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Sanguino, Diana Carolina. "Using Contingency Mapping to Decrease Problem Behavior and Increase Social Communication Skills in Children with Autism." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5120.
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Social communication skills play a central role in the developmental outcomes for young children with autism. Due to deficits in social communication skills, many young children with autism develop problem behavior. Providing these children with the right tools to communicate properly may decrease their problem behavior. This study examines the impact of contingency mapping intervention on problem behavior and functional communication skills in three children with autism, using a multiple-baseline design. Before implementation of contingency mapping, verbal contingency was implemented in the first phase of intervention, which was associated with minimal increases in communication skills and decreases in problem behavior across children. Further increases in communication skills and decreases in problem behavior in the contingency mapping condition indicate that the use of the contingency map as a visual aid may be an effective way to augment the effects of contingency instruction.
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Schley, Dan R. "Symbolic-Number Mapping in Judgments and Decisions: A Correlational and Experimental Approach." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1448802342.
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Feighery, Annie. "Crowdsourcing for natural disaster response| An evaluation of crisis mapping the 2010 Haitian earthquake." Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3621768.
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On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, causing catastrophic damages that resulted in at least 300,000 dead, 300,000 serious injuries, and 1.8 million homeless. The destruction was so complete that roads were no longer visible. While buildings, roads, power, and other infrastructure have taken years to restore, mobile phone service was restored almost immediately. A communications network based on mobile phone text messages became an innovative and valuable tool for relief.
Within four hours of the earthquake, a crisis map was established, geocoding messages for inclusion in a freely accessible, online database. Over the next three months, over 3,600 messages would be translated, mapped, and coded with labels indicating the messages' actionable topics. This undertaking involved over 2,000 online volunteers from around the world. Analyzing and evaluating what happened, what worked, and what went wrong from a programmatic perspective is critical for the future use of crisis maps in disasters and for the future integration of new technologies into large bureaucratic entities.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the diffusion of a novel innovation; analyze aspects of the maps' deployment that limited success; and posit solutions for improving crisis mapping in natural disasters. The manuscript comprises three papers, beginning with a review of literature and emerging tools for social media and health promotion. The second paper developed an automated algorithm to code the need expressed in texts and compared its reliability to the actual human-derived codes. The findings suggest that automated algorithms can enhance speed of response and overcome human biases. The result is improved situational awareness. Algorithm codes revealed a pattern of message topics, which transitioned from emergency needs, including finding missing persons, to health infrastructure requests, primarily for food and water. The third paper employed a social capital framework to understand the system users' intents. The findings revealed that individuals far outnumbered aid organizations in users of the system. Also whereas the traditional rapid analysis takes six weeks, the messages revealed real-time needs. These findings suggest that machine coding methodology could increase accuracy of situational analysis and speed response in future disasters.
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Clement, Claire. "Mapping Women's Movement in Medieval England." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/367.
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This thesis investigates women’s geographical movement in medieval England from the perspective of mobility and freedom. It uses pilgrimage accounts from medieval miracle story collections and to gather information about individual travel patterns. The study uses GIS to analyze gendered mobility patterns, and to investigate whether there were noticeable differences in the distance which men and women traveled and the geographical area of the country they originated. It also analyzes the nearness of men’s and women’s respective origin towns to alternative pilgrimage locations, as a means of examining the factors determining gendered travel mobility. The study finds that women’s travel distances were less than men’s, especially in the later medieval period, but that they were in fact more likely than men to come from areas proximate to alternative pilgrimage sites. This suggests the existence of higher mobility capacity for women living in areas with greater contact with other travelers.
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Oliver, Tracy. "Mapping the Hidden: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Multigenerational Family Secrets." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/11.
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Family secrets can be a driving force, whether explicitly or implicitly, for many seeking therapy. Despite this, there is little qualitative research examining how individuals experience and make sense of their family secrets. Through this study the researcher examined the phenomenon of family secrets amongst five individuals from different families. Qualitative research using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) along with a Bowen Family Systems Theory approach was used to explore multigenerational family secrets. Purposive sampling was used to select that participants and data was collected through semi-structured interviews. A genogram was also drafted to identify multigenerational relationships and the history of family secrets.
By exploring and mapping the functions of multigenerational family secrets, the researcher examined in detail how participants make sense of their lived experience with holding a family secret. Through semi-structured interviews, the researcher was able to extract the meanings found within keeping a secret and the functions that secrets serve within families. Six superordinate themes were identified: what’s in a secret, living with a secret, finding meaning, anxiety and differentiation, multigenerational transmission process, and functions of family secrets. The data collected and analysis reflecting the experiences shared by the five participants add to the existing literature on the phenomenon of keeping family secrets and details the implications for the emotional system and marriage and family therapy. By mapping the hidden, a new conversation on the taboos of family secrets can lead to new hope for individuals and generations to come.
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Baier, Thomas, Ciccio Claudio Di, Jan Mendling, and Mathias Weske. "Matching events and activities by integrating behavioral aspects and label analysis." Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10270-017-0603-z.
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Nowadays, business processes are increasingly supported by IT services that produce massive amounts of event data during the execution of a process. These event data can be used to analyze the process using process mining techniques to discover the real process, measure conformance to a given process model, or to enhance existing models with performance information. Mapping the produced events to activities of a given process model is essential for conformance checking, annotation and understanding of process mining results. In order to accomplish this mapping with low manual effort, we developed a semi-automatic approach that maps events to activities using insights from behavioral analysis and label analysis. The approach extracts Declare constraints from both the log and the model to build matching constraints to efficiently reduce the number of possible mappings. These mappings are further reduced using techniques from natural language processing, which allow for a matching based on labels and external knowledge sources. The evaluation with synthetic and real-life data demonstrates the effectiveness of the approach and its robustness toward non-conforming execution logs.
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Yoder, Beth A. "Evaluation of KnowledgeWorkx's cultural mapping and navigation assessment : a cultural self-awareness instrument." Scholarly Commons, 2012. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/799.
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This exploratory and original research project examined the Cultural Mapping & Navigation Assessment (CMN) in order to evaluate it as an intercultural training tool. This instrument was designed by KnowledgeWorkx's multicultural team to assist people in understanding cultural dimensions and developing cultural self-awareness, which are foundational to a person developing intercultural competence. The instrument was evaluated in several ways. The theoretical constructs being measured were reviewed in the literature. The questions used in the CMN were subjected to multilingual and multicultural reviewers and the instrument was statistically analyzed for reliability and validity. Based on that data, changes were made and the revised instrument was administered to a new group. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 10 of the respondents and analyzed for three themes: the degree to which respondents thought their CMN results 4 reflected them; the effects on the participants' cultural self-awareness; and helpfulness as identified by the participants. According to the interviews, the desired outcomes of in creased cultural self- and other-awareness were achieved, as was growth in understanding of cultural dimensions. Content validity is suggested by the strong theoretical foundation. Future research with a larger population will continue to provide important understanding of this valuable intercultural training tool. Finally, information is provided regarding CMN availability, training, support, and cost in order to make it easy for trainers and consultants to evaluate the instrument for their purposes.
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Benkhalti, Abdellah. "Mapping the Desertification Process in Southern Morocco Using Remote Sensing Data." TopSCHOLAR®, 1987. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2149.
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Desertification is a problem occurring in arid and semiarid zones all over the world. It is a consequence of mismanagement of the land. Human activities and livestock pressure on such fragile ecosystems lead to a deterioration of the soil by increasing its salinity, lessening its moisture, and covering it with sand and dust. Aerial photographs and satellite images constitute a tool for mapping and monitoring the desertification process. Multispectral data can assist in detecting the indicators of desertification in early stages in order to plan adequate action.
The improvement of the resolution of satellite images and the fact that they are available on a periodic basis make the use of these data suitable for mapping the evolution of desert patches at large scales. The green band of Landsat MSS is used in this study.
Two images taken, respectively, in 1976 and 1985 and covering the province of Ouarzazate in southern Morocco are used to map the desertification process and its evolution in the region. At the scale used and given the ground resolution of the MSS (80 meters), significant changes were found between the two images. However, changes occurring at scale smaller than 80 meter square were impossible to detect by visual interpretation of this band.
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Smith, Zachary Joseph. "Mapping the Spatial Movements, Behaviors, and Interactions of Captive Orangutans using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and GIS." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5312.
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Five captive Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) were observed in order to better understand their spatial selection, behavior, and interaction with their environment and each other. A newly introduced adult male's interactions with a female group containing two adults, one adolescent, and one juvenile, was documented. Visual observations were performed to document individual behaviors, along with any interactions with silvery langur monkeys, public crowd levels, temperature, and enrichment props. Methods included 15 observation periods, 0.5-3 hours in length each, during which behaviors were verbally and visually confirmed using a HD video camera. Spatial locations of each individual were recorded every three minutes during each observation period. The orangutan enclosure was measured and mapped using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), and observed behaviors and spatial locations were georeferenced to the resulting 3D model depicting the exhibit. Results were summarized as time-activity budgets and were geo-visualized using 3D plots and density maps. This research demonstrated how the application of spatiotemporal and behavioral analysis coupled with TLS and three-dimensional modelling can be used to better study captive primates. These types of studies are important as zoos increasingly become home to great ape species.
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Liberalino, Cintia Camila. "Pra?a: lugar de lazer: rela??es entre caracter?sticas ambientais e comportamentais na Pra?a Kalina Maia Natal RN." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2011. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17518.
