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Naziri, Micah B. D. C. "Persistence of Jewish-Muslim Reconciliatory Activism in the Face of Threats and “Terrorism” (Real and Perceived) From All Sides." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch158125273779039.
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Fenaughty, John Joseph. "Challenging risk: NZ high-school students��� activity, challenge, distress, and resiliency, within cyberspace." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6775.
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Cyberspace, the digital environment produced by the Internet and mobile phones, has become a major developmental context for young people in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ). From 2005, the phenomena of convergence and Web 2.0, enabled more cyber-activity, from more places, more often. The thesis utilised mixed methods to explore cyber-activity, and the challenges it produced. It also examined resilience; focusing on factors associated with successful resolution of distressing challenges. The first phase used eight focus groups (N = 36), as well as literature reviews, to produce a model for understanding cyber-challenge. The second phase deployed a questionnaire, based on aspects of this model, with 1,673 diverse NZ secondary school students. Cyberspace was accessed frequently (at least three or more times a week) by 98.4% of the sample. Participants reported an average of 7.29 (sd = 1.93) categories of cyber-activity annually. Activities classed as ���communicating��� and ���researching��� were most common. At least one cyber-challenge was reported by 67.5% of participants, however, only around half of them reported distress associated with a challenge. By volume, cyberbullying was the most distressing challenge reported (17.6%). Although ignoring was the most common management strategy used across six distressing challenges, it was never positively associated with resolution. On average, 38.3% of participants reported use of social support to manage distressing cyber-challenges. Significant age and gender differences highlighted aspects of adolescent development in cyberspace, for example older adolescents were more likely to report communication, banking, copyright-infringement, timemanagement problems; females reported more communication, phone-cyberbullying, distressing cyberbullying, unwanted sexual solicitation; and males reported more making new friends, dating, gaming, trading, Internetcyberbullying, cyberbullying others, sexual-content exposure, and distressing time-management problems. Logistic regression identified features associated with distressing challenge resolution. Although adult help seeking ability was associated with the resolution of four categories of cyber-challenge, actual adult support (or other social support) was not, suggesting that resiliency depends on the quality of the intervention, not its presence per se. Given the prominent place of social support as an intervention, adults (and peers) need to be equipped to better support young people to manage challenges. Cybersafety programmes should target common distressing challenges first.
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Price, Hermione Clare. "Personalised cardiovascular disease risk information as a motivator of behaviour change in individuals at high cardiovascular disease risk." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3cab4a20-355c-43af-9377-c655e42a4acf.
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Introduction: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment is becoming increasingly common in routine clinical practice. Consequently many individuals are likely to be identified as being at increased CVD risk and risk reducing strategies implemented with a view to preventing future CVD. There are many steps along the pathway from CVD risk assessment to the prevention of CVD events. First, CVD risk needs to be accurately estimated using an appropriate CVD risk calculator. Secondly CVD risk information needs to be effectively communicated to the individual identified as being at increased risk. Thirdly, the risk information communicated needs to be capable of motivating behaviour change and finally behaviour change needs to result in a reduction in CVD risk. The evidence base for many of these steps has yet to be fully established. Aims: The overall aims of this work were first to adapt the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) Risk Engine to better display risk and achievable risk. Secondly to investigate lay perceptions of risk and to develop two interventions designed to reduce CVD risk. The two interventions were a personalised 10-year CVD risk estimate and a brief lifestyle advice intervention. Finally, the capacity of these interventions to increase physical activity and improve CVD risk factors in adults at increased CVD risk was tested. Methods: Three focus groups were held to investigate lay perceptions of risk and to inform the design of the UKPDS Risk Engine interface and a brief lifestyle advice intervention designed to motivate risk reducing behaviours. The two interventions were then tested in a 2x2 factorial randomised controlled trial. Results: The focus group results demonstrated that public interest and understanding of risk was high. In addition participants expressed clear views regarding how risk information and lifestyle advice should be presented. 194 participants at increased 10-year CVD risk (≥ 20%) were recruited from 4 Oxfordshire general practices. Neither a personalised 10-year CVD risk estimate nor a brief lifestyle advice intervention was capable of increasing physical activity or reducing estimated 10-year CVD risk in this group. Conclusions: Whilst public interest in CVD risk appeared to be high this study was unable to demonstrate that a 10-year personalised CVD risk estimate or a brief lifestyle advice intervention was able to increase physical activity in adults at increased CVD risk.
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Potter, Thomas G. "Sensation seeking and anxiety levels before and after exposure to a high risk activity." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55648.
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Taylor, Kathryn L. "Project FFAB (Fun Fast Activity Blasts) : effect of a novel school-based high-intensity interval training intervention on cardiometaolic risk markers and physical activity levels in adolescents." Thesis, Teesside University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10149/337599.
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Whilst high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness and physical activity may protect against cardiometabolic risk factor clustering, evidence suggests these outcomes are below optimal in English youths. Adolescence is a key stage in health behaviours development, and thus represents an opportunity for interventions aiming to improve the cardiometabolic health, fitness and activity levels of this population. Recently, there has been growing interest in the efficacy of low-volume high-intensity interval training (HIT) as a time efficient way of improving health and fitness outcomes in adults. Contrastingly, the effects of low-volume HIT in adolescents remains relatively unknown. The first aim of this programme therefore was to develop a novel school-based low-volume HIT intervention. The second was to determine the effectiveness of this model for improving the cardiometabolic health, cardiorespiratory fitness and physical activity levels of adolescents. Study one examined adolescents’ views towards high-intensity exercise, and the proposed low-volume HIT intervention. This data was used to design the novel low-volume HIT model. In Study 2, participants’ heart rate and perceived exertion responses to three prototype prescriptions of low-volume HIT, based on boxing, dance and football were examined. Here, it was indicated that these activities were capable of eliciting a high-intensity training response (~90% of maximum heart rate). Study 3 incorporated the main intervention, which examined the effect of a 10-week multi-activity low-volume HIT intervention (named Project FFAB [Fun Fast Activity Blasts]) on various health and fitness outcomes in adolescents. Here, beneficial effects were detected in the intervention participants compared to the controls for triglycerides, waist circumference, lipid accumulation product and daily moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Study 4 assessed the fidelity of the intervention, and found that this had been largely upheld. Collectively therefore, it appears that Project FFAB represents a viable strategy for improving aspects of cardiometabolic health and physical activity levels in adolescents.
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Paone, Tina Rosetta. "The comparative effectiveness of group activity therapy on the moral reasoning of at-risk high school students." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3210832.
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Fauquet-Alekhine, Philippe. "Competencies, activity analysis and occupational training : an innovative approach with full-scale simulators in high risk industries." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3774/.
