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Comorbidity Measures for Use with Administrative Data
The comorbidities had independent effects on outcomes and probably should not be simplified as an index because they affect outcomes differently among different patient groups. ...
Descarte's error : emotion, reason, and the human brain
Descartes' Error offers the scientific basis for ending the division between mind and body. Antonio Damasio contends that rational decisions are not the product of logic alone -...
Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
Introduction Part I. Perspective and Process 1. Learning In and About Complex Systems 2. System Dynamics In Action 3. The Modeling Process 4. Structure and Behavior of Dynamic S...
Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample
The ongoing revolution in high-throughput sequencing continues to democratize the ability of small groups of investigators to map the microbial component of the biosphere. In pa...
De-noising by soft-thresholding
Donoho and Johnstone (1994) proposed a method for reconstructing an unknown function f on [0,1] from noisy data d/sub i/=f(t/sub i/)+/spl sigma/z/sub i/, i=0, ..., n-1,t/sub i/=...
Politeness
This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It ...
A Self-Rating Depression Scale
Este trabajo de grado, contextualiza y caracteriza la población objeto de estudio en el marco del post- conflicto, brindando un diagnostico a traves de la aplicación de instrume...
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.
Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era....
Topics in Matrix Analysis
Building on the foundations of its predecessor volume, Matrix Analysis, this book treats in detail several topics in matrix theory not included in the previous volume, but with ...