The Cooper et al. paper used private insurance claims to study the variation in health spending and the pricing of hospital services in the United States, finding that hospital prices increased significantly when merging hospitals were geographically close, and that hospitals in concentrated markets had higher prices and were able to negotiate more favorable contractual terms with insurers.
The survival prediction accuracy and prognosis of clinical risk were neither increased nor decreased significantly by merging data sets.
To further investigate whether participants' attitude to the six tasks was significantly different, we merged participants' responses to the first four tasks, i.e. Reading, Repeat, Short Answer Questions, and Sentence Builds, because all of them adopted the selected-response format (see Table 1).
However, both the insertion and deletion rates significantly increased for merged reads from Group M with library sizes of 500 bp and 600 bp.
Since national prevalences of AS in positive flocks were not significantly different we merged them in the rest of the analyses.
However, partial Kappa scores increased significantly when they merged Marsh 1 and Marsh 2 lesions into what they call "grade A".
Overlapping sliding windows with at least 10% of significantly dysregulated probes were merged to create the dysregulated clusters.
PRIM makes use of the temporal imprecision concept to significantly reduce the merge overhead at the cost of relatively large memory space used.
Moreover, we propose an enhancement technique, called Adaptive Regular Stream Triggering (ART), which significantly enhances stream merging behavior by selectively delaying the initiation of full-length video streams.
Modes Mode 1 and Mode 2 are closer to the first centroid, so they are clustered in a single mode, Cluster 1, as shown in Fig. 9. Notice that the Euclidean distances between the two points in the feature space corresponding to Mode 1 and Mode 2 and the centroid are relatively low, which means that these two modes do not differ significantly and thus merging them into one mode can be beneficial.
In 1987 other Texas Air subsidiaries New York Airlines, Inc. (founded 1980), People Express Airlines (1981), and Presidential Airlines (1985)—were merged into Continental Airlines, significantly increasing the company's aircraft and routes, but it continued to lose money and continued to be debt-ridden.
