physical and psychological aspects of pain in obstetrics

... various aspects of OFETs, including the synthesis of new materials, preparation and characterisation of organic thin films, characterisation of device properties and the development of new device ... again on thiophenes, one of the most promising materials within organic electronics, where in particular the implications of minimising the size of the operating devices are discussed In a working ... the contact resistance and of course the presence of domain boundaries defects and impurities in the organic semiconductor The determination of the true intrinsic mobility of an organic semiconductor...

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... patients’ quality of life In Spain, taking into account a population of around 47 million people (Spanish National Institute of Statistics, 2010), and considering the different incidence and prevalence ... considers a wide range of interventions would be beneficial, both in terms of helping payers to understand the value of each intervention, and in helping clinicians to make informed treatment decisions ... Department of Urology and Andrology, University of Perugia Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza, University of Rome and IRCCS Neuromed Institute Italy Introduction In Parkinson’s disease...

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... people interested in the HIV and AIDS in general will find this book informative and easy to read and understand The book is an essential reading for academics, students and other people interested ... for assessing quality -of- life of health and for designing, implementing, and evaluating health education and health promotion programs PRECEDE includes five phases In phase 1, quality of life or ... living and finances an integral part of coping and care-seeking in health-care institutions Conversely, those participants who were still working and financially capable were able to cope and had...

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... effects of pain on physical QoL The indirect effect of depression on the pain- QoL link pathway was 0.08, indicating that about 75% of the effect of pain on QoL impacted through the mediator of depression, ... al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:1 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/1 Page of Table Pain characteristics and means of depression and QoL measures Pain measures Number of pain areasa, ... or above”) and summed, yielding “Disability Points” Based on the Pain Intensity Score and Disability Points, CPG classifies chronic pain into five hierarchical grades: Grade Zero (pain free),...

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... eliminated Figure Comparison of sugar concentrations from soaking and no soaking process: (beside soaking and no soaking) represented glucose concentration and (beside soaking and no soaking) ... Ontario and an MBA from Ryerson University, both in Canada He has worked for several years in the health care industry, mainly in the field of developing and testing of novel wound dressing materials ... 2.2.5 Physical and alkaline pretreatment with saccharification Alkaline pretreatment and saccharification was examined by adding 3.3 g of wheat straw in 100 ml monoethanolamine solution in a 200...

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... to in- and outsourcing In my view, all of this has to with the type of business and the information the business is built upon Locating and defining an organisation’s information ecology, in ... services In Chapter Theoretical aspects of information and communication, we discuss theoretical aspects of information and communication by using Devlin’s theory of information (Infosense), and in ... with the intention of reducing costs, the organisation will instead run a great risk of being drained of its core competences, and thus of its core business and values Considering the invariants...

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... summary of the possible barriers and obstacles to knowledge management initiatives in software engineering 4.1 Needs in software engineering The field of software engineering have some interesting ... computing The ease of access to almost any kind of information at any time in any place increases the value of cognitive skills of individuals Choosing the right information to process i.e understand, ... Jonson School of Engineering Blekinge Institute of Technology Box 520 SE - 372 25 Ronneby Sweden This thesis is submitted to the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial...

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... Role of B vitamins and enzymes B vitamins function as coenzymes in the synthesis of purines and thymidylate during normal DNA synthesis Diminished levels of these vitamins may result in misincorporation ... (1) A point mutation in the coding region for the 5,10-MTHFR binding site (C677T), leading to the substitution of an alanine to a valine effectively increases homocysteine levels increase and decreases ... menopausal status Drinking alcohol Smoking Often angry or suppress anger Physical inactivity / sedentary life-style Drinking caffeinated drinks - coffee, tea, coke Being pregnant Being strict vegetarian...

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... the first and last turns of helices E and F, and the C-terminus helices I and J In addition, there is a lysine-rich N- and C-terminus, in accordance with the basic isoelectric point of CagS However, ... H pylori strains harbouring a functional cagPAI, is the activation of nuclear transcription factor-jB and the induction of pro -in ammatory production of cytokines, mainly interleukin (IL)-8 [12] ... anti-parallel to the same strand of a second monomer, allowing for the formation of the dimer The surface of interaction between monomers also involves portion of chains D and E of the two monomers,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21

... during the past two decades, e.g secondary impingement and internal impingement of the shoulder in overhead athletes On the basis of recognizing certain common patterns of injury and understanding ... associated with physical training may involve exercise-induced increases in shear stress and pulsatile ow According to Niebaur and Cooke [] chronic increases in blood ow induced by training may exert ... University of Helsinki, FIN-, Helsinki, Finland Liying Zhang Bioengineering Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, MI , USA Preface In past decades the number of exercising individuals and...

