standardized telephone triage practice impact of protocol implementation on reported job stress and satisfaction by nurses in a pediatric oncology outpatient setting
... on- premises platforms, the traditional platforms based on an operating system as a foundation, ona group of infrastructure services andona set of packaged and custom applications The crucial difference ... consumption, working hours (as an endogenous factor of production), and accumulation of ICT capital (as a reproducible factor of production)15 ina standard way The production of final goods in ... Republic Denmark Germany Estonia Ireland Greece Spain France Italy Latvia Lithuania Hungary Netherlands Austria Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Slovakia Finland Sweden United Kingdom Norway EU 25...
... writing of the manuscript: SA Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: SA Jointly developed the structure and arguments for the paper: AR and SA Made critical revisions and approved final ... Conclusion The findings of this study indicate that pension money as appraised by the elderly of Manonyane has been interpreted as valuable in the sense that it has contributed to the improvement of ... hunger, and their ability to access health care Data were cleaned by checking and correcting entry errors and inconsistencies, then entered on to spreadsheets and analyzed Tables were produced and...
... between auditor specialization and Generally Accepted Auditing 15 Standards (GAAS) violations 1.2.4 Other audit and auditor attributes that impact Cost of Capital Auditor Opinion Statement on Auditing ... mitigated Accordingly, in this paper I investigate the effect that audit quality would have on managerial incentives and cost of capital of the firm Motivating an agent to take actions in the best interest ... empirical analysis of compensation and audit quality, including the data, empirical results, sensitivity analysis anda discussion of the results Chapter contains the empirical analysis of cost of...
... 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and birthweight, growth and bone Impactof Air Pollution on Vitamin D Status and Related Health Consequences 39 mineral accretion of Gambian infants Acta Paediatrica, Vol ... Exposure can also occur during installation and use of asbestos-containing products and maintenance of vehicles Asbestos products are still in place in many buildings and continue 12 The Impactof Air ... circulation) and as a cytokine As a cytokine calcitriol participates in the regulation of innate immunity It is synthesized locally by monocytesmacrophages andin an intracrine manner, via interaction...
... in search and evaluation costs include income, age, and education (Ratchford, Lee and Talukdar 2003), anda consumer with lower search and evaluation costs can afford to consider more alternatives ... decision (Bronnenberg and Vanhonacker 1996) Chiang, Chib and Narasimhan (1999) demonstrate that the loyalty and brand constants would be overestimated, and the parameters of the marketing mix variables ... quality information, alter a consumer’s consideration and choice of various brands and alternatives (with the exception of Wu and Rangaswamy 2003) Also, few studies examine the profound impact...
... data were analyzed by Systat software (Systat Inc) and KaleidaGraph software Variables were presented as mean values ±SD Statistical analysis was done by linear regression model and paired Figure ... Silveira A, Hansson LO, Pernow J, Ericsson CG, Hamsten A, Tornvall P Relation of hypertriglyceridemia to plasma concentrations of biochemical markers of inflammation and endothelial activation (C-reactive ... (r=0.86) and positive correlation with an increase in fat free mass (r=0.78) The level of intracellular water (ICW) correlated with fat mass and fat free mass changes during dieting Intracellular water...
... and 19% of total variance The F1 axis was determined on one hand, by the nitrate and waterextractable Ca, Mg, and Mn contents, andon the other hand, by the water-extractable Fe and Al contents ... during the incubation The available oxygen initially present in the bottle was sufficient to maintain oxic atmospheric conditions 2.4 Analysis C-mineralization was evaluated as CO2 –C release in ... forest of Breuil-Chenue, Morvan Regional Natural Park (Nièvre, France), north eastern part of Massif Central The elevation is around 650 m and the mean annual rainfall and temperature are 1280 mm and...
... VdAS/VtA and the associated perturbation in carbon dioxide exchange Other routines in intensive care serve to maintain adequate cardiac output, to control metabolic rate, and to avoid anaemia and ... physiological conditions that are relevant in ARDS The effects of varying cardiac output, metabolic rate, respiratory and metabolic acid-base status, haemoglobin concentration and haematocrit were analyzed, ... = Vdaw + VdAVQ + VdAS VdAS = VdAS/VtA × (Vt - Vdaw - VdAVQ) Outline of calculations further detailed in Additional file (a) Starting out from input parameters, analytical calculations of intermediate...
... LIST OF PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATIONS Characterization of human umbilical cord lining derived epithelial cells and transplantation potential Zhou Y, Gan S U, Lin G, Lim Y T, Masilamani J, Mustafa ... monitoring, the risks of postprandial hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia are present and long-term complications may still develop 1.1.2 Pancreas and islet transplantation Transplantation of organs ... the increased risk of cardiovascular disease Other complications such as chronic nephropathy, retinal damage and neuropathy, lead to conditions as severe as kidney failure, blindness and limb amputation...
