Data are not gathered for each single building and the intensity values are not a simple hazard indicator, but, notwithstanding its coarseness, this method ensures both robust and reproducible results.
After weighing options, we chose the multivariable vulnerability index approach, because we wanted to capture known high heterogeneity in hazard indicators and adaptation indicators up front as the health-centered basis for stratification.
Using the Taichung metropolis, Taiwan as the study area, this article created a resilience metric called the Climatic Hazard Resilience Indicators for Localities (CHRIL) that is appropriate for use in a policy context.
To estimate the association of CRT-D with each outcome, we used Cox proportional hazards models with an indicator for receipt of CRT-D as the only covariate.
Multivariate analysis identified expression as an independent prognostic indicator for survival (hazard ratio=3.24, 95% confidence interval=1.58 6.67, P-value=0.0014).
The surveillance of receptor-binding characteristics can therefore provide a strong additional indicator for the relative hazard imposed by circulating and newly emerging influenza strains.
Indeed, only tumor stage was an independent indicator for recurrence-free (hazard ratio 4.0, 95% confidence interval 2.3 to 7.1, p < 0.0001) or disease-specific overall survival (hazard ratio 5.0, 95% confidence interval 2.5 to 10.1, p < 0.0001) after adjusting for age, therapy received and all other factors listed in Table 1.
Kallikrein-related peptidase 6 was an indicator for poor prognosis with a hazard ratio of 2.8 and on average 53 months shorter survival (Table 1 and Figure 4E).
With respect to tumour histology, tumour vascularity was also a significant indicator for survival of patients with squamous cell carcinomas (hazard ratio=5.529, P=0.0053), and patients with large cell carcinomas (hazard ratio=24.815, P=0.0312).
Multivariate analysis with a Cox proportional-hazards model suggested that MACC1 expression was an independent prognostic indicator for RFS and OS.
