... the main risk factors for offending were within the family domain, risk factors for re-offending were found inthe individual domain as well Most important factors for re-offending were reading ... within the family domain (single parent: OR 6.0, financial problems: OR 3.9 and low positive parenting: OR 31) and not within the individual domain The most important characteristics distinguishing ... control inthe context of a national survey on parenting intheNetherlandsThe affection and discipline scales assess the extent to which the parents show feelings of positive affection toward their...
... culturing shrimp inthe whole year, the water could not refresh then it is easy polluted On the other hand, They wanted to farm the tiger shrimp inthe low salinity water bodies inthe rainy season ... found, they are the indicators of the organic pollution of water bodies They can cause the death of shrimp by their toxic At Ninhthanhloi village, the farmer kept the haline water inthe pond ... harvested The survey was carried out inthe salinity intrusion to get the main cause and the control was the shrimp ponds out of the project area The survey was done in a day (14/3/2002) Sampling sites...
... fixed income investors the opportunity of integrating these risks among the criteria used in selecting and weighing sovereign bonds in their portfolios Doing so will more accurately reflect therisk ... Understanding Sovereign Credit Risk Assessment Integrating Environmental Factors in Sovereign Credit Risk E-RISC: Bringing Natural Resource Risks into Sovereign Credit Risk 15 The Ecological Footprint ... Factors In uencing Sovereign Credit Worthiness Sovereign Credit Risk Sovereign Credit Risk Credit rating / Internal Risk Assessment / Ranking Credit rating / Internal Risk Assessment / Ranking The...
... part of the information available inthe NMDS The main application remains the use of the NMDS in determining some percentage points of the budget of the hospital A few hospitals already use the ... is increasing This situation where the care request (and the expenses linked to it) is increasing more rapidly than the government financing, leads to: – an increase of private financing: the ... might be made of the following information PRINTED INTHENETHERLANDS v Foreword This book is the second to appear inthe IOS Press “Studies in Health Technology and Informatics” in order to describe...
... place themselves on the other side of the aesthetic spectrum and name, in their opinion, the three ‘‘most unattractive’’ places inthe city These places were assessed with the same variables as the ... places obtained regarding the aesthetic attributes included in this study demonstrate their suitability inthe study of aesthetic preferences, and therefore suggest that these attributes, together ... questions inthe questionnaire described inthe following section Procedure A questionnaire was designed to be easily selfadministered by the participants themselves They were asked to the following...
... part of the information available inthe NMDS The main application remains the use of the NMDS in determining some percentage points of the budget of the hospital A few hospitals already use the ... is increasing This situation where the care request (and the expenses linked to it) is increasing more rapidly than the government financing, leads to: – an increase of private financing: the ... might be made of the following information PRINTED INTHENETHERLANDS v Foreword This book is the second to appear inthe IOS Press “Studies in Health Technology and Informatics” in order to describe...
... within these municipalities, the highways (provincial roads) adjacent to the area and the nearest freeway, which is located to the west of the study area The circle within the map of theNetherlands ... national, provincial and municipal authorities inthe study area and were linked to a digital map of all roads intheNetherlands (NWB), using GIS Other land use data were obtained from a European ... to the nearest main road in this study was similar, most likely due to the high correlation between the two variables Distance to the nearest main road is a metric being increasingly used in...
... in detail [16,17] In brief, the cohort includes mothers and children of different ethnicities living inthe city of Rotterdam, theNetherlands Enrolment was aimed in early pregnancy (gestational ... [18,19]), in order to consider the temporal fluctuations in background concentrations This was done using continuous hourly monitoring data from three monitoring stations inthe study area The measured ... to PM10 and NO2 in our cohort, because these pollutants have been routinely measured inthe National Air Quality Monitoring Network during the study period, and they often exceed the air quality...
... Water Management intheNetherlands | | Rijkswaterstaat Preface Introduction The development of water management intheNetherlandsThe history of the formation of theNetherlandsThe history of ... interchange: the river supplies water to the lake, the lake discharges water into the sea and the polder drains water into the lake, as well as absorbing it inthe summer The water level inthe ... watermanagement intheNetherlandsThe history of the formation of theNetherlands At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the North Sea was a large lowland plain As temperature increased the...
