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Structure validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in renal transplant recipients: A confirmatory factor analysis

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That means weighting stocks in an index by qualities such as earnings, cash flow, dividends and book values rather than the sheer size of their market caps.

In the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index last year, for example, Canada placed a close second to Australia, based on the quality of our pension system among a select group of 11 countries.

But when it comes to the place to settle down, Deutsche Bank pointed to Wellington in New Zealand at the top of the quality - of - life index, based on eight variables: purchasing power, safety, healthcare, cost of living, house price - to - income, commuting time, pollution and climate.

The WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Index, for example, beat the S&P 500 Index by more than 550 basis points in 2017, and we continue to prefer the company and sector tilts within this Index relative to the broader market.

«Quality is in the end much more important than price in terms of determining overall satisfaction,» says David VanAmburg, director of the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

After going public in 2011, Demand was hit by an update to Google's indexing algorithms, which the company said was designed to weed out «low - quality» content.

Moreover, Treasuries are quite sensitive to rate increases, and Ms. Jones found that the credit quality of the corporate bonds in the index had decreased since the financial crisis.

Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20 points on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers * STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset quality.

May 2 Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20 points on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers * STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset quality.

The MSCI USA Quality Index is comprised of 125 stocks in the MSCI USA Index that have high quality scores based on return - on - equity, earnings growth and financial leQuality Index is comprised of 125 stocks in the MSCI USA Index that have high quality scores based on return - on - equity, earnings growth and financial lequality scores based on return - on - equity, earnings growth and financial leverage.

And these costs (as well as quality) helped us score each of the 24 countries in the healthcare category of International Living's 2018 Global Retirement Index.

I have about 10 % in REIT index, but the rest of my portfolio is in high quality active management.

My ideal portfolio consists of 12 to 15 high quality blue chip stocks with a bond index, 5 to 10 % money market portion, and the rest in an S&P 500 Indexindex, 5 to 10 % money market portion, and the rest in an S&P 500 IndexIndex ETF.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 198In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 198in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 198in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 198in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

CIBC job quality index — CIBC economist Benjamin Tal issued his latest job quality report Jan. 25, showing that B.C. job quality dropped again in 2011.

On their measures of full - time vs. part - time, compensation, and self - employment, the B.C. job quality index has been declining for 11 years and is the lowest in the country.

However, during periods of market turbulence, defined as the top quintile of monthly changes in the VIX (corresponding with about a 15 % or greater rise in the spot VIX Index), momentum underperformed quality by approximately 40 bps per month.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

These repeat - sales indices control for compositional shifts in the stock of houses sold in each quarter, and changes in the average quality of newer homes compared with older homes.

None of these three price indices adjusts for improvement in the average quality of houses through time.

So while we can't rule out the possibility of lifting a portion of our hedges if the quality of market action improves, I expect our returns to be driven primarily by the difference in performance between the stocks we hold and the indices we use to hedge (primarily the S&P 500).

Their analysis involves (1) estimating the factor characteristics of each stock in a broad index; (2) aggregating the characteristics across all stocks in the index; and (3) matching aggregated characteristics to a mimicking portfolio of five indexes representing value, size, quality, momentum and low volatility styles, adjusted for estimated expense ratios.

It is by no means clear to many thoughtful people how we, in principle or in practice, distinguish lebensunwertes Leben from a «quality of life index.»

About ACSI The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) is a national economic indicator of customer evaluations of the quality of products and services available to household consumers in the United States.

Nutrient intake and dietary quality, as assessed by the Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI - 2010), were measured in

Those who remain sceptical that the demonstrated changes in conduct problems translate into important gains in health and quality of life will point to the need for research quantifying the relationship between change in child behaviour scores and health utility in the index child as well as parents, siblings and peers.

«Even if [these indices] are not worrying, they are significant in that they reveal the relationship existing between air quality and motor development,» Lertxundi said in a statement.

