identification of direct and indirect costs

... lead to better outcomes and conservation of healthcare resources Strengths and Limitations One of the strengths of this study is the use of direct medical costs with indirect costs (productivity) ... (OTC) medications; and 5) other healthcare costs For each category we analyzed total costs and the out -of- pocket portion of costs borne by patients Separate analyses of Page of 12 the respective ... healthcare use and employment effects from the same sample, and track their relationship Methods The objective of this study is to quantify the incremental direct medical costs and indirect costs (productivity...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... the same from Sofia when she is in need of support In all of these relationships Celie is affected directly by the rhetoric of the other people and indirectly by the influence of her own rhetoric ... assurance of Sofia's rhetoric in her life Rhetoric is present in the relationships between Celie and Mr Johnson, Shug Avery, and Sofia This rhetoric affects Celie in many ways and from different directions ... sister, and rediscover a joy and purpose to her life Rhetoric also has a strong impact in the relationship between Celie and Sofia After Sofia's jail sentence she is very depressed, and Celie...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:53

... two of the direct contact groups (DT-trial; S Yoruba and S Derby) The division into a direct and an indirect transmission was made to mirror two different field situations, both expected to be of ... washed, pens In both the direct and the indirect transmission study, the pigs were monitored for two weeks, with respect to the excretion of Salmonella in faeces and the presence of antibodies in serum ... intermittently shedding seeder pigs at a late stage of infection However, the rate of transmission was low in both the direct and the indirect transmission situation and no differences between the four serotypes...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... status of the goat udder J Dairy Res 1992, 59(1):21-28 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-53-15 Cite this article as: Persson and Olofsson: Direct and indirect measurement of somatic cell count as indicator of ... Persson and Olofsson Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011, 53:15 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/53/1/15 Figure Sensitivity and specificity of CMT as an indicator of IMI, for different CMT cutoffs ... Persson and Olofsson Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2011, 53:15 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/53/1/15 which can be measured by both indirect and direct methods Swedish goat...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... as: Chu et al., Surgical care for the direct and indirect victims of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Conflict and Health 2010, 4:6 Page of ... KC, NF, and MT were responsible for the overall concept and design KC and MT contributed to the data collection and analysis KC, NF, and MT contributed to intellectual content, and writing of the ... incision and drainage of abscesses, Page of and circumcision Knowing the exact cause of many diseases without radiology or pathology services was also difficult We did not have long-term follow-up of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... effects of brand beliefs and media on purchase intent and indirect effects through auxiliary multivariate regressions Our approach thus identifies direct and indirect effects of media and brand beliefs ... geared toward understanding and developing models for measuring direct and indirect effects of variables In: essay 1, impact of media exposure on purchase intention, essay 2: impact of wait times on ... purchase intention (y), and indirect through the influence of media on brand beliefs, and brand beliefs on intended actions (see also Orth and Marchi, 2007) Measuring the influence of media on purchase...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:42

... exacerbated in smaller firms and smaller of ces of large firms, with few or even a single large prestigious client(s) Model of Direct and Indirect Effects of Rotation, and Development of Hypotheses Based ... before ACAP, discusses the results of our semi-structured interviews with partners, and develops a model of direct and indirect effects of mandatory rotation and related hypotheses based on these ... Dickins, Hatfield, and Higgs FIGURE Model of Direct and Indirect Effects of Mandatory Rotation on Audit Quality Prior research has confirmed a positive association between auditor expertise and audit quality...

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Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2015, 13:26

... The Direct And Indirect Effects Of Times Of Visits, Length Of Stay, Push And Pull Factors On Tourist Loyalty Through The Mediation Of Tourist Destination Satisfaction A study of international ... factors of times of visit, length of stay, push and pull factors directly and indirectly affect tourist loyalty toward Ho Chi Minh City Destination?” Relationship Between Number Of Visits, Length Of ... factors and number of visits have significant and positive influence on tourist‟s destination satisfaction and tourist loyalty to Vietnam However, length of stay does not affect those directly and indirectly...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 13:43

... endoscopic and radiographic Asymptomatic colonic and gastric carcinoma may present with IDA and exclusion of these conditions is of prime concern The upper endoscopic evaluation should include random ... yield of endoscopy in patients with IDA and to define predictive factors of gastrointestinal (GI) lesions causing IDA and identify clinical and biochemical variables that predict the outcome of ... presence of dyspeptic complaint and its severity calculated by presence of abdominal pain, abdominal pain with hungry and anxiety, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite and symptoms of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... direct- indirect, indirect -direct and indirect- indirect The proportion of individual strategies differs, yet there is one which is obviously dispreferred – an indirect -direct strategy, the number of ... indirectness since there are 62 exchanges out of which at least one is indirect, the total number of exchanges being 89 Direct- direct, indirect- indirect and direct- indirect contributions are quite frequent ... force of his message His choice of an indirect strategy is premeditated and deliberate 4.3 Direct Speech As a Reaction to Indirect Speech Acts There are only direct- indirect exchanges out of 89...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 10:37