... in Amsterdam-Southeast Although this community had mainly come from Surinam preceding its independence from TheNetherlandsin 1975, the community’s Pakistani connections were maintained inThe ... architectural influence inTheNetherlandsin much the same way However, the first Hindustani Muslims to actually build a mosque inTheNetherlands were Qadiani-Ahmadi, directly come from the Hindustani ... each other, leading to diverging types in their minds, although to the observer there are many similarities inthe formal characteristics of their respective buildings Instead of abstracting or...
... differ in how their bodies process different chemicals, including the toxic chemicals in tobacco Examinations of the connection between breast cancer risk and differences inthe processing of these ... can control their exposure to these potential risk factors There are also many other health benefits to be gained by decreasing or eliminating either of these exposures Quitting smoking is difficult, ... understood Does quitting smoking affect breast cancer risk? Quitting smoking may lead to a temporary increase in breast cancer risk Most of the studies that have examined the breast cancer risk of women...
... and buying the risk- free bond the investor could have obtained a positive profit without any risk If, on the contrary, ytm – s > r, the investor could obtain a certain profit by buying the risky ... principle, an increase in financing costs would have a negative effect on the basis Due to the difficulty in obtaining data on institution-level funding constraints, we use the spread between financial ... frequent inthe case of sovereign references, this topic is attracting increasing attention since the inception of the EMU.4 Our aim, however, is not to study the determinants of the CDS or the bond...
... indicators have deeply influenced policy-making intheNetherlands on the issue of environmental acidification Here, interest inthe overall trend shown by the indicator—and the wide difference ... and the public are equally inthe dark when it comes to timely warnings about whether policies are taking the nation inthe right direction There are exceptions, of course—most notably theNetherlands ... for these six environmental issues are illustrated along the lines taken by the Netherlands. 14 They are measured in physical units These indicators are already aggregated, since the environmental...
... change in bleaching technology, that minimised the use of chlorine and greatly reduced or avoided altogether the emissions of dioxins, and the increase inthe use of recycled paper as an input inthe ... inthe pulp and paper industry, including investments in innovation, the question is no longer only in what to invest, but increasingly also where to invest One of the industry experts remarked ... water charges intheNetherlands and the electricity tax in Finland The evidence on the relationship between environmental policy instruments and innovation suggests that these instruments have...
... competence as the key determinants of the decision to continue servicing the client They went on to indicate that determining the integrity and competence of management was the most difficult task they ... was another key indicator that they should consider resigning Finally, the partners indicated that they had to evaluate the strain the client puts on the audit firm’s staff The partners all indicated ... Thus, the first step in my analysis is to gain an understanding of the client continuance process inthe post-SOX environment Methodology To gain insight to the client continuance process, I interview...
... transformation into an iPSC Applying this genetic reprogramming, the used viruses can integrate into the cell genome Consequently the cells may contain multiple viral integration sites in their genomes The ... patient was included due to non-clinical findings of microscopic cysts inthe regenerating injury site [107] However the hold has been lifted and recruitment is currently ongoing The two other trials ... contributed to the writing and discussion of the manuscript The views expressed in this article are the personal views of the authors Competing interests All authors declare no competing interest The views...
... 2007, 5:65 Background Retinoblastoma (RB) is a malignant tumor affecting the retina and is the most common intraocular malignancy in children Inthe Netherlands, the incidence is 1:17,000 newborns ... completion of the KIDSCREEN questionnaire, and checked the completeness of it We determined whether the children had completed the KIDSCREEN questionnaire themselves, by simply asking the children individually ... EBRT, d) different combinations of chemotherapy and remaining therapies (thermochemotherapy, laser photocoagulation, plaque therapy and cryotherapy)[5] Visual acuity was defined as visual acuity...
... determine the heart rate training intensity (65 % VO2 peak) of the exercise-training programme This procedure was repeated at and weeks to ensure correct continuation of the heart rate training ... mean baseline value indicating high risk for CVD (> 3.0 mg/L), that the reduction would still result in a mean value indicating average risk of CVD (2.2 mg/L) [33] The mechanism behind such action ... as the single largest employer in Europe Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions JAH conceived the study design, carried out the...