... Readinessto Change scores (N = 665) Correlations Readinessto quit Pearson correlation Significance (2-tailed) Number of doctor’s office visits Number of ED visits 0.06 0.10 ns 0.06 Number of ... year: Number of visits to doctor 6.52 (15.4) Number of visits to ED 4.14 (11.7) Number of hospitalizations 1.19 (6.8 Number of days in hospital 3.6 (12.4) Participants smoked an average of 15.3 (SD ... (ED) of a large, urban, teaching hospital for acute or chronic respiratory illness (including both upper and lower respiratory illness) or symptoms of respiratory illness Lower respiratory symptoms...
... conducted to investigate the readinessto join the workforce of English majored seniors of the School of Education and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at CTU While most of the studies to ... knowledge, skills and ethics to go to work in the most efficient and professional way The work of assessing the readinessof university graduates to join the market is an topic that has been widely ... greater part of the professional’s life If a professional is to have ethics, then that person needs to adopt that conduct in all of his dealings” Every profession has its own codes to practice...
... Partnering to Seal- A-Smile grant was awarded to the Alliance by Delta Dental of Wisconsin to evaluate the effectiveness of the Wisconsin Seal- A-Smile (SAS) program and bring attention to the need ... who gets to go first in the dental chair!" Nancy Smith Director of Health Services School District of Superior Partnering to Seal- A-Smile 2012 Background Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin ... percent to 69.5 percent • The number of children who received oral health education quadrupled from 9,404 to 37,599 • Sealant retention rates increased from 76.1 to 92.9 percent Partnering to Seal- A-Smile...
... not appear to be related to the number of team members that were sent to the face -to- face training, the type of facility or complexity of the facility the team came from, or the number of staff ... development of more rigorous future research Summary This exploratory study was the first to examine the utility of the ORCA as a baseline measure of organizational readinessto change and to examine ... measures of organizational readinessto change with implementation intervention outcomes can be added to the list of deficiencies in the field as it currently stands The Organizational Readiness to...
... Exploratory factor analysis of Organizational Readinessto Change Assessment subscales (n = 80) Retained Factors Eigen-value Proportion 7.61 7.12 3.23 0.59 0.55 0.25 Factor Factor Factor Uniqueness ... support, in terms of reliability and factor analyses, for aggregation of survey items and subscales into three scales of organizational readiness- tochange based on the core elements of the PARIHS ... section, three factors were retained (Table 2) Based on the criterion of factor loading > = 0.60, seven of the nine facilitation subscales loaded onto the first factor; five of the six context...
... methods of exploration, such as SPT, CPT, etc to establish stratification of the subsurface materials, the profile of the top of bedrock and bedrock quality, depth to groundwater, limits of types of ... >4320 ksf 85 to 175 ksf 2160 to 4320 ksf Relative Rating 15 Drill core quality RQD 90% to 100% 20 >10 ft 30 20 to 45 ksf 520 to 1080 ksf 75% to 90% to 10 ft 25 Relative Rating Spacing of joints ... sliding, an ASD safety factor of 1.5, corresponding to a resistance factor of approximately 0.9 Calibration by fitting to ASD controlled the selection of the resistance factor in cases where statistical...
... 1950s, research teams started to develop laboratory tests in order to predict tumor reaction to cytostatic drugs [5] They used fresh cancer tissue and examined the effect of the drugs on tumor cell ... beginning laboratory techniques were still in their infancy Short term cell cultures of cancer tissues were difficult to perform and procedures varied from laboratory to laboratory However, the ... alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), found their way at an early stage into clinical laboratories Many others have followed in the meantime However, most of them are not tumor specific The use of changes of serum...
... variations of the activity have been included 2.3.2.1 Cartoon categories * Aim: To increase awareness of the subject matter of British cartoons; to compare British cartoons with cartoons in the ... complete set to each group of students * In class: Divide the class into groups of three or four, and give each group a set of cartoons Tell the students to look carefully at the cartoons and to group ... as a topic of discussion is the relationship between knowledge of a foreign language and knowledge of the culture It is likely that the question of “culture” is often regulated to the end of a...
... INTERVIEW QUESTIONS According to the purpose of the report, we had to go out to carry out our interview with the foreigner tourists We had to spend two days in the OldQuarter to it Before carrying this ... where have many tourist drinking beer there, very famous street with tourist We ordered a bottle of orange juice, drank and wait for a chance to access tourists And we got it Most of tourists here ... return to Hanoi for a second visit? Background a Chart of Nationality This pie chart shows us the Nationality of the tourist coming to Vietnam at this time, and divided into three occupations: tourists...
