... for activities such as occupational therapy and participation in the political, cultural and religious arenas In this way, health care professionals can encourage the residents to engage in activities ... manuscript and read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Analysis of covariance of each subscale of SF-36 (n = 227) with respect to SOC adjusted for sex, age group, marital ... sex, martial status, educational level), the variable length of stay was not statistically significant for any subscale Adjusted R2 was unchanged for mental health and vitality and slightly higher...
... data toa multicast address and the routers that receive the data send copies of the data to remote sites that are subscribed to the multicast address One drawback of multicast is that it is often ... reconstruct a missing packet The virtual representation ofa remote collaborator (avatar) is often captured as the position and orientation of the 3D tracking devices that are attached to the stereo- ... citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2004, 1:13 the remote collaborator (this often is referred toas an avatar); the video and/or audio channel (that facilitates face -to- face...
... diagram can cultivate lifelong learning habits in medical professionals Medical educators can also apply Ishikawa diagrams to facilitate problem-based learning when teaching medical students and ... Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, which has substantiated information about ovarian cancers and amenorrhea [8] In this way, continually organizing and updating information on an Ishikawa diagram ... relevant case reports and literatures are also indicated in the Ishikawa diagram so that readers can retrieve the case reports and relevant literatures easily The potential causes for secondary amenorrhea/oligomenorrhea...
... Mechanics department The questionnaire was designed to find out the role oftechnology on the motivation of EFL learners in language classes and to put forward some practical ideas in order to make ... training In the field of language education, a great deal of emphasis now focuses on using technology (IT) in ETL The application of ICT (Information and Communication technology) in the language ... - to investigate the teachers’ application oftechnology in order to find the advantages, disadvantages of the teachers in using technology in teaching English for freshman students of Mechanics...
... definitely a need for a robust data management solution of huge datasets in agent based simulation systems: data management tools are currently needed in agentbased simulation systems and database management ... solutions are a good way to handle and analyze big datasets Because a BI solution contains a data warehouse, integrated data tools (ETL, ExtractTransform-Load tools) and Online Analytical Processing tools ... additional features for data driven approach To solve the lack of database management tools in multi-agent based platform and the challenges of integration of data and analysis of the high volume of integrated...
... May Have Spurious Health Effects Next, a determinant (A) may appear to have a relation to health, but when an unmeasured second determinant (B) is assessed, determinant (A) may no longer have a ... 147-159) Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Tennant, C (1999) Life stress, social support and coronary heart disease Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 33, 636-641 Davidson ... cardiovascular disease: The Framingham Study Annals of Internal Medicine, 85(4), 447-452 Kaufert, P (1996) Gender asa determinant ofhealth (Paper prepared for the Canada-USA Forum on Women’s Health) ...
... understood As most amyloid-related diseases are correlated with advanced age, they are already becoming a major public health 5976 concern of the 21st century because ofa gradual increase in ... information of the role of aromatic moieties in amyloid fibril formation [36–41] A parameter-free model based on the mathematical analysis of many peptide fragments and their analogues had clearly ... (Fig 2A) , appeared to be extremely potent inhibitors of amyloid formation by Ab [52] Although the structural basis is not clear, one can reasonably speculate that interaction between the aromatic...
... scales and, where applicable, an exploration of the scales obtained in our sample, based on exploratory factor analysis The aim was to simplify and reduce the number of items of each scale according ... Garc a- Campayo J, Pascual A, Alda M, Marzo J, Magallón R, Fortes S: The Spanish version of the fibrofatigue scales: validation ofa questionnaire for the observer’s assessment of fibromyalgia ... Muñoz-Carreño (Hospital General, Guadalajara), R Queiró (Hospital General de Asturias, Oviedo), N Riestra (Hospital General de Asturias, Oviedo), M Salido (Clínica CLINISAS, Madrid), I Vallejo...
... societal demands into current management practices To assess the present and future options in managementof forests, one has to be aware of the historical context Shaped by the past, today’s ... area for leisure and relaxation Inhabitants of mountain regions see it as protection against natural dangers and asa tourist attraction Forest owners, farmers, and industry see it primarily as ... regulated forest uses in accordance with the demands and options of their times (Mantel 1990) As early as in 1295, a local rule of Landau (Palatina) provided that wood cut in the area be available...
... cell-based therapy, such as ACI [5], over marrowstimulation techniques, such as SD or microfracture Second, the authors describe two potential candidate factors to follow tissue maturation and healing: ... aimed at repairing articular cartilage, assist surgeons to select the appropriate procedure for any given patient, and post-operatively, allow an individualized determination of when it is safe ... evaluate the quality and maturation of reparative tissue will substantially advance the field of cartilage repair These tests would potentially enable investigators and industry to develop new...
... primary care doctor, a score for each construct in the TPB model was calculated as the mean of all items contributing to the construct Cronbach’s alpha was used to ascertain the reliability of each ... downloaded from the NHS Grampian laboratory information system This data are routinely collected and ascribed to the primary care practice and could not accurately be attributed to individual primary ... implication for statistical analysis was that some measure of practice-level psychological cognitions had to be derived An obvious summary measure is the mean cognition of the primary care doctors...
... produce maps The participant explained: 'I thought that's what this was for, was to build capacity with a small little agency to be able to upload their own participation data and create a map all ... analyst/manager dyads were asked to participate and four declined The reasons given for declining included vacancies in the data analyst position, and already having access toa commercial GIS tool Data ... mapping and existing mapping technologies, to address any other concerns of the analysts, and to collect a partial 'wish list' of what a web-based mapping tool would comprise Data analysts also...
... produce maps The participant explained: 'I thought that's what this was for, was to build capacity with a small little agency to be able to upload their own participation data and create a map all ... analyst/manager dyads were asked to participate and four declined The reasons given for declining included vacancies in the data analyst position, and already having access toa commercial GIS tool Data ... mapping and existing mapping technologies, to address any other concerns of the analysts, and to collect a partial 'wish list' of what a web-based mapping tool would comprise Data analysts also...
... factors at the same time, and therefore they can not be as rational as in the classical planning approach Moreover, a strategy is a way in which managers try to simplify and order a world that ... must measure what is strategically important As early as 1983, Kaplan wrote about how organizations could measure organizations’ performance He argued that the missing measurements are of the ... claiming that strategy is a rational process of deliberate calculations and analysis, designed to maximize long term advantage Careful planning is the key to mastering international and external environments...
... Khoo, Hooman Samani, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Dilrukshi Abeyrathna, Weiquan Lu, Kening Zhu, Elham Saadatian, Kasun Karunanayaka, , Shuang Yu, Haimo Zhang, Zhongyuan Zhang, Toni-Jan Keith Monserrat, Chen ... gaze, and speech [9] By augmenting their representational, sensory, and situational characteristics, interactants may be able to achieve levels of interaction that actually surpass face -to- face ... that may change the nature of social interaction [10] Interactants could selectively filter and augment the appearance, verbal and nonverbal behavior of their avatars, such as the facial expression,...
... step of leaving the practice and travelled to Vancouver Island in Canada to stay with close friends and to research and then formulate plans to set up a career consultancy business to support and ... LLP and affiliated entities Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Click on the ad to read more Creating your CV asa self marketing tool Types of CV Another area to pay particular attention to, ... the area of job searching In January 2004, Peak Career Consulting was launched and is now run asa family business with his wife Kathy Peak Career Consulting ofers a full range of services to...
... One approach to increase the duration of PNA binding to DNA is to conjugate it toa DNAalkylating reagent so that the PNA becomes covalently bound to its target sequence To this a DNA alkylating ... its ability to alkylate DNA and high micromolar concentrations of mitoDC-81 are sufficient to alkylate linear, circular and supercoiled DNA As these concentrations of mitoDC-81 are easily achieved ... it was important to determine if a 1-h incubation was sufficient to lead to detectable DNA labelling by mitoDC-81 To this, isolated plasmid DNA was incubated with various concentrations of mitoDC-81...
... of radioimmunoassay and a computer database application 57 T Tjiptosumirat, B.J Tuasikal, A. P Murni, N Lelananingtyas, S Darwati, A Ariyanto, F Yunita, G Mondrida, Triningsih, S Setyowati, ... to plan project activities and to train coordinators on the use of the AIDA (Artificial Insemination Database Application) database for recording, analyzing and interpreting field and laboratory ... averages, frequencies and percentages were calculated 2.5 AIDA Asia for evaluating fertility of bulls and performance of inseminators The Artificial Insemination Database Application for Asia...
... for analysis Were record-level data available, additional bias analysis would have been possible, including further analysis of classification errors and an analysis of modeling error An advantage ... method of Rothman and Boice [17] This reassessment yielded a pvalue (a measure of the strength of association as assessed by the trend) and a measure of the bias in the original trend (original slope ... bias analyses Source of potential error Bias parameters Assigned distributions Alachlor Bias Analysis number of incident cancer cases positive predictive value negative predictive value mismeasurement...
... primers, a lower strand primerACGATTTSAGTGCCTTCGTAGATG and a upper strand primer-CATCTACGAAGGCACTSAAATCGT Data were assembled using MacDNASIS and sequences were edited by manual comparison of overlapping ... sequenced As this target fragment of more species of DNA viruses are sequenced, BLAST and GenBank will prove to be a utilitarian software and database for virus diagnostic work that is readily available ... alignment of Ito and Braitwaite [1] and overlap regions designated as regions and by Villarreal et al [4] VanDevanter et al [5] used degenerate primers to the DNA polymerase gene of mammalian and avian...