... permitted to give loans tothe microfinance sector, which inthe aggregate exceed 10% of its total assets. 6 Areas of Concern The advent of MFIs inthe Microfinance sector appears to have resulted ... that there is either an increase inthesizeofthe average individual loan given tothe borrower or is an indication of multiple lending/over borrowing resulting from more than one loan being ... proposition and to increase their penetration inthe microfinance sector. 18.10 We would therefore recommend that bank lending tothe Microfinance sector both through the SHG-Bank Linkage programme...
... Negroes to heathenism.These inventions were the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the power loom, the wool-combing machine, and the cotton gin. They augmented the output of spinning mills, and in ... andinfluence tothe injury ofthe laws and peace ofthe country. The elimination ofthe Christian teachers of the Negro race, and the prevention ofthe immigration of workers from the Northern ... moresuccessful. These educators adopted the threefold policy of instructing Negroes inthe principles of the Christian religion, giving them the fundamentals ofthe common branches, and teaching them the...
... anxiety.Perceptions of being different from the others, the pos-sible peer discrimination because ofthe presence of ascar o n the chest inthe usual period of starting to go to kindergarten or school ... and 42 (8%) of unknown gender.It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample.Distribution ... in a pedia-tric population brings mo re difficulty than in adult s:identifying the relevant quality -of- life components of these child-patients and howto measure them, showingsensitivity to...
... to worryabout requiring insulin inthe future (How often do youworry about requiring insulin inthe future?), death (How often do you worry about death due to diabetes?), andeating food (How ... and insulin reactions (How often do you hide fromothers the fact that you are having an insulin reaction?).We replaced them with two new items on eating out (How often does your diabetes interfere ... cognitive debriefing tests to assess the level of comprehension and cognitive equivalence ofthe items. The finding from cognitive debriefing tests suggests aminor revision inthe wordings for some...
... adequate sta-bility ofthe instrument. The 7-day interval between inter-views was important in diminishing the probability of systemic alterations inthe clinical condition of the patient. It is ... regarding the total scale and the different sub-scales according tothe age group ofthe individuals. The analysis ofthe results revealed values greater than 0.70 for the total scale in all ... attributed to the toxicity of chemotherapy or the isolation to which the individual is subjected [9,15]. The analysis ofthe correlation between the scores the chil-dren/adolescents obtained and...
... are further away [34].It is often the case that respondents fail to react to a ratingscale inthe manner the test constructor intended [35].Because it is always uncertain how a rating scale ... examined by a confirmatory factoranalysis (CFA) of items with missing data, using the soft-ware Mplus [22]. The missing data option in Mplus wasimplemented to avoid list-wise deletion. Factor ... the way it wasintended by the developer ofthe scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures andutility ofthe rating scale in facilitating interpretable meas-ures...
... questionnaire including the definition of each investigated condition based on a review of the most recent clinical guidelines. References tothe adoptedguidelines were included and the questionnaire ... < 0.001).Discussion In this study we investigated the construct validity of the Italian version ofthe EQ-5D administering the instru-ment to a sample of citizens living in Bologna (NorthItaly). ... associ-ated with increased odds of reporting impairment in all 5EQ dimensions. Table 3. Most of them were strongly asso-ciated to increased odds of reporting impairment in the mobility domain. In particular...
... waiting to see the Table 7 Exploratory factor analysis ofthe PedsQL Cancer Module in parent proxy-reportsSubscale Item Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5 Factor 6 Factor 7Pain and ... reports. Accord-ing tothe pilot testing, the time required to complete the questionnaires was estimated to be 5 to 10 minutesTable 2 Multivariable analysis ofthe total score of the PedsQL Cancer ... for the ‘treatment anxiety ’ subscale in 5- to 7-year-olds, the children gave the same answer for the second item, ‘get-ting anxious about going tothe doctor.’ However, 2other items, ‘getting...
... proxy-reports. Inthe parent-report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to 6 and the second factor consisted of items 7 and 8; however inthe children report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to ... and the second factor consisted of items 5 to 8. Similarly, the school functioning scale was split into two factors; in the parent and child reports, the first factor consisted of items 1 to ... The unavailability of information on nonrespondents and investigation of only a sample from Tehran, the capital city of Iran, may limit the generalizability of the findings to other parts of...
... PedsQL™ Brain Tumor Module in Japan,we did not set ceilings on the sample size. Instead, we seta ceiling of four months on the study duration. Poweranalysis using the findings from the original ... lifestyle ofthe child hadchanged since responding tothe initial questionnaire. Wetherefore analyzed the retest answers ofthe remaining 22children and 27 parents. On comparison of characteris-tics ... used to develop the survey ensures that the Japanese version con-forms tothe original both conceptually and linguisticallywhile keeping the Japanese culture in mind.As the participants in the...
... where c(s) > l1is defined by the mini-max formula (4), belongs to Σ. Moreover, the point (s + c(s), c(s)) is the first nontri-vial point of Σ on the parallel tothe diagonal through (s, ... ofthe dependence ofthe (principal) first eigen-value l1(Ω) on the domain Ω. The following proposition follows immediately from the variati onal characterization of l1given by (3) and the ... 0.(11) The authors of [6] provide a detailed characterization ofthe Fučík spectrum of (11)by means ofthe analysis ofthe linear equation associated to (11):v+N− 1rv+ λv =0 in( 0,∞).(12)The...