design of the validation study
Tài liệu The Value of the Case Study as a Research Strategy doc
... Suitable design of the case study is critical if the common pitfalls of this research strategy are to be overcome 2.0 What is a case study? The case study is the most flexible of all research designs, ... not as remarkable as the revelation of the techniques used to manipulate the process and the data These two design parameters, the number of sources of data, and the number of cases studied, provide ... the epistemological basis of the case study Many of the criticisms of the case study method relate to the highly labour intensive nature of this research strategy Miles (1979) suggests that the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "THE DESIGN OF THE KERNEL ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EUROTRA* SOFTWARE" pptx
... 1982) The elements of the vocabulary of a control language are names of PSs, and the well-formed strings of the language define just those sequences of PS applications which are allowed The user ... It follows that the generator must provide compilations of these defintions in the language of the kernel machine The implementation of the control generator is an adaptation of B a d e n ' s ... know of no language as suitable for the description of data as FP for the description of control The reason is that at this moment, we are insufficiently confident of the basic character of data...
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The National Study Report- Phase II of The National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development docx
... (45.7%) of the employees were women � One-third (30.2%) of the employees were members of a racial/ethnic minority group � 18.1% of the workforces were under the age of 24; � 37.7% were between the ... rates of their older workers is of particular interest � About one-third of the employers reported that their organization had made projections about the retirement rates of their workers to either ... Pitt-Catsouphes is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Boston College National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development and the Age & Generations Study She is the founder of the Sloan Work...
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Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world docx
... of the Internet, and of a loss of control by the user Whether one chooses to see these trends as a natural part of the growing up of the Internet or the fencing of the West, they are happening ... either of the first two types of relationship (and therefore the fact or content of communications) In cases where there is a tension among the interests of the parties, our thinking about the ... communications For most of the history of the telephone system, the called telephone (and thus the person answering the phone) had no idea what the number of the caller was Then the “caller ID” feature...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "TENSE GENERATION IN AN INTELLIGENT TUTOR FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING: SOME ISSUES IN THE DESIGN OF THE VERB EXPERT" pot
... hypotheses about their causes On the basis of these hypotheses, the Tutor selects the next exercise which will test the student on the critical aspects pointed out so far and will allow the Modeler ... example, the kind of clause (main, coordinate, subordinate), whether the clause has a verb to be solved, the voice and form of the clause, the kind of event described by the clause, the time ... trace of the reasoning employed for producing it At this point, the Student Modeler compares the answer of the student with that of the expert in order to identify the errors, if any, present in the...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Doubtful outcome of the validation of the Rome II questionnaire: validation of a symptom based diagnostic tool" doc
... HN was the mentor of LK and participated in the face validity process of the translation LK also participated in the writing of the manuscript LA had the comprehensive responsibility for the main ... as "moderate", with the best result for GERS We consider this acceptable in view of the outcome of the factor analysis, the conditioning in the codes for the symptom domains, the relatively few ... on the other hand lack overviews and have a compulsory step-by-step function Thus, the results of the printed questionnaire may be different from the computerized one We therefore compared the...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Negative impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the health-related quality of life of patients. Results of the EPIDEPOC study" docx
... 35–40% of those of pneumology, and causes 35% of definitive occupational disabilities and 7% of hospital admissions [4] Design and population of the study This study is part of the EPIDEPOC study, ... and diagnosed of COPD at least 12 months before the start of the study, were included The diagnosis of the disease was performed according to the criteria of the Spanish Society of Pneumology ... volume of sputum or any combination of these symptoms, of acute onset, and requiring a change in the regular medication of the patient [18] The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the...
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The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine pdf
... each of these metrics is optionally a component of the VM, the end-point monitor can keep statistics on the components that are in VM Together with the vector of weights, these statistics allow the ... improving the latency of the other branch will have no observable effect at the output) In the case that no information is available from the end point monitor concerning the source of the problem, then ... segments along these four dimensions, which indicates the relative importance of each of these components to the end-point QoS The most interesting of these dimensions, lifetime, is the mechanism...
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Báo cáo y học: " Mixed states vs. pure mania in the french sample of the EMBLEM study: results at baseline and 24 months – European mania in bipolar longitudinal evaluation of medication" ppsx
... (70%) of the patients considered they were satisfied with life (76% of the PM and 59% of the MS, p < 0.001) and only 9% of the patients were still dissatisfied (5% of the PM and 18% of the MS ... PM and 49% of the MS, p < 0.001) and 62% taking benzodiazepines (58% of the PM and 71% of the MS, p < 0.001) Treatment over 24 months Over the 24-month period, only a third (31%) of the population ... in the PM, 24% in the MS) Including the 31% of patients lost to followup over 24 months, 35% of the patients who had initiated a monotherapy at baseline maintained it over the period (45% for the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Weekly self-monitoring and treatment adjustment benefit patients with partly controlled and uncontrolled asthma: an analysis of the SMASHING study" pps
... Netherlands, 3Dept of Pulmonology, HAGA Hospital, The Hague, The Netherlands, 4Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and 5Dept of Pulmonology, ... between the four severity levels of asthma in accordance with the GINA guidelines, although omitting the FEV1% of predicted normal [13] Based on a clinically important difference of 0.5 the algorithm ... respectively The correlation of change scores was 0.52 (p < 0.001) Pharmacological therapy Figure shows the daily dose of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) at baseline, and 12 months of follow-up in the usual...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Is albumin administration in the acutely ill associated with increased mortality? Results of the SOAP study" pps
... hours thereafter For a single missing value, a replacement was calculated using the mean value of the results on either side of the absent result When the first or last values were missing the ... Use of the SOFA score to assess the incidence of organ dysfunction/failure in intensive care units: results of a multicentric, prospective study Working group on "Sepsis-related problems" of the ... plasma), and the mean fluid balance, the degree of organ failure assessed by the SOFA score, procedures (mechanical ventilation, pulmonary artery catheter, renal replacement therapy), and the Available...
