glossary of common terms used in clinical research

... by low intensity walking and jogging routines [16] Participants were then taken through a series of rhythmic dancing and running routines that lasted about 30 minutes In the last 15 minutes, ... Limitations of the study Several limitations of this study should be noted Firstly, in the aerobic exercise training, participants were trained by instructors only once The exercise training of approximately ... relaxation training (10 minutes) on Japanese female medical co-workers indicated that salivary immunoglobulin A (s-IgA) levels in the relaxation group increased after relaxation training compared...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... consists of 40 items divided into categories of potential sources of stress: items representing interpersonal sources of stress, 16 representing intrapersonal sources of stress, representing academic ... "waiting long line", "change living environment" that were significantly greater in first year students The most commonly used coping strategies are going along with parent, praying, making one's ... University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Hochiminh city is the main Medical University for the South of Vietnam locating in HCM city Its responsibility is to train health profession in under graduate...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 03:36

... end of STN typical signals during intraoperative micro-recording In a prospective study of 17 patients, intraoperative stimulation-dependent autonomic side effects were reported in 19.6% of the ... observed during stimulation in an area of 3.2 × 4.6 × 2.4 mm and the calculated mean point was within the STN according to Talairach coordinates [16] Given the mean diameter of the STN of 2.5-2.5 ... as lack of initiation, apathy, social withdrawal, lability, moodiness, insensitivity and mania were also reported [5,9,11,15] In a recent article, apathy, defined as “lack of motivation, interest...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... instruments are now widely used in both clinical practice and research Increasingly the scales have been scrutinized by a mix of classical and modern psychometric approaches The purpose of the present study ... allowing cross loadings between factors or correlating errors The correlation of errors is a breach of local independence assumptions This requires that the indicators of a latent construct are independent ... aspects of a scale including the response format, the fit of individual items and persons, dimensionality, targeting, and the detection of item bias Testing for differential item functioning is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... sex Emerging Research Questions In terms of prevalence of disease across ethnicity and sex, research indicates increased incidence of CHD among people of South Asian origin Indians in particular ... ethnic and sex differences among Indians living in India, Indians living in Singapore, and Malays and Chinese living in Singapore as a comparison CVR has been studied in relation to differences across ... studied among Chinese and Indian men in Singapore to examine cardiovascular reactivity as a function of trait anger In a laboratory experiment, Bishop and Robinson (2000) obtained ratings of mood and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:57

... 100.a.mineral b.triangle b.honor b.struggle b.politician b.nation b.position b.opinion b.majority b.suggest b.employer b.criminal b.delicious b.concern b.discover b.neighbor b.interesting b.customer ... STRESS The endings which receive the stress: Oo : shampoo, kangaroo, yahoo… (cuckoo) Ee : employee, absentee, trainee,…(committee, coffee…) Oon : afternoon, cartoon,…(teaspoon) Eer : engineer, volunteer… ... b.window b.cooker b.advisor b.memory b.portrait b.chemical b.counter b.history b.tragedy b.cater b.anniversary b.belonging b.impervious b.introduce c.celebration c.supervisor c.computer c.investigate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2013, 01:27

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 14:20

... better And if aging robs my strength, mental alertness and physical stamina, I will offer those around me the strength of my belief, the depth of my love and the spiritual stamina of a soul that ... contentment; when my breath is shallow and weak, I will listen intently and sing out loudly wordless melodies of love from the bottom of my heart; and when the heavenly bright light approaches, ... that has been carefully shaped by the hard edges of a long life and numberless experience No matter what losses or broken dreams may lie in my destiny, I will meet each challenge with dignity and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 17:16

