... those in the service sector and broader policy environment, and the compatibility and fit of the tools and processes with existing incentive and regulatory frameworks and service systems The ... Life is central to government efforts to improve and monitor progress toward best practice delivery of Indigenous primary health These latter initiatives require services to collect and report a ... level to investment in processes and mechanisms that aim to improve the standard and quality of care delivered across the spectrum of treatment, prevention, and promotion activities, andto improve...
... authors to submit papers electronically, associate editors and reviewers to be assigned by the cochairs, reviews and reports to be garnered and evaluated, decisions and recommendations to be made and ... ACCOLADES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is customary to thank everyone from our families and teachers to our colleagues and support staffs, parakeets, and other ways of maintaining sanity under pressure Customary ... able to understand the scientific and ethical necessity to heal itself and not just others If the case cannot be made that we doctors of philosophy of WG 8.2 are ready‚ willing‚ and able to unto...
... 1.2) A HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE TABLE 1.2 Demands That Finally Lead to Unhealthy Results Demands and Needs Thwarting of Demands and Needs Unhealthy Results Secondary Demands and Needs ... community living and social learning to think, feel, and behave People have many goals and purposes—especially the goal of continuing to live and be reasonably free from pain andto be happy People’s ... collaborations, and bring together and integrate disparate findings, to offer a comprehensive and cohesive approach to understanding CBT/REBT and its central constructs of rational and irrational...
... the theoryandmodelsto understand how economists understand the world I also think these ideas are accessible to most students if they are explained thoroughly This text presents numerous models ... And they would agree to adhere to certain minimum standards to protect intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights TheWorld Trade Organization (WTO) was created to ... definition and using NBER records dating the length of recessions, the United States experienced depressions from 1865 to 1867, 1873 to 1879, 1882 to 1885, 1910 to 1912, and 1929 to 1933 Using...
... analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the manuscript BB and BL performed the histological and morphometrical analyses, and contributed to the interpretation of the results EC and SF ... challenge Histologic sections from lungs of a C57BI/6 (A and C) and pallid (B) mouse at 21 days after bleomycin The emphysematous lesions within or adjacent to the fibrotic areas appear to be mainly ... originates from an imbalance between elastinolytic proteases and their naturally occurring inhibitors In particular, neutrophil elastase (NE), and other elastolytic proteases, such as cathepsin G, and...
... proper and improper torsional potentials bij bond distance between atoms i and j xxi ijk angle by atoms i, j and k ijkl & ijkl proper and improper torsional angle by atoms i, j, k and l ... around the S and N atoms of [SCN], the N1 and N2 atoms of [BMIM]+ (a) the Zn and Cl atoms of ZIF-71 in [BMIM][SCN]/ZIF-71 (b) the In and Na atoms of ZMOF in [BMIM][SCN]/ZMOF The total pressure ... bonded atoms uproper potential due to the proper torsionals in bonded atoms uimproper potential due to the improper torsionals in bonded atoms kb & k force constants of bond-stretching and angle-bending...
... NA 0.60 (subtentorial vs supratentorial) 0.72 (0.40-1.29) 0.28 (supratentorial and subtentorial vs supratentorial ) 1.40 (0.96-2.05) 0.75 (supratentorial and subtentorial vs subtentorial 1.93 (1.1-2.53) ... 55/60) and 100% (n = 28/ 28) respectively Among patients receiving WBRT and chemotherapy as up-front therapy, patients with > BMs were 62% (n = 84/136) and 41% (n = 27/66) Only patients with BMs from ... limit and remove limit were p = 0.10 and p = 0.15, respectively The SPSS (11.0) statistical program was used for analysis Results From October 2004 to April 2007 clinical data from 290 patients...
... management tool Communities of practice A community of practice (CoP) is ‘a group of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a particular topic, and who deepen their understanding ... Delivery and Organisation (SDO) programme [7] These internal and external evaluations are supposed to contribute to the evidence base on the efficiency and effectiveness of collaboration and other ... universities and their surrounding NHS organisations aiming to undertake high-quality, patient-centred applied health research andto support the translation of research evidence into clinical practice...
