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Ngo, Kim Phuong Yen. "Valeur pronostique des biomarqueurs non-invasifs chez les sujets infectés par le virus de l'hépatite C ou B." Paris 6, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA066202.
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Les infections chroniques par le virus de l’hépatite B (VHB) et le virus de l’hépatite C (VHC) sont des problèmes majeurs de santé publique à l'échelle mondiale. Il est primordial d’améliorer l’évaluation de la gravité de ces hépatites chroniques pour mieux rationaliser la prise en charge des patients. La ponction biopsie hépatique (PBH) était jusqu’à présent le « gold standard » pour le diagnostic et le pronostic de la fibrose hépatique. Cependant ses nombreuses limitations, effets secondaires sévères, et une fréquence élevée de faux négatifs et de faux positifs, on conduit ces dernières années à l’élaboration de biomarqueurs, utilisés seuls ou en combinaison. Aucune estimation des valeurs pronostiques de ces marqueurs non-invasifs n’a été réalisée. Le but de notre thèse a été de démontrer la valeur pronostique du FibroTest-ActiTest (FT-AT) chez les patients infectés par le VHC et le VHB. Nous avons pu participer à deux travaux sur 2 populations distinctes: Une cohorte prospective de 537 patients ayant une infection chronique par le VHC, chez qui le stade de fibrose et le grade d’activité ont été évalués le même jour par une ponction biopsie hépatique et par FT-AT. Une cohorte prospective de 1300 patients ayant une infection chronique par le VHB, chez qui le stade de fibrose, le grade d’activité par FT-AT et la charge virale VHB ont été évalués le même jour. Le but de ces deux travaux principaux de ces quatre années de Thèse était d’estimer et de comparer les valeurs pronostiques des nouveaux biomarqueurs (FT-AT, Score APRI, Score de Forns) et du score pronostique « standard » classique (Score de Child-Pugh) pour prédire la survenue des complications et la survie chez les patients ayant une infection chronique par le VHB ou le VHC. Les analyses de survie, méthodes univariée et multivariée, ont estimé la valeur pronostique des stades de fibrose (estimés par biopsie hépatique et par biomarqueurs) et des autres facteurs potentiellement prédictifs de la survenue des complications de la cirrhose et de la survie. La durée de survie a été calculée à partir de la date du FT-AT à la date de la survenue du premier évènement (complications de la maladie, décès toutes causes et décès lié au foie); puis comparée à la survie attendue dans la population française (avec appariement sur l’âge, le sexe, l’année d’inclusion et la durée de suivi). Les valeurs pronostiques de la biopsie hépatique et des biomarqueurs ont été estimées et comparées par les aires sous les courbes pronostiques ROC (AUROC). RESULTATS Travail sur la cohorte de 537 patients atteints de l’hépatite chronique CRésultats à 5 ans de suivi (publication en 2005). Les patients avec fibrose sévère avaient une survie sans complications ou décès liés au VHC à 78. 5% (IC 95% = [71. 2%-85. 9%]; 28 complications ou décès liés au VHC) et une survie sans décès lié au VHC de 92. 7% (88. 0%-97. 3%; 9 décès liés au VHC). Les patients avec fibrose modérée avaient une survie sans complications ou décès liés au VHC à 98. 8% (96. 6%-100%; 1 complication, P<0. 001) et une survie sans décès lié au VHC à 100% (aucun décès lié au VHC; P<0. 001). Les patients avec fibrose minime avaient une survie sans complications ou décès liés au VHC à 100% (aucune complication liée au VHC; P<0. 001) et une survie sans décès lié au VHC à 100% (aucun décès lié au VHC; P<0. 001). Le FT avait une meilleure valeur pronostique par rapport à la biopsie, pour la survenue des complications avec une AUROC [IC 95%] =0. 96 [0. 93-0. 97] vs 0. 91 [0. 85-0. 94; P=0. 01] et pour la survenue de décès lié au VHC: AUROC = 0. 96 [0. 93-0. 98] vs 0. 87 [0. 70-0. 94; P=0. 046]. La valeur pronostique du FT était significativement plus élevée par rapport à celle des autres scores (APRI, Forns, Pugh) en analyse univariée (P<0. 001) et en régression logistique (P<0. 01) prenant en compte la réponse au traitement et les autres facteurs pronostiques connus (co-infection VIH, consommation d’alcool). Résultats à 8 ans de suivi (rédaction d’article en cours en 2008). Les patients avec fibrose sévère avaient une survie sans complications ou décès liés au VHC à 71. 0% (IC 95% = [63. 0%-79. 1%]; 39 complications ou décès liés au VHC) et une survie sans décès lié au VHC de 76. 5% (66. 8%-86. 2%; 24 décès liés au VHC). Les patients avec fibrose modérée avaient une survie sans complications ou décès liés au VHC à 97. 0% (93. 5%-100%; 3 complications ou décès liés au VHC, P<0. 0001) et une survie sans décès lié au VHC à 89. 3% (73. 6%-100%; 3 décès liés au VHC; P<0. 0001). Les patients avec fibrose minime avaient une survie sans complications ou décès liés au VHC à 99. 5% (98. 6%-100%; 1 complication; P<0. 0001) et une survie sans décès lié au VHC à 99. 5% (98. 6%-100%; 1 décès lié au VHC; P<0. 0001). FT avait une meilleure valeur pronostique par rapport à la biopsie, pour la survenue des complications ou décès liés au VHC avec une AUROC [IC 95%] = 0. 91 [0. 86-0. 94] vs 0. 77 [0. 66-0. 85; P=0. 0006] et pour la survenue de décès lié au VHC: AUROC = 0. 88 [0. 79-0. 92] vs 0. 66 [0. 49-0. 78; P=0. 0002]; et pour la survie globale: AUROC = 0. 75 [0. 64-0. 82] vs 0. 56 [0. 44-0. 66; P=0. 0002]. La valeur pronostique du FT restait significative en régression logistique (P<0. 001) prenant en compte la réponse au traitement et les autres facteurs pronostiques connus. Travail sur la cohorte de 1300 patients atteints de l’hépatite chronique B (Article en cours de soumission, version révisée en cours). Parmi les 1074 patients inclus, il a été observé 50 complications avec ou sans décès liés au foie [survie sans complications ou décès liés au foie = 93. 4% (IC 95% = 91. 4%-95. 4%)], 36 décès [survie sans décès= 95. 0% (93. 2%-96. 8%)] avec 27 décès liés au foie [survie sans décès liés au foie = 96. 1% (94. 4%-97. 8%)]. FT avait une meilleure valeur pronostique par rapport à la charge virale ou aux ALT pour la survenue des complications ou décès liés au foie [AUROC=0. 89 (IC 95% 0. 84-0. 93) vs 0. 64 (0. 55-0. 71) vs 0. 53 (0. 46-0. 60); (P<0. 0001)], et une meilleure valeur pronostique dans l’analyse multivariée [coefficient de régression 5. 2 (3. 5-6. 9; P<0. 0001) vs 0. 53 (0. 2-0. 9; P=0. 007) vs -0. 001 (-0. 003-0. 000; P=0. 052)]. Une nouvelle définition du statut de porteur inactif du VHB est proposée avec un algorithme associant la charge virale et le score de FibroTest-ActiTest. Ce nouvel algorithme présente une valeur prédictive négative à 100% pour les décès liés au foie et/ ou complications. Parmi les 275 patients classés porteurs inactifs d’après la définition classique, 62 patients (22. 5%) avaient une fibrose présumée par FT, et 3 sont décédés ou ont eu des complications dans les 4 ans du suivi. Chez les patients ayant une infection chronique par le VHC, le FibroTest est un marqueur biochimique de la sévérité de la maladie avec une valeur pronostique à cinq ans et à huit ans meilleure que celle de l’histologie pour la prédiction des complications et des décès liés au VHC. Chez les patients ayant une infection chronique par le VHB, le FibroTest a une valeur pronostique à quatre ans similaire à celle de la biopsie hépatique. La combinaison de FibroTest-ActiTest et la charge virale permet de définir avec plus de précision le pronostic et le statut de « porteur inactif » que la définition classique.
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Morales, Gerardo. "A testing methodology for the validation of web applications." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010TELE0014/document.
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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'assurer le bon comportement des aspects fonctionnels des systèmes basés sur le web. Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous nous basons dans ce manuscrit, sur deux approches différentes de test: l'approche active et l'approche passive. Le principe du test actif consiste à générer automatiquement une suite de scénarios de tests qui sera appliquée sur un système sous test pour en étudier sa conformité par rapport à ses besoins fonctionnels. Quant au test passif, il consiste à observer passivement le système sous test, sans interrompre le flux normal de ses opérations. Pour l'approche active, nous proposons une méthodologie qui permet de générer automatiquement des séquences de test afin de valider la conformité d'un système par rapport à la description formel du comportement du système. Le comportement est spécifié en utilisant un modèle formel basé sur des machines à états finis étendues temporisées (TEFSM). La génération automatique des tests est ensuite effectuée en utilisant des outils développés dans notre laboratoire et permet d'obtenir des cas de test exécutables qui permettent au moteur de test d'interagir avec une application web réel. Dans l’approche passive, nous spécifions des propriétés fonctionnelles à tester sous la forme d'invariants temporisés.Nous analysons ensuite les traces d’exécution d’un Web service composé afin d’élaborer un verdict sur sa conformité par rapport au comportement souhaité du système. Plusieurs algorithmes et outils sont fournis dans ce manuscrit pour effectuer le test actif et passif des systèmes Web. Nous avons appliqué nos méthodologies à divers systèmes (le Mission Handler et le Travel Reservation Service) pour illustrer les approches proposées sur des systèmes réelsThe objective of this thesis is to ensure the proper behaviour of the functional aspects of web based systems. To achieve this goal, we proposed two different test approaches: the active approach and the passive approach. Our goal is to automatically generate a suite of active test scenarios that will be applied on a system under test to examine its compliance with respect to its functional specification, and, when interrupting the normal flow of operation is problematic, to observe the system under test with passive testing. The goal of this work is developing a method and a set of tools to test web based systems using the active and passive testing approaches. Concerning the active testing approach, we present a methodology to cover the end-to-end testing process (from building the model until the test execution). This work tackles the gap between, on the one hand, generating abstract test cases from abstract models and, on the other hand, developing methods allowing concretizing these tests and automatically applying them on a real applications. Then, concerning the passive test approach, we present a methodology and a new tool for observing the behaviour of the communications of the web applications with external web services (for SOA based web applications) in order to check whether the observed behaviour is correct. All the methodologies and tools presented in this work are applied on two industrial case studies, Mission Handler and Travel Reservation Service, in order to validate our contributions in active and passive testing respectively
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Schenk, Daniela. "Prämature Pubarche - ACTH-Test und Mutationsanalyse des 21-Hydroxylasegens." Diss., lmu, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-37895.
