... Challenges in comparing the quality of life of older people between ethnic groups, and the implications for national well-being indicators: a secondary analysis of two cross- sectional surveys Robert L ... Organization Quality of Life scale for older people (WHOQOL-OLD) We found differences, some significant, between groups in terms of self-reported importance of various aspects of quality of life A regression ... with social and psychological dimensions, overlapping with measures of quality of life (QOL) [1-3] A great deal of the well-being of any nation will be determined by physical and mental health and...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22
... A.K Malmeicter, V.P Tamuz, G.A Teterc, Strength of composite materials, Riga, “Zinatie”, 1980 Nguyen Dinh Duc, Dinh Khac Minh, Bending analysis of three-phase polymer composite plates reinforced ... Micro-Mechanics of composite materials, “Nauka Dumka”, Kiev, 1985 G.A Vanin, Nguyen Dinh Duc, The theory of spherofibre composite.1: The input relations, hypothesis and models, J Mechanics of composite ... the deflection faster Conclusion In this paper we report the experiments for bending problem of phase composite made of polyester matrix, glass fiber and titanium dioxide particle The experiment...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Estimation of Radar Cross Section of a Target under Track" potx
... length of the sliding window and it is the sum of the number of detections (N), and the number of misses (M) in the window Note that the function (14) corresponds to an average of the estimates of ... observations of the detections and misses in the window To be more specific, (zi − 1)/αi in the first term of (14) is an (one-sample) unbiased estimate of σ with the observed signal strength zi of the ... fixed length w Note that the window size of ML(W = w) is fixed to w regardless of the number of detections in the window On the contrary, the window size of ML(N = n) can change to retain n detections...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học: " Experiment for Bending Analysis of 3-phase Composite Plate in Ship Structure" potx
... A.K Malmeicter, V.P Tamuz, G.A Teterc, Strength of composite materials, Riga, “Zinatie”, 1980 Nguyen Dinh Duc, Dinh Khac Minh, Bending analysis of three-phase polymer composite plates reinforced ... Micro-Mechanics of composite materials, “Nauka Dumka”, Kiev, 1985 G.A Vanin, Nguyen Dinh Duc, The theory of spherofibre composite.1: The input relations, hypothesis and models, J Mechanics of composite ... the deflection faster Conclusion In this paper we report the experiments for bending problem of phase composite made of polyester matrix, glass fiber and titanium dioxide particle The experiment...
Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 16:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Does dissemination extend beyond publication: a survey of a cross section of public funded research in the UK" potx
... overview of the ways by which health services researchers working across the UK are disseminating the findings of their research Although we are aware of studies that explore the nature of dissemination ... conception, design, and analysis of the study PMW led the data collection and analysis for the study All authors were involved in the writing of the first and subsequent versions of the paper, and ... of single research studies? BMJ 2008, 336(7646):722 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-5-61 Cite this article as: Wilson et al.: Does dissemination extend beyond publication: a survey of a cross section of...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23
Báo cáo y học: "Changes in 10-12 year old’s fruit and vegetable intake in Norway from 2001 to 2008 in relation to gender and socioeconomic status - a comparison of two cross-sectional groups" pptx
... comparison of two cross- sectional groups International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011 8:108 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • ... the product of the a- and b coefficient (a*b) and provides an estimate of the relative strength of the mediation effect The Sobel test was used to assess the statistical significance of a mediating ... 2008 1294 2.7 2.2 How often you eat vegetables for dinner? 0.439 How often you eat other vegetables? How often you eat apples, oranges, pears or bananas? 2001 2008 How often you eat other fruits...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21
A legal analysis of the cross border trade in telemedicine the singapore perspective
... The Origin of the GATS Central to an understanding of the creation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in international trade is a brief review of the origins of the General Agreement ... C 53 56 58 59 61 63 The Purpose of Medical Licensure The Classes of Telemedicine The Regulation of Cross Border Telemedicine The Practice of Medicine The Place of Telemedicine Practice The Approaches ... regulation of transnational business lies at the heart of each of these component fields will improve analysis within each field and lead to cross- fertilization among them The elephant of transnational...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 14:04
báo cáo sinh học:" Community characteristics that attract physicians in Japan: a cross-sectional analysis of community demographic and economic factors" potx
... extent of income equity among the members of a society, but they are also used for the analysis of equity of physician distribution against population [1,18] For example, in the analysis of physician-population ... types of data can clarify our understanding of the equal distribution of physicians In this study, we examine the strength of associations between demographic, economic or life-related variables of ... parameters of the community attractiveness We also calculate the equity of physician distribution against each of the possible parameters of attractiveness in order to re-evaluate the maldistribution of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Job satisfaction and motivation of health workers in public and private sectors: cross-sectional analysis from two Indian states" ppt
... presence of various job characteristics is an indicator of differences in the human resource environment of the respondents The analysis of health worker ratings of importance and presence of specific ... more important (See Table 3) Transparency Ratings of actual presence of characteristics in current job Analysis of the perceived actual presence of the same 17 job characteristics also revealed ... and officials from medical colleges, professional associations, and other agencies Three strata of districts were purposely identified to represent different Page of 11 socioeconomic areas of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Associations between general self-efficacy and health-related quality of life among 12-13-year-old school children: a cross-sectional survey" potx
... analysis, interpretation of data and revision of the manuscript RS contributed to statistical analysis, interpretation of data and revision of the manuscript GKN Page of (page number not for citation ... in many studies with hundreds of thousands of participants [14] The scale was created to assess a general sense of perceived self-efficacy, with the aim in mind of predicting ability to cope ... statistical analysis, interpretation of data and drafting of the paper KH contributed to data collection and revision of the manuscript SH contributed to the study design, statistical analysis, ...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Clinical implications of gait analysis in the rehabilitation of adult patients with "Prader-Willi" Syndrome: a cross-sectional comparative study ("Prader-Willi" Syndrome vs matched obese patients and healthy subjects)" docx