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... study, including a description of patients' characteristics in terms of baseline socio-demographic and clinical variables, pattern of care and main outcomes, and a discussion of the feasibility of ... Pain 2000, 88:287-294 Farrar JT, Young JP Jr, LaMoreaux L, Werth JL, Poole RM: Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale Pain ... double-blind, placebo-controlled study Pain Clinic 2003, 15:193-202 Farar JT, Halpern SD: Understanding clinical trials in pain research In Cancer Pain, Assessment and Management Edited by: Bruera...

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... status and well-being by means of 36 multiple-choice questions It measures different domains, in the area of physical health (Physical Functioning, Role Limitation -Physical, Bodily Pain, General ... settings should take into consideration the domains of greater interest (physical vs psychological) in individual studies The choice of instruments for the assessment of the effects of treatment on ... validation and norming J Clin Epidemiol 1998, 51(11):1025-1036 18 Dupuy HJ: The psychological general well-being (PGWB) inventory In Assessment of Quality of Life in Clinical Trials of Cardiovascular...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Role of B vitamins and enzymes B vitamins function as coenzymes in the synthesis of purines and thymidylate during normal DNA synthesis Diminished levels of these vitamins may result in misincorporation ... (1) A point mutation in the coding region for the 5,10-MTHFR binding site (C677T), leading to the substitution of an alanine to a valine effectively increases homocysteine levels increase and decreases ... menopausal status Drinking alcohol Smoking Often angry or suppress anger Physical inactivity / sedentary life-style Drinking caffeinated drinks - coffee, tea, coke Being pregnant Being strict vegetarian...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20

... number in whorls and on interwhorl stems for the st and 2nd flushes of growth are shown in Table II The values were always

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... special kind of behavior control where the concern is with inducing behaviors which result in learning in an educational setting Rothkopf has done some interesting experiments on methods of inducing ... vast amount of research has gone into the study of social factors which influence human behavior, and much of this information may be relevant in certain areas of environmental planning Psychological ... increasing use of psychological consultants in various aspects of environmental planning, the bases for various expert opinions should be scrutinized with great care The judgment of experts in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 20:20

... RF, and BF during stance phase and an increase in ST activity during swing phase (2.5% maximum, SMD = 0.2) Reductions in leg muscle activity were not maintained following the removal of tape In ... large increase in arch height and large reductions in vertical and medio-lateral midfoot mobility through ten minutes of walking but not following removal of tape These findings are novel and may ... activity and range of movement, regardless of symptomatic status, and that tape-induced effects would continue immediately following removal of the tape Page of Electromyographic (EMG) and kinematic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... importance of monitoring the physical health of people with SMI and research into appropriate interventions [14] A number of factors may explain this increased burden of physical ill-health in people ... education, and duration of illness in the model We also included age and gender a priori in this analysis in view of their potential confounding effect on Of 245 people attending the clinics who were ... eating at least one fruit a day [39] Physical Page of 10 inactivity and poor diet in the form of low fibre and high saturated fat intake have already been postulated to partly explain the increased...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... continued across both time points in 65.21% of women suffering psychological IPV alone, it continued in only 12.12% of women exposed to physical and psychological IPV and was reduced to psychological ... Helping Women (which offers information, help from lawyers and social workers, and some psychological interventions for the women) in the three provinces of the Valencian Community of Spain (Alicante, ... were physically and psychologically abused at T-1, IPV completely ceased in 36.4%, was reduced to psychological IPV alone in 51.5%, and continued as both physical and psychological IPV in 12.1%...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... ADHD and a population control group of their peers The main symptoms of ADHD are impulsivity and difficulty in focusing of attention, and children and adolescents with ADHD are often impaired and ... conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki in 1995 as revised in Edinburgh 2000 All of the patients and their parents agreed to participate in the study and gave informed consent Analysis ... coping strategies in which the students reported how often they may use them in dealing with their anger The range of possible scores on both Positive Coping of School Anger Expression Index and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... King J, Soldin SJ: IMMULITE 2000 age and sex-specific reference intervals for alpha fetoprotein, homocysteine, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, ... resulting in a hypoinsulinemic response resulted in hyperglycemia Insulin resistance, caused by high levels of counter-regulatory hormones and cytokines, oxidative stress, and therapeutic interventions ... hours (11%) and in shock survivors after 48 hours (8%) Cortisol and cytokine levels decreased to normal levels within 24 hours Insulinemic response Association between glucose and insulin In Figure...

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