BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (QoL) has become a crucial outcome in medical care. However, few studies have assessed physician knowledge of QoL and rate of physicians adopting QoL measures in clinical practice. The present study aimed at assessing the level of knowledge of QoL and the perceived importance of incorporating QoL assessment in clinical practice among physicians of a ter...

BACKGROUND If the SF-36 summary scores are used as health status measures for the purpose of measuring health inequality it is relevant to be informed about the sources of the inequality in order to be able to target the specific aspects of health with the largest impact. METHODS Data were from a Danish health survey on health status, health behaviour and socio-economic background. Decomposit...

Plasmid pGKV21 contains a 229-nucleotide (nt) single-strand DNA initiation (ssi) signal. Using asymmetric PCR, we prepared a small single-stranded (ss) DNA fragment of the ssi signal and, using the 229-nt ssDNA fragment, determined the requirements of RNA polymerase for priming and DNA-protein interaction. The ssi fragment prepared was able to generate primer RNAs with almost the same efficienc...

ABC Communications case study, 281–284 Accelerated SAP framework, 320 activity-oriented prcesses, 337 Actual Implementation phase of implementation, 200 adopters organizations studied, 32–36, 37 success measurement by, 24 see also implementers; users advantages of ERP systems, 277–278 AeroGroup, 373 anticipated change, 330 Antony’s planning and systems control framework, 76 application hosting ...

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial fine-needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a new technique that facilitates cytologic sampling of mediastinal lymph nodes. We describe our initial experience with this method, including adequacy assessment, impact on cytopathologists' work, and diagnostic pitfalls. There were 229 EBUS-TBNA samples obtained from 100 patients; a mean of 22 minutes was spe...

Croke and Kleiner [5] gave a construction for a family Xa : 0 < ac p 2 of CAT(0) spaces that each admit a geometric action by the same group G. They showed that qXa T qXp=2 for all a < p 2 . We show that in fact qXa T qXb for all a0 b, so that G is a CAT(0) group with uncountably many non-homeomorphic boundaries.

Every countable transitive model M of ZF (without choice) has an ordinal preserving extension satisfying ZF, of power ^MnO/i" An aPPucation t0 infinitary logic is given. Any transitive model M of ZFC with countably many ordinals must be countable. The situation is quite different when the axiom of choice is dropped. The first examples of transitive models of ZF of power Wj with countably many o...

The present study is part of a larger project that seeks to identify factors that predict children's behavioral, social, and cognitive adaptation to epilepsy. Children with seizures are more likely to have internalizing and externalizing behavior problems than either healthy children or children with other chronic illnesses. The present research examines risk factors for behavior problems. Earl...

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