findings from interviews questionnaires and class observation

... was necessary to estimate the proportion of purchases resulting from demand from the Air Force and those resulting from demand from other services To identify relevant DLA purchases for this ... rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity The F100 Engine Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Demonstration Findings from Air Force Spend Analyses Mary ... business rules for collecting and analyzing spend data The RAND analyses were conducted using data from several Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) databases RAND concluded its participation...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... extraction of class instances, class labels and class attributes from Web documents and query logs study in attribute extraction reports results on a set of 40 manually-assembled classes, and requires ... instance sets of gold-standard classes (M ) and instance sets of automatically-extracted classes (E) Each gold-standard class (M ) was manually mapped into an extracted class (E), ∩E unless no ... for class labels, approaches 80% for class instances, and exceeds 70% (at rank 10) and 67% (at rank 20) for class attributes Current work aims at expanding the number of instances within each class...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... without any input from us Another unit manages all of our social media activities, with input from us We handle our own social media activities, with some input from others We handle our own social ... sustain and protect our brand 3% 7% 30% 40% 20% 3.7 Demand from alumni or other constituents 6% 15% 31% 35% 13% 3.4 Use of social media by peer institutions 4% 13% 43% 32% 9% 3.3 Strong support from ... their marketing and communication strategies, initiatives, and campaigns? What are their goals for social media? Which social media sites and tools are in use in the education sector and which are...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20

