chapter 3  a survey of and about professionals

... irreversible loss of integrative unity of the organism [1-4, 6, 10, 11]), and understand the criterion of death (irreversible loss of all functions of the brain, including the brainstem), and the empirical ... loss of integration concept of BD, higher brain concept of BD, prognosis concept of BD, and statement of the criterion only Anonymous data were entered into REDCap Survey (Version 1.3.9-©2010 Vanderbilt ... the univocal state of death, the irreversible loss of the function of the organism as a whole Integrative unity of the organism, including resistance of entropy and maintenance of internal homeostasis,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... to heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, the cookery and the raising of all the foods Why, untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the ... lowest decile of industry performance measured by profit and stock price increases were about 1.5 times as likely to have a change of top executives as firms in the best decile of profit and stock ... derive the “law of demand” (people will buy more of any good at a lower price than at a higher price, and vice versa) and many other principles of human behavior One purpose of this book is to...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:18

... for each leg of the voyage, and for leakage of ten per cent of the rum and five per cent of the molasses, and after charging off the whole cost of the ship's outfit and one-third of her original ... thousand negroes of all sorts, there were about eighteen thousand white men capable of bearing arms; and in the little island's area of 166 square miles there were nearly ten thousand separate landholdings ... respectively as officers of the guard, keeper of the stores, caretaker of arms and implements, usher of the hall, and clerk of the kitchen Supplies of provisions and equipment were carried, and instructions...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... the Fed is more of a laggard than a leader in this regard The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the Bank of England were early and enthusiastic converts to greater transparency, and Norges Bank ... examines the practices of three major central banks: the Federal Reserve, the ECB, and the Bank of England Section reviews the first strand of empirical research mentioned above, and Section discusses ... has now joined the the Bank of England and the ECB in providing more frequent official forecasts of output measures A number of central banks even publish estimates of the output gap Given the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... comparable and comprehensive measures of population health and comparative assessments of the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors; and to investigate the costs, efficacy and effectiveness of ... the rate of growth of total population, ru is the rate of growth of utilization per capita, rp is the rate of growth of the general price level, rr is the rate of growth of the ratio of the medical ... assumptions about disability declines based on past trends, and about the rate of growth of price increase Projection of total and age-sex composition of CASMU membership; 1991 estimates of cost...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... determinants of cost are: size of the laboratory, prices of input factors (labour and materials), rate of output (i.e., utilization of fixed laboratory personnel and equipment), quality of input ... median of a sample of observations is a crude measure of the amount of variability (dispersion) in the distribution of the sample It is commonly used to measure the skew of a distribution And it ... pattern In cases of a broad range of prices for a particular test category some preferred © 2007 Institute of Business Administration Results and discussion Summary of data and analytic technique...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... violence and destruction will continue and expand due to a feeling of 21st century anomie, and an increasing sense of lack of individual control.” – Martin Kwapinski, FirstGov, the U.S Government's official ... interests of profit at the expense of human rights.” – Lynn Schofield Clark, director of the Teens and the New Media @ Home Project at the University of Colorado (Many additional thoughtful and provocative ... reservations about parts of our formulation of it Some suggested that government and/ or corporate control of the internet might limit some types of access in certain parts of the world, and others...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... mass of the compounds in the venom and the masses of rAgTx2 (used as a control toxin) and rPBTx3 were determined with MALDI-TOF MS on a VG Tofspec (Micromass, UK) operating in the linear and in ... disulfide pairing [44] and is also conserved throughout these sequences of all the members of subfamily of a-KTx, including PBTx3 Because of these similarities and conservation of the consensus sequence, ... nM of rAgTx2 different in the range of test potentials from )30 to +20 mV Recombinant PBTx3 (500 nM) blocked the Kv1.2 and Kv1.3 peak currents by 54% and 53% at )30 mV (n ¼ 3), and by 53% and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20

... Interest Change and Trust Evaluation," Internation Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications vol 4, pp 106-113, 2010 [7 ] X Su and T M Khoshgoftaar, "A Survey of Collaborative ... have knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be ... items can be properly represented as a set of features R u is the mean of the u user’s  ratings and   U i , j represents all users who have rated items i and j The prediction calculation for item...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2014, 18:27

... Interest Change and Trust Evaluation," Internation Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications vol 4, pp 106-113, 2010 [7 ] X Su and T M Khoshgoftaar, "A Survey of Collaborative ... have knowledge about how a particular item satisfies a particular user need, and can therefore reason about the relationship between a need and possible recommendation [12] The user profile can be ... items can be properly represented as a set of features R u is the mean of the u user’s  ratings and   U i , j represents all users who have rated items i and j The prediction calculation for item...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 00:29

