server side validation of the completed form

... version of the SF-NDI Cross-cultural adaptation of the English version of the SFNDI was performed in 10 English-speaking healthy subjects of varied age and educational backgrounds In-depth Page of ... validity of the instruments Once again, the magnitude of this reduction in SFNDI scores was less marked in the Malay version of the SFNDI and the smaller sample size in this group might explain the ... observations of the SF-NDI with generic HRQoL instruments such as the SF-36 [10] and SF-12 [25] have been noted in other validation studies Apart from the original developers validation of the instrument...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... performance among the public officials Objectives of the study Studies on job performance have adopted various different measures in capturing the performance construct The inconsistencies of these ... of the items The respondents have been trained to evaluate employees based on the items and therefore OCB items in the performance appraisal were considered as task instead of contextual performance ... performance of the public officials (Morrison, 2000) Taken together, Kim (2006) and Lee, Nam, Park, and Lee (2006) strongly suggested that research on job performance of public officials is considered...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... overview of the rest of the paper The rest of the paper consists of four chapters as follows: Chapter (Review of literature) provides the theoretical background of the study The focus of this ... method, the emphasis of which is on the learning of the rules of the language, not on the acquisition of language skills This is obviously manifested in their teaching methods 3.2.2 The 10th -form ... find out the best way of learning reading Only 16% choose searching for reading materials on the Internet Besides their effort, they can’t deny the role of the teachers who often help them much...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:44

... In the first step of the enzymatic reaction, a nucleophilic attack is performed on the anomeric carbon of the sugar substrate by the carboxylate of the Asp54 acting as the primary nucleophile, forming ... anomeric carbon of fructose The leaving group is carboxylate of Asp54 Dimerization The asymmetric units of the crystals of both the apo and complexed form of the enzyme consist of dimers with ... cylindrical with the ‘funnel’ shape channel inside of it, which resembles the shape of a fishtrap The active site is located at the bottom of the axial funnel created by the interblade loops and the loops...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21

... indicates the elution positions of molecular mass markers are shown above the panels The profiles of the three proteins overlap over a region that coincides with the expected molecular mass of the ternary ... recombinant proteins The 3D arrangement of the binding sites for TIPRL and a4 on the surface of PP2Ac shows that they are in close proximity, but not overlapping, which allows the assembly of the TIPRL:PP2Ac:a4 ... for comparison Numbers on the left of the gray bars indicate the first amino acid in the respective activation domain-phosphatase catalytic subunit fusion The PP2Ac isoforms a and b share identical...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... regulation of the PKI and PKI isoforms of the inhibitor protein of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase J Biol Chem 272, 20011–20020 Byler, D.M & Susi, H (1986) Examination of the secondary structure of ... for further study The concentration of the proteins was determined by the method of Lowry et al [14] and the purity was examined by SDS/PAGE [15] Assay of human PKIb activity The activity of purified ... Characterization of PKI gamma, a novel isoform of the protein kinase inhibitor of cAMPdependent protein kinase J Biol Chem 272, 18169–18178 Gamm, D.M & Uhler, M.D (1995) Isoform-specific differences in the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... between the two proteins (as indicated by the values of DGwater, Cm and Tg) hence arise from the changes in the surface of the protein because of the interactions of the cofactor with the protein ... are comparable, the Tg values of the proteins vary slightly; there is a difference of almost C between the Tg values of the proteins, the value being higher for the holo form There have been ... unfolding thermodynamic parameters of the two forms are given in Tables 13 In the entire experimental regime, it is seen that the holo form presents better stability than the other form (Fig 4C) The...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:20

... system of rat liver After incubation of the hydroxylase with 125I-labelled Ub and a mixture of the purified preparations of the E1, E2 and E3 enzymes, the 2D-electrophoresis revealed the formation of ... intensity near the top of the gel (Fig 5A, lane 2) One of the bands revealed a mobility corresponding to that of TH immunoreactivity ( 60 kDa), with a trace amount of reactivity at the top of the gel ... diagonal pattern of high Mr ÔladderÕ of radioactive spots (Fig 1C) which reflects the heterogeneity of the Ub-protein conjugates of wt-hTH1 in terms of size and pI Multiple molecular forms of  62 kDa...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... as a whole and the reader can feel as if they are part of the group and read, and think along with the characters Another thing dealing with the diary form is quick referencing The reader, if ... talking and acting through the written dialects In the novel Dracula, all the diaries, of all the individuals come together and in the end, become one powerful, combination of descriptions, facts, ... matter to take place When, there are different people of different places, they can be identified by how they act and how they talk If, Bram Stoker did not use the diary form narrative, this would...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04

