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... questionnaires for 12–18 and 19–25 year olds No parent form is available for the original MMQL forms The anglicised MMQL-UK (CF) version of the questionnaires (based on the 12–18 year age group) was used as ... the primary researcher, was responsible for co-ordinating and managing the study on a day-to-day basis, for data collection and collation, data analysis and input into writing the manuscript WYC ... Background The measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQL) is increasingly becoming part of the overall assessment of a patient's health both in the clinical and the research setting, as it provides...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... clinics of the Dental Schools of Athens and Thessaloniki ii) dental clinics of the Social Insurance Fund of Greece (IKA) in Athens and Thessaloniki and iii) a selected professional corporation These ... based on: a) the availability of an appropriate middle-age group of the population in one place, b) the possibility to perform a clinical examination along with completion of a questionnaire and ... Method and Data Analysis The OHIP-14 score was calculated using the additive method Statistical analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v.19 To assess the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... details Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt 2Faculty of Industrial Education, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt Authors’ contributions The ... of interesting analytical problem that arising in the field of spectral analysis of differential operators, see [4-6] In [3], the author studied the equiconvergence theorem of the problem −y ... equiconvergence formula n,f (x) − (o) n,f (x) → as n ® ∞ is similar So as long as the proof of the equiconvergence relation is carried out by means of the contour integration, we obtain the uniform convergence...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... details Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt 2Faculty of Industrial Education, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt Authors’ contributions The ... of interesting analytical problem that arising in the field of spectral analysis of differential operators, see [4-6] In [3], the author studied the equiconvergence theorem of the problem −y ... equiconvergence formula n,f (x) − (o) n,f (x) → as n ® ∞ is similar So as long as the proof of the equiconvergence relation is carried out by means of the contour integration, we obtain the uniform convergence...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... and a set of questions for diagnostic analysis and planning All of the separate components of the actual Guide are contained in additional files (see Additional Files 1, 2, and 4) The main narrative ... need for clear conceptual and operational definitions, measurement approaches, and additional practical information about the realities of application • QUERI frames of reference and concepts affected ... use of the terms task versus organizational purpose from the PARIHS framework’s approach to Facilitation The latter envisages the purpose of Facilitation to occur along a continuum from primarily...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... data; MCS and CF drafting the manuscript; AB, MF and WR interpretation of data, critical revisions of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements We thank ... longitudinal assessment of the case and all data from medical records were evaluated to form a diagnosis of Clinical Somatizers (CS), taking into account the number of validated unexplained symptoms ... period all symptoms for which a medical explanation was in doubt were further discussed with the participant's GP The history of somatoform complaints was made for each subject As a standard procedure,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... responsible for writing the manuscript AB planned the design of the study, collected data and conducted the analyses, took part in reading the ms and approved to the final version of the ms TF ... regarding socio-demographics The same procedure, with the same classes of students, was used three weeks later As a compensation for their participation, the students had a chance of winning a ... a movie in a lottery that was conducted in each class after all students had completed their questionnaires at the first and second assessment A case-control design was adopted for the evaluation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... refinement of) Ruzsa’s analogue of Freiman’s theorem, which gives a fairly strong characterisation of subsets A ⊆ Fn satisfying a small doubling condition |A + A| K |A| An analogue of this theorem for any ... |A| , there are at least |A| m /2 such m-tuples We know that either the vectors a1 , , am are not dissociated, or else there is a further a ∈ A such that a lies in the linear span of the In either ... suppose that there are at least δ |A| 3 additive quadruples (a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 ) in A4 with a1 + a2 = a3 + a4 Then there is a regular Bourgain system S satisfying dim(S) Cδ −C ; |S| e−Cδ −C |A| and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... interview All the patients reported clarity of the Hausa language and ease of understanding of all the items The final version of the Hausa translation of IKHOAM (see Additional file 2) The anchors (English) ... of IKHOAM The divergent validity of the Hausa version of IKHOAM was analyzed by subjecting participants' scores on the Visual Analogue Scale and the Hausa version of IKHOAM to Spearman rank Order ... correlation Internal consistency of the parts of the Hausa version of IKHOAM was calculated using the Cronbach's alpha Level of significance was set at 0.05 The SPSS 12 software program was used...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... and analysis and participated in the interpretation of the data and discussion of the findings AS advised on the study design and analysis and participated in the interpretation of the data and ... with the participants about the questionnaire Minor modifications were made to the format of questionnaires and to the wording Secondly, the backward translation of the draft version of the Korean ... Sheiham A, Tsakos G: Validation of a Persian version of the OIDP index BMC oral health 2007, 7:2 Adulyanon S, Vourapukjaru J, Sheiham A: Oral impacts affecting daily performance in a low dental...