Sentences with phrase «sensitivity analyses with»

We assumed that breastfeeding does not influence the costs of childbearing and discounted future costs by 3 % per year, the social discount rate, to the year when our hypothetical women were aged 25 years, the mean age of U.S. women at first birth.14 We performed sensitivity analyses with discount rates of 0 % and 5 %.

Not exact matches

This year's budget provides a sensitivity analysis for yields on 10 - year bonds; should interest rates fall in line with the BMO projections, the Ontario government will see estimated gains of $ 400 million next year alone.

If you are a committed, disciplined buy - and - hold investor with no sensitivity to cyclical market fluctuations (even those as large as the 50 % losses of 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009), and you fully recognize the depth of cyclical risks that regularly accompanies that strategy, I don't encourage a deviation from that discipline based on my analysis of market risk.

Instead of one - size - fits - all diet plans, consumers could have tailored products or diets created by pairing external information (exercise, weight, age, sleep patterns, environment) with internal information (genetic information of taste and odour sensitivity and responses to food measured through blood glucose readings and microbiome analysis).

In future updates, if more eligible studies are included, we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

In future updates we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

Non-pneumonia infections — thirteen studies, a potential for lower odds of infection with water birth but no difference in sensitivity analysis.

NICU admission — Seventeen studies, a potential for lower odds of NICU admission with water birth but no difference in sensitivity analysis.

Because the 7 pooled studies differed clinically with respect to breastfeeding measures, length of follow - up, data collection methods, and, most likely, respiratory disease diagnoses, we performed sensitivity analyses to test the appropriateness of combining these studies.

We carried out primary analyses for all participants who had completed follow - ups, with sensitivity analyses when appropriate.

The effect of study size, age groups at outcome measurement (comparing those aged 16 — 30 y with those aged ≥ 50 y), year of birth, the method of ascertainment of infant feeding status (whether contemporary or recalled over a period of ≥ 5 y) was examined by using meta - regression and sensitivity analysis.

The primary outcome with the largest difference in this sensitivity analysis was preterm birth, where an analysis restricted to trials with lower risk of bias suggested a larger treatment effect: RR 0.64, (95 % CI 0.51 to 0.81) compared with RR 0.77, (95 % CI 0.62 to 0.94) in the overall analysis.

We performed sensitivity analysis based on quality comparing high - quality trials with trials of lower quality.

In a sensitivity analysis, inclusion in the meta - analysis of the assumed zero estimates from the five studies (table 1) with no published mean differences attenuated the overall summary estimate for systolic blood pressure (mean difference: — 1.0 mmHg, 95 percent CI: — 1.6; — 0.4; p = 0.002), but there was still strong evidence of an inverse association.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

Dubbed the «lab - on - a-chip,» the device promises faster result times, reduced costs, minimal sample demands and better sensitivity of analysis when compared with the conventional bench - top instruments now used to examine the tiny biomarkers.

With further experimental analysis, the scientists identified two distinct genetic variants that resulted in these sensitivity differences, suggesting that in crowded places, wild C. elegans populations with a specific genetic variation adopt different behaviors than those who doWith further experimental analysis, the scientists identified two distinct genetic variants that resulted in these sensitivity differences, suggesting that in crowded places, wild C. elegans populations with a specific genetic variation adopt different behaviors than those who dowith a specific genetic variation adopt different behaviors than those who don't.

«Our combined analysis of cell - free DNA and white blood cell DNA allows for identification of tumor DNA with much higher sensitivity, and deep sequencing also helps us find those rare tumor DNA fragments.»

Glioblastoma cells from patients that could be linked by the gene signature analysis with an immature origin generally showed a higher sensitivity to cancer drugs than glioblastoma cells that were associated with a more differentiated cell of origin.

The trial was designed with this anticipated attrition rate, and a sensitivity analysis confirmed that there were no significant differences in the risk profiles between patients who underwent the assigned surgical treatment and those who withdrew, Adams said.

While the study conducts a sensitivity analysis that includes one scenario with higher levels of production subsidies, the fact that the model's outputs seem to barely register a tripling of production subsidies raises some questions, especially in light of the findings of the other recent U.S. study led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and EarthTrack described above.

The Prosigna Assay requires minimal hands - on time and runs on NanoString's proprietary nCounter ® Dx Analysis System, which offers a reproducible and cost - effective way to profile many genes simultaneously with high sensitivity and precision.

The Clinical Biomarkers Facility offers services for high - throughput and highly specific analyses of protein biomarker candidates in body fluids such as plasma, serum, cerebrospinal fluids etc. and cell and tissue lysates using molecular tools such as proximity extension and proximity ligation technologies (PEA and PLA) providing assays with high specificity and sensitivity in complex biological matrices.

With the growing use of fluorescent stains in sample preparation to increase diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, we furthermore sought to incorporate fluorescent imaging capabilities into our mobile microscopy system and test the use of digital image processing for image analysis.

The Hiden Analytical UHV surface analysis system range is further extended by the addition of «MAXIM», a high - performance quadrupole secondary ion monitor specifically designed for optimum sensitivity for surface analysis and depth profiling applications for a wide range of materials including polymers, superconductors, semiconductors, alloys and dielectric, with measurement of trace components to sub-ppm levels.

Animation illustrates the compilation of the sensitivity analysis of the maximum photoelectrochemical efficiency to semiconductor external radiative efficiency; (a) Maximum efficiency vs. semiconductor external radiative efficiency (ERE) for a single junction photoelectrochemical device, with the color axis indicating the semiconductor bandgap (eV) that corresponds to the maximum efficiency; (b) Animation of efficiency vs. semiconductor bandgap with the external radiative efficiency evolving in time; red dot indicates the bandgap corresponding to the maximum efficiency at a given ERE value that is plotted on (a).

