... knowledge and information: that is, an interaction between actions and behaviors The action ofCASESTUDY creation does not consist ofthe processing of information or data, since the obtaining of tacit ... with their work The results are valued on a Likert scale of to forthe different items Over the last few years, the average satisfaction index—calculated as the average ofthe values given to each ... be measured via these same factors, even if the individual case is a strategy for which new tools are used The analysis revealed that one ofthe essential organizational factors, because of its...
... up the patient to see if the benefits of clozapine treatment were sustained The patient had an admission for another depressive episode almost two years later, and was then discharged on clozapine ... Annals of General Psychiatry 2006, 5:20 Background We present acasestudy using the Evidence Based Medicine approach and have attempted to work through a common problem The aim ofthe process ... following databases: Lithium carbonate 1000 mg once daily Mirtazapine 60 mg at night Cochrane Database, ACP Journal Club, CCTR, 1986– 2002 Olanzapine 20 mg at night Medline 1966–2002 Page of (page number...
... inadequate housing At the time of this casestudy analysis, another survey of 105 clients ofthe needle exchange, found that more than half the sample were homeless, had lived in the area fora ... associated with the use ofcasestudy research methodology [6] In particular, the benefits ofcasestudy research are enhanced through the use of multiple sources of evidence, creation ofacasestudy ... that contributed to the closure and the aftermath ofthe closure ofthe fixed site The data included for analysis were drawn from local police call data pre and post closure forthe street and...
... the incremental effects and costs of each The health gains of any particular intervention depend, among other things, on the risk ofthe target group Therefore, the population is stratified according ... argue that most publicly funded health care is based on the principle of "equal access for equal need", meaning that a health gain has the same social value irrespective ofthe income level of ... In the societal perspective (table 1), the patient's travel costs as well as their co-payment for drug costs are added The value of production was estimated as the difference between the annual...
... needs, planning for an L2 task, gathering and organizing materials, arranging astudy space and a schedule, monitoring mistakes, and evaluating task success, and 27 evaluating the success of any type ... comprehension as a process of acquiring the meaning ofthe message based on the incoming language data from sounds, to words, to grammatical relationships, and ultimately to the meaning Schemata are hierarchically ... this study Their ages range from 28 to 40 All of them are female They are all married and have children All of them come from Vinh city One of them has finished an M .A course at Vietnam National...
... compared with official land used data obtained from SCAG land use data The pollutant loading maps of all water quality parameters show that the low pollutant emitting areas correspond to open land use ... 2005 A Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image (obtained on 09/03/1990, path 41 row 36) was used as our satellite image We used all seven TM spectral bands and geospatial ancillary data, the coordinate ... identifying the areas that discharge high pollutant loading into receiving waters METHODS Our area of interest was Marina del Rey and its vicinity in the Santa Monica Bay Watershed Santa Monica Bay is...
... conducting an ex-post economic valuation ofthe recreational value of Mt Pulag What is really the true value of this program? The overall goal ofthestudy is to measure the recreational value ofthe ... because ofthe inability of development and social planners to present a measurable value ofthe economic resource in question The lack ofa market forthe recreational and aesthetic values of ... Washington D.C.: National Park Services Kaosa-ard, M., D Patmasiriwat, T Panayotou, and J.R Deshazo (1995), Green Financing: Valuation and Financing of Khao Yai National Park in Thailand, Thailand Development...
... on factors affecting the student’s satisfaction: acasestudy at the Da Nang University of economics” is carried out and formed basing on argument above RESEARCH BACKGROUND Ø Nowadays, tertiary ... & Zeithaml, V .A (1991) Refinement and reassessment ofthe SERVQUAL scale Journal of Retailing Parasuraman, A. , Zeithaml, V A. , & Berry, L L (1985) A conceptual model of service quality and its ... to the appearance of physical factors such as equipment, facilities used by a service based company as well as to the appearance of service employees • Empathy refers to caring and individualized...
... meaning in complex data through the development of summary themes or categories from the raw data" [26] Data management was facilitated by the use ofthe MaxQDA qualitative data analysis package ... sectors Unfortunately, beyond data on nationality and year of arrival as derived from immigration and registration data, no further information was available on the overall Page of 12 (page number ... beyond arrival and adaptation However, the reality is that migrant nurses are individuals who seek what many of us take for granted – a job, a salary, a family life For some, Ireland may be just the...
