comparison of the proposed technique with mfsw

... precision of the reference technique should be measured within the study The desired precision of the new technique should be described a priori The bias and limits of agreement between the two techniques ... mean that the physiological status of the patient has changed The error of the measuring technique is directly related to the magnitude of the least significant change (LSC) The LSC is the minimum ... is the precision of the studied technique as measured by the worked example, and PE is the percentage error for the Bland-Altman plot for the reference technique minus the studied technique The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... Lecturer of Anesthesia and Director of the Mother and Child Anesthesia Unit at the Hadassah–Hebrew University Medical Center He is a past Chair of the Israel Association of Obstetric Anesthesia ... numbers of deliveries, epidurals, and cesareans annually, together with the anesthesia workforce allocated for the provision of obstetric anesthesia services The OAAI was calculated based on the ... experience of personnel Accordingly, the OAAI is not a measure of the total activity of the obstetric anesthesia services Based on these limitations, it is important to appreciate that although the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... information about wider effects of oral health on daily living The main advantage of generic measures is that they allow comparison of various domains of quality of life for the condition being studied, ... disease states [3-6] One of the most commonly used generic OHRQoL measures is the two versions of Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP); with 49 or 14 items [7,8] On the other hand, specific OHRQoL ... adolescent reported an impact on any of the performances, the frequency of the impact (scale from to 3) and the severity of its effect on daily life (scale from Page of (page number not for citation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... nerve symptoms These resolved without any long-term sequelae, and were thought to be due to the rate of distraction Following docking of the proximal tibia with the distal femur, the patient had ... rods (Figure 7) The soft tissues in the front of the knee were repaired in layers The patient was allowed to weight-bear in his fixator Figure CT scan demonstrating the lesion in the proximal tibia ... of cells (Figures and 6) En-bloc resection of the knee was performed including the proximal cm of tibia, tibial articular surface, the proximal fibula, the patella and quadriceps mechanism, the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... acute version of the SF-36) for the SF-6D The third difference is that the scoring range of the EQ-5D is twice that of the SF-6D The location of the baseline median scores in the scoring range ... Figure Comparison of maximal theoretical contribution to the utility score Comparison of maxim al theoretical contribution to the utility score Domains measuring the same area of health have similar ... between the median values and the limits of agreement in the BlandAltman plot exceed the minimal clinically important difference of both SF-6D and EQ-5D [20,21] The lack of agreement is further...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 1: The percentage of UK and US respondents endorsing some impact of their muscle disease on each of the life domains Figure The percentage of the UK and the US samples endorsing the direction of ... of disability access legislation in the US and the higher proportion of spacious urban living in the US as compared with the higher proportion of crowded city living in the UK The influence of ... (extent of impact, importance of impact and overall impact) for each of the life domains and the results of the significance tests between the UK and US samples The overall importance score of all the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... ways, both in terms of improving the proposed models as well as in the application of the models in other PWM applications The developed models neglected the dynamics of the Phase-Locked Loop ... deterioration of the terminal voltage at the interface level and its effect on the reference current generation As the PLL synchronizes the reference current with the terminal voltage, the propagation of ... of the environments to consider The series and shunt power systems compensation are used with the purpose of improving the operating conditions; respect to the voltage, the compensation has the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... in the SF-12v2 These domains are used to derive the mental health summary score of the MOS-HIV, which may help to explain the weaker correlation between the measures in the MHS as well as the ... result in fewer errors by the participant Although this is not necessarily synonymous with the level of understanding of the intended meaning of the items, anecdotally, the authors have experienced ... conceived the design of the study, performed and interpreted the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript FS participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... = 0.50) The optimal cut-off score of the screening instrument is selected by using the score that is closest to the intersection of the ROC and the diagonal line from the upper left to the lower ... patients with diabetes in Iran Therefore the aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and accuracy of these tools, (CESD) and (PHQ-9), in comparison with clinical interview in Iranian people with ... analysis was used The Area Under the Curve (AUC) was calculated to quantify screening ability The AUC of the screening instrument is evaluated by comparison with the AUC of the diagonal line, which represents...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... clearance of intracellular pathogens and are defined on the basis of their production of IFN-g [17] Th2 cells are critical for the control of certain parasitic infections through the production of the ... expression of IL-5 mRNA in the bursa of birds infected with the H strain increased continuously, peaking at dpi with a 7.47-fold increase (P = 0.00002) (Figure 3C) The expression of the IL-4 gene in the ... and the immune responses evoked In the present study, our objective was to further investigate the Th1/Th2 paradigm by examining the transcriptional profile of cytokines in the bursal tissues of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:21