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... healthrelated quality of life; ARIA: Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma; mCSA: minimum cross-sectional area; ROC: receiver operating characteristic; ANOVA: analysis of variance Page of ... of the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona and all patients taking part in the study provided written informed consent to participate Statistical analysis The feasibility of the Spanish version of the ... Verjee-Lorenz A, ISPOR Task Force for Translation and Cultural Adaptation, et al: Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaptation Process for PatientReported Outcomes (PRO) Measures:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... the matrix A is the one in 2.7 The reason for using ξ2 k2 u instead of u in the definition of U x is that with this choice, the matrix A is normal and hence diagonalized by a unitary matrix The ... equation in the interval 1, L Hence it is natural to assume knowledge about u at a second point Let us summarize what we have so far The constant C in Lemma 2.4 is unchanged The propagated data ... boundary x the location is, the better the approximate effect is These accord with the theory in Section Acknowledgments The author wants to express his thanks to the referee for many valuable...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... bipartite graphs (2-partite 2-uniform hypergraphs) to k-partite k-uniform hypergraphs Ramamurthi and West asked at the end of their paper [RaWe] for such a hypergraph analog of Alon and Tarsi’s result ... R[XV ] and the initial stacks Sv of ℓv − erasers are assigned to them The idea is that Mr Paint substitutes in the ith round a new symbolic variable Ti for some of the variables Xv , instead of coloring ... We also saw that ℓ-list colorable graphs not always are ℓ-paintable, as we say, i.e., there does not have to be a winning coloration strategy if the vertex sets Vi are allowed to change (see also...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23

... which all weights are equal to On the other hand, every weighted r-partite graph can be interpreted as an r-partite graph if the weights are rational, and so can be approximated in case of arbitrary ... prove a lemma about the optimal constructions: it says that optimal constructions may have relatively few vertices The lemma is the generalization of a claim in the third section of the paper of ... we can express the weights recursively At the end, according to the equality of the number of weights and parameters and the number of equalities, d(T ) can be expressed as a root of a rational...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23

... redundancy, respondent validation, and clear exposition of methods Triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data The quantitative and qualitative data paradigms will be combined, with adjustment ... in the adoption and effective use of worksite wellness programs; and the translational model can be validated and manipulated in this and other settings to better understand and make translation ... National Institute of Nursing Research in Challenge Area (15): Translational Sciences and the Challenge Topic 15-NR101* NIH Partners in Research Program: Pathways for Translational Research as 5RC1NR011793...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Comparison of the two sub-samples (Evaluation and Validation sample) by t-test for continuous variables and Chi-Square test, χ for categorical variables across a range of characteristics, revealed ... techniques Additionally, TestGraf provides a graphical analysis of test items and/or rated responses using Ramsay's "kernel smoothing" approach to IRT The software, manual, and documentation are available ... States of America Nathan S Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, United States of America Manahttan Psychiatric Center, Wards Island, NY, United States of America Educational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... and translate the ACIC from the The MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Group Health Cooperative we followed a translation approach An official native translator and two research team ... Organisational interventions Many forms of organisational changes are applied in the 22 DMPs Examples of organisational interventions are new collaborations of care providers, allocating tasks ... care and stimulate implementation of successful programs [22] The primary aim of our evaluation is to get information about the quality of the DMPs and their alignment with the CCM as well as...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... prognosis of near-fatal asthma A 6-year follow-up study of 145 asthmatic patients who underwent mechanical ventilation for a nearfatal attack of asthma Am Rev Respir Dis 1992, 146:76-81 Evans R III: ... Petheram IS, Branthwaite MA: Mechanical ventilation for pulmonary disease: a six year survey Anaesthesia 1980, 35:467-473 46 Halttunen PD, Luomanmakik K, Takkunen O, Viljanen AA: Management of ... length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database Crit Care...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Database The Case Mix Programme (CMP) is a national comparative audit of adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland coordinated by the Intensive Care National Audit ... ICU was calculated in fractions of days from the dates and times of admission and discharge from the CMP unit Length of stay in hospital was calculated in days from the dates of original admission ... physiological data from the first 24 hours in the ICU The organ system failures assessed are cardiovascular failure, respiratory failure, renal failure, haematological failure and neurological failure...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis JB conceived of the study, participated in the design and coordination and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved ... reliability was 0.93 for the total score In table the ICCs are shown for the domains and the total score In addition, the results of the original LCQ are shown Quality of life is a subjective parameter ... indicates a better health status The total score is the sum of the scores of the three domains (varying to 7) The LCQ already has been validated in English and has also been used in at least one other...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20