... Zwarenstein, Aja, Wyk et al., 2005) (for example in India, AWARE in Andhra Pradesh, CINI in Kolkata, CRHP in Jamked, RUHSA in Tamil Nadu, and SEARCH in Maharashtra (Antia & Bhatia, 1993) Pakistan ... leaders Hathirat Sant (Hathirat, 1983) Thailand Follow up evaluation of evaluation of the health care training for Buddhist abbots and ecclesiastical heads A sample of 1600 Buddhist abbots and ... evaluate and analyse the nature, performance and costs ofa sample of periurban and rural based CHW programs operating in the Western Cape province (Khan, Ahmed, & Saha, 2000) Bangladesh The data...
... responsibility to act as internal assurance providers This requires internal auditors to assess and monitor various governance decisions made by management and also to advise management on the adequacy and ... Australia and Nava Subramaniam Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the recent European and international literature on i nternal audit independence ... (2003) obtained similar results in a survey of chief internal auditors from Australia and New Zealand In contrast, however, O’Leary and Stewart (2007), in a study of Australian internal auditors’...
... DEXTER, A. R & ALSTON, A. M 1986b Maximum axial and radial growth pressures of plant roots, Plant andSoil95,315-326 M.B 1988 Moss, G.I., HALL,K.C and JACKSON, Ethylene and the responses of roots of maize ... there is an abundance of coarse sand or larger material, the effective diameter of the probe is greater than its actual diameter so that smaller probes (e.g of mm rather than mm diameter) can experience ... glass beads to require larger displacements of the diaphragm Thus, resistance to root elongation was considerably greater than the diaphragm pressure Pressurized airlwater Chaudhary & Aggarwal(l984)...
... constant For example, if A mediates the relationship between X and Y (and X and Y are correlated), then X will be correlated with Aand will have an effect on Y independent of X A moderator variable ... peer reviewto ensure that they meet high standards for research quality and objectivity Stress and Performance AReviewof the Literature and Its Applicability to the Military Jennifer Kavanagh ... can act as a moderator between stress and performance by helping reduce uncertainty associated with stress and improving the accuracy of individual expectations and performance of certain tasks...
... 42 Authors Jejeebhoy and Sathra (2001) Al Riyami, Afifi and Mabry (2004) Country and year of the data collection Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India and Punjab, Pakistan Data collected by authors, ... collection Kalatara- Sri Lanka Author‟s data collection 1992 Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines Author‟s data collection 1993-1994 Bangladesh, Matlab district Data collected by the author ... aspects of individual agency and (b) used direct indicators of agency Authors Acharya and Bennet (1983) Schuler and Hashemi (1994) Country and year of the data collection Nepal Data collected by authors...
... M: Health workforce issues and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: An analytical review Human Resources for Health 2006, 4:1-12 Mauritius Ministry of Health and Quality of ... Aand job B They all used a fractional factorial (most of them creating 16 choice sets), and the predominant method to construct choice sets was to use a constant job scenario against which all ... intention to leave, andto evaluate individual and job characteristics that are correlated with those outcomes [7,36,37] These studies have identified the range of factors, such as personal work...
... organic acids such as oxalic acid (pKa = 1.3) and tartaric acid (pKa = 3.0) also catalyze acetalization, but acetic acid (pKa = 4.7) does not catalyze this reaction (Adams and Adkins 1925) Oxalic and ... alcoholates Noncatalytic salts for this reaction include carbonates and chlorides of sodium and potassium; calcium and sodium sulfates; and calcium and sodium acetates (Adams and Adkins 1925; Adkins ... formed and phase separation occurred 4.3.2 Esterification and Acetalization Adding alcohol (methanol, ethanol, and propanol) anda mineral acid catalyst to pyrolysis tars and bio-oils caused esters,...
... socioeconomic and demographic variables) page 32 Authors Population /country Poznan and Wroclaw (Poland) a Health variables Air pollution variablesa Geographical level and SES variables Methods to evaluate ... network to monitor urban atmospheric pollution and survey air quality A rich database of information is now available and offers studiesand research opportunities The last few years or decade have ... environmental justice, housing, deprivation and environmental quality was searched in a number of health, environmental and geographical databases, and reviewed and evaluated to summarize the...
... considerations regarding the relationship between sapwood area and leaf weight (and its actual variability), but also because of the variable relationship between hydraulic propertiesand carbon ... appropriate, as the basic mechanisms and modelling approaches are similar in all kinds of plants WITHIN-TREE ALLOCATION: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND MECHANISM In the last 50 years assimilate allocation ... major factors such as water, major mineral nutrients or light availability affect the relative carbon allocation to the different plant parts, particularly the shoot:root ratio, in a way that...
... down-regulation of the MT-IX isoform in advanced prostate cancer It was reported that MT-1 and MT-2 isoforms may be relatedto the proliferative activity of breast, colon and prostate human cancers ... human tumors; such as breast, kidney, lung, nasopharynx, ovary, prostate, salivary gland, testes, urinary bladder, cervical, endometrial, skin, and pancreatic cancers, as well as in melanoma and ... University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman 3Dept of Pharmacology, K.M.C.H College of Pharmacy, Kovai Estate, Kalapatti Road, Coimbatore -35, TN, India 4Dept of Pharmaceutics, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty,...
