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Myers, C. "Cues for action." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379853.
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Toh, Peng Seng. "Three-dimensional reconstruction by active integration of visual cues." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/46581.
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Björkman, Mårten. "Real-Time Motion and Stereo Cues for Active Visual Observers." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, NADA, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3382.
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Jewell, Derryn T. "The importance of active versus passive body movement cues in infant search." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0001/MQ45495.pdf.
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McNeill, Kathryn Bond. "Communication cues to action prompting central Appalachian women to have a mammogram." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0430104-084147/unrestricted/McNeill061704f.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0430104-084147 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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DANIELSSON, JESPER. "Functional Cuts." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17351.
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Our everyday life is becoming more active and the activities we perform influence the way we dress. Due to an increase in activities undertaken in an urban environment, demands are changing and the need for active wear that meets the new demands follow suit. The four characters represented in the research can be seen as a reflection of the functional features needed, including base layer, mid layer/insulation and shell.Despite the increase in activities, most of our clothes are still constructed on static dummies or drafted on a table in 2D and the main developments within the active sportswear field is driven by material innovation. By creating garments on a body in movement, my aim is to develop new functions and expression in active sportswear through construction.Construction methods in active sportswear are examined and understood through observations and reconstructions and constitute the foundation of a study of movement for a design recovery.The movement and features required for leading an active urban life sets the direction of the development of new func- tional garments. A series of trial and error sessions and draping fabric on a live model in movement created the prototypes used in functionality tests to establish their feasibility. The functionality of the fabric and the form needed in urban lifestyle is explored in terms of relationship to a reduced, intuitive construction to challenge the norm of aesthetics in active sportswear. Meeting the demands of the conscious urban inhabitants regarding sustainability and style challenges this further.Program: Modedesignutbildningen
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Jovanovic, Ljubica. "Contextualizing the clock(s) : integrating cues for the perception of time and timing an action." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEE034/document.
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Les événements pertinents de notre environnement sont intégrés au flux d'information complexe et multisensoriel qui nous parvient. La perception du temps est malléable et de nombreuses illusions suggèrent que le temps perçu est influencé par le contexte. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’influence de différents aspects du contexte sur la perception du temps et du timing des actions chez l’humain. Dans la première partie de cette thèse, nous avons étudié le rôle du caractère explicite de l’apparition d’un événement sur la durée perçue de l’intervalle entre deux événements. Nous avons montré que l’influence du contexte temporel était plus forte dans la condition d’apparition implicite, pour laquelle le biais d’estimation des vers la moyenne des durées présentées est plus fort, et la sensibilité plus basse. Dans la deuxième partie de la thèse, nous avons étudié les effets du contexte temporel et spatial sur le temps perçu des événements. Les résultats de ces études suggèrent que le moment perçu de l’apparition d’un événement ne correspond pas toujours aux latences perceptives mesurées par des taches de temps de réaction, et que la saillance est un indice important pour percevoir le temps. Enfin, dans la troisième partie, nous avons examiné comment différentes sources d’incertitude influencent le timing perçu d’une action et son auto-évaluation. Les résultats suggèrent que ces deux aspects s’appuieraient au moins en partie sur des processus différentsRelevant events in our environment are embedded in the complex, multisensory stream of information. Time perception is malleable, and numerous time illusions suggest that the perceived time of events is affected by context. The work presented in this thesis investigated how different aspects of human time perception and timing an action are affected by context. In the first part of the thesis, we investigated how the explicitness of the event onset affects perceived elapsed time between two points in time. The temporal context affected the estimates more in the implicit onset condition. The estimates were more biased towards the mean of the presented durations, and sensitivity of duration discrimination sensitivity was lower in the condition with no explicit onset of the duration to be timed. The effects of the temporal and spatial context on the perceived time of events were addressed in the second part. The findings suggest that the perceived time of events can be easily and compulsory biased by the temporal and spatial context. Findings from these studies support the hypothesis that the perceived time of events does not always correspond the the perceptual latencies measured in the reaction time tasks, and that the saliency is an important cue for the perceived time. Finally, in the third part, we investigated how different sources of uncertainty affect the timing and self-evaluation of an action. The findings suggest that timing an action and evaluating its outcome may, at least in part, rely on different computations
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Purnama, Herwina D. "Effects of cue-action association and importance on prospective memory." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19263.pdf.
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Essen, Jan von. "Helping Hands : Motion and integration in action memory." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Psychology [Psykologiska institutionen], Stockholm University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-476.
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Abu-Alhaija, Dania M. "The Development and Psychometric Testing of the Oncology Nurses Health Behaviors Determinants Scale." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin161710763068224.
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Rodríguez, Alba [Verfasser], and Pia [Akademischer Betreuer] Knoeferle. "The influence of prior visual gender and action cues versus long-term knowledge in (situated) language processing / Alba Rodríguez ; Betreuer: Pia Knoeferle." Bielefeld : Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1160672563/34.
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Reeves, Chris M. "United Front and Action vs. Beautiful Coffee Cups: Fluxus Through the Publications of George Maciunas and Dick Higgins." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337715265.
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Smith, Joshua L. "Response Inhibition to High Calorie Food Cues Among Adolescents Following Active and Sedentary Video Game Play Using a Go/No-Go Task: A Randomized Crossover Study." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7231.
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Sedentary behaviors, such as leisure time computer use and sedentary video games, are significant barriers to regular physical activity and contribute to high rates of overweight and obesity among adolescents. Sedentary screen time can adversely affect food intake and food selection. Active video games may be a promising way of increasing daily physical activity levels among adolescents. Active video games may help modulate response inhibition and food intake. PURPOSE: Compare the effects of an acute bout of active and sedentary video gaming on N2 amplitudes (while viewing high calorie and low calorie images), Stroop Color Word Test (Stroop test) performance and ad libitum eating. METHODS: We used a within-subjects randomized crossover design with counterbalanced treatment conditions was used among 65 participants (31 girls, 34 boys; age = 13.5 ± 1.1 year; height = 161.4 ± 10.2 cm; weight = 52.5 ± 12.3 kg; BMI = 19.9 ± 3.3 kg·m2). Participants completed 2 separate video gaming sessions, 7 days apart, while energy expenditure during sedentary and active video game play was measured using the K4b2 portable metabolic system. The K4b2 system provided metabolic equivalents (METs) which are used as a measure of energy cost of physical activity. After either 60 minutes of active or sedentary video game play, participants completed a go/no-go task while viewing high calorie and low calorie images while electroencephalogram (EEG) data were collected. N2 event related potential (ERP) amplitudes were measured during the viewing task. Participants also completed a Stroop task to measure response inhibition. Finally, participants were given high calorie and low calorie snacks to consume ad libitum. We used a repeated measures ANOVA was used to measure main and interaction effects for N2 ERP amplitudes within subjects. RESULTS: Active video game play relative to sedentary video games significantly increased METs (F = 543.1, p ‰¤ 0.0001) from 1.7 ± 0.35 to 5.0 ± 1.2 METs. A significant gender-by-condition interaction (F = 7.03, p ‰¤ 0.009) was observed for energy expenditure with boys (5.4 ± 1.1 METs) expending more energy during the active video game than girls (4.5 ± 1.1 METs). No significant differences were observed for the N2 component (F = 0.50, p = 0.48) between video game conditions nor between genders (F = 1.85, p = 0.17). There were no significant differences (F = 3.10, p = 0.08) in the total number of calories consumed between the 2 video gaming conditions. Results from the Stroop task showed no significant differences for word naming (F = 0.45, p = 0.49), congruent condition (F = 0.43, p = 0.52) and incongruent condition (F = 0.14, p = 0.71) between the active and sedentary video games. CONCLUSION: Sixty minutes of active video gaming increases energy expenditure to a moderate intensity level but does not alter behavioral response or response inhibition to high calorie or low calorie foods.
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Nauroy, Julien. "Traitements interactifs d'images radiologiques et leurs applications cliniques." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00596516.
