vii health related quality of life

... comfort of the foot orthoses; (iv) use of co-interventions; (v) frequency and severity of adverse events; (vi) level of physical activity in previous week; and (vii) health- related quality of life ... effects of interventions for lower limb musculoskeletal pathology [51,52] (vi) Health- related quality of life The Short-Form-36 (Version two) (SF-36) questionnaire will be used to assess health- related ... basic contour of the shell of all of the customised foot orthoses will be based on the description of the modified Root style of orthoses [36], and posted to vertical [36] This style of foot orthoses...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... Assessment of Quality of Life SF 36, Health Research The “Generic Questionnaire for the Assessment of Quality of Life" -SF 36 Health Research”, previously validated [13-16], consists of 36 questions, ... indicators of quality of life, and that physical activity Page of plays an important role in improving quality of life, regardless of the HDI ranking and economic status of the city of residence ... indicators of quality of life, and that physical activity plays an important role in improving quality of life, regardless of the HDI-I economic indicator or HDI national ranking status of the city of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... and aging Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004, 101:3316 59 Lang FR, Carstensen LL: Close emotional relationships in late life: Further support ... objective of this study was to examine the validity and psychometric properties of the most commonly used measure of enjoyment, the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES) [14] among a sample of older ... version of the PACES has been used with adults of mixed ages [2, 18] and was found to be invariant across samples of adult runners and cyclists [19]; however, this sample [19] consisted of mostly...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:64 Background The Healthy Japan 21 campaign aims to prevent chronic diseases, increase the quality of life (QOL), and expand years of healthy life ... activity on quality of life and resource utilization Qual Life Res 2006, 15:537-546 Nakamura Y, Kikuchi H, Oka K, Ota A, Miyauchi T: Stage of change of exercise affects health- related quality of life ... Stage of regular exercise and health- related quality of life Prev Med 1999, 28:349-360 Wendel-Vos GC, Schuit AJ, Tijhuis MA, Kromhout D: Leisure time physical activity and health- related quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... six trained muscle groups (range of increase 54.5% to 83.3%) (Table 4) Quality of life measures were assessed using the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment instrument in patients ... and quality of life measures were assessed Strength tests were performed at baseline, six and 12 weeks The exercise program consisted of 12 weeks of supervised exercise (preceded by two weeks of ... measurements of her chest and waist, and increased diameter of her mid-arm, forearm, thigh and calf could have been crucial to changing our patient’s perception of her body image Quality of life measures...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... 15D instrument of health- related quality of life: properties and applications Annals of Medicine 2001, 33(5):328-336 99 So CT, Man DWK: Development and validation of an activities of daily living ... rehabilitation Journal of clinical epidemiology 1989, 42(8):703-709 97 Sintonen H: The 15-D Measure of Health Reated Quality of Life: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity of its Health State Descriptive ... validation of a patient-centered health- related quality- of- life measure: the Chronic Heart Failure Assessment Tool Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 2008, 23(4):364-370 38 Eakin EG, Resnikoff PM,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... incidence of human threat [2] They are used as basis for the formulation of conservation priorities, the drafting of planning and management measures and regulations, and a variety of conservation ... season Each year, from May to October, most of the MD receives between 1800 and 2200 mm of rainfall At the end of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining from the upstream ... effects of high tide from the sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9 million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the MD known as the LongXuyen quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 22:15

