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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"SSI"”.
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Science Teachers Teaching Socioscientific Issues (Ssi): Four Case Studies
"Socioscientific issues (SSI) are a class of issues that represent the social, ethical, and moral aspects of science in society. The need for the inclusion of SSI into science curricula has been generally accepted, but relatively few science teachers have incorporated SSI into their courses. Most …
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The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
… job search behaviors during the Great Recession and finds that the COBRA premium subsidy causes unemployed workers to significantly increase their unemployment duration by 2.11 months. The empirical results are consistent with the predictions of job search theory. Therefore, these estimates …
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An Analysis of the Utilization of SSI Incentives by Transition Professionals Working With Students With Visual Disabilities
… reported knowledge levels of selected SSI information, cash, medical and work incentive items and their reported level of use of these items with their high school students in transition planning. Thirty-one of the 38 identified professionals responsible for coordinating transition …
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The Impact of Cognitive Behavior Techniques on the Vocational Identity of Persons with Disabilities Receiving SSI/SSDI Benefits
… of persons with disabilities receiving SSI/SSDI. This study was carefully planned to help persons with disabilities obtain employment. A review of the relevant literature was used to determine the need for the study and to support the study. Forty participants, all were enrolled into a …
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Surgical site infections in Neurosurgery
Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. We sought to define the incidence of SSI at our institution and examine the risk factors for infection. Methods An observational, retrospective cross-sectional review of 676 patients older than 13 years old …
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Efficacy Of Various Modes Of Bowel Preparation to Prevent Surgical Site Infection Following Elective Colorectal Resection
… complications such as surgical site infection (SSI). Newer evidence suggests that MBP does not reduce the risk of infection and that oral antibiotic (OA) use may be important in reducing post-operative infectious complications, however, there is little evidence comparing MBP, OA, and combination …
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Secondary Special Education Teachers' Familiarity and Involvement With the Supplemental Security Income Program
… to participate in training related to SSI and indicated that both parents and students need additional training on SSI issues. Respondents also provided suggestions the appropriate role of teachers and schools in assisting with SSI issues and expressed concerns about fraud and abuse, …
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The impact of a quality improvement complex intervention on the incidence of surgical site infection and the knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals
Background Surgical site infection (SSI) is a serious post-operative complication that depletes hospital resources and has a detrimental impact on patient outcomes. There is published evidence to help healthcare professionals prevent SSIs, yet SSI prevention remains suboptimum and a complex problem …
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A retrospective review of surgical site infection following caesarean section at Mowbray Maternity Hospital
… infection, and surgical site infection (SSI) after CS increases maternal morbidity as well as medical costs. Mowbray Maternity Hospital (MMH), is a secondary level, public maternity hospital. The caesarean section rate at MMH has increased considerably over the last fifteen years, and the …
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척추 수술에서 예방적 항생제 사용의 유용성
… of prophylactic antibiotics over any other for SSI in spinal surgery has not been clearly demonstrated. We designed a controlled clinical trial to compare the occurrence of SSI and the changes of hematologic results depending on prophylaxis regimens and protocols. The aim of this study was to …
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Essays on the effects of disability insurance/
… enrolled in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and their family members. In Chapter 1, I estimate the long-term effects of removing low-income youth with disabilities from SSI on the level and variance of their earnings and income in adulthood. Using a regression discontinuity …
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Perfil de recuento de leucocitos, vhs y de anticuerpos fr, ana y ena de pacientes con parotiditis cronica recurrente infantil atendidos en el hospital san juan de dios
… que desarrollan síndrome de Sjögren infantil (SSI). El SSI es una patología autoinmune que conlleva riesgo de daño permanente ocular, oral y multisistémico, incluyendo riesgo elevado de linfoma, por ende es importante realizar el diagnóstico diferencial de SSI en los pacientes con PCRI. Los …
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Same-sex vs. co-ed classrooms: do gender differences carry over Into a co-ed college?
… female students who had single-sex instruction (SSI) averaged an 8% improvement in grades, while co-ed taught girls averaged 3% better. Male SSI students averaged 40% worse, while co-ed males averaged 12% worse. For male participants, data showed a moderate positive correlation (r = .38) between …
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Towards a Behavioral Theory of Farmer Decision -Making: The Value of Site -Specific Information in Agricultural Production
… uniform applications of N fertilizer, imperfect SSI about soil N levels will only be valuable in a typical Illinois farm if the costs of acquiring that information is not more than $1.05 per acre. Costs greater than this will not give value to producers that will compensate the cost of acquiring …
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A review of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income from a federal budget perspective
… thesis examines Supplemental Security Income (SSI) starting from its inception in 1972, and identifies and evaluates the major changes that have transformed it through its short lifetime. SSI originated in the Social Security Act of 1935, and was later enhanced by the Social Security Act …
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Microbiological profile of surgical site infections in orthopedic surgery at the university teaching hospital; Lusaka, Zambia.
Background and purpose: Surgical site infection (SSI) is the infection to the surgical site occurring within a year of surgery (if an implant is used) or within 30 days if no implant is used. SSI is a known cause of poor outcomes, increased healthcare cost on patients, sometimes leading to …
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Microbiological profile of surgical site infections in orthopedic surgery at the university teaching hospital; Lusaka, Zambia.
Background and purpose: Surgical site infection (SSI) is the infection to the surgical site occurring within a year of surgery (if an implant is used) or within 30 days if no implant is used. SSI is a known cause of poor outcomes, increased healthcare cost on patients, sometimes leading to …
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An Electromechanical Synchronization of Driving Simulator and Adaptive Driving Aide for Training Persons with Disabilities
Cars have become necessities of our daily life and are especially important to people with disability because they extend their range of activity and allow participation in a social life. Sometimes driving a normal car is impossible for individuals with severe disability and they require additional …
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Characterizing high-energy electrons in space using science imagers
… from the Galileo spacecraft Solid-State Imaging (SSI) instrument, which is a silicon charge-coupled device (CCD). We post-process raw SSI images to obtain frames with only the radiation contribution. The camera settings are used to compute the energy deposited in each pixel, which corresponds to …
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