Cross-national comparison
The influence of sex, race, and age on pain assessment and treatment decisions using virtual human technology: a cross-national comparison
... Therefore, the aim of the present study was to compare the pain assessment and treatment decisions of undergradu- ate students from the United States and from Jordan. VH technology was employed to capture the extent to ...
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Cross National Comparison of Internal Migration
... 8 Nations 2000) juxtaposes census-based internal migration data for some 22 developing countries collected on a variety of zonal systems. In a similar way, the 2009 World Development Report (World Bank 2009) ranks some ...
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Does a referral from home to hospital affect satisfaction with childbirth? A cross national comparison
... the cross-national com- parison and the conceptualisation of satisfaction with ...childbirth. Cross-national comparison in midwifery liter- ature is often of a qualitative rather than a ...
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Cross-national comparison of youth justice
... Second, it is sometimes difficult to define the geographical unit of analysis. Again, with youth justice in particular, although data may be provided on a national level, there may well be different jurisdictions ...
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Teaching for conceptual understanding: A cross-national comparison of the relationship between teachers’ instructional practices and student achievement in mathematics
... the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) (2000) recognizes the importance of conceptual understanding, calling for students to learn “ with understanding, actively building new knowledge from ...
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A Cross-National Comparison of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Low Birth Weight in the United States and England
... have national data on births by race become available in the United Kingdom, where a socioeconomic gradient in health similar to that in the United States exists despite substantial differences in the provision of ...
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Attitudes toward taking medication among outpatients with schizophrenia: cross-national comparison between Tokyo and Beijing
... The samples at both sites comprised clinically stable chronic outpatients with schizophrenia; they had no sig- nificant differences in psychopathology. However, subjects in Tokyo were prescribed significantly larger ...
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Is More Neonatal Intensive Care Always Better? Insights From a Cross-National Comparison of Reproductive Care
... Unlike crude rates, birth weight specific mortality data were not nationally available for all countries in concurrent years. Spe- cifically, Canadian infant and neonatal morality statistics, dated from 1996, exclude ...
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The Reading Gap: The socio-economic gap in children’s reading skills: A cross-national comparison using PISA 2009
... A targeted scheme for highly able pupils should be introduced, where high potential children from low and middle income backgrounds are identified at the start of compulsory education and receive sustained ...
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Assessment of human resources for health using cross-national comparison of facility surveys in six countries
... Despite efforts to reduce survey variances across countries by means of standardized data collection tools and approaches, considerable variations did occur in imple- mentation due to specificities of national ...
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Factors driving employee participation in corporate BYOD programs: A cross-national comparison from the perspective of future employees
... employers allowing and sometimes even encouraging their employees to use privately owned mobile devices to complete business tasks (Lebek et al. 2013). BYOD initiatives are increasingly prevalent among enterprises ...
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Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: a cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
... of cross-cultural differences for FD and SCI, as these differences may reflect differences in factor structure rather than true construct-level differ- ...explore cross-cultural differences in psychopathy ...
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The differences in attitudes about their society between 14 year old pupils with and without an immigration background; a cross national comparison
... about cross-national differences (openness of the society of residence; the percentage pupils with an immigration background) are not supported by our ...
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Social Policy Reforms in the EU: A Cross national Comparison Social Inclusion Monitor Europe (SIM) – Reform Barometer Pilot Study
... Improving access to facilities and improving the social mobility of groups at risk of social exclusion had a similar level of response from government, with 12 countries reporting change[r] ...
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Ethics and taxation : a cross-national comparison of UK and Turkish firms
... a national culture value of risk aversion), and choice of services by ...Interestingly, cross- cultural research has shown Greece to be the country ranked highest in the world (Hofstede 1980, 2000) on the ...
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Cross-national comparison of socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in the United States and Canada
... assess cross-sectional asso- ciations between socioeconomic indicators and BMI, which prevents us from establishing temporal order be- tween income or education and ...our cross-national comparative ...
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Pain acceptance and personal control in pain relief in two maternity care models: a cross national comparison of Belgium and the Netherlands
... Second, our investigation also indicates that the aver- age labour pain acceptance is the same among our Bel- gian and Dutch respondents. Hence, a specific Dutch pain culture (as suggested by e.g., Senden [18] and DeV- ...
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Cross-National comparison of antiepileptic drug use: Catalonia, Denmark and Norway, 2007-2011
... A second item is the population coverage of these databases. Although all databases covered the entire resident population in each setting, several specificities linked to the organisation of each of the health systems ...
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Strategies to Build a Cross-National Virtual World
... for cross-national communica- tion, but also as a space to display products and gather feedback from the partners about how to complete the products, to discuss and plan the task, and to reflect upon the ...
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The Potential and Perils of Cross-national Planning Research
... potential to explore substantive issues: it can also contribute to a generally enhanced understanding of the nature of planning, an awareness of different planning cultures, and general knowledge and cultural awareness. ...
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