... a quality scheme (3,85%) (Table 2) Concerning Policy and Strategy, the issues related to quality initiatives, such as the measurement of quality and non -quality costs, quality strategies and quality ... context, the purpose of this study was to characterise the quality management models of the PA programmes developed by the Portuguese Local Administration to enhance quality of life for elderly people, ... indicators of the process efficiency Marques et al BMC Public Health 2011, 11:123 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/123 Figure Average of the percentages related to quality practices of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... these data are suggestive of a role of membranes, in particular of negatively charged membranes, in the mechanism of action of RNases, we investigated the ability of a series of RNases to destabilize ... shows the shape of the electrostatic field of BS-RNase seen from different directions Figure S3 compares the electrostatic field of different Fig Plot of the EIE values as function of rotation (r) ... cycles of steepest descent followed by 50 cycles of conjugate gradients and 50 cycles of steepest descent) No clashes were detected at the dimer interface of the models or in the surroundings of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... influence of N-glycosylation on the quality control of GAT1, the half -life of GAT1 wild type and mutants was also investigated by kinetic analysis of pulse-chase experiments We found that the half -life ... stable with an exponential half -life of about 22 h, whereas the half -life of mutant DDN containing two N-glycosylation mutations was reduced to 12 h The half -life of DDQ containing all three N-glycosylation ... N-glycans of oligomannosidic type 1627 Role of N-glycosylation and N-glycan trimming of GAT1 G Cai et al Expression of N-glycosylation mutants on the plasma membrane of CHO cells The expression of NNN...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... CCAAT box at 324 bp upstream of the major transcription start site The presence of a CCAAT box and the absence of a TATA box seem to be one of the characteristics of the mouse integrin a3 gene ... approximately 4.0 kb of the 5¢-flanking region of exon of the mouse integrin a3 subunit gene We prepared a chimeric construct (pGL-ES), in which the 4.0 kb EcoRI/SacI fragment upstream of exon was inserted ... 5¢-flanking region and determination of transcription start sites of mouse integrin a3 subunit gene The nucleotide sequence of the 0.5 kb SalI/SacI fragment and a part of exon is shown in Fig A TRANSFACTM...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... Research on perceptions of leisure opportunities and assessments of quality of life has shown that leisure values are significant and positively related to perception of quality of life [2] However, ... leisure opportunities and assessments of quality of life have shown that leisure values are significant and positively related to perception of quality of life [Jeffres & Dobos, 1993; cited in ... positive and negative aspects of life No discussion of the highest quality of life possible or of serious health problems would be complete without including the relevance of stress [23; p 1] Gill...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... distance of 2.0 A The position of the ring structure of PG should be 70–80% accurate based on the prediction accuracy of ‘sievgene’ Although it is difficult to predict the position of side chains of ... fluorescence quenching curves of AKR1B1 and its mutants are shown in Fig 3D The Kd value of the K77L mutant of AKR1B1 was similar to that of the wildtype enzyme (0.3 lm) and the values of the D43N, D43E, ... higher than that of the wild-type AKR1B1 However, the Kd value of the Y48F ⁄ H110F double mutant of AKR1B3 was similar to that of the wild-type enzyme (5.7 lm) and the values of the Y48F and H110F...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... analysis of cultural heritage artefacts why? 2.1 Determination of the nature of component materials of an artefact 2.2 Dating 2.3 Determination of the creative process of a material or of the ... needs of individual museums, rather than a personal lifetime study of issues of conservation of, for example, buildings, large functional objects, paintings, and so on The contributors of this ... the editors of this book, Dr David Bradley (Department of Physics, University of Surrey) and Professor Dudley Creagh (Director of the Cultural Heritage Research Centre, University of Canberra)...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... cent of men and 32.2 per cent of women had a BMI of 25 or more, and 13.4 per cent of men and 15.8 per cent of women had a BMI of 30 or more See figure 1.4 for projections of the proportions of ... sedentary ways of life are a cause of these cancers and of weight gain, overweight, and obesity Weight gain, overweight, and obesity are also causes of some cancers independently of the level of physical ... thought of as attractive and affluent.24 Overall, in 1998, 21.1 per cent of men and 25.9 per cent of women had a BMI of at least 25; 10.1 per cent of men and 27.9 per cent of women had a BMI of at...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... ask questions of other employees as various situations arise Understanding the organizational aspects of professional socialization allows the discovery of the necessary aspects of professional ... tenets of research for professionals Research is a systematic way of collecting and analyzing information to answer a specific question Qualitative Research in Physical Activity and the Health Professions ... aspects of professional and personal lives cannot be explained with numbers Qualitative research is helpful in these instances This alternative form of inquiry, although less familiar to health professionals,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... fusion proteins of the K1, K2, K5, K13, K26, K51, K57 and K60 sequences exhibited significant levels of incorporation of Dansyl-Cd compared to the other sequences examined All of the highly FEBS ... proteins of each peptide were incubated with [3H]-putrescine in the presence of each TGase Most of the peptide sequences exhibited high reactivity with TGase 1, consistent with the results of the ... mutant analysis of the K5 peptide sequence To determine the role of each amino acid of K5 in TGase 1-mediated catalysis, we generated alanine substitution mutants for every residue of the 12-amino-acid...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... reallocation of risk over time Since yearend 1998, funds of funds received a total of $488 billion in net new cash, of which 69 percent was from lifestyle and lifecycle funds For more information on lifestyle ... Assets of funds of funds have grown rapidly over the past decade By the end of 2008, the number of funds of funds had grown to 865, and total assets were $489 billion (Figure 2.11) Two-thirds of ... invest in shares of other mutual funds The most popular type of these funds is hybrid funds—over 80 percent of funds of funds’ total net assets are in hybrid funds of funds Hybrid funds of funds invest...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21

... National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators, American Council of Life Insurers, and Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income Division OVERVIEW OF U.S.-REGISTERED ... of the outstanding debt securities in this market compared to 11 percent at year-end 2009 Types of Intermediaries and Number of Investment Companies A variety of financial service companies offer ... aging of the U.S population, the reduced appetite for investment risk by investors of all ages, and the increasing use of target date and other asset allocation funds, many of which are offered...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... as the result of a post-translational modification The amount of the deglycosylated C-terminal Ac45 cleavage fragment, with a size of  23 kDa after h of chase and  24 kDa after h of chase, increased ... fragment of Ac45 The drugs used did not significantly change the amount of the 42–44-kDa Fig Effect of inhibitors of intracellular transport and lysosomal function on the degradation of the N-terminal ... block of proteins out of the ER still allows cleavage of intact Ac45, and support our notion that cleavage of Ac45 occurs in the early secretory pathway We also conclude that degradation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20