... day of composting, total K in pile and were lower than those of the other piles may be due to the lower amount of swine manure added to these piles to obtain higher initial C/N At the end of composting, ... Changes in total nitrogen during composting of cassava pulp with swine manure Changes in total phosphorus and total potassium The changes of total P and K followed a similar trend as total nitrogen ... the Graduate School of Khon Kaen University, Thailand REFERENCES Alexander M (1961) Introduction to soil microbiology Toppan Company, Tokyo AOAC (Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC International)...
... the bottom of the base or over the depth of penetration of the drilled shaft in the founding stratum The value of Nu may be assumed to vary linearly from 0.0 at Db /Dp = 0.75 to a value of 8.0 ... nominal casing size to permit seating of casing and insertion of rock drilling equipment Where practical, consideration should be given to extension of the shaft to a greater depth to avoid the difficulty ... difference between the resistance of a single shaft and that of a group of shafts; The resistance of the underlying strata to support the load of the shaft group; The effects of constructing the shaft(s)...
... still desired to use piles, a pile drivability study should be performed to verify the feasibility of obtaining the desired penetration into rock 10.7.3.2.2 Piles Driven to Soft Rock Soft rock that ... during pile traditional form was intended to contain a factor of driving (KIPS) safety of 6.0 For LRFD applications, to produce a nominal resistance, the factor of safety has Ed = developed hammer ... perpendicular to the row (bottom detail in the figure), a group reduction factor of less than 1.0 should only be used if the pile spacing is 5B or less, i.e., a Pm of 0.7 for a spacing of 3B, as...
... dense to dense Loose to 12 toto Fine to medium sand, silty or clayey medium to coarse sand (SW, SM, SC) Very dense Medium dense to dense Loose to 10 toto Fine sand, silty or clayey medium to fine ... consideration of the timing and sequence of construction loading and the tolerance of the structure to total and differential movements Where laboratory test results are expressed in terms of void ... SM, SC) Very dense Medium dense to dense Loose to 10 toto Homogeneous inorganic clay, sandy or silty clay (CL, CH) Very dense Medium dense to dense Loose to 12 toto Inorganic silt, sandy or clayey...
... methods of exploration, such as SPT, CPT, etc to establish stratification of the subsurface materials, the profile of the top of bedrock and bedrock quality, depth to groundwater, limits of types of ... >4320 ksf 85 to 175 ksf 2160 to 4320 ksf Relative Rating 15 Drill core quality RQD 90% to 100% 20 >10 ft 30 20 to 45 ksf 520 to 1080 ksf 75% to 90% to 10 ft 25 Relative Rating Spacing of joints ... sliding, an ASD safety factor of 1.5, corresponding to a resistance factor of approximately 0.9 Calibration by fitting to ASD controlled the selection of the resistance factor in cases where statistical...
... one-third of all cigarettes being smoked on earth today2—a large percentage of the 1.4 billion people using tobacco, which, according to World Bank projections, is expected to increase to roughly ... Daimler-Chrysler’s research center in the German town of Ulm used fMRIs to study the brains of consumers while showing them images of a series of automobiles, including Mini Coopers and Ferraris ... bracelets, necklaces, nose rings, or tongue studs have to be taken off beforehand, as well Thanks to the machine’s rapacious magnet, any scrap of metal would rip off so fast you wouldn’t know what...
... to the 2.2.2.2 The Speech Acts of Dispraising and Responding to Dispraise addressee’s negative face: his want to have his freedom of action The concept of dispraising herein employed means to ... Negative face: the basic claim to territories, personal preserves, you are careful to consider other people’s needs and feelings” rights to non-distraction – i.e to freedom of action and freedom (Longman ... Negative Feeling Returning of Dispraise Offer of Repair 7.39 4.45 Offer of Repair 4.1.3.2 Differences: Disagreement 7.14 4.02 Reassignment • The Vietnamese informants make use of more strategies than...
... one of the oldest human activities, and the role of an interpreter is arguably one of the oldest of professions” He finds out the way of interpreting is orally and emphasizes the position of interpreting ... research on the topic “Developing a system of exercises to improve public speaking skill in interpreting for the 4th year students of English at Vinh University” to meet the requirements of students ... addition, I am greatly indebted to Foreign Language Department of offering me a great opportunity to carry out my study I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to the students from class 48...
... interpreter to visualize In order to turn notes into an effective supported tool to better the interpreting quality, the interpreter should know: what to note ( main ideas, links and verb tense) , how to ... understand what kind of academic field it refers to, what the main idea is or what the speaker is going to Because of immediateness of CI, an interpreter needs to acquire quick response to different ... the theory of memory and memorization techniques for consecutive interpreting but none of them gives a clear and adequate system of exercises in terms of games to make the best use of short-term...