... stakeholders who are involved in policy decisions, and to provide emphasis for the need for an evidencebasefor rational policymaking Symposium organizers sought balance in perspectives of key stakeholders, ... goal for the symposium was to serve as a catalyst for expanded research efforts on PAC rehabilitation so that relevant research can be used as the basis for policy and funding decisions The planning ... and funding decisions The planning committee sought to develop an agenda for research that supports an evidencebasefor PAC rehabilitation, including issues related to measurement and research...
... Disease Study [10]) for integrating, validating, analysing and disseminating fragmentary information on the health of populations so that it is truly useful for health policy and planning Features ... 2002 [http://www.who.int /evidence] Geneva: Global Program on Evidencefor Health Policy, World Health Organization Gakidou E, Hogan M, Lopez AD: Adult mortality: time for a reappraisal Int J Epid ... population to afford tertiary care As a result, while most countries have some information about prevalence, incidence and mortality from some diseases and injuries, and some information on population...
... substantial evidence supporting this type of treatment [22-24] and spinal manipulation for back pain is recommended in several guidelines[25,26] The research forming this evidencebase relates ... soft tissue treatment and others, but the core treatment for the chiropractic profession is joint manipulation[20,21] The evidencebasefor treating musculoskeletal disorders with manipulation ... time for the chiropractic profession to take responsibility and make an effort to provide an evidence- based treatment for problems relating to the developing musculoskeletal system Conclusion...
... number of evidence- based treatments (EBTs; described further below) [34] that, while holding substantial promise for improving services for AI/ANs with substance use problems (as they for non-AI/ ... evidence- based treatments for substance use problems Evidence- based treatment Brief description and citation • Contingency management Provide positive reinforcement (i.e., rewards) for progress in treatment ... these efforts is to promote EBTs rather than Evidence- Based Practice - the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values [104] An explicit shift to promoting evidence- based...
... economic evidencebase to support adaptation decisions to protect health from climate change, revealing large gaps in economic evidence The analysis suggests that the existing evidencebase is ... economics evidencebase could inform policy making First, more climate change-specific health economic guidelines and tools Second, further review of the existing environmental health economic evidence ... decision making using an improved health economic evidencebase These activities include NAPAs and other capacity-building projects such as UNFCCC’s NEEDS project; UNDP’s “Capacity Development for...
... to two while limiting to year ‘2000’ forward yielded no articles Changing databases to Medline (1996-2006) yielded no citations for nursing but provided 786 for ‘Chief Executive Officers Hospital’ ... economic performance; therefore if the CNE does not maintain a good relationship with the CEO, this might lead to either voluntary or forced resignation Demonstrating a healthy economic performance ... currently completing her 4th, EVIDENCE- BASED LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES FOR NURSE ADMINISTRATORS, ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES (APNs), AND DOCTORS OF NURSING PRACTICE (DNPs), scheduled for publication by Jones...
... strategies Control: using financial information to maintain performance as close as possible to plan, or using the information to modify the plan itself Planning, decision -making and control are particularly ... information and the broad spectrum of ‘users’ of that information While the primary concern of this book is the use of accounting information for decision -making, the book takes a ACCOUNTING FOR ... Accounting for Managers: Interpreting accounting information for decision -making Paul M Collier Aston Business School, Aston University Accounting for Managers Accounting for Managers: Interpreting...
... recorded data and important generating unit parameters such as the forced outage rate (FOR) and the derating adjusted forced outage rate (DAFOR) can be computed using the relevant state residence times ... 200 300 400 - - Hydraulic Units FOR DAFOR (%) (%) Failure Rate (per A) 4.06 3.61 7.90 4.39 3.10 4.69 3.87 7.94 4.84 3.38 3.31 3.65 6.45 5.62 2.70 Fossil Units FOR DAFOR (%) 99 199 299 399 599 (%) ... calculation of the LOLE is the unit FOR This is sometimes replaced by the DAFOR for large generating units which tends to give a pessimistic appraisal of the unit and therefore of the system adequacy...
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... springs, forming materials, metal bonding agents, moulding resins, peripheral equipment for pressing and tool making, tool slides with cam or roller slides and hydraulic cam systems B2_Formenbau_GB_11_2008.indd ... and pinion or electric with worm drive FIBROPLAN® NC – indexing tables with backlash adjustment worm drive or torque motor for use in machine tools for universal positioning and round and multi-axis ... 46 46-47 47 48 49 50 51-55 56-58 59 60-61 62-65 66 Forming / Demoulding Bolt Guides Ejector Pins Ejector Sleeves Date insert Quill holders for core tempering O-rings 68-69 70-77 78-79 80-81 82...
