OBJECTIVES The goal of this project was to develop the first disease-specific instrument for the evaluation of quality of life in chronic pancreatitis. METHODS Focus groups and interview sessions were conducted, with chronic pancreatitis patients, to identify items felt to impact quality of life which were subsequently formatted into a paper-and-pencil instrument. This instrument was used to ...

This document aim to develop and publish the glacial lake inventory in the Bhutan Himalayas using optical instruments onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS, nicknamed “Daichi”), which was launched on January 24, 2006. The Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) is exposing to a risk for peoples living in downstream regions. The glacial lake inventory is newly developing using ALOS data...

We introduce equity forward variance term-structure models and derive the respective HJM-type arbitrage conditions. We then discuss finitedimensional Markovian representations of the infinite-dimensional fixed time-to-maturity forward variance swap curve and analyse examples of such variance curve functionals. The results are then applied to show that the speed of mean-reversion in standard sto...

background and objectives: questionnaire-based survey is the most common way of assessing patient satisfaction. however, most relevant survey instruments have been developed in western countries, and valid and reliable context-specific survey tools in this area are lacking. to help filling this gap, in this study we have developed and validated the preliminary version of the novel brief inpatie...