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... understood as human language in use for communication 2.2.2 Concepts of Discourse Analysis Discourse Analysis is a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing written and spoken language use ... syntactic features of spokesmen’s announcements of U.S Department of State and Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the discourse level so as to help Vietnamese learners of English understand ... a wide variety of samples taken from two websites 50 samples of EAs and 50 samples of VAs are collected for study and analysis 3.4 DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS 3.4.1 Data collection The data

Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2020, 11:08

... depression30,40, and others28,33 Results Included studies and sample characteristics.  Figure 1 showed the flow diagram for inclusion/exclusion of studies in the meta-analysis The systematic search ... inclusion/exclusion of studies Key: PD, Parkinson’s disease; ALFF, amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations enhanced our understanding of the neural substrates underlying PD, conclusions from these ... necessary We aimed at conducting a quantitative and voxel-based meta-analysis of ALFF changes in patients with PD In addition, we set out to perform meta-regression analyses to examine the confounding

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2022, 11:42

... of the language but also appropriate use of that language within a given culture Socio-cultural variables like authority, social distance, and situational setting influence the appropriateness ... appropriateness and effectiveness of politeness strategies used to realize directive speech acts such as requests (p 15) Refusal as a speech act According to Al-Eryani (2007), a refusal is a respond negatively ... languages and cultures For example, in refusing invitations, offers and suggestions, gratitude was regularly expressed by American English speakers, but rarely by Egyptian Arabic speakers (Nelson,

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2018, 11:36

... ma semester pranalikachunautiabamawasarharu TU bulletin special 2014-15, pp 7-15 AyubBuzdar, M., Ali, A., Akhtar, J.H., Maqbool, S & Nadeem, M (2013) Assessment of students’ learning achievements ... assessment and evaluation, the term is usually conceived in opposition to what we call the ‘annual evaluation’ system The semester system entails evaluating students at least in a period of six ... system is better than the annual one in a number of senses such as classroom management and teacher performance, student achievement, satisfaction and motivation of students, student evaluation

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 05:21

... stimulation, or including subliminal versus - and supraliminal versus neutral contrasts using the same stimulus within the same study Our meta-analysis lends support to some current theories about ... included studies Definition of subliminal and supraliminal stimuli FMRI studies included in this meta-analysis contrast neural activation to subliminal and supraliminal presentation of the same stimuli ... fusiform gyrus and insula: a meta-analysis of fMRI studies Paolo Meneguzzo2, Manos Tsakiris3, Helgi B Schioth4, Dan J Stein1 and Samantha J Brooks1* Abstract Background: Non-conscious neural activation

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 13:58

... made available by the study sponsor Sample characteristics were analysed using applicable descriptive summary measures For cumulative paraceta-mol consumption (amount in mg) a meta-analysis was ... Rhinovirus, coronavirus and adenovirus are the most common causes, but Epstein Barr virus, influ-enza and parainfluinflu-enza virus may also cause ATP [23] Bacterial ATP is most commonly caused by ... attend school was based on the last available information Results Search results, characteristics of included studies and participants Our searches identified a total of 17 unique publications [31,34,

Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 04:19

... it is suggested to assess a life-course association of smoking and hypertension in future studies Subgroup analysis was done to assess the association between passive exposure to cigarette smoke ... Table and Table show characteristics of entered studies Quality assessment of studies Quality assessment of studies is depicted in Fig As shown, ascertainment of exposure is biased in most studies ... addition, Egger’s test was used to assess publication bias A p value of less than 0.05 was defined significant in all analyses Results Characteristics of entered studies Eight thousand three hundred ninety-two

Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 06:05

... independently assessed the risk of bias; when necessary, consensus was determined through help of a third author (PL) Trang 3Statistical analysisStatistical analysis was performed according to ... 0.42-0.69) Subgroup analysis demonstrated similar results except for pregnant women who were hepatitis B surface antigen–positive Funnel plots and Egger’s tests showed publication bias mainly in intrauterine ... included The char-acteristics of included studies are shown in Tables 1 and 2 Quality assessment In intrauterine prevention (Figure 2A and Additional file 2: Figure S1A), four studies indicated

Ngày tải lên: 27/02/2020, 13:46

... Oba K, Paoletti X, Alberts S, et al Disease-free survival as a surrogate for overall survival in adjuvant trials of gastric cancer: a meta-analysis J Natl Cancer Inst 2013;105:1600 –7. 27 Buyse ... we strongly recommended authors of individual trials to share their data to further verify the results of our analysis through individual-patient data Conclusions In conclusion, our analysis suggested ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessDisease-free survival as a surrogate endpoint for overall survival in adjuvant trials of pancreatic cancer: a meta-analysis of 20 randomized

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2020, 21:36

... complications of TIVADs have been elaborated In this meta-analysis, we sought to assemble the most robust dataset currently available to address a single focused clinical question: which access site, ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessInternal jugular vein versus subclavian vein as the percutaneous insertion site for totally implantable venous access devices: a meta-analysis of ... Cohort Ascertainment of Exposure Demonstration That Outcome of Interest Was Not Present at Start of Study Comparability of Cohorts on the Basis of the Design or Analysis Assessment of Outcome Was

