Nevertheless, with only two items, the subscale "digestive well-being" has to be strengthened by additional items.
The HLQ scales "Social Interaction", "Mental Balance", "Motility", and "Physical Complaints" share similarities with the these constructs, but highlights two further significant topics, i.e. "Initiative Power and Interest" and "Digestive Well-Being".
The highest reliability in the HLQ-L was obtained for the "Initiative Power and Interest" scale, the lowest for the 2-item scales "Digestive Well-Being" and the "Physical Complaints".
The highest alpha reliability in the HLQ-L was obtained for the "Initiative Power and Interest" scale, the lowest for the 2-item scales "Digestive Well-Being" (0.621) and "Physical Complaints" (0.692).
The scales "Initiative Power and Interest", "Social Interaction", "Mental Balance", "Motility", "Physical Complaints", "Digestive Well-Being" sufficiently differentiate the diagnostic groups, particularly between the patients suffering on connective tissue and soft tissue disorders from those with metabolic and nutritional disorders or hypersensitivity reactions.
Well played, human digestive biology, well played.
Patients with these disorders may experience digestive as well as psychological symptoms, and studies in both humans and animals indicate that the number and type of bacteria in the gut influence anxiety levels.
The pitcher plant advertises its accommodations through a special concave structure along its orifice that reflects the bat's sonar signal from many angles, making the roost easy to find; and it keeps its pool of digestive juices well below the space where the bat cocoons itself.
Take Crohn's disease, an autoimmune disorder that attacks the digestive system: Well over half the population harbors at least one genetic variant linked to Crohn's, but just a fraction of them currently have it.
Though Engelmann et al. (2004) dismissed ferns as a sauropod food source due to their relatively low caloric content, Carpenter argued that the sauropod digestive system, well adapted to handle low-quality food, allows for the consumption of ferns as a large part of the sauropod diet.
