... and prioritize at this particular time in the process Again, these domains are as follows Leadership Information Patient and population engagement Regulation and standards Organizational capacity ... Terol Garcia, Maimunah Hamid, Graham Harrison, Khaled Hassan, Dale Huntington, Tom Mboya Okeyo, Hugo Mercer, Henock Alois Mayombo Ngonyani, Sue Page, Zinta Podniece, Sarah Prendergast, Osama Samawi, ... the case As long as the process is well planned, appropriately resourced, and driven by available information as 13 Aprocessfor building a strategy for quality well as active stakeholder participation,...
... local, diagnostic data to enhance the likelihood of success by leading the team to foreseeable and actionable barriers and facilitators to adoption • A partnership with clinical staff for adapting ... effort to improve the performance of the VA healthcare system and, thus, quality of care for veterans QUERI researchers collaborate with VA policy and practice leaders, clinicians, and operations ... in educational materials for veterans with co-occurring substance use and depressive disorders The veterans provided informed consent to participate Data analysis for the formative evaluation...
... local, diagnostic data to enhance the likelihood of success by leading the team to foreseeable and actionable barriers and facilitators to adoption • A partnership with clinical staff for adapting ... effort to improve the performance of the VA healthcare system and, thus, quality of care for veterans QUERI researchers collaborate with VA policy and practice leaders, clinicians, and operations ... in educational materials for veterans with co-occurring substance use and depressive disorders The veterans provided informed consent to participate Data analysis for the formative evaluation...
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... than 30 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, and East Asia and the Pacific Before joining the Bank, Mr Pino was an audit partner witha major international auditing ... to have the required financial statements for each year audited in accordance with standards on auditing that are acceptable to the Bank An audit of such financial statements includes (a) an assessment ... energy projects in Latin America, Asia, and Africa Before retiring in 1998, he served for nine years as the procurement adviser for the Bank’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean At...
... officials and policymakers from Central Asia, Caucasus, Black Sea, Central, Eastern and South Eastern European countries, as well as Mongolia, the Russian Federation and the Middle East and North Africa ... needs have been established, programmes developed, and delivered, programmes are marketed as well as how they are managed Formative and summative evaluations are dealt with in more detail in Part ... agents; Harmony between local and national authorities; Management of regulatory processes; Initiation and preparation of legislation, particularly with regard to the SME sector and the management...
... present theory is of a phonological rather than a morphological nature, this parameter models the (occasional) appearance of new simplex words in the language only, and cannot be used to model ... species and the estimation of population parameters, Biometrika 43, 45-63 Herdan, G 1960 Type-toke~ Mathematics, The Hague, Mouton Ku~era~ H & Francis, W.N 1967 CompaLational Analysis of Prese~t-Day ... overestimated by a factor Nevertheless, the type-token ratio is far more balanced than in the originalMarkovian scheme Given that the transitionmatrix models only part of the phonotaxis of Dutch, a...
... organizational improvement in a variety of ways For example, an organization can create a separate improvement program, employ external assistance and support, or use the framework as a managerial ... success factors associated with the IT investment approach • become familiar with generally accepted capital decision-making approaches and associated analytical tools; • become familiar with the ... practices that are associated with several maturity stages In fact, key practices associated with higher stage critical processes are frequently initiated while the organization as a whole is at a lower...
... (Scotland) Vesna Pucelj (Slovenia) Pilar Flores Martínez, Alejandro Garc a Cuadra, Nuria Benito López, Santiago Hernández Abad, Ainara Paniagua Garc a & Laura Gallego Hernández (Spain) Bengt Sundbaum ... school canteen or the number of healthy choices for healthy food students can make in the canteen Qualitative data can be transformed to quantitative data, which means that a numerical value is assigned ... and Olga Kalakouta (Cyprus) Tomáš Blaha (Czech Republic) Jeanette Magne Jensen (Denmark) Kadi Lepp, Anita Villerusa & Aldona Jociute (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) Kerttu Tossavainen & Hannele...
... organizational improvement can be achieved in a variety of ways For example, an organization can create a separate improvement program, employ external assistance and support, or use it as a managerial ... supports organizational self-assessment and improvement and (2) provides a standard against which an external evaluation of an organization can be conducted ITIM as a Tool for Organizational Improvement ... organization and implemented, the organization attains greater process capabilities and maturity The maturity progression also means that as the organization incorporates additional processes at...
