies In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis ofa bank merger s impact on deposit rate dynamics We base the analysis on a unique dataset comprising ... different specifications of Hannan and Prager s (1998) and Focarelli and Panetta s (2003) approaches The results ofthe estimations of these alternative models are available from the authors’ website.13...
... business and the public This report is based on these panel discussions as well as leading academic scholarship in the area of trust, and a variety of survey data.8 Its creation began before the ... business Business, defined in this manner, is a moral enterprise Dealing with business and social issues as if they are separate endorses the archaic and destructive idea that business activity is ... Clearly, all businesses matter to one another This also indicates that the way business leaders react to malfeasance at other firms may be of critical importance to public trust in business—and...
... (potassium salt) was added toa nal concentration of 100 mM, while in the other sample KCl was added tothe same concentration The pH was adjusted to 6.9 in both samples and an antibiotic cocktail ... the rotational correlation time (sm) were evaluated prior to analysis The software package R1R2_DIFFUSION [31,40] was used to translate the centre of mass ofthe mean structure ofthe NMR ensemble ... model best tted the experimental data, and the structure was rotated to its principal axis for use in the model-free analysis The parameters, selected by extensive Monte-Carlo simulations as described...
... word sense disambiguation, and a set of linguistic features They test their system against both Lauer s prepositional paraphrases and another set of 21 semantic relations, achieving up to 54% accuracy ... Shinyama, Satoshi Sekine, and Kiyoshi Sudo 2002 Automatic paraphrase acquisition from news articles In Proceedings of HLT, pages 313–318 Marta Tatu and Dan Moldovan 2005 A semantic approach to ... vectors – one for each ofthe six word pairs We then calculate the relational similarity between the stem ofthe analogy and each ofthe five candidates, and we choose the pair with the highest score;...
... course of actomyosin ATPase cycles The weak versus strong binding ofthe myosin S1 domain to labelled actin filaments causes opposing changes in polarization parameters Apparently, subdomain movement ... the same token, none changes the strong binding of myosin S1 to actin, nor they alter the Vmax and KM parameters of actomyosin ATPase activity or the rates of ADP release from acto -S1 [14,15] ... Hegyi and J Belagyi Cross-linking affects thedynamicsof F-actin effect amounts toa decrease of s2 as a function of increasing thermal motions within the molecules According tothe Goldman equation...
... storage is storage that is not locally hosted The data is stored in physical media like any other data, but the storage media is a hard drive located in some far-off server farm instead ofa ... data and can send that data to any other computer that is part ofthe cloud As a result it is no longer strictly accurate to simply say your data is stored on your PC Instead, the data is stored ... SpiderOak (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/spideroak-online-data-backupsharing-solution-crossplatform/) – Slanted towards file backup as well as sharing, SpiderOak isn’t nearly as easy to use as...
... computers, each of which stores the same data and can send that data to any other computer that is part ofthe cloud As a result it is no longer strictly accurate to simply say your data is stored ... that unfortunately has been butchered as of late, but at its core the term stands for a very specific way of storing data Cloud storage is storage that is not locally hosted The data is stored ... method of backing up information, but storage space is an issue None ofthe available accounts, free or paid, offer a massive amount of storage The limited storage space is not insurmountable,...
... The classical disease propagation models are based on the stages ofa disease in a host: aperson is first susceptible toa disease, then if she is exposed to an infectious contact she can become ... recommendations For these reasons we cut-off the plot when the number of observations becomes too small and the error bars too large We calculate the purchase probabilities and the standard errors ofthe ... categories such as westerns, classics and Japanese animated films (anime), had connected components spanning about 20% of their members The insert in figure shows the growth ofthe customer base over...
... What has happened to social work in hospitals over the past twenty years is a clear example of this contrast Until the early 198 0s, the social problem that hospital workers addressed was straightforward: ... embodies social welfare policy? The leading professional organization, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), offers one answer In its Code of Ethics, NASW states, A historic and defining ... one stage to another, they contend that history repeats itself Just as the days ofthe week repeat and the same seasons occur in every year, so history more closely resembles a circle rather than...