... (from), ontheotherside (of) , beyond: Behind, over, at theother end (of) 97 chapter Behind, ontheotherside (of) , in back (of) , in front (of) : Before, after, ahead of, in the front/back (of) ... Subject ofthe preposition –– The phrase the table refers to another thing, the Landmark ofthe preposition The preposition locates the Subject (the candle) in relation to the Landmark (the table) ... 8.8 Prepositions of path Some grammarians have made a sharp distinction between prepositionsofplace and prepositionsof path’ (or prepositionsof ‘direction’, or of ‘movement’, or of ‘motion’)...
... correlation was used to assess the impact of anxiety on depression (and vice versa) as well asthe impact of age or time from diagnosis on anxiety or depression Logistic regression was used to assess the ... Corporation; 1987 Donias S, Demertzis I: Validation ofthe Beck depression inventory In Proceedings ofthe 10th Hellenic Congress of Neurology and Psychiatry: 1983 Edited by: Varfis G Thessaloniki, ... general population A probable cause is the chronicity and severity of pulmonary disease Detection and management of these mental disorders may ameliorate prognosis ofthe pulmonary disease and improve...
... 52-week long-term treatment phase Treatment compliance was measured asthe percentage ofthe actual days of drug dispensed divided bythe expected days of drug dispensed based onthe assessment ... population cannot be made Conclusions This is one ofthe longest studies conducted in a Taiwanese patient population and provides valuable information onthe use of aripiprazole for the treatment of ... primary reason for study discontinuation during both the switching and long-term treatment phases Although the most common reason for withdrawal of consent resulted from changes in personal circumstances,...
... (Cronbach’s alpha) The connections between depression (as measured bythe CIDI-SF) and components of personal stigma (as measured bythe “Depression is a matter of will"-scale, the “Desire for Social ... depression-related attitudes and actual helpseeking Usually respondents have been asked about Page of their intentions to seek professional help Another methodological limitation has been the use of ... found a connection [10-13], while others have not [14-16] One explanation for this could be the complexity ofthe concept of stigma and thus differences in measuring it It has been demonstrated...
... scale was conceptualized as stigma against depression bythe developers To certain extent, people's views onthe person in the case vignette can be considered their attitudes towards depression The ... relationships, asthe ability of our analysis to draw meaningful calculations from these professional groups was limited bythe small sample size of health professionals (n = 348) and mental health professionals ... publications [15,20] This study was approved bythe Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board ofthe University of Calgary The final sample consisted of 3084 participants (response rate at the individual...
... permutation tests We ran 3000 permutations on our sample of 1390 subjects and performed LME analyses on each of these permutations The lack of associations with lung function decline was confirmed ... Because the prevalence of carriers ofother haplotypes containing the minor allele at TGF-β1 rs6957 was also increased in subjects with COPD, this finding only reflects the individual association of ... inflammation and tissue injury amongst others by promoting synthesis of elastin and collagen Studies have shown that TGF-β1 expression is increased in the airways of COPD patients [1,2] In contrast,...
... was classified as undersedation and categories and as oversedation The dose per bolus and frequency of administration of diazepam, and the rate of midazolam infusion were adjusted bythe bedside ... mg/kg/h Depth ofthe sedation was monitored bythe nursing sister caring for the patient using a local modification ofthe Ramsay Sedation Scale [12] (Table 1) The target sedation range was a score ... due to the small sample size and the heterogeneity of a general ICU population Despite the similarity ofthe patients, and the duration of sedation in the two groups, more midazolam was administered...
... observations (n = 151 observations of 57 patients) were NRS of (no pain), whereas onthe BPS, 68% ofthe observations were BPS of (no pain) Besides, using the NRS, 6% ofthe observations were NRS of ... influenced bythe patient's or nurse's score The BPS was scored only in patients who were ventilated Then, the attending nurse was asked to score the pain ofthe patient with the NRS If the patient was ... pain' The patient marks the intensity of pain [16,17] The VAS has a maximal acceptable pain score of 30 mm Depth of sedation The Ramsay Scale (RS) was used to assess the sedation level [18] The...
... days before the examination was ascertained by an instrument for database-assisted online collection of medication data (IDOM) [19] The following substance classes were considered as antihypertensive ... reduced lung function as well as impaired lung function increases the risk for the development of high blood pressure [7-9,26] Besides, one has to consider the possible effect of long-standing high ... the association was not affected bythe concomitance of pulmonary diseases and that the negative effect of BBL medication on lung function is not modified by obstructive lung diseases This supports...
