... health outcomes laterinlifewith sibship size, mechanisms through which the number of siblings early inlife would manifest inhealth conditions laterinlife are not clear In economics literature, ... sibling is related to health outcomes inlaterlifeIn this paper, I link these two strands of the literature and examine the relationship between sibship size and health outcomes laterinlife ... role in transmitting the family background to health outcomes laterinlife Findings in this paper thus confirm results found in the epidemiological literature II Sibship Size, Educational Attainment...
... Central Finland Health Care District, as well as the Headquarters of the Finnish Defence Forces Measurements HRQoL In public health and in medicine, the concept of healthrelated quality of life refers ... activity without feeling out of breath or sweating, (3) physical activity with feeling out of breath or sweating once a week, (4) physical activity with feeling out of breath or sweating twice ... associated with general health perception and muscle fitness index was associated with physical functioning and general health perception (data not shown) A recent study including healthy 18-49...
... working, studying and participating in leisure activities in mainstream settings; good family relationships; living independently; having control of one's self-care, medication and money; having ... the findings from the study with the World Health Organisation, the Departments of Health and care standard setting agencies in the participating countries including the practicalities of incorporating ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/9/36 face interview with the institution's manager The toolkit is refined in response to inter-rater reliability testing, feedback from interviewers and interviewees regarding its utility,...
... examined the influence of the number of sitting hours on HRQoL in older adults Accordingly, we conducted a longitudinal study of the association of LTPA and number of sitting hours with HRQoL in ... reliability of information obtained by telephone interview on lifestyles and HRQoL is similar to that obtained in faceto-face interview [25-27] Written informed consent was obtained from all study ... dancing, stationary bicycling, bicycling outdoors, competitive running, jogging, gardening, skiing, climbing, football, going to the gym, judo, swimming, tennis, sailing, and other team sports The...
... Reading is making meaning from print It requires: identifying the words in print (word recognition), constructing an understanding from it (comprehension), coordinating identifying words and making ... importance of brain or thinking in reading It also means that meaning resides in the reader’s mind, not in symbols printed on a page It is the readers who construct meaning by associating their knowledge ... made by unfamiliar words in reading comprehension such as: slowing reading speed, interrupting reading process and lack of interest in reading After studying theories involves the topic, the author...
... Haemoglobin Estimation, ESR, urine screening for sugar and albuminurea, urine routine examination, screenings for Hepatitis-B, Hepatitis-C and HIV/AIDS I had some savings from my clinic's income ... trained health technician who can perform vaginal examination and take HVS and Pap smears She is playing a vital role in this work The clinic always has at least one nurse capable of dealingwith ... doing blood sugar testing, urine sugar testing and pregnancy tests in my clinic from my own resources; but there was an immense need to initiate the following very important tests: Blood grouping,...
... increases to 22.6% We compared training using LGFN with 1-best, 20-best and HaG with 20-best (Figure 7) Training with HaG only obtained similar results with 1best trained LGFN, which demonstrated ... contribution in demonstrating that spurious ambiguity has a negative impact on discriminative learning We will continue working on this line of research and improve our discriminative learning model in ... the nbest list here, resulting in a less accurate training Actually, the 20-best parsing using HaG only generated 4.53 different alignments on average 20-best training using LGFN converged quickly...
... singleton These two definitions will help us to deal with incomplete descriptions and to extend the notion of distinguishing description 2.1Treating distinguishing descriptions in a guided composition ... sings, e5 is a red bird, e6is a bird that flies In this example, e2 and e3 are not distinguishable, because their sets of 2.2 Refining the notion of distinguishing description Using the definition ... distinguishing description based on inclusion given above, we are going to show that this notion can be refined to take into account more subtle cases of reference We define a more discerning inclusion...
... that individual characteristics might explain the high level of distress symptoms among ambulance personnel [8-10] In general, factors within the workplace interact with those within the individual ... neck, arm, leg pain during physical activity and headache/migraine) are scored on a four-point rating scale ranging from no complaints (0) to serious complaints (3) Each complaint is also scored ... highly motivated to this kind of work Being female in a male-dominated working environment such as the ambulance services does not seem to be a risk factor for mental healthproblems among ambulance...
