AIMS Generic, preference-based measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are a common input to the economic evaluation of new health technologies. As such, it is important to explore what characteristics of patients with Type 1 diabetes might impact scores on such measures. METHODS This study utilizes baseline data from a cluster-randomized trial that recruited patients with Type 1 d...

The effects of dietary administration of ethoxyquin (EQ) on aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) metabolism, DNA adduct formation and removal, and hepatic tumorigenesis were examined in male Fischer rats. Rats were fed a semipurified diet containing 0.4% EQ for 1 wk, gavaged with 250 micrograms of AFB1 per kg 5 times a wk during the next 2 wk, and, finally, restored to the control diet 1 wk after cessation of d...

conclusions this study attempted to compare the course of acute poisonings with some other diseases to show how self-induced poisoning affects one’s health perception, and how this change takes place over a short time. objectives the aim of this cross-sectional study was to compare the extent and pattern of variation in generic utility measures with respect to capturing the clinical nature of a...

background preference weights for eq-5d-3l based on visual analogue scale (vas) has recently been developed in iran. the aim of the current study was to compare performance of this value set against the uk vas-based value set.   methods the mean scores for all possible 243 health states were compared using student t test. absolute agreement and consistency were investigated using concordance co...

background health-related quality of life (hrqol) is used as a measure to valuate healthcare interventions and guide policy making. the euroqol eq-5d is a widely used generic preference-based instrument to measure health-related quality of life. objectives the objective of this study was to develop a value set of the eq-5d health states for an iranian population. patients and methods this study...

Urinary incontinence can cause embarrassment and can impact on daily activities and quality of life. Generic health related quality of life instruments, such as the EQ-5D, are designed to be applicable across a variety of disease areas. However, it is sometimes claimed that they are not applicable to a certain disease area because they are missing a domain which directly captures the impact of ...

and ei(t) is the output error, xi(t) represent the activations and δi(t) are the backpropagated errors. The system described by Eq. 1 and Eq. 2 constitute the backpropagation through time (BPTT) algorithm. Note that the backpropagation system (Eq. 2) should be run from t=T backwards to t=1. We define the boundary conditions δi(T+1)=0. We will assume that the instantaneous error signal ei(t) is ...

iProver-Eq is an implementation of an instantiation-based calculus Inst-Gen-Eq which is complete for first-order logic with equality. iProver-Eq extends the iProver system with superposition-based equational reasoning and maintains the distinctive features of the Inst-Gen method. In particular, firstorder reasoning is combined with efficient ground satisfiability checking where the latter is de...

This study investigated the effects of in ovo administration of equol (Eq) on post-hatch growth and hepatic lipid metabolism in broiler chickens. Fertilized eggs (146 eggs/group) were injected with 0 μg (control, Con), 20 μg (low dose, L) and 100 μg (high dose, H) Eq in the albumen on the 7th day of incubation. Except a trend increase in the weight of total fat (P = 0.09), Eq had no effect on g...