Background: Predictors of medication adherence are not well known in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is therefore necessary to identify factors associated with adherence to improve the effectiveness of COPD management within real-world situations. Objectives: The goals of this study were to estimate adherence to respiratory medication and to identify factors related to adherenc...

Luis S. Froufe-Pérez, Michael Engel, 3 Pablo F. Damasceno, 3 Nicolas Muller, Jakub Haberko, Sharon C. Glotzer, 3, 5 and Frank Scheffold Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA Faculty of Ph...

The paper presents selected issues on benchmarking the Quality of Experience (QoE) for video streaming and multimedia P2P search services being investigated in the VIFP NoE CONTENT Content Networks and Services for Home Users under participation the Department of Telecommunications (AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow). The first section of the paper presents the general approach us...

salinity problem is continuously increasing in the arid and semi-arid regions of iran. to effectively utilize germplasm resources in breeding, it is necessary to characterize and evaluate genotypes for the desirable traits and as well for salinity tolerance. salinity tolerance of 80 wheat landraces from different parts of iran was studied in two steps. at first, the degree of salnity tolerance ...

M. Dudek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Faculty of Management, Poland In the blast-furnace production, raw materials may account for approx. 50 % of the pig-iron manufacture costs. Therefore, any, even small, saving in the sphere of raw material purchasing will translate into the reduction in the cost of the pig-iron manufacture. The selection of appropriate supply sources a...

S. Rzadkosz, J. Zych, A. Garbacz-Klempka, J. Kozana, M. Piękoś, J. Kolczyk, Ł. Jamrozowicz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Foundry Engineering, Krakow, Poland M. Kranc, Foundry Research Institute, Krakow, Poland T. Stolarczyk, Copper Museum in Legnica, Poland This paper presents research results in the field of casting technology of copper and copper alloys using the inves...

♣ This work was supported by AGH Technical University grant no. 10.10.120.39 ABSTRACT The image compression by means of wavelet technique is considered in this paper. The proposed solution takes advantages of the current observer eye position rather than the image content. The noninvasive eye-pursuit system determines the zone of observer’s interest and sends the information back to the image c...

Herein, the electrical and structural properties of Ag‐ AgH‐related defects in n‐ p‐type Si are reinvestigated using conventional deep‐level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) high‐resolution Laplace DLTS. It is evidenced that a peak corresponding to substitutional Ag does not always appear as‐grown additional heat treatments necessary observe this defect. Several peaks, which were previously report...

To clarify the suppression of postprandial blood glucose rise via alpha-glucosidase (AGH) inhibitory action by natural compounds, propolis was examined in this study. A single oral administration of propolis extract (50% methanol fraction on XAD-2 column chromatography) in Sprague-Dawley rats demonstrated a potent antihyperglycemic effect with the significant AUC(0-120 min) reduction of 38% at ...

The main goal of this note is to provide a complete tool for verifying whether polytopes of complex polynomials whose degrees differ at most by one are Hurwitz stable. The results extend some classical theorems, such as the Edge Theorem given by Bartlett, Hollot and Huang (1988), its generalizations proposed by Sideris and Barmish (1989), Fu and Barmish (1989), and the eigenvalue criterion give...