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Dealing with the social phenomenon of the “skills drain”, retired workers leaving companies en masse sometimes even before the recruitment of newcomers and consequently impeding classic training through mentoring, managers are seeking innovative solutions to train new employees and ensure a satisfactory level of competencies, especially in high risk industries. This led to questions to which the present research offers solutions: How are competencies of experienced workers mobilized? How can they be accessed? How are they developed through training? And more especially in full-scale simulation, which is key to occupational training in high risk industries. The literature shows that the relationship between knowledge, know-how, skills and competencies remains unclear. A model is suggested, adapted to the present issue. It shows that competencies must be investigated in action through work activity analysis and leads to an approach to describe competencies in action, as in Le Boterf’s model (1998), which presents a relevant link between competencies and action and was tested in the field. However, its application revealed a dearth of the expected description; pre-tests led to adapt it into a new model and protocol: the Square of PErceived ACtion (SPEAC model). The protocol was used, in the line of Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnography (SEBE) methods, to structure the replay interview following the recording of the workers’ activity by subcams, miniaturized cameras mounted on spectacles (first person perspective). The resulting analysis was applied to full-scale simulation and in real operating situations for which a risk assessment protocol whilst using SEBE equipment was developed, tested and applied. It provided more relevant input data for occupational training, and showed higher performance in training than other methods (more exhaustive and less costly). In order to evaluate the impact of SPEAC-improved training on actual performance at work, the SPEAC improvement in a standard training curriculum was tested in two contexts of high risk industries (medicine and nuclear). In doing so, we tackled also the issue of resistance to innovation in training. The application of the SPEAC method to provide input data and to structure the training sessions improved significantly the work performance both at the end of the training sessions and in real operating situations. When combined with improved pedagogical methods in simulation training, the SPEAC protocol has been shown to provide substantial gains for following real operating situations, both in terms of safety (fewer subsequent complications and less pain for patients in hospital, higher levels of reliability for activities in nuclear industries) and in terms of cost (per year, potentially tens of thousands of euros could be saved in hospitals when considering one operation and several millions of euros for a nuclear power plant when all activities are taken into account). Top management now wishes to roll out the method within their professionalization program in the two institutions where the field experiments and applications were carried out. In parallel, as a theoretical perspective, developments and applications in the framework of the present research have suggested the relevance of a systemic approach of the professionalization cycle in complex socio-technical systems: the Experiential Learning Theory-based excursive cycle of the professional training process developed in this study might contribute towards modelling a systemic approach of simulation training in high risk industries providing areas for improvement and consequently higher performance.
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Bartoň, Andrej. "Prevence selhání lidského činitele při rizikových činnostech." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-414108.
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The diploma thesis focuses on the issue of human error in risk activities. The issue is examined at a company InfoTel, spol. s r. o. offering professional services in the construction and operation of telecommunication networks. The work is divided into three parts. The first part is aimed at obtaining theoretical background serving as a starting point for the subsequent analytical part. The analytical part concentrates on the characteristics of the selected company, organizational structure and work positions. It includes the analysis of corporate processes, contemplating the human factor, its activity and associated risks. The final part of the thesis is devoted to proposals for measures, focusing on prevention of human error in risk activities, leading to improvement of economic result in the selected company.
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Wilson, Nnenna Jean. "Differences in Preferences for Using Microbicides Among Gay Men Seeking Internet." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2432.
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Efforts to reduce the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and find innovative alternatives to condom use are important public health challenges. While the incidence of HIV is leveling off among some populations, it is escalating in other populations such as young African American men who have sex with men (MSM). Guided by the health belief model (HBM) and the AIDS risk reduction model (ARRM), this quantitative, cross-sectional study sought to use multiple linear regression, binary logistic regression, and Fisher's exact test to determine how perceived susceptibility, as measured by the AIDS Health Belief Scale (AHBS), and labeling of unprotected receptive anal intercourse (URAI) risk predicted the preference for prevention products and the number of self-reported sexual activities among MSM who seek sexual partners on the Internet. This study also sought to determine any ethnic differences in the preference for prevention products among these men. Due to the limited sample size (N = 19), there were no significant relationships between the independent variables (i.e., AHBS Score, URAI Risk, or ethnicity) and dependent variables (i.e., product preference or sexual activity). Moreover, covariates of age and alcohol/drug use were not significant in this study. The implications of positive social change include new insights into designing culturally-sensitive, Internet-based, HIV interventions for hard-to-reach and hidden populations that protect their privacy.
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Nannyambe, Edgar Boniface. "Relationship between participation in physical activity and health risk behaviours among youth in high schools in Mtwara region, Tanzania." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2602_1242700080.
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Physical inactivity is one of the leading risk factors for major non-communicable diseases, which contribute substantially to the global burden of chronic diseases, disability and death. The burden of disability, morbidity and mortality, attributable to non-communicable diseases, is currently enormous in the developed countries and is increasingly growing in the developing countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between participation in physical activity and health risk behaviours among high school students in the Mtwara region, Tanzania. The objectives of this study were to identify the physical activity levels among high school students in Mtwara region, Tanzania, to identify health risk behaviours among the above mentioned high school students, to identify the factors that influenced them to engage in health risk behaviours and to establish the relationship between physical activity and health risk behaviours.
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Musik, M., S. Ho, Diana Morelen, J. Swain, K. Rosenblum, J. K. Zubieta, and J. Swain. "Parenting Intervention for Mothers with High vs. Low Psychological Risk changes Neural Activity related to an Own Child Face Empathy Task." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7700.
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Manhanzva, Monalisa Tatenda. "Characterisation of the HIV inhibitory activity of vaginal lactobacilli isolates from young South African women at high risk of HIV acquisition." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32853.
