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Cappelen, Vendela. "Implant Movement Analysis in theroutine diagnosis of aseptic looseningafter hip arthroplasty, a two year followup." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-93323.
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Introduction: A major long-term complication after hip arthroplasty is aseptic loosening.Conventional planar radiographs cannot always provide a certain diagnosis, which makesdecisions regarding revision surgery difficult. Implant Movement Analysis (IMA) is a newlyintroduced method which uses computer tomography with inward and outward rotationalprovocation to display possible movement of the hip implant. Aim: To evaluate IMA as a complement to planar radiography and follow up on patientswhere IMA has showed no loosening of the implant. How accurate are the results that IMAhas provided in a two to four year follow up? Methods: Letters with questions regarding how they felt in their hip were sent out to hiparthroplasty patients (n= 49) that had been examined by IMA and were told that theirprosthesis was not lose. Patients that said they were experiencing more pain in their hip wereasked to come in for a follow up with planar radiography. The new planar radiographs werecompared with the previous ones deemed not lose by IMA as the reference. Results: A total of 42 patients answered. For 10 patients the pain had improved, 15 felt nodifference, and for 17 the pain had worsened. For the patients that felt worse, planarradiography had changed for two of them indicating loosening of the implant. Conclusions: IMA has shown to accurate in diagnosing aseptic loosening where the planarradiographs were not able to provide a diagnosis. But as a new method additional evaluationis desired.
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Cox, Timothy C. "A Followup Study Of Community College Transfer And University Graduates' Career Advancement, Salaries And Professional Achievement In Journalism." Scholarly Commons, 1986. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3235.
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Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the career ladder achievement, length of service in the vocation, salary, career status and professional aspirations of community college transfer (two-plus-two) graduates and university (four-year) graduates from universities and colleges offering academic and professional training in news-editorial journalism. Procedure. California newspapers were randomly selected and 436 surveys were mailed out to the editorial staffs of 36 weekly and 19 daily newspapers. Responses were received from 12 daily newspapers and 31 weekly newspapers. The final survey population was 111 editors and reporters working on daily newspapers and 70 editors and reporters working on weekly newspapers. Each member of the survey population was asked to give academic information and employment and salary history before and after graduation from a college or university. The period of employment was from 1970 to 1984. The survey focused on writing and editing experiences and sought an evaluation of journalism education and professional experiences. Descriptive information and differences between three identified groups (University-Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Community College-Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, and University-Bachelor of Arts in Other Field) were analyzed using Chi Square and analysis of variance. Sources of significance were further analyzed using Scheffe tests of multiple comparisons. Findings and Conclusions. The level of achievement, both personally and professionally, indicates continued post-baccalaureate equality among each of the three groups under study. The sample population worked an average of 6.81 years. Men worked more years in the profession than women; community college women worked the least number of years. Community college journalists tended to change jobs less often; women journalists with degrees in other fields tended to have more jobs. Graduates with degrees in other fields entered the journalism profession later than did those trained in journalism. No differences were found in the career advancement and level of leadership of the three groups. Salaries between the three groups were not significantly different. The average salary per month in 1984 was $1846. Women journalists earned less than men, and community college women earned the least. Recommendations. The central question still to be answered is whether it is an advantage or disadvantage for the person who wishes to become a journalist to begin as a freshman at a four-year university or begin as a freshman in a community college and complete his/her studies at the university. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)
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Saputro, Soenarto. "Educational evaluation : a followup study of the graduates of technical/vocational teacher education of FPTK-IKIP Yogyakarta in Indonesia /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu14875876041334.
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Maciel, Maria Helena Versiani. "A adesão ao tratamento de portadores de paracoccidioidomicose cutâneo mucosa atendidos em um hospital escola do interior paulista." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22132/tde-19102007-141628/.
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Às condições crônicas podem causar alterações físicas, psíquicas e sociais progressivas requerendo em alguns casos mudanças permanentes no estilo de vida dos indivíduos. A paracoccidioidomicose é uma micose sistêmica, que exige tratamento prolongado, cuja maior prevalência encontra-se na América Latina com diversas áreas endêmicas no Brasil. Este estudo teve como objetivo caracterizar os clientes portadores de paracoccidioidomicose cutânea mucosa e identificar os motivos da não adesão ao seguimento clínico terapêutico. Foram consultados 74 prontuários de clientes adultos com diagnóstico de paracoccidioidomicose cutâneo mucosa atendidos e ou internados em um hospital escola terciário do interior paulista, no período de janeiro de 2000 a junho de 2006. O projeto foi encaminhado ao Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa do referido hospital. A maioria dos sujeitos é do sexo masculino (86,5%), com idade médica de 44,5 anos, 67,6% dos casos foram internados de uma a oito vezes, em 50,0% dos casos a internação se deu em decorrência de recidivas e 74,3% fizeram uso irregular das medicações e houve o abandono do tratamento por 54% dos clientes. O enfermeiro enquanto elemento essencial nos serviços de saúde pode propor estratégias individuais e coletivas para a assistência, visando estimular o cliente a lidar com as mudanças e consquentemente melhorar os níveis de adesão ao seguimento.The chronical conditions can cause physical, emotional and social progressive alterations, requiring in some situations permanent changes in people life style. Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic mycosis, that requires a long-term treatment and its higher prevalence is in Latin America with different endemic areas in Brazil. This study aimed to characterize the clients carrie cuataneous mucosal paracoccidioidomycosis and to identify the reasons of non adhesion to clinical therapeutical follow-up. A total of 74 patient file were consulted of adults clients cared and/or interned is a teaching hospital of the interior of São Paulo State, in the period January 2000 through June 2006. The project was approved by the Ethical and Research Commitment of the hospital. Most of the participants was male (86,5%), with average age of 44,5 years old, 67,6% of the cases were interned from one to eight times and in 50,0% of the cases the hospitalization occurred due to recidives and 74,3% took the medicine in a irregular way, there was also the abandonment of the treatment in 54,0%. The nurse as the essencial member of health services can propose individual and collective strategies to the caring, in order to incentivate the client to deal with the changes and in consequence to improve the levels of adhesion to the follow-up.
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Sowulewski, Stephen P. "THE EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF BEHAVIORAL FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT LOSS IN MALE BARIATRIC PATIENTS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4674.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences and perceptions of behavioral factors that contribute to successful weight loss in male bariatric patients. By analyzing participant experiences and perceptions, this study contributes to a better understanding of which factors are most important in the postoperative phase of gastric bypass in males owing to successful weight loss. Although there is a tremendous amount of quantitative research within the bariatric population, there is a significant gap within the qualitative literature as it relates to male outcomes. As such, by conducting interviews with 10 postoperative male gastric bypass patients, this study was able to further understand how and why these participants obtained successful weight loss. Furthermore, by identifying relevant categories and thematic responses from the participants, this study may serve future researchers in designing other qualitative studies that target best practices in males for successful weight loss outcomes. The findings of this study indicate that participants found greater weight loss success by following proper eating behaviors and engaging in physical activity whereas support group attendance was not found to be an important factor in successful weight loss. This study also revealed that follow up with the bariatric nurse coordinator was greatly viewed as a positive step in adjusting to lifestyle postsurgery. As such, this supportive role by the nurse coordinator may provide further impetus for the ways in which bariatric personnel interact with patients who might not always be able to see their surgeon for follow-up.
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Rindzevičius, Vytautas. "Short-term effects of controlled conservation burning." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-234965.
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In this study, the immediate and short term (three months) effects of conservation burning have been investigated in coniferous forests in southeastern Sweden. Five tree species were investigated Picea abies (Norway spruce), Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine), Populus tremula (aspen), Betula pendula (silver birch) and Betula pubescens (downy birch), as well as ground vegetation of mosses, dwarf shrubs and ground lichens. Burning increased the proportion of live deciduous tree shoots from 51 % to 81 % and the live tree shoot size distribution of four tree species was significantly changed by fire. Fire affected the tree species differently. Three months after burning deciduous tree species exhibited strong sprouting, while P. sylvestris had established many seedlings, significantly increasing its share of the tree stand. P. abies lacked any visible positive response to burning and its number of live shoots decreased by 83 %. Mineral soil was exposed on only the moss vegetation and covered just 4 % of the studied plot area. The initial vegetation response to fire was negative, but significant dwarf shrub recovery was detected three months after burning.
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Gardner, Robert D. "The development of a theoretical model to predict retention, turnover, and attrition of K-12 music teachers in the United States : an analysis of the Schools and staffing survey and Teacher followup survey (1999-2001) /." Digitized version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/5828.
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Tanamati, Liège Franzini. "Audição e inteligibilidade da fala de crianças após 10 anos da cirurgia de implante coclear." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5160/tde-11052012-133542/.
