... 18. Description of the instruments and variables The Spanish versions of the VSP-A and KINDL-R were administered together with other demographic and health status variables. The VSP-A and the KINDL-R ... adolescents and for their application in health service research in Spain. More- over, the use of the Spanish VSP-A and KINDL-R in future applied studi...
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... identify independent predictors and classify them according to Little and Rubin ("missing completely at random”, “missing at random” and “missing not at random”). Results: The type of missingness ... was missing at random for half of the ite ms of the SF-36 and missing not at random for the others. None of the items were missing completely at random. Independent...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Indoors illumination and seasonal changes in mood and behavior are associated with the health-related quality of life" pdf
... we cannot present any causal deduction con- cerning the associations we found. Another limitation was the use of self-reports of the seasonal changes in mood and behavior, and of the illumination ... Changes of season challenge these time-keeping mechanisms of action as, for instance, the evening-active cells yield the dominance to the morning-active cells with...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Struggles, strengths, and strategies: an ethnographic study exploring the experiences of adolescents living with an ostomy" doc
... address the importance of ensuring meaningful opportunities to understand and reframe the stresses of illness. An ongoing clinical challenge involves the promotion of a healthy self-esteem and psychosocial ... varies globally, and ranges from 0.3% to 0.8% of the population in northern Europe, Scandinavia, New Zealand and the United States [3]. IBD is reported to...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Factor structure and internal consistency of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Subjective Vitality Scale (VS), and the relationship between them: a study from France" potx
... validity. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Authors' contributions MSY was the main investigator and analysed the data and wrote the first draft. AI and ... symptoms and ineffec- tive body functioning [7]. We were therefore interested in testing this hypothesis and examining whether there is a relationship between psycholog...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Fall prevention and vitamin D in the elderly: an overview of the key role of the non-bone effects" docx
... data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analyses. Study concept and design: CA and OB. Acquisition of data: CA and OB. Analysis and interpretation ... nsufficiency) and/ or the use of replacement therapy in this age-group. The literature provides arguments in favor of such an associati...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Muscle weakness and lack of reflex gain adaptation predominate during post-stroke posture control of the wrist" doc
... 1). The length of the lever was such that on average, when holding the handle, the rotation axis of the wrist coincided with the axis of the motor. Between the handle and the lever, a force transducer ... [17]. The relationship between handle torque (input) and resulting angular deviation (output) yields the mechani- cal behaviour of the subject attached a...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Leader (L) and L* proteins of Theiler''''s murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) and their regulation of the virus'''' biological activities" docx
... the viral polyprotein [30,31], and the second is cleavage of the p220 component of the cap-binding pro- tein complex [32], resulting in the shut off of host protein synthesis. On the other hand, ... the roles of L and L* will elucidate the pathomech- anism(s) of TMEV-induced demyelinating disease, and may also provide insights into our understanding for MS. A...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Temporal expression and cellular origin of CC chemokine receptors CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5 in the central nervous system: insight into mechanisms of MOG-induced EAE" pptx
... study and from previous ones on the role of CCR1 and its ligand CCL3 in the pathogenesis of MS [39,40,42] and EAE [22,44,46], have provided evidence for an important role of CCR1 in MS and EAE. Histopathological ... inflammation and demyelination (Fig. 2E). During the clinical remission phase (day 18), inflamma- tion and demyelination in the spinal cord were...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Protein aggregation and amyloid fibril formation prediction software from primary sequence: towards controlling the formation of bacterial inclusion bodies pot
... cut-off (have numbers of expected contacts higher than the cut-off) and the size of the region is greater than or equal to the size of the sliding window used. Optimum values for the cut-off (threshold) ... results of their use on a set of 23 well-known amy- loidogenic proteins and (c) guidance towards applying this software as a useful tool for improving the sol...
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