... results in a change in Y inthe opposite direction [46] Causal loops can be reinforcing (if, after going around the loop, it ends up with the same result as the initial balancing) or balancing (if the ... demand /need submodel was based on normative standards of needfor each specialty or group of specialties inthe baseline year and over the successive years Theneedfor specialists in Spain inthe ... to 2008, and on the foreign doctors certified for practice in Spain, whether or not inthe regional health systems In spite of the wealth of information forthe public health system, the total...
... such as the Indexing Services exploited by the Code Red variants, are running Foran auditor this is an important starting point in hardening a system By disabling unneeded services the likelihood ... decrypt the passwords Then, with a stolen password, the attacker can execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their ... you need a building permit, and part of the building permit process is a design review and an inspection The building permit process gives the organization an opportunity to ensure that the new...
... product labeling—and even the language contained in life and casualty insurance policies and bank loan agreements During these same hundred years there was an ongoing debate about the role and responsibility ... as the first stage inthe Project on Public Trust in Business an ongoing effort to engage other leading organizations in developing and implementing a long-term strategy to build and sustain ... be answered in order to make meaningful progress in increasing trust We begin by defining what we mean by “public trust in business.” We then address the core dynamics and strategies that can...
... than inthe other EU countries This means that theneedfor institutional care, pension costs and the expenses of the social and health services are increasing The report analyses the factors influencing ... taken into the study Of those cooking, laundry, cleaning and transactions outside home are classified as instrumental ADLs (IADL) and eating, washing, dressing and undressing, getting in and out ... organised in five tables The first table reports the probabilities for not using the service and the rest of the tables give the probabilities for using the services with certain intensity The...
... student Another said “They (physicians) present the subject inan interesting way.” But there were mixed opinions about the best way for SRH information to be given in school, whether through seminars ... laughter The information in this lesson is not tested in any examination The topic is discussed again in 12th-grade biology, inthe last year of secondary school Family planning and the impact ... before the training and 76 percent correctly after the seminars The girls scored 35 percent before the training and 80 percent after Both boys and girls had numerous misconceptions Before the...
... Activities in Southeast Asia Daniel C Indro and Malika Richards 171 National Culture in China and Multinationals’ Performance Ji Li 195 Entering Emerging Markets: Ignorance and Discovery Jan Johanson and ... a standard approach for many years beginning inthe early 1960s inthe Republic of Ireland We ponder whether that approach is now sufficient, inthe post–9-11 era, to maintain an increasing in ow ... speak) on the performance of multinationals operating in China He studied 85 multinational units operating in South China Of these subsidiaries Global Firms and EmergingMarketsinan Age of Anxiety...
... performing primary PCI for STEMI, and theneedfor PCI centers to achieve door-to-balloon times less than 90 minutes, has led to the strategy of performing culprit vessel PCI, even inthe setting ... STEMI, an EKG is an essential roadmap if the culprit vessel is visualized and then treated first before performing any other diagnostics In a retrospective study, Lachance and colleagues used the ... EKG to determine the culprit vessel in patients undergoing primary PCI for STEMI In one group, they imaged and then immediately percutaneously treated the culprit vessel before performing a complete...
... Activities in Southeast Asia Daniel C Indro and Malika Richards 171 National Culture in China and Multinationals’ Performance Ji Li 195 Entering Emerging Markets: Ignorance and Discovery Jan Johanson and ... a standard approach for many years beginning inthe early 1960s inthe Republic of Ireland We ponder whether that approach is now sufficient, inthe post–9-11 era, to maintain an increasing in ow ... speak) on the performance of multinationals operating in China He studied 85 multinational units operating in South China Of these subsidiaries Global Firms and EmergingMarketsinan Age of Anxiety...
... companies, and the listing of Indian firms on international exchanges The 1990s saw the launch of significant reform inthe realm of corporate governance in India For instance, changes were introduced ... relationship to the debt ratio inthe sample countries Overall, the authors find some support forthe Pecking Order hypothesis and the importance of information asymmetry inthe financing decisions ... firms in developing countries on short-term sources of financing; such financing sources have a different set of determinants than long-term debt Certainly, the variance in findings suggests the need...
... may therefore allow for optimized understanding and prediction of the fate of the individual RA patient There is recognition that clinical assessment (measuring and noting the change in index and ... occurring inthe joint, but these by themselves are also not sufficiently predictive With the exception of macrophage infiltrates, therefore, the composition and extent of the cellular infiltrate ... joint counts, the Simplified Disease Activity Index and the Clinical Disease Activity Index (reviewed in [9]) – have been shown useful for following disease activity and for serving as endpoints...