... 116 of 210 valid addresses of public sector managers and 87 of 179 valid addresses of private sector managers This represents a total response rate of 51.91% and a response rate of 55.23% and ... competencies are 'sets of knowledge, skills, behaviours, and attitudes that a person needs to be effective in a wide range of managerial jobs and various types of organizations' [6] Of particular importance ... survey of hospital managers in the public and private sectors in South Africa, using a self administered questionnaire The survey was conducted among all managers of public hospitals in six of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... + μb , (1) σPAN where μPAN and μb are the mean of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively, and s PAN and s b are the standard deviation of the PAN and MS image band b, respectively This technique ... between each band of the LRMS image and HR images to sharpen the former It models the relationship between the pixels of each band of the HRMS zb, the PAN image x and the corresponding band of the LRMS ... MS bands and the resampled LR MS bands The spatial distortion index defined in [118] is based on differences between the UIQI of each band of the fused image and the PAN image and the UIQI of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... complications, and also the theory of supernatural causes as explanation for the etiology of childhood autism, which rest on (lack of) forgiveness of sins and trespasses, and cutting off links with ... completed there and then and collected back immediately from the healthcare workers because they were meant for a point -of- time assessment of opinions on aspects of ASD and knowledge about childhood ... approach to the management of children with developmental disabilities in general, largely due to the absence of trained professionals and lack of facilities for special needs of children with developmental...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... Directors of HIV/AIDS CBOs that are funded by the AIDS Bureau of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and members of the Ontario AIDS Network (n = 51) to complete an online survey We ... original manuscript, and incorporated revisions from the study team SBR contributed to the conception and design of the study, the data analysis and interpretation, and helped draft and revise the ... contributed to the conception and design of the study, the data interpretation, and provided revisions to the manuscript JB contributed to the conception and design of the study and provided revisions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... care of people with dementia ideally involves a sensitive and accurate explanation of the diagnosis to individuals and informal carer-givers, and information about the likely prognosis and possible ... members of MHTs for older people from 35 National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in the North of England that provided mental health services and a random sample of Trusts from elsewhere in England ... contributions ME and MJ conceived the original idea for this study ME, RF, CB, MJ, NS and JG obtained grant funding JL, CB and RF led the conduct of the survey NS and CB analysed the survey data which...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... care of people with dementia ideally involves a sensitive and accurate explanation of the diagnosis to individuals and informal carer-givers, and information about the likely prognosis and possible ... members of MHTs for older people from 35 National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in the North of England that provided mental health services and a random sample of Trusts from elsewhere in England ... contributions ME and MJ conceived the original idea for this study ME, RF, CB, MJ, NS and JG obtained grant funding JL, CB and RF led the conduct of the survey NS and CB analysed the survey data which...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... having proof of any type of education American chiropractors have taken advantage of this lack of regulation and are teaching chiropractic techniques to lay practitioners [4-6] On the other hand, ... this survey The objective of this survey was to explore the attitudes and perceptions of practicing chiropractors in Germany regarding research, to look at their reading and research habits, and ... mailed survey Table lists the demographic characteristics of respondents Eighteen (37%) of the respondents were female, and 29 (59%) were German nationals Three of the 29 German nationals and one of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... load and manual handling (7%) Relief of symptoms associated with wheelchair use 24 (29%) Fitting treatment into standard appointment time (5%) Resolution of muscular problems 17 (20%) McKay and ... patient on and off the treatment bench presented a challenge for a substantial proportion of the chiropractors in the current study Manual handling tasks are physically demanding, often unpredictable ... http://chiromt.com/content/19/1/20 Page of 15 The GCC code of practice and standard of proficiency required for the competent and safe practice of chiropractic: effective from 30th June 2010 [http://www.gcc-uk.org/chiro_search.cfm]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... the attention of both laypeople and medical professionals Indeed, the suicide rate among young adolescents [3,4], school refusal and school absenteeism [5,6], and the phenomenon of social withdrawal ... known as net suicides [4], and CAP professionals have worked to intervene and attempt prevention Despite increasing social demands and a need to increase the number of clinicians who could address ... confidence in diagnosis and treatment, sense of satisfaction, potential primary practice interest, and optimism about the future of the CAP field Furthermore, respondents were surveyed about their interest...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21