SPECT images with CT attenuation maps at the EXP phase showed significant differences in regional weight-normalized radioactivity concentrations relative to the images using the other attenuation maps (p < 0.05), as well as systematic positive bias errors, compared to TCT-based images for all myocardial segments, 5.7% ± 2.7% (1.9% to 10.0%).
To account for the non-proportional sampling design, regional weights were then applied to reflect the size of each site relative to the child population in the region from which the site was sampled.
Since the proportion of the population included in the database varies across German federal states, regional weights are necessary to obtain an estimate representative for the whole of Germany.
Important considerations when developing freight plans are integrated transport planning and weighting of the regional perspectives against an urban/city perspective.
The wet weight of the small intestine was derived from their median regional wet weights (79 g for duodenum, 411 g for jejunum and 319 g for ileum) (84).
Firstly, a new regularization term which adopts Regional Adaptive Weight Coefficients (RAWC) is produced to keep edges and flat regions.
These cross-regional differences were reduced by post-stratification weighting for age, sex, region and nationality [ 23].
This is a problem for a number of Sunni Gulf Arab states, who may be ruing the day some of them egged the US on to ousting Shiite Iran's natural regional counter-weight, Saddam Hussein.
These findings suggest the importance of regional birth weight norms to identify and define risk factors for higher risk births.
The regional specialist weight management service at the Heart of England National Health Service NHS Foundation Trustst, Birmingham, received patients with extreme and complex obesity from primary care based on the following referral criteria: a body mass index (BMI) of 40 kg/m or above, or a BMI of 35 kg/m with a comorbidity, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus.