... to the plantar surface ofthe hind paw (ipsilateral to thesideof CCI) The paw withdrawal threshold (PWT) was determined by sequentially increasing and decreasing the stimulus intensity (the ... After pEGFPC1 vector was linearized by SacⅠ and SalⅠ, the fragment of TLR4 was inserted to construct the reporter vector, pEGFPC1-TLR4 The reporter vector was verified by RT-PCR using primers ... (L5) and L6 (21) The catheter was chronically implanted and the external portion ofthe catheter was protected according to Milligan’s method (22) Intrathecal delivery of siRNA Rats were randomly...
... for the loadings) The factor analysis was based on baseline data only The first factor ofthe 12-factor solution mainly consists of items from the subdomains IRA and TA, which together form the ... domain items, which belong to the PC sub-domain, had loading onto the second factor Theother two PC items did not have loadings of more than 0.3 onto any factor Only one oftheother comfort items ... not the case for the 5-factor solution based onthe number of CHIP-CE domains, where the items from sub-domains that not belong to the same domain often load together on one factor It is therefore...
... significantly different in at least one ofthe four groups considered (Fig 2) Two groups of spots showing remarkable changes in the isoform pattern in the four conditions were easily assigned to glyceraldehyde ... significant changes as a consequence of a-synuclein overexpression or as a result ofthe association of dopamine treatment with a-synuclein overexpression (Fig 3B) The same analysis performed on all identified ... dopamine oxidation that activates apoptosis and induces the synthesis of antioxidants [22] Alterations in mitochondrial proteins, ontheother hand, are specifically linked to one ofthe major pathogenetic...
... that still contain one spoonful of sugar for every three spoons of cereal—and continue to aggressively market these products (their least nutritious cereals) to children as young as two years ... Froot Loops The majority of cereal ads that children see on TV promote products consisting of one-third or more sugar—one 30-gram serving contains as much sugar as a 30-gram serving of Chips Ahoy ... recommendationS Cereal companies have expressed a commitment to be part ofthe solution to childhood obesity However, they cannot so by making incremental improvements in the nutrition content of children’s...
... correspondence, as well as for the s , s correspondence For example, for the pair of correspondences [e] and [i], the relation of [e] corresponding to [i] is separated from the relation of [i] ... pronunciations were aligned based onthe following principles: a) a vowel can match only with the vowel b) a consonant can match only with the consonant c) [j] can match both vowels and consonants ... substitutions: ["A] should be replaced by [@], and [A] by ["È], meaning that the distance between these two pronunciations is The distance between each pair of pronunciations was further normalized by...
... accelerate the computation of without loss of quality, but finding the right value must be based onthe evaluation As for the most important parameters ofthe GRA (i.e the size ofthe sample set and the ... feature ofthe GRA has been designed for the sake of generalization, in order to not overfit the input sample The input ofthe GRA consists of (i) a sample set of document vectors with the correspond, ... was The cosine similarity was used to compute the document similarity; threshold was There were edges in the graph ofthe collection We had computed a set of concept-formative clusters and then...
... possible limitations of previous research 1.1 Surprisal theory The concept of surprisal originated in the field of information theory, as a measure ofthe amount of information conveyed by a particular ... evaluate these effects, the decrease in deviance after adding surprisal ofthe previous item to the baseline was also assessed The following control predictors were included in the baseline regression ... preceding ones Although Markov models theoretically limit the amount of prior information that is relevant for prediction ofthe next step, they are often used in linguistic context as an approximation...
... areas include portions ofthe St John River Valley near Fort Kent and another section ofthe valley stretching from the town of Grande Isle to the town of Hamlin The two areas were delineated as ... sandstone, and limestone, on terraces along the St John The Fredon Series and the Halsey Series comprise 0.2 percent ofthe areas The well-drained Salmon (1.6 percent ofthe study areas), the moderately ... mapped The amount of field observation has a direct cost correlation: as field work increases, costs increase The compilation of surficial and other types of maps using soil survey data asthe primary...
... caspase-3, caspase-6, caspase8, caspase-9 and caspase-10 genes (also shown in Fig 1) Ontheother hand, in both DT40 and E2A)/), the caspase-6 mRNA level was decreased gradually by PMA/ionomycin ... treatment by 24 h, and the caspase-10 mRNA level was increased by h and thereafter decreased dramatically by 24 h Expression of caspase-3 and caspase-9 remained unchanged in the presence of PMA/ionomycin ... from the balanced mRNA (and probably protein) levels of caspase-8, which lead to activation of pro-caspase-9, causing formation ofthe active form of caspase-3, and ofthe inhibitors FLIP (for caspase-8),...