... stimulationof either of the two channels We found that, for pairs of electrodes showing no significant difference in Table (i.e., E1 and E2, E1 and E5, E3 and E5), simultaneous stimulationof ... presentation of stimuli can efficiently eliminate the possible Page of 10 bias from the subject’s anticipation However, its main drawback is that many times of presentations of each value and tracking of ... simultaneous stimulation, there is an inverse relationship between the perception threshold and the number of pulses And the perception threshold is Geng et al Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation...
... Association of respondents' socio-demographic characteristics with respondents' knowledge of symptoms, mode of transmission, choice of effective treatment and preventive methods of PTB Association ... camel's milk and goat's meat as remedies Communities' Knowledge of the Mode ofTransmissionand Prevention of PTB Table depicts the communities' knowledge about the mode oftransmissionand preventive ... 50% of the participants in the study districts had high knowledge of PTB, (95% confidence and 5% degree of accuracy) and a design effect of 1.1 due to multi-stage sampling, a total of 424 participants...
... health-related quality of life (HRQL) [3,10-13] OAB adversely affects social and professional activities, social and sexual relationships, and travel [14,15] Treatment with antimuscarinics is associated with ... importance of measuring patients' assessment of treatment impact has been demonstrated by evidence of disparity between the opinions of clinicians and patients regarding the level of bother and the ... However, a large proportion of Authors' contributions PvK, CK, KC, ZK, MB, and JTW participated in the concept and design, interpretation of data, and the drafting and revising of the manuscript PvK...
... physicians of different specialities of a tertiary level academic hospital to evaluate their knowledge andperceptionof QoL Indeed, little is known about physicians' attitudes towards QoL and ... 10.1186/1477-7525-8-43 Cite this article as: Bossola et al., Physicians' knowledge of health-related quality of life andperceptionof its importance in daily clinical practice Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... MB and RM designed and conducted the study as well as participated in the writing of the manuscript and in the statistical analysis LP, MF, AT and GO contributed to the design of the study and...
... conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination, review of literature and revision of the manuscript TAA participated in data collection during the preliminary and main survey and ... animals, especially endangered species in all forms of traditional medicine is a cause of growing concern [11,12] Poaching animals for their medicinal values has brought many of the wild species closer ... Book and listed in appendix II of CITES All four African species are listed in Class B of the 1986 African Convention on Nature and Natural Resources while the three western African species of...
... of capital asset pricing J Econ Theory 13 341–60 Schwartz E S and Moon M 2000 Rational pricing of internet companies Financial Analysts J 56 62–75 Sornette D and Johansen A 2001 Significance of ... above invariance principle to be valid, albeit with a richer definition of risk This invariance principle is a more general variant of the law of one price or the principle of no riskless arbitrage, ... portfolio of lower volatility More specifically, one can instantaneously construct a portfolio V consisting of w shares of P and − w shares of B, with w chosen so that the instantaneous volatility of...
... months Chapter 2: Transmissionand Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis 42 References American Thoracic Society and CDC Diagnostic standards and classification of tuberculosis in adults and children Am ... results in insufficient dilution or removal of infectious droplet nuclei Air circulation Recirculation of air containing infectious droplet nuclei Specimen handling Improper specimen handling procedures ... Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of nontuberculous mycobacterial diseases Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2007; 175: 367 416 www.thoracic.org/statements/resources/mtpi/nontuberculous-mycobacterial-diseases.pdf...
... Statistics of the BioScope corpus The 2nd and 3d columns show the total number of cues within the datasets; the 4th and 5th columns show the percentage of negated and speculative sentences 70% of the ... speculation and negation scopes could be concisely expressed as a 284 combination of lexical and syntactic patterns For ¨ u example, Ozg¨ r and Radev (2009) examined sample BioScope sentences and developed ... and W Daelemans 2010 Memory-based resolution of in-sentence scopes of hedge cues CoNLL-2010: Shared Task, page 40 ¨ u A Ozg¨ r and D.R Radev 2009 Detecting speculations and their scopes in scientific...
... (EMS) vision by fruitful exchanges of methods and hardware with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburgh, and with Sarnoff Research of SRI, Princeton The experimental ... Perceptionof Crossroads 297 10.1 General Introduction 297 10.1.1 Geometry of Crossings and Types of Vision Systems Required 298 10.1.2 Phases of Crossroad Perceptionand ... vehicles X is in the standard direction of motion, x and z are in the plane of vehicle symmetry, and y completes a righthanded set of coordinates The origin at the lower outside of the body alleviates...
... containing 10% of fetal bovine serum (Sigma), mm l-glutamine, 10% standard vitamins solution, 100 lmÆmL)1 of penicillin G, 0.1 mgÆmL)1 of streptomycin sulfate and 0.25 lgÆmL)1 of amphotericin B (all ... action of neokyotorphin may lead to the nontypical cell specificity seen in the action of neokyotorphin, which, if this is the case, should not be associated with the expression of specific receptors ... Use and specificity of staurosporine, UCN-01, and calphostin C as protein kinase inhibitors Methods Enzymol 201, 340–347 19 Ruegg U (1989) Staurosporine, K-252 and UCN-01: potent but nonspecific...
