To describe registered nurses' reported use of research in the care of older people and to examine associations between research use and factors related to the elements: the communication channels, the adopter and...
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To describe registered nurses' reported use of research in the care of older people and to examine associations between research use and factors related to the elements: the communication channels, the adopter and the social system. Research use among registered nurses working in hospital settings has been reported in many studies. Few studies, however, have explored the use of research among registered nurses working in the care of older people. A cross-sectional survey. In eight municipalities, all registered nurses (n = 210) working in older people care were invited to participate (response rate 67%). The Research Utilisation Questionnaire was adopted. Questions concerning the work organisation and research-related resources were sent to the Community Chief Nurse at each municipality. Descriptive statistics and logisticregression were applied. The registered nurses reported a relatively low use of research findings in daily practice, despite reporting a positive attitude to research. The registered nurses reported lack of access to research reports at the work place and that they had little support from unit managers and colleagues. Registered nurses working in municipalities with access to research-related resources reported more use of research than registered nurses without resources. The factors 'Access to research findings at work place', 'Positive attitudes to research' and 'Nursing programme at university level' were significantly associated with research use. There is a great potential to increase registered nurses' use of research findings in the care of older people. Factors which were linked to the communication channels and the adopter were associated with research use. Strategies to enhance research use should focus on access to and adequate training in using information sources, increased knowledge on research methodology and nursing science and a supportive organisation.
Financial crisis early warning analysis is important for enterprises, commercial banks and various investors. The aim of my study was to determine if the logistic multi-regressionmodel enhances the efficiency veracit...
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Financial crisis early warning analysis is important for enterprises, commercial banks and various investors. The aim of my study was to determine if the logistic multi-regressionmodel enhances the efficiency veracity of financial crisis early warning. In this thesis, the author choose 63 A stock companies, which are marked ST companies because of abnormal financial standing in Shanghai and Shenzhen in 2006, form the financial crisis sample, and choose some similar sized listed companies in same industry as matching sample, Finding index of remarkably distinct the financial crisis company and the non-financial crisis company through analyzing financial indexes of the listed companies. Taking the index of property liabilities ratio, audit opinion, finance lever ratio, gross property net profit ratio, sales revenue growth ratio and cash flux to current liability ratio as the final variants, set up the logistic multi-regressionmodel, conduct the case analysis of financial crisis early warning. The empirical results show that logistic regression model help to improve the efficiency of financial crisis early warning.
Credit risk assessment of companies has been an important part of the study on risk management for a long time, especially for the default risk of companies with a high liability to asset rate. In this paper, we use f...
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(纸本)9780769538761
Credit risk assessment of companies has been an important part of the study on risk management for a long time, especially for the default risk of companies with a high liability to asset rate. In this paper, we use factor analysis method to establish a logistic regression model and make an empirical analysis on the credit risk of listed companies of Capital-Intensive Industries. The results show that long-term pay ability, cash flow factor, profitability, and sales ability have the greatest influence on credit risk assessment, and the next come the short-term liquidity and asset-liability. By the inspection of testing samples, it is proved that this logisticmodel is effective for credit risk assessment because of its high accuracy and reliable recognition, good prediction and generalization ability.
Background: Postoperative pain and postoperative vomiting (POV) are both sources of distress in the postoperative period. Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is used in patients undergoing lower extremity sur...
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This research focuses on characterizing a potato with extra sugar content and identifying the location and depth of the extra sugar content using the active thermography imaging technique. The extra sugar content of t...
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This research focuses on characterizing a potato with extra sugar content and identifying the location and depth of the extra sugar content using the active thermography imaging technique. The extra sugar content of the potato is an important problem for potato growers and potato chip manufacturers. Extra sugar content could result in diseases or wounds in the potato tuber. In general, potato tubers with low sugar content are considered as having a higher quality.
The inspection system and general methodologies characterizing extra sugar content will be presented in this study. The average heating rate obtained from the thermal image analysis is the major factor in characterization procedures. Using information on the average heating rate, the probability of achieving a potato with extra sugar content may be predicted using the logistic regression model. In addition, neural networks are also used to identify the potato with extra sugar contents. The correct rate for identifying a potato with extra sugar content in it can reach 85%. The location of extra sugar content can also be found using the logistic regression model. Results show the overall correct rate predicting the extra sugar content location with a resolution of 20 by 20 pixels is 91%. In predicting the extra sugar content depth, amounts exceeds 2/3 inches are not detectable by analyzing thermal images. The depth of extra sugar content can be discriminated in 0.3 inch increments with a high rate of accuracy (87.5%).