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As habilidades comunicativas de crianças portadoras de deficiência auditiva (DA) pré-lingual, submetidas à cirurgia do implante coclear (IC) desenvolvem-se ao longo dos anos de uso do dispositivo. O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar o desempenho alcançado por adolescentes e jovens adultos com, no mínimo, dez anos de experiência com o IC, em relação à audição e à inteligibilidade de fala e, considerando o tipo de DA, o tempo de privação sensorial auditiva e o tipo de dispositivo. Participaram deste estudo, 61 adolescentes e jovens adultos portadores de DA pré-lingual, que receberam diferentes tipos de IC em média, aos 3 anos e 10 meses de idade. Reconhecimento da lista de palavras dissílabas, Teste Hint adaptativo e reconhecimento das sentenças Hint no silêncio e no ruído foram os procedimentos utilizados para avaliar o desempenho de audição. A inteligibilidade da fala dos participantes foi avaliada por dois julgadores sem experiência com deficientes auditivos, usando o método de transcrição e a escala de inteligibilidade de 5 pontos. Após 10 anos de experiência com o IC, 53 participantes (86,9%) alcançaram habilidade de reconhecimento auditivo em conjunto aberto. Os resultados médios obtidos na lista de palavras dissílabas foram de 49,4%; teste Hint adaptativo, a média dos resultados no silêncio foi igual a 54,7dB e, no ruído, 10,7 dB e; os valores médios de porcentagem nas sentenças Hint no silêncio 54% e no ruído, 33,3%. Quanto à inteligibilidade de fala dos participantes, a média de acertos no método de transcrição foi igual a 76,2%. Na escala de inteligibilidade, a pontuação média correspondeu a 3,3 pontos. Melhores desempenhos de audição no silêncio e no ruído foram correlacionados ao menor tempo de privação sensorial auditiva. Foi observada correlação entre o tipo de dispositivo utilizado e: o desempenho de audição no ruído e o desempenho de inteligibilidade da fala. Usuários do dispositivo Nucleus 24 e Med-El apresentaram melhor desempenho de audição e de inteligibilidade de fala do que os usuários Nucleus 22. Mais de 10 anos após a cirurgia de IC, 82% das crianças implantadas com as primeiras gerações do dispositivo eletrônico desenvolveram habilidade de reconhecimento auditivo no ruído e 90,1% alcançaram fala inteligível. O desempenho de audição e de inteligibilidade de fala dos participantes foi influenciado pelo tempo de privação sensorial auditiva e pelo tipo de dispositivo eletrônico. Considerando os critérios contemporâneos de indicação cirúrgica em associação as novas estratégias de codificação de fala disponíveis nos dispositivos eletrônicos da atualidade, resultados promissores são esperados para a nova geração de crianças submetidas ao ICThe communication skills of prelingually deafened children, underwent cochlear implant (CI) surgery, develop over the years of device use. The aim of this work was to study the performance achieved by teenagers and young adults with at least ten years of IC experience with regard to speech perception and speech intelligibility and, considering the type of hearing loss, duration of deafness, and type of device. Participated of this study, 61 teenagers and young adults prelingually deafened, who received different types of CI, on average at 3 years and 10 months of age. Recognition of two-syllable word list, test Hint and recognition of Hint sentence in quiet and noise were the procedures used to evaluate the hearing performance. The speech intelligibility of the participants was evaluated by two judges, using the writedown intelligibility method and a 5-points intelligibility rating-scale. After 10 years of experience with CI, 53 participants (86,9%) achieved open-set speech recognition. The average results obtained in the two-syllable word list were 49, 4%; in the test Hint in quiet, the average results were 54,7 dB in quiet and 10,7 dB in noise and; the mean percentage of Hint sentences in quiet was 54% and in noise, 33,3%. Regarding the speech intelligibility of the participants, the average write-down intelligibility score was 76,2% and the average rating-scale intelligibility score was 3,3 points. Better speech performances in quiet and in noise were correlated with shorter duration of deafness. Correlation was found between the type of device and: the speech perception in noise and the speech intelligibility. Nucleus 24 and Med-El device users performed better than Nucleus 22 users with regard to speech perception in noise and speech intelligibility. More than 10 years after the CI surgery, 82% of children implanted with the first generation of the electronic device developed speech recognition in noise and 90,1% achieved intelligible speech. Speech perception and speech intelligibility of the participants, both were influenced by duration of deafness and type of electronic device. Considering the contemporary criteria of surgical indication in association with the new speech coding strategies available, promising results were expected for the new generation of children underwent to CI
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Coid, Bina. "A long-term follow-up of personality disorders : Maudsley twin series." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-longterm-followup-of-personality-disorders--maudsley-twin-series(3594b7ec-f6f5-4a80-94c0-cb923dc92c37).html.
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Lovett, Denise Claire. "Follow the first follower : donations to charity and pro-social behaviour." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/60952/.
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Leadership is present in wide variety of human interactions from organisational hierarchy to online charitable fundraising. Consequently, the subject has been studied in a multitude of fields from biology to history. In behavioural economics, the existence of leadership has been tested experimentally as a potential solution to social dilemmas with varying success. However, the majority of previous experimental studies have examined only one form of leadership where leadership where only one group member can exhibit it. In psychological research, there is an evolving interest in the concept of shared leadership, where leadership is shared among multiple group members. Likewise, Derek Sivers (2010) emphasised the importance of a first follower, who is a person who acts directly after the leader and makes the leader's actions more credible. This thesis tests the impact of first followership on solving social dilemmas and examines further the topic of shared leadership. Chapter 2 studies whether the introduction of a first follower increases total investment in a linear public good game both theoretically and experimentally. Four investment sequences are considered including two new additions to the literature: the First Follower game and the Two Leader game. The already established Leader game and Sequential game are implemented as control treatments. The First Follower game has three investment stages; in the first stage, a leader invests, in the second stage a first follower invests and the rest of the group simultaneously invest in the third stage. The Two Leader game has only two investment stages; in the first stage, two leaders simultaneously invest in the first stage and then the rest of the group simultaneously invest in the second stage. The four investment sequences are ranked according to their expected total investment. No one investment sequence is always found to be superior, and thus the ranking is dependent on the strategic behaviour of early movers, namely leaders and first followers. In the experiment, the First Follower game had the highest total invested in the public good and Two Leader, the second highest. These results suggest that shared leadership or first followership may be superior to a one leader structure. Specifically, in the First Follower game, leaders set a better example by investing significantly more than leaders in other treatments, and first followers exhibit higher levels of reciprocity than later followers. All investment sequences were imposed exogenously to create a simple initial testing ground for introducing the first follower. Chapter 3 expands on the endogenous leadership literature by comparing the efficiency of a game with two investment stages, a two-day treatment to a game with three investment stages, a three-day treatment. Using a novel experimental design, each group member chooses what investment stage they would like to invest during. Therefore, the number of group members investing on day one, equivalent to leaders, is unrestricted, hence one can also explore how many group members are willing to lead. Willingness to lead is greater in both treatments than observed in previous studies. Nevertheless, the proportion of leaders is significantly higher in the three-day treatment, this result leads to significantly higher total investment in the three-day treatment. Leader investment and total investment in these treatments, where there is endogeneity over the timing of investment choices is compared to the treatments from Chapter 2 where timing is exogenously imposed. Endogenous leaders are found not to invest significantly more than exogenous leaders, and similarly there is no significant difference in total investment. Nevertheless, the treatments with three investment stages, namely three-day and First Follower, have the highest levels of leader investment and overall total investment. Chapter 4 extends the design of Corazzini, Cotton and Valbonesi (2015) to consider a real-time environment; this adjustment makes the game more akin to real world crowdfunding and competitive lobbying (Austen-Smith and Wright, 1992). Like Chapter 3, individuals choose when they would like to invest rather than a set exogenous investment sequence imposed on them as in Chapter 2. Two treatments are executed, a multiple public good treatment with four identical threshold public goods and another with only one threshold public good. It is hypothesised that the real-time environment increase efficiency in reaching a threshold in the presence of multiple threshold public goods. The experimental evidence implies otherwise; the multiple public good treatment leads to significantly lower levels of efficiency stemming from the inefficiency caused by group members investing in multiple projects when only one project can be fully funded.
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Hall, Bradley S. "Long-term follow up of rapid palatal expansion followed by edgewise orthodontics :." Oklahoma City : [s.n.], 2008.
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Mawhood, Lynn Dianne. "Autism and developmental language disorder implications from a follow-up in early adult life." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1995. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/autism-and-developmental-language-disorder-implications-from-a-followup-in-early-adult-life(931e504b-c0cd-462f-9417-d12d58a96c34).html.
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Mallen, Angela. "An exploration of factors affecting goal choice, attrition and attendance at follow-up in an alcohol treatment unit." Thesis, Bangor University, 1995. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-exploration-of-factors-affecting-goal-choice-attrition-and-attendance-at-followup-in-an-alcohol-treatment-unit(3bea1444-3e12-40e2-91bb-24c6b40785ad).html.
