Balance confidence, measured using the Activity-Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC-16), can affect quality of life in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). Two abbreviated 6-item versions of the ABC-16 have been previously derived to measure balance confidence in an expedited fashion. This study aimed to validate these abbreviated versions and to determine their correlations with measu...

PT ABC is an industry that produces hazardous and toxic waste. All waste generated stored in temporary storage, but based on observations made, the existing storage does not meet standards set by government. Therefore, a area was redesigned at accordance with The objective of this study to find place complies government regulations for ABC. method used record types, characteristics, quantities ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the loss of dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons but which involves the loss of additional neurotransmitter pathways. Mono- or polytherapeutic interventions in PD patients have declining efficacy long-term and no influence on disease progression. The systematic analysis of available genetic and functional data a...

This paper analyses the strategic management accounting concept with an instrumental point of view. We try to show in what extend the ABC developments could be included in a strategic approach of the management accounting and to test if the ABC is a relevant tool to drive the strategy. The first part synthesizes the strategic management accounting developments, which try to improve the Activity...

ABC excinuclease of Escherichia coli removes 6-4 photoproducts and pyrimidine dimers from DNA by making two single strand incisions, one 8 phosphodiester bonds 5' and another 4 or 5 phosphodiester bonds 3' to the lesion. We describe in this communication a method, which utilizes DNA photolyase from E. coli, pyrimidine dimer endonucleases from M. luteus and bacteriophage T4, and alkali hydrolysi...

Despite the industrial popularity of nylon 6 composites, their wear performance portrays a substantial knowledge gap on parametric importance. Consequently, this study optimizes and prioritizes parameters 6/boron nitride composites using Taguchi-Pareto Taguchi-ABC methods based 80-20 Pareto rule ABC analysis, signal-to-noise ratios. From literature information, principal considered are %wt rein...

BACKGROUND Despite the importance of body awareness for health and well-being there is still a lack of valid assessment tools to scan proper body awareness. To respond to the limitations of questionnaires (reading/interpretation problems) the Awareness-Body-Chart (ABC) was designed to assess body awareness by colouring 51 regions according to their awareness. The objective of this study was to ...

PURPOSE To study the interfraction reproducibility of breath-holding using active breath control (ABC), and to develop computerized tools to evaluate three-dimensional (3D) intrathoracic motion in each patient. METHODS AND MATERIALS Since June 2002, 11 patients with non-small-cell lung cancer enrolled in a Phase II trial have undergone four CT scans: one during free-breathing (reference) and ...

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm invented recently by Karaboga is a biological-inspired optimization algorithm, which has been shown to be competitive with some conventional biological-inspired algorithms, such as genetic algorithm (GA), differential evolution (DE) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). However, there is still an insufficiency in ABC algorithm regarding its solution search...