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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Missed opportunities"”.
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Missed opportunities: NACA and jet propulsion
This study examines NACA's organization in the light of Alfred D. Chandler's <i>Strategy and Structure</i>. It analyzes the agency's administration. NACA's strategy of maximizing existing technology and its committee's structure were the key elements in its failure to develop jet propulsion in the …
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The ICT gender imbalance in schools and beyond: missed opportunities
‘Pipeline shrinkage’, the steady attrition of women in the ICT industry despite their academic achievement, has been of great concern not only in the United Kingdom but also internationally for almost a quarter of a century. This study reviewed literature and prior research from both national and …
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External cephalic version for breech presentation at term : missed opportunities?
… Objective: To evaluate whether there were missed opportunities for performing ECV in women that had caesarean sections for breech presentation at term, and to determine the reasons why ECV was not offered or attempted for women with breech presentation, who had a caesarean section for that …
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What Regulatory Mode tells us about Body Movement, Assortments and Missed Opportunities.
… to body movement, large assortments and missed opportunities. We explore underlying mechanisms, show that effects hold when priming or measuring orientations and when accounting for alternative accounts.
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Missed opportunities for immunisation in health facilities in the Western Cape metro
… of this study was to estimate the prevalence of missed opportunities for immunisation at different levels of healthcare in the Western Cape and assess factors associated with missed opportunities. Methods: The study included a health-facility based cross-sectional exit survey of caregivers with …
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A Decade of Failure; Missed Opportunities and the Escalating Crisis over Iran's Nuclear Program
… or other countries. There have been a number of missed opportunities to defuse the nuclear standoff with Iran. The first was in May 2003 when Iran sent the U.S. government via the Swiss a proposal for discussions on a ―grand bargain‖ to restore ties between Tehran and Washington. The Bush …
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Assessing and addressing missed opportunities for vaccination in Cape Town through a collaborative quality improvement approach
… substantial coverage gaps across the country. Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) have been recognised as a major contributor to sub-optimal immunisation coverage globally. The overall aim of the research and its component studies was to assess and address MOV in primary health care …
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A pragmalinguistic analysis of missed opportunities for building rapport in interpreted medical interviews with Spanish-speaking patients.
Interpreted medical discourse presents significant challenges for communication because portions of the original message are often reduced, omitted, or revised (Aranguri, Davidson, & Ramirez, 2006), particularly by lay interpreters. Linguistic devices that contribute to rapport and politeness, such …
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Missed opportunities to address mental health of people living with HIV in Zomba, Malawi: a cross-sectional clinic survey
… HIV frequent health services, this represents a missed opportunity for identification and treatment that could improve physical and mental health outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify missed opportunities to address mental health of people living with HIV in Malawi. Four types of missed …
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Missed opportunities: a cultural-historical activity theory study of the use of authentic literature as a tool for dialogic pedagogy
This study examines the opportunities for dialogic pedagogy created using authentic literature within the South African primary school classroom. Dialogic pedagogy has been found to be a useful method for provoking higher order thinking (Alexander, 2020). Moreover, authentic literature is …
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The Context of Maternal and Child Health Services in Northwest Tanzania: Missed Opportunities for Preventing Maternal and Perinatal Mortality in Rural Communities
… in this rural district in Tanzania there are missed opportunities to prevent maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, and improve maternal and child health outcomes, which could partly explain persisting high mortality among women and newborns.
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Reflecting on South Africa's recent jurisprudence relating to estuaries through the lens of nature - Is it providing key guidance or evidence of missed opportunities?
… national Supreme Court of Appeal, recently dismissed an application to compel the authorities to protect private property against back-flooding from the Klein River estuary. The High Court of KwaZulu-Natal subsequently dismissed a similar application of the Sugar Planters Limited and two of its …
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Missed opportunities for the detection of abdominal aortic aneurysms : a retrospective study of eighteen patients presenting with a ruptured or acute symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm
… the case records to determine whether there were missed opportunities for the detection of such aneurysms. The results of the research showed that 12 general practitioners (GP's) out of a group of 13, were unaware that abdominal ultrasound is a highly specific and sensitive method for detecting …
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Implementation of the perinatal problem identification programme at public health facilities in the Emfuleni sub-district of Gauteng Province
… deaths and describe the avoidable factors, missed opportunities and sub-standard care.
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Parent- and Family-Based Interventions: An Investigation of Parental Intention to Participate
… and schools, which usually results in many missed opportunities from this failed interconnection. The current paper details a necessary first step in the process by describing the development of a measure of assessing readiness to interconnect PBIS and SMH within the schools. Relevant …
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Implicit pen annotation assisted by Large Language Models
… in current digital annotation tools suggest missed opportunities for more intelligent, adaptive design. This work introduces AnnotateGPT, a document annotation tool with a digital pen. It leverages a Large Language Model (LLM) (1) to infer the underlying purposes of the user’s annotations and …
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Student-athletes at Rowan University: assessing involvement factors and opportunities provided through athletic participation
… athletic pursuits, academic support and success, missed opportunities, and factors relating to personal development. Data analysis suggests that student-athletes spend equal amounts of time on academic and athletic pursuits. The study showed that female student-athletes reported missing out on …
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English Literacy Curricula in a Sino-Canadian Transnational Education Program: Teachers’ Implemented Curriculum
… literacy teaching. The implications include missed opportunities to engage students to critically analyze and evaluate the historical, sociocultural, and political relationships and few opportunities that connected students’ lived experiences to or activated students’ text-to-self connections …
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Studies in behavioural epidemiology
… Peninsula day hospitals. Sexual behaviour and missed opportunities for contraception counselling. South African Medical Journal 1992; 82: 104-106. Paper 4. Flisher AJ, Parry CDH. Suicide in South Africa. An analysis of nationally registered mortality data for 1984-1986. Acta Psychiatrica …
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