... on the prevalence in the population, and more reflective of the test itself, lessening the impact of any unique features of the VA population Moreover, we might expect that the PPV and NPV of the ... NC) Results The characteristics of the VARA participants measured at the start of each treatment episode were evaluated Because the characteristics of VARA patients at the start of non-biologic ... in the trial These patients’ outcomes are often imputed as non-response, which is the same classification that they were assigned in our effectiveness algorithm Although many of the elements of...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
... after NASCO applies the model of join-stock Company, the President of Socialist Republic of Vietnam signed the decision to offer NASCO the second-rate Medal of Labor Structure of NASCO is not too ... department to increase the effectiveness of the company’s strategy in trading duty-free goods? Whether changes of marketing strategy help increase the effectiveness of the company’s duty-free ... works Two of these elements are the major parties in a communication - the sender and the receiver Another two are the major communication tools - the message and the media Four more are the communication...
Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2013, 14:39
A STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOME CLT CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO FIRST YEAR NON ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS
... Background to the study 2.2.1 Introduction of the AJC The Academy of Journalism and Communication was established on the 16th January 1962 on the basis of the mergence of three institutes: the Nguyen ... faculty - one of the largest faculties of this university There are 19 teachers, in which teachers of French, teachers of Chinese and the rest are the teachers of English As for the teachers of English, ... does not cause many troubles in the results of the study 2.4.1.2 The teachers As mentioned in the Scope of the study, because of not being an official teacher of English so in order to this research...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:04
The emergence of food-producing communities
... components of the economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge of the West African forest in modern Ghana This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge of the equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes There they ... fatal to cattle By the first half of the second millennium bc, cattle were herded close to the top of the Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
A discourse anslysis of the linguistic features of the advertisements of food and drink in english versus vietnamese
... derived from the interpretation of the speech of the product acts employed in the ads As regards the stylistic devices used in the advertisements of - The learners should be aware of the similarities ... ads of food and drink in English can occur at From some of these cookies- and you’ll get suggested action of buying various parts of the text as a beginning slogan, at the middle of the the book ... the syntactic and semantic features of advertisement language The readers and the writers of these kinds 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY This study deals with discourse analysis of the syntactic and of...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:27
AN EXPLORATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PEER-EDITING TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING ESSAY WRITING AT FOREIGN LANGUAGES FACULTY, LHU
... Table of Raw data Table of Descriptive Statistics Table of frequency Table of Final Scores of Two Groups Table of the Number of Errors of Two Groups Table of Scores of Fluency Table of Scores of ... to the giant sizes of the classes there Regarding it, out of teacher-interviewees clarified that the big size of the writing class usually discouraged them from giving their students lots of ... the only source of knowledge or of feedback in the context of learning writing In respect to the indicated potential effectiveness of peer-feedback, the researchers believe that the success of...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:19
Tài liệu ThE EffECTIvENESS Of CUSTOMER SATISfACTION MEASUREMENTS pdf
... RESEARCH PAPER They felt that the changes were opposed to them instead of in their favor The gap of the disjoint of the research to the end users was becoming much greater THE SOLUTION: A NATION-WIDE ... element of the expectations is they are written from the customer’s point of view They Copyright © ESOMAR 2005 represent the true voice of the customer Metrics that were included in the past ... step of the process onto flash cards Then they were to discuss how to arrange the process steps into groups The exercise helped the dealerships understand the linkages between the steps and the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 15:20
Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America pdf
... changes in the rates of the RRs and therefore, facilitates the comparison of changes to the RR regime across countries However, the variable does not capture other important traits of the RRs such ... loans, and a decline in the level of credit available to the economy Ultimately, the costs of RRs are borne by the borrowers Therefore, RRs will lower the amount of credit in the economy (acting ... gauge the role of 25 these policies in other relevant dimensions, such as its impact on the funding structure of banks or by examining the sectoral effects of these policies.27 Assessing their...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21
Case Studies on the Effectiveness of State Financial Incentives for Renewable Energy pdf
... regions of the state On the other hand, only a small fraction of those claiming the tax credit take advantage of the low-interest loan Furthermore, the property-tax exemption complements the tax-credit ... of this project—and the variety of factors influencing decisions toward the purchase of renewable energy systems—we use the term effectiveness in the context of the role the incentive plays ... marketplace The oil crises of the 1970s, the deregulation of electricity and gas markets, the ebb and flow of various conflicts in the Middle East, Y2K fears, air-quality concerns, the recognition of...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
