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... understand the types of quality and safe team initiatives, the evidence about their impact, andthe barriers and facilitators to establishing teams and team initiatives Methods Data sources and ... Authors’ contributions DEW is the guarantor forthe paper DEW led the review, obtained funding forthe study, and identified the research question DEW and SS designed the search strategy DEW, SES, ... understanding of how these teams are established, the barriers and facilitators to establishing and implementing teams and team initiatives, as well as the strength of the evidence about the impact...
... momentum for their efforts Several respondents said the Global Strategy alerted them to others working in the same field that they had not hitherto been aware of, and to the opportunities for new ... women and children in the poorest countries of the world This was a game-changing moment in the run-up to 2015 andthe deadline forthe achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Forthe ... perceptions about the added value of the Global Strategy; and Next steps to strengthen advocacy, action and accountability, taking forward the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability...
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... Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, andthe Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible forthe report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate ... science and technology and to their use forthe general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal ... from these assessments that might form the basis for future steps by FDA and Congress to build on the strengths and correct some of the shortcomings of these policies or their application The...
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... Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, andthe Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible forthe report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate ... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use forthe general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress ... Prevention, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Department of Defense, the Health Resources and Services Administration, andthe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) The committee...
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... Building the Converged Network for IP, VoIP and IPTV LAN Carrier Ethernet IP IP Ethernet MAC Ethernet MAC ? Eth PHY IP Eth PHY IP IP IP Ethernet MAC MPLS Ethernet MAC Ethernet MAC Ethernet MAC Ethernet ... milliseconds and then find the parameters of the model that include a flag to choose the excitation type, the parameters of the excitation andthe coefficients of the linear filter for each chunk ... applications Telephony users want a clear and easily understandable voice They will probably valuethe ability to understand the message and identify the speaker but other features such as high fidelity...
... the boom and hustle, and at the “sharpers” who came forthe quick dollar, and remembered the quiet Pennsylvania hills and villages before oil burst on the scene They asked what had happened and ... between, on the one hand, environmental protection and reduction of carbon and, on the other, economic growth, the benefits of Hydrocarbon Society, and energy security These, then, are the three themes ... time in the future The futures prices were the focus for speculation, and oil became the favorite speculative commodity of the time.” The buyer was bound either to take the oil and pay the contracted...
... shows the GLAaS dose (first row) andthe gamma evaluation matrix (second row) for one plan andthe three sub-arcs fortheand 12° gantry movement In table the GAI results are reported as mean values ... RapidArc, the key elements for GLAaS are the same: knowledge of the MLC shape and of the dose progress at any instant of the delivery This information is fully stored in the DICOM-RT plans from the ... than 95% for all cases at MV and in average for 18 MV (with ~93% as minimum agreement) The MI of the calculated dose map is lower than the MI for measurements of about 8% for MV, andthe difference...
... protocols for AHRQ staff focused on their role in IDSRN, the underlying rationale forthe program, their perspectives on implementing research into practice, and their views of IDSRN's successes and ... problematic On the other hand, despite participant concerns forthe burden of in-kind and other support for IDSRN work, it is possible that delivery systems' own investment in the work may have ... from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services All views are those of the authors and not necessarily reflect those of the Agency or Mathematica...
... and Health 2005, 1:5 Mortality of the London Parishes, these attempts date back well over 300 years [1] Cause of death statistics forthe population of England and Wales have been collected for ... defined for each risk factor as the population distribution of exposure that would lead to the lowest theoretical minimum levels of disease burden Thus, for example, in the case of tobacco, the theoretical ... would be 100% of the population being life-long nonsmokers; for BMI it would be 100% of the population having a BMI of 21 (SD1) kg/m2, and so on The theoretical minima for each of the risk factors...
... include the Forest Stewardship Council's SmartWood EMS for forest property and forest products; the World Travel and Tourism Council's Green Globe 21 forthe travel and tourism industry; andthe ... represent the letter of the standard; these three overarching commitments set the tone forthe way the enterprise meets the requirements, and thus A productive EMS represent the spirit of the standard ... (the ISO 9000 series), in late 1996 the ISO issued the first few standards in the environmental management series - - the ISO 14000 series ISO 14001 is the ISO standard for EMSs, and this is the...
... information Matching the MPC System with the Needs of the Firm | Matching the MPC System with the Needs of the Firm The specific requirements forthe MPC system design depend on the nature of the ... to confuse the reader by minimizing the use of “lingo,” while introducing the vernacular of the operations and supply chain management professional Terminology andthe organization of the topics ... of the future needs a very strong understanding of the material in this book Just as the professional accountant must understand the basics of assets, liabilities, the balance sheet, and the...
... variable, which has a value of for digital products companies andfor physical dot coms Further, the α ’s andthe corresponding levels of inputs in the last four formulations involving the dummy variable ... suffer from the lack of complementary digitization in their valuechain While they may have digitized their interactions with customers, their valuechain partners such as suppliers and channel ... Analysis (BEA) Then the average of the beginning and ending values is used as the IT capital valuefor that year 1.5.2.3 Non-IT capital Non-IT capital is calculated by subtracting the book value of...