This lecture looks at some of the research into human and companion animal quality
of life assessment, and explores how as veterinarians we can better understand quality of life concerns for shelter animals in order to inform our daily decision - making.
Study design; 3: Statistical considerations and design of clinical trials; 4: Establishing efficacy and endpoints; 5: Quality
of life assessment; and 6: Regulatory considerations in design and implementation of clinical trials.
Over 3,000 men completed a pretreatment and at least one posttreatment quality
of life assessment checklist.
Not exact matches
Seventy - seven percent
of respondents would forego a home
assessment with a robotic smart kit to go see a real
live doctor — good news for those in the health field, since A.I. can already detect issues like skin cancer as well as a dermatologist can.
Hire a small business cybersecurity specialist to run a risk
assessment within 60 to 90 days
of going
live.
Key takeaway: Take an honest
assessment of the relationships in your
life.
We all go to the doctor to see how our body is functioning and we speak with retirement professionals to see what
life after work will look like, so why not give your business that same kind
of assessment for your most important asset — your people?
«We're going to hit 450 parts per million» — the scientific
assessment of the maximum amount
of carbon our atmosphere can handle — «because we have no choice, and whoever invents technologies that allow people to increase their quality
of life while hitting that number wins — and wins big.»
Lee who was born in Colombia and
lives in Mexico, was asked to represent the rest
of the world in his
assessment of the status quo in U.S. political and media worlds.
We
live in an «Age
of Reforms,» which in many cases have already supported stronger activity and in others promise improving global growth, in our
assessment:
Life Cycle — It is abbreviated LC and forms part
of any LCA (
Life Cycle
assessment) process and calculation in financial and investment contexts.
«These loss
assessments do not take into account losses to natural capital / assets, health care related losses, or values associated with loss
of life,» Smith said.
Even accounting for all
of these factors, the best dollar
assessment of a disaster still leaves out the values
of degraded ecosystems, displaced cultural heritage and ruined
lives.
These dynamic,
life - cycle
assessment, valuation or analysis, involves the duration
of, period from start to finish.
An
assessment of Cruz's mental health determined that his depression and other issues «impair his ability to cope with the demands
of everyday
life without the use
of medication.»
When households begin to anticipate this, they reduce their
assessment of their sustainable
living standards.
You do that by solving hundreds
of test - driven labs, developing several projects, and taking
live assessments with instructors to verify your progress.
As someone who trades interest rates for a
living (interest rate swaps / swaptions / Treasuries / MBS) I fully agree with Sam's
assessment of «low for longer» rates.
Without accurate
assessments of your likely income and expenses, you won't be able to accurately project your potential revenue over the
life of your investment and could incur a loss.
If ever you want
living proof
of Mervyn Kings
assessment just look at Greece.
This, in turn, could provide plenty
of upside to the preliminary economic
assessment (PEA) recently released, which defined a project with a 1.5 - year payback period over a mine
life of 6.5 years, and an upfront capital cost estimate
of $ 20.1 million (utilizing existing mining, milling and tailings management infrastructure).
In a
life cycle
assessment (LCA) analyzing the environmental impact
of hempcrete, the practitioner found that hemp sequesters approximately 1.7 kilograms CO2 per kilogram hemp.
Your
assessment of the reason for persons pursuing a
life of faith fails to take that into account.
It is important to understand, it seems to me, that the LCP should be considered unacceptable under all circumstances, not simply for Catholics but universally, since it is based on an ideological notion about the end
of life, a pressing
of all supposedly dying patients into a predetermined pattern
of treatment involving the withdrawal
of food and hydration (itself an unacceptable procedure under all circumstances) and not on an evidence - based
assessment of the needs
of individual patients.
In fact we probably take «remarkably unremarkable» to be an almost cheery
assessment of our famously phlegmatic
lives.
A darker
assessment of current child well - being would accord more consistently with what Mintz's entire history reveals: that economic and social trends afflicting adults»
lives have an even more negative impact upon the
lives of children.
Whatever our final
assessment, we ought to be able to separate the trivial and sometimes truly ridiculous from what is potentially worthwhile in this literature: the affirmation
of embodiment, the recognition
of suffering, the hopeful quest for healing and the special attentiveness to women's
lives and stories.
