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... choc-olate)” (Shafran & Robinson 2004) TSF can be induced in individuals suffering from EDs and controls resulting in stronger negative feelings and feelings of fatness, guilt and a perceived higher ... 1997) This underlines findings revealing a larger impact of magazine viewing on body image dissatisfaction and disturbed eating behavior than television viewing Nevertheless certain individuals seem ... of effects in healthy controls as well as in the patient groups before and after treatment as usual Findings foster the development of tailored interventions including a training in specific

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... Measurement properties of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory by cross-sectional and longitudinal designs Anne-Lise Tamber*1,2, Kjersti T Wilhelmsen3,4,5 and Liv Inger Strand5 Address: 1 Faculty of Health ... been demanded by clinicians and researchers in Norway Items included in the DHI were originally derived from case histories of patients with dizziness, and the measure was further examined in several ... studies involving patients seen for vestibulometric testing [1] The DHI contains 25 items, and a total score (0-100 points) is obtained by sum-ming ordinal scale responses, higher scores indicating

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... The Linear Probability Model for Binary Response 454 15.3 Index Models for Binary Response: Probit and Logit 457 15.4 Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Binary Response Index 15.5 Testing in Binary ... the basic linear model in a first-semester course, an increasingly popular approach is to treat advanced cross section and panel data methods in one semester and time series methods in a separate ... McDonald and Elizabeth Murry for reenergizing the project and for allowing me significant leeway in crafting the final manuscript Finally, Peggy Gordon and her crew at P M Gordon Associates, Inc.,

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... function, and the explanatory variables are years of schooling (educ), aquadratic in age, and binary indicators for ever married, living in an urban area,having electricity, and owning a television ... except in interpreting theparameters In what follows, we will write the exponential function as in assumption(19.5), leaving transformations of x—such as logs, quadratics, interaction terms, and ... the residuals and gradient by the inverse of nominal Poissonstandard deviation, estimated under the null, 1= ffiffiffiffiffi
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Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... already in the initial state In addition to following spells of individualsalready in the initial state, suppose we can randomly sample individuals flowing intothe initial state between times m and ... censoring are common, but other sampling schemes are alsoused With stock sampling we randomly sample from individuals that are in the initialstate at a given point in time The population is again individuals ... take here to analyzing grouped data summarizes the information on staying in the initial state or exiting in each time interval in a sequence of binaryoutcomes (Kiefer, 1988; Han and Hausman, 1990;

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... vari-able and NSSI across time using an adolescent sample have inconsistent findings and/or do not assess NSSI ap-propriately, and there has been little longitudinal re-search on NSSI in New Zealand and ... continued NSSI This indicates a downward spiral of increasing re-liance on NSSI to manage internal distress, and suggests early intervention may be useful in preventing the on-going damage of internal ... ongoing self-management (e.g lower resilience, mindfulness, and self-esteem/sense of self-efficacy and increased impulsivity) These findings (the first longitudinal study of Alexithymia and NSSI)

Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 19:08

... possibility of two jets in a single window 43 cross-ing in ATLAS is shown for the data takcross-ing in 2011 (left) and 2012 (right) For 2011, the set up after the Technical Stop in perfor-mance public ... window to new physics, there-fore understanding its production is a key ingredient for testing the StandardModel or physics Beyond the Standard Model In this document, the pro-duction cross section ... details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Trang 2Top-antitop cross section measurementas a function of the jet multiplicity in the final state and

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 22:04

... research and techniques/skills on interview, sampling andethical issues, emphasizing the importance of safety of participants and interviewers, minimization of under reporting and maintaining confidentiality ... policies and guidelines for performing and monitoringcesarean deliveries in the country Trang 13Several authors have explored the determinants of the rising trend in Caesarean delivery in differentcontext; ... Caesarean delivery has been increasing at an alarming rate globally Thisincrease has become a major challenge across health institutions in both developed and developingcountries The United States

Ngày tải lên: 15/08/2017, 15:12

... DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); FOM and NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); ... from CDF [23] and LHCb [24] Other measurements can in principle be used, e.g., in J=ψϕ or J=ψf0ð980Þ final states, but they then involve also determining ΔΓs Older measurements involving semileptonic ... Malinin,67 T Maltsev,36G Manca,7 G Mancinelli,6 P Manning,61J Maratas,5,vJ F Marchand,4 U Marconi,15C Marin Benito,38 P Marino,24,tJ Marks,12G Martellotti,26M Martin,6 M Martinelli,41 D Martinez

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 07:57

... nano-carrier in nasal formulations, nor used as a cross-linking polymer in the for-mulation of Pluronic micelles Accordingly, the factors affecting the MOS-XPMs formulation intended to be applied intranasally ... seed kernel of Tamar-indus indica[10] XG is generally used as a stabilizing, thickening, gelling and mucoadhesive agent Furthermore, Xyloglucan struc-ture is ‘‘mucin-like”, having optimal mucoadhesion ... al [24] and Amann et al.[25] discussed the increased aggregation number with increased polymer concentrations Increasing xyloglucan concentration (C) resulted in a significant increase in the

