The most significant dose-volume predictive factor for the logistic regression NTCP model was determined by using the LASSO with bootstrapping technique (the LASSO shrinking path diagrams are shown in Figure 2).
The swell-shrink path was found to be S-shaped and included a low structural shrinkage (Save = 100% to Save = 80% at wp) followed by a sharp decline during normal shrinkage (Save = 80% to Save = 60% at ws) and then by a low decrease during residual shrinkage (Save = 60% to Save = 0%).
Then, as if on cue, the number-crunchers in Brussels announced last week that the economy of the euro area countries — which have been following a decidedly non-Keynesian path — shrank yet again at the beginning of the year.
Broadly speaking, his approach was ripped right from the pages of the conservative playbook: shrink the government and clear the path for private development.
Seeing the number on the scale shrink is only one goal on the path to healthy living.
If implemented, Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" plan would shrink the U.S. economy by 1.7percentt and increase the unemployment rate by 0.6 to 0.8 percentage points, EPI found.
Slashing military spending will not only shrink government and help put us on a path to fiscal responsibility while stripping unaccountable, fat-cat defence contractors of hundreds of billions in corporate welfare.
We also discussed how such experiments offer scientists and their institutions a direct path to the public as conventional science media shrink (read "The Changing Communication Climate" for more).
The Liberal Democrats would not follow the Tories' ideological path of shrinking the state after the deficit is eliminated, according to Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday, Alexander said: "What I think is important is that after 2017-18 we do not go in for an ideological path of shrinking the state and allow public expenditure to grow in line with the economy, and invest in things that matter as we have in fairness in this parliament".
