In particular, developing a deeper understanding of four key issues would be particularly useful: i) the measurement of locus of control; ii) the mechanisms linking locus of control to labor market outcomes; iii) the magnitude of the effects of locus of control; and iv) the malleability of locus of control.
Taking these factors into account, firms can then induce worker effort by strategically choosing: i) the timing of compensation, i.e., the delay between effort and pay; ii) the penalty for low effort; iii) the range of decisions over which workers need to exert self-control; and iv) the social dimensions of the work environment (see Kaur et al. 2010; Jain 2012; Parsons and Van Wesp 2013).
The controls were prepared as follows: (i) nutrient broth only (positive control), (ii) nutrient broth and sterile plant extract, (iii) nutrient broth and a test organism (positive control), and (iv) the standard antibiotic tetracycline (positive control).
We used the EGFR Boolean model by Samaga et al. and the IL1 model by Ryll et al. to compare the performance of four design strategies: (i) a naive approach choosing experiments at random, (ii) a maximum entropy approach based on a sample of models, (iii) a minimum entropy approach serving as a control and (iv) a maximum difference approach.
Apart from this, our study and that from Khan et al. [ 2] are comparable with respect to i) the number, sex and age of patients investigated, ii) the duration of disease, iii) glycemic control, and, iv) daily insulin dosages, whereas the site of measurement (dorsum of the foot vs. volar surface of the forearm) and the mode of therapy (MDI and CSII vs. MDI) were different.
The statistics for these different datasets are: (i) GER (GSE4183): 23 disease and 8 healthy control samples; (ii) SA (GSE23878): 35 disease and 24 healthy control samples; (iii) USA (GSE 13471): 4 disease and 4 healthy control samples; and, (iv) CHN (GSE22242): 1 disease and 1 healthy control sample.
In contrast, a tendency to higher levels of miR-141 in the blood of stage I-III BC patients in comparison with controls and stage IV patients was found.
Four quality assurance specimens were included in each assay: i) a pooled serum sample from women of a similar age from the study participants, ii) one randomly drawn case sample, iii) one randomly drawn control sample, and iv) a pooled sample of the selected case and control samples.
Therefore, the construction workers (i) define situations with high levels of exposure at their current worksite; (ii) learn how technical control measures should be used to reduce this exposure; (iii) discuss constraints for using technical control measures; and (iv) define solutions to tackle these constraints.
