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... ecological risk assessment, the underlying assumption is that there is no risk of an adverse impact if the rate of exposure of a receptor is less than a defined ©2002 CRC Press LLC response threshold ... brackish marshes, lagoons, coastal wetlands, tidal flats, and sandbars, as well as wet meadows and pastures.4,6 For the purposes of this assessment, potential heron habitat was defined as any shoreline ... and other media than those measured in the lake to demonstrate certain attributes of both models Therefore, the lake and the results of this assessment are hypothetical This being the case, the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 10:22

... screening Furthermore, our study shows that OAB is associated with age and a history of hepatitis Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists References ... OR=3.9) This is consistent with previous epidemiologic studies Our study also found an association between OAB and hepatitis (OR=2.2, p=0.03) It is uncertain how hepatitis relates to OAB As such additional ... (95% CI) 10 Statistical analyses were performed using Stata 8.2 (StataCorp, College Station, TX) RESULTS Among the male patients, 1086 completed the questionnaire Table summarizes the demographic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:35

... assurance of expert exposure assessment included regular expert meetings and inter-rater-crosschecks of concrete assessment examples The intensity of exposure to specific solvents was assessed ... In our case-control study, 17% of cases as well as control subjects were ever exposed to benzene Neither the comparison of ever versus never exposed (results not shown) nor the analysis of categorized ... of exposure to solvents represents the percentage of working time during which the exposure occurred (based on a 40 hours week) The frequency of exposure to specific solvents was again assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... Fisher exact test) Discussion The aim of this study was to analyze the association of polymorphisms of MICA with risk for RA while controlling for the effects of HLA-DRB1 risk alleles We successfully ... A single statistic reveals independent association of MICA-250 However, it is of interest to compare subgroup analysis of parents negative for HLA-DRB1 risk alleles with results of the regression ... parents homozygous for HLA-DRB1, we can analyze the OR of MICA-250A on transmission within these parents when we compare the observed transmission ratio of MICA-250A versus the expected transmission...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... charges such as depreciation and amortization expenses 2.2 Reasons for changing the Company 's major business; explain the variance resulting from the adjustment of selling prices or costs, the ... potential sales returns & allowance 61,656,795 - - • Increase in cost of sales: The cost of sales increased as a result of higher sales activity • Reduction in non-operating income: The reduction was ... interest rate risks derives primarily from long-term debt obligations that are incurred in the normal course of business The Company 's policy is to limit its exposure to risks associated with rising...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 15:50

... For females there were significantly more professional, and associates professionals (such as Aboriginal Health Workers), and less tradespersons or transport workers as well as many less intermediate ... experienced in the last seven days In particular, probable causes of symptoms, past history, initial episode (s) of symptoms, duration of symptom (s) , 'average' severity of symptoms and any associated ... derived in the history component of the clinical assessment by asking questions from a list of modifiable occupational and lifestyle factors Results for LBP as measured in the clinical assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... ~-expressions; other ~-expressions a r e used to combine and reorder subexpressions The possible denotations of these ~-expressions are the higher-order elements of the model (sets, relations, and ... the subset of expressions that are the translations of English phrases in the PTQ fragment, equivalence is u n d e c l d a b l e [Warren 1979] It is this undecidability that is the basis of the ... thus it will use techniques (including heuristics) that will produce false answers for some pairs of expressions It is the collection of techniques that is used that determines which inconsistencies...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... exercise its call option and invest at time This latter term measures the opportunity cost of losing business exibility The implication of the BNP is that the worse the news, the higher is the return ... increase in the income tax rate stimulates the demand for risky assets if: 1) the risk-free interest rate is zero; 2) absolute risk aversion is constant or increasing; 3) absolute risk aversion is ... instantaneous standard deviation of and is the increment of a Brownian motion (which is also known as Wiener process) Assumptions to deserve some comments For simplicity in assumption 1, we assume...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... costs Reduces affordable-accessible housing costs Reduces affordable-accessible housing costs Increases supply of rentals and the profitability of condominiums This table summarizes strategies ... groups, such as residents versus developers, or motorist versus transit users But planning concerns the future, so it can consist of conflicts between the interests of our current and future selves ... $54,417 This table summarizes key inputs and outputs used in the “Affordable-Accessible Housing Analysis Spreadsheet” for this analysis Figure illustrates analysis results In this situation,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 08:20

