... resources in an ongoing system- wide effort to improve the performance of the VA healthcare system and, thus, quality of care for veterans QUERI researchers collaborate with VA policy and practice leaders, ... relevant toimplementation are increasingly recognized and addressed [3-5]; and clinician andsystem barriers to the uptake of evidence have been extensively studied, with solutions being suggested and ... associated with improved health-related quality of life Within Step 4, QUERI implementation efforts generally follow a sequence of four phases to enable the refinement and spread of effective and sustainable...
... resources in an ongoing system- wide effort to improve the performance of the VA healthcare system and, thus, quality of care for veterans QUERI researchers collaborate with VA policy and practice leaders, ... relevant toimplementation are increasingly recognized and addressed [3-5]; and clinician andsystem barriers to the uptake of evidence have been extensively studied, with solutions being suggested and ... associated with improved health-related quality of life Within Step 4, QUERI implementation efforts generally follow a sequence of four phases to enable the refinement and spread of effective and sustainable...
... speak of developing the “right kind of culture, ” a cultureof quality” or a cultureof customer service,” suggesting that culture has towith certain values that managers are trying to inculcate ... thing of real importance that leaders is to create and manage culture; that the unique talent of leaders is their ability to understand and work with culture; and that it is an ultimate act of leadership ... superior to another culture s religion and moral system, but if the members reinforce each others’ beliefsand values, they come to be taken for granted Those who fail to accept such beliefsand values...
... Therefore, the objective of this study is toevaluate the validity of cancer-specific and generic preference-based instruments in terms of their ability to distinguish between different measures of ... aspects of adaptation into their valuations The responsiveness of the instruments needs to be evaluated longitudinally; this was difficult toevaluate due to the cross-sectional nature of the ... Comparison of Two Quality -of- Life Instrumentsfor Cancer Patients: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life...
... Therefore, the objective of this study is toevaluate the validity of cancer-specific and generic preference-based instruments in terms of their ability to distinguish between different measures of ... aspects of adaptation into their valuations The responsiveness of the instruments needs to be evaluated longitudinally; this was difficult toevaluate due to the cross-sectional nature of the ... Comparison of Two Quality -of- Life Instrumentsfor Cancer Patients: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General and the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life...
... exposure to traumatic events andfor symptoms of PTSD This instrument was originally constructed as a self-report and assesses the severity of symptoms based on the frequency of symptoms reported ... aimed for a better understanding towards the children andfor a positive relationship between caretaker and child in order to reduce violent punishment andto foster secure bonding Page of HIV: ... instructional systemfor six months In addition, any form of physical punishment was banned and all caretakers were informed that any use of physical punishment and other forms of maltreatment,...
... sucrose to support dispersed growth of the mycelium and provide sufficient biomass for the ChIP protocol; this was to maximize formaldehyde penetration andto determine the genomic distribution of ... (and Lys) tend to be over- High density IJISS DNA arrays have been developed for global analysis of Streptomyces gene expression and transcription factor binding The HspR regulatory systemof ... (ChIP-on-chip) analysis of transcription factor binding sites [10] The ChIP-on-chip technique has become an essential tool forsystemwide analysis of biological systems (for example, [11-15])...
... on reaction of PHD2:Fe(II):2OG with an equal volume of an oxygen-saturated buffer, withand without CODD peptide substrate (A) Formation of species absorbing at 320, 380 and 520 nm with time in ... spectra of the PHD2:Fe(II): ¨ 2OG:CODD complex before (A) and after reaction with an oxygensaturated buffer solution for 200 s (B), andof the PHD2:Fe(II):2OG complex before (D) and after reaction with ... GM-69657 to J.M.B and C.K.); the National Science Foundations (NSF MCB-642058 and NSF CHE-724084 to J.M.B and C.K.); and the Pennsylvania Department of Health Tobacco Settlement Funds (to J.M.B and...
... reporter systems for monitoring apoptosis and autophagy and describe applications of this reporter in genome -wide screening approaches respectively; Figure 1b), while MG132, an inhibitor of the ... effector of protein cleavage Applications of the protease sensor to study β-actin cleavage, apoptosis and autophagy Cleavage of Actin-dNGLUC by HtrA3 and suggests that members of the HtrA family of ... understanding the contribution of autophagy to tumor growth Large-scale screening approaches to identify regulators of autophagy to date have not been reported, possibly due to the absence of suitable...
... of 2, and all of the other terms have a frequency of vector' These entries are flagged and saved to a log file, allowing the user to decide whether the taxonomy database needs to be updated to ... criteria were found for 1,440 (78%) of 1,846 predicted proteins in the Thermotoga genome With a cutoff filter value of 0, the majority of matches, 617, were to bacteria of the Firmicutes/Clostridia ... of 100% retains all matches as candidates for subsequent LPI calculations Some columns have slightly lower total numbers due to matches with uncultured organisms, which contain no lineage information...
