... Non-Banking Finance Companies accounting for about 34% of the outstanding loan portfolio c) Others including trusts, societies, etc, accounting for the balance 8% ofthe outstanding loan portfolio. ... inputs and without the requisite handholding cannot sustain the financial content of either model and can lead to an increase in defaults and consequent abuses inthe system. 14.3 In a communication ... entities inthe financial system. Incidentally even the Act does not make any mention of interest rates except that the total interest cannot exceed the principal amount ofthe loan. On the other...
... to the original size and composition ofthe fleet inthe baseline scenario. And since no permanent changes are assumed inthe emissions characteristics of the new taxis, over and above the ... assume the total interconnected grid, considering the mix of fuels and the prospective of new generation plants ofthe Ministry of Energy (SENER). According to SENER, the electricity generation of ... among the variables represented inthe model. The equations can be solved for values ofthe variables determined within the model (the endogenous variables) given the values ofthe other variables...
... The development, refinement and validation ofthe originalinstrument and linguistic validation to a number of Eur-opean and other languages have been described in man ypapers [30-35]. Results of research ... 254 parent s of chil-dren aged 2-18 years. It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% ofthe sample, and it was the father in 7.48% ofthe sample. No parent inthe patientgroup ... the Hungarian version ofthe PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic CoreScale and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Cardiac Module. The findings generally support the feasibility, reliabilityand validity ofthe Hungarian translations of...
... respondents inthe 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 ... provide another criterion for assessing the quality of rating scales. Outfit mean squares greater than 1.3 indi-cate more misinformation than information, meaningthat the particular category is introducing ... "morethan/less than" line of inquiry. Person and item perform-ance deviations from that line (fit) can be assessed, alert-ing the investigator to reconsider item wording and scoreinterpretations...
... EQ domains. The magni-tude and significance ofthe ORs for the EQ-5D domains,as well as the sign and significance ofthe regression coef-ficients for the EQ-5D Index, EQ-self rated index, ... validation is an ongoing process of learn-ing more about the construct, making new predictionsand then testing them. It is a process where the theory and the measure are assessed at the same time ... questionnaire including the definition of each investigated condition based on a review of the most recent clinical guidelines. References to the adoptedguidelines were included and the questionnaire...
... Conclusions: The findings support the initial reliability and validity ofthe Iranian version ofthe PedsQLTM 4.0 as a generic instrument to measure health-related quality of life of children in Iran. ... Iran, may limit the generalizability of the findings to other parts of Iran. Further Iranian PedsQLTM studies inthe other regions in Iran are necessary. Retest reliability and responsiveness ... perception ofthe construction ofthe mentioned items. Hence, the loading ofthe first four items including, walking more than one block, running, doing sports activities or exercise and lifting something...
... nativeconformation. (b) The mutated residues K13, K88,and T89, all located in segments ofthe polypeptidecontaining binding sites for polyanions, appear to playa rolein favoring protein folding into the native ... nonspecific indicator of the binding effect, not as a direct measure of anionbinding to the protein) for anions.CD and absorption measurements In site 1, the K88E mutation introduces an acidic ... c. The Soret absorbance band is red-shifted (more pro-nounced inthe case ofthe K13N mutant), and the absorbances at 497 and 528 nm, inthe visible region,are inverted, whereas the CT band...
... institutions and other financial institutions with the exception of insurance undertakings.CHAPTER VIFINANCIAL PROVISIONS OFTHE ESCBArticle 26Financial accounts26.1. The financial year ofthe ECB and ... against the general reserve fund ofthe ECB and, ifnecessary, following a decision by the Governing Council, against the monetary income ofthe relevant financial year in proportion and up to the ... be.14.3. The national central banks are an integral part ofthe ESCB and shall act in accordance with the guidelines andinstructions ofthe ECB. The Governing Council shall take the necessary...
... for the Japanese medical workforce [11].Thus, these two scenarios, that of maintaining the cur-rent medical student quota which has been in placesince the 2007 increase (LDP), and that of increasing the ... licensing othe r types of health practitioners,such as advanced practice nurses, who can fulfill some of the roles of doctors in certain situations. Japan doesnot offer such licenses, and the ... physicians reportedby the Ministry of Health, Labourand Welfare of Japan (MHLW) in 2008 [13]. Physicians in Japanreport to the MHLW every twoyears, and the MHLW publishesdata based on these...
... and discriminant validity of the DQOL against the D-39S and the RAND-12. In general,domain scores ofthe DQOL were moderately correlatedwith the D-39S (except sexual functioning) and the RAND-12 ... different rules and principles to govern the sentencestructure) are used by Chinese people in Canada and Tai-wan. The extant DQOL in Chinese language was devel-oped based on the dialect of Cantonese ... approaches, the range of MIDs were 3–5 points for the satisfaction domain, 4–5 points for the impactdomain, 6–8 points for the worry domain, and 3–4 pointsfor the overall HRQOL.DiscussionAlthough the...
... that the Brazilian version has satisfactory per-formance and, thus, can be applied in different studiesreliably.Another relevant issue regarding the findings ofthe AAQvalidation is the construct ... differ significantly between the two samples and raises the question of whether these sim-ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The demonstration of cultural invariance ofthe core ... It is important tonotice that items 4 and 31 were not retained inthe finalAAQ version since they lowered CFA results in further international analyses. The item reliability was analyzed through...
... Discriminant validity: analysis ofthe average and median scores obtained on the PedsQL™ Cancer Module subscales by the child/adolescent and guardian according to the clinical condition ofthe child/adolescentPedsQL™ ... the mode of administra-tion does not affect the performance ofthe instruments[21,30]. Nevertheless, a comparison between the inter-view mode of administration and self-administered mode of ... conceptualized the rationaleand design ofthe study. MLRJ contributed to the statisticalanalysis and interpretation ofthe data. ACS and SMPdrafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final...
... validity,and feasibility ofthe Japanese version ofthe PedsQLCancer Module. The guardians who answered the ques-tionnaires were much older than the Brazilian subjects[16],itmayreflecttherisingageatfirstbirthamongJapanese ... public insurance in Japan, half of the guardians rated their economic level as ‘lo w’ becausemost mothers had to quit their job to take care of theirchildren.There was no statistically significant ... conducted statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Received:...
... item and subscale correlations and internal relia-bility. No missing values were found in any ofthe 44items inthe Brazilian sample. The analysis ofthe pooled international data indicated the ... Group in developing quality of life measures[16,17]. This includes translation and back-translation of the items and instructions by distinct professionals, aswell as semantic and formal examination ... areimportant for testing the validity of existing models andmeasures, since most ofthe discussion tends to reflectonly the academic point of view [13]. Even though inves-tigating the ageing process...