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... statisticrelates change over time to the standard deviation of base-line scores. The standardised response mean compareschange to the standard deviation of change. The respon-siveness statistic looks ... 4).Since the SF-6D is a continuous measure of effect we usedmeta-analytic methods to estimate the weighted grandmean ofthe MID and to test the hypothesis of homogene-ity of MID across the nine ... to recall their initial state, and the judgement is based on their present state and workingbackwards. Any measure of change that reflects the unbi-ased difference betweenthe final and initial...
... unlike the IMF’s, is linked to the date of the liberalization. Eichengreen forthcoming reviews the data and methodological differences among most of these and other studies. (For discussions ofthe ... Argentina and hand, if the interaction term is negative and statistically significant, it means the effect of capital account liberalization on growth is smaller when preceded by higher values ofthe ... “clusters” of political economic policies and structures. Of relevance to this study, the levels of Openness are, without question, part of a broader cluster of policies and processes, and are therefore...
... Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom andthe United States. The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work ofthe OECD. MEASURING THERELATIONSHIPBETWEEN ICT ANDTHE ... Other factors affecting ICT andthe environment Domestic policy and regulatory environment, global factorsand relationships, and influence of other factors such as level of education and ... pollution and their causes, and all pollutants, including their dispersal in the environment and the effects on man, species (fauna, flora, micro-organisms) andthe biosphere. Development of monitoring...
... Woodson and Dr Barry Stoddard for advice. Wealso thank Dr Karen Palter for reviewing the manuscript and Dr MarkCapraraforthegiftofapreparationofI-AniI.Thisworkwassupported in part by a grant (MCB-0130991) ... this statement and suggests that the RNA binding site is still available and itsbinding affinity is not altered by the presence of DNA in the DNA binding site.Interestingly, when 3 nMRNA and ... slow release ofthe cleavage products from the protein. The amplitudes ofthe initial burst (2.78 and 2.83 nM) gave a ratio of DNA/protein of 0.94 : 1. As will bediscussed further, these data...
... revealing the remarkable impact ofthe spread of global financial crisis on the transmission mechanism of changes in interbank rate to this type of retail bank rate. Turning to the analysis ofthe ... other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and soundness and thus the financial stability (De Bondt 2005). It is clear that banks play an important role in the transmission of ... Santos, J. A., 2011. Bank Corporate Loan Pricing Following the Subprime Crisis. The Review of financial studies, Special Issue: The Academic Analysis ofthe 2008 Financial Crisis, Volume 24 Issue...
... Smitten and colleagues pushes our understanding of malignancy in RAforward but raises many important questions for futureresearch. First, as much ofthe literature they cite (and most of the patients ... be important to look at the relationshipbetween anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodystatus and malignancy. Isthe risk of lymphoma primarily seen incertain subgroups? This risk might ... colon cancer. This possibility is suggested byresults ofthe APPROVE trial, which showed rofecoxibreduces the recurrence of adenomatous polyps as well as the risk of advanced adenomas at one and...
... X, Listing J, Brandt J, Sieper J, Braun J:Magnetic resonance imaging ofthe spine andthe sacroiliacjoints in ankylosing spondylitis before and during therapy withetanercept. Ann Rheum Dis ... write the manuscript. JL analysed the data, performed the statisticalevaluation, and helped to write the manuscript. MR and JShelped to write the manuscript. JB helped to conceive of the idea ... timeperiod.In this study, the primary outcome was based on the analysis of VEs because the patterns of spinal inflammation and the development of syndesmophytes are likely to differ in and between individuals....
... Kinetic mechan-isms of PSI reduction by plastocyanin and cytochrome c6in the ancient cyanobacteria Pseudoanabaena sp. PCC 6903 and Pro-chlorothrix hollandica.InPhotosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects(Garab, ... analysis has been used for the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin [1], and for an in-depth discussion ofthe advantages and limitations of the Watkins model the reader is referred to [1]. As ... dependence of kobs and standard thermodynamic analysisFive charge mutants of plastocyanin from P. laminosumwere chosen for analysis with wild-type photosystem Iisolated from the same organism (Fig....
... This is a serious limita-tion ofthe literature given the strong association between bullying and psychiatric disorders on the onehand and suicidal ideation and psychiatric disorders on the other ... the conception and design ofthe study, helped indata collection, contributed to the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript. SB helped in data collection, in the statistical analysis, ... Epirus and A etoloakarnania) due to the proximity with the University of Ioannina, b) all seniorhigh schools in one randomly selected district of the Athens Greater Area (the district o f Kallithea...
... two factors were identified.Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) were used to test for statistical dif-ference in first-order job satisfaction factorsbetween ... time-points. Whatis clear from this and other studies is thatthere is a clear association between certain components of nurses job satisfaction and intention to stay (or leave) the profession or organization ... found to vary across branch and time for this sample [26]. The level of job satisfaction and the ranking of components were on the whole similarfor the adult and child branches but different for...