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Nowadays, the urban chaos brings some problems to the citizens such as mental fatigue, irritability and lack of attention, emphasizing the need for open urban spaces, capable to contribute to the restoration of physical and mental balance of people. By the variety of alternative uses available, many of them related to the stimulus of entertainment activities, the squares have been identified as restorative environments, especially by its potential as a place of leisure. In this context, the objective of this dissertation is to understand the use of the square as leisure environment, by a square in Natal RN, establishing the relationship between environmental and behavioral characteristics. More specifically, I attempt to identify the major activities that happen there, the people that develop them and the spatial and temporal configurations of this occupation. Among the 290 squares available in the city, the Kalina Maia Square was selected, which is located in the district of Lagoa Nova. The case study chosen was based on criteria relating to scale, shape, location on the urban environment, variability of uses and conservation status. In the study were used behavioral mapping place-centered and people-centered, behavior trace analysis and 14 interviews. The results show that the square is used by people from different ages and social classes, subdivided into groups with specific days and times. These users are usually engaged in activities related to various types of leisure, with sports predominance. The relationship between spatial configuration and behavior shows that there is a sectorization of uses, being possible to identify the environmental characteristics that most favor observed activities, especially in relation to shading and presence of furniture and equipment. Moreover, throughout the day it appears that the affordances inherent to the various fixed objects on the square are decoded differently by various categories of users, by giving them insights that help the development of leisure activities that characterize each group
Atualmente, o caos urbano traz aos moradores das cidades problemas como fadiga mental, irritabilidade e falta de aten??o, acentuando a necessidade de espa?os urbanos abertos, capazes de contribuir para a restaura??o do equil?brio f?sico e mental das pessoas. Pela variedade das alternativas de uso oferecidas, muitas das quais relacionadas ao est?mulo de atividades de entretenimento, as pra?as t?m sido apontadas como ambientes restauradores, principalmente pelo seu potencial enquanto lugar de lazer. Nesse contexto, o objetivo geral desta disserta??o ? a compreens?o do uso da pra?a como ambiente de lazer, tomando como refer?ncia o estudo de uma pra?a de Natal RN, estabelecendo a rela??o entre suas caracter?sticas ambientais e comportamentais. Mais especificamente, busco identificar as principais atividades que ali acontecem, as pessoas que as desempenham e as configura??es espaciais e temporais dessa ocupa??o. Dentre 290 pra?as existentes na cidade, foi selecionada a Pra?a Kalina Maia, localizada no bairro de Lagoa Nova. A escolha do estudo de caso recorreu a crit?rios relativos ? escala, forma, localiza??o na malha urbana, variabilidade de usos e estado de conserva??o. No estudo utilizei mapeamento comportamental centrado no lugar e centrado nas pessoas, an?lise de vest?gios de comportamento e 14 entrevistas. Os resultados revelam que a pra?a ? utilizada por pessoas de varias idades e classes sociais, subdivididas em grupos com dias e hor?rios espec?ficos. Estes usu?rios geralmente se envolvem em atividades ligadas a v?rios tipos de lazer, com predomin?ncia do esportivo. A rela??o entre configura??o espacial e comportamento mostra haver uma setoriza??o dos usos, sendo poss?vel identificar as caracter?sticas ambientais que mais favorecem algumas das atividades observadas, sobretudo relacionadas ao sombreamento e ? presen?a de mobili?rio e equipamentos. Al?m disso, ao longo do dia verifica-se que as affordances inerentes aos diversos objetos fixos presentes no local s?o decodificadas diferentemente pelas v?rias categorias de usu?rios, proporcionando a eles entendimentos que favorecem o desenvolvimento das atividades de lazer que caracterizam cada grupo
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Meit, Michael, Kate E. Beatty, Megan Heffernan, Paula Masters, Deborah Slawson, Ginny Kidwell, James Fey, and Alyssa Lovelace. "Documenting and Mapping Health Disparities in Central Appalachia: Obesity and Chronic Disease Mortality." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6846.
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Research Objective: On behalf of the Appalachian Funders Network, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, East Tennessee State University and NORC at the University of Chicago documented the current burden of obesity, diabetes, and chronic disease mortality in central Appalachia. An analysis of county-level data was conducted in order to provide a comprehensive picture of the health condition of the region. Contributing factors, such as physical inactivity and food environment, were also investigated to determine how the built environment impacts obesity.
Study Design: Several secondary data sources were utilized, including the County Health Rankings, CDC Diabetes Interactive Atlas, USDA Food Environment Atlas, and mortality data from the CDC National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System. Variables analyzed included: adult obesity prevalence, adult diabetes prevalence, food insecurity, access to exercise opportunities, physical inactivity, and premature chronic disease mortality. The mortality analyses focused on four of the leading causes of death: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and chronic lower respiratory disease, for persons age 25 to 64 from 2009 to 2013. When available, county-level estimates were used to create maps of the region, documenting the disparities compared to the rest of the nation.
Population Studied: Health disparities were documented within the counties of central Appalachia, consisting of parts of Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Principal Findings: More than two-thirds (68.6%) of the 234 counties in central Appalachia have an adult obesity prevalence above the national median of 30.9% (defined as BMI over 30). Over 85% of the counties in central Appalachia have a percentage of physically inactive adults higher than the national median of 26.4% (defined as not participating in physical activity or exercise in the past 30 days).
When analyzing the combined chronic disease mortality for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and chronic lower respiratory disease, the combined national mortality rate is 93.0 deaths per 100,000 population. Nearly 90% of central Appalachian counties have a higher combined morality rate, and the state mortality rate for the Appalachian region of all six states is higher than the national rate. The disparity is more pronounced in rural communities, as the rural counties of central Appalachia have a higher mortality rate than urban counties within central Appalachia and rural counties across the United States. The combined mortality rate for these four diseases is 74% higher in rural central Appalachia than urban counties nationally.
Conclusions: Compared to the rest of the country, people in central Appalachia are more likely to experience and prematurely die from obesity-related chronic disease, including diabetes and heart disease. Residents of rural central Appalachia face even more significant disparities as compared to urban residents within the region and nationally.
Implications for Policy or Practice: Obesity and chronic disease in central Appalachia are significant public health concerns that must be addressed in order to improve the health of the region.
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Carlson, Brian M. "Investigating the Genetic Basis of Altered Activity Profiles in the Blind Mexican Cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439282081.
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Greener, Judith Robin. "Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy: An Exploratory Approach to Understanding the Decision Making Process." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/354121.
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The rate at which women choose mastectomy has grown dramatically, and of particular note is the increase in contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM). For women with no history of breast cancer or genetic risk, CPM represents a treatment decision that does not offer better long-term outcomes than the decision not to remove a healthy breast and may be associated with increased surgical risk and interventions, increased cost to the healthcare system, and potential adverse psycho-social outcomes. To better understand the decision making process regarding the election of CPM among women with early stage unilateral breast cancer, with no family history or genetic risk, a three-phase exploratory study was conducted. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with healthcare providers who have close interaction with women during the decision making process (N=3) and patients who made a surgical decision about breast cancer treatment within the past three years (N=11). These two phases informed the design of the quantitative internet survey, conducted among women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in the process of making a surgical decision (N=336). The survey design was also guided by an existing model for treatment decision making which uses a social ecological framework (Revenson & Pranikoff, 2005). In addition to descriptive analyses, perceptual mapping was utilized to understand patients’ conceptualizations of the relative importance of factors considered during the decision making process, and AdSAM® was used to gauge emotional response. Results suggest that women more likely to elect CPM demonstrate an emotional response to a generalized fear of cancer, along with the need to take control of their situation. In addition, retrospective interviews emphasized somewhat different reasons for electing CPM, highlighting the importance of prospective research in studying the decision making process.
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Tofilovski, Alexander. "Poppins : The Service and Interaction Design of Babysitting Service." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-76196.
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This master thesis is covering a project that focuses on developing both babysitting services and dog walking services and facilitating them through a mobile application. Only the user interface for the service of babysitting was created because the dog walking service was considered to be less of a complex service, and not add to more to the insights in this project. The project was started due to observations that the babysitting service is highly used in America, but it does not operate in a structured fashion. Many parents are new to babysitting which creates uncertainty when ordering and scheduling babysitter. Babysitter, on the other hand, are usually younger and inexperienced. The user interface is created with a service design approach. Developing the service though by creating stakeholder maps, customer journeys, and, service blueprints. Creating the user interface with the service blueprint as a reference. By taking this approach business insight where created and the babysitting service could be created as a hollow organization. An organization that combines more than one service to create greater value for the end user.Den här examens rapporten innehåller arbetet att fram ta en barnvakts service och en service för att hjälpa hundägare att rasta hunden när de är frånvarande. Ett grönsint har designat för att tillgodo se användaren med servicen. Hund servicens användargränssnitt har dock inte designats på grund av att servicen ansågs mindre komplex och inte bedrog till insikterna i projektet. Projektet startade på grund av en observation baserad på barnvakts tjänster använd i Amerika. Observationen visade att många föreldar använder sig utav barnvakter men kommunikationen mellan föräldrar och barnvakter varierade mycket. Variationen skapar svårigheter i servicen. Mång föräldrar som aldrig använt sig av barnvakts tjänster har svårt att bedöma vad som kan begäras och hur mycket de ska betala. Barnvakter som oftast är unga människor är de som lider av situation. Unga och oerfarna som är drar sig för att säga till när allt inte stämmer överens. Användargränssnittet är skapat med en servicedesign approach. Arbeta fram en service genom att ska stakeholder maps, customer journeys och service blueprints. Användargränssnittet skapades genom att använda service blueprinten som en referens till vilka funktioner som ska finnas med. Genom att ta använda sig av servicedesign för att ta fram gränssnittet har insikter skapat ur en organisatorisk synpunkt. Insikter som lede till skapandet av en ”hollow” organisation. En organisation som combinera fler typer av service för att skapa mervärde till slutanvändaren.
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Silva, Elisabeth Meyer da. "Efeitos da entrevista motivacional e do mapeamento cognitivo associados à TCCG no tratamento de pacientes com transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/25116.