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Mendrinos, Niki. "BEYOND THE SAT/ACT: AN EXAMINATION OF NON-COGNITIVE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO STUDENTS' COLLEGE SUCCESS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/305470.
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Standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT claim to predict students' success in college. Colleges and universities place a considerable emphasis on these test scores when reviewing and deciding on applicants. However, over the years, institutional leaders and academic researchers have questioned whether the SAT/ACT tests truly measure the skills needed for success in college and throughout life. This study uses non-cognitive variables to focus to what students with strong high-school grade point averages (HSGPAs), low SAT/ACT test scores (under 1000 on the 1600 point scale for the SAT, or 21 or lower on the ACT), and who completed college in four years with an overall 3.5 or higher college GPA, attributed or perceived their abilities for college success. The study also investigated these students' perceptions and beliefs about these tests (have they hindered their abilities or potential for college success), and how these students thought non-cognitive factors should be considered in the admission's process. In addition, the study compares this group of students to the rest of the incoming freshman class.
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Blevins, Julie A. "A Quantitative Comparison of ACT Scores for Students Taking and Not Taking a District-Sponsored Practice ACT Test." Ashland University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1384809693.
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Gallacher, Michael Sean. "Predicting Sixth Grade Performance on Criterion-Referenced Reading Tests with Third Grade Test Scores." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2491.pdf.
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Dinis, Marta Correia. "Utilidade do doseamento de cortisol basal no rastreio de hipoadrenocorticismo no cão : estudo retrospetivo." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21465.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina VeterináriaRESUMO - O doseamento do cortisol basal tem sido utilizado na prática clínica para excluir hipoadrenocorticismo. Quando a sua concentração é superior a 2 g/dl, esta doença é excluída. Quando é inferior, é essencial realizar um teste de estimulação com a hormona adrenocorticotrófica (ACTH) para avaliar a função adrenal. O objetivo principal deste estudo foi explorar potenciais parâmetros clínicos que permitam auxiliar a avaliação da probabilidade de um cão com hipocortisolémia apresentar um teste de estimulação com ACTH normal. Foi conduzido um estudo restrospetivo caso-controlo utilizando os dados clínicos dos cães submetidos ao doseamento de cortisol basal no Hospital Escolar Veterinário durante 30 meses. Os cães foram incluídos se apresentassem uma hipocortisolémia basal (≤2 g/dl), e após este resultado, tenha sido efectuado um teste de estimulação com ACTH. Os dados colhidos incluíram sexo, idade, raça, sinais clínicos, análise hematológica e bioquímicas (incluindo eletrólitos), resultados dos testes funcionais e alterações ecográficas. De acordo com o resultado do teste de estimulação, os cães foram divididos em dois grupos: os cães com concentrações de cortisol após estimulação ≤2g/dl foram incluídos no grupo com hipoadrenocorticismo (HAC) e cães com valores superiores foram incluídos no grupo sem hipoadrenocorticismo (N-HAC). As variáveis foram comparadas entre grupos através de testes não paramétricos (teste exato de Fisher) e testes paramétricos (teste t para amostras independentes). 35 cães foram incluídos e divididos nos grupos de estudo: 9/35 no grupo HAC e 26/35 no grupo N-HAC. Ambos os grupos apresentavam sinais gastrointestinais crónicos (66.7% no grupo HAC e 50% no grupo N-HAC). Foi observada uma concentração de cortisol basal <1g/dl em 77.8% dos cães com HAC e em 30.7% dos cães N-HAC (p=0.01; rácio de probabilidade (OR) =7.38). A presença de poliúria/polidipsia (pu/pd), relatada pelos detentores, foi mais prevalente em cães com HAC (55.6%) face aos cães N-HAC (7.7%) (p=0.01; OR=15), bem como sinais de melena/hematoquézia (55.6%-grupo HAC; 0%-grupo N-HAC) (p=4x10-4; OR=64.8). Nas alterações laboratoriais, apenas o aumento da concentração de ureia revelou uma diferença significativa entre grupos (55.6%-grupo HAC; 11.6%-grupo N-HAC) (p=0.03; OR=7.9). Em suma, cães com hipocortisolémia basal, sem aumento dos níveis de ureia, pu/pd, e sem sinais de hemorragia gastrointestinal têm maior probabilidade de ter um teste de estimulação com ACTH normal. São necessários mais estudos para estender estas conclusões a um maior número de animais e para explorar o significado da hipocortisolémia em cães com o teste de estimulação com ACTH normal.
ABSTRACT - Use of basal cortisol concentrations measurement as a screening test for hypoadrenocorticism in dogs: a retrospective study - Basal cortisol measurement has been used on clinical practice to rule out hypoadrenocorticism. When its concentration is above 2g/dL, this disease is excluded. When it is lower, it is essencial to perform a adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) stimulation test to assess adrenal function. The main goal of this study is to explore potencional clinical parameters that can aid evaluating the odds of a dog with hypocortisolemia to have normal ACTH stimulation test response. A retrospective case-control study was conducted using the clinical data of all dogs submited to the measurement of basal cortisol at a Veterinary Teaching Hospital during 30 months. Dogs were included if presented basal hypocortisolemia (≤2 g/dl) and after that result, an ACTH stimulation test was executed. Collected data included sex, age, race, clinical signs, hematological and biochemical (including electrolytes) analysis, fuctional tests results and ecographic changes. Dogs were divided in two groups, according to the ACTH stimulation test result: dogs with pos-stimulation cortisol concentrations ≤2g/dl were included on the hypoadrenocorticism (HAC) group and dogs with higher values were included on the non-hypoadrenocorticism (N-HAC) group. Variables were compared between groups using non parametric tests (Fisher’s exact test) and parametric tests (independent sample t test). 35 dogs were included and distributed on the study groups: 9/35 (25.7%) on the HAC group and 26/35 (74.3%) on the N-HAC group. Both groups showed chronic gastrointestinal signs (66.7% on the HAC group and 50% on the N-HAC group). It’s was observed a basal cortisol concentration <1g/dl in 77.8% of dogs with HAC and in 30.7% of dogs with N-HAC (p=0.01; odds ratio (OR)=7.38). Polyuria/polydipsia (pu/pd) was more related by the detentor of the HAC dogs (55.6%) than by the N-HAC dogs (7.7%) (p=0.01; OR=15), as well as signs of melena/hematochezia (55.6%-HAC group; 0%-N-HAC group) (p=4x10-4; OR=64.8). About the laboratory changes, only higher values of urea concentration showed a significant difference between groups (55.6%-HAC group; 11.6%-N-HAC group) (p=0.03; OR=7.9). In summary, dogs with basal hypocortisolemia, without high urea levels, pu/pd, and gastrointestinal hemorrhage signs have higher chances to have a normal ACTH stimulation test. Further studies are needed, to extend these conclusions to a larger number of animals and to explore the relevance of hypocortisolemia in dogs with normal ACTH stimulation test.
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Strange, W. A. "The problem of the text of Acts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304634.
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Maybury, Mark Thomas. "Planning multisentential English text using communicative acts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/237035.
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The goal of this research is to develop explanation presentation mechanisms for knowledge based systems which enable them to define domain terminology and concepts, narrate events, elucidate plans, processes, or propositions and argue to support a claim or advocate action. This requires the development of devices which select, structure, order and then linguistically realize explanation content as coherent and cohesive English text. With the goal of identifying generic explanation presentation strategies, a wide range of naturally occurring texts were analyzed with respect to their communicative sttucture, function, content and intended effects on the reader. This motivated an integrated theory of communicative acts which characterizes text at the level of rhetorical acts (e.g., describe, define, narrate), illocutionary acts (e.g., inform, request), and locutionary acts (e.g., ask, command). Taken as a whole, the identified communicative acts characterize the structure, content and intended effects of four types of text: description, narration, exposition, argument. These text types have distinct effects such as getting the reader to know about entities, to know about events, to understand plans, processes, or propositions, or to believe propositions or want to perform actions. In addition to identifying the communicative function and effect of text at multiple levels of abstraction, this dissertation details a tripartite theory of focus of attention (discourse focus, temporal focus, and spatial focus) which constrains the planning and linguistic realization of text. To test the integrated theory of communicative acts and tripartite theory of focus of attention, a text generation system TEXPLAN (Textual EXplanation PLANner) was implemented that plans and linguistically realizes multisentential and multiparagraph explanations from knowledge based systems. The communicative acts identified during text analysis were formalized as over sixty compositional and (in some cases) recursive plan operators in the library of a hierarchical planner. Discourse, temporal, and spatial focus models were implemented to track and use attentional information to guide the organization and realization of text. Because the plan operators distinguish between the communicative function (e.g., argue for a proposition) and the expected effect (e.g., the reader believes the proposition) of communicative acts, the system is able to construct a discourse model of the structure and function of its textual responses as well as a user model of the expected effects of its responses on the reader's knowledge, beliefs, and desires. The system uses both the discourse model and user model to guide subsequent utterances. To test its generality, the system was interfaced to a variety of domain applications including a neuropsychological diagnosis system, a mission planning system, and a knowledge based mission simulator. The system produces descriptions, narrations, expositions, and arguments from these applications, thus exhibiting a broader range of rhetorical coverage than previous text generation systems.
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Bonnichon, Delphine. "Fantasmes à mort! : Pensées et acte suicidaires à l’épreuve de la différence des sexes." Paris 5, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA05H122.
