... independent of the clinician's knowledge of these factors, namely persistent joint swelling We believe that the use of this additional outcome in our study adds to the validity of the results Conclusions ... McHorney CA, Rogers WH, Raczek A: Comparison of methods for the scoring and statistical analysis of SF-36 health profile and summary measures: summary ofresults from the Medical Outcomes Study Med ... (2), other (2), and unknown (20) Frequency of outcomes A total of 146 patients had one or more of the assessed outcomes at one year The distribution of patients by outcome is depicted in Figure...
... demonstrated the significance of liver biopsy in determining the causes of high ALT levels The most important limitation of this study is the lack of long-term follow-up and evaluation of response to antiviral ... e8.537-2.448TG-0.057GGT+0.034Glb+0.207FINS) Similarly, the resultsof multivariate regression for hepatic fibrosis were shown in Table BMI and TC were strongly predictorsof hepatic fibrosis among HBeAg-negative ... Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No.054119618) and Technology Fund of Zhangzhou (No Z04094) We appreciate Dr Qianglin Duan from Tongji Hospital of Tongji University for critical reading of the...
... restructuring actually foster creativity Unfortunately, I've seen too many examples of this kind of spin One of my favorites is a 1994 letter to shareholders from a major U.S software company: "A downsizing ... employees, but out of tough times can come strength, creativity, and teamwork." Of course, the opposite is true: Creativity suffers greatly during a downsizing But it's even worse than many of us realized ... profound and entirely ethical, such as activity-based costing The fact is, almost all of the research in this field shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of...
... than a change in the value of a single trait (Orzack & Tuljapurkar 2001) Despite the importance of dynamic modelling of the trade-off between survival and reproduction (Roff et al 2002; but see ... pattern of the trade-off, so consequently we relied on these previous results to reduce the number of parameters related to time-dependent variation by categorizing the 14 yearly intervals of the ... relied on the resultsof the multistate analysis to ‘complete’ these histories and thus avoided having to model recapture probability explicitly (see Results) In the presence of a cost of reproduction,...
... by the State Tuberculosis Of cer of Tamil Nadu Government, Joint Director of Health, Deputy Director of Tuberculosis, Deputy Director of Health Services and all Medical Of cers Authors are thankful ... risk factors for relapse A P value р0.05 was considered statistically significant RESULTS Rate of relapse Of a cohort of 534 new sputum smear-positive PTB patients who were declared cured, 31 could ... was 10% Drug susceptibility pattern at the time of relapse Of the 487 patients for whom drug susceptibility results were available at the start of treatment, 455 (93%) had susceptible organisms,...
... broader classifications: professionals (managers, senior officials, and professionals), semiprofessionals (technicians, office workers, and skilled laborers), and nonprofessionals (service and ... married, the number of people living in the household, the number of children living outside of the household, the number of siblings living outside of the household, the number of other family and ... indicators Number of illnesses,a number of symptoms,b Geriatric Depression Scale score, number of nights in hospital in 4-month period, number of medical contacts in 4-month period a b Aims of this study...
... level of education was high school (34%) Respondents were frail, needing assistance with an average of 2.6 Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) and 5.3 Instrumental Activities of Daily JOURNAL OF ... independent measures The resultsof both hierarchical and stepwise multiple regression methods were consistent, and therefore, the resultsof the stepwise are reported in this study These results are presented ... while each one of the other variables contributes 6% of the variance All four variables combined contribute 32% (R = 57) of the total variance of life satisfaction 12 JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGICAL...
... addition, the lower risk of EPTB in the elderly does not support immunity as a determinant of the spread of tuberculous bacilli to other organs because of the higher incidence of TB in the aged group ... immunosuppressant Previous history of TB Diagnosis of pulmonary TB Negative AFB smear but positive culture of M tuberculosis Positive AFB smear and positive culture of M tuberculosis Drug susceptibility ... of albumin had less frequent extrapulmonary involvement (adjusted OR, 0.45; 95% CI, 0.25-0.78) (Table 4) The fitness of the final model was good in terms Table Sites and methods of diagnois of...
... of the impact on events For example 95% of sales can come from 5% of products 95% of profits can come from 5% of customers Or 95% of your competitive advantage could be derived from just 5% of ... question of choosing between creativity or business I disagree ‘ ’ At a conference I attended on the theme of creativity, some people understood creativity to mean ‘art’, done by artists of one ... yin and yang of a whole This book is about bringing together creativity and business as allies It’s about combining the best ideas of both ‘Tshirts’ and ‘Suits’ in the business of creativity, ...
... University of Heidelberg He was previously IBM Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Psychology; Professor of Management in the School of Management; and Director of the Center ... President of Oklahoma State University Until 2010, he was Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Education at Tufts University He is also Honorary Professor of Psychology ... concepts in the field ofcreativity This section begins with a history ofcreativity research by Mark A Runco and Robert S Alpert It is followed by a thorough review of major theories ofcreativity written...
