... needed for monitoring and evaluation, including exposure assessment, indicators and systems for data collection at national level andfor poor rural and urban communities where the need for information ... Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor: ImplicationsforPolicy Action and Intervention Measures Paper Prepared for the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health* (Working ... the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor ImplicationsforPolicy Action and Intervention Measures intervention | Policy andthe poor measures that could...
... different for derivatives than they are for other banking activities IMPLICATIONSFORPOLICY The decline of traditional banking presents a challenge to regulators and policymakers On the one hand, ... contain equity and commodity derivatives that ranged from 1.1 to 3.4 percent of total derivatives’ notional/contract amounts c Before including GAO estimates for foreign exchange forwards and over-the-counter ... Derivative Forwards Forward rate agreements Foreign exchange forwardsa Total forwards Swaps Interest rate swaps Currency swaps Total swaps Total derivativesb Total derivativesc Sources: Bank for International...
... entered and analyzed after two times revision using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows version 16.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) Means and standard deviations were computed and ... programs and resources allocation Also there is further need to improve and strengthen formal care in the nursing home and reorienting health services both in the community and homes for the elderly ... Bockerman P, Johansson E and Saarni S (2011) Institutionalization and quality of life for elderly people in Finland ENEPRI Research Report NO.92, Available from www.ceps.eu and the ANCIEN website...
... therapeutic implicationsfor EGFR-targeted therapy strategy For NSCLC patients with metastases, determining the KRAS and EGFR mutation status in both primary and metastatic tumors may be critical for ... Diagnosis and Therapy Center of Lung Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China Authors’ contributions ZZ, CW and BS designed the study; LS and QZ performed experiments; LS and HL analyzed data and prepared ... cancer and local lymph node metastases: implicationsfor clinical practice Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011 30:30 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take...
... Statistical Methods forPracticeandResearch STATISTICAL METHODS FORPRACTICEANDRESEARCH Statistical Methods forPracticeandResearch A guide to data analysis using SPSS ... two parameters, µ1 and µ2: (a) µ1 = µ2 (b) µ1 < µ2 (c) µ1 > µ2 35 36 STATISTICAL METHODS FORPRACTICEANDRESEARCH To be able to formulate mutually exclusive and exhaustive null and alternative ... techniques for analyzing such data include t-tests, ANOVA etc 29 30 STATISTICAL METHODS FORPRACTICEANDRESEARCH Non-Experimental Research is commonly used in sociology, political science, and management...
... Expansionary Policy Can Expansionary Policy Lead to a Decline in Output? Implicationsfor Policymakers • Distinction between effects of anticipated and unanticipated policy actions • Policymakers ... Response to Expansionary Policy in the New Keynesian Model Implicationsfor Policymakers • There may be beneficial effects from activist stabilization policy • Designing the policy is not easy because ... Econometric Policy Evaluation • Econometric models are used to forecast and to evaluate policy • Lucas critique, based on rational expectations, argues that policy evaluation should...
... framework for the population-specific chapters, which includes the following: health promotion; acute and chronic illness; end-of-life care; theory, practice, and research; andimplicationsfor nursing ... linking and comparing concepts and information from one chapter to another The editors have intentionally structured the book to foster the application of theory andresearch to practiceandpolicy ... Finally, the implicationsfor practice, education, family policy, andresearch are discussed in relation to family health promotion Unit II of this book addresses Family Nursing Practiceand consists...
... international firms, and comparisons of accounting principles and practices found in foreign lands and the procedures by which they are established According to M Iqbal, T Melcher and A Elmallah (1997, ... corporation, and (4) foreign direct investment, have created an environment in which business transactions, their conduct, measurement and disclosure, take new and distinctive forms that call for a ... practices (classifications and differences, environmental influences) Comparative accounting practices (by countries and by issues) Harmonization/International standards Financial reporting and...
... PracticeandResearch 4th Edition FAMILY HEALTH CARE NURSING Theory, PracticeandResearch 4th Edition Joanna Rowe Kaakinen, PhD, RN Professor, School of Nursing University of Portland Portland, ... affecting the development of family theory, practice, research, social policy, and education, and it is critical for nurses to be knowledgeable about and at the forefront of this shift The centrality ... household; interacting and communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister; and creating and maintaining a...
