percentage of adults who got information about health issues from personal contacts family friends or coworkers or health care professionals by health literacy level 2003
... some form of school-based management The principal author of this work (Georges Vernez) may be contacted by email at vernez@rand.org orby phone at 310-393-0411, extension 6211 For more information ... Underperforming Teachers, 2008–2010 72 3.18 Percentageof Principals Sending and of Parents Receiving Information, by Type of Information, 2010 73 3.19 Percentageof ... and support for teachers School facility upgrades desired ranged from more chairs and tables to more classrooms and rooms for a library, laboratory, orhealth unit The support desired for teachers...
... source For the use of the WHO emblem, permission must be sought from the WHO Regional Office Any translation should include the words: The translator of this document is responsible for the accuracy ... recommendations of a Working Group convened byWHO to examine several of these aspects as they apply specifically to air pollution health impact assessments The quality of estimates ofhealth impacts of air ... presentation of uncertainties ofhealth impact estimates This report focuses on the use of epidemiologic methods and data for health impact assessment of air pollution Although laboratory studies,...
... determine what sorts ofinformation are most important Further work will attempt to improve the accuracy of the predictor, using new knowledge sources We will explore the use of the concept of a confidence ... probabilities offer another source ofinformationabout the possible tags for an unknown word The probabilities P(tilti_l) are trained from the 90% set of training data, and combined with the unknown word's ... would correctly disambiguate many of the words where the correct tag was not the 1-best choice Also, Mikheev's work suffers from reduced coverage, while our predictor offers a prediction for every...
... tors appear in Table Overall, 14.85% had fair or poor general health Results for the other indicators based on the criterion of 14 or more days of poor health in the past month were as follows: 6.75% ... characteristics, health conditions, and health risks having significantly increased odds, independent of one another, of being associated with one or more or the three classes of poor HRQOL Other investigators ... related to the promotion of healthier lifestyles and improved access and affordability ofhealthcare Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008,...
... Normal censored Normal to Normal censored 0.0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Survival in months from months after first visit Figure Survival Curves for Categories of CA125 Change Gupta et al Journal of Ovarian ... Consequently, our findings lend support to the importance of regular monitoring of CA125 during the entire spectrum of treatment in ovarian cancer from the point of view of predicting survival Acknowledgements ... prior treatment history The prior treatment history variable categorized patients into those who had received definitive cancer treatment elsewhere before coming to our institution and those who...
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... The WHO (World Health Organisation) TobReg's "Advisory Note" report entitled "Waterpipe tobacco smoking: health effects, research needs and recommended actions by regulators" was published by ... laboratory model completely differed from actual human hookah smoking Only a small quantity of the smoking mixture was used: 10 g instead of the average 20 g according to an important work by ... "public health is a social issue" as recently and relevantly emphasised by Dr Lee, Directorgeneral of the World Health Organisation [42] Methods The present work is based on a critical and thorough...
... Forecast Errors 50 Comparisons of Error and Squared-Error of Unadjusted Analyst Forecasts to Forecasts Adjusted with Short Interest Information 56 The Association between Analyst Forecast ... those forecasts by incorporating short interest information My second research question is whether analyst earnings forecasts (i.e., forecast revisions) contain information that is useful for predicting ... contain information that is incrementally useful for predicting future returns, beyond the information in short interest Next, I demonstrate that portfolios of stocks formed based on information from...
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... in acts of terrorism Three profiles of noteworthy terrorists of the early 1970s who belonged to other groups are included in order to provide a better basis of contrast with terrorists of the ... examples of the political terrorist’s selfjustification of his or her terrorist actions include the terrorist’s taking credit for a given terrorist act and forewarning of terrorist acts to come By ... least among the nonsecular sectors of the population TERRORIST PROFILING Hazards of Terrorist Profiling The isolation of attributes or traits shared by terrorists is a formidable task because there...
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... insecure about his or her ideas Negotiating Authority In organizations, formal authority comes from the position one holds But actual authority has to be negotiated day to day The effectiveness of ... influence of linguistic style on conversations and human reDeborah Tannen is University Professor and a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C She is the author of 15 ... Judgments about confidence can be inferred only from the way people present themselves, and much of that presentation is in the form of talk The CEO of a major corporation told me that he often has...
... Test Scores Score Scales ® Since the TOEFL test is changing significantly, the score scale is also changing Scores from the TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) provide informationabout performance ... ETS’s Online Scoring Network The responses from each test taker are scored by at least three different human raters In addition, some of the tasks are scored by two raters in order to check the ... correctly or, in the case of constructed-response tasks, what levelof response demonstrates sufficient skill Score Recommendations and Requirements With that information, the panel makes score...
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... Impact of Tobacco Use on Women’s Health Effects of Smoking on Total Mortality Worldwide: Narrowing of the Gender Gap Peto et al.114 estimated mortality from smoking during 1955–1995 for the major ... New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1994 115 The health consequences of smoking for women a report of the Surgeon General Rockville, MD, US Public Health Service, Office on Smoking and Health, ... major cause of morbidity worldwide and is more prevalent in women than in men, the association between smoking and depression is important for women’s health and needs further study Risk of a...