Objectives. In some chronic conditions, patient-specific tools with individualized items have proved to be more sensitive outcome instruments than fixed-item tools; their use has not yet been investigated in chronic low back pain (cLBP). Methods. Eleven males and 21 females [mean age 44.0 (12.3) years] with cLBP, undergoing a spine-stabilization physiotherapy programme, completed the Roland Mor...

ROLaND RUECkERT In the late 1960s, I was a starving student and Roland Rueckert was a new faculty member in the biochemistry department of the University of Wisconsin. I was looking for lunch money and he was looking for lab staff to wash glassware. After I had finished up the dishes, Dr. Rueckert invited me to assist with some experiments, and my introduction to scientific inquiry began. Rolan...

dementia is defined as significant acquired cognitive impairment in one or more cognitive domains that represents a significant decline from previous baseline and interferes with independence in daily activities. autoimmune dementia is a term that has been used to describe a steroid-responsive autoimmune disorder characterized by a rapidly progressive dementia with a fluctuating course. even co...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (Qol) is an increasingly used outcome measure in dementia research. The QUALIDEM is a dementia-specific and proxy-rated Qol instrument. We aimed to determine the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability in residents with dementia in German nursing homes. METHODS The QUALIDEM consists of nine subscales that were applied to a sample of 108 people with mild to severe de...

Association between causal genes and their genetic diseases is an important problem concerning human health. Linkage analysis is such a method that can identify which unknown disease genes are located in chromosomal region out of hundreds of candidate genes according to their functions, interactions, and pathways which is good identification of genes associated with general/hereditary disorders...

Am 19. Juni 2014, wenige Tage nach seinem 64. Geburtstag, ist Roland Mittermeir gestorben. Sein Tod trifft nicht nur seine Familie und Freunde, sondern auch alle, die sich im deutschsprachigen Raum dem Fach Software Engineering zugehörig fühlen. Roland Mittermeir wurde 1950 in Wien geboren und hat seine Jugend in Purkersdorf bei Wien verbracht. Nach Hauptschule und Lehre schrieb er sich an der ...

Diversity-enhancing policies are practiced around the world. This paper explores the economics of such policies. A model is proposed where heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, purchase productive opportunities (or slots) in a competitive market. The problem of designing an e cient policy to raise the status of a disadvantaged identity group in this competition...

There is controversy among scientists whether standards and regulations hamper or stimulate innovation. We investigate the direct effect of standards and regulations on the development and diffusion of radically new high-tech products. The radicalness and degree of inter-relatedness of the technology in these products are found to moderate this direct effect. The focus is on pre-existing standa...