PURPOSE To investigate equivalency of results from multivariable regression (MR) and propensity score matching (PSM) models, observational research methods used to mitigate bias stemming from non-randomization (and consequently unbalanced groups at baseline), using, as an example, a large study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) initial maintenance therapy. METHODS Patients were ...

The self is fundamental to human experience. Every conscious moment necessarily includes both the perceived external world and an internal embodied perceiver. Despite this pervasiveness, philosophical and neuro-scientific models of the self are wide ranging and grossly underdeveloped showing more influence from folk wisdom than scientific experimentation. Recent neuro-scientific advances especi...

Recently, a novel M(r) 100,000 prostate-specific membrane glycoprotein (PSM) has been detected by the prostate-specific monoclonal antibody 7E11-C5, raised against the human prostatic carcinoma cell line LNCaP. The PSM antigen is expressed exclusively by normal and neoplastic prostate cells and metastases. We now report the molecular cloning of a full-length 2.65-kilobase complementary DNA enco...

Devices constituting wireless ad-hoc networks generally operate in battery power, energy efficiency is a critical research issue. IEEE 802.11 Power Save Mode is a standard recommended for energy efficient operation of wireless ad-hoc networks. When there is no data to transfer, energy is still utilized by IEEE 802.11 PSM during the ATIM window. With this work, an attempt is made to address this...

Unstructured textual data such as students’ essays and life narratives can provide helpful information in educational and psychological measurement, but often contain irregularities and ambiguities, which creates difficulties in analysis. Text mining techniques that seek to extract useful information from textual data sources through identifying interesting patterns are promising. This chapter ...

In the area of wireless mobile communication, minimizing energy consumption as well as maximizing data throughput in medium access control (MAC) layer is a very important research issue. The Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) of IEEE 802.11 provides the power saving mechanism (PSM) that allows nodes to remain silent in ‘doze mode’ for reducing energy consumption. However, IEEE 802.11 PSM i...

microscopy. Quantitative analysis of the movies revealed a clear posterior-to-anterior gradient of cell motility and directionality in the PSM. We tracked the movement of the PSM extracellular matrix (ECM) in parallel to the labelled cells and substracted the ECM movement to the global motion of cells. After substraction, cell movements remained consistently graded but lacked directionality. Th...

The temporal and spatial regulation of somitogenesis requires a molecular oscillator, the segmentation clock. Through Notch signalling, the oscillation in cells is coordinated and translated into a cyclic wave of expression of hairy-related and other genes. The wave sweeps caudorostrally through the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) and finally arrests at the future segmentation point in the anterior P...

UNLABELLED Study Type--Diagnostic (exploratory cohort) Level of Evidence 2b. What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Surgical margin status at radical prostatectomy (RP) has been shown to be a predictor of disease progression and the strongest predictor of benefit from adjuvant therapy, but the impact of a positive surgical margin (PSM) on long-term prostate-cancer-specific su...

هدف: تحلیل گفتمان‌های پیرامون جانشین­‌پروری در یک دستگاه دولتی.طراحی/ روش­‌شناسی/ رویکرد: تحقیق حاضر به لحاظ رویکرد، کیفی؛ روش نمونه­‌گیری، هدفمند و جمع­‌آوری داده­‌ها عمدتا مصاحبه نیمه ساختاریافته با 13 نفر از مدیران مورد مطالعه بوده است. داده‌­ها، گفتمان انتقادی بهره‌­گیری الگوی فرکلاف طی سه مرحله توصیف، تفسیر تبیین انجام یافته است.یافته‌­های پژوهش: مهم­ترین یافته­‌های بخش استخراج 416 کد مثبت...