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Il s’agit appréhender les spécificités du fonctionnement psychique des adolescents en proie à des idéations suicidaires et/ou qui recourent à l’acte suicidaire. Pour ce faire, nous avons croisé deux grands axes d’analyse, l’un mettant en dialectique agir et fantasme, l’autre problématique suicidaire et développement psychosexuel féminin versus masculin. A partir de 20 études de cas, associant entretiens cliniques et épreuves projectives, le Rorschach et le TAT, analysées selon la lecture psychanalytique préconisée par l’Ecole de Paris, nous vérifions deux hypothèses, à savoir la potentialité symboligène de l’acte suicidaire et le recours à des défenses plus drastiques chez les garçons par rapport aux filles, sous-tendues par une menace quant à leur identité sexuelle. Les adolescents suicidants et suicidaires présentent une activité fantasmatique vive, organisée autour d’un fantasme infanticide, mêlant prégénital et génital autour du sadomasochisme. Mais chez les garçons, la présence d’idéations suicidaires sans recours à l’acte témoigne d’une gravité accrue, venant souligner la fonction de l’acte, en lien avec la nécessité de s’inscrire dans une voie sadique qui menace de déliaison. Le fantasme de pénétration homo-érotique oro-anal constitue une piste de réflexion prometteuse en ce qu’il se fait le point de jonction des axes narcissique et objectal, en relation avec un fantasme infanticide-parricide organisé autour de la projection. Le fantasme de peau arrachée semble constituer son pendant chez les filles, en intrication avec un pacte dénégatif qui favorise l’émergence d’une double peau, et se fait le creuset d’une fantasmatique masochiste. Deux voies distinctes d’accès à la sexualité génitale, à la filiation et à la parentalité se dessinent, ouvrant de nouvelles pistes à explorer dans une éternelle dialectique entre la vie et la mortOur goal is to analyse the specificity of the psychic functioning of adolescents who have suicidal thoughts and/or have attempted suicide. Our two main directions of analysis are the following: first, the dialectical interaction between action and fantasy, and secondly, the comparison between suicidal issues and psychosexual development in boys and girls. Our analysis is based on 20 case studies combining clinical encounters and projective tests, the Rorschach text and the TAT; the protocols were analysed according the psychoanalytic method developed by the Paris School. Two hypotheses are verified in this study: 1) suicidal gestures can potentially generate symbolic meaning; and 2) boys resort to more drastic defense mechanisms than girls, due to the fact that their sexual identity is threatened. Suicidal adolescents have a rich fantasy life centred on infanticidal fantasies, with a blend of pregenital and genital elements in a context of sado-masochism. In boys, suicidal thoughts, even if they do not lead to action, are more dangerous; this underscores the function of the act itself, tied to a sadistic tendency, with the danger of unbinding. The homo-erotic oral-anal penetration fantasy is a promising avenue of research, since it brings together both narcissistic and object relations, tied to a infanticidal-parricidal fantasy organized around projection. Its counterpart in girls seems to be the fantasy of tearing off one’s skin, in combination with masochistic denial. We thus discern two different and separate paths towards genital sexuality, parenthood, and generational transmission , opening new avenues for exploration in the eternal debate between life and death
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Leitão, Nuno Luís Bizarro Neves. "Diagnóstico de hiperadrenocorticismo canino e tratamento com trilostano : estudo retrospectivo de 20 casos clínicos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/3546.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina VeterináriaO hiperadrenocorticismo (HAC) é a endocrinopatia mais comum no cão e é devido a um excesso crónico de glucocorticóides no organismo. Esta dissertação tem como base a constatação das alterações presentes em 20 pacientes com HAC, tais como os sinais clínicos, o hemograma, as análise bioquímicas sanguíneas, os testes endócrinos e a ecografia abdominal, e ainda a constatação em 13 casos clínicos da evolução dos sinais clínicos, das bioquímicas sanguíneas e dos resultados do teste de estimulação com ACTH (TE-ACTH) durante o tratamento desta doença com trilostano até ao 150º dia. Os sinais clínicos observados foram, a PU/PD (85%), o abdómen pendular (75%), problemas dermatológicos (60%) e polifagia (50%), entre outros. O hemograma não apresentou muitas alterações, ao contrário das análises bioquímicas, nas quais foi observado a FAS aumentada em 88% dos casos (N=17), a ALT em 56% (N=18), hipercolesterolémia em 12% (N=8) ureia aumentada em 18% (N=17), densidade urinária diminuída em 57% (N=7) e presença de proteinúria em 43% dos casos (N=7). O teste de supressão de dexametasona em dose baixa (TSDDB) diagnosticou positivamente todos os casos, dando também o diagnóstico etiológico de hiperadrenocorticismo hipófiso-dependente (HAC-HD) em 67% dos casos (N=9). Já o TE-ACTH deu um resultado falso negativo. A ecografia mostrou alterações compatíveis com HAC-HD em 32% dos casos que a realizaram (N=19). 13 animais foram submetidos a tratamento com trilostano. A dose foi de 1,25 a 4,48 mg/kg (2,45±0,89 mg/kg). Os sinais clínicos melhoraram ao longo das monitorizações, principalmente a PU/PD. A concentração plasmática média da FAS (1203±1243 UI/L) e da ALT (131±78 UI/L) diminuíram, e o valor da creatinina (0,80±0,83 mg/dl) aumentou ligeiramente. Os valores médios da ureia, do sódio e do potássio apresentaram flutuações mas com tendência para aumentar. O valor médio de cortisol sérico após o TE-ACTH apresentou diminuições logo aos 10-20 dias, e nas restantes monitorizações apresentou flutuações mas sem atingir os valores iniciais. Foram realizados ajustamentos na dose em 4 animais durante as monitorizações. A FAS não demonstrou vantagens para decisão de ajustamento de dose. Administrações únicas diárias de trilostano em doses baixas permite um sucesso de 67% dos animais controlados aos 90-150 dias, sendo os sinais clínicos e o TE-ACTH bons parâmetros de monitorização, ao contrário da FAS.
ABSTRACT - Diagnosis of Canine Hyperadrenocorticism and treatment with trilostane: a retrospective study in 20 dogs - Hyperadrenocorticism (HAC) is the most commun endocrinopathy in dogs and it is due to a chronic excess of glucocorticoids. This study catalogs the changes found in 20 dogs with HAC, as their clinical signs, the hematologic, the biochemical and the endocrinological analysis, and also their adrenal ultrasonography alterations. Then, it was verified in 13 dogs the changes in clinical signs, biochemical analysis and results of ACTH stimulation test along the treatment with trilostane until the 150ª day. The clinical signs most observed were PU/PD (85%), pendulous abdomen (75%), dermatological alterations (60%) and polyphagy (50%). The most consistent haematologycal finding was eosinopenia (35%), In biochemical serum analysis, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) was high in 88% of 17 dogs and AST 56% of 18 dogs, 12% of 8 dogs had hypercholesterolaemia, 18% of 17 had high urea, 57% of 7 dogs had low urinary density and proteinuria was observed in 43% of 7 dogs. The low dose dexamethasone supression (LDDS) test was positive in the 20 cases and it helped in the etiological diagnosis of pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism (PDH) in 9 dogs (67%). There was a false-negative case on the ACTH stimulation test. In ultrasonography 32% of the cases had an increased in adrenal glands, wich was compatible with the diagnosis of PDH (19 dogs). 13 dogs were treated with trilostane. The starting dose was from 1,25 mg/kg to 4,48 mg/kg SID (2,45±0,89 mg/kg). The clinical signs improved along revaluations, mainly PU/PD. The mean values of ALP (1203±1243 UI/L) and ALT (131±78 UI/L) decresead and the creatinine value (0,80±0,83 mg/dl) increased. There were some variations along revaluations in the mean values of urea, sodium and potassium concentrations, but they mostly increased. Serum cortisol concentrations after ACTH stimulation test decreased at 10-20 days and in the other revaluations there were some variations without reach the pre-treatment values. No signs of overdosis were observed during the study, but the dose was adjusted in 4 dogs. The ALP wasn’t considered as an important parameter for monitoring the adjustments of dosis because it presented different levels during the treatment. The efficacy of trilostane In once daily administration was verified, even when used in lower doses. 67% of the animals were sucessfully controlled at 90 – 150 days. Clinical signs and ACTH stimulation test were considered good tests to be used in monitoring the treatment, as oposed to the ALP assay.
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Oliveira, Suelen Goecks. "Validação do questionário Childhood Asthma Control Test (c-ACT) para o Brasil." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/7292.
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Previous issue date: 2015Introduction: Children’s own perceptions and accounts of their asthma diagnosis have proved to be reliable and relevant to disease control.Objective: The aim is to validate the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Childhood Asthma Control Test (c-ACT) in children aged between 4 and 11 years.Methods: The investigation was divided into two stages: The first stage comprised the translation and linguistic adaptation of the instrument, while the second consisted of testing the psychometric properties of validity and reliability.Results: A total of 105 participants were included, aged between 4 and 11 years. Validity: all correlations between the total score and items on the questionnaire were significant and obtained values of r = > 0. 3. There was no correlation between the total score of the questionnaire and lung function. The controlled asthma group showed significantly higher c-ACT scores than those of the uncontrolled asthma group (controlled 22±2. 9 VS uncontrolled 16. 3±5. 3 p <0. 001). Reliability: The Alfa de Cronbach coefficient for the total c-ACT score was 0. 677 (CI95% 0. 573-0763). In the assessment of sensitivity to change, the effect size was 0. 8 and the intraclass correlation coefficient was 0. 598. No floor or ceiling effects were observed in the sample studied.Completed: The Brazilian version of the Childhood Asthma Control Test proved to be valid and reliable.
Introdução: Atualmente a percepção e os relatos da própria criança sobre seu diagnóstico de asma tem se demonstrado confiável e relevante para o manejo da doença.Objetivo: Validar a versão Português para o Brasil do Childhood Asthma Control Test em jovens com idade entre 4 a 11 anos.Métodos: O estudo foi dividido em duas etapas: a primeira o processo de tradução, adaptação linguística do instrumento. A segunda etapa foi realizada a análise das propriedades psicométricas validade e a confiabilidade.Resultados: Foram incluídas 105 participantes, com idades entre 4 a 11 anos. Validade: todas as correlações entre o escore total e os itens do questionário foram significativas e com valores r = > 0,3. Não houve correlações entre o escore total do questionário e a função pulmonar. O grupo com asma controlada apresenta valores significativamente superiores no c-ACT ao compararmos com o grupo com asma não controlada (controlada 22±2,9 VS não controlada 16,3±5,3 p < 0,001). Confiabilidade: o coeficiente de Alfa de Cronbach do escore total do c-ACT foi de 0,677 (IC95% 0,573-0763). Na avaliação da sensibilidade às mudanças o tamanho do efeito foi 0,8 e o coeficiente de correlação intraclasse foi de 0,598. Não foram observados os efeitos teto e chão na amostra estudada.Conclusão: A versão em Português para o Brasil do questionário Childhood Asthma Control Test demonstrou-se uma versão válida e confiável.