The Effectiveness of an Online MBA Program in Meeting Mid-Career Student Expectations pdf
... sub-sample of 12 students Key areas of interest in the research, including the perceived purpose of the MBA degree, characteristics of the program that influenced their choice, and skills they expected ... at the expense of integrative learning (Mintzberg, 2004) Other critiques question the value of the degree even in the face of continuing program expansion (Pfeffer & Fong, 2004) In light of these ... segments of this sample, suggesting a better balance between the functional and integrative areas of the curriculum is needed What is the perceived importance of these skills? The utility of the MBA...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20
The state of food and agriculture
... understand the nature of the food system and identify key entry points throughout the system The next three chapters of this report look at the various stages of the food system to identify the major ... reflect the full value of natural resources The many issues to be addressed include the role of livestock and fish in diets, the role of local and traded foods and the link between food and nonfood ... representation of the many diverse and dynamic food systems that exist in the world The nature of the food system in a given location can guide the choice of interventions to take advantage of nutrition...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:14
The Effectiveness of Educational Intervention in the Health Promotion in Elderly people ppt
... educational pamphlets to the elderly: In the initial phase of the study, educational materials were designed and prepared in order to support the volunteers During the initial phase of the home visits, ... 30% of them, lives are meaningless Be worried about the bad event in future observed in 66/5% of elderly More than 90% of them have enough free time which is spent in watching TV by 97% of them ... About 53% of the women aged 60-69 before the interventions have asserted that, they were happy most of the time and this percent had increased to 78 after the interventions (P= 0.01) In the men’s...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Monitoring the Progress of Shipbuilding Programmes ppt
... areas or zones of the ship These metrics are generally used towards the end of production Other metrics are those we gathered that did not fit into the categories above Examples of such metrics ... metric they used during the various phases of production—that is, their main method of assessing progress Figure 2.1 shows the amount of shipyards that reported using a metric from one of the six ... Area/zone Other Other Other Other Other Other Design Module block Assembly Outfitting Testing trials Commissioning Area/zone Production phase RAND MG235-2.1 12 Monitoring the Progress of Shipbuilding...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the National Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programme on Infant HIV measured at Six Weeks Postpartum in South Africa pot
... Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the National Evaluation of the Effectiveness ofTransmission Prevention of Mother-to-Child the National Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission ... age of mother (range) Infant gender Education of mother Marital status of mother Main building material of house Main source of drinking water Type of toilet Main source of fuel Depletion of food ... breastfeeding The term is used because the immediate source of the infection is the mother, and does not imply blame on the mother MTCT rate Defined for this survey as a numerator of HIV-positive...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20
What is known about the effectiveness of economic instruments to reduce consumption of foods high in saturated fats and other energy-dense foods for preventing and treating obesity? docx
... consumption of that food, then the own-price elasticity of pork is -0.5 Cross-price elasticities reflect how the change in the price of a food affects the consumption of another food, such as ... observed when the price of the group was increased.3 Also, increases in the price of certain foods had substantial effects on consumption of their substitute foods and their complementary foods Increases ... reducing the price of fruits, vegetables and other healthy snacks at the point of sale (vending machines, cafeterias) increases purchasing of these foods Most of the studies in a small body of literature...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
STUDYING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ANIMATION AND GRAPHICS WITH TEXT ON FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADERS potx
... vary in the number and location of valves they have in the way air enters the cylinder Some simple bicycle tire pumps have the inlet valve on the piston and the outlet at the closed end of the cylinder ... instruction sets had the same text content The topic of the instruction was fundamentals of the life cycle of a monarch butterfly The total time estimated to view the instruction and complete the pretest ... visiting the Butterfly Pavilion at the Folsom Children’s Zoo Lincoln, Nebraska The instructional topic used for both the treatments was the Life Cycle of a Monarch Butterfly The content of the animation-with-text...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 12:20
An analysis on the effectiveness of conversion in daily conversations Focus on English - major students at Hai Phong Private University
... Partial Substantivation: is the formation of nouns from adjectives with the help of the article the E.g.: the rich, the blind, the young Those words have the properties of both nouns and adjectives ... Name of tools or implements: The noun is the name of a tool, the verb denotes the action performed by the tool E.g hammer (n) – to hammer (v) Saw – to saw 1.3.2 Name of animals: The noun is the ... name of an animal, the verb denotes an action or aspect of behavior considered typical of the animal E.g monkey – to monkey Fox – to fox 1.3.3 Name of parts of body: The noun is the name of human...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20