... provided in infancy and early childhood plays a crucial role inthe infants evolving brain structures, and their impact on emotion regulation [22], and their developing security of attachment [23] Insecure ... learning theory underlines the environmental antecedents and consequences for human behavior Therefore techniques of positive and negative reinforcement of child’s behavior, i.e praising and rewarding ... associated with an increased risk for child antisocial behavior There is also a significant body of research underpinned by the social and operant learning theory, addressing the relationship...
... Chang CH, Jerng JS, Yu CJ, Yang PC: Timing of tracheostomy as a determinant of weaning success in critically ill patients: a retrospective study Crit Care 2005, 9:R46-52 Garpestad E, Brennan ... of mechanical ventilation in Guillain-Barré syndrome Crit Care Med 2003, 31:278-283 Ambrosino N, Gabbrielli L: The difficult-to-wean patient Expert Rev Respir Med 2010, 4:685-692 Durbin CG: Tracheotomy: ... predict theneedfor prolonged mechanical ventilation in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome Crit Care 2011, 15:R65 Plummer AL, Gracey DR: Consensus conference on artificial airways in patients...
... management needs to be aware of the things that can go wrong There is no shortage of risks inemergingmarkets Many companies active in them say that the single biggest risk affecting their emerging- market ... maintaining them is the most powerful business intelligence tool inemergingmarkets It is as 29 EMERGINGMARKETS important for companies entering the market forthe first time as it is for those ... different performance criteria foremergingmarkets Managers operating inemergingmarketsneed to be judged according to different criteria from those operating in developed markets Performance criteria...
... learning Last but not least significance of the study lies inthe fact that it can bring the teachers, the students and the administrators the beliefs of using IT in language teaching and learning ... learning The researcher hopes that it would bring them positive beliefs on the use of information technology in their class and school Finally, the study then informs to the designers of the children‟s ... processes follow many of the same patterns There is an analysis phase normally included at the outset of the process during which theneedfor a learning intervention is determined During this stage,...
... mengurangkan kejituan saluran dijangka Selanjutnya, penganggaran saluran ini kemudian digunakan untuk menguji kesan penganggaran pandu menggunakan teknik penganggaran yang berbeza seperti Ralat Ganda ... ketahanannya terhadap Gangguan Antara Simbol (ISI) pembangunan penerima cekap dengan teknik penganggaran saluran yang tepat sangat penting untuk memudahkan ramalan isyarat yang diterima Pemodulatan ... diterbitkan berdasarkan teknik interpolasi lelurus dan kemudian disahkan menggunakan simulasi Prestasi Ralat Ganda Dua Min (MSE) dari teknik interpolasi ini kemudian dibandingkan dengan lima jenis interpolasi...
... Also, the difficulty in translating data in one format to another led to the segregation of organizations based on the data formats that they could handle Because of the problems in using binary ... stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the express ... by the brittleness of typical implementations Load balancing and fail-over Hard-coding the endpoints inan application results in another problem Specifically, there is no simple way foran RPC-based...
... Authority European Union Financial and Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority further education and training Forest Industry Education and Training Authority Food and Beverages ... over-rule other ministries and agencies (the Economic Planning Board of Korea and the Commissariat Général du Plan of France) In others, it assumed the form of a co-ordinating committee (the Industrial ... the economy, and inTheneedfor alignment between industrial and skills development policies | 15 general, ‘mastermind industrial policy’ It played an important role in launching and promoting...
... of China as of 20 December 1999 Data for France not include French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion Data forthe Netherlands not include the Netherlands Antilles Data forthe ... 60 million These are mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, sons and daughters, scratching out a life in shantytowns theworld over With the direct disadvantages of urban poverty ... Division Children inan increasingly urban world containing the city proper, suburbs and continuously The definition of ‘urban’ varies from country to country, and, DEFINITIONS Urban (area) settled...
... seldom inthe interminable 43 A sea-change index is defined by the IRI as the difference between the number of companies indicating a planned increase of more than 2.5 percent (allowance for inflation) ... incentives, including cutting the income tax rate in half for investors inthe relevant technologies.57 The European Union has shown an increased recognition of theneed to systematically plan ... dramatically increasing the Chinese economy s innovation capacity The Chinese five-year (2011-2015) plan calls for “cultivating and developing” these industries and the government plans to provide...
... of the specimen and have not included combined in- plane and out-of-plane loading • Testing of the performance of the building envelope with emphasis on system performance relative to window and ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... for Outstanding Contributions to Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, George Washington University; Award for Outstanding Contributions to Wind Engineering, Wind Engineering...