... assisted firm clusters and non-assisted firms revealed systematic differences between the two groups in employment size, industry and business age Assisted clusters also grew faster and were more ... substantial grant support for small manufacturing businesses through the Small Business Program augmented with loan guarantees and interest subsidies The study focused on three assistance clusters ... comments and suggestions of participants at these workshops This report should be of interest to country governments, policymakers with responsibilities for SMEs, local researchers andthe private sector...
... Total Services for Asthma Patient MTF Enrollees at the Control Sites, Study Years One and Two 106 B.1 Dimensions Addressed by the Process Evaluation 126 B.2 Dimensions Addressed by the ... Trends in MTF Costs The analysis of MTF costs revealed a decrease between the first and second study years in per -patient costs for the MTF enrollees at the demonstration MTFs, after adjusting ... participants at some of the MTFs still thought that use of the forms was mandatory Other sites chose not to use the forms, but they did not apply alternative methods to ensure that asthma diagnosis and...
... vectors is a Gaussian process, and measures the likelihood that two consecutive acoustic frames were generated by two processes rather than a single process The second approach consists of classifying ... groups and methods”, a short description of the methods that were applied by the individual groups is given The results of theevaluation are presented and discussed in Sections “Results” and “Discussion.” ... (30.22%), system 1, also got the highest score individually for each class The distribution of the miss andthe false alarm errors from all the systems is presented in Figure This plot shows a clear...
... farmers on environmental issues Consequently, there is a pressing need for research to explore whether specific management strategies such as BMPs address key social and environmental issues and ... farmers to express in their own words their concerns, ideas and aspirations surrounding BMPs andthe industry s longer term sustainability The interview questions were therefore designed in a consequential, ... awareness of such market schemes, despite risks to maintaining ongoing market access and associated impacts on market demand from processors and other buyers Table 2: Summary of statements from survey...
... cancer As a precondition for theevaluation of thepatient groups, the extent of disorder is widespread, as seen by the results of the perceptual assessment andthe ASR results The presented method ... rater versus the mean value of the other raters andthe mean of the raters versus the speech recognition system The correlation is negative for the latter because the scales for the evaluations are ... persons Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS [20] For the agreement computations between different raters on the one hand, and raters/speech recognition system on the other hand, Spearman’s...
... symptom satisfaction for OA pain, patient's global assessment of disease activity, and WOMAC™ LK 3.1 Function score was assessed by the percentage of patients achieving PASS Statistical analysis Unless ... symptom score [3], andthePatient Acceptable Symptom State (PASS), defined as the symptom score beyond which patients consider themselves to be well [2,4,5] These measures are complementary, describing, ... of sustained PASS during the study Achievement of a sustained satisfactory symptom state according to PASS, maintained from the clinic visit during the study until the end of the study, is summarised...
... to be responsible for the decrease in pulmonary function and consequently FVC [1] and muscular strength after CABG Some suggested factors include anesthesia, analgesics, surgical stress, pain ... of they continued respiratory exercises, such as huffing and directed coughing, from postoperative days to (Table 1) Statistical analyses Statistical analysis was performed in Statistica version ... pain is common because of the cutting of the skin, muscles and pleura as well as the retraction of muscles and ligaments, pleural and septal nerve irritation from thoracic drains and occasional...
... anaesthesiologists, surgical oncologists, and breast care nurses, respectively The response rates differed statistically significant across these three professional disciplines (Chi-Square test; ... professionals is less closely associated with the subject of the survey compared to surgical oncologists and breast care nurses Respondents may thus have had less affinity with the questions A second ... breast cancer surgery in day care, namely anaesthesiologists, surgical oncologists, and breast care nurses The Dutch Society for Anaesthesiology andthe Dutch Society for Surgical Oncology supplied...
... anaesthesiologists, surgical oncologists, and breast care nurses, respectively The response rates differed statistically significant across these three professional disciplines (Chi-Square test; ... professionals is less closely associated with the subject of the survey compared to surgical oncologists and breast care nurses Respondents may thus have had less affinity with the questions A second ... breast cancer surgery in day care, namely anaesthesiologists, surgical oncologists, and breast care nurses The Dutch Society for Anaesthesiology andthe Dutch Society for Surgical Oncology supplied...
... TOTAL SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF ANTILLATOXIN AND FRAGMENTS PART II SYNTHETIC STUDIES TOWARDS THE TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF CYTOCHALASANS AND TUBEROSTEMONINE APPENDIX SILICON-ASSISTED PROPARGYLIC ... usefulness of zebrafish embryos as a simple tool for fast biological evaluation in drug discovery research Part II In Chapter 2, synthetic studies towards the total synthesis of cytochalasans ... Although White sand Shioiri s group have successfully synthesized antillatoxin, their synthetic routes are still long and cumbersome Our strategy is to devise a short and efficient synthetic route...
