conclusions implications and an agenda for future research

... considered an important determinant of the demand for healthcare This study used household expenditure as a proxy for income Information about income is biased and difficult to assess in many developing ... p-values of the Sargan-test for the public and private models were 0.36 and 0.11, respectively Whilst in conditional estimates, the p-values were 0.513 and 0.363 for the public and private models, ... estimate for Askes insurance was positive for public and private providers, but only significant for the former with a p-value at the 1% level The findings hold true for both unconditional and conditional...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... that the dual role of assurance provider and consultant can create bias and hence cause problems for internal audit objectivity Both Brody and Lowe (2000) and Ahlawat and Lowe (2004) examined whether ... financial statement audit-related services such as review of internal controls and testing of account balances, and also compliance and performance audit services including risk management and ... INDEPENDENCE AND OBJECTIVITY: A REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH Jenny Stewart Griffith Business School Griffith University, Queensland, Australia and Nava Subramaniam...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... components and policies affect robustness most? What processes and policies improve robustness? Initial efforts such as Taylor and Ford (2006) should be extended and expanded Change management, risk management, ... estimating and risk assessment; (3) change management, risk management, and project control; and (4) management training and education We briefly describe the general area of application and the ... arena is for greater documentation and discussion of the process of using models for such assessments, and for published success stories and lessons learned that can serve as exemplars for future...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... PeMi93] Hartel and Vree HaVr92] discuss how fast algorithms for the related Fourier transform (FFT) can be implemented and optimized in a functional language 4.3 Quantization and Downsampling ... version of the DCT is used, which transforms an 8 block of data into 8 DCT coe cients A two-dimensional DCT can be performed by rst transforming each row, and then transforming each column of the resulting ... needed can be formulated quite concisely and elegantly, and that the borderline between `speci cation' and `implementation' is fading: the correctness of the speci cation can be demonstrated informally...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 15:15

... enhance properties of raw material and food products, but also for the development of sensors for chemical and microbial contaminants and pathogens Both for organic and for conventional food products, ... crisis Information demand increases dramatically, and information exchange exceeds the direct communication between producer and consumer and involves third parties such as NGOs, media, and governmental ... safety and health Finally the basic food science was examined on the one hand re-orienting the research focus to safety and health questions, and on the other hand developing new methodologies and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... (the demand), and an understanding of who currently provides these services and their skills (the supply) The Federal role of (1) providing standards and guidelines; (2) conducting research and disseminating ... Understand the historical development and structure of State, local, and Federal public health agencies Financial Planning and Management Skills • Understand the theory of organizational structure and ... existing network of consultants and technical assistance and community-based assets to collect and analyze community health data Understand relevant legal and regulatory information Identify the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... exploration and discovery Organization and Management There is no single formula for organizing and managing a large-scale research project The approach can vary greatly depending on the goal and the ... strategies for future research / Sharyl J Nass and Bruce W Stillman, editors ; Committee on Large-scale Science and Cancer Research, National Cancer Policy Board and Division on Earth and Life ... new research tools and resources for the advancement of the latter A variety of models exist for carrying out large-scale biological research projects, and each has its strengths and advantages...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... 34, 37, 38, and 41) Concepts, examples, and techniques from mathematics, and the physical and information sciences should be included in biology courses, and biological concepts and examples ... mapping of the human genome How biologists design, perform, and analyze experiments is changing swiftly Biological concepts and models are becoming more quantitative, and biological research has become ... (chemistry and physics) and mathematics than they now get Connections between biology and the other scientific disciplines need to be developed and reinforced so that interdisciplinary thinking and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... Mr O Yan Wai Linn, Patrick Tang, and Sun Zhiqiang Special thanks also go to staffs from Institute of Materials Research, and Engineering (IMRE) - Mr Chum Chan Choy and Ms Teo Siew Lang for their ... gratitude to my dearest wife, Yang Zixu, for her endless love and support, and her tremendous understanding and patience throughout all these years Thank you for loving me and being a wonderful wife! ... scalability and possibly higher performance enhancement Successful integrations of the new DLC liner stressor were demonstrated on both short channel planar p-FETs and more advanced and scaled nanowire...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 17:50

... Nano Device Lab, Institute of Microelectronic, and Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, who have provided important discussion and aid to my work: Weifeng Yang, Hui Zang, Jian Wang, ... Lattice constant (A) Band gap (eV) Sadana proposed a CMOS design by using InGaAs for n-channel MOSFET and Germanium for p-channel MOSFET [1.26] Ge has relatively higher mobility than Silicon for both ... capacitance for two MOS systems (a) TaN/HfAlO/p-InGaAs and (b) TaN/HfAlO/p-GaAs Hysteresis is 0.4 V for InGaAs substrate for and 1.1 V for GaAs substrate Indium reduces the hysteresis significantly...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:37

