interim report from a pilot study pdf

... excursions for reaching phase from rawdata in Matlab software Statistical analysis Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences, 11.0) Descriptive statistics ... markers were replaced and subject was tested a second time Data analysis and raw data handling After the recording process, each of the markers were identified in Qualisys Track Manager and reviewed ... the study and gave their consent before entering the study camera camera camera camera Research set-up and procedure A standardized test protocol was developed by testing a range of different marker...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... Co-Investigator, Research Study Coordinator Ligia Kiss Data Analysis (Quantitative) Joelle Mak Data Entry Johna Hoey Data Entry, Policy Analysis Kathleen Weneden Data Analysis (Qualitative) Charlotte Watts Co-Principal ... were made to determine contact details and eligibility status Following the initial invitation letter, a follow-up phone call was made and if participation was agreed upon, a face-to-face meeting ... interview Study Instrument and Translation The study questionnaire was developed in collaboration with SRC and translated into 11 languages The women were asked about: abuses prior to arrival in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... collection and analysis RGC contributed data analysis and writing MAZ provided guidance on using SF-10 for Children TM related to data collection and analysis TK managed the database and did data entry ... Services and the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Health Plan Employer Data Information Set (HEDIS 3.0) to evaluate the quality of care that is provided in managed care plans and other health ... data to calculate BMI, 12 (6.3%) were classified as "underweight" and were excluded from analyses SAS 9.1 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) was used for all statistical calculations Summary statistics...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... contacts with therapists in minutes multiplied by salary Therapists’ salaries were calculated by estimating the average salary for clinical social workers and psychologists in the VA Annual salaries ... primarily used t or F tests in an analysis of variance (ANOVA) context We used rank correlations to evaluate the relationship among pairs of variables All tests were two-sided, and statistical ... (baseline and study end) coming from the same person We initially compared conditions (facilitated versus control) in an ANOVA, treating matched pairs as a random effect When the variance among pairs...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... were translated from English into Xhosa and Afrikaans by a back-translation process After session participants also rated ‘Taking Control’ for acceptability, satisfaction, credibility, length and ... Tumbahangphe K, Tamang S, Thapa S, Shrestha D, Thapa B, Shrestha JR, Wade A, Borghi J, Standing H, Manandhar M, Costello AM, members of the MIRA Makwanpur trial team: Effect of a participatory intervention ... 108:159-164 54 Tripathy P, Nair N, Barnett S, Mahapatra R, Borghi J, Rath S, Rath S, Gope R, Matho DSR, Lakshminarayana R, Patel V, Pagel C, Prost A, Costello A: Effect of a participatory intervention...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... patients and performed data analysis and wrote the draft of the manuscript, MPP carried out the data base of collected data and helped in the data and statistical analysis, OB and FB and RC carried ... measures IFN-gamma mean ± SE was calculated The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare continuous variables, and Chi square or McNemar tests were used for categorical variables Analysis was carried ... treatment in Gambian tuberculosis cases BMC Infect Dis 2006, 6:66 Lalvani A, Nagvenkar P, Udwadia Z, Pathan AA, Wilkinson KA, Shastri JS, Ewer K, Hill AV, Mehta A, Rodrigues C: Enumeration of T...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... in a treatment questionnaire (see below) and via a telephone call made by the RA to the new treating clinician asking about attendance at appointments and medication adherence These treatment adherence ... post-discharge We also aim to identify what participants want from a peer support program at this time If the program proves effective and acceptable to participants, we aim to develop a treatment manual to ... training in managing clinical aggression, Mental Health First Aid Training [24] and suicide risk management training (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)) [25] In addition a...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning J MacQueen 1967 Some methods for classification and analysis of multivariate observations In Proceedings ... on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP Theresa Wilson, Paul Hoffmann, Swapna Somasundaran, Jason Kessler, JanyceWiebe, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Ellen Riloff, and Siddharth Patwardhan 2005 ... close as illustrated in Table On average we note that the gold data has the number of classes per thread to be roughly 2-5 Data We use data from two online forums - Create Debate [CD]2 and discussions...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... neglect Apraxia (++) Mild neglect Aphasia (1) Apraxia(++) Aphasia (2) Apraxia(++) Mild neglect Aphasia (1) nil Apraxia(++) Aphasia (3) nil Aphasia (3) Aphasia (5) Abreviations: M = male, F = female, ... Haaland KY, Schaefer SY, Knight RT, Adair J, Magalhaes A, Sadek J, Sainburg RL: Ipsilesional trajectory control is related to contralesional arm paralysis after left hemisphere damage Exp Brain ... Box and Block (p = 0.25) or Barthel Index (p > 0.99) Symptoms such as aphasia, apraxia and neglect were also noted (Table 1) Aphasia was scored according to the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... excursions for reaching phase from rawdata in Matlab software Statistical analysis Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences, 11.0) Descriptive statistics ... markers were replaced and subject was tested a second time Data analysis and raw data handling After the recording process, each of the markers were identified in Qualisys Track Manager and reviewed ... the study and gave their consent before entering the study camera camera camera camera Research set-up and procedure A standardized test protocol was developed by testing a range of different marker...