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Comparing actual and perceived causes of fever among community members in a low malaria transmission setting in northern Tanzania.
(Trop Med Int Health, 2013-11)OBJECTIVE: To compare actual and perceived causes of fever in northern Tanzania. METHODS: In a standardised survey, heads of households in 30 wards in Moshi, Tanzania, were asked to identify the most common cause of fever ... -
Comparing Disciplinary Processes in North Carolina Charter and Traditional Public Schools
(2014-04-18)In this paper, I utilized qualitative research methods to analyze North Carolina’s middle and high school charter disciplinary policies with a focus on three particular research areas. 1. What differences, if any, exist ... -
Comparing dynamic equilibrium models to data: A Bayesian approach
(Journal of Econometrics, 2004-11-01)This paper studies the properties of the Bayesian approach to estimation and comparison of dynamic equilibrium economies. Both tasks can be performed even if the models are nonnested, misspecified, and nonlinear. First, ... -
Comparing estimates of SO2 and NOx emissions inventories for the U.S. and China: exploring the reasons for discrepancies between EDGAR and ECLIPSE
(2017-04-28)The EDGAR and ECLIPSE datasets contain estimates of past, current, and future emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants, at the global, regional and national scales. These datasets are each a direct output ... -
Comparing Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting and Instrumental Variable Methods for the Evaluation of Adenosine Diphosphate Receptor Inhibitors After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
(JAMA cardiology, 2016-09)IMPORTANCE:There is increasing interest in performing comparative effectiveness analyses in large observational databases, yet these analyses must adjust for treatment selection issues. OBJECTIVES:To conduct comparative ... -
Comparing New Keynesian models of the business cycle: A Bayesian approach
(Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005-09-01)The baseline New Keynesian model cannot replicate the observed persistence in inflation, output, and real wages for sensible parameter values. As a result, several extensions have been suggested to improve its fit to the ... -
Comparing Possibly Misspecified Forecasts
(Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2019-01-01)© 2019, © 2019 American Statistical Association. Recent work has emphasized the importance of evaluating estimates of a statistical functional (such as a conditional mean, quantile, or distribution) using a loss function ... -
Comparing Self-Monitoring Strategies for Weight Loss: Does Developing Mastery Before Diet Tracking Enhance Engagement?
(2018)Self-monitoring of dietary intake is a valuable component of behavioral weight loss treatment but engagement in self-monitoring declines quickly, resulting in suboptimal treatment outcomes. This dissertation examined a novel ... -
Comparing the model-simulated global warming signal to observations using empirical estimates of unforced noise.
(Sci Rep, 2015-04-21)The comparison of observed global mean surface air temperature (GMT) change to the mean change simulated by climate models has received much public and scientific attention. For a given global warming signal produced by ... -
Comparing the speed of irrigation between pulsatile lavage versus gravity irrigation: an Ex-vivo experimental investigation.
(Patient Saf Surg, 2017)BACKGROUND: The need for reoperation or wound infection treatments between pulsatile and gravity irrigation are statistically equivalent, however, it is unclear which method maximizes operative efficiency and expeditious ... -
Comparison of a reduced carbohydrate and reduced fat diet for LDL, HDL, and VLDL subclasses during 9-months of weight maintenance subsequent to weight loss.
(Lipids Health Dis, 2010-06-01)OBJECTIVES: This study compared LDL, HDL, and VLDL subclasses in overweight or obese adults consuming either a reduced carbohydrate (RC) or reduced fat (RF) weight maintenance diet for 9 months following significant weight ... -
Comparison of AAA and Acuros XB Dose Calculation Algorithms for SRS
(2020)Single isocenter multiple target (SIMT) stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) provides an effective treatment of brain metastases. However, the delivered dose to the target and to the surrounding tissue affect SRS outcomes. The ... -
Comparison of Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Imaging and Shear Wave Imaging (SWI) in Evaluation of Myocardial Ablation Lesions
(2013)Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is commonly used to treat cardiac arrhythmias, by generating a series of discrete RFA lesions in the myocardium to isolate arrhythmogenic conduction pathways. The size of each lesion is controlled ... -
Comparison of Clinical Care and In-Hospital Outcomes of Asian American and White Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke.
(JAMA neurology, 2019-04)Importance:Although overall stroke incidence and mortality in the United States is improving, little is known about the characteristics and clinical outcomes of acute ischemic stroke in Asian American individuals. Objective:To ... -
Comparison of Detection Limits of Fourth- and Fifth-Generation Combination HIV Antigen-Antibody, p24 Antigen, and Viral Load Assays on Diverse HIV Isolates.
(Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018-08)Detection of acute HIV infection is critical for HIV public health and diagnostics. Clinical fourth-generation antigen (Ag)/antibody (Ab) combination (combo) and p24 Ag immunoassays have enhanced detection of acute infection ... -
Comparison of Different Wind Time Series Simulation Methods
(2015-04-23)The assessment of power system reliability under increasing penetration of wind power requires long-term wind data that is not available or does not exist and hence must be simulated. In this research, autoregressive models ... -
Comparison of dynamic balance in adolescent male soccer players from rwanda and the United States.
(Int J Sports Phys Ther, 2013-12)PURPOSE/BACKGROUND: Dynamic balance is an important component of motor skill development. Poor dynamic balance has previously been associated with sport related injury. However, the vast majority of dynamic balance studies ... -
Comparison of extramedullary versus intramedullary referencing for tibial component alignment in total ankle arthroplasty.
(Foot Ankle Int, 2013-12)BACKGROUND: The majority of total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) systems use extramedullary alignment guides for tibial component placement. However, at least 1 system offers intramedullary referencing. In total knee arthroplasty, ... -
Comparison of gain-like properties of eye position signals in inferior colliculus versus auditory cortex of primates.
(Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2010-01)We evaluated to what extent the influence of eye position in the auditory pathway of primates can be described as a gain field. We compared single unit activity in the inferior colliculus (IC), core auditory cortex (A1) ...
