nightingale s legacy for 21st century nursing practice

... www.stat.psu.edu/~jls/misoftwa.html] 48 Menard SW: Applied logistic regression analysis Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 2002 49 PASW Statistics - SPSS 17 Chicago, IL: SPSS, Inc 2008 50 Cohen J: Statistical ... [48] Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 17.0 [49] Results Table shows descriptive statistics for the HRQOL scales, the personality variables and the characteristics of physician-patient ... measured using various instruments It was seen that the disease characteristics are generally less significant, with the exception of the risk score as a measure of the severity of the illness While...

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... ness hostility Assertiveness Altruism Depression Activity Compliance Excitementseeking Positive emotion Modesty Tendermindedness Selfconsciousness Impulsiveness Vulnerability Basically, personality ... Fantasy Competence Warmth Aesthetics Order Gregariousness Feelings Dutifulness Achievement Actions striving Ideas Self Discipline Values Deliberation A N Trust Anxiety Straightforward- Angry ness ... organizations, managers retain most of responsibilities and the power concentration in one person In contrast, decentralized organizations disperse responsibilities and decisions for lower level managers...

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... excess growth remains unchanged 20 Table 9: Robustness Regressions Table presents additional regressions to validate the robustness of our results under different specifications First, we control for ... marginal costs and as such a proxy for competition Therefore a higher index stands for a lesser degree of competition CAPITAL INTENSITY is calculated as fixed assets over total assets and controls for ... Since our sample consists entirely of savings banks clients the results apply only to hausbankrelationships of firms with savings banks The outline of the paper is as follows Section introduces the...

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... http://www.vietnamforumcsr.net, these forums bring CSR understandings not only for company s managers but also for employees and customers, thus it helps domestic companies building and implementing CSR easier ... strategies may be saving raw materials, reducing exhaust to the air, recycling disposals The International Association for Impact Assessment issued a process to assess impacts of company to environment ... company should perform actions according to the expectations of society in societal mores and ethical norms This means business ethics is considered as vital factor to gain success in operating business...

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... cases classified on two dimensions Let the squares be cases we would classify as disease A and the circles cases we would classify as disease B Looking at the data in the first plot, it seems ... names using computer analysis while panels of physicians, nurses and pharmacists carry out simulations to assess confusability Yet the problems still occur AstraZeneca produces a drug called Seroquel ... Many successful decision support systems have been built using sets (sometimes very small sets) of relatively simple logical rules that can be incorporated into electronic patient record systems...

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... FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 3172–3183 ª 2005 FEBS Substrate specificity of iNOS for nNOSoxy compared with iNOSoxy were also observed for TolNOHG, which is also an iNOS specific substrate [5,6], and for ... constants for the binding of these compounds to eNOS and nNOS (data not shown) ClPhNOHG actually displayed significantly higher affinities for the two constitutive isoforms than for iNOS: the Kd values ... NOSs [17– 20] Also, the fact that isoform-selective substrates for NOS [5,7,9] were characterized is striking, given the high level of similarity between the crystal structures of the oxygenase...

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... composition operations should be, and as a result, in the case of these formalisms, it is apparent how to represent derivations S2 NA S 10A S2 OA I I £ SNA S I NA a I I I S OA S NA SINA The traditional ... r s with a stack An LIG, G, is denoted by G = ( Vjv , VT , Vs , S, P) where VN iS a finite set of nontenninals, VT is a finite set of terminals, Vs is a finite set of stack symbols, S E VN is ... derivation tree sets of the TAG from which they were constructed Hence CCG 's in this normal form can be classified as LCFRS 's s ' \ s f / s ~ ~ f(O B ~ f(b) S \S, f(¢) Derivations Trees Vijay-Shanker,...

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... the sectors The analysis then uses these measures as proxies to test for relationships among the three sectors using a series of quantitative exercises Figure 16 Looking for relationships among ... mechanisms Many distribution platforms allow users to upload information for dissemination on the Internet Examples include blogging sites such as Wordpress and Blogger, photo sites such as Flickr ... population as possible, including by using web accessibility standards and guidelines (W3C WAI) as well as universal design principles This includes provisions for those with special needs, including...

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... characteristics was adopted in a modified scoring system For appearance of raw dumplings, panelists should assess the degrees of flatness, and lack of gas bubbles and rupturing of dumpling sheets Flatness ... after h of storage in a covered plastic container at 25°C Statistical analysis SAS (Statistics Analysis System, SAS Institute, Cary, NC) was employed to compute means, standard deviations, and correlation ... brightness (10), transparency (10), resilience (15), stickiness (15), smoothness (10), resistance at boiling (15), and soup characters (15), has two problems Firstly, evaluation of soup characters is...

