... settings, it lacks of empirical evaluations in Italy The lack of information on the construct validity and reliability of the instrument as well as the absence of utilities estimated in the Italian ... preclude its applicability The primary goal of our study was to assess the applicability, internal consistency, and construct validity of the Italian version of the EQ-5D in a random sample of the citizens ... sample) from the Registry of the North and South Health Authorities of the city of Bologna, Italy The adopted exclusion criteria were: people aged < 18 years, non residents of the two Health Authorities...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
Turnover: The Real Bottom Line
... close its eyes to turnover As long as the organization, and its management, ignores the turnover problem, it will not be able to reduce it or its negative effects on itself and its customers Despite ... and inhibit the departure of the more highly qualified performers The key to curbing exits is for managers to gain insight into employees' attitudes by understanding their personality traits and ... the right time and then training them properly is one of the most critical tasks any organization faces Good hiring and screening practices and effective job matches can expedite the speed with...
Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2012, 17:48
SAVINGS BANKS AND THE DOUBLE BOTTOM-LINE: A profitable and accessible model of finance doc
... all the other double bottom- line institutions taken together not quite match the deposit penetration of savings banks on their own So taking all double bottomline institutions as a group, in the ... people from ethnic minority backgrounds or unstable social situations and is particularly acute for women in either of these groups This comes from a mix of supplier insensitivity to the plurality ... deliver on their commitment to provide access: s they are the biggest single suppliers of accounts among double bottom- line institutions; s in the poorest fifth of countries where they operate they...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "The clinical aspects of the acute facet syndrome: results from a structured discussion among European chiropractor" pdf
... determine whether the facet joints were the source of pain These included injection of local anaesthetic into the joint itself or the nerves that innervate them, resulting in relief from pain if the pain ... rarely below the knee There was no information to be extracted from the workshop with regard to the intensity of pain, and interestingly, literature on this subject has not been found either One ... distinguish pain originating from the facet joint from pain originating from the discs During the discussion there was general agreement on the following Signs and symptoms which the chiropractors believed...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: "Impact of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on the patient and family: results from a European survey" ppsx
... the authors participated in a series of Advisory Board Meetings to assist with the design and development of the survey questionnaire The authors worked together to analyse the results from the ... treatments However, despite these limitations, the data gathered during this parent survey provides clinicians with a wealth of information on the effect of ADHD and its medication on the everyday life ... untreated, the most severe and long-lasting There are several limitations of this survey that must be noted Due to the design of the survey, the core selection criterion for ADHD was based solely on the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "Cost of acute renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: results from The Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Study" pps
... Public hospitals composed the majority of sites, followed by private and mixed facilities University-based hospitals were the most common, except in Australia, where large community hospitals predominated ... circuit cost The cost of extracorporeal circuits came from the blood lines and the dialyzers Data, from 24 centers, show that for most regions, the costs of dialyzers were much greater than the ... represents the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the total cost range The thick solid line represents the range difference between the median cost differences for CRRT and IRRT The thick white line represents the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21
From business strategy to IT action right decisions for a better bottom line
... provide the basis for using the Impact Questions to drive the right actions from IT 22 ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS IMPACT QUESTIONS: THE ROADMAP FOR THE RIGHT ACTIONS The Strategy-to -Bottom- Line Value ... continue to grow IT use and keep up with the growth of the business, and yet control the overall IT spend IT can increase its support of the business and its impact on the bottom line, but at current ... Focus on the Right Things The Goals and Principles for Right Decisions /Right Results Goal 1: Actionable, Commonly Understood Strategic Intentions Goal 2: The Right Bottom- Line Results from IT Goal...
Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 12:15
báo cáo hóa học: " The impact of itch symptoms in psoriasis: results from physician interviews and patient focus groups" pdf
... control the itch I would probably say maybe 60% of the time the itch can be controlled with one treatment, whether it be the shots or light therapy And then 40% of the time it' s not adequate, it' s ... and the more you scratch it, the worse it gets ( ) it just spreads." (Severe) "The worst is, for me, is just the itching The itch and the dry." (Severe) "My itching, it gets inflamed ( ) It spreads ... of Severity "By how much the patient describes the itch Like, if they say, it wakes me up at night, or it keeps me up at night, or it' s relentless, or it drives me crazy, I know the itch is severe...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20
báo cáo hóa học:" The impact of iron overload and its treatment on quality of life: results from a literature review" pptx
... and its treatment on patients Results Literature review At the onset of this review, 539 abstracts were screened, of which 409 were excluded because of the absence of search terms from either the ... throughout their life As a result, the impact on the parent can also be quite high since they have to endure the daily task of inserting a needle into their child and constant battles with their child ... pain from the injection site but rather awareness of the pump Patients complained of disrupted sleep because of the pump (3/9 [33%]), and that ICT interfered with nighttime activities Further,...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: "The incidence of hip, forearm, humeral, ankle, and vertebral fragility fractures in Italy: results from a 3-year multicenter stud" pptx
... (Riuniti Hospital), Rome (Tor Vergata University Hospital, St Camillo Hospital and St Giovanni Addolarata Hospital), Cagliari (University Hospital), Palermo (University Hospital), Bari (University ... different Northern, Central, and Southern regions of the country The hospitals involved in the survey were the following: Milan (Othopedic Institute “Gaetano Pini”), Turin (Maria Vittoria Hospital), ... Despite these observations, only limited data are available about the incidence of fragility fractures in the Italian population [10-13], particularly concerning fractures occurred in skeletal sites...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22
Overview of Plant Biotechnology from Its Early Roots to the Present
... cultures, it is now possible to define the rate-limiting step in biosynthesis by determining accumulation of presumed intermediates, characterizing the limiting enzyme activity, and probably relating it ... catalyze their formation The subsequent step is the selection of targets for further studies at the level of the genes This knowledge is also of interest in connection with studies on the role ... chiral compounds Despite some duplication in activity amongst enzymes, there is a need to characterize more of them in order to exploit their unique specificity and activity In this 10 A Kirakosyan...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
Diction - Find the Right Word, Not Its First Cousin
... then at that time The state was then very dry It is their book their belonging to them there place Put it there they're they are They're good friends to (prep.) distance Go to the corner too (adv.) ... Farther and further This one has kept Greta the Grammarian as busy as a mosquito in a nudist colony Here's the deal: farther means "fox"; further, "more forth, more to the fore." So it' s farther ... aural Take My Word for It Oral is spoken, rather than written And don't confuse oral (from the Latin word for "mouth") with aural (from the Latin word for "ear") Of course they're pronounced alike,...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 16:20
Tài liệu More power to the bottom line pptx
... be lost with the flick of a switch unless a reliable and flexible power distribution platform protects the vital cable equipment in the headend With many CMTS units featuring twice the throughput ... power There is no hard-and-fast rule–operators often go with the method that they are most comfortable with or the one that delivers the best-perceived value DC power costs more to deploy, but it ... to another provider if they are dissatisfied with the quality and reliability of their current service Cable television operators are subsequently revamping existing headends and hubs with DC-powered...
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Retrieve Results from SQL Server by Using the DataTable Object docx
... a copy of the form that was created in the first HowTo in this chapter Replace the btnLoadList Click event with the following code listed here in Listing 3.3 That's it After creating the SQL string ... How It Works When the user clicks on the btnLoadList button, the data adapter called odaCust is instantiated The data adapter is passed strSQL and the connection string that is created by the ... introduced in the first How-To in this chapter The data table is then filled, and then the DataSource, DisplayMember, and ValueMember properties of the ListBox control are assigned Comments Using the data...
Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Results From the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy doc
... deviation of 55 The NAAL health literacy scale did not include tasks that did not fit the definitions of prose, document, or quantitative literacy even if they were consistent with the definition of ... consisted of 12 prose, 12 document, and quantitative NAAL items.1 The health literacy items reflect the definition of health literacy as defined by the Institute of Medicine and Healthy People 2010 ... All these activities require, or are facilitated by, the ability to read and understand written and printed information The health tasks for the 2003 assessment were developed to fit into the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION RESULTS FROM THE WHO PROJECT “SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF HEALTH ASPECTS OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE” doc
... Nevertheless, either have the effects of other substances recently been reviewed or the conclusions from the Air quality guidelines for Europe (4) were considered to be generally still valid It ... size is quite common because size governs the transport and removal of particles from the air and their deposition within the respiratory system, and is at least partly associated with the chemical ... associated with mortality and other end-points such as hospitalization for cardiopulmonary disease, it is recommended that air quality guidelines for PM2.5 be further developed Revision of the guidelines...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu “Don’t spit in the well - you may need to drink from it!” -- Unknown, Russia. docx
... means that the synthetic hormones in the products interfere with the natural hormones in animals, especially fish that live in the water There has not been enough research to determine the effects ... pollutants that can be emitted from industries, though in some countries, companies who are over their limit can buy “pollution credit” from companies who are under the targeted amount Heat pollution ... flooding However, when the water runs off, it carries organic matter from the fertilizers straight into the creeks that feed Lake Winnipeg Agricultural practices in Manitoba are estimated to...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning the Latent Semantics of a Concept from its Definition" pptx
... weight equals to the sense pair similarity The final answer is chosen as the sense with maximum indegree Using the Indegree algorithm allows us to easily replace the sense similarity with wmfvec In ... run WMF on the definitions corpus, the similarity of two senses sj and sk can be computed by the inner product of Q·,j and Q·,k 2.3 A Nuanced Sense Similarity: wmfvec We can further use the features ... Semcor We tune the parameters in wmfvec and other baselines based on SE2, and then directly apply the tuned models on other three data sets Data: The sense inventory is WN3.0 for the four WSD data...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20