... in their life On the other hand, given the chronic nature and severity of their mental illness, they may understandably reserve a greater proportion of their energy to attempt to optimise their ... perception about their diet and lack of exercise and their effect on physical health risks Similarly, there was no difference in the groups’ desire to change and success in changing these two lifestyle ... if they 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...
... conceptualized and designed the study YCK collected and analyzed the data YPL supervised the study YCK analyzed the data further and wrote the final manuscript YPL helped to draft and revised the manuscript ... relationships, and environment) and measures the facets of QOL and general health [35,36] It contains 28 items, including 26 standard items from the WHOQOL-BREF and two culturally relevant items [35,36] The ... scores on the negative and cognitive domains and total score on the PANSS as well as the BIS attentional and non-planning subscales and total score However, the mean score in the psychological domain...
... life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns It is a wide concept implying many aspects and many ... http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/84 their family, emphasizing the subjective perspective held by the patient andthe family In this context, one of the main objectives is the development of supporting activities rather than ... to pay the publication, data management andthe English translation of the draft We thank Alejandro Araya Godoy and Paulina Toledo Carrasco for their assistance in primary data cleaning and analyzing,...
... participated in the overview of the study RB conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination, helped to draft the manuscript, and participated actively in the overview of the study ... sequences in the NCBI database at the time the study was conducted All NA subtypes were aligned against the NA10R primer and analyzed for discrepancies at the 3'end The big letters represent the general ... design of the study with assistance from RB, planned and performed the experiments at University of Queensland and drafted the manuscript MEGB participated in sensitivity assays and edited the manuscript...
... control and ARB treated cells were serially diluted andthe titer of virus determined using the focus-forming assay Titers were calculated by counting the number of foci and correcting for the dilution ... 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 ... together, the data suggest that ARB interacts with membranes and likely perturbs stages of the HCV lifecycle that are membrane-dependent Discussion The advent of HCV replicon cultures [1,23] and...
... Nichol and colleagues [8] These calculations were used to compare both the magnitude of the estimated utility gains andthe correlation of the gains between the two mapping functions To compare the ... responsiveness of the measures, we took the standard deviation of SF-36-based and clinically based utility measures at baseline and endpoint andthe effect size seen in this study for each measure and estimated ... designed the study, developed the analysis plan, contributed to statistical analyses, and drafted the manuscript MR participated in the design of the study, contributed to the analysis plan, and helped...
... extension of the FFTW library Defining p1 and p as 3D real images and P and P as complex means the dimension of the complex image can be halved and also the computation time in both the FT and IFT ... to or if the computed pressure is related to the fundamental or to the second harmonic component, respectively, fx and fy are the spatial frequencies in the x and y directions, and f t the temporal ... implementation The P1 spectrum is obtained after the computation of the rotation kernel in the Fourier domain, and then the IFT is used to obtain the final solution It must be noted that the fundamental...
... another transmission on the probed channel At the expiration of the timeout, the node randomly chooses a channel c ∈ Ci according to the probability distribution pi = [p1 , p2 , , pC ] Then, ... the first statement of the theorem Since ηic ≥ 0in (5), combining (7) and (9) results in the second statement of the theorem Updating channel access probabilities The randomized channel selection ... node andthe whole network are presented in Figure 3, where the varying node index is mapped on Figure Values of covariances between the central node andthe nodes of the network when (a) the...
... consider the spectral and spatial characterization of the system and assume all the users and interferences are present in the band where the first user is active The temporal characterization of the ... beamforming The rest of the paper is structured as follows In the next section, we first present an RF measurement setup and measurement results in the 2.4 GHz ISM band We then discuss the 2.4 GHz ISM band ... same time, the variance of the total interference is σT = (18) In the above equation B2, j is the bandwidth of the jth partial-band interferer, and Δ f j is the frequency offset between the jth interferer...
... generalized Pareto distribution and present numerical and simulation results to evaluate and compare the performance of the optimal OSA approach and fixed STR approach On the other hand, it is difficult to ... primary users and is busy otherwise (Figure 1) The duration of idle period is the time interval starting at the release of the channel until the first packet arrival Similarly, the duration of ... generate the channel-usage patterns using generalized Pareto distribution random number generator in MATLAB andthe following parameters: the shape parameter k = 0.5 andthe scale parameter σ = 20, the...
... behavior of other players and that they believe that the other player can the same For this reason, the key point in this setup is the capability of the follower of sensing the environment and, therefore, ... 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 Nash ... all the different cases depending on the values of β1 and β2 (note that β2 < β1 ) The X-axis depicts the strategy space for the leader (p1 ) As can be seen, in the first case (β2 > 1, β1 > 1) the...
... every user has the same utility 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 ... x’s power demand dx = if wx = w y = By the proposed method, we can adjust the initial budget endowments to wx = 6/5 and w y = 4/5, then the equilibrium price will remain the same andthe equilibrium ... to the users with higher power shortage andthe total budget remains m The term w aims to keep new wi not less than The power demand value andthe error tolerance have a significant impact on the...
... speech therapist and unfamiliar toys and games andthe results were compared to the ones obtained from sessions of free play with the therapists and familiar material The comparison of the variables ... group was the one with the youngest children and it is expected that earlier intervention produces better results On the other hand, it was hypothesized that the inclusion of the mothers in the intervention ... face and hitting The child emits signs that are 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...
... |E(G)| = m then U(G) is 2m×2m andthe vertices of degree zero not contribute to the dimension of UG • Given i ∈ V (G), if d(i) = and {i, j} ∈ E(G), then U(G)(j,i),(i,j) = 1, and this is the unique ... M(G) and M(H) are the adjacency matrices of the graphs G and H, respectively Harary and Norman [7] proved that if → − → − D and F are digraphs without sources or sinks then L D ∼ L F if and only ... M(G) and U = U(G) 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...
... for the illness [3] Expectedly, the long-term goals of treatment are to stabilize the patient's clinical and functional status, help maintain the patient in the community, and prevent relapse The ... enrollment in the study and initiation on the index drug, and for time between initiation on the index drug and an arbitrary date (July 1, 2000) The latter was calculated to assess the potential ... initiation of the drug therapy are assigned to that therapy, even if therapy is discontinued [17] In contrast, the inclusion of patients who were continuously treated with the index drug during the study...
... calculation of means and standard deviation for age, gender and BMI Differences between the groups were tested using Kruskall-Wallis nonparametric test (for age and BMI) and chi-square tests ... chi-square tests (for gender) Group differences in the BED andthe BS prevalence were compared using the Pearson Chi-square test The characteristics of the groups are shown in Table Kruskal Wallis ... rates in the high BMI schizophrenic patient subgroup [12] The principal finding of this study is the significantly higher BED and BS prevalence in the high BMI schizophrenic group than in their...
... in education and scores on the neurocognitive tests (Table 3) There was no significant meaningful correlation between the scores on the tests andthe scores on SANS, BPRS and HRSD There was also ... battery The only test in the FAB, on which the two groups scored similarly, was the environmental autonomy subtest Reverse digit span and Trail making B test also tests the executive function, i.e the ... negative and positive symptoms score and score on IDEAS Although there was no significant relationship between scores on the cognitive tests and scores on IDEAS, the negative correlation between the...