instrumental activities of daily living

... et al correlated quality of life with disability in activities of daily living (ADLs) [12] However, this relationship has not been specifically addressed in survivors of critical illness They ... Page of 10 Table SF12 Physical and Mental Component Scores and Activities of Daily Living at One Month and One Year Follow-up Interview Characteristic One Month One Year Any Impairment in Activities ... screening and treatment of depression Abbreviations QOL: quality of life; SF-12: short form 12-item health survey; SF-36: short form 36 item health survey; ADLs: activities of daily living; PCS: physical...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... subjective measurements of COPD than dyspnea at the end of exercise, and that the former was more predictive of mortality [11] Therefore, dyspnea while performing the activities of daily living is considered ... Dyspnea Index (BDI) was used to evaluate dyspnea with activities of daily living The relationship between the BDI score and the clinical measurements of pulmonary function was then investigated Results ... closely related to dyspnea with activities of daily living in patients with COPD? Koichi Nishimura1, Maya Yasui2 , Takashi Nishimura2 , Toru Oga3 AFFILIATIONS: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Rakuwakai...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... Comfort means having a “cushion” of cash A “comfort zone” describes an acceptable range of operations, instead of living by hard, fixed rules Family savings are part of the cushion (Xiao & Noring, ... display a range of activities designed to achieve the short-term goals Many of these activities have already been mentioned This theme will hold a significant role in the final framework Activities ... verbalized; rather it is shown in the activities of the respondents Those activities include false balances (when the account reaches a zero balance, a cushion of money still remains), multiple accounts,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2015, 08:34

... Table aAbsolute number of chest radiographs (% of all daily routine chest radiographs) bAbsolute number of patients (% of all patients with daily routine chest radiographs) of daily routine CXRs ... ultrasound of the thorax in case of pleural effusion on the CXR, start or change in medication (diuretics); insertion of a pleural drain; and repositioning of devices in the case of malposition of medical ... summarized in Table aAbsolute number of chest radiographs (% of all daily routine chest radiographs) bAbsolute number of patients (% of all patients with daily routine chest radiographs) -, not...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... vitro antimicrobial activities of the three kinds of Rice-fluid against various species of microorganisms including H pylori strains by the timekill-curve assay [14, 16] Every kind of Rice-fluid derived ... kind of Rice-fluid was proved to be devoid of bactericidal activity against strains of E coli, S aureus, S epidermidis, E faecalis and P aeruginosa, and strains of K pneumoniae and strains of K ... consisting of three kinds of Rice-fluid derived from the two kinds of raw rice; i e., polished (pH6.32) and unpolished (pH5.98), and the usually cocked rice (pH5.91), and remaining one compound of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:03

... Increasing enterprise profit is higher will lead salary as well as life of each worker is better Solutions to improve selling activities of Ha Trung JSC As is given the selling process of Ha trung has ... contribute to economic growth, sustainability of the environment, and a higher standard of living worldwide Inherently light weight, plastics are an efficient use of natural resources Plastic products ... 1,147 MT of both raw materials and finished products The plastic import value was $1,426mil, equal to four times of export value of $350 in 2005 In 2004, Vietnam exported only 10 percent of total...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 08:07

... competitiveness of an industry For the nation, competitiveness means the ability of the nation's citizens to achieve a high and rising standard of living In most nations, the standard of living is ... 0918.775.368 growth of the nation’s standard of living, the level and growth of aggregate productivity and the ability of the nation’s firms to increase their penetration of world markets through ... number of companies with capital of less than VND billion has accounted for 44.1%, of the total number of companies, employing less than ten workers accounting for 46.6% of the total number of workers...

Ngày tải lên: 22/04/2013, 15:35

... effectiveness of those activities - Recommending some solutions to enhance import activities Scope of this report: The scope of this report is about the real situation of import activities of Vietnam ... through the activities of the company in recent years that I researched during my internship period, I would like to make a report on: “Evaluation of the real situation of import activities of Vietnam ... controlling all business activities of the company such as ensuring profitability, growth and development of the entire company, achieving the objectives of the company on sales growth, profit, personnel...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2013, 09:11

... (2005) Overview of the Hydrology of the Mekong Basin Mekong River Commission, Vientiane, November 2005 73pp ISSN: 1728 3248 Socialist Republic of Vietnam [SRV] (2005) National Report of Disaster ... 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 and students go to schools ... data showing high 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... degree of the participation before the experiment of Class A O2: the degree of the participation at the end of the experiment of Class A O3: the degree of the participation before the experiment of ... goes for demanding challenges, high proficiency, top grades • Goal orientation: The learner is very aware of the goals of learning, or of specific learning activities, and directs his or her efforts ... students of the two former groups are often obstacles towards creating an encouraging learning environment Second, students’ knowledge including both knowledge of English proficiency and knowledge of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:35

