analysis of survival outcomes

... drafts of the paper RID Helped in data collection and tabulation and provision of data for survival analysis RW - Collection of data, wrote the manuscript in draft SKK -Contributed to drafts of the ... cancer have poor survival in the first twenty months after operation and predictable survival in the medium and long-term: Analysis of survival and prognostic markers World Journal of Surgical Oncology ... a mortality rate of 40% and 50% respectively compared to adenocarcinoma without mucin, 28% (p = 0.01) This was not significant in survival analysis however Univariate analysis of other prognostic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:22

... There was, however, no strong evidence of an effect of SLE on risk of early miscarriage (OR, 1.4; 95% CI, 0.6–3.1, regardless of time of diagnosis) Odds of late miscarriage were almost doubled ... association of district with risk of SLE Woman-based analyses Table presents data for the characteristics of the 122 female participants with SLE and of the 203 women in the Page of 11 (page ... cases Analyses were performed using different markers of socioeconomic status, including years of education and district of residence The unit of analysis was a pregnancy The association between the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... control of primary cancer, presence of extracranial disease, number of brain metastases, size of brain metastases, location of brain metastases, and at the discretion of the treating physician Of ... p values of 0.04 and 0.002, respectively Kaplan-Meier survival curves illustrating overall survival based on primary tumor histology can be found in Figure The analysis of the number of brain ... 0.001) to the survival of patients in the NSCLC group (95% CI, 0.78-0.96) and that the survival of patients in the NSCLC group was statistically superior (p < 0.001) to the survival of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... absence of a statistically significant survival benefit with the addition of radiation must be interpreted within the context of this possible selection bias In this analysis, we examined ten year survival ... series, does come at the cost of limited documentation of treatment detail For example, the SEER database did not include type of surgical resection In a recent meta -analysis of patient data for ONB ... 1973-2006, includes a time period before the beginning of the modern age of skull base surgery (1985-1990) A stratification of patient survival by year of diagnosis may facilitate understanding if current...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Effects of frailty in survival analysis Statist Meth in Med Res 3, 227-243 Abramowitz M, Stegun IA (1964) Handbook of Mathematical Furcctiorcs US Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, ... Statistical analysis of length of productive life for dairy cows of the Normande breed J Dairy Sci, 77, 855-866 Ducrocq V, Quaas RL, Pollak EJ, Casella G (1988a) Length of productive life of dairy ... integration of / p and Nq -t, sire effects s9 in one case, of p and p (with algebraic integration of the sq’s) in the was other case The general behavior of the saddlepoint approximation of the marginal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... through review of a cross-sectional sample of medical records for patients seen on a randomly selected day within two weeks of study baseline (month 0), month 6, month 12 (end of the intervention), ... change in the practice rate of PSD from baseline to month 12 and from baseline to month 24 A post-hoc analysis assessed the association of an interaction term (the product of both ratings) with the ... for the sake of greater implementation effectiveness, especially because the contribution of these features relative to that of other factors included in various conceptual models of organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... by a factor of the independent variable, other things being equal Survival analysis The study period and the longitudinal nature of the data enables the assessment of the number of patients that ... be an underestimate of true overall survival because of the likely biases in the attrition rate and the number of patients classified as closed Because of the definition of "closure", the attrition ... represents 15-20% of all cases of adult leukemia in Western societies Frontline treatment of CML involves the use of Imatinib (Glivec®) (Appendix 1, Note 1) The beta crystal form of Imatinib has...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... through review of a cross-sectional sample of medical records for patients seen on a randomly selected day within two weeks of study baseline (month 0), month 6, month 12 (end of the intervention), ... change in the practice rate of PSD from baseline to month 12 and from baseline to month 24 A post-hoc analysis assessed the association of an interaction term (the product of both ratings) with the ... for the sake of greater implementation effectiveness, especially because the contribution of these features relative to that of other factors included in various conceptual models of organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... V., An analysis of length of productive life in dairy cattle, Ph.D Thesis, 1987, Cornell University, NY [5] Ducrocq V., Statistical analysis of length of productive life for dairy cows of the ... as such The main purpose of this study was to compare the analysis of longevity on a lactation basis vs the analysis on the entire length of life, with respect to the fit of the model to the data ... number of parameters estimated (i.e number of levels of fixed effects, number of variance components, including the parameters of the baseline hazard function), and where L is the maximum value of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... 96-well nucleofection plate was loaded with 20 μL of one of the three nucleofection solutions (approximately 275,000 cells) and the plate was loaded into the Amaxa 96-well Shuttle for nucleofection ... optimization (screen) is shown in Figure 1A Most of the wells had some degree of successful nucleofection of the GFP plasmid shown by a homogeneous expression of green fluorescence The electrical pulse ... the effects of a given condition/cell line for nucleofection Delivery of siRNA and observable knock down of targeted genes Finally, to demonstrate efficient knockdown, we used one of the optimized...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... terms of formal education, there has been relative ease of entry into these activities Determinants of livelihood outcomes Table 5: Determinants of household livelihood outcomes (Livelihood outcomes: ... setting of accelerating conversion of farmland for urbanization and industrialization in the urban fringes of large cities, a number of studies in Vietnam have addressed the question of how farmland ... livelihood outcomes As a result, livelihood outcomes are determined by a set of asset-related variables, livelihood choice and other factors Figure 1: Conceptual framework for analysis of Hanoi...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:16

