... methodology and analytic strategies used, the performance ofthe French ECOHIS and the extent ofthe validation tests In terms ofthe methodological and analytical approaches, there are two limitations ... discriminant validity The results of this validation process indicated that Cronbach's alpha was 0.79 for each ofthe child and family impact sections and 0.82 forthe whole scale, the intra-class ... estimated through generationof Cronbach's alpha forthe child and family impact sections ofthe scale separately, plus the instrument as a whole Item-scale and child-family scale correlations...
... pain were asked to indicate the location ofthe pain on eight diagrams ofthe feet The participants then completed the Greek language versionofthe MFPDI A total score forthe MFPDI was obtained ... ground and while keeping the trunk upright The position ofthe fibular head was marked on the clear acrylic plate, and the angle formed between the lateral malleolus and the fibular head was measured ... Thomas E, Jayson MI, Macfarlane GJ: The grading of hallux valgus The Manchester Scale J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 2001, 91:74-78 Menz HB, Munteanu SE: Radiographic validation ofthe Manchester scale for...
... score of to each negative item The total score is calculated as the sum of all 10 items, and the cut-off value forthe diagnosis of neuropathic pain is a total score of 4/10 All questions are related ... logistic and evaluation of data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Cuestionario DN4 This appendix includes the Spanish versionof DN4 questionnaire ... Spain), Mar a Madariaga (Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain) and Carmen Martínez-Valero (Hospital Universitario, Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain) for their collaboration in the study...
... questionnaires for 12–18 and 19–25 year olds No parent form is available forthe original MMQL forms The anglicised MMQL-UK (CF) versionofthe questionnaires (based on the 12–18 year age group) was used as ... the primary researcher, was responsible for co-ordinating and managing the study on a day-to-day basis, for data collection and collation, data analysis and input into writing the manuscript WYC ... Background The measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is increasingly becoming part ofthe overall assessment ofa patient's health both in the clinical and the research setting, as it provides...
... clinics ofthe Dental Schools of Athens and Thessaloniki ii) dental clinics ofthe Social Insurance Fund of Greece (IKA) in Athens and Thessaloniki and iii) a selected professional corporation These ... based on: a) the availability of an appropriate middle-age group ofthe population in one place, b) the possibility to perform a clinical examination along with completion ofa questionnaire and ... Method and Data Analysis The OHIP-14 score was calculated using the additive method Statistical analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v.19 To assess the...
... score of to each negative item The total score is calculated as the sum of all 10 items, and the cut-off value forthe diagnosis of neuropathic pain is a total score of 4/10 All questions are related ... logistic and evaluation of data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Cuestionario DN4 This appendix includes the Spanish versionof DN4 questionnaire ... Spain), Mar a Madariaga (Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain) and Carmen Martínez-Valero (Hospital Universitario, Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain) for their collaboration in the study...
... and asetof questions for diagnostic analysis and planning All ofthe separate components ofthe actual Guide are contained in additional files (see Additional Files 1, 2, and 4) The main narrative ... need for clear conceptual and operational definitions, measurement approaches, and additional practical information about the realities of application • QUERI frames of reference and concepts affected ... use ofthe terms task versus organizational purpose from the PARIHS framework’s approach to Facilitation The latter envisages the purpose of Facilitation to occur along a continuum from primarily...
... data; MCS and CF drafting the manuscript; AB, MF and WR interpretation of data, critical revisions ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements We thank ... longitudinal assessment ofthe case and all data from medical records were evaluated to form a diagnosis of Clinical Somatizers (CS), taking into account the number of validated unexplained symptoms ... period all symptoms for which a medical explanation was in doubt were further discussed with the participant's GP The history of somatoform complaints was made for each subject As a standard procedure,...
... responsible for writing the manuscript AB planned the design ofthe study, collected data and conducted the analyses, took part in reading the ms and approved to the final versionofthe ms TF ... regarding socio-demographics The same procedure, with the same classes of students, was used three weeks later As a compensation for their participation, the students had a chance of winning a ... a movie in a lottery that was conducted in each class after all students had completed their questionnaires at the first and second assessment A case-control design was adopted forthe evaluation...
... Tiersma, the history of English legal language can be summarized as follows: The Anglo-Saxons drove away the Celtic language ofthe original inhabitants of England and their laws left traces in ... and strategies of translation, as well as assessment and evaluation of translations This study aims at revealing the most basic features of Vietnamese and English legal language, and basic concepts ... literal translation or translation label plus transcription The choice of strategies forthe translation ofa text depends on the purpose ofthe translation and the componential analysis ofthe ST...
