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The Application of a Falls Risk Index
… study examined the prospective use of a falls risk index. The research question was: To what extent do the intrinsic factors identified in the Tinetti et al. falls risk index predict which patients are likely to experience a fall. Hogue's ecological model of falls in late life provided a …
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Risk Index for Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Naval Ships
… technologies that carry with them an inherent risk of failure simply because their application is the first of its kind. Failure is recognized by gaps between actual and required measures of performance, exceeded budgets, and late deliveries. These risks can be defined and quantified as the …
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The Application of a Predictive Fall Risk Index Among the Elderly
… examined the application of a predictive fall risk index among the elderly. The research question was: To what extent do individual chronic disabilities, present on the Tinetti et al. (1986) fall risk index, prospectively identify which residents are likely to fall. Hogue's ecological model of …
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Development of an HIV risk index for university students in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Health Sciences at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Development of distraction risk index (DRI) among the intrastate bus drivers in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
… bus drivers. Subsequently, Distraction Risk Index (DRI) would be developed to obtain the risk level of the sources of distraction among the intrastate bus drivers. This study had conducted focus group interview among 16 participants which included eight participants from expert …
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A Hazard Assessment and Proposed Risk Index for Art, Architecture, Archive and Artifact Protection: Case Studies for Assorted International Museums
<p>This study proposes a hazard/risk index for environmental, technological, and social hazards that may threaten a museum or other place of cultural storage and accession. This index can be utilized and implemented to measure the risk at the locations of these storage facilities in relationship to …
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Fiscal Equity for At-Risk Students: A Quanitative Analysis of the At-Risk Index Component of the New Mexico Public School Funding Formula
… designed to investigate fiscal equity for at-risk students in the State of New Mexico. This empirical data analysis compared equity indices before the At-Risk Index was implemented in the New Mexico public school funding formula in FY 1996-97 and after the At-Risk Index was included for FY …
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Analysis of flow patterns and flow mechanisms in soils
… form parameter of this distribution serves as a risk index for vertical solute propagation. We did tracer experiments with Brilliant Blue FCF at three study sites: in a Norway spruce forest in southeast Germany, in a tropical mountain rainforest in southern Ecuador and on an agricultural field in …
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DEMENTIA IN ELDERLY: PREDICTING AND PREVENTING RISK
… (1) To develop and validate a late-life dementia risk index using EMR database to predict the risk of developing dementia in elderly population. (2) To examine comparative effectiveness of antidepressants classes on risk of dementia in elderly with depression. Methods: The retrospective cohort …
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Water quality assessment and potential ecological risk of trace metals in sediments of some selected wetland across Limpopo Province; South Africa
… water quality and the potential ecological risk due to trace metals in sediments across wetlands in Limpopo Province. The samples' physicochemical parameters were tested in the field and the laboratory. All the instruments used to test the physicochemical parameters of the water samples were …
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The effects of cost, income, and socio-economic variables on student scholastic aptitude scores
… (5) degree of population density, and (6) at-risk index characteristics.The study provided a review of the research and related literature on relationships between high school SAT scores, public school expenditures and other intervening input variables. The study addressed questions about …
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Investigation of the in vitro and in vivo effects of some herbal preparations on risk factors for calcium oxalate kidney stone disease
… and calculation of various physicochemical risk indices (Bonn Risk Index, Tiselius Risk Index and the relative urinary supersaturation of several stone-forming salts). All plant extracts inhibited one or more of the crystallization processes. Furthermore, crystal-cell binding, another risk …
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A study of overrepresentation of minorities in special education in southern New Jersey public schools
… using three different indices: composition index, risk index, and odds ratio. The New Jersey District Factor Group (DFG) indices were used to determine the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on overrepresentation. SES did appear to have a correlation with the overrepresentation of minority …
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Comprehensive Simulation for End -Result Specification Development
… tool which can be used to analyze specification risk and to develop ERS systems with user-managed risk levels. Modeling and simulation of Illinois ERS highway project data clearly demonstrated that the magnitude and relative amounts of production and measurement variability play a key role in ERS …
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Loss pattern recognition and profitability prediction for insurers through machine learning
For an insurance company, assessing risk exposure for Property Damage (PD), and Business Interruption (BI) for large commercial clients is difficult because of the heterogeneity of that exposure, within a single client (account), and between different divisions, and regions, where the client is …
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Nontraditional Student Risk Factors and Gender as Predictors for Enrollment in College Distance Education
… and the possession of nontraditional student risk factors predict enrollment in distance education college courses. This dissertation used data from the most recent National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:12), which consisted of approximately 95,000 undergraduate students who were …
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The effect of Ascorbic acid ingestion on the risk of calcium oxalate kidney stone formation
… megadose ingestion of ascorbic acid on the risk of calcium oxalate kidney stone formation. Ten healthy male subjects (ages 20 to 30 years) participated in the study. Each was required to ingest a daily dose of 4 g ascorbic acid per day for a period of 5 days. Twenty-four hour urines were …
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Investigation of the effect of a solution of lime powder on urinary calcium oxalate kidney stone risk factors in artificial and real urines : in vitro and in vivo studies
… and also to assess the effects on urinary risk factors in these subjects after its ingestion. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Experiments commenced with the preparation of artificial urine (AU) in which the effects of lime solutions (0.125-1.00 mglml) were tested by carrying out various …
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Validity and reliability of the international fItness scale (IFIS) in a population-based sample of schoolchildren in Bogota, Colombia: The FUPRECOL study
… and measured). Also, a validated cardiometabolic risk index was used. An age- and sex-matched sample of 229 Schoolchildren originally not included in the study sample fulfilled IFIS twice for reliability purposes. Our data suggest that both measured and self-reported overall fitness were …
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Modeling, Dynamics and Optimal Control of West Nile Virus with Seasonality
… it is essential to access and forcast the virus risk. Therefore in the final part, we generalize the risk index, minimum infection rate (MIR) by using a compartment model for WNv, to define a dynamical minimum infection rate (DMIR) for assessing risk of WNv. By using the data from Peel region, we …
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