the reproducibility of craniosacral examination findings a statistical analysis

... meta -analysis Data extraction The data extracted from the articles for further analysis were the study population, the dosage and the duration of the administered drugs, the number of clinically ... performing a meta -analysis of comparative trials studying the effect of the administration of antibiotics via the respiratory tract on the colonization of the respiratory tract by bacteria and development ... Clin Trials 1986, 7:177-188 Mantel N, Mocarelli P, Marocchi A, Brambilla P, Baretta R: Stratified analysis of multivariate clinical data: application of a Mantel-Haenszel approach Stat Med 1983,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... during the study (a new diagnosis of cancer)  A history of cancer (all other) EINSTEIN DVT/PE: Analysis populations 8281 patients randomized No known cancer (n=7157) History of cancer (n=469) Active ... cases per 1000 per year  If no or inadequate anticoagulant treatment is given  recurrent thrombotic complications in 20-30%  Heparin/vitamin K antagonist (VKA)  VKA has a slow onset of action; ... bodyweight Wide therapeutic window Absorption limited if > 50 mg Rivaroxaban Can Rivaroxaban be given in a fixed dose without the requirement for monitoring and replace heparin and VKA treatment in...

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2015, 13:24

... clinical suspicion (signs and symptoms) of pneumonia and/or confirmation with CR or chest CT scan -The evaluation of pneumonia was based on a combination of clinical data, laboratory results, and ... availability & portability, a considerable time delay & a final reading Advances in ultrasound technology have made lung ultrasound (LUS) an attractive option for the diagnosis of pneumonia ... out the diagnosis - a chest CT scan almost never used for the diagnosis of pneumonia because of higher ionizing radiation exposure, difficulty in patient cooperation, cost Other disadvantages: availability...

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2016, 06:33

... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arena, Mark V Why has the cost of Navy ships risen? : a macroscopic examination of the trends in U.S Naval ship costs over the past several decades / Mark V Arena, ... standards for research quality and objectivity Why Has the Cost of Navy Ships Risen? A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades Mark V Arena ... Risen? Historical Cost Escalation In the past 50 years, annual cost escalation rates for amphibious ships, surface combatants, attack submarines, and nuclear aircraft carriers have ranged from to...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... Results of a national job analysis AAOHN Journal 2002, 50:16-25 Soh KB: Job analysis, appraisal and performance assessments of a surgeon a multifaceted approach Singapore Medical Journal 1998, ... reviewed the list of generated tasks, made edits as necessary, and generated any new tasks not already on the list Task validation To ensure the reliability and validity of the task statements, ... functional job analysts (all part of the research team) reviewed and edited the tasks to arrive at a consensus on the wording of each To arrive at a consensus, each task was reviewed relative to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... and CA drafted the paper CA provided guidance with the statistical analysis JK and OK critically read, revised and approved the final manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... DNA microarray data using analysis of variance and a Bayesian statistical framework Analysis of global gene expression in Escherichia coli K12 J Biol Chem 2001, 276: 19937-19944 32 Garc a de la ... novel validation scheme and assess data quality of a number of validation experiments performed on amplicon-based DNA-microarrays of L lactis IL1403 For any laboratory in which DNA-microarray experiments...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... de-innervation of the joint and removal of the entire end-plate receptors that adhere to the bone and capsular tissue Limitations of the current study include a lack of comparison group and lack of blinding ... 71% of 21 patients at one year follow-up with laser denervation of the dorsal facet capsule Li et al treated patients with RFA of the dorsal rami Three patients had durable response after to 16 ... men; mean age 64, range 22-89) were included Length of follow-up was at least years with a maximum of years Location of facet pain was cervical in 45, thoracic in 15, and lumbar in 114 patients...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... degradation All these factors may affect the yield gap but their consideration was beyond the scope of our study as consistent spatially explicit data are not available at the global scale The ... years of validity of the grain yield data and the different size of the administrative units that underlie these datasets are likely to cause high uncertainties Input data are not validated and ... appropriate data Globally consistent and comparable fertilizer application data are only available at the national scale We obtained grain type specific fertilizer application rates per country from the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:22