It is our hope that this new perspective will throw light on persistent human problems, and open the way to some new
assessment of the forms which the spirit
of love may be taking in contemporary
life.
It is important to make an honest
assessment of our spiritual
life in the congregations we are a part
of.
I have not always been a Christian, but upon an honest
assessment of facts ranging from science to history to common sense, Christianity is logically the most likely «theory on
life» that exists.
If in all ages some have believed themselves to be, or have in fact been, on relatively secure and durable plateaus; if, as appears to be the case, some
of our present companions
of earth regard the conditions
of their
life as being thus established and unassailable, such an
assessment is now patently naive.
At the end
of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study
of asceticism and the regimen
of ascetical discipline;
assessment should be
of the candidate's capacity to
live a
life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack
of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples
of ascetical discipline.
It is difficult to see how, if God's relationship to the world is «wholly other» than the relation
of creative spirit to its actual working in time (chronos), we can avoid discounting the Christian significance
of creative effort, patient workmanship, and that careful
assessment of conditions and consequences which make up so large a part
of the wisdom
of life.
The good
life that religions propose is the measure for that
assessment and the vision
of transformation that can direct globalisation towards the common good that develops towards human flourishing.
Today, the question is more likely to arise from the wetlands
of psychobabble; thus one Midwestern diocesan chancellor recently spoke about a diocesan «needs
assessment» that «can give ownership to the people,» presumably
of their
lives as Catholics.
«What's happening here with the doctrinal
assessment is just the latest, and will have the most lasting effects,
of a Vatican attempt to reassert the power they traditionally held over women's religious
life,» Cummings says.
Galileo would disagree, the church put him under house arrest for the rest
of his
life on biblical
assessment.
Two nearby Methodist churches enjoyed better fortune during the time
of Bigelow's affliction, and the people
of Bigelow frequently base their self -
assessment upon their sense that the programs in the two other churches are livelier and church
life more opulent.
jay: «Galileo would disagree, the church put him under house arrest for the rest
of his
life on biblical
assessment.»
Our inquiry in this chapter will aim to make some
assessment of three dominant types
of American church
life in terms
of their success in inculcating personal religion and communicating the gospel for the upbuilding
of vital Christian experience.
Relativism runs through the whole
of our modern world - view: the
assessment of nature as a directionless flux
of chance events, the erosion
of the absolute value
of human
life, the dismissal
of historic religious authority as «out
of date», and the ever shifting sands
of personal and social morality.
My answer: At a very gut level, I agreed with God's
assessment of me, asked His forgiveness, and asked Him to put my name in the Book
of Life.
Such
assessments may have been on the mind
of Willibald (d. 787), an early medieval hagiographer who wrote the
Life of Boniface, the Anglo - Saxon saint and missionary who Christianized broad areas
of northern Europe before his martyrdom in 754.
Some element must be introduced into faculty
life that draws professors toward modes
of inquiry, interpretation and
assessment that transcend academic specializations.
With the approach
of Updike's 50th birthday, and with the publication
of this his 25th book, it is time to offer an
assessment of his work as a whole: to trace his natively Lutheran vision
of life as cast by God into an indissoluble ambiguity, to examine his treatment
of death and sex as the two phenomena wherein the human contradiction is most sharply focused, to set this new novel in relation to the earlier «Rabbit» books, and to determine what is religiously troubling and compelling about Updike's art.
A thoroughly depressing
assessment of life and the world by a thoroughly depressing character.
Here is John, who sees his
life and work as conveying a message from God for his time, utterly sure
of his role, piercing in his
assessments of a society and a people.
«It follows that there would be a violation
of Articles 2 (right to
life) and 3 (prohibition
of torture and
of inhuman or degrading treatment)
of the Convention if the applicant were to be returned to Iran without an ex nunc
assessment by the Swedish authorities
of the consequences
of his conversion.»
The real answer is that we have to balance between the conceived child's right to be permitted by the mother to exist and our
assessment from the outside
of the likelihood
of that child being permitted by the mother to have a meaningful or productive
life.
With the publication
of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation
of the American Elite and the Way to A Meaningful
Life, William Deresiewicz's sober
assessment of contemporary higher education was both praised and lampooned by commentators across the spectrum.