evaluation of theory based interventions

... them provide good practices of postnatal care While the need of postnatal care among mothers increases, many forms of postnatal care have been presented of which home -based postnatal care should ... Status of postnatal care at community 3.1.1.1 Mothers' profile In a total of 762 mothers participated in the study, 49% come from rural area, 51% come from urban area Most of them are at the age of ... “Being pregnant as at gate of cemetory”…I don’t have any to think of instead of taking rest for my self and taking care of my baby …” (GD07BV) 3.1.2.2 General knowledge of postnatal care   36,2%...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... theories, and examples of protocols and final reports of evaluations of QI interventions The user can access the content of NorthStar in many different ways: NorthStar preliminary evaluation Eight ... design an interrupted times series evaluation (Interrupted Time Series Evaluation) NorthStar reviews two other types of evaluation (Process Evaluation and Economic Evaluation) It also provides guidance ... outline of each of these sections NorthStar software NorthStar is available as an HTML Help system, or as a browser -based version Figure shows a sample screenshot from the browser -based version of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... cost-effectiveness of different injury prevention interventions have been conducted For instance, Smith and Fordham [4] reviewed the cost-effectiveness of interventions in reducing the risk of new falls, ... Accordingly, interventions including legislative reforms, interventions targeting workers, and interventions including modifications of vehicles have been excluded in this review On the other hand, interventions ... few economic evaluation studies of injury prevention interventions, of acceptable quality, that might be conducted at the municipal level Hence, it is shown that there is a paucity of economic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... individual components of SOFA (Failure-Non failure), = Sequences of categorised SOFA scores (HighMedium-Low), = SOFA trend over days (-1 if SOFA is decreased, if SOFA is unchanged, if SOFA is increased), ... with each one of total max SOFA, delta SOFA and admission SOFA [4] Overall performance and discrimination were both improved by the addition of total max SOFA and of the delta SOFA, especially ... the first 24 hours of admission, and models based on sequential SOFA scores have comparable performance with other IOF scores The combination of SOFA -based models with admission -based models results...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... second = of 0, a standard deviation of 0.30, with a maximum of 0.94 and a minimum of -0.82 The mean accuracy was 0.23, with a standard deviation of 0.08, a maximum of 0.43 and a minimum of 0.12 ... point of interest is the relative importance of the number of horses per event and the level of the horses participating in the event At convergence, the first derivative of the logarithm of posterior ... a loss of 0.10 point due to the use of ranks, accuracies of evaluations based on ranks would range from 0.17 to 0.31, which is reasonable This model requires a sufficiently large amount of comparisons...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... the third of these: processes underlying change or lack of change to assess possible reasons for the success or lack of success of the intervention The evaluation was based on the Theory of Planned ... such interventions may work This type of process evaluation can lead to the identification of general principles that will help to optimise interventions The study reported here was a theory- based ... of control over the behaviour in question The construction of the measures of the three predictor variables and of intention was based on standard practice in the field including the advice of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... position of the parsing tree, the predictive information quantity of lexical feature type is larger than that of part -of- speech feature type, and the predictive information quantity of partof-speech ... combination of feature types is optimal for the probabilistic evaluation model of statistical syntactic parsing Unfortunately, the state of knowledge in this regard is very limited Many probabilistic evaluation ... grasps some of the important information for the predicted event According to the above idea, we build the information -theory- based feature type analysis model, which is composed of four concepts:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... Discovery of inference rules for question answering Natural Language Engineering, 7(4):343–360 Dekang Lin 1998 Dependency -based evaluation of minipar In Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluation of ... non-trivial) protocol of a sequence of questions, which determines rule validity in a given sentence We shall next describe how we collect a sample of examples for evaluation and the evaluation process ... different algorithms Instance -based Evaluation Methodology As discussed in Section 2.1, an evaluation methodology for entailment rules should reflect the expected validity of their application within...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Generalized Theory of Gravitation, and SuperstringTheory -Based Unification This page intentionally left blank Quantum Gravity, Generalized Theory of Gravitation, and Superstring Theory- Based Unification ... unified field theory is a consequence of, as a result of the expansion of the universe, increasing size of r0 In this theory there exists no free monopoles all of them as a result of monopole condensation ... been based on a proper analysis without having the benefit of a metric of space-time All of these considerations are of course compatible with Einstein’s theory of gravity Where c the speed of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:41

