... diabetes) Using the 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 ... compared with other generic HRQoL and utility-based instruments, including the Health Utilities Index Mark andand SF-6D [26,29] In the present study, no clear trend in the EQ-5D VAS scores across ... HRQoL instruments and its usefulness in identifying determinants of health states [15-17] The following sociodemographic factors were included: age, gender, race, geographic region, household income...
... generally in the form of waiting times for materials, equipment availability andin the provision of inaccurate information Increased Accuracy in Maintenance Budgeting—With the increases in equipment ... occurring This, in essence, is the magic of continuous improvement and the secret to sustaining improvement 2.2 INTEGRATING LEAN GOALS WITH MAINTENANCE GOALS 2.2.1 Maintenance Objectives and Goals ... Cataloging -in- Publication Data Smith, Ricky Lean maintenance : reduce costs, improve quality, andincrease market share / Ricky Smith and Bruce Hawkins p cm.—(Life cycle engineering) Includes index...
... Jewish Law and Standards in 1948, the gap in institutional cultures between JTS and the Rabbinical Assembly widened The faculty and administration of JTS in general, and the Talmud department in particular, ... “identity” and “continuity” concerns, and thus in effect have redefined their role vis-à-vis religious Judaism as a subordinate and enabling one In Israel, in contrast, the state itself was invested ... obtained (in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as well as in the Arab world andin parts of Latin America), the bulk of Jews emigrated to find new Eli Lederhendler homes in politically secure and...
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... and 102 English ones in the thesis regarding to: Introduction of tomao; Status of tomato production in the world andin Vietnam; Status of research on tomato in the world andin Vietnam Origin ... Group of 80 hybrid combinations of semideterminate tomato and 62 hybrid combination of determinate tomato mported from Thailand and India and popular varieties of check Grandeva, DV269, HT42, VL2004 ... Identifying suitable density and fertilizer rate for TAT072672 (Hongngoc) at offseason condition in RRD 3.3.2.1 Identifying suitable density in Spring-summer season and Autumn-winter seasons In Spring-summer...
... the intended intervention package included: external support supervision, local facilitation, performance assessment, and feedback However, training and guidelines may only result in changes in ... worsening health indicators, economic decline, a public sector employment freeze, and, until recently, minimal investment in health services despite continued population growth and an emerging ... often provides primary and inpatient care services to a surrounding urban and nearby rural catchment area and, in principle, also provides referral care and inpatient services in support of a network...
... Length of Initial Training (days) Total staff at initial training Doctors at initial training Clinical Officers at initial training Nurses at initial training First external follow-up training* Length ... Baseline training Baseline training Baseline training Baseline training Supervision and feedback Supervision and feedback Survey two Supervision and feedback Survey two Survey two Supervision and ... feedback and first follow-up training Survey two Supervision and first Supervision and first Supervision and first Supervision and second follow-up training follow-up training follow-up training follow-up...
... Concerning cocaine, topiramate was more effective in promoting abstinence and sustained abstinence in (crack-) cocaine users in a double-blind placebo-controlled pilot trial of Kampman and colleagues ... attenuate cocaine use andimprove treatment retention in combined cocaine and heroin dependent patients in controlled studies of Greenwald et al [44] and Grabowski et al [45,46] In sum, cocaine dependency ... dexamphetamine SR in a placebo-controlled study of cocaine dependent injectors in terms of reduced cocaine use, craving, severity of dependence and delinquent behaviour, and dexamphetamine SR was...
... the intended intervention package included: external support supervision, local facilitation, performance assessment, and feedback However, training and guidelines may only result in changes in ... worsening health indicators, economic decline, a public sector employment freeze, and, until recently, minimal investment in health services despite continued population growth and an emerging ... often provides primary and inpatient care services to a surrounding urban and nearby rural catchment area and, in principle, also provides referral care and inpatient services in support of a network...
