Danny Dvir, MD; John Webb, MD; Stephen Brecker, MD; Sabine Bleiziffer, MD; David Hildick-Smith, MD; Antonio Colombo, MD; Fleur Descoutures, MD; Christian Hengstenberg, MD; Neil E. Moat, FRCS; Raffi Bekeredjian, MD; Massimo Napodano, MD; Luca Testa, MD, PhD; Thierry Lefevre, MD; Victor Guetta, MD; Henrik Nissen, MD, PhD; José-María Hernández, MD; David Roy, MD; Rui C. Teles, MD; Amit Segev, MD; ...

A partial least-squares regression (PLS) was developed for the simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of aluminum and beryllium in geochemical samples by xylenol orange as the chromogenic reagent in water media and in micellar media. The effects of pH, xylenol orange concentration and surfactant concentration on the complexes formation reactions were studied. In the absence of surfactant...

Partial least square (PLS) methods (also sometimes called projection to latent structures) relate the information present in two data tables that collect measurements on the same set of observations. PLS methods proceed by deriving latent variables which are (optimal) linear combinations of the variables of a data table. When the goal is to find the shared information between two tables, the ap...

After forward-backward translation, the LSS was administered to 334 Persian speaking, cognitively healthy elderly aged 60 years and over recruited through convenience sampling. To analyze the validity of the model's constructs and the relationships between the constructs, a confirmatory factor analysis followed by PLS analysis was performed. The Construct validity was further investigated by ca...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have revealed that nursing staff turnover remains a major problem in emerging economies. In particular, nursing staff turnover in Malaysia remains high due to a lack of job satisfaction. Despite a shortage of healthcare staff, the Malaysian government plans to create 181 000 new healthcare jobs by 2020 through the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP). This study inv...