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Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is an important predisposing factor for the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in South African women. However, the microbial causes and the immunomodulatory effects of BV are not yet fully understood, and effective treatment strategies do not exist. BV is associated with upregulated inflammatory cytokine levels in the female genital tract (FGT), which in turn may increase HIV infection risk by recruiting and activating HIV target cells, reducing epithelial barrier function and directly promoting HIV replication. Lactobacillus species on the other hand are thought to protect against HIV by competitive exclusion, producing virucidal hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), maintaining an acidic pH by producing lactic acid and regulating immune responses in the FGT. This dissertation aimed to characterise the relative HIV inhibitory properties of clinical Lactobacillus isolates, to evaluate the immunoregulatory properties of lactobacilli, and determine the mechanisms underlying these relationships. Vaginal Lactobacillus isolates (n=103), including L. crispatus, L. jensenii, L. johnsonii, L. mucosae, L. plantarum, L. ruminis, L. salivarius and L. vaginalis, were isolated from young South African women who participated in the Women's Initiative in Sexual Health (WISH) study. The production of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-1α, IL-1β), chemokines (IL-8, IP-10, MIP-3α, MIP-1α, MIP-1β) and regulatory IL-1RA by vaginal epithelial cells in response to lactobacilli in the presence or absence of Gardnerella vaginalis ATCC 14018 and Prevotella bivia ATCC 29303, was measured using Luminex. Growth rates, bacterial sizes, adhesion to cervical (Ca Ski) and vaginal epithelial cells (VK2), culture pH changes and D/L-lactate production by the lactobacilli were also measured in vitro. The properties of vaginal Lactobacillus isolates were also compared to those of commercial probiotics and ATCC reference strains. In order to evaluate differences between lactobacilli isolates that induced low (termed “non-inflammatory”) versus high (termed “inflammatory”) levels of inflammatory cytokine production, the proteomic profiles of 22 inflammatory and 22 non-inflammatory Lactobacillus isolates were analysed using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to investigate the underlying mechanisms leading to the different inflammatory profiles. Lastly, the influence of Lactobacillus culture supernatants (n=16) on HIV infectivity was evaluated using a Luciferase Reporter Gene Assay in TZM-BL cells. Lactobacilli isolated from women with non-optimal microbiota produced less lactic acid and induced greater inflammatory cytokine production than those from women with optimal microbiota, with IL-6, IL-8, IL-1a, IL-1b, MIP-1a and MIP-1b production significantly elevated. Proteomics analysis showed that 164 proteins were differentially abundant between inflammatory lactobacilli and non-inflammatory lactobacilli. Functional analysis revealed that isolates inducing low levels of inflammatory cytokine production had a significantly higher relative abundance of membrane-associated cellular components, metabolic biological processes and enzymatic molecular functions compared to isolates that induced higher levels of inflammation. A subset of sixteen lactobacilli significantly suppressed IL-6 (adjusted p<0.001) and IL-8 (adjusted p=0.0170) responses to G. vaginalis while L. crispatus isolates suppressed inflammatory cytokines responses to P. bivia. Culture supernatants from the same 16 isolates significantly suppressed HIV infectivity in TZM-BL cells (p=0.0078). Lactobacilli adhesion to VK2 cells correlated negatively with IL-6, IL-8, MIP-1a and IL-1RA production. Lactobacillus beneficial characteristics were highly strainspecific and vaginal isolates out-performed commercial probiotics and ATCC strains. Lactobacillus growth rates, bacterial sizes and adhesion to VK2 cells did not differ significantly between isolates from women with non-optimal microbiota versus those from women with optimal microbiota. These findings show that, while cervicovaginal lactobacilli suppressed overall inflammatory responses to G. vaginalis and P. bivia, isolates from women with non-optimal microbiota were more inflammatory, had lower relative protein abundance and produced less antimicrobial lactic acid than isolates from women with optimal microbiota. Additionally, vaginal Lactobacillus isolates performed better than existing commercial probiotics, suggesting room for improvement of current probiotic formulations available on the South African market to improve BV treatment outcomes and reduce inflammation in the FGT.
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O'Keefe, Elissa J., and n/a. "Young, sexually active, senior high school women in the australian Capital Territory: prevalence and risk factors for genital Human papillomavirus infection." University of Canberra. Health Sciences, 2004. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060410.140559.
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An association between persistent Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in women
and cervical cancer has been established. Young women are particularly at risk of
acquiring sexually transmitted infections such as HPV because of risky sexual activity
and physiological immaturity. While at risk though, young women have been shown
to be amenable to health promoting initiatives. There are a small number of
international studies concerning adolescent HPV infection and the risk factors
associated with infection, but there is currently no evidence on the prevalence and risk
factors for HPV in an Australian, sexually active female adolescent population. This
study aimed to provide evidence of the prevalence of HPV, risk factors associated
with infection and the patterns of sexual activity in a female sexually active, senior
high school population in the Australian Capital Territory.
Participants in this study were a convenience sample of 161 sexually active 16-19
year old females who had an HPV test who were attending a senior high school in the
Australian Capital Territory. Nurses and doctors using a clinical record collected
information about sexual and other risk behaviours. Self-obtained vaginal swabs were
tested for HPV DNA using the polymerase chain reaction method and genotyping was
undertaken.
The HPV prevalence in this cohort of young women was 1 1.2%. High-risk genotypes
were found in 55.5% and multiple genotypes were found in 38.8%. There was a
significant association found between HPV infection and having had more than one
male partner with whom vaginal intercourse had occurred in the previous six months.
No statistically significant association was found between HPV and the age of
coitarche, length of time young women had been sexually active, condom use, and
smoking or alcohol intake. A young age at coitarche was common for this group.
Smoking and alcohol use was seen in large proportions in this group.
This is the first Australian study that has examined the prevalence and risk factors for
genital HPV in this demographic group. The HPV prevalence is lower than in
international studies in comparable groups, in similar age groups and much lower than
in older women both in Australia and overseas. With the comparatively low
prevalence comes an opportunity for important public health interventions for this
group including routine Pap smears, vaccination against the high-risk types of HPV
when this becomes available and strategies for young women to reduce their number
of male sexual partners. A substantial amount of young women in this study were
sexually active aged under 16 years. Whilst this was not identified as being a risk
factor in this study, it is both a health and personal safety issue for these young
women. There is a demonstrated need for health promotion strategies for this cohort
about the consumption of safe levels of alcohol and for smoking cessation. Further
research is recommended that includes a repetition of this study with a larger sample,
the use of a prospective study design to identify trends in infection and examination of
HPV prevalence and risk factors for a variety of populations.
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Petacci, Diego. "A responsabilidade civil extracontratual objetiva nos acidentes de trabalho e nas doenças ocupacionais no esporte de alto rendimento." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2138/tde-27032014-135040/.
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A responsabilidade civil ligada aos acidentes de trabalho e às doenças ocupacionais é fonte de constantes preocupações de magistrados, doutrinadores e estudiosos do Direito do Trabalho, em especial após o advento da Emenda Constitucional nº 45/04. Em particular em sua vertente objetiva, que procura estabelecer a responsabilidade pelo risco da atividade, independentemente de culpa do agente. No entanto, há evidente lacuna no estudo da responsabilidade civil relacionada aos acidentes de trabalho e às doenças ocupacionais ligadas aos esportes profissionais. Conquanto os esportes envolvam elementos lúdicos e recreativos, sua prática profissional movimenta elevadas quantias de dinheiro e inúmeros feixes de contratos de trabalho. O alto índice de acidentes, lesões e enfermidades relacionadas ao esporte, que por vezes encerram prematuramente a carreira de atletas que ainda estão muito longe do estrelato, reclama a análise e a proteção jurídica conferidas pelo direito do trabalho, como direito social e fundamental. Este estudo se propõe a analisar os fundamentos jurídicos, doutrinários e jurisprudenciais, que inter-relacionam os campos da responsabilidade civil, do direito do trabalho e do esporte de alto rendimento, praticado profissionalmente.The liability related to accidents at work and occupational diseases is a source of constant concern of judges, jurists and scholars of labor law, especially after the enactment of Constitutional Amendment No. 45/04. In particular in its objective aspect, which seeks to establish the liability for the risk of the activity, regardless of the agent\'s fault. However, there is an obvious gap in the study of the liability related to accidents at work and occupational diseases linked to professional sports. Although the playful and recreational elements involving sports, their professional practice moves large sums of money and numerous bundles of labor contracts. The high rate of accidents, injuries and illnesses related to sports, which sometimes prematurely terminate the career of athletes who are still far from stardom, claims analysis and legal protection conferred by labor law, as a social and fundamental right. This study aims to analyze the legal grounds, doctrinal and jurisprudential, which interrelate the fields of civil liability, labor law and high performance sport, practiced professionally.