... to evaluate the intuitive use (i.e without training) of AEDs, both in fully automatic andin semiautomatic modes, and to study the effect of brief and well directed theoretical instruction Methods ... The improvements with both devices, in terms of time to first shock, between initial use without instruction and use following the described 15-min theoretical instruction were significant Since ... of shock in the automatic device does not adequately explain this finding Changing the timing of voice prompts and development of clearer instructions may lead to different results In general,...
... contents and total aluminum and iron contents 2) Increasein soil organic content leads to an increasein content of amorphous allumium and iron oxyhydroxide in soil After removing organic matters in ... for evaluating the ability of soil in providing plant available P 1.5 NEW FINDING OF THE STUDY - Detecting a closed inversely correlation between P adsorption and desorption, finding main soil characteristics ... native P from soil and P added from fertilizer increased due to followings: i) Reducting and transfering soluble strengite, variscite into more soluble vivianite; ii) The increase of pH values...
... supplying the remaining efforts in the second round (Proposition 1.2).8 These results we obtain assuming effort costs are linear For increasing marginal costs, similar results (weak-dominance and ... Peer Transparencyin Teams: Does it Help or Hinder Incentives? 14 Chapter Peer Transparencyin Teams: Does it Help or Hinder Incentives? 15 with repeated, observable contributions, and determine ... assuming 12 The incremental gain (in terms of probability of success) from own effort is assumed to be strictly increasing in the other player’s effort, in order to eliminate equilibrium involving...
... transnational religious practices, including such things as formal and informal devotional practices enacted alone or in groups andin popular and institutionalized settings, tithing or periodic contributions ... God in the land of the “Indians.” More importantly it saw England as central to God’s divine plan, a key agent in the unfolding of divine history At some point, as the persecutions increased and ... “divine errand” of spreading God’s word and expanding God’s kingdom on earth, the Exodus mode had them fleeing from an England that they stopped seeing as central to God’s plan and started viewing...
... An increasein outstanding loans may be resulted from increasein the size of loans and the number of borrowers - Absolute value of increasein consumer outstanding loans: - Relative value of increase ... difficulties in liquidity, increasein bad debts and decline in profits due to the increasein interest rate when implementing tight monetary policy in 2008 25 The recovery of the banking system ... education and health care only shared a tiny proportion, 46% and 1% respectively The reason is that improvement in living standards in recent years have resulted inincreasein buying cars for...
... Hospital complex to improve coverage along the western edge of downtown Madison In return, US Cellular was responsible for designing, purchasing, installing, and maintaining a system to cover ... to improve wireless communications throughout UW Hospital and Clinics in what has turned out to be a win-win partnership The project included the following: • US Cellular earned permission to install ... ADC provided design and installation of both fibers and equipment for the Digivance in- building and macro system “The installation went very smoothly There were no complaints, which says a lot...
... understanding You are gaining information and perspective You add nothing by attacking the speaker or otherwise putting him or her down o Be candid, open, and honest in your response o Assert your opinions ... TOEIC listening and reading test will be administered for the first time in the US and Canada in January 2007 But Vietnamese students have a lot of difficulties in learning and practicing English, ... listening Two common skills that fall into this category are empathetic listening (expressing your understanding of the feelings of the speaker), and reflective listening, or paraphrasing (expressing...
... performance infrastructure from switch to work area, or PABX to telephone Neat, uncluttered, eliminating patch cord mess, aesthetically pleasing, and a breeze to operate and maintain The labelling facilities ... desired or in groups of 10 with push -in numbers for the intervening modules Conventional numbering in a vertical stack is left to right, starting from the bottom left module and numbering up the ... fewer patch cords, resulting in significant cost savings in the initial installation Table compares an Utim8® solution to a patch panel solution in a typical cross-connect installation ESTIM ATED...
... design and troubleshooting that are used in networking Inquiring into the state of a technological system, interrogating it in a systematic way, recording results, forming and testing hypotheses are ... This inte rnalization of the learning assists the student in making sense of the learning process and linking prior learning to the present as well as future learning in the way of goal setting ... analysis of the findings and to state importance of the findings to the audience It requires the learners to synthesize and organize data in a way that increases understanding In this context,...