specific components of a multifactorial intervention

... understanding, (b) adequacy of information required to undertake a replication, and (c) ease of identification of discrete BCTs Acceptability will be evaluated as in phase 2b Analysis Analyses of variance ... Kinmonth AL, Mant D: Randomised controlled trials of follow up care in general practice of patients with myocardial infarction and angina: final results of the Southampton Heart Integrated Care Project ... This phase will generate empirical data to examine whether the list of BCTs leads to reliable identification of BCTs that can be generalised to a range of behaviours and populations Research questions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... – Advantages • Can carry up to three times the amount of data as TDMA • Transmissions are much harder to eavesdrop on • A would-be eavesdropper must also know the exact chip in which the transmission ... the signal • Attenuation – A loss of signal strength • Multipath distortion – As a radio signal is transmitted, the electromagnetic waves spread out 24 Signal Strength (continued) 25 Radio Frequency ... • List the components of a radio system • Describe how different factors affect the design of a radio system • Explain the radio frequency spectrum Components of a Radio System • Components include:...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 10:52

... One approach to increase the duration of PNA binding to DNA is to conjugate it to a DNAalkylating reagent so that the PNA becomes covalently bound to its target sequence To this a DNA alkylating ... synthesis and characterization of a novel mitochondria-targeted alkylating reagent and show that it alkylates DNA in vitro and is taken up by mitochondria However, in spite of its substantial import, ... that the extent of alkylation was proportional to the amount of DNA present and was independent of the size of the DNA fragment (Fig 3A, lane 1) As mtDNA in vivo is negatively supercoiled it was...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... demographic and clinical data was obtained at baseline and prior to randomization QOL and self-efficacy were assessed at baseline and at 3, 6, and 12 months Eating behavior and depression was assessed ... only at baseline and 12 months QOL was measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), a valid and reliable questionnaire evaluating physical, functional, family-social, ... used repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) with the 3, and 12 month data as outcomes and the appropriate baseline measurement as a covariate to test for the main effect of group (LI versus...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... epitopes assay Assay performance characteristics of the anti-SmD3 peptide (SMP) assay (a) Intra-assay and interassay variability, (b) linearity, and (c) receiver operating characteristic analysis ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/7/1/R19 (ANA) profile (Pharmacia Diagnostics; cutoff ratio 1) The latter assay contains the autoantigens U1-68 kDa, U1 -A, U1-C, SmBB', SmD, Ro-52, Ro-60 and La All ELISAs were performed in accordance ... peptide-based assay (99.8%; data not shown) Further studies are in progress to compare the assay performance of the anti-SMP assay with that of other commercially available anti-Sm immunoassays For...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association Journal ... 25:301-318 Damanpour F: Organizational innovation: A meta-analysis of effects of determinants and moderators Academy of management journal 1991, 34:555-588 Elenkov DS, Manev IM: Top management leadership ... to track individual participant and chart audit data Names of interview participants will be kept separated from data collection forms and locked at the University of Ottawa Nursing Best Practice...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association Journal ... 25:301-318 Damanpour F: Organizational innovation: A meta-analysis of effects of determinants and moderators Academy of management journal 1991, 34:555-588 Elenkov DS, Manev IM: Top management leadership ... to track individual participant and chart audit data Names of interview participants will be kept separated from data collection forms and locked at the University of Ottawa Nursing Best Practice...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... and anxiety Methods An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a bifactor modelling approach were used to separate a general distress continuum from more specific sub-domains of depression and anxiety ... items and response frequencies are shown in table Data analysis Initial analysis of the joint item pool was conducted in stages First, we computed exploratory factor analyses for categorical data ... graphics commands These graphs are important to provide an indication of variations in the level of estimated score precision across the measurement range and to identify the range of scale values,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... indicates that the designed airfoils have a maximum aerodynamic efficiency lower than that of the S809’s, however they have larger values for a larger range of the angles of attack This is a possible ... Models of lift and drag coefficients of stalled and unstalled airfoils in wind turbines and wind tunnels National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA/CR-2008-215434 (2008) National Oceanic and ... that the angles of attack in the airfoils go from around degrees to around 22 This indicates that instead of a maximization of the Cl /Cd of the airfoil for a given alphadesign, the optimization...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:17