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Bullock, Sandra Leah. "About last night, dates, drinks and sex; a study of the association between alcohol use and sexual activity among heterosexuals, including sexual behaviour at high risk for the transmission of STDs and HIV." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58929.pdf.
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Muir, Christopher, and Nathalie Beauprez. "Blah blah high returns. Blah blah no risk. Blah blah blah guaranteed!’ : A study of what financial institutions base their portfolio creation on for customers and the relationship between the different financial institutions in the same line of business for this activity." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1176.
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Why do people invest? People are insecure about their future welfare and aim for future guaranteed cash flows. To give ourselves a more thorough introduction to investments we decided to write our bachelor-thesis within the area of finance. This thesis will combine financial institutions and investments. It is a topic repeatedly discussed in the media and a study carried out in Sweden showed that in 2003, 80% of the population were shareholders.
When trading with stocks and shares there is risk involved that can be defined as the volatility in the cash flow of an investment. A portfolio is a collection of securities that an investor has placed capital in. In order to minimise the risk of the portfolio, the investor can diversify his or her portfolio, which involves investing in different securities in order to minimise risk. Institutional Theory will help us to see how these financial institutions interact with each other and what internal and external factors may influence their behaviour. Institutional investors; such as banks, are seen as large actors on the financial markets as they gain more and more control over the management of equities. It is necessary that intermediaries take care of their customers and inform them thoroughly about the rules of the investment game. With this as a background we felt it would be interesting to investigate the following problem.
On what basis do financial institutions create their customers’ portfolios and is the process the same across the branch as a whole?
In order to find an answer to this question; we have done a qualitative study with an overall positivistic influence. The study is based upon an analysis of the empirical material; collected through interviews with three financial institutions, grounded in theory in order to answer our specific question.
From the information gathered we understood that the first information financial institutions gather is personal information about the investors, which is needed to get a picture and an understanding about their client. We have also learned how important it is to understand risk, as it is the risk that will determine the composition of the portfolio for the investor. We could see with the help of the institutional theory that there is little space for differentiation and can therefore say that the financial institutions work in the same way in the advising of their clients and for the composition of their client’s portfolio.
Our results show that the basis for the creation of portfolios is more or less the same across the branches as a whole. The service given may differ, due to the competence and knowledge level of employees, between institutions but the end product is similar in all aspects.
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Raynaud, Aurélien. "Engagement et conversion politique en conjoncture critique : La trajectoire d'un pionnier de la résistance : Emmanuel d'Astier, de l'action française dans les années 1930 au parti communiste à la libération." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2100/document.
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La présente thèse vise à comprendre les ressorts sociaux de la conversion politique d’un pionnier de la Résistance, le journaliste Emmanuel d’Astier (1900-1969). Issu de l’aristocratie catholique et conservatrice, proche de l’Action française et journaliste bohême auteur d’articles antisémites et antirépublicains dans l’entre-deux-guerres, d’Astier est en 1940 lefondateur d’une des premières organisations de résistance à l’occupation nazie. Á l’avant-garde de l’antivichysme sous l’Occupation, haut dirigeant de la Résistance, d’Astier devient à la Libération député et compagnon de route du Parti communiste. Son engagement dans la Résistance joue un rôle majeur dans sa conversion politique. Pour comprendre la trajectoire d’Emmanuel d’Astier, il convient d’entrer dans la fabrique sociale de l’acteur, c’est-à-dire de décortiquer les mécanismes et processus continus de la construction sociale de sa personne. Dans cette perspective, il s’agit d’abord de considérer le temps long biographique au cours duquel l’individu est socialement façonné par les multiplesexpériences qu’il est amené à vivre. Il s’agit ensuite d’analyser comment le temps court de l’engagement résistant s’articule au temps long de l’expérience biographique. Ainsi, l’un des enjeux de ce travail est de comprendre à la fois les conditions sociales de possibilité et les incidences biographiques de l’engagement contestataire en contexte autoritaire et critique.Articulant sociologie de la socialisation et sociologie de l’action collective, cette thèse interroge in fine les multiples façons dont histoires sociales individuelles et histoires sociales collectives se percutent, et comment les cheminements des trajectoires individuelles dépendent de ces rencontresThis thesis questions the social causes of the political conversion of a pioneer of Resistance, the journalist Emmanuel d’Astier (1900-1969). Born in a family of the catholic and conservative aristocracy, Emmanuel d’Astier act during the 1930’s as a bohemian journalist and the author of anti-Semitic and anti-republican articles. In 1940, he is the former of one of the first collective organizations whici fight against the Nazi occupation of France. A great opponant of the regime of Vichy during the Second World War, he becomes a deputy and a friend of communism after the Liberation. His activism in the Resistance plays a major role in his political conversion.To understand the social path of Emmanuel d’Astier, we must analyze the mechanisms and the processes of his social construction. First, we must examine the long-term temporality during which the actor is formed by his biographical experiences. Secondly, we must examine how the short-term temporality of activism articulates with the biographical long-termtemporality. We must understand the social conditions and the biographical consequences of high-risk activism.Ultimately, this thesis articulates a sociology of the socialization with a sociology of collective action. It questions the many ways in which individual paths and collective paths meet, and how individual paths stems from these confluences
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Borowik, Anna. "Optimiser les réponses physiologique et affective à l'exercice chez les personnes âgée et obèse." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAS051/document.