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Fifty problem drinkers attending a specialist alcohol treatment unit took part in this study to investigate factors affecting choice of treatment goal, length of time people stay in treatment and attendance at follow-up. Heather, Tebbutt, Mattick & Zamir(1993) proposed that the Impaired Control Scale (ICS) may prove useful in enhancing clinical descriptions of the drinking behaviour of those entering treatment, and as a measure of change and outcome. Participants who had requested attendance on a ten week day programme at the clinic completed the ICS and the Severity of Alcohol Dependency Questionnaire (Stockwell, Hodgson, Edwards, Taylor & Rankin, 1979). Data on age, employment status, marital status, maximum period of abstention and average daily quantity consumed was collected from assessment forms and case sheets. Four and a half months after assessment participants were invited to attend a follow-up interview. Fifteen people attended from the original fifty, and completed the ICS, the Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire if they had been misusing alcohol, and an outcome evaluation questionnaire. Results demonstrated that the ICS had acceptable reliability and was of some assistance in clarifying the difference between those who achieved their goal at follow-up and those that did not. With regard to differences between people who chose abstention and those who chose controlled drinking, those who saw themselves as more physically dependant chose abstinence as a treatment goal. The clinical implications of the results are discussed in relation to factors affecting goal choice, the problems of attrition and attendance at follow-up. The usefulness of the ICS and its potential to assist in the clarifying these areas is commented on. This thesis also contains three small scale research projects completed during placements in the Learning Difficulties, Child and Elderly specialities.
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Gorman, C. Allen, and Jason S. Gamble. "Leader Behavior and Follower Work Behavior: The Influence of Follower Characteristics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/415.
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Research on leadership and subsequent follower outcomes has remained a prominent topic of study in the organizational sciences. Unfortunately, the leadership literature has neglected the role of follower characteristics as potential influences on the relationship between leader behavior and follower work behavior. In this session, we will review the literature on follower individual differences as they relate to leader effectiveness. We will also report the results of 2 studies that we conducted to further examine this issue. In the first study, we found that follower promotion focus mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and follower organizational citizenship behavior. In the second study, we found support for a moderated mediation model in which transformational leadership moderated the relationship between work ethic and work engagement, which subsequently predicted follower proactive behavior at work. We will conclude the session by discussing the implications of this area of research on the study and practice of leadership.
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LeBreton, Daniel Lawrence. "Leader Influence Behavior, Follower ILTs, and Follower Commitment: A Multilevel Field Investigation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27287.
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Surveys and a brief-interval longitudinal design were employed to investigate the relationships between selected proactive leader influence behaviors (PLIBs) and followersâ commitment to their leaders. Selected elements of followersâ implicit leadership theories (ILTs) were expected to moderate the PLIBs â commitment relationships. Hypotheses were generated and tested in order to determine the extent to which (1) PLIBs constituted group-level phenomena and (2) PLIBs and ILTs were related to follower commitment. Empirical evidence did not support treating PLIBs as group-level variables. While PLIBs were related to commitment, hypotheses specifying ILT dimensions as moderators of the PLIB â commitment relationships were not supported.Ph. D.
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Ousmane, Sembène, and Lynn Scholtz. "Niiwam, followed by Taaw." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23552.
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Wang, Lei Wang. "Advanced Line-Follower Robot." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu15138819177179.
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Nyrén, Edvard, and Maria Nyström. "Image follows structure." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2024.
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Background: The business market today is characterized by tough competition amongst the competitors to capture consumers’ interest and money. One marketing tool companies can use to achieve this is the company’s image. The customer buys not only a product, but also the image that the company or the product is associated with. To reach the desired corporate image companies need to be aware of the signals they are sending out and how and what to communicate to the market. They need to look within themselves and their internal factors, since the signals are created within the company.
Purpose: To examine how different structures of organisations can influence a company’s internal image and thereby leave a contribution to the knowledge of a business’ internal image.
Research Method: Empirical studies have been accomplished through interviews with employees on different positions at Nexus. A case study approach was used to give a more complete depiction of the company.
Conclusion: A splinter within an organization can be seen through its image, which affects the external image. Uncertainty in the structure of the organization will also be exposed to the environment, which will lead to a splintered picture of the organization. Two important factors when creating an image are business culture and information/communication. These factors will together generate a united transmission of the company and its values.
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Gülstorff, Torben. "Trade follows Hallstein?" Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17628.
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Die deutsche Außenpolitik zur Zeit des Kalten Krieges stellt in historischer wie politikwissenschaftlicher Hinsicht einen Gegenstand dar, der mit gutem Gewissen als wissenschaftlich erschlossen bezeichnet werden kann. Zahlreiche Aufsätze, Artikel und Bücher sind in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten erschienen, welche die deutsche Außenpolitik in Europa, Afrika, Asien, Ozeanien, Amerika, oder auch gleich der Welt als Ganzem, in den Blick genommen haben. Dies gilt sowohl für die Außenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als auch für diejenige der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Früh – wenn nicht sogar von Beginn an – kam hierbei eine zentrale These, eine Kernthese, zum Vorschein, die, ohne auf Widerstand zu stoßen, Eingang in den historischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Forschungskanon fand und ihn bereits nach kurzer Zeit zu dominieren begann. Die Rede ist von der die deutschen Auslandsaktivitäten angeblich bestimmenden Hallstein-Doktrin und dem mit ihr in engem Zusammenhang stehenden deutsch-deutschen Gegensatz. In dieser Arbeit wird dieser Kernthese, diesem ''Mythos'' der deutschen Außenpolitik, vehement widersprochen. Weder die Hallstein-Doktrin, noch der deutsch-deutsche Gegensatz, sondern nationale ökonomische und internationale geostrategische Interessen haben die deutsche Außenpolitik – und darüber hinaus auch die gesamten deutschen Auslandsaktivitäten, der BRD wie der DDR – maßgeblich bestimmt. Zur Stützung dieser Gegenthese werden in der vorliegenden Studie die staatlichen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Aktivitäten West- und Ostdeutschlands in neun zentralafrikanischen Staaten zwischen 1945 und 1975 kritisch dargelegt, umfassend analysiert und im Hinblick auf mehrere zentrale Thesen zu den deutschen Auslandsaktivitäten ausgewertet.For decades articles and books have been published on the history of German foreign policy during Cold War. Regardless of whether Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, America or the world as a whole, the foreign affairs of the Western Federal Republic of Germany and the Eastern German Democratic Republic have been researched and analysed in context of a broad variety of locations. However, even though the list of publications continues to grow, the topic''s theses–especially its main thesis–do not show much progress. Already at an early stage, a central thesis–a core thesis–came to light, met no resistance and entered history''s and political science''s research canons on German foreign policy. This thesis reads: Inner German issues and the non-solved German question were so powerful, they dominated West and East German foreign affairs nearly right from the start. German foreign policy, that was the so-called Hallstein doctrine, that was the so-called German-German contradiction. And all studies–whether of history or political science, whether designed as a case study or as a global approach–confirm this thesis, use it as an integral part of their work–until today. But be that as it may. This study contradicts this thesis, this ''myth'' of German foreign policy. Instead it argues that neither the Hallstein doctrine nor the German-German contradiction, but national economic and international geostrategic interests dominated German foreign policy and German foreign activities–regarding the FRG, the GDR, and Germany as a whole. To proof this thesis, West and East German activities–of the two states, their economies and their societies–in nine Central African states between 1945 and 1975 are observed and analysed. More than a million file pages out of more than a dozen German archives were read to tackle this task–and shed some refreshing new light on the foreign policies of the two German states during Cold War.
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Silva, Magna Maria Pereira da. "Controle da neoplasia maligna do colo de ?tero: a resolutividade na aten??o b?sica." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2011. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/14758.
