... includes psychologists, nursing staff, exercise therapists, physiotherapists, nutrionists and social workers The patient generally has 4-5 therapy sessions a day on workdays Rounds and consultations ... www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/misoftwa.html] 48 Menard SW: Applied logistic regression analysis Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 2002 49 PASW Statistics - SPSS 17 Chicago, IL: SPSS, Inc 2008 50 Cohen J: Statistical ... [48] Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 17.0 [49] Results Table shows descriptive statistics for the HRQOL scales, the personality variables and the characteristics of physician-patient...
... division is a group of functions created to allow an organization to produce and dispose of its goods and services to customers.”3 Besides, authority/power is also a factor influencing on “shape ... Excitementseeking Positive emotion Modesty Tendermindedness Selfconsciousness Impulsiveness Vulnerability Basically, personality starts at birth, goes on adolescent and shapes in adult; but it can still ... that in the hands of Gates and Ballmer and made Microsoft to become decentralized structure “He has empowered a second tier of executives to run their businesses with less supervision, breaking...
... methodology and discuss the variables used in the regressions Our results are reported in section and section concludes Data and summary statistics The firm-level data covers financial statements of SME ... hausbank-relationships on excess growth remains unchanged 20 Table 9: Robustness Regressions Table presents additional regressions to validate the robustness of our results under different specifications ... from the German Savings Bank Association We seek to assess more directly the hypotheses that savings banks support especially more constrained SME and the question to what extent close borrower-lender...
... and services that serve customers’ needs and wants at acceptable price to both the company and customers And by supplying products and services required by customers, company also commits to the ... researchers concerned And in order to have well-done survey, researchers should set clear and simple questions so as not to make respondents confusing and misunderstanding the questions In summary, ... focus in 14 shareholders Stakeholder theory states that besides relationship with stockholders, company also has relationship with employees, suppliers, customers, government, and society as a whole...
... cases classified on two dimensions Let the squares be cases we would classify as disease A and the circles cases we would classify as disease B Looking at the data in the first plot, it seems ... systems discussed in this book attempt to represent information, either about patients or about medicine Some of these representations use sets of symbols to represent facts and the relationships ... doctor first listens to the story, then starts to ask questions Let us imagine a patient presents at accident and emergency (A&E) with acute abdominal pain and is seen by a junior doctor As soon...
... NOS from NO synthesis to N-hydroxyguanidine synthesis Further investigations are currently underway to test these hypotheses Our results also suggest that the 3180 rational design of guanidines ... binding of some of these substrates to iNOSoxy was also studied by UV ⁄ Vis spectroscopy using stopped-flow techniques [23,24] The corresponding thermodynamic and kinetic binding constants were then ... values for its binding to nNOSoxy and eNOSoxy were found to be around 50 and 95 lm, respectively, whereas that for its binding to iNOSoxy was found to be close to 350 lm Similar higher affinities...
... composition operations should be, and as a result, in the case of these formalisms, it is apparent how to represent derivations S2 NA S 10A S2 OA I I £ SNA S I NA a I I I S OA S NA SINA The traditional ... Weir and Joshi [14] described several properties that were common to various conswained grammatical systems, and defined a class of such systems called Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems 283 TAG ... derivation trees produced by CCL 's We have shown that CCG 's generate the same class of string languages as TAG 's, HG 's, and LIG 's The derivation tree sets normally associated with CCG 's are found to be...
... islands – all popular tourist destinations – top the list (see Figure 7) 95 There are benefits to using these services but there are challenges for users as well First, these online storage services ... photocopiers to Hungarian libraries, universities and scientific institutes as a way to foster free expression and disseminate ideas in the early 1980 s3 (Slater, 2009) The photocopier has also been a staple ... platforms allow users to upload information for dissemination on the Internet Examples include blogging sites such as Wordpress and Blogger, photo sites such as Flickr and Picasa, and video hosting sites...
... whiteness and brightness for color, softness and resilience, lack of stickiness and smoothness of texture Because color and firmness are considered to be more important parameters for scoring ... sheet Raw dumpling sheets were measured after sheeting (0 h), and again after h of storage in a covered plastic container at 25°C Statistical analysis SAS (Statistics Analysis System, SAS Institute, ... industry, firmness instead of soup characteristics was adopted in a modified scoring system For appearance of raw dumplings, panelists should assess the degrees of flatness, and lack of gas bubbles...
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... characteristics and cardiac outcome measures across different studies/disease severity groups have not been assessed using patient level data This study aims to use individual patient data to assess how ... measure used in costeffectiveness analysis [21], was also studied This latter relationship was not of direct interest as it has been studied previously for patients with other types of diseases ... were used The studies are summarized in Figure and Table Patients ranged from those undergoing imaging for suspected coronary disease (diagnosis stage) to those with severe disease Using studies...