... Germany and Canada found a system that oscillated gas into and out of an animal’s lungs was effective at CO2 elimination [28,29] Commercial products are now available for children and for adults ... several patient-specific factors [25] Lung protective strategies in ARDS are currently aimed at reducing plateau airway pressures and tidal volumes, and at attempting to have an open lung [26] Based ... Critical Care October 2003 Vol No Ritacca and Stewart time cycled and achieves flow rates of 175–250 l/min The respiratory rate is usually 60–100 breaths/min and achieves Vt values of 3–4 ml/kg Although...
... on a fatal granulomatous disorder in boys and described this as a “new Page of 14 syndrome” [3] Since these early descriptions, a rather amazing and accelerated understanding of the disease and ... bacillus; CEMA = Chronic Echovirus Meningoencephalitis of Agammaglobulinemia M catarrhalis = Moraxella catarrhalis Song et al Clinicaland Molecular Allergy 2011, 9:10 http://www.clinicalmolecularallergy.com/content/9/1/10 ... disease Diagnosis and Treatment The approach to the diagnosis of CGD is shown in Table Many of the clinicaland laboratory abnormalities suggest the diagnosis The confirmatory test is measurement...
... for abdominal fascia following Figure the approach DPL a midline tolinea alba and anterior an open or semi-open View of the linea alba and anterior abdominal fascia following a midline infraumbilical ... 18-guage needle is elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an While grasping and inserted at a 45-degree angle toward the While grasping and elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an 18-guage ... unless indicated for a separate Blunt Abdominal Trauma Hemodynamically Abnormal Hemodynamically Normal FAST Availability CT Availability Yes Positive Laparotomy No Negative or Equivocal Yes DPL...
... Regulatory authorities also have a role to play Clinical trials are based on extensive preclinical experimentation and animal trials that take many years to complete Clearly, the particular vector system ... virus was administered to animals viral replication per se did not appear to have an overt pathogenetic affect, rather a T-cell lymphoma eventuated [62], presumably as a result of oncogene activation ... (principally the laboratory mouse), or are of commercial significance (such as farmed animals such as chickens, horses, goats, cattle and fish, and pets), where they cause a number of commercially...
... corporate governance, Advances in Accounting, 22(2), pp 1–27 ˜ Arrunada, B and Paz-Ares, C (1997) Mandatory rotation of company auditors: a critical examination, International Reviewof Law and ... disagreement (Iyer and Rama, 2004) O’Leary and Radich (1996) found that the majority of auditors and publicly listed companies were against mandatory audit firm rotation due toa misbalance of ... European Commission and European Parliament is mandatory audit firm rotation The aim of this review is to identify, consider and evaluate stakeholder views and research evidence on mandatory audit...
... existing demands, and that a ban is not an effective regulatory measure (Hoai Nam, 2013) Concerns were also raised by teachers and school administrators that the causes of tutoring run deep (and are ... scale, intensity, form, cost, and legality of these classes In particular, the paper offers a comparative analysis of the trends in private tutoring between 1998 and 2006 where data are available ... tutoring using more recent data from Vietnam I pay attention to both the common factors (i.e., household income, parental education, and urban location) and the factors that may be particular to...
... Indoor Air Quality Indoor Environ., 1, 27–34 (in Japanese) 126) Kishi, R., Saijo, Y., Kanazawa, A. , Tanaka, M., Yoshimura, T., Chikara, H., Takigawa, T., Morimoto, K., Nakayama, K and Shibata, E (2009) ... Kishi, K., Sata, F., Katakura, F., Urashima, Y., Hatakeyama, A. , Kobayashi, S., Jin, K., Kurahashi, N., Kondo, T., Gong, Y Y and Umemura, T (2004) Symptoms in relation to chemicals and dampness in ... (in Japanese) IPCS (1989) Environmental Health Criteria 89 Formaldehyde, World Health Organization, Geneva Takeda, M., Saijo, Y., Yuasa, M., Kanazawa, A. , Araki, Aand Kishi, R (2009) Relationship...
... HABAM scores and measures ofrelated constructs A Spearman's rank correlation of 0.76 between HABAM and BI change scores was Page of 15 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality ... of HABAM datato the Rasch model also indicates that the Rasch converted HABAM scores provides interval compared to the ordinal level data provided by the EMS and PPME In a head -to- head comparison ... Rasch analysis of the same data confirmed the unidimensionality of the HABAM after the removal of six items The HABAM therefore appears to measure one construct and provide interval level data...
... walking is based on relatively small sample sizes and is limited to only adult and older adult participants Despite the absence of normative data, other studies have investigated TP EMG activation ... Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2009, 2:24 Figure Audit of placement of intramuscular electrode Audit of placement of intramuscular electrode Gross anatomy of dissected limb with intramuscular ... JW and DET critically revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Posterior approach A video demonstration of the posterior approach...
... 31:690-697 Garnacho-Montero J, Ortiz-Leyba C, Fernandez-Hinojosa E, Aldabo-Pallas T, Cayuela A, Marquez-Vacaro JA, Garcia-Curiel A, Jimenez-Jimenez FJ: Acinetobacter baumannii ventilator-associated ... relevant studiesto be included in the analysis, and extracted the data for the study MEF and IAB wrote a first version of the manuscript All authors made substantial revisions of the manuscript and ... pneumonia: epidemiological andclinical findings Intensive Care Med 2005, 31:649-655 Sofianou DC, Constandinidis TC, Yannacou M, Anastasiou H, Sofianos E: Analysis of risk factors for ventilator-associated...