... pattern X and Y work for Z X and Y fly to Z X and Y go to Z X and Y work in Z X and Y work on Z X and Y work at Z X and Y live in Z X and Y live at Z X and Y live with Z X and Y cause Z X and Y celebrate ... Charniak, 1998), syntactic dependencies (Pantel and Ravichandran, 2004), and lexico-syntactic patterns (Riloff and Jones, 1999; Fleischman and Hovy, 2002; Thelen and Riloff, 2002) When research focuses ... extraction of new lexicosyntactic patterns (Riloff and Jones, 1999; Snow et al., 2005; Etzioni et al., 2005) Some algorithms require ten seeds (Riloff and Jones, 1999; Igo and Riloff, 2009),...
... cared and handled in conformence with the Guiding Principles for Research Involving Animals and Humans, approved by the Council of the American Physiological Soceity The School of Medicine Research ... opposite expression pattern to that of the p53 gene RT-PCR analysis of c-jun, p53 and p21WAF1/CIF1 in liver and lung of control, chronic vitamin A-deficiency and hypervitaminosis rats Based on ... in liver and lung of control, chronic vitamin A-deficiency and hypervitaminosis rats Liver and lung samples were electrophoresed and immunoblotted with specific antibodies The amount of p53 protein...
... Department of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medical and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, p.o.box 1560, Awassa, Ethiopia Behavioural Health Sciences Unit, School of Public Health, Collage of Health ... a year, lack of representation of private health facilities, sites are often urban biased and the sample sizes are often arguable Not being part of routine activity, costs associated with antenatal ... coverage, low rate of HIV test acceptance and lack of standardized recording and reporting system In Ethiopia, following the rapid scaling up of PMTCT programmes, large proportions of pregnant women...
... level of in‡ ation at time t and T the number of observations xt and zt are vectors of covariates with (p ) and (q ) elements respectively andand i are the corresponding vectors of coe¢ cients ... rate and the expected t level of in‡ ation respectively Kozicki and Tinsley (2001a), Evans and Lewis (1995) and Crowder and Ho¤man (1996) have proposed di¤erent estimates of the magnitude of the ... Measuring the long-term perceptionof monetary policy and the term structure The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily reflect the views of the Bank of Finland I would like to...
... multiplicity of infection values (m.o.i.) of 100 and 500, adipophilin mRNA was increased 14 ± 0.8- and 39 ± 7.8-fold, respectively, and adipophilin protein was increased 6.5 ± 1.7- and ... generation and ⁄ or incorporation of fatty acyl CoAs into TG and ⁄ or by inhibiting fatty acid oxidation Additional experiments are required to more precisely define the mode of action of adipophilin ... protection of lipid droplets against the activity of intracellular lipases such as hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL), inhibition of fatty acid oxidation (which would favour the recycling of fatty acids),...
... content of music, have placed new demands upon description, representation and recognition Summary of Sections and Chapters This special volume consists of both invited chapters and open-solicited ... Visual Perceptionof Music Notation: On-Line and Off-Line Recognition Susan E George University of South Australia, Australia IRM Press Publisher of innovative scholarly and professional ... systems and facilitates the segmentation and recognition of musical symbols The process is complicated by the fact that most music symbols are placed on top of stafflines and these lines are often...
... Figure Detail of the two-dimensional patternsof patient A Detail of the two-dimensional patternsof patient A Detail of the two-dimensional patternsof patient A Different expression of spot 19 ... two-dimensional patterns with different expression of the Ku antigen Detail of Detail of the two-dimensional patterns with different expression of the Ku antigen Selective deficiency of spot 91 (Ku ... breast cancer a hypermethylation of the CpG island of the σ gene was found that leads to gene silencing and absence of 14-3-3σ The authors conclude, that the loss of σ expression contributes to...
... Netherlands and Poland), North America (Canada and the United States) and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), with patients with DVT, AF or PE All three trials Page of 12 (page number not for citation ... Flowchart of the population included and participating in the study Flowchart of the population included and participating in the study Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and ... factor the items B10, B11 of the "Convenience" dimension and the items C1 and C2 of the "Burden of Disease and Treatment" dimension; factor the items D1, D2 and D3 of the original "Anticoagulant...
... appearance of physical facilities, equipment, appearance of personnel, and communication materials Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:63 ... comments and/ or any ideas about the service they received Reliability and Validity Internal consistency and reliability The expectation andperception scale had an alpha coefficient of > 0.958 ... the concept of satisfaction and measurement are based [6] Patients are an active consumer of health care services rather than merely passive recipients [7] The validity and reliability of many studies...