a comparison of head transducers

... resurfacing (HR), 20 patients had a Large Head Metal-on-metal (LHM) hip replacement and 20 patients had a conventional small head Total Hip Replacement (THR). The leg length and femoral offset of ... • 20 patients had a large MoM head-Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip resurfacing (figure 1) • 20 had a LHM-corail with ASR Extra Large (XL) (54mm) head (figure 2) • 20 had a poly-metal ... replacement was used for all patients. Prior to each surgical case the patients radiograph was templated using traumaCAD with the aim of accurately restoring both leg length and femoral offset

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... Treebank grammar may have fewer than 100 nonterminals (Hockenmaier and Steedman, 2002), we found that a CCG grammar derived from CCGbank contained over 1500 The same grammar assigns an average of ... theoretically-oriented comparison of marginal- and margin-based variational approxima-tions for parsing described by Martins et al (2010) We have shown that the aggressive pruning used in adaptive supertagging ... decomposition approaches to inference, the first empirical comparison of these algorithms that we are aware of on a structured natural language processing prob-lem On CCGbank we achieve a labelled

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... final impact of Ageing on National Savings 2.3 Labour force implications of a rise in dependency ratios 2.4 Potential impact on Capital Accumulation and on Technical Progress 2.5 Interest Rate, Exchange ... its inherently partial nature in that the importance of international linkages and the role of systemic interactions and feedback mechanisms are inadequately catered for. These “general equilibrium” ... overall total reflect a broadly stabilising youth ratio and a sharp increase in the old age share of the total. As regard the latter old age ratio, in 1985, for example, the EU ratio of over 65s to

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... to further enhance an MBA program’s reputation However, when analyzing the financial value of an MBA, the starting salary of the graduate is only part of the equation The value added by the degree ... program and graduated with a job offer of $75,000, then the MBA has produced no additional income In fact, the student has been economically disadvantages due to the loss of annual raises An annual ... well as at the five-year, ten-year, fifteen-year, and twenty-year marks after the degree was earned These median salaries are the result of a survey of more than 23,000 MBA graduates that yielded

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... desulfuricans [10] MATERIALS AND METHODS Preparation and estimation of ¯avodoxin and apo¯avodoxin Flavodoxin from D vulgaris was obtained as the recombinant protein that was puri®ed from extracts of ... unfolding/folding reactions of ¯avodoxin in urea apo, is folded apo¯avodoxin; urea-apo-FMN is a quasi-folded ¯avodoxin at low urea concentrations; apo-urea is quasi-folded apo¯avodoxin at low urea concentrations; ... apo¯avodoxin from Anabaena (using the data of Fig in [4]) The observation that the ®nal protein ¯uorescence of urea-treated ¯avodoxin is the same as that of apoprotein treated with the same concentration

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:20

... CASH FLOW, AND EARNINGS APPROACHES TO EQUITY VALUATION The calculation of equity value is typically characterized as a projection of future payoffs and a transformation of those payoffs into a ... intrinsic values from unbiased ex ante payoffs but, as forecasts are not observable for all payoffs, intrinsic values are 3 calculated from average ex post payoffs. 2 Firm realizations are averaged ... valuation errors for various... examine accrual accounting against the pure DCF analysis with the understanding that this can be stated as a comparison of the terminal value calculation

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:06

... Urban Urban Rural Rural Semi-urban2 Semi-urban Total Total Urban Urban Rural Rural Total Total Clinical Officers & Medical Assistants5 Total doctors, nurses, clinical officers, medical assistants ... illustrate the importance of using med-ians as well as means to measure average workload in samples that include a small number of large and many small facilities The analysis of workload (Figure ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H Open AccessHealth workforce responses to global health initiatives funding: a comparison of Malawi and Zambia Ruairí Brugha1,5*, John Kadzandira2, Joseph Simbaya3, Patrick

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... situation of MAR data, multiple imputation is useful [20] An alternative would be available case analysis and in the longitudinal setting a repeated measures model would be appropriate When data ... analysis method Complete-case analysis (excluding patients who have incomplete data) will only be unbiased (although not optimal) if the data are MCAR Under MAR, available case analysis such as ... Email: Shona Fielding* - s.fielding@abdn.ac.uk; Peter M Fayers - p.fayers@abdn.ac.uk; Craig R Ramsay - c.r.ramsay@abdn.ac.uk * Corresponding author Abstract Background: Missing data is classified

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada Email: Amir Adel Rashidi - amiradel@interchange.ubc.ca; Aslam H Anis - aslam.anis@ubc.ca; Carlo A Marra* ... Health Utilities Index utilities? A comparison of patient and community preferences for health status in rheumatoid arthritis patients Amir Adel Rashidi 1 , Aslam H Anis 2 and Carlo A Marra* ... determine quality of life of an individual are captured and summa- rized as a global score. In VAS and SG valuation methods, however, the individual evaluates his or her own health state based on a holistic

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... approximately the same false alarm performance, and effort was made to opti-mise the algorithm code for speed A more detailed analysis of algorithm performance as a function of various parame-ters ... integrals that are analytically intractable Particle filtering has been used by a number of authors for TBD, for example, [11–13] It is a numerical approximation technique that uses randomly placed ... using an appropriate target template, such as in [11] The algorithms compared are the optimal Bayesian es-timator for a discrete-state space, detailed in [6], a Viterbi algorithm, much like that of

