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... questions that assessed physical functioning and general health status, a depression screen, and an adapted and concurrently validated assessment of general self-efficacy We used the physical functioning ... list of morbidities as it was assessed as a separate outcome measure As there is a known correlation between comorbidity and physical dimensions of QOL, we chose overall health status and physical ... primarily been validated against 'objective' health outcomes such as mortality, length of stay, and cost of care [4-13] We are aware of two such instruments that have been validated against QOL outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... opinion leaders : effects on professional practice and health care outcomes The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005:4 Armenakis AA, Bedeian AG: Organizational change: a review of theory and ... Christian S: Achieving change in health care practice Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2003, 9:225-238 Armenakis A, Bedeian A: Organizational change: a review of theory and research in ... speech and language therapy, routine use of the Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment [40]; the Frenchay Aphasia Screening Test [41] and the Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language in Aphasia [42] were...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... haloperidol are available through our patient data management system As a general rule, in our ICU all Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 13 No van den Boogaard et al Figure ... four adult wards and one paediatric ward Annually 2000 to 2500 (cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgical, medical, surgical, and trauma) patients are admitted The local Institutional Review Board of ... total days of treatment, and the total dose of administered haloperidol per patient and per day Statistical analyses All data analyses were performed with SPSS 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA)...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... for active patients [11], we advise that the IPAQ is now the best available alternative for an actometer An advantage of the IPAQ is that its original scoring protocol provides a categorical outcome ... range 15–68) The male/female ratio was 26%/74% (59 male, 167 female), median duration of fatigue was years (range 2–32) According to the actometer measures, 29% of the patient population had a ... had a passive activity pattern and 71% had a fluctuating active one Validity of the instruments The correlation of the API and the IPAQ with the actometer scores appeared to be weak (Spearman's...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Pedro Soares pedromortaguasoares@gmail.com Rute Santos rutemarinasantos@hotmail.com António Oliveira-Tavares oliveiratavares@netvisao.pt Jorge Mota jmota@fade.up.pt Joana Carvalho jcarvalho@fade.up.pt ... that these results are related to the fact that many experts are programme leaders and thus, are more aware of practices that pertain to Leadership Also, experts may have been aware of the fact ... 70 AACVPR: Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Programs 4th Edition edition American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Champaigh, IL.: Human...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... probability table of the Southern Manitoba system The grid tap at Saskatoon on the HVDC system consists of valve groups each of 250 MW capacity for a total The total available capacity, capacity of 1000 ... Approximate results for the LCC values of the Saskatchewan and Alberta systems were obtained by allocating 10 units of Limestone generating station (each of 108 MW) and units of Conawapa station (each ... year from Manitoba's viewpoint is 2000 Alberta and Saskatchewan risk indices not The approach their apparent maximum level in 2000 year 1999 is a more acceptable year for both Alberta and Saskatchewan...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:36

... judiciary, and a general system of checks and balances, to protect public liberty against corruption and to safeguard the equal individual rights of all citizens against each other and against the state ... in Asia and Africa, but the theoretical coherence and republican nature of most such political and legal advances go unremarked and unexamined Many people not know what republicanism is (even as ... servitude as a violation of natural law American republicans never feared commerce or wealth as the Spartans had, and the new American “Republican” party sought to maximize both, by reinvigorating the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... Wada, A. , Ogo, S., Watanabe, Y., Mukai, M., Kitagawa, T., Jitsukawa, K., Masuda, H & Einaga, H (1999) Synthesis and characterization of novel alkylperoxo mononuclear iron(III) complexes with a ... dismutase or catalase, implicating the involvement of a peroxo adduct in catalysis [243] In fact, reactivity was enhanced when H2O2 was the oxidant in place of reductant and air [243], and the putative ... iron-peroxy adduct prone to fragmentation [266] A similar paradigm also appears to apply to the nal step in aromatase (CYP19)-catalyzed biotransformation of androgens to estrogens [267] As illustrated...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... that grant the attacker local access 3.2 Planner Cyc’s planner is a variant of SHOP, an efficient hierarchical task network planner [Nau et al 1999] The planning domain is a representation of actions ... users a deep analysis of the state of their network, particularly by demonstrating feasible attack plans that could be launched against it Widespread application of CycSecure and adoption of its ... indicates it is a specialization of ConceptualWork, the collection of deliberately created things that lack a location in space but have a beginning in time and an associated abstract information...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... The latter has the additional attributes of being available anywhere, at anytime and on any device If it was only a simple as a mouse-trap The complication is that for most customers they already ... and rent the peak’ Conclusion The customer’s overall cloud health starts with an assessment of value The assessment of value of cloud services can only include a comparison against other cloud ... satisfaction A proven change agent, capable of orchestrating transformative business strategy Champions innovation with a focus on developing flexible, scalable solutions for customer and organisational...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 02:20

