an extended case study

... further study Annual distribution of benign and malignant tumors and the operations In order to detect differences in the distribution of benign and malignant tumors over the years, we analyzed ... Ultrasound* Benign Malignant Total CT* Benign Malignant Total Ultrasound and CT Benign Malignant Total MRI* Benign Malignant Total Ultrasound and MRI Benign Malignant Total malignant total 71 10 81 ... (Table 7) The analysis of malignant tumors also revealed no significant difference between US, CT and MRI (Table 7) Discussion In recent years, an increase in the number of CT and MRI scans has been...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-02), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, May Annie Zaenen, Jean Carletta, Gregory Garretson, Joan Bresnan, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Tatiana Nikitina, ... Kingsbury and Martha Palmer 2002 From TreeBank to PropBank In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-02), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, May Xin Li and ... Massimiliano Gliozzo, and Massimiliano Ciaramita 2008 Supersense Tagger for Italian In Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, and Daniel...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:20

... contributions KP conceived and organized this study, and managed the survey of the vascular plants, the butterflies and of habitat structures DM and ST carried out all data analyses LS organized the survey ... representative of the range of soil types, climatic conditions and management regimes of a country; (2) baseline data necessary for detecting changes in the abundance and diversity of plants and animals as ... constant sampling size standardises sampling intensity and, hence, avoids sampling bias Species numbers of vascular plants, species numbers and abundance of butterflies and grasshoppers, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... associated with blocks on change' [34] Methods The study was a multi-method explanatory case study [36], with a core qualitative component and simultaneous supplementary quantitative component [37] ... leadership/management team and other relevant EBP key informants was created by the site facilitator and local study sponsor, in collaboration with Table 1: Chief characteristics of the case study ... change and other key contextual elements in the Pettigrew framework will enhance an organization's potential for institutionalization • An organization with a majority of BSN staff nurses and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... From "Translating research: Innovations in knowledge transfer and continuity of care," by I.D Graham and J Logan, 2004, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 36, p 94 Copyright 2004 by Canadian Journal ... performance indicators were based on American standards [21] However, funding for healthcare in the US is organized differently than it is in Canada, with reimbursement from many American health plans ... Participants and data sources Table summarizes the number and nature of the participants and data sources Data collection methods included key informant interviews, focus groups, and a survey Organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... comparative, explanatory case study will be analyzed across data sources, across collection methods, across individual units within a case, and across case hospitals This cross -case analysis and triangulation ... status of an individual site Analyses Data from this multi-method study will be summarized and compared to answer the study' s analytical and operational questions (Table and 4) Triangulation ... understand specific organizational factors that are key to normalizing EBP, and the inherent complexity of such phenomena, this study will use an explanatory case study approach [15] Case study...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... associated with blocks on change' [34] Methods The study was a multi-method explanatory case study [36], with a core qualitative component and simultaneous supplementary quantitative component [37] ... leadership/management team and other relevant EBP key informants was created by the site facilitator and local study sponsor, in collaboration with Table 1: Chief characteristics of the case study ... change and other key contextual elements in the Pettigrew framework will enhance an organization's potential for institutionalization • An organization with a majority of BSN staff nurses and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... financialisation manifests in the expansion of the banking, wealthmanagement and insurance sectors, as well as the broadening and deepening of capital markets The personal finance market is an ... the ability and confidence to manage personal finances through appropriate, short-term decision making and sound, long-range financial planning, while mindful of life events and changing economic ... appreciate their trust and help On a personal note, I want to thank my family and closest friends, Desireé Lim, Jeremy Tay, Tee Boon Pin and Tan Yan Shuo Their support, encouragement and good humour...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 10:13

... financialisation manifests in the expansion of the banking, wealthmanagement and insurance sectors, as well as the broadening and deepening of capital markets The personal finance market is an ... the ability and confidence to manage personal finances through appropriate, short-term decision making and sound, long-range financial planning, while mindful of life events and changing economic ... appreciate their trust and help On a personal note, I want to thank my family and closest friends, Desireé Lim, Jeremy Tay, Tee Boon Pin and Tan Yan Shuo Their support, encouragement and good humour...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:56

... financialisation manifests in the expansion of the banking, wealthmanagement and insurance sectors, as well as the broadening and deepening of capital markets The personal finance market is an ... the ability and confidence to manage personal finances through appropriate, short-term decision making and sound, long-range financial planning, while mindful of life events and changing economic ... appreciate their trust and help On a personal note, I want to thank my family and closest friends, Desireé Lim, Jeremy Tay, Tee Boon Pin and Tan Yan Shuo Their support, encouragement and good humour...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 07:59

