promising methods for assessing the benefits of handwashing in consumers

... excess returns for borrowing in dollars, converting to the foreign currency, lending at the foreign interest rate, and converting the proceeds back to dollars The stock and bond indices are total ... and reprint in the form of a different publication, whether printed or produced electronically, in whole or in part, is permitted only with the explicit written authorisation of the ECB or the author(s) ... returns in both the domestic country and the US for bonds Standard errors are reported in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying...

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Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 08:20

... social inclusion, there is a strong business case for improving walking and cycling conditions As the UK report Making the Case for investment in the walking and cycling environment8 shows, interventions ... and shopping behaviours of visitors to the Northcote shopping precinct to assist in assessing the potential impact of a reduction in on-street parking resulting from the introduction of the tram ... Costs and benefits of investing in the walking and cycling environment Cost benefit analysis “Investments in the walking environment are good value for money – even accounting for the fact that...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... products of the folding out membraneand form of an impulse (4) Any form of the impulse is yielded by the interaction of the bending out of the membrane and the form of the impulse (5) The impulse in ... of the folding out membraneand form of the impulse (2) By any form of the impulse yields the products of the folding out membraneand form of an impulse (3) By any form of the impulse yields the ... (5) The impulse in any form yields the products of the folding-out membrane and the form of an impulse (6) Any form of the impulse yields the products of the membrane-folding Published translation...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... collected information regarding inhaled and pump delivered insulin and thereby forming the basis for the TRIM-Diabetes/ Device development project Information regarding the methodology for the collection ... regarding the treatment impact of inhaled and pump delivered insulin This data was then combined with the information gained from the TRIAD measure interviews and a preliminary conceptual model of ... designed the study, conducted all interviews, assisted in the analysis and drafted the manuscript MH and TC assisted in the design of the study and in the drafting of the manuscript SL assisted in the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... collected information regarding inhaled and pump delivered insulin and thereby forming the basis for the TRIM-Diabetes/ Device development project Information regarding the methodology for the collection ... regarding the treatment impact of inhaled and pump delivered insulin This data was then combined with the information gained from the TRIAD measure interviews and a preliminary conceptual model of ... designed the study, conducted all interviews, assisted in the analysis and drafted the manuscript MH and TC assisted in the design of the study and in the drafting of the manuscript SL assisted in the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... any insulin therapy and potentially discriminate inhaled and injected insulin therapy, and perceptions of the device used to deliver inhaled insulin that could apply only to an inhaled insulin ... items formed only one factor; therefore only a single score was generated for each of these domains Items from the Perceptions of Insulin Therapy domain formed two distinct factors, one representing ... preference Additional items in the current version of the IITQ are: several perceptions of insulin therapy (difficulty taking insulin at the right time, and effect of insulin on overall glucose control,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... calling Perl routines from the Java API Perl routines take care of the bulk of querying encyclopedia entries to the MediaWiki software (which in turn queries the database) and efficiently parsing ... simple interface to create and access the encyclopedia page objects and compute the relatedness scores The information flow of the API is summarized by the sequence diagram in Figure The higher input/output ... articles in the categorization graph Examples of programmatic usage of the API are presented in Figure In addition, the software distribution includes UNIX shell scripts to access the API interactively...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... The Economics of Cloud Computing Addressing the Benefits of Infrastructure in the Cloud The federal government is embracing cloud computing as a means of reducing expenditures for information ... estimate the potential absolute savings across the federal government (As part of the Information Technology Infrastructure Line of Business [ITI LoB] initiative, GSA is coordinating a benchmarking ... However, there will be a need for program planning and technical support, software engineering support for “porting” the applications over to the new cloud environment, and testing support for the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21

