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Showing 1 to 20 of 267 for “"Contributory"”.
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The contributory factors in drug errors and their reporting
The aim of this thesis is to examine the contributory factors in drug errors and their reporting so as to design an enhanced reporting scheme to improve the quality of reporting in an acute hospital trust. The related research questions are: 1. What are the contributory factors in drug errors? 2. …
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Contributory Factors to Teachers' Sense of Community in Public Urban Elementary Schools
<p>CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS TO TEACHERS' SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN PUBLIC URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that contribute to teachers' sense of community within public, urban, elementary schools. Becauseprevious research has touted the benefits of …
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Gender Segregation In Educational Choice - Contributory Factors and Subsequent Implications for Women
Substantial interest has been shown in recent years in the importance of 'gender equity within the educational system. Since the early 1990's the Irish Educational System has been the focus of much attention and scrutiny. Various government publications were developed , and in 1995 a White Paper on …
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Characteristics and contributory causes related to large truck crashes (phase-II) - all crashes
… safety community to identify characteristics and contributory causes related to large-truck crashes. During the first phase of this study, fatal crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database were studied to achieve that objective. In this second phase, truck-crashes of all …
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An analysis of contributory effects of teamwork characteristics within collegiate basketball and football
Few empirical studies have investigated the overall contribution of teamwork characteristics to collegiate sport team success. Additionally, there is little evidence determining the collective effects of teamwork characteristics among NCAA divisions of competition. The purpose of this research was …
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Dyslexia on trial? (A study of dyslexia as a contributory cause of imprisonment)
This study takes twenty three case histories of men who were serving prison sentences in December 1994 in one prison in Lancashire. The interviews, while following the same basic structure of questions, were open-ended in the sense that the participants replied as they thought fit. Each interview …
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Influencing water consumption at South Staffordshire Water PLC : a disaggregated behavioural analysis of contributory factors
This research identifies factors which influence the consumption of potable water supplied to customers' property. A complete spectrum of the customer base is examined including household, commercial and industrial properties. The research considers information from around the world, particularly …
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From Economic Analysis of Tort Law to Contributory Copyright Infringement and the Substantial Non-infringing Uses
… approach to address the issues surrounding contributory copyright infringement and the Sony doctrine. Its primary objective is to establish a coherent framework for contributory copyright liability. Deeming someone contributorily liable involves two distinct levels of assessment. The first …
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Bird strike risk assessment at commercial airports: sub-model development accounting for strike occurrence and severity with strike contributory factors
… and severity, quantifications of bird strike contributory factors have been quite limited because of the absence of data, especially bird movement data on airfields. The goal of this study is to provide additional insight into this important problem by combining a number of databases, …
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Kidney stone rarity in South Africa's black population : investigation of the biochemical and physico-chemical properties of Tamm Horsfall Mucoprotein as a possible contributory factor
Tamm Horsfall mucoprotein (THP) is a powerful inhibitor of calcium oxalate crystallisation. Since urolithiasis in South African blacks is extremely rare, this study was undertaken to compare the relative inhibitory and biochemical properties of this protein in South African black and white healthy …
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Are Groote Schuur Hospital anaesthesiologist burnt out? A cross-sectional study of prevalence and risk
… measured, there is a paucity of research on contributory risk and protective factors. Method: A contextual, prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) and the Areas of Work-Life Survey (AWS) were used to assess Burnout and …
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Factors leading mental health care users to use modern and traditional medicine in rural areas of Makhado Municipality in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province in South Africa
… population. This study investigated the contributory factors leading mental health care users to use a combination of traditional and modern medicine in rural areas. The study was conducted using qualitative research methods. The population of this study were MHCUs, Mental health …
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An investigation of driver attitudes towards road safety in Kuwait
… and driver error were considered to be the main contributory factors, as has been found elsewhere. A questionnaire survey was undertaken to obtain a more in-depth understanding of driver behaviour and attitudes towards traffic regulations, which might relate to road accidents, and the potential …
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The impact of the personal income tax on household health insurance coverage
… allowing for employer-provided coverage to be contributory in nature.
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Universal pensions in Mexico City : changing dynamics of citizenship and state formation in a global city
… topic of this study is the enactment of a non-contributory and non-means-tested Universal Pension (Pension Alimentaria Ciudadana para Adultos Mayores) program in Mexico City directed at city residents 70 years of age or older. A state-centered framework for social policy analysis is used to …
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A profile of workers who are HIV/AIDS positive at Portnet Richards Bay during the year 1998/1999 and implications for health education
… study which aimed at: ❖ Determining individual's contributory factors to the spread of HIV/AIDS. ❖ Identifying areas to be covered when giving health education to the community. The study was done at Portnet industry in Richards Bay. A structured interview schedule was designed to determine the …
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Trade liberalisation, technological change and the skill structure of employment in South Africa
… and theoretical methodologies to investigate the contributory impacts of trade liberalisation and technological change to the changing skill structure of employment in South Africa since the early 1980s.
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Confined space fatalities
… pertaining to confined space fatalities such as contributory factors, mechanisms of injury and other data of an epidemiological nature.
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