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Wadden, Patrick James. "Theories of national identity in early medieval Ireland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:49c662b9-4e14-41b3-972e-ed8475f324c5.

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Despite the political disunity of early Irish society, theories and expressions of national identity abounded in the work of the learned classes of clerics, genealogists, poets and lawyers. This thesis examines texts from two crucial periods in the evolution of these theories. Focusing initially on the seventh and eighth centuries, the first part of the thesis argues that Irish national identity was created as part of a campaign to assert the joint authority of the Uí Néill kings of Tara and their ecclesiastical allies in Armagh. Drawing inspiration from biblical and patristic sources, and possibly also from contemporary developments elsewhere in Europe, these ecclesiastico-political allies asserted the national unity of the Irish in linguistic, genetic and territorial terms in pursuit of their own particular objectives. The influence of biblical and patristic beliefs on many of these early expressions of Irish identity highlights the outward-looking nature of the Irish scholarly tradition. During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, this international dimension intensified as the histories and identities of foreign peoples became subjects of study in Ireland, and new source materials filtered into the country from overseas. With reference to two texts composed during this period, the Irish Sex Aetates Mundi and a poem on national characteristics beginning Cumtach na nIudaide n-ard – the second part of this thesis discusses the influence of newly acquired sources on contemporary Irish scholarship. It also examines how the information contained in these sources was adapted and rationalised to conform to the basic assumptions of Irish society.

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Libal, Kathryn R. "National futures : the child question in early republican Turkey /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6489.

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Ahiska, Saziye Meltem. "An occidentalist fantasy : early Turkish radio and national identity." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311919.

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Doolen, Andrew Vincent. "Fugitive nation: Contagious democracies in American literature of the early national period, 1793-1838." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280140.

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Fugitive Nation: Contagious Democracies in American Literature of the Early National Period, 1793-1838 takes aim at the legislative gag-order on racial issues during the early national period. The gag-order suppressed national discussions of slavery and racial injustice until abolitionism rose in the 1830s, and its legacy continues today to impair our historical understanding of this deeply conflicted period of the American past. In order to restore this "fugitive" history, Fugitive Nation reconstructs a historical memory by uncovering the erstwhile silent record of race relations during the early national period, while demonstrating how this history of racial injustice is at the root of a liberal democratic tradition in American Letters. Thus, my study traces the ideological connections among disparate national narratives, from the more literary works of Charles Brockden Brown and James Fenimore Cooper, to the more popular and partisan documents circulating in the early national period. Magazines, congressional and society records, personal narratives, and documentary histories, such as cross-cultural accounts of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic and the annual reports of the American Colonization Society, provide a fuller understanding of the different roles race played in the nation's transformation from colony to state, even as they provide richly nuanced readings of early American literary works. Ultimately, Fugitive Nation corrects the fallacy of the "Great Contradiction"---that racial hierarchies were somehow inconsistent with a liberal Democracy---by demonstrating that America grew out of, and actually required, an increasingly punitive and divisive system of race relations.

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Tutuncu, Fatma. "The National Pedagogy Of The Early Republican Era In Turkey." Phd thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608295/index.pdf.

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This dissertation examines the relationship between body, subjectivity and modernity in the making of modern Turkey. It explores how the &ldquo
disenchanted&rdquo
world of the people was &ldquo
re-enchanted&rdquo
by the modern, Eurocentric, nationalist and republican program of the republican elite. I call this program as the &ldquo
politico-moral pedagogy&rdquo
and argue that it arrives at its peak in the 1930s, when the republican regime was consolidated enough to colonize the bodies and the intimacies of people. More particularly, this dissertation studies the republican power at the intersection of the contested domains of the public and the private. It explores how the Kemalist elite, through operating a public, republican discourse, exerted a significant amount of energy and resources at the intimate sphere for creating civilized, healthy and virtuous generations. It traces the genealogy of the &ldquo
republican morality&rdquo
as the kernel of the republican &ldquo
corporeal&rdquo
and &ldquo
sentimental&rdquo
education under the program of the national pedagogy in the constructed and performative domains of the intimate, where people become the pedagogical object to be transformed into &ldquo
good, strong and healthy&rdquo
republican citizens.

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Saracino, Jennifer L. "Early intervention for children with developmental delays : a national inventory." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101893.

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This study was designed to examine the most common characteristics, best practices, and gaps in service delivery at Early Intervention (EI) centres across Canada. A 29-item survey designed to investigate services, funding, waitlists, satisfaction, and perceptions of success was completed by 184 service providers. Provinces and territories were grouped according to time zone and five resulting samples were compared. Samples were comparable in terms of waitlists, perception of success and government contributions. Significant differences were found in terms of the number of professionals working at the centre, with the Mountain and Eastern samples having the most multidisciplinary centres. In addition to making cross-province comparisons, Canadian findings were also explored. As the proportion of government funding decreased and private funding increased, ratings of satisfaction significantly increased. Findings were discussed in relation to the relevance to Canadian EI centres and directions for future research were explored.

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Kuske, Laura Eileen. "Border stories : race, space, and captivity in early national fiction /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9395.

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Barbier, Brooke C. "Daughters of Liberty: Young Women's Culture in Early National Boston." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3746.

