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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"Trend analysis"”.
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Trend analysis in scientometrics
The thesis investigates the properties of two trends or time series which formed a:part of the Co-Citation bibliometric model "X~Ray Crystallography and Protein Determination in 1978, 1980 and 1982". This model was one of several created for the 1983 ABRC Science Policy Study which aimed to test …
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MedRec : blockchain for medical data access, permission management and trend analysis
… Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and an analysis of MedRec's contribution in the context of national healthcare priorities. This work is supported by the MIT Media Lab Consortium.
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The Use of Data Mining Techniques in Crime Trend Analysis and Offender Profiling
… appropriate personnel to provide operational analysis. Police data is inconsistent and, frequently, incomplete making the task of formal analysis far more difficult and current analytical practices are semi-manual and time consuming producing results of limited accuracy. These analytical …
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A trend analysis of Ohio's state funding for public and nonpublic school students
The flow of taxpayer money to public and private schools in today’s atmosphere of scarce and highly contested fiscal resources heavily influences the debate over school choice. While there is considerable information on disparate funding among public school systems across the nation there is little …
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Trend Analysis of Belief-State History with Discrete Wavelet Transform for Improved Intention Discovery
… states into the POMDP model and to analyze its trend with discrete wavelet transformation (DWT). Accordingly, a new algorithm is developed to improve the accuracy of intention discovery with trend analysis, and to reduce the dialog length by switching POMDP policies between contextual control …
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Maintenance trend analysis of air conditioning systems for ship operations in the Arabian Gulf
… intermediate and depot level maintenance cost trends for Air Conditioning (A/C) systems based upon the assumption that the severe weather factors of the Gulf would impact the maintenance of A/C equipment. The model used ship age, deployed operational tempo (OPTEMPO), and temperature factors as …
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Trend Analysis of Automobile Collision Amongst 15-19 year olds in Virginia, 2000-2004
… to nineteen (15-19) year olds looked into the trend analysis over a five (5) year period of 2000 to 2004. Trend analysis is usually done for aggregates of all injuries—either intentional or unintentional injuries, or both. The primary objective of this research study was to examine the trend in …
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The Supply and Demand of Physician Assistants in the United States: A Trend Analysis
… population were utilized in a transfer function trend analyses with the number of PAs as the dependent variable for the PA demand model. Historical analyses revealed strong correlations between GDP and US population with the number of PAs. The number of currently certified PAs represents …
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Optimizing Veterinary Drug Residue Monitoring in U.S. Cattle through Trend Analysis and Risk-Based Frameworks
… complementary investigations to examine residue trends, evaluate human health risks, and propose an improved framework for national monitoring. First, national sampling data from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) National Residue Program (NRP) for 2021–2023 were analyzed to …
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Shutdown Dose Rate Modeling for Radiation Requirements Development and Design Trend Analysis in the ARC Fusion Device
… in future ARC design iterations. The first trend is Vanadium’s lower dose rate than Eurofer as a Vacuum Vessel and Blanket Tank material in all configurations, making it the preferred candidate from a radiation perspective. Second, the model indicates that the choice in Blanket Tank material …
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Surface water and groundwater in a changing climate: applications of hydrogeophysics and trend analysis to understand hydrologic systems
… and glacial ice. This dissertation provides an analysis of the hydrologic response to both short-term and long-term climatic changes in both humid-temperate and semi-arid tropical regions. Within the tropical alpine zone, shifts in water availability have turned investigators’ attention to …
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Validation, trend analysis & bias reduction through satellite fusion of the cloud-top height record from terra MODIS & MISR
… passive sensors are better suited for detecting trends due to their longer records and broad swaths yielding greater global coverage. Our longest records of global CTH from passive sensors in a stable orbit come from the 22-year (2000-2021) record of the Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer …
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National and state policies and the prevalence of adult obesity: A 30 year trend analysis in the United States
… regression was used for the national-level analysis and generalized least squares with random effects regression was employed for the state-level analysis. The results show a clear significant association of the USDA food guides eras (Food Wheel 1984-1991; Pyramid 1992-2003; My Pyramid …
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A five-year trend analysis of attitudes of female high school seniors toward post-high school work and education possibilities
A five year trend analysis of attitudes of female high school seniors toward post-high school work and education possibilities investigates what, if any, trends exist regarding education and work they would be doing at age 30. Correlations between females' post-high school education and work goals …
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Land Condition Trend Analysis Plot Inventory Field Methods: a Natural Resource Inventory and Forest Community Analysis Camp Clark, Nevada, Missouri
Land condition trend analysis studies were initiated at Camp Clark in the spring of 1993. Woody species of plants were mapped for 12 of 20 transects sampled. A forest community polar ordination was performed to determine community relationships. Seven plant communities were identified within the …
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Linear Trend Analysis: Implications for a Structural Fracture System and Applications of Subsurface Fluid Migration, Northwest Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma
<p>Lineaments are mappable, simple or composite linear or curvilinear features of the Earth’s surface longer than one mile, which differ from the patterns of adjacent features and are presumed to reflect subsurface phenomenon such as faults and fractures. The usage of the term refers to the …
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Morbidity and mortality trend analysis of cervical cancer in Zambia for the period 2007 to 2014: a case of Cancer Diseases Hospital
… cancer in Zambia. Our study aimed at examining trends and factors associated with cervical cancer morbidity and mortality, among cases presented at the Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH), in Lusaka, Zambia. A retrospective case-study was conducted to review cervical cancer morbidity and mortality …
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Morbidity and mortality trend analysis of cervical cancer in Zambia for the period 2007 to 2014: a case of Cancer Diseases Hospital
… cancer in Zambia. Our study aimed at examining trends and factors associated with cervical cancer morbidity and mortality, among cases presented at the Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH), in Lusaka, Zambia. A retrospective case-study was conducted to review cervical cancer morbidity and mortality …
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The assessment of oil products tanker design methods and technologies to enhance the Energy Efficiency Design Index measure by means of computer simulation and trend analysis
… involving linked engine, propeller and hull analysis programs, has been developed and calibrated with the model tests and sea trial data. The ship system has been analysed under diverse conditions including various propulsion systems, innovative machinery arrangements, efficiency enhancing …
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