Rom und die Hasmonäer : Untersuchungen zu den jüdisch-römischen Urkunden im ersten Makkabäerbuche und in Josephus' Jüdischen Altertümern XIV ; Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der philosophischen Doktorwürde der hohen philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Jena

Jena, Univ, Diss. 1913

Health information exchange: Using metrics to address quality of care and return on investment

Health Information Exchange (HIE) will play a key part in our nation’s effort to improve healthcare. The evidence of HIEs transformational role in healthcare delivery systems is quite limited. The lack of such evidence led us to explore what exists in the healthcare industry that may provide evidence of effectiveness and efficiency of HIEs. The objective of the study was to find out how many fully functional HIEs are using any measurements or metrics to gauge impact of HIE on quality improvement (QI) and on return on investment (ROI).^ A web-based survey was used to determine the number of operational HIEs using metrics for QI and ROI. Our study highlights the fact that only 50 percent of the HIEs who responded use or plan to use metrics. However, 95 percent of the respondents believed HIEs improve quality of care while only 56 percent believed HIE showed positive ROI. Although operational HIEs present numerous opportunities to demonstrate the business model for improving health care quality, evidence to document the impact of HIEs is lacking. ^

Pediatric motivational interviewing to address obesity and overweight

Not only are obesity and overweight associated with a myriad of medical and psychological concerns in childhood, but these health problems can persist even into adulthood. With the obvious need for better approaches in tackling childhood obesity and overweight and the strong evidence of motivational interviewing's effectiveness in the adult population, it is likely that an updated review will provide a more complete picture of the application of motivational interviewing in the pediatric population. The objective of this review is whether or not motivational interviewing will be instrumental in promoting factors that help in reducing the number of children who are or become overweight or obese. A literature search was completed that identified ten studies that incorporated MI as an intervention. Studies focused on either behavior health changes like increased physical activity, improved nutrition, or reducing parameters of weight like BMI or body composition. Three out of the 10 articles were still in progress and no results were provided. Five studies were able to achieve statistical significance in health benefits to control childhood overweight and obesity. Results revealed the overall feasibility of applying MI in the pediatric overweight and obese population, but the scarce number of studies limits conclusions about its efficacy. Therefore, additional scientific evidence is necessary to fully understand MI's role in affecting behavior changes in this population.^

Building an Evidence-Based Approach to Address Dating Violence Prevention

Purpose: To discuss the approach and recommendations related to the adoption of school based curriculum for violence prevention. Findings: Preliminary assessments suggest that middle and high school youth experience a variety of forms of violence in social and dating relationships. Such experiences have negative academic, behavioral and emotional consequences. Conclusions: The authors have clearly illuminated the need for addressing the phenomenon of dating violence. The field could benefit from more robust evidenced-based investigations that substantiate that interventions have an impact beyond attitudinal changes toward the behavior. Such academic endeavors will provide a platform to validate the inclusion of such information in a school based curriculum as act as a call for action for broad based interventions.

Conferencia Inaugural del Departamento de Fisiología, F. C. M. UNCuyo.

Fil: Fasciolo, Juan Carlos.

Discurso inaugural del Decano de la Facultad de Humanidades en las Jornadas 'Humanismo y Humanidades, hoy'

Fil: De Diego, José Luis. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Discurso inaugural del Decano de la Facultad de Humanidades en las Jornadas 'Humanismo y Humanidades, hoy'

Fil: De Diego, José Luis. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Innovative tools to address drought risk in grazing lands

Drought spells can impose severe impacts in most vulnerable farms. It is well known that uninsured exposure exacerbates income inequality in farming systems. However, high administrative costs of traditional insurance hinder small farmers? access to risk management tools. The existence of moral hazard and systemic risk prevents the implementation of traditional insurance programs to address drought risk in rural areas. Innovative technologies like satellite images are being used to derive vegetation index which are highly correlated with drought impacts. The implementation of this technology in agricultural insurance may help to overcome some of the limitations of traditional insurance. However, basis risk has been identified as one of the main problems that hinder the acceptance of index insurance. In this paper we focus on the analyses of basis risk under different contract options in the grazing lands of the Araucanía region. A vegetation index database is used to develop an actuarial insurance model and estimate risk premiums for moderate and severe drought coverage. Risk premium sharply increases with risk coverage. In contrast with previous findings in the literature, our results are not conclusive and show that lowering the coverage level does not necessarily imply a reduction in basis risk. Further analyses of the relation between contract design and basis risk is a promising area of research that may render an important social utility for most vulnerable farming systems.

Tailoring the Scrum Development Process to Address Agile Product Line Engineering

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is becoming widely used due to the improvement it means when developing software products of the same family. However, SPLE demands long-term investment on a product-line platform that might not be profitable due to rapid changing business settings. Since Agile Software Development (ASD) approaches are being successfully applied in volatile markets, several companies have suggested the idea of integrating SPLE and ASD when a family product has to be developed. Agile Product Line Engineering (APLE) advocates the integration of SPLE and ASD to address their lacks when they are individually applied to software development. A previous literature re-view of experiences and practices on APLE revealed important challenges about how to fully put APLE into practice. Our contribution address several of these challenges by tailoring the agile method Scrum by means of three concepts that we have defined: plastic partial components, working PL-architectures, and reactive reuse.

Differences in fatty acid metabolisms in domestic animals: some dilemmas and ideas to address body composition and obesity control

Relatively high amounts of fats or oils (mayor que 40-50 g/kg diet) are frequently used in animal nutrition. Vegetables oils are richer in polyunsaturated fatty acids than animal fats. Most of the works studying the effect of different dietary fat sources are focused either on the existing differences on fat digestibility depending on their fatty acid composition (Wiseman et al., 1991) or on their effect on the carcass fat fatty acid profile (Sanz et al., 1999a). lnformation regarding the effect of dietary fat saturation on fat utilization and deposition it is more limited. lt is generally assumed that, apart from differences in digestion, fatty acids of different composition are equally used for metabolic purposes.

Apertura del curso académico universitario 1986-1987. Lección inaugural titulada "El maravilloso mundo de las nuevas tecnologías o el País de Nunca-Jamás a través del espejo", pronunciada por José Antonio Martín Pereda. Discurso pronunciado por Rafael Portaencasa Baeza

Se recogen los dos discursos pronunciados en la apertura del curso académico universitario de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (curso 1986-1987)

Fotones y neuronas: otras puertas de la percepción. Discurso del Académico Excmo. Sr. D. José Antonio Martín Pereda leído en la sesión inaugural del año académico 2014.

Discurso del Académico Martín Pereda en la sesión inaugural del año académico ante sus compañeros de la Real Academia de Ingeniería. En él, el autor esboza su interpretación de cómo nuestro cerebro interpreta algunas imágenes, y más en concreto las ilusiones visuales, cómo la Fotónica puede ayudarnos a interpretarlas y cómo su interpretación puede servirnos para entender algo de cómo funciona nuestro sistema visual. Quizás de todo ello podrán extraerse conceptos que ayuden a interpretar la realidad.