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... an MR brain exam of a 73-year old right-handed man that sought medical at-tention because of a grand mal seizure and progressive diffi-culty with speech The exam indicates the presence of a brain ... sets of multispectral or true color images SRC methods can also be tested on many other applica-tion areas Satellite image databases, for example, often con-tain sets of images taken over the same ... huge amount of similar images (CT, MR, PET, Ultrasound, X-Ray, and Angiography images); therefore, they contain large amounts of set redundancy This paper attempts to evaluate the performance of

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... Asian/Pacific Islander, 10% as African American, 5% as Hispanic/Latino, and 1% as American Indian Participants were randomly assigned to one of eight experimental conditions in a 2 (information favorability: ... negative information about organizations will have a greater impact on job seekers’ organizational attraction than positive information To assess effect sizes, we compared applicant attraction after ... information has a stronger impact than positive information on attitudes and behaviors across a vast array of settings (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Fickenauer, & Vohs, 2001; Rozin & Royzman,

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 10:38

... carbon pools are as defined by Jenkinson [7] Trang 4Figure 2 Mean European, boreal, temperateand Mediterranean average annual temperature anomaly (relative to 1961 to 1990 average) and variation ... 1990 and the daily weather generator of Friend et al [4] This daily pattern has maximum and minimum air temperature, water vapour pressure deficit, solar radiation and precipitation and was assumed ... influenced by three variables: temperature, soil moisture and cation exchange capacity of the soil Wang and Polglase [21] assumed all areas of each biome had the same cli-mate, plant and soil conditions

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... yet are able to assess temporal and spatialrelativevariations. The relationship between a variable measured at the sampling point and the same variable measured with a small spatial displacement, ... was tested with Pearson’s correlation coefficient, whereas an analysis of variance was used to test the relationship between light variables and the qualitative stand variable DAM. An ANOVAwas ... “openness” variables, whereas the remaining 7 variables are “foliage” variables. Shaded areas indicate the couples of variables that are issued from a common device (and should not be taken into account).

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... Castanea sativa and Quercus petraea woods Phytochemistry 30, 375-378 Puech JL (1984) Characteristics of oak wood and biochemical aspects of Armagnac aging Am J Enology... demonstrated ... were taken from measurements of single trees of Q petraea and Castanea sativa A high degree of variation in the soluble tannins is demonstrated... may not be due to variation ... rapid decline in vescalagin... annual growth equal to the mean ring widths for each forest (see table V) Using this estimate of mean heartwood age as a and the mean total ellagitannins

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... disk was inserted into the compartment of a leaf-disk O2 electrode (Hansatech, UK). A stream of water-vapor saturated air, maintained at 23°C, and with ambient CO 2, was ... example, a ψ wp of about -3 MPa was accompanied by a D for ≈ 0.26 in Q cerris and Q petraea, but of ≈ 0.30 in Q rubra. Osmotic potential at full ... Correspondence. Abbreviations: A: net CO 2 assimilation rate; gw: stomatal conductance to water vapour; ψ wp : pre- dawn leaf water potential; π 0: osmotic potential at

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... Trang 1Open Access Primary research A comparison of olanzapine and risperidone on the risk of psychiatric hospitalization in the naturalistic treatment of patients with schizophrenia Haya Ascher-Svanum*, ... Ascher-Svanum*, Baojin Zhu, Douglas Faries and Frank R Ernst Address: Outcomes Research, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Email: Haya Ascher-Svanum* - haya@lilly.com; Baojin Zhu - baojin.z@lilly.com; ... inconsistent data, claim duplicates, and unexpected missing values The SCAP database is similar to other administrative and pharmacy claims database, as it provides detailed infor-mation about patients'

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... limi- tation of A. The maximal rate of net CO 2 assimilation at high Ci (A max ) was first af- fected. According to von Caemmerer and Farquhar (1981) and Farquhar and Shar- ... illumination treatment, 30 min after and 1 night later. RESULTS Plant water status Predawn leaf water potential (ψ wp ) of all plants decreased rapidly after approxi- mately ... Original article Stomatal and non stomatal limitation of photosynthesis by leaf water deficits in three oak species: a comparison of gas exchange and chlorophyll a fluorescence

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... diurnal thermodynamic constants The approximation of temperature-dependent thermodynamic variables as constants (e.g as defined at standard tem-perature) in calculations of conductance can lead ... thermody-namic variables can be approximated as linear over the appropriate temperature range Relationships between γ, λ and p with temperature (Chas very weak tem-perature dependence ... variables in a daily scale calculation (figure 2a) In addi-tion, the difference between daily con-ductance based on diurnal values and that based on daily averages showed a large divergence at

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... form of a table or a graph, typically showing a significant spread in these parameters These comparisons are usually presented in a guarded manner For example, in the QUANTEC paper on salivary ... Thilmann C, Rudat V, et al: Evaluation of salivary gland function after treatment of head-and-neck tumors with intensity-modulated radiotherapy by quantitative pertechnetate scintigraphy Int J Radiat ... not have to be quantitatively accurate as long as it ranks a radiobiologi-cally more desirable plan higher than less desirable Use of biological models for plan ranking cannot be sepa-rated from

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