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INTRODUÇÃO Segundo a 4ª edição do Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 2002), o Transtorno Obsessivo- Compulsivo (TOC) caracteriza-se por obsessões e/ou compulsões recorrentes que interferem substancialmente com o funcionamento cotidiano. Ainda que a Terapia Cognitivo-Comportamental em Grupo (TCCG) tenha sido efetiva nos estudos de pacientes com TOC (Cordioli et al., 2003; Braga et al., 2005; Sousa et al., 2006), quase um terço (30%) dos pacientes não se beneficiou do tratamento em grupo nos mesmos estudos. A Entrevista Motivacional (EM) e o Mapeamento Cognitivo (MC) têm sido usados para melhorar os resultados de tratamentos. OBJETIVOS O objetivo principal do presente estudo foi avaliar os efeitos de se acrescentar duas sessões individuais de EM+MC a 12 semanas de TCCG na resposta ao tratamento dos pacientes com TOC, quando comparados apenas à TCCG. MÉTODOS Noventa e três pacientes adultos, com diagnóstico de TOC de acordo com os critérios do DSM-IV, participaram de um ensaio clínico randomizado de 14 semanas: 48 pacientes foram alocados à condição de duas sessões individuais de EM+MC seguidas de 12 semanas de TCCG e 45 receberam duas sessões individuais informativas seguidas da TCCG. Para a avaliação dos resultados foi utilizada a escala Yale-Brown de Sintomas Obsessivo-Compulsivos (Y-BOCS) como medida de desfecho primária. Como medidas de desfecho secundárias utilizou-se: a escala de Impressão Clínica Global (CGI) e o Inventário de Depressão de Beck (BDI), bem como a proporção de respondedores (definida como melhora [redução na Y-BOCS 35%] ou não-melhora [redução 35% na Y-BOCS]) e o percentual de pacientes com remissão parcial (Y-BOCS 35%, mas com escore total >8 e CGI 2) e remissão completa (Y-BOCS 8 e CGI < 2). RESULTADOS Quando os dois grupos foram comparados, ambos apresentaram redução dos sintomas do TOC. No entanto, a redução e remissão dos sintomas foram significativamente maiores no grupo da EM+MC seguido da TCCG. Além disso, os resultados positivos foram mantidos após três meses de seguimento com redução adicional de sintomas. CONCLUSÃO Este estudo é o primeiro ensaio clinico randomizado que acrescenta duas sessões individuais de EM+MC à TCCG para aumentar a resposta do tratamento em grupo para o TOC. Apesar de algumas limitações, nossos resultados sugerem que acrescentar duas sessões individuais de EM+MC à TCCG pode aumentar a efetividade da TCCG na redução dos sintomas do TOC. Estudos futuros deverão investigar isoladamente os efeitos da EM e do MC como estratégia de potencialização no tratamento do TOC.INTRODUCTION According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMIV; American Psychiatric Association, 2002), Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions that significantly interfere with daily functioning. Although group cognitive behavioral therapy (GCBT) has been effective for OCD patients (Cordioli et al., 2003; Braga et al., 2005; Sousa et al., 2006), almost onethird (30%) of patients did not benefit from this treatment. Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Thought Mapping (TM) have been used to enhance treatment outcome. AIMS The main goal of the present study was to examine the effects of adding individual sessions of MI and TM to 12 weeks of CBGT on the treatment outcome of OCD patients when compared to the CBGT alone. METHODS Ninety-three adult outpatients, with OCD diagnosis according to the DSM-IV participated in a 14-week randomized clinical trial: 48 patients were allocated to two individual sessions of MI+TM in addition to 12-week CBGT; 45 underwent two individual information sessions followed by CBGT. For the outcomes evaluation, the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) was used as the primary efficacy measure. As secondary efficacy measures, the Clinical Global Impressions Scale (CGI), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the proportion of responders (defined as improved [reduction 35% on the Y-BOCS] or non-improved [reduction 35% on the Y-BOCS]) and the percentage of patients in partial remission (Y-BOCS 35% but with the total score >8 and CGI 2) and full remission (Y-BOCS 8 and CGI < 2) were used. RESULTS When the two groups were compared, both presented a reduction of OCD symptoms. However, symptom reduction and remission were significantly higher in the MI+TM CBGT group. In addition, positive outcomes were maintained at the 3-month follow-up with additional symptom reduction. CONCLUSION This study is the first randomized clinical trial which adds individual sessions of MI+TM to CBGT to improve the outcome of group treatment for OCD. Despite some limitations, our results suggest that adding MI+TM to CBGT can enhance the CBGT effectiveness in reducing OCD symptoms. Future studies should investigate the effect of the MI and the TM alone as an augmentation strategy for OCD treatment.
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Fernandes, Odara de S? "Crian?as no p?tio escolar :a utiliza??o dos espa?os e o comportamento infantil no recreio." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2006. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17440.
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The interest for understanding the relationship of the child with its environment has increased in the whole world during the last few years. Several researchers, using Environmental Psychology as basis, have analyzed the implications of this relation for the child development and the organization of playful spaces. Being a place where children spend a great part of their time and develop many intellectual and social abilities, the school becomes one of the main focus of this research. This study investigated different sectors of the outdoor area of NEI -UFRN, during the recreation time, in which the use of space and the interaction between children were analyzed, through the observation of the child behavior (place-centered and individual-centered mapping). The results had disclosed that the school s outdoor area and its equipments presents a great range of choices possible to the children, however its occupation is not uniform: there are areas very used and others almost without use. Generally, this heterogeneity happens again in relation to the distribution of the interaction states in the sectors, the friendly associative behavior being the most present. The observation of children behaviors favored a better understanding of the use of the spaces, and contributed for discussion about the environment what these users really need for a healthy development, including differences in related to gender, age and daytime. In spite of the studied outdoor areas being vast, pleasant and varied, it needs a better distribution of its equipments and a plan that allows greater children participation in the place organization
O interesse pela compreens?o do relacionamento da crian?a com seu ambiente vem aumentando nos ?ltimos anos, em todo o mundo. Diversos pesquisadores, utilizando a Psicologia Ambiental como base, t?m analisado a import?ncia dessas rela??es para o desenvolvimento infantil e suas implica??es na organiza??o de espa?os l?dicos. Por ser um local onde as crian?as passam grande parte do seu tempo e desenvolvem muitas habilidades intelectuais e sociais, a escola torna-se um dos principais focos dessas pesquisas. Partindo desse pressuposto, investigou-se as diferentes ?reas do p?tio do N?cleo de Educa??o Infantil (NEI), durante o recreio, analisando a utiliza??o do espa?o e os comportamentos de intera??o entre crian?as nesses locais, atrav?s da observa??o do comportamento infantil (mapeamento centrado-no-lugar e centrado-na-pessoa). Os resultados revelaram que a ?rea livre da escola e seus equipamentos permitem grande possibilidade de escolha ?s crian?as, contudo sua ocupa??o n?o ? uniforme, existindo ?reas muito utilizadas e outras quase sem uso. De modo geral, essa heterogeneidade se repete em rela??o ? distribui??o dos estados interacionais pelos setores, sendo o comportamento associativo amig?vel o mais encontrado. A observa??o do comportamento das crian?as n?o s? favoreceu a uma melhor compreens?o da utiliza??o dos espa?os, como tamb?m, contribuiu para a discuss?o sobre os ambientes de que esses usu?rios necessitam para um desenvolvimento saud?vel, at? mesmo no que se refere ? diferen?as em rela??o a g?nero, idade e turnos. Apesar do p?tio estudado, ser grande, agrad?vel e variado, ele necessita de uma melhor distribui??o dos seus equipamentos e de um planejamento que permita maior participa??o das crian?as na organiza??o do lugar
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Turri, Maria Grazia. "Mapping of behavioural quantitative trait loci." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:89823fa1-c1d3-49e3-acb9-46da18b12245.
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Anxiety is a common disorder which affects about 25% of the population and whose pathophysiology is still poorly understood. Animal models of disease have been widely used to investigate the molecular basis of human disorders, including psychiatric illnesses. This thesis is about the study of the genetic basis of a mouse model of anxiety. I have carried out a QTL mapping study of behavioural measures thought to model anxiety. I report results from 1,636 mice, assessed for a large number of phenotypes in five ethological tests. Mice belonged to two F2 intercrosses originated by four lines generated in a replicate selection experiment. By comparing mapping results between the two crosses, I have demonstrated that selection operated on the same relatively small number of loci in the four selected lines. Analysis of genetic effect of QTL across phenotypes has allowed me to identify loci with specific roles on different dimensions of anxious behaviour, therefore enhancing our understanding of the anxiety phenotype in mice. For some of these QTL I have also accomplished fine mapping experiments: a locus on chromosome 15 is now contained in an interval of only 3 centimorgans. This work is the basis for further molecular dissection of the genetic loci that underlie anxiety and provides a starting point for the discovery of genes involved in a common psychiatric condition.
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Dave, Naishadh Rushikeshbhai, and n. dave@student@rmit edu au. "Mapping Spatial Behavioural Risk in Port Campbell National Park." RMIT University. Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091127.163118.
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Humans are inherently drawn to places of naural scenic beauty. Alone in Australia's national parks; the demand on these locations is increasing because of increased population plus increasing regional domestic travel. It is important to understand how tourists are utilising nature-based tourism resources to ensure that tourist attractions, facilities and services provided in parks are not exposed to loss events. Environmental and human losses, when combined with their likelihood of occurrence, will constitute risk. Heavy use of popular sites in particular times of the year, beyond the carrying capacity, may result in an irreparable environmental loss. Besides, human risks in terms of becoming lost in the wilderness or falling down from the cliff are significant factors that park managers are considering. It is becoming utmost important to investigate how these visitors are interacting with the natural environment, in what ways at highly vunerable sites. Park managers are now required to understand the needs, demands, preferences and motivation of visitors to vist the parks. A proactive planning to manage potential risk particularly in relatively more fragile and vulnerable environments is needed. This thesis documents a study of visitors to Loch Ard Gorge Site within the Port Campbell National Park, Victoria. Visitors were monitored for their spatial behaviour using the GPS receivers. Visitor's attitude, interests, opinions and motives to travel to the study location is surveyed using onsite self-administrated questionnaire. Total 102 individuals were surveyed to determine their preferences and to obtain their socio-demographical profiles.These were latter coupled with their GPS track movements in order to derive their elicited spatial behaviour. It is well-established fact that visitors' attitude, preferences, and socio-demographical profiles are important factors to identify risk taking spatial behaviour. Hence, this research underpins the exhibited spatial behaviour of tourist to deliver their associated spatial behavioural risk typologies. Statistical classifications of visitors, based on survey responses were categorised using K-means Cluster Analysis. As a result, six different tourist types were obtained. They are; Mid-Allocentics possibly Risk Takers. Allocentrics and confirmed Risk Takers. Mid-Psychocentrics and Risk Averters. Allocentrics and Dependent Risk Takers. Psychocentrics and confirming Risk Averters. Psychocentrics and Risk Averters Mass Tourists. The mean values of all clusters (cluster centroids) are interpreted to understand tourist's risk taking and/or risk averting preferences. Visitors' actual spatial behavioural were spatially analysed using movement pattern maps. The typologies subsequently were verified using Discriminant Function Analysis and in this process tests of equality of group means (Significance of F-test), ANOVA classification are discussed. The final part of Discriminant Function Analysis is to determine the linear regression equations for prediction of group membership of data points in future using classification Function Matrix (Fisher's Linear Disceriminant Function). The developed tourist typologies may help park managers to regulate and mitigate human risk prior to its occurrence by understanding the visitors personality and preferences and their risk taking probabilities.
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Tascone, Lyssandra dos Santos. "Morfometria baseada no voxel e sintomas neuropsiquiátricos na Doença de Alzheimer e no comprometimento cognitivo sem demência." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5142/tde-25092013-155146/.