... Human capital and strategic human resource management in knowledge-intensive firms: an exploratory case study1 Anne-Lise DEMORTIER, Nathalie DELOBBE Abstract: The aim of this paper is to answer ... of companies remains today not clearly defined, and is the object of many researches and discussions, particularly in terms of Human Resource Management and Knowledge Management We try to answer ... and corporate financial performance” Academy of Management Journal 38(3): 635-872 - Jackson, S.E & Schuler, R.S 1995 “Understanding human resource management in the context of organizations and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/11/2016, 15:55

... Academics’ Work and the Concept of “Profession”: An Australian Case Study iii work that can be considered in negotiating the nature and extent of their work The framework provides a means of analysing ... 89 4.2 Case Study Methodology 91 4.3 The Research Context: Sites and Participants 93 Academics’ Work and the Concept of “Profession”: An Australian Case Study v 4.4 ... Work and the Concept of “Profession”: An Australian Case Study List of Abbreviations ACER Australian Council for Educational Research ALTC Australian Learning and Teaching Council ATN Australian...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2017, 11:24

... for any company in a highly competitive market Although a company gets many benefits from its brand name, it is not easy to manage a strong brand To understand more how a company builds and manages ... the brand-as-product, brand-as-organization, brand-as-person, and brand-as-symbol • Brand identity structure includes a core, extended and proposition identity A brand identity is to brand strategy ... offer quality assurance and reduce risks • Brands help self-expression • Brands offer friendship and pleasure 2.3.2 A brand is more than a product Brand is more than a product Branding is about...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:29

... the minimal meaningful language units and it cannot be divided any further into meaningful parts A morpheme has its sound form and meaning but unlike a word, it is not independent and occurs in ... noun “bank” (an organization that provides various financial services, for example keeping or lending money) to create this noun “Banker” means a person who owns a bank or has an important job ... – (It means “life”): biography (the story of person‟s life written by somebody else), biology (the scientific study of the life and structure of plants and animals)  “GRAM” – (It means “written”):...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 16:45

... regulatory certainty and consistency in oil and gas oversight through enhanced data collection and analysis, improved information sharing and partnerships, and focused compliance assistance and enforcement ... oxides, nitrogen oxides, and lead These pollutants can cause harm to human health and the environment and can lead to property damage Of the six pollutants, particle pollution and ground-level ozone ... compliance New Source Performance Standards and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) Federal New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) are technology-based standards...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... Therefore, this study applied GIS and remote sensing for analysis the land use pattern changes Statement of Problems • After 1999, the landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy ... land use and land covers • To create a tool for decision support system in the watershed land use planning by created land zoning Materials and Methods Materials • • • • Satellite images: – Landsat ... ETM+1999 and ETM+2004, it provided two land use maps of 1999 and 2004 In each map was classified into 11 categories of land use/land cover types Land covers 1999 Land covers 2004 Intensive of changed...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... redundant folding possibilities and concentrate on predicting candidates for secondary structure conformation rearrangements that can cause inactivation of spectinomycin resistance in E coli An ... different ranges of coarse-grained tree-edit distances is performed in RNAMute, based on Shapiro and Zhang [18] described elsewhere, also calculates other distance information such as Shapiro and Zhang’s ... rearrangements can yield useful information on the properties of the structure itself In such cases, because selection experiments are not performed on a regular basis as they demand planning and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 12:06

... (eds): Uttaranchal: Vision and Action Programme New Delhi, Concept Publishing Company: 67–81 Gupta A.K., Anderson D.M., Pandey D.N., Singhvi A.K (2006): Adaptation and human migration, and evidence ... ancient human civilization to grow and flourish, at the same time, climate-induced human migration is evident across the globe including the western and central Europe, Germany, North American ... India and spans 14 over an area of 53,485 km2 Of the total 8,479,562 human population of the state, 78% lives in rural areas The agriculture land in the hills of Uttarakhand is scattered and fragmented...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... younger, and white Duration of Medicare coverage and the number of prior physician and outpatient claims were similar for cases and controls Controls tended to have more hospital claims than HCL cases ... challenge for systematic epidemiologic study, and prior reports have mostly consisted of small case series or case reports Although our study included more HCL cases than previous studies, most autoimmune ... authors thank Winnie Ricker and Ruth Parsons, Information Management Services, Rockville, MD for constructing the dataset, and our colleagues on the SMAHRT Study, who provided advice and assistance...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:21