... stress status using the Stoney formula [13-15] A Young s modulus and Poisson ratio of 130 GPa [16,17] and 0.28 [16,17], respectively, were assumed for the (100) Si wafer Results and discussion ... with respect to H-Si bonds It should be noticed that crater formation could also be favoured by intrinsic stresses The sample stress as measured by MT was always compressive, as found by others [25-27], ... measured in the as-deposited ones Other findings suggest that annealing causes stress relieve in hydrogenated amorphous Si/Ge MLs [30] Should there be changes in these samples, it is very likely...
... metalloproteinase; TIMP, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases biochemical markers of bone metabolism are also proposed as indicators of disease progress of OA [14,15] Spector and colleagues demonstrated ... generalized and systemic susceptibility to the process at multiple joints The concept of generalized and systemic susceptibility is supported by studies indicating a subset of patients with polyarticular ... immunoassay kits (Fuji Chemical Industries, Toyama, Japan) [9] The intra-assay and interassay variations in MMP-3, MMP-9 and TIMP-1 were less than 8.9% Statistical analysis The statistical significance...
... nurse-like cells and fibroblast-like synoviocytes Rheumatoid arthritis nurse-like cells Fibroblast-like synoviocytes Pseudoemperipolesis + – Constitutive expression of CD106 + – Enhanced expression ... osteoclast-like cells specifically in RA Beside the destruction of bone tissue by osteoclasts or osteoclast-like cells, we could confirm that FSCs from RA patients inoculated in vivo showed aggressive ... patient, various mechanisms have been reported such as the involvement of protooncogenes [34], inflammatory cytokines [35], and perturbations of Fasmediated apoptosis [36] As a mechanism specifically...
... 10 Authors' contributions JJM helped to recruit patients for the study andto obtain samples, to carry out immunoassays and statistical analyses, to conceive and design the study andto write ... anti-dsDNA tests with assays more specific for renal dysfunction, such as urinary gelatinase B-associated lipocalin (nGAL), which has been shown to be a marker of renal disease in cross-sectional studies ... autoantibodies in a restricted set of connective tissue diseases: antinucleosome antibodies of the IgG3 subclass are markers of renal pathogenicity in systemic lupus erythematosus Arthritis Rheum...
... = S (P 0.01) Transformation to * (Pearson bl and b2 respectively) However, * For a induced a better skewness and curtosis of residuals 10.6 and 18.0 for FSH and 0.30 and 4.6 for logFSH this transformation ... frozen and stored at 12 °C until FSH assay = - FSH concentration in each plasma sample was assayed according to B & LANC OIRIER P (1979) and expressed as ng FSH HG 225 per ml of plasma This reference ... used, or by different slopes of the ably respective standard curves The use of the transformed variable can be justified by its distribution which suits better statistical analysis and because...
... sensitivity and specificity to consider TLC as a surrogate measure for CD4 [5-10] Nevertheless, this study supports the notion by Gupta and colleagues (2007), as we observed low sensitivity and ... 2005 Stebbing J, Sawleshwarkar S, Michailidis C, Jones R, Bower M, Mandalia S, Nelson M, Gazzard B: Assessment of the efficacy of total lymphocyte counts as predictors of AIDS defining infections ... understanding of its low sensitivity and specificity Stebbing and colleagues also indicated that despite minimally less reliability of TLC as a surrogate for CD4, TLC is important tool in the absence...
... Intensive Care Unit for three days due to his respiratory disease and increased volume of secretions He was discharged from the hospital on the 10th postoperative day Discussion Kartagener s syndrome ... artery bypass grafts in situs inversus J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) 2002, 43(2):181-4 Erdil N, Cetin L, Sener E, Ufuk D, Cemal S: Situs Inversus and Coronary Artery Disease Asian Cardiovasc Thorac ... Katagener s syndrome also have sterility due to dyskinesia of the spermatozoa [2] Total situs inversus is a rare condition which does not preclude long-term survival Patients with dextrocardia and...
... that it is possible to construct networks of health professionals for individual patients with diabetes and CHF using simple structured questionnaires for patients and health professionals, and patients’ ... monitoring received was ambiguous for specific activities A positive association was observed for physical exercise, while a negative association was found for monitoring and no association was ... treatment), this professional was included in the other activity-specific networks of this patient as well If the response of a health professional was missing, it was substituted by the response of the...
... transaminase levels had a strong inverse correlation with our patient s consciousness These results strongly suggest that the pathogenesis of coma in classic hepatic encephalopathy differs from ... of oxidative stress and of hepatocyte apoptosis and autophagy in alcoholic and non-alcoholic steatosis [13] These reports, in conjunction with our findings, strongly indicate that starvation in ... this hypothesis does not necessarily apply to all patients with severe hepatitis, because a case of a patient with AN with clear consciousness despite highly Yoshida et al Journal of Medical Case...