OBJECTIVE Data regarding the frequency of fibromyalgia (FM) in patients with Takayasu's arteritis (TAK) have not been previously reported. We aimed to investigate the frequency of FM in TAK, defined according to the new 2010 ACR Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia. The association between the ACR-1990 and 2010 FM criteria and the effects of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) on FM we...

Purpose – Building information modelling (BIM) in facilities management (FM) applications is an emerging area of research based on the theoretical proposition that BIM information, generated and captured during the lifecycle of a facility, can improve its management. Using this proposition as a starting point, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the value of BIM and the challenges affec...

Complex natural sounds (e.g., animal vocalizations or speech) can be characterized by specific spectrotemporal patterns whose components change in both frequency (frequency modulation, FM) and amplitude (amplitude modulation, AM). The neural coding of AM and FM has been widely studied in humans and animals, but typically with either pure AM or pure FM stimuli. The neural mechanisms employed to ...

Complex natural sounds (e.g., animal vocalizations or speech) can be characterized by specific spectrotemporal patterns the components of which change in both frequency (FM) and amplitude (AM). The neural coding of AM and FM has been widely studied in humans and animals but typically with either pure AM or pure FM stimuli. The neural mechanisms employed to perceptually unify AM and FM acoustic ...

A method is described for estimating the amplitude modulation (AM) and the frequency modulation (FM) of the components of a signal that consists of two AM–FM sinusoids. The approach is based on the transduction of FM to AM that occurs whenever a signal of varying frequency passes through a filter with a nonflat frequency response. The objective is to separate the AM and FM of the sinusoids from...

BACKGROUND The fragrance mix (FM I), established in 1977, detects the majority, but not all cases of contact allergy to fragrances. Based on European research 2002/2003, fragrance mix II (FM II) was developed to supplement FM I. In 2005, the German Contact Dermatitis Research Group (DKG) added FM II to their baseline series. OBJECTIVES To evaluate reactions to FM II and its constituents in ro...

BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia (FM) is common in older adults suffering from mood disorders. However, clinical diagnosis of FM is challenging, particularly in psychiatric settings. We examined the prevalence of FM and the sensitivity of three simple screeners for FM. METHODS Using cross-sectional data, we evaluated three tests against the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 Criteria for the ...

Fibromyalgia (FM) and transformed migraine (TM) are common chronic pain disorders. The authors estimated the prevalence of FM in 101 patients with TM, and analyzed its relationship to depression, anxiety, and insomnia. FM was diagnosed in 35.6% of cases. Patients with FM had more insomnia, were older, and had headaches that were more incapacitating than patients without FM. Insomnia and depress...

INTRODUCTION Fibromyalgia (FM) is mainly characterized by widespread pain and multiple accompanying symptoms, which hinder FM assessment and management. In order to reduce FM heterogeneity we classified clinical data into simplified dimensions that were used to define FM subgroups. MATERIAL AND METHODS 48 variables were evaluated in 1,446 Spanish FM cases fulfilling 1990 ACR FM criteria. A pa...

Let FM(A), for A = (ω, R̄), be the family of finite models being initial segments of A. The thesis investigates logical properties of families of the form FM(A) for various arithmetics like arithmetic of addition and multiplication, Skolem arithmetic of multiplication, arithmetic of coprimality, of exponentiation and arithmetic of concatenation. We concentrate on questions such as decidability o...