... managed rather than cured Therefore, knowledge about what determines subjective health status in this group of patients is relevant forthe treatment of COPD, and forthe care and rehabilitation of ... 0.77 to 0.90 for SF-36 subscales The lowest value was observed forthe general health component (0.77) and the highest value forthe bodily pain component (0.90) Discussion The results of this study ... the members ofthe staff at the learning and coping centre at Haugesund Hospital for assisting the recruitment of COPD patients References 10 11 Competing interests The authors declare that they...
... expressed in the chapters are these ofthe individual contributors and not necessarily those ofthe editors or publisher No responsibility is accepted forthe accuracy of information contained in the ... complexation while the 1:2 complex is of entropic origin The 1:2 complex is the result of inclusion ofthe amino acid’s alkyl chain into the cavity of one calixarene molecule and interaction ofthe amino ... provided full thermodynamic characterization ofthe complex species in organic solution The influence of some structural features ofthe ligands on the nature ofthe substituents as well as the condensation...
... fed into the mathematics Nor should the value of facts and understanding on their own be dismissed The case for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection would have been strengthened had ... dwindle (either in extent or in significance) with the accumulation of more facts There seems no need forthe snobbery (it is said) ofthe highly quantitative founding biologists at the Cold Spring ... Journal of Biology 2009, Volume 8, Article 34 mathematics; indeed Lewis argues cogently that the behavior ofthe Hes/her oscillator alone is beyond the reach of simple intuition Moreover the biological...
... at the carpal-metacarpal joint at the base ofthe thumb The report stated that the radiographs were otherwise normal The patient's symptoms worsened with increased pain and swelling over the ... in the wrist due to gout [6,8,9] The prevalence of gout in the USA ranges between 0.5–2.8% in men and 0.1–0.6% in women [2] The prevalence rises to 4.4% of men and 1.8% of women over the age of ... in part to the continuous aging ofthe population as well as the widespread use of diuretics for treatment of hypertension [4] Gout is a clinical syndrome caused by the deposition of monosodium...
... know the benefit of having the connection of their latrines to biogas plants At the installation, the community agreed to share the 20% ofthe installation cost and the 100% of cleaning cost of ... latrine/others Table shows the claimed performance ofthe Figure Change ofthe use of sanitation options sanitation options according to the household interview Before 1999, more than 40% ofthe people ... purpose of this study is to document how the local people came to use the biogas plant for sanitation purpose, and to clarify the performance ofthe biogas plant forthe reduction ofthe pollution...
... as listen to them, particularly while they are performing tasks Look for signs of being bored or being lost Encourage your learners to make eye contact while they are working together in pairs ... by training them to listen to each other using non-verbal responses only Research shows that there is a strong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation ... group communication in the number of turns taken in a group conversation for example The NLP approach to eye contact is holistic and individualistic, but is soundly based on the premise that good...
... công, nông dân lồng ghép phần kĩ thuật vào hệ thống canh tác Kĩ thuật áp dụng phần, thay đổi tuỳ theo nhu cầu nông dân kĩ quản lý hưởng lợi từ kĩ thuật Một ví dụ tốt kĩ thuật nông – lâm canh tác ... xanh cho trồng Ví dụ Rwanda, nông dân không cắt tỉa vào thời điểm mà nhà nghiên cứu đưa ra, mà cắt theo lịch riêng họ cho dê ăn Những cành dài sử dụng để làm cột cho đậu leo Các nhà khoa học không...
... 2007 10 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office ofthe Actuary, National Health Statistics Group; U.S Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; and U.S Bureau ofthe Census 11 ... Services Reducing the health consequences of smoking: 25 years of progress; a report ofthe Surgeon General Rockville, MD: U.S Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, Office of Smoking and ... year.29 These statistics are alarming and disturbing forthe health ofthe nation The good news is that research has revealed that health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death...
... at the time when they ask for a loan These credit lines are not used in 30.1% ofthe cases If they are used, the usage ranges mostly between 20 % and 80% ofthe limit ofthe credit line 10 The ... with the savings banks at which they apply for a new loan There are a number of unique characteristics of these data that make them particularly suitable forthe purpose of our study: First, they ... during the last six months, the percentage of months with a negative balance during the last months, the usage ofthe credit limit, the percentage of months in excess ofthe credit limit, sum of...
