... the United Kingdom and Great Britain As many as 30% of its doctors have been trained outside the Europe [1] In some regions, overseas doctors comprise up to 50% of all junior doctors [2] General ... ten thousand [4] and sixteen thousand [5] It is in this context that we undertook the study Our objective was to provide a self-reported training and employment profile of non-European doctors ... Diagram2showing duration of time spent by overseas doctors in the UK Diagram showing duration of time spent by overseas doctors in the UK Number of respondents: 1617 in organisations for overseas doctors,...
... symptoms and aspects of life [24,25] The SF-36 was used as it is both reliable and valid in these populations, and allowed for comparisons between groups with and without type diabetes However, ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:110 Background Type diabetes mellitus (type diabetes) affects approximately 10% of the U.S population aged 20 years and older and its prevalence ... recruited between 7/1/99 and 11/30/03 for the study in people without type diabetes and between 5/1/04 and 12/28/07 for the study in people with type diabetes Study design and sample This study...
... participation, perceived neighborhood safety, and individual cognitions: howthey interact? Mariëlle A Beenackers1*, Carlijn B.M Kamphuis1, Alex Burdorf1, Johan P Mackenbach1, Frank J van Lenthe1 ... References Beenackers MA, Kamphuis CBM, Burdorf A, Mackenbach JP, van Lenthe FJ: Sports participation, perceived neighborhood safety, and individual cognitions: howthey interact? Int J Behav Nutr Phys ... that formula and formula in the Statistical Analysis section of the Methods were incorrectly listed Since the formulas were correctly used in the analysis, this correction does not affect the results...
... products on the system agents, joint venture, opening branches and representative offices in areas where demand 2.3 How companies and consumers benefit from the competition? 2.3.1 Benefits for ... Competition also encourages businesses to improve the quality of goods and services they sell – to attract more customers and expand market share Prices for a product can be the same or sometimes ... determine the difference in terms of product quality, brand and price There is a team of highly skilled labor, talent Improving labor productivity and employee creativity Enhancing the competitiveness...
... letters and prospectuses And who among us doesn't write resumes, cover letters, memos, faxes, and business letters? We all need to develop good writing style Chapter : What Is Style, andHowDo I ... also a discoverable purpose, and a show of relevancy, and remain in the neighborhood of the subject in hand, and be interesting to the reader, and help out the tale, and stop when the people cannot ... for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan—to all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations." —Abraham Lincoln, Second...
... market and support to exporters may influence the location decisions of firms • FDI of central importance Ari Kokko Instruments of active trade policy • • • Tariffs and quotas Domestic product standards, ... Program 2006-2007 Trade: Institutions and impact Lecture Course outline • First part: WTO and “traditional” trade policy Global trade institutions GATT and WTO WTO and developing countries Trade policy ... differences in relative prices? Classical and neoclassical theory: – technology differences (Adam Smith 1776 / David Ricardo 1815) – differences in factor endowments (HeckscherOhlin 1930) Ari Kokko...
... balance), they will ultimately need to invest that currency in the assets of the domestic country • • We should note that investors can buy and sell financial assets such as stocks and bonds ... rate (and of the money supply) will cause the exchange rate to go down, the financial account to weaken and current account to gain strength Over time, the income effect will come into play and ... country's consumers and domestic businesses To summarize, the price effect of a stimulative fiscal policy is to raise the value of the domestic currency, strengthen the capital account and weaken the...
... increases cell proliferation [29, 30] The earlier the FFTP, the earlier in life cells undergo differentiation, thus decreasing the risk of mammary cell transformation and/ or proliferation The multi-step ... height, weight, menstrual and reproductive events with breast cancer: results from two prospective studies on the island of Guernsey (United Kingdom) Cancer Causes and Control 4:331-40, 1993 ... F=first full-term pregnancy, P=parity numbers of pre -and post-menopausal women not indicated; 1,610 women are under 49 years of age and 6,470 are 50 and over Hispanic Non Hispanic Convincing evidence...
... regulation for banks, and US$425 billion owing to Dodd-Frank and FASB reforms for pension and insurance funds This total corresponds to percent of outstanding treasury bonds and 0.8 percent of the ... investor base and yields In Japan, a large domestic investor base has been associated with the low and stable yields despite very high debt (Tukuoka, 2010; Fidora et al., 2006) This large domestic ... directly and are therefore often omitted from the analysis The domestic financial sector is broken down into banks (excluding the central bank where possible), insurance and pension funds, and other...
... Chinese guanxi and the Brazilian clientelism will serve to explain the factors affecting policy implementation and compliance China and Brazil have a very promising economic future; however, both ... European nations However, in order to best understand and evaluate their approach to water pollution issues they should be compared to countries with common socioeconomic characteristics and a similar ... inequality and illegal settlements’ problems Differences between both will be highlighted in order to assess howthey have affected water pollution Third, studying Brazilian agricultural fertilizers’ and...
... research documenting substantive discrepancies between survey and administrative data include Goldman and Smith (2001), Denmead and Turek (2005), Hurd and Rohwedder (2006), Kapteyn and Ypma (2007), and ... component members and DoD civilian employees They are designed to track the opinions, attitudes, and experiences of DoD military and civilian personnel The SOFS-R is conducted online and is designed ... practitioners and research professionals, and supporting documentation; or deliver preliminary findings All RAND reports undergo rigorous peer review to ensure that they meet high standards for...
... 25 Chapter Innovation and Its Implications for the Demand for Skills Introduction Innovation and Employment Innovation and Skill Biases How Technical Change Affects the Demand for Skills The Paradigm ... useful in engaging with and adapting to the changing circumstances that will doubtless pertain within and across industries and firms That is they will be better able to innovate and adapt to the effects ... undertaken? - How does the successful introduction of new ideas change the pattern of demand for skills in companies and the economy? - How these two questions relate to each other and what is...
... four trips to Fiji and three trips within Australia between April 2004 and September 2006 The interviews were semistructured and lasted for half an hour to an hour -and- a -half Doctors were purposively ... 'Oh, they don't appreciate me! I'm someone that wants to stay here and this is howthey treat me!' So it was a very difficult time for me I thought, 'Okay, I'll stay on, I'll give it a year and ... the way people live and work and things there that is probably not the kind of life that I want to live Many public sector doctors mentioned work-related frustrations Fifteen doctors (60%) described...
... were asked to bring drug packages or package inserts of drugs they currently use Self-reports and medication were compared and, given conflicting data, interviewer notes and audio-recordings ... Obes Rev 2005, 6:43-65 doi:10.1186/1477-7525-9-97 Cite this article as: Heidelberg et al.: Do diabetes and depressed mood affect associations between obesity and quality of life in postmenopause? ... mellitus and depressed mood with obesity and abdominal obesity Total Characteristic n % 43 NonObesity obesity (BMI ≥ 30) (BMI < 30) (N = 290; (N = 693; 29.5%) 70.5%) n % n % No Abdominal abdominal...
... A, et al: North of England and Scotland Study of Tonsillectomy and Adeno-tonsillectomy in Children (NESSTAC): a pragmatic randomisedcontrolled trial with a parallel nonrandomised preference study ... adult onset show complete adaptation in all domains of lifeand that respondents with a severe disability of adult onset showed incomplete adaptation in only the health and income domains [8] ... encountered in every domain in the Open Schools is similar to regional studies of adults [24] and children[23] using the EQ-5 D and EQ-5D-Y Jelsma and Ramma Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010,...