Study subjects, exposure experiment and sampling
Physics of the helicon antenna on the prototype materials exposure experiment
... 4.1 3D Helicon Antenna Model This section will describe the 3D helicon antenna model. This model can also be used with the cold plasma tensor to investigate helicon physics and optimize engineering designs. However, the ...
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A transport study of high density helicon plasma discharges in the Prototype Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment
... Chapter 6 Experimental investigation of plasma transport with auxiliary heating In chapter 5, the data constrained B2.5-Eirene model from the helicon-only source predicts that the plasma in Proto-MPEX has high static ...
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Air pollution exposure and lung function in highly exposed subjects in Beijing, China: a repeated-measure study
... our study is subject to a num- ber of ...our study was conducted only during the warm season. In a study of 76 COPD patients living in East London, Donaldson et ...the study, suggesting a ...
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Gender, education and reciprocal generosity: Evidence from 1,500 experiment subjects
... Our study has an interesting policy implication. The way in which women and men differ in terms of reciprocal altruism is not trivial since women feel entitled to keep a surplus but men are more inclined to share ...
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Using Students as Experiment Subjects An Analysis on Graduate and Freshmen Student Data
... as subjects in software engineering experiments is ...as subjects, a study is conducted in the context of the Personal Software Process (PSP) in which the performance of freshmen stu- dents and ...
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MATERIALS AND METHODS. Athlete Exposure. Subjects. Injury Reporting. Instructional Methods
... further study the biomechanical implications of instituting the PEP Program via EMG and force plate analysis, to identify the mechanism of ACL injury, and, finally, to determine a precise neuromuscular ...
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Two-phase sampling experiment for propensity score estimation in self-selected samples
... the study variable itself in the covariates of the model and proposes a novel application of two-phase sampling to estimate the parameters of the propensity ...an experiment in which data are ...
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Assessment of sperm chemokinesis with exposure to jelly coats of sea urchin eggs and resact: a microfluidic experiment and numerical study
... freshly diluted sperm sample was prepared and the time of dilution recorded. A 2.5· l sample of the diluted sperm was placed onto the BIOCOAT 2-well Cultureslide and covered with a microscope slide. The covering ...
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Acute diesel exhaust exposure and postural stability: a controlled crossover experiment
... human exposure experiment with 28 healthy subjects (average age = 28 years (SD = ...crossover study with randomized exposures separated by four ...to exposure to DE, exposure was ...
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Mycotoxin exposure assessments in a multi-center European validation study by 24-hour dietary recall and biological fluid sampling
... mycotoxin exposure. Direct, internal measurements of dietary mycotoxin exposure were made in serum and urine by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass ...internal exposure ...
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The effect of sunlight exposure on interleukin 6 levels in depressive and non depressive subjects
... depressed subjects differ in their IL-6 levels based on the duration of sunlight ...epidemiological study exam- ining the crosstalk between circadian variations in sun- light and immune system parameters in ...
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Modeling thermal responses in human subjects following extended exposure to radiofrequency energy
... each study, physiological data (including core and six skin temperatures, metabolic heat production, skin blood flow measured by laser-Doppler flowmetry, and local sweat rate measured by changes in dewpoint ...
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What sampling method to apply for the occupational exposure assessment to bioburden in Portuguese bakeries?
... ―Occupational exposure assessment to particulate matter and fungi and health effects of workers from Portuguese Bakeries‖ (005DBB/12) and also to Occupational Health Services from the Bakeries engaged in this ...
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Phosphorus ingestion improves oral glucose tolerance of healthy male subjects: a crossover experiment
... present study, sample size was based on the pre- viously reported data of AUC for glucose ...between subjects seem to have diluted the impact of the ...
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Diesel exhaust but not ozone increases fraction of exhaled nitric oxide in a randomized controlled experimental exposure study of healthy human subjects
... contrast, exposure to ozone did not affect FENO at any flow rate or any time ...the study to confirm a true negative response or to detect a small effect of ozone on FENO, we repeated the study, by ...
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Tetris: A Study of Randomized Constraint Sampling
... Our study involves a specific stochastic control problem: the game of ...we experiment with the linear programming approach, which differs from others that have previosly been applied to ...This ...
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The Effect of Prenatal Exposure to Radiation on Birth Outcomes: Exploiting a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
... This study contributes to the existing literature in several ...radiation exposure is rare, the Taiwanese RCBs accident offers a rare opportunity to estimate the causal impacts of radiation exposure ...
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Instrumental variable analysis in the context of dichotomous outcome and exposure with a numerical experiment in pharmacoepidemiology
... which are variables that are correlated with exposure and response. A nonlinear model should be the first choice in this context to match with the specific nature of the variables. However, to quantify the risk of ...
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Diesel exhaust exposure enhances the expression of IL 13 in the bronchial epithelium of healthy subjects
... in subjects with allergy or asthma, as IL-13 has been shown to be most potent inducer of eotaxin in airway epithelial cells as well as being able to induce bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) in animal models of ...
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Alcohol Abuse in Subjects Developing or not Developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder after Trauma Exposure
... This study aimed to explore alcohol use and abuse in a sample of traumatized participants, with or without posttraumatic stress disorder ...trauma exposure who did not develop PTSD were ...
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