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Thesis advisor: Cynthia Lyerly
My dissertation examines the social, cultural, and political lives of women in the early Republic through an analysis of the first women's literary circle formed in the United States after the Revolution, the Boston Gleaning Circle. The Gleaners, as the women referred to themselves, instead of engaging primarily in charitable and religious work, which was the focus of other women's groups, concentrated on their own intellectual improvement. The early Republican era witnessed the first sustained interest in women's education in North America and the Gleaners saw women as uniquely blessed by the Revolution and therefore duty-bound to improve their minds and influence their society. My study builds on, and challenges, the historiography of women in the early Republic by looking at writings from a group of unmarried women whose lives did not fit the ideal of "republican motherhood," but who still considered themselves patriotic Americans. The Gleaners believed that the legacy of the American Revolution left them, as young women, a crucial role in American public life. Five of the Gleaners had a father who was a Son of Liberty and participated in the Boston Tea Party. Their inherited legacy of patriotism and politics permeated the lives of these young women. Many historians argue that the Revolution brought few gains for women, but the Gleaners demonstrate that for these young Bostonians, the ideas of the Revolution impacted them. Making intellectual contributions was not easy, however, and the young women were constantly anxious about their Circle's place in society. By the 1820s, the opportunities that the Revolution brought women had been closed. Prescriptive literature now touted a cult of True Womanhood told women that they were to be selfless, pious, and submissive. These ideas influenced the Gleaners and by the 1820s they no longer met for their literary pursuits, but for charitable purposes. No place in society remained for women in a self-improvement society. Instead, women had to work to improve others, demonstrating the limited opportunities for women in the antebellum period
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History

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Miller, Donna Marie. "Establishing Inter Rater Reliability of the National Early Warning Score." Walsh University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walsh1429472548.

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Ozdemir, Diler. "Ankara Hippodrome: The National Celebrations Of Early Republican Turkey,1923-1938." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12605484/index.pdf.

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this study analyzes the relationship between national celebrations and thespatial practices of Ankara Hippodrome in the Early Republican Turkey.National festivals areregarded as social-performative commemorations and political practices in origin. the period between 1923 and 1938 is considered as the construction period of the Republican Regime that gave a form for the recolleciton of Turkish society. the scope of our thesis is limited with the construciton of social memory, which is integrated with the nation-construciton processes. the conceptual frame and the case study of our research are structured by the archiva official documents of this period to explore how the naiton-building processes are realized through the interaction between memory and space.

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Vogt, Hartmut. "Early life factors and the long-term development of asthma." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Pediatrik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-85159.

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Asthma, a huge burden on millions of individuals worldwide, is one of the most important public health issues in many countries. As genetic and environmental factors interact, asthma may be programmed very early in life, perhaps even in utero. The aim of this thesis was to assess the impact of gestational age, cord blood immunoglobulin E (IgE), a family history of asthma, migration, and pertussis immunization in early life on the development of asthma in child and adult populations. As a proxy for asthma disease, dispensed asthma medication was used as the main outcome variable based on data from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register. Data from other national registers were used to control for confounders. Three of our studies were based on national cohorts, and one on a local birth cohort that was initiated in 1974–75. Gestational age had an inverse dose-response relationship with dispensed asthma medication in 6– to 19-year-olds. Odds ratios for dispensed asthma medication increased with degree of prematurity compared with children born in term. Furthermore, asthma medication was more likely to be dispensed among children and adolescents born early term after 37–38 weeks’ gestation than among those at the same age who were born in term. Elevated cord blood IgE and a family history of asthma in infancy were associated with a two- to threefold increased likelihood of dispensed asthma medication and self-reported allergen-induced respiratory symptoms at the age of 32–34 years, but the predictive power was poor. Age at migration had an inverse dose-response relationship with dispensed asthma medication at the age of 6–25 years in adoptees and foreign-born children with foreign-born parents. International adoptees and children born in Sweden to foreign-born parents had three- to fourfold higher rates of asthma medication compared with foreign-born children who were raised by their foreign-born birth parents. No association was found between pertussis immunization in early infancy and dispensed asthma medication in 15-year-olds. The type of vaccine or vaccine schedule did not affect the outcome. Fetal life is a vulnerable period. This thesis strengthens the evidence that every week of gestation is important for lung maturation. Cord blood IgE, however, did not predict the risk of asthma in adults. Furthermore, the study of migrating populations demonstrated that environmental changes at any age during childhood may affect the risk of asthma. Another, important public health message from this thesis is that vaccination against pertussis in early childhood can be considered safe with respect to the long-term development of asthma.

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McAllister, Brian James. "The Early Days of a Better Nation: Imagined Space in Irish and Scottish National Culture, 1960–2000." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371193431.

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Evanshen, Pamela, Tracey Crowe, Angela Baum, William Parnell, Kelly Baker, Cynthia DiCarlo, and Vickie Lake. "National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE) Conference and Meeting: Reflections on Research and Practice in Early Childhood Teacher Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4345.

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Designed for those who work in the field of early childhood teacher education. Serves as the spring conference for NAECTE. Explore the theme of Reflections on Research and Practice in Early Childhood Teacher Education through a keynote presentation, paper, and poster presentations, with time provided for dialogue amont participants.

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Molnar, Katherine J. "Early nineteenth century construction techniques along Indiana's eastern National Road (1830-1850)." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1366295.