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Le monde médical dispose de plus en plus de sources d'images différentes, non seulement pour réaliser un diagnostic mais aussi pour évaluer l'efficacité d'un traitement et pour être guidé dans les interventions chirurgicales. Parallèlement, le développement des techniques opératoires s'oriente vers la chirurgie non " à ciel ouvert ", notamment la coelioscopie, qui permet de diminuer les risques liés à l'intervention ainsi que le temps d'hospitalisation du patient. En revanche, elle rend moins intuitive la réalisation de l'acte chirurgical, notamment du fait de la vision réduite à l'utilisation d'une ou plusieurs caméras dans la région d'intérêt. Durant ma thèse, j'ai conçu et mis en oeuvre des nouvelles méthodes informatiques de traitement 3D d'images radiologiques ainsi que de nouvelles utilisations médicales de ces images. Les contributions présentées concernent la visualisation et le traitement des données, la segmentation de structures 3D, la fusion mono et multimodale et l'aide à la réalisation d'interventions. Les applications présentées concernent notamment la planification et la réalisation d'interventions sous coelioscopie et de ponctions mais aussi l'imagerie industrielle. L'utilisation conjointe de différentes modalités d'images permet d'améliorer la visualisation, la manipulation et la compréhension de scènes tridimensionnelles, conduisant à une plus grande compréhension des observations et à une meilleure prise de décision.
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Menezes, Roberto Bertoldo. "Espectroscopia 3D de núcleos ativos de galáxias: tratamento e análise de dados no óptico e infravermelho próximo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/14/14131/tde-27082012-025008/.
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Nesse trabalho, foi feito o tratamento e a análise de cubos de dados de 8 núcleos ativos de galáxias próximos, no óptico e no infravermelho. O tratamento e a análise de todos os cubos de dados foram feitos utilizando-se uma série de metodologias específicas, muitas das quais foram desenvolvidas nos últimos anos pelo grupo de trabalho do autor. A análise de todos os cubos de dados foi feita com quatro objetivos principais: análise da fenomenologia geral nos arredores do AGN com a Tomografia PCA; análise das populações estelares, da emissão térmica de poeira e do featureless continuum nos arredores do AGN com uma síntese espectral feita com o software Starlight; análise da cinemática estelar e do gás ao redor do buraco negro central e, em alguns casos, simulação com o objetivo de se determinar a massa do buraco negro; análise dos mecanismos de excitação e ionização do gás ou da emissão de hidrogênio molecular.In this work, we have treated and analyzed data cubes of 8 nearby active galactic nuclei, in the optical and in the infrared. All data cube treatment and analysis were performed using a series of specific methodologies, many of which were developed in the last few years by the author\'s working group. The analysis of all data cubes was performed with four main objectives: analysis of the general phenomenology of the AGN environment, using PCA Tomography; analysis of the stellar populations, of the thermal emission from dust and of the featureless continuum in the vicinity of the AGN, with a spectral synthesis performed with the Starlight software; analysis of the stellar and gas kinematics around the central black hole and, in some cases, simulations with the purpose of determining the mass of the black hole; analysis of the excitation and ionization mechanisms of the gas or of the emission from molecular hydrogen.
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Juan, Olivier. "Quelques extensions des level sets et des graph cuts et leurs applications à la segmentation d'images et de vidéos." Phd thesis, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, 2006. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00001855.
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Les techniques de traitement d'image sont maintenant largement répandues dans une grande quantité de domaines: comme l'imagerie médicale, la post-production de films, les jeux... La détection et l'extraction automatique de régions d'intérêt à l'intérieur d'une image, d'un volume ou d'une vidéo est réel challenge puisqu'il représente un point de départ pour un grand nombre d'applications en traitement d'image. Cependant beaucoup de techniques développées pendant ces dernières années et les méthodes de l'état de l'art souffrent de quelques inconvénients: la méthode des ensembles de niveaux fournit seulement un minimum local tandis que la méthode de coupes de graphe vient de la communauté combinatoire et pourrait tirer profit de la spécificité des problèmes de traitement d'image. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons deux prolongements des méthodes précédemment citées afin de réduire ou enlever ces inconvénients. Nous discutons d'abord les méthodes existantes et montrons comment elles sont liées au problème de segmentation via une formulation énergétique. Nous présentons ensuite des perturbations stochastiques a la méthode des ensembles de niveaux et nous établissons un cadre plus générique: les ensembles de niveaux stochastiques (SLS). Plus tard nous fournissons une application directe du SLS à la segmentation d'image et montrons qu'elle fournit une meilleure minimisation des énergies. Fondamentalement, il permet aux contours de s'échapper des minima locaux. Nous proposons ensuite une nouvelle formulation d'un algorithme existant des coupes de graphe afin d'introduire de nouveaux concepts intéressant pour la communauté de traitement d'image: comme l'initialisation de l'algorithme pour l'amélioration de vitesse. Nous fournissons également une nouvelle approche pour l'extraction de couches d'une vidéo par segmentation du mouvement et qui extrait à la fois les couches visibles et cachées présentes.
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Juan, Olivier. "Quelques extensions des Level Sets et des Graph Cuts et leurs applications à la segmentation d'image et de vidéo." Marne-la-vallée, ENPC, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006ENPC0004.
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Umbach, Valentin. "The power of prediction." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16873.
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Unsere Fähigkeit Erwartungen auszubilden über zukünftige Ereignisse oder die Ergebnisse unserer eigenen Handlungen ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für zielgerichtetes Verhalten. Obgleich diese Ansicht einer Reihe von einflussreichen theoretischen Strömungen in der kognitiven Psychologie zugrunde liegt, bleiben bislang wichtige Fragen dazu offen. Jüngere Ergebnisse aus neurophysiologischen und Bildgebungsstudien legen nahe, dass bewusste Ziele – ähnlich expliziter Erwartung – nicht mehr sind als ein Nebenprodukt von automatischen und unbewussten Aktivierungsmustern und keinen echten Einfluss auf Verhalten haben. Explizite subjektive Erwartung wird vielmals abgetan, weil sie kein zuverlässiges Maß „wahrer“ mentaler Prozesse darstelle, oder weil sie nicht notwendig sei, um Verhalten zu erklären. In der vorliegenden Arbeit beschäftige ich mich mit der Rolle expliziter subjektiver Erwartung und untersuche die folgenden Fragen: (1) Sind verbalisierte Vorhersagen ein valider Indikator für intern generierte Erwartungen? (2) Haben solche Erwartungen tatsächlich einen Einfluss auf Handlungsvorbereitung? (3) Worin besteht der Unterschied zwischen Erwartungen, die auf äußeren oder inneren Quellen beruhen? Die Ergebnisse aus drei Studien, die ich im Rahmen dieser Dissertation durchgeführt habe, belegen, dass verbalisierte Vorhersagen ein valider Indikator von subjektiver Erwartung sind. Subjektive Erwartung kann nicht als ein Nebenprodukt von Handlungsvorbereitung verstanden werden, sondern trägt zu dieser bei und spielt daher eine wichtige Rolle in der Handlungskontrolle. Selbstgenerierte Erwartung beeinflusst gegenüber Cue-induzierter Erwartung verstärkt frühe Aufmerksamkeits- und zentrale Entscheidungsprozesse. Selbstgenerierte Vorhersagen führen zu verstärkten Verhaltenseffekten, und zwar sowohl bei Stimuluserwartungen als auch bei Erwartungen bezüglich einer Aufgabe. Subjektive Erwartung ist demnach auch entscheidend für kognitive Kontrolle.Our ability to form expectations about future events or the results of our own actions is crucial for efficient behavior. While this notion underlies a range of influential theoretical approaches in cognitive psychology, from reinforcement learning to ideo-motor theory, a number of open questions remain. Recent results from neurophysiological and brain imaging studies suggest that conscious intention – or explicit expectation – is nothing more than a by-product of automatic and unconscious activation patterns, without any real impact on behavior. Explicit subjective expectation has been dismissed by many researchers who regard it either an unreliable measure of “true” mental processes, or question its necessity in explaining behavior in general. In the current work, I focus on the role of explicit subjective expectation and attempt to answer the following questions: (1) Are verbalized predictions a valid indicator of internally generated expectations? (2) Do such expectations really affect action preparation? (3) What are the differences between expectations arising from external or internal sources? Results from the three studies conducted within the scope of this dissertation demonstrate that verbalized predictions are in fact a valid indicator of subjective expectation and are suitable for use in experimental paradigms. Also, subjective expectation cannot be described as a mere by-product of preparation, but instead feeds into preparation and therefore plays a role in action control. Self-generated expectation was shown to involve early attentional and central decision processes to a greater degree than cue-induced expectation. Consequently, self-generated predictions entailed greater behavioral effects not only for stimulus expectations, but also for expectations regarding a task set. Subjective expectation is therefore also elemental in cognitive control.
