... graphic and table form x A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health: AConceptualFramework FORWARD In chapter 6, leaders will find practical information about how to move this transformation ... refer to that variable as an “indicator” of the outcome variable, whereas researchers would typically call it a correlate instead For example, a child’s level of empathy may be one of many indicators ... particular, data need to be gathered and analyzed about children’s mental health and the factors that affect it to generate understanding of how to influence positive aspects of mental health and...
... leads managers to biases that are based on their backgrounds and the singular choice of edu cation, marketing, or force of law as a paradigm of choice Each paradigm has a role to play in behavior ... externalities for tobacco use have changed dramatically in the past years, and as a result, policy with respect to managing tobacco usage behavior also has changed The relationship of behavior management ... education unable to behave no education, marketing marketing resistant to behave resistant to behave law marketing, law unable to behave resistant to behave resistant to behave education, marketing...
... expected to cover I Understandable—The indicator should be simple to define and its value easy to interpret I Accessible—It uses data that are already available or are relatively easy to acquire ... recommends that good indicators have the following characteristics: 17 I Participatory—The indicator has been developed in a participatory fashion I Relevant—The indicator has been formulated at a level ... dynamics between a man and a woman might make it difficult fora woman who wants to avoid a pregnancy to negotiate contraceptive use Women may have fewer opportunities to participate in health-related...
... facilitators and barriers to the diffusion of innovations in organisations that found that the complexity of an idea presented a substantial barrier to its adoption [18] The potential role of ... of all of this literature contributed to the development of the novel framework presented here and provided examples of how to evaluate individual elements of the frameworkAconceptual framework: ... of cases [3] In the same way, an evaluation of the implementation ofa residential treatment programme for adolescents with substance abuse issues required staff to keep a log of the number of...
... and Social Science Research Network databases using the search criteria “medical tourism AND Asia” (92) and “medical travel AND Asia” (806), generating a range of mostly conceptual research Abstracts ... joint regulatory body launched by the Ministry of Health, Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia and the Malaysian Medical Association, was recently awarded international accreditation by ... hospital chain in Asia Parkway’s subsequent take-over bid by Malaysia’s state investment company Khazanah, means that profits accrued are remitted to Malaysia for health services rendered in Singapore...
... facilitators and barriers to the diffusion of innovations in organisations that found that the complexity of an idea presented a substantial barrier to its adoption [18] The potential role of ... of all of this literature contributed to the development of the novel framework presented here and provided examples of how to evaluate individual elements of the frameworkAconceptual framework: ... of cases [3] In the same way, an evaluation of the implementation ofa residential treatment programme for adolescents with substance abuse issues required staff to keep a log of the number of...
... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 cal analyses in the future, and they are highly motivated to use, for instance, multi-factorial analysis ... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part ofa collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters ... should clearly be improved before analysing the data on national level Causal analysis of cow-level and herd-level risk factors for metritis at the national level based on Danish central data base...
... Ionescu-Pioggia, Ph.D Editor: Laura Bonetta, Ph.D Managing Editor: Patricia Davenport Production Manager: Dean Trackman Designer: Raw Sienna Digital Writers: Joan Guberman, Judith Saks, Barbara Shapiro, and ... collaboration to further advance these goals by offering a course in laboratory leadership and management at HHMI headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland The idea for the course grew out of feedback ... what approvals are required, and what limitations apply Knowing what you are worth There are many sources of information that you can use to evaluate your starting salary (see figure 1.1) Salaries...
... to their maximum separation (surface area 80 cm2) and this position maintained A 10-lL aliquot of AP1 in chloroform (1 mm) was spread on toa buffer subphase and allowed to equilibrate for h The ... is Avogadros number (Table 1) The ability of AP1 to spread on an aqueous surface and to form a stable monolayer was investigated The barriers of the Langmuir-Blodgett trough were adjusted to ... of action of linear amphipathic alpha helical antimicrobial peptides Biopolymers 47, 451463 48 Tytler EM, Segrest JP, Epand RM, Nie SQ, Epand RF, Mishra VK, Venkatachalapathi YV & Anantharamaiah...
... grateful to Media Lab Asia Laboratory of IIT Kharagpur and Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, Kolkata for exchanging ideas and providing resources for the present work Project SANYOG Available http://www.mla.iitkgp.ernet.in/projects/sanyog.htm ... approach for natural language generation for disabled children A user can start a sentence generation from any part ofa sentence The inherent sentence plan will guide him to realize a grammatically ... in an Augmentative Communication System, Communications of the ACM, vol 55, No 5, May 1992 Banerjee A 2005, A Natural Language Generation Frameworkfor an Interlingua-based Machine Translation...
