... 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 ... Jozefiak et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:136 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/136 Page of Table Outpatients and students matched by age, sex and levels of emotional and behavioural ... is part of an integrated system of multiinformant assessment ofchildrenand adolescents that has been used extensively in research and clinical practice Parents are asked to report on children s...
... care and rehabilitation and considers public health issues The guideline will be of interest to healthcare professionals, parents and carers who are involved in the diagnosis and management ofchildren ... diagnosis of IMD.36-38 The studies showed variation in results due to the lack of a consistent gold standard and differences in the nature of lesions and procedures for the obtaining and examination of ... standard of care Standards of care are determined on the basis of all clinical data available for an individual case and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advance and patterns...
... of the authors and not necessarily reflect the views of the Of ce of Naval Research This research is also partially funded the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (TIN200914659-C03-01) and ... state of the art of NLG, that we have not yet obtained a deep enough understanding of aggregation to enable us to handle these interactions More research on the topic is needed Two previous corpus ... a gold-standard a corpusof 24,422 words We marked all referring expressions, coreferential relations, and referring expression constituents, and tagged each constituent as having a descriptive...
... Jüri lives in Tallinn and his children liveg in Tartu (3) LDG: My wife wants to buy a car and my son wantsg [to buy]gg a motorcycle (4) SUBGAPPING: The driver was killed and the passengers wereg ... hunter and [the hunter]s shot a hare In the theoretical framework by Kempen (2009) and its implementation for German and Dutch in ELLEIPO, the elision process is guided by constraints on lemma- and ... Coordinate structures consist of two or more conjuncts connected by a coordinating conjunction (in our examples: and) Rules of coordinate ellipsis license elision of some consituent in one conjunct...
... components ofchildrenand adolescents QOL and well-being This structure allows it to be used for QOL assessments in divers groups of healthy childrenand adolescents, but also for quality of life ... in terms of using non-continuous data and there is evidence of robustness in the terms of the violation of multivariate normality assumption [17,18] However, Bollen-Stine bootstrap and associated ... loadings (standardized parameters) and the standardized regression weights of the subscales on the total score are given on the left side of the figures The fit indices indicated a bad fit of the...
... shoulder, cm above and cm to the left of the subject's hand The target was placed 31 cm in front of the shoulder, 12.5 cm above and 14 cm to the right of the initial position of the ball (Figure ... environment [6,7] The advantage of using VR in community, clinical and laboratory settings is that by virtue of its programmability, environments and the amount and type of feedback can be modified ... divided in two phases: 1) reaching and grasping the ball and 2) ball transport and release For the first movement phase, temporal and spatial parameters of reaching and grasping were determined Temporal...
... mini-posterior approach and the standard posterior approach weeks after implantation of hip endoprostheses [11,36] A weakness of this study is clearly the lack of any randomization of the patients which ... conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination and drafted the manuscript AM participated in the study and analyses of the study MSS participated in the design of the study and ... 20 hips and J.S 30 hips) who are both experienced surgeons and perform the operations in the same way, differing only in the length of the skin incision and the extent of the detachment of the...
... components ofchildrenand adolescents QOL and well-being This structure allows it to be used for QOL assessments in divers groups of healthy childrenand adolescents, but also for quality of life ... in terms of using non-continuous data and there is evidence of robustness in the terms of the violation of multivariate normality assumption [17,18] However, Bollen-Stine bootstrap and associated ... loadings (standardized parameters) and the standardized regression weights of the subscales on the total score are given on the left side of the figures The fit indices indicated a bad fit of the...
... and was 1.1 and 2.3 minutes for one and two arcs, respectively Discussion Recent progresses of new technologies in RT are of great interest for quality of treatment and avoidance of toxicities ... Role of mitomycin in combination with fluorouracil and radiotherapy, andof salvage chemoradiation in the definitive nonsurgical treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal: results of ... received 95% of the prescribed dose No more than 2% of the PTV was allowed to receive more than 107% of the prescribed dose Planning techniques and objectives Three sets of plans were generated and compared...
... types and numbers of cases for board certification are outlined in Table Quantitative comparisonof case requirements by U.S and German boards (Figure 1) shows that the American Board of Thoracic ... intubation, application of central venous catheters, arterial cannulation, application of thoracic drains, puncture of pleura, pericardium and lungs 150 1.7 years, and with 72% of research fellows ... after application of circulatory assist systems/extracorporal circulation 50 Application and supervision of extracorporal circulation and circulatory assist systems 50 Application of diagnostic procedures,...
... et al: Tropism and innate host responses of the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in ex vivo and in vitro cultures of human conjunctiva and respiratory tract The American Journal of Pathology ... involved in the regulation of seasonal-, pandemic- and sharedresponse genes Of the 13 transcription factors regulating genes affected by both seasonal and pandemic viruses, four (IRF1, IRF2, IRF7, ... complex and activate the JAK-STAT signalling pathway, which then results in downstream induction of genes such as ISGF3, a trimetric transcription factor complex of signal transducer and activator of...