... executioner of Apoptosis Of greater interest is that all the typical signs of apoptosis are the consequence of a complex biochemical cascade of events Once apoptosis is triggered, regardless of the ... major survival pathway in PCa cells However, there is increasing evidence supporting the existence of PI3K-Akt-independent survival pathways in PCa Deregulation of growth factor signaling is often ... activators or downregulation of suppressors within the survival pathway As a result, these mutations often lead to hyperactivation or constitutive activation of survival pathways that help to...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18

... Role of ErbB receptors in EGF- and serum-mediated survival of LNCaP cells There is accumulating evidence supporting the role of ErbB family of receptor tyrosine kinases in the progression of many ... play the role of “enabler” of apoptosis, whose activation is a balance of available survival and apoptotic signals 4.9 INCREASED LEVEL OF SUPEROXIDE ANION PROMOTES LNCAP CELLS SURVIVAL As many ... inhibiting the effect of EGF-mediated survival (Figure 29a and c) Moreover the combination of both inhibitors seems to have the same effect on survival as the presence of EGFR inhibitor alone...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18

... Table Univariate regression analysis for overall survival …………………….49 Table Multivariate regression analysis of overall survival ……………………49 Table Univariate regression analysis for disease-free ... course of the study Special thanks also goes to Professor Wong Wai Keong, Head, Department of General Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, and A/Prof Koong Heng Nung, Head, Department of Surgical ... change in the measurement of success of treatment – from tumour shrinkage to a measurement of the elimination of cancer stem cells New ways to identify this population of cells in situ in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:14

... installation of RM2000 and GP2000 Please always uninstall old program versions before installing a new program release! 1.2 Unit dependency of Import/Export of RM2000 Export and Import of RM2000 ... upgraded or the validity of a time limited version has expired New RM2000/GP2000 users as well as existing RM7 users must get a licence file from Tdv or one of the support offices in order to run ... calculation is numerically extended to cover more exactly “creep of creep” effects ( it is possible to decrease number of time steps ) Extensions of British Standard live load calculation Added possibility...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:18

... Ownership of the program and the documentation remain with TDV Austria Use of the program and the documentation is restricted to the licensed users Unlicensed use of the program or reproduction of the ... point’ arrow at the top of the screen and the insert symbol Accept the default name Define the Connection Points Click on the intersection point of the CL’s at the bottom of each beam in the position ... load sets and the two loading cases (e.g.: L.C is a UDL of 10kN/m from Elem to Elem 20 and L.C is a Settlement of 0.001m at the beginning of element 1200.) Choose AddCon and insert the ‘Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:55

... 5-1 MATERIAL OF PRE-STRESSING TENDONS 5-2 DEFINITION OF TENDONS (TENDON PROFILES) 5-4 Creating New Tendon Profiles 5-4 Assignment of Structural Elements ... side of the screen #NODE Definition of nodes and their attributes #ELEMENT Definition of elements and their attributes #TENDON Definition of tendons and their attributes #SPECIAL Comparison of ... re-generate it A typical example of the application of macros is the generation of the Finite Element mesh for the computation of the cross-section properties of cross-sections with standard shapes...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 15:55

... because of activity against key pathogens Consideration of the influence of appropriateness of empiric therapy against subsequently identified pathogens was beyond the scope of this economic analysis ... LLC Role of the sponsor SM, AQ, and NK of Johnson and Johnson met authorship criteria by participating in the study design, analysis of results, interpretation of findings, and drafting of the ... Independent statistical analysis The accuracy of the data analysis was independently verified by William Shannon, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... cut-off value 15 for strain of –6.5 % a sensitivity of 23 % and specificity of 87 % was calculated for the detection of infarcted segments (AUC 0.6, confidence interval 0.53 – 0.64) A 111 cut-off ... cut-off value of –10.34% resulted in a sensitivity of 54 % and specificity of 59 % (see Table 6) The intra- and inter-observer variation of our data is congruent with the data of Jarnert et al ... (Sre) 0.60 ± 0.35 s-1 The analysis of tissue velocities demonstrated a gradient of systolic (S´) and diastolic (early E´ and late A´) velocities from the apex to the basis of the heart with significant...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... crux of individualism is the ethnic diversity of various individuals It is not the particular view of the individual that makes them an individualist, but it is the differing views of a group of ... childhood asthma Journal of Asthma 1998; 35: 213–7 Sarafino EP, Gates M, DePaulo D The role of age at asthma diagnosis in the development of triggers of asthma episodes Journal of Psychosom Res, 2001; ... School of Laughter Yoga, described laughter as a “powerful form of exercise that gives you more of a cardiovascular workout than many ‘regular’ aerobic activities (7) Similarly, two stages of laughter...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57