... important to the customer over higher speed links Sometimes QoS is desired because IP networking is replacing ATM, and QoS is something valuable that ATM has to offer, and the customer wishes to also ... management and measurement of enterprise and service provider networks With the increasing importanceof mission-critical applications and networks that link global enterprises, customers are demanding ... used to allocate bandwidth on a per-class and per-link basis Classes of traffic are guaranteed a percentage of link bandwidth, thereby maximizing the transport of paid traffic • No connections to...
... an understanding that internal standards, values and the conceptualization of life quality can change over the course of the disease trajectory Many cancer survivors desire to return to ‘normal’ ... survivors with qualityof life as main outcome (cont.) QoL results Ref Factors related toqualityof life in long-term survivors of gynecological cancer Review clinically effective and feasible to deliver ... of women of the same age from the general population, as many of the survivors’ symptoms are those of menopause and aging It is important to distinguish effects due to cancer from those due to...
... fact, one of the primary goals of Healthy People 2010 is to improve both the qualityand the number of years of healthy life [2] Qualityof life is frequently measured in investigations to evaluate ... Physical activity andqualityof life in older adults J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2001, 56:23-35 Shumaker SA, Anderson RT, Czajkowski SM: Psychological tests and scales In Qualityof life assessment ... Health-related qualityof life in cardiac patients with dyslipidemia and hypertension Qual Life Res 2004, 13:793-804 Repetto L, Comandini D, Mammoliti S: Life expectancy, comorbidity andqualityof life:...
... Ladder of Life scale modified by Andrew and Withey[21] Respondents were asked to evaluate their QoL during the previous month The scale was from to 10 with meaning worst possible qualityof life and ... status and psychosocial and demographic factors Qualityof Life Research 2004;13:933-946 [23] Dennerstein L, Dudley EC, Guthrie JR Predictors of declining self-rated health during the transition to ... to 1.73 1.23 to 1.80 208 765 124 1.26** 1.20 1.07 to 1.50 0.94 to 1.53 403 177 517 0.73 1.26* 8.38 to 24.00 4.91 to 7.19 1.67 to 2.28 0.73 to 1.18 1.02 to 1.56 0.340 Interpretation of results:...
... Validation of a specific measure to assess health-related qualityof life in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: the ‘Tolerability andqualityof life’ (TOOL) questionnaire Annals of General ... Page of Figure The ‘TOlerability andqualityOf Life’ (TOOL) questionnaire Retesting was carried out to weeks after the first visit In order to analyse the psychometric properties of the TOOL ... effectiveness of treatments A specific measure to assess HRQoL impairment related to adverse events of antipsychotic drugs has been previously developed and validated in Sweden: the ‘TOlerability and quality...
... Characteristics andqualityof studies included in restraint and seclusion domain Study (Country) Type(s) of Mental Illness Number of Participants Type of Study (Type of Setting) Quality Assessment Addington ... empowerment, patient autonomy and facilitation of increasing levels of independence The initial stages of development of the toolkit comprised a literature review of aspects of institutional care ... 1: Characteristics andqualityof studies included in living conditions domain Study (Country) Type(s) of Mental Illness Number of Participants Type of Study (Type of Setting) Quality Assessment...
... Revised and Expanded, edited by Seppo Salminen and Atfe von Wright 86 Handbook of Vegetable Science and Technology: Production, Composition, Storage, and Processing, edited by D K Salunkhe and S ... Postharvest Seafood Quality, edited by Norman F Haard and Benjamin K Simpson 98 Safe Handling of Foods, edited by Jeffrey M Farber and Ewen C D Todd 99 Handbook of Cereal Science and Technology: ... Revised and Expanded, edited by Casimir C Akoh and David B Min 118 Food Protein Analysis: Quantitative Effects on Processing, R K Owusu-Apenfen 119 Handbook ofFood Toxicology, S S Deshpande 120 Food...
... approach to ensure comparability of different national versions andto avoid running into results due to chance An important consideration during a revision shall be to study the causal effects of ... samples to obtain parameter estimates and associated standard errors [17] Model identification was established by estimating the factor variances and fixing one factor loading to 1.0 for each factor ... components of children and adolescents QOL and well-being This structure allows it to be used for QOL assessments in divers groups of healthy children and adolescents, but also for qualityof life...
... Fayers PM, Hand D: Factor analysis, causal indicators andqualityof life Qualityof Life Research 1997, 6:139-150 Fayers PM, Hand DJ, Bjordal K, Groenvold M: Causal indicators in qualityof life ... Health andQualityof Life Outcomes 2008, 6:89 areas of research insofar as they support a state (i.e., environmental) and trait (i.e., genetic) conceptualization ofqualityof life andto start ... of the relationship between genes andqualityof life, both genetic and quality- of- life research is hindered by a mono-disciplinary approach Few genetic researchers are working with quality- of- life...
... adolescents, and is part of a larger study with a broader focus on young adolescent's qualityof life and mental health The objective of the current paper was to evaluate reliability and validity of the ... eigenvalue cutoff of 1.0 resulted in a five factor solution for self-report and proxy-report, accounting for 56 % and 61 % of the variance The school functioning items split into two different factors, ... methods and areas of application ofQualityof Life research in children) Prax Kinderpsychol Kinderpsychiatr 1995, 44:391-399 Eiser C, Morse R: The measurement ofqualityof life in children: Past and...