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O estudo dos sintomas neuropsiquiátricos em Doença de Alzheimer (DA) através do agrupamento destes em síndromes tem sido cada vez mais utilizado, uma vez que permitiria detectar diferenças em sua prevalência, em sua evolução, em relação a determinantes psicossociais e a correlatos neurobiológicos. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar regiões de redução de substância cinzenta em áreas corticais associadas com sintomas e síndromes neuropsiquiátricos específicos, provenientes da Escala Inventário Neuropsiquiátricos (NPI), em pacientes com DA e comprometimento cognitivo sem demência (CIND). O método de morfometria baseada no voxel (VBM) com DARTEL (Diffeomorphic Anatomical Registration Using Exponentiated Lie Algebra) foi utilizado para verificar a correlação entre presença de sintomas e síndromes neuropsiquiátricos específicos e redução regional de volume de substância cinzenta em análise em todo cérebro e em regiões previstas a priori. As síndromes utilizadas foram SN1/Agitação (agitação, alterações de sono e apetite), SN2/Hiperatividade (desinibição, comportamento motor aberrante e irritabilidade), SN3/Afetiva (depressão e apatia) e SN4/Psicose (delírios e alucinações). A presença de delírios foi associada a volume de substância cinzenta reduzido em giro frontal inferior direito (BA45); depressão com xvii redução de substância cinzenta em giro temporal médio e inferior direito (BA 37/22) e giro frontal inferior (BA09-DLPFC) e giro parahipocampal esquerdos; ansiedade com redução em giro frontal médio esquerdo (BA10); e alterações de apetite com redução em córtex anterior cingulado esquerdo (BA32) em pacientes com DA. A presença de SN1/Agitação foi associada a volume de substância cinzenta reduzido em giro frontal médio direito (BA09-DLPFC); SN2/Hiperatividade com redução em giro temporal superior direito (BA22) e frontal inferior bilateral (BA47); e SN4/Psicose com redução em giro pré-central (BA44), temporal superior (BA22) e ínsula direitos em DA. No grupo CIND, somente SN1/Agitação evidenciou associação com redução de substância cinzenta regional. Atrofia de áreas corticais específicas parecem relacionadas aos sintomas e síndromes neuropsiquiátricos em DA. Síndromes neuropsiquiátricas em DA mostraram-se correlacionadas à atrofia de estruturas centrais de alguns circuitos neuronais envolvidos na fisiopatologia de transtornos psiquiátricosThe study of neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with Alzheimer\'s disease (AD) by grouping these symptoms into syndromes has been increasingly used because it would detect differences in its prevalence and evolution, in relation to psychosocial determinants and neurobiological correlates. The aim of this study was to identify regions of reduced gray matter in cortical areas associated with specific neuropsychiatric symptoms and syndromes from the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) in patients with AD and cognitive impairment, no dementia (CIND). Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) plus Dartel (Diffeomorphic Anatomical Registration Exponentiated Using Lie Algebra) was used to verify the correlation between the presence of specific neuropsychiatric symptoms and syndromes and regional gray matter volume reduction throughout the brain and in regions predicted a priori. The syndromes were NS1/ Agitation (agitation, sleep and eating disorders), NS2/Hyperactivity (disinhibition, aberrant motor behavior and irritability), NS3/Affective (depression and apathy) and NS4/Psychosis (delusions and hallucinations). The presence of delusions was associated with gray matter volume reduction in right inferior frontal gyrus (BA45), depression with reduced gray matter in right inferior middle temporal gyrus (BA 37/22) and left inferior frontal gyrus (BA09-DLPFC) and left parahippocampal gyrus; anxiety with reduction in left middle frontal gyrus (BA10), and eating disorders with reduction in left anterior cingulate cortex (BA32) in patients with AD. The presence of NS1/Agitation was associated with gray matter volume reduction in the right middle frontal gyrus (BA09-DLPFC); NS2/ Hyperactivity with reduction in right superior temporal gyrus (BA22) and bilateral inferior frontal (BA47) and NS4/Psychosis with a reduction in right precentral gyrus (BA44), right superior temporal (BA22) and in right insula in AD. In the CIND group, only SN1/Agitation showed association with regional gray matter reduction. Atrophies of specific cortical areas were showed to be related to symptoms and neuropsychiatric syndromes in patients with AD
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Laugle, Kelly M. "Measuring the alphabetic principle: Mapping behaviors onto theory." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10331.
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xiii, 137 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.Research suggests that development of the alphabetic principle is a critical factor in learning to recognize words and becoming a successful reader. The alphabetic principle encompasses both the understanding that relationships exist between letters and sounds and the application of these relationships to reading words. This study investigated the degree to which different measures of the alphabetic principle were predictive of later reading development. These measures were examined in the context of Ehri's phase theory of sight word development to investigate how different behaviors associated with the alphabetic principle fit within a developmental framework. Two cohorts of students (109 kindergarteners, 212 first graders) participated in this study from spring of 2007 until late fall of 2008 (58 second graders, 121 third graders). The predictive powers of single and combined measures of the alphabetic principle were analyzed using sequential regression. Results indicated that each measure explained significant between-student variation in performance on measures of word reading fluency, oral reading fluency (ORF), vocabulary, and reading comprehension. A measure of letter-sounds embedded in nonsense words appeared to have more utility for the prediction of reading outcomes than a measure of letter-sounds presented in isolation. Additionally, including a measure of nonsense words with a measure of letter-sounds embedded in nonsense words increased the predictive power of the model over and above the predictive power of letter sounds alone. Growth on ORF served as an additional criterion for the purpose of investigating the methodology of measuring growth. Two conceptualizations of growth were explored: raw score change over time and individual rates of growth over time (slope). Correlations and sequential regression were used to evaluate the relationship between raw score change and measures of the alphabetic principle. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) was used to model individual slopes on Lexile measures of ORF (LORF). In general, raw score change appeared largely unrelated to measures of the alphabetic principle. HLM analyses revealed that individual differences in slope on LORF were minimal and not very reliable, making the prediction of these differences difficult. Recommendations for future research and implications for practice are discussed.
Committee in charge: Roland Good, Chairperson, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Kenneth Merrell, Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Member, Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership; Jean Stockard, Outside Member, Planning Public Policy and Management
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Lermigeaux, Isabelle. "Rôle de l'organisation de l'espace de travail sur les activités effectives et empêchées des enseignants : rôle de la configuration de la salle de sciences dans l'apprentissage de la compétence d'argumentation." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAH019/document.
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L'organisation de l'espace de travail est un aspect du contexte instrumental d'enseignement (Grangeat & Hudson, 2015). A ce titre, l'appropriation de l'espace de la classe en tant qu'instrument (Rabardel, 1995) est susceptible de faciliter l'activité du professionnel ou au contraire réduire son pouvoir d'agir (Clot, 2008), en empêchant ou limitant certaines actions et interactions. L'espace de la classe est un espace relationnel (Löw, 2001) porteur d'un message plus ou moins fort de frontalité, qui détermine une structure de communication plus ou moins orientée entre les élèves et l'enseignant (Fisher et Fousse, 2002). Le placement des élèves a une incidence sur leurs performances (Perkins &Wieman, 2005 ; Brooks, 2011, 2012) et il semble aussi que les interactions entre élèves diffèrent selon la facilité d'accès de l'enseignant à leur espace de travail (Issaadi et Jaillet, 2017). L'espace de la classe est aussi l'espace de l'activité (Leplat, 2000), dans lequel l'enseignant se place et se déplace, en jouant sur les codes de la proxémie et en utilisant des lieux spécifiques (Hall, 1968, Forest, 2006). Les déplacements apparaissent comme des gestes professionnels, exprimant les connaissances professionnelles et la perception des affordances spatiales (Gibson, 1979 ; Warren &Wang, 1987) de l'enseignant.Cette recherche a analysé les placements et déplacements de l'enseignant sous l'angle de l'analyse de l'activité, en questionnant l'accessibilité (Vickerman, 1974) de quatre espaces de classe (Îlots, Bus, Hybride et Peigne). L'objectif était d'examiner dans quelle mesure les contraintes liées à l'espace de travail modifiaient les interactions entre l'enseignant et les groupes d'élèves. La méthodologie s'est appuyée sur la cartographie comportementale suivant Legendre et Depeau (2003), pour croiser les données spatiales et temporelles liées aux déplacements et les données relatives aux processus d'apprentissages, reposant sur l'analyse des échanges verbaux intragroupes d'argumentation, de régulation de la réalisation de la tâche et motivationnels et sur l'analyse des échanges enseignant-groupes, dans le contexte de l'enseignement des sciences fondé sur l'investigation. Ce contexte présente des contraintes spécifiques liées à l'espace dans la mesure où le mobilier est fixé au sol, et réclame une organisation adaptée au travail en petits groupes. Deux construits, l'accessibilité potentielle et la proximité réelle ont été mobilisés dans cette recherche.Les résultats montrent qu'une valeur d'accessibilité potentielle caractérise chaque configuration, et que la proximité effective de l'enseignant vis-à-vis des groupes d'élèves apparaît corrélée à l'accessibilité potentielle du groupe d'élèves. Ils montrent aussi que bien que les interactions verbales enseignant-groupes ne diffèrent pas selon la configuration, la qualité de la régulation intragroupe et la qualité du processus d'argumentation sont affectées par la configuration, et que leur qualité est moins bonne quand l'accès est plus difficile, ce qui questionne le rôle de la perception d'accessibilité. Les construits d'accessibilité potentielle, de proximité réelle et l'utilisation d'une méthodologie d'analyse géospatiale des interactions de classe sont proposés en tant que moyen d'évaluation des nouveaux espaces d'apprentissage qui émergent avec la généralisation des outils numériques en classeThe organization of the workspace is an aspect of the instrumental context of teaching (Grangeat & Hudson, 2015). The appropriation of the space of the class as an instrument (Rabardel, 1995) may facilitate the activity of the professional or on the contrary reduce the teacher’s power to act (Clot, 2008), by preventing or by limiting actions and interactions. The space of the classroom is a relational space (Löw, 2001) that carries a more or less strong frontal message, determining a structure of communication more or less directed towards the teacher (Fisher and Fousse, 2002).The layout of the students has an incidence on their performances (Perkins & Wieman, 2005; Brooks, 2011, 2012) and it also seems that the interactions between pupils differ according to the accessibility of the teacher in their workspace (Issaadi & Jaillet, 2017). The space of the classroom is also the space of activity (Leplat, 2000), where the teacher is moving, playing on the codes of proxemy and using specific places (Hall, 1968, Forest, 2006). The teacher's movements appear as professional gestures, expressing professional knowledge and perception of the spatial affordances by the teacher (Gibson, 1979; Warren &Wang, 1987).This search analyzed the teacher's movements under the angle of the analysis of activity, by examining the accessibility (Vickerman, 1974) of four classroom spaces (Islands, Bus, Hybrid and Comb). The objective was to examine to what extent the constraints bound to the workspace modified the interactions between the teacher and the groups of students. The methodology used behavioral mapping following Legendre and Depeau (2003), in order to link the spatial and temporal data bound to the teacher's movements and the data concerning the processes of learning.The verbal exchanges between the students in a group – the argumentation, realization of the task and motivational exchanges- and the exchanges between the teacher and the group, were analyzed, in the context of the Inquiry Based Sciences Teaching (IBST). This context presents specific constraints bound to the space since the furniture is fixed to the ground, and needs an organization adapted to the work in small groups. Two constructs, the potential accessibility and the effective proximity were mobilized in this search.The results show that a specific value of potential accessibility characterizes every configuration, and that the effective proximity of the teacher towards the groups of students seems correlated with the potential accessibility of the groups. They also show that, although the verbal interactions between the teachers and the groups do not differ according to the configuration, the quality of the regulatory process in a group and the quality of the process of argumentation are affected by the configuration, and that their quality is less good when the access is more difficult, what underlines the role of the perception of accessibility.We suggest to use the constructs of potential accessibility, of effective proximity, and the methodology of geospatial analysis of the interactions of class for assessing the new learning spaces that emerge with the generalization of the digital tools in class
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Thompson, Garth John. "Neural basis and behavioral effects of dynamic resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging as defined by sliding window correlation and quasi-periodic patterns." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49083.