Ngày tải lên: 11/05/2020, 10:44

... preparation and stability and the applications of nanofluids in the fields of energy conversion, mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering Mạga et al [22] studied the hydrodynamic and thermal ... of a ZrO2-water nanofluid in a square cross sectional pipe is investigated in this section Schematic of the duct is shown in Figure 1 The length of the duct is 1 meter, and its hydraulic diameter ... Sahin [28] examined the Trang 3entropy generation for different cross-section geometries of ducts at a constant wall temperature The entropy generation in nanofluid flow between co-rotating cylinders

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 09:24

... ahead of time as being random It is safe to say that no one ever went astray by assuming random sampling in place of independent sampling with fixed explanatory variables Random sampling does exclude ... reserved for indexing cross section units, such as individual, firm, city, and so on Letters such as j, g, and h will be used to index variables, parameters, and equations Before ending this example, ... not random samples from the population of interest In Chapter 17 we discuss such problems at length, including sample selection and stratified sampling As we will see, even in cases of nonrandom...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... to obtain estimable equations involving the parameters of an underlying conditional expectation of interest Problems 2.2 and 2.3 show how the linear projection can have an interesting interpretation ... conditional expectation linear in parameters can be written as a conditional expectation linear in parameters and linear in some conditioning variables If we write equation (2.29) in error form as y ... smaller information set always dominates.’’ Here, x represents less information than w, since knowing w implies knowing x, but not vice versa We will use equations (2.19) and (2.20) almost routinely...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... analysis 3.3 Convergence in Distribution definition 3.6: A sequence of random variables fxN : N ¼ 1; 2; g converges in distribution to the continuous random variable x if and only if FN ðxÞ ! F ... given in Section 3.4), which says that xN ðsN À NpÞ=½Npð1 À pފ 1=2 has a limiting standard normal distribution, where sN has the binomial ðN; pÞ distribution definition 3.7: A sequence of K  random ... or F distributed and then choosing a critical value based on this distribution Thus, testing using asymptotic methods is practically the same as testing using the classical linear model A test...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... way to handle the nonobservability of q is to put it into the error term In doing so, nothing is lost by assuming EðqÞ ¼ because an intercept is included in equation (4.19) Putting q into the ... will see in Sections 4.3 and 4.4, often an estimable equation is obtained only after manipulating an underlying structural equation An important point to remember is that, once the linear (in parameters) ... linear in the parameters under random sampling, identi- The Single-Equation Linear Model and OLS Estimation 53 fication of b simply means that b can be written in terms of population moments in...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... Convincing instruments sometimes arise in the context of program evaluation, where individuals are randomly selected to be eligible for the program Examples include job training programs and ... be drafted Again, unless we can include measures of job training in the earnings equation, condition (5.3) may be violated (This reasoning assumes that we are interested in estimating the pure ... estimating the pure e¤ect of serving in Vietnam, as opposed to including indirect e¤ects such as reduced job training.) Instrumental Variables Estimation of Single-Equation Linear Models 89 Hoxby (1994)...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... putting in strata dummies and applying 2SLS does not work: by definition, the instruments only vary across strata—not within strata and so b in equation (6.34) would be unidentified In the job training ... fatheduc, and huseduc and obtain the ^ ^ residuals, v Then we simply include v along with unity, exper, exper , and educ in ^ an OLS regression and obtain the t statistic on v Using the data in MROZ.RAW ... clear that the incinerator would be operating soon a Using the 1981 cross section, estimate a bivariate, constant elasticity model relating housing price to distance from the incinerator Is this...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... reason to use a SUR software routine in obtaining the estimates: we may be interested in testing joint hypotheses involving parameters ^ in di¤erent equations In order to so we need to estimate ... probability approaching one as N ! y We can write b à using full matrix notation as b à ¼ ½X IN n WÀ1 ÞXŠÀ1 Á ½X IN n WÀ1 ÞYŠ, where X and Y are the data matrices defined in Section 7.3.2 and IN is the ... SGLS.1 comes in We can argue this point informally because WÀ1 Xi is a linear combination of Xi , and since each element of Xi is uncorrelated with each element of ui , any linear combination of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... enrolled in school and HeadStarti is a binary indicator equal to one if child i participated in Head Start at an early age The vector zi1 contains other observed factors, such as income, education, and ... by estimating b and b jointly, 186 Chapter that is, by using a system procedure The e‰ciency gains are analogous to the gains that can be realized by using feasible GLS rather than OLS in a SUR ... Zi and Zi0 Xi for each i.) In other words, we estimate the first equation by 2SLS using instruments zi1 , the second equation by 2SLS using instruments zi2 , and so on When we stack these into...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... is inf ¼ d10 þ g12 open þ d11 logð pcincÞ þ u1 open ¼ d20 þ g21 inf þ d21 logð pcincÞ þ d22 logðlandÞ þ u2 Assuming that pcinc (per capita income) and land (land area) are exogenous, under what ... exogenous variables, and probably contains unity We maintain assumption (9.2) throughout this section and also assume that Eðz zÞ is nonsingular The notation here di¤ers from that in Section 9.2.1 Here, ... have covered apply, including the tests of overidentifying restrictions in Chapters and 8, and the single-equation tests for endogeneity in Chapter 222 Chapter When estimating a simultaneous...

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