... engage in care planning and organization while maintaining visual contact with resident areas Staff in the two facilities differ in age and other characteristics, with older staff on average at ... knowledge translation or information dissemination, but also as mechanisms for inducing information dissemination [102,105,122-126] Opinion leader interventions are one such approach, albeit a relatively ... Mark DB: Long-term mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction in the United States and Canada: comparison of patients enrolled in Global Utilization of Streptokinase and t-PA for Occluded...
... Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons[51] and the Canadian Medical Directory[52] online databases, we have identified 519 practicing academic and community nephrologists in Canada The Shariff et al Implementation ... on physician knowledge and uptake, medical decision making, and processes of care Acknowledgements The research was funded bya Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grant, Application ... Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 2Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,...
... Prices, Interest Rates and Money,” Journal of International Money and Finance, 17, 377-406 Levin, Andrew, Chien-Fu Lin and Chia-Shang James Chu (2002), “Unit Root Tests in Panel Data: Asymptotic and ... (2004), “Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: A Central Banker's View,” Speech given at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, available at www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/speeches/ ... obtain both equity and residential property price data: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,...
... done in class Reading is not individual and personal The teacher usually instructs and controls reading Reading is mostly done out of class Reading is individual and personal The teacher usually ... characteristics of intensive and extensive reading approaches Intensive reading approach Reading is for language skills and Extensive reading approach Reading is for pleasure, information, and ... implications and making inferences Prediction With the presupposition of the reader's adequate vocabulary, text-attack skills are of valuable help in tackling unfamiliar words and clear away any...
... versions of the signal are available Maximal ratio combining and equal gain combining both use more than one path in two distinct ways In maximal ratio combining each branch signal is weighted (by ... special cases of linear (vertical and horizontal) as well as circular (right-handed and left-handed) polarization Polarization becomes particularly important when antennas are used ina communication ... transmission formula anda basic line equation including system losses 2.2.1 Antennas and Radiation Radiation can be defined as a disturbance in the electromagnetic fields that propagates away...
... has also facilitated economic growth, international relations, as well as international trade and tourism In short, aviation is one of the major contributors to globalization The cost in airline ... motivation and customer satisfaction Later, Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis is used to test the relationship between employee motivation (independent variable) and customer satisfaction ... influence of employee motivation and its component on customer satisfactionin the airline industry of Pakistan The remaining of paper is organized as follow; chapter explains literature review, chapter...
... both a reduction in information connectivity alongside an increase in autonomy But rather than enable the ease of information sharing, as e-democracy practices forecast, our results revealed an atrophying ... organizations are influenced by change Our approach differs from other researchers who have applied democracy at the organizational level in debating what the organization and organizational change ... organization (the hospital) and professional roles are paramount This finding goes some way to explaining why role relations remain intact during ICT implementation, regardless of the collaborative...
... understand, and hence what we know and understand In other words, a learner may have an image or a mental "construction" that is far richer than an abstract verbal understanding From an educational ... teaching Increasing sophistication in computer-based syntax analysis and translation will result in more machine-read analysis and feedback, but the problems are challenging and have taken longer ... pay only one fee covering tuition and materials, and have one contact point for all services The program is a good example ofa niche market UBC and ITESM have identified a fast growing area of...
... Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking Summary of data reportedand evaluation IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Vol 83 (http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/ ... Breslau N et al Major depression and stages of smoking: a longitudinal investigation Archives of General Psychiatry, 1998, 55:161–166 162 Anda RF et al Depression and the dynamics of smoking: a national ... their infants have lower average birth weights, are more likely to be small for gestational age, and are at increased risk of stillbirth and perinatal mortality than are the infants of non-smoking...
... Summary statistics of the various bank interest rates (1994-2004; in %) Average Standard deviation Maximum Minimum Average Standard deviation Maximum Minimum Average Standard deviation Maximum Minimum ... shocks? A VAR-based comparative analysis” by D Caldara and C Kamps, March 2008 878 “Nominal and real interest rates during an optimal disinflation in New Keynesian models” by M Hagedorn, March 2008 ... Giannone, M Lenza and L Reichlin, February 2008 866 “VAR analysis and the Great Moderation” by L Benati and P Surico, February 2008 867 “Do monetary indicators lead euro area in ation?” by B Hofmann,...
... the data for analysis, including creating categorical variables from continuous variables and creating major variables of the study (such as Bangui indicators) Backups of data were made and stored ... A nationwide representative sample of 167 clinics was drawn, and at each drawn clinic an average of three nursing personnel, six patients and 0.67 non-professional personnel were drawn at random ... questions We used Stats SA variables on demographics and standard behavioural variables from Family Health International, an organisation with extensive international experience in HIV/ AIDS surveys...