... the project Approval and Payment of Legal Invoices Vendors’ original invoices are received by or forwarded to PA located in AES and are attached to an “Approval for Payment of Legal Invoice” ... Project Accounting Kimberley Rourke Manager, Project Accounting Correen Baker Fiscal Manager Lynn Chapdelaine Accountant Tammie Corioso Accountant Financial Policies and Procedures for the Capital ... by or forwarded to PA located in AES • Invoices are attached to “Approval for Payment” Checklist • Generally, Plant Accounting initiates • is signed by: • PA • AES/UCHC CPCD Project Manager •...
... environmentally sound engineering and management practices, restoration of coastal areas, habitat restoration in upland areas, water quality efforts, watershed analysis/planning, and habitat creation ... loss of marine and estuarine habitats was a great threat to the viability of commercial and recreational fisheries Thus, the Magnuson Act was amended to call for increased attention to habitat considerations, ... Survival All animals produce more offspring than survive to adulthood This is a kind of biological insurance against the natural calamities all animals face Actually, fora fish species to maintain...
... non-cell based alternative for using MSC in treatment of cardiovascular disease [23] Non-cell based therapies as opposed to cell-based therapies are generally easier to manufacture and are safer as ... Kataoka M, Yanagawa B, Tanaka K, Hao H, Ishino K, Ishida H, Shimizu T, Kangawa K, et al: Monolayered mesenchymal stem cells repair scarred myocardium after myocardial infarction Nat Med 2006, ... molecular signaling 2007, 2:9 Thomas PD, Campbell MJ, Kejariwal A, Mi H, Karlak B, Daverman R, Diemer K, Muruganujan A, Narechania A: PANTHER: a library of protein families and subfamilies indexed...
... non-cell based alternative for using MSC in treatment of cardiovascular disease [23] Non-cell based therapies as opposed to cell-based therapies are generally easier to manufacture and are safer as ... Kataoka M, Yanagawa B, Tanaka K, Hao H, Ishino K, Ishida H, Shimizu T, Kangawa K, et al: Monolayered mesenchymal stem cells repair scarred myocardium after myocardial infarction Nat Med 2006, ... molecular signaling 2007, 2:9 Thomas PD, Campbell MJ, Kejariwal A, Mi H, Karlak B, Daverman R, Diemer K, Muruganujan A, Narechania A: PANTHER: a library of protein families and subfamilies indexed...
... this article as: Wang et al.: A scale-based forward-and-backward diffusion processfor adaptive image enhancement and denoising EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2011 2011:22 Page ... threshold: a smaller gradient is diffused and positions with larger gradient are treated as edges The P-M equation has several practical and theoretical drawbacks As mentioned by Alvarez et al [20], ... camera and tripod This example clearly illustrates that the scale-based classification map readily indicate locations of highly homogeneous, detail and edge regions 3.2 Scale-based forward-and-backward...
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... 5a and b These metal nanoposts and nanoholes can be potentially applied into photonic crystals, and also for further processing using as metal masks Conclusions We have demonstrated a novel maskless ... produced a large area of highly uniform hexagonally packed gold nanoposts and nanoholes in gold thin film 123 using the uniform HCP nanoholes and nanopillars of photoresist for lift-off process, as ... can be alternatively applied into some areas Nanoscale Res Lett (2008) 3:123–127 References H Masuda et al., Photonic band gap in anodic porous alumina with extremely high aspect ratio formed...
... Netherlands, 2001 I Yamada, N Ogura, Y Yamashita, and K Sakaniwa, “Quadratic optimization of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert space,” Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, vol ... Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 298, no 1, pp 279–291, 2004 G Marino and H.-K Xu, A general iterative method fornonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis ... are not hard to derive Lemma 1.1 Marino and Xu Assume that A is a strongly positive linear bounded operator on a Hilbert space H with coefficient γ > and < ρ ≤ A −1 Then I − A ≤ − γ Lemma 1.2 Shimizu...
... iterations for asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 267, no 2, pp 444–453, 2002 10 W Takahashi, “Iterative methods for approximation ... Dynamic Systems and Applications, vol 13, no 2, pp 179–186, 2004 S H Khan and W Takahashi, “Approximating common fixed points of two asymptotically nonexpansive mappings,” Scientiae Mathematicae ... converges weakly to a fixed point of S 8 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Corollary 3.4 Let E be a uniformly convex Banach space with dual E∗ satisfying the Kadec Klee property Let C, S be as...
... N − ∪ (i, a) | a = i = (2) To eliminate such temporary variables, we first identify the statements that simply copy data to a temporary variable, perform a dataflow analysis (as explained in Section ... given a read from an array element, what was the last write to or read (from that statement) from that array element? The last iteration of a statement satisfying some constraints can be obtained ... self-loop channels in Section 4.3 4.1 Dataflow analysis To compute the channels between the nodes, we basically need to perform array dataflow analysis [26] That is, for each execution of a read operation...