... ABBREVIATIONS SCP Sf SIA SLATS SNSM SoE SOF SoWT SPOT spp SSF SVI T TEK Tf TIN TOAC TOFTW TREAT TRS TWS UB Stork-Prelims.indd Sec1:xvii Smithfield Conservation Park stemflow social impact assessment Statewide ... impacts identified in the SIA The shire councils made a submission against listing The Commonwealth established the Wet Tropics of Queensland SAP to offset the impacts of the cessation of logging ... diversity of the vertebrates across the landscape It is often easy to focus solely on the terrestrial fauna and flora and to forget the rich biodiversity of streams and rivers This gap is addressed...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:11

... regions such as East Asia They show how shifts towards the intensification of livestock production have almost driven small-scale producers out of business The main challenge is the growing adverse ... outbreaks of these diseases in crowded human urban environments The effect of the foul air with its heavy loads of pathogens is emphasized in most of the chapters In the well-known case of avian ... pastures Extensive systems however require large grazing areas The book shows that where the extensive systems break down because of land-use competition, the livestock production system shifts...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... design process The ability to relocate cores at the binary level on an FPGA and even between FPGAs of the same family was demonstrated [6] This suggests it is possible to reuse IP and compose systems ... that this improves when bordercrossing wires are used as the point of isolation The next The core constraint framework has three layers: the first layer is the resource area constraint layer, second ... flexibility, the layout of the different resources types on modern FPGA does Using several versions of a core provides the run-time system with the flexibility to construct a system on a heterogeneous FPGA...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... work as the targetdetection sensor This sensor will return the light intensity it senses in integer form The more light it senses the larger the reading is Since the target is the only light source ... occupied by the robots as shown in Figure 4.4(f) The readings from the sonar sensors at these four sectors of the target must be smaller 25 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) Figure 4.4 Selected images of the encirclement ... know the distance to the nearest object before avoiding it In order to achieve this goal, we need to use some range sensors The range sensors we have used are sonar sensors The model we use is SRF08...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 22:43

... deaths from most causes is unlikely to vary substantially with cause of death.11,18 Furthermore, any recall bias affecting assessment of smoking habits in the cases should similarly affect assessment ... prevalence of smoking between male living spouses of women who died of any cause and those spouses of women who died of some other causes other than smoking related causes The prevalence of smoking ... The purpose of this study was to apply the basic principles of a population-based case-control study to assess the validation of the novel control selection design by comparing the consistency...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... plays a major role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis Indeed, chronic inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus are associated with accelerated atherosclerosis ... diagnostic indices using the ICD9 codes (diabetes, 250; hypertension, 401 to 405; dyslipidemia, 272) Statistical analysis Descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, proportions) were used ... in progression of atherosclerosis, we examined whether the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (as a continuous variable) at the time of PMR diagnosis was associated with development of PAD The erythrocyte...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... the results Bias due the high number of missing height and BMI is not probable, neither it is a systematic missing in the the Swedish Medical Birth Register nor it is a lack of power in the study ... there was no screening—general or selective, based on risk factors of asymptomatic infants A diagnosis of convulsions included infants with clinical signs of convulsions and/or convulsions verified ... group (SPSS 20.0 for Windows software package) Three models were used to assess the relationship between the different modes of delivery and the risk for neonatal cerebral complications, one...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2015, 13:09

... genital system Y Z Male genital system Social problems The statistical analyses were performed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS version 15) Standard univariate statistics were ... Norway: Riksrevisjonens undersøkelse av akuttmedisinsk beredskap i spesialisthelsetjenesten (The OAG s investigation of emergency medical preparedness in the specialist health service English summary) ... problems as the most common one In the category A05 “Ordered mission” cardiovascular symptoms were most common, and in A06 “Inconclusive problem” loss of consciousness was the most common symptom The...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... countries that have demonstrated the high reliability and validity of these scales (12) The instrument measures several dimensions of health and assesses the impact of diseases and the benefits of ... linear regression analysis was used to compare the score for each disease to the score of those without the specific disease, though they reported other diseases on the checklist This was followed ... of specific diseases on the areas assessed by SF-36® (20, 21); however, few studies have assessed and compared the impact of various different morbidities on HRQOL (22, 23) Alonso et al assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... weights.60 These comprise just three sets of age weights, derived from discriminant analysis to find the smallest number of sets of standard age weights that enable adequate standardisation of survival ... complete The relevance of this index also varies with the system of data collection Sweden does not use DCOs because the registration of patients with cancer at the time of diagnosis is close to ... cancer risks are currently low on the global scale.63 The dataset was therefore small, a total of 300 patients This decreases the statistical precision of survival estimates, but no patient was detected...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21