... understand trunk motion better Additionally, it should be noted that some of the results of the present Page of study differ from those of previous studies because of different numbers of cases, ... Page ofby leg length or square root of leg length Variables, such as, mean and range of trunk motion were recorded in all planes To describe relative phase movements, we determined points of percentage ... between genders (Table 3), an ANCOVA test was performed to exclude the confounding effect of the different BMI and normalized walking speed between genders (Table 1) The fixed factor was gender, and...
... messages • The preload volumes GEDV and ITBV are dependent on age andgender • The age and sex dependence of GEDV and ITBV is persistent after indexing to BSA • GEDVI and ITBVI show wide confidence ... function, andgender differences by cine magnetic resonance imaging J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 1999, 1:7-21 37 Sandstede J, Lipke C, Beer M, Hofmann S, Pabst T, Kenn W, Neubauer S, Hahn D: Age- and gender- specific ... between genders (P = 0.3, Table 2) The EVLW is a further derivative of CO, MTt and DSt In contrast to GEDV, EVLW showed no significant difference between age groups andgender (P = 0.24 and P =...
... the extent and structure of the demand for health care andhealth expenditures In the case of longterm care, there are other important effects that concern the structure ofhealth care and institutional ... series data from the OECD Health Data 2002 and2003 are used to show the changes in the utilisation and supply ofhealth care services over time USE OFHEALTHAND NURSING CARE BY THE ELDERLY ENEPRI ... of living longer and in better health on the need for healthand long-term care by the elderly and the consequences for health expenditures Projections on the use ofhealth care and the need for...
... effectiveness of improving infrastructure quality in education (Hanushek 1995, Kremer 1995), health (Alderman and Lavy 1996, Lavy and others 1996, Mwabu and others 1993), and drinking water (Brockerhoff and ... household surveys to allow assessmentof the impact of sif-financed investments in health Figure Kernel Density Estimates of Propensity Scores for Treatment and Comparison Health Clinics Before Matching ... National Demographic andHealth Survey for the period 1989–94 255 Newman and others Table Difference-in-Difference Estimates ofAverage Impact of sif Health Investments in Chaco and Resto Rural (intertemporal...
... and as standard deviation units, or z -scores scores, for genderand age; weight is also expressed by z -scores given genderand age Z -scores are derived by 13 The Survei Sosial Ekonomi Nasional ... National Center for Health Statistics median reference standard and dividing by the standard deviation of the reference distribution for a given age andgender (WHO 1993) The use of a standard growth ... collection of a broad array of current and retrospective socio-economic andhealth information among individuals, households, and communities2 The selection of households is representative of 83% of...
... others from offending The treatment of work healthand safety cases in the courts and the outcomes are likely to influence how prosecution of work healthand safety offences serves both of these ... introduction of new work healthand safety regulations seeks to change safety practice by encouraging safe and healthy behaviours and discouraging unsafe and unhealthy behaviours through the use of positive ... awareness of regulations Addison and Burgess found that awareness ofand understanding the area of application of manual handling regulations in a group of small businesses in the UK varied greatly by...
... enrolment capacity of each department your profession's role and uniqueness function of the facility roles of each profession in the facility operations and tasks of each profession in the facility ... initially named "Roles and responsibilities", "Teamwork and collaboration", and "professional identity", as described by Parcell and Bligh [5], and another – "Structure and function of training facilities" ... experiencing being part of a health care team (the spirit of interprofessional work), and learning interprofessional work in clinical practice (skills of interprofessional work) Mandatory practice...
... the self- assessmentand clinical assessmentofhealth status and work ability Scand J Work Environ Health 1991, 17 Suppl 1:40-47 Abramson JH: Survey methods in community medicine Edited by: Livingstone ... their physical healthand wellbeing and 21.9% had HSCL-25 scores equal to or above cut-off of 1.55 Continuous physically or mentally strenuous work was reported by 8.5% and 9.9% of the sample, ... job satisfaction and mental health (r = 0.39), job satisfaction and physical health/ well-being (r = 0.36), mental and physical health/ well-being (r = 0.37), and workplace stress and mental strain...
... the dimension ofOverallHealth was 50.4 (on a scale of to 100) Mean HRQOL scores were stratified across demographic and behavioral categories and compared by using the analysis of variance As ... Functioning a measure Number of Items Definition Perception of current health Perception ofoverall pain Extent to which health interferes with a variety of activities Extent to which health interferes ... regardless of whether any indi- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Healthand Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/12 Table 1: Health- related quality of life...
... development of the German CRQ has led to reliable and valid self- and interviewer administered CRQ formats and individualised and standardised dyspnoea questions The need of an interviewer and the ... calculated CRQ domain scoresby summing the scoresof the single items and then dividing the sum by the number of items in the respective domain We used parametric tests because scores on the seven ... of the CRQ-SA dyspnoea domain with the FT, the SF-36 Mental Healthand Vitality Index were higher than those of the CRQ-IA Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Healthand Quality of...