... ANALYSIS 4.1.Users’ Evaluations on the Step, Handrails and Sensor based on Their Experiences (Presentation of Interviews’ Results) 52 4.1.1.Profiles of the Participants 52 4.1.2 .The Survey Results ... between the Sole of the Left Foot andthe Surface of Ground as the Angle of the Thigh Is Set at 45 deg 105 5.1 The Summary of the Results from theEvaluation Studies of “Subjective Assessments” and ... Groups andthe Degrees of Evaluations on the Handrails 58 4.7 Comparisons in the Replies of Interviewees on both Step Height andthe Use of Handrails 58 4.8 The Characteristics of Handrail Users and...
... and disk surface is becoming the most crucial robustness concern of advanced data storage systems It is because that the progressively increasing areal density requires a progressively decreasing ... and Karlqvist head model [15] The advantage of writing process based methods is its testing range The disadvantage of such methods is its resolution On the other hand, the reading process based ... writing-process based methods and reading-process based methods The methodologies and working principles of in-situ flying height measurement techniques are reviewed in the first section of this thesis...
... bagasse digestibility in tropics and subtropics (Stamets, 2000) 26 CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS 4.1 Conclusions Among strains of isolated goat rumen bacteria, the treatment with two strains DD9 and ... triplicates 12 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 3.1 Studying on the components of sugarcane bagasse According to the Table 4, dry matter of bagasse was 98.41% after drying The result was similar to both the ... Experiment Design and Statistical Analysis 12 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 13 3.1 Studying on the components of sugarcane bagasse 13 3.2 Screening of combination of rumen bacteria strains isolated...
... substances, on priority existing substances and active substances, and substances of concern in biocidal products (EC 2003) This risk assessment should proceed in the ... (Frost et al., 2006 (ERMS report no.4)) 3.4 Non-‐toxic stressors in drilling discharges Comparable to the risk assessment for toxic substances, the risk assessment ... of these disturbances is based on a comparison of the exposure to the selected stressor and a defined threshold for adverse effects derived for this stressor (Smit...
... alias was being reported in the press They had moved surprisingly fast "The FBI sought to question several hackers Tuesday in its investigation into last week 's attacks against major Web sites, ... with staff in Montreal rushed to the school By the time lunch was finished, there was a sea of news trucks and reporters in front of the building They yelled questions at passing students ("Do ... their status.) Users trusted the staff designation and so, this program explained, you could use this status to "phish" for account information from other users Basically, you fooled them into handing...
... ness hostility Assertiveness Altruism Depression Activity Compliance Excitementseeking Positive emotion Modesty Tendermindedness Selfconsciousness Impulsiveness Vulnerability Basically, personality ... attributes that distinguish one person from another”.15 The big five is the classification system of traits to serve a model to appreciate and describe personality In other words, these traits in ... only the method customers respond but also employees interact with customers “Microsoft s mission is not just about technology It s also about improving the way the company handles relationships...
... acknowledge family issues as well as business issues and to interject these into pertinent dis cussions, especially discussions involving time commitments • Where needed, help people obtain counseling and ... separate lives THE STRUCTURE OF WORK /FAMILY IMBALANCE There is a systems archetype underlying the work -family imbalance This archetype is called "Success to the Successful" because it consists of two ... individuals, groups, or organizations compete for a limited resource The success of one means that it tends to get more of the resource, which then reduces the success of the others The resource could...
... Ebenhard and Busslinger 1999) The interaction between these proteins is dependent on the large pocket (sub-domains A and B andthe C-terminus) of the pRb protein familyand a consensus sequence present ... observed by usage of other signaling molecules Upon TGF-β signaling cytoplasmic complexes consisting of Smad3 and specifically p107 and E2F4/5 can translocate to the nucleus These complexes subsequently ... repression complexes Besides the reliance on these nuclear import and export signals present in the Rb protein family, translocation of p107/E2F repressor complexes to the nucleus has also been...
... engage other sectors, such as education, nutrition, water and sanitation, business and infrastructure The aim is to provide resources and to address the structural barriers and social determinants ... commitments addressing NCDs 29 In addition to commitments focusing on the health MDGs and NCDs, stakeholders made commitments across sectors to address the full spectrum of MDG priorities Some illustrative ... of women and children depends on progress made towards achieving all the other MDGs, and that the other MDGs depend on progress made towards improving women sand children s health As such, an...
... appropriate medical and sexual history taken as part of routine assessment Transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) must also be discussed and screening for STIs should be offered ... status and transmission occurs This should be raised in the context of safer sex discussions Further guidance should be sought from relevant sources.∗ The use of mineral oil based lubricants with ... transmission risks of Hepatitis C It is important to highlight the sexual transmission risk of Hepatitis C18, and to ensure that this is not forgotten by clinicians Although the transmission risk...