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Bertz, Wågström Magda. "The Welfare State Upholders: Protests against Cuts in Sickness Benefits in Sweden 2006-2019 : A Case Study of Political Action against Welfare Retrenchment." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415482.
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The debate between the Power Resource Approach and the New Politics thesis has been ongoing for decades. The PRA claims that the labor movement continues to be the most prominent defender of the welfare state. The NP-thesis, on the other hand, claim that the welfare state in itself has created new interest groups, clients of specific welfare state programs, that have largely taken over as the most prominent welfare state upholder. In an attempt to empirically evaluate the usefulness of these two theories, quantitative data on protests against cuts in the sickness benefit program in Sweden during the years of 2006-2019 have been collected through investigating newspaper ma- terial. The results show that the protest engagement among client groups is greater than the engagement among the labor movement when looking at protests directed specifi- cally against cuts in the sickness benefit program. This result lends credibility to the NP- thesis while it questions the PRA. When including protest events directed against cuts in the sickness benefit program among other welfare retrenchment related grievances, the results show that the labor movement continues to be a prominent defender of the welfare state. Additionally, the PRA/NP literature is criticized for failing to acknowledge the possibility of protest coalitions between client groups and the labor movement or- ganizations. The results show that coalitions of protest exist, but more research is needed to conclude how coalition building relates to the theoretical debate regarding the welfare state upholders.
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Fulladosa-Leal, Karina. "Mujeres en movimiento: ampliando los márgenes de participación social y política en la acción colectiva como trabajadoras del hogar y el cuidado." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/455567.
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La actual configuración global ha llevado a una serie de reordenamientos en múltiples dimensiones (económicas, sociales, políticas, territoriales y de cuidados). Esta investigación se centra en uno de los aspectos que emergen a partir de este nuevo reordenamiento y que tiene que ver la división sexual, social e internacional de los trabajos de reproducción. Lo que ha llevado a la feminización de la migración y la inserción de las mujeres en múltiples circuitos de cuidados, atravesados por un contexto complejo de discriminación caracterizado por la explotación, la pobreza, la desigualdad, los prejuicios y la informalidad. Estos ejes de desigualdad son los que vulneran a hombres y mujeres en el ejercicio pleno de sus derechos, sociales, políticos, laborales y económicos entre otros.
La pregunta de esta investigación tiene que ver con la posibilidad de consolidación y fortalecimiento de la acción colectiva (sindicato) de las trabajadoras del hogar y el cuidado (Sindihogar) en la ciudad de Barcelona, con el objetivo de ampliar los márgenes de participación social y política. Y cómo construirlo a través de un trabajo colaborativo dentro de la investigación-activista-feminista.
Para llevar a cabo este abordaje se plantearon cuatro objetivos específicos que pudieran dar cuenta de este proceso, desde una perspectiva colaborativa y a partir del posicionamiento de la investigadora dentro del colectivo. En primer lugar, hay un acercamiento a comprender la problemática de las trabajadoras del hogar y el cuidado a través de su trayectoria en la acción colectiva. En segundo lugar, se propone analizar y dialogar sobre los modos organizativos con el sindicato, identificando las posibilidades y límites respecto a otras formas de organización. En tercer lugar, se impulsa la creación de alianzas del sindicato con otros actores sociales, para el fortalecimiento de la participación de las trabajadoras/es del hogar y del cuidado. Por último, se contribuye a la visibilización y sensibilización respecto de las condiciones de estos trabajos, a través de la difusión de actividades temáticas, políticas y recreativas construidas desde la acción colectiva.
A partir de la concreción de estos objetivos se ha señalado la apuesta política desde Sindihogar por subvertir las lógicas de dominación, a través de traspasar el escenario privado de los cuidados, y hacer una acción colectiva que promueva su dignificación y socialización. En segundo lugar, se construyó formas de conocer y producir conocimiento a través de una propuesta desde la investigación activista feminista, cuestionando un pensamiento único y universal que no considera sistemas de opresión articulados como son el sexismo, el racismo, la heterosexualidad obligatoria, el clasismo y el neoliberalismo, Estas orientaciones posibilitan generar disidencias temáticas a través de elaborar críticas a injusticias normalizadas (racismo, patriarcado, exclusión); así como disidencias metodológicas a través de investigaciones posicionadas, horizontales y participativas.
Por último, se propuso otras formas de relación en la acción colectiva (Sindihogar) que apuestan por la construcción de prácticas “mimopolíticas” generando espacio en nuestros quehaceres cotidianos (en nuestras prácticas activistas, académicas, vitales) que permitan comprometernos, apasionarnos, crear, prestar atención a los detalles, sostenernos afectivamente, confraternizar y generar apoyo, reconstruyendo la ligazón y/o el vínculo del tejido social. Sin obviar los retos y dificultades que el tejido de relaciones en este sentido pueda implicar (desgastes, fricciones, intensidades) pero de las cuales se hacen una apuesta en común para construir vidas dignas para todas.The current global configuration has led to a series of rearrangements in multiple dimensions (economic, social, political, territorial and care). This research focuses on one of the aspects that emerge from this new rearrangement and that has to do with the sexual, social and international division of reproductive work. This has led to the feminization of migration and the insertion of women into multiple care circuits, which are traversed by a complex context of discrimination characterized by exploitation, poverty, inequality, prejudice and informality. These axes of inequality make men and women vulnerable in the full exercise of their rights, social, political, labor and economic, among others. The question of this research has to do with the possibility of consolidating and strengthening the collective action (union) of the domestic workers and care (Sindihogar) in the city of Barcelona, with the aim of expanding the margins of social participation and politics . And how to build it through a collaborative work within research-activist-feminist. In order to carry out this approach, four specific objectives were proposed that could account for this process, from a collaborative perspective and from the positioning of the researcher within the collective. First, there is an approach to understand the problem of domestic workers and care through their activism in collective action. Secondly, it is proposed to analyze and discuss organizational modes with the union, identifying the possibilities and limits with respect to other forms of organization. Thirdly, the creation of alliances of the union with other social actors is promoted, in order to strengthen the participation of the workers of the household and of the care. Finally, it contributes to the visibility and awareness of the conditions of these works, through the dissemination of thematic, political and recreational activities built from collective action. From the concretion of these objectives has been indicated the political commitment from Sindihogar to subvert the logics of domination, through crossing the private sphere of the care, and to make a collective action that promotes their dignification and socialization. Second, we constructed ways to know and produce knowledge through a proposal from the activist feminist research, questioning a unique and universal thought that does not consider systems of articulated oppression such as sexism, racism, compulsory heterosexuality, classism And neoliberalism. These orientations make it possible to generate dissent through thematic critiques of normalized injustices (racism, patriarchy, exclusion); As well as methodological dissent through horizontal, participatory and positioned research. Finally, other forms of relationship in collective action (Sindihogar) were proposed, which aim to construct "mimopolitics" practices, generating space in our everyday activities (in our activist, academic and vital practices) that allow us to commit ourselves, support us affectively, fraternize and generate support, rebuilding the bond and / or the link of the social fabric. Without neglecting the challenges and difficulties that the fabric of relationships in this sense can imply (wear, friction, intensities) but to make them a common bet to build dignified lives for all.
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Yu, C. (Changrong). "Emotional display in argument, storytelling and teasing:a multimodal analysis." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2012. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514298516.
