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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"health state"”.
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Comparative analysis of health state utility measurement methods
Az egészség keresletként határozható meg, amelyet a véges erőforrásokkal rendelkező egészségügyi rendszer biztosít kínálati oldalról. Bármilyen egészség-nyereség társadalmi közjónak tekinthető. Számos hatékony egészségügyi program és intervenció szolgálja azt, hogy javítsák a populáció egészségét. …
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Evaluating the musculoskeletal health state of intensive care unit survivors
… long-term physical impairment, decreased health-related quality of life and low rates of return to employment. There has been limited investigation of the underlying problems impacting physical function of patients post-Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission. Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions …
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Predicting the Impact of Health States on Well-being: Explanations and Remedies for Biased Judgments
… that people overestimate the impact of health states on both their own happiness and other peoples’ happiness, resulting in a disparity between a healthy sample’s predictions and the actual well-being of people living with that health state. The aim of this thesis was to explore these …
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Health and hope--Perceptions of Cancer patients and well adults
Two separate, yet related, constructs--health and hope--formed the basis for the study. A theoretical framework, merging health and hope, was constructed using Gibbs' (1972) method of theory construction. The theory assumed that three concepts (variables), definition of health, perception of health …
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Information and Decision-Making Preferences of Community Dwelling Elderly People with Diabetes Mellitus
… of treatments for chronic illness has led health care providers to examine the information and decision-making preferences of these people. People are living longer and more independently with chronic illness. They are managing their illnesses in the home setting with increased …
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Essays on impact of risk preference on health and occupational choice
<p>This dissertation re-examines Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data in order to ascertain whether there exists behavioral heterogeneity among people regarding health risk as compared to that of financial risk as well as whether there exists racial-ethnic and gender heterogeneity in the health …
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Monitoring Progressive Damage Development in Laminated Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials
… applications of composite materials, their health monitoring is of growing importance in engineering practice. Damage development in composite materials is more complex than for metallic materials, because in composite materials (a) multiple damage modes are simultaneously in play, and (b) …
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Exploring Hyperspectral and Very High Spatial Resolution Imagery in Vegetation Characterization
… classification; and 3) evaluation of canopy health state for Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) infestation assessment by intelligent combination of multi-sourced data.
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Fiber Optic Sensors for On-Line, Real Time Power Transformer Health Monitoring
… damage. Accurate and prompt information on the health state of a transformer is thus the critical prerequisite for an asset manager to make a vital decision on a transformer with suspicious conditions. Partial discharge (PD) is not only a precursor of insulation degradation, but also a primary …
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The long-term effectiveness of dialysis, kidney transplantation and pancreas transplantation for patients with diabetes mellitus and renal failure: A decision analysis.
… for those patients who favor the kidney-pancreas health state over kidney transplantation alone.
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Optimised meta-clustering approach for clustering Time Series Matrices
The prognostics (health state) of multiple components represented as time series data stored in vectors and matrices were processed and clustered more effectively and efficiently using the newly devised ‘Meta-Clustering’ approach. These time series data gathered from large applications and systems …
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Development of an advanced deep learning and neural network method for automatic early detection of mastitis in dairy cattle : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
… was applied to the SOM map, identifying five health states—healthy, early subclinical, subclinical, late subclinical and clinical—despite the absence of specific labels for the subclinical stages. Building on the insights gained from unsupervised learning with SOM and FCM, we then trained a …
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Lung disease diagnosis from gene expression profiles
… searched for biomarkers reflective of the global health state of the lung by studying data taken from a broad range of lung diseases. We used gene expression microarray data from five different lung diseases—lung adenocarcinoma, lung squamous cell carcinoma, large cell lung carcinoma, chronic …
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Exploring Health Care Decison-Making of Older Adults: Consistency and Clarification of Responses Over Time
This study investigated the stability of health care decisions and the influencing values of 21 competent older adults. Face to face interviews were conducted initially (T1) followed by taped, telephone interviews seven years later (T2). Each participant was presented with a list of value …
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Review : integration of EMI technique with global vibration technique
In the last decade, the development of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has been skyrocketing because of the serious consequences that come with structural failure. Traditional damage detection techniques, also known as local damage detections, such as visual inspection and ultrasonic testing, …
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Family adaptability, cohesion and conflict in families with rheumatoid arthritis, chronic pain and depression
… Differences between the groups in terms of health status were explored using a MANOVA with group membership as the independent variable and the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale (AIMS) as dependent variables. Overall the depression and chronic pain groups; were more similar than the PA …
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An Intelligence and Creative Computing Based Mental Health Care Framework
… business, medical, tourism and other subjects. Health care can be related to artificial intelligence, serving more on protecting people’s health through supervising some indexes of people and providing advice for people’s normal life. As health care is required colleting the physical data, voice …
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Slaugos poreikiai asmenims po kelio sąnario endoprotezavimo operacijų pooperaciniu laikotarpiu /
… operations. 2. To assess the status of health 3. Analyze the needs for nursing and determine the quality of nursing services Study methods. In total, there were 110 respondents. The patient survey was carried out in 2016 February – April months. The study was conducted in public …
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Integrated Methodologies Based on Structural Health Monitoring for the Protection of Cutural Heritage Buildings
… determined a growing interest in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) as a measure of passive mitigation of earthquake effects. The object of monitoring is to identify, locate and classify type and severity of damages induced by external actions or degradation phenomena and to assess their …
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