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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Insufficient Sample"”.
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Giving Voice to the "Insufficient Sample": A Phenomenological Study of African American Students Attending A Predominantly White High School
<p>The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how African American students of low socioeconomic status perceived their educational experiences at a predominantly White, high socioeconomic status high school. The study sought to capture the lived experiences of high school …
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Evaluation of ambulatory diagnosis of abnormal uterine bleeding
… of endometrial atrophy in relation to an insufficient sample on outpatient endometrial biopsy? • What is the risk of premalignant and malignant pathology among endometrial polyps? What is the significance of various risk factors associated with endometrial polyps? • What is the feasibility …
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Do the rich speak louder? : examining whether U.S. Senators differentially respond to their constituents by income across issues
… income group level opinion where there are insufficient sample sizes in national surveys. Income group opinions are found to be distinct across issue areas and the top ten percent of the income bracket are found to hold different opinions when compared to a more inclusively defined …
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Physical activity for the brain, but for whom? An individual difference investigation of the FITKids clinical trial on cognitive control and ERPs in children
… cardiorespiratory fitness results revealed insufficient sample size for higher-fit children. Thus, fitness was utilized as a matching variable with one hundred seventy-two participants (n = 86 treatment; n = 86 wait-list) successfully matched across treatment, SES, and sex. Results …
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Preconception and Interconception Health and Routine Health Service Use Among Women in a Rural Midwestern Community
… from areas with low population densities or insufficient sample sizes to generate reliable estimates, a cross-sectional study was performed using a 34- item survey. Data were collected from February to May 2019 from 315 non-pregnant women ages 18-45 years in a rural county in northwestern …
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An evaluation of the impact of the Virginia employment commission's applicant screening procedure on the job service applicant
… applicants placed through other means. Due to insufficient sample sizes for many analyses, the reliability of certain findings is uncertain. It was recommended that the VEC increase the number of applicant referrals made through VG, ensure that computer-maintained records are accurate and …
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A comparative analysis of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry for measuring fluvial sediments
… facies assemblages, poor spatial coverage, insufficient sample sizes, and misrepresentation of bedforms. The application of LiDAR facilitated accurate observation of micro-scale habitats, and has been successfully employed in quantifying sediment grain size at the local level. However, …
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The effect of aging and rhythmic temporal structure during encoding on recognition memory: an EEG Study
… memory at retrieval in a younger adult sample. The current study aimed to investigate whether the benefit to recognition memory, and associated neural processes, observed in young adults is also evident in normal aging. Unfortunately, due to national restrictions affecting data …
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Presumptive identification of smooth Brucella strain antibodies in canines
… by testing previously banked canine serum samples stored at Cornell's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory from 2018-2019 via Brucella abortus FPA. Of the 769 serum samples tested, 13/769 (1.7%) yielded an inconclusive result, 725/769 (94.2%) were negative, 30/769 (4%) yielded a positive FPA …
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Factors Influencing the Type of Pain Interventions in Patients Who are Nonverbal and Unable to Self-Report
… Descriptive statistics characterized the sample and tests of association described the relationships between the variables. Multinomial logistic regression was not conducted due to insufficient sample size.</p> <p><strong>Findings: </strong>Case sex was related to both cancer type and if …
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Exploring the functional organization of cerebral cortex using data from the Human Connectome Project
… our understanding has been limited due to insufficient sample sizes, low-resolution imaging, and suboptimal volume-based analyses. In recent years, the Human Connectome Project (HCP) has released high-quality imaging datasets from an unprecedented number of subjects. The surface-based …
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Reducing reagent waste through process improvement and preventive maintenance
… expensive liquids that are combined with patient samples to detect compounds of interest. This project aims to reduce reagent waste for high-volume diagnostic tests run on an instrument platform that generates a relatively high amount of reagent waste. Waste, in this context, means any reagent …
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Data-driven cyber-physical energy systems
… are still suffering low accuracy due to insufficient sample and feature learning. To further improve the detection performance, I design a new automatic system that can accurately detect and profile distributed solar photovoltaic arrays in a given region without any extra cost. I leverage …
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Interactions between Folate Deficiency and β-Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Deficiency and Conformational Study of Thymidylate Synthase and its Physiological Relevance
… on two levels: in a cell culture model and in samples from breast cancer patients.</p> <p>In the cell model HCT116, EC 50 of folate and Nam, precursor of NAD, were determined. Customized RPMI 1640 depletion medium was used in the study offering an advantage relative to standard approaches. …