... costs variation in health services and to assess outputs of rural health facilities The aim of this study was to evaluate and analyse the nature, performance and costs ofa sample of periurban and ... India, AWARE in Andhra Pradesh, CINI in Kolkata, CRHP in Jamked, RUHSA in Tamil Nadu, and SEARCH in Maharashtra (Antia & Bhatia, 1993) Pakistan Impression drawn from interview with various officials ... abbots and ecclesiastical heads A sample of 1600 Buddhist abbots and 400 ecclesiastical heads were selected and interviewed Peter A Berman (Berman, 1984) Indonesia An evaluation of coverage and...
... 42 Authors Jejeebhoy and Sathra (2001) Al Riyami, Afifi and Mabry (2004) Country and year of the data collection Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India and Punjab, Pakistan Data collected by authors, ... employment, sharing of roles and decisionmaking, family structure amenable to empowerment, equality in marriage, devaluation of women, women‟s emancipation, marital advantage and traditional marriage Logit ... aspects of individual agency and (b) used direct indicators of agency Authors Acharya and Bennet (1983) Schuler and Hashemi (1994) Country and year of the data collection Nepal Data collected by authors...
... http://www.theiia.org/guidance/standards -and- practices/professional-practicesframework/definition -of- internal-auditing/ Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) 2007 Standards for the Professional Practiceof Internal Auditing ... 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...
... there is an abundance of coarse sand or larger material, the effective diameter of the probe is greater than its actual diameter so that smaller probes (e.g of mm rather than mm diameter) can experience ... propertion of silt and clay, than in sands Penetrometer resistance doubled in a sandy loam soil remoulded at approximately field capacity for a 100-fold increase in penetration rate, whereas a 250-fold ... (1986), and by Hettiaratchi & O’Callaghan (1974, 1978) who also analysed theoretically the mechanics of the changes in cell size and shape that can occur in mechanically impeded root tips It is clear...
... X and Y (and X and Y are correlated), then X will be correlated with Aand will have an effect on Y independent of X A moderator variable is one that affects (usually reduces) the causal relationship ... performance by helping reduce uncertainty associated with stress and improving the accuracy of individual expectations and performance of certain tasks (Glass and Singer, 1973) Moderators can also act ... military personnel For example, Mareth and Brooker (1985) find that battle fatigue and other stress reactions may account for as many as 50 percent of the casualties in a given war As a result of...
... M: Health workforce issues and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: An analytical review Human Resources for Health 2006, 4:1-12 Mauritius Ministry of Health and Quality of ... Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2003, 2:55-64 Ryan M, Gerard K, Amaya-Amaya M: Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health and Health Care Springer; 2008 Lancaster K: A New Approach ... increasing primary care physicians in rural areas Fam Med 1990, 22:350-355 Inoue K, Hirayama Y, Igarashi M: A medical school for rural areas Medical Education 1997, 31:430-434 Lea J, Cruickshank...
... Noncatalytic salts for this reaction include carbonates and chlorides of sodium and potassium; calcium and sodium sulfates; and calcium and sodium acetates (Adams and Adkins 1925; Adkins and ... organic acids such as oxalic acid (pKa = 1.3) and tartaric acid (pKa = 3.0) also catalyze acetalization, but acetic acid (pKa = 4.7) does not catalyze this reaction (Adams and Adkins 1925) Oxalic and ... formed and phase separation occurred 4.3.2 Esterification and Acetalization Adding alcohol (methanol, ethanol, and propanol) anda mineral acid catalyst to pyrolysis tars and bio-oils caused esters,...
... socioeconomic and demographic variables) page 32 Authors Population /country Poznan and Wroclaw (Poland) a Health variables Air pollution variablesa Geographical level and SES variables Methods to evaluate ... environmental justice, housing, deprivation and environmental quality was searched in a number of health, environmental and geographical databases, and reviewed and evaluated to summarize the ... “naturally” favour the segregated metropolitan areas pattern and that only strong national and local public policies may succeed in maintaining or re-establishing a greater mix of activities and...
... 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 ... considerations regarding the relationship between sapwood area and leaf weight (and its actual variability), but also because of the variable relationship between hydraulic properties and carbon ... shoot:root functional balance and the mechanical balance concepts have some experimental and theoretical foundations, although Davidson’s rule may be considered as a consequence of more mechanistic principles...
... endometrial, skin, and pancreatic cancers, as well as in melanoma and all, where in some cases MT-I and II expression correlates with tumor grade/stage, chemotherapy/radiation resistance, and poor ... University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman 3Dept of Pharmacology, K.M.C.H College of Pharmacy, Kovai Estate, Kalapatti Road, Coimbatore -35, TN, India 4Dept of Pharmaceutics, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, ... http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/54 Author details Dept of Pharmaceutics, Cherraan’s College of Pharmacy, 521 Siruvani Road, Perur, Coimbatore-39, TN, India 2Dept of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy and Nursing, University of...
