validation as a communicator of quality requirements

... P sub-scales, such as age, sex, marital status, educational level, religious affiliation, SpR attitude, disease and duration of disease Using the method of univariate analyses of variance we ... covariate for any of the five forms of SpR practice • Disease itself has an impact on NoP (and a minor impact on HuP and USP), while the duration of disease has no impact on the forms of SpR practice ... that an R-S- attitude was associated with the lowest engagement scores for all five forms of a SpR practice Variance analyses confirmed that SpR attitude and religious affiliation are the main...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Canada and four comparison nations, 2001 Canada Overall rank Seats in parliament (%) Female legislators, senior of cials, managers (%) Female professional and technical workers (%) Ratio female:male ... quality of life of women in each section of Canada [75] It concluded that increasing privatisation of health care, especially home care, is negatively impacting women as care recipients, as health ... inequality and poverty Ottawa: Status of Women Canada; 2001 [5] Day S, Brodsky G Women and the equality deficit: the impact of restructuring Canada’s social programs Ottawa: Status of Women Canada; 1998...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... in older adults The data were collected by Statistics Canada under the authority of the Statistics Act Access to the data was granted by Statistics Canada based on a peer-reviewed proposal for ... likelihood estimation (FIML) (available in the Mplus 4.2 [30] software package) by using all available data to assess whether the estimates may have been biased by non-random missing data patterns (n ... that physical activity partially mediates the impact of chronic conditions on several health outcomes that are important to quality of life Physical activity of at least 1,000 Kcal per week was...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:24

... is in their emphasis It is my belief that in giving the L2 student both as much input and practice as they can reasonably manage, and a strong metalinguistic awareness, we, as teachers give the ... Ireland and Britain One of the most important initial tasks for any teacher is the task of knowing his clients The notion of needs analysis is absolutely central Even with as few details as we ... different constraints, at many different levels, on each occasion that they are called upon, they encourage a unique emphasis on particular combinations of strategies on each occasion In reading, the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... (accepting) accepting and negative and neutral expresssions: activation accompanied by in amygdala, evaluation of: hippocampus, Task performance: parahippocampal recognition of gyrus, medial type of emotion ... circuit (amygdala, hippocampus, insula, temporal lobe as well as anterior cingulate, medial, orbito, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices) of social phobic patients are greater than those of controls ... physical signs with imbalances in autonomic neurotransmission In this formulation, the physical complaints typical of social phobia, are associated with rapid release of catecholamines (noradrenaline,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... way as if through the eyes of an observer Again, it is difficult to grasp the meaningfulness of this finding, let alone as evidence of a bias However that may be, this putative ‘‘bias’’ is assigned ... treated as if originating in a scale of equal intervals This violates the basic postulates of the analysis of variance The relevant data should have been properly treated through some form of ... instance of a ‘‘category mistake.’’ According to Ryle (1949) this logical fallacy consists of treating the label for a class of events as if it were a member of that class From this vantage point...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... definitions aside, I shall now consider how the construct of social skills has been assessed in research Assessment of Social Skills of Social Phobic Individuals As the assessment of social skills had ... value of matching treatment with patients’ patterns of fear Based on extreme responses to a role-play and a ‘‘rationality’’ test, 39 patients were classified as either predominantly behavioral ... consider social phobia not as a breakdown in social ability but as emerging out of a pattern of meaningful actions that constitute a means to an end Although not necessarily abnormal in themselves,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... (shy, anxious) behavior by the teacher as well as peer assessment of social behavior (popularity, aggression, and isolation) at school At the age of no association was found between shy and anxious ... appeasement and avoidance of conflict typical of social phobic individuals Parental Alcoholism David et al (1995) found an association between parental alcoholism and phobia (both social and agoraphobia); ... variables such as maternal anxiety and an array of variables indexing temperament Nonetheless, it must be borne in mind that an even greater proportion of infants classified as anxiously attached...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... (mean age 12) on a social phobia and anxiety inventory for children (SPAI-C) and on a behavioral assessment task This included an interaction with a peer as well as reading aloud in front of an ... the validity of the measures devised to ascertain and quantify social anxiety, as this is most relevant to social phobia Examination of the validity both of the construct and of the methods assessing ... the Nature of Social Phobia? The Measurement of Social Anxiety As we have seen earlier, a variety of meanings are attached to the term anxiety (and fear) This implies that there could be substantive...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... some of the factors accepted by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as determinants of health (PHAC, 2003) PHAC has adopted a conceptual model of health determinants that includes: income and ... maternal race, age, adequacy of prenatal care and medical risks, and congenital malformations, birthweight, gestational age, and small-for-gestational age The study by Gaudino et al (1999) offers ... involvement, in addition to measures of the impacts of father’s absence, has been a necessary step towards a program of research that will uncover the effects of varying qualities and amounts of father’s...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... but at least acknowledge it as a potential outcome of sexual assault: • An online publication by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs lists fistula as one of the physical ... sexually assaulted, which often results in social stigmatization As victims of violent sexual assault, women with traumatic fistula may have sustained additional physical injuries They also face ... socially undesirable status as a victim of sexual assault Stories of brutal rape of women and girls have emerged from a number of African nations where political conflicts have led to the systematic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... phonology of languages Universal alphabets Logical relations of the parts of speech The vocabulary and the grammar of languages Distinctions between languages and dialects Mixed languages and jargons ... Subdivisions of Races Theories of monogenism and polygenism Doctrine of “geographical provinces” or “areas of characterization.” The continental areas at the date of man’s appearance on the earth Eurafrica, ... Eurafrica, Austafrica, Asia, America, Oceanica Causes and consequences of the migrations of races and nations a The Eurafrican Race.—Types of the white race Its first home Early migrations The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 05:20