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... interval was the measured variable Statistics Means and standard deviations were calculated for age, height and mass and for the dependant variables derived from the functional assessment, quadriceps ... task was recorded at two cadences Initial cadence was at self-selected speed as described by Pollo et al [15] to familiarize and warm-up Three trials were performed at maximal speed and average ... imbalance and joint instability Berman et al [25] reported that patients with near normal quadriceps strength at minimum of years after surgery had a more normal gait Silva et al [27] Page of measured...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... companies are pushing analytical instrumentation manufacturers to create and provide analytical equipment that can monitor both the traditional and non-traditional gases at frequencies as high as ... information’s European manufacturers - AVL Maha Rototest Rotronics Austria Germany Sweden France Manufacurers from USA - Dynomite (Land&Sea) Dynojet Mustang Superflow Powertest, Maxwell USA USA USA ... important things is that the test data has to be managed in a safe way, from the car producer point of view, and that the data will be available to the car producer shortly after the performed measurements...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 03:20

... silvicultural operation 2.2 Data evaluation In order to test the reliability of the data, an evaluation was carried out at several levels First, a questionnaire was submitted to the local forest ... there really were When the date of marking was compared to the stage of the attacks, it was observed that trees were often marked only when attacks became detectable from a distance, when the bark ... not answer the third question In this study, the attack levels are overestimated, 480 A Franklin et al as more trees are cut than are actually infested The reliability of data could probably...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... follow-up examinations, and contributed to data analysis and editing the manuscript JBM contributed to data analysis and editing the manuscript KAC oversaw the administration of radiation therapy to ... ameliorates bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis in hamsters J Lab Clin Med 1995, 125(6):779-785 Garcia L, Hernandez I, Sandoval A, Salazar A, Garcia J, Vera J, Grijalva G, Muriel P, Margolin S, Armendariz-Borunda ... to the patients, conducted follow-up examinations, and contributed to data analysis and drafting the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final version of this manuscript Acknowledgements...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... (1), squamous cell carcinoma (1) and adeno/squamous cell carcinoma (1) Four patients were stage IIIB and one was stage IV at the time of the diagnosis The patients’ characteristics are summarized ... diagnosis and almost months from de second dose of immunotherapy Data are presented in Table Two individuals had partial response to the conventional therapy, while three had a stable disease All ... 2Hemocentro, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil 3Laboratory of Investigative and Molecular Pathology-CIPED, Faculty of Medical Sciences, UNICAMP - Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Perroud et al Journal...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... compare the means (T1 vs T2) for all patients, as well as for each treatment group at T1 In each group, changes in cognitive and clinical scores were analyzed using an analysis of variance (ANOVA) ... between that reached statistical significance, they were entered as covariates in these analyses Pearson correlations were calculated among the clinical, treatment, and outcome variables at T1 and ... distributed under Ltd Psychiatry Access article References Daban C, Martinez-Aran A, Torrent C, Tabarés-Seisdedos R, BalanzaMartínez V, Salazar-Fraile J, Selva-Vera G, Vieta E: Specificity of cognitive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... per treatment arm based on a two-sample t-test and alpha level 0.05 As sputum neutrophils appear to be only weakly associated with clinical parameters such as FEV1, exacerbation rates and quality ... Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, CIPLA, Novartis Forest, MSD, Boehringer and Allmiral LE and RT are employees of GSK SR has consulted or participated in advisory boards for: Able Associates, Adelphia ... Otsuka Authors' contributions DS was involved in study design and data interpretation, and drafted the manuscript LE was the lead for statistical analysis RT was involved in study design and data...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... of a larger study on management and insurance Egenvall et al Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2010, 52:50 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/52/1/50 outcome indicate that summer rest at pasture ... initiated the study CL, AE and LR designed the study CJ and LR performed the clinical examinations AE and CL recorded the data AE performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All ... exaberate an existing orthopaedic condition was deemed too large Movement and conformation evaluation, clinical examination- orthopaedic palpation and standing flexion tests The clinical examinations...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... of days that subjects were bothered by their lower back, as reported on a weekly basis Data analysis Data were transmitted from a spread sheet to STATA 10.1 (StataCorp, Texas, USA) When answers ... local ethics committee which found that it did not need approval Clinical procedures Patients who agreed to participate had a standardised clinical examination and were assigned a mechanical diagnosis ... Spinal manipulative therapy for low back pain Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004:CD000447 Hayden JA, van Tulder MW, Malmivaara A, Koes BW: Exercise therapy for treatment of non-specific low back pain...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... 2001;41:604-5 Prakash S, Chavda BV, Mandalia H, Dhawan R, Padmanabhan D Headaches related to triptans therapy in patients of migrainous vertigo J Headache Pain 2008;9(3):185-8 Marcus DA, Furman JM Prevention ... Number Age Gender Aura/No Aura Diagnosis 32 39 37 Female Female Female Aura No Aura Aura Vertigo Vertigo Non-Vertigo 10 23 40 29 41 43 26 33 Female Female Female Female Female Female Female Aura Aura ... to acknowledge the technical assistance of Anita Lieb, Diana Ross, and Susan Strelinski, and statistical assistance from Dr Gregory Marchetti This study was funded by an investigator-initiated...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57