... control, and statistical processes to evaluate the impact of initiatives [123] A strength of this review was the quality appraisal of reporting excellence using the newly established SQUIRE guidelines ... creation of a valid, useful knowledge and evidence base for quality and safety This will require improved conceptions ofthe nature of quality and safety issues, an understanding ofthe mechanisms ... provider and system outcomes This review revealed that the foci within each ofthe dimensions of quality, the interventions implemented by teams, the composition of teams, and the context in which initiatives...
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... explaining the gradient The size of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of behaviors rather than only behaviors in the immediate past In the former case, we find that the ... εicgbt (24) where X is a vector of controls, B the vector of behaviors, ε isthe error term, i denotes the individual, c the country, t the year ofthe interview, g gender, and b isthe birth cohort ... males) While the precision ofthe estimates ofthe effects of behaviors declines with respect to the micro data, we cannot reject the null hypothesis that these effects are jointly statistically significant...
... this study therefore retains its status as a high quality evaluation This decision is discussed further in section 5.4 what isthe impact of microfinance on poor people? sy n thesis Synthesis ... incomes (and there are plenty of opportunities for this failure to occur), then the number of MFIs islikely to increase The proliferation of MFIs may therefore be a symptom ofthe failure of micro-credit ... of microfinance (Bateman 2010) Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a The impact of microfinance on the incomes ofthe poor b The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/ wealth of...
... experience is expected to be; scientists… provide a test of whether this criterion is fulfilled.”2 Or consider the case of neuroaesthetics This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often defined as the ... One way of answering this question is to reflect on the goal of aesthetic science The psychologist Rolf Reber recently suggested that “art theorists… define the criterion ofwhatthe [aesthetic] ... function—in this case it relies on the identification ofthe mirror-neuron system—and that it is on the basis of that knowledge that the hypotheses can be tested It is therefore clear from this example...
... seen, there may be several distinct derivations that generate the same parse tree The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum ofthe probabilities of its distinct derivations Let tid be the ... computation ofthemost probable parse (in fact, the problem of computing themost probable parse in DOP1 is NP-hard -see Sima'an 1999), his method does allow for an efficient computation ofthe "maximum ... themost probable parse from the 1,000 most probable derivations, summing up the probabilities of derivations that generate the same tree Although this heuristic does not guarantee that the most...
... remember his various visits to Groningen, many hilarious meals together, and his wise counsel and encouragement The dedication of this special issue of this Journal to him justly pays further tribute ... run high in the area ofthe free movement of goods.22 All of these three aspects feature in the trio of spectacular cases on the use of goods,23 which form the subject-matter of this 20 See LAURENCE ... by the ECJ, with a specific examination ofthe extent ofthe obstacle to intraCommunity trade caused by the measure limiting access to the market.”85 On the basis of this approach, Mr Bot then...
... NOTICE: The project that isthe subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board ofthe National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, ... for those who wish to conduct further research on the influence ofthe NSES This publication includes a summary ofthe workshop, the five commissioned review papers, a master list of all references ... align with the vision set forth in the standards? Then, they asked three more questions: Whatisthecurrent national status of science education? What changes have occurred as a result ofthe NSES?...
... establish the interpretability ofthe SF6D, a new single summary preference-based measure of health derived from the SF-36 The SF-36 is one ofthemost widely used HRQoL outcome measures in the ... worsening of health (GRoC of or 2) the sign ofthe change in the SF-6D score was reversed (i.e multiplied by minus one) The MID was then taken as the mean change on the SF-6D scale ofthe patients ... SF-6D is a continuous measure of effect we used meta-analytic methods to estimate the weighted grand mean ofthe MID and to test the hypothesis of homogeneity of MID across the nine studies If there...
... – this is some distance back and where the crater is formed The position for this highest isothermal region can vary, depending upon the feedrate For example, if the feedrate is increased, the ... status ofthe tooling within the manufacturing facility, this allows for a tooling rationalisation campaign to be developed Tool rationalisation (Fig 1) consists of looking at the results ofthe ... rationalise the tools within thecurrent production facility, it is essential to conduct a thorough appraisal of all the tools and associated equipment with the company This tooling exercise will...
... overall development strategy ofthe business Staff are not trained or not trained fit isthe main cause leading to thecurrent state enterprises are not competitive enough in the market 2 Conflict ... performance of an individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work culture ofthe organization that brings Increase work efficiency Therefore the employee in the company ... Effective leadership is one key element in the success of a managers to manage people 3 LEADERSHIP So good leader you need to know listen openly to others, provide and accept the offer constructive...
... more precise prevalence estimate However, this isthe first study in this area Our findings raise issues for the planning of studies and ethical issues related to the obligation ofthe physician-researcher ... data, the cost of this is difficult to predict This islikely to be especially relevant in large studies examining healthy asymptomatic participants For example, the Osteoarthritis Initiative is ... to the purpose ofthe imaging, are not missed There may be a number of ways of providing this function apart from review by a musculoskeletal radiologist or other suitably trained specialist...
... a role in the aetiology ofthe disease itself [44] Disease stage and phase of therapy In PSV, and especially in SVV, the therapeutic approach usually consists of an induction of remission and ... and higher GC doses, are utilised Furthermore, in SVV the selection of drugs depends on the stage ofthe disease: in the localised and early systemic stage - that is, disease without threatened ... PCP incidence of 6% in a cohort of 180 WG patients PCP occurred during induction of remission Estimating the risk of PCP during induction of remission is further complicated as therapeutic strategies...
... above the umbilicus The SAAT was defined as the thickness between the skin-fat interface and the linea alba, and the VAT was defined as the distance between the anterior wall ofthe aorta and the ... increased strengthens this hypothesis and proposes this measurement as a non-invasive parameter to weigh the grass-roots low-grade chronic inflammatory process Discussing the limitations ofthe present ... presuppose the obesity as if it was thecauseof IR; this fact is supported by the clear association between the inflammatory status (CPR levels and spleen volume) and the HS score Could the high...
... transplantation In the cases of graft failure, brain death and infection ofthe donor lung, reduced surfactant function is aggravated by preservation ofthe graft, ischaemia and reperfusion Therefore, ... in prospective randomized trials, so what justification is there for the use of these approaches in lung transplantation? A body of evidence has been established that indicates that surfactant ... substitution of surfactant may bridge the patient to recovery ofthe graft The combination of iNO and surfactant proved to be successful in experimental severe reperfusion injury [15], strengthening...
... renal rather than hepatic mechanisms 436 The pathogenesis of hyperammonaemic encephalopathy is still incompletely understood, and a detailed discussion ofthe topic is beyond the scope of this review ... Conversely, there is no evidence for accumulation of valproylCoA in brain tissue, suggesting that the effects of VPA in the CNS are independent ofthe formation of this metabolite [80] Development of ... elimination via the urea cycle in the liver [19,24] This effect appears related to the dose of VPA [73] As acetyl-CoA stores are depleted, the synthesis of NAGA – an important cofactor of CPS I –...