NICE and its value judgments: Favourable appraisal amounts to compulsory purchase order

NICE and its value judgments: favourable appraisal amounts to compulsory purchase order.

The reason why NICE has not appraised yoga or transcendental meditation for stress and hypertension, or a lifestyle intervention involving 3-4 kg weight loss and 150 minutes of moderately vigorous physical activity a week as a "technology" that cuts the risk of overt diabetes by 50% is obvious. It would have been interesting to see how the implementation of such technologies would have been enf...

NICE and its value judgments: utilitarian values are inadequate.

Letter NICE and its value judgments Utilitarian values are inadequate EDITOR—The values of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) turn out to be utilitarian and economic.1 Predictably, NICE's attempt to use them to generate advice to professionals for achieving the highest attainable standard of care often founders on the narrowness of perspective. High quality care demands an un...

petrology and geochemistry of khar-bash (western shahrood) and its relation ship to iron mineralization

منطقه مورد مطالعه در 23 کیلومتری جنوب غرب شهرستاشاهرود قرار دارد که در نقشه 100000/1 شاهرود قرار گرفته است.ناحیه مورد مطالعه در تقسیمات ساختاری ایران بخشی از زون البرز شرقی است . در طی سنوزوئیک این زون به شدت تحت تأثیر فازهای کوهزایی آلپی قرار گرفته و فعالیت های آتشفشانی انوسن در قسمت های غربی آن دیده می شود . از نظر ترکیب سنگ شناسی منطقه مورد مطالعه متنوع و بیشتر شامل سنگ های رسوبی مانند : آ...

Application of A 'Nice Post-Hoc B/S Analysis' To the Nice Appraisal Process.

construction and validation of translation metacognitive strategy questionnaire and its application to translation quality

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...