... advanced disease, but within this gray zone only 25% have cancer, and controversy exists whether these are the patients who have early-stage disease and would benefit from detection or whether these ... with the ARCHITECT i2000 SR comparison method Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 µg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% ... this phenomenon, the other problem was the lack of calibration against a universal standard In an effort to standardize PSA methods, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a standard, the...
... trivial elements, andthe comparison of their positions in different species is only the first step in understanding their intricate evolution in animals and other eukaryotic taxa Biologists have recently ... for cells and perform various functions [15,16] Jeffares et al [17] have recently reviewed the process of intron gain and loss They and others have demonstrated that intron evolution is not a ... to the correlation between an organism’s morphological and functional complexity andthe absolute size of its genome Some invertebrates have a genome size comparable to that of humans [10,11] The...
... who they like to correct the errors (teacher, themselves or their peers) and whether they feel satisfied with the corrective feedback or not CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 38 This chapter is ... If the utterance needs repair, then corrective feedback may again be provided by the teacher; if no further feedback is provided, then there is topic continuation If and when there is repair, then ... intent often in the ‘here and now’ This is because of time-constraint and conditions inherent in listener-speaker situations There is also the need to handle unpredictability of listener response...
... of the NRR over The currency risk premium was then derived from actual interest rate differentials between New Zealand and Australia and New Zealand andthe United States the 1990s Given the ... course, the disinflationary impact of the Asian crisis of of the NRR Hawkesby et al assume that there is no default the late 1990s may counter-balance the impact of these or liquidity premium between ... capacity constraints, is known as “potential output” Thedifference In this article we expand on the above distinction and clarify between actual and potential output is known as the “output alternative...
... afflicting the recent and multidisciplinary debates Whatis AE for? Is AE an adaptation or a by-product? Whatisthe relationship between AE andthe goal of knowing? Has AE a mental distinctiveness? What ... ask: is there a role for touching in the aesthetic division of labour, which is indisputably dominated by the seeing and hearing that seem to safeguard the distance betweenthe work of art and ... ontology of music (the clash between nominalism and idealism about the relationship between a musical work‚ and its tokens or performances‚, the controversy between fictionalism and realism, etc.);...
... results andthe preparation of this thesis This PhD research program andthe study presented in this thesis was conducted with funding support from Atlantic Philanthropies xviii What explains the ... quickly expanded beyond the United States, and was finally adapted in the ICD-10 Although there is a high level of concordance betweenthe diagnoses in the DSM-III andthe ICD-10, they differ ... PSYCHO-BEHAVIOURAL THEORIES OF DEPRESSION (Strickland 2001; Raymond and Auerbach 1996; Marsella 1994) The goal of including various theories of depression in this Thesis is to assist in understanding the likely...
... didn't know what his sat nav system meant when it said "Take the ramp" Another huge difference that causes great confusion is writing the date When you write the date in numbers British and American ... better to write the date in full (7th September 2007 or September 7th 2007) It also looks nicer ! - watch out! These words could prove embarrassing !Note - *if the sink is in the kitchen - it's ... British and American English differ To write the date 7th of September 2007 a Brit would write dd/mm/yy (07/09/07) and an American would write mm/dd/yy (09/07/07) This often causes great confusion...
... defined as the distance betweenthe anterior wall of the aorta andthe internal face of the recto-abdominal muscle perpendicular to the aorta When the aortic walls were not visualized as they were ... MND, CD and PF helped to draft the manuscript TM and TG performed ultrasound TG participated in thedesign of the study and performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final ... presuppose the obesity as if it was the cause of IR; this fact is supported by the clear association betweenthe inflammatory status (CPR levels and spleen volume) andthe HS score Could the high...
... asked This even though in the fullness of time balance betweenthe rates of manufacture and destruction, betweenwhatis made andwhatis broken down occurs andis quantitative whatever the protein, ... balance The question then is not whether this occurs, but how and where? If balance is not achieved within the synthetic and degradative reaction sequences in their own right, and it is not, then ... rate The equilibrium constant betweenthe two forms reflects their ratio in the cell at the steady state In this way, the rates of the irreversible and independent mechanisms of synthesis and...
