... life 41.3 40 .6 42.8 40.7 36. 0 11.4 Effect on body weight Weight gain 20.7 15.0 12 .6 55.8 65 .8 55.7 50.1 56. 3 Weight loss Mode of application 15.7 No change 54.9 36. 5 53.8 65 .0 76. 2 30.4 29.2 ... patients and physicians, weight loss is at least as important as the reduction of an elevated HBA1c (Tables and 3) This means that weight loss and reduction of an elevated HBA1c may be used as equivalent ... is based on the levels of assessment and appraisal as shown in Table The appraisal of health care services presumes that preferences can be measured and can be made available to the policy and...
... general soil degradation thresholds and then at the local scale we also need to address the specificity of the land management impacts, and define the threats associated to a specific soil management ... N and Snyder P.K 2005 Global consequences of land use Science 570-574 Karlen D.L., Mausbach M.J., Doran J.W., Cline R.G., Harris R.F and Schuman G.E 1997 Soil quality: a concept, definiton, and ... Science Society of America Journal 61 : 410 Schjonning P., Elmholt S and Christensen B.T 2004 Soil quality management Concepts and terms In: Schjonning P., Elmholt S and Christensen B.T (eds.) Challenges...
... research products and services at least once a month, whereas 32 percent of 18-to-34-year-olds are doing this at least monthly and 21 percent of them are doing it at least on a weekly basis • When ... segments and merchandise categories This can ease the costs of printing and mailing, yet still provide the inspiration and reminder to send customers back online Merchants need to understand the ... crosschannel research, browsing, and purchasing processes and adjust accordingly When consumers were asked how frequently they browse, research, and make purchases by viewing catalogs, they gave...
... p < 0.001) and depression (coefficient: -2.42, p < 0.001) 750 66 26 19 81 66 3 63 2 63 2 68 2 69 8 725 715 549 582 590 61 2 62 4 64 .6 (12.0) 5.5 (4.0) 3.9 (3.3) 62 .7 (28.5) 66 .2 (18.9) 74 .6 (25.1) 58.1 ... angina pectoris and most of them were graded with CCS class II, and none was graded with class IV Dyspnea was less frequent (34%), and mostly graded with NYHA class II For CCS and NYHA the validity ... Non-cardiac diseases/other health complaints Diabetes Type I or II Body mass index (BMI) kg/m2 CCS classification of angina a Class (no angina) Class I Class II Class III NYHA classification of...
... 1 .69 (1 .69 ; 1 .69 ) 1 .69 (1 .69 ; 1 .69 ) 1 .69 (1 .69 ; 1 .69 ) 0.2 76 Change in CD4 count cells/mm3 (mean, (SD)) 178 (130) 184 (1 36) 159 (107) 0.152 Change in viral load log copies/ml (mean, (SD)) -2. 96 ... [ 16- 19] Wouters et al [ 16] and Louwagie et al [17] assessed the impact of HAART on HRQoL in cross-sectional surveys, and showed a significant association between HAART and improved physical and ... ARV care with a standard first-line and second-line regimen In keeping with WHO recommendations, the first-line regimen was NNRTI-based and the second was protease inhibitor-based [23] Adults...
... first phase, a draft contents page was created based on common key symptoms in primary care The starting point was the contents in PALSA PLUS: asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), ... outcomes related to TB, asthma treatment, and HIV [14- 16] Nurses trained with PALSA PLUS reported better emotional and operational support from their outreach trainers, and increased confidence in ... order (with or without a co-morbidity) and specific diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up guidelines for the management of asthma, COPD, TB, HIV and STIs, as well as routine antenatal care (Table 5)...
... (such as Enron and WorldCom in the USA, Ahold in the Netherlands, Parmalat in Italy, Shell in the Netherlands and the UK, and Addeco in Meditari Accountancy Research Vol 16 No 2008 : 1- 26 13 The ... Scott (20 06: 5) claims that in 1 966 in the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) monograph, A Statement of Basic Accounting Theory (also known as ASOBAT), the concept ”decision-usefulness” was included ... live, perceive and experience things and perform our daily life tasks (Babbie & Mouton 2001:15), as well as the world in which professional bodies such as SAICA, with its publications and professional...
... emergence (letting the community evolve and grow) One way to understand this is to be as explicit as you can in your communication and to pay attention and intervene if the power gets out of balance, ... to misunderstandings • Identity • Membership • Culture • Language • Attention • Power and Control Surfacing and sharing cultural preferences and norms can help a community adjust and find ways ... the member such as contact information, organization, interests and location • Identity Another perspective on membership is if and how you foster a feeling of community, group and ownership Sometimes...
... lines and 60 Hz refresh rate, a motion as slow as one picture height in seconds will halve the vertical resolution In the PAL standard with 5 76 active lines and 50 Hz refresh rate, the half-bandwidth ... technological advance has to be compatible with existing standards [2] However, the advent of digital video has restarted the discussion on interlace in broadcast standards As both technical and non-technical ... definition video 263 263 264 267 7.3.1 F i r s t s u b j e c t i v e assessment 268 7.3.2 7.4 Evaluation Second s u b j e c t i v e assessment Conclusions ...
... Yes No 7.3 9.0 0.81 0. 96 Met Through or As Neighbors Yes No 7 .6 8.8 0. 86 0.94 Met Through or as Coworkers Yes No 6. 3 9.2 0 .66 0 .66 Met in College or University Yes No 6. 5 8.9 0.72 0.90 Met in ... 69 ,200 63 ,000 7.2 38.0 14.9 47.9 17.3 47.2 15.0 44 .6 89 .6 65.0 56. 8 59.2 94.4 37.5 63 .8 79.7 0 .62 0.34 0.11 0.25 Mean how long ago first met (years) Mean how long in relationship (years) 24 .6 ... partner was not first found online (and the friend could just as easily have provided a phone Rosenfeld and Thomas, Searching for a Mate P. 16 number) If the friend was searching a dating website, and...
... only local scope, whereas our analogous construct (the SID) is a global identifier P6P [57, 62 ] proposes a DHT-based infrastructure as a way to deploy IPv6: sites send IPv6 packets to their gateway ... services anddata first-class objects, support for mobility, and graceful incorporation of intermediaries 3.1 EIDs and SIDs We start by describing how this architecture works in the basic case The ... structure As has been noted in the URN literature [23, 50, 51] and by others [4,37,59], DNS-based names for data are inherently ephemeral Data does not naturally conform to domain boundaries, so data...
... such as would be measured in a Demographic and Health Survey MEASURE Evaluation2 provides resources on a wide range of population and health indicators, including their gender implications; MEASURE ... both in health status and in gender attitudes and behavior must occur at the population level MEASURE DHS+ has developed modules on women’s empowerment and violence, and has included several key ... user bias; knowledge of and attitudes toward vasectomy by service providers and men and women; demand for vasectomies; level of technical skill to provide no-scalpel vasectomy FP Foster high...