... decrees and laws on land and forests: the Prime Minister’s Decree on the Management and Use of Land and Forests 1993, the Decree on Land and Forest Classification for planting trees and conservation ... agricultural land, forest land, water area areas, industrial land, communications land, cultural land, national defence land, national peace and security land, and construction land “The area of land in ... Provincial Organization for Land and Natural Resource Management District Organization for Land and Natural Resource Management Village Unit for Land and Natural Resource Management 2.3 Land use rights...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... an introduction for students and practitioners / Chris Barker and Nancy Pistrang and Robert Elliott.– 2nd ed p cm First ed published under title : Research methods in clinical and counselling ... interactions with them and the data that they have provided have stimulated and challenged us to broaden our scope as researchers And finally, many thanks to our children, for constantly reminding us ... consult the research literature for an answer Sackett et al.’s book gives rules for how to judge good research Evidence from well-conducted randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses are...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:20

... pollutants across a multi-province domain CMAQ simulates atmospheric and land processes that affect the transport, transformation, and deposition of atmospheric pollutants (Byun and Ching, 1999) and ... Domain Shandong Hebei Shanxi Henan Anhui Jiangsu 36 km Domain Fig Map of China and model boundaries Note: The solid green rectangle demarcates the CMAQ domain with an area of 792 Â 648 km2 and a ... pollutants for 2000 and three scenarios for 2020, (3) simulate ambient air pollution concentrations and distributions, (4) estimate human exposure to air pollutants, (5) estimate health impacts and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... compatible forest practices with other wetland functions, water quality and quantity and beneficial uses of riparian areas Ecosystem and Landscape Planning - Develop models and other analytical tools for ... provided products for great corporations and small businesses, picnics and political rallies and produced paper for magazines and newspapers, novels and encyclopedias, poetry and art Generations ... as the handiwork of nature's life cycle, constantly renewing and replenishing itself for the multiple uses of man and wildlife Today, the forest, wood and paper industry produces wood and paper...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... Develop and mobilize a plan: Outline a plan of action as a platform for organizing and implementing child injury prevention actions for the United States • Evaluate and monitor progress: Evaluate and ... households, and low maternal educational status all confer risk and make children more vulnerable to injury Death rates are highest for American Indians and Alaska Natives and lowest for Asians or ... surveillance, promoting research, enhancing communications, improving education and training, advancing health systems and health care, and for strengthening policy Elements of the plan can inform actions...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... vascular and lymphatic channels and to lymph nodes where immune responses are initiated; most DNA viruses have mechanisms for inhibiting interferon synthesis and receptor signaling, and papillomaviruses ... immunodominant and nonimmunodominat; neutralizing and non-neutralizing; type-specific and partially cross-reactive type responses The antigen dose in VLPs is much higher than in natural infection and ... against oncogenic HPV by an HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted cervical cancer vaccine: Importance of virological and clinical endpoints and implications for mass vaccination in cervical cancer prevention Gynecol...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... http://www.jiasociety.org/content/14/1/3 Conclusions These findings have important implications for the use and interpretation of data derived from routine HIV observational databases for research and audit, and they highlight ... contributions ANK participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis BC, PS and TM participated in its design and coordination, and provided comments on the manuscript ... 220 (49%) and 15 (3%) of 453 toxicities, and 18 (51%) and 11 (32%) of the 86 cited reasons for ART discontinuation and modification This gives a total error rate (comprising missing and incorrect...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... the means Journal of Inequalities and Applications Main Results Theorem 2.1 Let ui ∈ U v, K i 1, , and r x ≥ for all x ∈ a, b Also let I ⊆ R be an interval, let φ : I → R be convex, and let ... interval, ui ∈ U v, K i 1, , and r x ≥ for all x ∈ a, b Let u1 x /u2 x , v1 x /v2 x ∈ I, let v1 x /v2 x be nonconstant, and let q x be given in 2.2 Then, for s, t ∈ R \ {0, 1} and s / t, there exists ... Science and Engineering, Academic Press, Boston, Mass, USA, 1992 D S Mitrinovi´ , J E Peˇ ari´ , and A M Fink, Classical and New Inequalities in Analysis, vol 61 of c c c Mathematics and Its...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... Bovik, Handbook of Image & Video Processing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2nd edition, 2005 [4] T F Chan and J Shen, “Image processing and analysis variational, PDE, wavelet and stochastic ... can expanded by the chain rule for vectors [27] δ(m) = ∂z(m) ∂E(m) · ∂v(m) ∂z(m) (19) Since z and v are elementwise related by the transfer function ϕ{·} and thus (∂zi (m))/(∂v j (m)) = for any ... BSNR for the filters h1 (a) and h2 (b), respectively, and using the three degradation models under test (truncated, aperiodic, and circulant) Each figure also contains the results of the and regularizations...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... literature, for example, points to the potential importance of both a receptive context for innovation [8,16] and a strategic approach to – and management of – related organizational innovation and change ... health services research expertise and resources in an ongoing system-wide effort to improve the performance of the VA healthcare system and, thus, quality of care for veterans QUERI researchers ... will involve cultural values and norms, resources and expertise that enable stakeholders' engagement and capabilities, and an alignment of various organizational systems and processes with the innovative...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21