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... engender 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 ... reported 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 ... diet and lack of exercise) was assessed with a “health and lifestyle questionnaire” that had been developed in a major study to assess attitudes towards cardiovascular risk factors in the general...

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... standard items are comprised of one item from each of the 24 facets of the WHOQOL-100 and two items from the overall QOL and general health facet In a study by Yao et al [36], exploratory and ... Correlation and regression analyses of age at illness onset To evaluate the relationship between age of illness onset and these clinical characteristics, a series of correlational analyses (Spearman’s ... symptom rating scales, and QOL variables For exploratory analysis of associations with clinical variables, the age of illness onset factor was dichotomised We chose 17 years of age as the cut-off...

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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 ... significantly stressed as a result of having one of them with schizophrenia Ivarsson, Sidenvall, and Carlsson [14] agreed that burden on a family caregiver is complex and includes many areas, such as...

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... 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 5'-CCI IKC CAR TTR TCY CTR CA-3' and to μL of RNA were added Thermocycling ... (NP) and matrix proteins (M1) Influenza virus A and B infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in humans and in a wide range of animal species [1-3] Type "A" viruses are the ... 6) A/ Shearwater/Aust/75 7) A/ Grey teal/WA/1762/79 8) A/ Emu/NSW/97 9) A/ Turkey/Ontario/6118/67 10) A/ Shearwater/Aust/72 11) A/ Mallard/Gurjev/263/82 12) A/ Mallard/Gurjev/244/82 13) A/ Gull/Maryland/704/77...

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... 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 supported ... [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 ... Yoneyama M, Kikuchi M, Natsukawa T, Shinobu N, Imaizumi T, Miyagishi M, Taira K, Akira S, Fujita T: The RNA helicase RIG-I has an essential function in double-stranded RNA-induced innate antiviral...

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... anticholinergic agents, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, propranolol for akathisia, and benzodiazepines for agitation and insomnia Assessments PANSS total scores [15] and health-related quality -of- life assessments, ... responsiveness of the utility mapping function, we applied it to data from an open-label, international (Europe and Canada), 50-week trial evaluating the long-term safety and tolerability of long-acting ... (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 (SG)...

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... performed on a CPU In this article, a GPU implementation of the generalized ASM (GASM) in a 3D + t configuration is presented The mathematical and the acoustic background of the GASM have already been ... Special thanks are extended to ANR-07 TecSan-015-01 MONITHER for financial support FVwas financially supported by the Franco-Italian University with a VINCI and a Gallilée grant and by the Rhone-Alpes ... for beamforming acceleration on SAFT imaging IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium 2009, 1334-1337 Elnokrashy AF, Elmalky AA, Hosny TM, Ellah MA, Megawer A, Elsebai A, Youssef ABM, Kadah YM:...

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... in the operational constraint that two such sessions cannot actively use a narrowband channel at the same instant Dashouk and Alanyali EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking ... novel gradient ascent algorithm to improve the randomized channel access towards local maxima, and it identifies distributed approximations of these algorithms A detailed numerical and comparative ... randomized channel selection and carrier sense multiple access (CSMA)based techniques to implement such allocations CSMA has been considered by Ni et al [20], Jiang and Walrand [21], and Marbach and Eryilmaz...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... n,l 4.2 Partial-Band Interference Partial-band interferers occupy part of the hoped bandwidth A partial-band interferer to a DS/FH signal is the same as a partial-band jammer to a spread spectrum ... types based on their transmission bandwidth—barrage, partial-band, and tone Barrage type interferers are those whose transmission bandwidth covers the entire signal bandwidth B Partialband interference ... (t)dt, Performance of CDMA system has been analyzed using Standard Gaussian approximation (SGA), improved Gaussian approximation (IGA), and simplified IGA (SIGA) to model the interference statistics...

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... utilization of optimal OSA approach is still better than that of TFOSA approach In (b), both collision probability increase of optimal OSA approach and that of TFOSA approach are more than 0.01 ... utilization of optimal OSA approach is much better than that of TFOSA approach and converges to its theoretical value The collision probability of optimal OSA is close to that of TFOSA approach, and ... performances of two approaches: transmit-first OSA (TFOSA) approach and transmit-last OSA (TLOSA) approach TFOSA means that the secondary user starts to transmit at the first time slot and keeps transmitting...

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... Bennis, C Wijting, S Abedi, S Thilakawardana, and R Tafazolli, “Performance evaluation of advanced spectrum functionalities for future radio networks,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ... Scutari, D P Palomar, and S Barbarossa, “Optimal linear precoding strategies for wideband noncooperative systems based on game theory—part I: nash equilibria,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ... G Scutari, D P Palomar, and S Barbarossa, “Optimal linear precoding strategies for wideband non-cooperative systems based on game theory—part II: algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... models that address budget allocation on satisfying power demands and budget allocation on balancing individual utilities Section 5demonstrates a toy example of two users and two channels Section ... 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 ... chosen randomly from the interval (0, m], and the normalized crosstalk ratios aij are chosen randomly from the interval [0, 1] The power supply of each channel j is s j = m, j = 1, n The total...

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... 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 ... Gorczyca, Agnieszka Kapinos-Gorczyca, Katarzyna Ziora and Joanna Oświęcimska Part Creativity, Psychiatry and Occupational Histories 211 Chapter 13 Creativity Psychosis Autism and the Social Brain ... Cibelle A. H Amato and Daniela R.Molini-Avejonas Chapter Language Therapy with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders 23 Fernanda Dreux M.Fernandes, Daniela R.Molini-Avejonas and Cibelle A. H.Amato...

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... Graph equivalence and characterization via a continuous evolution of a physical analog, cond-mat/0209112 [7] F Harary, Frank and R Z Norman, Some properties of line digraphs, Rend Circ Mat Palermo ... [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 (eds.: Colbourn and Dinitz), ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... measure relapse, particularly hospitalization rates, but also duration of hospitalization and time to hospitalization [3,68] The most powerful predictor of relapse and hospitalization among patients ... values The SCAP database is similar to other administrative and pharmacy claims database, as it provides detailed information about patients' resource utilization over a predetermined period of ... psychiatric and medical comorbidities, substance abuse behaviors, use of concomitant medications of any type, level of suicidality, display of aggressive behaviors, pregnancy, and lactating status...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... 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 ... 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, ... BMI for a comparison between individuals with high and average weight Participants gave informed consent and local Ethical Committee approval was obtained for the study Design and measures The...

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