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What helps volunteers to continue with their work?

South African Family Practice, 2004
Aim: The aim of the study was to understand what volunteers perceived to be the factors helping them to continue working as volunteers, thereby assisting project leaders to improve the recruitment procedures, as well as quality of service, in the future.
G. Marincowitz, C. Jackson, S. Fehrsen
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Who are good home-based care volunteers?

South African Family Practice, 2004
Aim: The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of volunteers who remained active in the home-based care project located in Tzaneen (Limpopo Province) and thereby assist the project leaders to improve the recruitment and quality of the ...
G. Marincowitz, C. Jackson, G.S. Fehrsen
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HIV-Prevalence Mapping Using Small Area Estimation in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique at the First Sub-National Level

Annals of Global Health, 2021
Background: Local estimates of HIV-prevalence provide information that can be used to target interventions and consequently increase the efficiency of resources.
Enrique M. Saldarriaga
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Influence of Context on Item Parameters in Forced-Choice Personality Assessments [PDF]

, 2016
A fundamental assumption in computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is that item parameters are invariant with respect to context – items surrounding the administered item.
Anna Brown, Bartram D., Brown A., Brown A., CEB, CEB, Costa P. T., Embretson S., Friedman H., Houston J. S., Lin Y., Muthén L. K., Paulhus D. L., van de Vijver F. J. R., Yin Lin   +14 more
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What is really uncovered by mixing different model structures: contrasts between latent class and model averaging

European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2021
Latent class models have long been a tool for capturing heterogeneity across decisionmakers in the sensitivities to individual attributes. More recently, there has been increased interest in using these models to capture heterogeneity in actual ...
Thomas O Hancock, Stephane Hess
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Completion of Choice

, 2020
We systematically study the completion of choice problems in the Weihrauch lattice. Choice problems play a pivotal role in Weihrauch complexity. For one, they can be used as landmarks that characterize important equivalences classes in the Weihrauch ...
Brattka, Vasco, Gherardi, Guido
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COST-MINIMIZATION OF VILANTEROL / UMECLIDINIUM VERSUS OLODATEROL / TIOTROPIUM IN THE BASIC THERAPY OF SEVERE AND VERY SEVERE COPD

Фармакоэкономика, 2017
The recently introduced novel drug combinations for the treatment of COPD are based on long-acting beta-agonists (vilantererol / umeclidinum bromide) and long-acting anticholinergics (olodaterol / tiotropium bromide).
E. G. Kosolapov, F. S. Kochenkov, N. L. Pogudina, D. V. Blinov, N. L. Bondarenko, A. V. Karaulov   +5 more
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Appraising patient preference methods for decision-making in the medical product lifecycle: an empirical comparison

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020
Background Incorporating patient preference (PP) information into decision-making has become increasingly important to many stakeholders. However, there is little guidance on which patient preference assessment methods, including preference exploration ...
Chiara Whichello, Bennett Levitan, Juhaeri Juhaeri, Vaishali Patadia, Rachael DiSantostefano, Cathy Anne Pinto, Esther W. de Bekker-Grob   +6 more
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Does Religion Influence Contraceptive Choice among Hispanic Women in Texas? [PDF]

, 2017
Population Research ...
Dillaway, Chloe, Hopkins, Kristine, Potter, Joseph, White, Kari   +3 more
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Sticky Categories and Their Negative Consequences: People with Learning Disabilities and ‘Behaviours that Challenge Others’

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
‘Behaviours that challenge others’ are attributed to 20% of people with learning disabilities. These behaviours are not a diagnosis, it is something people are labelled with.
Magdalena Mikulak, Sara Ryan, Elizabeth Tilley, Susan Ledger, Lisa Davidson, Pam Bebbigton, Dawn Wiltshire   +6 more
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