... concentration of demand for a narrow segment of the market and is a strong indicator of the propensity of demand to be driven by a “star system” logic Thus, the market share of the top ten films in the total ... shot Number of foreign languages Number of different language of the top ten Number of foreign languages in the top ten HHI distribution of films produced by language HHI distribution of top ten ... national top ten films and the global top ten Number of different languages of the top ten HHI calculated on the distribution of films produced by language - HHI calculated on the distribution of top...
... Page of Figure The ‘TOlerability and quality Of Life’ (TOOL) questionnaire Retesting was carried out to weeks after the first visit In order to analyse the psychometric properties of the TOOL ... Validation of a specific measure toassess health-related quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: the ‘Tolerability and quality of life’ (TOOL) questionnaire Annals of General ... exploratory factorial analysis (extraction criterion of eigenvalue >1) was also conducted The Spearman rank correlation coefficient (rs) between the total score of the TOOL and those of the EQ-5...
... to evaluate the capacity of the test to detect differences according to clinical experience There was a significant difference (p < 0.001) between the mean of the scores of the three groups of ... compared to their own group Residents are physicians who wish to become, after training, members of the population of certified specialists of their field of study Thus it is legitimate to compare ... the clinical reasoning process Scoring reflects the degree of concordance of these judgments to those of a panel of reference A series of studies, held in domains such as intra-operative decision-making...
... feeding of game by suitable energy foods from the beginning of October to the end of November Thus, we will enable to create sufficient supplies of fat necessary for the period of winter privation of ... Table 2, the maximum number of converted units of hoofed game for the forested part of the studied area is 54 According to the decision of the department of environment of Břeclav MÚ, Ref No MUBR ... to game in the Soutok Game Preserve, the total basic consumption of grass and herb food amounts to 1,159,375 kg, and of food of woody origin to 332,500 kg Thus, the production of grass and herb...
... 1950s, research teams started to develop laboratory tests in order to predict tumor reaction to cytostatic drugs [5] They used fresh cancer tissue and examined the effect of the drugs on tumor cell ... beginning laboratory techniques were still in their infancy Short term cell cultures of cancer tissues were difficult to perform and procedures varied from laboratory to laboratory However, the ... principal steps, i.e isolation of cells, incubation of cells with drugs and assessment of cell survival are the same Usually a range of drug doses is applied in order to find a dose-response relationship...
... Directorate (OECD, 2001) published a report on key environmental indicators in an effort to reduce the number of environmental indicators and to draw attention to key environmental issues of concern ... footprint of the business as a whole consists of the sum of the water footprints of the different business units The water footprint of a business unit is defined as the total volume of freshwater ... suppliers of the sugar provide the following data: kg of sugar is produced from kg of sugar beets or from kg of sugarcane Unit C produces litre of beverage C from kg of oranges The PWF of sugar...
... health-related quality of life, depression, and cognitive difficulties [4] Assessing the effectiveness of new therapies therefore requires accurate assessment of a multidimensional array of symptoms and problems ... patients also had a long history of FM, averaging to 10 years Therefore the clinical and demographic profiles of these samples reflect those mainly of women with about a decade of experience with FM ... validity, and responsiveness to treatment as an overall rating of sleep in two clinical trials Toassess specific areas of sleep, the trials included a multi-item sleep assessment, the MOS Sleep...
... Villiger P, Kauer Y, Klaghofer R, Sensky T, Stoll T: PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) – a novel visual method toassess the global burden of illness in patients with ... aim of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the PRIMS-RII as a measure of suffering in people with diabetes Although the concept of suffering is abstract, the vast majority of patients ... reported a large amount of suffering, whereas for SIS, 38% of subjects responded in the lowest quarter of possible responses (from to 80), indicative of a large amount of suffering These differences...
... ability of the scores to discriminate between groups of patients according to dosing frequency (daily vs weekly bisphosphonates), diagnosis (osteopenia vs osteoporosis), and history of fracture ... Side Effects CSS How often Convenience Easy to take Easy to remember Fits into medication schedule Time required Confidence to participate in daily activities Confidence to be physically active ... between selected subgroups of patients (daily vs weekly bisphosphonate users, osteopenia vs osteoporosis diagnosis, history of fracture vs no history of fracture), the direction of the differences observed...
