... PAY FOR PERFORMANCE Pay for performance ties rewards directly to metrics of organizational, workgroup, and/or individual performance.31 These measures of performance can be linked to base salary, ... However, the chance of receiving retirement pay can create important incentives for performance and sorting for midcareer personnel There are several advantages as well as disadvantages associated with ... Efforts are under way to transform the U.S military into more agile and easily deployable forces with capabilities to react to a range of contingencies Transformation changes the way the military...
... countries in east and southern Africa (ESA): Angola, Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe There ... case: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe While some effort was made to obtain ... Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND METHODS 2.1 Conceptual framework A review...
... Comments are welcome and may be addressed to Jennifer Kavanagh, RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, California 90407, or Jennifer_Kavanagh@rand.org For more information on RAND's Forces ... performance benefits of experience, training, and innate ability and also as a summary of the research already completed in this area The report will be of particular interest to policymakers and ... that the trade-offs or - 31 relationships between AFQT and years of experience or additional training are linear Rather, the authors note that although the magnitude of the trade-off may vary,...
... had a colon polyp removed, Japanese-Hawaiians, North American Caucasians, native rural Japanese, and rural native Africans Lactobacillus species and Eubacterium aerofaciens, both producers of ... to a standardized amount of carbohydrate in a food The glycemic load takes into account the amount of food eaten An international table of the glycemic index and glycemic load ofa wide variety ... MD, Balmes J, Cullen MR, Glass A, Keogh JP, Meyskens FL, Valanis B, Williams JH, Barnhart S, Hammar S: Effects ofa combination of beta carotene and vitamin A on lung cancer and cardiovascular...
... villages through 4700 kiosks across six states (Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan) Source: Excerpted from http://itcportal.com/ Smaller and micro ... development of Rwanda towards an information and knowledge based economy The emerging information revolution offers Rwanda a window of opportunity to leap-frog the stage of industrialisation and transform ... proceeds of the loan will be used, via government-owned Malaysia Venture Capital Management Bhd (MAVCAP), to provide financing for computer software and other ICT related companies in Malaysia as they...
... internal audit activities; and (v) internal audit as a management training ground For As previously noted, fora detailed reviewof external auditors’ evaluationof and reliance on the work of internal ... Foundation: Altamonte Springs, FL, 97129 Arena, M., M Arnaboldi and G Azzone 2006 Internal audit in Italian organizations Managerial Auditing Journal 21 (3): 275-292 Bailey, A. D., A. A Gramling and ... Australia and Nava Subramaniam Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the recent European and international literature on i nternal audit independence...
... the task of text classification in a Bayesian learning framework This approach assumes that the text data was generated by a parametric model, and uses training data to calculate Bayes-optimal estimates ... Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1997 Ray Liere and Prasad Tadepalli Active learning with committees for text categorization In AAAI-97, 1997 Andrew ... Thompson An analysis of Bayesian classifiers In AAAI-92, 1992 Leah S Larkey and W Bruce Croft Combining classifiers in text categorization In SIGIR-96, 1996 D Lewis and W Gale A sequential algorithm for...
... that the chemical composition of poultry manure will vary because of several factors: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Source of manure; Feed of animals; Age of animals; Condition of animals; Manner of storage ... matter6 The advantages ofa naturally aerated lagoon are its flexibility, it capability to minimize odours, and its low initial costs Unfortunately, the lack ofa long warm summer in Canada and ... is aerated in some way There are basically two types of aerobic lagoon They are: the naturally aerated lagoon (sometimes called an oxidation pond), and the mechanically-aerated lagoon6 The naturally-aerated...
... reality, a reasonably large sample size with a compatible control is a must for examining such an alternative therapy For any scientific study ofa new therapy or treatment, a large amount of time and ... that Qigong therapy for cancer treatment may be a powerful alternative to what we are using today in treating cancer Qigong therapy is an area that is often neglected by mainstream medicine and ... Qigong may play a significant role in the healing (dosage effect) Funded by the National Science Foundation (China), Li Caixi et al.32) at Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of TCM also examined...
... record indicated that a beneficiary paid $5 in cash and an additional $20 with a personal check Because the suppliers did not 55 Based on a lack of information in claims data, we were unable to determine ... Medicare are medical equipment that often requires maintenance and repairs and Medicare paysDME suppliers for maintenance and repairs in certain circumstances Capped rental DME is a specific category ... involved reviewing documentation for allowed claims See Appendix Afor point estimates and confidence intervals See Appendix B for case examples of additional allowed claims failing to meet payment...