... weaknesses Mercer and Nook, who presented their work at the 1999 World Federation of Chiropractic Conference failed to show clear methods Page ofof randomization and did not use the gold standard outcomes ... the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting more than six million children in the United States, 13% ofchildren in the United Kingdom, and 20% ofchildren in Australia [34-36] It ... M, Miller J: Comparisonof short-term effects of chiropractic spinal manipulation and occipito-sacral decompression in the treatment of infant colic: a single-blinded randomised comparison trial...
... lysis index, the optimum cut-off was > 96.5%, resulting in a sensitivity of 84.2% and a specificity of 94.2% Applying this cut-off for the comparisonof probands and sepsis patients, respectively, ... thromboelastometry variables and concentrations of procalcitonin, interleukin 6, and C-reactive protein in patients with and without severe sepsis are given as mean and standard error of the mean (SEM), ... ischemia and multiorgan failure The present study has limitations The number of patients in the cohort was limited, and the sensitivity and specifity of thromboelastometry values andof conventional...
... acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting of the manuscript TB contributed to the acquisition of data, the conception and design of the study, and critical revision of the ... Cockcroft-Gault formula [29], NYHA functional class, and serial measurements of BNP and NT-proBNP as continuous variables Comparisonof time course of BNP and NT-proBNP levels between survivors and ... Basel, Switzerland) [23] The intra-assay coefficients of variation are 2.4% and 1.8% at 355 and 4,962 pg/mL, respectively, and the respective interassay coefficients of variation are 2.9% and 2.3%...
... studies of sire and dam group effects on twin calving in New Zealand (NZ) and in France (F) have led to similar findings (Foulley et al, 1990; Morris and Day, 1990) Both described the probability of ... calvings from daughters of different sire or dam groups This was in spite of different twin calving rates per year in the studies (0.031 and 0.077 in NZ and F respectively) and different breed composition ... (New Zealand Dairy Board, 1961) There was a cumulative record of the number of twin calvings per lifetime for all cows, and pedigree available Apart from twin calvings each year, the status of all...
... 85 4.10 Performance comparisons of LPP and IMED-LPP subspace methods learned by the Euclidean and IMED metric, respectively 86 4.11 Performance comparisons of ONPP and IMED-ONPP subspace ... nose, and mouth, and extract facial features from these regions such as meaningful points and lines which represent the movements and shapes of eyes, nose, and mouth Inspired by the importance and ... communication, and medical assistance, and the robotic user interface is applied to manually control the robot Probo can also track the ball, detect face and hands, and recognize children s emotional...
... classification of „bad‟ within a bad risk-class is 62.76%, and its ACC rate is 90.48% amongst the overall set using a cut-off point of 0.5 The overall ACC rate of training and testing samples are 93.75% and ... Ministry of Finance and Economy provide collaterals, Tontines are estimated to handle about 90 per cent of individuals‟ credit needs in Cameroon, whereas the commercial and savings and loan banks ... the sum from all output units and captures the magnitude of the correlation between the candidate units and the residual output error of the network o is the output of the network at which the...
... FREQUENCY OF VERB USE AND NOUN USE AND THE RATIO OF VERB USE AND NOUN USE IN COLEC AND LOCNESS 157 TABLE THE PERCENTAGES OF VERB USE AND NOUN USE OF 25 VERBS IN COLEC, LOCNESS AND GSL ... levels of proficiency This corpus is POS-tagged and has records of the writers’ nationality, level of English, text type, target variety and country of residence The earliest application of the corpus ... website of ICLE for more information.1) The major scripts of the corpus are student essays of approximately 500 words The variety and the size of the corpus keep expanding regularly The corpus...
... maturation ofchildren from statural height, weight and chronological age [15] Recently Wang et al [4] compared histological examination of superior and inferior endplates of vertebral body and compared ... the manuscript and data analysis, JHY has contributed acquisition of data and revising it critically, and JYH has contributed in drafting the manuscript and designing of data and revising it ... reliability than that of scoliosis group However, this difference of the chronological and TW3 bone age was Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research...
... range of elbow flexion and extension, shoulder flexion and abduction Lack of elbow and shoulder range of movement may compromise the ability to perform daily tasks [20] Since range of shoulder and ... Demographic characteristics of the participants and the maximal range of elbow flexion and extension, shoulder abduction and flexion were summarised using descriptivestatistics Data were extracted ... assessing children with OBPP [3] The assessment of motor function in young children is more difficult when compared with adolescents and adults [4] Young children often lack cooperation and communication...