... online learning as TheoryandPractice of Online Learning the use of the Internet to access learning materials; to interact with the content, instructor, and other learners; andto obtain support ... new books: Anderson and Kanuka, (2002), eResearch: Methods, Issues and Strategies; and Garrison and Anderson, (2002), Online Learning in the 21st Century: A Framework for Research andPractice ... school and adult education teaching, and research from basic literacy to graduate levels, private sector management and training experience, and private consulting Currently, in addition to developing...
... depend on a particular estimator Large-sample properties of an estimator are asymptotic unbiasedness, consistency, asymptotic normality, and asymptotic efficiency Asymptotic unbiasedness and efficiency ... Observe, from (15.26) and (15.27), that x(0|0) and P(0|0) initialize the single-stage predictor and ˆ its error covariance, where x(0|0) = mx (0) and P(0|0) = P(0) ˆ A more general state predictor ... nonlinear and linearized models The nonlinear model is used to compute z∗ (k) and subsequently δz(k) The notions of relinearizing about a filter output and using both the nonlinear and linearized models...
... modulation and photodetection devices 4.2.1 Diode lasers 4.2.2 External modulators 4.2.3 Photodetectors 4.3 Passive impedance matching to modulation and photodetection devices 4.3.1 PIN photodiode ... active and passive networks References Distortion in links 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Distortion modelsand measures 6.2.1 Power series distortion model 6.2.2 Measures of distortion 6.3 Distortion ... of a diode laser up to 33 GHz (Ralston et al., 1994), of an external modulator up 70 GHz (Noguchi et al., 1994) and of a photodetector up to 500 GHz (Chou and Liu, 1992) has been reported However,...
... support and love of my husband Joe and daughters Sandi, Philippa, and Jemiah who took care of some chores so that I could write Special thanks to my mom and siblings for their support; Drs Fred and ... encouraged to seek knowledge about the cultural background of their patientsandto work towards cultural competence Arguing from the viewpoint that culture’s influence on symptoms and presentation ... assessments needs to come away from an absolutionistic view and toward a multicultural view A multicultural view, according to Sam and Moreira (2002), is the belief that to understand mental health,...
... background, calculated from data on urban vehicle emission density, city dimensions and building heights; and (3) regional background, estimated from trends at rural monitoring stations andfrom national ... equating a cigarette to g, a cheroot or a pipe to g, and a cigar to 4.5 g of tobacco); smoking duration (total number of years smoking, linear) (smoking status, intensity and duration were adjusted ... sensitivity to alternative exposure definitions, adjustment for pre-existing disease, use of non-logged NO2 concentrations and use of frailty models with municipality as a random effect to take into account...
... name “candyland.” It turned out that the first applicant for the candyland.com domain name was not Hasbro, the toy manufacturer who marketed the Candyland game, but instead was the operator of ... intellectual and creative works, so that they are not alienated from their actual creators and openly available to anyone This system would encourage and reward the sharing of information and the ... right to make copies of the work andto produce derivative works, that is, translations into other languages, movies based on the book, and so forth They also have the exclusive right to make and...
... difference between theoryandpractice is that in theory there is no difference between theoryand practice, but in practice, there is D oug has been using this phrase to open each and every training ... get from use cases to code? So, in theory, everything in the UML is useful, but in practice, a whole lot of people and projects need to know how to drive an OO software design from use cases And ... potentially useful, but in practice, there never seems to be enough time to modeling, analysis, and design There’s always pressure from management to jump to code, to start coding prematurely...
... actual transfers from cash payers to card users andfrom low-income to McAndrews and Wang (2008) demonstrates the possibility of a subsidy in the opposite direction (from card to cash users) in ... transfers from cash to card users andfrom low -to high-income buyers Section presents an analytical model, which is then used in Section to calibrate the welfare-maximizing merchant fees and rewards to ... pays $149 to card users and each card buyer receives $1,133 from cash users every year, a total transfer of $1,282 from the average cash payer to the average card payer On average, and after...
... Discharge from a Hospital Brainstorming and Affinity Diagrams The technique of storyboarding grew out of the film and cartoon industry; Disney Studios perfected it to an art form In planning and organizational ... role of UM in disease management, pay-for-performance programs, andmodels of care This section is particularly important due to the current focus on the coordination of care modelsto make improvements ... of purpose toward improvement of product and service: the goal is to be competitive, to stay in business, andto provide jobs Adopt the new philosophy Cease dependence on inspection to achieve...