Context: Concurrent chemo radiotherapy is standard of care for locally advanced cancer esophagus despite showing 50% local failures. Protocols with higher dose of conventional radiotherapy, altered radiotherapy fractionation regimens, various boost techniques, neoadjuvant chemotherapy proved less efficacious. This study prospectively evaluated evidence for dose de-escalated Hypofractionated Rad...

This study aims to compare the financial performance before and after conversion from conventional sharia systems at PT. Aceh Sharia Bank. Measurement of using RGEC (Risk Profile, GCG, Earnings, Capital) method, where, Risk Profile is measured by ratio Non-Performing Financing (NPF) Deposit Ratio (FDR), GCG a composite rating, Earnings Return On Assets (ROA) Equity (ROE), while Capital Adequacy...

A random selection of 150 young mothers (children ≤ 5 years) from slum areas of Ludhiana was done and various issues were enquired related to food safety awareness and their attitude towards food safety. The results of the study revealed that during pre testing, the respondent’s mean awareness score came out to be 6.58 out of the maximum of 15 which was below average and it was highest for the ...

The purpose of this paper was to contrast interim analyses in (randomized controlled) treatment studies with interim analyses in paired diagnostic studies of accuracy with respect to planning and conduct. The term 'treatment study' refers to a (randomized) clinical trial that aims to demonstrate the superiority or noninferiority of one treatment compared with another, and the term 'diagnostic s...

This study examines the effects of intergenerational occupational mobility on relationships between elderly parents and their adult children, using a geographically restricted random sample of parents and a derivative sample of their children. Several explanations for the existence of mobility effects are distinguished and empirically tested: that mobility introduces cultural disparities, invid...

Microarray applications for the study of gene expression are becoming accessible for researchers in more and more systems. Applications from field or laboratory experiments are often complicated by the need to superimpose sample pairing for two-color arrays on experimental designs that may already be complex. For example, split-plot designs are commonly used in biological systems where experime...

The most elementary statistical test is the paired samples t-test with just two pairs. Here the data set to be analysed consists of two numbers (the two paired differences), and the statistical test examines whether the population mean is zero. This test can be derived in a surprisingly fast and intuitive manner by plotting one number against the other on a piece of graph paper, then joining th...

In order to circumvent the influence of correlation in paired-samples and repeated measures experimental designs, researchers typically perform a one-sample Student t test on difference scores. That procedure entails some loss of power, because it employs N – 1 degrees of freedom instead of the 2N – 2 degrees of freedom of the independent-samples t test. In the case of non-normal distributions,...

p s t m w t n p a g e r t A procedure to calculate probability limits for the inference that the absence of a taxon from a woodrat (Neotoma) midden implies bsence from the paleolandscape uses paired samples of modern egetation communities and paired samples of paleocommunities. ssumptions are: (1) each member of a sample pair is an indeendent measure of the same vegetation assemblage; (2) behav...

OBJECTIVE It is standard practice to clean the skin using a non-alcohol-containing swab before forensic blood alcohol sampling, because of the belief that the use of an alcohol-containing swab will contaminate the sample. The present study aimed to determine whether cleaning the skin with 70% isopropyl alcohol swabs, before venepuncture, alters measured blood alcohol level (BAL). METHODS Volu...