... time-points. Whatis clear from this and other studies is thatthere is a clear association between certain components of nurses job satisfaction and intention to stay (or leave) the profession or ... found strong relationships between inten-tions and turnover, evidence of a relationship between development and turnover in one model and evidence of relationships between a small number of first-order ... months the association between sat-isfaction with staffing and intent to quit at 3 years wasweak and positive therefore dissatisfaction with staffing,for this cohort, was transitory. Shaver and...
... test the hypothesis of homogene-ity of MID across the nine studies. If there was no statisti-cal evidence of lack of homogeneity, a 95% confidenceinterval for the summary estimate ofthe MID ... worsening of health (global change of 1or 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 ... several problems withthe globalassessment of change including, that the reliability and validity ofthe global scale has not been established and that the judgement of change is psychologically...
... tests PSA whatisthe difference between total PSA and free PSA? What isthe normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen in the blood that there is no ... made in the prostate gland in ductal cells. These cells make some ofthe semen that comes out ofthe penis during sexual climax (orgasm). PSA helps to keep the semen liquid.PSA is measured ... cancer.Source(s):http://cancer.about.com/od/prostatecance…http://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/…http://www.psa-rising.com/med/info/psa.h…PSA is a protein produced by the cells ofthe prostate gland. The most frequently used PSA - prostate-specific antigen test - isthe total PSA, which measures the...
... in the study, andthe statistical methods used for data analy-sis. The statistical methods limited the generalizability of our results. Another potential limitation is that there maybe other ... predictive of anxiety and coping strate-gies used that were not considered in this analysis.ConclusionBecause ofthe non-random and small sample size of thisstudy, the generalizability ofthe results ... habits and overeating have alsocontributed to the rise in chronic illnesses. Consequently,diabetes is one ofthe most challenging and burdensomechronic diseases ofthe 21st century, and it is...
... The characteristic ofthe linguistic approach is the design ofthe multilevel structures, while the grammar formalism isthe tool (notation) for expressing these multilevel structures, their ... tion ofthe sentences, andthe (possibly non-pro- jective) correspondence between subtrees of each tree and substrings ofthe related sentence. The grammar formalism is motivated by the linguistic ... sentences, andthe nature ofthe correspon- dence betweenthe two. In this paper, we present only the grammar formalism ; a discussion on the linguistic approach can be found in [Vauquois 78] and...
... quantitativemanner therelationshipbetween class andthe gender divisionof labor in the household. The basic objective of this chapter, then, is to explore empirically the relationshipbetween class andthe ... the problem from therelationshipbetween family-class location and gender to therelationshipbetween class structure as such and gender. Instead of asking how the gender divisionoflabor withinfamilies ... working-classegalitarianism hypothesis, the class culture hypothesis andthe classbargaining power hypothesis ± and at best very limited support inSweden for Hypothesis 2, the petty bourgeois inegalitarianism...
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