BACKGROUND Intuitively, health and capability are distinct but linked concepts. This study aimed to quantify the link between a measure of health status (EQ-5D-3L) and capability (ICECAP-O) using regression-based methods. METHODS EQ-5D-3L and ICECAP-O data were collected from a sample of older people ( n = 584), aged over 65 years, requiring a hospital visit and/or care home resident, and rec...

To explore the relationship between neuraminidase immunity and the degree of attenuatíon of live influenza A virus vaccines, a comparative evaluation of three Victoria/75-ts-1[E] (Vic/75-ts-1[E]) recombinant viruses in serum hemagglutination-inhibiting-negative (titer, </=1:8) adult volunteers was performed. These three ts-1[E] viruses had a similar restriction of replication at 38 degrees C in...

Genomics and Epigenetics Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW 2010, Australia St Vincent’s Clinical School, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia Bioinformatics Division, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC 3052, Australia Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Unive...

_____________________________________________ Many young women today are concerned about their sexual health; an increasing number of them consult gynaecologists, youth centres (YCs) and general practitioners with vulvar problems such as painful sensations associated with vaginal intercourse (VIC). It is known that some women continue to have VIC despite pain. Theoretically, repeated painful VI...

The 3L-NPC (Neutral-Point-Clamped) is the most popular multilevel converter used in high-power medium-voltage applications. An important disadvantage of this structure is the unequal distribution of losses among the switches. The performances of 3L-NPC structure were improved by developing the 3L-ANPC (Active-NPC) converter which has more degrees of freedom. In this paper the switching states a...

1 Diabetes and Cell Biology Laboratory, BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia; 2 Medicine and Immunology Departments, Central and Eastern Clinical School, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia; 3 Clinical Services Division, BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia; 4 Centre for Diabetes Research, Wester...

1Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia 2Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Churchill, VIC 3842, Australia 3School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Caulfield Campus,...