... 2000b Learning to filter spam e-mail: A comparison ofa Naive Bayesian and a memory-based approach In H Zaragoza, P Gallinari, and M Rajman, editors, Proc Workshop on Machine Learning and Textual ... classify e-mail In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning in Information Access, pages 18-25, Stanford, CA AAAI Press Thomas M Cover and Joy A Thomas 1991 Elements of InfOrmation ... modelsfor Naive Bayes text classification In Proc AAAI-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization, pages 41-48 AAAI Press Dunja Mladeni6 and Marko Grobelnik 1999 Feature selection for unbalanced...
... methods often focused on perceived hypoglycaemia or gastrointestinal ADEs (Table 2) Administrative databases were mainly usedfor cardiac ADEs, and laboratory/clinical values often included hepatic ... biochemical tests [72] Administrative databases are also limited regarding the types of ADEs that can be identified Such databases can be useful for assessing ADEs leading to hospitalization but have ... ADE assessment in observational studies can be based on reviewof existing practice-based data, such as medical records, laboratory reports, and administrative data, on surveillance by health care...
... ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials), AFNOR (Association Française de Normalisation), and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) The test standard establishes a uniform ... modified evaluation criteria/questions concerning statistical design, and summary of the evaluation results Evaluation method Evaluation criteria/question Type of criteria/mark Summary ofevaluation ... reliability criteria The two parts are also summarized in the end (Summary of the evaluationof existing reliability evaluation methods and Summary of the reliability evaluationof the non-standard...
... when appropriate, as the basic mechanisms and modelling approaches are similar in all kinds of plants WITHIN-TREE ALLOCATION: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND MECHANISM In the last 50 years assimilate allocation ... calculations) of these theoretical models are too complex for practical 524 A Lacointe 3.1 Empirical carbon allocation models Figure The Münch model of assimilate mass-flow transport Assimilates are actively ... transport-resistance models, as reported below MODELLING ASSIMILATE ALLOCATION Four main classes ofmodels have been used to date: empirical models, growth rule-based models, transportresistance models and models...
... received standard -of- care therapy, that is, fracture fixation with intramedullary nailing The two study groups received standard -of- care therapy and intraoperative placement of an absorbable collagen ... 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins), specifically lovastatin, atorvastatin, cerivastatin, pitavastatin, and simvastatin, may alter bone metabolism [13] Recent attention has focused ... femoral fractures decreased bone formation and callus mineralization In mouse femur and rabbit radii fracture models, local application of slow-release VEGF improved callus calcification and volume...
... conducted Case presentation Case Patient A is a 64 year old white female who presented with a large right breast mass The mass had been present for at least years, and the breast was swollen, streaked ... was significant for lung and pancreatic cancers She had used an estrogen and progesterone combination for hormone replacement in the past, the duration of which was unclear On physical examination, ... the time of surgery, the patient had experienced loss of skin integrity The contralateral breast was of normal size, with no significant masses on palpation There was no palpable adenopathy in...
... Srikumar R, Parthasarathy NJ, Shankar EM, Manikandan S, Vijayakumar R, Thangaraj R, Vijayananth K, Sheeladevi R, Rao UA: Evaluationof the growth inhibitory activities of Triphala against common bacterial ... Analytical flaws included weak handling of missing data, statistical analysis of data from non-completers using the last observation carried forward, and inadequate examination of the roles of patient ... Andrographolide (Andrographis paniculata), [62] neem (Azadirachta indica), [57] and the Siddha combination therapy RAN (Rasagandhi mezhuga, Amukkara chooranum and Nellikkai lehyam)] should be replicated...
... pleural effusion during the months after pleurodesis Univariate analysis was usedfor continuous variables associated with In-Hospital mortality and 3-Month Mortality Data are mean ± standard ... Over the last decade, indwelling pleural catheter drainage has established itself as a less expensive, minimally invasive, and palliative modality for the management of malignant pleural effusions ... this article as: Barbetakis et al., Early and late morbidity and mortality and life expectancy following thoracoscopic talc insufflation for control of malignant pleural effusions: areview of...
... MD: A collaborative evaluationofa needle exchange program for youth Health Education & Behavior 1999, 26(2):213-224 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Harm Reduction Journal 2005, ... have appeared in the literature since at least 1999 [5] According to Suishansian et al [6] the need for standardisation, collection, interpretation, and integration of program monitoring data with ... biological and behavioural surveillance data on HIV/AIDS associated with IDU is critical to informing and guiding appropriate prevention responses The aim of this paper is to review recent literature...
... it was not appropriate to conduct a meta-analysis Rather the results are reported in the form ofa narrative systematic review Such a narrative format has been described as appropriate in reporting ... to find one evaluationofa drug consumption room that specifically studied anti-HCV conversion as an outcome The evaluation was a time series analysis from an early evaluationofa drug consumption ... described and accounted for in the analysis; potential for confounders described and accounted for either by multivariate analysis or stratification; steps taken to ensure independence of data analysis...