... more clinical and statistical cohesive set together rather than existing as separate scales For the same reasons, three domains (physical comfort, technical aspects of care, coordination of care) ... could also be generated that could discriminate amongst those who rate the care as excellent Rasch analysis in particular can aid the selection of these additional items Rasch analysis can also ... study including the design and coordination All authors contributed tothe interpretation of data and writing ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests...
... hypoproteinemia and hypoalbuminemia The inflammatory nature of these alterations can be hypothesized, since the oral administration of budesonide prevents these early exudative changes [66] The acute inflammatory ... lymphatic vessels but are most prominent immediately beneath the epithelial surface ofthe skin and inthe mucosa ofthe genitourinary, respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts, the latter having ... also act inthe vascular endothelium as a stress stimuli, generating a inflammatory response [63] If it is considered, inthe case of portal hypertension, that thereis an endothelial inflammatory...
... implies a change inthe net stock of overseas assets, and the private balance implies a change in net private wealth As thereisa limit tothe extent to which stocks of debt can be allowed to rise ... balances must always sum to exactly zero, no single balance is more a residual than either ofthe other two Each balance has a life of its own, and it isthe level of real output that, with minor ... rise relative to GDP, thereisa corresponding limit tothe extent to which the financial balances can (be allowed to) fluctuate, implying that the ratios of stocks to GDP have norms that can sometimes...
... behaviour inthe fact that these indicators are much easier tomeasureIn addition, conventional methods have the advantage of being investment evaluation settings Their major drawback of evaluation ... the amount of relationships since firms have the help of sophisticated information systems and data warehouses been able to manage a great deal of data The challenge isto capture and measure soft ... Skandia Navigator (Edvinsson and Malone, 1997) Value Chain Scoreboard (Lev, 2002) Description ofmeasure Sets of human capital indicators are collected and bench-marked against a database Similar to...
... day To this, an internationalization strategy was adopted with the aim of expanding sales incountries such as Germany, France and the UK This phase saw the obtaining of specific improvements in ... with a very open vision of work and a certain tolerance of mistakes One ofthe main factors explaining the culture ofthe firm is its belonging tothe MCC, which is composed ofa set of co-operatives ... Irizar Brazil and Irizar Mexico, with a shareholding in International Hispacold, all to be able to service the growing demand in these markets At the same time, a systematic application of KM was...
... ofthe MMP family isthe hallmark of several inflammatory disorders, including arthritis MMP-9, in particular, has been implicated inthe degradation and damage of articular cartilage in RA and ... Yoshihara Y, Nakamura H, Obata K, Yamada H, Hayakawa T, Fujikawa K, Okada Y: Matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in synovial fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis ... surprising since the levels of MMP-9 in SF have been shown to vary according to several factors, such as the disease state, the local concentration of inflammatory cytokines, and the number of infiltrating...
... existing guidelines for monitoring the physical health of adults with SMI [33] Training topics include ascertainment of CVD risk factors; monitoring these risk factors in an SMI population; learning ... (ATLAS.ti Scientific Software Development GmBH, Berlin, Germany), a qualitative data management software [58], will be used to manage and analyze all qualitative data Quantitative analysis All ... estimated rate to assess the precision that can be achieved by the proposed sample size Margin of error is half the width ofa confidence interval of an estimator The smaller the margin of error, the...
... it isin fact a complex process involving many individuals The tool itself is organized into four general areas of assessment Acquire: can your organization find and obtain the research findings ... while maintaining consistent terminology and meanings The organizational response rate was low This was due to several factors, including the short time frame available for the study and competing ... central interest to them Nevertheless, there was a strong feeling among these participants that the tool generated a lot of useful discussion because it raised awareness of what to consider in using...
... it isin fact a complex process involving many individuals The tool itself is organized into four general areas of assessment Acquire: can your organization find and obtain the research findings ... while maintaining consistent terminology and meanings The organizational response rate was low This was due to several factors, including the short time frame available for the study and competing ... central interest to them Nevertheless, there was a strong feeling among these participants that the tool generated a lot of useful discussion because it raised awareness of what to consider in using...
... and the CGISCH and inthe further improvement ofthe BPRS as a diagnostic scale Acknowledgements The authors wish to acknowledge Katsuji Nishimura, Takao Kanai, Ken Inada and Kaoru Sakamoto for ... and evaluating the results ofthe statistical analysis In addition, all authors read and approved the final version ofthe manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no ... list of symptoms The quality ofthe clinical chart is notoriously variable, so there may exist errors and distortions from missing symptoms and falsely rating symptoms as absent when reviewing...
