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Measurement and Evaluation of Efficiency. Criteria for Police Units [PDF]

Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics, 2012
It is widely recognized that the exercise of the activity of management, as of all human activities, is not a purpose in itself, but rather a means to increase economic and social efficiency.
Ionica BOLEA, Gabriela DIMOFTE, George DIMOFTE   +2 more
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Gastric residual volume measurement in British neonatal intensive care units: a survey of practice

BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2020
Objective Despite little evidence, the practice of routine gastric residual volume (GRV) measurement to guide enteral feeding in neonatal units is widespread.
Jon Dorling, Chris Gale, Kerry Woolfall, Nazima Pathan, Elizabeth Deja, Lyvonne Tume, Izabela Andrzejewska, Barbara Arch, Lynne Latten, Louise Roper, Helen Eccleson, Helen Hickey, Michaela Brown, Anne Beissel, Frederic Valla   +14 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from Industry Leaders: A Maturity Model for Strengthening Communication Measurement and Evaluation [PDF]

, 2018
Much scholarship has been devoted to identifying barriers that prevent the advancement of communication measurement and evaluation. This research focuses on the characteristics, objectives, and practices of chief communication officers (CCOs) with ...
Anderson, Forrest W., Gilkerson, Nathan, Likely, Fraser, Swenson, Rebecca, Ziviani, Michael   +4 more
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False Data Injection Attacks on Phasor Measurements That Bypass Low-rank Decomposition

, 2017
This paper studies the vulnerability of phasor measurement units (PMUs) to false data injection (FDI) attacks. Prior work demonstrated that unobservable FDI attacks that can bypass traditional bad data detectors based on measurement residuals can be ...
Chu, Zhigang, Kosut, Oliver, Sankar, Lalitha, Zhang, Jiazi   +3 more
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Invasive Procedures in the Treatment of Complicated Gastrointestinal Graft‐Versus‐Host Disease in Pediatric Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal graft‐versus‐host disease (GI GVHD) following hematopoietic stem cell transplant is typically managed with medical therapy, but surgery and angioembolization may be warranted in selected cases with life‐threatening complications.
Gaia Brunetti, Giorgio Persano, Chiara Grimaldi, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Carmen Malaspina, Francesco Quagliarella, Valerio Balassone, Anna Chiara Iolanda Contini, Gian Luigi Natali, Rita Alaggio, Ivan Pietro Aloi, Tamara Caldaro, Alessandro Crocoli   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classification of Alpine Skiing Styles Using GNSS and Inertial Measurement Units

Sensors, 2020
In alpine skiing, four commonly used turning styles are snowplow, snowplow-steering, drifting and carving. They differ significantly in speed, directional control and difficulty to execute.
Christina Neuwirth, Cory Snyder, Wolfgang Kremser, Richard Brunauer, Helmut Holzer, Thomas Stöggl   +5 more
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Validation of 3-Space Wireless Inertial Measurement Units Using an Industrial Robot

Sensors, 2021
Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are beneficial for motion tracking as, in contrast to most optical motion capture systems, IMU systems do not require a dedicated lab.
Jaime Hislop, Mats Isaksson, John McCormick, Chris Hensman   +3 more
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Prices, unit values and local measurement units in rural surveys: an econometric approach with an application to poverty measurement in Ethiopia [PDF]

For many research problems in developing countries, some information on prices faced by households is required for the analysis, for example if subsistence consumption is a substantial part of consumption.
Bart Capéau, Stefan Dercon
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