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... interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript. Availability of data and materials The datasets during and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable ... Since ethical standards limit the num-ber of participant contacts, there was a maximum of two attempts to contact a participant Fig 1 Study procedure Trang 5Data analysisThe Statistical Package for ... variance in Table 1 Socio-demographic and medical characteristics participants and non-responders (Continued) Phase of care trajectory Abbreviations: M mean, SD standard deviation, n number of participants

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... (age and sex), parental factors (parental marital status and father’s occupation), general health factors (self-esteem, anxiety and depression) and socio-environmental factors (quality of parental ... Medicine Hospital, Gamal Abdul Naser Road, P.O Box 4081, Safat, Kuwait Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2011 Al-Fayez and Ohaeri; licensee BioMed Central Ltd This ... subjects’ satisfaction as the level of posi-tive appreciation for each item of the WHOQOL-Bref [29] That is, we used the idea of satisfaction for an item as a rating of more than average or neutral point

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... depression a a -0.44** a a a a a a -0.64** a a a a -0.46** a a a a a a -0.41* -0.61** a Table shows the standardized Beta coefficients, except for a row showing adjusted R-squares of the models Sex, age ... Labor and Welfare, Japan. Trang 9Author details1 Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.2Nagoya ... fear and social interaction anxiety Behaviour Research and Therapy 1998, 36(4):455-470. 32 Kanai Y, Sasakawa S, Chen J, Suzuki S, Shimada H, Sakano Y: Development and validation of the Japanese

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... of approxi-mately 140 standard care patients We anticipated an attrition rate of 20%, resulting in a final target sample size based of approximately 56 APC patients and 112 patients in the stand-ard ... messages and resource utilization compared with standard care are largely unknown patients (64 standard care and 36 APC) using the SF-36 as a measure of HRQoL showed that, compared with standard ... imbalance between APC and standard care patients from each site, each participating site enrolled in blocks of three APC and six stand-ard care patients Sites were not allowed to enrol more than

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... Bai James1, Noel Nen ’man Wannang2 , Haja Ramatulai Wurie3, Sorie Conteh4, Abdulai Jawo Bah1and Mohamed Samai3 Abstract Background: Poor compliance to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) ... variable) of paediatric patients to HAART An independent t-test and analysis of variance tests were used to determine the association between participants’ characteristics and the average quality ... in Bahasa Malaysia Med J Malays 2003;58(1):79 –88. 19 Nedjat S, Naieni KH, Mohammad K, Majdzadeh R, Montazeri A Quality of life among an Iranian general population sample using the World Health

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... (breast- and colorectal cancer), adjuvant radiotherapy (breast cancer) and/or ad-juvant endocrine therapy (breast- and prostate cancer) or radiotherapy with curative intent without add-itional ... neoadju-vant and/or adjuneoadju-vant therapy in Uppsala, Linköping and Malmö/Lund were asked to participate Inclusion started 15th of September 2014 and was terminated 28th of February 2015 A ... World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK) and Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds (WKOF), as part of the World Cancer Research Fund International grant program (2016/1635). Availability of data and material

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... information on the feasibility, safety and efficacy of EP as rehabilitation strategy, we have carried out a pilot study of a tailored EP in treated MM patients The aim was to assess feasibility and ... Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) anemia and fatigue scales J Pain Symptom Manage 2002, 24(6):547 –561. 23 Snaith RP: The Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scale Health Qual Life Outcomes ... the start of the programme Planned analyses were carried out on data at 3 and 6 months, in comparison with baseline Analyses included all participants who started the EP, regardless of adherence

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... Trang 1Amer DardağanSTANAK, Society for Research of Bosnian Medieval History adardagan @aubih.edu.ba Neoplatonic "Tree of Life" (Arbor Porphyriana: A diagram of logic and mystical theology) ... considered one of the last major mediators of the ancientknowledge to the Latin West His original idea was to re-educate medieval West by translatingall of Plato's and Aristotle's works, and also to ... curatorum; Kamber, Arbor amoris.Dr Minnebaum, Basel 1956. Trang 7salvation hangs".20 From the above it can be concluded that the mental image of the tree was animportant part of catechesis and religous

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... Kolmogorov-Smirnov test Comparisons of the initial and final data will be analyzed via a two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance, and the categorical out-comes, via theχ2 test A partial correlation will ... applicable. Availability of data and materials Not applicable. Acknowledgements We gratefullyacknowledge Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq) forfinancial support. ... the same tests as the baseline evaluation Trang 4assessed On day 2, asthma clinical control will beassessed via an asthma control questionnaire (ACQ), an asthma quality of life questionnaire (AQLQ),

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... significant Results A total of 217 children participated in phases 1, 2 and 3 of the TuCASA study and 194 children had complete data for all variables and were included in data analysis Comparison of ... Scalo, J., Desai, P & Rascati, K Insomnia, hypnotic use, and health-related quality of life in a nationally representative sample Quality of life research : an international journal of quality ... Demographics of participants at various phases of the TuCASA cohort ‡Age is reported as mean ± standard deviation * In phase 1 and 2, polysomnography was performed, and an apnea-hypopnea index ≥