... physiological and management factors [2], e.g milking frequency, and it is reasonable to assume that the SCC peaks after a stop in an AMS are related to changed conditions inthe udder due tothe PMI The ... h All other analyses and preparations of smears for PMN counting were performed within h Statistical analysis Data of milk SCC, PMN, fat, protein and lactose were used inthe statistical calculations ... casein and FFA which were analyzed in afternoon milk only, the total output per milking was used The data were analyzed using the Mixed procedure with repeated measure ANOVA (Analysis of Variance)...
... Achieving brand awareness Aaker (1991) prescribed some ofthe following factors as ways to achieve brand awareness: • Involve a slogan or jingle: a slogan isa visible feature ofa brand There can ... measurement of brand equity because ofthe necessity in today’s marketplace to develop, maintain and use product branding to acquire a certain level of competitive advantage According to Ailawadi ... restaurants, but attaining this objective is not always an easy task due tothe fact that the products and services of many fast food restaurants are similar and their means of distributions are...
... GACANNNNNNNNNNNNNNTGRTATAATNNNNAA GTAATAAAATATTCGGAGGAATTTTGAAATGAATA AACGTGTAAAAATCG-3¢) (N ¼ A, T, G, C) and pykback (5¢-CTCTACATGCATTTCAACAATAGGGCCTG TC-3¢) for amplification of pyk The resulting PCR products, ... result in equal amounts of formate and acetyl-CoA and the resulting acetyl-CoA is then metabolized into equal amount of ethanol and acetate to maintain the redox balance Discussion In this study ... Metabolic control analysis has helped us to characterize the role ofthe individual genes in an operon and, to some extent, explain why L lactis may benefit from thewayin which the las operon is...
... coordinated the study, participated in data cleaning and data analysis, and was the lead author on this paper ED performed data cleaning and data analysis SM contributed to data analysis, writing of ... research provides valuable quantitative information demonstrating the critical role that Indian generic pharmaceutical manufacturers play inthe global treatment of HIV/AIDS in developing countries ... obligations for India can increase ARV prices, impede the development of acceptable dosage forms, and delay access to newer and better ARVs Such measures can undermine the international goal to achieve...
... method Angiotensin I and II were measured with a rat angiotensin I and II EIA kits (Phoenix Pharmaceuticals, USA) according tothe manufacturer’s instructions Urine was assayed for creatinine by a ... once per week at the same time during the day After the stabilization ofthe animals in o a warm box at 37 C for 15 min, the tail systolic blood pressure was measured with a non-invasive blood ... product in protein metabolism and is excreted inthe urine via the kidney, the BUN level is important inthe evaluation of renal function Although urinary creatinine unexpectedly increased in control...
... prognostic value as thereisa direct statistical association with the development of distant metastases in all invasive carcinomas, the subgroup of invasive ductal carcinomas and inthe node negative ... carcinomas [9] But the labelling index of cyclin D1 correlated with the pathological stage ofthe disease in invasive lobular carcinomas but not in invasive ductal carcinomas Another study evaluated ... spread and vascular invasion with distant metastases free survival (MFS) in all invasive carcinomas and the subgroup of IDC in an univariate analysis However, there was no significant association...
... much ofthe research associate the glutamatergic systems with learning and memory; the GABAergic (γaminobutyric acid) system inthe basolateral amygdala, is also involved inthe acquisition and ... in mice is associated with a reduction of extracellular GABA levels inthe amygdala indicative ofa reduced GABA release and/or increased GABA uptake from the extracellular space Clinical studies ... show that AMPA antagonists attenuate acoustic startle response when administered into the amygdala For instance, Khan and Liberzon [20] demonstrated that topiramate reduced significantly the acoustic...
... used as the challenge strain, but a large amount ofthe materials was limited to obtain The suckling mice passaged virus was used here as challenge strain to solve the problem Comparatively, the ... post vaccination) and 28 dpv to assay the antibody against FMDV serotype O using a standard LPB-ELISA (Liquid phase blocking-ELISA) Table Data for calculating PID50 Virus dilution Number of pigs ... 50 was calculated according to Karber method The experiment was repeated for the dilutions 10-5 to 10-8 The PID50 was calculated to be 6.5 The data were shown in Table The repeated data were the...
... linkage analysis in complex human diseases has seen a shift in emphasis away from linkage analysis and microsatellite markers towards SNP genotyping and different analytical strategies based on association ... determination of asthma and associated traits is very large [11,12] Thereis now an extensive and growing list of candidate genes investigated with regard to traits associated with asthma and atopy ... Several useful SNP databases are available on the World Wide Web (see Table 1); these databases are constantly updated and are growing rapidly However, the data contained in them are far from infallible...