... Conflict of interest in selection of indications and evidence .24 4.1.4 Conflict of interest in interpretation of evidence .26 4.2 Compendia Development, Review Processes, and Conflict -of- Interest ... Conflict of interest in the process of making study data available; 3) Conflict of interest leading to biased selection of indications to review, and of evidence sources; and, 4) Bias in the interpretation ... discussion of the adequacy of compendia approaches to conflict of interest, problems with conflict of interest that have been reported, and opportunities for minimizing conflict of interest in the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20
... perverse incentive, indeed In "Conflicts of Interest in Engineering," Neil Luebke describes the conflict -of- interest rules under which engineers typically work, a combination of their own professional ... strategy for avoiding all conflict of interest, but it is a strategy making the concept of conflict of interest uninteresting We must worry about conflict of interest only when having two or more ... conflict of interests here, that is, a conflict between one of your interests and one of your employer's, but no conflict of interest Conflicting interests not necessarily constitute a conflict of interest...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN THE HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY: COMING TO AMERICA - TALES FROM THE CASTING COUCH, GROSS AND NET, IN A RISKY BUSINESS pdf
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Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:21
using pair work and group work techniques to increase students' participation and interest in communicative english classes at hanoi university of industry
... and group work interesting In other words, they were interested in working in pairs and in groups This indicated that the students’ interest was increased when they took part in pair work 33 ... found working in pairs and groups and playing games more relaxing and interesting In addition, they said that when working in pairs and groups they felt more confident in communicating in English ... showed that nearly half of the students (43.36 %) were interested in pair work and group work activities About 30% of them even were very interested in working in pairs and in groups This showed...
Ngày tải lên: 06/02/2014, 14:45
The financial crisis and the pricing of interest rates in the Irish mortgage market: 2003-2011 ppt
... banks’ interest margins and funding costs The net interest margins for Irish institutions have declined for the last two decades, as shown in the bottom of Figure The average net interest margin ... particularly exposed to funding vulnerabilities In general the interest rate pricing behaviour of financial institutions can be considered within a marginal cost pricing model, where a mark up ... main reason for the difference in balances is that the majority of loans originating during the recent housing boom were tracker loans; whereas older vintage loans, with both smaller originating...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20
DETERMINANTS OF INTEREST RATE SPREADS IN BELIZE ppt
... spreads and margins vary among authors and offer no consensus on the best measure for interest rate spreads By employing the wide interest margin definition in the analysis of the interest rate ... interest rate spreads are indicative of high operating costs or inefficiencies in financial intermediation Increases in loan loss provisions has been cited as another factor which increases interest ... A.6) 23 In summary, an examination of financial data reveals that profits and operating costs are the main components of interest spreads in the commercial banking system Simultaneously, non-interest...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20
The Role of Interest Rate Swaps in Corporate Finance doc
... Fixed/Floating Swap The quoted price of an interest rate swap consists of two different interest rates In the case of a fixed/floating swap, the quoted interest rates involve a fixed and a floating rate ... desire on the part of firms to hedge cash flows against the effects of interest rate volatility The timing of the appearance of interest rate swaps, coming as it did during a period of volatile rates, ... note that the advent of the interest rate swap coincided with a period of extraordinary volatility in U.S market interest rates, leading them to attribute the rapid growth of interest rate derivatives...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20
Victor cheng case interview secrets a former mckinsey interviewer reveals how to get multiple job offers in consulting innovation press (2012)
... CASE INTERVIEW SECRETS A FORMER MCKINSEY INTERVIEWER REVEALS HOW TO GET MULTIPLE JOB OFFERS IN CONSULTING VICTOR CHENG Innovation Press Seattle This book and the information contained herein are ... to, including McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Booz, Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management Consulting), LEK, Monitor, and A.T Kearney I received a total of six consulting job offers, from McKinsey, Bain, ... the interviewer can remind you of your original intention, and this incurs less of a penalty than does forgetting entirely The Five-Minute Hypothesis Rule will not work in a certain type of case...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:35
An Analysis of Business Administration Students Interest in the area of production and Operations pot
... interest in pursuing a career in the area, while the interested ones, despite pointing out high interest in the other constructs, have little interest in moving to this area in their professional ... of Business Administration courses Nicolini (2001), in his analysis of the Brazilian model of undergraduate Business Administration courses, indicated that scientific production in the form of ... Construct Personal interest in the area Interest in a career in the area Perception of educational and professional impact Mastery of management skills Perception of necessity or the area in the course...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22
Working PaPer SerieS no 967 / november 2008: Central bank miSPerCePtions and the role of money in interest rate rules pptx
... transmission of interest rate changes to in ation in Keynesian-style models In these models changes in the nominal interest rate in uence the real interest rate due to the presence of price rigidities; ... shown in the preceding section A more interesting question concerns the performance of monetary cross-checking in the event of sustained changes in trend velocity, for example due to financial innovations ... long-run nominal interest rates and filtered measures of in ation itself Nominal interest rates are difficult to read with regard to implications for trend in ation because of the interaction of the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20
báo cáo hóa học: " The health-related quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriatic arthritis: a comparison with a selected sample of healthy people" potx
