is schizophrenia a chronic illness the experience of developing countries

... change that decreases the burden on their physical health Rather than lack of motivation being a key factor in affecting physical health it appears that lack of awareness and a lack of prioritisation ... this analysis then provided us with a guide for inclusion of co-variates in subsequent multivariate analysis On the basis of their statistically significant association with SMI on bivariate analysis, ... include an additional final question related to the actualisation of behavioural change Participants were asked: whether they were concerned about the physical health risks arising from these lifestyle...

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... duration of illness, these factors were regarded as covariates in the ANCOVAs Statistical analysis All statistical tests were carried out using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS), ... Participants’ characteristics and clinical evaluations The average age of patients at the time of assessment was 39.24 years (standard deviation [SD] = 10.29), ranging from 19 to 60 years, and ... analysis of associations with clinical variables, the age of illness onset factor was dichotomised We chose 17 years of age as the cut-off for early-onset schizophrenia based on a recent international...

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... pay the publication, data management and the English translation of the draft We thank Alejandro Araya Godoy and Paulina Toledo Carrasco for their assistance in primary data cleaning and analyzing, ... was a methodologic consultant, assisted with data analysis and interpretation, and participated in manuscript editing All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional ... Fresán A, Apiquian R, Ulloa R, Loyzaga C, Garc a- Anaya M, Gutiérrez D: Ambiente familiar y psicoeducación en el primer episodio de la esquizofrenia: Resultados preliminares Revista Salud Mental 2001,...

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... representation of 3,337 available sequences in the NCBI database at the time the study was conducted All NA subtypes were aligned against the NA10R primer and analyzed for discrepancies at the 3'end The ... cultured samples) NA8F-M13 5'-GTA AAA CGA CGG CCA GT GRA CHC ARG ART CIK MRTG-3'- and NA10R-M13 5'-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG AC CCI IKC CAR TTR TCY CTR CA-3' or NA8F 5'-GRA CHC ARG ART CIK MRTG-3' and NA10R ... presence of mutations conferring resistance to antiviral drugs The prompt availability of this information is important for initiating an appropriate treatment and for the tracing and management of...

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... LLC, Francis Chisari, Michael Gale, and Takashi Wakita for reagents and technical advice, and Jessica Wagoner, and Michael Austin for technical assistance YSB was partially supported by the Fulbright ... [18] We also measured basal and IFN-α induced ISRE transcription, a measure activation of Jak-Stat pathway activation via the ISGF-3 transcription factor, which is a complex of Stat1-Stat2-IRF9 ... pro-drug The carboxylic acid ester moiety contained in the structure of ARB may be a substrate for hydrolysis in vivo that leads to the intracellular accumulation of ARB The fact that ARB displayed prophylactic...

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... easy to apply and appears to have greater precision than a SF-36-based mapping function One of the greatest advantages of the diseasespecific mapping function is that it uses data generally available ... statistical analyses, and drafted the manuscript MR participated in the design of the study, contributed to the analysis plan, and helped draft the manuscript CE performed statistical analyses and ... effects (akathisia, pseudo-parkinsonism, orthostatic hypotension, dyskinesia, and clinically important weight gain) and rated the states using a visual analog scale (VAS) followed by a standard gamble...

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... fundamental pressure at a distance z In the kernel, the sums and multiplications have to be computed for the z + dz position and then are saved for the calculation of the next Varray et al EURASIP ... GPU, whereas ASM is the more potential method to access to the fastest nonlinear propagation; thanks to the mathematical background which naturally decrease the computation time compare to finite ... nVIDIA This is an application programming interface that is used to create the parallel programming tasks, called kernels, which are executed on the GPU 3.1 Computation of P1 The evolution of the...

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... that is suitable for CSMA-based randomized channel access methods Although the original problem is convex, the re-parameterization is not, and local maxima of the latter problem are also characterized ... on a static basis: for example, a TV broadcast in the vicinity of a given session renders a number of channels unavailable for that session, while these channels may be available to far away ... by other sessions If there is such activity, then transmission is deferred, otherwise a packet is transmitted In either case, the channel is probed at a later instant under the same rules In the...

