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... score ofto each negative item The total score is calculated as the sum of all 10 items, andthe cut-off value forthe diagnosis of neuropathic pain is a total score of 4/10 All questions are related ... logistic and evaluation of data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Cuestionario DN4 This appendix includes the Spanish versionof DN4 questionnaire ... sensory and pain descriptors) are based on an interview with the patient, and items based on the clinical examination are related tothe presence or absence of touch or pinprick hypoesthesia and tactile...
... the primary researcher, was responsible for co-ordinating and managing the study on a day -to- day basis, for data collection and collation, data analysis and input into writing the manuscript WYC ... than 16 years of age), following oral and written explanation ofthe study Analysis Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 11.4 Assessing internal ... information is availableto support the validity ofthe proxy ratings [16] Even when a child's responses are available, the perspective ofthe parent has an important bearing on health care decisions...
... based alternative for using MSC in treatment of cardiovascular disease [23] Non-cell based therapies as opposed to cell-based therapies are generally easier to manufacture and are safer as they ... detector The last three detectors were from Wyatt Technology Corporation (California, USA) and were operated by the ASTRA software The components ofthe sample were separated by size exclusion i.e the ... dishes as well as their untransformed MSCs especially at confluency when the cells started to form clusters instead of adhering tothe plastic dish as a monolayer The surface antigen profile of the...
... clinics ofthe Dental Schools of Athens and Thessaloniki ii) dental clinics ofthe Social Insurance Fund of Greece (IKA) in Athens and Thessaloniki and iii) a selected professional corporation These ... conduct the backward translations The backward translations were then compared tothe original English versionto check the similarity of their structure The final versionofthe Greek OHIP-14 was ... psychological and social well-being, and is widely recognised forthe assessment of healthcare outcomes A factor, however, that can significantly impact on the construct of HRQoL is the oral health of the...
... score ofto each negative item The total score is calculated as the sum of all 10 items, andthe cut-off value forthe diagnosis of neuropathic pain is a total score of 4/10 All questions are related ... logistic and evaluation of data All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Cuestionario DN4 This appendix includes the Spanish versionof DN4 questionnaire ... sensory and pain descriptors) are based on an interview with the patient, and items based on the clinical examination are related tothe presence or absence of touch or pinprick hypoesthesia and tactile...
... Panyanak extended theresultsof Sastry and Babu toa uniformly convex Banach spaceand also modified the above Ishikawa iterative scheme as follows Let E be a nonempty convex subset ofa uniformly ... Banach spaces,” Computers & Mathematics with Applications, vol 54, no 6, pp 872–877, 2007 Y Song and H Wang, “Erratum to: “Mann and Ishikawa iterative processes for multivalued mappings in Banach spaces” ... the Ishikawa iterative scheme {xn } and extended the result of 7, Theorem toa multivalued quasinonexpansive mapping as follows Let K be a nonempty convex subset ofa Banach space X, and let T...
... Computational Mathematics, pp 473–504, North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001 I Yamada, N Ogura, Y Yamashita, and K Sakaniwa, “Quadratic optimization of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings ... of families of nonexpansive mappings,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 211, no 1, pp 71–83, 1997 11 K.-K Tan and H.-K Xu, The nonlinear ergodic theorem for asymptotically ... follows, we will make use ofthe following lemmas Some of them are known; others are not hard to derive Lemma 1.1 Marino and Xu Assume that A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator on a Hilbert...
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... modification speaks in part tothe 2008 PARIHS paper’s comment regarding development ofa “programme of change,” that is, task based, planned change programme approaches that meet the individual and ... observations about use of elements/subelements, andasetof questions for diagnostic analysis and planning All ofthe separate components ofthe actual Guide are contained in additional files (see Additional ... perceived to be critical to implementation and congruent with the main intent of PARIHS • Lack of well-developed instrumentation and evaluation measures, as well as limited evaluation of actual use...
... data; MCS and CF drafting the manuscript; AB, MF and WR interpretation of data, critical revisions ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements We thank ... of somatoform complaints was made for each subject As a standard procedure, medical records were always consulted, as well as other sources of medical information (if necessary) available on-line ... (SUNYA) (Attanasio et al, 1984) to assess somatoform symptoms [19] The QMFME included 19 items related to Nervous, Muscular, Digestive and Respiratory Systems and showed a satisfactory internal...