... chapter) “Synthesis of Available Urban Slum Child Health Data”: summary of evidence of health status and main determinants of urban child health and a description of key characteristics of the health ... significance of urbanization with respect to the health of the poorest children living in the poorest settlements in cities The underlying purpose of this study is to support the design of effective ... 2025, the number of people living in urban areas in the developing world will double, from two billion to four billion Given the rapid pace of urban growth and huge numbers of people living in slums,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... value (e) of 1.49 · 105 M)1Æcm)1 at 407 nm for MP8 In the case of BSA, mol of MP8 were bound per mol of protein, whereas in the case of KLH, 22 mol of MP8 were bound per 100 000 g of protein ... function of time, between 350 and 550 nm Kinetic data were then obtained by measuring the absorbance at the maximum of absorption of the MP8–Fe(II)–RNO complex, as a function of time S-oxidation of ... consistent with the insertion of the MP8–Fe(II)–RNO complex into a hydrophobic pocket with no change of the Fe(II) spin state and no replacement of any of the two axial ligands of the iron, His18 or...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... different isoforms of LF and that, in addition to the three previously reported isoforms [9], one of which is LF RNase, further isoforms of this protein exist that possess other enzyme activities ... Cytotoxicity and apoptosis-inducing activities of LF Fig Enzyme activities of LF recovered by gel filtration on a TSK HW-55 column (A) Enzymatic activities of LF recovered by gel filtration on ... cancer cells [40] because of induction of apoptosis by multimeric a-lactalbumin We studied the effects of various subfractions of LF with catalytic activities on the growth of L929 (mouse fibroblasts)...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... health needs of key groups; – To stress the gender dimensions of the sexual and reproductive health of people living with HIV, and the The sexual and reproductive health of people living with ... reproductive health of people living with HIV involves a package of specific services Some of Much ill health and death around the world occur out of a lack these are driven by needs that people living with ... reviews of progress toward the Declaration of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Commitment on HIV/AIDS (‘UNGASS Declaration’) offer the Convention on the Rights of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... equation using a Km of 460 lM, a Vmax of 2.52 nmol PiÆminÆmg)1 and an offset of 0.1 nmol PiÆminÆmg)1 for SUR2A, and a Km of 41 lM, a Vmax of 0.73nmol PiÆminÆmg)1 and an offset of 0.05 nmol PiÆminÆmg)1 ... values of 995 and 878 lM, and Vmax values of 31 and 27 nmol PiÆmin)1Æmg)1 protein, respectively The dashed line is the average of the ATPase activities • of NBD1 and NBD2B Table ATPase activities ... The different activities of NBD2A and NBD2B could result from an inhibitory effect of the C-terminal 42 amino acids of NBD2B or a stimulatory effect of the equivalent amino acids of NBD2A To determine...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... consisted of a linker (Glc-Kdo2)-lipid A structure The phenotype of this mutant was examined to investigate the roles of different moieties of the LOS molecule in biological activities of the M ... biological activities have become apparent over years of extensive research and there is indication today that the outer membrane of gramnegative bacteria has some other biological activities, ... of cell surface charge and serum bactericidal resistance [8–13] Which component on the outer membrane of M catarrhalis contributes to the above-mentioned biological activities? Several OMPs of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... antibacterial? If so, may our knowledge of the vast amount of heparin-binding motifs be utilized for effective de novo synthesis of AMPs, or for the identification and purification of endogenous AMPs? Materials ... index expresses the level of antibacterial activity in relative terms [18] The activities of the peptides are also presented in radial diffusion units (RDU) [(diameter of clear zone in millimetres ... operated at 60 kV accelerating voltage Results Antimicrobial activities of peptides A series of cationic peptides (human sequences) of protein segments reported to have affinity for heparin (Table...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... benzotriazoles of the helicase activities of the enzymes from HCV, WNV, JEV and Suv3(D1–159), with use of a DNA substrate Helicase activity was determined as a function of increasing concentrations of the ... (IC50 of 1.5–5.5 lM) of the helicase activities of HCV, WNV and Suv3(D1–159), but not JEV The tetrachlorobenzotriazole TCBT is only a weak inhibitor of the HCV enzyme, and a moderate inhibitor of ... only in patents [25] During the course of random screening of a wide range of unrelated compounds in a search for lead inhibitors of HCV NTPase/helicase activities, it was noted that 4,5,6,7tetrabromobenzotriazole...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... the model of CSR in its publication, the Social Responsibilities of Business Corporations The model consists of three circles, the inner circle presents the core aim of making profit of organization, ... change the face of the country‟s economy However, what makes leaders Hacinco is proud of owning a team of highly qualified professional, including over 500 skilled workers and 30 key officials over ... US which is a group of business entities willing to contribute one percent of their annual profit to the social activities funds In France, France Télécom, RATP are examples of the companies raising...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... occured above 1.7 µM Cd The concentration of these 246 Figure Enzyme activities (mU g−1 FW) in leaves of Zea mays L cv Volga as a function of the logarithm of Cd concentrations in the leaves: (a–b) ... author reported a total inhibition of G6PDH activity in isolated preparations of this enzyme treated with Zn A review of existing data on the induction of enzymes of the intermediary metabolism by ... contents (mg m−2 ) of (a) chlorophyll A, chlorophyll B and (b) carotenoid in L4 of Zea mays L cv Volga in relation to the logarithm of Cd concentrations in the tissue, after two weeks of growth in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:22