... standing up, bending, walking and running [1,2] The analysis of gait pattern of obese children shows a more flat-footed weight acceptance period in stance phase and greater out-toeing of the foot ... picture of patients with PWS, aim of our study was to characterize the gait pattern of these subjects by using 3D-Gait Analysis The results were compared with those obtained in a group of healthy ... the analysis of articular mobility ROM was calculated as difference between absolute maximum (MAX) and absolute minimum (MIN) of the curve of joint movement Beside this, the mean values of MAX...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
báo cáo hóa học:" General anxiety, depression, and physical health in relation to symptoms of heart-focused anxietya cross sectional study among patients living with the risk of serious arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death" doc
... comparison of general anxiety and depression scores with expected scores of the general population was a clear strength of study, since assessing symptoms based only on cut-off points may be of little ... scores of the general population, further, the scores of general anxiety, depression, physical health, and heart-focused anxiety of patients with familial LQTS were compared to the scores of patients ... the last year Of the total sample of patients, 25% (n = 32) had a clinical diagnosis of either LQTS or HCM as opposed to 75% (n = 94) at genetic risk because of family history of LQTS or HCM...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Overview pps
... method of inference and confidence interval construction can improve on asymptotic analysis Volume of the Handbook of Econometrics and Volume 11 of the Handbook of Statistics contain nice surveys of ... refer to sections throughout the book first by chapter number followed by section number and, sometimes, subsection number Therefore, Section 6.3 refers to Section in Chapter 6, and Section 13.8.3 ... topics in cross section and panel data analysis as direct applications or minor extensions of the classical linear model (if they are treated at all) Such treatment needlessly limits the scope of applications...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Chapter 1 pot
... saving of employees within a firm may be correlated because of common (often unobserved) characteristics of workers within a firm or because of features of the firm itself (such as type of retirement ... sampling does exclude cases of some interest for cross section analysis For example, the identical distribution assumption is unlikely to hold for a pooled cross section, where random samples ... detailed summary of properties of conditional expectations 1.2 1.2.1 The Stochastic Setting and Asymptotic Analysis Data Structures In order to give proper treatment to modern cross section and panel...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Chapter 2 pdf
... additional properties that are consequences of the randomness of mðxÞ Some of the statements we make are proven in the appendix, but general proofs of other assertions require measure-theoretic ... function of w, say x ¼ fðwÞ (The vector x could simply be a subset of w.) This statement implies that if we know the outcome of w, then we know the outcome of x The most general statement of the ... The right-hand side of equation (2.46) is also the linear projection of y on 1; x1 ; x2 , and z1 ; it is not generally the linear projection of y on 1; x1 ; x2 Our primary use of linear projections...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Chapter 3 ppt
... functions of xN This is especially useful for determining the asymptotic distribution of test statistics once the limiting distribution of an estimator is known; see Section 3.5 The continuity of g ... estimator of g ¼ logðyÞ ^ a Why is g a consistent estimator of g? 46 b Find the asymptotic variance of pffiffiffiffi ffi ^ N ðy À yÞ Chapter pffiffiffiffiffi N ð^ À gÞ in terms of the asymptotic variance of g ^ ^ ... Properties of Estimators ^ definition 3.8: Let fyN : N ¼ 1; 2; g be a sequence of estimators of the P Â vector y A Y, where N indexes the sample size If ^ p yN ! y ð3:2Þ ^ for any value of y, then...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Chapter 4 ppt
... Failure of Assumption OLS.3 has less serious consequences than failure of Assumption OLS.1 As we have already seen, Assumption OLS.3 has nothing to ^ with consistency of b Further, the proof of asymptotic ... asymptotically valid in the presence of any kind of heteroskedasticity, including homoskedasticity Robust standard errors are often reported in applied cross- sectional work, especially when the ... case, the OLS regression of y on x1 ; x2 ; ; xK generally gives inconsistent estimators of all of the bj The Single-Equation Linear Model and OLS Estimation 75 ^ The plims of the bj for j K are...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Chapter 5 doc
... grant, then l1 is the e¤ect of receiving this particular job training grant on worker productivity, which is of some interest But estimating the e¤ect of an hour of general job training is more ... a valid estimator of the asymptotic variance of b under Assumptions 2SLS.1– ^ is just the square root of the jth diag2SLS.3 The (asymptotic) standard error of bj onal element of matrix (5.27) ... linear combination of interest, say y a1 b1 þ a2 b2 þ Á Á Á þ aK bK , and then to write one of the bj in terms of y and the other elements of b Then, substitute into the equation of interest so that...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Chapter 6 ppt
... section data 6.3.1 Pooled Cross Sections over Time A data structure that is useful for a variety of purposes, including policy analysis, is what we will call pooled cross sections over time The ... pure cross section analysis can be applied to pooled cross sections, including corrections for heteroskedasticity, specification testing, instrumental variables, and so on But in using pooled cross ... elements of x i and xi0 x i : the levels, squares, and cross products of the regressors in the conditional mean The Breusch-Pagan and White tests have degrees of freedom that depend on the number of...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20
Book Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data By Wooldridge - Chapter 7 pot
... observations pooled across i and t We mentioned this estimator in the context of independent cross sections in Section 6.3 The estimator in equation (7.17) is for the same cross section units sampled ... to an analysis of Maloney and McCormick (1993), who use a large random sample of students (including nonathletes) from Clemson University in a cross section analysis Example 7.8 (E¤ect of Being ... condition for OLS analysis of single equations What it implies di¤ers across examples because of the multipleequation nature of equation (7.9) For most applications, Xi has a su‰cient number of elements...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20