... interpretation of the data and the revising of the manuscript JW contributed to statistical analysis, interpretation of the data and the revising of the manuscript FM is one of the original authors of the ... Chi-Square a 345 totally included outpatients and b156 drop-outs; the difference to n is due to “no problem specified” on physician referral sheet The Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents ... helpful to add assessment of QoL to achieve a fuller picture of children presenting to mental health services Abbreviations CBCL: The Child Behavior Check List; ILC: The Inventory of Life Quality...
... approach to ensure comparability of different national versions andto avoid running into results due to chance An important consideration during a revision shall be to study the causal effects of ... samples to obtain parameter estimates and associated standard errors [17] Model identification was established by estimating the factor variances and fixing one factor loading to 1.0 for each factor ... components of children and adolescents QOL and well-being This structure allows it to be used for QOL assessments in divers groups of healthy children and adolescents, but also for qualityof life...
... between qualityof life and socio-demographic characteristics Table 5: Analysis of covariance for the impact of psychological stress, demographic and social factors on domains ofqualityof life ... 75% of the probands had a monthly income of 350 U.S $ or less (Table 2) Psychological stress, clinical, social and demographic factors Table presents mean comparisons of the domains ofqualityof ... or hypertension plus stroke Table 3: Clinical and sociodemographic factors and psychological stress by domains ofqualityof life Domains ofqualityof life d Characteristics Diagnosis Stroke Non-stroke...
... [16,17] The idea of the present study was to characterize andto quantify the effect of HBO on the expression of the growth factors bFGF and VEGF and, hence, to explain the mechanism of its therapeutic ... endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and basic growth factor (bFGF) In angiogenesis, a number ofgrowth factors (for example Angiopoietin-1, Platelet derived growth factor, Hypoxia inducing factor-1a, ... macrophages and thrombocytes It belongs to one of the 22 members of the FGF family and transmits its signals via tyrosine kinase receptors [8,9] Due to its ability to stimulate the activity of fibroblasts,...
... seafood processing product achieved more than 100 tones of frozen shrimp and fish, and 15- 20 tones of aga The seafood catching, cultivating andprocessing are the strong points of Diem Dien Town ... effects - Models of seafood catching and fishsauce processing promoted offshore seafood catching and raised yield of seafood from 6,000 tons per year up to 8,000 tons per year Seafood catching can ... offshore, andto apply technical science and technology in order to preserve the source of seafood, to increase catching productivity and output Therefore, it is necessary to study seafood plan and processing...
... the type of EL and on its concentration The weak increase actually observed can be due to a local rise of the EL temperature and thus of the oxide dissolution rate, probably occurring during anodization ... 3b, a part of the (c, J) ‘‘phase’’ space for all the combinations of the values c = 0.1%, 0.5%, and 1.0% and J = 100, 200, and 400 mA/ cm2 is shown, with respect to the resulting APA growth rate ... on addition of IL2 is obtained for a * 1:1 ratio of the IL2 moles with respect to the moles of the oxalic acid When this ratio was increased of a factor two, it was not possible to grow APA any...
... Health andQualityof Life Outcomes 2006, 4:10 http://www.hqlo.com/content/4/1/10 to examine Second, we show how to fit an individual growth model by using SAS and how to interpret the ... results of type tests of fixed effects RANDOM statement contains a list of the random effects, in this case intercept and age class id; random intercept age/subject = id; Conditional growth model ... investigation of childhood behavior and development based on a sample of families randomly selected on the basis of residence in two upstate New York counties (21, 22) Approximately 800 mothers and one randomly...
... of missed days from work for caregivers and in the number of subjects requiring extra hours for tutoring, nursing, and home healthcare The number of subject visits to the emergency room due to ... as analysis of probable predictors of HRQL change and/ or satisfaction will be important in understanding what elements of stimulant treatment contribute most to improvements in HRQL and satisfaction ... monitored and recorded throughout the study and for 30 Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2009, 3:39 days after the last dose of...
... Recommendations to improve the qualityof recruitment of TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd Nguyen Thi Thu B - FBE - C47 CHAPTER I: OVERVIEW OF TOTO CO., LTD AND TOTO VIETNAM CO., LTD 1.1 Introduction to TOTO Co., ... In USA: TOTO U.S.A., Inc; TOTO Kiki U.S.A., Inc In Hong Kong: TOTO Kiki (H.K.) Ltd In Viet Nam: TOTO Vietnam Co., Ltd In Germany: TOTO Europe GmbH, TOTO Germany GmbH In Singapore: TOTO Asia Ocenia ... baths and changed its name from Toyo Toki to TOTO LTD In the 1980s, under the leadership of Hiroshi Shirakawa and then Yoshine Koga, TOTO took giant strides in expanding both its product line and...
... Cohen’s d between 0,45 and 1,1) Predictive factors ofqualityof life on admission Two-thirds of patients had a Physical Component Summary score of >42 and two-thirds of patients had a Mental ... variables explained 20% of the total variance (Table 3) Predictive factors of improvement in qualityof life during the inpatient programme Analysis of the distribution of the values for the differences ... between social and clinical sciences, is a pertinent indicator to evaluate the subjective experience of the patient andto quantify the psychosocial burden of alcoholism (2, 3) Measurement of a patient’s...