... sampling) This conjecture could be stated by the results presented in Fig Precision increased only by about 4%, instead of 16% before, for systematic sampling For random sampling the increase of ... for the largest grid width, sizes sufficiently large to obtain nh > in each stratum For each of these intensities, the total number of different systematic samples were drawn, the values of the ... Coeff of variation of n (%) Fig 5a compares the square root of the means of the estimates s2st.post.uncond for the conditional variy ance (1), the means of s2 st.post.cond as estimates for the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... The study population for the demotions model was smaller than for the two discharge models because 3106 Marines were demoted before ever deploying, making them ineligible for inclusion in either ... PTSD increased the risk of drugrelated discharges for all Marines is consistent with other literature, and a number of theories have been posited to explain the relationship, including the selfmedication ... and the dates of their occurrence were obtained from DMDC Individuals were classified as demoted if official records indicated a lowering of their paygrade Individuals were classified as having...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... mating or reproductive interactions In the case of D pseudoobscura and D persimilis, these traits are Finally, beyond enhancing our understanding of the details of reinforcement, the work of ... speciation involving regions of substantially reduced recombination such as chromosomal inversions In the new study, however, there is no evidence for the role of inversions in reinforced mate discrimination, ... genomic information developed in other contexts - that evolutionary biologists can continue to make such great strides in understanding the genetic basis of, and evolutionary forces involved in, the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

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Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... Quality of Training in Foreign Languages and Informatics 10 Library and Learning Resources Conceptual Framework for the Study of the Management Innovations for Improving the Quality of Education in ... activities are interconnected in the sense that output information from one activity is input information to another The same is true for the activities of developing performance metrics or assessing critical ... and methods of education The parents also recommended investing in teaching conditions and educational methods for their children g For potential investors in the education sector, including the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/08/2014, 02:00

... uniform cost of annotating each item In this case, the ordering of annotated data A will depend entirely on the algorithm’s estimate of the expected benefit However, for AL in POS tagging, the cost ... Thus, in POS tagging both the benefit (increase in accuracy) and cost of annotating a sentence depend not only on properties of the sentence but also on the order in which the items are annotated Therefore, ... (1996) in the implementation of vote entropy for sentence selection using these models When comparing the relative performance of AL algorithms, learning curves can be challenging to in6 7 terpret...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

... function of the degree of biomagnification or trophic dilution that occurs in organisms of lower trophic levels in the food web, thus regulating the concentration of the chemical in the diet of upper ... probability interval of the empirical data rather than the more conventional 95% is that the majority of the BAF data in the BAF data represent BAFs in lower trophic organisms For biomagnifying chemicals, ... rate The BAF-QSAR exhibits a ™parabolic∫ shape At low KOW, the BAF increases with increasing KOW in a linear fashion, as partitioning of the chemical between the water 342 Figure Calibration of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... heavily on the skill of the operator In order to improve the reproducibility of the methods, and to produce guidance for the degree of improvement that could be expected when using the methods in actual ... training aids and guidance for educating, training and certifying operators and inspectors The improvement techniques described in these Recommendations are intended for use under the following ... grinding technique, showing depth and width of groove in the stressed plate Fig 3.3 The burr grinding procedure is illustrated in Fig 3.2 The burr is centred over the weld toe The axis of the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... coordinated the training of 98 trainers and the commencement of 24 FFS across 12 provinces as according to the project logframe A schedule of training activities has been developed for the FFS ... be investigated Other options that could be investigated for the second year of the project are to invest more funds into each of the FFS, and instead of increasing the number of FFS by 100% (from ... PPD trainer gender balance In the central coast region, the ratio of male to female farmers participating in the FFS is similar to that of the trainers However, in the Mekong Delta region the proportion...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... implementation of the program for 2005 has resulted in 98 trainers being effectively trained and these trainers conducting FFS at 24 locations in provinces in the Mekong Delta and provinces in the Central ... Additional sources of funding are being investigated, but at this stage the likelihood of obtaining funding is not known Options At the review meetings the option of increasing the number of FFS by 50% ... envisioned in the project document and as such their time is not included as part of the in kind contribution The expertise of SOFRI researchers has greatly strengthened the scope of training provided...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... additional 111 being trained in 2006, resulting in a total of 209 trainers being trained II Over the years of the project a total of 2,245 farmers successfully completed training in FFS Of these 2069 ... curriculum for FFS The trainers then conducted FFS for a season incorporating adaptations for their particular regions during the course of the schools At the end of the season review meetings were ... to the training program providing lecturers for the TOT program in 2005 and in 2006 This was not envisioned in the project document and as such their time is not included as part of the in kind...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20