... vogues of wealth and survival, and hence, enjoyed a level of social support as the relational provision of attachment, social integration, opportunity to nurture, feeling of worth, sense of reliability ... paid little or no attention to this sub- group of the society Because of lack of formal structure of care and social support networks, in this part of the world older men and women are largely ... widowed and alone The results presented in Panel of Table revealed that despite the fact that buying of un-prescribed drugs had the highest frequency score of 186 and the use of traditional treatment...
... comparison of proportions a minimum sample size of 120 subjects (40 cases, 80 controls) would be needed to achieve 80% power with a level of significance of 0.0520 To increase the power of the study ... initiation of treatment and had a negative sputum smear at and months after start of anti TB treatment Poor adherence was used to calculate the sample size since it is one of the most important predictors ... by months of ethambutol and isoniazid Predictorsof treatment failure were defined as factors which are associated with treatment failure and may be used to identify those at risk of treatment...
... Associate Vice President of the Office of Government and Community Affairs of University of Pennsylvania and the Dean of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano College of Computing and Information ... competitive position of a country, the drive of a discipline, and the creativityof ourselves Evidently, how to achieve such a goal is one of the top priorities on the agenda of a plethora of stakeholders ... clear-enough idea forms the core of a discovery 2.2 The Study of Creative Work In a recent review of the study of creativity, Hennessey and Amabile (2010) found that the study ofcreativity is surprisingly...
... Ability of supplying social services 47 13 Frequency and Average Weighted Mean of the Respondents' Profile in Terms of Ability of Ability of self-developing 48 14 Correlation of the professional ... in terms of age of respondents 49 15 Correlation of the Professional characteristics in terms of respondents’ Gender 50 16 Correlation of the Professional characteristics in terms of respondents’ ... Correlation of the Professional characteristics in terms of respondents’ Educational attainment 51 18 Correlation of the Professional characteristics of respondents in terms of length v of...
... Terms of Monthly Income…………………………………………………… 101 4.1 Mean of the Responses of the Respondents in Terms of Teaching Performance…………………………………………………………… 103 4.2 Mean Distribution of the Responses of ... needs; to find out the level of job performance of the teachers in colleges of education at Northern provinces of Vietnam; and the development of program as result of the study This study used ... fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of philosophy in Educational Management, this research entitled “Motivational Factors as Predictorsof Teachers’ Job Performance In Colleges Of Education...
... precise causes of diminished functioning in PSS remain unclear A recent study of 111 patients with PSS by Champey emphasized the importance of the psychological dimension on resultsof the SF-36 ... systematic investigation of the health experiences of a large cohort of PSS patients in the United States In order to provide a comprehensive picture of the health status of PSS patients, data was ... [16] The PROFAD-SSI was also used to assess sicca severity Description of the instruments used The PROFAD-SSI is comprised of eight domain scores that reflect different manifestations of fatigue...
... between in vitro results Page of and clinical response was observed in 27 out of the 30 patients analyzed, with a predictivity of 85.7% in terms of sensitivity and of 91.3% in terms of resistance ... expression of mRNA and was calculated using Gene Expression Macro Software (Version 1.1) (BioRad) The reproducibility of Real-Time PCR results was verified in triplicate, and the coefficient of variation ... gynecological malignancies in the Western world [12] The absence of specific symptoms in the early stages of the disease results in the majority of patients being diagnosed when the disease is advanced...
... importance of these two predictors The measures of perceived quality of care (problems with Treatment Information, control of pain/discomfort, control of nausea/vomiting) are the only predictorsof HRQL ... among the predictorsPredictorsof follow-up SWB scores Backward selection identified a model with six statistically significant predictorsof follow-up SWB explaining a total of 39.3% of the variance ... meaningful predictorsof followup SWB Hispanic ethnicity also had a larger sr2 relative to the other sociodemographic, cancer/health and healthcare variables Predictorsof follow-up EWB scores Predictors...
... identifying predictorsof quality of life for children with asthma However, future research is necessary to analyse the model and with that predictorsof quality of life further Although our results ... Discussion The aim of the present study was to further explore predictorsof HRQoL of children with asthma This study is, to our knowledge, the first study that investigated predictorsof HRQoL in children ... prediction of HRQoL remained unclear The aim of our study is to further explore predictorsof HRQoL with the stress-coping model resulting towards a better understanding of HRQoL of children...
... by frequency of lack of leader support and severity of challenging job tasks After adjusting for job satisfaction at T1 (beta = 0.59, p < 01), there were no significant predictorsof job satisfaction ... was predicted by neuroticism, frequency of lack of leader support, severity and frequency of time pressure, severity of physical demands and severity of operational demands After adjusting for ... Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, PO Box 1111 Blindern, NO0317 Oslo, Norway 2National Institute of Occupational...