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Abstract This dissertation studies emotional displays in talk-in-interaction, especially focusing on conversational argument, storytelling and teasing. The aim is to understand how verbal expressions, prosodic cues, and embodied actions interact with each other in emotional expression. The main analytic approach and methodology is conversation analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, applied to interactional sequences from everyday conversations. The research data comes from three different video recordings and their transcripts. First, the dissertation reveals two broad types of frustration in conversational argument. The findings suggest that combined verbal and nonverbal expression of frustration involves a complex interplay of prosodic cues and embodied actions. Nonverbal expression of frustration is displayed by embodied actions alone. Second, the dissertation shows how shared joy is conveyed between storytellers and recipients in storytelling. They can achieve shared joy because the recipients express willing participation and active recipiency in two main ways: they display verbal appreciation of the story, or they join in the storytelling through laughter, smiles, head nods, and gaze exchanges. The recipients may also offer summaries or interpretations of events in the story by comparing their own experiences to events in the story. Third, the dissertation analyzes playful teasing activity, showing how teasing activity can bring about a shared experience of amusement for both teasers and their “targets.” The study argues that recipients of teasing are active contributors in the social interaction. The transient embarrassment felt by the teased participants does not prevent the exchange from reaching a shared experience of amusementTiivistelmä Väitöskirja tutkii tunteiden osoittamista arkisissa keskustelutilanteissa ja erityisesti väittelyn, tarinankerronnan ja kiusoittelun kuluessa. Tutkimusmetodi on pääasiassa keskustelunanalyysi, jonka avulla tutkitaan, miten kielelliset ilmaukset, prosodiset vihjeet sekä keholliset toiminnot yhdessä tuottavat tunneilmauksia. Tutkimusaineiston muodostaa kolme videoitua keskustelua ja niiden litteraatiot. Tutkimus osoittaa arkikeskusteluissa esiintyvissä väittelyissä ilmenevän kahtalaista turhautumisen tyyppiä. Ensimmäisessä puhujat tuottavat rinnan kielellisiä ja ei-kielellisiä turhautumisen ilmauksia, toisessa turhautumista osoitetaan vain ei-kielellisin keinoin. Tuloksien mukaan edellisessä tyypissä prosodia ja keholliset toiminnot ovat monimutkaisessa vuorovaikutuksessa keskenään. Jälkimmäisessä tyypissä turhautumista ilmaistaan pelkästään keholla. Toiseksi väitöskirja osoittaa, miten jaettu ilon tunne syntyy puhujien ja vastaanottajien välisenä toimintana. Tarinankerronnassa saavutetaan ilon hetkiä, koska vastaanottajat ovat halukkaasti mukana kerronnassa ja osoittavat aktiivista vastaanottoa kahdella tavalla: he osoittavat arvostusta kertomusta kohtaan verbaalisin keinoin, tai he liittyvät kerrontaan mukaan nauramalla, hymyilemällä, nyökkäilemällä, vaihtamalla katseita keskenään, referoimalla ja tulkitsemalla kertojan aiempaa puhetta formulaatioillaan ja vertailemalla omia kokemuksiaan tarinan tilanteeseen. Kolmanneksi tutkimus analysoi leikkisää kiusoittelua, joka saadaan aikaan liioittelevilla kielellisillä ilmauksilla sekä liioittelevilla prosodisilla vihjeillä ja eleillä. Tutkimus näyttää, että kiusoittelun kohteet aktiivisesti myötävaikuttavat kiusoittelutoimintaan. He voivat olla siinä mukana liioittelevilla vastausvuoroilla, nauramalla tai toimimalla mukana pelkästään eleiden avulla. Empiirinen analyysi näyttää, että kiusoittelutoiminta tuottaa yhteisen huvittuneisuuden kokemuksen keskustelun kuluessa. Kiusoittelijan ja kiusoittelun kohteen kokema ohimenevä nolous tai kiusaantuneisuus ei estä tämän yhteisen huvittuneisuuden kokemuksen saavuttamista
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Kaller, Ondřej. "Pokročilé metody snímání a hodnocení kvality 3D videa." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-369744.
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Disertační práce se zabývá metodami snímání a hodnocení kvality 3D obrazů a videí. Po krátkém shrnutí fyziologie prostorového vnímání, obsahuje práce stav poznání v oblastech problému adaptivní paralaxy a konfigurace kamer pro snímání klasického stereopáru. Taktéž shrnuje dnešní možnosti odhadu hloubkové mapy. Zmíněny jsou aktivní i pasivní metody, detailněji je vysvětleno profilometrické skenování. Byly změřeny některé technické parametry dvou technologií současných 3D zobrazovačů, a to polarizačně-oddělujících a využívajících časový multiplex, například přeslechy mezi levým a pravým snímkem. Jádro práce tvoří nová metoda pro vytváření hloubkové mapy při snímání 3D scény, kterážto byla autorem navržena a testována. Inovativnost tohoto přístupu spočívá v chytré kombinaci současných aktivních a pasivních metod snímání hloubky scény, která vtipně využívá výhod obou metod. Nakonec jsou prezentovány výsledky subjektivních testů kvality 3D videa. Největší přínos zde má navržená metrika modelující výsledky subjektivních testů kvality 3D videa.
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Skinner, Marilyn. "Experimental modulation of alcohol craving : effect of the threat of a disulfiram-ethanol reaction on cue reactivity in alcoholics : an evaluation of disulfiram's mechanisms of action and efficacy." Paris 6, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA066529.
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Cette thèse rapporte les résultats de deux études cherchant à approfondir nos connaissances sur l’efficacité et les mécanismes d’action du disulfirame dans le traitement de l’alcoolodépendance. Dans la première étude, en cross-over et randomisée, 33 sujets alcoolodépendants ont reçu des messages avec menace d’effet aversif ou neutres pendant 2 séances d’exposition au stimulus alcool. La condition menace a consisté à annoncer aux patients qu’ils avaient pris du disulfirame et la condition neutre qu’ils avaient pris un placebo. En réalité, tous avaient reçu un placebo. Dans la condition menace comparée à la condition neutre, la tension artérielle diastolique a baissé (p = 0. 04). Les réponses subjectives sont restées inchangées. Des effets bénéfiques alternatifs qui découlent d’autres processus cognitifs sont discutés. La deuxième étude rapporte les résultats préliminaires d’une méta-analyse de l’efficacité du disulfirame dans l’alcoolodépendance. Des 16 études randomisées et contrôlées confondues, notre méta-analyse a montré une efficacité supérieure du disulfirame à la condition contrôle OR=2. 35 (95%CI=1. 48-3. 78). Dans les études en ouvert comparées à celles en aveugle, le disulfirame avait une efficacité supérieure. Nous avons également pu confirmer que le disulfirame est efficace quand son administration est supervisée. En conclusion, nous avons pu montrer que le disulfirame est un traitement efficace si les études sont ouvertes et supervisées. Son mécanisme d’action, étudié en laboratoire, passe par un effet de la menace d’une réaction aversive, effet qui n’a pas semblé mesurable au niveau subjectif, mais qui s’est révélé au niveau neurovégétatif
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Lewallen, Melissa A. "The Metabolic Physiology of Planarian Flatworms." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538679/.
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Using a high throughput closed respirometry method to measure oxygen consumption, I determined metabolic rates in asexual and sexual Schmidtea mediterranea and Girardia dorotocephala, as a function of temperature, taxon, stressors, reproductive mode, age, regeneration, and specific dynamic action. This study has shown that oxygen consumption can reliably be measured in planaria using optode closed respirometry, and also provided a reliable method for measuring wet mass in planaria, which has been a challenge to researchers in the past. This research revealed that oxygen consumption in S. mediterranea is 1.5-2.1X greater in the sexual strain over the asexual strain at 13-18°C. Within the sexual strain, oxygen consumption is 1.5 -2.2X greater in sexually mature adults over the sexually immature groups (hatchlings, juveniles, and regenerating sexuals). Furthermore, I was able to quantify differences in sexual morphology between these groups exhibiting significant differences in oxygen consumption. The results of this research supports a theory of higher metabolic costs with sexual maturity in S. mediterranea. Therefore, this study has established sexual and asexual S. mediterranea as simple, yet attractive models for investigating energetic costs between sexual and asexual phenotypes. This research also provided quantitative values for specific dynamic action in planaria, with a maximum increase in oxygen consumption of 160% induced by feeding, as well as metabolic relationships in planaria involving temperature, age, and regeneration. These values establish planaria as one of the simplest animal models in which common metabolic patterns, such as SDA and poikilothermic temperature sensitivity, have been demonstrated. Therefore, this research has contributed to the overall knowledge of the basic physiology in this animal, providing the framework for future metabolic studies in planaria involving environmental factors, reproduction, regeneration, development, and aging. Information from this study may supplement interpretation and understanding of modern cellular, molecular, and genomic studies in planaria.