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This thesis argues that early nineteenth-century domestic architecture along Indiana's eastern National Road (Wayne, Henry and Hancock Counties) was a product of the available local materials, not a product of cultural influences traveling along the Road. While the first chapter drives in this point, the second and third chapters describe the local materials (builders and carpenters, wood, saw-mills, clay, brickmaking and limestone), and explain construction techniques in a series of case study buildings. The thesis concludes by not only confirming the proposition, but also by making a few conclusions regarding early nineteenth-century construction methods.
Department of Architecture

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Evans, Eric. "The establishment and early development of the National Language Unit of Wales." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307555.

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Mot, Magdalena. "Russianness in Aleksei Remizov's early writings." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99384.

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This thesis examines three different collections from the early works of the Russian writer Aleksei Remizov (1887-1957): Posolon' (1907), Leimonarion (1907), and Besnovatye: Savva Grudtsyn and Solomoniia (1951). Each of them highlights a different approach taken by Remizov in preserving Russianness. In this analysis the concept of Russianness does not constitute a specific national or historical scheme. The reference is rather to a spiritual legacy, a condition of soul. Posolon' calls for the regaining of a lost cyclicity and looks back in time at the common folk's way of life. Leimonarion is one of the most expressive examples of the constant duality of Remizov's position on the dominant artistic and ideological ideas of the time; this collection looks at the old world through the new eyes of a modern era. "Savva Grudtsyn" and "Solomoniia" present a perpetual moral struggle, which pits the profanity of a secular world against the sacred values to which people ought to aspire.
The results of the study show that Remizov, using different themes and different literary genres, pursues one broad concern: Russianness. This theme permeates not only his literary language, but also the content of the works discussed here. In Leimonarion Russia is kept together by her people and their belief in salvation; in Posolon' Russia is all about folklore, joyful games, tales and rituals; in Besnovatye Russia is saved by the simplicity and purity of the iurodivye , the 'Holy fools.'

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Leone, Steven. "Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23829.

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While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the early national period (roughly 1770 to 1850) shape both their understanding of themselves and their environment? The answer to that question exposes a distinct set of values revolving around preparation for death, and acknowledgment and respect for their own (and others mortality), which Americans imbibed from various and disparate sources. More specifically, the first half of the project examines how the letters they wrote and read, the sermons they listened to, the mourning rituals they practiced, the burial grounds they utilized, and the novels and poetry they consumed all combined to create a shared knowledge base and approach to death during the early republic. Uniquely, these principles found strength through a conscious linking of mortality to the natural world. Americans understood their own death as part of a larger, both positive and negative, perfected natural system created and perpetuated by God. The American approach towards mortality, however, was not static and the nineteenth century bore witness to the emergence of a sentimentalized, sanitized, and less human inclusive vision of mortality during 1830s and beyond. Ironically, nature remained central to the way Americans experienced death, however, in a consciously aesthetic, romantic, controlled manner. It is written into the present where rolling and manicured lawns combine together with still ponds to create bucolic scenes of peaceful rest among scenes of beauty. The old, grim, but no less natural lessons of worms, dirt, decay, and dissolution no longer hold sway, ignoring the vital and humbling connection between human bodies and the natural world that was understood in the early republic. This shift (and the focus of the second half of the dissertation), was spurred on by numerous interrelated but distinct factors ranging from urban growth, disease, foreign immigration, and changing cultural sentiments. Americans during the 1830s, 40s, and 50s redefined their relationship to death and in doing so consciously turned away from a vibrant, dynamic, and humbling vision of mortality grounded in the natural world.

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Stafford, Brooke Alyson. "Outside England : mobility and early modern Englishness /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9326.

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Schatz, Jason D. "Early Life Stage Characteristics of Six Acadian Conifer Species: Germination and Seedling Development in a Changing Climate." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/SchatzJD2007.pdf.

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Figueira, Alexandra. "Avaliação da Pessoa em Situação Crítica: Aplicação do National Early Warning Score (NEWS)." Master's thesis, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal. Escola Superior de Saúde, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/10536.

