... the lifecycle principle in which rationing is performed on the basis of age as well as prognosis [20] An earlier Finnish study of the ICU treatment of the elderly explained the short LOS in the ... not possible for the three countries Another problem in the comparison and description of Scandinavian intensive care is the different thresholds for registering patients in the registries Firm ... limitations in the very old may have influenced our findings, but the shorter LOS in the groups with higher severity scores was present even after removing age points Table ICU nonsurvivors Pa Total Finland...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21
... women born in 1968 will remain without children by the end of their childbearing periods than in the older cohorts in Finland and in Norway The rather marked continuing trend of increasing childlessness ... Cohorts born in the 1940s and mainly in the 1950 s, increasingly postponed child-bearing, i e their fertility was relatively low while they were in their early to mid-twenties and high when in their ... continue its decline in the Nordic countries among the cohorts of the 1950 s For instance, the total cohort fertility rate in Denmark was identical for the 1950 -51 and 1960-61 birth cohorts; in...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20
Trends of Health Education in the Developed Countries and Recommendations for Health Education in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia potx
... realistic and safe training inside laboratories before indulging in the real-life field training Developments in Nursing Sciences & Research: The nursing research is highly important in the improvement ... impact on the applications of informatics Also the developments in digital technology lead to increasing interest in telemedicine applications As for the nursing staff in the 21st century, they are ... NURSING Introduction The most important elements in development of the nursing profession both on the Arabic and the international levels are the university nursing education and the proper training...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
QUALITY AUDIT IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES: Report prepared for the Nordic Quality Assurance Network in Higher Education (NOQA) doc
... further investigation and result in revision of accreditation Similar developments may be seen in the other countries The general audit methodology in the Nordic countries is based on the principles ... mandates The chairs of the panels have special obligations besides chairing meetings These include the preparation of the site visit, in some cases a pre-meeting with the management of the institution, ... part in the site visits and take notes at the meetings as secretaries of the panel Institutions choose their representatives for the site visit meetings on the basis of the instructions, the audit...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:20
accomplishment of largescaled inspection by the government inspectorate in the implementation of social policies
... Inspection Group in the Government Inspectorate Establishing Inspection Group in the Ministries and sectors Government Inspectorate group conducts inspection Conducting inspection in the Ministries ... Realizing renovation in the following direction: Enhancing activeness; coordinating in inspection; renovating the method of inspection; establishing and accomplishing the large-scaled inspection ... inspection by the Government Inspectorate in the implementation of social policies Determining the content of inspection Approving the content of inspection by the leaders of the Government Inspectorate...
Ngày tải lên: 19/07/2014, 08:52
Báo cáo toán học: "he environmental effect on crown shape of common cypress clones in the Mediterranean countries" pdf
... to the next, but also differences in shape, that is, in the appearance of the crown The analysis of variance, applied to the original observations and to the indexes, allowed us to refute - in ... most of the cases - the hypotheses of equality of clone means, sites and interaction effects The results are reported in table II The main results related to the proposed indexes are shown in table ... with the discriminating factors being the clone and the location, respectively It was expected that the highest discriminant power would be found when the genotype was used as discriminating factor,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "The relationship between sales of SSRI, TCA and suicide rates in the Nordic countries" potx
... rates in the period using our study design We did not find any association between the rapid decline in the sales figures of TCAs and the simultaneous decline in the suicide rates either The sales ... slowly increasing in all four countries before 1990 (Figure 2) In contrast, the corresponding suicide rates differed between the nations, increasing in Norway and Finland, and slowly decreasing in ... and the rates continued to decline thereafter [2] In Norway, the association was only present in the first three years after the introduction of SSRIs, and during the period when the major increase...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Plants as De-Worming Agents of Livestock in the Nordic Countries: Historical Perspective, Popular Beliefs and Prospects for the Future" docx
... protein in the rumen, which dissociate at low pH in the abomasum to release more protein for metabolism in the small intestine of ruminants – in other words, ”natures protected protein.” This indirectly ... (Poisoning with plants leading to haemolytical anaemia and/or methemoglobinaemi In: Poisonous plants and plant poisoning in animals in Rogaland) Rogaland Veterinærforenings seminar på Utstein Kloster ... synthetic analogues (e.g nicotine sulphate) were commonly used as anti-nematode preparations in ruminant livestock up until the advent of the modern broad spectrum anthelmintics in the mid 1950 s...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Surveillance of Fish Diseases in the Nordic Countries" potx
... considerably in the world depending on geographical conditions, water resources, temperature etc Fish farming in the Nordic countries In the Nordic countries, the fish farming industry is mainly based ... accepted the principles laid down in the Directive The monitoring and surveillance for viral diseases in all the Nordic countries has mainly been based on the testing procedures given in the EU ... is the district veterinary officers (DVO) or local fish health services operating under instruction of the DVO In Finland the municipal veterinarians the necessary sampling when inspecting the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20
karger - shortchanged; life and debt in the fringe economy (2005)
... Chapter looks at the scope and size of the fringe economy and the characteristics of its customers It then examines the major players in the fringe economy, including mainstream financial institutions ... and get out of debt Unfortunately, the first message appears to be the most compelling If the getting-into -debt industry is growing, the getting-out-of -debt industry is following closely on its ... especially since real incomes were rising and the numbers of people in poverty were dropping Nonetheless, many factors came together to foster the phenomenal growth of the fringe economy, including the...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 17:12
Long run effects of government policy in the growth model with creative destruction
... intermediate good to the final-good production and inversely measures the market power of the intermediate-good producer 16 In the original model of Howitt (1999), labor is used only in the intermediate-good ... through innovations The infinite living households maximize their utility according to their additive preference over time 3.1 Technologies 14 In Howitt (1999) model nt means the input to vertical innovations, ... time Investment subsidy affects the incentive of capital investment, K t , by changing the its cost And the lower is the cost, the higher the investment Both policies have growth effect because they...