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Tardieu, Jean-Luc. "Caractérisation d'anticorps monoclonaux dirigés contre l'ACTH : mise au point d'un test IRMA." Compiègne, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992COMPD549.
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Ce travail porte sur la sélection d'anticorps monoclonaux en vue de la mise au point d'un dosage immunoradiométrique de la corticotrophine (ACTH). Afin d'obtenir un immunogène efficace, nous avons réalisé des couplages d'ACTH entière et de différents fragments N et C terminaux sur des protéines porteuses telles l'albumine bovine, la thyroglobuline ou l'hémocyanine. Une étude systématique de ces différents immunogènes a ensuite été réalisée. De bonnes réponses immunitaires ont été obtenues chez la souris. Mais cependant les anticorps monoclonaux produits chez cette espèce n'ont pas été de haute affinité. Des immunisations effectuées chez le rat ont permis d'obtenir de bonnes réponses immunitaires. Les travaux réalisés sur les hétérohybrides nous ont incités à envisager la fusion de rate de ces animaux avec le myélome de souris X-63. Nous avons optimisé ce protocole en étudiant tous les paramètres de la fusion lymphocytaire entre ces deux espèces. Cette mise au point a permis de caractériser des anticorps monoclonaux de rat dirigés contre quatre épitropes de l'ACTH (ACTH 1-6, ACTH 6-13, ACTH 18-24 et ACTH 34-39). Tous ces anticorps ont été testés de manière systématique afin de vérifier leur possibilité d'utilisation soit en phase solide, soit comme traceur radiomarqué. Pour l'étude de phases solides, nous avons fait varier le type de polymère ainsi que la quantité d'anticorps utilisé. Le copolymère ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiène Styrène) permet d'augmenter le signal de plus de 10 %. Par ailleurs, le processus de revêtement du polymère est complété par une phase de désorption à 37°C ce qui permet de gagner 45 % de signal spécifique. Nous avons également montre l'intérêt d'utiliser en phase solide deux anticorps N terminaux (ACN3 et ACN35) reconnaissant des épitopes différents, et comme traceur un troisième anticorps (ACC17) qui reste stable à 20 microcurie/microgramme pendant plus de 40 jours à 20° C. Une limite de détection proche de 4 pg/ml est obtenue. La caractérisation de ces anticorps ouvre donc la voie au développement d'une trousse de dosage de l'ACTH présentant une bonne sensibilité.
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Boyer, Grant Coday. "Best Practices for Student Success on the ACT." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3556895.
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Large achievement gaps have been found in ACT scores between high schools throughout the same state and in comparisons between states. In Missouri, four public high schools have consistently scored four points higher than the Missouri average for years 2007–2011. States, such as Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa, have shown consistent above average scores as compared to states with similar participation numbers throughout the nation. Schmoker (2006) believed that due to the existing culture of schools and school leadership, learning from others' successes is often discouraged; therefore, this study was conducted in an attempt to discover the best practices used in high-achieving high schools and states that obtain high student achievement on the ACT. Educational leaders within the top 5% of high schools in Missouri, based on a five-year (2007–2011) average of ACT scores, were surveyed to determine successful teaching strategies and programs educators in these schools are implementing. Leaders from consistently successful states (having higher than average ACT scores with a high percentage of participation) took part in a survey to extrapolate further characteristics regarding high achievement. Furthermore, the trends and the approaches that contribute to student success in states that require the ACT were examined through interview responses. While the study did not reveal any new best practices, the findings supported many best practices already in existence, and most importantly, showed the necessity for the development of a learning culture that emphasizes success and achievement.
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Walton, Stephen. "Paul in Acts and Epistles : the Miletus speech and 1 Thessalonians as a test case." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3444/.
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This study contributes to debates over the portraits of Paul in Acts and his epistles by considering the one Pauline speech to Christians in Acts, the speech to the Ephesian elders at Miletus (Acts 20: 18b-35). After surveying previous work, a two-way comparison is made, comparing the Miletus speech with (i) speeches by Jesus in Luke's Gospel, to see how Lukan it is, and (ii) 1 Thessalonians, to see how Pauline it is. A hierarchical method is outlined for identifying parallels. A study of the speech shows it to be a well-structured 'farewell', in which Paul commissions the elders for ministry after his departure to Jerusalem. The speech has four major themes: faithful fulfilment of leadership responsibility; suffering; the attitude to wealth and work; and the death of Jesus. Paul is offered as a model of Christian leadership for imitation. A comparison with Luke's Gospel identifies three passages which parallel the speech (22: 14-38; 12: 1-53; 21: 5-31), and four briefer passages (7: 38,44; 9: 2; 10: 3; 13: 32f). 22: 14-38 parallels the speech especially closely. A clear picture of Luke's view of Christian leadership emerges - modelled by Jesus, taught to his disciples, modelled by Paul, and then taught to the elders, the leaders of the next Christian generation. The comparison with 1 Thessalonians recognises the four major Miletus themes in the letter, and identifies a number of passages and ideas in the letter which have parallels in the speech. A clear picture of Christian leadership emerges, looking remarkably like that found in Luke-Acts. A conclusion reviews the argument, concludes that the speech is not dependent on the letter, and outlines results for debates about Paul in Acts and epistles.
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Gunn, Maja. "Body Acts Queer." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-123.
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Body Acts Queer is an exploration of the performative and ideological functions of clothes with regard to gender, feminism and queer. It is an artistic, practice-based thesis in the field of fashion and design. The thesis includes three projects: On & Off, If you were a girl I would love you even more and The Club Scene. In these projects I, using text and bodies, work with acts in which clothes have a fundamental role. By exploring bodily experiences of clothes, I investigate the clothes’ performative and ideological functions, with a focus on cultural, social and heteronormative structures. Working with clothing and fashion design from a queer feminist perspective, I transform queer and feminist theory into a creative process. The projects presented in this thesis, together with the discussion, suggest a change in the ways in which bodies act, are perceived and are produced within the fashion field, giving examples of how a queer design practice can be performed. In this thesis, queer design is explored as an inclusive term, containing ideas about clothes and language, the meeting point between fiction and reality and the ability to interpretation and bodily transformations – where desire, bodily experiences and interaction create a change.
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Stoffle, Richard W., M. Nieves Zedeño, Diane Austin, and David Halmo. "Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Consultation and the Nevada Test Site Collection." Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/273036.
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This report summarizes a compliance consultation between the Department of Energy/ Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV) and the American Indian tribes and Indian organizations that make up the Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations (CGTO). The consultation focused on artifacts removed from the Nevada Test Site (NTS). The report describes consultation actions and recommendations that occurred in compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
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Oliveira, Suelen Goecks. "Valida??o do question?rio Childhood Asthma Control Test (c-ACT) para o Brasil." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2015. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/6019.
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Introduction: Children?s own perceptions and accounts of their asthma diagnosis have proved to be reliable and relevant to disease control. Objective: The aim is to validate the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Childhood Asthma Control Test (c-ACT) in children aged between 4 and 11 years. Methods: The investigation was divided into two stages: The first stage comprised the translation and linguistic adaptation of the instrument, while the second consisted of testing the psychometric properties of validity and reliability. Results: A total of 105 participants were included, aged between 4 and 11 years. Validity: all correlations between the total score and items on the questionnaire were significant and obtained values of r = > 0.3. There was no correlation between the total score of the questionnaire and lung function. The controlled asthma group showed significantly higher c-ACT scores than those of the uncontrolled asthma group (controlled 22?2.9 VS uncontrolled 16.3?5.3 p <0.001). Reliability: The Alfa de Cronbach coefficient for the total c-ACT score was 0.677 (CI95% 0.573-0763). In the assessment of sensitivity to change, the effect size was 0.8 and the intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.598. No floor or ceiling effects were observed in the sample studied. Completed: The Brazilian version of the Childhood Asthma Control Test proved to be valid and reliable.
Introdu??o: Atualmente a percep??o e os relatos da pr?pria crian?a sobre seu diagn?stico de asma tem se demonstrado confi?vel e relevante para o manejo da doen?a. Objetivo: Validar a vers?o Portugu?s para o Brasil do Childhood Asthma Control Test em jovens com idade entre 4 a 11 anos. M?todos: O estudo foi dividido em duas etapas: a primeira o processo de tradu??o, adapta??o lingu?stica do instrumento. A segunda etapa foi realizada a an?lise das propriedades psicom?tricas validade e a confiabilidade. Resultados: Foram inclu?das 105 participantes, com idades entre 4 a 11 anos. Validade: todas as correla??es entre o escore total e os itens do question?rio foram significativas e com valores r = > 0,3. N?o houve correla??es entre o escore total do question?rio e a fun??o pulmonar. O grupo com asma controlada apresenta valores significativamente superiores no c-ACT ao compararmos com o grupo com asma n?o controlada (controlada 22?2,9 VS n?o controlada 16,3?5,3 p < 0,001). Confiabilidade: o coeficiente de Alfa de Cronbach do escore total do c-ACT foi de 0,677 (IC95% 0,573-0763). Na avalia??o da sensibilidade ?s mudan?as o tamanho do efeito foi 0,8 e o coeficiente de correla??o intraclasse foi de 0,598. N?o foram observados os efeitos teto e ch?o na amostra estudada. Conclus?o: A vers?o em Portugu?s para o Brasil do question?rio Childhood Asthma Control Test demonstrou-se uma vers?o v?lida e confi?vel.
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Raymond, Alberta. "Southeastern High School Teachers' Perceptions and Experiences in Preparing Students for Required Standardized Testing." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2684.
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The reauthorized No Child Left Behind requirement for annual state-mandated student examinations led some teachers to believe that they must teach solely for test preparation. This case study explored teachers' perceptions of preparing students for the state-mandated tests at an economically disadvantaged high school in the southeastern United States. Ten teachers were interviewed to understand their perceptions of 'teaching to the test,' feelings of pressure and stress, motivation to teach, and recommendations for integration of creative teaching strategies. The researcher collected demographic data, such as gender, grades taught, and subjects taught, and manually calculated frequencies and percentages. With an electronic software program for qualitative data management, the researcher analyzed the data manually by iterative review of the interview transcripts for codes and themes. Teachers' perceptions of standardized test preparation were both positive and negative. Preparation fostered discipline and content mastery but inhibited teacher creativity and stressed students. Teachers experienced pressure and stress with unhealthy physical reactions, lack of competence, and responsibility to students. Teachers' motivations were both positive and negative. Some experienced increased self-efficacy, and other experienced decreased motivation; commitment to students; and inadequate institutional support. Teachers recommended incorporation of creative teaching strategies and professional development (PD) programs. Findings led to a PD for addressing the problems and creative strategies (e.g., reciprocal teaching, graphic organizers). Findings may help teachers reduce negative feelings toward standardized test preparation and use innovative strategies for students' more effective learning.