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:50

... measure used in costeffectiveness analysis [21], was also studied This latter relationship was not of direct interest as it has been studied previously for patients with other types of diseases ... objective assessment of patients with diseases of the heart classification systems The table outlines the definitions of the different classification levels of the CCS and NYHA classifications of heart ... class change in CCS class For SAQ, a 10 unit change is considered clinically significant [26] In this study we assessed the change in EQ-5D index for a ten year increase in age, males versus females,...

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... bonds It should be noticed that crater formation could also be favoured by intrinsic stresses The sample stress as measured by MT was always compressive, as found by others [25-27], with values of ... measured in the as-deposited ones Other findings suggest that annealing causes stress relieve in hydrogenated amorphous Si/Ge MLs [30] Should there be changes in these samples, it is very likely ... low-pressure chemical vapour deposition of SiGe/Si quantum wells Inst Phys Conf Ser 1997, 157:47 24 Tsu R, Martin D, Gonzales-Hernandez J, Ovshinsky SR: Passivation of dangling bonds in amorphous Si...

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... systemic susceptibility to the process at multiple joints The concept of generalized and systemic susceptibility is supported by studies indicating a subset of patients with polyarticular disease ... metalloproteinase; TIMP, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases biochemical markers of bone metabolism are also proposed as indicators of disease progress of OA [14,15] Spector and colleagues demonstrated ... McShane DJ, Murphy WA, et al.: Radiographic assessment of progression in osteoarthritis Arthritis Rheum 1987, 30:1214-1225 Kellgren JH, Lawrence JS: Radiological assessment of osteoarthrosis...

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... properties of rheumatoid arthritis nurse-like cells and fibroblast-like synoviocytes Rheumatoid arthritis nurse-like cells Fibroblast-like synoviocytes Pseudoemperipolesis + – Constitutive expression ... 52:39-47 Firestein GS: Invasive fibroblast-like synoviocytes in rheumatoid arthritis Passive responders or transformed aggressors? Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Arthritis Rheum 1996, ... lymphocytes and monocytes was noted for FSCs of bone marrow [5,7] and for FSCs of synovial tissue [6,7] of RA patients, suggesting that the NLC function of FSCs could contribute to the pathophysiology...

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... anti-dsDNA tests with assays more specific for renal dysfunction, such as urinary gelatinase B-associated lipocalin (nGAL), which has been shown to be a marker of renal disease in cross-sectional studies ... transformation PCR measurements and ARs for antinucleosome and high-avidity anti-dsDNA antibodies were so transformed, and consequently changes in these measurements are presented as percentages ... autoantibodies in a restricted set of connective tissue diseases: antinucleosome antibodies of the IgG3 subclass are markers of renal pathogenicity in systemic lupus erythematosus Arthritis Rheum...

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... used, or by different slopes of the ably respective standard curves The use of the transformed variable can be justified by its distribution which suits better statistical analysis and because ... its selection scheme for prolificacy in an accelerated lambing system Only one sampling at weeks of age was choosen as it has been previously shown that (1) FSH release in prepuberal ewe lambs ... until FSH assay = - FSH concentration in each plasma sample was assayed according to B & LANC OIRIER P (1979) and expressed as ng FSH HG 225 per ml of plasma This reference standard is immunologically...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... AUC was also slightly greater for female sex (0.66 versus 0.65) For subjects aged less than 18 years the best TLC cut-off was 2050 with sensitivity and specificity of 53.2% and 52.2%, respectively ... adequate sensitivity and specificity to consider TLC as a surrogate measure for CD4 [5-10] Nevertheless, this study supports the notion by Gupta and colleagues (2007), as we observed low sensitivity ... JAIDS 2007, 46:338-342 Vittinghoff E, V Glidden D, C Shiboski S, E McCulloch C: Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models First edition Springer;...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... Intensive Care Unit for three days due to his respiratory disease and increased volume of secretions He was discharged from the hospital on the 10th postoperative day Discussion Kartagener s syndrome ... artery bypass grafts in situs inversus J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) 2002, 43(2):181-4 Erdil N, Cetin L, Sener E, Ufuk D, Cemal S: Situs Inversus and Coronary Artery Disease Asian Cardiovasc Thorac ... syndrome is characterized by the triad of bronchiectasis, sinusitis and situs inversus, and is also combined with abnormalities of the cilia of the respiratory epithelium Some male patients with...

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... received was ambiguous for specific activities A positive association was observed for physical exercise, while a negative association was found for monitoring and no association was observed for medical ... disciplines, both inside as outside their practice Health professionals were listed by discipline Data analysis We used UCINET for constructing networks and obtaining network parameters, and SPSS 15 for ... professionals for individual patients with diabetes and CHF using simple structured questionnaires for patients and health professionals, and patients’ medical records Our study population was small,...

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