BACKGROUND The extended Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement for Abstracts was developed to improve the quality of reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) because readers often base their assessment of a trial solely on the abstract. To date, few data exist regarding whether it has achieved this goal. We evaluated the extent of adherence to the CONSORT for Abstr...

at the SPTL conference, Glasgow University 2002. I would like to thank Sara Fovargue for her comments on that draft and the anonymous reviewers of Medical Law Review. 1 See further C. Dyer, ‘Surrogate Mother Refuses to Give Up Baby’ (1997) 314 B.M.J. 250 and D. Kennedy, ‘Minister Hints at Change in the Law’ (1997) The Times, 16 May. 2 M. Brazier, A. Campbell and S. Golombok, Surrogacy: Review f...

A somewhat limited design procedure for elastic-perfectly plastic structures was developed previously []]**. It is extended here to provide upper and lower bounds on the minimum weight of three dimensional structures and is specialized to safe one and two dimensional structures in which either direct stresses or bending stresses are negligible. The generalization also includes the influence of ...

OBJECTIVE Stress is thought to be one of the triggers of relapses in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We examined the rate of relapse in IBD patients before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTINGS 13 hospitals in Japan. PARTICIPANTS 546 ulcerative colitis (UC) and 357 Crohn's disease (CD) patients who received outpatient and ...

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Received: 9 February 2006 / Accepted: 3 May 2006 / Published: 4 May , 2006 __________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: The present paper is concerned with an analytical study of entropy generation in viscous, incompressible Couette flow between a stationary plate and a moving plate. The flow induced by the moving plate is assisted by a constant p...

So far we have talked about the expectation of random variables, and moved on to the variance or the second moment. However, neither of these methods is strong enough to produce the tight bounds needed for some applications. We have already stated that if all you are given is the variance of a r.v., then Chebyshev’s Inequality is essentially the best you can do. Thus, more information is needed...

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1.はじめに CGで現実感のある画像を生成する技術は、いかにして物体を 忠実に表現するかの技術である。物体を特徴付ける要素として は、大きく分けて、物体の形状と、物体表面の色情報や光学属 性などの表面属性がある。物体の表面属性を表現する場合、一 般的には、バンプマッピングなどのさまざまなマッピング手法 がとられている。CGデザイナがマッピングに利用できる素材と しては、市販の CD-ROM やインターネット経由で入手できる素 材集、およびテクスチャ生成のプログラムから出力されるデー タなどがある。 本報告で取り扱う石畳を表現する場合、CGデザイナが路面の 敷石を1つ1つモデリングして表現することが理想ではある が、大変な労力を要するため現実的ではない。一方、石畳の写 真素材を路面にマッピングして表現することも可能であるが、 以下のような問題が生ずる。 ・テクスチャ全体として凹凸が激し...

The hfarerirds Science Cimrion Index w on CD-ROM, a new specialty index launched by the Institute for Scientific Information’@, is discussed. The index contains searchable author abstracts,