... and diminished selfesteem, diagnostic uncertainties, disruption of normal life transitions and decreasing resources These disease-associated stressors challenge patients' abilities to maintain emotional ... distressed, = a little distressed, = somewhat distressed, = moderately distressed, = extremely distressed) the five situational discomfort items were summated to obtain a total distress score ... four scales are listed in table Statistical analysis Collected data were coded and then analyzed using the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) for windows (version 10.0) to test...
... access forchildrenin SCHIP Strong supports to assist families in identifying providers andin scheduling and getting to their childrens dental appointments can help lower poverty-related obstacles ... meeting of diverse experts, including state and federal policy officials and program administrators, dental professionals, and others, to discuss childrens access to dental care in Medicaid and ... improvements the state had made, provide informational kits and gifts such as “Smile Alabama!” mugs, and ask the dentists to enroll as providers To simplify and streamline claims processing, Alabama set...
... appropriated, ATSDR is expected to assess the extent of children's exposure to mercury from former industrial sites and other sources nationwide, andto issue a report of its findings 12 months after ... nonspecific symptoms, including restlessness, swollen hands and feet (with skin desquamation), profuse sweating, and repeated biting of objects or his own hands [Chrysochoou et al 2003] During ... of Findings Findings are presented in three major sections The first section (“8 Findings—Data Sources”) identifies the data sources, describes the data, and summarizes the applicable information...
... meanings Results The use of metritis scores fordecisionmaking All veterinarians initially stated that they used the metritis score as a means to identify a need for treatment In Table 1, cases ... record information about disease for example, as various types of scores andmedical treatments separately This option is primarily used in case of metritis in dairy cows in herds participating in ... participants (12) was chosen in this study and is in accordance with recommendations for this type of research [9] Detailed discussion on the methodologies including issues of representativeness and...
... educational assessment He also taught courses in testing and measurement methods at several Brazilian universities At Westat, he has conducted psychometric analyses and helped to design adaptive assessments ... percent – in Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina The proportion is lowest in the New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, with less than or just over ... likely to exhibit positive social behavior, including showing respect for teachers and neighbors, getting along with other children, understanding other people s feelings, and trying to resolve...
... baseline system are trained on Ohm base Due to the size of Ohm base, the codebook of the baseline system now contains 500 Gaussian densities—ten times more than the ASR systems trained for Scenario ... of the NMDS result is given in Figure 1; it is assessed using Kruskal s stress function Sand the squared correlation RSQ [26] The figure is translated such that Neutral is located in the centre ... things the measure is man’: Automatic classification of emotions and inter-labeler consistency,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP...
... and perceived decisionmakingand a high adherence to decisions Our findings suggest that our electronic library of decision aids has a positive association with decisionmakingin patients and ... options’ benefits and risks My doctor has informed me about a variety of alternatives 85.9 The possibility to choose no treatment was also discussed 72.9 Step 5: Investigation of patient s understanding ... being informed? The DECISIONS survey Med Decis Making 2010, 30(5 Suppl):7 7S- 8 4S 33 Legare F, Ratte S, Gravel K, Graham ID: Barriers and facilitators to implementing shared decision- making in...
... health professionals, and 3) results included perceived barriers and/ or facilitators to shared decision- making Shared decision- making was defined in an inclusive manner as a joint process between ... assessment score of less than 50% did not change these results Possible positive impacts on process included: believing that involving patients in decision- making promotes trust and honesty and, ... our search and inclusion of studies to those reporting as their main objective the assessment of barriers and facilitators to shared decision- making Thus, we included studies that provided usable...
... Images of whole tree crowns and separately of measured branches were prepared by deleting some interfering parts of images (skeleton of branches) and adjusting contrast and brightness, if necessary ... towers installed in the orchard using usual digital camera and Infrared Solutions Snapshot 525 camera [2] In addition, radial leaf distribution was also assessed indirectly from measurements of ... Nadezdina N., Cermák J., Stand structure and foliage distribution patterns in individual trees of a Quercus pubescens and Quercus cerris forest in Tuscany (central Italy), in: 501 Tognetti R., Raschi...