... Healthand 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 ... cognitive, emotional, and social health, and becomes a fundamental assessment in understanding the health status of a population [4,5] As of now, the beneficial effect of exercise intervention ... Prevalence of physical activity level bygender Prevalence of physical activity level bygender Table 1: Respondent characteristics among three physical activity groups stratified bygender Male...
... optical, and magnetic studies of manganese-doped zinc oxide hierarchical microspheres by self- assembly of nanoparticles Yao-Ming Hao1, Shi-Yun Lou1, Shao-Min Zhou*1, Rui-Jian Yuan1, Gong-Yu Zhu1, and ... yellow, and the color becomes deeper and deeper with increasing Mn The phase purity and crystal structure of the pristine ZnO and Mn-doped ZnO for various doping levels have been analyzed by XRD ... the inset of Figure 1c The change in the peak position of the ZnO absorption bands reflects that the Zn-O-Zn network is perturbed by the presence of Mn in its environment The morphology and further...
... optical, and magnetic studies of manganese-doped zinc oxide hierarchical microspheres by self- assembly of nanoparticles Yao-Ming Hao1, Shi-Yun Lou1, Shao-Min Zhou*1, Rui-Jian Yuan1, Gong-Yu Zhu1, and ... yellow, and the color becomes deeper and deeper with increasing Mn The phase purity and crystal structure of the pristine ZnO and Mn-doped ZnO for various doping levels have been analyzed by XRD ... the inset of Figure 1c The change in the peak position of the ZnO absorption bands reflects that the Zn-O-Zn network is perturbed by the presence of Mn in its environment The morphology and further...
... of Sports Medicine position stand Exercise and physical activity for older adults Med Sci Sports Exerc 2009, 41:1510-1530 38 US Department ofHealthand Human Services Physical activity and health: ... association of physical activity and sedentary behavior during leisure time with health- related quality of life in community-dwelling older adultsHealthand Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:47 Page 10 of ... recommendations of physical activity for older adults elaborated by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association[30] (ACSM/AHA), Balboa-Castillo et al Healthand Quality of Life...
... designed by AS, NS, PS, DR, VM and UA, and data were gathered and analyzed by Novartis All authors vouch for the accuracy of the data and the analysis, and contributed to the interpretation of the ... physician’s assessmentof tenderness, swelling, and erythema in the target joint; and physician and patient global assessments of response to treatment In addition, blood samples were collected for assessment ... and the HealthAssessment Questionnaire (HAQ) These were exploratory endpoints 36-item Short-Form Health Survey SF-36 measures the impact of disease on overall quality of life and consists of eight...
... macrophages by increasing the expression of genes that are involved in lipid uptake andby repressing key genes implicated in lipid metabolism and efflux [74] Regulation of mitosis and apoptosis by PPARs ... PPAR isoforms have different functions and activation profiles but share the ability to be activated by natural or synthetic ligands In addition, the activity of PPARα and PPARγ is modulated by phosphorylation ... PPARα ligands such as Wy-14,643, ciprofibrate and clofibrate are known to produce peroxisome proliferation and liver tumors in rats and mice [75,76] However, since PP belong to the class of carcinogens...
... means, age andgender effects The mean SDQ subscale scores for parent, teacher andself ratings subdivided by age-band (3 to 10 years and 11 to 17 years) andgender are presented in tables 1, and respectively ... Bandings and cut-offs Bandings and cut-offs were estimated from the distributions of raw values in the manner described by Woerner, et al [15] For the total difficulties scores cut-offs were ... problems and total difficulties than either the parental or the self report ratings Discussion The normative scores, bandings and cut-offs and the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of...
... participants the averageof the baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red meat (pork, ... alcohol consumption and history of hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and cancer Anthropometric measurements, including weight, height, and circumferences of the waist and hips, were ... part of a dietary pattern 155 associated with a higher risk of type DM [17] To our knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions...
... m, andaverage is 2.3 m Water depth changes around 0.4 m (up and down) by various reasons This plant was floated and fixed at the center of the raft Lake water was - 234 - Journal of Water and ... measured in each point by standard methods [6] Pore size is 1µm In this paper, SS, transparency and COD at the outlet of plant and the outside of experimental area will be reported and discussed Experimental ... evidences of the anthropogenic alteration of trace metal composition of the sediments of Chiricahueto marsh (SE Gulf of California), Environmental Pollution, 125(3), 2003, 423-432 [3] S S Lau and L...
... ( ) and number of cells of R rubrum ( ) - 113 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.3, No.1, 2005 REFERENCES APHA, AWWA, WPCE (1995) Standard methods for examination of water and ... hydrogenase of photosynthetic bacteria is capable of both hydrogen production and consumption (Koku et al., 2002) It is not inhibited by the presence of nitrogen sources but by carbon monoxide, oxygen and ... accumulation ( ), glucose ( ) and number of cells of R rubrum ( ) - 105 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.3, No.1, 2005 Effect of nitrogen levels and initial propionate concentrations...