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Relatório de Trabalho de Projeto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica.
O presente Relatório de Trabalho de Projeto foi elaborado no âmbito do 3º Curso de Mestrado em Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica, da Escola Superior de Saúde, do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, como método de avaliação dos módulos de Estágio I, II e III integrados nas Unidades Curriculares de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica I e II. A elaboração do patente relatório consiste num instrumento de aprendizagem que permite uma reflexão sobre o percurso do estudante, refletindo o desenvolvimento de atividades e competências e aprofundamento de conhecimentos ao longo dos estágios. O local dos estágios foi o Serviço de Urgência Geral de um Centro Hospitalar da Margem Sul, no qual desenvolvemos o Projeto de Intervenção em Serviço subordinado ao tema “Avaliação da pessoa em situação crítica – Aplicação do National Early Warning Score (NEWS)”, utilizando a Metodologia de Projeto. No presente relatório é elaborada a descrição, análise crítica e avaliação do desenvolvimento e implementação do Projeto de Intervenção em Serviço bem como a descrição e análise do Projeto de Aprendizagem Clínica, considerando as Competências Comuns do Enfermeiro Especialista, as Competências Específicas do Enfermeiro Especialista em Enfermagem em Pessoa em Situação Crítica, as Competências Específicas do Enfermeiro Especialista em Enfermagem em Pessoa em Situação Crónica e Paliativa e as competências de Mestre em Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica. O Projeto de Intervenção em Serviço tem como objetivo geral a promoção da melhoria da qualidade dos cuidados de Enfermagem prestados à pessoa em situação crítica internada no Serviço de Urgência Geral. A qualidade dos cuidados de Enfermagem prestados é essencial, constituindo-se um direito das pessoas e um dever de todos os Enfermeiros. Numa perspetiva de abordagem da qualidade dos cuidados de saúde recorremos ao modelo teórico de Larrabee & Rosswurn designado de “Modelo para Mudança da Prática Baseada em Evidências”.
Abstract: The presented Project’s Work Report was written within the scope of the 3º Curso de Mestrado em Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica (Medical-Surgical Nursing Master) of Escola Superior de Saúde - Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, as an evaluation method of Estágio I, II e III modules, integrated in Unidades Curriculares de Enfermagem Médico-Cirúrgica I e II (Curricular Units I & II of Medical-Surgical Nursing). The preparation of this report constitutes a learning tool that allows for a reflection on the student’s progress, including the development of activities and skills, and enhanced knowledge throughout the internships. These were held in an “Accident and Emergency Department” of a Margem Sul Medical Center, where an Intervention Service Project was developed under the theme “Critical patient’s evaluation – National Early Warning Score’s (NEWS) application", based on the Project Methodology. In this report, we perform a description, critical analysis and evaluation on the development and implementation of the Intervention Project, as well as a description and analysis on the Clinical Service Learning Project. Here, we consider the Expert Nurse Common Skills, the Expert Nurse Specific Skills during “Person in Critical Condition” Nursing, the Expert Nurse Specific Skills during “Person in Chronic and Palliative Condition” Nursing and the Medical-Surgical Nursing master skills. The general purpose of the Intervention Service Project is to encourage improvements on the quality of nursing care provided to the person in critical condition in an “Accident and Emergency Department”. This is essential, as it constitutes each individual’s right and a duty to all nurses. The theoretical model of Larrabee & Rosswurn, entitled “A model for change to evidence-based practice”, was used in this project as a perspective approach to the quality of health care.

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Ozten, Sekine. "Early Awakening Of The Kurdish National Sentiments In The Ottoman Empire (1880- 1914)." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611512/index.pdf.

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This thesis aims at presenting the historical panorama of the early Kurdish cultural activities in Anatolia which began to rise as a political subject after the First World War but could begin to express its nationalist demands after the foundation of the Republican government. It is claimed in the thesis that Kurdish nationalist identity as a collective body could begun to be formed in the last period of the Ottoman Empire when the Empire was in an inevitable dissolution. This progress in question took its start during the reign of Abdulhamid II, and accelerated during the Committee of Union and Progress period. Especially after the 1908 Constitution, Kurdish intellectuals have begun to create &ldquo
Kurdish&rdquo
publications and cultural institutions seeking to improve the conditions in the regions that the Kurds inhabited. These facts lead us to some questions to begin with and this thesis seeks answers for the following important questions: &ldquo
By considering the awakening of Kurdish nationalist identity, how did the policies centered on the provinces after 1908, influence the Kurdish regions?&rdquo
, &ldquo
What is the response of the Kurdish regions to the new state policies of the period?&rdquo
, &ldquo
Considering the social associations formed by Kurds during the CUP period what were the effects of them on the formation of a new Kurdish identity?&rdquo

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Hale, Alison Tracy. "Pedagogical Gothic : education and national identity in early American sensational fiction, 1790-1830 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9393.

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Rollins, Lauren Leigh. "Conflated classes early modern piracy, national identity, and the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy' /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/650074365/viewonline.

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Wood, Elizabeth Ann. "The impact of national curriculum policies on early childhood teachers' theories and practice." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407306.

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Broderick, Jane Tingle, and Seong Bock Hong. "Inquiry-based Early Childhood Curriculum Development: Using Materials to Facilitate Representation, National Association for the Education of Young Children." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4221.

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Sakamoto, Rumi. "Imagining Japan : national identity and the representation of the other in early Meiji discourse." Thesis, University of Essex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361174.

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Allen, Lea Knudsen. "Cosmopolite subjectivities and the Mediterranean in early modern England." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. 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:3318286.

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Maynard, Katherine S. "Epic lessons : pedagogy and national narrative in the epic poetry of Early Modern France /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8299.

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Bethune, Kate. "British politeness and elite culture in revolutionary and early national Philadelphia, c.1775-1800." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609079.

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Sheek, Lesley E. "A phenomological study of the impact of National Board for Professional Teaching Standards on early childhood teachers." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. http://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2007p/sheek.pdf.

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Grody, Evin. "A critical zooarchaeological examination of animal use and processing at the Early Iron Age sites Le6 and Le7 in the Kruger National Park." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60362.

