The global community's growing enthusiasm for the potential of social accountability approaches to improve health system performance and accelerate health progress makes it imperative that we learn from social accountability intervention implementation experience and results. To this end, we carried out a review of Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc. (CARE)'s experience with ...

The measurement of sustainability within industrial supply chains is becoming increasingly relevant, with both industry and academia calling for the development a general manageable set key performance indicators (KPIs). With more than 2,000 measures already identified by previous literature, real challenge lays in right indicators. Stemming from thorough literature review, we propose novel KPI...

The subjects with Asperger’s Disorder (ASP) have difficulties in social interaction. The Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD) is a well-known model in game theory that illustrates the paradoxical disposition of interaction between two individuals. We investigated the cognitive characteristics of ASP by using a PD game. The subjects were 29 individuals with ASP and 28 healthy controls. In the PD game, each p...

We report the case of heading disorientation following ischemic stroke involving the right posteromedial areas. The patient was administered a new test named the Card Placing Test during which a subject was required to recreate an array of three cards, each of which was randomly placed on eight grids around the subject, before and after the subject's rotation. Qualitative analysis of his perfor...

Aims: Aortic calcification is a major risk factor for death from cardiovascular disease. We investigated the relationship between mortality and the composite markers of number, size, morphology and distribution of calcified plaques in the lumbar aorta. Methods: 308 postmenopausal women aged 48-76 were followed for 8.3±0.3 years, with deaths related to any cardiovascular disease,, cancer, or , a...

BACKGROUND There is still considerable disagreement on several aspects of monitoring asthma with symptom score and peak expiratory flow (PEF). OBJECTIVE To investigate patient adherence to a retrospective diary-card monitoring method in patients with poorly controlled persistent asthma, in a clinical management setting; to develop improved methods for fast manual entry data into a computer; a...

The ability of cadres to score Poedji Rochjati Score Cards for pregnant women will help midwives in early detection the health mothers and babies. purpose this study was determine relationship between knowledge women.
 This uses an analytical survey design with a cross sectional approach. A sample 33 obtained using simple random sampling technique from 35 populations. Data analysis used Sp...

This study investigated the relation between the easyCBM Benchmark Assessments in both mathematics and reading and the Smarter Balanced assessment, widely adopted across the United States. Data for the study were obtained from a convenience sample of approximately 1,000 students per grade in grades 3-8 provided by two school districts in the Pacific Northwest. Results indicate that the easyCBM ...