... evaluate the severity of psoriatic lesions by assessing the extent of skin involvement, erythema, plaque thickness, and degree of scaling [31] The PASI score can vary in increments of 0.1 units from ... agents) with the goal of preventing or slowing permanent structural joint damage and longterm disability in IRD is the accurate monitoring of HRQL in daily practice and in clinical trials [37] The ... planning of the healthcare services should take these findings into account by maintaining the focus on impairment and physical function, but also focusing on the mental and social consequences of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Bidirectional Assessment of Stress, job satisfaction and work ability of Educators in day care centres: a real-time observation study - the study protocol (BASE)" doc
... frequently than in the average population [13] The most frequent complaints include: shoulder and neck pain, sacroiliac or back pain, musing, languor, and uneasiness [11] As a consequence of job conditions ... expected between findings from of objective and subjective observation The main objective of this investigation is to collect precise time data of educators' work task With the help of the intended study ... influence on educators' work ability and job satisfaction Within the framework of the investigation a set of questions will be answered What kind of occupational demands exist for educators in...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life in urban surgical emergency department patients: Comparison with a representative German population sample" docx
... patients in the surgical ED in a university-based hospital in Berlin, Germany, were included in this investigation Survey data presented in this paper were obtained as part of a prospective intervention ... were incomplete Of the remaining 1,740 datasets, 144 were incomplete due to missing in the socioeconomic parameters Therefore, the final database consisted of 1,596 patients (89.7% of 1,779) Of ... found a decrease in physical HRQoL of 0.45 points respectively 0.29 points for every additional life year Not surprisingly, in our investigation, a decrease of 0.2 ± 0.02 points in physical HRQoL...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life in a clinical sample of obese children and adolescents" pptx
... functioning in a mixed-ethnic clinical sample of obese children and adolescents Additionally, as there are reports of increasing levels of obesity in very young children [17], the effect of obesity ... emotional health in prepubescent children cannot be overlooked This is an interesting finding, considering that our sample consisted of a large proportion of Bangladeshi children in east London, ... functioning are mostly affected, there is some evidence of decrements in emotional functioning, and minimal evidence of impaired school functioning [9] Our study thus supports a minority of studies...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:" The relationship of oral health literacy with oral health-related quality of life in a multi-racial sample of low-income female caregivers" doc
... impacts, indicating better OHRQoL [29] In the validation study of the short form of the REALD (REALD-30) among patients in a medical clinic setting, Lee et al [24] reported an inverse association of ... well-represented in the study sample In this approach, individuals in pre-determined minority groups (African Americans and American Indians in the COHL study) are targeted preferentially and recruited into ... (proportion of subjects reporting fairly/very often one or more items) and extent (number of items reported fairly/very often) of impacts were calculated as measures of OHRQoL In terms of interpretation,...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
the role of human resource systems in job
... 40% of the labor force consists of members of dual-income households (Zedeck, 1992) Therefore, since the work/family issue is becoming increasingly important and potentially offers recruiting ... accepting a job offer with the above characteristics if such an offer were made It was operationalized in this manner: "Indicate the extent to which you would likely accept an offer possessing ... justice systems) interact with attributes of the individual (in this case fairness value orientation) in explaining attitudes and behaviors (in this case job choice decisions) In fact, Judge and...
Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 10:38
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Reconstruction of crown length of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) – technique, establishment of sample methods and application in forest growth analysis Peter SPATHELF" ppt
... years since thinning With the exception of thinned Silver fir all trees are declining in crown ratio, the unthinned trees more than the thinned ones rate) can be seen as an indicator of the competition ... exceeded if a determined crown ratio is intended to be maintained (Fig 10) The increase of competition leads to a decreasing ih/chb ratio for both species In the case of increasing competition, ... compartmentalisation zone of Shigo [34] (2) Within the outer tree rings of the dead part of the branch a coloration indicates the beginning of wood decay (Fig 2) (3) Those tree rings which not have...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21
báo cáo khoa học: "Interest in quantitative genetics of Dutt’s and Deak’s methods for numerical computation of multivariate normal probability integrals" potx
... decomposition of the integral into a linear combination of other integrals of equal or lesser dimension than n (G 1948) These integrals have integration limits (— 00, + 00) indepen, URLAND dent of ... pair variable index a index (j expansion = (i 1, index 1, = c with of convergent series involving a n) c = n (positive integer (n - 1)/2) from to + 00) varying independently for index a, = k ... drawing of truncation points in the interval [— 4, + 4] Positive definite correlation matrices were randomly generated using the method of B & MICKEY (1978) For each integral, N ENDEL 000 independent...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22
Báo cáo y học: "he impact of sample storage time on estimates of association in biomarker discovery studies" doc
... AM, Kristiansen J: Evaluation, including effects of storage and repeated freezing and thawing, of a method for measurement of urinary creatinine Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2003, 63(7-8):521-524 Comstock ... al Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2011, 1:9 http://www.jclinbioinformatics.com/content/1/1/9 Page of could lead to missed associations, i.e increased numbers of false negative findings, as ... of coefficients was chosen to result in an increase of 15% after ten years of storage For the linear function, bi1,t , the yearly increase in marker levels was set to 1.5% To model the non-linear...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22
Báo cáo y học: "Validity of the 32-item Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) in a clinical sample with mood disorders in China" pps
... (0.51) at an optimal cut-off of 14, in a sample comprising predominantly outpatients with BP and UP in Europe [12] The HCL-32 can distinguish between BP and UP at a cut-off of 14 (sensitivity 0.82 ... validity of the HCL-32 Eigenvalues > were initially retained and clinical considerations decided the final number of factors The internal consistency of the HCL-32 was determined using Cronbach’s ... discriminate between BP-II and UP, with the optimal cut-off of thirteen The difficulty in distinguishing between BP and UP is related to difficulties in discriminating between BP-II and UP in psychiatric...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22