... Sources of Opinions with Conditional Random Fields and Extraction Patterns Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP-05 Esuli, Andrea and Fabrizio Sebastiani 2005 Determining the semantic orientation of terms ... Proceedings of COLING-04 pp 1367-1373 Geneva, Switzerland Kim, Soo-Min and Eduard Hovy 2005 Automatic Detection of Opinion Bearing Words and Sentences In the Companion Volume of the Proceedings of IJCNLP-05, ... restaurants The average numbers of sentences in a review document are 35.49 and 25.89 respectively The purpose of selecting one of electronics products and restaurants as topics of reviews for our study...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... with the requirements of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations and Chapter 10.550, Rules of the Auditor General ... section of the accompanying schedule of findings and questioned costs Compliance with the requirements of laws, regulations, contracts, and grants applicable to each of its major federal programs and ... Local Governments, and Nonprofit Organizations; and Chapter 10.550, Rules of the Auditor General, State of Florida Those standards, OMB Circular A-133 and Chapter 10.550, Rules of the Auditor General...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... of America require us to indicate that this letter is intended solely for the information of the City, management of West Palm Beach, and the State of Florida Office of the Auditor General, and ... Letter Required By Chapter 10.550 of the Rules of the Auditor General of the State of Florida The Honorable Mayor, Members of the City Commission and City Manager City of West Palm Beach, Florida We ... The City of West Palm Beach Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs (Continued) Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2010 View of responsible officials and planned corrective action:...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 11:20

... activation, as well as expression of antiapoptotic proteins Bcl-2 and members of the inhibitor of apoptosis family (cIAP-1, XIAP and survivin, which directly bind to and inhibit caspases), was strikingly ... susceptible and resistant rat strains Several loci that control the onset of arthritis, the severity and chronicity of the disease, and autoantibody production have been identified and been confirmed ... Ibrahim and Paleolog as lymph nodes and joints at various stages of disease in susceptible DBA/1J and resistant FVB/N strains In parallel, a genome screen was performed of the F2 progeny mice of a...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... of fit for direct effects by two often resulted in a somewhat higher BIC than a reduction of one (k = 5253 and k = 5243 vs k = 5263 for PH, k = 4263 and k = 3263 vs k = 5263 for PH, k = 4062 and ... between birth and 280 days of 0.60 for PH and 0.70 for WOK Previous, bivariate analyses considered birth and weaning weights, with average ages at weaning of 211 and 214 days for PH and WOK, respectively ... overall order of polynomial fit to be reduced Scaled values for log L and BIC were 8.0 and 54.2 for k = 5263, −99.4 and 163.4 for k = 5243, −43.0 and 469.9 for k = 3263, and −191.2 and 260.7 for...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... comparison of miRNA abundance in seeds and other organs of soybeans should uncover those miRNAs specifically expressed in seeds Identification of the corresponding target genes and study of their ... precursors of new miRNAs had regular stem-loop structures, and four of these, Soy_1, Soy_2, Soy_12 and Soy_20, were presented in Figure These RNA structures were predicted by MFOLD software and checked ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/11/5 Page 13 of 16 Figure GO analysis of targets of known and new miRNAs in this study Blue bars indicate the enrichment of miRNA targets in GO terms Green bars indicate the percentage of total annotated...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... detection of G/C content and identity values of each tandem repeat family was determined by a G/C Content Calculator and ClustalX [71] using at least 20 randomly selected monomers of representative tandem ... (0.06% of the genome) sequence data for the detection of the major repeat families of the B vulgaris genome while 33.3 Mb (0.77%) of P sativum [19], 58.91 Mb (1%) of barley [46] and 78.54 Mb (7%) of ... the potential of the c t-1 DNA library for the detection of novel repeat classes we focused on the identification of tandemly repeated sequences, particularly on the identification of minisatellites...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:21

... pattern of expression, that is high expression of ACAN in NP and AC, high expression of type I collagen in AF compared with NP and AC, and high expression of versican (VCAN) in both NP and AF ... or protein profiles of IVD cells and AC cells Hypoxia inducible factor isoforms (HIF1A and HIF1B), glucose transporter type Page of 20 (GLUT-1), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-2) and vascular ... between rat NP and AF cells and 41 genes between NP and AC cells with at least five-fold differences in expression A handful of these potential marker genes were further characterised and although...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... tag expression profile positively correlates with that of daf19 'Random genes' (black line) represents the correlation profile in gene expression between daf-19 and a random set of 1,000 genes ... The identification of DAF-19 and its cognate binding motifs has greatly facilitated the identification of many novel ciliary genes both in C elegans (for example, bbs-3/arl-6 [8], bbs-5 [9] and ... Figure Identification of X-box regulated genes facilitated the cloning of the C elegans dye filling defective gene, dyf-5 Identification of X-box regulated genes facilitated the cloning of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 17:22