... process of development and finalisation ofthe questionnaire They gave their approval at each ofthe milestones ofthe development and finalisation process The questionnaire was also reviewed and agreed ... IDEEL as distinct modules and the lack of data from PCA and Multi-trait analyses on the questionnaire as a whole could be raised as limitations, as the purpose of these analyses is to allow the ... on daily life and the patients’ satisfaction with their treatment as the central concepts in patients’ experience of dry eye Qualitative analysis indicated that saturation was achieved for these...
... reliable than asking fora rating at a specific point in time [38] A set of analyses was aimed at providing evidence ofthe reliability, responsiveness, validity, and utility ofthe GAVAS The GA-VAS ... corroborate the responsiveness ofthe GA-VAS Validity correlations between the GA-VAS and other available measures were highly satisfactory Specifically, the GA-VAS obtained relatively high correlations ... relief With these advantages in mind, we recommend use ofthe GA-VAS in future research studies and clinical trials forthe evaluation of fast-acting drug therapies forthe treatment of GAD Competing...
... temporal artifacts in the halftone videos Therefore, perceptual quantitative measures for evaluating these artifacts are desirable Quantitative assessmentof temporal artifacts can facilitate comparison ... This instantiation ofthe flicker assessment framework is depicted in Figure In Figure 9, K, Q, and R each have a value of L, and S have each a value of P has a value of −1 The “Artifact Map” is ... dirty-window-effect Forthe perceptual evaluation of each artifact, a particular instantiation ofthe generalized framework, was presented and the associated results were EURASIP Journal on Image and Video...
... restaurant to achieve comfort, luxury and modern The aesthetics ofthe restaurant and the safety ofthe installation, the equipment used must be commensurate with rank of restaurant Therefore, assessment ... conducted an average of variable factors as follows Start making a turn forthe factors of variable Tangibility Mean_F1 (F1Q1, F1Q2, F1Q3, F1Q4); Next to the average forthe remaining factor And one ... measure the magnitude ofthe impact of factors affecting customer satisfaction The parameter data collected from the survey will be used as a database scale, providing readers and researchers an...
... ofthe stand total seasonal increment, while the total basal area of aspen was 10 times higher compared to alder Thus, the stand basal area dynamics showed the transformation of secondary stand ... for this purpose (2) The obtained regression equations were applied to calculate the basal area growth of mean trees for each 2-cm-DBH class The growth of stand basal area for each day of measurements ... was estimated by two steps: multiplication ofthe mean basal area changes for each class by corresponding numbers of trees for each period and summarising afterwards The equation forthe basal...
... distally along the shoe), medial (greater medial than lateral wear at the heel and forefoot), which may indicate excessive pronation, or lateral (greater lateral than medial wear at the heel and forefoot), ... range of each measure across included footwear was also reported Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability for all categorical data was evaluated using percentage agreement, and kappa (κ) statistics ... reliability for all categorical items, use of these items from the tool to assist clinical footwear assessment can be recommended fora range of populations Qualitative evaluation ofthe tool and...
... optimal Cutoff values are chosen on the basis of cost-benefit analyses, balancing the harms and benefits of false positive and false negative classifications of risk The cut-off defining a risk ... frequency ofthe high-risk group is equal to 30%, that is, the frequency of disease in the total population The pattern remained the same when we repeated the analyses fora disease risk of 10% (Additional ... and drafted the manuscript RM performed the statistical analysis RM and MJK participated in the design and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing...
... (targeted and others), and to assess the overall result anticipated by each ofthe main transmission channels which are: prices, employment, transfers, access, authority and assets Important aspects of ... tons/year (3) Transparency, access to information and proactive information dissemination on both positive and negative impacts ofthe projects from the investor and the provincial and local authorities ... by storage capacities of reservoirs; (3) Climate change adaptation related to changes ofthe hydrological pattern with more pronounced dry periods that may be alleviated by release of water stored...
... a common forum for action the European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health was launched in March 2005 The Platform brings together all relevant players active at European ... diseases” I STATE OF PLAY AT EUROPEAN LEVEL I.1 Unhealthy diets and lack of physical activity are the leading causes of avoidable illness and premature death in Europe, and the rising prevalence ... national, regional or local level, and to cooperate with similar fora at national level At the same time, the Platform can create input for integrating the responses to the obesity challenge into a...
... present case we can take πB = A , which has the great advantage that the path of ρ does not depend on the paths ofthe other particles This is the reason why thecase DA = DB is special We proved ... construction of [KSb] forthe general case which may have DA = DB In that case we had simple random walks {S η }t≥0 with jump rate Dη for η ∈ {A, B}, and there were two paths associated with each initial ... constant whose value remains the same throughout this paper (a. s is an abbreviation of almost surely) Acknowledgement The research for this paper was started during a stay by H Kesten at the Mittag-Leffler...