rating the design features of pay for performance programs

... capture the full returns on their individual effort to improve the quality of their care Traditional economic theory suggests that the potential for some physicians to ‘free-ride’ on the efforts of ... addressed during the performance interval were eligible for inclusion in the sampling frame For the first performance period, we examined a four-month period prior to the start of the incentive ... followed the posting of the feedback report for that performance period After each data collection period, we notified participants via e-mail the date of the paycheck in which the payment was...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... threshold value for the frequency of the occurrence, and 10 as the length of a string, therefore obtaining 16655 strings 3.2 Two Factors for Evaluation We evaluated the following two factors before and ... results of the stricter of two evaluators Table 4-2 shows the number of change in the evaluated level The rate of improvement after correction was 7% There were also a lot of cases that improved their ... understanding of the recognition results On the other hand, there were four level-down cases Three of these cases were caused by the misdetection of errors in the SSC procedure The remaining...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... descriptors are relevant for the tuning purpose, the neural network should converge The other part of the image database is reserved for the test of the neural network The performance of the tuning will ... tuning of the IPC components does not give optimal results for the whole IPC Hence, the evaluation criteria for the IPC performance should only be computed at the output The second design of experiments ... of tested parameters We present below the experiment matrix and the covering rate for the set of trials of the first design of experiments (Table 2) These designs have been tested on 180 input...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... students) Design of the study This research is composed of three main parts Part One, the INTRODUCTION, presents the rational, the aim, the scope and the methods of the study as well as the organization ... demands of reality As a typical example of comic rigidity, Bergson cites the story of the customs officers who went bravely to the rescue of the crew of a wrecked ship The first thing the customs ... expressing ideas or performing before the others - help me feel relaxed and get more knowledge of foreigners‟ sense of humour No (7.5%) - the topics of short jokes not meet the demand of the oral examination...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2015, 17:19

... Unscrewing Core If the screw-components are a composite part of the mold, they have to rotate for the part to be demolded Rotation either results from the opening and closing of the mold, or is ... mechanically before molding compound is injected; this prevents bending under the force of the inflowing melt Shortly before the mold cavity is completely filed, the support elements are removed and the ... via a hot runner located between the two parting lines The holding force required for the mold is determined by the greatest buoyancy generated by either of the parting lines Examples: 15, 36...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2016, 13:50

... these verbs in order to help learners of English use them effectively in their speaking and writing For the above reasons, I wish to carry out the thesis entitled “A Study of the Linguistic Features ... description of the syntactic and semantic features of SVs in English and their Vietnamese equivalents It is hoped that the results of the study can help to raise the awareness of Vietnamese learners of ... -Requestives that can require anything for the sake of himself, for the hearer’s sake or for the sake of somebody other than the interlocutors 23 Advisories 24 -Advice is often proposed by an order, wiser...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:17

... learners be able to use these verbs flexibly on the basis of mastering the meaning and the relationship among these verbs 1.6 THE ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY The thesis consists of five chapters, as ... learning a foreigner language, the fact formula: [Sayer + V.P + (Recipient) + Verbiage] In this formula, that learners often impose the use of their mother tongue on that of the sayer is often realized ... During the process of learning a foreign language, learners make it impossible for the researcher to provide more sufficient and often impose the use of their mother tongue on that of the target...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:19

... manufacturing of companies Therefore, “A Study of Linguistic Features of Instructions for Use of Foodstuffs in English and 1.1 RATIONALE Vietnamese” is the title of the master thesis I wish to perform ... together with the development The research aims to find out the lexical, syntactic, and semantic of the society and the world, people’s living standards are increasing features of instructions for ... of Instructions for Use of Foodstuff Instructions for use are activities of directing users how to use or prepare the product In fact, instructions for use of the foodstuff not only fulfill their...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:23

... the syntactic and semantic features of advertisement language The readers and the writers of these kinds 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY This study deals with discourse analysis of the syntactic and of ... Modes of commitment to the benefit/value Customers’ Clearing Misconceptions of the product advertised As regard to the polarity of the proposition of the directive, apart from the affirmative form, ... presented the results of data analysis concerning the aspects of speech acts used with communicative functions As for the effect that is brought to the salience of the brand’s names of the products...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:27