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A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study, using technical procedures of document consultation from secondary sources and health household survey with application form for face to face inter views, with the assent n?.039/2011 from the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. The aim of this study was to analyze the cervix cancer control in the area47 of the Health Family Centre Nova Natal II. The cancer cervix is the second most common cancer among women worldwide. In Brazil screening for early detection and treatment of disease has been poorly done and follow-up to reduce mortality has not been executed. From a total of1170women belonging to area 47, who under went screening by the Pap test in the period from 2005 to 2010,was elected a sample of 38 women with positive cervical changes, over 18 years old. The calculation of frequency analysis of socio demographic and clinical and epidemiological selected variables with the results of cervical changes, using the X2 test and taking as significance level of p<0.05 was not statistically significant. The predominant age range was 25 to 64 years (68.9%), most no white women (60.5%), predominantly with primary education (57.9%), most married (68.4%) and housewives (68.4%) with early age of sexual activity (86.8%), the minority smokers (13.2%), with a sexual partner (36.8%). At the time of interview, 42.1% of the women voiced complaint of discharge, while only 2.6% reported bleeding. In relation to the occurrence of STDs (including HPV), 10.5% of women reported being a carrier. The use of oral contraceptives was 32.3% of women, from 2 to 4 years (44.4%). The result of the last screening test performed, showed prevalence of immature squamous metaplasia (55.3%), followed by intraepithelial low- grade lesion (including the cytopathologic HPV effect and cervical intra epithelial neoplasia grade I) (31.6%); intraepithelial high-grade lesion (including cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade II and III) (7.9%), atypical squamous non neoplastic cells (5.3%). There was no squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. Most women received information about the action that should be done after the last screening test result (55.3%), but how to perform follow, most women did not report having done so (55.3%). The follow-up group of women studied, with varying degrees of cervical abnormalities, should only be completed with the discharge by cure, established inconsecutive negative cytology, a goal that is not being achieved in the area 47 of the Health Family Centre of Nova Natal II
Estudo quantitativo realizado por meio de pesquisa descritiva, transversal e retrospectiva, utilizando procedimentos t?cnicos de consulta documental a fontes secund?rias e inqu?rito domiciliar com aplica??o de formul?rio de entrevistas face a face, ap?s parecer favor?vel n? 039/2011 do Comit? de ?tica em Pesquisa da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi analisar a resolutividade do controle da neoplasia maligna do colo de ?tero na ?rea 47 da Unidade de Sa?de da Fam?lia Nova Natal II. A neoplasia maligna do colo de ?tero ? o segundo tipo de c?ncer mais frequente entre as mulheres no mundo. No Brasil o rastreamento para detec??o e tratamento precoces da doen?a tem sido efetuado precariamente e o seguimento, para reduzir a mortalidade, n?o tem sido executado. De um total de 1170 mulheres pertencentes ? ?rea 47, que se submeteram a rastreamento por meio do exame de Papanicolau, no per?odo de 2005 a 2010, elegeu-se uma amostra de 38 mulheres com resultado positivo de altera??es cervicais, maiores de 18 anos. A an?lise do c?lculo da frequ?ncia de vari?veis sociodemogr?ficas e cl?nico-epidemiol?gicas selecionadas com os resultados das altera??es cervicais, utilizando-se o teste de X2 e adotando como n?vel de signific?ncia p<0,05 n?o mostrou signific?ncia estat?stica. A faixa et?ria predominante foi de 25 a 64 anos (68,9%); a maioria parda (60,5%); com escolaridade predominante at? o ensino fundamental (57,9%); a maioria casada ou em conviv?ncia marital (68,4%) e donas de casa (68,4%); com in?cio precoce da atividade sexual (86,8%), a minoria fumante (13,2%), com um parceiro sexual (36,8%). No momento da entrevista, 42,1% das mulheres verbalizou queixa de corrimento, enquanto apenas 2,6% referiu sangramento. Em rela??o ? ocorr?ncia de DSTs (inclusive HPV), 10,5% das mulheres declarou ser portadora. Verbalizaram o uso de contraceptivos orais, 32,3% das mulheres, por 2 a 4 anos (44,4%). Quanto ao resultado do ?ltimo exame preventivo realizado, prevaleceu a metaplasia escamosa imatura (55,3%), seguido de les?o intraepitelial de baixo grau (compreendendo efeito citopatol?gico pelo HPV e neoplasia intra-epitelial cervical grau I) (31,6%); les?o intra-epitelial de alto grau (compreendendo neoplasias intra-epiteliais cervicais de grau II e III) (7,9%); c?lulas at?picas escamosas de significado indeterminado, possivelmente n?o neopl?sicas, (5,3%). N?o foi observado carcinoma de c?lulas escamosas e adenocarcinoma. A maioria das mulheres recebeu informa??es sobre o seguimento que deveria ser realizado ap?s o resultado do ?ltimo exame preventivo (55,3%), mas, quanto a realizar o seguimento, a maior parte das mulheres n?o referiu t?-lo feito (55,3%). O seguimento do grupo de mulheres analisadas, com diferentes graus de altera??es cervicais, somente deveria ser finalizado com a alta por cura, estabelecido em citologias consecutivas negativas, meta que n?o est? sendo atingida na ?rea 47 da Unidade de Sa?de da Fam?lia Nova Natal II
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Amgheib, Ali Idris Ali. "How leadership styles and follower characteristics predict follower work outcomes in Libyan organisations." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/36706/.
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There is a deficit in the literature of research evaluating the impact of contemporary theories of leadership and followership on follower work outcomes in developing countries in the Middle East (Metcalfe & Murfin, 2011). This research examines the relationships between the three variables pertaining to follower work outcomes (job satisfaction, organisational commitment, and work engagement) and the full range of leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire) (Avolio & Bass, 1995), and associated followership performance and relationship characteristics (Potter III & Rosenbach, 2006) in Libya. It explores to what extent the full range of leadership styles predicts follower work outcomes; to what degree follower characteristics predict follower work outcomes; and to what extent follower relationship and performance characteristics moderate the relationship between each of the transformational and transactional leadership styles and follower work outcomes. A deductive approach is employed, using a questionnaire to collect data from 667 participants, from 141 work groups, from across 24 Libyan public sector organisations (LPSOs). The data was analysed using multi-level modelling analysis to investigate the relationships between dependent and independent variables; moderation analysis was then used to examine the impact of followership on leadership performance. The findings inform the literature in various ways. Primarily, these suggest that transformational leadership induces positive levels of job satisfaction, organisational commitment and work engagement among LPSOs employees. This is consistent with existing literature (Griffith, 2004; Judge & Piccolo, 2004; Emery & Barker, 2007; Akeel & Subramaniam; 2013). The findings support ongoing, cross-cultural leadership research (House et al., 2014) that advocates a universal positive performance of transformational leadership across nations. The findings suggest that transactional leadership is linked with positive job satisfaction and work engagement, which supports current research (Breevaart et al., 2014). Laissez-faire leaders do not seem to influence their followers’ work outcomes, which concurs with Bass (1997). The study also suggests that followers with high levels of performance characteristics demonstrate positive attitudes of job satisfaction and work engagement, while those who have strong relationship characteristics are associated with positive levels of work engagement. This is in line with the emerging literature on followership (Potter III & Rosenbach, 2006; Judge et al., 1998; Kelley, 1988) that suggests positive links between followers’ characteristics and work outcomes. It also suggests that followers’ relationship characteristics alongside transformational leadership predict follower organisational commitment, expanding the research in this field (Zhu et al., 2009). These results might serve as a basis for future cross-cultural studies to compare LPSOs’ leaders’ and followers’ effectiveness with those in similar regional or international organisations. The study also has several practical recommendations. Firstly, it suggests that organisations should invest in leadership development to improve employee work outcomes and that organisations such as LPSOs, should capitalise on the existing strength of their transactional managers in order to build a wider base of transformational leaders, enhancing organisational effectiveness. Secondly, organisations should recruit managers with the suitable leadership style for projects with certain desired follower work outcomes. Managers should adopt an appropriate leadership style to achieve the desired follower work outcomes and organisations would benefit from investing in followership development to enhance these work outcomes. Specifically, followers should be educated on how their characteristics might affect not only their own performance, but also that of their leader. Finally, organisations should recruit employees who exhibit positive characteristics that enable them to be more engaged in their work when this behaviour is desired for achieving the job task.
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Saltz, Jessica Lynne. "Beyond simple similarity the relationship of leader-follower personality fit with follower satisfaction with the leader and follower commitment to the organization /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1797.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Paradorn, Vasin. "An Impact Model for the Industrial Cam-follower System: Simulation and Experiment." Digital WPI, 2007. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1096.
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"Automatic assembly machines have many cam-driven linkages that provide motion to tooling. Newer machines are typically designed to operate at higher speeds and may need to handle products with small and delicate features that must be assembled precisely every time. In order to design a good tooling mechanism linkage, the dynamic behavior of the components must be considered; this includes both the gross kinematic motion and self-induced vibration motion. Current simulations of cam-follower system dynamics correlate poorly to the actual dynamic behavior because they ignore two events common in these machines: impact and over-travel. A new dynamic model was developed with these events. From this model, an insight into proper design of systems with deliberate impact was developed through computer modeling. To attain more precise representations of these automatic assembly machines, a simplified industrial cam-follower system model was constructed in SolidWorks CAD software. A two-mass, single-degree-of-freedom dynamic model was created in Simulink, a dynamic modeling tool, and validated by comparing to the model results from the cam design program, DYNACAM. After the model was validated, a controlled impact and over-travel mechanism was designed, manufactured, and assembled to a simplified industrial cam-follower system, the Cam Dynamic Test Machine (CDTM). Then, a new three-mass, two-degree-of-freedom dynamic model was created. Once the model was simulated, it was found that the magnitude and the frequency of the vibration, in acceleration comparison, of the dynamic model matched with the experimental results fairly well. The two maximum underestimation errors, which occurred where the two bodies collided, were found to be 119 m/s2 or 45% and 41 m/s2 or 30%. With the exception of these two impacts, the simulated results predicted the output with reasonable accuracy. At the same time, the maximum simulated impact force overestimated the maximum experimental impact force by 2 lbf or 1.3%. By using this three-mass, two-DOF impact model, machine design engineers will be able to simulate and predict the behavior of the assembly machines prior to manufacturing. If the results found through the model are determined to be unsatisfactory, modifications to the design can be made and the simulation rerun until an acceptable design is obtained."
