perspectives of a community based pediatrician

... estimates The effect evaluation data was however analysed in a longitudinal analysis, that seeks to take account of both within-area, between-area and population-group variation The accuracy of ... parameters are altered in univariate and multivariate analyses based on alternative data sources (details are found in [18]) The overall model uncertainty is investigated in a bootstrap analysis based ... modelled as a uniform distribution The hip fracture-related medical care costs are taken from a set of databases that record all medical care provided to the population of Stockholm County (inhabitants...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... speculum examination and bimanual pelvic palpation Vaginal swabs were taken and tested for Trichomonas vaginalis (TV), bacterial vaginosis (BV de®ned as Nugent score of 7+) and Candida albicans (semicon¯uent ... confounders age, parity and marital status Polygamy is common in the study area, so the marital status variable differentiated between monogamous and polygamous marriages The statistical analysis was ... Wollofs and uncircumcised Fulas Statistical analysis Results Data were double-entered and validated using Epi-Info v6.4 (CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA) For subsequent analysis Stata v6.0 (Stata Corporation,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... piece of paper and that's, that's a limiting factor.' (Data Analyst) Most of the data analysts did not have formal training as geographers The creation and use of maps as a tool for data analysis ... tutorial was presented, with one exception, all of the data analysts that Page of 13 Table 2: Dose of interventions received by OEYC dyads Data Analyst/ Manager Dyads A (Data Analyst) A (Manager) ... between the manager and the data analyst about their individual and organizational needs around mapping and maps, and then make any system barriers to using local data and maps more transparent for...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... terms of the Psychiatry Access article References Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care: LIFE: areas for action Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia; 2000 Australian Bureau of Statistics: ... National Health and Medical Research Council Grants 179805 and 79839, a grant from the AlcoholRelated Medical Research Grant Scheme of the Australian Brewers' Foundation and a grant from the Australian ... sociodemographic characteristics were undertaken separately for age group and compared within and between genders Analysis of continuous variables required One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); Pearson's...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... was available [39], however, the consumption of fruit and vegetables was selected as a second dietary related target behavior This decision was based on the healthpromoting behavioral approach ... cultural adaptation The primary aim of integrating opportunities for cultural adaptation was to implement a culturally equivalent version of the overall intervention framework in all participating ... et al International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2011, 8:82 http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/8/1/82 Page 11 of 15 Table Examples of cultural adaptations made to the overall...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... activity that is based on standardized questionnaires that are delivered to a sample of the customer base These quantitative multi-attribute questionnaires are then analyzed via statistical techniques ... customer satisfaction should be measured The “gap analysis” approach examines differences between customer expectations and the performance of the organization’s offerings (see e.g Parasuraman et al., ... satisfaction scales and the proliferation and excessive use of surveys (Altany, 1993; Mehta, 1990) Additional problems mentioned are haphazard sampling (11/37) procedures, the quality of survey data and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 15:59

... calibrated against a master examiner The kappa statistic was used to assess the inter-examiner reliability of caries and the final kappa scores were higher than 0.8518 Data on oral health behaviour of ... Petersen et al.: School -based oral health education programme in Wuhan City 36 Data analysis All data sheets were transferred to the University of Copenhagen and analysed by means of the SPSS ... independentsamples t-test for mean scores as regards the clinical variables while the Chi-square test was applied for categorial variables Results Oral health status and behaviour of children At baseline...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... uncomplicated task of grouping messages into paragraphs, ordering messages within paragraphs, and assigning a priority number to each message Priorities are assigned as a function of topic and subtopic ... but it also reveals the essential semantic classes and attributes of a domain of discourse, as well as the relations between those classes and attributes Thus, samples of actual text may be used ... coordinate-sentence, subordinate-sentence, subordinate-participial-clause, prepositional-phrase, and others Semantic analysis of a sample of natural text stock reports discloses that a hierarchy of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... expectations of the definers There are basically two major approaches that are accepted by many scholars, both national and international On the one hand, ecotourism is regarded as a sustainable ... budget of the government can hardly Archaeologists have unearthed a number of ceramics relating to the trading activities between Vietnam and Asian countries when Van Don was regarded as a famous ... rainforests, marshland and marine ecosystems, and a variety of scenic landscapes Added to them are Van Don’s historical and cultural values, such as the archaeological items representing Vietnam’s prehistory...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... experienced while navigating through the site A suggested enhancement to the navigational capability of the site was a text -based replication of site navigation bar at the top of each page to make scrolling ... Area’ For each activity, a single graphic was selected and placed at the top left corner of each page of that activity as a visual cue for students engaged in a particular learning activity The ... activities and tasks in more detail resulted in a clarification of the structure of each learning activity and thus, a proliferation of pages for each activity Now, each learning activity is associated...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... (5¢-TCTCC CGGATCCAAAGAGAAATACCCATA-TA-3¢) to facilitate vector–insert ligation Amplification conditions were at 92 °C, followed by 35 cycles of at 92 °C, 30 s at 55 °C, and and 30 s at 72 °C A final extension ... Institute, San Diego, CA, USA) as a template A BglII restriction site (bold) was introduced into the forward primer (5¢-CCTGTCAGATCTCCGCCAT GGCTAACAATGCATCTCT-3¢), and a BamHI site (bold) was introduced ... interaction between GnRH-R molecules The effect of a GnRH agonist and antagonist on GnRHR association has also been examined The data showed that FRET was enhanced by the addition of a GnRH agonist...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20