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L’activité physique (AP) induit des nombreux bénéfices sur la santé. Cependant, le niveau d’inactivité reste important : 42% des Français ne pratiquent aucune AP de loisir. Plusieurs facteurs déterminent l’engagement durable dans l’AP. Cette thèse a pour objectif d’évaluer certains des facteurs susceptibles d’améliorer cet engagement : modalité d’exercice, réponse affective à l’exercice, motivation pour l’AP, et d’optimiser les réponses physiologique et affective à l’exercice.L’oxydation des lipides joue un rôle important dans la prévention et le traitement de certaines pathologies cardio-métaboliques. Des travaux récents montrent l’intérêt potentiel d’un programme d’exercice intermittent intense (EII) sur la diminution de la masse grasse. Nous avons tenté d’optimiser l’oxydation lipidique survenant au cours d’un exercice combiné (COMB : 10-min d’EII + 35-min d’exercice d’intensité modérée continu, EIMC) comparé à une séance d’EIMC prolongé. Ce protocole original induit une oxydation lipidique plus importante (1,5 fois) dans la phase de 35-min d’EIMC au cours de COMB que celle obtenue au cours d’un EIMC prolongé isocalorique. Cette étude montre l’intérêt de l’EII pour augmenter le métabolisme lipidique.La modalité d’exercice ainsi que la réponse affective à l’exercice sont importants pour l’engagement durable dans l’AP. L’étape suivante de ce travail de thèse a consisté donc à évaluer la réponse affective aux différentes modalités d’exercice aigus (EIMC vs EII, avec pic d’intensité au début, au milieu et à la fin, avec ou sans soutien de l’autonomie) chez les individus en surpoids/obèses et chez la personne âgée. Ces populations ont été choisies car elles sont peu enclines à faire de l’AP régulière, alors qu’elle est importante pour eux. Les résultats de ces études montrent que la réponse affective diminue progressivement au cours de l’exercice dans toutes les conditions. Cependant, cette diminution est moins importante dans les conditions avec soutien de l’autonomie (chez la personne âgée et chez les sujets sains) indiquant l’importance de ce facteur. D’autre part, le moment auquel le pic d’intensité apparait détermine la réponse affective qui est plus négative quand la séance se termine avec l’exercice le plus intense.Après avoir évalué les effets de l’exercice aigu sur la réponse affective à l’exercice chez la personne en surpoids/obèse, nous nous sommes intéressés aux effets de l’entraînement sur la condition physique, les variables cardio-métaboliques, la réponse affective et la motivation. Ainsi, la dernière partie de travail de recherche a consisté alors à examiner les effets à court et long terme de l’entrainement (exercice intermittent intense sans : EII, et avec soutien de l’autonomie : EII+SA vs EIMC et groupe contrôle). Les résultats montrent qu’après les deux modalités d’entrainement intermittent intense la condition physique était améliorée après 24 séances. Ce type d’exercice influence positivement la composition corporelle. Cependant, les indicateurs de santé cardio-métabolique n’ont pas été modifiés. L’EII induit un moindre niveau de difficulté perçu de l’effort quand il est combiné avec un soutien de l’autonomie.Cette thèse montre que certaines modalités d’exercice (EII et/ou exercice qui se termine avec une intensité moins importante) ainsi que le soutien de l’autonomie favorisent une réponse affective positive qui pourrait influencer un engagement durable à l’AP. Ceci reste cependant à être démontréRegular physical activity (PA) induces many health benefits. However, the level of inactivity remains high: in France 42% of the population do not engage in any sport or leisure time PA. Many factors are responsible for the long-term involvement in PA. The main objective of this thesis was to evaluate some of those factors (exercise modality, affective response to exercise, PA motivation) and to optimize the physiological and affective responses to exercise.Lipid oxidation plays an important role in the prevention and in the treatment of metabolic diseases. Recent studies show the effectiveness of high intensity intermittent exercise (HIIE) on body fat. In this study we sought to optimize the lipid oxidation during a combined exercise (COMB: 10-min HIIE + 35-min prolonged moderate intensity continuous exercise, MICE). The results of this innovative study shows that fat oxidation can be increased (1.5 times) during 35-min MICE of COMB compared to the same period of a prolonged MICE if it’s performed after high intensity interval exercise (HIIE) vs an isocaloric MICE alone. This study shows the importance of HIIE to increase fat metabolism.The type of exercise, as well as affective response to exercise are important in order to increase regular PA participation. In the next part of this thesis, we assessed the affective response to different exercise modalities (MICE vs HIIE, peak of intensity at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of exercise, exercise with or without autonomy support) in overweight/obese subjects and in older adults. These populations were chosen because of their low PA participation level despite of its importance for health. The results show the decrease of affective response in each type of exercise. However, this decrease was lower in all autonomy supportive conditions (in older adults and in healthy subjects) showing the importance of this factor. In addition, the peak intensity time influenced the affective response: more negative feelings were observed when the session ended with the peak of intensity.After examining the effects of acute exercise sessions on affective response in overweight/obese subjects, we focused on the effects of exercise training on physical fitness, cardio metabolic health, affective response and motivation. Hence, in the last part of this thesis we examined the short and long-term effects of HIIE training vs MICE and control group. The main results showed the increase in physical fitness after two high intensity conditions. In addition, HIIE improved body composition. However, the cardio metabolic health variables remained unchanged after 24 sessions. In addition, HIIE induced a lower level of perceived exertion during exercise when it was combined with autonomy support.The results of this thesis show that some of exercise modalities (HIIE and/or exercise that ends with lower intensity) and autonomy support promote more positive affective response and can potentially influence the long term PA engagement. But the latter needs to be demonstrated
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Louro, Pedro Lobato Pereira Castanheiro. "Liquidity rules in Basel III : a test on the largest portuguese banks." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7677.
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Mestrado em FinançasO principal objectivo da presente dissertação foi uma análise preliminar sobre os novos regulamentos provenientes do Basileia III, nomeadamente, uma análise inicial ao Liquidity Coverage Ratio e a sua aplicação prática assim como os seus benefícios na gestão do risco de liquidez nas instituições financeiras. Neste sentido, foram seleccionadas as 5 instituições financeiras, à data de 31 de Dezembro de 2012, que representavam a amostra mais relevante em termos de actividade no sector Português da banca comercial ("mercado bancário" Português). Recorrendo ao Liquidity Coverage Ratio obtido, foi possível observar que o "mercado bancário" português apresentou, inicialmente, um Liquidity Coverage Ratio acima do requerido pelo Basileia III (60%). O Liquidity Coverage Ratio obtido no "mercado bancário" Português foi de 102% em 2013. Num cenário simulado de stress, pode ser verificado que, o mínimo que a carteira de activos líquidos de alta qualidade no "mercado bancário" pode cair é de aproximadamente 59% do seu valor, à data de 31 de Dezembro de 2013, e ainda assim existem condições para cumprir com o mínimo requerido pelo Basileia III (60%). De acordo com todas as análises realizadas, foi possível concluir que o "mercado bancário" Português, tem capacidade para suportar, eficientemente, qualquer cenário de stress financeiro. Desta forma, o mercado detém uma quantidade suficiente de activos líquidos de alta qualidade, que podem fácil e rapidamente ser convertidos em dinheiro (nos sector privados) que suportem uma volatilidade de mercado significativa ou cenários de stress que durem mais de 30 dias.
