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... Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice London, Taylor and Francis; 2003 17 Einarsen S, Skogstad A: Prevalence and risk of bullying and ... al.: Work -related stress and bullying: gender differences and forensic medicine issues in the diagnostic procedure Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 6:29 Competing interests ... study and its coordination SMC conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination, revised the final document All authors read and approved the final manuscript Page of 16 Einarsen...

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... for inclusion Review of the diagnosis of parkinsonism was further scrutinized and only individuals fulfilling United Kingdom Brain Bank Criteria [18] for idiopathic PD (IPD) were included in the ... (rescaled by dividing by standard deviations in changes) and rescaled change in UPDRS-III scores (rho = 0.25, P = 0.045), Schwab and England scores (rho = -0.38, P = 0.003), and Hoehn and Yahr scores ... article as: Kleiner-Fisman et al.: Health -Related Quality of Life in Parkinson disease: Correlation between Health Utilities Index III and Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) in U.S male...

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... Kolen MJ, Brennan RL: Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking: Methods and Practices New York: Springer-Verlag;, second 2004 28 Holland PW, Dorans NJ: Linking and equating In Educational Measurement edition ... Pommerich M, Holland PW: Linking and aligning scores and scales New York: Springer; 2007 30 Guyatt GH, Walter SD, Norman G: Measuring change over time: assessing the usefulness of evaluative instruments ... term “linking” is referred to the search of corresponding points on different, but correlated, measurement devices Different linking procedures can be found in the literature [28,29], being the...

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... interventions and cloning trates on practical issues, within the context of licensing clinics for testing speciWc inherited conditions and restricting access through guidelines that limit which ... associated with a possibly diminished sense of individuality and personal autonomy, belong to the same analysis Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Perhaps feminist psychoanalytical ... cloning, and calls for fully informing the public and stimulating debate 157 158 F Shenfield Conclusion Cloning is only one example, among the many discussed in this chapter, of ethical dilemmas in...

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... zidovudine treatment New England Journal of Medicine 331: 1173–80 Corbitt, G (1999) HIV testing and screening Current practicalities and future possibilities In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening and ... Manuel, C (1999) HIV screening: beneWts and harms to the individual and the community In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening and ConWdentiality, ed R Bennett and C.A Erin, pp 61–74 Oxford: Oxford ... Childbearing in a Multiracial Society A Handbook for Health Professionals Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann Sherr, L (1999) Counselling and HIV testing: ethical dilemmas In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening...

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... VIETNAMESE IN TERMS OF In this section, we will analyse one word in each meaning syntactically namely hear and nghe in meaning 1, listen and l ng nghe in meaning 2, overhear and nghe l m in meaning and ... listen in English and nghe in Vietnamese Thirdly, WRHs in four meanings can combine with N or NP whose meanings relate to sounds Fourthly, the number of WRHs of the meaning and meaning in English and ... world and use words and idioms related to hearing in English and Therefore, language is a subtle and complex instrument used to Vietnamese communicate an incredible number of different things Being...

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... Collaborating Compromising (Continued ) Business values, management and conflict Private services 67 Competing Collaborating Compromising Avoiding Accommodating Production and engineering Competing ... Collaborating Compromising Avoiding Accommodating Avoiding Accommodating Avoiding Accommodating Information systems 10 Competing Collaborating Compromising Public services Competing Collaborating Compromising ... management in Singapore Gender Figure indicates the dominant modes of handling conflict The two predominant modes of handling conflict for both men and women were compromising and avoiding, although...

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... activities and achieve building and construction visions by systematizing and combining knowledge and craftsmanship The company acts according to its six values: Customer-minded; Value-adding; Innovative; ... between Vietnamese and international law in related issues Therefore, sometimes, MTH face problems in applying the law to manage the project, which lead to difficulties in inspection and arrange payment ... manger The management of the company including the issues: planning, organizing, leading and controlling is as followed:  Planning The contractor makes the plan and submits to Project management...

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... vomiting, abdominal cramping and bloating, mucositis, and paralytic ileus Several antineoplastic agents such as fluorouracil, adriamycin, methotrexate, and cisplatin may induce severe gastrointestinal ... Convergent information suggests that CRF may be involved in triggering changes in gastrointestinal motility observed during stress exposure CRF may induce delayed gastric emptying and gastric ... observed in both weightlosing and non-weight-losing subgroups of patients.121 studies demonstrating their efficiency in treating chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.90 Several studies of THC in...

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... was to investigate and assess the role of the institutional lending policies of formal and informal credit institutions in determining the access to and use of credit facilities by small -scale ... savings among Kenyan banks Despite the liberalization of interest rates in 1991, nominal interest rates have shown minimal increase, resulting in negative real interest rates, and a widening ... Office Savings Bank (POSB), non-bank financial institutions, savings and credit cooperative societies (SACCOs), and development financial institution, mainly Kenya Industrial Estates Informal finance...