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Le6 and Le7 are Early Iron Age settlements located in north-eastern South Africa in the Kruger National Park. These two open-air sites, immediately adjacent to one another on the west bank of the Letaba River, likely date to circa 500-800 AD. The wild-dominated Le6 and Le7 faunal assemblages allow for a site-level examination of the treatment of wild species within the highly variable spectra of Early Iron Age animal use. Using previously unanalysed faunal material, this study moves beyond basic procurement interpretation to examine more than just the pure subsistence choices present at these hunting-dominated sites. Instead, new socially-focussed zooarchaeological questions are asked by coupling traditional morphological analysis with taphonomic analyses and theoretical frameworks of intensification. Through this, both the procurement and processing methods utilised at Le6 and Le7 are identified and the significance of these choices are discussed. The occupants at these sites showed an intensive preference for predominantly adult large wild mammals. These were then processed in similarly consistent manners, with explicit focus on the largest, most easily accessible muscle groups and in-bone fat sources. Among other factors, the scant evidence of cooking and signs of speed in processing suggests the majority of preparation was focussed not on immediate consumption, but possibly on secondary transport of the animal resources off these sites. Altogether, rather than traditional residential Early Iron Age sites, Le6 and Le7 are considered as repeatedly re-used, shorter-term hunting bases for intensified, and possibly specialised, large wild mammal-use a potentially new faunal use strategy and site type for the period and region. The socio-economic implications and potential drivers of these faunal choices are then considered within the broader context of the southern African Early Iron Age. The place of expanded zooarchaeological methods and theories in social archaeological questions and more emic lines of site interpretation is also introduced, here specifically presented in the context of re-exploring the role and significance of wild animals at two Early Iron Age sites.
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
Anthropology and Archaeology
MA
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Evanshen, Pamela A., Angela Baum, Will Parnell, Tracey Crowe, Vickie Lake, Reginald Williams, Linda Taylor, Paula McMurray-Schwartz, and Amanda Branscombe. "Engaging All Learners Through Quality Early Childhood Teacher Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6010.

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The keynote speaker will invite participants to reflect on the conference theme: Engaging ALL Learners through Quality Early Childhood Teacher Education. Poster and Round Table Presentations will engage participants in discussion of scholarly work focused around the NAECTE conference theme.

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Evanshen, Pamela A., Angel Esum, Will Parnell, Reginald William, Tracey Crowe, Linda Taylor, and Vickie Lake. "Leadership and Global Perspectives for Early Childhood Teacher Educators." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6015.

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Designed for those who work in the field of early childhood teacher education, this session serves as the spring conference for NAECTE. Explore the theme of leadership and global perspectives for early childhood teacher educators through a keynote presentation, paper and poster presentations, and dialogue among participants.

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Breitenbach, Esther. "Empire, religion and national identity : Scottish Christian imperialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1726.

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This thesis examines the connection between participation in the British empire and constructions of Scottish national identity, through investigating the activities of civil society organisations in Scotland, in particular missionary societies and the Presbyterian churches in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Though empire is commonly thought to have had a significant impact on Scots' adoption of a British identity. The process of how representations of empire were transmitted and understood at home has been little explored. Similarly, religion is thought to have played an important role in supporting a sense of Scottish identity. but this theme has also been little explored. This thesis, then, examines evidence of civil society activity related to empire, including philanthropic and religious, learned and scientific, and imperial propagandist activities. In order to elucidate how empire was understood at home through the engagement with empire by civil society organisations. Of these forms of organisation. missionary societies and the churches were the most important in mediating an understanding of empire. The pattern of the growth and development of the movement in support of foreign missions is described and analysed, indicating its longevity, its typical functions and membership, and demonstrating both its middle class leadership and the active participation of women. Analysis of missionar) literature of a variety of types shows that dominant discourses of religion, race. gender and class produced iconic representations of the missionary experience which reflected the values of middle class Scots. The analysis also demonstrates both that representations of Scottish national identity were privileged over those of a British identity, but that these were complementary rather than being seen as in opposition to each other. Through examining the public profile of the missionary enterprise in the secular press it is shown that these representations were appropriated in the secular sphere to represent a specific Scottish contribution to empire. The thesis concludes that the missionary experience of empire. embedded as it was in the institutional life of the Presbyterian churches, had the capacity to generate representations and symbols of Scottish national identity which were widely endorsed in both religious and secular spheres in the age of high imperialism.

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Kaufman, Joseph J. "American grand strategy and peripheral aspirant regional hegemonic states U.S.-India security relations in the early 21st century /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1265.

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Foster, Jeremy Adrian. "The poetics of liminal places : landscape and the construction of white identity in early 20th century South Africa." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287901.

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Rust, Sunchlar M. "Collaborative network evolution the Los Angeles terrorism early warning group." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FRust.pdf.

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Marley, Anna O'Day. "Rooms with a view landscape representation in the early national and late colonial domestic interior /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1836637881&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Barboza, Michael A. (Michael Anthony). "National technological and military prestige heavily influenced the development of early United States space policy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114101.

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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2002.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 21).
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the relationship between U.S. space policy and: 1) national technological prestige 2) military superiority 3) and ultimately the political competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. The paper will focus primarily on national and military prestige, while briefly touching on the price tag of the early space advancements. It will concentrate on the early days of space exploration. The thesis will examine the impact the Russian satellite, Sputnik, had on the American people and the reaction of the United States. The thesis will also look at the beginning of the Apollo program and the decision to send man to the Moon. In conclusion, the thesis will look at a possible future for the United States space program and analyze the decision of America's leaders to abandon ambitious endeavors since the Apollo Moon landing.
by Michael A. Barboza.
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Igoe, Laura Turner. "The Opulent City and the Sylvan State: Art and Environmental Embodiment in Early National Philadelphia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/287834.