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Schollin, Helena, and Sandra Thomsen. "To follow or not to follow. A literature review." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26971.
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Bakgrund: Hypertoni är en folksjukdom och är en starkt bidragande orsak till sjukdomar som stroke, hjärtsvikt, kranskärlssjukdom och arterioskleros. En effektiv läkemedelsbehandling mot hypertoni reducerar kraftigt insjuknande och död i dessa sjukdomar. Mer än 50 % av patienterna som behandlas för hypertension, slutar helt sin behandling inom ett år från att diagnos har ställs. Bland de som fortsätter sin behandling är det endast hälften som är följsamma det vill säga tar 80 % av sitt förskrivna antihypertensiva läkemedel. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att undersöka vilka faktorer som påverkar följsamheten till medicinering hos patienter med diagnosen hypertension. Metod: Metoden som användes var en litteraturstudie med en ansats till innehållsanalys. Tio artiklar från sju kvantitativa studier och tre kvalitativa studier, som svarade på syftet kvalitetsgranskades och inkluderades i litteraturstudien. Resultat: Resultatet visade att anledningen till att inte följa sin läkemedelsordination kan bero på många olika faktorer som grundar sig på patienters attityd till sin sjukdom och medicin, sociala och ekonomiska faktorer, mental påverkan samt vårdgivarens roll och agerande. Konklusion: Att se varje patient som unik och arbeta personcentrerat visade sig förbättra följsamheten till läkemedelsbehandlingen. Detta är ett område där mer forskning krävs.Background: Hypertension is a common disease and is a major contributor to diseases such as stroke, heart failure, coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis. An effective drug treatment for hypertension greatly reduces illness and death from these diseases. More than 50% of patients being treated for hypertension, stops treatment within a year of the diagnosis. Among those who continue their treatment, only half are compliant i.e., taking 80% of their prescribed antihypertensive medications. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors that influence adherence to medication in patients with the diagnosis hypertension. Method: The method used was a literature review with an approach to content analysis. Ten articles from seven quantitative studies and three qualitative studies, answering the study aim were reviewed regarding scientific quality and were finally included in the literature review. Results: The results showed that the reason for not being adherent to medication could be caused by many different factors, based on patients' attitudes to their illness and medicine, social and economic factors, mental influence and the caregiver's role and actions. Conclusion: To see each patient as a unique person and give individualized care improved adherence to drug treatment. This is an area where more research is needed.
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Chae, Seungmook. "Effect of Follower Forces on Aeroelastic Stability of Flexible Structures." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5037.
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Missile bodies and wings are typical examples of structures that can be represented by beam models. Such structures, loaded by follower forces along with aerodynamics, exhibit the vehicle's aeroelastic instabilities. The current research integrates a nonlinear beam dynamics and unsteady aerodynamics to conduct aeroelastic studies of missile bodies and wings subjected to
follower forces. The structural formulations are based on a geometrically-exact, mixed finite element method. Slender-body theory and thin-airfoil theory are used for the missile aerodynamics, and two-dimensional finite-state unsteady aerodynamics is used for wing aerodynamics. The aeroelastic analyses are performed using time-marching scheme for the missile body stability, and eigenvalue analysis for the wing flutter, respectively. Results from the time-marching formulation agree with published results for dynamic stability and show the development of limit cycle oscillations for disturbed flight near and above the critical thrust. Parametric studies of the aeroelastic behavior of specific flexible missile configurations are presented, including effects of flexibility on stability, limit-cycle amplitudes, and missile loads. The results do yield a significant interaction between the thrust, which is a follower force, and
the aeroelastic stability. Parametric studies based on the eigenvalue analysis for the wing
flutter, show that the predicted stability boundaries are very sensitive to the ratio of bending stiffness to torsional stiffness. The effect of thrust can be either stabilizing or
destabilizing, depending on the value of this parameter. An assessment whether or not the magnitude of thrust needed to influence the flutter speed is practical is made for one
configuration. The flutter speed is shown to change by 11% for this specific wing configuration.
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Goering, Daniel Denton. "The influence of perceived leader-follower role-identity centrality congruence on follower performance and work attitudes." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6427.
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Individuals have an increasing number of work-related role-identities (RIDs). Identity theory (IDT) helps explain how the psychological importance (i.e., centrality) of one’s RIDs—arranged in a relatively stable, cognitive schema—and perceived social cues from one’s leader interact to shape role-related behaviors and work-related attitudes. Despite the theory’s emphasis on dyadic interaction, the extant literature has focused primarily on only one side of the interaction at a time, either from the leader’s perspective (e.g., getting followers to identify more strongly with a team RID) or more commonly from the follower’s perspective (e.g., how a high-centrality RID influences positive emotional states). Furthermore, the literature has ignored how dyadic interactions relating to one focal RID may influence an individual’s other RIDs contained within the same cognitive hierarchy.
This study extends the original interactional aspects of IDT by investigating first the effects of perceived leader-follower centrality congruence on follower performance and attitudes. Next, it seeks to further our understanding of whether the effects of perceived RID-centrality congruence differ, depending on a given RID’s relative position in the centrality hierarchy: congruence effects should be greater for more-central RIDs. Finally, this study expands our understanding IDT by examining how the perceptions of the leader’s centrality on the follower’s most-central RID moderates the effects of perceived congruence on separate RIDs contained in the follower’s cognitive centrality hierarchy. Specifically, I propose that for the follower’s most-central RID, perceptions of high leader centrality of this RID will mitigate the negative relationships of incongruence on followers’ least-central work-RID.
I collected data from a sample of 442 respondents who were online panel participants, and I tested my hypotheses and research questions utilizing moderated polynomial regression with response surface analysis. Results indicate that RID-centrality congruence is an important variable relating to performance and work attitudes. Furthermore, my results suggest that the positive effects of perceived centrality congruence are stronger when congruence occurs on one’s most-central RID compared to RIDs that are less central to followers. Researchers and practitioners should therefore consider not only the centrality of a particular type of work-RID (e.g., Team identity), but they should account for a RID’s centrality relative to the centrality of other concurrent work-RIDs. My results further suggest that verification of one RID can mitigate the effects of incongruence on other, concurrent work-RIDs lower in followers’ centrality hierarchies.
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Hobson, Lauren Verdell. "Follow the Bone." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4993.
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Follow the Bone is the author's exploration of what it means to live truthfully and authentically in an increasingly digitized and artificial world, through the author's growth as a woman and hunter in her native Oregon. With raw honesty, Lauren takes the reader through the years she spent post-college learning how to live outside of the structure of academia. As she struggles to balance the demands of a corporate job, a long-term relationship, and the pressure of social media, she brings the reader back to the places and the pursuit that save her. The reader is invited into a world of forests, mountains, trees and wild animals, where the author navigates the reality of being a meat eater with nuance and care. With vivid imagery and a gentle attention to detail, it becomes clear how deeply connected the author is to the world around her through the land, the people she loves and the animals she admires. Her growth as a person and her dedication to living a life of meaning is captured and reflected through her rich prose while she meditates on the outdoor experiences that defined her early twenties. Her stories become an entry point into an existence that lives and breathes close to the land and illustrate how participating fully in a habitat can change our understanding of what it means to be human, while also allowing for the necessity of living in a city. This book provides a narrative that doesn't feature a helpless woman finding herself in the outdoors through various mishaps and mistakes. Rather, it reflects how we all create our conception of self from what we inherit, and how women claiming their identity through the natural world can be a powerful force.
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Simms, Marchelle M. "I Will Follow." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366475648.
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Khalifa, Sh Dayeb Amr. "Beyond Toxic Leaders : Follower-centered Approach." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-34789.
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Rethinking the possible borders of leadership, requires an investigative work which problematizes the principal assumptions upon which leadership discourse is built. From follower-centered approach, this research examines the relational factors that might accelerate the wheel of toxic behaviour in organizations, with a brief critique of the out- dated themes which continue to occupy fair amount of the discourse of leadership, this critique is based on problematizing the perspectives, commonly referred to, as The Romance of Leadership. after doing so, I try to create a counterweight body of work in which I disregard some of leaders domination by focusing on followers instead, consequently, I attempt to introduce possible breakthrough in term of language as an approach to replace old and depreciated terms, as well as, recommendations for countering the radical views toward followers. In addition, I did an empirical investigation to the abovementioned themes by conducting a study in my workplace in order to check the plausibility of the conceptualization I done before, through, and after the empirical phase of this thesis, finally, I presented some personal reflections in regard with the course of study and suggested some ideas concerning the methodology within which this research has functioned.
