... http://arthritis-research.com/content/12/2/R35 Page of 12 biologic therapy is added to generally effective therapy already being used Thus, observed benefit from biologic therapy in the community represents the incremental benefit ... treatment of at least six months duration to biologic treatment during their ordinary clinical care Thus, patients provide their own controls We assess patients continuously in both periods using ... addition, in the 721 patients in the ARCK validation dataset the measured DAS-28 score was 3.3 (SD 1.3) Thus the mean DAS28 scores in treated RA may range, approximately, from values around 3.0 in the...
... some cases wear can actually reduce friction Research in wearless friction of a simple contact is thus of technical as well as of fundamental interest From a fundamental point of view, wearless ... hand a serious experimental problem, since it is almost impossible to characterize the tip and thus the contact down to an atomic scale Different schemes have been proposed to solve this problem ... of nanoscale contacts is that, although the forces are usually very small, the interaction and thus the pressures are very high due to the small contact area For the Si3N4–mica contact above,...
... the survey to test the model The survey results were consistent with the various hypotheses, and thus consistent with the model The model predicted that partner rotation has a direct and negative ... years, and the revised partner rotation requirements had been in place for approximately five years Thus, the majority of our audit partner participants had practiced in both the pre- and post-SOX ... some jurisdictions, such as Australia, require audit partners to personally sign the audit report, thus allowing researchers to identify when rotation occurs and to measure the associated costs and...
... gratitude to my supervisor, Associate Professor Doctor Nguyen Quang, for his valuable guidance and enthusiastic support regarding my thesis I am very grateful to the Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, ... textbooks, which provides a good opportunity to include cultural content into the teaching syllabus, and thus enriching students cross-cultural knowledge along with developing their four language skills ... cross-cultural understanding They treat culture-related themes from two different perspectives, thus stimulating both comparison and contrast between the target and the source cultures When analyzing...
... Practitioner) Mercedes Umaña (Therapist) Deone Curling (Therapist) Judith Andrade (Registered Nurse) Megan Saunders (Physician) Vanita Varma (Student Nurse) Funding Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term ... Primary Health Care for Black Women and Women of Colour (hereafter referred to as the Access Study) Thus, the report presents highlights from the research study, the pilot program, the Logic Model: ... born outside of Canada The study also recruited to include particular priority populations and thus, twentytwo percent (22.5%) of the participants reported having a physical disability, while...
... described insufficiently or not at all, zero points were assigned The highest possible score was thus 11 Studies scoring 75% or more of the maximum attainable score (= points) were arbitrarily ... their coping skills in order to decrease the acute and chronic stress that they experience and thus to decrease their work-related problems and increase their mental and somatic health status...
... problematic for both the patient and the urologist Short scale minimize a patient's time and effort, and thus increase a patient's willingness to complete the scale The short-form BPH-QLS developed in...
... [21] It is important to note that the CCHS PUF has suppressed the single-attribute utility scores, thus precluding evaluation of the impact of diabetes and cancer on any single attributes in this ... 26:1752-1758 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Coughlin SS, Calle EE, Teras LR, Petrelli J, Thun MJ: Diabetes mellitus as a predictor of cancer mortality in a large cohort of US adults Am...
... in average health care costs incurred per patient from diagnosis to death in the United States Thus, quality of life impacts are an important consideration in evaluating comparative Page of 18 ... a high HRQOL, not significantly different than people of similar age in the general population Thus, despite the magnitude of the surgery and the degree of change in a major organ function, patients ... difficulty and need for support for reaching their goals, and overall distance from goal attainment Thus, this procedure asks patients to generate their own sets of goal and activity statements that...
... for example, user antenna k transmits pilot symbols on subcarriers k, k + 8, k + 16, and so forth Thus the pilots from different user antennas are separated in frequency Note that using the uplink...
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... probability distributions Production rate is instanteneously infinite Reorder-time is fixed and known Thus the set-up cost is not included in the total cost Let the holding cost per item per unit time...
... proximal interphalangeal joints (PIP), the interphalangeal joint of the thumb (IP), the metacarpophalangeal joints (MCP), the thumb carpometacarpal joint (CMC) and the trapezioscaphoid joint (TS) ... to definition for epidemiological studies J Rheumatol 1996, 23:1938-1942 Gunther KP, Sturmer T, Sauerland S, Zeissig I, Sun Y, Kessler S, Scharf HP, Brenner H, Puhl W: Prevalence of generalised...