... English in forming grammatical endings, and in pronouncing of grammatical endings Vietnamese learners have difficulties in pronouncing suffixes showing grammatical meanings that are not 33 present in ... expresses something in present but not in the past According to Avery and Ehrlich (1992:55), in English, consonant clusters occur in the initial and final positions of words Initial clusters: Initial ... Fricative Consonant / / // in English -Spelling of //: In English, spelling of // is th in words as thank and mouth // can occur in the initial and the final position - Place of articulation: // is...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... the co researchers Thereafter the PI and the co researchers clustered the categories into emerging themes Triangulation of researchers was used to enhance the trustworthiness of the findings [26] ... Jordan Ministry of Health Research Ethics Committee in 2009 The confidentiality and autonomy of the participants was insured They were informed of the purpose of the study, the voluntary nature of ... of the risk of diminished femininity and husband’s rejection In all the FGDs, women associated breast cancer with fear of a distorted body image and loss of femininity because it inflicts a body...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... partner in the Old Firm, in terms of playing team, annual budget, stadium and merchandise profile Close links exist between the clubs’ marketing and planning personnel, in planning joint business ... significant For opposing groupings of fans, Manchester United is the ‘inauthentic creation of global capital’ (King, 1998: 17) The ‘othering’ of United operates as a means of displacing the powerlessness ... process of ‘inauthenticating’ United, of making them less significant, results in the opposite Manchester United become increasingly more significant and central within the popular football imagination,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 00:20

... 2.2 Amino Acids, Proline, and Amides It has been reported that amino acids (such as alanine, arginine, glycine, serine, leucine, and valine, the nonprotein amino acids citrulline and ornithine ... and the expression of a certain set of genes including the luminal binding protein gene BiP is induced The underlying mechanisms of UPR in yeasts and mammals have been well researched (Rutkowski ... osmolytes in plants subject to salt stress are GB, b-alaninebetaine, prolinebetaine, choline-O-sulphate, hydroxyprolinebetaine, and pipecolatebetaine (Ashraf and Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants:...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... protein)1, with unit of SOD activity being defined as the amount of proteins causing half-maximal inhibition of the rate of NBT reduction GST activity was assayed in the supernatant of cell lysates, ... quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal Biochem 72, 248–254 Prohaska, J.R & Ganther, H.E (1976) Selenium and glutathione peroxidase in developing rat brain J Neurochem ... maintenance of an appropriate redox environment [17,18] Analysis of q0 cells has provided insights into oxygen metabolism [13,17,19–21] and the role of mitochondria in redox signalling during...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... severe cases of banking distress during this era, Argentina in 1890 and Australia in 1893, were the exceptional cases; they suffered banking system losses of roughly 10% of GDP in the wake of real ... banking collapses in Japan and Scandinavia during the 1990s, and similar banking system debacles occurring in 140 22 developing countries in the last two decades of the 20th century, all of which ... fundamentals can explain the vast majority of U.S bank failures prior to 1933 has interesting implications First, it indicates that the influence of banking panics as an independent source of shock to...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... percentage of words ending in -ency which are morphologically related to words ending in -ent is much larger than the percentage of words ending in -ent which are related to words ending in -ency ... payoff may be marginal, especially if measured in short term savings in the size of the lexicon and memory costs The real value in the enterprise is more long term; I am betting that pushing ... predictable from the meanings of callous and ness than the meanings of variety, notoriety and curiosity are from the meanings of their parts The following list summarizes some of the differences between...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 17:20

... mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher For information contact: Chelsea House An imprint of Infobase ... following an accident, perhaps we can use those same tools to optimize the functioning of aging brains We already know many ways in which we can improve the functioning of the aging or injured brain ... building by very strong winds In fact, the first definition of stress in Webster’s New World Dictionary is “a strain or straining force, as in the force exerted upon a body that tends to strain...

Ngày tải lên: 03/05/2014, 18:12

... Principles of Statics P23 Calculate the magnitude, inclination and point of action of the resultant of the system of non-concurrent forces shown in Fig P.2.3 The coordinates of the points of ... 2.17(a) The point of intersection of the lines of action of F , and F2 is at infinity so that the parallelogram of forces (Fig 2.3(b)) degenerates into a straight line as shown in Fig 2.17(b) ... Properties of Engineering Materials 181 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 182 183 189 193 194 Classification of engineering materials Testing of engineering materials Stress-strain curves Strain hardening Creep...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 13:27

... especially in the field of embodied intelligence Autonomous walking machines are challenging systems because the coordination of many degrees of freedom has to be combined with a versatile set of external ... morphologies of walking animals are used as inspiration for the design The basic locomotion control of the walking machines is also created by determining the principle of animal locomotion In addition, ... they cause firing in the form of spikes (increasing the activation level of a neuron) or they can be inhibitory if they prevent the firing of the response (decreasing the activation level of a neuron)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 12:06