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 18:07

... thyroiditis, follicular adenoma and adjacent non-neoplastic thyroid tissue samples 173 162 Unknown Unknown leptin(+)% tissue Trang 5Quality of included studiesThe quality assessment of these 30 studies ... dichotomous outcomes were analyzed by using the odds ratios (OR) computed using the Mantel Haenszel method (fixed or random models) Continuous variables measured on the same scale, expressed as a mean ... tumorigenesis and developing So adipokines may be one of the targets linking obesity with thyroid cancer The meta-analysis was based on previous published studies In previous studies, the analysis

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 19:04

... Yong Gan1†, Chunmei Wu1, Xianguo Qu3, Gang Sun1 and Zuxun Lu1* Abstract Background: Several observational studies suggest that coffee consumption may be associated with an increased risk of gastric ... Exposure assessment Outcome (years) baseline participants case assessment (years) Coffee consumption categories (highest vs lowest) Relative risk (95 % CI) Adjustment for covariates Study quality ... Statistical analyses We preferentially pooled multivariable adjusted risk estimates where such estimates were reported If adjusted analysis was unavailable (n = studies), we pooled the unadjusted estimate

Ngày tải lên: 22/09/2020, 23:57

... meta-analysis summarizes and analyses the associations between Ki-67 expression and clinical outcome in NSCLC patients Methods: PubMed, Cochrane, and Embase databases were searched systematically using ... patients Analysis of the different subgroups of NSCLC suggested that the negative association between high Ki-67 expression and OS and DFS in Asian NSCLC patients was stronger than that in non-Asian ... analyses were used to evaluate the stability of our meta-analysis results if the plots were asymmetric [15] All analyses were performed using the STATA software (er 12.0; Stata Corp., College Station,

Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2020, 10:04

... process. Trang 4Table 1 Characteristics of studies included in the meta-analysisStudy source Study design Sex Age at baseline(years) No of cases No of participants Exposure assessment Outcome assessment ... intake, study setting, outcomeassessment and exposure assessment were conducted to examine the robustness of the primary results Publication bias was assessed using the Begg test [23], the Egger test ... subgroup analyses show that the results held true across various populations despite significant heterogeneity Our meta-analysis shows that the consumption of hot beverages and foods are significantly

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2020, 11:14

... outcomes META- ANALYSIS Rationale Meta- analysis is a quantitative method that synthesizes the results of a particular group of studies Researchers gather all available studies on a topic and then combine ... (one strong, one weak), validate the different strengths of fear appeals through manipulation checks (items that assess fear arousal; to be a successful manipulation, these fear arousal items must ... values for each of the cells of the studies is available from the authors upon request.) The next step was to conduct a standard × analysis of variance The analysis indicated a significant main...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... and a systematic review World J Surg Oncol 2010, 8:55 Imamura H, Matsuyama Y, Tanaka E, Ohkubo T, Hasegawa K, Miyagawa S, Sugawara Y, Minagawa M, Takayama T, Kawasaki S, Makuuchi M: Risk factors ... 23 Yamanaka N, Takada M, Tanaka T, Yamanaka J, Yasui C, Ando T, Maeda S, Matsushita K, Okamoto E: Viral serostatus and coexisting inflammatory activity affect metachronous carcinogenesis after ... extraction of data, assisted in the critical appraisal of included studies and assisted in writing up YZ, ZZ, and BL carried out the statistical analysis of studies All authors read and approved...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... (ipsilateral/ contralateral breast), invasive breast cancer ipsilateral, contralateral breast, distant metastasis and death rates Search strategy for identification of studies Medline and manual searches ... distant metastasis, brain metastases or contralateral breast cancer recurrence were collected Mortality was defined as death from any cause, ipsilateral recurrence was defined as recurrence of ... two of the Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology 2007, 2:28 authors (V-GA and E-JS) Study suitable was assessed using QUOROM criteria [20] Each study was evaluated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... geographical limitations may exist (inhabitants of small and isolated mountain villages would have more difficulty accessing large hospitals) In this sense, the results of our study could be useful ... great variety of outcomes and questionnaires used to assess the patients, we have summarised the results of the most frequently used in the studies revised: global function, pain and FIQ The quality ... out a systematic review and meta- analysis of all randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments that are available in standard primary care settings and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... the Laplacian integration was used However, because the amount of information available to estimate a rather small sire variance was drastically reduced, it was not always possible to obtain a well-defined ... généraux avec stratification et/ou covariables dépendantes du temps L’influence du taux de censure et de la structure des données est aussi illustrée analyse variance de données de survie / modèles ... de survie mixtes, aussi appel s modèles de fragilité Pour l’estimation des paramètres T de la distribution des termes aléatoires, une analyse bayésienné est proposée Les inférences statistiques...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... Polyzos A, Papakotoulas P, Fountzilas G, Potamianou A, Ziras N, Boukovinas J, Varthalitis J, Androulakis N, Kotsakis A, Samonis G, Georgoulias V: A multicenter phase III trial comparing irinotecan-gemcitabine ... be as efficacious as continuous-infusion 5-FU Capecitabine appears to be a reasonable substitute for infused 5-FU/LV in combination regimens or as monotherapy, with the added advantage of reducing ... frequent events were analyzed In order to optimize our assessment of response, we used trials that included patients with measurable or assessable diseases and that were analyzed predominantly according...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23