studies reviewed to assess ranges of future tdf performance

... each of the ATAQ-IPF’s scales (domain and total) maintain their additive properties To our knowledge, only one other investigator has used this type of approach in the development of respiratory ... (according to the ATAQ-IPF total) than subjects not using supplemental oxygen Although 74 items comprise version of the ATAQIPF, this number of items enables it to tap myriad important constructs and to ... statistical techniques to pare down item number Items fit the Rasch model, and internal consistency supported reporting of domain and total scores In future studies, data will be gathered to help further...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... territory of Kysuce in the north-western part of Slovakia The territory of interest represents 55,000 of forested area in the West Beskidians Mts., and is actually affected by the mass dieback of ... above-mentioned and with respect to some lack of knowledge of this topic, there is no reason to reject several assumptions which are necessary for the relative yield assessment of mixed stands by the method ... Examples of relative yield assessment in assumed conditions of even-aged, fully stocked forest stands, for the main types of target forests and most frequent MGFTs in the model territory of Kysuce,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... mangiato cibo di mio gusto Qualche volta ho mangiato cibo di mio gusto Tante volte ho mangiato cibo di mio gusto Ho quasi sempre mangiato cibo di mio gusto Ho sempre mangiato cibo di mio gusto 14 ... [3] This instrument is one of the first to tackle the gap of validated tools to assess the relation between nutrition and quality of life We found that sensations, symptoms healthy lifestyle, family ... context of dietary intervention studies and for the development of new food products to improve health and well being In addition, QoL related to nutrition may potentially serve as a predictor of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... http://www.ann-clinmicrob.com/content/10/1/27 Page of 10 Figure Repartition of the AWD diameter according topical antimicrobial agents and group of strains Abbreviations of topical agents names as defined for table Group of strains ... that 88% of non multi-drug resistant strains of the genera Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus and Enterococcus were fully susceptible to topical agents compared to 80% of multi-drug ... (from 17 to 15 mm) and for Flammacerium® (from 20 to 18 mm) For Betadine® gel, the range of inhibition zone was wider, from 27 to 20 mm when the dilution increase The absence of defined cut-off values...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... reliability of a given data set supporting a toxicological effect • Quality of the studies and methodology McLaughlin Centre University of Ottawa Hazard Identification (Is this Toxic?) Epidemiological Studies ... effects in particular subgroups of humans, based on consideration of results of toxicological/epidemiological studies and mechanistic data (mode of action) • Weight of evidence (WOE) (early, systematic ... proteins – nature of early effects leading to toxicity • E.g., effects on hormones leading to secondary outcome • Toxicity leading to cell death and repair • Physical irritation of chemical precipitates...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2015, 09:16

... 1950s, research teams started to develop laboratory tests in order to predict tumor reaction to cytostatic drugs [5] They used fresh cancer tissue and examined the effect of the drugs on tumor cell ... beginning laboratory techniques were still in their infancy Short term cell cultures of cancer tissues were difficult to perform and procedures varied from laboratory to laboratory However, the ... principal steps, i.e isolation of cells, incubation of cells with drugs and assessment of cell survival are the same Usually a range of drug doses is applied in order to find a dose-response relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... Directorate (OECD, 2001) published a report on key environmental indicators in an effort to reduce the number of environmental indicators and to draw attention to key environmental issues of concern ... suppliers of the sugar provide the following data: kg of sugar is produced from kg of sugar beets or from kg of sugarcane Unit C produces litre of beverage C from kg of oranges The PWF of sugar ... footprint of the business as a whole consists of the sum of the water footprints of the different business units The water footprint of a business unit is defined as the total volume of freshwater...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... concentration of demand for a narrow segment of the market and is a strong indicator of the propensity of demand to be driven by a “star system” logic Thus, the market share of the top ten films in the total ... shot Number of foreign languages Number of different language of the top ten Number of foreign languages in the top ten HHI distribution of films produced by language HHI distribution of top ten ... (1989), a former Director of the Tate Gallery, studied the rise of success of four schools of English painting In each of the four cases, a clear succession of different steps of recognition was...

