Background Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease characterized by prominent organic sleep-related impairment accompanied series of symptoms with strong clinical heterogeneity in rapid progression. As the most significant feature and potential diagnostic marker FFI, progressive sympathetic were lack objective noninvasive quantitative method to detect....

Forest fire risk in Finland is estimated with the Finnish Fire Index (FFI), which predicts fuel moisture content (FMC) of forest floor. We studied FMC variation four typical ground vegetation fuels, Pleurozium schreberi, Hylocomium splendens, Dicranum spp., and Cladonia raw humus mature recently clear-cut stands. Of these, six were sub-xeric Pinus sylvestris stands, mesic Picea abies analysed a...

In the past few years, demands on flash flood forecasting have grown. The Flash Flood Indicator (FFI) is a system used at Czech Hydrometeorological Institute for evaluation of risk possible occurrence floods over whole Republic. FFI calculation based current soil saturation, physical-geographical characteristics every considered area, and radar-based quantitative precipitation estimates (QPEs) ...

Including a method factor on which all items loaded significantly improved fit of CFAs of both IPIP and NEO-FFI data. Fit was further improved by separating the method factor into two factors representing construct-positive and construct-negative items. The criterion-related validity of conscientiousness increased when uncontaminated by method bias. PRESS PARAGRAPH This research extends previou...

In the paper we investigate how owner personality, attitude and gender influence dog behavior, dyadic practical functionality and the level of dog salivary cortisol. In three meetings, 12 female and 10 male owners of male dogs answered questionnaires including the Neo-FFI human personality inventory. Their dyadic behavior was video-taped in a number of test situations, and saliva samples were c...

Teacher-students’ and students-students’ interactions are of significant importance in foreign language teaching and learning. It is argued that interactions between teachers and students facilitate language development and lead to better language learning. The present study is an attempt to investigate the effect of two teaching approaches: 1. Task-Based Instruction (TBI) and 2. Form-Focused I...

BACKGROUND Head and neck region have many vital structures, and facial firearm injuries (FFIs) more likely lead to life-threatening situations than other body injuies. These injuries have high potential of airway compromise associated with significant morbidity and mortality. METHODS We describe an 11-year-old boy who had received tracheostomy after a FFI complicated with pneumothorax and sub...

The Foreign Function Interface (FFI) in Larceny supports interacting with dynamically loaded C libraries via glue code written in Scheme. The programmer does not need to develop any C code to interface with C libraries. The FFI is divided into layers of Larceny Scheme code; the lower layers implement kernel functionality, and the higher layers support portable glue code development. The lower l...

In spring 1997, a feed enzyme factory with the staff of 12, Finnfeeds International Ltd. (FFI) introduced a new production method developed during the case study discussed in this paper For a small high-tech company it is most important to prepare for market changes. With a share of 60 percents of the world markets, FFI wanted to ensure the customer satisfaction in the future too. The vigorous ...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect disease on quality life (QoL) in patients with not operated symptomatic hallux valgus (HV) and relationship between degree deformity classified by radiological parameters QoL. Methods: In prospective study, 100 (33 males, 67 females; mean age 49.25 ± 15.20 years; range 18 75 years) who were admitted our institution diagnosed HV Marc...