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Charalampidis, Nikolaos. "Novel approaches in voltage-follower design." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2006. http://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/bad01df9-ee82-88aa-e5c8-2d241fb8a2fc/1.
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The aim of this research programme was to design and develop novel voltagefollowerslbuffers, suitable for radio frequency (RF) applications. The emphases throughout has been on improving key characteristics, in particular distortion, operating bandwidth, input and output impedances, offset-voltage and power supply demands of the design. The majority of the results of this work have been reported by the author in the technical literature (I] to (6). Initially this research focuses on the investigation of the underlying operating principles of the voltage-follower to provide an in-depth understanding of its operation. This study concentrates on establishing reasons for the poor distortion, low input and high output impedances and increased offset-voltage and confirmed that these designs have inherently poor performance in these parameters. The analysis is carried out using both theoretical modelling and computer simulation, using the wellestablished software package ORCAD PSpice. Despite the availability of high performance computer simulation tools, it becomes apparent that 'hand' calculations in the design process, generally based on DC and small-signal transistor parameters, are essential. Therefore a detailed analysis of the transistor-models used throughout this research is carried out with PSpice data. Using the analytical results of the conventional voltage-follower as a benchmark, various novel circuit techniques investigated. Several new circuits are proposed with respect to improving the previously mentioned key characteristics. The first technique comprises local feedback and single-valued current biasing and 111 consists of emitter-followers exclusively throughout the signal path, keeping the distortion of the input signal to low levels [1 J, (2). The second technique is based on local feedback with double-valued current biasing, increasing somewhat the power dissipation but reducing, notably, the distortion of the configuration [3J, [4J, [5J, [6J. The final technique employs the emitter-followers throughout the signal path in combination with global feedback and double-valued current biasing, which presents significantly better results, on certain parameters, than conventional and existing configurations. It is anticipated that this work will be published in the near future.
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Seeger, David W. "Follower Perception of Leadership Communication and Leadership Style Significantly Predicting Follower Job Satisfaction Among Ohio Community College Employees." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1577826514284816.
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Croke, Sandy. "Alumni follow-up study." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004crokes.pdf.
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Xystouris, George. "SETI follow-up observations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Observationell astrofysik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-294436.
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The G-HAT team (G-HAT: Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies) compiled a catalogue of 93 galaxies that could host Kardashev-III civilizations [Griffith et al., 2015], using data from the WISE space telescope. Their method was based on the detection of the civilization's "waste heat": as any physical process takes place, heat is being released to the environment and it can be detected as an excess of the IR flux of the object. Garrett [2015] combined the data from the G-HAT catalogue with the 20cm flux from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) and 9 objects with an anomalous flux excess at IR wavelengths were identied. This work is based on the the needed follow-up observations for each of those 9 sources. This work is divided into three parts: in the first part we explain the theory of the "waste heat" search method, in the second part we give details about our submitted proposal for a submillimeter follow-up observation of NGC0814, using the Atacama Pathnder EXperiment (APEX) and in the third part we present a strategy for the required follow-up observations for the rest of the candidates.
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Dasborough, Marie T. "Follower emotional responses to attributions of leadership /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18591.pdf.
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Sipe, Mina T. "Follower personality, schema structure, and leadership endorsement." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/254.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Chen, Yuanyan. "Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Follower Design." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1470951910.
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Evans, Paul Gareth. "The dynamics of the leader follower relationship." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-dynamics-of-the-leader-follower-relationship(4b9e04e4-8cdb-4784-99c0-e55b0530fe06).html.
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This study examined the forces that affect the influence relationship between leaders and followers in a public sector organisational setting. The study is motivated by the ambition of presenting a critical perspective of the social influence process referred to as leadership. The forces were explored by studying leaders and followers engaged in their normal work context. A variation of a critical ethnographic methodology after Alvesson and Sköldberg (2005) was utilised in order to identify and explain how the dynamics impacted upon the leader follower relationship. An extended period of fieldwork was conducted within a large unitary local government authority (referred to through out the study as the ABC), during which observations and informal interviews with observed constituents were conducted and documentary evidence collected. Subsequently, an interpretive reflection of selected materials was undertaken in order to inform a critical perspective of the dynamics uncovered and the impact they had on the relationship between leaders and followers.These dynamics are shown to be predominantly external to the leader follower dyad. The dynamics of ambiguity, environment, resources, symbiosis, politics and "playing the game" impact on the relationship to create an influence relationship distinct from that detailed in normative models of leadership. The organisation comprises high levels of ambiguity; not least in the roles individuals play as leaders and followers. The transactional basis of the relationship with central government informs the basis of relationships between leaders and followers but in doing so also constricts the possibilities for leadership within the organisation. The environment is therefore an influential dynamic in leader follower relationships. Leaders and followers use the availability, acquisition and utilisation of resources to negotiate the position of their leadership and followership. Leaders are aware that they need followers as a resource and followers need leaders as they control access to resources. The relationship takes the form of a complex social symbiosis in which both component parts support each other. The relationship has a political bias. The use of politics underpins the independence of followers who are capable of acting in ways that can frustrate leaders. Finally, the two constituent parts of the relationship are engaged in playing a game, the rules of which are not explicitly stated, but can involve behaviour deemed to be illegitimate or non-sanctioned. The normative position of followers as a largely homogenous group, docile and subject to the influences of leaders is shown to be unsubstantiated. This study concludes that followers have the capacity to act under their own agency toward their own goals and aspirations; and highlights the use of political behaviour to discredit leadership as an asymmetrical influence relationship. This study concludes by asserting that political behaviour corresponds to leadership and subsequently achieves its emancipatory intent.
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Shirzadegan, Mohammad. "Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of Cam and Roller Follower." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Maskinelement, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26291.
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Modelling and simulation of friction is a research issue that still requires an extensive amount of input from the scientific community. In a lubricated system, the dissipation of energy is connected to the direct contact between the surfaces, or more precisely the tribofilms, as well as of the shearing of the lubricant film. Elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) is a lubrication regime which is characteristic for contacts found in machine components such as in roller bearings, gears and cam mechanisms. These contacts have in common that they carry load on a very small/concentrated area and exhibit elastic deformations that are much greater than the thickness of the hydrodynamically formed film. There are a vast number of parameters that affect the friction in EHL contacts and it is a challenge to include other than the most basic ones in the model. The most advanced and sophisticated models are very complex with millions of degrees of freedom and are, therefore, not yet feasible to conduct parametric studies with. The extreme conditions associated with EHL, i.e., nm thin films, with phase transition from liquid to solid, GPa pressure, temperature increase with considerable implications on lubricant flow and surface chemistry, etc., makes it even more difficult to model these systems. The shape of the contacting parts further complicates modeling of EHL. More precisely, an EHL contact can geometrically be either of a line, circular, elliptic or truncated contact type. Since the line contact appears between two cylindrical shaped bodies of infinite length, it permits a 2D-model for the flow and there are analytical solutions, in the most elementary cases. The circular and the elliptic contacts more are complicated. The case when the surfaces are fully separated by the lubricant film has, however, been addressed by many researchers, who also have presented numerical predictions validated by experimental data. The finite line contact appears to be the most challenging type, but it is also the only physically reasonable model for EHL contacts where the edge effects cannot be neglected. In this work, both steady state and time dependent, fully deterministic models are utilized and further developed to enable the study edge effects under variable operating conditions in cam and roller follower systems. The numerical investigations were specified so that generic knowledge about friction in these systems would be generated and also to provide validation data for the development of a semi-analytical, low degree freedom model, for rapid estimation of friction. The main objective was to design such a low degree of freedom model so that it can be employed in a multibody dynamic model, requiring friction estimation in milliseconds. The semi-analytical low degree of freedom model developed in this work, takes thermal effects into account and is built on an advanced and well-characterized rheological model, including lubricant shear thinning, in order to estimate the viscosity and volume of the lubricant. The model was utilized to perform friction prediction covering a range of operating conditions, which were also run in an experimental investigation using a ball-on-disk test device. The results turned out to compare well, suggesting that it constitutes a suitable foundation for further developments.Godkänd; 2015; 20151005 (mohshi); Nedanstående person kommer att hålla licentiatseminarium för avläggande av teknologie licentiatexamen. Namn: Mohammad Shirzadegan Ämne: Maskinelement/Machine Elements Uppsats: Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of Cam and Roller Follower Examinator: Biträdande professor Andreas Almqvist, Institutionen för teknikvetenskap och matematik, Avdelning: Maskinelement, Luleå tekniska universitet Diskutant: PhD – Senior Researcher Jonas Ståhl, SKF, Göteborg Tid: Fredag 6 november, 2015 kl 09.00 Plats: E632, Luleå tekniska universitet
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Chang, Yanling. "A leader-follower partially observed Markov game." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54407.