... 5¢-GTATCAGCTTC(C ⁄ T)TCAAATGTC-3¢ 5¢-CCATCACAAGAAACTAGAGAAAC-3 5¢-TTAAGTACTATAAAT-ACACAGCCTA-3¢ 5¢-CGAGCTCACTGCCTCTCAAC-3¢ 5¢-ACTCGTAGC-ACAGAGACAGAG-3¢ 5¢-ATGGCAGTAGTAGCAG-CTCC-3¢ 5¢-TCAGGTGTCT-AAGTTCAGAGATTC-3¢ ... Remarks 10 11 12 13 5¢-GG (A ⁄ T)CA (A ⁄ C)GG (A ⁄ T)AC (A ⁄ C)TT(C ⁄ T)GC(C ⁄ G ⁄ T)AAGGT-3¢ 5¢-ACAAA (A ⁄ C )A( A ⁄ G) (A ⁄ G ⁄ T )A( C ⁄ T) (A ⁄ C ⁄ G)ACACCACAAGACC)3¢ 5¢-CTTAT(C ⁄ G)AACAAGGAA (A ⁄ C)AATTTC-3¢ ... 5¢-TCAGGTGTCT-AAGTTCAGAGATTC-3¢ 5¢-ATGTTGCAGTGCTTAGAGGGA-3¢ 5¢-TTAAGTATCATCTACTTGTGAATG-3¢ 5¢-CCTCCGGAATTCATGGCAGTAGTAGCAGCTCC-3¢ 14 5¢-CCGCCGCTCGAGTCAGGTGTCTAAGTTCAGAGATTC-3¢ 15 5¢-GCCATGCCATGGCAATGTTGCAGTGCTTAGAGGGA-3¢...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... PCA analyzes the covariation of a set of variables and condenses the variation into a smaller number of underlying (latent) components Second, we used ANOVA5 with multiple comparisons to examine ... extent of applying risk management methods, degree of standardization of risk management methods, industry, project managers' education, hardware architecture, use of analysis and design methods, and ... their advice on statistical analyses Thanks go also to Mark Keil and Lars Mathiassen for their comments to earlier drafts of the paper and Steven Kelly, who improved the language of the paper Finally,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... biblical literature is the availability of a great deal of manual annotation In particular, we are able to identify synsets by exploiting the availability of the standard King James translation of ... synonyms in an automated fashion Second, we need to adapt our similarity measure for reasons that will be made clear below 4.1 (Almost) Automatic Synset Identification One of the advantages of using ... each case the vast majority of verses are correctly assigned and only a small fraction are incorrectly assigned That is, we can tease apart the components almost perfectly Figure Percentage of verses...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... Christian.Wegner@oeaw.ac.at Marc Luy is Senior Scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Email: Mark.Luy@oeaw.ac.at Determinants of General Health Status and ... indicators of physiological health are based on prevalence of disabilities and causes of death In Germany the main causes of death are circulatory diseases, neoplasms, diseases of respiratory system and ... significance A statistically significant higher proportion of attrition was again valid for females as compared to males in all analysed diseases Table 8: Health transition by specific diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... view of focus of attention a word is treated as having a static semantics However metaphor can make the semantic type of objects more flexible By using a verb that only applies to humans, as above, ... terms of a moving vehicle at the same time emphasizing the effort that it takes to leave (as in section 3.3) A party can be described, via "is -a" links of the abstraction hierarchy, as a human process ... level of abstraction, where the key role (termination) is specified, we can search for a candidate metaphorical domain that shares this ancestor There are several possible metaphorical domains that...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20

... CTTGGC GCCAGCAG ATACCA GGGAC TAGGA 39 GCCTGGAGTGT C C CAGGG CTAGG NA XXXXXXAGT CAT CAGGG ATTGGG 16 GCCAGCA CCCT GACAGGG CTTGGA 6E4 GCCAGCAGTTT TCT 40 GCCAGCAGTTTA B/22 GCCAGCAGT C A .ACAGGG ... .CAGCCCCAGXX X .CAGCCCCAGCA T TTCACCCCT CCAC TCAGCCCCAGXX X TCAGCCCCAGXX X TCAGCCCCAGCA T .CAGCCCCAGCA T .CAGCCCCAGCA T .CAGCCCCAGCA T TCAGCCCCAGCA T CTATGGCTACXXX TCAGCCCCAGCA T not available tions 105, ... GCCAGCAG CCA .ACAGGGG CTCGG B/9 GCCAGCAGTTT TCA GGGAC TCGG aNucleotides 5' J region C GGG TTGGG CAGCCCCAGCA T .TATGGCTACACC .CAGCCCCAGCA T .CAGCCCCAGCA T .CAGCCCCAGXX X .CAGCCCCAGXX X .CAGCCCCAGCA...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... In particular, we thank Loukmane Agbo-Ola and Paul Kple-Faget for their support of our research activities, François Cokou for his assistance with data management and Samantha Rowe for her gracious ... training and post-training supports on the quality of pneumonia case management; (2) examine specific causes of common errors in the case-management process with a simple graphical pathway analysis; ... pneumonia treatment errors in-depth Case-management quality among IMCI-trained health workers The in-depth examination of errors by IMCI-trained health workers via graphical pathway analysis allowed...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... 1: A comparison of cross-cultural adaptations of quality of life measures (Continued) Total number of formal translations At least forward and back translations At least forward translations and ... Backward Translation A qualified professional translator (affiliated with a commercial translating service in Canada) performed a single backward translation into the original language, for each of the ... Not part of the process Back translation(final language into source language) ≥ Professional, naïve translators NSE.# Professional translators NSE Professional, naïve translators NSE Translate...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Defazio G, Abbruzzese G, Girlanda P, Vacca L, Curra A, De Salvia R, Marchese R, Raineri R, Roselli F, Livrea P, Berardelli A: Botulinum toxin A treatment for primary hemifacial spasm: a 10-year ... Inc., Chicago) was used for data analysis and the significant level was set up at p < 0.05 An intra-class correlation (ICC) approach was used to examine the test-retest reliability of HFS-36 ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:104 Introduction Hemifacial spasm (HFS) is characterized by involuntary contractions of the facial muscles innervated by the ipsilateral facial nerve,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... that affect dental appearance and have an impact on participants' daily lives may not be captured by IOTN In addition, DAI has many more measures of malocclusion affecting the anterior teeth than ... individuals who have a DHC grade of or 5, or grade with an AC of or above All other cases were therefore classified as having no need For DAI, 10 occlusal traits were assessed and a score was obtained ... eruption, defects of cleft lip and palate as well as any craniofacial anomaly, Class II and Class III buccal occlusions, and hypodontia Only the highest scoring trait is used to assess treatment need...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20