... in this test study For example, it is surprising that central venous pressure, arterial systolic pressure variation or pulmonary artery occlusion pressure, and the response of these variables ... model s ability to predict fluid requirement can only be as good as the initial clinical assessment This study was conducted in a single centre, and so the model in fact predicts the decisions of ... Lane and Boyd Bayesian network s original probability assessments were based either on the subjective assessments of two expert clinicians, or on scientific literature, and then updated using...
... programs - Promote physical activity by disseminating information about community-based sports and recreation programs and help these programs to gain access to school facilities outside of school ... routes to schools): include sidewalks/footpaths on all new roads and upgrade the existing roads - Taking vans with physical activity equipment into neighbourhoods that not have access to physical ... results, the final content of the IDEFICS intervention and the intervention mapping steps Focus group result (s) Objective/strategy Children receive inconsistent messages Creating and enhancing...
... approaches of research indecisionmaking 2.1.2 Decisionmakingand ergonomics 2.1.3 Decisionmaking under stress 2.2 Sports 2.2.1 Research in sports 2.2.2 Decisionmakingin sports 2.2.3 Challenges in ... Types of research indecisionmaking o Decisionmaking theories and methodologies o Studies of the effects of stress indecisionmaking process o Industries where decisionmaking have been studied ... of decision making, the different types of theories and research indecision making, the study of decisionmakingin Ergonomics, decisionmaking under stress, as well as the challenges in decision...
... groups of techniques: Sensitizing - Inference - Understanding relations within the sentences - Linking sentences and ideas Improving reading speed From skimming to scanning - Predicting - Previewing ... materials and exercises suitable to their ability In sequence, silent reading is a useful technique in a reading comprehension process applied to students to exploit reading lessons and it is also ... IELTS reading comprehension texts, to investigate the reason for these difficulties andto research opinions and attitudes of the students of using some useful reading techniques and tips that...
... tasks The last part focuses on some suggestions for better reading The thesis has presented some useful techniques to develop certain reading skills for students mostly in the while reading stage ... texts, to investigate the reason for these difficulties andto research opinions and attitudes of the students of using some useful reading techniques and tips that help students IELTS reading ... aims of the study are as following: - To find out student s difficulties in doing IELTS reading comprehension texts - To investigate the reasons for these difficulties - To suggest some useful...
... they describe as outsider systems and the latter as insider systems The characteristics that distinguish the systems are listed in Table 1.3 Insider systems Insider systems are characterized by ... maximizer to increase market share, which business strategists see as an important objective Baumol envisages enterprises moving tonewand higher total revenue curves by advertising Advertising is used ... important, such as increasing sales in the short run No single objective may be maximized Marginalism is a poor description of the processes used by businesses to decide output and price Pro¢t is a residual...
... Sophocles is treated separately because, as this chapter argues, he is a special case in the relevant respects Aeschylus and Euripides, for all their diVerences, seem in interesting ways tostand ... curse and considers its status as a causal factor in those plays in which it is important It examines, among other things, the inheritability of curses, and asks, in pursuit of a current scholarly ... attention to the Atreids and the Labdacids Chapters 2, 3, and successively consider inherited guilt, curses, and Erinyes in tragedy, seeking to tease apart these closely connected concepts andto seek...
... Meaning c1 initiates a message through link (i.e., initiates message to v2 ) c2 initiates a message through link (i.e., initiates message to v4 ) v2 forwards incoming messages to all neighbors ... neighbors c3 forwards incoming messages from link to link (i.e., from v2 to v1 ) c6 forwards incoming messages from link to link (i.e., from v2 to v3 ) v1 v2 Inputs: TS List, LDPC code of size (N, ... nodes in the trapping set Neutralizing a variable node involves setting its intrinsic value and extrinsic message values to zero Specifically, neutralizing a variable node vi involves the following...
... representation in respect of the mine s expansion Major instruments relevant to indigenous rights are described in order to assess Australia s consistency with international standards in its treatment ... Plantations in Sarawak This case study focuses on the palm oil sector in the state of Sarawak, and examines the spaces and processes given to indigenous tribes, mainly the Penan and Iban tribes, in ... countries in the Asia-Pacific region (Thailand, Tuvalu, Malaysia, Australia and China) These rights include rights of participation in decision- making, rightsto information andrightsto justice...