state of the science

... Following the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages of the compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability of the 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... are reduced [17,18] The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end of the handpiece The use of flexible, length-adjustable ... intelligent machines" can replace "the brain and hand, skill and experience" of the specialist The aim of this study was to verify the reliability and efficacy of one of these compact portable diode...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... Whyte) summarized the recommendations which appear as the final report in the series [12] The remainder of this summary encapsulates key points from the plenary and state- of- the- science presentations ... postacute care: state- of- the- science A review Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2007, 88(11):1526-1534 Gage B: Overview of the CMS patient assessment tool development study State of the Science Symposium ... M: The uniform post-acute assessment tool: systematically evaluating the quality of measurement evidence Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2007, 88:1505-1512 Ottenbacher K, Graham JE: The state of the science: ...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... stressed the importance of accurately annotating the genomic sequences in such collections, which should include data that allow the temporal and spatial patterns of the expression of the genes ... Lamesch of Marc Vidal’s group (DanaFarber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA) The first version of the database was based on an early release of the genome sequence (Wormbase WS9), and since then there ... difficult to rule these out), the principal cause is probably related to the low overall coverage of interactions: that is, if a single study sampled one fifth of the ‘true’ network, the expected...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 16:20

... points of view On the other hand, if the importance of the whole subset of criteria is larger than the sum of the importances of its members, then we observe a synergy between criteria, the evaluations ... Partial profile of action 242 Partial profiles and partial broken lines of Partial frequencies of 243 Determination of a relation between the two alternatives on the basis of the values of global ... consideration of the aims and of the role of MCDA We share this conviction with most MCDA researchers Bernard Roy discusses these “pre-theoretical” assumptions of MCDA and gives an overview of the field...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 09:58

... Every year, our State of the World’s Mothers report reminds us of the inextricable link between the well-being of mothers and their children More than 90 years of experience on the ground have ... family meals, they are the primary family caregivers and they often eat last and least Given any small amount of resources, they often spend them on the health and well-being of their families, and ... commemoration of Mother’s Day, Save the Children is publishing its thirteenth annual State of the World’s Mothers report The focus is on the 171 million children globally who not have the opportunity...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... constitutes a central feature of the report The voices of adolescents offering their own perspectives on the state of their world permeate the entire report The complexities of defining adolescence ... place in the collection of health data, driven by the child survival revolution of the 1980s, the 1990 World Summit for Children, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the push for the MDGs ... confine themselves to legal protection Much of the sexual violence experienced by adolescent girls is at the hands of their male partner and may not therefore come to the notice of the police or other...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 00:20

... allowed us to extend the debate on the state of the nation well beyond the academy The success of State of the Nation is in large measure due to the commitment and effort of its editors and in ... movements: the failed transition to democratic parties A review of the state of South Africa’s democracy is incomplete without a critical analysis of the state of the liberation movements other than the ... global activism of the Mbeki era has been underpinned by the belief that the international front was one of the key pillars of the struggle that led to the defeat of the apartheid regime in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... for mothers and children that safeguards and promotes their rights The second chapter of The State of the World’s Children 2009 explores the fundamentals of the supportive environment and the ways ... way of strengthening health systems The World Health Organization launched the World Health Report 2008, which also addressed the theme of primary health care, on the eve of the conference The ... future editions of The State of the World’s Children Underweight children under five, 2007 Rest of the world: 10 million (7%) Primary-school-age children out of school, 2007 Rest of the world: 12...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... advance the state of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights of the Child The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, was the ... One of the targets of MDG – to ensure environmental sustainability – focuses specifically on improving the lives of at least 100 million of the 14 THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012 A mother ... from the 1924 Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child The Convention applies to every...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... tools Conditions for mothers and their children they need to break the cycle of poverty and in the bottom countries are grim On average, improve the quality of life for themselves, woman in 30 ... for the children, good for the families, and good for the environment Most Americans would help a hungry or sick child in front of them Tragically, the fact that we cannot see the faces of the ... addressing the needs of others both at home and abroad The percentage of population giving money is defined as the proportion of the public that had, in the month prior to the survey, given financial...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... allowed us to extend the debate on the state of the nation well beyond the academy The success of State of the Nation is in large measure due to the commitment and effort of its editors and in ... movements: the failed transition to democratic parties A review of the state of South Africa’s democracy is incomplete without a critical analysis of the state of the liberation movements other than the ... global activism of the Mbeki era has been underpinned by the belief that the international front was one of the key pillars of the struggle that led to the defeat of the apartheid regime in...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20

... the leadership of the ANC rejected the report for what it incorrectly saw as the equation of the crime of apartheid with some of the human rights abuses conducted in the course of the liberation ... weakness of the labour movement Our assessment of the state of the nation has to be holistic, capturing both the advances made and the setbacks experienced But if our assessment of the state of the nation ... position sees the new state as having arisen out of the ashes of the old, defeated state; 1 a second suggests that the post-apartheid state has been constructed on the foundations of the previous...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20

... 2004 a year of not just the customary one but of two presidential speeches on The State of the Nation’ The first was delivered on February at the beginning of the last session of the outgoing ... over the state, and renovating an economy which had been run down by decades of apartheid At the beginning of the second decade, there are indications that there is a shift towards the taking of ... Ntsebeza The state of corruption and accountability 86 Sam Sole The state of the public service 112 Vino Naidoo Part II: Society Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za Introduction 137 The state of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20

... the change of power in 1994 Chapter (The state of the people) is a summary of South Africans’ evaluation of their state both in terms of their personal situation and that of the people they identify ... Coloureds, 42% of the Asians, and no less than 78% of the Whites In the year 2000 these figures changed substantially to 20.5% of the Blacks, 39% of the Coloureds, 62% of the Asians and 85% of the Whites ... reconciliation On the other hand, the even-handedness of the TRC’s final report may well have strengthened perceptions of the government’s impartiality among white citizens, especially in the light of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:22

... 2004 a year of not just the customary one but of two presidential speeches on The State of the Nation’ The first was delivered on February at the beginning of the last session of the outgoing ... over the state, and renovating an economy which had been run down by decades of apartheid At the beginning of the second decade, there are indications that there is a shift towards the taking of ... Ntsebeza The state of corruption and accountability 86 Sam Sole The state of the public service 112 Vino Naidoo Part II: Society Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za Introduction 137 The state of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:22

... of the Department of Sociology of the University of the Witwatersrand Theirs has been a huge effort, although State of the Nation has evidently become more a labour of love than a burden of the ... reflected upon the decline of the ‘Washington Consensus’, the ideas which had set the stage for the reduction of the role of the state in the ‘development thinking’ of global bodies such as the International ... at the conceptualisation of the notion of poverty in the post-apartheid era We then turn to one of the more contentious of current issues, that of land restitution as a means of redressing the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:22

... the competition to other parts of the country in the future Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za The success of State of the Nation is in large measure due to the commitment and effort of the ... considers the future of South African politics by focusing on the state of the ANC whose ‘health’, the author argues, is ‘crucial for the state of the nation’ Butler presents one of the most comprehensive ... in the ANC, the future of the tripartite alliance (of the ANC, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions), the future of coalition politics, the role of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:23