survey results and productivity

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Uncontrolled asthma has a significant impact on the HRQOL and productivity of children and on the QOL and work productivity of their caregivers, and has an impact on their families Abbreviations BP: ... Health and Human Services 2003, 7-5-2007 Environmental Hazards and Health Effects: Asthma’s Impact on Children and Adolescents Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and ... Hingson RW, Rosenbloom DL: A comparison of results from an alcohol survey of a prerecruited Internet panel and the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions Alcohol Clin Exp...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY PROMOTION kraP H gnuS ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY ORGANIZATION SIX SIGMA FOR QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY PROMOTION kraP H gnuS 2003 ASIAN PRODUCTIVITY ORGANIZATION © Asian Productivity ... units, quality, and eventually productivity Table 1.6 Productivity vs quality approach to improvement (a) Company A Before demand for 10% productivity increase After demand for 10% productivity ... projects and processes Most Six Sigma companies make use of spreadsheets and databases to collect, analyze, and track results Both standard software packages and tailor-made systems are used The results, ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/02/2013, 09:46

... firms and at government agencies, interested in measurement and improvement of productivity (as they all claim to be) Surveys would be administered under conditions of anonymity, and the results ... DEFINING WORKPLACE CULTURE, AND IDENTIFYING ITS ELEMENTS III INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY A DESIGN AND TESTING B APPLICATIONS C ADMINISTRATION OF THE SURVEY IV THE SURVEY I INTRODUCTION It should ... contribute to productivity Data can also be analyzed for similarities and differences between public- and private-sector workplaces Again, if said organizations are very dissimilar, and if the results...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2013, 16:10

... period: a What kind of land for growing at the beginning? (1) forest land (2) cultivated land (3) hired land b If it’s hired land, how much does this cost? c Does your land have tractor plough ... Trade and Tourism (2001) Project for Trade Planning and Development in Binh Phuoc Province, page 15 Dubois, O and Morrison, E (1999) “Land Use and Sustainable Livelihoods: The Example of Upland ... radio, and newspapers are effective, cheap and more importantly fair to both buyer and seller in transactions Unfortunately, farmer’s access to these sources is limited at low mean value and so...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 16:20

... and 6.4 per cent (for men) and 4.5 per cent and 8.9 per cent (for women) Hours worked decline by between 6.1 per cent and 6.9 per cent (men) and 3.9 per cent and 4.5 per cent (women) Andren and ... between productivity and wages in theory The question of interest is the effects of education and health status on labour productivity However, individuals’ productivity is difficult to observe and ... standardised for age and gender Source: Household, Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) Survey, Waves 1–5 EDUCATION, HEALTH AND WAGES How is health status expected to influence productivity? ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... downloadable public-use data and associated documentation in both SAS® and SPSS® formats Prior HINTS instruments and related survey materials including sampling plans, and survey implementation documentation ... HINTS results for each survey item in tabular and graphic form Conduct HINTS Research: The interactive HINTS Web site allows public health professionals and scientists to access the HINTS data and ... efficacy, and recognition and use of cancer information sources from HINTS 2003 and HINTS 2005 Estimates presented in this report are from health communication, cancer communication, and cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... and Smith and Smith [1977] and have since been echoed and extended in works such as Abiteboul and Hull [1987], Brodie [1984], King and McLeod [1985b], and Tsichritzis and Lochovsky [ 19821 Historically, ... Lochovsky [1982], and the collection of articles that comprise Brodie et al [1984] Also, Afsarmanesh and McLeod [ 19841, King and McLeod [ 1985b], and Semantic Database Modeling Maryanski and Peckham ... mechanisms for viewing and accessing the schema at different levels of abstraction [Hammer and McLeod 1981; King and McLeod 1985a; Smith and Smith 1977; Su 1983; Tsichritzis and Lochovsky 19821...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:22