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Francisco, Lima Timothy. "IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DE UM PROGRAMA DE FORMAÇÃO EM CUIDADOS PALIATIVOS NO ENSINO PRÉ-GRADUADO EM ENFERMAGEM." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284042.
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En l'ensenyament de Grau en Infermeria a Portugal , la formació específica dels alumnes en " Cures Pal · liatives " és insuficient . Molts estudiants i professionals d'Infermeria tenen dificultats a l'hora d'interactuar en situacions relacionades amb la mort ; descrivint sensacions d'ansietat i falta de coneixements orientats a la cura de persones en fase terminal . La majoria dels estudis que comporten a la Titulació de Grau en Infermeria a Portugal , no compleixen amb les recomanacions de l'EAPC i de la APCP per a la formació d'aquests professionals en l'àrea de les Cures Pal · liatives , principalment pel que fa als continguts de l'assignatura i de la càrrega lectiva .
Aquest estudi està guiat per la següent pregunta de recerca : Quines són les repercussions d'un programa de formació optatiu en Cures Pal · liatives a un grup d'estudiants de la Titulació de Grau en Infermeria en una Escola Superior d'Infermeria a Portugal ? .
La tipologia d'estudi correspon a Investigació- Acció ( IA ) , una modalitat d'investigació qualitativa .
Com a resultats , sobresurten quatre qüestions que contribuiran al coneixement dels estudiants : Repercussions de la formació en els coneixements dels estudiants , Repercussions de la formació en l'acompanyament dels pacients , Repercussions de la formació en l'acompanyament de la família i Repercussions de la formació en la gestió emocional .
La formació va contribuir eficaçment a l'hora de prestar cures. La percepció dels estudiants sobre la importància de la formació en cures pal · liatives permetre valorar determinades situacions en aquesta àrea , així com incrementar la confiança dels alumnes per relacionar-se amb els pacients en fase terminal . Aquesta formació també va ampliar els seus coneixements sobre les cures pal · liatives, així com la seva aplicació pràctica , el que va ajudar a despertar la seva atenció sobre determinats aspectes inherents a la filosofia d'aquestes cures .En la enseñanza de Grado en Enfermería en Portugal, la formación específica de los alumnos en “Cuidados Paliativos” es insuficiente. Muchos estudiantes y profesionales de Enfermería tienen dificultades a la hora de interactuar ante situaciones relacionadas con la muerte; describiendo sensaciones de ansiedad y falta de conocimientos orientados al cuidado de personas en fase terminal. La mayoría de los estudios que conllevan a la Titulación de Grado en Enfermería en Portugal, no cumplen con las recomendaciones de la EAPC y de la APCP para la formación de estos profesionales en el área de los Cuidados Paliativos, principalmente por lo que respecta a los contenidos de la asignatura y de la carga lectiva. Este estudio esta guiado por la siguiente pregunta de investigación: ¿Cuáles son las repercusiones de un programa de formación optativo en Cuidados Paliativos en un grupo de estudiantes de la Titulación de Grado en Enfermería en una Escuela Superior de Enfermería en Portugal?. La tipología de estudio corresponde a Investigación-Acción (I-A), una modalidad de investigación cualitativa. Como resultados, sobresalen cuatro cuestiones que contribuirán en el conocimiento de los estudiantes: Repercusiones de la formación en los conocimientos de los estudiantes, Repercusiones de la formación en el acompañamiento de los pacientes, Repercusiones de la formación en el acompañamiento de la familia y Repercusiones de la formación en la gestión emocional. La formación contribuyó eficazmente a la hora de prestar cuidados. La percepción de los estudiantes sobre la importancia de la formación en cuidados paliativos permitió valorar determinadas situaciones en dicha área, así como incrementar la confianza de los alumnos para relacionarse con los pacientes en fase terminal. Esta formación también amplió sus conocimientos sobre los cuidados paliativos, así como su aplicación práctica, lo que ayudó a despertar su atención sobre determinados aspectos inherentes a la filosofía de estos cuidados.
The undergraduate nursing education, concerning Palliative Care training has several weaknesses, namely in Portugal. Many nurses and students have difficulties dealing with death and refer anxiety and lack of preparedness while caring of terminally ill people. Most courses leading to a nursing degree do not meet the recommendations of the EAPC and APCP for these professionals in the area of palliative care, particularly in terms of programmatic content and workload. This study aims to answer the following research question: What is the impact of an optional training program in palliative care among a group of undergraduated nursing students in a nursing school in Portugal? The study design is framed in the typology of Action Research (A-R), a modality of qualitative research. As a result of the palliative care course, 4 dimensions emerged that contributed to the knowledge of the nursing students: Repercussions of the training course within the student’s knowledge; Repercussions of the training course in the care provided to the patients; Repercussions of the training course in the care provided to the families of the patients; and Repercussions of the training course in the emotional well-being and coping of the students. There was a significant contribution of the palliative care course during clinical practice. The perception that the students had about the importance of a training course in palliative care was noticeable as a form of awakening for specific situations, as well as an increase in confidence while caring terminally ill patients. By implementing this training course, students expanded their knowledge concerning palliative care, and how they can be applied, helping them to be attentive to certain details related to the philosophy of such care, which reflected on the way they acted in clinical practice, through the acquisition of core competencies that derived from the training course.
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Zaforteza, Lallemand Concepción. "Promoción de los cuidados dirigidos a los familiares del paciente crítico a través de una investigación-acción participativa." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/132251.
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The research question that guides this project is: How to generate changes in an intensive care unit (ICU) to enhance the care provided to the relatives of the critical care patient? This research is guided by Paulo Freire’s critical theory. Participatory-action research (PAR) was the methodology developed in a ICU from Mallorca, Spain. The findings reveal that due to the study there have been changes generated that enhance the quality of care offered to relatives of ICU patients, yet some limiting factors to change have also subsisted. There are several implications for this study. First, it proposes a model for changing clinical practice that can be adapted to other ICUs or other health care settings. Second, it reveals that bed-side nurses have the capacity to introduce changes in their work environment and enhance the quality of care they provide. Third, PAR has proven to be an effective methodology to manage change processes, even in adverse conditions. Finally, it points out to participation as a central element for people to get involved in change processes and to change themselvesLa pregunta de investigación es ¿cómo generar cambios en una unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) para mejorar la atención a los familiares del paciente crítico? El proceso está guiado por la teoría crítica de Paulo Freire. La metodología ha sido la investigación-acción participativa. Al acabar la investigación se han generado cambios que mejoran la atención a los familiares del paciente crítico en una UCI, a la vez que perviven aspectos que limitan este cambio. Se propone un modelo para el cambio de práctica clínica, se pone de manifiesto que las enfermeras a pie de cama tienen capacidad para introducir el cambio en sus contextos y mejorar la atención de salud que proporcionan, se propone la metodología de la IAP como una manera efectiva de gestionar el cambio e indica que la participación es uno de los elementos clave para que las personas promuevan el cambio y lo experimenten en sí mismas
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Berhanu, Sinafikish Ayele. "Cervical cancer screening services utilisation among women living with HIV in Hawassa City Administration: Southern Ethiopia." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27174.
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Cervical cancer remains the main source of mortality among women around the world. It is a burden in developing countries and generally recognized through the complications of the advanced stages. The aim of this study was to investigate the utilisation of cervical cancer screening services among women living with HIV in Hawassa in order to develop a strategy to enhance cervical cancer screening service utilisation among this population in Ethiopia.