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:15

... of the resources of developing countries and their elevation to the level of international concern have obscured the problem of spoliations by national officials of the wealth of the states of ... leaders The circle of persons liable for acts of indigenous spoliation tracks the list of possible offenders in Article IV of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, ... ousting of Momoh there was no sign of the SSD uniforms Another example of phantom contracts that was brought to the attention of the Lynton Nylander Commission of Inquiry was the award of a $20 million...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... language proficiency, lack of knowledge about the application process, and the cost of applying, which at $680 is higher than in most other OECD countries The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants ... transportation and the value of the time spent preparing their application and studying for the language and civics tests.24 In a survey of Latino immigrants who had attended one of a series of citizenship ... Researchers can in theory address some of these problems by using longitudinal data that follow individuals over time and identify the labor market performance of the same individuals before and after...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... tuberculosis, the morbidity and mortality of the natural course of the disease, and the excellent therapeutic results of antituberculous chemotherapy in most cases, there is good reason for all physicians ... patients had disease involving the anterior segment of an upper lobe; 18 patients had involvement of the basilar segments of the lower lobes However, in the vast majority of these cases, disease was ... The site of primary tuberculosis in the lungs reflects areas of greatest ventilation; the most common sites are the middle or lower lung zones or the anterior segment of an upper lobe [1 2] The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... Count the number of times b follows a in the corpus Divide this value by the number of times a occurs in the corpus Such a model is clearly insufficient for expressing the g r a m m a r of a natural ... by the program: can we judge that the features are indeed the correct ones? How can one set of hypothesized features meaningfully be compared to another set? We are currently working on an information-theoretic ... HE and SHE form a class As the similarity requirement is relaxed, the class grows to include I, forming the class of singular nominative pronouns Upon further relaxation, THEY and WE form a class...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... the aesthetics and usability of each of model, then used them, then rated them again for both aesthetics and usability The order of rating (usability-aesthetics or aesthetics-usability) and the ... due to the second set of ratings after using the product being slightly higher than the before ratings The effect of Model in the usability ratings closely followed those of the aesthetic ratings, ... depiction of the effect of context has been left out of Figure for the sake of simplicity) Changing only the aesthetic features of a product can affect its apparent usability A Product Features...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... design But the law of contrast is also at work Good design is good in comparison to bad design And there’s LOTS of bad design I design for the Web, and if there’s one place where lack of creativity ... that the Design Funnel is slightly different than the design process most of us have seen before: • Define the problem • Generate ideas • Design stuff • Pick the best design • Produce it These ... they could pull out at any time because they know exactly what response they’ll get Designers have their own bags -of- tricks as well Good designers leave their bags unattended, or dispose of them...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:48

... assured part of their background, the relevant portions of these three sections can be omitted without hindering their understanding of the rest of the material Use in the curriculum The book can ... a head of cabbage He needs to transport all three to the other side of the river in his boat However, the boat has room for only the peasant himself and one other item (either the wolf, the goat, ... together if they have the same design approach I share the belief of many (e.g., [BaY95]) that this organization is more appropriate for a basic course on the design and analysis of algorithms There...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 16:54

... were asked about the areas of the face (and scalp for balding men) where they had a problem with oily skin The areas of the face most commonly chosen as being oily were the forehead (85%) and ... differences between the moderators in terms of use of the Coding Schedule and the use of follow-up probes Methods for assessment of oily skin The methods participants used to assess their oily skin ... frequencies did not differ between the two groups on either codes referring to the pressure of strokes, the rubbing of fingers together, or the blotting and visual inspection of the blotting paper Factors...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:20

... in the first and fourth introns of the rabbit κ-casein gene [10] Therefore, the lack of the two ruminant repetitive elements in the other three species and the lack of the L1PA2 insertion in the ... digestibility of milk [5] In spite of the importance of κ-casein in the assembly and stability of casein micelles, a detailed analysis of its regulation and comparison with the structural features of the ... points of the three repetitive elements mentioned in the text are marked by arrows the insertion of the L1MA5A and the Bov-tA elements happened after the divergence of the ruminants, while the insertion...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21