The main objective of the present dissertation was a preliminary analysis of the new regulatory package of Basel III, namely, a first analysis of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio computation, its practical application and its benefits for liquidity risk management in financial institutions. For this purposes, it was selected a sample of 5 Portuguese financial institutions which, as at 31 December 2012, represented the most relevant financial institutions with retail banking activities (Portuguese "banking market"). Considering the average Liquidity Coverage Ratio obtained it was possible to observe that the Portuguese "banking market" started to present a Liquidity Coverage Ratio clearly above the Basel III minimum requirement (60%). The Liquidity Coverage Ratio obtained by the Portuguese "banking market" insofar was 102% for 2013. In a simulated stress scenario, we were able to verify that the minimum which Portuguese "banking market" high quality liquidity assets stock could drop was approximately 59% of its value, at 31st of December 2013, and still maintain the conditions to fulfil the Basel III minimum requirement (60%). According to all the analysis performed, it was possible to conclude that the Portuguese "banking market" has the ability to efficiently sustain, any financial stress scenario. In this sense, holds sufficient stock of high quality liquidity assets that could be easily and immediately converted into cash (in private markets) in order to sustain a significant market volatility or stress scenarios lasting over 30 calendar days.
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Eendebak, Robert. "The potential relationships between hormone biomarkers and functional and health outcomes of ageing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-potential-relationships-between-hormone-biomarkers-and-functional-and-health-outcomes-of-ageing(e28321cc-703c-44df-99b4-fb0d76f7f429).html.
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Although the female menopause has been extensively characterized as a well-defined symptomatic state of oestrogen deficiency, which responds relatively well to oestrogen replacement therapy, the symptomatic state of androgen deficiency in men is poorly defined and uncertainty exists whether it responds to testosterone replacement. It has been proposed that hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular (HPT)-axis function (responsible for the production of androgens) and regulation could be viewed as a âbarometerâ of health status in older men and that potential alterations in HPT-axis function and regulation reflect subclinical and clinical deficits in function and health, which may result in an aged phenotype of human health and disease in older men. The HPT-axis constitutes a well-defined, tractable, clinically-relevant, biological system, which may permit insight into the mechanisms underlying the expression of ageing-related phenotypes of human health and disease. By using a different lens â such as the genetic background; the compensatory responses within the HPT-axis; the syndromes of androgen deficiency; the ethnic background of an individual or the life course trajectory of function and health from conception into older age â to magnify potential dysregulation in the HPT-axis will it be possible to visualize and understand the phenotypic expression of human male ageing as a gradient of functional and health outcomes. This will allow for a better understanding of the physiological mechanics underlying symptomatic expression of dysregulation in the HPT-axis.
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Ocampo, Mascaró Javier, Salazar Vera Jimena Silva, and Costa Bullón Abilio da. "Correlación entre conocimientos sobre consecuencias de la obesidad y grado de actividad física en universitarios." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/621624.
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Introducción. El objetivo del presente estudio es determinar si existe correlación entre los conocimientos sobre las consecuencias de la obesidad y el grado de actividad física de las personas.
Métodos. Se realizó un estudio transversal analítico durante los años 2013 y 2014. Participaron 215 alumnos de pregrado seleccionados por conveniencia no relacionados a carreras del campo de la salud en una universidad de Lima, Perú. Se evaluó el grado de actividad física utilizando el International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) y el nivel de conocimientos sobre consecuencias de la obesidad utilizando la escala Obesity Risk Knowledge-10 (ORK-10). También, se consignó las fuentes de información de donde obtuvieron el conocimiento para responder dicho cuestionario.
Resultados. La mediana de edad fue 20 (rango intercuartílico=4) y 63% eran mujeres. De acuerdo al IPAQ, 53,9% realizaban actividad física alta, 35,4%, moderada y 10,7%, leve. Se encontró una correlación muy baja (rs=0,06) entre el puntaje del ORK-10 y la cantidad de equivalentes metabólicos/minuto consumidos por semana, pero no era significativa (p=0,38). Las personas informadas por medios de comunicación y por personal de salud obtuvieron mayores puntajes en el ORK- 10 que quienes se informaron por otras vías (p<0,05).
Conclusiones. La correlación entre los conocimientos sobre consecuencias de la obesidad y el grado de actividad física es muy baja. Es necesario utilizar enfoques
multidisciplinarios que incluyan todos los determinantes de la realización de actividad física para poder lograr cambios en la conducta de la población.
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"Understanding and Predicting Activist Intentions: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53696.
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abstract: Despite the societal importance of activism, the understanding of activist intentions remained limited (Liebert, Leve, & Hu, 2011; Klar & Kasser, 2009). The current study used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to examine two structural models of low-risk activist intentions and high-risk activist intentions (Ajzen, 1991). The traditional TPB model was tested against a hybrid commitment model that also assessed past activist behaviors and activist identity. Participants (N = 383) were recruited through social media, professional list-serves, and word of mouth. Results indicated a good model fit for both the traditional TPB model (CFI = .98; RMSEA = .05; SRMR = .03; χ2(120) = 3760.62, p < .01) and the commitment model (CFI = .97; RMSEA = .05; SRMR = .04; χ2(325) = 7848.07, p < .01). The commitment model accounted for notably more variance in both low-risk activist intentions (78.9% in comparison to 26.5% for the traditional TPB model) and high-risk activist intentions (58.9% in comparison to 11.2% for the traditional TPB model). Despite this, the traditional TPB model was deemed the better model as the higher variance explained in the commitment model was almost entirely due to the inclusion of past low-risk activist behaviors and past high-risk activist behaviors. A post-hoc analysis that incorporated sexual orientation and religious affiliation as covariates into the traditional model also led to a good-fitting model (CFI = .98; RMSEA = .04; SRMR = .04; χ2(127) = 217.18, p < .01) and accounted for increased variance in low-risk activist intentions (29.7%) and high-risk activist intentions (18.7%) compared to the traditional model. The merits of each of the structural models and the practical implications for practice and research were discussedDissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Counseling Psychology 2019
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LIAO, WAN-CHEN, and 廖婉臻. "The Research of Expressive Art Therapy Activity to the Meaning of Life for High-Risk Junior High School Students." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29hzp5.
