... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factorsaffecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factorsaffecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factorsaffecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...
... using A Tlme expanslon/compresslon wlth spectrum and excitation characteristics preserved B Pitch period expanslon/compression with spectrum andother excitation characteristics preserved, C Spectral ... three factors namely, the vocal tract response, pitch period contour, and g l o t t a l pulse shape contributed s i g n i f i c a n t l y to the unnatural q u a l i t y Each of these factors ... B.S Atal and S.L Hanauer, J Acoust Soc Amer., vol 50, pp 637-655, 1971 J.D Markel and A.H Gray, Linear Prediction of Speech, Sprtnger-Verlag, 19/6 J.L Flanagan, Speech Analysts, Synthesis and Perception,...
... women and children in rural areas and urban slums, who live in very poor health or die young from the diseases of substandard health, water, hygiene, and sanitation 40% of both mothers and children ... Improving and monitoring the education of health workers is a necessary step in ensuring better health for mothers and children, and in preventing and managing diarrhoeal diseases With so many mothers ... announcements, andother TV programs The broadcasts, linked to the Facts for Life Calendar, will advertise health days andother monthly TV health shows Radio Broadcasts ― Educate the general public and mothers...
... 6: Summary of the health effects and benefits by Region and Country Country and Region Wales Scotland England Britain English Regions East Midlands East of England London North East North West ... measurement of air pollution and diagnosis of causes of mortalityandmorbidity Particulate matter of less than 10 microns diameter (PM10), from road transport andother sources, gives rise to ... J (1994) Air pollution and daily mortality: a review and meta-analysis Environmental Research 64, 36-52 Smith, Steve (2002) National Inventory of Woodland and Trees: England Forestry Commission...
... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factorsaffecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factorsaffecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factorsaffecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...
... socioeconomic and political factors, including corruption and political will; 2) community factors such as location and infrastructure and health beliefs; 3) health system factors such as remuneration and ... another trial in Tangail District, Mirzapur Subdistrict (Table 1) [27] The second source of data is a survey of factorsaffecting retention and attrition administered to 69 of the 73 current and ... community health Otherfactors which motivate women to serve as CHWs are: the desire to use available time productively and, less commonly, value and recognition from the community and aspirations...
... section examines Page of 14 factors that influence recruitment and retention, including income, working conditions, management and supervision, career development andfactors linked to living conditions ... research activities, or other methods of fostering professional development and peer standing One theme which stands out is the complexity of funding sources for doctors in Vietnam, and the extent to ... two provinces: Lao Cai and Thai Binh The former was chosen as representing a highland province with low density of doctors, and difficulties of retention linked to a remote and difficult location...
... Definitions and inclusion criteria Study Design Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), controlled before and after (CBA), uncontrolled before and after, interrupted time series, and cohort and case ... Ghana [28,29] and one evaluated CHWs in Benin [30] All studies were located in rural settings with high mortalityandmorbidity from diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria Study designs and outcomes ... CHWs, and not the other activities of the CHWs alone, which reduced Page of 11 childhood mortality ITNs and malarial chemoprophylaxis are high-efficacy interventions and it is possible other...
... and after cardiac surgery, on patient mortalityand morbidity: A systematic review and meta-analysis Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 6:3 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... patient numbers and low mortality events in their data [16,18] In a previous review by Gandhi et al [19] they reported mortality data for 4355 patients, receiving insulin infusions during and/ or after ... fibrillation (AF) following cardiac surgery is common [22,23], affecting up to 20-30% of patients [23] and may increase surgical morbidityandmortality [24] In our review, tight glycaemic control demonstrated...
... of comorbidities and hospital care had confounding effects on both the mortalityandmorbidity observed in this study, and therefore could limit extrapolation of the findings to other practice ... Corticosteroid exposure and hospital care and intensive care The maximal daily Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score and also the requirement for mechanical ventilation and mechanical ventilation ... neurological, pulmonary, cardiovascular, hepatic, renal and coagulation [19,20] The length of stay and time intervals were calculated in hours and then expressed as fractions of days Hospital dis-...
