the use and misuse of surveys in policy analysis

... useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination ... associated with the use of the vaccine in these persons In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated BCG vaccination is not recommended for inclusion in immunization or ... Control and Prevention The role of BCG vaccine in the prevention and control of tuberculosis in the United States: a joint statement by the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis and the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... On the other hand, in the far Northeast, along the Mekong River, over 2030 mm is received annually Variation in the average amount of rainfall is therefore notable in the Northeast During the ... Research Institute of Thailand (RRIT) and the Office of the Rubber Replanting Aid Fund (ORRAF) The RRIT works under the Department of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives), and its ... pineapple and upland rice (RRIT 2005) Cherdchom et al (2002) reported four main integrated rubber farming systems in the South of Thailand emerging during the financial crisis in the late 19 1990's The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... syndrome of joint pain accompanied by varying degrees of functional limitation and reduced quality of life It is the most common form of arthritis and one of the leading causes of pain and disability ... guideline 5.1 Full guideline The full guideline, ‘Osteoarthritis: national clinical guideline for the care and management of osteoarthritis in adults’ contains details of the methods and evidence used ... regarded as a single drug class of ‘NSAIDs’, these recommendations continue to use the two terms for clarity, and because of the differences in side-effect profile The recommendations in this section...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

... the binding of HB-19 Similarly, the iron-binding hTf had no effect On the other hand, bLf inhibited the binding of HB-19 to cells In accordance with the involvement of both lobes of hLf in the ... Properties of the iron-binding site of the N-terminal lobe of human and bovine lactotransferrins Importance of the glycan moiety and of the non-covalent interactions between the N- and C-terminal lobes ... general, the crosslinking of a ligand leads to the clustering or capping of its surface receptor Accordingly, we investigated the distribution of surface nucleolin following the crosslinking of bound...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... 14 Growth and profile of the nursing profession 15 Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za The growth of nursing as a profession 15 The growth of nursing in numbers 16 Profile of the profession ... changes in the public institutional landscape, including the closure or merger of colleges and an increasing emphasis on university education of nurses; • changes in the locus of training, with the ... main divisions: the public sector and the private sector The dotted lines in the second oval in Figure 1.1 indicate the proportions of nurses working in each of these sectors: about 60% of the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20

... varicosities in trunks of the PO Cloning and sequencing of PO-CHH cDNA The first PCR of PO cDNA with a combination of a set of primers LF1 and LR1 (Table 1) produced an amplicon of 500 bp On the basis of ... hypoxia caused downregulation of the hemocyanin gene in the hepatopancreas in the same species [46] Moreover, the degree of decrease in CHH expression in the ES is in proportion to that of CCAP ... release of CHH from SG in the ES, as described in Chung & Webster [24] With these observations, it would be interesting to see if in vitro incubation of the ES in high-glucose media causes the inhibition...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... − use routine outcome measures and ensure that the person with depression is involved in reviewing the efficacy of the treatment − engage in monitoring and evaluation of treatment adherence and ... you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless? − During the last month, have you often been bothered by having little interest or pleasure in doing things? NICE clinical guideline ... • use routine outcome measures and ensure that the person with depression is involved in reviewing the efficacy of the treatment NICE clinical guideline 90 – Depression 15 • engage in monitoring...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... are the alleviation of poverty in the world, the sustainability of our planet, the reinforcement of human rights, and international peace and security The efforts of the Netherlands during the ... Voorhoeve in the International Spectator are telling, even if he puts them into perspective in the articles themselves: they range from The Diminishing Role of the Netherlands (1981), via The Netherlands: ... on the one hand and the need for individuality in the member states on the other Bilateral policy- making and 10 attached to the world seeking to influence opinions in other member states therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... examine the definitions of habitat and matrix, the impact of land -use change on populations and communities, and how dispersing individuals are affected by features and resources in the landscape ... area and number of individuals is increasing at the Northern boundary of the population Results show that there is an overall increase in the number of Clouded Apollo in Estonia, with 73% of all ... location of patches of larval (host-plant) and adult (nectar plant) resources affects the distribution of females and their larval offspring in the following year In the coastal population, where the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... understanding of sampling and spreads a certain amount of misinformation In his essay, ‘Sample and hold: pop music in the digital age of reproduction’, Andrew Goodwin frets over the increasing difficulty ... in distinguishing human- from machine-generated music and unleashes a barrage of incriminating descriptors of sample-based music, such as: ‘orgy of pastiche’, ‘stasis of theft’, and ‘crisis of ... just because of the issue of theft, but through the increasingly automated nature of their mechanisms’ (Goodwin 1990: 262; emphasis in the original) More recently, a New York Times article in 2001...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... within the scope of the guideline Details are therefore given of the remaining 58 studies Settings Of the 58 studies, 47 reported the effect of interventions in participants living in the community ... The use of padding worn around the hip has been advocated as a measure of reducing the impact of the fall and thereby the chance of fracturing the hip The fracture is usually the result of a ... to declare interests at the beginning of each GDG meeting This information is recorded in the meeting minutes and kept on file at the NCC-NSC 15 THE ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION OF FALLS IN OLDER...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... help in educating the network engineers involved in the testing about the feature or network they are going to be deploying and soon supporting Second, it will help you document the part of the ... examines many of the business and technical considerations when developing an organizational testing strategy The chapter includes a business cost analysis of building, staffing, and operating ... separately managed infrastructures to handle them On the contrary, companies are demanding that their existing converged networks be capable of handling the demands of TelePresence and other next-generation...

