We fitted the hurdle model to each class of dental utilization to investigate differences between adults with diabetes and controls for each treatment class and each component of utilization.
Studies have shown that recall of resource utilization declines over time and that some components of healthcare utilization may be recalled better than others [ 2, 7].
Two components of healthcare utilization which are health facility visit irrespective of the number; and the number of health facility visits, conditioned on a particular year's utilization were used.
We constructed a model estimating the relevant components of hospital utilization.
Prior studies also did not report on the individual components of healthcare utilization and costs, which was an important objective of our study.
Despite their functional diversity, many characterized components of sugar utilization pathways occur in a limited number of protein families containing multiple paralogs with varying substrate specificities.
While a previous study determined the median hospital length of stay (LOS) in this population to be 17 days (interquartile range [IQR] 25 75 11 to 26), corresponding components of this utilization, i.e., duration of MV or of ICU stay, were not quantified [ 19].
Furthermore, to verify that the observed enhanced growth of the clones was not due to any mutations in the genes encoding components of the xylose utilization pathway or in the xtrD gene, both plasmids (one containing the three genes required for xylose utilization and one containing xtrD) were extracted from all four strains and transformed back into the original EBY.VW4000 strain.
These and other upstream and auxiliary (e.g. involved in sensing and chemotaxis) components of the carbohydrate utilization machinery were typically excluded from our analysis, except for those that share genomic context with other sugar utilization components.
Also, improvement of 3D mask structure to prevent the leakage of incident light at the bottom and side edges can be achieved by leak-tight opaque sealing of silicon components or utilization of transparent polymer components covered with patterned metal layers.