The Orbitrap Mass Analyzer combined with advanced quadrupole, S - lens, and a high - performance HCD collision cell for MS / MS plus features such as up to 18 hz scan rate, data - independent analysis (DIA), selected - ion monitoring (SIM), and spectral multiplexing up to ten precursors / scan make this system a state - of - the - art instrument for chemical and biochemical molecules analysis with up to 280,000 resolution, < 1 ppm mass accuracy, and femtogram sensitivity.

Rather, their analysis shows that if you compare the LGM land cooling with the model land cooling, then the model that fits the land best has much higher GLOBAL climate sensitivity than you get for best fit if you use ocean data.

With the high sensitivity and speed required for live cell and tissue imaging and the ease of use and flexibility required for microplate imaging and complex screening protocols, FV3000 brings complete workflows from live cell 2D - 4D imaging through image processing such as deconvolution, and analysis.

Wigley et al. (2005b) demonstrate that the analysis method of Douglass and Knox (2005) severely underestimates (by a factor of three) climate sensitivity if applied to a model with known sensitivity.

Estimates of the most likely sensitivity from most such studies are, however, consistent with those based on other analyses.

Cox Proportional Hazard Ratios (HR) for Sensitivity Analysis Excluding Participants With Physician - Diagnosed CVD or Cancer at Baseline

To explore the possibility that frailty (which is associated with both low cholesterol and death28 29) could confound these results, we did a sensitivity analysis adjusting our Cox models (table 4 ⇑) for two known markers of frailty (changes in body weight and changes in systolic blood pressure).28 29 30 These adjustments did not materially change the effect estimates, which remained significant in both groups.

We used a 40 ° quadrupedal orientation for nonhuman primates with an included ± 10 ° in sensitivity analyses to account for variation.

This article presents an analysis of the diagnostic value of nine different food sensitivity tests run concurrently on a healthy 33 — year - old female with a previous diagnosis of environmental allergies.

The researchers also performed what's known as a sensitivity analysis, comparing the main study participants with a control group who hadn't had heart attacks.

Indeed, unlike animal protein, plant protein has not been associated with increased insulinlike growth factor 1 levels28, 29 and has been linked to lower blood pressure,30 - 32 reduced low - density lipoprotein levels,32 - 34 and improved insulin sensitivity.35 Substitution of plant protein for animal protein has been related to a lower incidence of CVD36 - 39 and type 2 diabetes.40 - 42 Moreover, although a high intake of red meat, particularly processed red meat, has been associated with increased mortality in a recent meta - analysis of 13 cohort studies, 43 high consumption of nuts, a major contributor to plant protein, has been associated lower CVD and all - cause mortality.44 These results underscore the importance of protein sources for risk assessment and suggest that other components in protein - rich foods (eg, sodium, 45 nitrates, and nitrites46 in processed red meat), in addition to protein per se, may have a critical health effect.

Sensitivity analyses excluding extreme values of sugar intake and excluding person - observations with self - reported doctor diagnosis at baseline attenuated the association of sugar intake from sweet food / beverages and recurrent depression slightly (before P for tertile trend 0.003 after 0.022 and 0.010, respectively).

In sensitivity analyses, main analyses were repeated by: (a) excluding participants with unknown or reported doctor diagnosis of depression at each baseline (at phases 3 / 5/7 / 9: 166 / 156/193 / 209 individuals) and: (b) excluding participants with extreme values of sugar intake (> 7 SD) at phases 3 / 5/7 / 9: 5 / 3/4 / 4 individuals.

Base case and sensitivity analysis results in a Markov model of effectiveness and cost effectiveness * of dark chocolate consumption according to compliance levels versus no dark chocolate consumption over 10 years in prehypertensive / hypertensive people with metabolic syndrome, free of cardiovascular disease and diagnosed diabetes.

Finally, sensitivity analyses were performed by excluding individuals who might have made dietary adjustments and / or lifestyle changes because of chronic disease at baseline (i.e., hypertension, hyperlipidemia, myocardial infarction, and / or stroke) and by excluding misreports of energy according to Goldberg criterion categories, defined as «under - reporters» with a ratio of energy intake to basal metabolic rate < 1.14 and «over-reporters» with a ratio of > 2.1 (29).

A comparative analysis of data collected at different stages of the program looks into the development of teachers» linguistic awareness and sensitivity, and their ability to integrate subject matter instruction with language development activities at the levels of both instructional planning and instructional practice as a result of such a development.

During data analysis focusing on teachers» attention to content specific language / literacy skills, the researchers, with diverse experience and expertise in content specific literacy, made the decision on teachers» sensitivity for and ability to incorporate appropriate language requirements.

These sensitivity checks, and the possible stratification of teachers into sub-groups serving similar students, complicate value - added analysis and may not be congruent with policymakers» wish to compare all teachers in a district.

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ROC analyses produced optimum CM sensitivity of 70 %, with specificity 71 % and, for SM, a sensitivity of 77 %, with specificity of 54 %, both occurring at F - diameter of approximately 41.8 mm.

Oh, also, is the sensitivity analysis («robust with respect to the elimination of any single record») just another way of saying they jackknifed the data?

Some analysis of climate sensitivity has worked with a uniform prior — that's just one where all values are considered equally likely prior to incorporating our data.

``... a sensitivity analysis based on recalculation of the Briffa Yamal plot only using trees with ages above a certain value.

It featured the incorrect Spencer and Christie analysis, a comparison with a GCM simulation done with steady 1 % CO2 increase and no aerosol forcint (meant as a sensitivity study, not a forecast!)