... but additional measures and data can be identified in the NHQR and NHDR appendix tables Effectiveness of Health Care The NHQR and NHDR describe methods, definitions, and criteria for measures ... efforts and of adherence to followup care after a positive screening test From 2000 to 2007, the rate of advanced stage colorectal cancer in males age 50 and over decreased significantly, from 111.4 ... Asian/Pacific Islanders had higher rates than Whites 3 l The achievable benchmark could be attained overall and by most racial/ethnic and income groups in about years Whites and residents of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... managers, and other donors have been using Situation Analysis findings for the last decade in Africa and other regions to better identify and understand the extent and nature of problems of access and ... RESEARCH AND THE SUPPLY-DEMAND CONTROVERSY As family planning programs in Asia and Latin America expanded rapidly during the 1970s and 1980s and became more comprehensive in coverage and services, ... managers and ministry of health officials who were committed to seeing how their programs were functioning at the field level, "warts and all." The thousands of field visits, interviews, and observations...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... ii Abstract The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from Contra Costa, California This ... describing, in a land use context, the transportation patterns and challenges of caregivers and care recipients The following findings result from a survey of homecare workers and clients in the ... number of observations, means, standard deviations, minimum and maximum values, and categorical labels Independent Variables Land use variables (independent variables in hypotheses and 2) This...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... that sometimes encumbers this shorthand label, and when we talk of the National Curriculum we mean the England and Wales curriculum – Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own versions However, ... understanding of aesthetics, social and environmental issues, function and industrial practices As they so, they reflect on and evaluate present and past design and technology, its uses and effects ... curriculum statements from England and from the USA The design & technology curriculum documentation for England is prefaced with a statement about ‘The importance of design and technology’ that...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:18 economic burden, estimated at $132 billion in 2002, up from $98 billion in 1997 [3] Diabetes and its complications and comorbidities ... individual's health status, health knowledge and attitudes, and current healthrelated behaviors and treatments A total of 22,001 baseline survey questionnaires were mailed in late 2004 Respondents ... methodology of Cavrini and associates and Sitoh and colleagues [18,19], an ordinal variable for the EQ-5D index was created by categorizing the continuous variable into levels, and an ordered logit...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... systems QI teams were comprised of nurses and physicians from each participating ICU, and included senior executives from hospital administration A nurse manager from the unit, a nurse educator, or ... statistically different from zero, except: not enough buy-in from other unit staff; not enough Page of 13 buy-in from physician staff; not enough leadership from nurses; and insufficient autonomy/authority ... implementation processes and context such as leadership support and available resources; and perceived barriers to team progress The TCT was developed by the Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... annual prevalence rates for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts at baseline and four years later; and, to compare new cases of and remission from serious suicidality (i.e., suicidal ideation, ... National Health and Medical Research Council Grants 179805 and 79839, a grant from the AlcoholRelated Medical Research Grant Scheme of the Australian Brewers' Foundation and a grant from the Australian ... 60s group At Wave there were 1,009 males and Page of 10 1,119 females in the 20s group, 1,098 males and 1,246 females in the 40s group, and 1,134 males and 1,060 females in the 60s group Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... study and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing of the paper; SDC conceived and directed the original survey study and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing ... discrimination, and victimization stemming from a hostile and homophobic culture Thus, mental health and substance use disorders are not intrinsic to sexual minority orientation, but most likely result from ... de Graaf R, Bijl RV, Schnabel P: Same-sex sexual behavior and psychiatric disorders: findings from the Netherlands mental health survey and incidence study (NEMESIS) Arch Gen Psychiatry 2001, 58(1):85-91...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... long-term substitute [10,11] and recent studies in Norway report similar findings [12,13] SLT is not available in some Western countries, being banned in Australia and New Zealand and all European Union ... this article as: Borland et al.: Trends in beliefs about the harmfulness and use of stop-smoking medications and smokeless tobacco products among cigarettes smokers: Findings from the ITC four-country ... country, and socioeconomic status (SES) SES was derived from separate Borland et al Harm Reduction Journal 2011, 8:21 http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/8/1/21 measures of income and education...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... United Nations' UNICEF, UNESCO, and UNAIDS with technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The GSHS aims to provide data on health and social behaviours among ... citation purposes) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2007, 1:15 We obtained frequencies and weighted proportions to estimate the prevalence of truancy and other socio-demographic ... well-fed, not being bullied, most students being kind and helpful to their schoolmates and parents most of the time understanding adolescents' problems and worries (Table 3) Adolescents who never or...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... difficulties perceived by patients, parents and physicians [28,29] Patients were recruited from child and adolescent psychiatric and pediatric practices and outpatient clinics throughout Germany ... citation purposes) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2008, 2:11 http://www.capmh.com/content/2/1/11 Table 4: Baseline ratings and change from baseline at weeks and 24 Item Week Mean ... Lilly Deutschland GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany Peter M Wehmeier, Ralf W Dittmann and Alexander Schacht are full-time employees of Lilly Deutschland GmbH Authors' contributions PMW, RWD, ML and AS developed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... morning and evening behavior [17,23], emotional well-being [24,25], ADHD-related difficulties [26] and QoL [27-29], in children and adolescents with ADHD In many of these studies, scales and questionnaires ... and WREMB-R were used in two almost identical atomoxetine studies that were designed to investigate Study design and procedures Patients were recruited from child and adolescent psychiatric and ... improvement in terms of morning and evening behavior in this study persisted until the end of the 24-week observation period These findings are in line with findings from a double-blind, placebo-controlled...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007 Paul A Tiffin*, 2Bronia Arnott, 3Helen J Moore & 3Carolyn D Summerbell School of Medicine and ... had and had not parental completed SDQs available The mean standardised BMI (Z score) was 59 (sd 1.2) The range of standardised BMIs was from 9.68 standard deviations below the mean to 6.14 standard ... two children were randomly selected for interview Consequently a total of 6,882 adults and 7,504 children were interviewed, with 1,727 children from the core sample and 5,777 from the boost Those...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... scenarios – from server failures to pandemics Make everyone aware of their responsibility to keep data safe and protected – and how to execute that responsibility Identify tools, processes and methodologies ... better understand the areas that IT managers are focusing on today, and where they see opportunities and challenges in the short term Future research will explore these issues in depth, and examine ... and Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, the study crosses industries – from IT, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, to biotechnology, manufacturing and government Companies...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:16

... results, and the findings may therefore not apply to the general population The present study and the study by Gjesdal and Bratberg [10] are to our knowledge the only two studies on a random sample ... meters and categorized according to the standardized classification of the National Institutes of Health using four categories: underweight (

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03

... n-butyrate, respectively (Mizuno et al., 2000; Fang and Liu, 2002) However, hydrogen was hardly produced from protein and lipids (Okamoto et al., 2000; Noike and Mizuno, 2000) Up to now, fermentative hydrogen ... source of decay, odor, and leachate in collection and transportation due to the high volatile solids (VS; 80~90%) and moisture content (75~85%) Food waste, consolidated in landfills with other wastes, ... 80:20, 60:40, 40:60, 20:80, and 0:100 on VS basis; however, the experiments at 20:80 - 179 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.1, No.2, 2003 and 0:100 for 3.0 and 5.0 % of total VS concentrations...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 In this study, runoff characteristics of materials such as organics, nutrients and inorganic matters from a citrus grove were investigated, and ... Seto Inland Sea on its west, which is one of the largest closed water areas in Japan and has required water purification for a long period Aside from this, there are many small reservoirs in and ... in detail and material balances around reservoirs were considered RESEARCH PROCEDURE Location: Matsuyama region and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17