schizophrenia spectrum where to draw the boundary

... questionnaire [30] We then asked participants to select four items they deemed to be the most important to their lifestyle We also asked participants to select four items they perceived to be the greatest ... to the actualisation of behavioural change Participants were asked: whether they were concerned about the physical health risks arising from these lifestyle behaviours; whether they desired to ... are aware of the specific reinforcers available to them and if they believe that their behavioural change will lead to these reinforces in a particular situation [26] With respect to their health,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... reflect gradations in the intensity of a particular depressive symptom (rated in severity from to 3) The results are scored by summing the responses to each of the items to obtain a total depression ... However, there was no effect of age of onset on the depressive symptoms in this study, a finding that is consistent with other comprehensive studies [4,52] Together, given the exploratory nature of these ... family members The age of illness onset was defined as the age when the patient met DSM-IV criteria [12] for the first time The duration of the illness was defined as the time since the first psychotic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... descriptive studies In order to summarize the results taking into account the heterogeneity and the poor quality of the studies, the authors agreed that an association between any factor and caregiver's ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/84 their family, emphasizing the subjective perspective held by the patient and the family In this context, one of the main objectives is the development of supporting activities rather than ... would be important to achieve an agreement regarding what instrument is the most appropriate to employ in the case of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia in order to measure their QOL In addition,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... corresponds to the region from base 690 to 708 and primer NA10R to the region from base 890 to 909 (base numbering corresponds to reference sequence Genbank accession number DQ139321) The two primers ... mutation site known to be related to oseltamivir resistance (e.g virus subtype N1: amino acid H274Y) There are other residues that confer resistance to the NA inhibitors, but for the purpose of this ... Figures 1, The NA8F and NA10R primers were aligned against 3,337 sequences in the NCBI IVRD When analyzing the last five bases at the 3'end of the primer NA8F, the alignment gave close to 100% match...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... inhibitory effect appears to be due to the interaction of ARB with membranes and to subsequent ARB-induced membrane alterations, but the nature of the membrane modification(s) require further ... HCV, the inhibition is probably not due to a direct effect of ARB on the HCV glycoproteins E1 and/or E2 Rather, the data suggest that the effect of ARB on virus/ liposome interactions occurs at the ... decreasing the pH to 5.0 (time 0), and recorded as R18 fluorescence dequenching as a function of time The 100% fluorescence was obtained by adding 0.1% (v:v; final concentration) Triton X100 to the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... These calculations were used to compare both the magnitude of the estimated utility gains and the correlation of the gains between the two mapping functions To compare the responsiveness of the ... based on the PANSS, incorporating an additional assessment of the impact of adverse effects of medication into the model The methods used to create the model have been described elsewhere [16,17] ... life, however To capture disease-specific effects, investigators typically measure disease activity with validated scales specific to a disorder Other times, modeling of the symptoms of the disease...

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... from the initial p1 image, the new term bp12 has to be computed Second, the FT of the resulting image is done Third, the spectrum is rotated Fourth, the spectrum has to be integrated Finally, the ... the time devoted to the memory transfers from the GPU to the CPU is not negligible and that increasing the GPU computational power is not sufficient to further decrease the computation time The ... for the GPU because the mathematical operations used in the GASM only involved the voxels at a given position in the 3D images No access to other specific memory areas is needed to compute the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... probability vectors pi for all nodes i, to maximize the social welfare objective, and (2) to characterize dynamic algorithms that update these probability vectors so as to drive them towards their optimal ... convex combinations of these two points yield strictly smaller utility since the two nodes would then start blocking each other’s access to the medium We therefore turn to the locally optimal solutions ... entire spectrum, or equivalently, it is the spectrum utilization of session i The numbers μc depend on the adopted channel alloi cation scheme that determines how the spectrum is shared among the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... transmissions in the ISM band necessitate that a threefold approach is employed The first requirement is to minimize the interference to coexisting services The second is to quantify the interference ... signal, and θi is the phase introduced by the BPSK modulator The signal is frequency-hopped according to fi (t) and φi (t) is the phase waveform introduced by the frequency hopper The data signal, ... signature sequence and time synchronization of the user The output of the frequency dehopper in the receiver enters the despreader and then the BPSK demodulator 3.2 Introduction of Simplified and Accurate...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... (t)dt = E(t), (9) where E(t) is the expectation value of the idle period According to the definition of spectrum holes utilization, we can formulate the spectrum holes utilization as the following ... converges to its theoretical value The collision probability of optimal OSA approach is close to that of TLOSA approach, and they are less than and converge to collision tolerable level (2) If the spectrum ... converges to its theoretical value The collision probability of optimal OSA is close to that of TFOSA approach, and they are less than and converge to collision tolerable level (2) If the spectrum...

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... Extension to the Multiple Operators’ Case The interoperator spectrum sharing in the context of two operators can be extended to the more general case with K operators sharing the same spectrum The ... realizations Then, in a second approach, a hierarchical game is examined where the primary operator is the leader and the secondary operator is the follower, wherein their sum-rates are further improved ... allowed to update their strategy more frequently than the others And, they might even perform these updates using outdated information on the interference caused by others.) The existence of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... value Proof The proof of properties 1, 2, 3, and are the same as Theorem 4.2 The fourth property is from the 5th condition of (13) If wi = 0, then the user cannot participate the game Therefore, ... budget remains m The term w aims to keep new wi not less than The power demand value and the error tolerance have a significant impact on the number of iterations required to converge to the budget ... utility The term w aims to keep new wi not less than The difference tolerance significantly affects the number of iterations required to converge to the budget allocation Figure indicates the convergence...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... contiguous to the goal, to the child’s own body or to the adult’s body; the child reports to the adult The child repeats the same gesture until the purpose is achieved; the child reports to the adult The ... to them but not their son’s or daughter’s therapists During the interview they were asked to sign the consent form and answer the protocols on quality of life To avoid the need for mothers to ... with invisible substances; applies the schemes to him/herself and to others The child uses one object by the other; applies the schemes to him/her and to others Wetherby & Prutting (1984) concluded...

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... We define the amplitude of a given path to be the product of the entries of U corresponding to the transitions along the path The entry S + (U(G)3 (i,j),(l,m) ) is given by the sum of the amplitudes ... that the conditions in the statement of the proposition are mutually exclusive Each case corresponds to U(i,j),(l,m) > for one of the cases A-F above The condition corresponds to the case A, to ... i| is the linear functional which maps each |j to the usual inner product, which is denoted by i|j ) Given a graph G, let us define the Hamiltonian H = − M(G)a,b c† cb , a where the operator c†...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... basically took all the medicine; (3) I missed the medicine several times, but took at least half of it; (4) I took less than half of what was prescribed; and (5) I stopped taking the medicine altogether." ... intent -to- treat methodology in which all health resources used subsequent to initiation of the drug therapy are assigned to that therapy, even if therapy is discontinued [17] In contrast, the inclusion ... benefits attributed to the index drug may actually be due to the comparator drug We pursued this issue in more detail for the non-adherent group and found that while on the index drug, the RIS-treated...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... subgroup [3] The purpose of this study is to assess binge eating symptomatology in a group of individuals receiving treatment for schizophrenia and a group of non-psychiatric controls The groups ... in the BED and the BS prevalence were compared using the Pearson Chi-square test The characteristics of the groups are shown in Table Kruskal Wallis test revealed no differences with regard to ... patients with schizophrenia and 10/40 of controls have binge eating symptomatology (BS or BED) Pearson Chi-square analysis shows a higher number of subjects with binge symptomatology in the group...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20