... are preferably selfadministered The multicenter, multinational nature of pharmaceutical clinical trials also requires questionnaires that are amenable to translation into multiple languages The ... investigating its responsiveness to changed symptom status as a result of therapy ina large clinical populationof patients diagnosed as having GERD The concordance between the RDQ evaluations of ... translated into Norwegian and Swedish according to international principles [10] The translators met with members of the RDQ survey team to maintain content and clarity of the questionnaire As...
... the questionnaires after a seven-day period Construct validity was assessed using factor analysis that combines observable variables into unobservable, latent variables, giving insights into ... non-normality in the underlying database since research has also demonstrated that ML test statistic (TML) and ML parameter standard errors may be affected when data deviate form normal [17,18] ... deviation form normality, so the usage of polychoric correlations would be an alternative Finally, there is no available QOL measures in Serbia with appropriate measurements characteristics against...
... the questionnaires after a seven-day period Construct validity was assessed using factor analysis that combines observable variables into unobservable, latent variables, giving insights into ... non-normality in the underlying database since research has also demonstrated that ML test statistic (TML) and ML parameter standard errors may be affected when data deviate form normal [17,18] ... deviation form normality, so the usage of polychoric correlations would be an alternative Finally, there is no available QOL measures in Serbia with appropriate measurements characteristics against...
... full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis I am also responsible for editing the final draft RF: Involved ... research support from McNeil Pharmaceuticals, is on the speaker's bureau for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and served in an advisory capacity to Shire Pharmaceuticals and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Dr ... driving data JFC: Worked closely with all authors on the design and analysis of the driving data 10 CBS: Involved in the writing of the manuscript including reading the literature and integrating...
... Hasegawa M, Hamaguchi Y, Tanaka C, Kaji K, Komura K, Ueda-Hayakawa I, Horie S, Ikuta M, Tachino K, Ogawa F, Sato S, Fujimoto M, Takehara K: Reduced red blood cell velocity in nail-fold capillaries ... the absence of giant capillaries and microhemorrhages but shares severe loss of capillaries and the development of extensive avascular areas, together with ramified and bushy capillaries (indicative ... branched and the capillary architecture is mildly disorganized Finally, the ‘late’ SSc pattern becomes manifest in the more advanced stage of the vascular disease This latter pattern is characterized...
... German Professionals insurance laws require a complete elimination of allergens for the recognition of an allergic airway disease as a compensable occupational disease Complete avoidance of occupational ... compensation of occupational allergic asthma as occupational disease [4] Legal consequence would usually be to abandon dairy farming However, in our case presented, dairy farming substantially ... i.e., an automatic milking system (AMS) At present circa 1300 AMS are installed, predominantly in the Netherlands, followed by Germany AMS were developed in the course of increasing automation of...
... international humanitarian assistance, particularly information gathering and travel for international staff, were a reality for aid organizations[60,61] Community-led monitoring of human rights violations ... and design, acquisition of data, and interpretation of data, was involved in drafting the manuscript, and revising it critically for important intellectual content All authors have read and approved ... data; was involved in drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content NM contributed to the acquisition of data and interpretation of data and was involved in...
... given indication Our findings revealed that better equivalence exists in urban than in rural areas, and for cancers with a high death rate than for ‘rare’ cancers The possible explanations may be: ... design and a routine control selection design ina large case-control study that was incorporated into a nationwide mortality survey in China in 1989–1991 As an example, we assessed the hazards of ... uncertain of the age when smoking began A validity study in Shanghai was conducted where the surviving spouse was the informant and both husband and wife had reported their smoking habits in the early...
... clinical and non-clinical populations with psychological complaints and has been validated in primary health care [31,32] and in occupational health care [7,29] The four scales of the DSQ are internally ... Changing appraisal processes and enhancing coping skills are the fundaments for coping with stress more effectively Therefore, learning a method for managing demands and stressors, and altering ... to as a stress management training [35,36] And although the term stress management training may suggest a rather uniform set of intervention strategies, it usually refers to a mixture of treatment...
... using the measured trait and they each have n sons in year and in year One son is selected from each of the s sire families in year and has n sons in year There is now overlap ip year with offspring ... equationi and dividing by sn it can be shown that , By adding together equations so that the mean for animals not selected it can be shown that merit of animals in year t is half the mean merit of ... that the genetic variances change with A selection, but if a is thought of as the additive genetic variance in the base 2AS population before selection and selection is on traits included in...
... 1999 Fazan VPS, André SA, Adilson LC, Omar ARF: Brachial plexus variations in its formation and main branches Acta Cirurgica Brasileira 2003, 18(5) Ballesteros E, Ramirez ML: Variations of the ... remarkable finding is that one brachial plexus lacked the upper subscapular nerve This wide range of variation suggests Table Population variance of the incidence of axillary origin of the subscapular ... in data analysis, drafting, revision and correction of the manuscript SS was involved in conception and design of the study, data collection and analysis, drafting of the manuscript ML was involved...