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Art History
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This dissertation investigates the ways in which Philadelphia artists and architects visualized, comprehended, and reformed the city's rapidly changing urban environment in the early republic, prior to the modern articulation of "ecology" as a scientific concept by late nineteenth-century naturalists such as Ernst Haeckel. I consider a variety of different media--including popular depictions and manifestations of Penn's Treaty Elm, fireplace and stove models by Charles Willson Peale, architectural designs for the Philadelphia Waterworks by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and a self-portrait bust by the sculptor William Rush--in order to demonstrate that the human body served as a powerful creative metaphor in Philadelphia circa 1800, not only for understanding and representing natural processes in political or aesthetic terms, but also for framing critical public discourse about the city's actual environmental conditions. Specifically, I reveal how this metaphorical framework produced a variety of effects in art and architecture of the period, sometimes facilitating and at other times obscuring an understanding about the natural world as an arena of dynamic transformation. By revealing the previously unexplored environmental significance of the objects in question, my dissertation asserts that ecological change played an instrumental role in shaping artistic production and urban development in the decades following United States independence.
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Anttila, T. (Tero). "The power of antiquity:the Hyperborean research tradition in early modern Swedish research on national antiquity." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2015. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526207148.

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Abstract My thesis focuses on the incorporation of Hyperboreans, a mythical classical race, into the prevailing Gothic or Geatic narrative of national history in seventeenth and eighteenth century Swedish historiography. The beatific Hyperboreans were identified with ancient Swedes to emphasise that the Gothic ancestors of Sweden’s rulers had not been mere mediaeval barbarians. The most extreme proponents of this Hyperborean research tradition claimed that a high culture had thrived in Sweden before classical antiquity. They asserted that traces of this highly-developed northern civilisation could be found in the Bible, classical writings and mediaeval historiography, as well as the domestic antiquities such as runestones and Old Norse writings. By close-reading published and unpublished writings of historians and antiquaries, I examined the overarching and shared distinctive features within this Hyperborean research tradition. This involved an analysis of the main content of this research tradition in its learned, mostly Western European historiographical setting. I focused especially on understanding the Hyperborean research tradition within the intellectual traditions of constructing fabulous pasts. The seventeenth century was a period of institutionalisation of historical and antiquarian research in Sweden and Europe. Hence, I also studied the role of specific politico-historical and institutional conditions in the emergence, development and decline of the Hyperborean research tradition. By combining these two approaches, I attempted to strike a balance between research on long-term intellectual traditions and short-term immediate situations in which the ideas about the Hyperboreans were developed and used. Ultimately my thesis illustrates that the Hyperborean research tradition was a fairly coherent tradition of research. It arose in the early seventeenth century as part of the political pursuits and problems of Swedish monarchs in the domestic front and the Baltics. The tradition dominated Swedish historiography during the period of Swedish absolutism (1690–1720), before gradually crumbling from 1730s onwards. The emergence, development and decline of the Hyperborean research tradition were all a result of complex historiographical and politico-institutional factors
Tiivistelmä Keskityn väitöskirjassani 1600- ja 1700-lukujen ruotsalaisen historiankirjoituksen ilmiöön, jossa antiikin kirjoitusten myyttiset hyperborealaiset sisällytettiin niin kutsuttuun goottilaiseen historianarratiiviin. Tämä varhaismodernissa Ruotsissa suosittu historianarratiivi perustui näkemykseen Raamatun Maagogista sotaisten goottien sekä ruotsalaisten kantaisänä. Eurooppalaiset humanistit kuvasivat kuitenkin gootit keskiaikaisina barbaareina, minkä vastapainoksi oppineet Ruotsissa esittivät kotimaiset gootit sivistyneinä ja hurskaina hyperborealaisina. Hyperborealaisen tutkimusperinteen keskeisin tutkimuskohde oli muinaisen Ruotsin kulttuuri, jonka väitettiin levinneen Upsalasta aina Välimerelle saakka jo ennen kreikkalais-roomalaista antiikkia. Tukeakseen väitteitään oppineet käyttivät lähteinään antiikin kirjoitusten ohella Raamattua ja keskiajan historiantutkimusta. 1600-luvun mittaan he hyödynsivät kasvavassa määrin myös pohjolan alueen muinaismuistoja, kuten muinaisnorjalaisia kirjoituksia ja riimukiviä. Tutkimukseni lähdeaineisto muodostuu hyperborealaiseen perinteeseen kuuluneiden oppineiden julkaistuista ja julkaisemattomista kirjoituksista. Tarkastelen tutkimusperinteen yhtenäisyyttä analysoimalla sen keskeisimpiä yhdistäviä ja erottavia käsityksiä. Analyysini kattaa myös sen opillisten, lähinnä historiantutkimuksellisten puitteiden määrittämisen. Pyrin erityisesti ymmärtämään hyperborealaista tutkimusperinnettä osana varhaismodernille ajalle tyypillisiä historianarratiiveja tarunomaisesta kansallisesta muinaisuudesta. Ruotsalainen historian- ja muinaistutkimus institutionaalistui 1700-luvulla. Täten tarkastelen työn pääasiallisen tutkimusongelman ohella, kuinka poliittiset ja institutionaalisetolosuhteet myötävaikuttivat hyperborealaisen tutkimusperinteen kehittymiseen, vakiintumiseen ja asteittaiseen murenemiseen. Osoitan tutkimuksessani, että hyperborealainen tutkimusperinne syntyi 1600-luvun alussa liittyen Ruotsin kuninkaiden poliittisiin pyrkimyksiin sekä kotirintamalla että Itämerellä. Sen valtakausi sijoittui aikavälille 1685–1720, jolloin Ruotsin itsevaltiaat kuninkaat hyödynsivät hyperborealaisiin liitettäviä teemoja propagandassaan. Tutkimusperinteen vaiheittainen mureneminen tapahtui 1700-luvun puolivälissä. Sen taustalla oli useita poliittisia, institutionaalisia ja opillisia tekijöitä

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Mertens, Michael John. "Early twentieth century youth movements, nature and community in Britain and Germany." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369022.

