The explosion of financial crisis induced an argument about the accounting of fair value in the whole world, and the influence of the fair value measurement on the bank profit begun to be noticed by the public. In the background that Chinese commercial banks successively implemented the shareholding reform and begun to come into the market, it is practical and meaningful to analyze the influenc...

PET provides robust and reproducible measurements of regional myocardial blood flow in milliliters per minute per gram of tissue, providing unique pathophysiologic and diagnostic information on the function of the coronary macro- and microcirculation. There is compelling evidence to suggest that in many instances abnormalities of global myocardial perfusion are demonstrated in individuals with ...

All nationwide return indices for direct owned property are based on valuations, which give a discussion of how well market value estimates reflect transaction prices and market movements. Two valuation experiments in relation to the Swedish Property Index give indications about the magnitude of the variation in estimated market values as well as variation in individual discounted cash flow par...

The extent of elastosis in the stroma within the anatomical "tumour" in 80 patients with breast carcinoma was assessed by observational microscopy using a 4-point grading system, and measured by semiautomated histometry as an area percentage with a Quantimet 720 image-analysing computer. In this retrospective study, measurement of elastosis in tissue removed at time of initial diagnosis was sho...

Traumatic brain injuries were analysed clinically and experimentally by recording stationary potential(SP) which is a very stable component in the electrical phenomena of the brain. SP value is considered to change positively or negatively only when there are organic lesions, severe metabolic changes of the brain, or epileptic seizures. Clinically, we have measured the SP of 103 head-injure...

Formalization of familiarity contributes to formalization of trust through a value-centric trust model. However, familiarity was assumed to be the similarity of values (fixed for two agents), and stability of the trust model was relatively low. To increase the stability, we propose an improved familiarity measurement. Experiments are carried out to compare the stability of the trust model with ...

Seventy-four measurements of cerebral blood flow (CBF) were performed using the Xenon 133 inhalation method in 50 cases of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage. This method is non-traumatic, reproducible and dependable. A correlation was found between clinical condition and CBF values, but in a number of cases which cannot be dismissed, very low mean CBF values or ischemic foci were revealed whe...

BACKGROUND Current policy advocates individual choice across a number of domains, including healthcare provision. AIM To develop a new tool for measuring people's beliefs about the value of choice in the context of healthcare provision. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Four general practices in South East England. METHOD Nine items relating to health and general domains, ...

Research on teacher productivity, and recently developed accountability systems for teachers, rely on value-added models to estimate the impact of teachers on student performance. The authors test many of the central assumptions required to derive value-added models from an underlying structural cumulative achievement model and reject nearly all of them. Moreover, they find that teacher value a...