behaviors determinants and complex interventions

... (Martorell and Habicht, 1986, Barker, 1990), as well as the development of cognitive skills (Brown and Pollitt, 1996 and Balazs et al 1986) and educational attainment (Behrman, 1996, Strauss and Thomas ... water and sanitation (Lavy et al 1996, Thomas and Strauss 1992 and Jalan and Ravallion 2003) Quality of health care has received recent attention as a determinant of child health Barber and Gertler ... and age is a composite measure of height for age and weight for height, and consequently, it confounds the short and long run health problems We will also use Z-scores for weight for height and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... implementation of complex interventions The aim of this project is to evaluate systematically implementation fidelity and possible factors influencing fidelity of complex interventions in health and social ... Intervention complexity has been found to influence the implementation fidelity, i.e., complex interventions were more difficult to implement with high fidelity than simple interventions [14] Complexity ... Descriptions of the cases, i.e., interventions All three interventions are complex in nature, including several active ingredients In addition, the interventions are conducted in complex health or social...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Evolution and the Meanings of Life New York: Simon and Schuster Depew, D J 1998 Intelligent design and irreducible complexity A rejoinder Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1: 571–8 Depew, D J., and B H ... clotting and metabolic pathways, are subject to naturalistic explanations and, although complex, are not in the end irreducibly complex We are just now entering a new age in understanding the ... Design, and Complex Systems Dynamics 1:5 183 sources for such molecules and their spontaneous self-organization into membranous vesicles have been demonstrated (Deamer and Pashley 1989; Deamer and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... 2003) Anyanwu and Oaikhenan (1995) classified the determinants of savings into objective and subjective factors respectively The objective factors are the quantifiable and verifiable determinants ... inflation rate, and saving facilities On the other hand, the subjective determinants of savings are the non-quantifiable and non – traceable factors that influence savings behaviours and which are ... of the determinants of savings and its importance Smith (1776) recognized the importance of savings when he observed that, “Capital is increased by parsimony and diminished by prodigality and misconduct”...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... methodology for computing these inferences and for determining whether they are cancelled or not for all possible configurations: simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances 3.1 Simple ... genera- tion and cancellation of pragmatic inferences along sequences of utterances (McRoy and Hirst, 1993) Suppose, for example, that Jane has two friends - John Smith and John Pevler - - and that ... computes uniformly pragmatic inferences that are associated with simple and complex utterances and sequences of utterances, and allows cancellations of pragmatic inferences to occur at any time...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... rejecter and retainer minors, their simple and scaled cofactors, their row and column vectors, and their derivatives have all been expressed in a notation which we believe is simple and clear and ... writers on determinants We use the notion An = |aij |n and Bn = |bij |n , where i and j are row and column parameters, respectively The suffix n denotes the order of the determinant and is usually ... Determinant Related to a Vandermondian 4.1.7 A Generalized Vandermondian 4.1.8 Simple Vandermondian Identities 4.1.9 Further Vandermondian Identities 4.2 Symmetric Determinants ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:29

... difference between A1 and A2 for Moody’s or between A+ and A for Standard and Poor’s.) DETERMINANTS OF SOVEREIGN RATINGS In their statements on rating criteria, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s list ... Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Italy Japan Korea Luxembourg Malaysia Malta Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal ... Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s ratings against our set of eight variables explains more than 90 percent of the sample variation that a regression of the average of Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... mitochondria can also give rise to a dynamics more complex than simple oscillations (see Chaos and bursting) FREQUENCY AND AMPLITUDE BEHAVIOUR For a better understanding of biological oscillations, it is ... between active and quiescent phases can be studied by considering the difference in time scales between the fast, spike-generating subsystem made up of Cacyt and Ra, or Cacyt and IP3, and the slow ... one hand, and the gap-junctional diffusion of Ca2+ and IP3 on the other, on the intercellular coordination of Ca2+ oscillations In biochemistry, the theoretical analyses of stationary states and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:21

... hypersurfaces M1 and M2 in C2 and points p ∈ M1 and q ∈ M2 , when there exist open sets U and V in C2 , with p ∈ U and q ∈ V and a biholomorphism Φ : U → V such that Φ(p) = q and Φ(M1 ∩ U) = M2 ... The converse is true when M and f are real analytic (but not in general) and can be proved by complexifying M and f Theorem Let M be a real analytic hypersurface in Cn and let f be a real analytic ... de l’espace de deux variables complexes, I and II, Oeuvres Complétes, Part II, 1232–1305 and Part III 1218–1238 [7] S S Chern, and J Moser, Real hypersurfaces in complex manifolds, Acta Math 133...