In this paper we introduce and study two new families of statistics for the problem of testing linear combinations of the parameters in logistic regression models. These families are based on the phi-divergence measur...
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In this paper we introduce and study two new families of statistics for the problem of testing linear combinations of the parameters in logistic regression models. These families are based on the phi-divergence measures. One of them includes the classical likelihood ratio statistic and the other the classical Pearson's statistic for this problem. It is interesting to note that the vector of unknown parameters, in the two new families of phi-divergence statistics considered in this paper, is estimated using the minimum phi-divergence estimator instead of the maximum likelihood estimator. Minimum phi-divergence estimators are a natural extension of the maximum likelihood estimator.
The aim of this study is to identify the important health factors that influenced infant and child mortality in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. Data have been collected through a structured questionnaire under a projec...
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The aim of this study is to identify the important health factors that influenced infant and child mortality in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. Data have been collected through a structured questionnaire under a project of UNFPA, using purposive sampling technique. Well known statistical tools chi-square (χ2) test, and logisticregression are used to analyze the data. The study results reveal that health related variables such as immunization practices, treatment facilities, delivery systems, and regular checkup of mothers and babies health condition among a set of selected variables which affect infant and child mortality. The χ2-test result implies that immunization practices and mother’s and children’s health checkup, place of maternal delivery and place of treatment are significantly associated with infant and child mortality. Multivariate analysis results are also confirmed the same result as seen in χ2 test evaluation. It is evident from the study that the child had 62.50% lower risk of death who were immunized than that of who were never immunized, and also the risk of infant mortality was 95.10% lower among those who had to take their treatment from a specialist doctor. Therefore, we should give attention to the expansion of public health system in order to reduce the risk of infant and child mortality in *** aim of this study is to identify the important health factors that influenced infant and child mortality in Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. Data have been collected through a structured questionnaire under a project of UNFPA, using purposive sampling technique. Well known statistical tools chi-square (χ2) test, and logisticregression are used to analyze the data. The study results reveal that health related variables such as immunization practices, treatment facilities, delivery systems, and regular checkup of mothers and babies health condition among a set of selected variables which affect infant and child mortality. The χ2-test result impli
The main purpose of this study is to observe the influencing factors on infant and child mortality of suburban and rural areas of Rajshahi District, Bangladesh. Primary data have been used to examine the differential ...
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The main purpose of this study is to observe the influencing factors on infant and child mortality of suburban and rural areas of Rajshahi District, Bangladesh. Primary data have been used to examine the differential patterns of infant and child mortality. A multivariate technique is employed to investigate the effects of those variables both socioeconomic and demographic on infant and child mortality. The study results reveal that several socioeconomic, demographic and health related variables affect on infant and child mortality. Multivariate analysis results indicate that the most significant predictors of neonatal, post-neonatal, and child mortality levels are immunization, ever breastfeeding, mother’s age at birth and birth interval. Again, the risk of child mortality is 78.20% lower among the immunized child than never immunized child and also the risk of neonatal mortality is 57.70% lower after a birth interval of 36 months and above than under 18 months. Parents’ education, toilet facilities and treatment places are significant predictors during neonatal and childhood period but father’s occupation is significant at post-neonatal periods. For instance, risk of neonatal mortality is 31.40% lower among the women having primary education and 52.30% lower among the women having secondary and higher education than those having no education. It is observed that the risk of child mortality 32.00% lower among the household having hygienic toilet facility than those who have not such facilities. Similarly, risk of child mortality decreased with increased female education and wider access to safe treatment places. So, attention should be given to female education and expansion of public health system for reducing the risk of infant and child mortality.
Background: Our aim is to investigate the ability of neural networks to model different two-locus disease models. We conduct a simulation study to compare neural networks with two standard methods, namely logistic reg...
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Background: Our aim is to investigate the ability of neural networks to model different two-locus disease models. We conduct a simulation study to compare neural networks with two standard methods, namely logistic regression models and multifactor dimensionality reduction. One hundred data sets are generated for each of six two-locus disease models, which are considered in a low and in a high risk scenario. Two models represent independence, one is a multiplicative model, and three models are epistatic. For each data set, six neural networks (with up to five hidden neurons) and five logistic regression models (the null model, three main effect models, and the full model) with two different codings for the genotype information are fitted. Additionally, the multifactor dimensionality reduction approach is applied. Results: The results show that neural networks are more successful in modeling the structure of the underlying disease model than logistic regression models in most of the investigated situations. In our simulation study, neither logisticregression nor multifactor dimensionality reduction are able to correctly identify biological interaction. Conclusions: Neural networks are a promising tool to handle complex data situations. However, further research is necessary concerning the interpretation of their parameters.
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