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... software The ISA-SP project was approved by the Ethics Committees of the School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo (USP), the School of Medical Science at the State University of ... and the prevalence of alcohol abuse The former observed a greater proportion of suicidal ideation among those of the Spiritualist doctrine when compared to those of the Evangelical, whereas the ... cultures There are surveys applying the SF-36 in more than 40 countries The instrument allows the measurement of various health dimensions and can assess the impact of disease as well as the benefits...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Promotion of ‘active ageing’ Greater attention should be given to improving the level of social support and the physical environment to lessen the extent of social handicap from the loss of function ... critical factor that determines whether the current cohort of Singaporean seniors faces the prospect of better functional wellbeing and quality of life in their later years Presently available ... life expectancy Methodology: Data from the baseline survey of participants in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS) Thesis: The present trend of functional disability is increasing...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... the SF-36® (23) The present study found that the most prevalent chronic diseases had a significant influence on the quality of life of the elderly individual The magnitude of the impact and the ... health (10, 11) The objective of the present study was to evaluate the impact of the most prevalent chronic conditions and the number of diseases that an individual reports on quality of life as assessed ... included in the ISA-SP: the cities of Botucatu and Campinas; an area encompassing the cities of Itapecerica da Serra, Embu, and Taboão da Serra; and the District of Butantã, in the city of São Paulo...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Health Survey in the State of Sóo Paulo (ISA-SP), 20012002 in four areas of the state of Sóo Paulo, southeastern Brazil: the cities of Botucatu and Campinas; an area covering the cities of Itapecerica ... regarding the association between these behaviors and different aspects of quality of life, especially among the elderly The few studies investigating the association between health-related quality of ... consumption Nevertheless, the categories studied were sufcient to detect the associations The importance of this study is reinforcing the ndings of the international researches about this theme, increasing...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... three were in the southern axis of the local government Each of the political wards served as a cluster The first step was to choose whether the northern part or the southern part became the experimental ... paracetamol use by 55.3% There was almost no change in the use of these modes of treatment in the control group Worthy of note is the fact that the use of herbs and other drugs were not significantly ... was the commonest antimalarial drug given in the study area [14-16] Others reported the use of paracetamol as the commonest drug [3,8,17] This may signify the success of the implementation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... as the number of residents per household, and the level of education of the population being surveyed Therefore, we can affirm that the impact of oral condition on the quality of life of the ... health condition Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the impact of oral health on the quality of life of the elderly population in the city of Joaçaba, SC, Southern Brazil MATERIAL ... Joaçaba - SC and the use of maxillary prosthesis, we observed that the great majority of the surveyed population (82.5%) used total maxillary prosthesis In relation to the need to use prosthesis, we...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... over 50 years of age has implications in terms of the natural attrition and the replacement of these managers and on the return on investment from the development of these managers The future sustainability ... and the sample was therefore representative of all hospital managers in South Africa The professional background of the respondents suggests that there is a perceptible shift in the leadership of ... focused on the central tendency (mean) and the dispersion (standard deviation) The ultimate score that each manager received for each of the seven factors was calculated from the mean of the summed...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... terms of the extent of knowledge of slang, the frequency of using slang, the reasons for not using slang, when to use slang, the feelings of the students about slang and the opinions towards the ... know many of the statements involved in the phenomenon of Vietnamese equivalent of English 4.2 Frequency of using slang 12 The chart below describes the frequency of using slang of the students ... introduce them to their friends to broad the knowledge of slang As a result, they know hundreds of slang However, the students at Cao Ba Quat High School not know many of them, most of the students...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2014, 09:06

