... ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the seven primary colours, the seven notes ofthe musical scale, andthe seven days ofthe week?” Miller’s idea is illustrated in Figure 1.1, where the xaxis ... scientists are often interested in the activity ofthe cortex The cortex is the thin layer of gray matter encasing the rest ofthe brain (or cerebrum) Thanks to its familiar folds and grooves, the cortex ... stimulate the imagination, as Miller describes at the end: “What about the seven wonders ofthe world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven...
... simply the other side ofthe growth ofthe mass worker Designing machines and organizing production and distribution of goods were intimately connected to both the rationalization of labor andthe ... distribution of industry changed within the United States from the Northeast to the Middle West andthe Southeast, the national workforce grew substantially and so did income Of course, much ofthe prolonged ... United States and in other parts ofthe world Recall that one ofthe major terms ofthe compromise between labor and management forged in the 1930s and 1940s was the exchange ofthe job control...
... and SES ofthe younger female population ofthe practice Most of these measures are taken early during pregnancy and refer to the health, housing and SES ofthe mother prior to the birth ofthe ... care need, there is little association between the family income ofthe child andthequality to which they have access In terms ofthe second part ofthe explanation for the lack of gradient, ... practice to be of poor quality on any measure if thequality measure ofthe practice is the lowest quartile ofthe practice quality distribution Both the unadjusted andthe adjusted quality measures...
... Construct validity On the basis of a review ofthe literature, the latent construct of patient expectations and perceptions ofquality was theorized to be multidimensional The factor analysis (Table ... technical quality focuses on the technical accuracy ofthe medical diagnosis and procedures, while functional quality is the manner in which the health care was provided However, in the context of health ... other methods of treatment, or if left untreated [3] Service quality Gronroos (1984) argued that there are two distinct constituents of service quality, the technical andthe functional In the...
... numbers of HIV-positive individuals being enrolled onto HAART and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on thequalityof lives of ... Africa, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not the side-effect profile of HAART may adversely affect the HRQoL of HIVpositive individuals More data about the impact of HAART and HAARTrelated ... interpretation ofthe data, and helped to draft the manuscript RW conceived ofthe study, participated in its design, and critically reviewed the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final...
... highlighted the lack ofandthe need for new empirical evidence about the epidemiology andthe effectiveness of available therapeutic strategies, and called for a prospective program of research ... epidemiology of cancer pain andof its treatments, thequalityof analgesic-drug therapy andthe effect of alternative analgesic strategies in a large, prospective, unselected cohort of cancer patients ... conduct and supervision In order to be able to conduct and monitor the progress ofthe trial for the patients' safety and according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki and the...
... individual's perception of their position in life in the context ofthe culture and value system of which they live with the relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns." This concept ... the influence ofthe duration of pain was studied using results ofthe total sample in regression analysis During their first visit to the clinic, patients were informed about the study andthe ... from the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ofthe University Medical Center Groningen The group consisted of 95 patients consecutively consulting the TMD/Orofacial Pain section for their...
... andthe evolution ofthe frequency of favourable alleles over time were consistent with the selection performed in the Tiameslan line against backfat thickness andthe number of false teats The ... as the contemporary group effect The traits were also adjusted for weight at the start ofthe test (D20100), at the end ofthe test (ABT) or for carcass weight (X2, X4 and X5) by including them ... model with the 4.2.5 version of VCE software [20] The model included the additive genetic value of each animal and common birth litter as random effects in addition to the fixed effects and covariates...
... the difference between the closing price at the end ofthe first day andthe offer price expressed as the percentage ofthe offer price for each security Finally, the institutional holdings and ... Instp and instn is the natural log ofthe percentage ofthe offer allocated to institutional investors andthe number of institutional investors as reported in SEC 13-F filings at the end ofthe ... IPO processThe summary of other management qualityand reputation variables is as follows tsizei is the number of officers with the rank of vice president or higher for each firm i pmbai is the...
... large grocery story chain, Mas and Moretti (2006) examine how the productivity of a worker varies according to the productivity of other workers on the same shift, and provide additional evidence ... on the value of B as well as the values ofthe other parameters in the game, the optimal mechanism must yield one ofthe following equilibria in the corresponding game: Player exerts effort and ... controls for thequalityofthe pitching and batting in the team’s division in the same year, the team manager’s lifetime winning percentage which is an indicator for thequalityof 11 the team’s...