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 14:52

... Trang 6and including Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh (passport applications), Pakistan (na-tional identity cards), India (voter lists) and Thailand (official recognition by the military) Altogether ... our analysis underfive sub-headings: overall evaluation of the German law; discussing and disputing statistics and ‘facts’; binary categorisations; religion and politics; and ‘conversations’ and ... Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for SHIL Trang 3impacting on sex development, rather than identity, and so may be more manageable and less stigmatising than alternatives (Karkazis and

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 16:12

... making, and societal norms. Language and Communication: Language Study: Examining the language, dialects, and linguistic variations in British and American English is often a part of cultural ... others are measured, can lead to misunderstandings and biases. Language Limitations: Language Barriers: Language plays a crucial role in understanding culture, and studying British and American culture ... dynamics of cultural exchange and how cultural ideas and practices spread across borders. Literary and Artistic Heritage: The literature, art, and film produced in Britain and the United States have

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... methylphenidate transdermal system (MTS; Daytrana® [Shire Pharmaceuticals Ireland Ltd., Dublin, Ireland]), an alternative to oral MPH formulation, is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ... required to have their ADHD symptoms adequately controlled on a stable dose of oral ER-MPH (Ritalin LA® [Novartis AG, Basel, Switzerland], Concerta® [Alza Corporation, Palo Alto, CA], or Metadate CD® ... caregivers at 30 ± days after the last dose of study medication to assess any new or ongoing AEs Health-related quality of life and medication satisfaction measures As secondary objectives of

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... significant physical, economic and psychosocial ramifications of fracture Vertebral fractures are a hallmark of osteoporosis and are associated with back pain, functional disability, reduced health-related ... changes with related to genetics, exercise, maturation and pharmacotherapies Nicola L Fazzalari (PhD) is Associate Professor, Head of Bone and Joint Research Laboratory and Chief Medical Scientist ... of peak cortical bone mass and 40-50% of trabecular mass by 90 years of age [58] This results in a decline in the load-bearing capacity of the vertebral body For example, load load-bearing capacity

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... suggestion Akbar assigned the task of reconquering and governing the province of Mâlwâ Adham Chân was a passionate and violent man, as ambitious and avaricious as his mother, and behaved himself ... of India, and they appear as sharply outlined, even though generally unpleasing, personalities Islam has justly been characterized as the caricature of a religion Fanaticism and fatalism are two ... OF ILLUSTRATIONS Akbar Directing the Tying-up of a Wild Elephant (Frontispiece) Akbar, Emperor of India Mausoleum of Akbar's Father, Humâyun View of Fathpur Akbar's Grave Mausoleum of Akbar at...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.” Sun Tzu: The Art of War preface: This is a collection of ... almost three thousand problems from Encyclopedia of life and death by Cho Chikun The problems come without solution because of two particular reasons: first, I think we can learn more by actually ... dan players, kyu players will have to work really hard to solve them Dan player should spend on avarage a few minutes on one problem – there are some rather easy problems, but on the other hand...

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... graveyards of Egypt, so Anubis was linked to the dead He was the god of embalming and guardian of the dead After the dead man had been questioned, Anubis weighed his heart against the feather of ... El-Amarna Akhenaten built a new capital city, called Akhetaten, at the site now known as El-Amarna The city once had palaces, a temple to the Aten, and houses for the nobles, but it was abandoned ... Scattered around the room were items including an alabaster boat, figures of a lion and a goat, a fan, a sandal, and even a glove 22 PASSING THINGS OUT The floor of the annexe was about m (3...

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... trainees and members of a Christian congregation Finally, Franziska Lamott, Natalie Sammet and Friedemann Pf äfflin report comparative attachment data from samples of women who have killed and ... ultimately an act of humanity (Abrahamsen 1973) We wish to avoid that which is potentially a part of all of us Both the glamorization and the demonization of violence, strategies which are familiar ... Attachment Representations and Attachment Styles in Traumatized Women Franziska Lamott, Natalie Sammet, psychotherapist in private practice, and Friedemann Pfäfflin 250 Conclusion: A Matter of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... Ultraviolet absorbance can also be used to check the purity of a DNA preparation With a pure sample of DNA, the ratio of the absorbances at 260 and 280 nm (A 260 /A 280) is 1.8 Ratios of less than ... interactions between the DNA molecules and the silica 3.2 Preparation of plasmid DNA Purification of plasmids from a culture of bacteria involves the same general strategy as preparation of total ... presence of the smallest amount of contaminating bacterial DNA in a gene cloning experiment can easily lead to undesirable results Fortunately several methods are available for removal of bacterial...

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... pathway, the PKB pathway and the Janus kinase ⁄ signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway, to promote proliferation, survival and transformation [56,57] The importance ... discovery because of its role in promoting cell proliferation and survival [10] and as a result of the high frequency of rat sarcoma virus concogene (RAS) [33] and v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene ... loss of survival signals) and promote cell death in a manner dependent on the presence of BAX and BAK The precise mechanism by which this is achieved remains controversial, but a wealth of data...

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