Summary Tables (summary + table)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


World Economic Prospects Monthly, July 2006

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2006
Article first published online: 19 JUL 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly, June 2006

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2006
Article first published online: 13 JUN 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly, May 2006

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2006
Article first published online: 16 MAY 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly, July 2005

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2005
Article first published online: 20 JUL 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly, June 2005

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2005
Article first published online: 15 JUN 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly, May 2005

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2005
Article first published online: 13 MAY 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2004
Article first published online: 9 JUL 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2004
Article first published online: 11 JUN 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2004
Article first published online: 12 MAY 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


World Economic Prospects Monthly

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2004
Article first published online: 14 APR 200
Provides timely analysis of developments and prospects in the major economies. This includes a world overview, and detailed articles on the USA, Japan, the Eurozone, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Emerging Markets. Summary tables of data for these economies are also included. [source]


Web-based Resources for Health Care Providers and Women Following Pregnancy Loss

JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC, GYNECOLOGIC & NEONATAL NURSING, Issue 4 2006
Pamela A. Geller
Experiencing perinatal loss can leave women and families feeling distressed, overwhelmed, and with many questions, while health care providers often lack time and may not be prepared to provide all the answers. This paper highlights the rationale for use and benefits of the Internet with this population and outlines an effort to review and select reliable Internet resources containing valid and substantial content specific to pregnancy loss. A summary table is included for distribution to women and providers. JOGNN, 35, 523,532; 2006. DOI: 10.1111/J.1552-6909.2006.00065.x [source]


convert: A user-friendly program to reformat diploid genotypic data for commonly used population genetic software packages

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES, Issue 2 2004
Jeffrey C. Glaubitz
Abstract convert is a user-friendly, 32-bit Windows program that facilitates ready transfer of codominant, diploid genotypic data amongst commonly used population genetic software packages. convert reads input files in its own ,standard' data format, easily produced from an excel file of diploid, codominant marker data, and can convert these to the input formats of the following programs: gda, genepop, arlequin, popgene, microsat, phylip, and structure. convert can also read input files in genepop format. In addition, convert can produce a summary table of allele frequencies in which private alleles and the sample sizes at each locus are indicated. [source]


Fast FSR Variable Selection with Applications to Clinical Trials

BIOMETRICS, Issue 3 2009
Dennis D. Boos
Summary A new version of the false selection rate variable selection method of Wu, Boos, and Stefanski (2007,,Journal of the American Statistical Association,102, 235,243) is developed that requires no simulation. This version allows the tuning parameter in forward selection to be estimated simply by hand calculation from a summary table of output even for situations where the number of explanatory variables is larger than the sample size. Because of the computational simplicity, the method can be used in permutation tests and inside bagging loops for improved prediction. Illustration is provided in clinical trials for linear regression, logistic regression, and Cox proportional hazards regression. [source]


Progressive nature of aspartylglucosaminuria

ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 3 2002
P Arvio
Descriptions of the outcome of aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU) were analysed, and a comprehensive summary table of symptoms and signs by age was designed. Conclusion: The multifarious progressive nature of AGU is obvious in the skills and abilities of patients, as well as in their personality, general health and physical appearance. [source]


Psycho-educational interventions for children and young people with Type 1 diabetes

DIABETIC MEDICINE, Issue 9 2006
H. R. Murphy
Abstract Background, A systematic review of the literature in 2000 revealed numerous methodological shortcomings in education research, but in recent years progress has been made in the quantity and quality of psycho-educational intervention studies. Summary of contents, This review focuses on diabetes education programmes developed for children, young people and their families in the past 5 years. A comprehensive review of the literature identified 27 articles describing the evaluation of 24 psycho-educational interventions. Data summary tables compare the key features of these, and comparisons are made between individual, group and family-based interventions. Effect sizes are calculated for nine of the randomized studies. Three research questions are posed: firstly has the recent literature addressed the problems highlighted in the previous review; secondly is there sufficient evidence to recommend adaptation of a particular programme; and, finally, what do we still need to do? Conclusions, Progress in the quality and quantity of educational research has not resulted in improved effectiveness of interventions. There is still insufficient evidence to recommend adaptation of a particular educational programme and no programme that has been proven effective in randomized studies for those with poor glycaemic control. To develop a range of effective educational interventions, further research involving larger sample sizes with multicentre collaboration is required. [source]


How confident should we be that smoking cessation treatments work?

ADDICTION, Issue 10 2009
John R. Hughes
ABSTRACT Aim To determine (i) the concordance among recent meta-analyses about which treatments for smoking cessation are efficacious; (ii) the similarity of odds ratios (ORs) across meta-analyses; and (iii) among the validated treatments, the proportion of studies that found higher quit rates. Methods Computerized literature search for meta-analyses during the last 5 years in PubMed and PsychInfo. Data were extracted from summary tables of overall effect of validated treatments. Results Fourteen meta-analyses agreed 100% on the presence/absence of efficacy of 17 proven treatments. The ORs differed by <0.5 in 72/76 of the comparisons of meta-analyses. Among 37 comparisons in 33 comparisons, >85% of the studies reported numerical superiority for the active treatment. Conclusions The efficacy of treatments for smoking cessation are extremely reliable. This argues for inclusion of treatment as an essential feature of tobacco control and clinical practice and argues for reimbursement of smoking cessation treatments on a par with other medical and behavioral disorders. [source]


Multivariate tests comparing binomial probabilities, with application to safety studies for drugs

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES C (APPLIED STATISTICS), Issue 4 2005
Alan Agresti
Summary., In magazine advertisements for new drugs, it is common to see summary tables that compare the relative frequency of several side-effects for the drug and for a placebo, based on results from placebo-controlled clinical trials. The paper summarizes ways to conduct a global test of equality of the population proportions for the drug and the vector of population proportions for the placebo. For multivariate normal responses, the Hotelling T2 -test is a well-known method for testing equality of a vector of means for two independent samples. The tests in the paper are analogues of this test for vectors of binary responses. The likelihood ratio tests can be computationally intensive or have poor asymptotic performance. Simple quadratic forms comparing the two vectors provide alternative tests. Much better performance results from using a score-type version with a null-estimated covariance matrix than from the sample covariance matrix that applies with an ordinary Wald test. For either type of statistic, asymptotic inference is often inadequate, so we also present alternative, exact permutation tests. Follow-up inferences are also discussed, and our methods are applied to safety data from a phase II clinical trial. [source]


Studies in Otitis Media: Children's Hospital Of Pittsburgh,University of Pittsburgh Progress Report,2004

THE LARYNGOSCOPE, Issue S105 2004
Charles D. Bluestone MD
Abstract Objectives/Hypothesis: The present Progress Report has summarized the key otitis media clinical trials and laboratory studies conducted since 1969 by investigators at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh,University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA). Study Design: Review. Methods: Included in the discussion are the following: 1) studies of the epidemiology and risk factors; 2) anatomy and pathology of the eustachian tube,middle ear from human temporal bone histopathological specimens; 3) physiology and pathophysiology of the eustachian tube,middle ear in humans and animal models; 4) pathogenesis; 5) otitis media in special populations (e.g., patients with cleft palate, Native Americans, patients with Down syndrome); 6) microbiology; 7) diagnosis; 8) outcomes of randomized clinical trials that evaluated efficacy of nonsurgical and surgical methods of treatment and prevention; 9) studies of certain complications and sequelae (e.g., effect of middle-ear effusion on hearing, early child development, and the vestibular system; chronic suppurative otitis media). Also included are relevant summary tables and 256 references. [source]