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Pinchbeck, Michael. "Acts of dramaturgy : the dramaturgical turn in contemporary performance." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/24175.
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This doctoral study examines the evolving role of the dramaturg in the British contemporary performance scene from 2000-2015. In 1999, the role was seen in the UK as a luxury, not an essential; now the same companies are working with dramaturgs, often within an academic context, as the funding culture has shifted from Arts Council England to the Academy. This study proceeds through a combination of practice as research and a contextual survey of the role s recent history taken from readings, interviews and a narrative of personal experience. As John Freeman writes, Research is also always re-search: a drawing on one s previous experience and developing this into knowledge . I arrive at new knowledge about the dramaturg s current position in a shifting landscape by inhabiting both the role and the landscape. John Berger suggests that to understand a landscape we have to situate ourselves in it. The doctoral study seeks to do this through practice, research and practice as research. I devised three performances - The Trilogy (2014). Their non-linearity is relevant to the line of investigation I took into the role of the dramaturg today, both inviting and playing the role. The practice as research applies different theoretical models of how a dramaturg operates to a body of theatre work that interrogates the role from different perspectives. The practice asks how dramaturgy might function with or without a dramaturg as an agent for critical feedback or meaning-making by exploring other models such as embedded criticism, work-in-progresses and post-show discussions. The performance work attempts to put the dramaturg onstage and in so doing explores what he / she does as part of the theatre event to make it happen. The project is concerned with making visible the textual trace of dramaturgy within the work. As such, I have written a thesis on the dramaturgy of my practice that questions notions of proximity and distance, objectivity and subjectivity, self and other. The thesis documents how the role has evolved over the last 15 years and argues that it has had a significant, tangible impact on the British contemporary performance scene. Through an understanding of the role, the dramaturg, outside of a traditional writer-director paradigm, becomes an application with which to deconstruct and decode the tropes and contradictions of contemporary performance. I posit that dramaturgs and outside eyes operate in fluid and often undefined spatial territory between writer, deviser, director and dramatist as well as any hyphenated combination thereof - and the doctoral study reflects this fluidity in its style.
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Gordon, Sue, and n/a. "Development of a test of verbal memory for Canberra children : a normative pilot study." University of Canberra. Education, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060712.115035.
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The aim of this research was to devise and norm a test of
verbal memory suitable for use with children aged 5-10 years.
Subjects were 204 Canberra school children. They were
divided into six age groups, 5-10 years inclusive. Each age group of 34
children contained equal numbers of males and females.
The main memory test involved free recall of a word-list over
several learning trials and two delayed recall trials. This format allowed
the assessment of a range of memory functions including immediate
memory, learning and delayed recall following an interference trial. These
aspects of memory are of known diagnostic significance and are necessary
for satisfying the basic requirements of a comprehensive assessment of
memory functioning. In addition, given that this is a study of verbal
memory, precautions were taken to maximize the likelihood that words
included in the word-list would be encoded solely within the verbal
modality.
Results showed that tests of immediate memory and learning
differentiated between age groups. There were no developmental
differences in retention as measured by recall decrement following
interference. Also, there was no convincing evidence of sex differences for
any of these three measures, with the possible exception of the ten year
old group.
For practical and clinical purposes, the distribution of scores
for each age group on each of these measures is described. In addition,
expected scores of individual children of a given age measured in monthly
increments and confidence intervals for these scores were presented for
measures of immediate memory and learning.
Measures of intelligence for this sample of children were
also recorded.
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Baldwin, Matthew C. "Whose Acts of Peter? : Text and historical context of the Actus Vercellenses /." Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0613/2005477128.html.
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Hamilton, Thomas Howard. ""They returned to Jerusaleum" a text-critical study of Acts 12:25 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Wallace, Keith, Tim McCleaf, and Tri Pham. "DIFFERENTIAL GPS ENHANCES TEST CAPABILITIES OF DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608372.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaA system was developed using capabilities from the Range Applications Joint Program Office (RAJPO) GPS tracking system and the ACMI Interface System (ACINTS) to provide tracking data and visual cues to experimenters. The Mobile Advanced Range Data System (ARDS) Control System (MACS) outputs are used to provide research data in support of advanced project studies. Enhanced from a previous system, the MACS expands system capabilities to allow researchers to locate where Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) is available for incorporation into a reference data base. The System Integration Group at Veda Incorporated has been supporting Wright Laboratories in the ground-based tracking and targeting arena since 1989 with the design, development, and integration of four generations of real-time, telemetry-based tracking aids. Commencing in Q3 1995, Veda began developing a mobile, transportable system based on the RAJPO GPS tracking system. The resulting system architecture takes advantage of the front end processor (FEP) used in the three previous generations of interface systems built for Wright Laboratories, thus maximizing hardware and software reuse. The FEP provides a computational interface between the GPS tracking system and the display (operator) system. The end product is a powerful, flexible, fully mobile testbed supporting RDT&E requirements for Wright Laboratories, as well as to other U.S. and foreign research organizations. The system is rapidly reconfigurable to accommodate ground-based tracking systems as well as GPS-based systems, and its capabilities can be extended to include support for mission planning tools, insertion of virtual participants such as DIS entities, and detailed post-mission analysis.
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Meek, James A. "The Gentile mission in Old Testament citations in Acts text, hermeneutic, and purpose /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p020-0240.
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Walker, Peter. "The three questions : King James 11, the Penal Laws and Test Acts, and the landed classes, 1687-88." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/8417.
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The purpose of this thesis is to look afresh at James 11's canvassing of the gentry in the winter of 1687-8 on the repeal of the Test Acts and the penal laws. The Tests prevented non-Anglicans in general, but Catholics in particular, from participating fully in public life. The penal laws punished those who did not conform to the Established Church. As a Catholic, James was anxious to ease the lot of his co-religionists and by the third year of his reign he had shown himself willing to extend toleration to Protestant Dissenters. The canvass was part of the campaign to find a Parliament willing to repeal these laws. Historians have viewed the canvass as a failure: certainly it did not bring the results the King hoped for and helped to create a united opposition to the Stuart regime. But on closer inspection the returns reveal a more confused picture. More members of the gentry supported repeal than was originally believed and with these supporters the King was able to begin to fashion alternative local political administrations that might in time have challenged the entrenched political interests in the shires. However, this new power base was still too narrow by the time William of Orange intervened in English politics, mainly because the King, by his ruthless purging of local office-holders, missed the opportunity to win over gentlemen who, given the right encouragement, might have come to support repeal. But it is in the answers to the third question, in which an overwhelming majority of gentlemen endorsed the general concept of religious toleration, that a sea change in attitudes among the political classes is revealed, something the King might have been able to build on if he had had the time or inclination to nurture the 'green shoots' of religious pluralism.
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Walker, Peter. ""A free and Protestant people"? : the campaign for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, 1786-1828." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0c5d614d-e9b5-4fe2-ac89-06bae8d4330e.
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Protestant Dissenters launched a campaign for Test Act repeal in 1786 that encountered strong opposition. Half a century later a second campaign inconspicuously secured repeal whilst the established Church was preoccupied with the problem of Catholic emancipation. Historians have examined the political narrative of both campaigns and the theories of toleration propounded by some Dissenters. However, little attention has been paid to the symbolic importance of the Test Acts, which Dissenters considered as badges of their exclusion from national citizenship. This thesis will examine the language of the repeal campaigns as a window into wider notions of citizenship and national identity. The resultant picture of Dissenters' identities and the larger national identities that they contested makes it possible to problematise and refine Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation, which expounds a pan-Protestant, anti-Catholic, British national identity. Protestantism and anti-Catholicism were indeed central to the language of the debate, but this language marginalised Dissenters as often as it included them. Several Dissenters therefore united with a parallel Catholic campaign for toleration, whilst very few united with their fellow-Protestant Churchmen against the Catholic threat. The Dissenters' strategies reveal the ambiguity of their relationship to the nation: they were usually seen by Churchmen as marginalised or subordinate though less so than the Catholics. Moreover, overlooked divisions between evangelical and old Dissent, and between Trinitarian and Unitarian Dissent, led different sections of Dissent to pursue different strategies according to their perception amongst Churchmen. Notions of national identity and citizenship were changing in this period, particularly as a result of the French Revolution and wars. Both Test Act repeal and Catholic emancipation may be situated within long-term processes of state-building and nation-building. Older notions of national identity endured to a greater extent than has been recognised, but adapted to these processes by becoming more inclusive and assimilative. Though Test Act repeal and Catholic emancipation granted Dissenters and Catholics similar rights, because of the enduring importance of Protestantism to British national identity Test Act repeal signified Dissent's integration into the nation in a way that Catholic emancipation did not for Catholics.
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Roustant, Jean-Philippe. "Psychopathologie du regard et de l'acte dans la clinique du sujet incarcéré." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30013/document.
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L’approche de la problématique des agirs via les tests projectifs en se penchant sur l’expression des défaillances narcissiques du sujet, propose, le plus souvent, une vision unitaire basée sur le mécanisme du recours à l’acte tel que définit par Balier. Nous proposerons de traiter cette question à partir d’une dimension plurielle différenciant deux types d’agirs : le recours à l’acte (Balier) et l’acting-out (Lacan). Nous présenterons une étude mixte, quantitative et qualitative, à partir de la comparaison de Rorschach et TAT administrés à 24 sujets. Notre analyse de ces deux formes d’agir portera principalement sur la capacité du sujet à pouvoir ou non se différencier de l’environnement. Le groupe recours à l’acte se caractérise par une continuité intérieur / extérieur et un transitivisme morbide expression d’une absence de constitution d’un soi différencié. Le groupe acting-out présente une problématique narcissique spécifique dans la validation du spéculaire par le symbolique. Les prises en charges thérapeutiques peuvent ainsi s’aider de ces résultats pour proposer des approches différentielles au sein desquelles les tests projectifs pourraient avoir une fonction pré-thérapeutiqueIn the modern societies, the answer to the criminal act is a prison sentence. Due to the nature of certain acts, with this prison sentence, some court-ordered treatments (COT) (obligations and injunctions of treatments) have been added. Ethically, this law request and its social asking don’t exempt to think about the prisoner ‘asking, which is the trigger of psychotherapies. There is any retroactivity of the law and of pronounced sentence. For this research, the prisoners were selected on their own asking of care (the court-ordered treatments couldn’t applicate). The asking of the prisoners is therefore a criterion common to them (these prisoners). In this context, the acts have distinguished according to the mechanisms which have governed the nature of the act: recourse of act or acting out. Many experts agree on the existence of premature narcissistic failures. However, discussions persist on the nature of the act and on its aspect, either single dimension or multiple and complex dimensions (objective behavior, social consequences and underlying mechanisms ...). Yet all these theoretical models on narcissistic failures lean on the “recourse to act” as if there was only a simple nature to act
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Cao, Tien Dung. "Test and Validation of Web Services." Thesis, Bordeaux 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR14122/document.