... that in writing of the Man of Letters as a Man of The Man of Letters as a Man of Business, by Business, I shall attract far more readers than I should in writing of him as an Artist Besides, as ... knows that there is always a danger that the reigning favorite may fail to please; that at any rate, in the order of things, he is passing away, and that if the magazine is not to pass away with ... much of a business man after all He must still have a low rank among practical people; and he will be regarded by the great mass of Americans as perhaps a little off, a little funny, a little soft!...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... science of the “beautiful” in a work of art The aesthetic appeal of a work of art is defined by the visual Social, ethical moral, and contemporary standards of a society armature A structure of wood ... Compare the "god-like" qualities of a particular character (such as Diana, goddess of the hunt) to a modern character (such as Mia Hamm, huntress of a soccer goal) The Huntington Library, Art ... in a kiln it is called bisque ware At this stage, the clay has changed composition and can no longer have water added to it and turned back into useable material bronze An alloy of copper and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 10:20

... mutase–prephenate dehydratase were deleted Monofunctional versions of the dehydratase and the dehydrogenase are provided by plasmid pKIMP-UAUC Random gene libraries are introduced into this strain ... strain and the ability of a cell harboring an individual library member to form a colony on minimal agar media lacking added phenylalanine and tyrosine reports on the chorismate mutase activity of ... interactions may be an easy way to increase enzyme stability This hexameric variant, however, suffered a 200-fold decrease in catalytic efficiency In contrast, the unstable monomeric variants had near wild...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... for a phage l integrase mutant was set as 100% In each case, data were collected from six separate transfection assays, each employing two wells containing about  105 cells (C) Normalized b-Gal ... electroporation b-Galactosidase (b-gal) assays, Southern blotting and PCR b-Gal assays and Southern blotting were performed as described previously [10,17] The 32 P-labelled probe was generated by ... 114-bp targets was significantly impaired in chromatin This impediment was not affected by the transcriptional status of chromatin nor by inhibitors of histone deacetylases and topoisomerases E...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... oviduct: a regulator of local contraction and gamete transport J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2004, 44 Suppl 1:S248-51 111 Wijayagunawardane MP, Miyamoto A, Taquahashi Y, Acosta TJ, Nishimura M, Sato K: Angiotensin ... beat frequency assay Many of the compounds in Table were also screened using a chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay that measures growth of the CAM and chick embryo [188,189] In the CAM assay, ... screen (Table 1) were previously thought to be safe and are included on the FEMA GRAS list (Flavor and Extract Manufacturers' Association – Generally Regarded As Safe) and the FDA EAFUS list...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... SUPPORT2 dataset and RHC dataset (we omit classification accuracy due to lack of space) The thresholds are again chosen at 25% lower quantile, median, and 75% upper quantile of the population survival ... Other Datasets As additional evaluations, we also tested our model on the SUPPORT2 and RHC datasets (available at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/DataSets), which record the survival time ... survival time can be appropriate In this case we can measure the loss Table 2: Classification accuracy and MSE of survival probability predictions on cancer registry dataset (standard error of 5CV shown...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21