... 10 Netherlands 0.93141 Somalia 54.50 Box: The child development index and the human development indexThe Child Development Index follows in the footsteps of the UNDP’s Human Development Index ... calculating the average score between them for each period under review, meaning that they each have equal weighting in theindex scores Countries are then ranked according to their CDI scores The lower ... seven places from the second half of the 1990s to the second half of the 2000s, Somalia was one of only six countries to actually see a fall in index score over the period The others (Central African...
... covers the conference proceedings literature in its Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990 to present) These indexes are characterized by the quality of the publications covered in them Their ... journal literature in the Science Citation Index Expanded™ (1900 to present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (1900 to present), and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present) ... on the integrity of the publisher to insure that book content is valid and original THE BOOK SELECTION PROCESS FOR THE BOOK CITATION INDEX EDITORIAL CONTENT CITATION ANALYSIS The...
... sub -index or sub-indices After calculation of each of the sub -index values, the highest of these is taken as the Air Quality Index One of the AQI sub -index values may be the API sub -index If the ... Ontario the Air Pollution Index and the Air Quality Index This guideline outlines the objectives of these two indices and describes actions the Ministry shall take in connection with them to ... LEVELS TO THE PUBLIC 5.1 5.2 API AQI SYNOPSIS The Ministry produces two numerical indices based upon current air quality data the Ontario Air Pollution Index and the Air Quality Index These indices,...
... concentrated in the most deprived part of the distribution The municipalities in the remaining five provinces are concentrated in the middle of the distribution The Northern Cape lies towards the least ... range in the most deprived part of the distribution The municipalities in the remaining five provinces are concentrated in the middle of the distribution The Northern Cape lies towards the least ... part of the distribution, but in a fairly broad range The municipalities in the remaining five provinces are concentrated in the middle of the distribution The Northern Cape lies towards the least...
... rate, every mother in Afghanistan is likely to suffer the loss of a child The data collected for the Mothers’ Index document the tremendous gaps between rich and poor countries and the urgent need ... data existed to calculate the Children’s Index 30 Index 11_SIDE 4/22/11 12:18 PM Page THE COMPLETE MOTHERS’ INDEX 2011 TIER I Women’s Index Development Group Children’s Index Educational Status ... 12 + The Mothers’ Index rankings include only those countries for which sufficient data were available to calculate both the Women’s and Children’s Indexes The Women’s Index and Children’s Index...
... of the several different kinds of molecule in the liquid, so the process is rather selective Captured molecules are then pushed into the pockets on the belt that's wrapped over the pulley there, ... beings and the biosphere Why Talk About It? It is these concerns the implications of nanotechnology for our lives, the environment, and the future–that guided the writing of this book Nanotechnology ... fitting into hollows on the other They stick together, and the soft, slick atomic surfaces let them roll smoothly Underfoot is the nanocomputer itself, a huge mechanism built in the same rigid style...
... successfully fitted with a prosthesis may differ in how much they use the prosthesis and in the type of activities they can perform with their prosthesis [7] Procedure of translation The procedure of cross-cultural ... function with the prosthesis would correlate with better EQ-5D index) The correlation between the LCI scores and the TUG test results and the EQ-5D scores were calculated with the Spearman correlation ... non-significant) Among the 14 unilateral amputees the ICC for the total LCI was 0.83, for the basic LCI was 0.66 and for the advanced was 0.92 (Table 4) For the bilateral amputees the ICC for the total LCI...
... test-retest reliability study of the Barthel Index, the Rivermead Mobility Index, the Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living Scale and the Frenchay Activities Index in stroke patients Disability ... EQ-5D items the frequency of each possible response was computed to identify whether responses were distributed across the range of possible scores or whether they were at either end of the scales ... 7:48 consent, the research assistant then provided a full description of the project to the patient and then sought written informed consent for participation The research assistant then collected...
... the variables of interest in these patients, and in particular, the ceiling effect may constrain the variation in EQ-5D index scores In the patients studied here, the EQ-5D index scores for the ... angina class and the SAQ, which are further described below Some studies collected NYHA rather than CCS The relationship between the EQ-5D index and the Short Form 6D (SF-6D), another utility measure ... of the SAQ and CCS angina severity class and a smaller relationship with age and ETT The variation seen in the relationship between the EQ-5D index and these variables, with the exception of the...
... are focused on the link between the quality of life and the BMI value in the general population [25,26] Therefore, the aim of our research was to assess the association between the BMI value and ... detailing the objectives and methodology of research and consent forms The participants were then asked to give their written informed consent to join the study, and a timetable was agreed with the ... the use of specifically designed instruments Population research is based on the application of generic instruments such as SF-36, which evaluates both the physical and the mental health of the...