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碩士南華大學
生死學系碩士班
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Researcher observed the psychological distress, deviation behavior and sense of meaninglessness to life in "high-risk" junior high school students in the education of rural areas. This paper is to explore the impacts of expressive art therapy group exerting on the life meaning of high-risk junior high school students. Research was conducted by the application of Action Research Method, one method among qualitative research methods. The participants in the research were Grade Seven to Nine high-risk students from counseling office referred by junior high school tutors. The counseling office sent the invitation letters to invite 6 to 8 voluntary students willing to participate in the artistic activities and to be changed. The research was carried out in a [expressive art therapy group] manner and the experiment lasted for ten times with one time every week and two hours every time. The activity forms were categorized as follows: warm-up, expressive art creation, sharing and discussion. The research data were collected by: filming, picture recording or sound recording, referring to observation journals of the researcher and one-to-one semi-structured interview between the researcher and the students. The analytical method applied in the research was thematic analysis. Research conclusions are as follows: 1. Expressive art therapy group activities have positive impacts on the life meaning of high-risk junior high school students. (1) [Diversified expressive forms], [visualization] and [metaphor] were used to perceive the inner emotions and experience of change. (2) [Across time and space] and [free creation and re-construction] endow the students with perceived self-competency to show their life freedom and values. (3) Spiritual development of thinking out of box, love and blessing. 2. The effects of expressive art therapy group on high-risk students (1) Open their minds and express their feelings, thereby enhancing their identity with others. (2) Learn and imitate the positive interpersonal relationship, reinforce interpersonal supporting network as well as obtain the sense of belonging from the peers and groups. (3) Win the blessing of love and being loved by mutual help, learning altruism and empowerment. (4) The friend-like demonstration from team leaders, thereby facilitating the interpersonal skill learning, such as love and trust.
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Yang, Yi-Chun, and 楊翊君. "Effect of Treadmill Intervention on Development, Stepping Performance and Physical Activity in High Risk Preterm Infants." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38651243316841063709.
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碩士國立陽明大學
物理治療暨輔助科技學系
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Background: Preterm infants who had very low birth weight (VLBW) (weighing <1500 g) are at risk for developmental problems, with neuromotor dysfunction was the most during early infancy. Previous reports indicated that VLBW preterm infants even without brain injury had an increased risk of delayed walking attainment when compared with full-term infants. Preterm infants who experienced severe neonatal disease had a much higher risk of late walking attainment. Furthermore, a poor stepping performance and a low physical activity prior to independent walking have been suggested to be associated with a late walking attainment in infants. Despite the relationship between stepping performance and walking attainment had been confirmed and body weight supported treadmill stepping has been frequently use in the clinical to enhance walking ability for children with or at risk of development problems, evidence concerning whether treadmill training will bring about improvement in stepping performance and consequently lead to an earlier walking attainment is still lack. Studies of infants with Down syndrome revealed an increased frequency of alternating stepping, an earlier age of walking onset and a more mature gait pattern after a period of treadmill training. However, little is known about the effect of treadmill training on preterm infants, especially in the high risk infants. In addition, the effect of treadmill training on stepping performance and age of walking attainment and general development in the high risk infants require investigations. Moreover, the researches about physical activity in preterm infants is still in its infancy. And whether treadmill training will affect the physical activity is still unknown. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of four-month body weight supported treadmill stepping intervention on stepping performance, physical activity and development in high risk preterm infants. Method: This study was a quasi-experimental study design. Nine infants were recruited and assigned to the intervention group (n=5) or control group (n=4). From 4 to 8 months corrected age, all infants received usual care. Researcher had monthly home visit to coach parents or main caregiver about the knowledge and skills based on family-centered principles to enhance infant’s functional performance according to each infant’s developmental status. In addition, infants in the intervention group received stepping training on a small, motorized treadmill, 5 days per week, for 10 minutes a day, in their own home. Parents were trained to support their infants on these miniature treadmills and conducted stepping training. Treadmill speed was adjusted by the researcher who visited home monthly according the infant’s stepping performance. All infants were examined at 4 month and 8 month corrected age for their treadmill stepping performance, physical activity and development. Kinematical stepping performance was recorded by 4 synchronized high speed cameras and was analyzed using SIMI to obtain joint angles of lower limbs. Interjoint coordination and interlimb coordination were then calculated from kinematic data. Physical activity data were collected using activity monitor and were analyzed using ActiLife to generate physical activity level in terms of time and magnitude. Development was assessed using the CDIIT. Statistics: Outcome data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney U Test to compare difference between groups at 4 and 8 months corrected age. Wilcoxon’s Signed-ranks Test was used to compare difference between 4 and 8 months corrected age for each group. Significant level was set at p<0.05. Result: There was no significant difference in the alternating step frequency between group and age. However, both groups revealed a tendency to increase the alternating step frequency from 4 to 8 months corrected age. At 8 month, the experimental group had a higher hip-ankle joint correlation and a greater asymmetry ratio of swing time than the control group (p=0.029). Experimental group also showed that hip-knee and knee-ankle joint correlation decreasing trend with age, while hip-ankle joint correlation increasing trend with age. Both groups were prone to decrease asymmetry ratio of stance time with age. Experimental group spent more time on low-level activity than control group (p=0.032). Experimental group had a better z score of motor domain at 8 month, but lower on cognition and language domain (p=0.043) than 4 month. Discussion: In summary, after a 4-month home-based treadmill training, the experimental group showed better stepping performance than the control group, particularly in the aspect of interjoint coordination. Findings from other stepping parameters, although not statistical significant, also supported the use of home treadmill intervention in this population. Treadmill training provides a specific context that stepping movements could be learned and practiced repeatedly prior to infants are able to walk. However, the mechanisms involved need further examinations. Besides, infants in experimental group showed more mature motor development with increasing age but got worse on cognition and language development. The result may be due to small sample size included in this study and 60% of preterm infants in experimental group had grade III – IV intraventricular hemorrhage while none in the control group. Although these infants performance didn’t getting worse, they still unable to catch up with full term infants. Experimental group appeared to be more physically active than the control group by showing a longer duration spent on physical activity. These perhaps are due to the gains in muscle strength and posture control through treadmill training, and then is beneficial for the generation of more body movements. Conclusion: Overall our results demonstrate that high risk preterm infants received the treadmill training showed improved stepping performance, such as an increase in the number of alternating step, a decrease in the hip-knee and knee-ankle correlation, an increase in hip-ankle correlation. They also increases the time spend on both high and low intensity activity after training. This is a preliminary results because of small sample size. Further research need to include more case and rigorous study design to investigate the effect of treadmill training in high risk preterm infant.