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... systems engineering issues related to sensor replenishment and technology insertion, explores technical approaches to data continuity and interoperability from the standpoint of data stability, and ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC, 1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine Dr Bruce M Alberts and Dr William A Wulf are chairman and...

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... coal miners in terms of the “frame” of numbers of coal miners, the health of miners appears to be diminishing That is, coal mine deaths, per thousand coal-mine employees in the US, have been increasing ... question, influences on the funding of some research projects (and not others), influences on the outcome of research (i.e., findings), and influences on the dissemination of research findings? Are ... coal miners in terms of the “frame” of tons of coal mined, the health of miners appears to be improving That is, coal-mine deaths, per ton of coal mined, have been decreasing since 1950 in the...

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... beneficial in the design of a product and a process, in improving understanding of the system, focusing risk mitigation efforts, and identifying root causes of failures In Poland, Failure Modes and ... enablers affecting the implementation of sustainability in the Supply Chain In this research, an interpretation of sustainability in the Supply Chain enablers in terms of their driving and dependence ... capability in product development (continued) Sustainability in the Supply Chain 29 Table (continued) No Enablers 11 12 13 14 15 16 Continuous improvement Training and development Learning-by-doing...

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... from both brain and intestine in L maderae [14,15] The finding that N-terminally extended TKRPs are predominantly expressed only in the gut and not in the brain are in line with findings of enrichment ... tachykinin and insect kinin ⁄ Tyr-W-MIF neuropeptide family pairs Ann NY Acad Sci 897, 388–400 Nassel DR (1999) Tachykinin -related peptides in inver¨ tebrates: a review Peptides 20, 141–158 Vanden ... efficacy in processing of two N-terminally extended TKRPs in the brain and intestine, respectively This could result in the gut-specific accumulation of such peptides, whereas in the brain cleavage...

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... observed in markets, including the large corporate US market This in turn, when combined with inadequately integrating the correlation between PD and LGD in the models and inadequately modelling LGD ... Improvements in these areas could include further benchmarking and industry-wide exercises, backtesting, profit and loss analysis and stress testing Range of practices and issues in economic capital ... capital to the business unit, leaving the business unit’s internal capital allocation within the business line’s control On the other hand, management is likely to be more involved in the allocation...

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... property to SSFs, not only in Ireland and India but also mainland Britain, in Africa the ICS doctrine was mainly used to contain demands to further expand PF/LSF where land tenure systems were contested, ... cultivated land in total farm area, share of land under maize and other grains, capital intensity of crop production, and labour intensity In terms of LSF scale, there was a steady decline in all ... tobacco in (pre-land invasion) Zimbabwe, fruits in South Africa and fresh vegetable and cut flowers in Kenya, South Africa and pre-land invasion Zimbabwe In all these cases there are differences in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... actions outlined in Section The definitions of the actions are not stated rigorously, but are intended to give the reader an intuitive understanding of their preconditions and effects, and how they ... ":Referential and O uantificatioual [ndefinites." Linguistics and Philosophy (1982) pp 3.-3-1398 Kripke, S., =Speaker Reference and Semantic Reference." in French, Uehling, and Wettstein tods.) (',)~temporary ... two people discovering Smith's badly mutilated body, and one saying "The man who murdered Smith is insane." In this situation, the speaker is informing the hearer of something about the referent...

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... draw drinking water directly from natural springs in Ituri forest The Congo drainage basin Given the scale and complexity of the Congo basin, understanding and managing it requires examination ... drinking water supply Confusion over land tenure, conflicting jurisdictional mandates and institutional weakness in applying an organized system of land use planning and management are underlying ... deforestation, disorderly housing development and poor road construction including that of pedestrian pathways in rural areas Pit latrines and septic systems and mining activities and tailings also present...

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... activist inclination toward restarting cross-Strait discussions between Mainland China and Taiwan This theme appears, for example, in Chapter 30, dealing with “One China and Three Systems,” and Chapter ... have increased—slightly in Thailand and substantially to $59 billion in Korea, and Korea’s international credit rating has been significantly upgraded by Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s In Brazil, ... reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published 2002 by RAND...

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... wind-induced flow and (ii) a larger -scale, deeper-reaching thermohaline circulation, the latter set up by changes in temperature and salinity, and hence density, on both global and regional scales ... Agency's Marine Environment Laboratory in Monaco and is concerned with contamination and pollution in the marine environment The issues addressed range from industrial and sewage discharges and the ... variations in heat and salt drive a great thermohaline circulation pattern in the ocean that witnesses cold, salty water sinking in the north Atlantic and in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, flowing darkly...

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