Neighborhood context is recognized as an important predictor of individual-level behaviors and health outcomes (Pickett and Pearl 2001; Lee and Cubbin 2002; Sampson 2003). Neighborhoods, however, are difficult to define both in theory and in practice, and are often drawn to follow existing administrative boundaries or sampling schemes, or must be set arbitrarily due to a lack of sufficient data...

Objetivo: identificar as escalas preditoras de risco para desenvolvimento LPP utilizadas na assistência enfermagem, avaliando sua aplicabilidade e comparando vantagens limitações da utilização. Método: revisão integrativa literatura através buscas nas bases dados LILACS, MEDLINE BDENF utilizando os descritores Lesão por Pressão”, “Assistência enfermagem”, “Escalas” “Feridas”. Foram incluídos no...

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This paper tests for the impact of survivorship bias by building on the work of Cubbin, Eidne, Firer and Gilbert (2006), and Bailey and Gilbert (2007). The former paper confirmed the existence of mean reversion of relative returns on the JSE, because portfolios of shares with high Price to Earnings (P/E) ratios (being those which had tended to outperform recently) underperformed significantly o...

Aim: The aim of the review was to determine the predictive validity of selected pressure ulcer risk assessment scales. Prediction of a risk of pressure ulcers is a priority issue in nursing. In the foreign literature, there are currently lots of research studies dealing with the validity of pressure ulcer risk assessment scales. Methods: The data sources were articles in three licenced, free an...

This paper studies decentralized economies in which decision-makers do not have full knowledge of the probabilities of the states of nature. This ambiguity is referred to as Knightian uncertainty. Using a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model, we show how prices and consumption allocations are altered by the presence of Knightian uncertainty. It is known from previous work that models w...

bedsore is a very important problem in bedridden patients. it affects patients’ lives and imposes substantial costs to society. its incidence approaches 38% and its annual prevalence is estimated to be 14.8% in patients who are admitted in hospitals. the national pressure ulcer advisory panel (npuap) and the european pressure ulcer advisory panel (epuap) define bedsore as “a localized injury to...

background: the purpose of this study was to present a scientific reason for pressure ulcer risk scales: cubbin& jackson modified braden, norton, and waterlow, as a nursing diagnosis tool by utilizing predictive validity of pressure sores. methods: articles published between 1966 and 2013 from periodicals indexed in the ovid medline, embase, cinahl, koreamed, ndsl, and other databases were sele...

The Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) survey presented in this paper is a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the Telecom Regulatory and Policy Environment of a country. It asks senior stakeholders to assess the effectiveness (efficacy) of the regulatory and policy environment in the telecom sector of a country along seven dimensions. The dimensions are based on the General Agreement for T...