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Design of the Cua Dat CFRD in Vietnam, and innovative river diversion system doc
... important at the toe of the dam View of the steps showing the disorganization of the compacted rockfill just under the gabions due to the piping of the small rocks through the gabions This type of protection ... slope face of the dam (no slope in the upstream slope part) Note the thickness of the nappe compared with the height of the steps: the dissipation of energy is low on the steps and the erosion ... and the water levels (yellow line) at the beginning of the flood The dam crest is at level 50.0 m and the MWL on the dam is 54.0 m View (from upstream) of the lower part of dam Longitudinal profile...
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KẾT CẤU MỚI THE DESIGN OF THE ROOFS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE MUSIC CENTRE AT GATESHEAD
... 280 THE DESIGN OF THE ROOFS The Gateshead Roof The starting point for the Gateshead roof was to design a structure that would shelter the auditoria, the concourse and the music school beneath the ... the centre of each side of the roof, behind the porticoes, the lateral spreading movement of the roof is one directional, normal to the line of the facade At these locations the roof can be laterally ... with the structural form of the original cast-iron frame of the Reading Room These columns will be concealed by a new skin of limestone surrounding the entire drum of the Reading Room, the exterior...
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Design of the evaluation
... However, the most important is to compare the actual situation with the predicted situation The difference between the two should be the effect of the program Forecasting the situation without the ... TIME-SERIES DESIGNS Presented by: MODESTUS TIME-SERIES DESIGNS Time-series data enable the evaluator to interpret the pre-to-post changes in the light of additional evidence They show whether the measures ... generalizability: whether the findings of one evaluation can be generalized to apply to other programs of similar type Unit of analysis and Unit of sampling UOA: the unit that the evaluation measures...
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The design of the tax system
... distort incentives, they entail deadweight losses • The deadweight loss of a tax is the reduction of the economic well-being of taxpayers in excess of the amount of revenue raised by the government ... Incidence and Tax Equity • The difficulty in formulating tax policy is balancing the often conflicting goals of efficiency and equity • The study of who bears the burden of taxes is central to evaluating ... pay taxes should pay the same amounts • For example, two families with the same number of dependents and the same income living in different parts of the country should pay the same federal taxes...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The Dutch version of the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score: A validation study" pdf
... complaints These patients were asked whether they understood all items and whether they had any problems with the formulation of the items on the Dutch version of the KOOS questionnaire None of the ... measurement error of a score, expressed in the unit of measurement of the instrument [19] The SEM was calculated as the square root of the sum of the between administration variance and the residual ... instruments The formulation of the hypotheses was based on the starting point that there is a clear distinction between the subscales of the KOOS questionnaire We defined the construct validity of the...
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báo cáo hóa học:" The short form endometriosis health profile (EHP-5): translation and validation study of the Iranian version" ppt
... one of the authors compared their translations and produced a single provisional version Then two other professional translators translated the provisional questionnaire back into the English The ... version of the questionnaire (the Persian EHP-5) was provided The final translated version of the questionnaire was given to 10 patients to complete and declare their understanding of the items ... Results The study sample In all, 220 women were approached and 199 (90%) agreed to be interviewed The main reason for those who did not participate in the study was dislike The mean age of the respondents...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Validation of the new graded prognostic assessment scale for brain metastases: a multicenter prospective study" potx
... months [21,22] The bounds of the time intervals were selected by a visual inspection of the plots representing the complementary log-log of the survival probabilities vs the logarithm of the time [22] ... which the effect of the score on the survival was allowed to vary on time This approach indicated that the value of the prognostic score at the time of the diagnosis was poorly associated with the ... influenced by the recruitment of these patients in this study One center entered prospectively patients seen routinely in the practice of a busy radiotherapy department, whereas the other Spanish...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The script concordance test in radiation oncology: validation study of a new tool to assess clinical reasoning" potx
... scoring key [9] In this study the radio-oncologists of the province of Quebec made both the third level of clinical experience and the panel of reference With this scoring method, the maximum score ... of the population of certified specialists of their field of study Thus it is legitimate to compare their reasoning performance to a panel that is representative of physicians in that field The ... taking these elective rotations often consider specializing in radio-oncology) The second group consisted of the population of residents of the three residency programs in radiation oncology in the...
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báo cáo khoa học: " A matched-pair cluster design study protocol to evaluate implementation of the Canadian C-spine rule in hospital emergency departments: Phase III" ppt
... period will measure the time to onset of the effect of the intervention, as well as the maximum effect The "decay" period will allow us to evaluate the sustainability of the effect of implementation, ... will be managed by the physicians in the same manner, because the unit of study allocation is the hospital, not the patient As is typical of cluster allocated, matched-pair design studies, individual ... Secondary objectives are to determine the sustainability of the intervention, to further evaluate the accuracy of the rule, and to conduct an economic evaluation of the potential for cost savings http://www.implementationscience.com/content/2/1/4...
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