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... measure and contributed tothe manuscript MdeW contributed tothe quality of data management andthe manuscript NZ coordinated the assessments in the diabetes outpatient clinic and data management ... complications or comorbid diseases) Statistical analysis Means and standard deviation ofthe various self-report measures were calculated Differences between male and female participants and between ... ofthe illness itself, but rather by the perceived threat it poses tothe intactness ofthe self, i.e the impact and meaning a disease has for a patient In addition, personality factors are assumed...
... Table 7: Paired sample test and Spearman Rank correlation coefficients between nurses and physicians related tothe same patient at the same day (22 pairs) Factor – Communication – Negative Affect ... types of care In general, quality of life data have been increasingly appreciated as the key outcome measure for the assessment of therapeutic interventions and for the usefulness of various treatment ... that these factors can be regarded as a useful approach to describe the well-being in these patients 10 11 12 Barofsky I: Cognitive aspects of quality of life assessment in: Quality of life and...
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... Misiak [3], a Kim and Cho [4], and Malˇeski [5] developed the theory of n-normed c space In [6], Gunawan and Mashadi gave a simple way to derive an (n−1)-norm from the n-norms and realized that any ... An introduction to 2-fuzzy n-normed linear spaces andanew perspective tothe Mazur–Ulam problem Choonkil Park1 and Cihangir Alaca∗2 Department of Mathematics, Research Institute for Natural ... ideas of Bag and Samanta [8] and also gave some fundamental properties of this space In 1932, Mazur and Ulam [11] proved the following theorem Mazur–Ulam Theorem Every isometry ofa real normed...
... 2009 M Acıkgoz and S Aracı, “On the generating function of Bernstein polynomials,” in Proceedings ofthe ¸ ¨ 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM ’10), ... Aracı, The relations between Bernoulli, Bernstein and Euler polynomials,” in ¸ ¨ Proceedings ofthe 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM ’10), AIP, ... interpolates the q-Bernoulli polynomials at negative integers and are associated with q-Bernstein polynomials New Approach to q-Bernoulli Numbers and Polynomials Let N be the set of natural numbers and...
... terms ofthe indices ofthe fixed and adaptive codes andthe gain factor and they are represented with a total of 80 bits which corresponds toa compression ratio of CRCS-ACELP = This process may ... by the IPA Handbook and sampled with KHz sampling rate were utilized to generate PSS and PES with LF = 16 samples In the generation process, all the available characteristic sentences (total of ... S Yarman, H G¨ rkan, U G¨ z, and B Ayg¨ n, Anew modu u eling method ofthe ECG signals based on the use of an optimized predefined functional database,” Acta Cardiologica - An International...
... take-off station, after h in the curing chamber, and at the end ofthe curing process The plate at the take-off station has ahigh concentration of 4BS (∼60 wt.%) that increases to approximately ... normal procedure To evaluate the results ofthe additive, samples of paste were taken at the end ofthe mixing process and samples ofthe pasted plates were collected both at the take-off station ... then analyzed by X-ray diffraction to determine the phases present using a Rigaku Miniflex X-ray analyzer with software adapted for calculation A summary ofthe data obtained from trials carried...
... these additional banks are owner managed rather than professionally managed, and therefore not provide a good laboratory for testing the agency costs ofthe separation of ownership and management.19 ... or alternative profit efficiency, and ECAPi is the ratio of equity capital to gross total assets The use of ECAPi as an inverse measure of leverage is standard in banking research in part because ... holdings, and institutional holdings Our application to data from the banking industry is advantageous because ofthe abundance of quality data available on firms in this industry In particular, we have...