... farmers, and researchers Water balance approaches have been successfully used to study water use and productivity at the basin level (for example, Owen-Joyce and Raymond 1996; and Hassan and Bhutta ... savings and increasing water productivity; developing a better understanding of present patterns of water use and impacts of interventions; improving communication among professionals and communication ... Objectives This paper presents concepts and definitions necessary to account for water use, depletion, and productivity The accounting procedures and standards given here are designed to be universally...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... output, L is labour, K is capital and T is land The out put growth (gY) was driven by population growth (gL), investment (gK) and land growth (gT) and increases overall productivity (gf) Smith suggested ... heterogeneity is typically; managerial quality and structure, brand image, and market networks, the ethnicity, the year and location etc (Wang and Tsai- 2002, Kwon and Inui-2003) The conventional fixedeffects ... Sassenou (1991); R&D and Productivity: A survey of Econometric studies at the firm level NBER working Paper No W3666 30 Jiann-Chyuan Wang and Kuen-Hung Tsai (2002): Productivity Growth and R&D Expenditure...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... Casacuberta and de la Higuera, 2000; Lyngsø and Pederson, 2002; Udupa and Maji, 2006; McDonald and Satta, 2007; DeNero and Klein, 2008, inter alia) Of special relevance to this paper is Abe and Warmuth ... probabilities of the rules VYr → y and VYr → 1−y ¯ to and VYr → y and VYr → − y to The rest ¯ of the weights for Sφj → Sφj−1 Aj are set to This assignment of rule probabilities results in a Viterbi parse ... } and D(G) = {z} This implies that p(z | θ φ , sφ ) = If φ is unsatisfiable, then for the optimal θ of ViterbiTrain we have z and z such that < p(z, sφ | θ φ ) < and < p(z , sφ | θ φ ) < 1, and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... which includes standard news articles, graphics, editorials, LEAD=BODY, letters/Q&A columns, and music and book reviews; lists; newsbriefs; and television program transcripts) • Results United ... between ANES and Leading Text Searchable LEAD document processing software consists of a 500-statement PL1 program and a 23rule sentence and paragraph boundary recognition grammar, and operates ... Brandow et al (1995) reported The results for lists and newsbriefs were not surprising Such documents seldom have logical leads Lists primarily consist of several like items, such as products and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... accuracy scores on Hungarian and English are almost equal: 97.2 and 97.3, respectively This also explains the small difference between the results got by gold-standard and predicted POS tags Moreover, ... between the top performing English and Hungarian systems were 8.14 ULA and 9.3 LAS The results reported in 2007 were significantly lower and the gap between English and Hungarian is higher than our ... – instead of open and closed tag sets – in a standard sequential POS tagger Here, we applied the Conditional Random Fields-based Stanford POS tagger (Toutanova et al., 2003) and carried out 5-fold-cross...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... displacement of the contact point between the workpiece and the grinding wheel due to the presence of defects on the blade and on the regulating wheel ε ′ and (1-ε ) are coefficients that relate the movement ... workpiece and the regulating wheel and other minor effects In throughfeed grinding (Figure 3), α angle remains constant, but β varies as the workpiece goes through the path between both wheels and ... different workpiece heights: 0.75 mm, 3.5 mm and 9.5 mm Other configuration parameters are: blade angle 30º, wheels and workpiece diameters 632 mm, 310 mm and 33 mm respectively, λ0 3º, ωr 49 min-1,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... with N=20 firms and T=10 time periods, this would provide 20×(3×10-2) = 560 LP’s Results on each and every firm for each and every adjacent pair of time periods can be tabulated, and/ or summary ... Models, mimeo, Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, University of New England, Armidale Coelli, T.J and S Perelman (1996), “A Comparison of Parametric and Non-parametric Distance Functions: ... combinations C and D are the two efficient DMU’s which define the frontier, and DMU’s A and B are inefficient DMU’s The Farrell (1957) measure of technical efficiency gives the efficiency of DMU’s A and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... ventilation and result in loss of productivity and absenteeism (Curwell et al., 1990) The health and comfort should be addressed as below: advise and guidance on environmental design, control and maintenance" ... engineers and scientists expert in health and comfort, air conditioning, environmental control 8.1 Regulations and standards There is no separate body for environmental laws in England and Wales ... occupant complaints and illnesses which can lead to lowered morale, loss of productivity and even absence from work (Singh, 1994b) The combined effect on productivity, absence from work and staff turnover...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... standard land value is updated each year with the reporting date 1st January The most common types of standard land prices are values for: agricultural and forest areas rural and urban areas trade and ... standard land value Products from the Purchase Price Collection made from the land valuation board are the price contour maps In the price contour maps you can find a standard land value This standard ... transparency in the real estate market TAXATION (LAND TAX) The finance ministry of the lands Bavaria and Rheinland-Pfalz have worked out a new concept for land taxation in Germany The target is to simplify...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20

... independent of the demand for health care, and the demand for health care (or the demand for “health”) is one of a set of demands for different commodities, of which some have positive and some negative ... Frank, Berndt, and Busch (1999) and Berndt, Cockburn, and Griliches (1996) on the What’s Different about Health? 53 treatment of depression and depression pharmaceuticals, and Shapiro and Wilcox ... include Cooper and Rice (1976), Hodgson and Kopstein (1984), and Hodgson and Cohen (1998) These accounts are summarized in table 1.3 Classi3cation Matters There are of course thousands of diseases,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... Weighted Lead Health Education Teacher Survey Results 15 Percentage of schools that provided parents and families with health information designed to increase parent and family knowledge of the following ... Percent 95% Confidence Interval g How to access valid and reliable health information, products, and services related to HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy High Schools Middle Schools Junior/Senior ... family, and social and cultural norms on sexual behavior High Schools Middle Schools Junior/Senior High Schools All schools NA 145 22 167 NA 63 54 62 NA 55 - 69 38 - 70 55 - 68 i Communication and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20