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Sanders, Mary Elizabeth. "The Influence of National Standards for Early Childhood Programs on Selected Rural Settings of the Education Service Centers in East Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2502/.

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This study addressed the current status of early childhood curriculum design and implementation in the Texas Education Service Centers Seven and Eight. No Previous research about the characteristics of the preschool programs had been completed in those areas. This research established if preschool programs were receiving priority status in East Texas. The results yielded evidence regarding the characteristics of administrators, teachers, curriculum implementation, plus parent and community involvement. The information also provided insight regarding short-term and longitudinal effects on children who have attended preschool programs. Data were collected from a search of educational literature, regional service preschool directors, administrators, and teachers. The procedure used in designing the survey and interview documents was Michael Scriven's goal-free strategy. The main sources for the questions were the National Association for the Education of Young Children and Head Start. The study first directs attention to the common characteristics of national programs/standards, then discusses the level of implementation in local rural prekindergartens. The fifteen open-ended interviews yielded concise information relevant to the population of students served and administrative beliefs on current practices. Surveys were sent to a total of all preschool administrators in the Education Service Center Regions of Seven and Eight. A 51 percent response rate was received. The results of the analysis demonstrated the direction current administrators hope early childhood will take in the areas of 1) developmentally-centered curriculum, 2) parental and community input, and 3) professional development. The administrators' commitments and focal points were correlated with the national standards. Recommendations are made that should result in an overall increase of successful prekindergarten and high school graduates.

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Hatupopi, Saara K. "Investigating factors contributing to neonatal deaths in 2013 at a national hospital in Namibia." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5617.

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Background: The neonatal period starts at birth and ends 28 days after birth, and is the most defence less period in the newborn's life. Improving newborn health is a priority for the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) in Namibia. The national neonatal mortality rate stood at 21.80 per 1000 live births in the country, and Namibia was unable to attain Millennium Development Goal 4 which focused on reduction of the child mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Aim: This study investigated the factors contributing to neonatal deaths at a national hospital in the Khomas region of Namibia, with the following objectives: (i) to identify causes of early neonatal deaths; (ii) to identify the causes of late neonatal deaths; and (iii) to identify avoidable and unavoidable factors contributing to neonatal deaths. Methodology: The study used a quantitative research approach with a retrospective descriptive design to investigate factors contributing to neonatal deaths. The primary data were collected from a population of 231 record files of all neonates who died during the period 1 January to 31 December 2013 while admitted to the national hospital before 28 completed days of life. Results: The study identified that of the neonates who died, 67.1% (n=155) were early neonatal deaths (during the first 0–7 days of life), while 32.9% (n=76) died during the late neonatal period (from 8–28 days of life). Of the neonates who died, 50.6% (n=117) were male and 48.48% (n=112) were female. The causes of early and late neonatal deaths were similar, although they happened at different stages. The causes of early neonatal deaths have been identified as respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) – 24.2% (n=56); neonatal sepsis – 12.1% (n=28); birth asphyxia – 11.7 % (n=27); congenital abnormalities – 14.7 % (n=34); hemorrhagic diseases of newborns – 3.9% (n=9); and unknown – 0.6% (n=1). Neonatal sepsis caused the highest number of late neonatal deaths 17.7 %,( n=41); followed by RDS – 7.4% (n=17); congenital abnormalities – 3.9% (n=9); birth asphyxia – 3.1% (n=7); birth trauma – 0.4% (n=1); and unknown factors – 0.4 % (n=1). The study revealed that avoidable factors related to healthcare providers had a severe impact on neonatal deaths, while congenital abnormalities were unavoidable factors. Conclusion: The study concluded that most neonatal deaths are related to actions or inactions of the healthcare providers and could be avoided. Recommendations: Based on the results of the study, further research is required to assess the knowledge, skills, and behaviors of the healthcare providers. Training and education about neonatal resuscitation needs to be carried out on a regular basis.

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Celind, Michaela, and Elin Blomqvist. "Sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av att använda ”National Early Warning Score” för att bedöma patienters hälsostatus : En litteraturstudie." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-77692.

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Introduktion: Minskat antal vårdplatser och en ökad ålder på befolkningen gör att trycket på vården ökar. I takt med detta ökar också risken för att patientsäkerheten inte kan upprätthållas. NEWS är ett bedömnings- och screeninginstrument var syfte är att öka patientsäkerheten genom att standardisera bedömningar av vitala parametrar för att effektivt kunna förhindra kritiska tillstånd. Sjuksköterskor kan använda NEWS tillsammans med sin kliniska bedömning för att utföra en adekvat bedömning av patienters aktuella hälsotillstånd. Syfte: Litteraturstudiens syfte var att undersöka sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av att använda National Early Warning Score som bedömningsinstrument för att bedöma patienters hälsostatus. Metod: Litteraturstudien bygger på Polit och Becks (2017) nio steg med induktiv ansats. Relevanta sökord mot syftet identifierades och systematiska artikelsökningar genomfördes i Cinahl och PubMed. Sökningarna resulterade i 11 artiklar relevanta för studien som kvalitetsgranskades utifrån Polit och Becks (2017) granskningsmallar. I databearbetningen framkom tre teman. Resultat: Tre teman framkom utifrån sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av att använda NEWS som bedömningsinstrument för att bedöma patienters hälsostatus, dessa var NEWS som stöd och hinder i klinisk bedömning, NEWS påverkan på arbetsbelastningen, samt hur sjuksköterskors utbildning och yrkeserfarenhet kunde kombineras med NEWS. Resultatet visade att NEWS är ett bra stöd till sjuksköterskors kliniska bedömning. Detta stödjer främst sjuksköterskor med kortare erfarenhet, men kan ändå vara ett bra stöd till sjuksköterskor med längre erfarenhet. Slutsats: Erfarna sjuksköterskor ansåg att sjuksköterskor med kortare erfarenhet än de själva kan behöva stöd i sin kliniska helhetsbedömning samt kommunikation, och då är NEWS ett bra komplement. Sjuksköterskorna i litteraturstudien var inte enade om arbetsbelastningen ökade eller inte vid användandet av NEWS.

