In a previous Norwegian study, data of the NorPD and MBRN, which were also included in this study, were linked and compared by calculating the sensitivity, the specificity and the positive predictive value (PPV) of recorded medicine in the MBRN for the period 2004 2007, using NorPD as the 'gold standard' [ 16].
And just as the web was first embraced by particle physicists, the semantic web may well take root in the life sciences, where it could allow separate genomic databases to be linked, searched and compared in novel ways.These examples may not sound like a revolution in the making.
Like Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf, or Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, Winston and Mariota will be forever linked and compared because of their back-to-back draft positions.
Because Rizzuto was the Yankees' shortstop and Reese the Brooklyn Dodgers' shortstop, they were always linked and compared.
Administrative data and patient level data in the EMR could not be linked; we compared practice level data using randomly selected EMR charts.
Occupational histories obtained from maternal interviews with Texas (USA) participants in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study were linked to and compared with parental work information on birth certificates.
The DCN data from the Qidong All-Death-Cause Registration System [ 9] were linked to and compared with new registered cases if the patient had died.
These datasets can be linked in order to compare early outcomes for specific patient and implant groups at the national level.
The agency keeps an "alert list" with about 18,000 phone numbers it suspects may be linked to terrorism, and it compares new call data to numbers on the list.
The project is in keeping with art movements to which her work has been linked or compared: early 1990s Context Art or the more recent "relational aesthetics," in which object making is subordinate to dialogue and human exchange.