... imperfective aspect is chosen If there are adverbials of punctual meaning (pl~tzlich L e x k a i Information German Adverbial Semantics in every context denote non-resultative activities are always translated ... remains ambiguous 1990: zna~enijach vidov russkogo glagola ('Aspect Meanings of Russian Verbs') Adverbs of simultaneity and those deietie adverbs which In: Voprosy jazykoznanija, No 4:5-24 Bondarko, ... preferential ones as will be discussed in the next paragraph In the case of the passive voice or of modal constructions, different sequences of conditions are CTyAeHTaMH) UaTepua2rax - 270 - I ASP...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... Hansen, T Thundat, R H Datar, R J Cote, M Hagan, A K Chakraborty, and A Majumdar, Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S .A 98, 1560 (2001) G Wu, R H Datar, K M Hansen, T Thundat, R J Cote, and A Majumdar, Nat ... complementary DNA used as the target DNA is an ss-DNA with the sequence of 5ЈAGG TCT AGT GCA-3Ј A noncomplementary ss-DNA with the sequence of 5Ј-TGC ACT AGA CCT-3Ј is used as a reference The DNA used ... can be a viable alternative to silicon -based sensors and surface machining techniques Support of this work by the National Science Foundation is acknowledged C Clark, Jr and C Lyons, Ann N.Y Acad...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 08:55

... Adequate translation into Swedish was undertaken in several steps following standard international principles A team of medically educated individuals, whose native language was Swedish translated ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:106 Introduction Gastrointestinal complaints cause about 5% of all the annual visits in primary health care and about 50% of these are referred to gastroenterologists ... the statistical analyses in our study and worked close to HM to finalize the manuscript 12 13 14 15 All authors have read and approved the manuscript Additional material 16 17 Additional file...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... individuals are asked to undertake conventional TTO valuations for a sample of health states The Measurement and Valuation of Health (MVH) group version of TTO [18] was used to allow comparison ... unmanageable number of valuations in order to determine the utility of all possible health states Consequently, a simplified health state classification for CAMPHOR was developed based on a sample ... preference based measure of health status based on general population values should be used to calculate QALYs Generic preference based measures of health status include the EQ-5D [8], the SF6D [9] and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... CA1 CA MA1, SA MA, SA1 MA, SA MA, SA MA, SA Event +CA2 +SA +MA2 + SA2 +CA -SA -MA Result CA1 stop CA2 start CA → MA SA start MA1 stop MA2 start SA1 stop SA2 start MA stop SA stop CA start SA ... data from each case is transferred to a PC and evaluated statistically and graphically: the number of individual occurrences of each task, mean duration of each occurrence of each task, the total ... "Stop" has to be hit At this moment all events of the observation are automatically saved in a tab-delimited file Application of the job task analysis tool The time recording software translates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... significant at p < 0.05 ROM and NZ are Results Nucleotomy was performed by a standard microsurgical interlaminar approach Intradiscal implantation of the PGA-HA nucleus-implant as well as sealing of ... However, analyzing all samples individually revealed a trend toward reduction of the NZ in every single sample with implantation of the PGA-HA nucleus-implant Statistical Analysis For statistical analysis, ... was approached from laterally, we performed a microsurgical dorsal approach, commonly utilized for lumbar disc herniations With this standard approach, lateral parts of the annulus and even lateral...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... to 18 years old and their families who reside in a rural community near Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra Rural adolescents in Maharashtra were targeted for several reasons First, Maharashtra continues ... in Maharashtra, and the state has an overall prevalence rate of 0.74% [2] Although adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 29 years old account for approximately 25% of India's total population, ... study was conducted in Aghai, a village in the Thane district of Maharashtra Thane, which is north-east of Mumbai and adjacent to Pune, has a population of 8.1 million, of which 30% is rural In...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... S-MAC [6], T-MAC [10] are examples of typical contention -based MAC protocols They offer the advantages of simplicity, small overhead, small latency, etc TRAMA [11] and LMAC [12] are typical schedule -based ... disparate sampling rate and sample data size For example, the pressure and temperature sampled data may be smaller in size and lower in sampling rate than the real time image data Finally, unlike ... http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/54 Page of 12 Table Parameters for evaluating the multi-hop communications Parameters Value Parameters Area Straight line of 30 cm Inefficiency factor a Value...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... For Nakagami-m branch fading coefficients, each branch’s SNR, γl , is a gamma random variable with pdf given as [1]: BER PERFORMANCE: ANALYTICAL DERIVATION Given L available diversity branches at ... Performance Analysis of T-GSC in Nakagami Channels 245 ¯ ¯ where βmax = γmax / γ and βth = γth / γ Note that the solution in (5) for Nakagami fading is valid only for integer values of the Nakagami ... Rayleigh fading and Nakagami fading channels can be obtained from works in [15, 16], respectively As an illustration of the evaluation of Pb,T (E) using (2) and (5), we consider the case of Nakagami-m...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20