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While task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has helped us understand the functional role of many regions in the human brain, many diseases and complex behaviors defy explanation. Alternatively, if no task is performed, the fMRI signal between distant, anatomically connected, brain regions is similar over time. These correlations in “resting state” fMRI have been strongly linked to behavior and disease. Previous work primarily calculated correlation in entire fMRI runs of six minutes or more, making understanding the neural underpinnings of these fluctuations difficult. Recently, coordinated dynamic activity on shorter time scales has been observed in resting state fMRI: correlation calculated in comparatively short sliding windows and quasi-periodic (periodic but not constantly active) spatiotemporal patterns. However, little relevance to behavior or underlying neural activity has been demonstrated. This dissertation addresses this problem, first by using 12.3 second windows to demonstrate a behavior-fMRI relationship previously only observed in entire fMRI runs. Second, simultaneous recording of fMRI and electrical signals from the brains of anesthetized rats is used to demonstrate that both types of dynamic activity have strong correlates in electrophysiology. Very slow neural signals correspond to the quasi-periodic patterns, supporting the idea that low-frequency activity organizes large scale information transfer in the brain. This work both validates the use of dynamic analysis of resting state fMRI, and provides a starting point for the investigation of the systemic basis of many neuropsychiatric diseases.
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Smith, David Rowland. "Nonlinear system characterization through interpolated cell mapping." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19161.
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Rutqvist, Hannes. "Internet Marketing for Non-Profits : Mapping Behaviors to Outline Strategies." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Technology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-111170.
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The thesis investigates differences between non-profits and commercial organization in how marketing online should be performed. Factors that are different are searched for through qualitative interviews but also from an online form posted on a website. The website was made using traditional marketing theories and then used as a tool to find possible differences. It was discovered that among the respondents, price and place from McCarthy’s classic 4P model had become obsolete in this new milieu and should be replaced by credence and compassion.
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Wilson, Brenda G. "Exploration of mind mapping as an organizational change tool." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10100912.
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Mind mapping is a communication tool that has been around for decades though it is rarely discussed as a tool for facilitating organizational change. It is possible for this underutilized communication tool and the ever-present challenge of organizational change to work in harmony on a more consistent basis. This exploratory research asked Change Leaders and Change Participants about their current mind mapping usage or experience, and requested their input on the use of mind mapping for organizational change efforts. There were 76 Change Leaders and 11 others who self-described themselves as Change Participants who responded to a virtual data collection process. Overall change readiness levels were predominantly at the moderate level, 37% of Change Leaders and 45% of Change Participants, an encouraging statistic for organizations considering change. Respondents reported that mind mapping is mostly used as a personal tool for organization, planning events, setting goals, and writing papers. Change Leaders (n=20) who reported using mind mapping professionally, commented they used it primarily for communication and collaboration, and project and systems planning and design. Specific practices included coaching, clarifying objectives, evaluating and monitoring projects, assessing lessons learned, redesigning curriculum, realigning resources, setting expectations, objectives and goals, and establishing timelines. One study conclusion was that these change practitioners understood how change is inevitable, and indicated their willingness to actively participate. This makes it important for organizations to capitalize on change participants’ knowledge and enthusiasm to enable successful change and enhance employee well-being. Concluding that attitudes, behaviors, and feelings toward change vary based on the role one plays, Change Leaders can benefit from the efforts of Change Participants by simply respecting their role and knowledge and involving them in the entire process, from planning to implementation. It is a foregone conclusion that communication is essential for any change process regardless of what specific tool is used, but the importance of selecting an appropriate method(s) based on the situation, message, and the recipients is critical. Using mind mapping as a change management tool specifically designed for certain aspects of organizational change is highly recommended, as it allows for both linear and non-linear communication.
Keywords: mind mapping, organizational change, Organizational Change Readiness Assessment, OCRA, visual communication
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Buss, Keno. "Behavioural patterns for the analysis of creative behaviour." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4938.
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Analysing human creativity has always been a difficult undertaking. The reason for this is the vagueness of the term creativity itself. Philosophers and Researchers have tried to unveil the secrets behind creativity since centuries. Besides some principles e.g. defined by Finke, Ward, and Smith, there is no holistic understanding about term creativity and there will always be discussions between researchers of different disciplines about how creativity is achieved. Current approaches try to understand creativity through studying the creative artifact or the creative human himself. These approaches have not lead to any promising results. Instead of focussing on creativity itself, it is more promising to look at the creative process of creators. Through this, it is possible to analyse what happened during the creation of an artefact. The aim of the analysis is the identification of certain behaviours within the creative process, which lead to very creative results or in opposite hinder creativity. The gained knowledge is used for the creation of patterns, describing this specific behaviour. The analysis of the creative process is not only interesting for artists, but also for engineers, researchers, students and many others. Important target groups for this approach are schools and universities. Being able to early recognise problems in the learning curve of a student will enable a directed support, in order to improve the student's performance. Until now, the main problem for analysing the creative process of a creator is the lack of information on how an artefact was created. Most creators tend not to make many notes during their creative phase, even if there are famous exemptions like Beethoven who left behind a huge amount of notices and marked changes in his work. Hence, the challenge is the development of a powerful framework, which can cope effectively with the recording and presentation of this creative process, in order to enable detailed analyses. Modern computer technology fosters the recording of the creative process of a person. Much of today's creative work is achieved with computers and powerful software applications. Computer networks and the internet enable new ways of collaboration. The creation of a flexible, collaborative tool-set is the ideal approach for the mapping and analysis of the creative process. A novel approach, based on these ideas, was developed by the members of the Creative Technologies Research Programme at the Software Technology Research Laboratory (STRL). The central aim of the approach is the mapping of the human creativity with so-called creativity maps. A creativity map is basically transition system, which allows to store and represent the creative process as well as to hold each version of the artefact. The developed De Montfort Creativity Assistant (DMCA), is a collaborative, web-enabled state-of-the-art software framework, realising the theoretical concepts. This thesis represents a substantial contribution to the research project. The focus of the presented work lies on the analysis and the support of the creative process. Several novel techniques for the analysis of massive data sets have been developed. The presented techniques enable a domain-independent analysis and support of the creative process. This is huge improvement over previous concepts, which are highly specialised and focus on the creative artefact itself. The presented approach required the development of several novel techniques. The major contributions of the presented research are: - Behavioural Patterns Enable the description of constructs inside the creativity map. These constructs represent the creative behaviour of the creator. - Techniques for a Computer-supported Information Extraction A pattern description language enables the computer-supported information extraction from creativity maps. - Knowledge Repository Knowledge, gained through the analysis processes, is stored centrally and shared with other creators in order to stimulate further growing of knowledge. - Concepts for the Analysis and Support of the Creative Process Novel concepts allow the structured analysis and support of the creative process, regardless of the creator's domain. All developed techniques have been implemented in several tools, which aim to enrich the DMCA with the ability of a computer-supported analysis and support of the creative process.
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Zhang, Sarah. "Assessing Motor Impairments in a Mouse Model of Perinatal Stroke Through Brain Mapping and Behaviour." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40854.
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Perinatal stroke, which occurs before or shortly after birth, may result in both beneficial and maladaptive plasticity in surviving tissue. However, current preclinical and clinical work have an unclear understanding on the relationship between functional outcome and neurophysiology. This thesis aims to dually characterize and correlate behaviour with cortical motor representations in a mouse model of perinatal stroke. On postnatal day 7, a unilateral photothrombotic stroke was produced in the primary motor cortex of Thy1-ChR2 mice. Sensorimotor function was evaluated in adulthood with a battery of behavioural tests. Subsequently, a transcranial window was implanted, and motor maps were created through optogenetic point stimulation. To evaluate the impact of skilled motor training on cortical reorganization, mapping was conducted before and after training on the single pellet reaching task. P7 stroke caused functional impairments across a battery of motor tasks, while both motor map size and movement latency were bilaterally impacted. Spontaneous limb use was positively correlated with map size of both hemispheres, but single pellet performance was only positively correlated with map size in the injured hemisphere. Following skilled motor training, both map size reductions and delayed latency was partially restored. Additionally, significant correlations between map size expansion and movement latency reduction following skilled motor training not only demonstrate that training-induced plasticity was beneficial, but also primarily mediated by the uninjured hemisphere. As the first study to conduct within-animal optogenetic motor mapping following perinatal stroke, we show that 1) perinatal stroke bilaterally impacts both cortical and descending aspects of the motor system, 2) the remaining movement sites in both the uninjured and injured hemispheres have a positive impact on functional outcome, and 3) skilled forelimb training can partially restore cortical and descending motor neurophysiology.