... corresponds to the sum of Ssig and Ssub values decreasingly ranked and divided by the rth power of a, where r is the position of the value in the ranked list and a is chosen to be a small integer (for ... defined: cutoffsig (Pvalue < 0.01) and cutoffsub (P-value < 0.025) for significant (Ssig) and suboptimal (Ssub) hits, respectively Here, a mixed background model (both exons and introns taken together) ... number of nodes (vertices) in the graph, Nv is the number of neighbors of node v, and nv is the actual number of edges between the neighbors of node v The analyses were performed with the R software...
... • Competitor of Microsoft’s software company: Mozilla – Producer of Mozilla FireFox, the software Web browsers It is time to look at one another competitor of Microsoft toevaluateand have a ... structure and consult his opinion with the managers “He is willing to stand up and hear the feedback And he closely monitors the needs of his audience - market demands, perceived competitors, customers ... expectations, values, norms and ways to adapt and identify its culture Thus, culture in each organization is unique For example: if relationship of customers is cared of the culture, this distinction...
... -0.96 and -0.33 for pork, -0.03 and -0.40 for eggs, and -0.39 and -0.47 for edible oils Overall elasticities of fat intake with respect to pork prices were -1.10 for the poor and -0.49 for the ... special taxes and prices on them may be difficult and costly to implement In contrast to tobacco and alcohol prevention efforts, efforts to limit consumption of foods high in saturated fats and other ... 0.36 for coarse grains and 0.33 for edible oils; however, they were: -0.93 for rice and -0.32 for eggs What is known about the effectiveness of economic instrumentsto reduce consumption of foods...
... reduction into sustainable development policies, planning and programming; for the development and strengthening of institutions, mechanisms and capacities to build resilience to hazard andfor a systematic ... order to guarantee the implementationof programmes and legislative mandates, ascertain compliance of programme managers with the financial and administrative regulations and rules, as well as with ... andorganizational structure of the ISDR secretariat adequately served its mandated objectives and functions The audit was conducted in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional...
... Treatment consisted of one dose of study drug every four hours, for a total of six doses Assessments of temperature, vital signs, laboratory measurements, and safety monitoring were performed from baseline ... ibuprofen group (primary endpoint) showed 24 of 31 (77%) of subjects, compared toof 28 (32%) of the placebo group with a temperature
... chiropractors inserted the previously chosen symptoms and activity onto the follow-up form prior to this being given to the patient to score Therefore, the patient was aware of the symptoms they ... scale ofto 6, with being as bad as it could be Profile P Equals the mean of the scores recorded mental) of a specific problem they need assistance withand consider the severity of these symptoms ... for chiropractic patients who present with a variety of symptoms and clinical conditions Acknowledgements We are grateful to Clare Bradley for permission to use the W-BQ12 questionnaire and to...
... ngữ to n dân đòa phương cụ thể với nét khác biệt so với ngôn ngữ to n dân hay với phương ngữ khác “[8; 24] Ở đây, thấy cần phân biệt ngôn ngữ to n dân phương ngữ Phương ngữ biến thể ngôn ngữ to n ... chỉnh riêng “một nhánh tách từ thân cây” [8; 54] ngôn ngữ to n dân Ngôn ngữ to n dân trừu tượng phương ngữ cụ thể “Phương ngữ ngôn ngữ to n dân có mặt trừu tượng mặt cụ thể ” [8; 54] 1.1.4.1.2 ... diễn đạt Về ngữ pháp, ngôn ngữ to n dân phương ngữ có lẽ không khác Chính thống mặt ngữ pháp phương ngữ với với ngôn ngữ to n dân thếø tiếng Việt bảo đảm thống to n quốc “Khi việc miêu tả thu...
... a few minutes to browse through the museum, looking at pictures of the famous users of Randall knives Mr Randall happened to stop by his office and I had a chance to thank him for the knife he ... representative for Bayer’s agriculture division in Crossfield, Alberta, understands the concept of being close to the customer and customer intimacy He is always on the job with no order too small ... processes, and pass the savings to the consumer Wal-Mart did not see the necessity to pay anyone in the middle to handle the product The store’s strategy was to reduce shipment time from factory to store...
... Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture, Cameron and Quinn explore one model and technique of how to get at the crucial concept ofcultureand how to make this concept relevant for the practitioner ... management and industrial relations managers and staff, union officials, professional arbitrators and mediators, government officials, and professors and students involved in the study of organization ... of data as a tool fororganizational change It - - - - - attempts to bring together some of what is known from experience and research andto translate that knowledge into useful insights for...