... indirect manipulation ofbehaviour alone [10] In general, little is known about the knowledge, attitudes, andbehaviourof physicians, nurses, and managers regarding the implementation of quality indicators ... age, profession, year of graduation, and type of hospital The second section contained statements concerning barriers at each stage ofbehaviour change that may affect the implementation of quality ... attitude, andbehaviour Figure shows the response to each of the eleven statements Seventy-seven percent of the respondents were Page of Table 1: Study population (n = 142) Demographics and professional...
... Comparative behaviourand ecology 95 considered the importance of roots and tubers as efficient stores of nutrient and water with the added advantage of availability over most of the year and resistance ... wide range of foods People from at least the time of the common ancestor of Neanderthals and Moderns have been opportunistic omnivores capable of handling a wide range of foods, animal and almost ... heterogeneous landscapes The intensity of lithic re-use and reduction also reflects features of the landscape and the methods of resource exploitation Correlates of lithic re-use and reduction...
... List of contributors Preface page vii ix The metabolic theory of ecology and the role ofbody size in marine and freshwater ecosystems James H Brown, Andrew P Allen and James F Gillooly Body ... measuring and understanding the roles of different kinds of organisms in the flux and storage of elements in ecosystems The total biomass per unit area, W, is simply the sum of the body mass of all ... author(s) of each paper to examine the importance and role ofbody size in the systems in which they work Essentially the book builds from the level of the individual and a consideration ofbody size...
... 24 months of follow-up Sample size For an alpha of 0.05, a power of 80%, and in order to detect an reduction of HbA1c of 0.3 percentage units, with a common standard deviation (SD) of 1.15, in ... the study in either of the two models analyzed, and the adjusted effect of PRECEDE was close to zero (Table 2) In both models, the level of exercise decreased Page of slightly and was not significant ... reduction of 7% in the risk of mortality owing to cardiovascular disease, and 10% in the risk of mortality owing to ictus with every mmHg decrease in SBP The slight decrease in the lipid profile of...
... study of polymers III Technique of mechanical tests of vulcanizates of rubber and plastics Rubber Chem Tech., 13, 904–917 Haward, R.N (1942) Extension and rupture of cellulose acetate and celluloid ... behaviourof the material This type ofbehaviour is termed 1.3 M OLECULAR BACKGROUND thermorheological complex, and the magnitude of the effect is mainly determined by the relative position of ... in the range of temperatures and strain rates of interest A linear dependence of yield stress as a function of log strain rate can be observed over a large interval of strain rates and temperatures,...
... The focus of this minireview is the problem of evaluating and comparing two or several explanations for a given set of data and prior knowledge, so as to identify the best available explanations ... modeling is often used to achieve a characterization of which of these mechanisms that are significantly active, and independently important, and which mechanisms are present but not significantly and/ or ... The number of runs Ru is defined as the number of sign changes in the sequence of residuals, and it is compared to the expected number of runs, N/2 (because it is assumed that the mean of the uncorrelated...
... development of tuberculosis Large majorities of both males and females were aware of services such as HBC (69.8%; 62.5% of males and 75.7% of females), orphan care (74.5%; 68.1% of males and 79.7% of ... Statistics Office 2004 A reasonable number of both males and females were aware of services such as homebased care (33.3% of males and 51.8% of females), orphan care (40.5% of males and 55.5% of females) ... Table 4.5 indicates that 18.1% of respondents aged 15–24 years (32.7% of males and 8.0% of females) and 11.9% of respondents aged 25–49 years (19.4% of males and 6.4% of females) reported having...
... HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OFMIND The canonical history of the philosophy ofmind reads something like this:² In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the study of the mind in both rationalist and ... proprioception and motor control, to provide a new taxonomy of types and levels of bodily awareness, and to develop a better understanding of the difference between awareness of our own bodies and that of ... all contribute to understanding the place of phenomenology amidst other strands of work in philosophy ofmind Paul Livingston’s essay reopens the history of philosophy of mind, especially functionalism,...
... provide an account of the changes that have occurred within the artistic and cultural world of tattooing and the larger world ofbody alteration in the past decade and a half One change and a fairly ... B.C and Egyptian figurines created some 2,000 years later show facial andbody markings thought to represent tattoos Proof of the antiquity of the practice is derived from the mummified bodyof ... make note of the rising popularity of full -body tattooing and multiple piercings and less frequently encountered, and usually startling, alterations such as extensive facial tattooing and surgical...
... Page of 15 Table Trends of Fertility and Delivery Modes in Taiwan, 1996 to 2007 Year General fertility rate Number of births Number of vaginal deliveries (%) Number of c-sections (%) Number of ... significant health and economic burden for women of reproductive age [16-18] One of the most common causes for antenatal hospitalizations is symptoms due to preterm labor and is often Page of 15 treated ... time, and b is the coefficient on the explanatory variables ln(Fertilityrt) is the log of region’s GFR in region r in year t, and ln (OBBIRTH rt ) is the log of the lag number of ob/gyns per 100 of...
... here of fixed length (i.e., independent of the number of sensors in the BSN) and contains two new fields for specific energy-saving purposes, the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and length of the ... performance and that of the standard facto 802.15.4 MAC and the BSN-MAC is portrayed BSN-MAC has been selected as a reference benchmark for its similarity in terms of design as well as structure, and ... on Wireless Communications and Networking Patient Patient Body sensor Body sensor Patient Body sensor Care unit BAN coordinator Patient Patient d < 8m Body sensor Body sensor Figure 1: A star-based...