Discussion and comparison with previous studies
Serotypes of group B streptococci in western Sweden and comparison with serotypes in two previous studies starting from 1988
... in comparison with the first study (1988 – 1997) but there were no significant changes in the serotype distribution between the present study and the second study (1998 – ...
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Sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain in children and adults: a systematic review from 2013 to 2015 and a comparison with previous studies
... from previous reviews have fueled discussions on the impact of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) on obesity ...cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) relating SSBs to weight measures was ...
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Evaluation of the Widal tube agglutination test for the diagnosis of typhoid fever among children admitted to a rural hdospital in Tanzania and a comparison with previous studies
... Results: We found that 16 (1%) of 1,680 children had culture-proven typhoid fever. A single anti-TH titer of 1:80 and higher was the optimal indicator of typhoid fever. This had a sensitivity of 75%, specificity of 98%, ...
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Survey, Comparison and Discussion on Reversible Data Hiding Techniques
... The efficacy of this method can be enhanced if the keys too can be secured. This can be done using a key-exchange algorithm like the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm. Also use of multiple encryption methods would ...
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Clusterers: a comparison of partitioning and density-based algorithms and a discussion of optimisations
... ters. Previous work has outlined several clustering methods within the partitioning family; K-means converts data to nu- merical points on a set of axes and calculates the numerical mean of these points to dictate ...
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Previous studies exposed excitotoxic overactivation of
... 5B). Discussion The use of potent neuroprotectants such as the NMDA receptor antagonist memantine and even more so the  2 - adrenoceptor agonist clenbuterol for stroke therapy appeared to be limited, because ...
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Results of the ONTARGET and TRANSCEND studies: an update and discussion
... ramipril comparison were within the pre-specifi ed boundaries to show that telmisartan was not inferior to ramipril, and had conserved 95% of the effi cacy of ramipril (Figure ...
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Patient delay in cancer studies: a discussion of methods and measures
... views, during clinical encounters) [5]. The estimates could potentially be improved if patient interpretations were downplayed and the delay period was estimated by health professionals after the interview/clinical ...
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The anterolateral ligament of the knee: unwrapping the enigma. Anatomical study and comparison to previous reports
... The tibial attachment of the ALL appears to lie just posterior to the mid-point of GT and FH. In all of our specimens (where the ALL was found) the distance to the FH from the insertion was less than the distance to GT. ...
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Previous studies have shown that
... revious studies have shown that direct laser metal sintering (DLMS) produces structures with complex geometry that allow better osteconductive proper- ...These studies also evaluated cyto- compatibility and ...
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Burnout among rural hospital doctors in the Western Cape : comparison with previous South African studies
... high-quality studies regarding physician wellness 1 and concluded that burnout and psychological distress are highly prevalent among primary care ...these studies need to be considered by district health ...
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Previous studies have shown that oxidation of LDL is
... In this study we observed that hypertensive men with low plasma vitamin C have an increased risk for cerebrovascular strokes, emphasizing the interaction between vitamin C and blood pressure. This is supported by our ...
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Previous studies have suggested that bone marrow
... a previous observation, in which the radioactively labeled EPCs were injected, and radioactivity was mainly localized in the liver and spleen of the sham-operated rats, whereas the radioactiv- ity of the infarcted ...
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Cloud Computing: Comparison with Previous Technique and Research Challenges
... Definition given by NSIT: cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on- demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources ([r] ...
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II. LITERATURE REVIEW A. OHSM in Shipping and Previous Studies
... in studies by Lan [33] and Schlevogt [34] emphasising that a strong personal influence from top management was perceived with a propensity for decision-making processes to be ...
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Management of rhumatoid arthritis, a literature review of previous studies
... of previous studies. open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution provided the original work is properly cited. autoimmune disease that is associated with progressive disability, ...
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PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE found that 30 40% of hyperthyroid
... Our previous study indicated that the decrease in TBII that occurred in response to antithyroid drug treatment was less pronounced in patients with elevated than normal IgE ...
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Urban case studies : general discussion
... Martin Shafer responded: I'm not aware of published correlations between metrics of the bulk oxidation status/state of the aerosol particle and macrophage- based ROS or DTT. Oxygen is rarely if ever quantied in the PM ...
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2. Scoring rules used in previous football forecast studies
... demonstrate this we introduce some simple benchmark scenarios along with the result required of any valid scoring rule and show that none of the previously used scoring rules satisfies all of the benchmarks. It follows ...
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Postoperative complication of thyroidectomy, an interventional study with literature review of previous studies
... Among patients with thyroid cancer, the presence of coronary artery disease and the use of central neck dissection also predict increased risk, according to the model, w[r] ...
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