... onto the asymmetry in dispensability betweenthe two duplicate types, we repeated the semantic distance analysis with these subsets (Figure 4) This analysis revealed significant differences between ... Where r isthe shared interaction ratio, s isthe number of interactions shared betweenthe two proteins, and n1 and n2 are the number of interactions for ORF1 and ORF2, respectively Semantic distance ... infer that thedifferencebetweenthe duplicate sets is most probably a result of the different strengths of constraint imposed by dosage and balance effects on the gene products, that is they are...
... Punishments for plagiarism differ in schools A high school student might fail the project A college student might fail the class and be suspended for a year In some colleges and universities, ... inside quotation marks Where people get in trouble is when they try to claim other people's words as their own IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English was written by Nancy Steinbach I’m Steve Ember ... might be told to leave and never return Using information from experts is usually OK, as long as where the material came from is identified Any material copied word-for-word is supposed to appear...
... this presentation may be published, sold, or otherwise used for profit without the written permission of the author WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: A modern definition of brand The five disciplines of brand-building ... LET’S START BY DISPELLING SOME MYTHS FIRST A brand is not a logo SECOND A brand is not an identity X FINALLY A brand is not a product So what exactly is a brand? A BRAND IS A PERSON’S GUT ... EMOTIONAL SPATIAL VISUAL PHYSICAL DOES THE LEFT BRAIN KNOW WHATTHE RIGHT BRAIN IS DOING? When both sides work together, you can build a charismatic brand A CHARISMATIC BRAND is any product, service,...
... none of these can document whether a particular patient understands the one form they need at the moment This leaves it up to the person requesting the data, the provider conducting the procedure ... Style • Isthe material written primarily in the active voice and in a conversational style? • Isthe reading level of the document appropriate for the intended audience? • Are the words and sentences ... 18 Brandes W, Furnas S, and McClellan F Literacy, Health, andthe Law: An Exploration of the Law andthe Plight of Marginal Readers within the Health Care System: Advocating for Patients and Providers...
... Korea) and Thailand, during the Asian crisis (19971998) The Asian crisis is best characterised as triggered by a mixture of con…dence crisis in a few countries, which then spread - through trade and, ... adverse shocks to risk premia In the case of Korea and Thailand at the time of the Asian crisis, the picture is similar to the case of an adverse risk premium shock alone, that is, the exchange rate ... economy at the time of the 1999 crisis (third oval, top panel) During this episode, a con…dence crisis induces a depreciation of the real Interest rate are raised with the aim of stabilising the domestic...
... On the other hand, the exceptional status of those measures which satisfy the Keck criteria is more and more anomalous Perhaps the truth is that the ECJ is not thinking in terms of grand theory, ... when Commission v Italy was transferred to the Grand Chamber of the ECJ.55 When the oral procedure was re-opened, the Grand Chamber asked the parties and all the other Member States to give their ... remember his various visits to Groningen, many hilarious meals together, and his wise counsel and encouragement The dedication of this special issue of this Journal to him justly pays further tribute...
... found betweenthe response to the GRoC question andthe SF-6D score at initial assessment across the nine studies The combining of the "somewhat worse" and "somewhat better" groups assumes the ... osteoarthritis of the hip or knee [22] Hays and Morales also provide information on what a clinically important differenceis for the SF-36 scales They conclude that the MCID for the SF-36 is "typically ... for the summary estimate of the MID was then calculated [31,32] We also used a distribution-based approach and calculated a standardised response mean (SRM) Since the standard error of the SRM is...
... this presentation may be published, sold, or otherwise used for profit without the written permission of the author WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: A modern definition of brand The five disciplines of brand-building ... LET’S START BY DISPELLING SOME MYTHS FIRST A brand is not a logo SECOND A brand is not an identity X FINALLY A brand is not a product So what exactly is a brand? A BRAND IS A PERSON’S GUT ... EMOTIONAL SPATIAL VISUAL PHYSICAL DOES THE LEFT BRAIN KNOW WHATTHE RIGHT BRAIN IS DOING? When both sides work together, you can build a charismatic brand A CHARISMATIC BRAND is any product, service,...
... Good communication This isthe main and prerequisite skill necessary for the managers to manage people 2 Good communication Good communication Honest, communication is one of the key ingredients ... recruit the right people for the company, human capital is guaranteed, saving time and recruitment costs 1 Recruitment and training Staff training is an integral part of the overall development ... where the air is due to work or the work culture of the organization that brings Increase work efficiency Therefore the employee in the company can get very creative, work efficiently and bring...