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Showing 1 to 20 of 4210 for “"severity"”.
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Severity of Articulation Disorders
… of time enrolled in articulatory therapy to the severity of the problem. The records were checked for severity rating, sex, race, age, and duration of time in program. Only students between the ages of five and seven years of age were included in this study. Students had to be enrolled for …
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Effort-Independent Asthma Severity Classification
… to determine underlying patient symptom severity, using logistic regression classification models. Applications in both controlled, pulmonary function laboratories and emergency department triage conditions are explored. We show that for an adult population undergoing methacholine …
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Deterrence, punishment severity and drink-driving
… of deterrence theory: that increases in the severity of punishment can reduce the likelihood of offending. To this end, a case study in which the statutory penalties were doubled for almost all drink-driving offences in New South Wales, Australia, is examined. Two quasi-experimental studies …
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Crash severity modeling in transportation systems
Modeling crash severity is an important component of reasoning about the issues that may affect highway safety. A better understanding of the factors underlying crash severity can be used to reduce the degree of crash severity injury, locate road hazardous sites, and adopt suitable countermeasures. …
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Acute pancreatitis - severity classification, complications and outcome
… accurate early prediction of the disease severity. The aims of this thesis were to investigate early severity classification, complications and outcome in acute pancreatitis patients, with special regard to patients developing the severe form of the disease. The results of the studies …
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Predicting Aortic Stenosis Severity using Deep Learning
… deep learning models that predict the severity of aortic stenosis, which is numerically defined by the mean gradient and the valve area, in a given patient. The results from this thesis will pave the way for understanding more about aortic stenosis and providing better clinical care for …
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Driver injury severity at u.s. highway-rail crossings
… frequency prediction models and driver injury severity models. Accident frequency prediction at highway-rail grade crossings have been investigated by previous studies using varied statistical models. Few studies, however, have focused on driver injury severity studies. Three drawbacks will be …
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Veterans, PTSD Severity, and Health Conditions Over Time
<p>PTSD has been linked to the development of numerous health conditions; this study’s aim is to determine if PTSD predicts the diagnosis of type II diabetes, overweight/obesity, hypertension, musculoskeletal disorders, neurological disorders, and chronic pain. Participants were 416 veterans …
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Disease severity and psychological status in ankylosing spondylitis
The findings of this study provide an original contribution to knowledge in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and have important implications for eiThancing clinical practice. The results demonstrate the existence and significance of associations between disease and psychological status in AS, and also …
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PTSD: A Predictor of Pain Severity in Fibromyalgia Patients
… between three variables (traumatic events, pain severity, and PTSD) is evaluated. This study examined data from 26 participants who reported having experienced at least one traumatic event and having been diagnosed with FM by a physician. The TLEQ, BPI, and PCL-C were used as measures for …
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Gender Differences in Judging the Severity of Traumatic Events
… of the four video dramatizations as higher in severity than the male participants. Adult participants viewed four video clips of different dramatized trauma, after which each participant filled out a questionnaire based on the DSM-IV criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). …
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Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis Exacerbates Malaria Severity in Ugandan Children
Malaria is a life-threatening infectious disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium. Sub-Saharan Africa faces the greatest disease burden and most deaths from severe malaria (SM) occur in children <5 years old. The pathogenesis of SM is not fully known, but murine studies implicate the gut …
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Is Anchoring on Estimates of Severity an Adaptive Heuristic?
… study tested whether or not the quality of severity influenced people to select a bias towards a false positive error. In two studies, participants made judgments about Friday’s weather after viewing nine different sequences of two forecasts (sunny, cloudy, or stormy) from early in the week …
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Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Asthma Stability and Severity
… the diseased models and predicting the severity of their condition. We also evaluate the treatment progress in mouse models of asthma. We then study an asthma database of humans including measurements of four related laboratory parameters and cluster patients based on inherent properties …
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Effect of malnutrition on tuberculosis microbiologic severity in India
… malnutrition and tuberculosis disease (TB) severity is understudied. This study analyzed data collected by a large cohort study to investigate the effect malnutrition, measured by BMI, had on TB mycobacterial burden. A study population of 538 subjects was utilized for this secondary data …
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Changes of Winter Severity in Arkansas during 1901-2100
… of this study was to quantify the winter severity in a way that was reproduceable and easy to understand. The Accumulated Winter Severity Seasonal Index (AWSSI) was chosen for this reason and was used to quantify winter severity by season across the state of Arkansas. The variables that go …
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