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 11:52

... of orphans and vulnerable children Rights and development as the bases for interventions The long-term nature and size of the problem The status of evidence about family and community interventions ... by Subbarao and Coury ‘to collate and organize the available bits and pieces of information from diverse sources on the profiles of risks faced by OVC, costs and pros and cons of interventions ... support and livelihood activities, poverty and insecurity, quality and availability of health and education services, and in the morale of the communities in which they live As Desmond and Gow...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... Agonist and protein level influence the degree of high Mr complex formation To investigate the nature of the high Mr PPARb complexes, we analyzed the effects of PPARb protein concentration and binding ... histidinetagged ubiquitin (Ubi-His; lanes and 4) The cells were either treated with GW501516 (lanes and 4) or left untreated (lanes and 3) Cells were harvested after 24 h and analyzed by immunoblotting ... protein levels and agonist binding on PPARb stability correlate with the formation of high Mr PPARb complexes that consist predominantly of PPARb, and may even represent homooligomers Such complexes...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... rejecter and retainer minors, their simple and scaled cofactors, their row and column vectors, and their derivatives have all been expressed in a notation which we believe is simple and clear and ... writers on determinants We use the notion An = |aij |n and Bn = |bij |n , where i and j are row and column parameters, respectively The suffix n denotes the order of the determinant and is usually ... Determinant Related to a Vandermondian 4.1.7 A Generalized Vandermondian 4.1.8 Simple Vandermondian Identities 4.1.9 Further Vandermondian Identities 4.2 Symmetric Determinants ...

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... ), and joining two vertices ve and ve∗ if and only if edges e and e∗ are incident with the same vertex in G To illustrate, consider the graph shown in Figure 2.6(a), containing four vertices and ... the Scandinavian countries, France, England, Germany, and others Concerning topology, these networks were relatively simple: there were only relatively few nodes (i.e., communication posts), and ... this text is to provide only an awareness and basic understanding of complex networks, for which reason none of the advanced mathematics that accompany complex networks is discussed To make matters...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:22

... something is too complex to understand and explain then it is probably too risky to undertake, as you won’t be able to design and implement the right kinds of operational processes, controls and monitoring ... the Australian and New Zealand Standard on Risk Management (AS/NZS 4360) (1995), extended TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! x Preface the same simple framework and became a ... Canterbury and based at the university Their support is gratefully acknowledged I continue to enjoy stimulating and often vigorous discussions with my colleagues on the Standards Australia and Standards...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 09:34

... be able to understand and interpret court decisions and how they could apply to their business Both low average penalties imposed by courts for work health and safety offences and the focus in ... businesses to clearly understand that punishment and other consequences of non-compliance are a result of their own choices and actions and not because the regulator is being heavy handed • considering ... resources, incentives and punishments provided Because the choices that businesses, managers and workers make are dependent on a large, complex and variable set of factors in practice interventions by...

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... [http://www.unfpa.org/public/pid/1328] 10 Resources for HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health integration [http://www.hivandsrh.org/] 11 Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV interventions: a systematic review ... Thailand (n = 2), China (n = 1) and Haiti (n = 1) Target populations also varied, and included adult men and women, pregnant women, adolescents, commercial sex workers, people living with HIV and ... incidence and HIV testing and counseling among adolescents and young adults seen at a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases AIDS 1999, 13(8):971-979 30 Chandisarewa WL, Stranix-Chibanda L, Chirapa...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... linearly dependent, and thus there is a cycle of V containing j and contained in {1, 2, , k, j} Hence, there is a row of CV with a ∗ in column j, and 0s in all positions with > k and = j The result ... is a and that W [{1, 2, 5}, :] = I3 Because {1, 2, 3} is a cycle, and each pair of columns of W is linearly independent, we have that w31 = 0, w32 = and w33 = Thus, by scaling columns and then ... :] O O , O E[β] and thus has rank at least k + 2(6 − k/3 ) ≥ 12 + k > 12 Hence, if A is complex, then C rank(A) ≥ 12, and it follows that mr(SG1 ) = 12 Otherwise, A is real and rank(A) ≥ 12...

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