In-reach specialist nursing teams for residential care homes : uptake of services, impact on care provision and cost-effectiveness [PDF]
, 2008 Background: A joint NHS-Local Authority initiative in England designed to provide a dedicated nursing and physiotherapy in-reach team (IRT) to four residential care homes has been evaluated.The IRT supported 131 residents and maintained 15 'virtual' beds
Nelson, S. (Sara) +2 more
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Interchangeability between factor analysis, logistic IRT, and normal ogive IRT
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In existing studies, it has been argued that factor analysis (FA) is equivalent to item response theory (IRT) and that IRT models that use different functions (i.e., logistic and normal ogive) are also interchangeable. However, these arguments have weak links. The proof of equivalence between FA and normal ogive IRT assumes a normal distribution.
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Italian adaptation of the Workplace Ostracism Scale: A psychometric analysis based on item response theory [PDF]
Journal of Health and Social SciencesIntroduction: The term Workplace Ostracism (WO) refers to a specific form of social exclusion, involving the perception of being ignored and/or excluded by colleagues or supervisors at the workplace.
Giusy D. VALENTI, Palmira FARACI
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Plants, 2020 Cadmium (Cd) is present in many soils and, when entering the food chain, represents a major health threat to humans. Reducing Cd accumulation in plants is complicated by the fact that most known Cd transporters also operate in the transport of essential ...
Xin Huang +4 more
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An open data-driven approach for travel demand synthesis: an application to São Paulo
Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2021 This paper presents a synthetic travel demand for the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Region of Brazil, entirely based on open data and representative of the observed travel demand.
Aurore Sallard +2 more
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, 2016 Strong spectral lines are useful indicators of stellar chromospheric activity. They are physically linked to the convection efficiency, differential rotation, and angular momentum evolution and are a potential indicator of age. However, for ages > 2 Gyr,
de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto +3 more
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KernSmoothIRT: An R Package for Kernel Smoothing in Item Response Theory [PDF]
, 2014 Item response theory (IRT) models are a class of statistical models used to describe the response behaviors of individuals to a set of items having a certain number of options.
Mazza, Angelo +2 more
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Evaluasi PMTCT (Prevention Mother To Child Transmission) pada IRT dengan HIV di Jatim
Journal of Health Science and Prevention, 2020 HIV/AIDS dengan proporsi penularan dari ibu ke bayi sebesar lebih dari 1% di masyarakat merupakan indikator dari kondisi generalized level. Kondisi ini merupakan keadaan gawat darurat dimana penularan dari ibu ke bayi sudah sangat tinggi.
Linda Prasetyaning Widayanti
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Thermal response of jointed rock masses inferred from infrared thermographic surveying (Acuto test-site, Italy) [PDF]
, 2018 The Mediterranean region is affected by considerable daily and seasonal temperature variations due to intense solar radiation. In mid-seasons, thermal excursions can exceed tens of degrees thus influencing the long-term behaviour of jointed rock masses ...
Fiorucci, Matteo +3 more
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Bayesian Item Response Modeling in R with brms and Stan [PDF]
, 2020 Item Response Theory (IRT) is widely applied in the human sciences to model persons' responses on a set of items measuring one or more latent constructs.
Bürkner, Paul-Christian
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