... structure of the soluble form of CLIC4 the backbone and side chain of Asn34 and the side chain of Lys24 This crystal contact stabilizes the structure of the leading side of the foot loop The putative ... the side chain of Asn81 The intervening residues of the C-terminal extension interact with the neighboring monomer via hydrophobic contacts Comparison with the structure of the soluble form of ... reduction in the size of the protein, leaving a kDa fragment [4] This supports the hypothesis that the integral membrane form of the protein has a single transmembrane region near the N-terminus...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... to 1; the closer to the RV, the more similar the configuration of the two sets of variables Validation and assessment of the psychometric properties of the PACT-Q dimensions Validity is the degree ... A2, A4 and A5, the higher the score, the higher the patients' expectations of their treatment; for items A3, A5 and A7, the lower the score, the higher the patients' expectations of their treatment ... validation of the original structure of the questionnaire The psychometric validation of the resulting dimensions is also presented Methods The original PACT-Q The original PACT-Q consists of two...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... each of these considerations, how well does the WURSS-21 compare to the WURSS-44, Jackson, and SF-8? Our basic methodology was to recruit people early in the course of their colds, then follow them ... enrollment Half the sample filled out the WURSS-21 in the morning and the WURSS-44 in the evening; the other half completed the questionnaires in reverse order In addition to the WURSS-21 and ... asked whether they were "better," "the same," or "worse," compared to the last time they answered the questionnaire Those considering themselves "better" then rate improvement as: 1) Almost the same,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... test-retest reliability Eight of them had to be excluded from the analysis due to the worsening of their condition after the first use of the questionnaire, leading to a final number of 20 patients in this ... allows awareness of a patient's subjective perception of the disease and the daily limitations they face [6] There are various possible ways of assessing HRQoL The importance of using disease-specific ... (range 917) ICC is above the expected value of 0.6 for of the dimensions of the Child version, for "Digestive Symptoms" ICC shows a value of 0.5 In all dimensions of the Parent version, ICC values...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... as "moderate", with the best result for GERS We consider this acceptable in view of the outcome of the factor analysis, the conditioning in the codes for the symptom domains, the relatively few ... HN was the mentor of LK and participated in the face validity process of the translation LK also participated in the writing of the manuscript LA had the comprehensive responsibility for the main ... was the main object for our validation, and a computerized version The English and the Swedish versions of the questionnaire are included as Additional Files and The codes for diagnoses The codes...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... debriefed version of the TRIM-Weight was incorporated into an online validation study to assess the measurement and psychometric properties of the measure As with the development phase, the validation ... were considered evidence of poor association [32] The most appropriate number of factors to be extracted was determined by both the residual analysis, i.e., evaluation of the ability of the factor ... dimensions of a PRO measure and the appropriateness of the total versus the domain score is dependent upon the purpose for which the measure is being used Therefore, the SAP for the TRIM-Weight was specifically...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Score (15 items), the mean is computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered in the Emotional, Social, and School Functioning Scales The adaptation of the PedsQL™ 4.0 ... Scores are computed as the sum of the items divided by the number of items answered (this accounts for missing data) If more than 50% of the items in the scale are missing, the Scale Score is not ... different ways across these studies, but the lower bound of internal consistencies found by our study was lower than the ones reported for most of the other validation studies Types of validity tested...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... validity of the short -form of BPH-QLS is summarized in table The domains of the short -form of BPH-QLS and SF-36 were significantly correlated (p < 0.01) with CCs of 0.267~0.773, most of which ... correlation of the total score between the two scales r2 = 0.947 The short -form scale accounted for 94.7% of the explained variance of the 74-item one (table 4) Profile analysis indicated that the two ... evaluation and the additional self-assessment globe QOL item The new short scale accounted for 94.7% of the explained variance of the 74-item scale after half of the items were reduced The CCs of the short-form...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... finally the authorized Swedish translation of the CCQ provided by the developer [3,5,7] The questionnaires were filled in before meeting the health professional, i.e the GP or a nurse During the ... Comparison of instruments The total scores of the instruments have completely different scales (Table 2) Nevertheless, the distributions of total scores were similar, and the concordance ICC for the ... than 50% of predicted, respectively The measurement properties of the CCQ were not destroyed by concomitant asthma The relevance of the present data is supported by the subgroup analysis of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... participated in the design of the validation study and the development of the statistical plan FP carried out the statistical analyses All authors participated in the data interpretation FJS drafted the ... symptoms of depression were positively associated with a more negative appraisal of insulin therapy [18] Further research into the role of negative affect in patients' perceptions of insulin therapy ... removed, and the topic of weight gain is generally acknowledged as one of the important barriers in the current treatment of type diabetes [20] We therefore suggest to retain item in the ITAS, deserving...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... However, there has been a dearth of studies to quantitatively assess either the well-being of parents of children with type diabetes or their satisfaction with their child's diabetes regimen The paucity ... parents and their children were included in the study Approximately 90% of the parents/ caregivers were female, usually mothers, with a mean age of 37.1 years (Table 1) The majority of the subjects ... child participated; the participant was required to be the primary caregiver of the child, and had to be willing to participate throughout the course of the study and to complete the questionnaires...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20