... costs variation in health services and to assess outputs of rural health facilities The aim of this study was to evaluate and analyse the nature, performance and costs ofa sample of periurban and ... India, AWARE in Andhra Pradesh, CINI in Kolkata, CRHP in Jamked, RUHSA in Tamil Nadu, and SEARCH in Maharashtra (Antia & Bhatia, 1993) Pakistan Impression drawn from interview with various officials ... abbots and ecclesiastical heads A sample of 1600 Buddhist abbots and 400 ecclesiastical heads were selected and interviewed Peter A Berman (Berman, 1984) Indonesia An evaluation of coverage and...
... which was a great hazard to daily life and social stabilization In the end of April 2007, cyanobacteria erupted in Meiliang Bay of Taihu Lake In early May, cyanobacteria further aggregated and the ... Prevention and Control Laws civil law Others Water Law Water and Land Conservation Law Resource Conservation and Utilization Laws Circular Economy Promotion Law Environmental management Laws Environmental ... process ofenvironmental laws andregulations in China with special emphasis on water pollution control The environmental legal system andenvironmental management organizations are illustrated We also...
... Foundation: Altamonte Springs, FL, 97129 Arena, M., M Arnaboldi and G Azzone 2006 Internal audit in Italian organizations Managerial Auditing Journal 21 (3): 275-292 Bailey, A. D., A. A Gramling and ... Australia and Nava Subramaniam Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the recent European and international literature on i nternal audit independence ... internal audit activities; and (v) internal audit as a management training ground For As previously noted, for a detailed reviewof external auditors’ evaluation ofand reliance on the work of internal...
... there is an abundance of coarse sand or larger material, the effective diameter of the probe is greater than its actual diameter so that smaller probes (e.g of mm rather than mm diameter) can experience ... propertion of silt and clay, than in sands Penetrometer resistance doubled in a sandy loam soil remoulded at approximately field capacity for a 100-fold increase in penetration rate, whereas a 250-fold ... mechanics of root growth in granular media Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 14,263-248 ASAE 1969 ASAE Recommendation: ASAE R313: Soil Cone Penetrometer American Society of Agricultural...
... X and Y (and X and Y are correlated), then X will be correlated with Aand will have an effect on Y independent of X A moderator variable is one that affects (usually reduces) the causal relationship ... performance by helping reduce uncertainty associated with stress and improving the accuracy of individual expectations and performance of certain tasks (Glass and Singer, 1973) Moderators can also act ... military personnel For example, Mareth and Brooker (1985) find that battle fatigue and other stress reactions may account for as many as 50 percent of the casualties in a given war As a result of...
... 42 Authors Jejeebhoy and Sathra (2001) Al Riyami, Afifi and Mabry (2004) Country and year of the data collection Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India and Punjab, Pakistan Data collected by authors, ... employment, sharing of roles and decisionmaking, family structure amenable to empowerment, equality in marriage, devaluation of women, women‟s emancipation, marital advantage and traditional marriage Logit ... aspects of individual agency and (b) used direct indicators of agency Authors Acharya and Bennet (1983) Schuler and Hashemi (1994) Country and year of the data collection Nepal Data collected by authors...
... M: Health workforce issuesand the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: An analytical review Human Resources for Health 2006, 4:1-12 Mauritius Ministry of Health and Quality of ... Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2003, 2:55-64 Ryan M, Gerard K, Amaya-Amaya M: Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health and Health Care Springer; 2008 Lancaster K: A New Approach ... increasing primary care physicians in rural areas Fam Med 1990, 22:350-355 Inoue K, Hirayama Y, Igarashi M: A medical school for rural areas Medical Education 1997, 31:430-434 Lea J, Cruickshank...
... Noncatalytic salts for this reaction include carbonates and chlorides of sodium and potassium; calcium and sodium sulfates; and calcium and sodium acetates (Adams and Adkins 1925; Adkins and ... organic acids such as oxalic acid (pKa = 1.3) and tartaric acid (pKa = 3.0) also catalyze acetalization, but acetic acid (pKa = 4.7) does not catalyze this reaction (Adams and Adkins 1925) Oxalic and ... formed and phase separation occurred 4.3.2 Esterification and Acetalization Adding alcohol (methanol, ethanol, and propanol) anda mineral acid catalyst to pyrolysis tars and bio-oils caused esters,...
... socioeconomic and demographic variables) page 32 Authors Population /country Poznan and Wroclaw (Poland) a Health variables Air pollution variablesa Geographical level and SES variables Methods to evaluate ... literature on environmental justice, housing, deprivation andenvironmental quality was searched in a number of health, environmentaland geographical databases, and reviewed and evaluated to summarize ... “naturally” favour the segregated metropolitan areas pattern and that only strong national and local public policies may succeed in maintaining or re-establishing a greater mix of activities and...
... appropriate, as the basic mechanisms and modelling approaches are similar in all kinds of plants WITHIN-TREE ALLOCATION: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND MECHANISM In the last 50 years assimilate allocation ... considerations regarding the relationship between sapwood area and leaf weight (and its actual variability), but also because of the variable relationship between hydraulic properties and carbon ... or “non-standard” situations, i.e situations that not fall within a “usual” range A similar conflict arises about the definition and assessment of sink strength, particularly as a maximum import...
