... clinical relevance than for the RWC alone Onthe day of transfer to the RWC, the ICU team has decided the next level of care in the critical care continuum, and whether weaning efforts should continue ... and concurrent severe renal dysfunction on transfer to the RWC have an extremely poor prognosis for weaning outcome and both short- and long-term survival The duration of mechanical ventilation ... dysfunction on weaning from prolonged mechanical ventilation Critical Care 1997 1:101 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • Thorough...
... his contributions and guidance Second, I greatly appreciate the invaluable feedback and comments provided by my GRP reviewers - Dr Goh Khim Yong and Dr Atreyi Kankanhalli Their professional and ... corporations (Whitman, 2003) Information security is not only an enabler of business, but also a critical part of organizations Continuous information security maintenance is the lifeblood of organizations ... information security policies and procedures that adequately reflect the organizational context and new business processes so as to guarantee the successful functioning ofthe organizations Given the...
... (1977): An Analytic Derivation ofthe Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees: An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory,” Journal of Banking and Finance, 1, – 11 Puri, M., J Rocholl, and ... the effects onthe behavior of savings banks should be larger if the value ofthe government guarantees to the savings banks was larger ex ante We identify the value of ex ante guarantees onthe ... taking across the two sets of banks after the removal of guarantees As an alternative to the bank level Z-Score, Panel A of Table also shows the change in the standard deviation of return of average...
... in the top percent ofthe symptom distribution and for poor mother reported health Onthe other hand, if we compare the change from 21 to 81 months, there is some steepening ofthe association ... delve deeper into theimpactof income we examine theimpactofthe timing of low-income on child health If timing matters, then this is more indication oftheimpactof income than of a fixed effect ... an additional response to the heating and rent or mortgage questions in the 21 and 33-month questionnaires and this is coded as All financial hardship questions in the 61 and 85-month questionnaires...
... that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy depends onthe institutional characteristics ofthe financial system, we go on to split the sample of countries into two groups depending on their ... triggered by the adoption of tight monetary policy in Germany to offset the aggregate demand effects of German Reunification The figure indicates that following the collapse ofthe “bubble economy” ... under the assumption that pooling the data is likely to sharpen the estimates Panel VARs There is a large literature onthe estimation of panel regressions and the inconsistency that can arise...
... group and IR group They took pretests and posttests, and researchers conducted an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to compare the means between the groups The mean rate ofthe posttest in the treatment ... taken at the end ofthe program for evaluation of its effect and suggestions for the future one V.2 Limitations ofthe study and recommendations for further research In spite ofthe significant findings ... after the experiment IV Results ofthe questionnaire The results ofthe questionnaire are presented in the following sections IV.5.1 Result ofthe first part ofthe questionnaire Table indicates the...
... dimension ofthe antenna in meters and is the wavelength of operation [1] Additionally, the distance must satisfy df >> D and df >> The far-field region is theareaof most interest for propagation and ... the far field that the phase front is nearly planar over a local region [8] All ofthe following antenna parameters are only valid in the far-field region ofthe antenna One ofthe most common ... fl and fu The final antenna parameter considered is polarization The polarization ofan antenna is the polarization ofthe EM wave radiated in a given direction when transmitting In general, the...
... culture ofthe organization If the organization is one that relies on face-to-face and one -on- one communication, HR practitioners must not only address theimpactofthe new technology, but must monitor ... understand the composition and function of employee workgroups — both formal and informal They will then develop an understanding of how and why members of these groups resist the changes within the ... organization and can seek to remedy the issues Organizations that typify the knowledge economy are viewed as dynamic and organic (Alvesson, 1995) As a consequence, the nature of organizational...
... This then raises the question ofthe validity and authority of knowledge gained over the Internet How can the learner be sure ofthe sources of information? Even where quality and consumer control ... balance and complement one another Teachers and learners will become more concerned with the management of knowledge, rather than mastery of all areas The teacher's role will combine guidance on ... other in some way The professor's expertise is used to estimate the effects of changing one variable on all the others Users are then asked to input their own data and/or make decisions, and the...
... three hypotheses concerning theimpactof loan market competition on euro area banks’ loan and deposit rates First, we examine the effect of loan market competition onthe level on bank loan and deposit ... competition on bank loan and deposit rate levels as well as on their responses to changes in market rates and, hence, onthe monetary policy transmission mechanism Given the prominent role ofthe banking ... j.a.bikker@dnb.nl Professor of Banking and Financial Regulation at Utrecht School of Economics, University of Utrecht, Janskerkhof 12, NL-3511 BL Utrecht, the Netherlands Banco de España, International Economics...
... productivity and food security Land administration and its impactonthe tenure security ofthe vulnerable Forecasting theimpactof HIV/AIDS on land rights into the future Why the discrepancy between these ... abandoning land, and so on To examine the consequence of such coping strategies on security of access and rights to land To examine how the changes in land tenure, access and rights to land among ... two of these The first is the challenge of distinguishing theimpactof HIV/AIDS from other influences on tenure, not least population pressure, the nature ofthe land administration system, and...
... necessary condition for the possibility of aesthetic nature, which is itself vital for a 'rich' life The junction ofthe ethical and the aesthetic leads Seel to the moral proposition that the conservation ... ways of living The link between aesthetic and ethical values leads me now to my conclusion onthe ethical impactof aesthetic experience on a moral attitude towards nature CONCLUSION Even if the ... understanding of art, as well as nature finds its roots in the philosophical recognition of imagination as an important faculty for understanding the human condition It can be argued that the early...
... information onthe number of farmers who have gone bankrupt due to the loss of markets as a result ofthe ban on poultry and the reductions in the demand for poultry products during and after the ... coefficients ofthe marginal effects ofthe Poisson model can be interpreted as the proportionate change in the conditional mean if the jth regressor changes by one unit Finally, the Poisson model sets the ... participants and nonparticipants (Heckman, LaLonde, and Smith 1999) The common support thus represents thearea where there are enough of both control and treatment observations The common support...
... techno-economic research and prospective analyses onthe use of ICT for creativity, innovation and lifelong learning for all Studies ontheimpactof social computing on (1) formal Education and Training ... Information and Learning Purposes Over the last few years, the Internet has had a profound effect onthe private and professional lives of European citizens, offering them an increasing number and range ... Abstract Over the last few years, the Internet has had a profound effect onthe private and professional lives of European citizens, offering them an increasing number and range of opportunities...
... cross-sectional The importance ofthe present study comes fromthe fact that it is the first Brazilian population-based report to quantify theimpactof several diseases, as well theimpactofthe number ... role-emotional, social functioning, and mental health (10, 11) The objective ofthe present study was to evaluate theimpactofthe most prevalent chronic conditions and the number of diseases that an ... organization of and quality in health care services for the chronic conditions ofthe elderly; such improvements would help avoid the complications of these diseases and the accumulation of comorbidities...
... for the introduction ofthe Internet in the 90s.13 Review of Business and Economics 2009 / 186 Federico Etro and expand new business, onthe market structure and onthe level of competition in their ... impacton business creation for a simple reason One ofthe main advantages of cloud computing is an induced change in the market structure of many sectors, with the creation of more firms and an ... European economy Future work may also improve the calibration ofthe theoretical model and the translation ofthe numerical simulation in empirical estimates with additional information on labor and...