We applied the surface-based analysis for assessing shape abnormalities of the deep white matter tracts in 19 normal comparison subjects and in 13 subjects with AD (Table 1).
To assess shape and magnitude of the response (e.g., bias number) as a function of environmental stimulus (number of critical days in MT and number of mites at nest site in AZ) we used regression procedures in generalized additive models of PROC GAM in SAS 9.13.
In this paper, the surface-based analysis was applied for assessing shapes and FA maps of the twenty three deep white matter tracts in patients with AD and healthy control subjects.
Very few studies have completely assessed the shape of the relationship between air pollution exposure and reproductive outcomes.
Finally, we assessed the shape of the dose response relationship by fitting a piecewise linear spline, with slope changes at 20 μg/m and 50 μg/m.
We assessed the shape of the ozone mortality concentration response relationship using three alternative model specifications: a) linear, b) linear-threshold with the threshold chosen to maximize the likelihood function, and c) natural cubic splines constructed using five equally spaced knots determined from the combined concentrations of ozone in the five urban areas and in the five rural areas.
The only study that has directly assessed the shape of the functions that describe how fitness varies with body size for alternative male phenotypes was conducted with the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus[ 29], and corroborated the status-dependent selection model [ 11].
This assessment is important because hysteroscopy has low reproducibility in assessing the shape of the uterine cavity (Smit et al., 2013).
After height, weight, income, and other vitals, I was asked to assess the shape of my face by the Chinese standards of beauty; there was an option for a face as oval as a "duck's egg" and a face as narrow as a "sunflower seed".
Onstage, Iyer decides "how to start, how to continue, and how to end, and I'm constantly assessing the shape of the performance — I have a sense of where I'm going and where the other musicians are going to meet me" — but he seeks a group exchange.
