... and shoulds (vices and virtues) are defined explicitly in terms of the temporal trade-offs of benefits and costs In contrast, although there may be a difference in the timing of the accrual of ... task of evaluating multiple items side by side, which conduces more thinking, remains unaltered In terms of the numbers of subjects who showed different combinations of ratings and choices, of ... certificates of equal monetary value, one of which was rated as primarily hedonic and the other as primarily utilitarian— was adopted from the work of Dhar and Wertenbroch (2000) and O’Curry and Strahilevitz...
... found with choiceof high function or high brand After choiceof the known (high) brand, respondents are no less likely to show escalation of commitment than after choiceof a generic brand although ... included and categorized on the basis of actual choice (rather than on condition of desired choice) , the results would remain the same Choiceof High or Low Option We test for a main effect of choosing ... selected high and low design is further evidence of a self-affirming effect ofchoiceof high design; respondents generally respond in a more self-assured and confident manner after choiceof high design...
... ON HIV AND AIDS, SEXUALITY AND GENDER ON HIV AND AIDS, SEXUALITY AND GENDER distance to health services, high levels of illiteracy and local beliefs and practices On the other hand, HIV incidence ... risks of unplanned pregnancies, STI s and HIV Improvement and increase of FP services uptake and use of health facility-based maternal health care services will contribute to the achievement of ... ON HIV AND AIDS, SEXUALITY AND GENDER Links and resources How universal is access to reproductive health? A review of evidence UNFPA 2010 examine the number and distribution of health professionals...
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... observed the diagnostic procedure at the clinics had a sensitivity of 38.1% and a specificity of 74.5% The positive predictive and the negative predictive diagnostic value were 52% and 62.5% respectively ... diagnosis of pulmonary TB in children above years and adults were treated for other respiratory problems Because they followed NTLP diagnostic algorithm, all of them had a chest X-ray done, and all of ... with HIV Assuming a sensitivity of 50% and specificity of 75%, a sample of size 413 subjects would give a 95% confidence interval of plus/minus 0.048% for sensitivity and plus/ minus 0.042% for specificity...
... frequency of liver disease, suggesting the influence of alcoholism These results correspond to those of Alvarez et al (6) and Van den Brande (15) but contrast with those of Katz et al (17) and Umeki ... the importance of sputum AFB smear/ culture for the diagnosis of TB in the elderly A positive sputum AFB smear was obtained in 57.1% of elderly and in 57.5 % of young TB patients, and a positive ... limit), Fernandez-Villar et al (30) found an 18.2% incidence of hepatotoxicity in the risk factor group (advanced age, chronic liver disease, abuse of alcohol, and others), and van den Brande et...
... Targeted Diagnosticand Therapeutics, Inc (SAW), and the Marriott Foundation (AT) SAW is the Samuel M V Hamilton Endowed Professor of Thomas Jefferson University AT is the Marriott Family Professor of ... pri-miRNAs of hundreds to thousands of base pairs are converted into stem–loop precursors (pre-miRNA), of about 70 nucleotides, by Drosha, an RNase III endonuclease, and by Pasha, a homologue of the ... Indeed, there is a reciprocal relationship between the expression of miR-15a and miR-16-1 andof Bcl-2, and the heterologous production of these miRNAs suppresses Bcl-2 levels [32] Suppression is specifically...
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... pathology confirmed stage I-II disease The introduction of PET-CT imaging for assessment of cancers of the head and neck revolutionized cancer stagingand is now routinely performed prior to planning ... modified the management of 13.7% of patients Our findings indicate that PET-CT changed the stage in a large number of patients: upstaging approximately 43.4% and down staging 5.7% when compared ... article as: Tauzin et al.: PET-CT stagingof the neck in cancers of the oropharynx: patterns of regional and retropharyngeal nodal metastasis World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2010 8:70 Submit...
... (GIST), paragangglioma and neoplasm of melanocytic origin The positive expression of the HMB-45 and S-100 protein antibodies set the diagnosis of the malignant neoplasm of melanocytic origin (malignant ... concerning size, fixation and ulceration of the tumor and proctosigmoidoscopy may be suggestive of anorectal melanoma Figure Microscopic view of the permanent section Microscopic view of the permanent ... of natural interferonbeta and systemic administration of dacarbazine has been proposed with good results [13] No systemic therapy regimen for metastatic anal melanoma is considered standard of...
... delineation of target volume[12] The advantage of PET/CT fusion has been already reported for stagingand RT planning of non-small cell lung cancer in a number of literature studies [13] and preliminary ... acquired for 2–3 minutes per bed position Field of view was of 50 cm with a matrix of 512 × 512 pixels for CT andof 128 × 128 for PET The proc- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation ... the role of PET/CT imaging for stagingand RT treat- Table 4: Volumes (cc) identified after fusion of PET and CT images Volumes Figure undifferentiated carcinoma Axial FDG-PET/CT image of a patient...
... population and reacted with some CCP2-negative sera [20] The aim of the present study was to evaluate the diagnostic yield of three ELISA tests based on this CFFCP1 peptide and Page of (page number ... study ofdiagnostic value were included in a prospective study of prognostic factors in early RA Two years of follow-up data were available for 98 of 134 patients Results for radiographic and clinical ... antibodies and other qualitative variables was tested by using the 2 test and Fisher's Exact test, as applicable Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values (PPVs and NPVs) of...
... rarity of the condition, such that only a few cases are encountered and managed But with the lack of therapeutic anddiagnostic facilities, more patients will be presenting late and the only Page of ... Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill-Bugando university college of Health sciences, P.O.Box 1464, Mwanza, Tanzania 2Department of Surgery, Weill-Bugando University College of Health Sciences, ... noted in two of our patients with thoracic perforations, who required a longer duration of antibiotics and time to heal- case and also mortality due to severe sepsis in case Perforations of more than...
... number of choices Each choice consists of two or more hypothetical profiles, and for each choice, people are asked which profile they would choose Forcing people to make choices and trade-offs ... series of pairwise profiles (choice sets) involving different levels of the attributes Within each choice set, the profiles were labelled 'circumstances A' and 'circumstances B', and Page of 12 ... into the relative importance of barriers to the implementation of change, and the trade-offs people make between barriers on the one hand and facilitators on the other hand DCE therefore more closely...
... gender and family status but not for age and study centre In the case of the rawscores of the SDQ and the SCQ scales, we expected effects of age, status, gender, and informant [24,26,47], and probably ... perception of probands and siblings, but not in the ratings for boys and girls (Table 3) Effects of the informant and the interactions Intelligence After controlling for age, status, and gender, ... distribution of behavioural measures: 1) The diagnostic procedures 2) the multicentre design and 3) the source of information The formal diagnosis of ‘ADHD-CT’ for each proband required the presence of...
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