A quantitative approach with a cross-sectional study design was used in this study. The data were collected using a standard structured questionnaire from 309 women living with HIV attending health care facilities in Hawassa city Administration. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25 software was used to analyse data.
The results are presented based on the Health belief Model’s construct. The result revealed a low utilisation of cervical cancer screening services. Knowledge and perception of cervical cancer and cervical cancer screening service were also low. The main reason for being not screened was feeling healthy, lack of awareness, and embarrassment. Knowledge of cervical cancer was affected by factors such as knowing someone with cervical cancer, educational status, and monthly income. The finding indicated that utilisation of screenings could be determined by composite knowledge, perceived susceptibility to cervical cancer, duration on Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment and willingness to be screened. The findings of this study, findings from the literature review and relevant legislation guided the researcher to develop a strategy to enhance cervical cancer screening service utilisation among women living with HIV Ethiopia. Relevant recommendations were put forward to promote utilisation of strategy and also for future research. The utilisation of the developed strategy may improve the uptake of screening for cervical cancer, improve early diagnosis and treatment of cervical malignant growth, and decrease mortality among women living with HIV in Hawassa city organization.Health Studies
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Diamond, Jonathan. "Tactile Cues in the Control of Action: An Emphasis on Movement Initiation." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18278.
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The ability to detect a tactile stimulus during movement is markedly decreased (e.g., tactile gating), yet it is unknown whether the stimulus influences motor output. In the present study, participants moved a mechanical slider as quickly and as accurately as possible to a target. Participants received low-level electrical stimulation on the index finger of the reaching limb at various offsets relative to movement initiation. Participants reported whether they perceived the tactile cue. It was hypothesized that the detection of the stimulus would be reduced and the stimulus would influence motor output. First, a typical time course and magnitude of sensory gating was found, supporting previous observations (e.g., Chapman & Beauchamp, 2006). Second, no influence of the stimulation on motor output was observed. It was concluded that the detection of tactile cues during a goal-directed reaching task is attenuated and this stimulation does not influence motor output.
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"Communication Cues to Action Prompting Central Appalachian Women to have a Mammogram." East Tennessee State University, 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0430104-084147/.
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Su, Yung-Shan, and 蘇詠善. "Analyzing Product Semantic Labels as Cue for Placing Action - Product Semantic Dataset and Cooperative Dual-Arm Active Manipulation." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wt3au6.
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電控工程研究所
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Under the wave of artificial intelligence, there are more and more automatic warehouses and stores. For example, Amazon Go, an automatic store in Seattle, is known for its convenience: Customers can pick products and leave directly without checking out with store clerk. In Amazon Go, picked products will be automatically detected and paid by credit card. It saves lots of time for standing in line. The other example is Online shopping. Company receives customer’s Online orders, collects products in warehouse, and the shipping company delivers the goods to the customers. Many companies have started to develop automation of warehouse to improve the efficiency for collecting products. In these scenarios, robots need to depend on the semantic label on products to execute picking and placing tasks. Picking tasks have had important progress in Amazon Picking Challenge, but placing tasks reamin challenging. For example, in an automatic store, products need to be placed neatly on the shelf, and customers can find products easily. More, when classifying products in warehouse, barcode on the products needs to face barcode scanner so it can be classified, shipped on the conveyor, and packed to specific box. There are some challenges for pose-aware placing tasks: 1) Semantic label and geometry on the products need to be considered jointly. 2) The occlusion in cluttered environment makes detection and manipulation hard. More, there are no unified methods to evaluate the performance for robotic manipulation. To solve these problems, I improve [1], and evaluate the system. The paper contributions are 1): Offer open source dataset which includes image, labels for object, barcode, and brandname. 2) Develop cooperative dual-arm active manipulation system and prove its capibility for solving the problems. Finally, I analyze the failure case for the future improvement.
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Chen, Sheng-Fang, and 陳聖方. "LSTM with Hand-crafted View-Invariant and Differential Cues (HVDC) for 3D Human Action Recognition." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58p787.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
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Good action recognition relies on correct interpretation of two critical attributes related to action: the spatial attribute on the detected person’s posture, and the temporal attribute on the detected person’s body movement. Whereas deep learning has greatly improved image recognition, we have not found a similar progress for action recognition. One of the main reasons is due to the complexity caused by the additional temporal dimension; another, to the fact that there are less annotated training data samples for action recognition than that for image recognition. In this regard, this paper proposes a handcrafted cued LSTM model for human action recognition based on RGB-D data, as a collection of 25 skeleton joints in 3D coordinates, found in NTU-RGB-D, currently the most comprehensive dataset for action recognition. As opposed to the raw data of skeleton joints, handcrafted cues, pre-processed results geared to facilitate focused learning, are proposed as input to the LSTM structure. In particular, pertaining to the spatial cue, the SVIT cue derived by Skeleton View-invariant Transformation is adopted; pertaining to the temporal cue, the Diff cue computed by taking the displacements of all joint across down-sampled raw data is utilized. Based on the train/test protocol, the experiment we conducted on NTU-RGB-D shows that the recognition result based on either of the proposed handcrafted cues is better than that based on the raw data. In addition, by our proposed techniques of feature fusion and/or decision fusion of these two handcrafted cues, the recognition performance is better than that of the state-of-the-art approaches conducting on the same dataset by same train/test protocol.
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Wu, Hsiu-Wei, and 吳修緯. "A Modified Active Contour Model For Cast Shadow Removal Based On Texture And Color Cues." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16651028106867170913.
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This thesis presents a novel method to remove casting shadow of foreground objects. We modify the active contour model to discriminate real foreground objects from their casting shadow. First, we use Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to model the background and then perform the background subtraction to get a rough foreground mask. The pixels around the rough foreground contour are taken as our shape cues and are set to be the initial control points of our modified active contour model. The local binary patterns (LBP) for local texture description and the Sobel operators for edge detection are taken as our texture cue. The color distortion model is used to estimate the color cues including both the color distortion and brightness difference. Finally, we design a new energy function for the modified active contour model by using these three cues to remove the casting shadow from real foreground object.
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Yap, Moi Hoon, Hassan Ugail, and R. Zwiggelaar. "Facial Analysis for Real-Time Application: A Review in Visual Cues Detection Techniques." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/8170.
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YesEmerging applications in surveillance, the entertainment industry and other human computer interaction applications have motivated the development of real-time facial analysis research covering detection, tracking and recognition. In this paper, the authors present a review of recent facial analysis for real-time applications, by providing an up-to-date review of research efforts in human computing techniques in the visible domain. The main goal is to provide a comprehensive reference source for researchers, regardless of specific research areas, involved in real-time facial analysis. First, the authors undertake a thorough survey and comparison in face detection techniques. In this survey, they discuss some prominent face detection methods presented in the literature. The performance of the techniques is evaluated by using benchmark databases. Subsequently, the authors provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of facial expressions analysis and the importance of psychology inherent in facial expression analysis. During the last decades, facial expressions analysis has slowly evolved into automatic facial expressions analysis due to the popularity of digital media and the maturity of computer vision. Hence, the authors review some existing automatic facial expressions analysis techniques. Finally, the authors provide an exemplar for the development of a facial analysis real-time application and propose a model for facial analysis. This review shows that facial analysis for real-time application involves multi-disciplinary aspects and it is important to take all domains into account when building a reliable system.
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Martin, Luis Ignacio Gomez Jordana. "Can ‘action-relevant’ visual cues improve walking performance and reduce freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease?" Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/47843.
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Southerland, Shiree Monika. "Factors related to condom use among sexually active African American females using health belief model constructs and potential cues to action with a mass communication/interpersonal communication approach." 2003. http://etd.utk.edu/2003/SoutherlandShiree.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003.Title from title page screen (viewed Nov. 17, 2003). Thesis advisor: Paula Carney. Document formatted into pages (xiii, 115 p. : ill.). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-96).
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Ying-YaoLee and 李盈瑤. "The Effects of Auditory Cues and Task Complexity on Inter-Limb Coordination and Perception-Action Coupling in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46937026114363523091.
