... externalities for tobacco use have changed dramatically in the past years, and as a result, policy with respect to managing tobacco usage behavior also has changed The relationship ofbehavior management ... singular choice of edu cation, marketing, or force of law as a paradigm of choice Each paradigm has a role to play in behavior management; behavior management must be considered from the pragmatic ... threaten to disadvantage noncompliance Law is also similar to what Wiener and Doescher (1991)'term a structural solution, that is, a political act that mandates individual behaviorFor Taylor and Singleton...
... and found that high implementation fidelity was only achieved in a little over onehalf of cases [3] In the same way, an evaluation of the implementation ofa residential treatment programme for ... findings of all of this literature contributed to the development of the novel framework presented here and provided examples of how to evaluate individual elements of the frameworkAconceptual framework: ... children and adolescents Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2007:CD004493 Noel P: The impact of therapeutic case management on participation in adolescent substance abuse treatment Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse...
... and found that high implementation fidelity was only achieved in a little over onehalf of cases [3] In the same way, an evaluation of the implementation ofa residential treatment programme for ... findings of all of this literature contributed to the development of the novel framework presented here and provided examples of how to evaluate individual elements of the frameworkAconceptual framework: ... children and adolescents Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2007:CD004493 Noel P: The impact of therapeutic case management on participation in adolescent substance abuse treatment Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse...
... Health Care Quality Assurance • International Journal of Operations and Productions Management • International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management • Journal of American Academy of Business ... PA Pareto Analysis PC Process Capability PM Project Management QM Quality Management RCA Root Cause Analysis RD Relations Diagram RGCA Regression and Correlation Analysis SD Scatter Diagram SIPOC ... Journal of Applied Statistics • Journal of Health Care Management • Journal of Industrial Technology • Journal of Marketing Management • Journal of Operations Management • Journal of Organizational...
... the address of its parameters Of course, all of them are not to be filled in All the information thus annotated is then translated into an XML format Annotation of the example of §2 is translated ... syntactic coverage of English grammars In DARPA, editor Proceedings of the Fourth Darpa Speech and Natural Language Workshop, pages 306-311, Pacific Grove, California, February, Morgan Kaufmann ... divergent parses.' Last of all, the XML format into which we translate the parses is an open exchange format It is an important asset for portability and reuse of parsing technolgy E.g for question answering...
... Schmaedeke and K Kastella, “Information based sensor management and IMMKF,” in Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, vol 3373 of Proceedings of SPIE, pp 390–401, Orlando, Fla, USA, April ... blue, and black) and two sensor UAVs (black and green) This scenario also demonstrates the adaptive horizon, with thin magenta and orange lines showing the UAVs’ planned Phase I and Phase II trajectories, ... and T Fortmann, Tracking and Data Association, Academic Press, San Diego, Calif, USA, 1988 [37] S Ray, Distance-based model-selection with application to the analysisof gene expression data, Ph...
... the Same Capacity Productivity Approach for Resource Allocation with the Same Capacity Comparison of Two Approaches in the Same Capacity System Parameters and Strategic Approaches New Allocation ... in Chapters and Technique and tool for service operations explore parametric and non-parametric methods for capital planning and allocation policy, and multi-objective optimization for strategic ... prices DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is a mathematical programming based on nonparametric technique that is designed to compare and evaluate the relative efficiency ofa number of Decision Making...
... two alternative architectures of the single-core and multicore approach Also, the details for the data analysisof the microarray ofa custom Lab-on-Chip are described 4.1 Microarray data analysis ... PROCESSING ALGORITHM Statistical analysisof microarray data can essentially process massive amounts of data and can also adjust for various sources of variability in order to identify the important ... multithousands of spots microarrays producing vast amount of data and evaluate the final results for molecular diagnostics examinations Targeted application areas are mutation detection for gene...
... 20], have yielded very variable estimates of the aberrations For example, the incidence of chromosomal abnormalities in 2-cell bovine embryos has been estimated at 12% by Iwasaki and Nakahara [17] ... chromosome are now commercially available [14], whereas bovine chromosome specific probes come mainly from cosmid and YAC/BAC libraries and are only recently available in a few laboratories [5, ... D., Awwad B.H., Ramaekers F.C.S., Interphase cytogenetics of hematological cancer: comparison of classical karyotyping and in situ hybridization using a panel of eleven chromosome specific DNA probes,...
