BACKGROUND Metoprolol treatment is well established for chronic heart failure (CHF) patients, but the central nervous system side effects are often a potential drawback. OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of metoprolol treatment on change in mental status of CHF patients with clinical psychological disorders (such as depression, anxiety, and burnout syndrome). METHODS From February 2013 to...

Monitoring wildland fire burn severity is important for assessing ecological outcomes of and their spatial patterning as well guiding efforts to mitigate or restore areas where are negative. Burn mapping products typically created using satellite reflectance data but must be calibrated field derive meaning. The composite index (CBI) the most widely used field-based method calibrate satellite-ba...

In order to adopt a strategic model which aims mitigate the environmental pressures exerted by process of unbridled urbanization, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international agreement that permeates its conservation, sustainable use resources and equitable sharing resources, approved in 2010 creation City Biodiversity Index (CBI), political-legal instrument assess management prog...

Abstract This article examines discretionary reasoning in child’s best interest (CBI) assessments two jurisdictions, England and Norway, decision concerning adoption from care. The countries’ systems differ child protection orientations levels of autonomy but share the legal moral yardstick CBI. Judgments Family Court (n = 29) County Social Welfare Board Norway are analysed through a qualitativ...

Purpose: To evaluate the care burden of caregivers dementia patients and relationship between anxiety-depression risk quality life.
 Methods: This study was conducted with 152 primary by using “Caregiver Burden Inventory”(CBI), “Hospital Anxiety-Depression Scale” (HADS) “Short Version Quality Life Assessment Instrument From World Health Organization” (WHOQOL-BREF).
 Results: Mean age ...

This study aimed to investigate and compare the effects of in-house content-based instruction (CBI) materials general English course on student attitudes toward language learning together with their impact development mastery academic content. It also focused as a foreign (EFL) teachers departmental faculty members towards CBI materials. Using mixed-methods research design data were collected f...

Young children’s educational expectations for themselves, conceptualized as a college-bound identity (CBI), is theorized an important and, fortunately, malleable self-concept predictive of attainment. Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs) are emerging intervention shaping these but have remained understudied among rural populations. This study utilizes survey data from measure CBI collected N = 16...

In this paper, electroencephalography (EEG) measurements are used to infer change in cortical functional connectivity in response to change in audio stimulus. Experiments are conducted wherein the EEG activity of human subjects is recorded as they listen to audio sequences whose quality varies with time. A causal information theoretic framework is then proposed to measure the information flow b...

We consider the classical (propositional) version, CBI, of O’Hearn and Pym’s logic of bunched implications (BI) from a modeland proof-theoretic perspective. We make two main contributions in this paper. Firstly, we present a class of algebraic models for CBI which permit the full range of classical multiplicative connectives to be modelled. Our models can be seen as generalisations of Abelian g...

Design and performance details are given for the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI), an interferometer array that is measuring the power spectrum of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) for multipoles in the range 400 < l < 3500. The CBI is located at an altitude of 5000 m in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. It is a planar synthesis array with 13 0.9-m diameter ante...