... covers the following aims: a To discover what language qualities the SL text of US F &A application software has based on the language qualities ofa technical language text b To assess the translation ... most typical theoretical issues laying the foundation forthe translation quality assessment of US F &A application software in the later part ofthe thesis With regard to technical translation, ... terms The translation of Noun phrases The translation of Verb phrases III.2.3 The Translation of Application Messeges III.3 The Evaluation ofthe Translation III.4 Sumary of Chapter's Findings Part...
... of employees as a proxy forthe labor input The total labor cost can be thought of as a product ofthe number of employees and an average annual salary plus benefits Then the log ofthe average ... software and network equipments are used as the base forthe IT capital measure These data are available in the 10K reports ofthe publicly traded companies Almost all the companies list the beginning ... growth, wasteful spending, etc.), the academic literature on the performance analysis of dot coms is sparse at best Yet an analysis ofthe performance of various types of dot coms can provide valuable...
... 5¢-GTTCACCACCAGAAGCT GGTGTTCTTCGCTGAAGACGTGGGTTCTAACAAG GGTGCT-3¢; Abc, 5¢-CACAACGCCACCAACCATCAGA CCGATGATAGCACCCTTGTTAGAACCCAC-3¢; Abstart, 5¢-GCGTAGGGTCGACATATGGACGCTGAATT CCGTCACG-3¢; Abstop, ... 5¢-CCTGCCGAGCTCCTATTA CACAACGCCACCAACCATCAG-3¢ The PCR solution was prepared in the buffer supplied with the enzyme, and contained Aba, Abb and Abc at 40 nm each, and the start and stop primers Abstart ... Abstart and Ab42stop (5¢-CCTG CCGAGCTCCTATTAAGCGATCACAACGCCACCAA CCATCAG-3¢) and a sequence-verified plasmid carrying the Ab(L1–40) gene This adds Ile41 and Ala42 to the peptide sequence The PCR...
... participated in the design ofthe manuscript and AC participated in editing ofthe manuscript YC was the director ofthe Maternal and Fetal Medicine Unit and participated in the design and revision of ... hospitalization, the vaginal bleeding ceased and the patient was discharged to follow-up A 26 year-old woman was referred to our maternal and fetal unit for detailed ultrasonographic examination ... gestational sac at weeks and ipsilon zone at 15 weeks, and by pathological examination ofthe placenta after delivery Figure congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation months: cystic masses in the...
... refinement of) Ruzsa’s analogue of Freiman’s theorem, which gives a fairly strong characterisation of subsets A ⊆ Fn satisfying a small doubling condition |A + A| K |A| An analogue of this theorem for any ... |A| , there are at least |A| m /2 such m-tuples We know that either the vectors a1 , , am are not dissociated, or else there is a further a ∈ A such that a lies in the linear span ofthe In either ... suppose that there are at least δ |A| 3 additive quadruples (a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 ) in A4 with a1 + a2 = a3 + a4 Then there is a regular Bourgain system S satisfying dim(S) Cδ −C ; |S| e−Cδ −C |A| and...
... validity are not static attributes ofa database but can vary dramatically depending on the questions asked and analyses performed Quality checks are particularly important with administrative databases ... as any other pharmacy benefit characteristics that could affect the use ofthe drugs, Reliability and Validity: Have the Reliability and Validity ofthe Data Been Described, Including Any Data ... the natural history ofthe disease being studied and the time period for analysis? The researcher must address the pros and cons ofthe database in the context of what is known about the natural...
... Analysis approach and therefore adopts this specific modality, with the elaborated milestones pathway as the platform for future implementation and evaluation of Training and Fellowship Capacity ... Geneva Authors’ contributions AR was primarily responsible forthe formulation ofthe evaluation framework and for drafting the paper MZ was primarily responsible forthe literature review and AG ... can we take credit for an improved state of affairs The initial analysis of training needs provides an assessment ofthe level of competence before training and enables verification Rotem et al...
... interview All the patients reported clarity ofthe Hausa language and ease of understanding of all the items The final versionofthe Hausa translation of IKHOAM (see Additional file 2) The anchors (English) ... of IKHOAM The divergent validity ofthe Hausa versionof IKHOAM was analyzed by subjecting participants' scores on the Visual Analogue Scale and the Hausa versionof IKHOAM to Spearman rank Order ... correlation Internal consistency ofthe parts ofthe Hausa versionof IKHOAM was calculated using the Cronbach's alpha Level of significance was set at 0.05 The SPSS 12 software program was used...