If it was unclear whether the newly-emergent resistant PA occurred in a patient with a previous PA culture, we assumed that this was the case and utilized the total number of PA isolates reported in the denominator.
However, our study gathered data from the same database and utilized the total number of deaths, with the advantage of identifying causes of death in a consistent and specific manner.
The copy number of mtDNA was estimated by utilizing the total cellular DNA to quantitative real-time PCR using iQ5 Multicolour real-time PCR detection system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA).
This analytical redundancy methodology was utilized to reduce the total number of redundant road-wheel angle (RWA) sensors, while maintaining a high level of reliability.
The scoring system of this questionnaire utilizes a sum of the total number of points based on the patient's responses: a score of 18 or less indicates a diagnosis of asthma, whereas a score of 19 or more suggests a diagnosis of COPD.
Gene ontology terms were already assigned to genes [ 32], and were utilized both to calculate the total number of GO terms per gene, as well as to perform a Fisher's Exact test to determine what, if any, types of genes were enriched or depleted in our set of highly CG methylated genes, and our set of chromosomes exhibiting significantly reduced gene expression levels.
The method we detail is an extension to the original Bonferroni correction which is widely utilized; however, we have reduced the total number of SNPs to reflect the number of "independent SNPs" since independence is an assumption of the Bonferroni correction.
Application of LDA and GA markedly reduced the total number of utilized features by ≥ 50%% and, with all frequency bands analyzed together, the model showed average classification accuracy (MDD vs. HV) of 80%%.
The latest census data available, published in 2006, indicated that family farms represented 84.4%% of the total number of farms; utilizing 24.3%% of land devoted to agriculture and employing 74.4%% of workers in the sector (Government of Brazil 2014).
Ultimately, utilizing the M eff SNPs instead of the total number of SNPs did not result in a substantive difference in the estimated significance threshold.
