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Early Identification of Potentially Successful Graduate Students
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Early Identification of Dysphagia Post Pediatric Ischemic Stroke
… pediatrics. This dissertation sought to explore early identification of dysphagia, with a focus on pediatric stroke, and was comprised of four studies: 1) a meta-analysis of high-level evidence on the benefit of dysphagia screening in adult stroke, 2) a systematic review of available literature …
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Early Identification of At-Risk LPN-to-RN Students
Nurse education programs are implementing standardized assessments without evaluating their effectiveness. Graduates of associate degree nursing programs continue to be unsuccessful with licensure examinations, despite standardized testing and stronger admission criteria. This problem is also …
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Modeling the Early Identification and Intervention of Alzheimer’s Disease
… cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarker testing for early-targeted treatment on patients with mild cognitive impairment who are at risk of developing AD. Firstly, I examined whether CSF biomarker testing can categorize MCI patients into different risk groups of developing AD, and thus allowing for …
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Early Identification of Risk for Noncompliance in Tuberculosis Patients
<p>In this descriptive study of early identification of risk for noncompliance to tuberculosis treatment or prevention regimens, 523 patients, from four ethnic groups, were rated by nurses trained as participant-observers of several predictive factors. The predictive factors included acceptance of …
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Early Identification of Sepsis in the Walk-in Setting
… point-of-care for patients with infections and early signs of sepsis. The lack of protocols and standardization for sepsis recognition and management in these settings may be a missed opportunity to identify these patients. Applying a sepsis screening tool may improve clinical decision-making …
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Predictive validity of the Metropolitan achievement tests in the early identification of mildly mentally handicapped students and the early identification of a referral population
… Test, Primary I Battery (MAT-PI) for its early predictive validity in the later identification of mildly mentally handicapped students as well as its predictive validity in Identifying children who will be referred for an individualized psycho-educational assessment In the course of their …
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Early identification of individuals who may fail to reach employment
… is developed which has wider application in the identification of multicollinearity within empirical research.
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Early Identification of Potential Dropouts in the Saydel Consolidated School System
The problem: Because of the high percentage of dropouts in the Saydel Consolidated School District this study was undertaken to determine what factors were involved in the decision of the dropout. The study involved individuals who had terminated their education during the past three school years …
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Early Identification of Chemotherapy Induced Cardiotoxicity Using Structural and Functional Cardiovascular MRI
… noninvasive methods for accurately detecting early evidence of myocardial injury are critically needed to prevent irreversible cardiotoxicity.
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Early identification of learning disability in children of the Cape Flats area
There is a need for time-efficient screening assessment, preliminary to diagnostic evaluation, in order to identify learning disability children attending schools in the Cape Flats area. This practical issue needs to be addressed despite the controversy that rages concerning the theoretical aspects …
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Low-achieving beginning readers: Early identification, and structural modeling of remedial reading effects
Early identification of first-grade and second-grade remedial reading students and the effects of remedial reading in early elementary grades were respectively investigated in three studies. These three studies used the database established by Meyer, Wardrop, and Hastings (1989) for a longitudinal …
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Early identification and monitoring of cochlear damage using extended high-frequency audiometry : a systematic review
… (EHF) audiometry has been recommended for early identification and monitoring of cochlear damage. The main reason is that cochlear damage occurs at frequencies higher than 8000 Hz before the thresholds at conventional frequencies (250 Hz to 8000 Hz) are affected. Furthermore, hair cell …
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TO FACIAL FEATURES AS A NEW BIOMARKER FOR EARLY IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH-RISK ATHEROSCLEROSIS: A TRANSLATIONAL APPROACH
… emerged as a valuable non-invasive tool for early identification of high-risk coronary atherosclerosis. However, no validated biomarkers or scores are available to identify patients who may benefit from CCT in primary prevention. Aim of the present study was to explore for the first time the …
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Where Are Tomorrow's Managers?: A Study of Early Identification of Managerial Potential in the Life Insurance Industry
Every indication — economic, social, and political — appears to suggest that the shortages of manpower, especially competent management manpower, that has plagued business over the past two decades, will continue well into the future. In fact, most indicators point to a worsening before the …
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Childhood depression: issues in definition diagnosis and assessment and the role of the teacher in early identification
… upon childhood depression and the fact that early identification may be an important variable in prognosis, issues relating to its definition and identification are stressed in this dissertation. In an attempt to clarify controversies surrounding the definition of childhood depression (e.g. …
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Letter leaders handwriting program for preschoolers: an early identification and intervention approach to reduce handwriting problems in children.
… are required to submit written assignments in nearly every class beginning in the first grade, they typically fall behind academically when completion of these assignments becomes burdensome and time-consuming (Graham, 1992; Hammerschmidt & Sudsawad, 2004). As a result, learning is impaired, …
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The early identification of academic support needs of first year university engineering drawing students in a multicultural society
Batteries of exercises requiring visualization in three dimensions were administered to more than 900 freshmen engineering students at the University of Cape Town in 1983, 1984 and 1985, and at the Cape Technikon in 1985. They were found to be consistently powerful predictors of performance in the …
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Distortion product otoacoustic emissions: towards reliable and valid early identification and monitoring of hearing in adults receiving ototoxic medication
… impact on an individual's quality of life. Early detection and management of an ototoxic hearing loss can minimise the impact of the hearing loss on the person's social, emotional, and vocational wellbeing. While patients with MDR-TB are often very ill, it might be ideal to use an objective …
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