... kathy.wyrwich@unitedbiosource.comAbstractA critique of Hankins, M: How discriminating are discriminative instruments? " Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:36As a PhD student in the 1990s, one of my favorite placeson ... written and stored in the bowels of the Lewis Annex to applications featured in the center of all brightly-lit health science libraries, and,indeed, informing and changing the practice of healthcare.Unfortunately, ... classifications of health instruments by their pur-poses: predictive, discriminative and evaluative [2]. In 1995, Guyatt further addressed and elucidated the proper-ties of discriminative instruments, ...
... withwhich discriminations are made.Both Norman and Wyrwich raise the interesting issue of what constitutes a meaningful discrimination, andwhether Delta is an index of such discriminations. Thishappens ... to incorporate these elements intothe computation of a coefficient of discrimination ifrequired. As Thurlow [4] pointed out, the only discrimina-tions worth considering are valid discriminations. ... [6], in which the dichotomous scoring method of the GHQ-12was found to be less discriminating than the Likert scoringmethod, were 'well expected'. This again suggests that anindex of...
... their claims relating to the latter, professed commitment to employee well-being, rooted in the notion of professionalism, served organizational interests in maintaining conducive intra-organizational ... (2006) points out that India’s numerous advantages have resulted in a steady increase in the scale and depth of existing service lines and in the addition of newer vertical-specifi c and emerging, ... Industry in IndiaThe call centre industry in India is located within the country’s emerging ITES–BPO sector whose major constituent is global off-shoring operations (henceforth also termed offshoring...
... starting to erode the health of the banking system, as reflected by an increasing trend in non-performing loans. It was in this context that average and marginal RRs where introduced to contain ... take advantage of the information contained in the individual times series of individual countries as well as in the cross-country differences of credit and business cycles in countries that ... effectiveness of macroprudential instrumentsin reducing systemic risk. Their results—using event case and dynamic panel regressions—suggest that most of these instruments are effective in reducing the...
... disincentives. It included 47 studies of consumer incentives for preventive care, including 7 pertaining to obesity and weight loss (all of which are included in this synthesis.) Of all of the ... evidence concerning the effectiveness of economic instruments (including taxes, price policies and incentives) in containing or reducing food consumption, particularly of foods high in saturated ... summarizing the available evidence concerning the effectiveness of economic instruments (including taxes, price policies and incentives) in containing or reducing food consumption, particularly of...
... capable of conveying a distinct meaning, such as the/s/ of “sing” & the /r/ of “ring” in English” (Abercrombie: 1967) “Phoneme (linguistics) _ one of the small set of speech sounds that ... can be classified into 2 groups: Centring diphthongs (ending in /ə /) include /iə/, /eə/, /ʊə/. Closing diphthongs (ending in /i/) include /ei/,/ai/,/ɔi /(ending in /ʊ/) include /əʊ/& /aʊ/. ... phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the /m/ of “mat” and the /b/ of “bat” in English” (Jones: 1950) “Phoneme_ the smallest sound unit in a language...
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... sentiments.During this period, many Latin American musicians worked to mod-ernize the musical infrastructure of their countries in order to bring localpractices into line with what was happening in the ... identi-fied in handwriting on the scrapbook page or in the margin of the clipping.Investigation revealed that some of those handwritten identifications areincorrect (the ones in Plaza’s handwriting, ... example, in his televised remarksintroducing a 1954 broadcast featuring pianist Susanne Detrooz in a per-formance of several of his works. Before beginning his simple remarks onthe structure of...
... numerous findings of concern. One is the relatively high levels of discordance,with the highest discordance rates occurring in three of the items considered among the most important: “trainingopportunit ... performance in many developing countries[13,14], and in India in particular.Thepurposeofthisstudyistoidentifyimportantaspects of health workers’ job satisfaction and motiva-tion in different settings ... tomotivation of doctors and nurses in both public and pri-vate sectors in the two states. The study was part of alarger research program conducted by Indian institu-tions to examine options for India’s...