... occupation of biotopes Gradual increase in 318 Twilight acreage of forest vegetation in the surroundings of the D1 motorway was found Forests accounted for 14.72% of the area of interest in 1949, and in ... effects of linear constructions include direct occupation of biotopes, recolonization of the landscape in the construction of roads, environmental contamination, and widely various types of interference ... in the vicinity of the linear construction in the form of a motorway, and especially due to the accompanying structures of linear or polygon character and having service functions The individual...
... the inter-examiner ICCs Only four of the inter-examiner ICCs were in the lower portion of the good range (0.5 < ICC < 0.60) and seven inter-examiner ICCs were greater than 0.60, while one (Tz of ... minimum of three examiners each performing an analysis at least twice was needed for any conclusions to be drawn about inter- and intra-examiner reliability [30] In the current investigation of ... assessment of joint position sense in the spine Spine 1998, 23:590-597 Dunk NM, Chung YY, Compton , Callaghan JP: The reliability of quantifying upright standing postures as a baseline diagnostic clinical...
... year against painPainin Women’ 2007/2008 The IASP Global Year against painin women Pain 2007, 132:S1-2 14 Lund I, Lundeberg T, Kowalski J, Svensson E: Gender differences in electrical pain threshold ... both in clinical and research work, for the evaluationofpain as the pain threshold levels are supposed to change as a consequence of neural plasticity in long-term pain conditions [39] Pain threshold ... frequency of 10 Hz compensated for variations in skin resistance up to 13 kΩ The stimulation intensity increased along with the increase of the pulse duration in increments of μs in a total of 99...
... data regarding pre-hospital and in- hospital volumes of infused fluids would also be of great interest and valuable when interpreting the changes in haemoglobin and transfusion found in our data ... hour 21 minutes in year 2002, hour 42 minutes in 2004 and hour 12 minutes in 2007 In the groups of transfused patients the mean number of erythrocyte units given day 1-10 decreased from 9.4 in 2002 ... Following transfusion of 15 units of Page of erythrocytes, unit of platelets was administered per units of erythrocytes The consultant anaesthesiologist in the trauma team used a variety of clinical...
... terms include such visual cracking terminology as pattern cracking, surface checking, hairline cracking, and D-cracking, foundationrelated displacement cracking, and thermal cracking An offset of ... and bracing, tightness of joints 2.4.3.2 Tie interval for stripping 2.4.3.3 Method of finish or cleanup of unformed surfaces 2.4.4 Preparation and condition of construction joints 2.4.5 Mixing operation ... complete evaluationIn addition the periodic inspection may include sampling of seepage and reservoir waters, nondestructive testing, and determination of stress conditions The amount of investigative...
... considered in interpreting the results Also, the presence of reinforcing steel within the influence zone will affect the count rate Radiographic methods allow the possibility of seeing some of the internal ... additional information in Carino (1992) Fig 2.5.2 is a schematic of a continuous eddy-current covermeter In the absence of a reinforcing bar, the magnitude of the alternating current in the coil ... from Carino, 1992): (a) small current induced in sensing coil when no bar is present, and (b) presence of bar increases flux and increases current in sensing coil concrete, and the reinforcing bar...
... the study of interventions for osteoporosis in women 1.2 Incidence of osteoporosis in Singapore There are a number of factors which may predispose an increasing proportion of women in Singapore ... : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects in patients with Pamidronate 95 Table 5.57 : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects in patients with Risedronate 95 Table 5.58 : Incidence of ... 5.52 : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects in patients with Alendronate 94 Table 5.53 : Incidence of Gastrointestinal Side effects in patients with Clodronate 94 Table 5.54 : Incidence of...
... trustworthiness of a single agent [Yu and Singh, 2000] were one of the first to explore the effect of social relationships of agents belonging to an online community on reputation in decentralized ... dimension of agents and their opinions in the reputation model Regret adopts the stance that the overall reputation of an agent is an aggregation of different pieces of information instead of relying ... according to mutually perceived trust In trust-based trading limits, instead of varying the price of the resource, the amount of the resources bartered is varied This ensures that when transacting...
... zygapophysial joint pain Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2000; 25: 1270-7 32 Merskey H, Bogduk N Lumbar zygapophysial joint pain In: Classification of Chronic Pain; Descriptions of Chronic Pain Syndromes and Definition ... outcomes The number of joints involved was as follows: joints were involved in 70% of the patients and joints were involved in 30% of the patients Bilateral involvement was seen in 79% of the patients ... spinal painPain Physician 2009; 12: 699-802 Manchikanti L, Boswell MV, Singh V, et al Comprehensive review of neurophysiologic basis and diagnostic interventions in managing chronic spinal pain...