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Hardisty, Rachel Elizabeth. "Behavioural, histological and genetic analysis of the deaf mouse mutant head bobber (hb)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388248.
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Tendulkar, Vaibhav Uday. "Behavioral Signature-based Framework for Identifying Unsatisfiable Variable Mappings between Digital Designs." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334687848.
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Westendorf, Sascha. "Mining for behavioural information in creative processes." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4778.
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Chrysikos, Alexandros. "Mapping behavioural-related retention factors using a learning community lens : a mixed methods approach." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2016. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/28704/.
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This study investigated the experiences of undergraduate learning communities in a UK Higher Education Institution and the causes that may lead to low retention rates amongst first year undergraduate computing students. Using learning communities as a lens, the authors examined students’ perception of teamwork experiences, academic and social integration issues, and knowledge and characteristics that might help students to be successful. Four research questions guided the current study: (1) How do first year undergraduate computing students perceive their university experience? (2) To what depth and breadth does learning community participation affect social and/or academic integration? (3) What are the identified barriers/limitations to improve retention? (4) What learning characteristics or knowledge do students maintain and how are they accomplished? The study applied a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research methods using a concurrent triangulation. Firstly, a quantitative data analysis was performed including first year undergraduate students from various departments of the examined UK Higher Education Institution. Tinto’s model of student retention connects to behavioural patterns. Behavioural patterns were therefore identified using data collected from students in order to map factors as predictors for low student retention. The data collection was driven by the information collected when students enrol at the university, as well as Pascarella and Terenzini’s questionnaire (integration scales). The data was analysed using the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique which offers the opportunity to test various theoretical models, such as Tinto’s, through understanding of how sets of variables characterise constructs, and in what ways these constructs are associated to one another. The quantitative data analysis results suggested that the theory of Tinto proved to be beneficial in analysing retention in first year undergraduate students. Not at its maximum potential, though, because the model variables accounted for only a modest amount of variance in retention. Nevertheless, the data analysis discovered important relationships amongst student’s initial and later academic goals and commitments. In particular, the results revealed that academic and social integration constructs can have a significant influence on student retention processes. It is recommended that when all or some of these relationships are operating towards students’ benefit, it may be necessary to promote them with appropriate services or programmes, such as student support systems. Secondly, after the quantitative approach was applied to the aforementioned large-scale comparative study within the institution, a qualitative approach was used to further explore student needs. Specifically, during the quantitative phase data from all first year students of the institution studied was collected in order to offer the opportunity for a comparison amongst students from different course divisions, and investigate any major similarities and/or differences regarding factors affecting retention. As this phase identified similar factors amongst all students, the qualitative phase was employed in order to narrow down the research focus. Therefore, the qualitative approach offered the opportunity for a thorough exploration of the first year computing students’ reasons for dropping out of university through the use of the ‘unfolding matrix’. The matrix was completed during group interviews, in which students were invited, and had the opportunity to read and comment on previous students’ experiences. The findings of the qualitative data analysis offered further insights, which were then mixed with the quantitative results and interpreted as one. The final results, which were an interpretation of both quantitative and qualitative findings, revealed that learning communities critically affect students’ academic and social integration. Specifically, the importance of student support and guidance from academic staff were considered important factors which could enhance students’ motivation to continue their education. Their relationships with fellow students and academic staff were reported as vital elements in order to become academically and socially integrated. In addition, developing a sense of personal awareness and the need to develop an effective academic skill-set in order to succeed was identified as critical.
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Al-Nayef, Anwar Ali Bayer, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Semi-hyperbolic mappings in Banach spaces." Deakin University. School of Computing and Mathematics, 1997. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051208.110247.
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The definition of semi-hyperbolic dynamical systems generated by Lipschitz continuous and not necessarily invertible mappings in Banach spaces is presented in this thesis. Like hyperbolic mappings, they involve a splitting into stable and unstable spaces, but a slight leakage from the strict invariance of the spaces is possible and the unstable subspaces are assumed to be finite dimensional.
Bi-shadowing is a combination of the concepts of shadowing and inverse shadowing and is usually used to compare pseudo-trajectories calculated by a computer with the true trajectories. In this thesis, the concept of bi-shadowing in a Banach space is defined and proved for semi-hyperbolic dynamical systems generated by Lipschitz mappings. As an application to the concept of bishadowing, linear delay differential equations are shown to be bi-shadowing with respect to pseudo-trajectories generated by nonlinear small perturbations of the linear delay equation. This shows robustness of solutions of the linear delay equation with respect to small nonlinear perturbations.
Complicated dynamical behaviour is often a consequence of the expansivity of a dynamical system. Semi-hyperbolic dynamical systems generated by Lipschitz mappings on a Banach space are shown to be exponentially expansive, and explicit rates of expansion are determined. The result is applied to a nonsmooth noninvertible system generated by delay differential equation.
It is shown that semi-hyperbolic mappings are locally φ-contracting, where -0 is the Hausdorff measure of noncompactness, and that a linear operator is semi-hyperbolic if and only if it is φ-contracting and has no spectral values on the unit circle. The definition of φ-bi-shadowing is given and it is shown that semi-hyperbolic mappings in Banach spaces are φ-bi-shadowing with respect to locally condensing continuous comparison mappings. The result is applied to linear delay differential equations of neutral type with nonsmooth perturbations.
Finally, it is shown that a small delay perturbation of an ordinary differential equation with a homoclinic trajectory is chaotic.
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Collins, Dawn Marie. "Mapping the link between female sexual desires and behaviors in heterosexual dating relationships." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280682.
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According to feminist researchers cultural norms that dictate what females' sexual desires should look like serve to obscure the variations that actually exist within the lived experiences of women. Data from a sample of 81 females in heterosexual dating relationships were examined to investigate the links between females' sexual desires and sexual behaviors over a period of 14 days. A method of using quantitative data to produce qualitative narratives was used on a subsample of these women to identify three distinct pathways to frequent correspondence between young women's desires to engage in sexual touching and intercourse, and their reported sexual behavior on a daily basis. These pathways differed in the amount of variation in both positive and negative dyadic states exhibited by group members and the necessary conditions of inclusion for each group. In addition HLM analyses indicate that correspondence between females' sexual desires and both less intimate (hugging/cuddling and kissing) and more intimate (sexual touching and intercourse) sexual behaviors tended to predict higher levels of closeness, higher levels of positive affect and lower levels of negative affect towards one's partner on a daily basis. Furthermore, on days when females desired but did not engage in both less intimate and more intimate sexual behaviors, they reported significantly lower levels of closeness. The impact of discordance between desire and behavior differed on positive affect towards their partner, depending upon whether the behaviors were less intimate behaviors, or more intimate behaviors. Interestingly, the discrepancy between their desires and behaviors did not impact negative affect towards partner significantly. Females' daily perceptions of equality with their partner moderated several of the above relationships.
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Ulvi, Kun. "The Use of Geographic Information Systems by Law Enforcement Agencies and Its Impact on Police Performance." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3401.
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Do we know whether the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in law enforcement agencies increases police performance? This study examines the impact of GIS use to police performance outcomes in cities and counties of the U.S. between 2000 and 2007. Current research uses computerized mapping conceptualization to operationalize its measurement. Second, the police performance methodological context is used to measure the organizational impact of GIS. Finally, a new theoretical framework, information technology capacity that combines organizational, environmental and managerial factors to explain IT applications, is used to encompass most relevant dimensions of the subject matter. Findings indicate that the use of GIS in police agencies increased sharply between 2003 and 2007. Additionally, the contribution of GIS use on police performance was found to be statistically significant, but in the opposite direction. Overall, results of the present study indicate significant links between crime rate (DV) and independent variables (IV) in law enforcement agencies. IVs are having a professional form of government andfull time specialized crime analysis personnel, police strength, the use of GIS, population, being located in the Northeast and West regions, poverty, having encouraged SARA type projects and a community policing unit.
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Elisabeth, Ahlgren. "Marker generation for Fine Mapping a QTL in the chicken." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Biologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-108983.
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The purpose of this study was to design and test five SNP markers in an inbred chicken cross between Red Junglefowl and domestic White Leghorn of the 8th generation. The markers lie in a region affecting the tonic immobility behaviour which differs significantly between the two species. The markers could be identified by usage of PCR and pyrosequencing. The data obtained were further used in a small scale quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis. QTL analysis is a statistical method to link phenotypic traits to genotypic data. Four out of five markers could be genotypes and thereby, made it possible to proceed with the QTL analysis. The results showed that there is no QTL associated with the markers identified. The two flanking markers were closest to a significant difference between genotypes and it is therefore a possibility that a QTL lies close further down or up the searched region. From the line map it is indicated that there is little recombination in the marker region.
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Mutlu, Muge. "Mapping surface fuels using LIDAR and multispectral data fusion for fire behavior modeling." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1118.
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Shady, Ebraheen Hassan E. H. Gowayed Yasser. "Stress mapping of textile composite materials and its application in interfacial shear behavior." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1272.
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Schmidt, Eric A. (Eric Alexander). "Node-Link Mapping and Rational Recovery: Enhancing the Recovery Process." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277722/.
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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) continues to be the most accepted approach for the treatment of addictions in the United States. However, due to recent evidence questioning the effectiveness of AA, the need for alternative approaches to the treatment of addictions has become clear. The following research addresses the efficacy of one such alternative, Rational Recovery (RR). Node-Link Mapping (NLM), a graphic communication technique which uses links and nodes as building blocs to facilitate and enhance communication of information as well as awareness in a counseling environment, was implemented to enhance the recovery process. Three groups of ten (10), chemically dependent, adjudicated subjects were exposed to three different treatment approaches at an outpatient counseling center. The Experimental group received RR with NLM, the Comparison group was exposed only to RR, and the Control group continued in treatment according to the protocol of the counseling agency. All subjects were given the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory-2 (SASSI-2) as a measurement of symptoms associated with chemical dependency. The subjects were also administered the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (Rotter I-E Scale) to determine locus of control prior to treatment and any change after treatment.
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Shankwiler, Kevin Douglas. "Developing a Framework for Behavior Assessment of Bicycle Commuters: A Cyclist-Centric Appriach." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/11627.
