... asthma diagnosis is nowadays shared, but was more lax 15 years ago than today, which introduces a possible bias since many of the NA cases were early diagnosed Yet, there are balancing trends as well, ... primary care as well as hospital care from this study is not to underestimate the importance of good communication between the patient and the care-giver Conflict of Interest The authors have declared ... Olsen-Faresjö Å, Kjellman M N-I, Faresjö T Cumulative incidence of asthma diagnosis at the age of seven in a birth cohort Eur J Gen Pract 1999; 5: 71-74 Roel E, Olsen-Faresjö Å, Zetterström O, Faresjö...
... lowPPE firms use more short-term debt and contribute more to the trend in debt maturity than high-PPE firms Thus, low tangibility firms and R&D-intensive firms are using more short-term debt than they ... present some results using the proportion of total debt maturing in morethan years (debt maturity 5) We drop observations for which ´ Please cite this article as: Custodio, C., et al., Whyare US ... firms are expected to have a higher degree of information asymmetry and, therefore, to use more short-term debt The median debt maturity is morethan two times greater for rated firms (75%) than...
... to determine whether some models perform better thanothers We find that some business models are much more common than others, and that some do, indeed, perform better thanothers For example, ... market value — some business models do, indeed, perform better thanothers Furthermore, business model classifications are better predictors of these measures of financial performance than two-digit ... single right way to distinguish different types of business models But some typologies are certainly better—or more useful thanothers In developing our typology, we focused particularly on trying...
... that foreign banks aremore efficient than domestic private banks and – surprisingly – that domestic private banks are not more efficient than domestic public banks These results are not driven by ... Schoors and Laurent Weill Are private banks more efficient than public banks? Evidence from Russia Alexei Karas, Koen Schoors and Laurent Weill Are private banks more efficient than public banks? Evidence ... banks aremore efficient than laterprivatized banks Kraft, Hofler and Payne (2006) study the Croatian banking system and find that new private and privatized banks are not more efficient than...
... 'peace contract' did not appear at all;'to sign a treaty' appeared 79 times while none of the other three alternatives appeared morethan twice Thus we firstprefer 'treaty'to 'contract' because ... they appeared in the same syntactic relation as in the ambiguous sentence For the above example, among the successfully parsed sentences of the corpus, the noun compound 'peace treaty' appeared 49 ... take the point of view that some ambiguity problems are easier to solve at the level of the target language instead of the source language The source language sentences are considered as a noisy...
... would be critical Conversely, if systems aremore important, focusing on better service delivery would yield effectiveness In Kenya, morethan 90% of mothers take their infants for routine immunizations ... with HIV-1 HIV-1-positive mothers were more likely to have a non-facility delivery than HIV-1-uninfected mothers (31.0% vs 24.3% p=0.009) (Table 3) Among HIV-1-infected mothers, those who did not ... to child transmission interventions in Kenya: health systems aremore influential than stigma John Kinuthia1§, James N Kiarie1,5, Carey Farquhar2,3,5, Barbra A Richardson3,6, Ruth Nduati7, Dorothy...
... book is a more important source of knowledge than experience Knowledge from such source is proven less errors and less time to gain Knowing the value of books, people should spend more time of ... impossible for one to obtain such knowledge through experience An additional reason why knowledge from books is estimated more valuable source is that it is not only a broad and major source but also ... test every theory in experience In contrast to experience, books help people understand theories more quickly and even much better The last but not the least reason is that knowledge from experience...
... With the introduction of biologics the question arises of whether these – far more expensive – drugs aremore effective than synthetic DMARDs This topic was recently addressed in a well-designed ... the present evidence it therefore cannot be concluded definitively that biologics aremore clinically effective than synthetic DMARDs, although a radiological difference in favour of biologics ... significant when extrapolated to years or more [15] Nevertheless, the methotrexate dose in the above-mentioned studies was limited to a maximum 20 mg/week, which is sometimes considered too low since...
... share my deep feelings with anyone Although I was hurt, but I also learned a lesson that I could never ... source is, it cannot be as useful as real life experiences Books can be good teachers but they are not as good as real life experiences because books cannot help us see the reality while real...
... In a word, to choose way of gaining knowledge is something of a dilemma to public because they sometimes are confused by the seemingly good qualities of learning by experiences,...