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Publisher: IICA

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Total Pages: 330

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Diseño de Investigaciones Clínicas en Oftalmología

Diseño de Investigaciones Clínicas en Oftalmología

Author: Juan Carlos Mesa Gutiérrez

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-12-10

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1471625168

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Con este libro queremos mejorar el nivel científico de los profesionales de la salud prestando especial atención a desdramatizar la temida dureza de la matemática facilitando al máximo la explicación de los conceptos y mostrando la aplicación práctica de los mismos.Este libro pretende ser un punto de partida para diseñar, analizar y/o implementar cualquier tipo de investigación clínica (desde ensayos clínicos, pasando por los metanálisis hasta los estudios de evaluación económica...).Sus objetivos generales son: conocer los conceptos básicos de estadística aplicados a la investigación clínica, saber utilizar los métodos de análisis bivariable y multivariante de uso común en la investigación clínica, entender el concepto de modelización estadística y comprender las técnicas multivariantes de modelización más frecuentemente utilizadas en investigación clínica posibilitando la lectura crítica de artículos e investigaciones clínicas originales publicados en revistas científicas.


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Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE

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Total Pages: 4

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Exploring Studbooks for Wildlife Management and Conservation

Exploring Studbooks for Wildlife Management and Conservation

Author: F.P.G. Princée

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-20

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3319500325

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Many endangered species of wild animals are managed in captivity through studbooks. In this book these data-rich resources are mined in innovative, integrated and statistically tested ways to maximise information gain for conservation practice – whether for captive or released/reintroduced or managed wild populations. This book is thus an important tool for all species managers, and for students and researchers in small population biology and wildlife conservation. The book's studbook analyses are grouped in three interrelated sections: natural history, demography and genetics. Statistical tests to determine the significance of results or to compare results between subgroups are undertaken throughout. Real studbooks of a variety of species, e.g. cranes, wolverines, blesbok, illustrate the practical applications and interpretations of the analyses and statistics. The “natural history” section presents analyses to determine baseline species information such as litter size, inter-birth interval, longevity and seasonality. “Demography” covers census(-style) analyses, age-class based life tables, comparative survival analyses and population projections. Solutions for dealing with small sample sizes are included.Inbreeding depression and unconscious selection form the main focus of the “genetics” section. Survival and life table analyses are used to assess inbreeding effects. Quantitative genetics methods are applied to natural history traits as a tool to monitor genetic variation. A fourth section on “conservation” shows how data from captive populations can be used where natural history data from wild populations are missing. A real example uses studbook data to inform Population Viability Analysis. The final section deals with issues related to incomplete and missing data and statistical topics. The purpose-written open-source software programs “Population Management Library (PML)” and “studbookR” used for analyses in the book, are available at www.princee.com.


The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research

The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research

Author: Sinead Keeney

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-01-25

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1405187549

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The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research is a practical guide to using the Delphi methodology for students and researchers in nursing and health. It adopts a logical step-by-step approach, introducing the researcher to the Delphi, outlining its development, analysing key characteristics and parameters for its successful use and exploring its applications in nursing and health. The book addresses issues of methodology, design, framing the research question, sampling, instrumentation, methodological rigour, reliability and validity, and methods of data analysis. The Delphi Technique in Nursing and Health Research enables the reader to be aware of the limitations of the technique and possible solutions, to design a Delphi questionnaire for each of the different rounds of a study, to consider different approaches to the technique in relation to a study, to analyse the data from each round of a Delphi study, and to understand the importance of feedback between rounds. Key Features A practical guide to facilitate use of the Delphi technique Provides the reader with the necessary information to participate in and conduct Delphi studies Examines different types of Delphi, including the e-Delphi, and modifications made to the technique Includes examples of real empirical investigations, brief case scenarios and key learning points for each chapter Explores the role of the Delphi researcher Explores ethical issues and issues of anonymity, use of experts and controlled feedback


V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba

V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba

Author: José Folgueras Méndez

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 1363

ISBN-13: 3642211984

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This volume presents the proceedings of the CLAIB 2011, held in the Palacio de las Convenciones in Havana, Cuba, from 16 to 21 May 2011. The conferences of the American Congress of Biomedical Engineering are sponsored by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), Society for Engineering in Biology and Medicine (EMBS) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), among other organizations and international agencies and bringing together scientists, academics and biomedical engineers in Latin America and other continents in an environment conducive to exchange and professional growth.


Glosario Del Banco Mundial

Glosario Del Banco Mundial

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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This edition of the World Bank has been revised and expanded by the Terminology Unit in the Languages Services Division of the World Bank in collaboration with the English, Spanish, and French Translation Sections. The Glossary is intended to assist the Bank's translators and interpreters, other Bank staff using French and Spanish in their work, and free-lance translator's and interpreters employed by the Bank. For this reason, the Glossary contains not only financial and economic terminology and terms relating to the Bank's procedures and practices, but also terms that frequently occur in Bank documents, and others for which the Bank has a preferred equivalent. Although many of these terms, relating to such fields as agriculture, education, energy, housing, law, technology, and transportation, could be found in other sources, they have been assembled here for ease of reference. A list of acronyms occurring frequently in Bank texts (the terms to which they refer being found in the Glossary) and a list of international, regional, and national organizations will be found at the end of the Glossary.