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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"CFs"”.
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Effects of War Stressors and Life Events on Gulf War Veterans with CFS Symptoms
… period when they occur, with the development of CFS symptoms in Gulf War veterans. From data collected from Gulf War Health Registry veterans, 113 met CFS criteria and 441 were controls. After hierarchical linear analysis, negative life stressors: wounded, traumatic war experience, frequent …
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Pre-illness to post-recovery: A Journey. The lived experience of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
… Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) literature. The programme of research reported here aimed to provide an account of thewhole of the sufferer’s journey from prior to the illness through the illness itself and beyond to the recovery period. This is in contrast to much previous …
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"I had to give up so, so much": a narrative study to investigate the impact of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) on the lives of young people.
… the personal experiences of young people with CFS – how does the condition affect their daily lives – including educational, social and psychological perspectives. Secondly, how does CFS impact family life – how does the condition influence not only the lives of sufferers but also those closest …
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A Framework for Cyclic Simulation of Thin-Walled Cold-Formed Steel Members in Structural Systems
… analysis framework for cold-formed steel (CFS) framed-buildings supported by hysteretic nonlinear models for CFS members and screw-fastened connections. Design of CFS structures subjected to lateral seismic forces traditionally relies on the strength of subassemblies subjected to lateral …
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Conceptual frameworks for discrete event simulation modeling
… which concern the use of conceptual frameworks (CFs) for the design and implementation of a model. A literature review of CFs which are in common use is conducted. These CFs are applied to a complex modeling problem, a traffic intersection system. A comparative review of the CFs is given based …
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The role of sleep in the chronic fatigue syndrome
… fatigue or presumed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). It aims at exploring: - the diagnostic categories of patients with unexplained chronic fatigue through systematic clinical analysis - the existing literature on sleep in CFS - subjective sleep parameters and sleep quality in CFS patients - the …
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Factors that influence how relationships adjust to a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome: A grounded theory
… (ME)/ chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). A large body of literature exists that investigates the impact of ME/CFS on the individual and a smaller body of work addresses the effect on the partner and the influence the partner has in the management of the condition. This research, …
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What are the attitudes, beliefs and knowledge of health care professionals about chronic fatigue syndromes and fibromyalgia : a systematic review to guide curriculum development
… Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a relatively unknown disease and is often referred to as a diagnosis of exclusion. Diagnostic tests are not available for this disease because a single empirical cause or marker has yet to be discovered. This means that diagnosis and …
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A prospective investigation of cognitive-behavioural models of irritable bowel and chronic fatigue syndromes: implications for theory, classification and treatment
… syndrome (IBS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). A range of predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating variables operationalised from this model were assessed in two acutely ill samples. The significance and relative importance of these variables with regard to the development of …
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Usual dietary intake among chronic fatigue syndrome patients
… between dietary intake and the pathology of CFS has been an area of intense speculation without strong research support. There may be important links between diet and symptoms such that dietary interventions may be efficacious as adjunct therapy. This study was designed to assess any dietary …
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Cognitive aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome
… for treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has highlighted the contribution of psychological approaches to alleviating the debilitating symptoms of this illness. In previous research sufferers from CFS have been compared with depressed patients and patients with neuromuscular disease, …
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The role of contextual factors during conservative chronic low back pain management
… and effectiveness of care. Contextual factors (CFs), such as the patient-practitioner relationship, beliefs/characteristics of patients and practitioners, treatment characteristics, and the therapeutic environment may affect long-term recovery, but knowledge of their role during conservative …
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Correlation-based feature selection for machine learning
… an operational definition of this hypothesis. CFS (Correlation based Feature Selection) is an algorithm that couples this evaluation formula with an appropriate correlation measure and a heuristic search strategy. CFS was evaluated by experiments on artificial and natural datasets. Three …
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Ampligen therapy, exercise capacity and immune function in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
<p>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating illness that is characterized by pervasive fatigue, sleep disturbance, neurocognitive problems, joint and muscle pain and numerous other symptoms. Results from CFS treatment studies are equivocal. The purpose of this study was to examine the …
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Correlation Force Spectroscopy for Single Molecule Measurements
… tool, correlation force spectroscopy (CFS), for the measurement of the mechanical properties of very small volumes of material (molecular to µm³) at kHz-MHz time-scales. CFS is based on atomic force microscopy (AFM) and the principles of CFS resemble those of dual-trap optical tweezers. …
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Antibiofilm properties of selected Lactobacillus species and their mechanism of action against Listeria monocytogenes
… the capabilities of cell free supernatant (CFS) of selected LAB strains (Lactobacillus acidophilus La14 150B, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus ATCC 4356) to inhibit as well as disperse the formation of biofilms of L. monocytogenes strains was investigated. L. …
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Cellular Immune Changes in the Peripheral Blood of Subjects Chronically Infected with XMRV
… blood of >67% of 101 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) patients tested and shown to be infectious. CFS is a debilitating disease characterized by innate immune system activation and low natural killer (NK) cell activity. We hypothesized that XMRV infection plays a role in the pathogenesis of CFS …
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Cognitive deficits in chronic fatigue syndrome
… on cognition in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Many patients report difficulties such as `fuzzy' thinking, poor memory, reduced attention, and slowness of thought. Whilst much of the earlier literature presented conflicting results, more recently the theory that there is slowed processing …
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Spatial reuse in TDMA wireless networks
… in the network that form Collision-Free Sets (CFSs). We develop algorithms that efficiently find such CFSs. The main focus of this thesis is the application of our CFS-based algorithms to emerging WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) networks. However, we will also apply our …
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The psychological aspects and management of chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) describes a condition characterised by severe fatigue of at least six months' duration. In this thesis, it is argued that the complexity of CFS with respect to other symptoms, the patients' response to their illness and the determinants of emotional distress, has yet …
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