BACKGROUND Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is important in arthritis and the SF-36v2 is the current state-of-the-art. It is only emerging how well the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) HRQOL measures HRQOL for people with arthritis. This study's purpose is to assess the psychometric properties of the 9-item CDC HRQOL (4-item Healthy Days Core Module and 5-item He...

In order to obtain further performance improvement concerning UV-shielding materials with good comfort and safety, a ball-milling assisted three-step coating method was carried out. First, the calcia-doped ceria (CDC) nanoparticles were prepared using coprecipitation method at pH12.0. Secondly, the as-prepared CDC powder was dispersed by ballmilling to break the big agglomerations of CDC. Third...

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Although English has become the de-facto universal scientific language, this does not imply that there are no language barriers within the scientific community. On the contrary, people from different disciplines who are using the same tool-a supercomputer-to solve their problems, have great difficulty explaining to each other what exactly they are doing. On the other hand it can be very enlight...