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This paper investigates the behavior of bicycle commuters using qualitative behavior research techniques. Bicycle commuters are observed in context of their commute rides and video taped for analysis. Interviews and cognitive mapping processes are used to draw out commuters' perceptions to external activity and their behavior modifications in response. The behavior and perception data are used to illustrate mental models of bicycle commuters: how they differ among riders and how an individual rider's mental model evolves along their commute. A clear understanding of bicycle commuters' mental models and behaviors associated with them can be used to create a framework for development of a tool for self-assessment of commuting experiences.
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Santos, Susana Catarina de Jesus Fernandes dos. "Multichannel consumer behaviors in the mobile environment : mapping the decision journey and understanding webrooming motivations." Doctoral thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20591.
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Doutoramento em GestãoWith recent technological developments, understanding how consumers behave in the current mobile environment has gained interest in multichannel research. To narrow knowledge gaps, two main research objectives are proposed: mapping actual and holistic consumer decision journeys and analyzing webrooming-specific motivations. The decision journey mapping, which relied on qualitative data, was performed for two product categories of different involvements. An adapted sequential incident technique that combines diaries and personal interviews was applied, and the data was analyzed recurring to sequence and contingency analyses. The sequence analysis shows that more and more variable touchpoints and activities exist for the high involvement product, and journey sequences are more complex and dynamic. The contingency analysis indicates that some touchpoints are more appropriate than others for certain activities, varying also by decision stage. Both sequence and contingency analyses are combined to arrive at four decision maps for each product category. The webrooming analysis, solely done for the high involvement product category, examines how specific motivations derived from information-processing and uncertainty-reduction theories determine three webrooming types: traditional webrooming, webrooming extended to include mobile devices, and multidevice webrooming. The data, obtained from personal and online surveys, was examined using discriminant analysis and fsQCA. The discriminant analysis indicates a significantly positive effect of information attainment on explaining all behaviors, and price comparison orientation and empowerment for mobile-related behaviors. FsQCA findings show various motivational configurations for each webrooming behavior. In nearly all, both information-processing and uncertainty-reduction motivations exist, supporting the importance of the underlying theories in explaining webrooming. Moreover, empowerment is more relevant in behaviors where mobile devices are always used. This study enriches the theoretical body of consumer multichannel behavior and the webrooming construct particularly. The results can guide multichannel managers in developing differentiated strategies that address various consumer groups and particular webroomer-specific needs.
Com os recentes desenvolvimentos tecnológicos, compreender como os consumidores se comportam no atual ambiente mobile tem ganho interesse na investigação multicanal. Para encurtar lacunas no conhecimento, dois objetivos principais são propostos: mapear reais e completas jornadas de decisão e analisar motivações específicas do webrooming. O mapeamento da jornada de decisão, baseado em dados qualitativos, foi realizado para duas categorias de produto com diferentes envolvimentos. Foi aplicada uma técnica sequencial de incidentes adaptada que combina diários e entrevistas pessoais, e os dados foram analisados recorrendo às análises sequencial e contingencial. A análise sequencial mostra que existem mais e mais variados touchpoints e atividades para o produto de alto envolvimento, e as sequências das jornadas são mais complexas e dinâmicas. A análise contingencial indica que alguns touchpoints são mais apropriados para certas atividades do que outros, variando também por etapa de decisão. Da combinação das análises sequencial e contingencial obtêm-se quatro mapas de decisão por produto. A análise do webrooming, realizada somente para produtos de alto envolvimento, examina como motivações específicas derivadas das teorias de processamento de informação e redução de incerteza determinam três comportamentos webrooming: webrooming tradicional, webrooming estendido para incluir dispositivos móveis e webrooming multidispositivo. Os dados, obtidos de questionários pessoais e online, foram examinados usando análise discriminante e fsQCA. A análise discriminante indica um efeito significativamente positivo da obtenção de informações na explicação de todos os comportamentos, e da orientação para a comparação de preços e empowerment para comportamentos incluindo dispositivos móveis. O fsQCA mostra várias configurações motivacionais para cada comportamento webrooming. Em quase todas, existem motivações relacionadas com as teorias de processamento de informação e redução de incerteza, suportando a importância destas em explicar o webrooming. Ademais, empowerment é mais relevante em comportamentos incluindo sempre dispositivos móveis. Este estudo enriquece o corpo teórico do comportamento multicanal do consumidor e do construto webrooming, em particular. Os resultados podem orientar gestores multicanal a desenvolver estratégias diferenciadas que atendam a vários grupos de consumidores e a necessidades específicas dos webroomers.
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Koorts, Christie. "A qualitative exploration and cognitive mapping of retail consumers sensitivity regarding the use of personal and behavioural information in relationship marketing tactics." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97340.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a global era of growing consumer economies, retailers rely extensively on the exploitation of consumers’ personal and behavioural information, in order to successfully execute and sustain their business models and strategic objectives. The gathering and mining of consumers’ personal and behavioural information represent tremendous potential in the application of relationship marketing tactics, towards consumer intimacy, and ultimately towards competitive advantage. However, in their quest to understand consumers better, retailers need to be acutely aware of consumers’ views regarding the gathering and use of their personal and behavioural information, in order to derive the associated benefits whilst mitigating the risk of alienating consumers. To this end, the main objective of this research assignment was to understand the thoughts and feelings of a selected sample of retail consumers, regarding the use of their personal and behavioural information in relationship marketing tactics. The research aim was achieved through a qualitative exploration of the thoughts and feelings of thirty millennial retail consumers who shared their individual views in written format and small group interviews. Cognitive mapping was used as the central technique for the coding and interpretation of written and interview data, depicting the central themes of consumer rationale, as well as the causal relationships of the concepts, which influenced their sentiment and decisions. The insights produced by the cognitive mappings were triangulated using additional techniques of sentiment analysis and word frequency analysis. The combination of research techniques produced robust overarching insights of universal value, coupled with insights of specific subtleties alluding to consumer groups with differentiated engagement needs. Universal insights included strong negative sentiment whenever consumer participants considered the possibility that retailers with whom they engage on the basis of their personal information could potentially share such personal information with third-party entities outside of their explicit or implicit relationship with a particular trusted retailer. Similarly, the personally intrusive nature of telemarketing as an engagement and communication channel was met with universal disdain at every mention thereof, clearly eliminating it as a viable channel for any retailer who would seek to build and sustain trusted consumer relationships. The sample of participants revealed four broad groups of millennial consumers, each with different preferences of engagement with retailers. The majority of the participants across two groups recognised a conditional and transactional basis for exchanging varying degrees of personal information for a variety of derived benefits. A small group of participants indicated a clear preference towards avoiding engagement on a personal basis and sharing of personal information with retailers. A similarly small group of participants exhibited general openness and willingness to engage retailers and share personal and behavioural information with little restraint or concern. The insights derived from this research assignment provide a solid foundational exploration for future research on the specific and related topics, whilst the application of the cognitive mapping technique provided profound multi-dimensional insights. Businesses stand to gain potential material benefit through the careful consideration of the terms of engagement with their consumers, as provided through the universal and specific insights of this research assignment.
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Hurley, Joshua Daniel. "AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF AN AUTOMOTIVE REAR AXLE." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1244483779.
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Holdsworth, Richard. "The philosophy of behavioural genomics : analysis of criteria for the conceptual mapping of research in the genomics of human behaviour." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/93739.
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This is a philosophical enquiry into scientific research that studies the causes of behaviour, principally human, using the findings, techniques or tools of genomic science. The objectives, concepts and methods of eight selected disciplines are analysed: biomolecular archaeology, evolutionary biomechanics, molecular neurobiology, Down syndrome research, human behavioural ecology, behavioural genetics, human evolutionary genetics and human developmental genetics. Nine semi-structured interviews were conducted with leading researchers in these fields. The results are analysed in terms of a set of fourteen criteria, chosen to illustrate diversity in the conceptual approaches of the researchers concerned. Some of these, for example, put the accent in their work on phylogeny rather than ontogeny. Some study the action of nuclear genes; some concentrate on mitochondrial DNA. The results are also plotted in a Criterion Matrix. The researchers spoke as individuals, not as representatives of their discipline. In parallel, sources in the literature as well as the interviews were used to generate a Genomic Workbench Analysis Model, identifying the different regions of the human and other genomes used by different disciplines in their research. The process of enquiry is presented as a conceptual mapping of the putative field of behavioural genomics. The two principal tools of the method – the Criterion Matrix and the Genomic Workbench Analysis Model – convey a picture of rich and complex diversity among the target disciplines. It is concluded that this diversity is inconsistent with a two-clusters model such as might have been suggested in the past by a polarisation of the nature-nurture debate along a single axis. Other conclusions of the conceptual mapping study are presented. A suggestion is made for the future development of a field of behavioural environomics.
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Okamoto, Masako. "Improvement of human brain mapping methods with functional near-infrared spectroscopy and their application to food behavior analysis." Kyoto University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/144575.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
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Harvey, Rachel. "Eliciting and mapping the attributes of landscape perception : an integration of personal construct theory (PCT) with geographic information systems (GIS)." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10322.
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Scotland's tourist industry partly depends upon the quality of the Scottish landscape. However, despite demands for improved management of landscape resources, there is no standard method for the assessing landscape quality. This research takes a user-based approach to this problem and explores the use of Kelly's Personal Construct Theory (PCT) in eliciting underpinning attributes and dimensions of perception in a range of uses and across a range of Scottish landscapes. A novel aspect of the research is that it involves experimentation in mapping the resultant constructs through use of a Geographic Information System (GIS). Sixteen key constructs were gained from one to one. interviews and used in the preliminary mapping experiments. These showed that it was possible to express the constructs spatially. To evaluate between user group/landscape type responses a questionnaire was designed, piloted and applied. A total of 1286 responses were analyzed. Differences were found between landscape type but were stronger between user groups. The research has demonstrated that the application of PCT coupled to GIS is a valuable way of exploring landscape perception/landscape quality and their spatial expression.
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Khandelwal, Avinash 1987. "The wiring diagram of antennal lobe and mapping a brain circuit that controls chemotaxis behavior in the Drosophila larva." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/663806.
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Drosophila larvae present unique opportunity for anatomical and functional mapping of their nervous system because of features such as numerical simplicity of neurons its nervous system is composed of, and ability to exhibit quantifiable behaviors such as chemotaxis. Here, we mapped entire antennal lobe of larval Drosophila with one of its circuits responsible for controlling sensorimotor transformation in lateral horn (LH) (higher brain) through a single brain descending neuron using electron microscopic 3D reconstruction.
