Office spirometry:(Un) reliability of some handheld spirometers

K De Soomer, L Claus, R Heyndrickx, W De Backer… - 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Spirometry is considered the gold standard to diagnose COPD and several handheld
spirometers were introduced for use by general practitioners. We tested 13 commonly available …

Weak association between exhaled nitric oxide and bronchial responsiveness in asthmatic patients

E Oostveen, L Claus, K De Soomer, W De Backer… - 2013 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Recent studies suggest that there is a relationship between different measures of airway
inflammation in asthmatic patients. Aim and Methods: We studied the relationship between …

The effect of lung hyperinflation on respiratory muscle strength in COPD patients

K De Soomer, H Vaerenberg, L Claus, W De Backer… - 2012 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Introduction Many COPD patients exhibit hyperinflation, due to premature closure of the
airways and loss of lung elastic recoil, which impairs the respiratory muscle function. Aim To …

[BOOK][B] The human respiratory system: an analysis of the interplay between anatomy, structure, breathing and fractal dynamics

CM Ionescu - 2013 - books.google.com
The Human Respiratory System combines emerging ideas from biology and mathematics to
show the reader how to produce models for the development of biomedical engineering …

Do Fund Managers Expect Mean Averting Returns?

O Stotz, T Lütje, L Menkhoff, R von Nitzsch - 2004 - econstor.eu
… Additionally, varying dividend growth rates can also be considered in the dividend
discount model (eg, Claus and Thomas, 2001). However, it seems to be a difficult task to …

[PDF][PDF] The Six-minutes Walk Test as a Measure of Exercise Capacity in Patient Cured for Pulmonary Tuberculosis

M Chuchkin, V Aksenova… - European …, 2012 - ers-education.org
Results: The groups were well matched but none of the IOS measurements differed
between the groups. Mean values were virtually identical for all parameters and post-bronchodilator …

Fractional order model parameters for the respiratory input impedance in healthy and in asthmatic children

C Ionescu, K Desager, R De Keyser - Computer methods and programs in …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper provides an evaluation of a fractional order model for the respiratory input impedance,
using two groups of subjects, respectively healthy and asthmatic children. The purpose …

[BOOK][B] Communication and management at work

T Klikauer - 2007 - books.google.com
Uniquely, this book positions communication inside the historic development of work and
management and shows how this development has led to the instrumental use of …

[PDF][PDF] Steffi Pohl*, Anna Südkamp 2, Katinka Hardt 3, Claus H. Carstensen 4 and

S Weinert - core.ac.uk
Assessing competencies of students with special educational needs in learning (SENL) poses
a challenge for large-scale assessments (LSAs). For students with SEN-L, the available …

[PDF][PDF] Directed evolution of epoxide hydrolase from A. radiobacter toward higher enantioselectivity by error-prone PCR and DNA shuffling

B van Loo, JHL Spelberg, J Kingma, T Sonke… - Chemistry & biology, 2004 - cell.com
The enantioselectivity of epoxide hydrolase from Agrobacterium radiobacter (EchA) was
improved using error-prone PCR and DNA shuffling. An agar plate assay was used to screen …