... manuscript AB planned the design ofthe study, collected data and conducted the analyses, took part in reading the ms and approved tothe final versionofthe ms TF developed the SPSQ-C, took part in the ... before the investigation took place written information about the study were mailed to students and their parents The students were also informed about voluntary participation at all three assessments ... for SAD according tothe SPSQ-C (4.5% ofthe males and 10.9% ofthe females) and 7.7% (4.5% ofthe males and 12.7% ofthe females) at the second measurement (n = 143) There was no significant difference...
... legal translation to come up with methods and strategies of translation, as well as assessment and evaluation of translations This study aims at revealing the most basic features of Vietnamese and ... Tiersma, the history of English legal language can be summarized as follows: The Anglo-Saxons drove away the Celtic language ofthe original inhabitants of England and their laws left traces in ... international agency is supposed to have the same meaning as other versions, and after ratification, is of legal validity in its territory But when translated into another language rather than the...
... equally availableto all businesses today, IT alone cannot make a difference in the performance ofthe firm The nature ofthe business, the ability to implement strategies and processes and manage ... variable 1.5.2.2 IT capital The book values of computer hardware, software and network equipments are used as the base forthe IT capital measure These data are available in the 10K reports of ... of employees as a proxy forthe labor input The total labor cost can be thought of as a product ofthe number of employees and an average annual salary plus benefits Then the log ofthe average...
... e subset of an abelian group G, and suppose that there are at least δ |A| 3 additive quadruples (a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 ) in A4 with a1 + a2 = a3 + a4 Then there is a regular Bourgain system S satisfying ... 14-isomorphism between AandAThe map φ extends toa well-defined 1-1 map on kA −lA for any k, l with k +l 14 By abuse of notation we write φ for any such map In particular φ(0) is well-defined andwe may define ... Annals of Mathematics, 168 (2008), 1025–1054 A quantitative versionofthe idempotent theorem in harmonic analysis By Ben Green* and Tom Sanders Abstract Suppose that G is a locally compact abelian...
... statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to summarize data Gender, marital status, age rangesof participants, duration of onset of OA and joints affected were summarized with proportions Participants' ... interview All the patients reported clarity ofthe Hausa language and ease of understanding of all the items The final versionofthe Hausa translation of IKHOAM (see Additional file 2) The anchors (English) ... of IKHOAM The divergent validity ofthe Hausa versionof IKHOAM was analyzed by subjecting participants' scores on the Visual Analogue Scale andthe Hausa versionof IKHOAM to Spearman rank Order...
... more ofthe time and be comfortable reading and speaking French This meant that they said "yes" when asked the question "Are you able to read and speak French?" and that they were able to read and ... terms ofthe methodology and analytic strategies used, the performance ofthe French ECOHIS andthe extent ofthe validation tests In terms ofthe methodological and analytical approaches, there are ... discriminant validity Theresultsof this validation process indicated that Cronbach's alpha was 0.79 for each ofthe child and family impact sections and 0.82 forthe whole scale, the intra-class...
... Table 3: Mean item-total correlation and Cronbach's alpha for domain scores in the NFAS-4 andthe NFAS-5 (N = 3325) Cronbach's alphaa NFAS-4 NFAS-5 Mean item-total correlation NFAS-4 NFAS-5 Walking/standing ... anda visual analog scale The level of missing data was least andthe responder preference was highest, forthe five-point scale version Since the NFAS data are skewed towards higher levels of ... FAD assisted statistical analysis and reviewed the manuscript BN participated in planning and designing the study, collected the data and participated in drafting the manuscript SB planned and...
... reliable and validated Dutch versions of disease-specific questionnaires were availableto evaluate the functional status of patients and quality of life after surgery The Western Ontario and McMaster ... eigenvalues Factors that appeared before the break were assumed to be meaningful, and factors that appeared on the approximately horizontal line after the break were considered to account for only ... reviewed the manuscript and provided input for additional analyses andforthe interpretation MR and JANV critically reviewed the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript...