Clinicians have been found to hold predominantly negative attitudes toward routine outcome assessments (ROA). This study aims to assess changes in clinicians' attitudes to ROA, and in particular, the provision of feedback from such assessments following a training workshop. Ninety-six mental health workers attended a training workshop on ROA, which was supported by the use of a CD-ROM video res...

Pressured Return on Assets: For most U.S. providers, the need for enhanced Return on Assets (ROA) is significant and will only increase as operating cost growth continues in the face of constrained reimbursement, resulting in decreasing ROA, net income and a higher future cost of capital. Those providers considering constructing new beds face even greater ROA hurdles because construction costs ...

In IT Portfolio Management, Real Option Analysis (ROA) and Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis are often used to place a quantitative value on an IT investment. ROA is theoretically superior to DCF analysis because ROA specifically attempts to account for managerial flexibility or the ability of management to adjust to a changing situation. However, while DCF analysis has been criticized as und...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the load dependence of effective regurgitant orifice area (ROA) in an animal model of chronic aortic regurgitation. METHODS Eight sheep were studied 10-20 weeks after the surgical creation of aortic regurgitation. After baseline studies, 500 ml of blood, angiotensin II, and nitroprusside were infused sequentially. Electromagnetic flow meters were used as reference standa...

The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) among community residents and to elucidate the relevant risk factors. This prospective, population-based study was conducted on residents over 50 yr of age in Chuncheon. Subjects completed an interview based on a standardized questionnaire and clinical evaluation including standardi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relative impact of radiographic osteoarthritis (ROA) and current knee pain on lower limb physical function, quadriceps strength, knee joint proprioception, and postural sway. METHODS Using a 2x2 factorial design, 142 community derived subjects aged over 45 were divided into four subgroups based on the presence or absence of ROA (Kellgren & Lawrence>grade 2) and kn...

A new species of the butterflyfish genus Roa is herein described from the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines, West Pacific Ocean. Roa rumsfeldisp. n. was found on mesophotic coral ecosystems at Puerto Galera and Batangas, and sampled through technical mixed-gas rebreather diving at 100-130 m depth. This represents the fifth known species of Roa. The main differences between Roa rumsfeldisp...

OBJECTIVE A genetic association study was performed to investigate whether radiographical osteoarthritis (ROA) was associated with specific genotypes of the insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-1) gene. METHODS Subjects aged 55-65 years were selected from a population-based study of which ROA at the knee, hip, spine, and hand was assessed. Genotypes were determined of a polymorphism in the promo...

Raman and Raman optical activity (ROA) spectra of poly-L-proline were recorded in a wide frequency range and analyzed with respect to the proline side chain conformation. The analysis was based on comparison to ab initio simulations of spectral band positions and intensities. The presence of two conformer states of the five-member ring was found, approximately equally populated in the polypepti...

This paper employs real option approach (ROA) to study the decision of ABC adoption and discontinuation under uncertainty. The general idea behind is that investing in ABC system is an option-rights as in financial American call option. The proposed model takes the total annual number of production of a firm as the primary decision variables. The added annual net profits after establishing ABC ...