... until the air reaches its saturated state, when the air and water temperature reach the same value, called “adiabatic saturation temperature”, being the process known as “adiabatic saturation” ... and adiabatic saturation temperature of air Air is cooled and humidified, gaining enthalpy c- Water is at the adiabatic saturation temperature of inlet air Air is cooled and humidified maintaining ... evaporated at that temperature Isolation Non-saturated air Saturated state had sat = h1 Tad sat RH = 100 % T1 RH1/ h1 Isolation Water suppy at Tad sat Figure Adiabatic saturation tunnel In the last...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... attainment of accurate pronunciation in a second language is a matter substantially beyond the control of educators’ They qualified their findings by stating that variables of formal training and ... was taught and learnt The researcher particularly focused on the way teachers treated teaching pronunciation 2.4.2 Curricula and Materials analysis To support the findings, the researcher examined ... confiding the attention to those aspects that are relevant to the research problem at the time (Johnson 1992) A case is a unit of analysis, for example, in education research, a case is probably a learner,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45

... long vacations They don’t know we have to work hard at school and at home Take a look at a typical grade student like Hoa She has five periods a day, six days a week That is about 20 hours a week ... think that students have an easy life ? Because they only work a few hours a day and have long vacation c How many hours a week does Hoa work at home and at school? Hoa works about 45 hours a week ... doesn’t UNIT : THE WORLD OF WORK – Lesson : A. 4 Answer keys a. Because they only work a few hours a day and have a long vacation b.Hoa works 20 hours a week at school It is fewer than most workers...

Ngày tải lên: 03/12/2013, 16:11

... long vacations They don’t know we have to work hard at school and at home Take a look at a typical grade student like Hoa She has five periods a day, six days a week That is about 20 hours a week ... think that students have an easy life ? Because they only work a few hours a day and have long vacation c How many hours a week does Hoa work at home and at school? Hoa works about 45 hours a week ... doesn’t UNIT : THE WORLD OF WORK – Lesson : A. 4 Answer keys a. Because they only work a few hours a day and have a long vacation b.Hoa works 20 hours a week at school It is fewer than most workers...

Ngày tải lên: 03/12/2013, 16:11

... model Tables 10: The reasons for the approval the application of giving a text as a model in the future Table 11: The reasons for the disapproval of application of giving a text as a model in the ... ideas, students reading a model and vocabulary and organization Actual writing task analyzing the model Actual writing task Table 2: The steps of a writing lesson of the experimental group and ... disapproval of the application of giving a text as a model at prewriting stage in the future As has been proved, majority of students had negative attitude toward giving a text as a model The majority...

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Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... we had been able to purchase through a tradesman, who was allowed into the barracks twice a week As nearly all great-coats and waterproofs had been taken away from prisoners at the time of their ... be the day of CHAPTER I 13 the declaration of war between Italy and Austria The noise made by the Empire-day celebrators was quite appreciable, and sufficiently loud to reach the ears of the many ... talking we got rather a scare A man on a horse came along the road and stopped immediately opposite the patch of brambles in the midst of which we lay The horse began tearing at the leaves of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 08:20

... informative as Lapata and Lascarides calculate correlation only on data points for each phrase out of many more yielded by the model It fails to take into account the quality of the list of top ... some of the lowprobability range verbs of Lapata and Lascarides) We compared the rankings of the two implementations in terms of Pearson correlation coefficient and obtained the average correlation ... European Chapter of the ACL, pages 168–177, Utrecht M Lapata and A Lascarides 2003 A probabilistic account of logical metonymy Computational Linguistics, 29(2):261–315 A Lascarides and A Copestake...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... "On the theory of word frequencies and on related Markovian models of discourse." In: Jakobson, R (ed.) Structure of Language and its Mathematical Aspects Rhode Island: American Mathematical Society ... of the morphemes of the same type, and does not in itself indicate any characteristics in the frame sample On the other hand, Pf and R f express the quantitative status of the morphemes of each ... that the average number of constituent morphemes in a term is stable Among the measures we used in the analysis of morphemes, the most i m p o r t a n t is the growth rate The growth rate as the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20