neurons in neighborhoods how purposeful participation in a community based intergenerational program enhanced quality of life for persons living with dementia
... Validation of the Individualised Neuromuscular QualityOfLifefor the USA with comparison of the impact of muscle disease on those livingin USA versus UK Reza Sadjadi, 1Kelly A Vincent, 2Alison ... “At the age of 72, my best way to maintain peace/comfort is with my good wife and prayer.” UK patient 22 DISCUSSION The results of this analysis show that the qualityoflife domains used by INQoL ... made up ofa variety of individual diseases each of which may each be rare It is reasonable to study them collectively as all MD may have common symptoms of weakness, fatigue, or pain and doing...
... sociodemographic, clinical, IVI and SF-36 data using univariate analyses of variance for continuous variables and multinomial logistic regression for categorical variables Functional and emotional domain ... HP: Multimodal imaging including spectral domain OCT and confocal near infrared reflectance for characterisation of outer retinal pathology in pseudoxanthoma elasticum Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci ... tissue disease leading to a broad range of complications such as disfiguring skin changes, mobility restriction, pain and gastrointestinal bleeding We felt that the impact of such a range of ailments...
... Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain 2Department of Psychiatry, Hospital del Henares, Coslada, Madrid, Spain 3BAP Health Outcomes Research, Oviedo, Spain 4Value Demonstration ... calculate a global score summarising the patient level in each of the eight domains A range of scores between (minimum impact) to 32 (maximum impact) was obtained This total score was also analysed ... JC and PR performed the statistical analyses All authors made meaningful contributions to data interpretation ALM, JC, and JM cowrote the final draft of the manuscript All authors read and approved...
... systems are undergoing major structural and financial changes Ongoing changes to cancer care include an increase in the complexity of cases, available treatment options and better informed patients ... dimensional scale with nine categorical answers (1: very high job satisfaction to 9: total job dissatisfaction) Data analysis The data analysis was carried out with the programme SPSS™ 14 for Windows ... better after completion of training Efforts to debunk the myth of "things getting better" early in training and instead emphasize the importance of developing balance and strategies for promoting...
... self-reporting and proxy-assessment of children’s health-related qualityoflife using KINDL-R ina large population based study in Germany and to identify factors which are associated with agreement ... population Agreement was evaluated at the individual level as well as at the group level For each qualityoflife dimension, we calculated the mean and standard deviation for the selfand proxy ratings, ... underestimate the qualityoflife The same applies if the parents report the state of health of their child not as very good Regarding the ‘Physical’ domain ofqualityof life, the chance of parental...
... of data and revision of manuscript SC participated the study design, interpreting the data, and responsible for final approval of the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript ... Multivariate analysis wasn’t reported in analyzing the impact of sexual function in patients with or without radiotherapy, so the interaction between demographic features and clinical features in patients ... study the qualityoflifein patients with multiple cultural backgrounds Page of Conclusions Our study provided additional information in evaluating QoL of Chinese rectal cancer patients with currently...
... group are arguably close enough to allow collapse of data from all intervention groups into one group for analysis in each subscale Given the above information and the fact that the same amount of ... 2Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Chung-shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Occupational Therapy and ... study, and participated in the data interpretation CJH contributed to the revision of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Lin et al Health and QualityofLife Outcomes...
... achieved by: • A major programme of investment in infrastructure witha particular focus on addressing deficits within and linking the various National Spatial Strategy Gateways; • An integrated ... Spatial Strategy Gateway areas; • Implementation of integrated spatial planning frameworks at Gateway/Regional Authority level which will address appropriate land use at regional and Gateway ... transforming Ireland, we will deliver a better qualityoflifefor all Brian Cowen TD, Minister for Finance January 2007 14 OVERVIEW SUMMARY Transforming Ireland — A Better QualityofLifefor All...
... Asians were livingin Canada (3%) [21], and in 1999, a further million livingin Australia (1.3%) [22] In the UK, 5.7% of the population of England and Wales identify themselves as Asian or Asian-British ... consisted predominantly of women of Pakistani or Indian origin, either first or second generation, with 1% of Bangladeshi origin The average ages of the South Asian and Caucasian women with PCOS were ... resistance that may result in long-term morbidity South Asian refers to those persons who originate from the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal) [6] Ina communitybased...
... longer lack the funds for initiating and expanding ART programmes However, it is becoming clear that presently the main bottleneck for scaling-up ART is the absorptive capacity of health systems In ... In particular, the lack of human resources for health (HRH) is increasingly being identified as the main constraint [4] Only a few reports have analysed how labour intensive ART for AIDS patients ... province To reach such coverage fora chronic disease for which demand for care is high may be realistic Estimations for annual survival of ART patients of between 90% and 95% are based on early...