... types of difficult people Know things to when dealingwith difficult people Overview Difficult people and conflict 11 types of difficult people Additional Helpful Hints Difficult People and Conflict ... works for them Dealingwith them can cause conflict Difficult People and Conflict (cont) Conflict can result in a charged work environment Difficult behavior causes stress in others Conflict ... sarcasm, & intimidation Dealingwith Dozers Prepare yourself Ask questions Focus on solution Do not confront them Bullies Loud and hostile Abusive Overwhelm you Battling Bullies...
... what’s happening Indecisive Super helpful – but… Postpone decisions Hint and beat around the bush Resolve Indecision Address fears with “what if” questions Help resolve problems when ... issues surface Help examine facts Watch for anger or withdrawal Sniper Exclude key people Withhold information Use hidden attacks, innuendos, digs, non-playful teasing Wreck havoc and ... alternative Bring resistance into the open Seek group confirmation or denial of snipers criticism Use coaching/counseling if assigned tasks not done Why Always Me Gain attention “its...
... 1999 Dealingwith Difficult People, http://www.bethanyhome.org /dealing_ with_ difficult_people.htm Dealingwith Difficult People/Situations: Role of the Extension Committee Member, University of Minnesota ... and How to Handle Them – iVillage Online Newsletter, Dealingwith Difficult People, March 1999, http://www.itstime.com/print/mar99p.htm Techniques for Dealingwith Difficult People, Ag Decision ... Control Freak Get into everyone’s business Undermine and insult abilities Lack confidence & trust Insufferable – render subordinates ineffective Reduce Controllers Build...
... labeled cDNAs with DNA chip; Detecting bound cDNA using laser technology and storing data in a computer; Analyzing data using computational methods We are obviously interested in 5, but without some ... imputation (LLSimpute) [47] and collateral missing value estimation (CMVE) [75] Troyanskaya et al [87] were the pioneers indealingwith missing values in microarray, by proposing a method called k-nearest ... CHAPTER THE MISSING VALUE PROBLEM IN MICROARRAY 11 Generating a hybridization solution containing a mixture of fluorescently labeled cDNAs; Incubating the hybridization mixture containing fluorescently...
... students find hard in encountering unfamiliar words in reading comprehension and their habit of dealingwith this • Proposed effective strategies of dealingwith unfamiliar words in reading comprehension ... 2.1.1 Definition of Reading: Joe Cortina and Janet Elder (2000) defined reading as a form of thinking in Opening Doors - Understanding college reading: “It is your brain that does the reading, not ... Reading is making meaning from print It requires: identifying the words in print (word recognition), constructing an understanding from it (comprehension), coordinating identifying words and making...
... correlated with changes in PPBC and HRQL scores in subjects with OAB treated with either tolterodine ER or placebo These findings indicate that data obtained from PROs provide a distinct source of information ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:13 Background Overactive bladder (OAB) is defined by the International Continence Society (ICS) as urgency, with or without urgency urinary incontinence ... assessing whether clinical improvements are meaningful to the patient [7] Several questionnaires, measuring a broad array of concepts, have been validated for use in subjects with OAB, including...
... social behavior, including showing respect for teachers and neighbors, getting along with other children, understanding other people’s feelings, and trying to resolve conflicts with classmates, ... taken into account through multiple regression analysis of the survey data, the lack of an intact two-parent family and of regular religious training continue to be linked with developmental problems ... people not living with both parents and not attending services regularly are five times more likely to have repeated a grade in school than those living with both parents and attending religious...
... D: Influence of gender and interleukin-10 deficiency on the inflammatory response during lung infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in mice Immunology 2002, 107:297-305 Landgraf JM: Measuring health- related ... impacts of a disease on daily life, they allow investigations in large populations Considering the advances in CF therapy and with regard to the recent increase in interest in PROs, the German CFQ-R, ... The findings of the current study underline the importance of combining self- and proxy rating, not only in Germany Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life...
... and in the Cardiac Module (ranging 0.5-66.2%) with highest values in the Treatment II Scale (problems with taking heart medicine) domain The percentages of missing values (ranging 1.2 - 4.4%) in ... consistent with the diversity of disease severity of the studied population, with some patients not taking heart medicine and having had no cardiac intervention Consistently with previous findings, ... Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 generic core scales Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005, 3:22 32 Reinfjell T, Diseth TH, Veenstra M, Vikan A: Measuring health- related quality of lifein young...