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Background and purpose: A series of motor behavior changes after birth developed to adapt the environmental and task demands. The abilities of inter-limb coordination and perception-action coupling are important for an individual to adapt in environment. Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) have deficits in motor control. Limited study has examined the gross motor inter-limb coordination and coordination between limb action and external auditory cues in children with DCD. The aims of the study were to investigate the inter-limb coordination and perception-action coupling in children with DCD: (1) the effect of external cue on inter-limb coordination; (2) the effect of task complexity on inter-limb coordination; (3) the effect of limb movements on inter-limb coordination and perception-action coupling. Methods: twenty-four children with DCD and 24 age- and gender-matched typically developing (TD) children participated in the study. They performed tasks of marching or clapping alone and marching together with clapping in three auditory cue conditions (no cue, cue with preferred clap frequency and cue with preferred step frequency). The coefficient of variances (CVs) of action frequency and step-clap phasing value within-trials were used to examine the performance of inter-limb coordination. The mean and CV of perception-action phasing value were adopted as indicators of perception-action coupling ability. Results: The CV of action frequency was significantly larger in DCD group than in TD group. The CV of clap frequency increased with increased task complexity, but the CV of step frequency did not change. The mean of step-clap phasing value was also significantly larger in DCD group than in TD group. Significant cue and group interaction effect of the CV of perception-action phasing was noted. The CV of perception-action phasing was larger in TD group compared to that in DCD group. Conclusion: Children with DCD were less stable than TD children in an action and in the inter-limb coordination. Our study showed that children with DCD were more stable than TD children in the action-perception phase. This suggests that children with DCD reflect poor adaption to a cue and have problem in correcting on-going movements. Children with DCD tend to entrap in an attractor status. However, TD children tend to couple their limbs in adaptation and anticipation to the external cue.
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Yang, Chueh-Hsuan, and 楊玨璿. "The Study of Medication Adherence in Outpatients with Hypertension in a Medical Center -- The Influence of Self-efficacy and Cues to action." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43274949358246565427.
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The purposes of this study are to apply Becker’s health belief model（1974）and Bandura’s self-efficacy theory(1977) to exploring the medication adherence behaviors and relevant factors in out-patients with hypertension. The research subjects, who had received anti-hypertension treatment over 3 month, from cardiac clinics of a medical center in Taipei. The formal structured questionnaire was composed of patient’s basic informations, “Adherence behaviors scale”, “Health belief scale”, “Cues to action scale” and “Self-efficacy scale”. A total of 112 subjects were interviewed face-to-face. The results shown were as follows: 1.An objective definition of poor adherence to prescription was the score of “Adherence behavior scale” less than 4.557, and systolic blood pressure more than 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure more than 90 mmHg. According to this definition, the poor adherence rate was 7.1%, and adherence rate was 65.2%. 2.The main reason for subjects not taking their medications was forgetfulness. Their poor adherence behaviors included omissions of medication schedule, omissions of medication type and dose. 3.The self-efficacy had a significant correlation with medication adherence behaviors and also explained the 7.6% of total variation in subjects’ medication adherence behaviors. 4.The subjects’ age affected perceived severity、 perceived barriers of action and positive cues to action. The subjects’ education level affected perceived severity and perceived benefits of action. Conclusions: Bandura’s self-efficacy theory can be used to predic drug adherence behaviors of hypertension patients. Recommendations: (1) Nurses should emphasize the management of medication for forgetfulness；(2) Nurses can strengthen patient’s ability and confidence for medication adherence；(3) Nurses have to design the education plan of according to education level and age of hypertensive patients for medication education.
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Hung, Hsiang-fei, and 洪湘斐. "The Effects of Auditory Cues and Task Complexity on Inter-limb Coordination and Perception-action Coupling in Children and Adults: A Developmental Trend." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94770330141564495857.
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碩士國立成功大學
物理治療研究所
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Background and purposes: To act adaptively in one’s environment requires all kinds of task- and environment-related information to base on for choosing appropriate muscle responses. After born, children are constantly adapting to the environment and need to learn and perform more complex motor tasks with increases in age. The inter-limbs coordination and perception-action coupling are two keystone abilities of the complex motor skills. Previous studies that investigated the inter-limbs coordination and the perception-action coupling in gross motor tasks for children were limited. The effects of auditory cue on inter-limbs coordination and the task complexity on perception-action coupling were unclear. Therefore, the purposes of the present study were to investigate: (1) the effects of external auditory cues on inter-limbs coordination; (2) the effects of task complexity on the inter-limbs coordination and perception-action coupling; and (3) the developmental trend of above behaviors. Method: A total of 68 normal subjects participated in the study and constituted five age groups: 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 years old and young adults. Participants were required to perform marching or clapping alone as single-gross-motor tasks, and marching together with clapping as dual-gross-motor task in three auditory cue conditions. The auditory cue conditions were no cue, cue with self-selected step frequency of pure tone and cue with self-selected clap frequency of pure tone. The coefficients of variances (CVs) of action frequency and step-clap phasing value within-trials were used to examine the performance of inter-limbs coordination. The mean and CV of perception-action phasing value were adopted as the indicators of perception-action coupling ability. The effects of age, limb action, task complexity and cue conditions on the dependent variables were tested with Repeated Measures ANOVA. Results: The CV of action frequency decreased with an increase in age and it was larger in cues with preferred step frequency of tone condition than it in no-cue or cues with self-selected clap frequency of tone conditions. CV of clap frequency increased with an increase in task complexity, but CV of step frequency did not change. Furthermore, CV of step-clap phasing decreased with an increase in age but remained constant across cue conditions. The differences between any two groups were significant but not between either 5-6 and 7-8 years groups or 9-10 and 11-12 years groups. The increase of task complexity would increase the mean perception-action phasing value. The mean clap-cue phasing values were larger in children aged 7-10 than adults and children aged 11-12. Furthermore, both mean and CV of clap-cue phasing value varied with the changes of cue frequency, but the performance of step-cue phasing stayed constant. Conclusion: Inter-limbs coordination improves with the increase of age. Depending on the cue frequency, the auditory cue has no effect or detrimental effect on inter-limbs coordination for normal subjects. Task complexity reduces the accuracy, but not stability, of perception-action coupling, and the effects are similar across age groups.
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Langridge, Ryan. "The effects of allocentric cue presence on eye-hand coordination: disappearing targets in motion." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31698.
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Participants executed right-handed reach-to-grasp movements toward horizontally translating targets. Visual feedback of the target when reaching, as well as the presence of additional cues placed close (Experiment 1) or far (Experiment 2) above and below the target’s path was manipulated. Additional cue presence appeared to impair participants’ ability to extrapolate the disappeared target’s motion, and caused grasps for occluded targets to be less accurate. Final gaze and grasp positions were more accurate when reaching for leftward moving targets, suggesting individuals use different grasp strategies when reaching for targets travelling away from the reaching hand. Comparison of average fixations at reach onset and at the time of the grasp suggested that participants accurately extrapolated the occluded target’s motion prior to reach onset, but not after, resulting in inaccurate grasps. New information is provided about the eye-hand strategies used when reaching for moving targets in unpredictable visual conditions.October 2016
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Alexander, Leigh E. "The effect of active preparation and language on task switch and cue switch costs: A distributional analysis." Thesis, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1464475.
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Henriques, Ana Lúcia Sousa. "The social, environmental and economic impact of using reusable plastic cups in Lisbon." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19665.
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An effective way to decrease the use of disposable plastic, a source of growing concern due to its harmful effects on the environment, is by using reusable plastic cups, something that countries like Germany or Australia are already successfully using for several years.
Portugal is now starting, with the introduction of reusable cups in establishments selling takeaway drinks such as bars, coffee shops, and restaurants in Lisbon.
Therefore, this thesis indents to study the adaptation of clients and employees of establishments where takeaway drinks are sold, to the use of reusable cups: what are their main difficulties; environmental benefits resulting from it and how can the system be improved.
To do so, a questionnaire was applied to 50 establishments' employees working with reusable cups.
The results showed that the biggest difficulty for clients when using reusable cups is the extra price of the cup, although clients tend to accept this extra cost over time.
