make decisions based on reliable data to improve our overall performance

... action research is “basically a way of reflecting upon your teaching by systematically collecting data on your everyday practice and analyzing it in order to come to some decisions about what your ... Identify problems/concerns: for this study, it is how to improve English conversational skills for SGH operational staff; Conduct a preliminary investigation to gather information on how trainers ... conversational skills for SGH operational staff; Conduct a preliminary investigation to gather information on how trainers use the technique of practical situations for improving conversational...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02

... eccentric contraction.i9 The muscle powers were normalized with respect to the GAIT PATTERN OF HEALTHY body mass and labeled according to Eng and Winter, to For example K3F corresponds to the third ... subdivided into groups, but the divisions within the family Y occurred too closely together to be able to distinguish them using the R ratio Both trials of the same individual were grouped together, ... the Vicon system Before data collection, the cameras were calibrated using 20 markers located within a calibration volume of 2.8m long by 1.Omwide and 1.80m high The subject was asked to walk...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... implement/tool machine communication machine telephone Table Disambiguation Using Class -Based Estimation We now apply our m e t h o d to estimate SA for two different types of syntactic constructions ... case the one corresponding to the sense 'to be employed.' Determination of Most Strongly Associated Structure After calculating SA for each possible construction, we choose the construction with ... performance since it fails to take into consideration the identity of the words involved in the decision Selecting the lowest classes (2) often produces unreliable estimates and wrong decisions...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... following the pronunciation of its sounds, the intonation and stress patterns, etc., instead of linking it to our mother tongue Do not carry over the rules of our language to the one we try to acquire ... Why don't we all bring a snack to share next week? 39 Go on excursions as a group Outside of your weekly meetings, it is a good idea to have one excursion a month This helps create stronger bonds ... want to take your club out of the classroom in order to make it feel less academic and more social If you decide to operate your club from a personal home, try to find more than one person who...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 01:26

... submitted responses and views to a questionnaire answered in the affirmative to the question Based on your experience to date, you think it would be advisable for the Commission to continue to explore ... intend to monitor implementation and, if necessary, make appropriate adjustments to the adopted amendments II DISCUSSION OF AMENDMENTS A Submission of Financial Information Using Interactive Data ... basis, to provide financial disclosure in interactive data format as an exhibit to certain filings on our electronic filing system The voluntary program has been based on an earlier version of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... responders of all tested responders, and specificity, the proportion of correctly predicted nonresponders of all the tested non-responders To investigate the generalization of the prediction models ... polymorphism Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational Medicine 2009, 7:81 based approach achieved the highest prediction performance ... finding was that an association of NR3C1 with CFS compared to non-fatigued controls appeared to be consistent across several studies Thus, this significant association strongly suggests that NR3C1...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... sensor network, Section gives an introduction to the data fusion algorithm, Section shows the theoretical background of the path planning and path adaption processes and Section demonstrates some experimental ... power to guide mobile systems in dynamic indoor environments The smart house can be responsible for almost all navigation functionalities like localization, sensor data acquisition, environment ... OR-operation to get the resulting binary image On the binary image, a blob search is performed that results in the pixel contours of all obstacles in the camera area These pixel contours are transformed...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... charge) conditions For this reason, gel type batteries with electrode design and active materials adapted to automotive applications have been extensively studied for these hybrid energy storage configurations ... 16 V/30 A during one hour to compensate the capacity loss due to the limited charge conditions of the proposed working profile After the cycle life test, batteries were torn down to determine the ... Transportation Conference, Estoril (Portugal), 2004 863 [4] M Anderman, J Power Sources 127 (2004) 2–7 [5] N Sato, Proceedings of the Third International Advanced Automotive Battery Conference,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 20:21

... presence on the Web David Rowan Personal Data Mining We need to [mine] our own output to extract patterns that turn our raw personal data stream into predictive, actionable information Satyajit ... concept has to be applicable to all humans It needs to make a difference to us as a species, or, more to the point I am going to make, as a key factor in defining our collective role This concept ... attacks) Many are too swamped with obligations and distractions to seek it Many seek information only from sources that confirm their preconceptions Even for those who are online and uncensored,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:06

