... can bemade more readable, and other factors which couldaffect how patients interact with print. The results showthat although some changes can make print materialsmore understandable, health ... Doctor-patient communication inrheumatology: Studies of visual and verbal perception usingeducational booklets and other graphic material. Annals of theRheumatic Diseases, 45 (3), 198-209. Pardini, ... (Reid, Davis 199 8a) .What factors affect patients’ use or disregard of print materials? A few studies noted that people understand and remember what is important to them, yet the kinds of information...
... to a statistical tool that allows for i solation of a pattern of the data — the signal — out of noisy or raw time-series data.16 35/2009 Yuliya Demyanyk – Iftekhar Hasan Financial crises and ... efficientfor the evaluation of bank failure as early as four y ears before it occurs.The authors also compare UTAD IS with other traditional multivariate dataanalysis techniques and find that UTADIS performs ... hastic DE A. Kao and Liu (2004) formu late a DEA m odel of in terval data for use inevaluating the performance of banks. Their study makes adv ance predictions of the performance of 24 Taiw an...
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... circumstances can the companies use money to motivate managers and accountants on effort and task performance? What happens if monetary incentives are not parallel with managers and accountants’ ... purpose of work of managers and accountants is mainly due to money and they are motivated on performance by monetary incentive. H0: The purpose of work of managers and accountants is not mainly ... measures used as a basic for rewarding managers. For example, bonus is calculated based on percentage of after-tax profits of the previous year, percentage of after tax profits after adjustment...
... agudeza visual, grado de dificultad para caminar 300 metros, incapacidad pararealizar las actividades cotidianas debido a problemas de salud en las 2 semanas pre-vias y seropositividad a Trypanosoma ... esa relación se mantienedurante la edad avanzada. El objetivo de este trabajo fue examinar la asociación entrela situación socioeconómica y la salud en adultos mayores de una peque a localidadde ... symptoms, and self-rated health are more salient indica-tors of quality of life than specificdiseases. In addition, self-rated health and major depression have been foundRev Panam Salud Publica/Pan...
... memorials and back-to-school activities. Make mental health services available, including Employee Assistance Program, if applicable. Practice active listening and acknowledge pain and anxiety ... meeting as soon as practical to talk with staff and express support and caring. Practice active listening, allowing staff to safely vent and be heard. Make decision about classes the next day at ... professional. Have substitute teach-ers available to take over classes if teachers need a break. Before school starts, have a meeting with all staff, administrators and mental health professionals...
... numerical targets facilitate accountability, enabling the performance of the central bank to be assessed against its mandated yardstick (Jakob De Haan and Sylvester Eijffinger, 2000). Second, a ... significantly affects markets’ expectations, and thus interest rate futures.28 Parliamentary hearings affect futures rates in Australia, New Zealand, the UK (albeit only marginally), and the ... Gürkaynak, Sack, and Eric Swanson (2005) and Gürkaynak (2005), and also implemented in Claus Brand, Daniel Buncic and Jarkko Turunen (2006), employs indirect measures derived from financial market...
... through and for great contact, and that was his father's patron and patron saint, Washington. The appeal made to the lad's imagination by the great Virginian, was deep and abiding. And ... so grave a cause. He was assisted by William Wirt, already a brilliant lawyer and possessed ofa dazzling elocution, but sadly lacking in the majesty of years. At the head and forefront of the ... vitality and unclouded attention. What the author of the "Leviathan" remarks of himself may well be repeated of Marshall—that he made more use of his brains than of his bookshelves and...
... with his barge on the Jersey shore, and as the barge passed the Battery a salute of thirteen cannon was fired. At the landing-place a large company was gathered, and the coach that took her ... several States were available. The Government was without means of protecting the Indians against abuse and injustice or of protecting the settlers against the savage retaliations that naturally ... apprehend the murderers and bring them to justice, is obliged to make a representation to that of Pennsylvania; that of Pennsylvania, again, is to make a requisition of that of Virginia. And...
... HIV/AIDS (Ainsworth and Dayton 2001; Barnett and Blaikie 1992; Vanlandingham et al. 2000, WHO (World Health Organization) 2001). In a study of Tanzania, Ainsworth and Dayton (2001) found a short-term ... de-institutionalization rates and stagnant working age population. Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United ... 19Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States Getzen and...
... Education and HIV/AIDS: A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention ProgramsTanzaniaAMREF, LSHTM, and NIMR: MEMA Kwa Vijana ProgramThe African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), in collaboration ... transforming gender relations and harmful prac-tices. Participants — both male and female — evaluate for themselves the advantages and dis-advantages of current relations and practices, as ... and concerns.Copies of the manual and the video are available. Please see “AvailableMaterials” at the end of this chapter.Target Group MaterialsThe facilitator uses the Stepping Stones manual...
... white and Asian and Pacific Islander children (15 per 100,000) and childhood cancer mortality during the years 1990-1999 among African-American children was approximately 25% higher than that among ... plants and wastewater treatment facilities. The U.S. EPA has found PAHs in almost half of the 1,430 national priority hazardous waste clean-up sites, and benzo (a) pyrene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, and ... prostate cancer, and NHL (Hooiveld, et al., 1998). A study of the adult population of Seveso, Italy revealed an elevated occurrence of gastrointestinal cancer and cancers of lymphatic and hemopoietic...