... guideline effects for chronic low back pain and incidence of new episodes of care, which also could be tracked in ongoing monitoring of low back pain care Hypotheses regarding chronic low back pain ... guideline (VHA/DoD, 1999) The Practice Guideline for Low Back Pain The principal emphasis of the DoD/VA low back pain practice guideline is on acute low back pain, which is defined as low back pain ... Medications Within Six Weeks of Initial Low Back Pain Encounter Baseline Percentages of Acute Low Back Pain Patients Prescribed Narcotic Medications Within Six Weeks of Initial Low Back Pain Encounter...
... neuropathic pain had interfered with their sleep It consists of a single-item with an 11-point numerical rating scale, ranging from (pain does not interfere with sleep) to 10 (pain completely interferes ... for assessing painin adults In Handbook ofpain assessment Edited by: Turk DC, Melzack R The Guilford Press, New York; 1992:135-151 Max MB: Neuropathic pain syndromes In Advances inpain research ... single item with an 11-point numeric self-administered rating scale ranging from (no pain) to 10 (worst possible pain) At the end of the baseline phase, a mean of the daily pain scores was calculated;...
... Hisamuddin NAR and Suhailan M: Evaluationof the diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative cardiodetect®® test kit in diagnosis of ami within 12 hours of onset of chest painin the ... http://www.intjem.com/content/4/1/67 Page of Figure Flow chart of the study 24 h of onset of chest pain Figure shows the initial ECG findings in the ED The majority of patients (72.5%) in this study ... within 12 h of chest pain had AMI (group 2) Five of the 13 patients (38.4%) had AMI in the group of patients who turned up after 12 h but within 24 h of chest pain (group 3) Finally, one of the...
... modulated pain inhibition (from the trigger points) or centrally mediated pain inhibition, or both Table 4: Pre and post injection changes in PPT, all measurements taken within minute of the final injection ... with shoulder painof myofascial origin [10] In contrast, Curatolo et al, in a study of chronic whiplash patients, reported that anesthetic infiltration of painful or tender points did not alter ... clinical application in the contemporary evaluationof treatment success in chronic neck pain patients Figure post injection subjective pain level Pre and Pre and post injection subjective pain...
... WAD may be an expression ofpain inhibition from soft tissue injury and painful muscle spasm without pathology of the spine Thus, injections of Botox® to trigger points in superficial neck muscles ... decrease inpain and increase in cervical ROM,[8] with similar effect of short duration from injections of local anesthetic to myofascial trigger points in the neck [12] While rarely a definitive ... with representing no pain and 10 representing the most severe pain the subject had ever felt Using the same scale, participants also rated their painin relation to a typical day during the previous...
... long-term antinociceptive effects of HA preparations, namely the repetitive induction of short-lasting pain states in the joint by the injection of bradykinin, combined with prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) ... significant change in pain- related behavior as assessed employing different methods (see effects of saline and morphine injections) Although in principle, such models, mainly using bradykinin alone, have ... assessed 120 minutes after injection was obtained (Figure 1a) Injection concentrations of 0.25 μg of bradykinin or higher further induced transient licking of the injection side In addition, concentrations...
... canulation pain was graded using a 4-point scale: 0–3, where 0= no pain, 1= mild pain, 2= moderate pain and 3= severe pain, and visual analog scale of 0–10, where 0=no pain and 10= worst imaginable pain ... maneuver during spinal needle projection reduces the severity of spinal needle puncture pain During valsalva maneuver intrathoracic pressure increases This increase results in compression of the vessels ... attenuating venipuncture pain was evaluated Pain was self-reported by a pain face scale with a 10-cm visual analog scale (VAS) placed at its back, where 0=“no pain and 10 = “worst imaginable pain ...
... also in CRL tests we can observe a continuous increase of pore water pressure Unification of description of pore water pressure distribution in the course of CL tests is obtained by means of introducing ... course of the CCL–TCL curve depends only on the model of loading increase 403 (Fig 5F) One curve characterizes every CRL test independently of the rate of loading We obtain other curves while the increase ... Constantly increasing (CI) distribution In this case the CCL value increases constantly which is related to a rapid increase of the t(T = 1) value in the course of the test After changing the co-ordinate...
... underlying the language teaching, and language teaching methods play a major role in determining the syllabus to be adopted Theory of learning also plays an important part in determining the kind of ... natural sequence of language learning i.e Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing It ensures the active participation of learner in teaching Learning-process It is a natural way of learning the target ... teaching methods will be required/ used for teaching a language and teaching physical sciences Even in case of learning a language, the four main skills i.e listening, speaking, reading and writing...
... in Viet Nam MCST Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism IS Information System IT Information Technology M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment MOF Ministry of Finance ... computers in the system at the same point of time - Ability of integrating into email system to destroy virus - Capacity of files, database and Operation System scan - Ability of integrating into ... capacity in project is the lack of good operation of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) In addition to that, one of the most important factors affecting effectiveness of M&E is the support of Information...