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... Happel B, Martin T, Pinikahana J: Burnout and Job satisfaction: a comparative study of psychiatric nurses from forensic and mainstream mental health service International Journal of Mental Health ... Hardy MA: Job satisfaction among nursing staff in a military health care facility Military medicine 2000, 165(10):757-761 Nolan M, Nolan J, Grant G: Maintaining nurses' job satisfaction and morale ... Cronbach's alpha a measure of internal consistency–was well within acceptable range for all scales (α > 0.70) Overall, professional nurses in South Africa were marginally dissatisfied (mean 2.935)...

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... reach them; organizing entails arranging and coordinating human, material and information resources aimed at achieving desired goals; leading involves motivating others to achieve organizational ... that variable This allows one to treat the data as interval data measuring a latent variable, to which parametric statistical tests can be applied Reliability of scales was estimated by assessing ... training programs in medical management These related to the delivery of health care, financial management, organizational management, and legal and ethical considerations [7] In a survey of American...

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... accessing care in rural areas, after adjusting for baseline variables The subgroup analyses selecting only children with all baseline variables available and using WHO stage and WAZ scores, instead ... outcomes on a broad scale are possible in sub-Saharan Africa Improving clinical outcomes and increasing uptake of ART Paediatric treatment is still provided mainly at hospitals due to the availability ... common in high HIV-prevalence rural areas of South Africa [29] Adult ART programme mortality has also been reported to be higher in a rural South African setting than in urban settings, and was associated...

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... costs and infrastructure Inpatient care is excluded The cost of a resistance assay and viral load test was provided by the National Health Laboratory Service (authors’ data) All costs are shown in ... second-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS in South Africa AIDS 2010, 24:915-919 Fox MP, Brennan A, Maskew M, MacPhail P, Sanne I: Using vital registration data to update mortality among patients ... calculated for the first six intervals (three years) after first-line ART initiation, conditional on remaining alive and on ART at the site The rate of virological failure in the last interval (months...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... to reach data saturation [17] Qualitative approach The rationale for selecting qualitative methods is that previous research in South Africa has predominately focused on quantitative measures ... monitoring and evaluation for performance management are equally important in enhancing service delivery [39] In South Africa, van der Merwe et al underscore that strengthening linkages and integrating ... to ART and PMTCT in four facilities in South Africa: the maternal-child care continuum Antenatal Care HEALTH PERSONNEL HIV Testing & Counselling In Which Facilities? HIV counsellor unavailable...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... care Generally speaking, program managers are responsible for developing and maintaining successful TB and HIV/AIDS control programs, in addition to securing financial and organizational support ... [9] Fear of stigmatization as a reason for TB patients’ nonuptake of HIV testing also featured prominently in the findings of a qualitative study in Durban, South Africa by Daftary et al in 2007 ... and South Africa [14] include lack of nursing staff, lack of space, increased workload, and work-related stress, including stress experienced by breaking bad news and handling ethical dilemmas...

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... anti-tuberculosis therapy (ATT) for the past years with poor adherence Cardiovascular, respiratory and abdominal examinations were normal Renal and liver function tests were also normal A 16-year-old man with ... sparing any region in the body, and which was initially misdiagnosed as a fungal skin infection This is a very unusual presentation of Norwegian scabies in an HIV-positive patient The laboratory ... of the patient's acquaintances and a healthcare worker acquired the symptoms of itching, and had to be treated with topical Permethrin cream for a week However, the diagnosis of scabies was not...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... remains, however, challenging with limited data availability as a major obstacle For this reason we used non-urban population data as proxy for agricultural population and hence labor availability ... Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Swaziland c Includes Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, and Malaysia a yield variation This example underpins the necessity to include ... intensification of global grain production In fact, quantitative assessment of intensification potential remains challenging as intensification has multiple pathways and often goes parallel with agricultural...

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... Resource Management 2007) The Moreton Bay Marine Park Zoning Plan designates various areas of the bay as national park – including the Moreton Bay Marine Park, the St Helena Island National Park and ... areas such as decentralised wastewater treatment and reuse, rainwater tank installation and demand management programs) • Build capacity to achieve sustainable urban water management across the ... urban sediment loading in waterways, affecting water quality These four plans are targeting specific areas affecting water quality and are aligning with the various existing programs, policies and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... information regarding the baseline characteristics of the patient Additional relevant information was obtained from the medical record and also through staff interviews 2.4 Statistical analysis Characteristics ... polypharmacy in schizophrenic patients was not statistically associated with an increase in relapse in this observational study relying on a propensity score adjustment Although a recent meta -analysis ... clinically relevant relapse criteria In the same way, the definitions of monotherapy and polypharmacy are not consensual We defined the exposure treatment groups at baseline in a standard way:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... Embase, ScienceDirect, Springer, CNKI database, Wanfang database, Weipu database and CBM database in the initial search After reading the titles and abstracts, 2159 articles were excluded for abstracts, ... mutation’ for CNKI database, Wanfang database, Weipu database and CBM database All languages were included The following criteria were used for selecting literatures in the meta -analysis: (1) the ... Table Main data of all studies included in the meta -analysis for the -46G /A (Arg16Gly) polymorphism in b2-AR gene Case Control Study Population location Year Age AA AG GG AA AG GG OR 95%CI Chan,...