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Norman, Kathryn A. "Myonjun's story : the ideology of Korean village women in the early years of national economic growth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249861.

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Smith, David A. "Covered wagons of culture : the roots and early history of the National Endowment for the Arts /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9999316.

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Dorrance, Laurel A. "Dufilho, Grandchamps, or Peyroux? The Development of Professional Pharmacy in Colonial and Early National American Louisiana." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1305.

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This paper will examine the hidden history of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum and investigate the claims regarding the first licensed pharmacist in the United States. Drawing from legislative, church, medical, legal and institutional records, this study argues that colonial control, such as regulations governing medical practice and licensing requirements, established by continental powers in their overseas colonies, tended to recreate traditions and laws found in the home countries. For instance, the more rigorous licensing requirements for medical professionals, as practiced in France and Spain, were also the custom in Louisiana. However, when Louisiana became part of the Unites States, these regulations were relaxed, reflecting the laissez-faire policy of English laws and custom. This work challenges the bias often found in the presentation of American historical experience that makes claims for English colonial traditions informing the entire American experience.

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Umayahara, Mami. "In search of inclusive and effective pedagogy : implementing the national early childhood education curriculum in Chile." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020624/.

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Chile launched in 2002 the nation-wide implementation of the early childhood education curriculum designed for children 0 to 6 years of age. The curriculum provides a flexible reference framework centred on expected learning outcomes. This research aims to analyse how Chilean educators are experiencing the new curriculum and how their classroom practice is meeting the needs of diverse groups of children. Within the framework of the sociocultural theory of human development and inclusive education, this research examines the curriculum implementation and the use of inclusive and effective pedagogy in three regions of Chile by using mixed methods: application of ECERS-R and ECERS-E, direct classroom observations, a survey of pedagogical supervisors, and semi-structured interviews with classroom educators and national policy-makers. The research sheds light on educators' experiences, including their high acceptance and appreciation for the new curriculum as well as their struggles with the general statements of expected learning outcomes, large class sizes and short instruction time. It also reveals that the implementation of the curriculum is a process- in which educators construct their own knowledge, beliefs and practice by experiencing and participating in their particular sociocultural and historical contexts. The research findings indicate that the educators need to further broaden their perspective and practice beyond the microsystem of the classroom: by helping children be exposed to and participate in broader sociocultural activities and by broadening their own concept of diversity in the classroom - from learners' individual differences to their sociocultural characteristics. The conclusion of this research is that inclusiveness and effectiveness of pedagogy are two sides of the same coin: when educators interact with children in the way to support their socioculturally diverse learning needs (inclusiveness) and engage them in sustained shared thinking (effectiveness), the learners are constructing their own learning and transforming their participation in sociocultural activities.

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Jordaan, Gerhard. "An archaeological study of two Early Farming sites in the southern Kruger National Park, South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56345.

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This dissertation reports on investigations carried out on two Early Farming Community (AD 250-1000) sites in the eastern Lowveld of South Africa, more specifically the Kruger National Park. During the past 50 years, much has been learnt about the farming societies of the first millennium. Large-scale research in KwaZulu-Natal and, in earlier years, certain parts of the Lowveld and the interior of South Africa, has led to initial formative studies on the spread and movement of Early Farming Communities (EFC) into southern Africa. The archaeological work undertaken in KwaZulu-Natal led to the creation of strong culture-historical sequences based on ceramic assemblages subjected to radiocarbon dating. It was therefore possible to extrapolate the movement of communities in the region. However, such understandings of EFC communities, their movement and socio-political organisation did not expand beyond this region. Throughout the 1970s and most of the 1980s, an archaeological reconnaissance project that was conducted in the Kruger National Park (KNP) led the formulation of culture-historical sequences of the Farming Communities of the region by Andrie Meyer, whose research was intended to serve as a foundation for further research in the area. However, EFC archaeological research in the KNP region was neglected over the years as the focus of research shifted to heritage and later farming societies. This project aims to connect EFC research conducted in regions such as Kwa-Zulu Natal with EFC sites located in the KNP region. Further research is being conducted at two sites, TSH1 and SK17, which were initially identified by Meyer. Typological and compositional studies were conducted on the ceramic material found at the sites and new radiocarbon dates were obtained for these sites. This research made it possible to identify the ceramic sequences at said sites, and consequently to situate the sites within the larger EFC South African chronology. Key words: Early Farming Communities (EFC), Kruger National Park, Lowveld, ceramics, South Africa, first millennium, compositional analysis, SK17, TSH1
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