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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Effectiveness studies"”.
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Effectiveness of State Developed and Implemented Forestry Best Management Practices in the United States
… operations. This research project reviewed BMP effectiveness studies in the U.S., assessed current state developed and implemented of forestry BMPs, and developed a simple method to estimate potential erosion from forest operations for the Piedmont physiographic region based on previous studies. …
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Study of Brief Single Session Medical Family Therapy with Low-Income Patients
… populations. However, there is a need for MedFT effectiveness studies with longitudinal randomized control trials. Thus, this pilot study investigated the results of a brief single session of MedFT over a one-week period with low-income primary care patients. Effectiveness in this study was …
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Economic evaluations of vaccines in Canada: Exploring the epidemiologic and economic impact of chickenpox vaccine strategies in Canada using an agent-based model
… of different health interventions. The cost-effectiveness of vaccines is particularly difficult to measure, as they are generally complicated by the infectious nature of the diseases. Using a scoping review framework, we gathered, summarised and described the evolution of published economic …
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Digital Game-Based Learning in K-12 Classrooms: Studying Effectiveness and Influential Factors in Instruction
… classrooms usually generates claims about their effectiveness, but in many cases, these claims are not carefully studied. Furthermore, conclusions drawn from effectiveness studies generally focus on technologies as the sole responsible factor for such effectiveness, without considering other …
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An evaluation of the effectiveness of the counselling service at the Parent Centre: A social work study conducted in Cape Town
… the need for adequate evaluation of social work effectiveness, particularly in the light of the dismal findings of early effectiveness studies. However, it is no easy task to operationalise a definition of service effectiveness. This study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the counselling …
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The Use of Oncology Electronic Health Record Databases to Assess the Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Treatment
Background: Non-experimental studies using large healthcare databases may be well-suited for addressing relevant questions in clinical oncology that pertain to the safety and effectiveness of medications. They complement randomized trials by including frail and complex patients seen in routine care …
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Análisis coste efectividad entre la cordectomía transoral con láser CO2, la cordectomía por laringofisura y la radioterapia en el tratamiento del carcinoma glótico en estadios iniciales
… and endoscopic surgery with CO2 laser. The cost-effectiveness study shows that the CO2 laser treatment option is more cost effectiveness and therefore dominant over the other options. This study also serves as a support to help in decision-making in the treatment of epidermoid carcinoma of the …
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The economic evaluations of interventions for heart diseases
… primary aim of the thesis was to report new cost-effectiveness evidence in the clinical area of heart disease. Following a review of published empirical work, this was achieved by undertaking three new cost-effectiveness studies: one in nurse-led secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart …
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Assessing the effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment as a safeguard to biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa
… of biodiversity aspects. Traditionally effectiveness studies in this regard have focused on evaluating the procedural aspects of EIA, and have focused less on the substantive outcomes of the post-authorisation phase of a proposed project. While South Africa has a considerable body of …
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A Cost Per Behavior Change Analysis for Physical Therapy-Behavior Modification Projects
… study should provide a data base for later cost-effectiveness studies. Procedure. Child development workers on the program unit were trained to conduct physical therapy-behavior modification projects. The effectiveness of these projects was evaluated by comparing performance prior to intervention …
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Weisfeiler-Leman graph kernels for the out-of-distribution characterization of graph structured data
… Extensive experiments confirm the effectiveness of this metric through comparative analysis against traditional methods. Our study shows that GDA outperforms existing metrics in detecting OOD instances. This is needed for applications where the generalizability of GNNs is necessary, …
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Three Decades of Trauma-informed Education and Art Therapy: An Effectiveness Study
<p>This mixed method study examined the effectiveness of a school-based program that has been integrating trauma-informed education and art therapy for three decades to treat adolescents who have experienced complex trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and toxic stress. To date, no …
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Improving Outcomes for Children Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): A Study of Intervention Effectiveness Guided by Developmental Theory
… trauma in children (Felitti et al., 1998). Studies have shown that ACEs are common, often co-occur, and exhibit a strong dose-response relationship to many developmental outcomes across the lifespan (e.g., Anda et al., 2006; Blodgett, 2014; Dong et al., 2004; Metzler et al., 2017). As public …
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Evaluation of integrated weed management techniques and their nuances in Virginia crop production
… or concentrates them. Research is limited on the effectiveness of HWSC in US cropping systems. For HWSC to be effective it is important to know when and how many seed are shed from a weed species in relation to crop harvest. Research was conducted to quantify when weed seed are shattered from 6 …
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Predictors of Developmental Screenings for Young Children
… identification of predictors for health service effectiveness. Health service effectiveness is measured by probability estimations of whether young children receive formal or informal developmental screenings. Screenings lead to prevention of communication delays in later childhood. Formal …
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A comparison of the stability of school effectiveness indices produced by classical least squares regression and Bayesian m-group regression techniques
Numerous school effectiveness studies have utilized least squares regression techniques to produce school effectiveness indices despite the fact that they are subject to serious sampling fluctuations when sample sizes are small. If the sample size is smaller than normally thought adequate for …
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An evaluation of the 1987 Texas Senate Bill 1160: The effectiveness of legislated accountability requirements for nurses
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Senate Bill 1160 in promoting accountability for professional nursing practice within the State of Texas. Mandatory reporting and peer review were examined as mechanisms to promote accountability. This study utilized a nonexperimental, …
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Towards a generic theory of managerial and leadership effectiveness: a meta-level analysis from organisations in the UK Public Sector
… literature on managerial and leadership effectiveness reveals that researchers tend to be divided into two broad camps. There are those who take a `contingency' approach arguing that the criteria that constitute management/leadership effectiveness are context-dependent, situation-specific …
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The use of pedometers and the '10.000 steps/day'-concept in the promotion of physical activity
… research and pedometer-based intervention studies in Flanders, Belgium (Europe). The first methodological study evaluated the validity of an inexpensive pedometer. Results showed that the „Stepping Meter‟ was unacceptable for research and practice, as it gave invalid information. Two other …
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A taxonomy of institutional effectiveness literature for public higher education, colleges, and universities
… study was to produce a taxonomy of institutional effectiveness literature for public colleges and universities. The study was a theoretical and comprehensive analysis of the extant literature on institutional effectiveness from 1970 to the present. Conceptually, the study was an exploratory …
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