... since each participant need provide capacity only for the average load, not for that participant’s peak load Dabek et al describe a realization of this idea that uses Chord to map data blocks onto ... is a variant of the Plaxton algorithm Like Chord, it guarantees that queries make no more than a logarithmic number of hops and that keys are well-balanced The Plaxton protocol’s main advantage ... wishes their data to be always available, but their server is only occasionally available, they can offer to store others’ data while they are connected, in return for having their data stored elsewhere...
... ofa used car automatically includes an implied warranty that the car being sold is “merchantable.” This warranty guarantees a basic standard of quality and that the car is fit for its ordinary ... transactions is publicly available would make it less likely that particular data could be tied to an individual transaction B BAN ARBITRATION CLAUSES IN AUTO SALES AND FINANCE TRANSACTIONS Arbitration ... Importance of Cars Fora majority of Americans, a car is a necessity The design of most cities and suburbs, a lack of public transportation in both rural and urban areas, and numerous other factors...
... negated terms were removed Conclusion and Future Work Compared toa flat classification approach, a hierarchical framework is able to exploit relationships among categories to be assigned and easily ... (Goldstein et al., 2007; Farkas and Szarvas, 2007; Crammer et al., 2007; Aronson et al., 2007; Patrick et al., 2007) Aronson et al (2007) used a variant of National Library of Medicine Medical Text ... Categorization Framework In a hierarchical text categorization system, categories are linked together and classifiers are assigned to each node in the taxonomy In the training stage, instances are...
... our Pharaoh-like decoder are translation table and language model Our 5-gram language model is trained by the SRI language modeling toolkit (Stolcke, 2002) The translation table is obtained as described ... either phrase labels or lexical features only Apart from quantitative evaluation, let us consider the translation example of test shown in table To generate the correct translation, a phrasebased ... Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT Proceedings for ACL 2005 References Yaser Al-Onaizan, and Kishore Papineni 2006 Distortion Models for Statistical Machine Translation Proceedings for...
... state, and viceversa A parallel presentation (of classes as well of senses) gives rise toa highly complex input A very important characteristic of neural networks is their capability of dealing ... possible reason for low performance using classes is that WordNet is not an adequate hierarchy since it is hand-crafted Ratnaparkhi et al (1994), instead of using hand-crafted semantic classes, uses ... to evaluate the performance in the test set First, we used set A as validation set and set B as test, and afterwards we used set B as validation and set A as test This experiment was replicated...
... want you to be able to try out your sound and your music in a real game Fora book whose examples are based exclusively around one piece of software, it may appear contradictory to say that actually ... The Game Audio Tutorial This page intentionally left blank The Game Audio Tutorial A Practical Guide to Sound and Music for Interactive Games Richard Stevens Dave Raybould Amsterdam • Boston • ... Tutorial You’ll now need to name your new package UDK tends to call its audio packages by names starting with A_ , so let’s adopt that convention Name your package for example A_ TutorialTestpackage...
... *denominator of 15 interview participants only **13 identified themselves as African/African Caribbean/Black African/Black; Jewish; West Indian; Latin; Italian Canadian; Irish Canadian; French Italian; ... were audio taped and field notes taken throughout for later verbatim transcription and analysis Data management was facilitated using N6 computer software All participants completed a demographic ... Winston Husbands (AIDS Committee of Toronto), Ken King (Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation), Claudia Medina (Toronto People with AIDS Foundation) and James Murray (AIDS Bureau, Ontario...
... University of California, Berkeley, Calif, USA, 1995 ´ ´ [13] P Arato, Z A Mann, and A Orb´ n, “Algorithmic aspects ofa hardware/software partitioning,” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic ... the totalised values for area Atotal , Stotal , and time Ttotal ; the time based degree of parallelism γt the ranks of all vertices; the density ρ of the system graph These values can be achieved ... i ASAP j l n k g m ALAP stalap (b) Figure 9: Two different start times for process (b) according to ASAP and ALAP schedule sequential device It has to be stated that Tmin and Ttotal are lower and...
... immediately revealed certificates and hence the Sat search aspect turned out to be of no extra use: Another example of the victory of human creativity over automated search - although the latter ... n} of the partition The transformation involved is called a circular translation Cyclic certificates have the favorable property that they can be repeatedly appended to create larger certificates ... these costs increase up to thousands of seconds Several of the generated formulas with forced patterns appeared unsatisfiable, meaning no valid certificate exists of that kind Notice that without requiring...
... Toronto, Canada 6Department of Health Care and Outcomes Research and Epidemiology, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada 7Departments of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Authors’ ... interpretation of data or writing of subsequent manuscripts Author details Departments of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2Department ofFamily Medicine, ... what context and identify explicit and implicit theories relevant to interventions These data will be used to expand the conceptualframework and to create a separate taxonomy of patient-mediated...