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The intent of this dissertation is to generate a set of non-dominated finite-memory policies from which one of two agents (the leader) can select a most preferred policy to control a dynamic system that is also affected by the control decisions of the other agent (the follower). The problem is described by an infinite horizon total discounted reward, partially observed Markov game (POMG). Each agent’s policy assumes that the agent knows its current and recent state values, its recent actions, and the current and recent possibly inaccurate observations of the other agent’s state. For each candidate finite-memory leader policy, we assume the follower, fully aware of the leader policy, determines a policy that optimizes the follower’s criterion. The leader-follower assumption allows the POMG to be transformed into a specially structured, partially observed Markov decision process that we use to determine the follower’s best response policy for a given leader policy. We then present a value determination procedure to evaluate the performance of the leader for a given leader policy, based on which non-dominated set of leader polices can be selected by existing heuristic approaches.
We then analyze how the value of the leader’s criterion changes due to changes in the leader’s quality of observation of the follower. We give conditions that insure improved observation quality will improve the leader’s value function, assuming that changes in the observation quality do not cause the follower to change its policy. We show that discontinuities in the value of the leader’ criterion, as a function of observation quality, can occur when the change of observation quality is significant enough for the follower to change its policy. We present conditions that determine when a discontinuity may occur and conditions that guarantee a discontinuity will not degrade the leader’s performance. This framework has been used to develop a dynamic risk analysis approach for U.S. food supply chains and to compare and create supply chain designs and sequential control strategies for risk mitigation.
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Lerner, Isaac. "Architecture as discourse : form follows fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61707.
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Martinez, Lucinda G. "Charismatic Leadership Perceptions from K-12 Administrators: Phenomena of Follower and Leader Interdependency." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2424.
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A greater understanding of the nature of leadership can be gained by empirical analyses, such as this quantitative study, addressing the influence executive administrators have on their message recipients, their followers. This study sampled 64 non-teaching K-12 school, district, and state administrators and measured their perceptions of their immediate supervisors’ leadership behaviors by completing the ©Conger-Kanungo Charismatic Leadership Scale (Conger, Kanungo, Menon, & Mathur, 1997) and the ©Perceived Leadership Behavior Measures Inventory (Conger, Kanungo, & Menon, 2000). Analyses of variables measuring perceived leadership behaviors and those effects on the attitudes and perceptions of their followers may contribute to a better understanding of the phenomena of non-teaching administrator follower and leader interdependency in K-12 organizations. Leaders can develop more refined leadership skill characteristics that might enhance ones’ abilities in communicating exemplary characteristics and charismatic behaviors. In turn, these refined abilities can contribute to an organization’s effectiveness by lowering leader and teacher attrition, promoting team building and bonding, and contribute to K-12 administrative leadership development program effectiveness. A General Linear Model with multivariate tests analyses were used to examine correlations between the charismatic leadership behavioral components and the followers’ perceptions of their own motivation, trust, and satisfaction. A significant correlation existed (p =p =
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Olsson, Emelie. "Det goda ledarskapet : Medarbetares värderingar av positiva ledaregenskaper." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-15425.
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Studien bygger på Implicit Leadership Theory, tidigare studiers noterade ledaregenskaper samt egenskaper noterade i denna studie värderade från ett medarbetarperspektiv. Implicit Leadership Theory bygger på hur ledarskap konstrueras av medarbetaren. Deltagare var åtta medarbetare varav tre män. Kvalitativa intervjuer utfördes. Syftet konkretiserades utav önskvärda ledaregenskaper, studiens gemensamma egenskaper och egenskaper överrensstämmande med tidigare studier samt teori. De upplevda egenskaperna delades upp i kategorier som beskrev de önskvärda egenskaperna. Kategorierna var: kommunikativ förmåga, engagemang, kompetens, social kompetens, gruppledaregenskaper samt målinriktad. Resultat visade att ledaregenskaper som är gemensamma för upplevelsen av ett gott ledarskap var lyhördhet, engagemang, att vara driven och att ha en vision. Slutsatsen var att det fanns likheter och skillnader mellan tidigare studiers egenskaper och egenskaperna i denna studie. Skillnader mellan tidigare studiers noterade egenskaper och denna studie var: karisma, effektivitet, etiska värderingar, autonom och prestation. Studien bidrog med att tydliggöra önskvärda ledaregenskaper utifrån ett medarbetarperspektiv.
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Boyd, Kathleen Benton-Snead. "Employing an Implicit Task to Measure the Effects of Contextual Constraints on Perceptions of Leadership." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/75151.
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A laboratory experiment was conducted to test the effects of follower behaviors (passive or
active) and affect (positive or negative) on leadership perception within the context of an implicit association task (IAT). Individuals watched either a positive or negative affect inducing video, were placed in a leader role, and were asked to read a brief scenario detailing the behavior of their followers. The results indicated that: 1) active follower behavior information activated leadership perceptions that reflect an implicit preference for Visionary Leadership, and 2) positive affect activated leadership perceptions that reflect an implicit preference for Visionary Leadership. It was hypothesized that there would be an interaction between follower behavior and leader affect such that negative affect would lead to more detailed follower behavior information processing and therefore follower behavior would have stronger effects on leadership perceptions. The interaction was not significant; however the main effects provide support for the Connectionist Model of Leadership, such that contextual constraints do influence perceptions of leadership. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.Ph. D.
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Halverson, Kent C. "Multilevel effects of leader charisma on follower satisfaction." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0011346.
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Trottier, Tracey. "HOW LEADERSHIP AFFECTS FOLLOWER SATISFACTION: THE FEDERAL CASE." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3214.
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This study focuses on the effect of leadership in the federal government. Using a slightly revised version of Bass's Full Range Leadership Model, the study examines the influence of transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and combination of the two on the perception of leadership effectiveness and follower satisfaction in the federal government. To establish if this revised model is consistent with federal employees' perception of effective leadership, if leadership in the federal government increases follower satisfaction, and if both the transactional and transformational leadership are important to followers' perception of leadership and their satisfaction, data from the 2002 Federal Human Capital Survey was used. Multiple regression analyses were conducted using transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and a combination of the two as independent variables and perceived leadership effectiveness and follower satisfaction as the dependent variables. Control variables that accounted for personal demographics (gender, minority status, and supervisory status) and organizational/job dimensions (pay, benefits, career path, personal fulfillment of the job, the physical conditions, organizational training, workplace flexibilities, coworkers and communication) were also included. Results indicate that the revised model does capture federal employees' perception of effective leadership, that leadership does increase follower satisfaction in the federal government, and that both transactional and transformational elements are important to this perceived effectiveness and follower satisfaction.Ph.D.
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Scherwin, Vicki Mara. "The overlooked dimension of leadership follower self-interest /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872216381&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Maritz, Rachel. "Strategy-making approaches followed in South African organisations." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11102008-140300/.
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Diaz, Sílvia de Oliveira. "Pregnancy and newborns disorders followed by urine metabolomics." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/13110.
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Doutoramento em QuímicaChapter 1 introduces the scope of the work by identifying the clinically relevant prenatal disorders and presently available diagnostic methods. The methodology followed in this work is presented, along with a brief account of the principles of the analytical and statistical tools employed. A thorough description of the state of the art of metabolomics in prenatal research concludes the chapter, highlighting the merit of this novel strategy to identify robust disease biomarkers. The scarce use of maternal and newborn urine in previous reports enlightens the relevance of this work. Chapter 2 presents a description of all the experimental details involved in the work performed, comprising sampling, sample collection and preparation issues, data acquisition protocols and data analysis procedures. The proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) characterization of maternal urine composition in healthy pregnancies is presented in Chapter 3. The urinary metabolic profile characteristic of each pregnancy trimester was defined and a 21-metabolite signature found descriptive of the metabolic adaptations occurring throughout pregnancy. 8 metabolites were found, for the first time to our knowledge, to vary in connection to pregnancy, while known metabolic effects were confirmed. This chapter includes a study of the effects of non-fasting (used in this work) as a possible confounder. Chapter 4 describes the metabolomic study of 2nd trimester maternal urine for the diagnosis of fetal disorders and prediction of later-developing complications. This was achieved by applying a novel variable selection method developed in the context of this work. It was found that fetal malformations (FM) (and, specifically those of the central nervous system, CNS) and chromosomal disorders (CD) (and, specifically, trisomy 21, T21) are accompanied by changes in energy, amino acids, lipids and nucleotides metabolic pathways, with CD causing a further deregulation in sugars metabolism, urea cycle and/or creatinine biosynthesis. Multivariate analysis models´ validation revealed classification rates (CR) of 84% for FM (87%, CNS) and 85% for CD (94%, T21). For later-diagnosed preterm delivery (PTD), preeclampsia (PE) and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), it is found that urinary NMR profiles have early predictive value, with CRs ranging from 84% for PTD (11-20 gestational weeks, g.w., prior to diagnosis), 94% for PE (18-24 g.w. pre-diagnosis) and 94% for IUGR (2-22 g.w. pre-diagnosis). This chapter includes results obtained for an ultraperformance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) study of pre-PTD samples and correlation with NMR data. One possible marker was detected, although its identification was not possible. Chapter 5 relates to the NMR metabolomic study of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), establishing a potentially predictive urinary metabolic profile for GDM, 2-21 g.w. prior to diagnosis (CR 83%). Furthermore, the NMR spectrum was shown to carry information on individual phenotypes, able to predict future insulin treatment requirement (CR 94%). Chapter 6 describes results that demonstrate the impact of delivery mode (CR 88%) and gender (CR 76%) on newborn urinary profile. It was also found that newborn prematurity, respiratory depression, large for gestational age growth and malformations induce relevant metabolic perturbations (CR 82-92%), as well as maternal conditions, namely GDM (CR 82%) and maternal psychiatric disorders (CR 91%). Finally, the main conclusions of this thesis are presented in Chapter 7, highlighting the value of maternal or newborn urine metabolomics for pregnancy monitoring and disease prediction, towards the development of new early and non-invasive diagnostic methods.