... on the perilipin protein activity as Mottagui-Tabar et al reported that the A allele was associated with enhanced basal and noradrenaline-induced lipolysis in human subcutaneous fat cells [7], ... and spirits After signing an informed consent, participants were administered a standard questionnaire and physical measurements were made by a trained nurse The level of physical activity was ... readings was taken into Table 4: Impact of the PLIN rs894160 SNP on clinical variables in men and women separately Men Women GG 281 GA 235 AA 54 GG 272 GA 231 AA 39 Weight, kg BMI, kg/m2 Waist,...
... obtained by Ruiz et al (1991) ina Spanish natural populationof D buzzatii However, our analysis is based on the assumption that the offspring of each wild inseminated female was fathered by a ... maintained until pupation in order to estimate larval viability by counting all pupae Further collections were performed inA Escobar in March 1989 by means of banana baits and with Opuntia vulgaris ... each cross, in low density conditions and maintained at 25°C Thirty-two third instar larvae from each bottle were sampled and their salivary gland chromosomes analyzed, according to Fontdevila...
... GCA GCA GCA GCA CTA CTA CTA A CTA CAT CCA CCC TTC HLA G *0108 HLA G *0109 HLA G *0110 ATG HLA G *0111 ATG ATC ATC ATC ATC CCA CCA CCA CCA CAT CAT CCA CAT CCA CAT CCA AGG AGG CAT CCA *TG ATG ATC ... GCC CTG GAG TAC CAC CAC GCA ACG CCG GGC GGT AGA AGG TCC ACG CGG GCG CAG CCG GCC CAC GGA CTC CCA CAT CCA GGT GCT GGT CAT CCA CCA 926 AGG CAT GGT GAA GCG GCT CCA CCA CCA CGA CAT CAT CAT CAT CGG GCC ... et al 2001; Ishitani, Sageshima et al 2003) 22 Certain combinations of HLA-KIR may be favorable in the maintenance ofa healthy pregnancy, as shown ina study of the effect of HLA-C and KIR haplotypes...
... Guidelines for formulation ofa hierarchy are available in the literature and numerous proven ready-made hierarchies are also available Saaty and Forman [55] have published a book called The Hierarchon: ... degree involvement of institution or individual involvement in the linkage Linkages are also classified into Formal and Informal types Formal Cooperation Formal linkage refers to institutional built ... student Informal meetings of faculty and industrial representatives to exchange information, obtain mutual advice, and discuss problems of mutual interest are also typical examples Forums for idea...
... Planning for Implementation ofVoiceina Campus Cấu hình interface trunk SW3560_01 SW3560_01(config)#interface range gigabitEthernet 0/1 - SW3560_01(config-if-range)#switchport trunk encapsulation ... Chương – Planning for Implementation ofVoiceina Campus Cấu hình cho SW2950_02 Switch(config)#hostname SW2950_02 SW2950_02 (config)#enable password cisco SW2950_02 (config)#no ip domain-lookup ... kiểm tra cấu hình 165 Giáo trình thực hành BCMSN Chương – Planning for Implementation ofVoiceina Campus Hình 7.2.3-1: Show interface gigabitEthernet 0/15 switchport SW3560_02 Bước 6: X a cấu...
... 8.1.5 Auxiliary VLANs Hình 8.1.5-1: Các Auxiliary VLAN che phủ mạng liệu Một số switch Cisco Catalyst cung cấp tính độc đáo gọi " auxiliary VLAN" "voice VLAN" Auxiliary VLAN cho phép ta che phủ voice ... sau đây: 248 Giáo trình kh a học BCMSN Chương – Planning for Implementation ofVoiceina Campus Hình 8.2.2-1: Phân loại đánh dấu traffic Thông số Layer 2: đ a MAC, Multiprotocol Label Switching ... cho tất interface AutoQoS có lợi cho trường hợp sau đây: 253 Giáo trình kh a học BCMSN Chương – Planning for Implementation ofVoiceina Campus Các doanh nghiệp v a nhỏ muốn triển khai điện...
... Japanese [8], and the Japanese version has been validated for use in the general populationof Japan [9], but the performance of the MHI-5 has not been evaluated in detail In addition, two of ... MHI-5 and the MHI-3 The AUC values are shown in Table 3, and other performance characteristics are shown in Table We also evaluated the performance of each of the MHI-5 question items individually ... range [21,22] In general, an AUC can range from 0.5, which indicates a test with no information, to 1.0, which indicates a perfect test The "gold standard" criteria for diagnosing depression are...
... temporal artifacts in the halftone videos Therefore, perceptual quantitative measures for evaluating these artifacts are desirable Quantitative assessmentof temporal artifacts can facilitate comparison ... Q, and R each have a value of L, and S have each a value of P has a value of −1 The “Artifact Map” is Fi Fi (m, n) has the form described in [1] We evaluate Wi differently in this paper For clarity, ... of binary halftone videos produced using different algorithms Temporal artifact quality assessment criteria can also be combined with the assessmentof spatial artifacts to form an overall quality...