In antennal lobe, we reported a canonical circuit with uniglomerular projection neurons (uPNs), working to relay gain-controlled ORN activity to higher brain centers like Mushroom body and lateral horn. We also found a parallel circuit with multiglomerular projection neurons (mPNs) and hierarchically organized local neurons (LNs) selectively integrating signal from multiple ORNs at the first synapse with LN-LN connectivity putatively implementing gain control mechanism that can potentially switch from computing distinguished odor signals through panglomerular inhibition to allowing system to respond to faint aversive odor in an environment rich with strong appetitive odors.
We also reconstructed and studied one of the olfactory connected circuits in the LH that was found to be influencing chemotaxis behavior in larva through a single brain descending neuron, PVM027. We found that this neuron was responsible in controlling stop response of chemotaxis behavior. EM reconstruction revealed its connection with variety of motor systems and SEZ descending neurons in the VNC. Connections were revealed with the peristaltic wave propagation circuit of larva, and PVM027 was found to be implementing stop by terminating and ceasing the origin of forward peristaltic waves.Las larvas de Drosophila ofrecen una oportunidad única para el mapeo anatómico y funcional de su sistema nervioso debido a propiedades como la simplicidad numérica de neuronas que componen su sistema nervioso y su habilidad de exhibir comportamientos cuantificables como la quimiotaxis. En este estudio hemos mapeado el lóbulo antenal de la larva de Drosophila con uno de sus circuitos responsable de controlar la transformación sensorial-motora en el asta lateral (LH) (cerebro superior) a través de una sola neurona descendiente usando la reconstrucción 3D para microscopia electrónica. Hemos presentado, en el lóbulo antenal, un circuito canónico con proyecciones neuronales uniglomerulares (uPNs) responsables de transmitir aumentos controlados de actividad desde sus ORN* hasta centros superiores del cerebro como el cuerpo fungiforme y el asta lateral del protocerebro. Hemos descubierto también un circuito paralelo formado por neuronas con proyecciones multiglomerulares (mPNs) y neuronas locales (Lns), organizadas jerárquicamente, que integran selectivamente señales desde múltiples ORNs a nivel de primera sinapsis con conectividad LN-LN implementando aparentemente un mecanismo de aumento de control que potencialmente puede intercambiar señales olfativas distintas computacionalmente a través de inhibición panglomerular permitiendo al sistema responder a olores vagamente aversivos en un ambiente rico en fuertes olores apetitosos. También hemos reconstruido y estudiado uno de los circuitos olfativos que conectan con el LH conocido por influenciar la quimiotaxis de la larva a través de un sola neurona cerebral descendiente, la PVM027. Hemos descubierto que dicha neurona es la responsable de controlar la respuesta stop en el comportamiento de quimiotaxis. La reconstrucción por EM revela su conexión con una variedad de sistemas motores así como neuronas descendientes SEZ en el VNC. Observamos dichas conexiones gracias al circuito de propagación de onda peristáltica de la larva, y descubrimos que la PVM027 implementa la señal de stop terminando e interrumpiendo el origen de la onda peristáltica.
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Goad, M. R., K. T. Korista, G. De Rosa, G. A. Kriss, R. Edelson, A. J. Barth, G. J. Ferland, et al. "SPACE TELESCOPE AND OPTICAL REVERBERATION MAPPING PROJECT. IV. ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR OF THE BROAD ULTRAVIOLET EMISSION LINES IN NGC 5548." IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621259.
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During an intensive Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) UV monitoring campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 performed from 2014 February to July, the normally highly correlated far UV continuum and broad emission line variations decorrelated for similar to 60-70 days, starting similar to 75 days after the first HST/COS observation. Following this anomalous state, the flux and variability of the broad emission lines returned to a more normal state. This transient behavior, characterized by significant deficits in flux and equivalent width of the strong broad UV emission lines, is the first of its kind to be unambiguously identified in an active galactic nucleus reverberation mapping campaign. The largest corresponding emission line flux deficits occurred for the high ionization, collisionally excited lines C IV and Si IV(+O IV]), and also He II(+O III]), while the anomaly in Ly alpha was substantially smaller. This pattern of behavior indicates a depletion in the flux of photons with E-ph > 54 eV relative to those near 13.6 eV. We suggest two plausible mechanisms for the observed behavior: (i) temporary obscuration of the ionizing continuum incident upon broad line region (BLR) clouds by a moving veil of material lying between the inner accretion disk and inner (BLR), perhaps resulting from an episodic ejection of material from the disk, or (ii) a temporary change in the intrinsic ionizing continuum spectral energy distribution resulting in a deficit of ionizing photons with energies > 54 eV, possibly due to a transient restructuring of the Comptonizing atmosphere above the disk. Current evidence appears to favor the latter explanation.
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Dousa, Robin, and Alexander Pers. "Business Intelligence - det stora kartläggningspusslet : En studie om insamling och analys av konsumentinformation i livsmedelsbranschen." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26241.
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Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur företag, med hjälp av den moderna alltmer avancerade och utvecklade teknologin, systematiskt kartlägger konsumenternas köpbeteenden, genom s.k. business intelligence. Uppsatsen ämnar ta reda på hur teknologin appliceras hos företag samt hur och i vilken mån den data som samlas in används för att få konsumenter till önskade köpbeslut. Teori: Arbetets teoretiska kärna utgörs dels av ett teoretiskt ramverk, i vilket redogörs för business intelligence, samt ett avsnitt där teorier om konsumenternas köpbeteende presenteras. Metod: Arbetet har sin metodologiska utgångspunkt i en kvalitativ forskningsansats där fokus ligger på semistrukturerade intervjuer. För att besvara forskningsfrågorna har ett djupgående angreppssätt används. Empiri: Intervjuer med respondenter, i form av ämnesspecifik expertis, från IBM Sverige, HUI Research och Coop Sverige AB har genomförts. Resultat: Resultatet som presenteras i undersökningen visar på att konsumentförståelse i huvudsak genereras ur kundkortsdatan vilken fungerar som såväl informationsinsamlare som relationsskapare. Utöver det finns det ett växande intresse för kartläggning av rörelsemönster i butik. Vidare påvisar resultatet att det föreligger en problematik vad gäller resursutnyttjandet av data vilket främst grundar sig på att företag inte förmår att utnyttja den insamlade datan på effektivt sätt, något som bl.a. förklaras av såväl en resurs- som integritetsmässig problematik. Slutsats: Studien visar att den teknologiska utvecklingen har medgett en datainsamling större än vad som i många fall kan hanteras och utnyttjas på ett för verksamheter och organisationer maximalt sätt. Företag utnyttjar inte den data de har tillgång till i proportion till den kapacitet som de teknologiska verktyg man har för datainsamling besitter.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how companies, with the help of advanced and developed technology, are able to understand consumer buying behavior through so called business intelligence. The purpose is also to find out how this technology is applied within the companies and the extent to which data is gathered in order to lead get consumers to desired purchasing decisions Theory: The theoretical core consists partly of a theoretical framework that describes business intelligence, as well as a section in which theories of consumer buying behavior is presented. Method: The thesis has its methodological basis on a qualitative research approach where focus is pointed at semi-structured interviews. A profound approach has been used to answer the research question. Data: Interviews has been conducted with topic-specific expertise, the respondents are from the following companies: IBM Sverige, HUI Research and Coop Sverige AB. Result: The results presented in the thesis show that the understanding companies have of consumer behavior mainly are extracted from data that loyalty cards can produce. The information from these cards can be collected in order to build a better relationship with the customers. Beyond that, there is a growing interest in identifying patterns of customer movement in stores. Furthermore, the results indicate that there is a problem concerning utilization of data resource, which mainly is based on the fact that companies are not able to utilize the data collected in an efficient manner which partly can be explained by problems concerning effective utilization of resources as well as the privacy concerns of customers. Conclusion: The study shows that technological improvements have made it possible to obtain a larger amount of data than most companies are able to utilize in an efficient way. Companies do not use the data they have access to in proportion to the capacity of the technological tools the companies possesses making it possible to obtain large amount of data.
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Dawson, Gabriel M. "Relationship Between Factors Associated with Toxic Stress and Child Behavior in the Dental Office." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469537364.
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Duchêne, Damien. "Superblocks : A Study of Public Life in Barcelona." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-254535.
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The motivation for this thesis is a belief that the quality of Public Life is key to unlock the qualities of urbanity and create a community capable of facing social and ecological challenges. Public Life being a complex matter, it is primordial to study it as much as possible, in order to understand the mechanisms controlling it. The aim of this thesis is to describe the Public Life as it is in the new public spaces created in Barcelona through the implementation of a large magnitude urban transformation program called Superblocks. Superblocks consist of a group of city blocks of which the interior streets are “pacified” to free public space from cars, while the entire transportation network is reorganized. The research aims at uncovering how Public Life differs between two Superblocks and the rest of the city, by comparing them to similar areas . The research consisted of 2 weeks of direct observation using methods created by Jan Gehl, followed by an in-depth analysis of the data collected, describing Public Life while separating it between Traveling and Stationary Activities. It found that the quality of Public Life was indeed improved by the Superblocks, but that the changes differed greatly between the two different contexts of the study objects.Den här uppsatsen utgår från en övertygelse om kvaliteten på livet i det offentliga rummet har en avgörande roll för att frigöra urbanitetens kvaliteter och skapa ett samhälle som kan hantera sociala och ekologiska utmaningar. Livet i det offentliga rummet är en komplex fråga som behöver studeras så mycket som möjligt för att kunna förstå de mekanismer som påverkar det. Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva det offentliga livet som det ter sig i de nya offentliga rum som skapats i Barcelona i och med genomförandet av det storskaliga stadsomvandlingsprogrammet Superblocks. Superblocks (”Superkvarter”) består av ett antal stadskvarter där de mellanliggande gatorna omvandlas och frigörs till bilfria offentliga rum samtidigt som hela transportnätverket organiseras om. Undersökningen syftar till att synliggöra hur livet i det offentliga rummet skiljer sig mellan två Superblocks och resten av staden, genom att jämföra dem med liknande områden som inte omvandlats. Undersökningen baseras på två veckors direkt observation enligt metoder utveckla av Jan Gehl, och följdes av djupanalys av den data som inhämtats och som beskriver det offentliga livet uppdelat inom de två kategorierna rörelse och stillastående aktiviteter. Studien visar att det offentliga livets kvalitet påverkades av omvandlingen till Superblocks, samtidigt som förändringen varierade betydligt mellan de två studieobjekten med tydliga kontextuella skillnader.