... 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 ... data analysis and interpretation and produced the initial manuscript draft All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... for inclusion of co-variates in subsequent multivariate analysis On the basis of their statistically significant association with SMI on bivariate analysis, we used employment, education, and...
... ANCOVAs Statistical analysis All statistical tests were carried out using the Statistical Package forthe Social Science (SPSS), version 15.0 for Windows Data analysis was conducted in three phases ... and analyzed the data YPL supervised the study YCK analyzed the data further and wrote the final manuscript YPL helped to draft and revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the paper ... of cognition and the clinical course ofthe disease Conclusions In summary, the present study showed that the variance of demographic and clinical characteristics inschizophreniaspectrum disorders...
... Araya Godoy and Paulina Toledo Carrasco for their assistance in primary data cleaning and analyzing, and translation ofthe manuscript References b) The criteria adopted for including associations ... data collection CMC was a methodologic consultant, assisted with data analysis and interpretation, and participated in manuscript editing All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional ... Additional material Additional file Variables associated with QOL in family caregivers of patients with schizophreniaThe table shows the variables associated with QOL in family caregivers of patients...
... interrogated forthe presence of mutations conferring resistance to antiviral drugs The prompt availability of this information is important for initiating an appropriate treatment and forthe tracing ... all NA subtypes of influenza A viruses from a range of Mammalian and Avian species The sequence information obtained can be helpful in determining the origin ofthe influenza virus and can be interrogated ... representation of 3,337 available sequences inthe 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...
... We also thank Apath, 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 ... pro-drug The carboxylic acid ester moiety contained inthe 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 ... report that ARB inhibits acute and chronic HCV replication independently of activation of innate antiviral signaling pathways Instead, we show that ARB antiviral activity towards HCV is due to a direct...
... 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 ... appears to have greater precision than a SF-36-based mapping function One ofthe greatest advantages ofthe diseasespecific mapping function is that it uses data generally available in clinical ... isa self administered instrument If an individual lacks the insight to appreciate health related quality of life impacts (lack of insight into disease effects is common in schizophrenia) , Page...
... i.e., the previous value ofthe integral I(z) and the image M(z), which take into account the value ofthe fundamental pressure at a distance z Inthe kernel, the sums and multiplications have ... 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 ofthe ... which is an extension ofthe FFTW library Defining p1 and p as 3D real images and P and P as complex means the dimension ofthe complex image can be halved and also the computation time in both the...
... Jiang and Walrand [21], and Marbach and Eryilmaz [22] in similar settings but for systems that have a single common channel The main goal inthe single channel case is to tune backoff timers of ... set with a binary vector that has afor each node included inthe set, and afor each ofthe remaining nodes Hence convex combinations of independent sets are defined accordingly bThe parameter ... by other sessions If thereis 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...
... characterize the mainlobe ofa beam In [18], a beamforming model having a flat mainlobe and a flat sidelobe is developed The width ofthe mainlobe and the height ofthe sidelobe are calculated based ... This is due to the increase ofthe processing gain ofthe DS/FH system The impact of spreading gain is shown in Figure 10 It is seen that increasing the spreading gain improves the outage performance ... as ISM band, beamforming is expected to play an important role Beamforming uses arrays of antennas to control the RF radiation pattern When receiving a signal, beamforming can increase the gain...
... study and compare the performances ofthe optimal OSA approach and the fixed STR approach inthe case that the idle period is uniform distribution According to Corollary 2, the optimal OSA approach ... the TLOSA approach is optimal OSA approach In simulation, we generate the channel-usage patterns using generalized Pareto distribution random number generator in MATLAB and the following parameters: ... optimal OSA approach and that of TFOSA approach caused by sensing errors are about 2%, and spectrum holes utilization of optimal OSA approach is still better than that of TFOSA approach In (b),...
... is applied assuming that players can reliably forecast the behavior of other players and that they believe that the other player can the same For this reason, the key point in this setup isthe ... Power allocation strategies ofthe Stackelberg game in which cases exist depending on the variables β1 and β2 The X1 axis depicts the strategy space forthe leader (p1 ) Finally, assume that < ... approach, a hierarchical game is examined where the primary operator isthe leader and the secondary operator isthe follower, wherein their sum-rates are further improved compared to the water-filling...
... “Budgeting” agent can adjust “monetary budget” for each user such that a certain fairness is achieved inthespectrum market; for example, every user obtains the same utility value, which is also a ... allocator’s linear program for balancing utilities, where λ isthe dual variable Again, we have a characterization theorem ofa competitive equilibrium that balances individual utilities Theorem 4.4 Every ... obtaining higher individual utilities in CE than in NE the average cross-interference ratio is not above or it is less than the self-interference ratio (always normalized to 1) In all simulated...
... Michael L Levy Chapter Autism SpectrumDisordersin Iran 167 Mohammad-Reza Mohammadi, Maryam Salmanian and Shahin Akhondzadeh Chapter 10 Part Chapter 11 Autism SpectrumDisordersin Africa 183 ... pragmatic aspects indicates the mutual influence of different aspects of language Therefore, the language diagnosis must take all these aspects into account The fact that the grammatical variables ... desirable But the analysis ofthe correlations between grammatical, lexical and functional aspects of language offers information to the determination of individual profiles of abilities and inabilities...
... Sp(M(H)) The spectra Sp(M(G)q ) and Sp(M(H)q ) are indeed of no use in distinguishing G and H if these graphs have diameter Given a graph G, since the matrix U(G) is real-orthogonal, the support of ... described inthe paper References [1] A Ambainis, Quantum walks and their algorithmic applications, quant-ph/0403120 [2] A E Brouwer, Strongly regular graphs, in: The CRC Handbook of Combinatorial Designs ... 1 Introduction Graphs are often conveniently represented using matrices, for example, the adjacency matrix, the Laplacian matrix, etc [5] Many important properties ofa graph are encoded in the...
... values, 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 ... days of hospitalization at the end of each ofthe 12 months post initiation indicated that the average number of hospitalization days forthe RIS-treated patients was 1.4 to 2.1 times that ofthe ... because information about Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2004, patients' clinical status was unavailable at the time of initiation on the...
... 60% of patients with schizophrenia and 30% of controls have binge eating symptomatology ation and maintenance ofthe WG phenomenon observed in at least part of patients with schizophrenia Finally, ... BMI fora comparison between individuals with high and average weight Participants gave informed consent and local Ethical Committee approval was obtained forthe study Design and measures The ... local advertising 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...
... Scale) – A Scale for Measuring and Quantifying Disability in Mental Disorders Chennai: Indian Psychiatric Society; 2002 American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ... Assessment of Psychiatric Disability (SAPD), which has been standardized inthe Indian population Statistical analysis Data was analyzed using SPSS v 12 [27] Data were checked for normality using the ... Srinivasan L, Thara R, Tirupati SN: Cognitive dysfunction and associated factors in patients with chronic schizophrenia Indian J Psychiatry 2005, 47:139-143 Ananthanarayanan CV, Janakiramaiah N, Gangadhar...