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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"multiple interventions"”.
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Organizational Change Development Interventions: Are Multiple Interventions Useful?
The effects of multiple interventions in organizational development change were studied in a comprehensive meta-analytic review. Thirteen organizational interventions were assessed on five outcome variables based upon previous research of six major meta-analytic reviews. Findings based on 138 …
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Organizational development: A comparison of individual and organizational level change.
… initiatives. Because of the broad scope of interventions in OCD, these studies have covered a range of areas including multiple interventions and the methodological rigor used by researchers. However, few have looked at organizational versus individual change within an organization, to …
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An Applied Bayesian Approach to Network Meta-Analysis
… to facilitate indirect comparisons of multiple interventions that have not been studied in a head-to-head fashion. The use of network meta-analysis is becoming increasingly popular in biomedical sciences, especially in epidemiology and in clinical trials, where the safety and efficacy …
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Exploring Preferences for ‘Blinding’ One’s Own Judgment
… framework, and (c) explore the efficacy of multiple interventions to encourage a choice to blind one’s judgment. I find that people often choose to see potentially biasing information rather than be blind to it, even though they acknowledge they should be blind and that seeing such …
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Statistical methodologies for network meta-analysis with applications in veterinary medicine
… to conduct research syntheses pertaining to multiple interventions, as it allows for the comparison of interventions that have not been directly compared and typically improves precision of the comparative effect estimates relative to those produced via the individual trials. While the …
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Biomechanics of Head Impacts in Soccer
… The objective of this work was to evaluate multiple interventions that have been introduced to address the high rate of concussions in this population. Wearable head impact sensors were evaluated on their ability to accurately count and measure head impacts during a collegiate women's soccer …
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Reforming institutional responses to violence against women
… there are various positive initiatives, single interventions are rarely enough to successfully breach the walls of the total institution and provide the resources needed for women to live independently of the men who batter them. Refuges (shelters) and advocacy programmes for women, stopping …
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Exploring gender dynamics in sexuality education in Uganda's secondary schools
… countries and Uganda in particular. In spite of multiple interventions to address the inequalities, gender disparities remain apparent and such disparities continue to entail increased vulnerability to sexual abuse, HIV transmission, unwanted teenage pregnancies, sexual exploitation and the …
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Measuring competence among Health Workers in case management of malaria in pregnancy in Rural Zambia(Gwembe)
… disease whose prevention and control requires multiple interventions. If the prevention methods like sleeping under insecticide-treated nets, and indoor residual spraying fail then treatment is imperative. Treatment begins with recognizing the symptoms of malaria, and giving the correct …
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Measuring competence among Health Workers in case management of malaria in pregnancy in Rural Zambia(Gwembe)
… disease whose prevention and control requires multiple interventions. If the prevention methods like sleeping under insecticide-treated nets, and indoor residual spraying fail then treatment is imperative. Treatment begins with recognizing the symptoms of malaria, and giving the correct …
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Toward valid network meta-analysis: Challenges in clustering conservative interventions for musculoskeletal conditions
… statistical technique that combines and compares multiple interventions from direct and indirect evidence in one analysis, ranks them according to their effectiveness, and assists clinicians in making better-informed decisions within an EBP framework. Conducting an NMA is challenging and even …
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Development of a multifaceted ergonomic educational program to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders among nurses in intermediate public hospitals in Namibia
… The individual OHS policies or single ergonomic interventions have failed to reduce WRMSDs because these disorders are multifactorial in nature and require multiple interventions to address them. This study aimed develop a multifaceted ergonomic educational program to prevent WRMSDs among nurses …
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Causal Effect Random Forest Of Interaction Trees For Learning Individualized Treatment Regimes In Observational Studies: With Applications To Education Study Data
… are also well documented in educational interventions. However, unlike the efficacy study in medical studies, educational interventions are often not randomized. Study results often suffer greatly from self-selection bias. Besides the intervention itself, the efficacy and effectiveness of …
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Behavior Modeling and Analytics for Urban Computing: A Synthetic Information-based Approach
… and activities, by combining data from multiple sources. We evaluate the effect of including this population in epidemic forecasts, and the potential benefits of multiple interventions that target transients. In the next study, we model human behavior in the aftermath of the detonation …
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Embedding risk management within new product and service development of an innovation and risk management framework and supporting risk processes, for effective risk mitigation : an action research study within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector
… study took four years to complete and delivered multiple interventions that successfully embedded risk management within the organisation, leading to changed behaviours and double-loop learning. Two main knowledge contributions are offered by the study. Firstly, a generic and empirically …
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Clarity and inclusivity as precursors to disseminate, implement, and translate yoga principles for behavioral health
… it takes 15-17 years to translate health interventions into real-world practice. Dissemination and implementation science can help bridge this gap for multiple interventions, including yoga-based ones. Yoga principles have positively impacted myriad populations and outcomes and align with …
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Validation of Pathogen Surrogate Escherichia coli strains for Systemic Microbial Reductions in Fresh Beef Harvest and Processing
… the overall level of bacterial reduction by multiple interventions over a two-day period. ATCC non-pathogenic surrogate strains of E.coli were utilized in this study to mimic the behavior of Salmonella and E.coli. Foreshanks of beef carcasses were inoculated a total of two times per each …
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Modelling the South African tuberculosis epidemic: the effect of HIV, sex differences, and the impact of interventions
… African TB control programme has implemented multiple interventions, including directly observed therapy strategy (DOTS), antiretroviral therapy (ART), intensified screening activities, the provision of isoniazid preventative therapy (IPT) and the implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF as a …
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NETWORK META-ANALYSIS OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL REGENERATION PROCEDURES
… has been used as most common method to compare multiple interventions from different clinical trials. Therefore, using this methodology our main aim was to determine the best performing biomaterials and biologics for oral and maxillofacial regeneration procedures. The specific objectives were; …