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... having a flat mainlobe and a flat sidelobe is developed The width of the mainlobe and the height of the sidelobe are calculated based on the first moment and the second moment of the real beam pattern ... partial-band interferer to a DS/FH signal is the same as a partial-band jammer to a spread spectrum signal The received power EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing of the jth partial-band ... interferers transmit bandlimited signals at high power and the performance of a spread spectrum signal is the same in the scenario of either AWGN or barrage interferers [24] If there are J1 barrage interferers...

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... (1) The spectrum holes utilization of optimal OSA approach is much better than that of TLOSA approach and converges to its theoretical value The collision probability of optimal OSA approach is ... 11 approach and that of TFOSA approach decrease almost linearly with the increase of the probability of sensing errors In plot (b), both collision probability of optimal OSA approach and that of ... study and compare the performances of optimal OSA approach, TLOSA approach, and fixed STR approach in the case that collision tolerable level σ = 0.02 In plot (a) , after the channel-usage estimate...

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... actions exists between players Backward induction [27] is applied assuming that players can reliably forecast the behavior of other players and that they believe that the other player can the same ... operators coexist in the same spectral band, what is the outcome of the game when a hierarchy exists between operators? How does this approach compare with the selfish approach (classical water-filling)? ... approach, a hierarchical game is examined where the primary operator is the leader and the secondary operator is the follower, wherein their sum-rates are further improved compared to the water-filling...

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... solve the market equilibrium and presents the computational results Finally, conclusions are made in the last section Mathematical Notations First, a few mathematical notations Let Rn denote the ... where λ is the dual variable Then, we have a characterization theorem of a competitive equilibrium that satisfies power demands Theorem 4.2 Every equilibrium of the discretized communication spectrum ... allocator’s linear program for balancing utilities, where λ is the dual variable Again, we have a characterization theorem of a competitive equilibrium that balances individual utilities Theorem 4.4 Every...

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... Forward Towards the Discovery of New Therapeutic Approaches 299 Bianca De Filippis, Emilia Romano and Giovanni Laviola Chapter 19 Impaired Sociability of the Balb/c Mouse, an Animal Model of Autism ... Sexual Abuse in Autistic Children as a Risk Factor of Developing of Schizophrenia 205 Piotr W Gorczyca, Agnieszka Kapinos-Gorczyca, Katarzyna Ziora and Joanna Oświęcimska Part Creativity, Psychiatry ... several options of tests and measures available to assess a few languages such as English, French and Spanish But all the other languages need specific tools and parameters and demand adaptations...

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... Graphs are often conveniently represented using matrices, for example, the adjacency matrix, the Laplacian matrix, etc [5] Many important properties of a graph are encoded in the eigenvalues of ... setting they describe is as follows Let {|j : ≤ j ≤ n} be an orthonormal basis of a Hilbert space (|j is a ray and i| is the linear functional which maps each |j to the usual inner product, which is ... Given a graph G, let us define the Hamiltonian H = − M(G )a, b c† cb , a where the operator c† cb is given by i|c† cb |j = δi ,a δb,j and M(G) is the adjacency matrix a a of G The evolution for a time...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... inconsistent data, claim duplicates, and unexpected missing values The SCAP database is similar to other administrative and pharmacy claims database, as it provides detailed information about patients' ... hospitals Measures of patient characteristics The BDCF and MRAF provided information on patients' demographic and clinical characteristics The current analysis compared the olanzapine (OLZ) and risperidone ... hospitalization days, one hospitalization day was added to each study patient This statistical approach is consistent with the literature [21] As this was a non-randomized study, it was necessary...

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... by AP drugs is not necessarily associated to obesity Due to this consideration, the threshold of BMI = 28 was chosen Data analyses Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 12.0 program The ... 60% of patients with schizophrenia and 30% of controls have binge eating symptomatology ation and maintenance of the WG phenomenon observed in at least part of patients with schizophrenia Finally, ... Results An initial exploratory analysis involved calculation of means and standard deviation for age, gender and BMI Differences between the groups were tested using Kruskall-Wallis nonparametric...

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