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Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 14:20

... over, towards the Rio Grande, by equally savage hordes, to which Antonio de Espejo and others give the name of "Tobosas."[78] It is, of course, impossible to assign boundaries to the Ranges of such ... lower story Second Story × 20 Third Story × Fourth Story × 12 52 f f g g:— Lower Story 22 × 132 Second Story 22 × 110 Third Story 22 × 88 Fourth Story 22 × Section 66 396 Total number of rooms ... river of the same name, north-west of the city of Chihuahua, and nearly south of János I have been unable as yet to ascertain when they first came to notice According to Antonio de Oca Sarmiento,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

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Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... researcher to consider the multiple, historical dimensions of the landscape from antiquity up to the present, and to incorporate not only accounts of the economic uses of the landscape but also of the ... combination of field walking and making inventories of the collections of local amateur archaeologists and museums he hoped to be able to reconstruct a regional habitation history, and to develop ... significance of Maasai homesteads, or Bourdieu’s famous study of the of the orientation towards the cardinal directions of the Kabyle house (1973; also 1977) houses of the Toraja of Sulawesi Parker...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:59

... health-related quality of life, depression, and cognitive difficulties [4] Assessing the effectiveness of new therapies therefore requires accurate assessment of a multidimensional array of symptoms and problems ... patients also had a long history of FM, averaging to 10 years Therefore the clinical and demographic profiles of these samples reflect those mainly of women with about a decade of experience with FM ... validity, and responsiveness to treatment as an overall rating of sleep in two clinical trials To assess specific areas of sleep, the trials included a multi-item sleep assessment, the MOS Sleep...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Villiger P, Kauer Y, Klaghofer R, Sensky T, Stoll T: PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) – a novel visual method to assess the global burden of illness in patients with ... aim of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the PRIMS-RII as a measure of suffering in people with diabetes Although the concept of suffering is abstract, the vast majority of patients ... precisely, according to this view a low quality of life is only experienced as suffering if the patient experiences a low quality of life and lacks the capacity to give meaning Future studies should...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... ability of the scores to discriminate between groups of patients according to dosing frequency (daily vs weekly bisphosphonates), diagnosis (osteopenia vs osteoporosis), and history of fracture ... Side Effects CSS How often Convenience Easy to take Easy to remember Fits into medication schedule Time required Confidence to participate in daily activities Confidence to be physically active ... between selected subgroups of patients (daily vs weekly bisphosphonate users, osteopenia vs osteoporosis diagnosis, history of fracture vs no history of fracture), the direction of the differences observed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... frail, to function physically at optimal levels and retain high levels of activity [16,26] The narrowness of a dichotomous approach to having Page of 10 successfully aged (on all indicators) or ... of this paper SI contributed significantly to developing the idea for the study, and to subsequent drafts of this paper; he had access to the data AB conceived of the study, had full access to ... ME: Behavioral and psychosocial predictors of physical performance: MacArthur Studies of successful aging J Gerontol 1995, 50A:M177-M183 Reuben DB, Judd-Hamilton L, Harris TB, Seeman TE: The associations...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Villiger P, Kauer Y, Klaghofer R, Sensky T, Stoll T: PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) – a novel visual method to assess the global burden of illness in patients with ... aim of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the PRIMS-RII as a measure of suffering in people with diabetes Although the concept of suffering is abstract, the vast majority of patients ... precisely, according to this view a low quality of life is only experienced as suffering if the patient experiences a low quality of life and lacks the capacity to give meaning Future studies should...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... at the end of the life, what might lead to thermal runaway processes 3.3 Failure mode analysis In order to determine the failure mode of the gel batteries, prototypes were recharged, torn down ... 2.84 1.83 2.10 2.03 2.15 3.40 T: top, upper part of the electrode B: bottom, lower part of the electrode generated by lateral plate growth, and the use of leaf separators Fumed silica based electrolytes ... thickness) and the use as separator of a combination of absorptive glass mat (AGM) material and a microporous polyethylene membrane to avoid premature battery failure due to shortcircuits Batteries...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 20:21

... g/dL)] and number of extranodal sites with number of nodal sites (more than four) Low risk (zero or one factor) was assigned to 36% of patients, intermediate risk (two factors) to 37%, and poor ... the presence or absence of five adverse prognostic factors and may have none or all five of these adverse prognostic factors Figure 105-4 shows the prognostic significance of this score in 1300 ... Involvement of extranodal site(s) beyond that designated as "E" More than one extranodal deposit at any location Any involvement of liver or bone marrow A No symptoms B Unexplained weight loss of >10% of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 04:20