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The Use of Radioisotopes to Characterise the Abnormal Permeability of Red Blood Cells from Sickle Cell Patients
Get PDFUsing Demographics to Predict Mathematics Achievement Development and Academic Ability and Job Income Expectations
Get PDFAbstract This study investigated how demographics predict mathematics achievement development and how such development predicts academic ability and job income expectations. A hypothesis model was examined through growth modeling with data collected from students studying in grades 7, 9, 11, and 12 in Taiwan (n = 4163). Data analysis revealed that the hypothesis model exhibited a good fit to the data. Compared with girls, boys exhibited higher mathematics achievement in both the start and growth of mathematics achievement. Parental education and speaking Mandarin and Taiwanese Hokkien at home played roles in both the start and growth of mathematics achievement. Speaking English at home exerted a positive effect on the start but not the growth of mathematics achievement. Speaking other foreign languages and Formosan languages at home exerted negative effects on both the start and growth of mathematics achievement. Family income and urban residence exerted a positive effect on the start but not the growth of mathematics achievement. Remote residence exerted a negative effect on the start but a positive effect on the growth of mathematics achievement. Both the start and growth of mathematics achievement played a role in students' expectations of academic ability and job income
An Implementation of Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Methods in DUNE An implementation of hybrid discontinuous Galerkin methods in DUNE
No full textAbstract We discuss the implementation of hybrid finite element methods in the Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment (DUNE). Such hybrid methods require the approximation of the solution in the interior of the elements, as well as an approximation of the traces of the solution on the element interfaces, i.e., the skeleton. For illustration, we consider a hybrid version of the interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for an elliptic model problem. In order to realize the implementation in the DUNE framework, we present a generic extension of the C++ template library DUNE-PDELAB [4] for problems with additional polynomial approximations of spaces defined on the skeleton
Understand and Categorize Dynamically Dead Instructions for Contemporary Architectures
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Article ID IJDEA-00411, 12 pages International Journal of Data Envelopment Analysis Science and Research Branch (IAU) S.Jahangard Patavani
No full textAbstract Many studies have been conducted to determine the efficiency of two-stage network structures in the recent years. The two-stage network with additional inputs to the second stage, in which the second stage is independent of the first stage are one of these structures. Thus, there is a need for a model capable of calculating the efficiency of two-stage structures as well as efficiency of each stage which can then provide managers with recommendations to increase the efficiency of the entire system and its sub-processes. In this study, a non-cooperative game adapted from game theory and SBM approach is used to calculate the efficiency of a two-stage network structure to provide a unique analysis of the overall efficiency as the product of efficiency scores of the two stages. SBM approach is a non-radial DEA model capable of providing modification recommendations for inputs and outputs. The model then is implemented on 29 credit branches of an Iranian state bank in Guilan province and the results are analyzed
"Combined effects of person job fit and organization commitment on attitudinal outcomes such as job satisfaction and intention to quit"
No full textAbstract: This research examines the relationship between person job fit, job satisfaction, job commitment, intention to quit. We hypothesized that person job fit is positively related to job satisfaction and negatively related to intention to quit. We also hypothesized that organizational commitment moderated the relationship between person job fit and outcomes. Data were collected from (N=170) employees of various organization of Pakistan. Results of our research suggest that organizational commitment moderates the relationship between person job fit and intention to quit. Whereas organizational commitment does not moderate the relationship person job fit and job satisfaction
Towards the use of hydrogels in the treatment of limbal stem cell deficiency. Drug discovery today
No full textPlease cite this article in press as: Wright, B. et al., Towards the use of hydrogels in the treatment of limbal stem cell deficiency, Drug Discov Today (2012), http://d
3-D Gravity modeling of basins with vertical prisms: Application to Salt Lake region (Turkey)
Get PDF2002a) Semen production in adolescent cancer patients. Hum Reprod 17
No full textBACKGROUND: The influence of an accompanying person (parent, guardian or nurse) on the ability of an adolescent (post-pubescent, <20 years of age) to produce a semen sample for cryopreservation, is undetermined, as is the potential for use of urine samples to retrieve sperm in those adolescents that are unable to produce a semen sample. METHODS: The records from 1991-2000 inclusive were reviewed to derive those adolescent patients who were unable to produce semen for cryopreservation prior to undergoing treatment for a malignant condition. RESULTS: During the study period 238 adolescents attended our unit of whom 205 (86.1%) banked semen ('producers'). The remaining 33 adolescents (13.9%) were initially unable to produce a sample ('non-producers'), four of these provided a urine specimen for analysis (12.1%) and of these one had sufficient sperm for cryopreservation. Of the 'accompanied' patients 29.7% (19/64) were non-producers while in the 'unaccompanied' patients only 8.0% (14/174) were non-producers (χ 2 ⍧ 16.58, P < 0.001). The relative risk (RR) of not producing a semen sample for the accompanied group of patients was greater than that for the unaccompanied group (RR ⍧ 3.689, 95% confidence interval: 2.0-6.9). One patient returning alone successfully provided a semen sample for storage. CONCLUSION: Units should consider the effect of the presence of an accompanying person when an adolescent is unable to produce a semen sample and should consider requesting urine to retrieve sperm
Stem Cell Disorders Multilineage involvement in the 5q-syndrome: a fluorescent in situ hybridization study on bone marrow smears
Get PDFBackground and Objectives. A pluripotent progenitor cell was demonstrated to be involved in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with normal karyotype or with numerical chromosome aberrations, but the pattern of lineage involvement by the 5q31 deletion in the 5q-syndrome is unknown. We performed this study in order to define the distribution pattern of the 5q-anomaly better in the nonlymphoid cell compartment