a study of change over time

... relevant To create an appropriate sample, defining features of the CPG (e.g., topic, modality of care, disease site) are matched with professional characteristics of clinicians held in a comprehensive ... to advance quality We also measured clinicians' overall attitudes towards CPGs (negativepositive) See Table Analyses Most clinicians in the study rated more than one CPG, although the unit of analysis ... perceptions of the acceptability and suitability of the recommendations, belief that they would yield more benefits than harms, and anticipated acceptance of recommendations by patients and colleagues...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... relevant To create an appropriate sample, defining features of the CPG (e.g., topic, modality of care, disease site) are matched with professional characteristics of clinicians held in a comprehensive ... to advance quality We also measured clinicians' overall attitudes towards CPGs (negativepositive) See Table Analyses Most clinicians in the study rated more than one CPG, although the unit of analysis ... perceptions of the acceptability and suitability of the recommendations, belief that they would yield more benefits than harms, and anticipated acceptance of recommendations by patients and colleagues...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... models that incorporate a gradual change in parameters and also include a large set of explanatory variables particularly well as far as the inflation forecast is concerned recording gains (over the ... constant degree of parameter drift TVP-VAR (Homoscedastic) Time- varying VAR with constant variance-covariance matrix of the VAR residuals TVP-FAVAR Time- varying factor augmented VAR model TVP-FAVAR ... methodology Data Our main data set consists of quarterly annualised real GDP growth, quarterly annualised inflation and the three-month Treasury bill rate Quarterly data on these variables is available...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... organizational change but rather the consequences of organizational change However, it can also be reasoned that the consequences of organizational change are part of change efforts and thus cannot ... probable that resistance to change may at times have a positive effect on the outcome of organizational change, and that it may be strategically valuable to an organization For example, it is imaginable ... organizations.” Managing organizational change is problematic: situations in which changes are undertaken are shifting, it is harder for organizations, and in particular top managers as well as change agents,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... Canada Saskatoon: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada; 2002 Laven GA, Beilby JJ, Wilkinson D, McElroy HJ: Factors associated with rural practice among Australian-trained general ... access to needed medical and hospital care for all Ontarians regardless of economic means But removal of financial barriers to health care is meaningless if providers and services are not available ... broad array of programmes has been introduced over a 35-year period Sabatier [18] has criticized American policy implementation research for using a short time frame A longer time frame is also...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... for Quality in Health Care [20], Accreditation Canada is a national, non-profit, independent organization that was created in 1958 to help guarantee that healthcare organizations across Canada furnish ... Tosh A: CCHSA Accreditation: An instigator for change and a motivator for heath human resources A case study of a health region in Alberta In MSc thesis University of Ottawa, Health Administration ... conditions of change and the organizational changes that occurred during the accreditation cycle studied, for each case A summary of the conditions favoring organizational change are presented in Table...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22

... The main drainage of the hand is along the palmar surface leading through larger vessels towards the basilica vein The lymphatic vessels draining the antero – lateral aspect of the arm drain across ... to adequately stage the spread of any metastatic spread and also for the treatment of invasive breast carcinoma This can be carried out by sentinel node biopsy (SNB) or axillary node clearance ... MCP – metacarpal phalangeal MLD – manual lymphatic drainage NHS – National Health Service NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NLN – National Lymphedema Network RCT – randomised...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 21:42

... research by Vietnamese and international authors on silence/pauses and time- fillers Data are collected in some Vietnamese and American films and analyzed against the three reference points of availability, ... sounds The study of paralanguage is known as paralinguistics The term ‘paralanguage’ is sometimes used as a cover term for body language, which is not necessarily tied to speech, and paralinguistic ... such as handwriting style, spatial arrangement of words, or the use of emoticons 1.4 Paralanguage Paralanguage refers to the vocal and nonverbal elements of communication used to modify meaning and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... bivariate exponential MEWMARaw MEWMA chart based on the raw GBE data MEWMATrans MEWMA chart based on the transformed GBE data r Smoothing factor of the MEWMA charts h Control limits of the MEWMA ... Runger and Testik (2004) provided a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of MCUSUM schemes, as well as performance evaluations and a description of their interrelationships Jamal et al ... of multivariate statistical process control One popular application area of the multivariate control charts is spatiotemporal surveillance Spatiotemporal surveillance is an important aspect of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:58

... mean vector shifts and the covariance matrix shifts Transformation is applied when acceptable seasonality occurs We analyze the effect of standardization and compare it to an alternative approach -a ... mean and range normalization Baxter (1995) applied and studied standardization and transformation in 23 principal component analysis Normalization techniques for microarray data are studied and ... Multivariate Cases Univariate Cases Multivariate EWMA Charts with a Full Smoothing Matrix FMEWMA Chart for Raw GBE Data Monitoring (Chapter 6) Basic Circle Chart (Chapter 3) FMEWMA Chart for Transformed...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:11