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... rates of HPs who withdrew from hospital work in each of the classes of 1970, 1980 and 1990 The numbers of HPsin the classes of 1970, Table 2: Descriptive statistics of the classes of 1970, 1980 and ... 1984; F2, the number between 1985 and 1994; F3, the number between 1995 and 2004 n1, the number of physicians working in clinics in 1974; n2, the number in 1984; n3, the number in 1994; n4, the number ... number of physicians applying for work in cardiovascular surgery Possible impact of changes in initial clinical training system Japan introduced a new clinical training system in 2004, and this...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... farmers and FCRI staff understanding of the dynamics of both domestic and export markets and the various means farmers have of collectively manipulating the supply of potatoes (and prices) to the ... counterparts as the results of the trials and training became evident 3.5 Monitoring of project In the initial design of the project, monitoring was to be carried out by team members during visits ... was conducted providing an insight into the margins made in the sale of ware potatoes to Ho Chi Minh and the reasoning behind choice of seed It had been envisaged that business plans would be...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... facilitate the entry of LABS into the stomata of P halepensis Mill when the surface tension is low The greater value of accumulation coefficient (Aww2min) of LABS in the cuticular waxes gests in the ... on swelling and hydration of the isolated cuticular membrane, which contribute to the increase of the diffusivity Recently, Jetter and Riederer (1994) interpreted the alterations of the fine structure ... by the occurrence of other pollutant substances, or across microfissures of the cuticle, caused by the insects, the action of phytopathogen organisms or the impact of sand and dust ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... with the variation of roburins A and C Roburin A increases in concentration during the first 10 years of ageing and roburin C over the first 30 years, before each declines again in older wood Grandinin ... casks varies according to the geographic origins of the oak wood used in their construction Although the role of the hydrolyzable tannins in influencing flavour is uncertain (Viriot et al, 1993), ... trees DISCUSSION The increase in the concentrations of roburins A, C and possibly other dimers during the first 10-30 years of ageing are due to their synthesis from other tannins (Viriot et al,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... achieve the goal of improving the quality of patient care through the use of autoantibody testing and analysis The matrix of manufacturing and application of autoantibody diagnostic kits (Fig 1) The ... cause for these shortcomings; however, the use of commercial kits and their appropriate application in a clinical setting involves a rather complex chain of constituencies and events The factors ... assurance and accreditation programs (Table 2) One of the key problems in the interpretation of the ANA result is the content and design of the test report The information contained in a report...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... an increasing use of Science and technology of materials in automotive engines fuel injection In a petrol engine the fuel is normally injected into the inlet manifold behind the inlet valve The ... rotation The combustion of the air-fuel mixture takes place in the chamber formed between the piston and the cylinder head The piston then moves up and down in the cylinder via combustion pressure and ... valves into the combustion chamber The repulsive force of the valve spring drives the backward motion The valves and valve seats fitted in the cylinder head then seal the combustion gas The following...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 12:21