... [11,18] as well as Canada [19] and the United States of America [20] have realised the importance of teaching undergraduate medical students about international or global health issues and this teaching ... transborder and global determinants Towards ‘health for all’ **/+ Learning opportunities in ‘global health’ should adopt and impart the ethical and practical aspects of achieving ‘health for all’ ... health and international health teaching in German medical education In doing so, we will assess the state of global health in German medical education and evaluate the applicability of the framework...
... dynamics and tunneling [29] and in at least one case tunneling has been invoked in the reappraisal of the catalytic mechanism of the aspartate proteinase family of enzymes [30] Our own work, and ... H-tunneling by a vibrationally assisted mechanism, although a Boltzman analysis suggests a very small population in anything other than the vibrational ground state An alternative explanation might ... demethylation of methylamine by MADH is a system well suited to study using the QM/MM approach; a crystal structure of MADH has been determined, and we have a large body of experimental data, and...
... and Social Science Research Network databases using the search criteria “medical tourism AND Asia” (92) and “medical travel AND Asia” (806), generating a range of mostly conceptualresearch Abstracts ... tourism for health systems, from a comparative analysisof Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia This framework can provide a basis for more detailed country specific studies, of particular use for policymakers ... services Malaysia’s Society for Quality in Health (MSQH), a joint regulatory body launched by the Ministry of Health, Association of Private Hospitals of Malaysia and the Malaysian Medical Association,...
... as de®ning a general theory of class consciousness and class formation, but rather as aframeworkfor de®ning an agenda of problems for empirical research within class analysis In the multivariate ... interactions among constituent micro-elements, or weak and rather chaotic, involving few andA general framework 187 Table 10.1 Logic of micro- and macro-levels of social analysis Levels ofanalysis ... schema Organizations, for example, can be analyzed in terms of the relations among a series of suborganizational units ± of ces, branches, departments ± and each of these, in turn, can be analyzed...
... case the source of the reparandum information gave a false alarm, the alternative of not skipping the reparandum is still available For each utterance in the input, the parser needs to find an ... hypothetical start and end ofa reparandum (say from a language model such as (Heeman and Allen, 1997)), extends copies of phrase hypotheses over the reparandum allowing the corrected utterance to be formed ... series of sentences to be analyzed An interpretation fora text would be a series of parse trees and logical forms, one for each sentence An analogous view is often taken of dialog; dialog is a series...
... the objects that we are interested in are available for inspection The evidence that leads to a particular choice of syntactic theory is less directly available Once we have a vocabulary derived ... output of the rules we are using applied to the translations we have allocated to the lexical items in our vocabulary will be generated Tibia is true of all NL s!/stems that translate from a natural ... system are acceptable as they are proposed, is more flexible than any approach which depends on getting a reaiisable expression of the representation language from the application program and systematically...
... 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...
... that is a modification of the former for dealing with Japanese On the basis ofa unification parser developed at ATR (Kogure et al 1988), the grammar has been written and proven capable of analyzing ... syntactically by m e a n s of predicateinternal collocation, adjunction, tense, and modal information An IFT-Schema consists ofa goal whose value is a partial description ofa deep IFT, anda ... multiple analyses are disambiguated (3-3), the surface analysisof (3-2), is analyzed as (4-5) This enables an adequate English translation (4-8) instead of an inappropriate literal translation...
... work in this area The targeted audience includes graduate students of engineering and applied mathematics, as well as academic and industrial researchers in the eld of wireless communications, networking, ... control and game theory No particular background is needed for reading this book, except for some familiarity with basic concepts from convex analysisand linear algebra A general willingness to carry ... strategies are applicable to any kind of convex problem However, standard approaches typically ignore the particular analytical structure of the problem at hand Thus, they are not necessarily a good...
... recruitment and retention of rural doctors: methodological and logistical considerations Australian Journal of Rural Health 1999, 7:206-211 Lapalla M, Brandt E, Barker A, Ryan L: State public ... training capacity and the appropriate incentive packages that will produce and retain the required health care workforce Cost analysis is therefore essential to help address these health labour ... identification and selection of key elements, their monetary valuation, and accounting for the variation of costs over time Also central to this framework is the identification and understanding of...
... WormBase at [58,59] Annotation of nematode microRNAs was downloaded from the microRNA database miRBASE at [42,60] Assembly version WS180 of C elegans was used for gene and microRNA annotations and ... this paper was performed using the R package The related R code and example data sets are available for download from [68] Additional material Additional file 1: Signal patterns of Pol II around ... http://genomebiology.com/2011/12/2/R15 Page of 18 Figure Schematic diagram of our data binning and supervised analysis (a) DNA regions around the transcription start site (TSS) and transcription terminal site (TTS) of each transcript...