O Capítulo 1 descreve o enquadramento deste trabalho identificando as doenças pré-natais relevantes e os métodos de diagnóstico actualmente disponíveis. É depois apresentada a metodologia seguida, assim como uma breve introdução dos princípios dos métodos analíticos e estatísticos aplicados. O capítulo é concluído com uma descrição do estado da arte na área de metabolómica em investigação pré-natal, identificando o mérito desta inovadora estratégia para a identificação de marcadores robustos de doenças pré-natais. A relevância deste trabalho torna-se clara através do escasso uso de urina materna e do recém-nascido em trabalhos anteriores. O Capítulo 2 descreve os procedimentos experimentais utilizados neste trabalho, incluindo condições de amostragem, recolha e preparação das amostras, protocolos de aquisição e de tratamento dos dados. A caracterização da composição da urina materna, através de espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética Nuclear (RMN) de protão é apresentada no Capítulo 3. Define-se o perfil metabólico urinário característico para cada trimestre de gravidez, tendo sido encontrado um conjunto de 21 metabolitos descritivo das alterações metabólicas ocorridas ao longo da gravidez. 8 metabolitos foram encontrados a variar com a gravidez, pela primeira vez, tendo sido confirmadas variações metabólicas conhecidas. É ainda estudado o efeito do não-jejum (usado neste trabalho) como possível factor de confusão. O Capítulo 4 apresenta o estudo metabolómico de urina materna do 2º trimestre para o diagnóstico de doenças fetais e previsão de complicações mais tarde desenvolvidas. Este estudo compreende a aplicação de um método de selecção de variáveis desenvolvido no âmbito desta tese. Observou-se que as malformações fetais (e, especificamente, do sistema nervoso central, SNC) e as cromossomopatias (e, especificamente, a trissomia 21, T21) são acompanhadas por alterações nos metabolismos energético, dos aminoácidos, lípidos e nucleótidos, enquanto que as cromossomopatias mostraram ser acompanhadas por uma desregulação adicional dos metabolismos dos açúcares, ciclo da ureia e/ou biossíntese da creatinina. A validação dos modelos multivariados revelou taxas de classificação (CR) de 84% para malformações (87%, SNC) e 85% para CD (94%, T21). Para o parto pré-termo, pré-eclampsia (PE) e restrição de crescimento intrauterino (RCIU) observaram-se perfis que podem ajudar à previsão precoce, com CR 84% para pretermo (11-20 semanas de gestação, g.w. pré-diagnóstico), 94% para PE (18-24 g.w. pré-diagnóstico) e 94% para RCIU (2-22 g.w. pré-diagnóstico). Este capítulo inclui resultados obtidos por cromatografia líquida de ultra eficiência acoplada a espectrometria de massa (UPLC-MS) para pré-pretermo e correlação com os dados de RMN. Um possível composto marcador foi detectado mas a sua identificação não foi possível. O Capítulo 5 descreve o estudo metabolómico por RMN da diabetes mellitus gestacional (DMG), estabelecendo-se um perfil metabólico potencialmente preditivo da doença (CR 83%, 2-21 g.w. pré-diagnóstico). Verificou-se ainda que o espectro de RMN contém informação sobre o fenótipo individual, capaz de prever a necessidade futura de tratamento com insulina (CR 94%). No Capítulo 6 demonstra-se o impacto do tipo de parto (CR 88%) e género do bebé (CR 76%) no perfil da urina do recém-nascido. Verificou-se ainda que a prematuridade, depressão respiratória, crescimento grande para a idade gestacional e malformações induzem perturbações metabólicas relevantes (CR 82-92%), assim como algumas doenças maternas como a DMG (CR 82%) e doenças psiquiátricas (91% CR). Finalmente, no Capítulo 7 apresentam-se as principais conclusões deste trabalho, enfatizando o potencial da metabolómica de urina materna e do bebé para o acompanhamento da gravidez e previsão de doenças, visando o desenvolvimento de novos métodos de diagnóstico precoce e não-invasivo.
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Jasim, Wesam M. "Improving leader-follower formation control performance for quadrotors." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17716/.
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This thesis aims to improve the leader-follower team formation flight performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) by applying nonlinear robust and optimal techniques, in particular the nonlinear H_infinity and the iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (iLQR), to stabilisation, path tracking and leader-follower team formation control problems. Existing solutions for stabilisation, path tracking and leader-follower team formation control have addressed a linear or nonlinear control technique for a linearised system with limited disturbance consideration, or for a nonlinear system with an obstacle-free environment. To cover part of this area of research, in this thesis, some nonlinear terms were included in the quadrotors' dynamic model, and external disturbance and model parameter uncertainties were considered. Five different controllers were developed. The first and the second controllers, the nonlinear suboptimal H_infinity control technique and the Integral Backstepping (IBS) controller, were based on Lyapunov theory. The H_infinity controller was developed with consideration of external disturbance and model parameter uncertainties. These two controllers were compared for path tracking and leader-follower team formation control. The third controller was the Proportional Derivative square (PD2), which was applied for attitude control and compared with the H_infinity controller. The fourth and the fifth controllers were the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control technique and the optimal iLQR, which was developed based on the LQR control technique. These were applied for attitude, path tracking and team formation control and there results were compared. Two features regarding the choice of the control technique were addressed: stability and robustness on the one hand, which were guaranteed using the H_infinity control technique as the disturbance is inherent in its mathematical model, and the improvement in the performance optimisation on the other, which was achieved using the iLQR technique as it is based on the optimal LQR control technique. Moreover, one loop control scheme was used to control each vehicle when these controllers were implemented and a distributed control scheme was proposed for the leader-follower team formation problem. Each of the above mentioned controllers was tested and verified in simulation for different predefined paths. Then only the nonlinear H_infinity controller was tested in both simulation and real vehicles experiments.
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Duarte, Daniel José da Silva. "Corporate tax avoidance followed by mergers and acquisitions." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13186.
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Mestrado em FinançasEste trabalho tem como objetivo perceber as alterações ao planeamento fiscal da empresa após uma operação de F&A. Várias características de F&A foram testadas numa amostra que abrange 707 operações Europeias. No geral, os resultados sugerem que não há evidência estatística de alterações no planeamento fiscal da empresa adquirente após uma operação de F&A. No entanto, encontrámos evidência de um maior nível de planeamento fiscal quando as operações são horizontais e quando a empresa-alvo tem resultados operacionais negativos no ano anterior à operação. Os nossos resultados sugerem uma diminuição de cerca de 3% na taxa efetiva de imposto quando a operação é horizontal e uma redução dos impostos pagos, entre 6.2% e 8.6%, se a empresa-alvo apresentou resultados operacionais negativos no ano anterior à operação. Esta redução na taxa efetiva de imposto aumenta para 9% se a operação for simultaneamente horizontal e a empresa-alvo tenha resultados operacionais negativos no ano anterior à operação. Os nossos resultados suportam a perspetiva de que motivos fiscais podem não despoletar uma operação de F&A, no entanto uma significativa poupança fiscal parece verificar-se para determinadas características das F&As.
This paper aims to understand the change in corporate tax avoidance following a M&A deal. Several M&A features were tested in a sample which covers 707 European deals. Overall, results suggest that there is no statistical evidence of changes in corporate tax avoidance following M&A deals. However, we found some evidence of higher level of corporate tax avoidance when the deal is horizontal and when the target company had operating losses the year before deal. Our results suggest a decrease in ETR of about 3% for horizontal mergers and a reduction of effective taxes paid between 6.2% and 8.6% if target had negative pre-tax income pre-deal. This reduction in ETR increases to 9% for horizontal deals, in which the target had a negative pre-tax income one-year before the deal. Our findings support the view that tax motives may not trigger M&A deals, although significant tax savings appear to occur for certain M&A characteristics.
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