... period of plan participants only to the extent their total exceeds a corridor. The corridor may be up to 10 percent ofthe greater ofthe plan’s PBO or MRVA. The total ofthe above pieces ofthe ... purpose ofthe Academy is to act as the public information organization for the profession. The Academy is non-partisan and assists the public policy process through the presentation of clear and ... equal to the last date ofthe fiscal year.6 As of that date, the company sets assumptions and gathers the participant data used to measure its obligations and determines the fair value of assets...
... irrespective ofthe amount ofthe loan. However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount ofthe repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment capacity ofthe borrower and ... b) There has, therefore, to be a linkage between the amount ofthe loan andthe tenure ofthe loan. It is, therefore, suggested that for loans not exceeding Rs. 15,000, the tenure ofthe loan ... lend to the same borrower. d) there must be a minimum period of moratorium between the grant ofthe loan andthe commencement of its repayment. e) recovery of loan given in violation ofthe regulations...
... built its winter nest in the guns ofthe battery, to the swift dash of the chipmunk over the brown glacis ofthe fortifications. Standing there on the loftiest point ofthe loftiestcitadel in America, ... beyond the beautiful round ofthe affections. Noble woman whose heroism is purely of the heart, not ofthe head. There are many species of martyrdom, but that of mere love is the grandest in the concentration ... Good-bye." The soldier touched his cap, andthe officer trotted through the archway.A moment later he dismounted at the portal ofthe Chateau, threw the bridle into the hands of a groom inwaiting, and...
... supervision ofthe affairs of the Society. ARTICLE V. The Secretaries shall keep and have the custody ofthe records; they shall have the custody of all other prope rty ofthe Society, excepting the money ... ofthe Society, and properly index them; they shall conduct the cor-respondence ofthe So cie ty; they shall preserve and index the originals of all communicationsaddressed to the Society; and ... That the Publications ofthe Astronomical Societyofthe Pacific beregularly sent to the following Observatories, etc., and that the Secretaries oftheSociety be instructedto notify them of...
... specialty, address, and place of work. These reports are tallied and published astheSurveyofPhysicians[13].Thenumberofmedicaldoctors in our baseline year of 2008, stratified bysex and age, was established ... predictinglong-term trends in the supply ofand demand for medi-cal practitioners in the debate over the medical studentquota.Our hypothesis is that the proposed additionalincrease in the medical student ... high: the number of consultations per capita is higher in Japanthan in any other OECD country [9], andthe rates of hospital utilization are high as well. These trends havemade the shortage of...
... years and 254 parent s of chil-dren aged 2-18 years. It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% ofthe sample, and it was the father in 7.48% ofthe sample. No parent in the patientgroup ... boys (51.05%) and 215 girls (40.95%) and 42 (8%) of unknown gender.It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was ... Depart-ment of Pediatrics. Subjects ofthe comparison groupwere chosen by random selection from the general Hun-garian population through the Population RegisterOffice ofthe Ministry ofthe Interior,...
... domains ofthe D-39S (diabetes control and energy and mobility) and RAND-12 PHC than psychological domains of the D-39S (social burden, anxiety and worry, and sexual functioning) and RAND-12 MHC. The DQOL ... alsohypothesized that, compared to the RAND-12 the DQOL and the D-39S would discriminate better between the known groups of retinopathy, neuropathy, and diabeticfoot complications rather than the ... stand-ard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for relia-bility ofthe DQOL and standard deviation of patientsunder the investigation. SEM was estimated by a standarddeviation of the...
... to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scoreson the social functioning scale of both healthy children and ... from the per-centage of missing values for each item and distribution of item responses [20,21]. Range of measurement was fur-ther tested based on the percentage of scores at the extremes ofthe ... respondents in the way it wasintended by the developer ofthe scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures and utility ofthe rating scale in facilitating interpretable...
... related quality of life (HRQOL) ofthe patients and their families. Diabetes imposes restrictions on physical, emotional and social functioning of children and adolescents. One ofthe international ... children with other chronic diseases. Measuring quality of life in Iranian children and adolescents with diabetes and assessment of reliability and validity ofthe Persian version ofthe PedsQLTM ... EF researched the data, ZB wrote the manuscript and analyzed the data, KSh researched the data and edited the manuscript, ZK researched the data. All authors read and approved the final manuscript....
... explanation for the discrepancy between physical functioning factor of children and their parents is their different perception ofthe construction ofthe mentioned items. Hence, the loading ofthe first ... According to the manual ofthe instrument, if more than 50% ofthe items 2 Abstract Background: This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity ofthe Iranian version of the Pediatric ... self-reports andthe parent proxy-reports. In the parent-report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to 6 andthe second factor consisted of items 7 and 8; however in the children report, the first...
... ligand X (the other likely candidates, i.e. the lysines, are fully proto-nated at pH 2.2) [18]. The heterogeneous character ofthe A-state promp-ted us to investigate the effect of sulfate and ... Near-UV (A) and Soret (B) CD spectra of acid-denaturedcytochrome c in the presence of 0.02M sulfate () and 0.02 M sel-enate ( ặặ ặặ). The spectra ofthe native (-ặ-ặ-) andofthe dena-tured ... pro-nounced in the case ofthe K13N mutant), and the absorbances at 497 and 528 nm, in the visible region,are inverted, whereas the CT band is weakened and red-shifted. This indicates that the mutations...
... Hematology /the Education Program oftheAmericanSocietyof Hematology American Soci-ety of Hematology 2004:118-145.3. Bowden A, Fox-Rushby JA: A systematic and critical review of the process of translation ... hospitals ofthe city. A total of 190 families of Bra-zilian children between the ages of 2 and 18 years, of bothgenders, with malignant neoplasm in various phases of treatment or control ofthe ... toxicity of chemotherapy or the isolation to which the individual is subjected [9,15]. The analysis ofthe correlation between the scores the chil-dren/adolescents obtained and those obtained by the guardians...
... well as the proportions of respondentsreporting impairment in the 5 EQ domains. The magni-tude and significance ofthe ORs for the EQ-5D domains,as well as the sign and significance ofthe regression ... applicability. The primary goal of our study was to assess the applicabil-ity, internal consistency, and construct validity ofthe Ital-ian version ofthe EQ-5D in a random sample of the citizens of Bologna ... subjects, and people not able to reason or understand and make deci-sions on their own. The study was performed in 2002 and the sample was expected to be representative ofthe resi-dents ofthe geographical...