... less on the level of IT spending or on the technical skills ofthe IT staff and more on the degree of shared business-IT understanding the level common understanding between the IT andthe line ... investigating theconsequencesof shared understanding is based upon the resource based view ofthe firm (RBV) We believe that the development of shared understanding is rare, valuable and firm specific and ... processes and there are some areas of overlap between the different studies Specifically, each ofthe approaches includes aspects ofthe concept of IS management andthe ability to manage the business...
... USAID andtheOf ce of Federal Disaster Assistance The team evaluated the extent ofthe damage and assessed the needs ofthe victims [8] In addition to the government rescue efforts andthe donations ... hazard The term disaster refers to theconsequencesofthe hazard, and, particularly to the intersection ofthe hazard with the underlying vulnerabilities and capacities that shape the health of ... TheCausesand Behavioral Consequencesof Disasters TheCausesand Behavioral Consequencesof Disasters Experience 1950–2005 Sasha Rudenstine Department of Epidemiology Mailman School of Public...
... reported in the NSFG and live births registered on birth certificates in the years 1991–94 In each individual calendar year and for the sum ofthe years 1991–94, the NSFG estimate ofthe number of births ... older mothers, mothers living in the West, and mothers having intended births, than in the opposite groups Maternity Leave About 52 percent of mothers were employed around the time of their most ... new in the 1995 questionnaire households with black and Hispanic women in the 1993 NHIS were included in the NSFG Some ofthe ‘‘white and other’’ women from the NHIS were selected for the NSFG...
... The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation ofthe Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau ofthe ACF + The Office of ... funded by the following programs and agencies ofthe U.S Departments of Health and Human Services: + The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) + The Office of Population ... Cycle ofthe National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) with the support and assistance of a number of other organizations and individuals...
... subfamily ofthe Bcl-2 family involved in the initiation of apoptosis through the mitochondrial pathway The key event in the mitochondrial pathway is the release of proapoptotic factors from the mitochondrial ... apoptosis The mitochondrial release of cytochrome c and second mitochondria-derived activator of caspase (Smac ⁄ DIABLO) allows for the formation ofthe apoptosome, a complex that enables the activation ... there could be a link between EGF-induced reduction in Bid and tBid levels andthe ubiquitin ligase activity of Itch In this study, we first examined the ability of Itch to interact with Bid and...
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... to its own objectives of aggrandizement, the power and vast resources ofthe created coalition of elite who become bid advocates, andthe public buy-in to the mystique of hosting a ‘world-class’ ... populations The so-called Bid Book or Candidature File (volume 1, p 6) made it clear that every aspect ofthe Olympic process ‘should contribute to the upliftment and quality of life ofthe people ofthe ... Khayelitsha and is made up of a mixture of core houses, site and service plots, and serviced and unserviced shacks (Cook, 1992) Figure shows that the white areas are along the Tygerberg arm andthe Southern...
... ring there with Governor Norman ofthe Bank of England Whether the two have been discussing the stabilization ofthe pound andthe dollar, or the even tual return of both to a fixed gold standard, ... been composed ofthe currencies ofthe five members with the largest ex ports of goods and services The currencies and their weights in the basket are the U S dollar (42 per cent), the deutsche ... cent), andthe yen, French franc, and pound sterling (13 per cent each) The SDR serves as the official unit of account in keeping the books ofthe IMF It is designed, in the words ofthe Fund,...
... those ofthe bailiff: he looked after all the live and dead stock ofthe manor, saw to the manuring ofthe land, kept a tally ofthe day's work, had charge ofthe granary, and delivered therefrom ... freeholders; andthe territory is divided into demesne land and tributary land of two classes, viz that ofthe villeins and that ofthe freeholders The cultivation ofthe demesne (which usually means the ... meadow, andthe corn on their strips of tillage, both grass and stubble became common land and were thrown open for the whole community to turn their stock upon The size ofthe strips of land in the...
... [12] The aim ofthe present study was to determine the prevalence and types of patient safety incidents occurring in general practice in the Netherlands Page of Table Practices included Number of ... presented the results SG drafted the manuscript WV, HL, CvW, RW and MW contributed to the conception and design ofthe study and revised the manuscript MW supervised the study All authors read and ... 140,325) There were 1.8 million hospital admissions in the Netherlands in 2007 This estimate lies within the range of previous studies concerned only with medication errors in the Netherlands and...
... relative importance ofthe various kinds of data written to disk, both in terms of how much ofthe live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of how much ofthe data written to the log they represent ... delay the cleaning a while and let more ofthe blocks die in the current segment The value of a segment’s free space is based on the stability ofthe data in the segment Unfortunately, the stability ... writes, then reads the file back sequentially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth...
... very specialized audience State -of -the- art researchers need this kind of detailed mathematics to understand the theoretical implications ofthe work A basic premise of this book is that most practical ... word in the incoming audio signal is isolated and then analyzed to identify the type of excitation and resonate frequencies These parameters are then compared with previous examples of spoken ... away at the speed of light Aircraft in the path of this wave will reflect a small portion ofthe energy back toward a receiving antenna, situated near the transmission site The distance to the object...
... patterns Whether these are activated depends on the social demands placed on the individual by the way of life of their community These determine the situational contexts evocative ofthe social ... see the rise of psychology andthe application of its psychometric methods to the study of social phobia The first scale for the measurement of social anxiety À the psychological construct at the ... if the above definitions ofthe two terms andthe distinctions drawn between them were of interest and perhaps of some clinical value, they would hardly be meaningful so far as research and theory...
... referral) may depend on the nature ofthe condition, whether the referral is for reasons of diagnosis and/ or treatment, the preference ofthe provider, andthe relationship between the providers Medical ... situation, that the point of referral may depend on the familiarity or relationship between the providers, and that the nature ofthe referral (e.g., amount and type of information accompanying the referral) ... group composed of both chiropractic and medical professionals The goals ofthe focus group were to explore the attitudes and experiences of medical and chiropractic clinicians regarding their patients...
... Department of State A few ofthe groups on the official list, however, are guerrilla organizations These include the FARC, the LTTE, andthe PKK To be sure, the FARC, the LTTE, andthe PKK engage ... justification for their killing of other Jews was that these killings demonstrated theconsequencesofthe immorality of collaborating with the Roman invaders, and that the Romans could not protect their ... communications, and so forth Whereas the skills ofthe elite terrorist commandos ofthe 1960s and 1970s were often limited to what they learned in training camp, the terrorists ofthe 1990s who...
... criteria of good tests and theoretical ideas on test reliability and validity as well as achievement tests Chapter 3- The study is the main part ofthe thesis showing the context ofthe study andthe ... assessment ofthe test reliability and validity These conclusions are as follows: The test with chosen items is compatible with the aims ofthe courses andthe objectives ofthe syllabus andthe test ... kind of software in a server Before the examinations, the person who is in charge of preparing the tests will use the software to mix the test items in the item bank and print out the tests All the...