... by the total number of “accepted” phrases The precision is a measure of the correctness of the system in terms of the evaluation of the phrases For this experiment the recall of the system was ... conversation The results of the human evaluation are shown in Table In this evaluation, 26 out of the 80 phrases “accepted” by the system were considered “completely natural”, and 18 out of the 80 “accepted” ... (2005),the size of indexable Web had become approximately 11.5 billion pages The tuning of the thresholds of each n-gram type was preformed using the phrases of the Phrase DB 10 The evaluation “weakly...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... Automating Concordance Line Selection In Proceedings of NeMLaP, pages 95-100 H P Ednmndson 1969 New Methods in Automatic Extracting Journal of the ACM, 16(2):264-285 T Givon 1979 From Discourse ... Linguistics, 23(1):33-64 M Hoey 1991 Patterns of Lexis in Text Describing English Language Oxford University Press I 80 (%) ~ 100 ~ K Zechner 1996 Fast Generation of Abstracts from General Domain Text ... 1958 The Automatic Creation of Literature Abstracts IBM Journal for Research and Development, 2(2):159-165 ~ ~ { ~ K Ono, K Sumita, and S Miike 1994 Abstract Generation based on Rhetorical Structure...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20

... investigation of Webbased learning activities within the tutorial component of the subject, the design of the study focuses on developing six weeks (three in each half of the semester) of online ... formative evaluation of the site was conducted 470 Delivering Health Education via the Web: Design and Formative Evaluation FORMATIVE EVALUATION METHODOLOGY The formative evaluation of the prototype ... technology postgraduate students of the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong; and testing by undergraduate teacher trainees of the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong The health...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... taskbased evaluations of NLG systems over the Internet 304 is a valid alternative to more traditional laboratorybased evaluations Specifically, we have shown that an Internet -based evaluation of ... a lab -based evaluation While the Internetbased evaluation suffers from certain skews caused by the lack of control over the subject pool, it does find more differences than the lab -based evaluation ... that an evaluation that is based almost exclusively on native speakers in universities leads to overly benign judgments about the quality of NLG systems One advantage of the Internet -based approach...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

... course Figure of the mean ρ group on Day1 and Day3 max changes of TS-down and TS-up the course of the mean ρmax changes of TS-down and TS-up group on Day1 and Day3 *p < 0.05 Page of (page number ... ρmax of Subject-2 at this part of the video agrees with results of previous studies, that it takes about to 10 minutes for the subject to feel the symptoms of VIMS [10,11] Moreover, the ρmax of ... intensity of VIMS increased as the number of the exposures increased (TS-up group) 3) ρmax of the subjects feeling VIMS decreased at the same point of time on both days 4) After repetitions of watching...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... processes and guarantees legibility and comparability of the noted expiries Starting time 11 Figure Evaluation of inter-observer reliability Evaluation of inter-observer reliability – first observer; ... logic in the software operates the changes and saves the event Sophisticated software filters protect the software from false inputs (e.g simultaneous main tasks) The developed software was implemented ... problem of these conventional methods [5] Remembering working events or examples of behaviour during subjective interviews can present problems of bias [6] Equally, the exclusive use of questioning...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... (Continued) Take care of local errands 0.71 0.41 0.62 Take care of health 0.59 0.14 0.72 Take care of household business 0.58 0.14 0.71 Take part in an exercise program Take care of inside of home 0.68 ... analysis and interpretation of data, preparation of manuscript JAK and RF: study concept and design, preparation of manuscript SAS: acquisition of data SNB and MEM: acquisition of data, study concept ... 0.27 0.77 Take care of personal care needs Take care of local errands 0.65 0.70 0.25 0.36 0.74 0.68 0.70 0.76 0.13 0.28 0.85 0.79 Take care of health 0.59 0.14 0.77 Take care of household business...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in terms of energy consumption The rest of the article is organized as follows: Section introduces the related works Section describes details of the protocol design with the evaluation of its ... are examples of typical contention -based MAC protocols They offer the advantages of simplicity, small overhead, small latency, etc TRAMA [11] and LMAC [12] are typical schedule -based MAC protocols ... communications through the human body, a series of scenarios of different capsules are set up based on a topology of straight line within the range of 30 cm in Figure The capsules are uniformly...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... statistical behavior of the BS grant buffer of a particular SS is independent from the behavior of those of the other SSs Therefore, we model the stochastic behavior of the BS grant buffer of a particular ... is the sum of the fixed time from the grant time of the tagged i-packet to the start of transmission of the i-packets in the next frame and the transmission times of the random number of ipackets ... grant buffer of SS i according to their order in the request Let the number of the BS grants in the buffer of SS i be Si = 0, 1, During the service of the individual BS grant buffer of SS i at...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... precipitation of the oxide The rate of reaction was controlled by allowing one drop of ammonia per second to react with this solution until a pH of 10, to get a thick dark precipitate Five grams of citric ... recommended because of its higher magnetization values, lesser toxicity [19] and the ease of metabolism by the liver In the present study, we report the synthesis of highly stable water -based iron oxide ... a 1-cm cuvette at the photon energy of diode laser (670 nm) The simulation of the power loss spectrum of the sample was performed for applied field strength of 500Oe in the range 100–900 kHz Results...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20