... statistical comparison Ethical approval was obtained from the ethics committee of the University of Bonn All patients consented to partaking in the study The study adhered to the tenets of the declaration ... multidimensionality in the scale Although the raw variance explained by the PCA of the residuals was adequate (64.2%), the unexplained variance in the first contrast of the residuals was 3.9, suggesting the existence ... of multidimensionality (PCA of the residuals

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... every day of the week during the run in period At the end of the run in period, baseline measurements of pulmonary function and methacholine reactivity were performed Subjects were then randomised ... group compared with the FP group Airway hyperreactivity Twelve subjects in the SFC group and 16 in the FP group had PD20 ≤ 5.96 mg at the end of the run in period and at Page of (page number ... defined as the mean of the daily values over the last days of the week run in period Mean morning and http://respiratory-research.com/content/8/1/52 evening PEF were calculated from all the available...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... data on the therapeutic efficacy of combination therapy, these economic analyses facilitate assessment of the long-term cost-effectiveness from the perspective of the health care system, of using ... Monotherapy with any treatment, however, is often unable to sustain target HbA1c levels of 6.5– 7.5% in the majority of patients They are therefore expected to require additional therapy within ... limited to only the most severe stages of the complications This was done in order to accord with the estimates' source, the UKPDS The costs also did not include the less severe stages of the complications...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... has facilitated the availability of different indirect laryngoscopes The major advantage of these devices is that direct vision of the glottis is available With the objective of pointing out ... now, the efficacy and potential advantages of the McGrath® Series and the GlideScope® Ranger in the hands of paramedics for the management of prehospital airways has not been fully evaluated With ... [22,23] All video laryngoscopes without an integrated guide channel for the endotracheal tube could face the challenge of advancing the tube into the trachea The tip of the tracheal tube must pass...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... means of managerial control Phases of the Product Life Cycle Cost System The product life curve begins with the introduction of the new product to the market The product “dies” if the potential of ... in the analysisof these costs throughout the life cycle (33) The drug producer has to know what kind of a value is gained by the customer with the product it offers and the cost incurred by the ... situation was changed with the adoption of the first chapter of the ISO 14040, a part of the international environmental protection standard The philosophy of product life cycle includes the following...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 11:05

... percentage of child deaths in the total the losses of life in the flood seasons in the MD Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority of the drowning deaths in recent years in the region ... those living in the urban areas, children in the rural area are familiar with the water in rivers and canals Their daily lives are linked with the rice fields and flood plains Some of them learn to ... rowed and fell down the water while sleeping In Vietnam, the first day of the new academic year is usually in early of September In the MD, this period coincides with a high risk of flood Many pupils...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... effects of the mutations Hence, the results are consistent with the predicted role for these residues (based on crystal structure) in the interaction with substrate The loss of activity of the mutants ... residues of the substrate are shown with ball and stick representations Hydrogen bonds are indicated by arrows Table Comparison of the specificity of TEV protease with mutations of key residues of the ... underscoring the importance of the interactions between the Tyr OH and the side chains of Asn174 and Asp148 in TEV protease (Fig 4A) The importance of these interactions is further supported by the results...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... intrinsic properties of their NBDs [9] Thus, the critical sequences responsible must be sought within the NBDs themselves The core NBDs of TAP containing the ATP binding-cassette between the Walker A ... homology of about 75% The most variable part of the core NBDs, in other ABC transporters as well as TAP, lies within the helical subdomains Ó FEBS 2003 Regulation of the nucleotide binding state of ... top) Thus, the chimeric NBD consisting of the core NBD2 with the C-terminal segment of TAP1 confers the nucleotide binding behaviour of wild-type TAP1 whereas the chimeric NBD1 bearing the core...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21

... hand, and on the other by the attitude of the speaker towards the message and the addressee "Thus into the domain of the organization of utterance pertains all that is connected with the processual ... basic hypotheses, the second of which can conveniently be elaborated in terms of Ong's list of the characteristics of an orally-based language The two hypotheses and their respective sub-hypotheses ... A COMPARISON OF THE TEXTUAL STRUCTURES OF ARABIC AND ENGLISH WRITTEN TEXTS A Study in the Comparative Orality of Arabic Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... in the prefrontal cortex of the brain: “Almost half of the neural connections in the prefrontal cortex -the daily command center of the brain-are wiped out and decision-making shifts toward the ... published by the American Psychological Association We include these quotes to give the reader an understanding of the issues related to the foundations of the proposed curricular changes Lest the reader ... complete picture of the field of study Additional resources are suggested in the Appendix of this paper Including the Advocates for Youth in this list is an indicator of the bias of the curriculum...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20