... exponential data natural log x LIST OF TABLES Table 5.3 The ARLs of X-MR chart and EWMA charts with transformed exponential data (TE EWMA) Table 5.4 The ARLs of CQC chart and EWMA charts with transformed ... exponential data (TE EWMA) Table 5.5 The ARLs of EWMA charts with transformed exponential data and exponential EWMA chart Table 5.6 In-control ARLs of EWMA charts with transformed Weibull data Table ... values for the design of CUSUM chart with transformed exponential data Table 4.3 ARL values of X-MR chart and CUSUM chart with transformed exponential data Table 4.4 ARL values of CQC chart and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:51

... i and j, we say that i and j are adjacent, or that i and j are neighbors We denote adjacency as i ∼ j Definition 1.4 We call an n-vertex graph k-regular if there are exactly k edges leaving each ... linear algebra, the series converges to a sum satisfying (I − A) (I + A + A2 + · · · ) = I Because A has eigenvalues all less than in absolute value, (I − A) has all nonzero eigenvalues, and hence ... gives us a more tangible sense of the oscillatory nature of discrete time random walks on bipartite graphs 17 3.2 Making Sense of the Fundamental Matrix As we can see from the above section and ultimately...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2015, 21:23

... dell’Accesa, Acquarossa and San Giovenale Plan of San Giovenale Area F East Plan of the Borgo quarter at San Giovenale Plan of San Giovenale Area E Plan of Capanna I at San Giovenale Area D Plan of Acquarossa ... Complex II at Lago dell’Accesa Area A Wall footing of San Giovenale Area E Oval Hut II Plan of Iron Age Huts A, B and C at Luni sul Mignone Plan of Complex I at Lago dell’Accesa Area A Plan of Complex ... 3.13 Plan of Capanna I at San Giovenale Area D Plan of the Rectangular Timber Building under the fifth century BC rampart at Veii Plan of San Giovenale Area E Plan of San Giovenale Area F East during...

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Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... Vietnam national University, Hanoi College of Foreign Languages Department of Postgraduate Studies A study oF An alternative approach to teaching essay writing to TOEFL learners (Nghiên ... phơng pháp dạy viết Luận cho học viên chứng ToefL) By: Nguyen Thi Chung Mien Supervisor: Do Ba Quy, MA Hanoi, 2005 ...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... a habit at school already Besides, it didn’t always mean writing a good paragraph could make the learners write a good essay for the learners needed to link the thread of ideas within paragraphs ... answering a set of questions Minor changes and substitutions of blank space, punctuation marks, and capitalization are also added to expand an outline or summary Moreover, students learn how to ... such as speaking, listening and reading will be improved at the same time Lastly, the teacher works little and plays a role of an observer in the class time Learners play a central active role and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... school have to some extent, a great affect on them They interact and play with each other and can give them advice immediately Moreover, they are at the same or around age so they can more easily ... learn from other sources WRITING PAPER Name: Group A Paper: 02F6g Task: 02 AD Write: It’s said that parents are always the best teachers but we strongly disagree with the above statement Because ... important teachers when children are small but they cannot be the best ones all the time There’s still a gap between children and parents in every family WRITING PAPER Name: Group A Paper: 02F7g Task:...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... physical layer of WiMAX adopts a lot of advanced technologies such as scalable orthogonal frequency division multiplexing access (OFDMA), MIMO, adaptive antenna array and so on Current WiMAX that ... 802.11 WLAN protocols Table 1.1 Existing 802.11 WLAN Standards IEEE Protocol Name Standard Approved Available Bandwidth Frequency Band of Operation Non-Overlapping Channels (US) Data Rate per Channel ... mean value of OFDM system capacity for Rayleigh fading channel and Ricean fading channel, by numerical method 165 Fig 6.9: The variance of OFDM system capacity for Rayleigh fading channel...

Ngày tải lên: 20/11/2012, 11:28

... What is water scarcity? Imbalances between availability and demand The degradation of groundwater and surfacewater quality International conflicts  All contributes to water scarcity Why? Scarcity ... die of malaria Preventing disease  Water plays a key role in the prevention of disease  Improved water quality, sanitation and personal hygiene significantly reduce the spread of these and many ... control, and other agricultural purposes The amount of water needed necessary for a few products per unit of consumption Product Glass of beer Glass of wine Glass of milk Glass of apple juice Cup of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 15:20