Ngày tải lên: 10/11/2015, 11:07
Tài liệu CUSTOMER SATISFACTION MEASUREMENT ISSUES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT doc
... important given the track record for customer surveys in the literature thus far and the expansion of their use in the Federal Government Given the costs involved in designing and conducting these surveys ... would, if they had the choice, choose not to obtain the service at all There are several types of customers in the Federal Government, ranging from the obvious to the not-soobvious Defining an agency's ... linked to your response but you are being protected An anonymous response cannot be linked back to the source The main issue then in is in the feeling of anonymity If respondents feel that their...
Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:15
Tài liệu Improving health, connecting people: the role of ICTs in the health sector of developing countries ppt
... to examine individuals and groups within the key institutions in the health system as target beneficiaries for ICTs, and in doing so to examine the issue of their capacity and needs, and the potential ... development in developing countries takes account of the level of the intervention, the enabling factors that are necessary, the evidence and learning that is achieved and the learning that this feeds into ... access to the internet and computers skills (women, lower ranked professionals) Example 3: Improving access to information in India The Health InterNetwork (HIN) India project (www.hin.org .in) was...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu The Liquidation of Government Debt ppt
... United Kingdom 23 The term “synthetic” is used in the sense that a hypothetical investor holds the total portfolio of government debt at the beginning of the period, which is defined as either the ... 1989 12 United Kingdom 1981 The gold market, closed in early World War II, reopened only in 1954 The Bank of England stopped publishing the Minimum Lending Rate in 1981 In 1986, the government withdrew ... ownership (e.g., in China or India) of banks or extensive management of banks and other financial institutions (e.g., in Japan) and (b) restricting entry into the financial industry and directing credit...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Research " THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN ECONOMIC TRANSITION AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES " ppt
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20
1.2 PREFACE One the many challenges facing the countries in the Asia-Pacific potx
... site as “internationally recognized as the leading institution in the area of resolving Internet domain name disputes” Since December 1999, the Center has administered proceedings in the generic ... “GPL”? What are the key issues in intellectual property rights protection in the Internet? Are there international initiatives to protect intellectual property in the Internet? What Internet-specific ... List linking involves enrolling a target in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of e-mail listings Spoofing is faking the e-mail sender’s identity and tricking the target recipient into believing that the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 20:20
The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries pot
... illustrate the diversity of conditions (a) Latin America Following the liberalization of markets and trade in the 1980s, relatively land abundant countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, ... plotting relative land availability compared to currently cultivated area (in logs) against the potential for increasing yields and defining four types of countries depending on whether they ... Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Strengthening the Education Sector Response to School Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean Region: A Rapid Survey of 13 Countries pdf
... teacher training provided in the countries of the Caribbean This typically includes training in life skills education and in relation to delivering HIV prevention messages Teacher training, however, ... addressing the increasing feminisation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Caribbean context Young girls have been found more likely to be infected with HIV than boys in some countries in the Caribbean, ... children There is generally a high level of teacher training provided in the countries of the Caribbean This typically includes training in life skills education and in relation to delivering HIV...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Lifelong Learning in the Global Knowledge Economy - Challenges for Developing Countries pptx
... example During this initial training either the worker accepts lower wages while investing time in training (in which case the worker bears the costs) or the employer absorbs the costs in the form ... Training Sector The private education and training sector is growing, not only in the United States and other industrial economies but also in low-income countries, including many in Africa In the ... training In contrast, in many developing countries many ministries, including industryspecific ministries, oversee, manage, and finance training Competition for scarce resources in these countries...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 518 / SEPTEMBER 2005: TERM STRUCTURE AND THE SLUGGISHNESS OF RETAIL BANK INTEREST RATES IN EURO AREA COUNTRIES docx
... the “GARCH-inspired” specification are, just as for the asymmetric specification, rather inconclusive and unable to convincingly explain the observed change in retail bank pricing since the introduction ... following a level shift in the yield curve, the response of retail bank rates appears smaller since the launch of the euro than before Hence the increase in the pass-through is largely due pricing ... of the short-term interest rate reported in the tables is similar to the one obtained when the long terms interest rate is instrumented with the residual of its regression on the short-term interest...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20