... endometrial, skin, and pancreatic cancers, as well as in melanoma and all, where in some cases MT-I and II expression correlates with tumor grade/stage, chemotherapy/radiation resistance, and poor ... University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman 3Dept of Pharmacology, K.M.C.H College of Pharmacy, Kovai Estate, Kalapatti Road, Coimbatore -35, TN, India 4Dept of Pharmaceutics, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty, ... http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/54 Author details Dept of Pharmaceutics, Cherraan’s College of Pharmacy, 521 Siruvani Road, Perur, Coimbatore-39, TN, India 2Dept of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy and Nursing, University of...
... Germany and Canada found a system that oscillated gas into and out of an animal’s lungs was effective at CO2 elimination [28,29] Commercial products are now available for children and for adults ... Critical Care October 2003 Vol No Ritacca and Stewart time cycled and achieves flow rates of 175–250 l/min The respiratory rate is usually 60–100 breaths/min and achieves Vt values of 3–4 ml/kg Although ... ventilator circuit and is therefore only a surrogate of the actual pressure oscillations in the airways These pressures are generally greatly attenuated through the endotracheal tube and larger airways...
... on a fatal granulomatous disorder in boys and described this as a “new Page of 14 syndrome” [3] Since these early descriptions, a rather amazing and accelerated understanding of the disease and ... interferon gamma and appropriate antimicrobials (such as trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole/TMP-SMX and itraconazole), and management of infections using appropriate antimicrobials based on pathogen likelihood ... culminated in terminal uremia and fatal pulmonary Aspergillosis and Pseudomonas septicemia Diffuse infiltration of renal and other tissues by pigment-containing macrophages may also result in pathology...
... for abdominal fascia following Figure the approach DPL a midline tolinea alba and anterior an open or semi-open View of the linea alba and anterior abdominal fascia following a midline infraumbilical ... 18-guage needle is elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an While grasping and inserted at a 45-degree angle toward the While grasping and elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an 18-guage ... unless indicated for a separate Blunt Abdominal Trauma Hemodynamically Abnormal Hemodynamically Normal FAST Availability CT Availability Yes Positive Laparotomy No Negative or Equivocal Yes DPL...
... (principally the laboratory mouse), or are of commercial significance (such as farmed animals such as chickens, horses, goats, cattle and fish, and pets), where they cause a number of commercially ... the causative agent of several slow progressive diseases in animals including arthritis and encephalitis in goats, leukemia in cattle, anaemia in horses, and immunodeficiency in cats, cattle, ... and BLV and related viruses form a separate class of complex retroviruses that cause leukemia in a small percentage of infected individuals after very long latency periods Retroviruses have also...
... corporate governance, Advances in Accounting, 22(2), pp 1–27 ˜ Arrunada, B and Paz-Ares, C (1997) Mandatory rotation of company auditors: a critical examination, International Reviewof Law and ... disagreement (Iyer and Rama, 2004) O’Leary and Radich (1996) found that the majority of auditors and publicly listed companies were against mandatory audit firm rotation due to a misbalance of ... European Commission and European Parliament is mandatory audit firm rotation The aim of this review is to identify, consider and evaluate stakeholder views and research evidence on mandatory audit...
... (in Japanese) IPCS (1989) Environmental Health Criteria 89 Formaldehyde, World Health Organization, Geneva Takeda, M., Saijo, Y., Yuasa, M., Kanazawa, A. , Araki, Aand Kishi, R (2009) Relationship ... concentration of radon and its metabolites is increased in concrete single-family homes.129) Nano-particles and Nano-materials The health effects of nano-particles and nano-materials have been reviewed.117–121) ... Indoor Air Quality Indoor Environ., 1, 27–34 (in Japanese) 126) Kishi, R., Saijo, Y., Kanazawa, A. , Tanaka, M., Yoshimura, T., Chikara, H., Takigawa, T., Morimoto, K., Nakayama, K and Shibata, E (2009)...
... paper and wood pulp.29 Any one of several types of particles and rays given off by radioactive material, high-voltage equipment, nuclear reactions and stars Alpha and beta particles, X-rays and ... lymphoma; tetrachloroethylene and bladder cancer; and trichloroethylene and Hodgkin’s disease, leukemia, and kidney and liver cancers Environmental tobacco smoke and cancers of the breast and lung ... contrast, Landrigan and co-authors maintained that Doll and Peto’s estimate of the contribution of cancer deaths due to occupation was too low and that it failed to take into account limitations...
... governments, academia and NGOs He also functions as secretary of the Alliance of Global Eco-Structuring (AGES), a joint initiative of almost a dozen strategic approaches towards sustainability A political ... Africa, Asia and Latin America Before that he worked in the private sector in the eld ofenvironmentaland general business consultancy at national and international levels for several years He ... documented for Kyoto and Osaka, Japan, range between 1.8 and 12.1 pg m and 4.2 and 17 pg m 3, respectively (Hayakawa et al., 2004; Watanabe et al., 1995) 3.3.2 Ashes and soils Table presents published...
... mechanism as a moderator of knowledge transfer barriers Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States Ghobadi, and D’Ambra 2012 Competition and cooperation in cross-functional teams Antecedents and factors ... the Arabian context and has been identified as an important cultural attribute that facilitates knowledge exchange (Al-Adaileh & Al-Atawi, 2011) Basically, openness to change is having a high absorptive ... asrar@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Sadia Anwar1 E-mail: sadiaanwar@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan Citation information...