a measure of disorder

... the location in time where a similar shape occurred) and a scale factor that is related to the amplitude and width of the wavelet The CWT of each single signal is calculated for a range of different ... tendon, aligned with the muscle fibre direction Morphological, electrical and physiological parameter values were based on data of the biceps brachii (default values of the software package) For a ... detection area was assumed to be circular The radius of the detection area (10 mm) was estimated based on [16] and [17] The simulated location of the electrode array was between the innervation zone and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... healthcare needs of all military healthcare beneficiaries and to target specific health issues For instance, the Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries [8] assesses a broad range of healthcare ... important to military health and fitness, self-rated health Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006, 4:57 appears to be a valid measure of health ... summary, a single-item self-assessment of health was consistently related to a variety of health parameters important to the military Used at a population level, this brief health status measure may...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 34, page that the measure of noncompactness of T is greater than or equal to limn → ∞ en T In the sequel, we assume that X is a Banach space which is a certain subset of all Haarmeasurable functions ... integrals,” Journal of Function Spaces and Applications, vol 1, no 1, pp 35–43, 2003 G G Oniani, “On the measure of non-compactness of maximal operators,” Journal of Function Spaces and Applications, ... fractional integrals,” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol 192, pp 261–274, 1974 20 E T Sawyer, A characterization of a two-weight norm inequality for maximal operators,” Studia...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 03:20

... proportion of pines (PROP_PIN) around the 10 bottle-traps of each site The comparison of predator/prey ratios between sites and years was carried out using a two-way analysis of variance of the angular ... compare barkbeetle and predator abundances from year to year (GLM analysis in SPSS 11.5) 2.2 Data analysis In each site, maps of the stands where the traps were set-up and of the neighbouring stands ... 302 N Warzộe et al Table I Location and characteristics of the study sites Site Location (department) Elevation (m) Area (ha) Age (year) HA Hanau (Moselle) 260 25 110130 ST Steinbach (Bas-Rhin)...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... which assesses the presence of “thoughts of death,” was also used in the analysis Statistical Analysis Reliability was assessed through Cronbach’s alpha, which was used as a measure of internal ... retrospective review of suicidal ideation and behavior Demographic and clinical data are presented in Table Axis I diagnosis was unavailable for 15 subjects due to unavailability of their charts for review ... demographic characteristics of our population are comparable to those of large clinical trials such as the STAR*D, [28,29] demonstrating similar proportions of males and females and similar distributions...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... reliability of these domains was assessed using two measures: 1) the KMO measure of sampling adequacy and 2) Cronbach’s Alpha, a measure of internal consistency A value of greater than 0.7 is desirable ... measure of this type and has potential for use as a research tool and as an international quality benchmark Additional material Additional file 1: Results of inter-rater reliability testing Acknowledgements ... data entry was completed for 10% of the toolkit data using a separate database and the study statistician carried out data validation on the two databases for each centre The maximum error rate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... of addiction as a healthcare issue in the years to come Government of Canada The Attorney General of Canada hired a formidable legal adversary, John Hunter, Q.C of Hunter Litigation Chambers as ... who has, according to the Canadian Bar Association, has "litigated many ground-breaking constitutional law cases" in Canada [71] Mr Arvay has been described by the President of the International ... lead lawyer for the Government of Canada rose in immediate response and stated for the record that Canada had no intention of disputing that addiction is an illness The legal team for Canada had...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... multivariable analysis of variance (ANOVA) (PERMANOVA, SUITABILITY OF IGF1 253 FIGURE Location of lingcod collections near Friday Harbor inside and outside marine protected areas (MPAs) Area names are as ... information not provided by traditional metrics Multivariate analyses clearly showed that spatial patterns of IGF1 and traditional biological measurements are different In our data, it appears that ... females compared with 97 males) and the lack of females collected in some sites, rather than a comment on lack of spatial variation In addition to examining spatial variation of IGF1, we wanted...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 17:15

... Steam enters a turbine steadily at MPa and 450°C at a rate of kg/s and exits at 0.2 MPa and 150°C, (Fig 8–45) The steam is losing heat to the surrounding air at 100 kPa and 25°C at a rate of ... generated as a result The entropy generation is always accompanied by exergy destruction, as illustrated in Fig 8–27 Also note that heat transfer Q at a location at temperature T is always accompanied ... heat transfer and the maximum amount of heat that can be transferred Vary the final steam temperature from 80 to 21°C and plot the actual and maximum heat transferred to the room as functions of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:41