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Nous proposons dans cette thèse les approches de test pour la composition de services web. Nous nous intéressons aux test unitaire et d’intégration d’une orchestration de services web. L’aspect de vérification d’exécution en-ligne est aussi consideré. Nous définissons une plateforme de test unitaire pour l’orchestration de services web qui compose une architecture de test, une relation de conformité et deux approches de test basés sur le modèle de machine à l’états finis étendues temporisés: l’approche offline où les activités de test comme la génération de cas de test temporisé, l’exécution de test et l’assignement de verdict sont appliquées en séquentielle tandis que ces activités sont appliquées en parallèle dans l’approche online. Pour le test d’intégration d’une orchestration, nous combinons deux approches: active et passive.Au debut, l’approche active est utilisée pour activer une nouvelle session d’orchestration par l’envoi d’un message de requête SOAP. Après, tous les messages d’entré et de sortie de l’orchestration sont collectés et analysés par l’approche passive.Pour l’aspect de vérification d’exécution en-ligne, nous nous intéressons à la vérification d’une trace qui respecte un ensemble des constraintes, noté règles, ou pas. Nous avons proposé extendre le langage Nomad en définissant des constraintes sur chaque action atomique et un ensemble de corrélation de données entre les actions pour définir des règles pour le service web. Ce langage nous permet de définir des règles avec le temps futur et passé, et d’utiliser des opérations NOT, AND, OR pour combiner quelque conditions dans le contexte de la règle. Ensuite, nous proposons un algorithme pour vérifier l’exactitude d’une séquence des messages en parallèle avec le moteur de collecte de traceIn this thesis, we propose the testing approaches for web service composition. We focus on unit, integrated testing of an orchestration of web services and also the runtime verification aspect. We defined an unit testing framework for an orchestration that is composed of a test architecture, a conformance relation and two proposed testing approaches based on Timed Extended Finite State Machine (TEFSM) model: offline which test activities as timed test case generation, test execution and verdict assignment are applied in sequential, and online which test activities are applied in parallel. For integrated testing of an orchestration, we combines of two approaches: active and passive. Firstly, active approach is used to start a new session of the orchestration by sending a SOAP request. Then all communicating messages among services are collected and analyzed by a passive approach. On the runtime verification aspect, we are interested in the correctness of an execution trace with a set of defined constraints, called rules. We have proposed to extend the Nomad language, by defining the constraints on each atomic action (fixed conditions) and a set of data correlations between the actions to define the rules for web services. This language allows us to define a rule with future and past time, and to use the operations: NOT, AND, OR to combines some conditions into a context of the rule. Afterwards, we proposed an algorithm to check correctness of a message sequence in parallel with the trace collection engine. Specifically, this algorithm verifies message by message without storing them
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Fernandez, Jonathan. "Favoriser un apprentissage actif : Effets des tests d’entraînement sur les processus cognitifs et métacognitifs." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN20047/document.
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Il est aujourd’hui reconnu que la réussite des étudiants à l’université repose sur leurs capacités à autoréguler leur apprentissage, c’est-à-dire à 1) fixer des objectifs adaptés à la tâche, 2) déployer des stratégies d’apprentissage efficaces et 3) vérifier régulièrement si ces objectifs ont été atteints. Or, lorsqu’ils apprennent des documents complexes, ceux-ci ont tendance à traiter passivement l’information et à surestimer la qualité de leur apprentissage. Cette thèse vise à déterminer si le fait d’insérer des tests d’entraînement au sein d’un document multimédia amène les étudiants à traiter plus activement les informations. Pour ce faire, nous avons réalisé quatre expériences au cours desquelles des étudiants recevaient ou non des tests d’entraînement pendant qu’ils apprenaient un cours de neurosciences. Afin d’évaluer les effets des tests sur l’activité cognitive et métacognitive des participants, nous avons combiné un questionnaire d’estimation de l’apprentissage à un protocole de verbalisation. Nos résultats montrent que les participants qui bénéficient de tests estiment plus précisément la qualité de leur apprentissage et obtiennent de meilleures performances que les participants non testés. Par ailleurs, ces meilleures performances s’expliquent par un déploiement de stratégies d’apprentissage plus adaptées à l’exigence de la tâche. Enfin, ces effets bénéfiques disparaissent lorsque l’exigence des tests d’entraînement diffère de celles de l’évaluation finale. L’ensemble de nos résultats permet de mieux comprendre les mécanismes sous-tendant l’effet des tests sur l’apprentissage ainsi que d’identifier les conditions qui favorisent leur efficacitéIt is generally accepted that students need to effectively self-regulate their learning to succeed in university, that is to 1) establish appropriate goals, 2) use effective learning strategies and 3) frequently monitor if their goals have been met. Unfortunately, when students learn complex document, they tend to process the information in a passive way and be overconfident regarding the quality of their learning. The purpose of this thesis is to study if inserting regular practice tests in a multimedia document can promote a more active learning. To pursue this thesis’ aim, four experiments were conducted whereby students were exposed to a neuroscience course and were provided with or not, different types of practice tests. We used a judgment of learning questionnaire and a think aloud protocol to assess the impact of practices tests on cognitive and metacognitive processes. Results showed that, compared with control groups, participants in the practice testing groups were significantly less overconfident in their ability to recall recently learned information and performed better on a post-test questionnaire. Furthermore, enhanced learning performance was explained by the use of more efficient learning strategies. However, when test requirement mismatched those of the final test, practice tests brought none of these beneficial effects and was therefore unhelpful for students learning. Overall, the studies’ results gave us a better insight into the psychological mechanism underlying the testing effect on learning and identify the conditions that favor it
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Kirby, David. "Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1962) : reconciling text and act." Thesis, Royal College of Music, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.748632.
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Wakefield, P. Jane. "Young children’s speech act comprehension : the role of linguistic and contextual information." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25531.
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This study addresses the question of the necessity of propositional content in children's comprehension of speech acts. In investigating this aspect of communicative competence in children the study considered the relative importance of age (3, 4), context (Requests, Questions, and Offers), and quantity of propositional content. Two factorial experiments were conducted in which 54 three and four-year-old children were administered a discrimination task, where, through puppet play, contexts were constructed for utterances in order to simulate particular speech acts. Judgments of the illocutionary force of such contexts were elicited by having children decide which one of two paraphrased utterances matched the stimulus utterance. Quantity of linguistic information in the stimulus presentations was progressively reduced. While younger children's performance was relatively unaffected by the reduction of linguistic information, the older children's discrimination of speech acts was relatively adversely affected. These findings were supported by additional data from an elicited imitation task and spontaneous responses. A developmental shift is proposed, from more direct context-dependent strategies of speech act processing to a later more linear or text-dependent approach linked to developing linguistic awareness.Education, Faculty of
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El, Maarabani Mazen. "Verification and test of interoperability security policies." Phd thesis, Institut National des Télécommunications, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00717602.
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Nowadays, there is an increasing need for interaction in business community. In such context, organizations collaborate with each other in order to achieve a common goal. In such environment, each organization has to design and implement an interoperability security policy. This policy has two objectives: (i) it specifies the information or the resources to be shared during the collaboration and (ii) it define the privileges of the organizations' users. To guarantee a certain level of security, it is mandatory to check whether the organizations' information systems behave as required by the interoperability security policy. In this thesis we propose a method to test the behavior of a system with respect to its interoperability security policies. Our methodology is based on two approaches: active testing approach and passive testing approach. We found that these two approaches are complementary when checking contextual interoperability security policies. Let us mention that a security policy is said to be contextual if the activation of each security rule is constrained with conditions. The active testing consists in generating a set of test cases from a formal model. Thus, we first propose a method to integrate the interoperability security policies in a formal model. This model specifies the functional behavior of an organization. The functional model is represented using the Extended Finite Automata formalism, whereas the interoperability security policies are specified using OrBAC model and its extension O2O. In addition, we propose a model checking based method to check whether the behavior of a model respects some interoperability security policies. To generate the test cases, we used a dedicated tool developed in our department. The tool allows generating abstract test cases expressed in the TTCN notation to facilitate its portability. In passive testing approach, we specify the interoperability policy, that the system under test has to respect, with Linear Temporal logics. We analyze then the collected traces of the system execution in order to deduce a verdict on their conformity with respect to the interoperability policy. Finally, we show the applicability of our methods though a hospital network case study. This application allows to demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed approaches
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Reimer, Andy Melford. "Miracle-workers and magicians in the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3488/.
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The miracle-workers and magicians we meet in the Greco-Roman world and on the pages of Greco-Roman narratives are among the most difficult characters for modem scholars to understand. While Greco-Roman writers presume their readers will share their socio-cultural script and understand how one distinguishes between a legitimate miracle-worker and an illegitimate magician, this script is lost on modem scholars. Hindered first by absolute definitions for miracle and magic from social anthropology and then by relative definitions from the sociology of knowledge, this thesis calls for a re-engagement of the "historic imagination" with respect to these sorts of characters. In particular, this thesis suggests that a detailed investigation into the operation of characters labelled as performers of miracles or magic can reveal the criteria which distinguished the two in the minds of Greco-Roman Mediterraneans as well as revealing the practical outworking of the criteria themselves. Two narratives are chosen for this task-the canonical Acts of the Apostles, representing a Jewish- Christian angle, and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, representing a pagan angle. Methodologically the study proceeds by converting these narratives into "narrative worlds" and then subjecting the narrative worlds to a social investigation using models suggested by the work of Mary Douglas and Peter Brown. Under the rubric of "gaining power, " "intersecting power, " and "defending power" the two narrative worlds projected by these texts are compared and contrasted with respect to the criteria being used to distinguish miracle-worker from magician. The conclusion reached is that in both texts legitimacy for a mediator of divine power is found especially in demonstrating power without appearing desirous of personal gains. A miracle-worker is successful in this regard; a magician is one who fails in this regard.