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... come to broaden the traditional approach to leadership and decision making and form a new perspective based on complexity science (For more on this, see the sidebar “Understanding Complexity.”) Over ... have access to the information necessary for dealing with the situation in this domain, a command-and-control style for setting parameters works best Directives are straightforward, decisions can ... Framework for Decision Making new cell phone might emphasize feature A over feature B, but an alternative plan emphasizing feature C—might be equally valuable Another example is the search for oil...
... profit performance? Etc., Therefore, CVP analysis is an important tool in planning and decision making but it is not so accurate Task 2: Contrasting ABC and traditional costing: Summarize information ... calculation for the rest to find out Consumption ratio for each activity cost pools - Overhead allocated for each kind of Briefcases = Cost Driver for each kind of Briefcases x AR (which is based on ... 5,000 5,000 10,000 (*) Setup hours = Time for setups x number of setups Therefore, we have: - Setup hours for Briefcase = x 50 = 50 hours - Setup hours for specialty Briefcase = x 100 = 200 hours...
... axiomatized as a plan, in the AI sense, for maintaining or achieving a state of health in the patient, where different branches of the plan correspond to where in the temporal schema for disease the ... this stage in our method, we aimed at only informal, English statements of the facts We ended up with approximately 1000 facts for the knowledge base As an ill,stration of the method, let us ... the knowledge base as a whole The gaps are especially frequent in commonsense knowledge The general pl'inciple we follow in encoding this lowest level of the knowledge base is to aim for a vocabulary...
... their opinions for consumption by others They must be able to justify, account for and ‘perform’ their judgements This may be for the patient or client who has come to their service, or for colleagues, ... clinical encounter in all its social complexity In the context of case formulation, the evidencebase is but one form of knowledge For other types of judgement, we need different ways of knowing, ... in hypothesis formulation The search for disconfirming evidence is made difficult by the difficulty in identifying what it is that is being disconfirmed Sensitivity to disconfirming evidence has...
... people 15 Decision makingfor babies and young children who cannot consent for themselves 16 Decision making by competent minors 30 34 38 PART 3C The process of decision makingfor children and ... cup, spoon or any other method for delivering food or nutritional supplements into the patient’s mouth – or the moistening of a patient’s mouth for comfort, this forms part of basic care and should ... being evidence based, some aspects of medical treatment will always remain uncertain Death is a certainty for everyone but, except in a small number of cases, diagnosis and prognosis are based...
... presented several graph-based algorithms derived from his formal model of plan recognition In Kautz's algorithms, an explanation for an observation is represented in the form of an explanation graph ... that an agent performs to determine whether or not the performance of a particular activity makes sense in terms of the agent's recipes and the evolving SharedPlan The algorithm for explaining ... Whereas a recipe represents information about the performance, in the abstract, of act-types, an rgraph represents more specialized information by including act-type performance agents and times...
... encoded as metalevel subplans and subactions of explore -plan For example, compare-subplans is a subplan of explore -plan, and compare-by-feature is in turn one subplan of compare-subplans The system ... domain plans to serve as a testbed for the plan exploration strategies The exploration level is the most developed, including metaplans for constraining or instantiating plan variables and for exploring ... the current plan as more likely than a jump back to a query about the other plan, while at the exploration level, we can have plan comparison metaplans that capture either a plan by plan or a feature...
... shifts the task from the search for a direct antecedent for "the engine" to the search for the referent it is f%mctionelly related to But the basic mechanism for finding this referent is the ... programmer in an exact manner what information the purser needs at which node and just because this information is purely locally represented in the LFG formalism it leads to the possibility ... has an argument variable for the SUB7 f-structure Since V is the head of the VP rule this variable together with the structures coming fore the sister nodes are given to V for the construction of...
... OMS-Water for life-INT 14/06/05 10:45 Page 22 OMS-Water for life-INT 14/06/05 10:45 Page 23 WATER FOR LIFE PART MAKING IT HAPPEN MAKING IT HAPPEN The International Decade for Action Water for Life ... Decade for Action Water for Life provides the incentive for coordinated efforts to prevent the daily disaster of unnecessary deaths OMS-Water for life-INT 14/06/05 10:42 Page OMS-Water for life-INT ... WATER FOR LIFE MAKING IT HAPPEN OMS-Water for life-INT ii 14/06/05 10:41 DECADE FOR ACTION Page ii 2005–2015 WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for...