... signaling and a elevated protein kinase A activity ( Langan & McDonald 2009 ) The calcium channels antagonists (verapamil and others) raise carbamazepine effect Magnesium, acting like a natural calcium ... of Action 57 Carla P Fonseca, Liliana P Montezinho and M Margarida C .A Castro Chapter Memantine: A New Mood Stabilizer for Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorders 99 Gino Serra, Giulia Serra, Alexia ... increases the verapamil maintenance therapy in mania (Giannini et al 2000) This fact favors the idea that an increase in magnesium concentration is an important fact, maybe essential for the therapeutic...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... lack of positive charge, maintains the polar character and the possibility of donating H-bonds In the Y111N variant, the aromatic ring is replaced by a group which is also structurally planar ... side facing the membrane is dramatically changed (Fig 4) Finally, as 15N NMR relaxation can be used to characterize the dynamic properties of a protein in solution, relaxation data were obtained ... compilation ª 2011 FEBS M A Pardo-Cea et al Structure of R29Q and Y111N StnII mutants Table NMR structural calculations summary and statistics StnII-R29Q Calculation Distance restraints Angular...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... compensate for depreciation of human made capital and depreciation of natural capital there But how is depreciation of natural capital caused by the Japanese economy around the world counted? See also: ... depreciation of natural capital which produce magic numbers Thus the economy of Japan appears at the top of the league in tables on weak sustainability because savings are very high and more than ... difficult Many analysts of globalisation argue that transnational corporations are able to play countries off against each other to bid down concession prices and corporate taxes when negotiating...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... Center (Santa Monica), and SCAN HealthPlan (Long Beach) References Additional material Additional file CGQOL 80-item Measure Final version of the 80-item Caregiver-Targeted Measure of Quality of Life ... 3-factor solutions were appropriate Factor analysis was conducted using a Promax rotated factor solution Results Mean caregiver age was 61.5 years and mean patient age was 80.2 years (See Tables ... scale scores were analyzed using Pearson or Spearman correlations or analysis of variance (ANOVA), as appropriate Backwards stepwise regression was used to quantify the extent of unique relationships...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... severity assessments made by the physician is a measure of the ability of RDQ to measure what it is intended to measure Physician severity assessment was compared to RDQ data with Pearson correlation ... the translated RDQ High levels of internal consistency across the translated RDQ scales would be evidence of the amenability to translation Analysis revealed that, regardless of language, all but ... are preferably selfadministered The multicenter, multinational nature of pharmaceutical clinical trials also requires questionnaires that are amenable to translation into multiple languages The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... that had calculated lumbar load for the sum of daily patient transfer activities We found higher figures of lumbar load in nursing home staff and at the same time back disorders were significantly ... statistical analyses, interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript MD participated in the design of the study, interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript AN participated in the design of ... study and interpreted the data BBB participated in the coordination of the study and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the manuscript Additional material 15 16 17 18 Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... An instrument to measure patient satisfaction with healthcare in an observational database: results of a validation study using data from CaPSURE American Journal of Managed Care 2000, 6(1):70-76 ... importance of consumer satisfaction to the success of both health care services and pharmaceutical products, conceptual advances in the field have lead to a proliferation of satisfaction measures across ... presence of the data skew that is a typical characteristic of treatment satisfaction data As noted elsewhere [29], the magnitude of the ceiling effect and accompanying skew is greatest among scales...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in several QOLI domains compared to monotherapy with lithium or valproate Limitation – only acute QoL outcome data available Majority of sample report 'fair/average' QoL Small sample of patients ... absence of a 'disease-specific' measure of QoL for bipolar populations, or because of reservations about the ability of patients with BD to reliably and accurately complete self-report measures, particularly ... (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness) IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts) (1965– 2004) Key words used for the search included: bipolar disorder or manic-depression, mania,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Mean and Variance adjusted) which applies pair-wise missing data analysis using all individuals with observations for all possible pairs of variables in the data Individuals with partial data are ... extracted from the BWHHS database and recoded into binary categorical variables This model derived from the BWHHS data was replicated using data from the “usual care” arm of a large Kamaruzzaman ... frailty model developed from factor analysis (FA), a robust analytical technique which uses latent variables as a means of data reduction to represent a wide range of attributes/variability among...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... that both positive and negative changes in quality of life ratings as well as apparent stability of ratings are each related to several distinct patterns of change in quality of life appraisal, ... predominately male (68%) with mean age of 66 years old (standard deviation = 10 years) The majority of patients were Caucasian, with two African American patients and one Hispanic patient The educational ... individuals also reported a greater number of goals Correlations between QLQ-C30 Quality of Life Ratings and Measures of Personal Goals As a final step in our analysis, we examined the association of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Society, Lausanne: Nadia Kamel; Pfizer: Katja Rudell, Frederick J Wilson; Almirall: Nathalie Ivanoff; Novartis: Karoly Kulich, Alistair Glendenning; AstraZeneca AB: Niklas X Karlsson, Solange Corriol-Rohou; ... fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/ Guidances/UCM193282.pdf] American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, National Council on Measurement ... Franklin BA, Macera CA, Heath GW, Thompson PD, Bauman A: Physical activity and public health: updated recommendation for adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20