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Retz, Anne Christine. "Important issues of educational testing: lessons from the No Child Left Behind Act." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1400144639.
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Belcher, Erik M. "EFFECTS of PEARSON’S DIGITAL LEARNING SOLUTION ON THE 11TH GRADE STUDENTS’ ACT GROWTH IN A REGIONAL EDUCATION CONSORTIUM IN NORTHWEST OHIO." University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1595442893373809.
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Harris, Badgett Theresa Linette. "Exploring an ACT Preparation Course as an Intervention Method for African American Students." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3732101.
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In recent years, there has been an interest in the effectiveness of college assessment preparation, which has prompted many studies. The majority of these studies researched instruction/coaching on the Scholastic Assessment Tool (SAT). Notably, the college entrance exam has become a growing concern for minorities, particularly African American students. Prior research by ACT, Inc. (2012, p. 2) has shown African American students rank the lowest in American College Test (ACT) scores of all racial groups. Between 2006 and 2011 the average ACT composite scores increased for White, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, and American/Pacific Islanders. Hispanic scores remained unchanged and the scores of African Americans students declined by an average of two scale points. The focus of this research investigated whether instruction/coaching for the ACT would increase the scores of African American students. The participants of this study were African American high school students who attended a suburban high school in the Midwest. These students took a pre-test (PLAN) and a post-test (ACT) and were provided with reflective journals to document comments and attitudes of this six-week program. The average increase in the ACT scores after taking the ACT Preparation Course was 2.00 points. Considering other variables, it appeared that the increase in these scores could be attributed to the instruction they received taking the ACT Preparation Course and prior to taking the ACT. This research compared both scores of African American students over four semesters, analyzed questionnaire data, and reflective journaling data to examine if student attitudes and scores could be affected as a result of taking a preparation course. The resulting data suggest there was not only an improvement in ACT scores, but also an improvement in student attitudes after completion of the ACT Preparation Course. Student attitudes were positively impacted towards taking the ACT in that the majority of students felt more confident when taking the test as well as acquiring a new perspective in testing skills and study strategies.
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Stoffle, Richard W., M. Nieves Zedeño, and David B. Halmo. "American Indians and the Nevada Test Site: A Model of Research and Consultation." U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276112.
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This book examines the long -term consultation partnership involving a federal agency, a group of American Indian tribes, and a team of anthropologists. This book highlights the history, evolution, dynamics, and results of the consultation relationship between the U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office (DOE/NV) and 20 tribes and organizations composed of ethnic Numic-speaking Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute, and Owens Valley Paiute -Shoshone people. A team of applied anthropologists currently affiliated with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson (UofA), and a team of archaeologists from the Desert Research Institute (DRI), a unit of the University and Community College System of Nevada in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada, respectively, have provided technical assistance and contract consulting services to the Indian tribes and the DOE/NV, first on the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Office (YMSCO) and, in the past decade, on the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
During the early stages of the consultation relationship, the culturally affiliated Indian and pan-Indian entities unified themselves into a single indigenous organization, the Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations, or CGTO, for the purpose of defending their collective interests in the lands and resources comprising the NTS in south –central Nevada. Since 1994, this new Indian organization has consulted with the DOE/NV on an increasingly wider range of issues that affect Indian cultural, religious, and resource values on and around the NTS. The book also examines these cultural and religious values regarding traditional lands and resources, and the cultural significance of resources, objects, places, and landscapes within the boundaries of this facility that have been affected by DOE/NV mission activities.
The consultation relationship was initiated, and continues into the present, as a result of the implementation of a series of federal environmental laws and regulations that require consultation with American Indian tribal governments when activities conducted with federal funds, in federal facilities, or both, have the potential to adversely impact traditional American Indian resources and cultural practices. Most notable among these is the American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA), which was passed by the United States Congress in 1978. Prior to that time, cultural resources were managed mainly in accordance with the provisions set forth in Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
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Florens, Corine. "Modeling of the viscoelastic honeycomb panel equipped with piezoelectric patches in view of vibroacoustic active control design." Phd thesis, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00545422.
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Active control has often been considered for low frequency control of noise radiated by trim panels inside aircraft or helicopter cabins. Trim panels are usually made of honeycomb core sandwich because of their high strength to mass ratio. Active control techniques applied to honeycomb panel have not always given results as good as expected and this thesis aims to understand these limitations based on validated mechanical models of the active panels. For the modeling of honeycomb panels, the main difficulty is to estimate equivalent properties for the core. A numerical homogenization procedure is introduced to estimate effective parameters of a shell/volume/shell model based on the correlation with periodic modes of a detailed 3D model. The use of periodic modes allows a detailed analysis of the influence of constituent properties, especially glue and skin. Tests show that the considered Nomex based honeycomb has significantly viscoelastic behavior. In the model, the viscoelastic behavior of the core is taken into account by a frequency dependence of material parameters. Piezoelectric actuators and sensors are included in the validated honeycomb model. Strategies for integration in a numerical design process are discussed. Finally, the static response to an applied voltage is shown to correspond to a blister shape with local bending of the skin rather than global bending of the panel. This behavior results in poor actuator performance, which is also found in a realistic panel configuration studied at ONERA.
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Ebersold, Fay Ellen. "ACT and GPA as predictors of PPST scores for prospective teachers at UW-Stout." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001ebersoldf.pdf.
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Webb, Paul B. "The Associations between the Scores on the ACT Test and Tennessee's Value-Added Assessment in 281 Tennessee High Schools." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1062.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between and among various demographic and test score data with American College Testing (ACT) scores in 281 Tennessee high schools. This study also addressed which high school characteristics were related to the number of students meeting the ACT requirement for Tennessee lottery scholarships. In addition, this study examined Tennessee Value Added Assessment System's (TVAAS) assessment of ACT scores and its distribution of grades to Tennessee's high schools based upon its Value-Added analysis.
The researcher performed correlations and multivariable linear regressions using socioeconomic status, ethnicity, dropout rate, graduation rate, attendance, average daily membership, per-pupil expenditure, teacher salary, Gateway exams, English I scores, and math foundations scores as independent variables and ACT scores as the dependent variable. The strengths of the correlations were examined and the best combination of independent variables was used to predict future ACT scores. Schools were divided into quartiles, based upon average daily membership and attendance rates, in order to analyze the differences in r2 values among the quartiles when running regressions to predict ACT scores. Quartiles, based upon the percentage of students qualifying for free/reduced meals, ethnicity, and average daily membership were used to study the difference in TVAAS' grade distribution based upon its assessment of ACT scores.
The findings indicated that English I and II scores are most strongly associated with ACT composite scores including the four ACT subtests: math, English, reading, and science. English scores were found to be more strongly associated with ACT math scores than Algebra I scores and more strongly associated with ACT science scores than biology scores. It was found that the 21 composite ACT score requirements of Tennessee's lottery scholarships predominantly favored Caucasian students who did not qualify for free/reduced-priced meals. It was also discovered that TVAAS' ACT grades were unevenly distributed when schools were divided into quartiles based upon the percentage of students qualifying for free/reduced-priced meals, ethnicity, and average daily membership. Only one school in the quartile containing the schools with the highest percentage of students qualifying for free/reduced-priced meals scored above the state's average gain in the reading section of the ACT test.
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Rungien, Siven Pillay. "Mauritian competition law optimising the 'object or effect' test of the Unilateral Conduct Rules under the Competition Act 2007." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/422200/.
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This Thesis concerns the unilateral conduct rules of the Competition Act 2007 of Mauritius. The Thesis compares the 2007 Act against two other models of competition – South Africa and the European Union. The analysis demonstrates that the Mauritian unilateral conduct rules represent a sophisticated qualified effects-based approach to assessing abuse of dominance, however there are a number of issues regarding its implementation. In assessing these issues, this Thesis contributes to knowledge in this area in the following ways. First, it identifies the key role of competition culture in achieving long-term social welfare and the concomitant goals of the Mauritian unilateral conduct rules. Second, it demonstrates how a flexible approach to those rules, taking into account both ‘object’ and ‘effect’, will not only improve the legitimacy and transparency of legislation but also ensure that the Competition Act 2007 contributes to both the ongoing economic development of Mauritius and positive social change.
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Nordin, Joanna. "Catalog Tactics, A Tactics Cat Log, A Cat's Tact Logic." Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-71.
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Johns, James L. "The early Jewish transmission of Psalm 16 : from psalm to messianic proof text in Luke-Acts." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30323.
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This thesis seeks to address one question: What may be known about the early Jewish transmission of Psalm 16 and how may the early Jewish transmission of Psalm 16 help us understand its messianic usage in Acts 2:14-36 and 13:16-41? Chapter 1 provides an overview of Psalm 16’s journey from Hebrew poetry to messianic proof text. By examining the transmission of psalmody in Second Temple Judaism, the two-day relationship between prophecy and psalmody is seen as influencing the appropriation of Psalm 16. The Hebrew Bible shows the Psalms becoming part of the post-exilic practice of inner-biblical exegesis. Psalms are appropriated eschatologically within prophetic texts. In the extrabiblical literature of Second Temple Judaism, the Psalms are gradually seen to have a distinctive function as prophetic proof texts. Chapter 2 finds that Psalm 16'’ significant literary features confirm its sharing in ancient Syro-Palestinian poetic traditions. The poet of Psalm 16 uses traditional material, literary motifs, and stylistic techniques common to other Northwest Semitic languages. Psalm 16 appears to employ a variegated, heterogenous language reflecting an early stage of Hebrew as evidenced by its relatively dense cluster of Israelite Hebrew features. The form of Psalm 16 is that of a Vertrauenspsalm, “psalm of confidence,” - language of the psalmist intimately expresses confidence in YHWH’s provision, even in the case of death. Chapter 3 asserts that Psalm 16’s structure clearly supports its classification as a psalm of confidence and emphasizes its major theme of trust in YHWH. No textual, linguistic, formal or structural evidence suggests a composite Psalm. A working translation of Psalm 16 suggests that, for its readers, Psalm 16 sets up a tension which awaits resolution. Sourced in the claim of a Heilsorakel (to which we have no further access), and confirmed in ongoing communion with YHWH, the psalmist may affirm something which partly fits received views on human destiny but also transcends them.