She has developed clinical screening and quality measures including, MAPi, the Movement and Pulse index for assessment of fetal well - being, the Mothers's Autonomy in Decision Making (MADM) scale and the MOR (Mothers on Respect) index.

We also compared the Index to the Cochrane tool for assessing Risk of Bias in Non-randomized Studies of Interventions (ROBINS - I)[38], which is widely used to assess research quality in systematic reviews [59].

Development of the ResQu Index involved five distinct phases: 1) generating items and a weighted scoring system; 2) conducting expert content validation via a quantitative survey and a modified Delphi process; 3) testing inter-rater consistency; 4) assuring compatibility with established research quality checklists and 5) piloting the ResQu Index in a large systematic review to assess instrument usability and feasibility.

The first draft version of the ResQu Index contained 25 items, relating to five domains addressing: quality of design, sample definition, measurement of outcomes, comparability of cohorts, and accuracy of interpretation and reporting (domains indicated in Fig 1).

The final stage of developing the ResQu Index was to use it in a systematic review to assess the quality of studies (published between 2000 and 2016) on the maternal and perinatal outcomes of different places of birth, for women with healthy, low - risk pregnancies in high - income countries.

13 million is a significant milestone for us but what defines Inspec is that the research indexed by the database is of the highest quality and is driving innovation in its specific industry.

After surveying parents about their kids» technology and sleep habits, researchers found that using technology before bed was associated with less sleep, poorer sleep quality, more fatigue in the morning and — in the children that watched TV or used their cell phones before bed — higher body mass indexes (BMI).

Among the 92 school - age children aged 9 to 11 in the study, each snack raised their diet quality by 2.31 points, as measured on the Healthy Eating Index, 2005 developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

At three months, the study notes no difference between the groups in ADL total score or on a health - related quality of life questionnaire summary index.

Biologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have succeeded in establishing a water quality index based solely on the DNA sequences of the diatoms present in the samples, without needing to identify each species visually.

«The whole range of DNA sequences revealed in each sample corresponds to a specific DI - CH quality index.

Sperm DNA Fragmentation Index (DFI) is a method for analysing semen quality that shows presence of chromosomal breaks in sperms.

Results indicated that both high - quality close friendships and a drive to fit in with peers in adolescence were associated with better health at age 27, even after taking other potentially influential variables such as household income, body mass index, and drug use into account.

In that brownish - yellow miasma, PM2.5 readings were off the chart and the corresponding air - quality index warned of «emergency conditions» that could affect the whole population.

Published in open - access journal Frontiers in Physiology, the study reports that obese men have increased levels of inflammatory markers in their seminal fluid and lower sperm quality, both of which correlate with their body mass index (BMI).

Knowing an author's overall number of papers and total number of citations helps compute an approximated value of their h - index, which was named after the American physicist J.E. Hirsch in 2005 and measures the overall number of a scientist's publications as well as their quality and number of citations.

Besides collecting, standardizing, indexing, organizing and summarizing all neuroscience - related data, the project would develop software for finding obscure correlations among a myriad of neuroscience terms, concepts and results, which would likely speed the translational process to improvements in quality of life.

The researchers measured the participants in numerous ways, including lipid and glycemic control profiles, cardiovascular workups and quality of life indexes, before, during and after the intervention at 0, six and 24 months respectively.

In deep tissue observation, image quality depends on keeping the refractive index of the sample and immersion medium as close to one another as possible.

One of the labs I run on my patients is a 24 - Hour Adrenal Stress Index, a salivary test which tracks your cortisol levels, HPA axis quality, and other hormone levels throughout the day to get a comprehensive view of what's going on in your particular case.

These keto snacks are higher in fiber and nutrients, have carbs with a lower glycemic index, are balanced with quality proteins and include heart - healthy fats.

Measures of outdoor air quality through such well - publicized formulas as the SMOG index and allergy alerts have served as near - constant reminders in raising awareness of how the outdoor environment could be impacting your health.