... states, the problem of overprediction is still evident Indeed, if the preferences regarding more severe health states is a property of the dataset rather than the estimation technique, then the valuation ... determine whether their mapping approaches are more or less reliable for a patient dataset The existing models from the literature are estimated using the published results and algorithms rather than ... Re-estimation of the EQ-5D One hypothesis is that the predictions may be poor for more severe EQ-5D states because they all have at least one dimension at the most severe level and the EQ-5D model...
... systems Therefore, current HUI questionnaires cover both systems Theoretical Constructs The major criterion for selecting attributes for the HUI systems was the importance that members of the general ... (HRQL) QALYs Figure Components of the Health Utilities Index Components of the Health Utilities Index (See FAQ 8) Figure illustrates the HUI components showing the flow of information about a study ... Eats, bathes, dresses, and uses the toilet normally for age Eats, bathes, dresses, or uses the toilet independently with difficulty Requires mechanical equipment to eat, bathe, dress, or use the...
... Using both of these methods, we found that the RSDI performed in the hypothesized manner Additionally, we also compared categorical change in the RSDI versus categorical change in the other health ... in the RSDI within individuals, we used the paired t test We examined responsiveness of the RSDI in two separate ways First, we evaluated change in the RSDI score relative to change in the other ... efficacious The RSDI has only been used in two clinical trials, neither of which purported to directly assess the responsiveness of the instrument In one trial evaluating the efficacy of hypertonic...
... point, the over-reliance on the actual value of Cronbach alpha for the assessment of reliability of an index should be open to further debate This value is dependent not only on the magnitude of the ... further involved in the administration of the questionnaire The administration of the questionnaire involved face-to-face interview with each child on an individual basis We will not present the ... using the same scale and with the same respondents; this provides an estimation of the degree to which the results are reproducible [14] In this study, the weighted kappa statistic was 0.82 and the...
... completed the qualitative interviews were then presented with the original pool of 52 items related to fatigue, developed initially for use in MS [7] They were asked to comment on the relevance of the ... whether or not the items were understandable The qualitative methodology is described in further detail elsewhere [8] In addition, the MND qualitative data were compared to previously derived themes ... MS for the emergence of new themes The psychometric and scaling properties of the proposed 52-item NFI-MND were then assessed among patients recruited from five regional MND care centres: The Walton...
... the Epworth Sleepiness Scale [18,19], the Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire [20], the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index [21], and the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) [22] In addition to these ... responsiveness of the estimates could not be assessed in the present study It is therefore unclear whether the mathematical links reported in this study would vary over time Fifth, the current study ... Subjects also provided responses to the ISI and the EQ-5D Subjects with complete responses on the EQ-5D and the ISI questionnaire were included in the study if they a) were at least 18 years of...
... are focused on the link between the quality of life and the BMI value in the general population [25,26] Therefore, the aim of our research was to assess the association between the BMI value and ... detailing the objectives and methodology of research and consent forms The participants were then asked to give their written informed consent to join the study, and a timetable was agreed with the ... the use of specifically designed instruments Population research is based on the application of generic instruments such as SF-36, which evaluates both the physical and the mental health of the...
... of the variability was explained The addition of the ECS scale of the SAQ to the model accounted for the greatest variability in the EQ-5D index (43%) and gave the lowest RMSE (0.179) of all the ... measures to the EQ5D indexThe SAQ ECS was the strongest predictor of the EQ-5D index, and had the lowest RMSE as compared to other variables available The SAQ DPS and AFS scores also entered the model, ... of the magnitude of the relationship between the measures and the EQ-5D index In the current study, the aim was to take these clinical measures in combination in a single model to predict the...
... to indicates a small distortion The SSIM index is locally applied to N × N blocks of the image Then, all block indexes are averaged to yield the SSIM index of the entire image We treat each block ... present the main theoretical contributions of this paper We will first show that d(x, y) is locally quadratic and then use Theorem to obtain the highresolution RDF for the SSIM index Theorem d(x, ... operational curve is up to bpp above the corresponding SSIM-RDF (a similar behavior is observed for the other four images in the test set) The gap between the SSIM-RDF and the operational RDF based on...
... pair Therefore, Lemma 4.1, the excision, and the homotopy invariance properties imply the existence of at most one real function on the set of admissible pairs that satisfies the fixed point index ... Moreover, since the function defined by this formula is integer valued, so is the fixed point index Theorem 4.2 (uniqueness of the fixed point index) Let ind be a real function on the set of admissible ... proof of the uniqueness of the fixed point index, Pacific J Math 35 (1970), 549–558 , The Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem, Scott, Foresman and Company, London, 1971 A Granas, The Leray-Schauder index...