... Germany and Canada found a system that oscillated gas into and out of an animal’s lungs was effective at CO2 elimination [28,29] Commercial products are now available for children and for adults ... Critical Care October 2003 Vol No Ritacca and Stewart time cycled and achieves flow rates of 175–250 l/min The respiratory rate is usually 60–100 breaths/min and achieves Vt values of 3–4 ml/kg Although ... ventilator circuit and is therefore only a surrogate of the actual pressure oscillations in the airways These pressures are generally greatly attenuated through the endotracheal tube and larger airways...
... on a fatal granulomatous disorder in boys and described this as a “new Page of 14 syndrome” [3] Since these early descriptions, a rather amazing and accelerated understanding of the disease and ... interferon gamma and appropriate antimicrobials (such as trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole/TMP-SMX and itraconazole), and management of infections using appropriate antimicrobials based on pathogen likelihood ... Streptococcus [93] and Candida [94] has also been reported on Hepatobiliary and GI Complications A plethora of GI tract complications occur in CGD As stated earlier, variant alleles of mannose binding...
... 2006, 6:143 15 Dadgar N, Ansari A, Naleo T, Brennan M, Salama P, Sadozai N, Golaz A, Lievano F, Jafari H, Mubarak M, Hoekstra E, Paganini A, Feroz F: Grais et al Conflict and Health 2011, 5:21 ... months-12 years–Afghanistan, 2002 Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2003, 52(16):363-6 Vijayaraghavan M, Lievano F, Cairns L, Wolfson L, Nandy R, Ansari A, Golaz A, Mashal T, Salama P: Economic evaluation of measles ... measles catch-up and follow-up campaigns in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003 Disasters 2006, 30(2):256-69 Puvimanasinghe JP, Arambepola CK, Abeysinghe NM, Rajapaksa LC, Kulatilaka TA: Measles outbreak...
... for abdominal fascia following Figure the approach DPL a midline tolinea alba and anterior an open or semi-open View of the linea alba and anterior abdominal fascia following a midline infraumbilical ... 18-guage needle is elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an While grasping and inserted at a 45-degree angle toward the While grasping and elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an 18-guage ... unless indicated for a separate Blunt Abdominal Trauma Hemodynamically Abnormal Hemodynamically Normal FAST Availability CT Availability Yes Positive Laparotomy No Negative or Equivocal Yes DPL...
... (principally the laboratory mouse), or are of commercial significance (such as farmed animals such as chickens, horses, goats, cattle and fish, and pets), where they cause a number of commercially ... the causative agent of several slow progressive diseases in animals including arthritis and encephalitis in goats, leukemia in cattle, anaemia in horses, and immunodeficiency in cats, cattle, ... and BLV and related viruses form a separate class of complex retroviruses that cause leukemia in a small percentage of infected individuals after very long latency periods Retroviruses have also...
... corporate governance, Advances in Accounting, 22(2), pp 1–27 ˜ Arrunada, B and Paz-Ares, C (1997) Mandatory rotation of company auditors: a critical examination, International Reviewof Law and ... disagreement (Iyer and Rama, 2004) O’Leary and Radich (1996) found that the majority of auditors and publicly listed companies were against mandatory audit firm rotation due to a misbalance of ... European Commission and European Parliament is mandatory audit firm rotation The aim of this review is to identify, consider and evaluate stakeholder views and research evidence on mandatory audit...
... 40-50% of trabecular mass by 90 years of age [58] This results in a decline in the loadbearing capacity of the vertebral body For example, load bearing capacity in a lumbar vertebra can decrease from ... end plate The disc facilitates intersegmental movement while maintaining alignment of the vertebral column and has a primary role in attenuating and dispersing axial load With aging, the water ... osteoporosis and are associated with back pain, functional disability, reduced health-related quality of life and increased mortality These associations become more significant with increasing numbers of...
... situations, availability of alternative transport and changing health are major reasons for driving reduction and cessation (e.g., Raitanen et al., 2003; Charlton et al., 2006; Ragland et al., ... rates based on US Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data for 1997, National Highway Transport Safety Administration (NHTSA) (see Table 1.) Table 1: Number of driver fatalities and fatality ... especially for older drivers Casualty crash analyses, even those encompassing casualties of all severity, have a sampling bias: the so-called ‘frailty bias’, which exaggerates any apparent age-related...
... Predicting bank performance with financial forecasts: A case of Taiwan commercial banks Journal of Banking and Finance, 28, 2353—2368 Karels, G V — Prakash, A J (1987) Multivariate normality and forecasting ... stochastic DEA Kao and Liu (2004) formulate a DEA model of interval data for use in evaluating the performance of banks Their study makes advance predictions of the performance of 24 Taiwan banks ... combination of linear programming (LP) and DA Using data from the National Bank of Belgium, they find that MSD, DEA and C5.0 obtain the correct classification rates of failure for 78.9%, 86.4% and 85.5% of...
... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] OCEAN, COASTAL, AND MARINE EDUCATION CAN: • Enhance public awareness of the ocean and increase scientific literacy • Ensure that present and future ... thematic areas for clarity and appropriateness of thematic research priorities (Task 3a) ; balance among substantive research areas as well as among research activities such as observations, modeling, ... knowledge and understanding of factors contributing to the maintenance and restoration of ecosystem health Enhancing Human Health This theme addresses a broad array of human health issues that relate...