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Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... Some pedagogical implications for teaching, learning and translating Methods of the study The main method applied in this thesis is contrastive analysis of idioms containing the word “heart” in English ... creation and originated from human communication, thus the usage of idioms is integral in human interaction As a matter of fact, idioms are originated from human in general and human culture in ... containing the word “heart” and its synonyms in Vietnamese In each language, idioms containing words of human body part possess a remarkable figure According to statistics in Longman Dictionary...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:29

... Idiomatic expressions containing the word “heart” in English and its synonyms in Vietnamese 13 1.1.3.1 Literal and figurative meanings of “heart” and its synonyms in Vietnamese 13 1.1.3.2 Idiomatic ... Implications for learning and translating idioms in general 35 Suggestions for further studies 37 REFERENCES 38 APPENDICES Appendix 1: English idioms containing “heart” I Appendix 2: Vietnamese ... idioms containing synonyms of “heart” IV References In English Agar, M (1996), Language Shock Understanding the Culture of Conservation, HarperCollins Publisher Boas, M (1989), An Introduction...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:51

... ARMM – Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations AusAID – Australian Agency for International Development BEAM – Basic Education Assistance for Mindanao ... STRATEGY-OF-CONTINUITY INTERNATIONAL-ORGANIZATIONS ND GENERATION CODE AUSAID PERSONAL NETWORK UNITED-NATIONS WORLD-BANK GLOBALIZATION INTERNATIONAL-ASSIST INTERNATIONAL-COMMUNITY POLITICS-OF-AID ... below: Case Areas National Luzon Visayas Mindanao TOTAL No of Interviewees 13 29 14 18 74 All the interviews were transcribed The average transcription time for a 90 minute tape is approximately...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:09

... findings as a viable source of organizational reflection The TDP which has been besieged by failure in certain key aspects provides a suitable analytical starting point in diagnosing organizational ... Visayas and Mindanao who indefatigably perform a labour of love by training their fellow teachers in the mountains and islands within their jurisdiction They are a source of constant inspiration ... data software developed by Qualis Research Associates Ethnograph is an example of a Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) programme that is very helpful particularly for voluminous interviews More information...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:09

... Social Work and Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570 Dear Mother, I am a Ph.D candidate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and am studying parental disciplinary ... cooperation in this regard However, please be informed that participation is voluntary and you may choose not to participate If you have any questions/clarifications, please not hesitate to call ... Giving an explanation of why the behaviour is inappropriate, undesirable or dangerous, using “if…then” statements as a way of explanation - - -5 Holding, grabbing...

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... Social Work and Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570 Dear Mother, I am a Ph.D candidate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and am studying parental disciplinary ... disciplinary practices I am interested in collecting data from the Indian parent population, particularly from Chennai The age groups of children that I am interested in are 3-4 years (LKG students) and ... NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of SINGAPORE Psychology Programme, Department of Social Work & Psychology, 11, Law Link, Republic of Singapore 117570 Founded 1905 Parvathi N Sivaraman, PhD Candidate, Department...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:09

... names called variables." One point is N M P analysis method by recursive calling for case frame analysis In the example, two 157 there may be a little problem in lacking the case slots information ... The r e a s o n is b e c a u s e the l a c k i n g information can be thought of as being indispensable for a semantic structure in one language, for example a target language Japanese, in spite ... treated in the same way as NMPs Those phrases are discriminated from another N M P by a pair of a delimiter ~," and a phrase terminal symbol, or, in particular,by proper nouns L U T E - E J P a...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 17:20

... book reading machine can read the same sentence again and again If the user wants to change the way of reading ( e.g in the case that there are homographs ), the machine can also crest other ways ... two kana character sets ~ Hiragana and Katakana are used in Japanese sentences ) and alphanumeric characters Because of the variety of characters, even when using a well-established character recognition ... The analysis is accomplished by both word extraction ;~nd syntactical examination Words in dictionaries are extracted by using character strings which are obtained by combining character candidates...

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