... 50 lgÆmL)1 kanamycin and increasing concentrations of TMP for the three rounds of evolution For the first round, lgÆmL)1 TMP was used, and in the second and third rounds, 10 and 20 lgÆmL)1 TMP were ... screened The DNA for the 10 mutant genes from round was shuffled for selection in round 2, and 18 genes were selected from round and shuffled for selection in round Protein expression and solubility ... Resource Facility for DNA sequencing, and Professor Nick Dixon for providing plasmid pPL670 References Graham SC, Bond CS, Freeman HC & Guss JM (2005) Structural and functional implications of...
... instrumentation and test facilities and both FMI and AMRI have very limited facilities The Pakistan Standards Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) is responsible for formulation of standards and has them for ... technology (for example, combine harvesters and power tillers) to training in new practices for farmers (for example, CA) Technical and managerial training courses and programmes are expensive for individuals ... of Nakuru and Laikipia where there is a growing demand for farm power and machinery This holds true for both large-scale and smallholder farms, and the wide range of power sources and equipment...
... completion of the surgery and then processed by standard methods for paraffin embedding and microtome sectioning In some instances, tissue pieces were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen for cryostat sectioning ... results and prepared the first draft of the paper DMM developed the fundamental procedures to work with tonsil and study HIV virion binding and infection and established fundamental protocols for ... surface macromolecules and migrating cells implicated in HIV binding and uptake Schematic representation of cell surface macromolecules and migrating cells implicated in HIV binding and uptake The inset...
... to understand these problems and the implications of them for responses to HIV A decade of cross-sectional research from African countries, including Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa and more recently, ... include, for example, investment in education, change to the national legal andpolicy framework related to gender equity, policy support for women’s economic empowerment and property and inheritance ... changes and service strengthening are needed to effectively enforce legislation that protects women and girls from gender-based violence and enables effective care and legal redress and protection for...
... 33.7±10.4 years and 35.9±11.5 years in men and women, respectively The total PANSS, total positive PANSS and total negative PANSS score was 65±17, 15±6 and 17±8 in men, and 68±23, 16±6 and 18±8 in ... GM, J Hel, J Ho and J Heg designed the study J Heg and GEN recruited patients, performed VO2peak testing and other data acquisition GM and J Heg undertook the statistical analysis and J Heg wrote ... factors for CVD and evaluation of VO2peak should be incorporated in clinical practice Finally, these finding represent an urging need for developing effective physical training interventions for...
... Michael Smith Foundation for Health Researchand the Canadian Institutes of Health Research BR, ELS, and WS are supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research Doctoral Research Award Author ... Steve Kain, and Calvin Lai for their researchand administrative assistance The study was supported by the US National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research TK, ... daily cocaine injectors, and individuals involved in the sex trade, and were less likely to be Aboriginal Our findings have implicationsfor the role of peer education and Lloyd-Smith et al Harm...
... providing a written informed consent, completing an interviewer-administered questionnaire and supplying a blood sample for HIV and hepatitis C testing All SEOSI participants provide informed consent ... the prevalence and correlates of baseline HIV among those who are using the SIF This information is important to determine if the SIF could be used as a site for HIV related care and treatment ... strategy Each week between 16 and 32 two-hour time blocks were designated for recruitment between the opening hours of 10:00 a.m and 4:00 a.m seven days per week During these random time periods 10 cards...
... Biology and Medical Modelling 2006, 3:34 describe a computer simulation model that follows the formation and destruction of red blood cells (RBC) When standard assumptions about red cell formation and ... well-known process of RBC formation and destruction In so doing it shows the cause for hitherto unexplained observations [13] and predicts other clinical applications for routine blood analysis ... unexplained changes in the MCV and RDW-CV% and their clinical significance For simplicity, I have Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2006,...
... 1eup) binding site Two androstenedione molecules (Andro1 and Andro2 colored in blue and purple, respectively) are bound to the protein The binding site (in spacefill) for the androstenedione is divided ... division coincides with the specialized regions of this binding site for ligand binding only (pink module) and ligand binding and information transfer (blue module) The binding site residues are depicted ... of one androstenedion (Andro2) induces conformational changes in the active site and increases its hydrophobicity, resulting in increased binding affinity to the other androstenedion (Andro1)...
... receptors and some invertebrate GABA receptors, allow the flow of cations, whereas the inhibitory receptors, such as those for glycine and GABA, invertebrate glutamate and histamine receptors, and ... ART-LGIC superfamily and discuss the general implications of these proteins for the mechanisms and origin of the Cys-loop receptors of the animal nervous system Results and discussion Volume ... motif and the basic residue could potentially form a salt bridge to stabilize the 'outer sheet' of the β sandwich and thereby regulate the preferential movement of the sheets after ligand binding...