... policyinfluenceandcostconsequencesoftheinitiative Tasks Influenceofthe EwQI - evaluate the projects' legacy plans - ask the project teams to identify the impact their work has had on the ... influenceandcostconsequencesoftheinitiative Problem In the original ITT for the EwQI, the teams had been asked to consider the sustainability of their projects, including their influence on policy ... role for these bodies notwithstanding Leatherman and Sutherland's reservations about the role they have played in the past and about whether they all possess the skills and capacities to play...
... including format ofthe toolkit and type and amount of support required to use it Barriers and facilitators to using the toolkit and support will be identified from the perspective ofthe relatives, ... contributed to design ofthe intervention, recruits and assesses participants, and manages the process of randomisation; VP contributed tothe design ofthe intervention and management ofthe project; ... institutions and NHS Trusts in the North West of England The research team are responsible for the content ofthe intervention and have worked with a design company to produce the toolkit and website The...
... programme to estimate the risk of AS associated with the PrP genotypes in the French sheep population andto compare it with the risk of CS In addition, we have used our dataset to estimate the prevalence ... increased the robustness of our results The maintenance ofthe polymorphism ofthe PRNP gene raises question This could be explained by an absence of selection due tothe late onset of clinical ... impact on the development ofthe disease it would be useful to study the age-genotype interactions This would especially help toassess age-specific penetrance ofthe different genotypes andto have...
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... USAID andtheOf ce of Federal Disaster Assistance The team evaluated the extent ofthe damage and assessed the needs ofthe victims [8] In addition tothe government rescue efforts andthe donations ... referred to as a hazard The term disaster refers totheconsequencesofthe hazard, and, particularly tothe intersection ofthe hazard with the underlying vulnerabilities and capacities that shape the ... first as a means of orienting the reader andof organizing the content to come This model emerges from the discussion to follow about the nature of each of these dimensions and from the in-depth...
... CMP The side chain of R110 is a hydrogen bond donor tothe N3 atom of cytosine As the main chain carbonyl of D129, a H-bond acceptor, interacts with the terminal oxygen of S36 side chain, the ... energies ofthe original resiDG i;j due i in the native protein with the rest ofthe residues, self DDG k mutị are the changes ofthe self energies ofthe residues k that change either their ionization ... or R110 disrupts the salt bridge D132R110 and causes the partner side chain to adopt a different conformation, thereby reducing the effect ofthe mutation The other two types of relaxation are...
... able to establish the extent of fraud and corruption in developing economies and We are also able to establish the impact of corrupt practices on the living condition ofthe citizens of these ... in the on Nigeria situation andthe subject matter, are the data for this study The questionnaire distributed to them was filled and returned They are hereby referred to as the source for the ... test of mean was computed for the first three hypotheses and Z score test of proportion was computed for the last hypothesis The rule of decision is that we fail to accept the null hypothesis...
... obtained with the glutelin fraction, which showed a high degree of polymorphism, finding up to 32 polymorphic bands in all the trees evaluated On the other hand, the understanding ofthe genetic ... frequencies of each band are shown in Table 1 The classification of Marshall and Brown (1975) was used toassessthe distribution of alleles in different populations In general, the bands presented ... 1) According to this classification, the first two bands may be considered of local distribution andthe third of wide distribution The highest polymorphic populations were CO-02 and SE-01, which...
... equal and omission of any of them did not alter the a value significantly The calculation of sensitivity (Sn) and specificity (Sp) at various cut-off levels for the two scales is shown in Table The ... between the different genotype groups to a high degree, no scale compiling these items showed high sensitivity and specificity with respect tothe presence ofthe s allele Even the combination ofthe ... carried the ss genotype, 50 (36.23%) the ll and 69 (50%) sl genotype A total of 88 subjects (63.77%) carried the s allele while 50 subjects (36.23%) did not carry the s allele The frequency of the...
... the hospital along with feasibility to evaluate biomarkers of response to chemotherapy in these biopsies The correlation to response, if proven, would help clinicians to tailor chemotherapy to ... apoptosis and proliferation can then, if validated with larger trials using standard regimens, be used to determine the efficacy and/ or superiority ofthe novel combinations compared to standard ... patients of carcinoma of breast on core biopsy specimens using immunohistochemistry (IHC) c) Quantification of extent of change in these biomarkers of response to chemotherapy one day and 21 days...
... peak ofthe M-wave Motor distal latency (MDL) was obtained from the onset latency ofthe M-wave The latency between the anterior cells andthe muscle was calculated according tothe formula of ... focal compression on the nerve fiber influences the vulnerability ofthe other regions along the same fiber In 143 of 173 measurable symptomatic hands, MDL, PL and CRL ofthe median nerve were ... variation in the values ofthe nerve conduction velocity and/ or length ofthe arms had a greater influence on the PL than the CRL, than we anticipated or many years andthe onset of thener muscle...
... version ofthe global instrument Phase 3: assessment ofthe reliability and validity ofthe new theory-based global instrument The objective of phase is toassessthe reliability and validity ofthe ... half ofthe participants, randomly selected, will be asked to complete the evaluation instrument both before and at the end ofthe CPD activity, and half ofthe participants will be asked to complete ... first set of results The final choice ofthe set of items will be based on their indices of distribution and discrimination and their theoretical importance Second, we will use a before -and- after...
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... relating tothe implementation, delivery and ongoing commissioning ofthe project will be analysed to provide evidence ofthe challenges and facilitators faced in the implementation ofthe project These ... reference costs Thecostofthe specialist intervention can be calculated with the help of diaries showing time spent by the different members ofthe team in delivering the work ofthe specialist ... performed ofthe standard of care delivered tothe patient by secondary mental health care before and after entry tothe study using NICE Figure Flow of patients in the randomised controlled trial of...
... due tothe complexity ofthe symptoms and psychiatric comorbidities Psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy are the two main classes of PTSD treatment In the Cochrane systematic review, Bisson and Andrew ... the SSRIs Furthermore, medication was superior to placebo in reducing the severity ofthe three symptom clusters of PTSD, as well as alleviating the symptoms of depression, and in improving the ... 2) To study the tolerability of topiramate in the treatment of PTSD, through the dropout rate in each group Research Goals The trial will compare the efficacy of topiramate with placebo in the...
... participated in the design ofthe study and contributed to drafting the manuscript MRF conceived ofthe study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript ... receptor CD4 and either of two coreceptors CCR5 or CXCR4 Upon membrane fusion, the viral core is released into the cytoplasm Once inside the cell, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into ... control to normalize total DNA Statistical analysis To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of this method, we detected the quantity of integration in three different cells, and compared them...
... at the ICU level and allocated to patients on the basis of their length of stay These cost categories referred to: department personnel cost including medical doctors, nurses Page of 10 and other ... Unit cost, number of users and mean cost per patient in different cost categories Cost Category Average unit cost per category Total n of user (% of total sample) Cost by cases (% of total costs) ... and submitted tothe Chief ofthe Hospital Pharmacy Department Through the use ofthe questionnaire, it was possible to identify thecost function of either container in terms of time spent by...
... position The CA-6000 linkage measures head position relative tothe base affixed at the first thoracic vertebra Matching Lucite blocks, one attached tothe headband ofthe CA-6000, andthe other ... pieces of a machined Lucite block were mounted tothe CA-6000 headpiece andtothe docking station, thereby providing a reference stop position and stabilizing the participant's head at the limit of ... instructed to close their eyes, nod a few times and then return their head to a comfortable resting position This became the neutral target position and was identified by marking the projection of the...