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Heimerdinger, J. G. "The contribution of discourse analysis to textual criticism : a study of the Bezan text of Acts." Thesis, Bangor University, 1994. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-contribution-of-discourse-analysis-to-textual-criticism--a-study-of-the-bezan-text-of-acts(b379c0fd-73d5-4ad2-a30d-a9dd7411427a).html.
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This study of the Greek text of Acts in Codex Bezae seeks to demonstrate how the practice of textual criticism can be helped by the application of discourse analysis to internal linguistic criticism. In so doing, it aims to throw light on the origin and purpose of the Bezan text. The text of Codex Bezae is compared with that of Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. After an initial section explaining the method used and outlining the principles of discourse analysis, a selection of the types of variant readings is examined exhaustivelyi connectives, word order, prepositions, divine names and the spelling of Jerusalem. Grammatical and pragmatic features (particularly the context and the writer/recipient relationship) are considered. In the final section, consecutive variants in extended portions of text (1: 15-26; 12: 1-12,18-25; 113: 1-18) are the object of exegetical study. The findings of the analyses challenge the traditional view of the Bezan text as a late and wayward text, the work of a slipshod and fanciful scribe. It emerges, on the contrary, as a careful and deliberate work, displaying a high degree of inner coherence and remarkably close to the linguistic patterns which can be discerned in the text which is common to all three manuscripts. The results further suggest that the text peculiar to Codex Bezae was the work of an early Christian editor familiar with the Jewish background of the Church. Its purpose seems to have been to amplify and enhance the first text of Acts for the benefit of Jewish recipients in order to demonstrate the continuity between Judaism and Christianity and especially the divine endorsement of the openness of the new movement to the Gentiles. The Bezan revision of the original is, thus, a valuable witness to the life of the early Church and a demonstration of the acceptable fluidity of the pre-canonical text.
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Iborg, Diana H. "Examining the Effects of ACT Assessment of High School Graduates on College Enrollment and College Readiness." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618624.
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A college education is essential to the future. Those with a college degree will make a higher income and be affected less by economic instability. Employment requiring a college degree will grow, while jobs that do not require postsecondary education will decline. Yet barriers exist that keep all students from attaining a college education.
It is the charge of schools to prepare students so they not only enter college, but also have the necessary skills to be successful in college-level courses. Federal initiatives mandate periodic assessments to ensure student learning and to hold schools accountable. However, scores from these assessments do not help students gain college entrance nor do they evaluate college readiness. Some states now provide the ACT to all high school students as part of the required state assessment. By doing so, all students will have a common measure of academic achievement in terms of college readiness in time to close achievement gaps before leaving high school.
This study examined the effects of increased ACT testing on college enrollment and readiness for students graduating in 2010. State testing percentages were obtained from the 2010 ACT Profile Reports for each state in the sample. College enrollment information was obtained from the Digest of Education Statistics. College readiness was measured by the percentage of students who met or exceeded the ACT benchmark scores in English and Mathematics.
Results revealed a relationship between increased testing and college enrollment, especially in Caucasian/White students, although the degree to which testing was responsible for this increase was limited. Strong relationships were found between increased testing and college readiness in both English and Mathematics. A negative correlation was found between the percentage of students who took the ACT and the percentage of students who met benchmark scores. Results suggested a disconnect between what high school students are taught and what they need to know for college success. Additional study should be pursued to investigate possible reasons for these findings. Recommendations for improvement and suggestions for future research are presented.
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Kim, Duck-Hyun. "Rethinking the movement from text to sermon in the light of speech act theory." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71735.
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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research endeavors to make a more satisfactory connection between the text and sermon by utilizing the speech act theory (SAT). In the light of SAT, the movement from text to sermon is neither simply to be viewed as finding timeless principles, meanings, big ideas from Scripture nor to emphasize a human experience in the modern world to serve as a re-narration of the text. Rather, the homiletical bridge in SAT has to be considered as the performative action of the text itself. The essence of interpretation in preaching is therefore to recognize the illocutionary act in Scripture. In SAT, the illocutionary act creates the meaning as well as the perlocutionary action. This is the center of the effort in order to build a more satisfactory bridge between text and sermon. Obviously, the SAT can directly serve the Reformed Confessions in which the living Triune God is still speaking through the Scripture in the present. The Spirit is the enabler of a disclosure of the autonomous and meaningful action of the Bible. The Spirit has continually enabled the Christian community to understand and to enact the Scripture in the context of the common life of the Christian community. This means that the Bible is not given to be exegeted in academic isolation, but to be performed by the people of God. Perhaps, when the preacher proclaims the re-illocutionary preaching, he/she will encounter an unexpected manner of sermon. However, this creative preaching generates unexpected reality through the Bible in which the Spirit gives the energy to accomplish this alternative reality. This should offer practical guidelines for performing individual faith and generating social capital. That event is proclaimed (performed) as the living Word of God for modern man.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing beoog om ‘n meer bevredigende konneksie te maak tussen teks en preek deur gebruik te maak van die sogenaamde “Speech Act Theory”, oftewel Spraak Handeling Teorie [SHT]. In die lig van die SHT is die beweging vanaf teks na preek nie net om klem te lê op onveranderde beginsels, opinies, waardevolle betekenisse van die Woord of ondervindinge van menslike ervaring in die moderne wêreld om as ‘n herskrywing van die teks te dien nie, maar eerder moet die homilitiese brug gesien word as die manifestering van die teks self. Die primêre fokus van interpretasie is hiervolgens dus om die performatiwe funksie van die Woord te herken. Volgens die SHT skep die performatiewe funksie die betekenis sowel as die performatiewe aksie. Bogenoemde uitgangspunte vorm die middelpunt van aksies wat geneem word om te verseker dat ‘n aanvaarbare brug gebou word tussen prediking en teks. Dit wil voorkom asof die SHT die Gereformeerde Belydenis kan dien, aangesien die Lewende, Drie-enige God volgens hierdie belydenis nog steeds deur die Woord praat in die teenwoordige tyd. Hiervolgens is die Gees van God ‘n fasiliteerder van die onafhanklike en betekenisvolle openbaring van die Bybel. Die Gees van God het volgens hierdie belydens voortdurend die Christen gemeenskap gelei om die Woord te verstaan en om dit uit te voer in die konteks van die normale Christen gemeenskap. Dit beteken dat die Bybel nie gegee is om bloot in isolasie akademies uitgelê te word nie, maar om uit-gevoer te word deur die gemeenskap van God. Predikers wat die performatiewe boodskap van die Skrif binne die kragveld van hierdie gemeenskap preek, mag op verrassende wyses anders preek. Hierdie kreatiewe styl van prediking genereer ‘n onverwagse realiteit, in ooreenstemming met dit wat die Bybel deur die Gees van God intendeer om uit te voer (“perform”). Hierdeur word individuele geloof, maar ook die verrykking van die gemeenskap gedien.
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Curabay, Muhammet. "Meta-analysis of the predictive validity of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT) scores for college GPA." Thesis, University of Denver, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10242126.
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The college admission systems of the United States require the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT) examinations. Although, some resources suggest that SAT and ACT scores give some meaningful information about academic success, others disagree. The objective of this study was to determine whether there is significant predictive validity of SAT and ACT exams for college success. This study examined the effectiveness of SAT and ACT scores for predicting college students’ first year GPA scores with a meta-analytic approach. Most of the studies were retrieved from Academic Search Complete and ERIC databases, published between 1990 and 2016. In total, 60 effect sizes were obtained from 48 studies. The average correlation between test score and college GPA was 0.36 (95% confidence interval: .32, .39) using a random effects model. There was a significant positive relationship between exam score and college success. Moderators examined were publication status and exam type with no effect found for publication status. A significant effect of exam type was found, with a slightly higher average correlation for SAT compared to ACT score and college GPA. No publication bias was found in the study.
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Harrati, Sonia. "La criminalité des femmes : la sérialité comme modèle d'étude du processus acte." Toulouse 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003TOU20016.
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Notre travail s'inscrit dans le champ psychopathologique et vise à s'écarter du piège de vouloir cerner ce qui spécifie la criminalité des femmes. Nos objectifs de recherches consistent à saisir la dynamique du fonctionnement psychique, autrement dit à repérer ce que l'acte vient signer ou inscrire du fonctionnement psychique et comment il trouve sa place dans l'histoire du sujet. Pour ce faire nous proposons une clinique de l'agir sous l'éclairage théorico-clinique du modèle de l'analyse sérielle (Villerbu, 2001, 2003). Nous avons mené notre investigation auprès de 40 femmes condamnées et incarcérées pour un acte criminel, soumises à une batterie de tests quantitatifs et qualitatifs (Thematic Apperception Test, Symptom Check-List, Test d'Intégration Différentielle des Conflits, entretien semi-structuré inspiré du QIPAAS). Nos résultats mettent en évidence les caractéristiques psychodynamiques, psychopathologiques, psycho-criminologiques et anamnestiques des sujets de notre échantillonOur work part of in the psychopathological field and stray from the trap to want to surround what specifies the criminality of the women. Our objectives of research consist to seize the dynamics of the psychic functioning, in other words to identify that the act comes to sign or inscribe of the psychic functioning and how it finds its place in the individual's history. That's the reason why, we propose a clinic to act in the theorico-clinic lighting of the serial analysis' model (Villerbu, 2001, 2003). We tested our hypothesis near 40 women condemned and incarcerated for a criminal act. They are subjected to a quantitative and qualitative test battery (Thematic Apperception Test, Test of Differential integration of the Conflicts, semi-structured interview inspired of the QIPAAS). Our results put in evidence the psychodynamical, psychopathological and psycho-criminological characteristic of the women of our sample
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Story, Virginia. "The Correlation Between the ACT, Inc. EXPLORE Test and Student Success in High School Advanced and Advanced Placement Mathematics Courses." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3584.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the relationship between the mathematics portion of the EXPLORE test with students successes in advanced and Advanced Placement(AP) mathematics courses in high school. The data was collected from a rural Tennessee school system consisting of five years of data among graduated seniors. Analysis was completed to determine the difference between the two county high schools in advanced coursework. The findings of this study concluded a positive correlation between EXPLORE scores and the frequency of students who took advanced mathematics courses. Positive correlation between EXPLORE scores and student successes in advanced courses was also concluded. Two-sample t-test showed the school with the less frequency had a higher mean of successes in advanced mathematics. This school system consistently scored above the national average in the mathematics portion of the EXPLORE test. Ultimately, standardized test results can prove to be a means for guiding students toward challenging mathematics courses.