... Villiger P, Kauer Y, Klaghofer R, Sensky T, Stoll T: PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) – a novel visual method toassess the global burden of illness in patients with ... aim of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the PRIMS-RII as a measure of suffering in people with diabetes Although the concept of suffering is abstract, the vast majority of patients ... reported a large amount of suffering, whereas for SIS, 38% of subjects responded in the lowest quarter of possible responses (from to 80), indicative of a large amount of suffering These differences...
... each of the ATAQ-IPF’s scales (domain and total) maintain their additive properties To our knowledge, only one other investigator has used this type of approach in the development of respiratory ... (according to the ATAQ-IPF total) than subjects not using supplemental oxygen Although 74 items comprise version of the ATAQIPF, this number of items enables it to tap myriad important constructs and to ... Measurement - Core Topics 2010 [http:// www.statistics.com] doi:10.1186/1477-7525-8-77 Cite this article as: Swigris et al.: Development of the ATAQ-IPF: a tool toassess quality of life in IPF Health...
... g/dL)] and number of extranodal sites with number of nodal sites (more than four) Low risk (zero or one factor) was assigned to 36% of patients, intermediate risk (two factors) to 37%, and poor ... the presence or absence of five adverse prognostic factors and may have none or all five of these adverse prognostic factors Figure 105-4 shows the prognostic significance of this score in 1300 ... Involvement of extranodal site(s) beyond that designated as "E" More than one extranodal deposit at any location Any involvement of liver or bone marrow A No symptoms B Unexplained weight loss of >10% of...
... 3.2.4 Effect of oral administration β-glucan to respiratory burst activity of head kidney leucocytes of orange-spotted grouper Respiratory burst activity of HKL of orange-spotted grouper were ... in grouper Study on the effect of oral administration β-glucan on the native immune response of orange-spotted grouper Study on the specific immune response of orange-spotted grouperto formalin ... Influence factors for fish immune responses Factors affecting fish immune responses include factors related to fish ontogenesis Among environmental factors, temperature has been shown to greatly...
... SDS-PAGE of glutelins from cotyledons of holm oak Fig 1B Diagrammatic representation of each zone evaluated, zone C (upper), zone D (medium) and zone E (lower) The aim of the present study was to evaluate ... important to set up appropriate management strategies, mainly in reforestation In this respect, this method of analyzing cotyledon storage proteins (glutelins) could be considered an additional tool to ... analyzed Previous to protein extraction, the samples (≈ 50 mg of cotyledon) were un-lipped with diethyl ether and acetone Cotyledon proteins were sequentially extracted according to the method described...
... love to be with a lot of people True = 1, False = 57H I am known to be generous, and spend a lot of money on other people True = 1, False = 68I I often feel on edge True = 1, False = 69I I often ... aimed to construct a scale which would show a high ability to predict 5-HTTLPR genotype In a previous paper we attempted to solve the task of delineating a psychometric scale to predict presence of ... development of an operational psychometric method toassess the presence of the 5HTTLPR s allele? Equivocal preliminary findings Annals of General Psychiatry 2010 9:21 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed...
... uniform methods of measurement and cut-off points toassess the potential value of 10 Abu-Farsakh H, Sneige N, Atkinson EN, Hortobagyi G: Pathologic Predictors of Tumor Response to Pre-operative ... supports proliferation & apoptosis-related markers as predictors of long-term response to PCT [13,14] These include, among others, markers for induction of apoptosis, expression of Bcl-2, and proliferation ... apoptosis in early breast cancer Lancet 1997, 349:849 Ogston KN, Miller ID, Payne S, Hutcheon AW, Sarkar TK, Smith I, Schofield A, Heys SD: A new histological grading system toassess response of...
... scale of (denoting perfect health) to (dead) In this investigation, patients were restricted to scores of 0, (fully active but symptomatic), and (capable of selfcare and able to carry out work of ... presence of COPD Its severity was graded according to the Spirometric Classification of COPD severity, by reference to percent of predicted forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) Thirty to 50% ... than 20 minutes to fall asleep after going to bed, but our patients took more than twice as long [23] Normally adults awaken two to six times per night and remain awake for a total of less than...
... were asymptomatic The diagnosis of CTS in all patients was reconfirmed at our clinic, but in 83 of 114 patients, the plain roentogenograms of cervical spine were taken before they came to our clinic ... et al took MR images in asymptomatic patients and found spinal cord impingement in 16% of patients under 64 years of age and in 26% of those over 64 years [25] Bednarik et al measured motor evoked ... about #2 Dual regions of compression on the nerve fiber exaggerate the total damage We divided the 143 symptomatic measurable hands into two groups according to the value of the CRL measured in...