... RAR and RARf tables for response to drought [16], response to ABA [17], and response to overexpression of DREB1A, a key transcription factor for cold and drought responses, in transgenic plants ... future Evaluation of prediction The prepared RARf tables for various hormone responses enable cis-element predictions of hormoneresponsive promoters Our prediction based on the RARf tables was then ... Position from major TSS data from ppdb 21 h-treatment 3See Table for experimental conditions 4Source of functional analysis *RARf for ABA response is 3.7 Lack of the corresponding functional data...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... variations among cisregulatory elements are hard to study but trans-regulatory factors are easier to identify based on gene expression data We have indeed found over 48 transcription factors, ... formation) and the transition from initiation to elongation [45] Although the possible contributions of these transcription factors, all-purpose or members of multiple gene families, to hybrid ... accession number GSE8048 Evaluation dataset, virtual tags, and mapped tags To obtain an evaluation dataset, we constructed a PCUE (Predicted genes, FL-cDNA, UniGene, and EST) database based on available...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:20

... hospitals had only one doctor and three had only two doctors Four hospitals had fewer than ten nurses on staff (one hospital had only three nurses), four had more than ten nurses and one hospital ... the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of services [33] The UN Process Indicators have been shown effective tools to guide the design of EmOC programs and to monitor the provision of EmOC services ... Furthermore, consistent monitoring using the UN Process Indicators has proven to be an effective way to assess maternal mortality reduction and improve the functioning of EmOC facilities [49] In addition,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2014, 05:21

... focus on analysing and calculating to determine a reasonable speed for the vehicles during operation process corresponding to each condition of road During operation process of the vehicles on the ... deceleration rates compared to the permitted speed in the following conditions: Condition – Driving speed at night (from 6pmon the previous day to 6am on the latter day) is reduced by 15 to 20% ... strategies, planning, construction, implementation, organization and operation of the organization controlling activities in the transport system Spatial synchronization: It is ensured that the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/08/2015, 15:19

... propose a way to construct a data -based list of possible haplotypes to be used in conjunction with the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm to make it more feasible computationally For non-rare ... The data from biomonitoring are used to characterize the concentration distributions of compounds among the general population and to identify vulnerable groups with high exposure (Thornton et ... Abbreviations AIC Akaike information criterion BIC Bayesian information criterion EM Expectation maximization GLE Gaussian likelihood estimator MCEM Monte Carlo expectation maximization MCMC Markov...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:19

... state operation In another case, a CEO laments: "In our sales process we continue to make bad deals with bad customers I thought we agreed to focus on the money-makers and abandon the losers." ... quietly and constructively work together; others break up into disconnected, uncoordinated subgroups while others allow one strong personality to dictate a course of action We have run sessions in ... correctly—and there is only one right orientation for each piece Figure 1.4: The Toy Cellular Phone While we use this toy phone and a "factory" setting for the game (to make the work visible and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2McMaster University, Department of Oncology, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and 3McMaster University, Division of e-Learning Innovation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ... information and common terms or labels that represent to the concept(s); and guidance on how to rate the item, including specific criteria and considerations Learners' scale In addition to the ... interventions Previous research has found the effect size of e-learning in comparison to no intervention to be large ranging from 1.13 to 1.50 [16-18] Our intent is to estimate a more conservative...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22

... training to improve locomotion: a case series study based on gait pattern classification of 153 chronic stroke patients Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2011 8:47 Submit your next ... cycling training to improve locomotion: a case series study based on gait pattern classification of 153 chronic stroke patients Simona Ferrante1*, Emilia Ambrosini1, Paola Ravelli1, Eleonora Guanziroli2, ... more economic intervention to supplement functional ambulation training after stroke and it is also becoming an interesting option for home rehabilitation of hemiparetic patients Providing an online...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... years of age) to confirm risk -based performance Patient record, registration form, to analyse risk management Patient record, registration form, questionnaire to analyse additional performance ... intervention topic, and offer a more risk -based decisionmaking process guided by the CPG Topics regarding risk management, such as identification of risk factors/indicators, preventive interventions, ... be improved Research data on effectiveness of interventions to promote continuing professional development for dentists are rare [17] A previous study showed that small group education sessions...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Distribution of treatment protocol Two post-graduate educational sessions Four post-graduate educational sessions provided by diabetologist (opinion leader): Evidence based guidelines Evidence -based ... for non-adherence to evidence -based guidelines and clinical inertia: physician factors, patient factors, and office system and organizational factors [28-30] Physician factors that contribute to ... related to the implementation of change to improve diabetes care These theories/models relate to individual professionals/patients, the social context, and the organizational and economic context...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21