Main outcome measure Risk of breast cancer estimated with a weighted Cox proportional hazards model with a time dependent individually estimated cumulative breast dose, based on nominal estimates of organ dose and frequency of self reported diagnostic procedures.
Most of the economic estimates are taken from a 2008 paper by Roger A. Pielke, et. al., which adjusts nominal estimates of storm damage not only for inflation, but also for the growth in wealth, population and property values, allowing for the comparisons to be more apples-to-apples.
where (bar {g}_{L}^{o}) is the nominal, estimated conductance and (sigma ^{2}_{g}) the variance of this estimate.
The cumulative breast dose estimate was the sum of the age and calendar specific number of self reported diagnostic procedures multiplied by nominal estimates of breast dose.
Figures 2 and 3 show the temporal evolution of the relative prevalence of TB cases, C t), and relative relapses, R t), based on the nominal estimates of the model parameters, with moderately low initial TB and HIV prevalence.
The model of uncertainty is a non-probabilistic representation of the degree to which the value of parameters, the form of a function, or the structure of a model may deviate from nominal estimates.
Nominal estimates of breast dose for fluoroscopy, radiography, mammography, and computed tomography were derived from a literature review of published studies and institutional reports assessing radiation dose delivered to the breast from radiological examinations and expert judgment by ITC, AK, FvL, and AP (table 1).
Nominal cost estimates were converted to constant 2011 dollars using the "Hospital and related services" component of the Consumer Price Index (http://www.bls.gov/cpi/).gov/cpi/
Direct U-Pb zircon dating revealed ages of 1.17 ± 0.2 Ma for 0 600 mbsf and 1.24 ± 0.02 Ma for 600 1415 mbsf (Grimes et al., 2008) that are slightly younger than the nominal age estimated from sea surface magnetic anomalies (1.5 2 Ma; Blackman et al., 2006, 2011).
Chinese has a large number of nominal classifiers; estimates of the number in Mandarin range from "several dozen" or "about 50", to over 900.
