This data shows a comparison of ACSM data in Nanjing between a traditional PM1 instrument and a new PM2.5 instrument equipped with a capture vaporiser (CV), along with other instruments. These two modifications to the instrument design have been heavily anticipated for the purposes of comparability with other PM2.5 measurements and to get away from the ‘bounce’ artefacts that are corrected for ...

OBJECTIVES This report examines the comparability between the rates of inpatient procedures for persons aged 65 and over using the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and Medicare claims data. METHODS The estimates in this report are based on data from NHDS and Medicare claims submitted by hospital providers for inpatient stays among Part A fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries aged 65...

Similarities induced by a comparability mapping : meaning and utility in the context of the clustering of comparable texts. In the presence of bilingual comparable corpora it is natural to embed the data in two distinct linguistic representation spaces in which a "computational" notion of similarity is potentially defined. As far as these bilingual data are comparable in the sense of a measure ...

breast cancer is the leading cause of malignancy among women. screening using mammography is proposed as an effective intervention for reducing early deaths due to breast cancer. we conducted a systematic review to assess the cost-effectiveness of such screening programs. we searched medline, scopus and google scholar and complemented it by other searches using sensitive search terms from 1993-...

BACKGROUND C-peptide measurement has been widely used as a marker of insulin secretion in patients with diabetes. We assessed the comparability of C-peptide results obtained with different methods and by different laboratories and determined whether C-peptide results could be harmonized by normalization with a WHO reference reagent or with plasma. METHODS We sent 16 different heparin plasma s...