... engrafting ES-derived dopaminergic neurons Max area The size of the print area at maximal contact of all four paws during floor contact was smaller in rats weeks after 6-OHDA-lesioning than in ... changes in rats after unilateral 6OHDA lesioning and dopaminergic neuron grafting Some of the dynamic and static parameters were altered in rats with 6-OHDA-induced lesions including paw contact ... these findings to an altered use of the plantar surface [13] Similar results were noted ina model of unilateral spinal cord injury, in which the maximal contact area of the affected fore paws was...
... CA, USA 3Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 4Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA ... forebrain-projecting serotonergic neurons, inferior olive neurons and hypothalamic neuronsin the adult brain A- D: Individual optical sections obtained using confocal imaging of saggital sections ... Mice Strain information is summarized in Table Pdx1-cre and Z/EG mouse lines were maintained as independent colonies of hemizygous transgenic mice; the rosa26R mouse line was maintained as homozygous...
... EAT patients Panel A: Quantity and duration of episodes and the associated symptoms Panel B: Detraction in daily life generally and in parts of daily life variable PANAL A Detraction in daily life ... (5) and insufficient (6)) Patients with AVNRT, AVRT and EAT rated their state of health before and after ablation The changes within the ranking scale before and after ablation is demonstrated in ... Tachycardia; AVRT: Atrio-Ventricular Reentry Tachycardia; AF: Atrial Fibrillation; EAT: Ectopic Atrial Tachycardia; F: French; INR: International Normalized Ratio; QoL: Qualityof Life; RF: Radio...
... item in that sub-domain with 95% CIs A Schacht et al Sub-domains At baseline At endpoint For change from baseline to endpoint Cronbach’s alpha (standardized) with 95% CIs Satisfaction with health ... consistency of all sub-domains at baseline and endpoint was robust against single missing items, as the alpha values did not decrease by any meaningful degree when one item was deleted The TA domain and ... domains of the CHIP-CE at baseline and at endpoint are shown The same was done for the subdomains A factor analysis based on the sub-domains was performed additionally in order to explore the relationships...
... 0.05§ Values in brackets denote percentages *Adjusted for age, marital status and parity From likelihood ratio test adjusting for age, marital status and parity àAdjusted for age and marital status ... Values in brackets denote percentages *Adjusted for age, marital status and parity From likelihood ratio test adjusting for age, marital status and parity àAdjusted for age and parity only as ... several large ethnic groups in The Gambia (Singhateh 1985) A national campaign to eliminate FGC in The Gambia was launched in 1997 In the same year, the government banned national radio and television...
... the traditional ides of 'paradigm' Equations within a variant set are absolute constraints, in contrast to those in the main set; if they conflict with informstion ina more specific class, failure ... representing default information, which we refer to as the 'main' equation set These may be overridden by eontlleting information ina more specific class Each equation ina main set functions as an independent ... Lexical entries are themselves classes, and any information they contain is standardly specific to an individual word; lexical and non-lexical classes differ in that analysis and generation take...
... Sciences of the State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo RESULTS The data analyzed came from a total of 958 individuals—929 males and 029 females 60 years of age or more The mean age of the ... differences, all these areas have a standard ofliving that is higher than the national average (13) Sampling for ISA-SP was carried out through a two-stage stratified cluster procedure: in the first stage, ... estado de São Paulo, Brasil: estudio poblacional Palabras clave 27 Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde Saúde nas Américas: 2007 Washington, D.C.: OPAS; 2007 (Scientific Publication No 662) 28 Wang...
... Memory-inductive categorial grammar: An approach to gap resolution in analytic-language translation In Proceedings of The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, volume ... which are prevalent in SVC of analytic languages should be captured for the sake of applicability The use of decomposition rule in analytic languages is not appealing for two main reasons First, ... be induced as a gap ina unary derivation called induction and the resulted category is modalized with the gap There are two constraint parameters in each modality: the combinatory directionality...
... users, such as a lack of GUI, often arduous manual installation procedures, proficiency in programming or familiarity with the details of machine learning algorithms These limitations are overcome ... engines whose purpose is to analyse the incoming CASes and enrich them with additional annotations; whereas the trainer is a consumer that transforms the information stored in CASes into a statistical ... et al., 2002), a suite of text processing and annotation tools, and U-Compare (Kano et al., 2010), a standalone application supporting the UIMA framework that formed the inspiration for Argo Although...