Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the Japanese version of the EORTC QLQ-ELD14 in evaluating the health-related quality of life of elderly patients with cancer

Purpose This study evaluated the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the Japanese version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-ELD14 and measured the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of elderly Japanese patients with cancer aged ≥ 60 and ≥ 70 years. Methods The study recruited elderly Japanese patients with cancer aged ≥ 60 (≥ 70) years (n = 1803 [n = 1236]). The EORTC QLQ-ELD14 was evaluated for reliability, validity, responsiveness, and correlations of changes in score between the EORTC QLQ-ELD14 and the EORTC QLQ-C30 before and after the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results In both age groups, the proportion of missing items was low ( 0.2) after the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes in score between the EORTC QLQ-ELD14 and the “global health status/QOL” and “summary score” of the EORTC QLQ-C30 had moderate-to-high negative correlations for all items, except two. Hypotheses to evaluate construct validity were accepted at 90%, while responsiveness was accepted at 80%. Conclusion The Japanese version of the EORTC QLQ-ELD14 questionnaire appears to have acceptable reliability, validity, and responsiveness to evaluate HRQOL in elderly Japanese people with cancer

Observation of the Color-Suppressed Decay B̅ 0→D0π0

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実践哲学ノート（26）

application/pdfDie vorliegende Arbeit forscht nach dem Sinn des Menschen als menschliches Naturwesens. Der Kern des Sinnes des Menschen ist aber nichts anderes als Menschlichkeit (Humanitat). Also behandle ich die praktische Philosophie uberhaupt, namentlich die menschliche praktische Philosophie Yoshiaki Utsunomiyas. Dabei zugleich mochte ich sein Denken selbst und auch seine Denkweise lernen. Danach mochte ich den Sinn des menschlichen Naturwesens auf Grund der Menschlichkeit (Humanitat) aufklaren und ferner den Menschen an sich selbst als systematische Totalitat der drei Lebenstatigkeiten, die aus Konsumieren, Produzieren und Verkehren bestehen, zeigen. Der Sinn des Menschen enthalt die Menschlichkeit (Humanitat) als sein ubergreifendes Moment in sich. Daher mussten wir vor allem die Menschlichkeit (Humanitat) untersuchen.departmental bulletin pape

<教育デザインフォーラム学生発表会>非漢字圏学習者のためのワープロ機能を使用した漢字学習支援(ポスター発表の要旨)

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Vapor Growth of GaSb in the Closed Tube Process with Low Density of Iodine

application/pdfThe vapor growth of GaSb was experimentally studied using a closed tube transport technique. In the closed tube process with low density of iodine (~10-4mg/cm3) as a transport agent, undoped GaSb was appreciably grown on (100) or (111) oriented GaSb substrates even at a relatively low temperature of 500℃. The electrical measurements showed that the grown layer with higher purity was obtained in this growth system.departmental bulletin pape

Lipase activity (■) and stability (▲) of crude T1 lipase at various temperature

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "sp. nov., a thermophilic lipolytic bacterium isolated from palm oil mill effluent in Malaysia"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/7/77</p><p>BMC Microbiology 2007;7():77-77.</p><p>Published online 10 Aug 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC2000885.</p><p></p> Crude T1 lipase was assayed at various temperatures ranging from 50 to 80°C with olive oil emulsion (1:1, v/v) as substrate (pH 7.0). For the lipase stability test, crude T1 lipase was assayed after heat treatment at various temperatures for 30 min

Downstream sequence alignment of lipase genes derived from T1and its phylogenetic neighbors

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "sp. nov., a thermophilic lipolytic bacterium isolated from palm oil mill effluent in Malaysia"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/7/77</p><p>BMC Microbiology 2007;7():77-77.</p><p>Published online 10 Aug 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC2000885.</p><p></p> The alignment was generated using Lip7263 (DSM 7263), Lip5366 (DSM 5366), and LipT1 (T1). The C-terminal of the open reading frame coding sequences is bracket in red, and the stop codon was labeled as STOP

Phylogenetic position of T1with other validly described species of the genus

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "sp. nov., a thermophilic lipolytic bacterium isolated from palm oil mill effluent in Malaysia"</p><p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/7/77</p><p>BMC Microbiology 2007;7():77-77.</p><p>Published online 10 Aug 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC2000885.</p><p></p> The members of genus used include (DSM 5366); (DSM 7263); (DSM 13174); (DSM 15325); (DSM 730); (DSM 15378); (NCDO 1768); (DSM 13551); (DSM 15726); (DSM 13553); (DSM 465); (ATCC 700356); (DSM 14590); (ATCC 43742) (DSM 16325); (DSM15730); (DSM3670); (DSM16016). were used as an out-group. Phylogenetic tree was inferred by using the neighbour-joining methods. The software package MEGA 3.1 was used for analysis