... is given by the following formula: W = W1 * W2 * f1 * f2 * f3 * f4 where W1 = the inverse of the probability of selecting the school W2 = the inverse of the probability of selecting the classroom ... Characteristics of the study participants Altogether 7341 students participated in the survey Most of the students were females (63.8%), were of age 15 years or more (42.5%), and were in their 6th ... Forms 2–4) In the following factors, the "Never or Zero" category was recoded as "No" and the rest of the categories as "Yes" During the past 30 days, how often did you go hungry because there was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... implementing the wedge strategy under the auspices of the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture2 (13–14) Forrest thinks that the Wedge Document reveals the hidden agenda of the Intelligent ... exquisite balance of the fine structure constants and the apparent finetuning of the cosmos for life Nonetheless, according to ID, these suggestions about the likely identity of the designer are ... analogous to supposing that the complete history of a football team starts with the moment that the coach gathers together the players, thereby ignoring the important work the players had already...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... that the software failures are the exception rather than the trend [9] we tend to focus on the unusual things that go wrong because theyre more interesting or important than the run -of- the- mill ... draw rm conclusions If we ask whether the introduction of a knowledge management system improves the quality of software, only one of the studies, from the Software Engineering Laboratory gives ... staggering 31.1% of projects will be cancelled before they ever get completed Further results indicate 52.7% of projects will cost 189% of their original estimates The cost of these failures and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... in other parts of the Soviet Union said that the language used in the army was Russian Time in the army, then, had little impact on their proficiency in Tajik Six of the eight men with professional ... and 30, though the majority (27 out of 40) was under the age of 24 Table 19 summarizes the distribution of the sample among the proficiency categories Table 19: Proficiency Levels of Men and Women: ... into the previous sections divided by age These include the use of Tajik within the community of Lyangar, the role of Khorogh in Tajik exposure, and the use of Tajik with relatives The use of Tajik...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20

... that these percentages represent the percent of CSHCN who have these conditions, not the prevalence of the conditions in the population of children as a whole 0.3% 18 The National Survey of Children ... findings of the original 2001 survey However, in an effort to improve the survey, many of the survey s questions were revised or reordered, and some of the indicators have been re-defined, so some of ... private) that they have For children with insurance, the survey also assesses parents’ perceptions of the adequacy of that coverage To this, the survey measured whether the plan offers benefits...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... researchers from outside the government, helped to design the survey Further details on the planning and operation of the survey are given in a separate report (12) For Cycle of the NSFG, a national ... youngest child was 5–12 years of age, 20 percent of mothers of children 11–12 years of age allowed the child to care for her/himself at least part of the time while the mother was working For women ... marital status provided by the U.S Bureau of the Census The 10,847 women in the NSFG represent the 60.2 million women in the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States in 1995 Thus,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... than these of o-WO3 And the reason is that parameters of crystalline structure of m-WO3 are smaller than that of o-WO3 or the force constant in W-O bonds in the former is larger than in the later ... 30 – 35 nm Moreover the annealing process and the breakage of the double bonds W = O also result in the limit of the shift to the 680 cm-1 Thus, in the films WO3/ITO 300 nm nanocrystal phase does ... direction of o-WO3, vacant tunnels achieved the largest size of WO3 – perovskite In this research, all the peaks of WO3 film in XRD spectra are shifted to smaller diffraction angles than these ones of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 03:20

... The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau of the ACF + The Office of ... toward the intendedness of pregnancies based on their own reports (13) + Of all births in the years before interview, 55 percent were intended by both the mother and the father (as reported by the ... 97,98) The NSFG is one of the few reliable sources of nationally representative data on the use of infertility services Earlier reports have documented the rise in use of these services through the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... in the 12 months prior to the survey The table shows that 16% of the females and 20% of the males said they had ever tried alcohol Eleven percent of those females and 15% of those males had their ... shows the length of interview, privacy of interview and how well the interviewer thought the respondent understood the survey questions in general The duration of the interview can indicate the ... compared to 36% in the 2004 MDHS Furthermore, 52% of 15–19-year-old females in the 2004 MDHS had had sex at the time of the survey; the corresponding percentage was 37% in the 2004 MNSA The 2004 MDHS...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... families accounts for most of the care burden, support for the old often takes the form of living together Another included indicator of social relationships is widowhood Both of these are dichotomous ... study, the two ethnic groups of elders, Mainlanders and Taiwanese, differ in one key feature: migration experience The move of Mainlanders to the island of Taiwan in the aftermath of the Chinese ... between the two ethnic groups is found (in terms of the predictive value of the presence of any serious conditions related to mortality) That is, the association between the presence of any serious...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... and the remaining provinces or between age groups among the elderly Fully 95% of elders in the survey identify themselves as Buddhists The only other religion that constitutes more than 1% of the ... which the roof is made of thatch or other related natural material Differences in types of material used for roofs of the houses not differ much according to the sex, location, or age of the respondents ... asked them to assess their economic status relative to others in their community, the second whether their income was sufficient to meet their expenses, the third how satisfied they were with their...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence ... choices If they fail to secure one of their top three choices, they receive their branch by the Department of the Army Branching Model (DABM)and the branching board Cadets can receive one of their ... this report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) This research was conducted under the auspices of the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20