... increase the parsimony ofthe models With the new model for f and p, we then searched forthe most parsimonious model forthe maturation probability Alternative models for f and p were then again ... were the differences between the generations and the changes over the season In both ofthe laboratory-born generations, the estimated probability of breeding declined with date of birth ofthe ... performance ofthe laboratory-born generations As there was large variation in date of birth ofthe laboratory-born females, and since date of birth differed between the two populations, date of...
... reduced form analysisofthe determinants of labour force participation ofthe elderly in Europe Nevertheless, knowing In the future, there will be a link established between SHARE and the social ... health ofthe elderly Section provides a reduced form analysisofthe determinants of labour force participation ofthe elderly Section concludes Data and descriptive statistics The Survey of Health, ... whether the null hypothesis of no impact at all of health could be rejected The second column of Table 4.10 shows the probability values associated with this null hypothesis for men in each of the...
... trends analysis with our project team Bruce Hoffman of RAND and Max Manwaring, Professor of Military Strategy, U.S Army War College, were the formal reviewers of this report We thank them for their ... definition has the advantage of parsimony, but fails to capture essential aspects ofthe phenomenon, such as the fundamentally political nature ofthe insurgency movement, and the centrality ofthe local ... Shiite Forgery?’’ Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion, Web site, October 14, 2005 The full text ofthe letter is available on the Web, in Office ofthe Director of...
... measure the quality ofthe legal system and enforcement (i.e., efficiency ofthe judicial system, rule of law, and corruption index) SIZE is the book value of total assets at the end ofthe fiscal ... represents the average score across three proxies measuring the quality ofthe legal enforcement system: (1) an index ofthe judicial system’s efficiency, (2) an index ofthe rule of law, and (3) the ... performance, we benchmark the variability of operating earnings to the variability ofthe cash flow from operations Specifically, the measure is computed as the ratio ofthe standard deviation of...
... to h The participants were given an explanation regarding the purpose ofthe feedback, the purpose ofthe conceptual model, some background ofthe research that lead to the development ofthe ... process for developing new products for a company, whether it is an upgrade of an existing product or a new concept (either forthe company or forthe customer) It includes all activities from the ... the literature In the feedback process, the opinions ofthe industrialists and academics were obtained based on their knowledge and experience Methodology for review ofthe related articles The...
... h for WT CPU to more than h forthe two most stable clones (Table 5) It appears that the T1 ⁄ of activity measured directly in the supernatant ofthe cell cultures deviates from the T1 ⁄ ofthe ... stability of CPU’s activity, especially the YQ mutant Following the first round of FINDTM treatment, 50% ofthe mutants with improved thermal stability of their activity appeared to bear mutations in the ... stability of activity during the directed evolution process of CPU T1 ⁄ data at 37 °C forthe most stable clones as determined in the supernatant of 3T3 cells are presented More results forthe different...
... approaches on the state -of- theart parsers for two languages namely, Hindi and Czech First we calculate the instances of multiple subjects/objects in the output ofthe state-ofthe-art parsers for these ... (2b) In both these examples, „raama‟ is the subject ofthe verb „khaatha‟ and „seba‟ is the object ofthe verb „khaatha‟ The only difference in these two sentences is the order ofthe word In ... cases, „raama’ is the subject and „seba‟ is the object ofthe verb „khaatha‟ This information helps in getting the correct translation If the parser forthe source sentence assigns the label „subject‟...
... each of them As average measure of pronouns used in a collection, we use the ratio between the quantity of pronouns and the number of sentences containing pronouns This measure approximates the ... provides the system with all the lexical information for each word ofthe sentence This tool may be either a dictionary or a part -of- speech tagger In addition, this module returns a list with all the ... the list of antecedents of previous sentences for anaphora resolution Syntactic analysis module This module takes as input the output of lexical analysis module and the syntactic information...
... to the formation ofthe intermediate, is not observed (Fig 4) The rate constant forthe conversion ofthe bsSHMT internal aldimine to the intermediate is 1.6 s)1 and the rate of conversion ofthe ... ofthe ccp4 suite of programs [32] Five per cent ofthe unique reflections were reserved forthe calculation of free R and forthe validation and monitoring ofthe progress of refinement [33] The ... from the loss of stabilizing interactions caused by the Y to F mutation These changes may account forthe shift ofthe absorption maximum ofthe internal aldimine from 425 to 396 nm in the mutant...