... estimates of mortalityandmorbidityand clinical factors would be associated with suggestions for limitations of care when no patient preference was provided Materials and methods Study sample and administration ... baseline mortality) Our secondary hypotheses were that between-respondent estimates would have a wide range despite identical patient factorsand that mortalityandmorbidity predictions and vignette ... orders [7], and ICU mortality [8] Therefore, better understanding of the factors that influence physician prognostication may allow for an appreciation for the mechanisms underlying factors associated...
... different from those caused by P gonapodyides and P. cambivora isolates on one hand and from the most aggressive P cinnamomi isolate on the other hand (Table 1) Infection experiment II Confirmation ... cultivars and MM106 roostock Journal of Agronomy, 5: 321–325 Brasier C.M., Kirk S.A (2001): Comparative aggressiveness of standard and variant hybrid alder phytophthoras, Phytophthora cambivora andother ... experiments and the same inoculation and cultivation technique allowed us to compare the infection development between two periods during the growing season: June (the first and second experiments) and...
... 125- and 20- bp bands (lanes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9) and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp (lanes 4, 5, and 10) CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype is not seen in this picture The 20- bp band ... and fixed effects exist, the effects of between- and within-subjects factors as well as the interaction between factorsand covariates and its effects are analyzed The difference between LR and ... CYP3A5*1/*1 genotype gives 148-, 125- and 20- bp bands, CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype gives 168- and 125-bp bands and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp [19] Statistical analysis Tacrolimus...
... that factorsother than BMD operate to influence fracture risk, for example physiologic loading of vertebral bodies and the neuromuscular characteristics of trunk musculature Previously, the factors ... pathophysiology of osteoporosis and the local and global environment in which the bone operates The local environment includes muscle and connective tissue attachments and the adjacent intervertebral ... lowest BMD, lowest trabecular number and greatest trabecular separation Generally vertebrae are less dense anteriorly and superiorly and more dense posteriorly and inferiorly with heterogeneity...
... Chapter 4: Findings and Discussion This chapter is entitled “Findings and discussions” which analyzes the results of the questionnaires and gives the assessment on the factorsaffecting students’ ... should use stress and rhythmic patterns, and intonation patterns of the language clearly enough so that people can understand what is said Rhythm, stress and intonation are important factors to express ... Communicative competence is a concept introduced by Dell Hymes and further developed by many other authors Beside Dell Hymes, Lane, Canale and Swain andother researchers are also interested in the topic...
... addition to demographic factors like age and gender the demand for health and elderly care is affected by dependency, social and housing conditions of the elderly Fiscal and resource constraints ... labelled as MADL1, MADL2 and FADL1AGE, FADL2AGE and MADL1AGE, MADL2AGE, where F and M are shortcuts for female and male respectively, ADL1 and ADL2 shortcuts for instrumental and personal disabilities ... ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency andotherfactors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly With these models and the age profile of the institutional care,...
... skills and personal qualities of audit partners and staff; the effectiveness of the audit process; the reliability and usefulness of audit reporting; andfactors outside the control of auditors affecting ... Ethical Standards 1-5 London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004b) International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004c) ISA (UK and Ireland) 260 Communication ... 1992, the FRC’s remit was to set and enforce accounting standards (via the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) and the Financial Reporting Review Panel (FRRP)) and to maintain the Combined Code...
... improving maternal mortalityandother aspects of women’s health Interventions for Reducing Maternal MortalityandMorbidity In 1987, WHO andother groups launched the Safe Motherhood Initiative—a ... status, to design and conduct mortality reviews in individual health facilities and in communities, and to measure the impact and effectiveness of programs to reduce maternal mortalityand improve ... access to and uptake of—modern family planning has been identified by WHO and many other institutions and individual experts as a critical intervention to reduce maternal mortality, and although...
... investigate delays in the diagnosis and treatment of hospitalized patients with smearpositive pulmonary tuberculosis and to identify the factorsaffecting these delays MATERIAL AND METHODS Güneylioglu D ... total delay DISCUSSION We analyzed delays in the diagnosis and treatment of inpatients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis andfactorsaffecting these delays The present study indicated that ... World Health Organization, 1994 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Estimates for future global tuberculosis morbidityandmortality MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 1993; 42: 961-64 Sudre P,...