... ii Abstract The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, andthe Effects of Care on Client Mobility: Findings from ... looks at the relationships among land use; the mobility of disabled and elderly recipients of public home healthcare; the mobility of their homecare workers; and how much care those homecare workers ... Costa.21 The “other” race was 22.3% (153 out of 685) The “other” category does not include non-responses; 685 answered for either one ofthe races or several ofthe races (the latter coded as “other”)...
... rate of a given maturity (de Bondt (2005), Heinemann and Schüller (2002), Sander and Kleimeier (2004)) We then test the stability ofthe baseline linear ECM before and after the introduction ofthe ... effect of Stage Three of EMU on bank pricing First, the importance ofthe long-term market rate in the equilibrium price of retail bank products has often been reduced since the introduction ofthe ... towards the “equilibrium price of retail bank products” is significantly higher since the launch ofthe euro The introduction ofthe euro may have 11 The effect of volatility, measured by the coefficient...
... Prasad (1997) studied the effect of an appreciation Orphanides and Wieland (1998) provided a first study ofthe effect ofthe zero bound on the distributions of output and inflation in the U.S economy ... indicate the upward bias in the standard deviation of output and inflation as a function ofthe equilibrium nominal interest rate For example, for an i∗ of 1% the standard deviation ofthe output ... above, the distortion of output and inflation distributions is driven by a distortion ofthe real interest rate The left-hand panels of Figure report the upward bias in the mean real rate and the...
... rate of a given maturity (de Bondt (2005), Heinemann and Schüller (2002), Sander and Kleimeier (2004)) We then test the stability ofthe baseline linear ECM before and after the introduction ofthe ... effect of Stage Three of EMU on bank pricing First, the importance ofthe long-term market rate in the equilibrium price of retail bank products has often been reduced since the introduction ofthe ... towards the “equilibrium price of retail bank products” is significantly higher since the launch ofthe euro The introduction ofthe euro may have 11 The effect of volatility, measured by the coefficient...
... in the amount ofwork they could perform, irrespective of whether they are limited in the kind ofwork they can perform (1 = yes, and = no) The vast majority of respondents who noted that they ... limited in the amount ofwork they could perform also noted that they were limited in the kind ofwork they could In contrast, individuals who noted limitations in the kind ofwork they could ... indicated whether the husband made less than 40% ofthe couple’s total income, andthe second dummy variable indicated whether the husband made more than 60% ofthe couples’ total income The omitted...
... inflation and inflation target Standard deviation of cost-push, demand and money demand shocks Standard deviation of noise of aggregate demand and cost-push shocks Standard deviation of money demand ... elasticity of money demand (in line with Andres et al (2006) and Ireland (2004)) Interest rate elasticity of money demand (in line with Andres et al (2006) and Ireland (2004)) Weighting parameter of ... rate, π, andthe filtered measure of adjusted money growth, μf , for the case that the central bank sticks to the original estimate ofthe intercept, γ0 , in the money demand equation and never...
... USERS Thequalityof this reproduction is dependent upon thequalityofthe copy submitted In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these ... process at the FASB is part ofthe mission ofthe organization, which is, ―to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education ofthe public, ... on that type of request The detailed listing of these financial accounting standards and their associated due process documents were utilized in the random selection process 34 ofthe sampling...
... were: • the understanding ofthe consequences of their previous practice that they gained through theprocessof implementing the EU requirements in their organisation, and • the feeling of shame ... seriousness ofthe offences to both the businesses convicted and others The way in which work health and safety offences are treated in the court system andthe focus on individual and specific ... and specific events rather than the broader context such as the organisation ofworkandthequalityofwork health and safety management, may reduce the broader impact ofthe prosecutions Why...
... support from workand nonwork others Second, we conducted the research in Bulgaria rather than in one ofthe Western nations (such as the United States and Great Britain) that often serve as the context ... representative of those in the organization Moreover, we compared the job and demographic profiles ofthe participants to those of all employees in the organizations and found that they were very ... contribution to the mediator, (3) the mediator should make a significant contribution to the outcome, and (4) when the influence ofthe mediator is held constant, the contribution ofthe independent...