... 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) fromthe 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...
... 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 ... theright 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...
... 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...
... 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 fromthe workshop with regard to the intensity of pain, and interestingly, literature on this subject has not been found either One ... distinguish pain originating fromthe facet joint from pain originating fromthe discs During the discussion there was general agreement on the following Signs and symptoms which the chiropractors believed...
... 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 theresultsfromthe ... 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...
... 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 fromthe 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...
... provide the basis for using the Impact Questions to drive theright actions fromIT 22 ASK THERIGHT QUESTIONS IMPACT QUESTIONS: THE ROADMAP FOR THERIGHT 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 thebottom line, but at current ... Focus on theRight Things The Goals and Principles for Right Decisions /Right Results Goal 1: Actionable, Commonly Understood Strategic Intentions Goal 2: TheRight Bottom- LineResultsfromIT Goal...
... 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...
... 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 fromthe 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,...
... (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...
... 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...
... 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,...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... Nevertheless, either have the effects of other substances recently been reviewed or the conclusions fromthe 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 fromthe 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...
... 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 fromthe fertilizers straight into the creeks that feed Lake Winnipeg Agricultural practices in Manitoba are estimated to...
... 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...