Regarding the environmental benefits, direct and indirect were identified. Direct effects include approximately 61.000 disposable cups speared, as reusables were used instead, and less pollution on public areas resulting from the consumption of takeaway drinks. Indirect effects include more interest in pro-environmental practices both by clients and employees.
Finally, results also showed that is very likely that the system can be improved through a better manager's perception of the economic impact: considering that the extra costs resulting from using reusable cups are negligible for employees and that using reusable cups does not affect sales.Uma maneira eficaz de reduzir o consumo de plástico descartável, uma preocupação cada vez maior devido às graves consequências ambientais, passa pela utilização de copos reutilizáveis, prática implementada com sucesso há vários anos em países como a Alemanha e a Austrália. Portugal está agora a começar, com a introdução de copos reutilizáveis em estabelecimentos de venda de bebidas "take-away", tais como bares, cafés e restaurantes em Lisboa. Com esta tese pretende-se então estudar a adaptação de consumidores e empregados de estabelecimentos de venda de bebidas "take-away" ao uso de copos reutilizáveis: identificar as principais dificuldades, benefícios ambientais resultantes e como é que o sistema pode ser melhorado. Para isso, foi aplicado um questionário a 50 empregados de estabelecimentos onde já são usados copos reutilizáveis. Os resultados mostraram que a maior dificuldade dos clientes está relacionada com o preço acrescido dos copos reutilizáveis, mas um custo extra que os clientes tendem a aceitar. Relativamente aos benefícios ambientais, foram identificados diretos e indiretos. Efeitos diretos incluem aproximadamente 61.000 copos descartáveis poupados, uma vez que foram usados reutilizáveis em substituição e menos poluição do espaço público resultante do consumo de bebidas "take-away". Efeitos indiretos incluem o aumento do interesse por práticas ambientais tanto por consumidores como por clientes. Por último, os resultados mostraram que é muito provável o sistema poder ser melhorado através de uma melhor perceção do impacto económico: considerando que os custos extra resultante do uso de copos reutilizáveis para os empregados é considerado irrelevante e ainda que a sua utilização não afeta as vendas.
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Kamba, Grace Dhora Maggie. "Factors contributing to under utilisation of HIV testing services among TB patients in Malawi." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13106.
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A quantitative, descriptive, explorative survey was conducted to explore and describe
factors contributing to underutilisation of HIV testing services among tuberculosis
patients and clients in Malawi. Sampled were 282 participants attending an outpatient
clinic. A self administered questionnaire was used. The findings revealed that 80.5% of
the respondents perceived themselves susceptible to HIV infection, 55% believed there
were negative consequences of HIV Testing and Counselling (HTC), 87.6% perceived
HTC had benefits, most of the respondents (76.8%) mentioned the benefit of knowing
the HIV status helping one to plan life, 65% believed in themselves, that they could
accept and undergo HIV testing with ease. The study recommends that all HTC
providers be thoroughly trained in knowledge and skills to offer services with
confidentiality and avoid stigma and discrimination of those found HIV positive. The
importance and benefits of HTC should be emphasised in all behaviour communication
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Hami, Melanie Yandakale. "Intentions to use cervical cancer screening services among women aged 42 and older in Malawi." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/9026.
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Free cervical cancer screening services are provided in Malawi’s public healthcare
institutionssince 1999. Few women aged 42 and older, utilise these services. Cervical cancer
continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality among this group of women.
Structured interviews were conducted with 381 women who attended three healthcare
centers in Blantyre and semi-structured interviews with 14 nurse/midwives working at the
same centers.
The results for both phases arepresented within the Health Belief Model’s constructs. Phase
1 revealed that women had low levels of perceived susceptibility to cervical cancer. Although
the interviewed women perceived cervical cancer to be a serious condition, they did not
regard themselves to be at risk of suffering from cervical cancer. Knowledge that cervical
cancer screening could detect this cancer at an early stage, embarrassment, stigma, social
support, financial costs, traditional practices and available sources of information, influenced
women’s intentions to be screened for cervical cancer.
In phase 2, the nurse/midwives indicated that Malawian women lacked information about
cervical cancer, available screening tests and the purpose of such screening.These women
perceived cervical canceras being incurable and linked to witchcraft. Women’s utilisation of
cervical screening services was hampered by barriers relating to healthcare institutions,
women themselves and nurse/midwives. Local radio and television broadcasts, friends and
nurse/midwives motivated individual women to use these screening services.Women
preferred receiving information about cervical cancer screening during community activities.
Health education should be intensified, nurse/midwives should be more empathetic, clinic
days and hours should be extended. Misconceptions should be addressed and more service
providers should be trained. This would enable more Malawian women to use cervical
screening services, enhancing early detection and treatment of cervical cancer and reducing
the morbidity and mortality statistics related to this condition in Malawi.Health Studies
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Kočířová, Eliška. "Tvorba proteinových granulí v diferencovaných buňkách kvasinkových kolonií." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-435966.
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a unicellular eukaryotic organism capable of forming organized multicellular communities - colonies and biofilms. During development, colonies of laboratory strains differentiate into specifically localized cell subpopulations - U and L cells, located in the upper and lower part of the colony, respectively. The U and L subpopulations of cells vary in morphology, metabolic processes and stress resistance. Protein granules are membrane-less "organelles" found in both unicellular and multicellular eukaryotic organisms. The formation of protein granules is related to the physiological state of the cell (e.g. chronological and replicative aging), but also to changing environmental conditions and to cellular responses to stress factors. A relatively large fraction of proteins relocalizes to some type of protein granule during the lifespan of the cell. Granule formation can increase fitness of cells, help them to cope with limiting energy resources, and plays a crucial role in the adaptation of cells to stress conditions. Localization of many proteins in the cell varies depending on its physiology. Therefore the specific localization of such proteins may be considered as a "marker" of a specific physiological condition. There are proteins in each type of granule that can be...
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Tekle, Mesfin Tesfay. "Barriers to compliance to exclusive breastfeeding and timely introduction of complementary feeding practices in Ethiopia." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20107.
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Text in EnglishThis study aimed at exploring Barriers to compliance with exclusive breastfeeding and timely introduction of complementary feeding practices in Ofla District, Tigray Region in Ethiopia. A quantitative exploratory descriptive study was conducted to explore and describe the barriers that restrict mothers /caregivers to comply with exclusive breast feeding practice until six months and with introduction of solid, semi-solid and soft foods at six months in Ofla District. Data were collected using structured questionnaire, from a total of 112 samples of which 75 mothers and care givers with children aged 0-5 months and 38 children aged 6-8 months participated. The data were entered into a computer and analysed though the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The findings revealed that there are barriers related Doer mothers and Non-Doer mothers perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, perceived self-efficacy, cues for actions, perceived social acceptability and positive and negative attitudes towards exclusive breastfeeding and initiation of complementary feeding. On the other hand, the participant’s perception of both groups with regard to perception of Divine (God’s) Will on two child feeding practices was insignificantly the same. Both groups perceived that children could get sometimes malnourished because of spiritual or supernatural causes.
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(9622742), Kelly A. McFall. "ADDRESSING CORPORATE KNOWLEDGE LOSS IN A UNIVERSITY UTILITY PLANT." Thesis, 2020.
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This research was a pilot study in a larger project that focused on how to retrieve knowledge from retiring long-term employees of a small university utility plant, incorporate that material into their existing training program, and during the process reduce the training time for current and future employees. Wade utility plant faced the retirement of eight employees with nearly 200 years of corporate knowledge within three years, but their current training program required seven to nine years to complete. The study utilized interviews, first-hand observation and partnership with current employees to explore how best to obtain the corporate knowledge that would be lost when the proletarian workers retired. The study revealed that the training program needed to be updated, and communication, trust and training evaluation continuity needed to be addressed. Due to these issues, trust was built through transparency by the researcher, and suggestions were made to management for moving forward. This study adds to the body of knowledge by utilizing knowledge capture techniques in a utility plant, highlighting effective knowledge capture techniques for proletarian workers, the importance of corporate planning for the effect of group retirements, and how incorporating proletarian workers into training creation can make a positive impact on company relationships.