... repayable within 12 months irrespective ofthe amount ofthe loan. However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount ofthe repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment ... entities inthe financial system. Incidentally even the Act does not make any mention of interest rates except that the total interest cannot exceed the principal amount ofthe loan. On the other ... blowing (xii) sharing of information with industry bodies c) disclosures to be made inthe financial statements including: (i) the geographic distribution ofthe loan portfolio, both in terms...
... and 42 (8%) of unknown gender.It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample.Distribution ... written information about the methods, aims, and the voluntary nature of partici-pation inthe study. Subjects ofthe patient group filled in the questionnaires in a room inside the outpatientclinic, ... anxiety.Perceptions of being different from the others, the pos-sible peer discrimination because ofthe presence of ascar o n the chest inthe usual period of starting to go tokindergarten or school...
... a ratingscale inthe manner the test constructor intended [35].Because it is always uncertain how a rating scale was usedby a sample, an investigation ofthe functioning ofthe rat-ing scale ... the way it wasintended by the developer ofthe scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures andutility ofthe rating scale in facilitating interpretable meas-ures ... Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scoreson the social functioning scale of both healthy...
... by the clinical condition weobtained a 600% increased odds of reporting impairment in the mobility domain (OR = 7.0, 95% C.I. 4.7–10.4), a690% increased odds of reporting impairment inthe ... < 0.001).Discussion In this study we investigated the construct validity of the Italian version ofthe EQ-5D administering the instru-ment to a sample of citizens living in Bologna (NorthItaly). ... utilized in non-Italian set-tings, it lacks of empirical evaluations in Italy. The lack of information on the construct validity and reliability of the instrument as well as the absence of utilities...
... Hence, the loading ofthe first four items including, walking more than one block, running, doing sports activities or exercise and lifting something heavy, either in children or in their parents, ... The unavailability of information on nonrespondents and investigation of only a sample from Tehran, the capital city of Iran, may limit the generalizability of the findings to other parts of ... Conclusions: The findings support the initial reliability and validity ofthe Iranian version ofthe PedsQLTM 4.0 as a generic instrument to measure health-related quality of life of children in Iran....
... heathenism.These inventions were the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the power loom, the wool-combing machine, and the cotton gin. They augmented the output of spinning mills, and in cheapening ... ofthe moral and intellectual training of such asthey held in servitude."[2] To elevate their slaves to the plane of men, southern Quakers early hit upon the scheme of establishing inthe ... moresuccessful. These educators adopted the threefold policy of instructing Negroes inthe principles of the Christian religion, giving them the fundamentals ofthe common branches, and teaching them the...
... approaches, the range of MIDs were 3–5 points for the satisfaction domain, 4–5 points for the impactdomain, 6–8 points for the worry domain, and 3–4 pointsfor the overall HRQOL.DiscussionAlthough the ... cognitive debriefing tests to assess the level of comprehension and cognitive equivalence ofthe items. The finding from cognitive debriefing tests suggests aminor revision inthe wordings for some ... func-tioning and general health) ofthe SF-36 than with the psychosocial domains (e.g., social functioning) [25].Taken together, these findings might suggest that the con-cepts captured by the DQOL,...
... adequate sta-bility ofthe instrument. The 7-day interval between inter-views was important in diminishing the probability of systemic alterations inthe clinical condition of the patient. It is ... self-administered mode of administration needs further investigation. Finally,there was no report by the patients or guardians of anylack of comprehension regarding the questions. The lack of validation ... 9 of 11(page number not for citation purposes)among the individuals who participated inthe presentstudy, the option was made to administer the question-naire inthe form of an interview in...
... of the guardians rated their economic level as ‘lo w’ becausemost mothers had to quit their job to take care of theirchildren.There was no statistically significant difference in the ratio of ... (worryingabout whether the medical treatments were working andworrying about reoccurrence or relapse) loaded on the ‘commun ication’ factor inthe child self-report. More-over, the first item of ... ng out what to do when something bothers him/her)loaded on the ‘perceived physical appearance’ factor. In the parent-proxy report, the first and the second items of ‘wo rry’ loaded on the ‘ nausea’...
... confirms the hypothesis that the silk isindeed present in two states, soluble and insoluble, the latterbeing in some way protected from dissolution in water. The peculiarity ofthe WSM led to the ... around the sides of the small mineral particles. Inthe five-layered model of nacreorganic matrix organization [7,60] the surface layers, alsocalled the ÔenvelopeÕ by the authors, are the aspartic ... acid-rich proteins. However, the surface molecules extracted in WSM correspond to the core ofthe organic matrix layerof the previous model, the silk-fibroin-like molecules. Thus, wemay think of a different...
... observa-tions of intersex in fish have been increasing in regularity in the Shenandoah River and Potomac River basins in Virginia (Blazer and others, 2007). The fish kills and observations of intersex ... ensure the reliabil-ity ofthe data obtained. The QC samples for the SPMDs and POCIS consisted of fabrication and field blanks intended to determine the presence of any contamination ofthe sampler ... Previous data indicate that many chemicals of interest remain inthe linear phase of sampling for at least 56 days (Alvarez and others, 2004, 2007); therefore, the use of a linear uptake model...