... manageable pieces and shipped to mills as far away as South Korea, Malaysia, China and India Some reports indicate that a portion of the structural steel may be contaminated with a variety of ... releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances” and to “collect and manage information concerning the amount, location and nature of hazardous substances” such as those discharged as a ... volumes of particulate matter, there was not a single recorded violation of national health standards for particulate matter This strongly suggests that a review of the adequacy of existing standards...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... Tenias, E Alonso, K Kambra, E Aranguez, A Gandarillas, I Galan, J M Ordonez (Spain); M A Vigotti, G Rossi, E Cadum, G Costa, L Albano, D Mirabelli, P Natale, L Bisanti, A Bellini, M Baccini, A ... Mediterranean region An earlier paper23 examined the association of particulate air pollution in all available cities and addressed the issue of heterogeneity in response That analysis did not examine ... APHEA-2 methodology.23 Because of AIR POLLUTION AND MORTALITY DISPLACEMENT 89 the substantial variability in seasonal patterns and weather between, for example, Stockholm and Tel Aviv, separate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... Young Adults Project.4 Given AYA’s mandate to scale up YFS in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, a standardized and easily implemented method for assessing significant numbers of facilities was ... facilities were assessed, of which four were operated by the Planned Parenthood of Ghana (PPAG) and ten by the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) In Uganda, almost A Rapid Assessment of Youth ... Keyonzo, Naomy Achimpota, Andrew Arkutu, Emmanuel Essandoh, Neo Mokgautsi, Sophia Ladha, Joy Mukaire, Lucy Asaba, and Tijuana James-Traore In addition, the authors would like to thank all the team members...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... vegetation, and classification of the genera of animals Isolated and social living plants and animals The character of flora and fauna is not determined so much by the predominance of separate families, ... to hope that an attempt to delineate nature in all its vivid animation and exalted grandeur, and to trace the 'stable' amid the vacillating, ever-recurring alternation of physical metamorphoses, ... Comparative hypsometrical data of the elevations of the Dhawalagiri, Jawahir, Chimborazo, Aetna (according to the measurement of Sir John Herschel), the Swiss Alps, etc p 28 Rarity p 16 of palms...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... he made to his Restated Guaranty, and informed ESSA that he would not make any payment on the defaulted Loans because his Restated Guaranty, as modified, released him as a guarantor of the Loans ... unilateral, and unnegotiated modifications of his Restated Guaranty, and by concealing the modifications, Respondent effectuated a scheme to release himself of any personal liability as a guarantor ... intention ofESSA, Respondent altered his Restated Guaranty so that instead of restating his personal guaranty of the Loans the altered Restated Guaranty released Respondent from all personal liability...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... opinions at the end of each IPE module were also obtained Statistical analysis A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) model was used, and then factor analysis of the responses was performed ... *These data were analysed by the factor analysis method and the Kaiser's varimax method, by means of SPSS software Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Human Resources for Health 2009, ... patient outcome, such as family-based cardiovascular disease prevention and quality of care, postoperative pain and functioning, and length of stay in patients receiving total joint arthroplasty...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Table 3: Mean item-total correlation and Cronbach's alpha for domain scores in the NFAS-4 and the NFAS-5 (N = 3325) Cronbach's alphaa NFAS-4 NFAS-5 Mean item-total correlation NFAS-4 NFAS-5 Walking/standing ... seven all-point defined scales are used Seven categories are also harder to fit across a page of A4 with a reasonably sized typeface However, if the number of alternatives is less than the rater's ... Mann Whitney U-test Data quality The response rates and the low levels of missing data show that both versions of the NFAS are acceptable to the population A few items had a high percentage of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Representative dot plots from all participating labs will be made available upon request Data Analysis and Interpretation Data generated by individual laboratories were evaluated in ways Initial analysis ... his lab CMB was the proficiency panel leader and mainly involved at all stages of the project, including organizational and scientific aspects, data analysis and interpretation as well as manuscript ... visual evaluation of all dot plots and wrote parts of the manuscript LP coordinated the collection and assembly of data, did all statistical analysis and was involved in the interpretation of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... exhibiting a greater abundance of RNA transcripts, and hence it might be postulated that a greater proportion of intact mRNA may exist, as a function of unregulated synthesis of a limited number of malignant ... correlation between total operating time and Table Preoperative variables, baseline demographics and operative data of 142 specimens, and comparison with remainder population Variable n1 Mean sample ... effects of various clinicopathological variables on specimen quality Materials and methods Ethical approval and patient consent An Institutional Review Board-approved research protocol was obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... horizontal and vertical settings [35-37], and incorporate a larger range of Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:15 motion that can ... area in this task was thus large, consisting of a screen-centered rectangle with 40% width and height of the workspace Data and statistical analysis Representative tasks were analyzed across subjects ... sub-acute and Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:15 chronic stroke populations [29-31], the advantages of mechanical guidance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20