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Lin, Chin, and 吳慶麟. "The effects of injury on the continuity of attending a high risk leisure activity - The case of paragliding." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86524888764132309752.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
休閒運動研究所碩士班
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This thesis is looking into the effects of injury on the continuity of attending the high risk sport of paraglide. Under the qualitative research methods, there were twelve middle aged participants in Taiwan interviewed. It is also an auto ethnography, in which the experience of the researcher is taken as a source of data. Accordingly, there are five main effects of injury that would sufficiently impede the pilot from playing paraglide. At the same time, four minor effects will also enlarge the effect. The main effects that might change the life style, influence family or income would alter the resolve to go on; while lack of company, time or lost the fun would make the player keep off the craze. The effects of injury thus point out a key element not only in paraglide but in all kinds of sports that avoiding to get injured cannot be too emphasized. The effects of injury could be the main confine of continuing attending paragliding. As a result, an experienced pilot is facing the ever present challenge of raising the threat, intentionally or not, preventing injury will always be the first priority. Since we can not exclude that injury is one of the main causes, a further research will be necessary. We are here to suggest that depends on the purpose and condition of the group, the ability for medical treatment of any emergent injury will be demanded in the long run. Accordingly, the training of the First-Aid treatment will be necessary for all the participants.
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HSU, TE-CHUN, and 徐德俊. "This research of the risk management physical activity on perception of National Hualien Industrial Vocational Senior High School." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21898811027498096818.
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碩士國立東華大學
教育研究所
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Abstract This study investigates the sports injury during physical exercise activities in National Hualien Industrial Vocational Senior High School, and evaluate the understanding of physical exercise activities risk in the eyes of students, make recommendation based upon result of this study, Objective of this study is to implement effective risk management and control for physical exercise activities in , National Hualien Industrial Vocational Senior High School and to reduce sports injury. This study is using method of questionnaire, 6 classes are randomly selected in each grade, total 18 classes selected in the whole school. 578 responses were received, the rate is as high as 96%, 560 are effective samples for evaluation and analysis among these responses. Following analyzed from investigation. No statistical significant difference is observed for risk factor of “Self understanding”, “Sports Place & Equipment” “Physical exercise teaching” for subgroup of different sex, and wounded（p＞.05） . No statistical significant difference is observed for risk factor of “Self understanding” “Physical exercise teaching” for students with different background（p＞.05）. Statistical significance(*p<.05) is observed for risk factor of “Sport place & Equipment” for students with different background.
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Weinbender, Miriam L. M. "Lifestyle reduction of the risk of premature sexual activity in a high school population of American Seventh-Day Adventists : Valuegenesis 1989." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/36602.
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BACKGROUND: Goals for reduction of adolescent American health risks include reduction of
prevalence of early initiation of sexual activity among teens in the United States to <15% for
fifteen year olds and <40% for seventeen year olds. Such a prevalence reduction would
concomitantly reduce the risks for both unwanted teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease,
including HIV/AIDS. METHODS: A population of Seventh-day Adventist youth surveyed in1989
reported a prevalence of teenage sexual activity <22%, less than half the percentage of sexual
activity observed in general population high school youth. This study evaluates the hypothesisthat
Adventist Lifestyle behaviors modify the risks associated in other studies with precocious
intercourse. An analysis of odds ratios for premature sexual activity for each of 40 variables forms
the basis for this study. In addition to the odds ratios associated with the use of tobacco, alcohol
and illegal drugs, odds ratios for participation in popular entertainment, physical activities, social
activities and culture specific behaviors are also studied. RESULTS: While Adventist youth show
a percentage of youth participating in early intercourse well below that of adolescents in the
general population, these youth show odds ratios for known risk behaviors higher than those
reported in another adolescent population by a recent similar study. Within this Adventist
population, many generally accepted behaviors of the average American populace appear to be
risk behaviors. This fact suggests the presence of an "interface" of potential risk behaviors to be
found in the undefined boundaries between Seventh-day Adventist culture and the general
American culture which bears further study.Graduation date: 1993
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Lan, Jie-Yu, and 藍婕予. "Teachers’ Cognition, Risk Perception and Behavior of Food Safety in Integrative Activity Learning Field – Junior High School Teachers at Tainan as Exemplar." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8e9gx8.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
公民教育與活動領導學系
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the current situation of food safety cognition, food safety risk perception and food safety behavior of teachers in the Integrative Activity Learning Field of Tainan City, and to explore the differences of the three dimensions of food safety among teachers in the field of different background variables. Besides, to analyze the differences of teachers between the three, and to understand the teacher's correlation between them. The population of the study was the full-time and part-time teachers of Integrative Activity Learning Field in public junior high schools in Tainan in 106 academic years. The questionnaire survey method was used to obtain 125 valid samples by stratified cluster random sampling. Using SPSS software for descriptive statistics, Independen t-test, One-way ANOVA, and correlation research, the results of the above study were synthesized as follows: 1. The cognition of food safety among junior high school teachers in Integrative Activity in Tainan was medium to high. 2. The risk perception of food safety among junior high school teachers in Integrative Activity in Tainan was pretty high, and they worried about the issue of Tainted Food the most, followed by Plastic Microbeads. 3. The food safety behavior of the teachers was in the upper-middle degree, with the highest score of the issue of Germs&Toxins Contamination and the lowest score of Pesticide Residue. 4. The result of the teachers of different gender showed significant differences in the performance of food safety cognition, and female teachers were better than men. 5. Teachers who had been teaching for more than 20 years were more worried about the food safety risk perception than those who had been teaching for five to ten . 6. Teachers who taught in the subject of Home Economics were significantly better than those who taught Scout Activity in the performance of food safety risk perception. 7. The “food safety risk perception” dimension and “food safety behavior”dimension had significant correlation.
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Pilolla, Kari D. "Changes in body composition and metabolic syndrome risk factors : response to energy-restriction, protein intake, and high intensity interval training." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/37898.
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and abdominal obesity (AbOb) increase the risk of
developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Energy restriction (ER), highprotein
(PRO) intake and high-intensity interval training (HIT) can independently
improve MetS and AbOb. However, ER reduces metabolically active lean body
mass (LBM) in addition to body fat (BF). Purpose: To determine the effects of a
16-wk ER diet with 2 levels of PRO (15% or 25% of energy), plus HIT, on MetS
risk factors, AbOb, and body composition in women. Methods: Sedentary,
premenopausal women (age=35±10y) with AbOb (waist circumference [WC]
≥80cm) were randomized to a 16-wk ER diet (-300kcals/d) with 15% (15PRO;
n=17) or 25% (25PRO; n=18) of energy from PRO, plus 45min/d, 3d/wk HIT and
45min/d, 2d/wk continuous moderate-intensity exercise (CME) (-200kcals/d). Diet
and physical activity (PA) were assessed using 4-d weighed food and PA
records, respectively; diet and exercise compliance were assessed monthly with
multiple-pass 24-h recalls and weekly tracking logs. Body weight (BW), WC,
DXA-assessed body composition (BF [%], BF [kg], trunk fat [kg], and LBM [kg]),
blood lipids (total cholesterol [TC], high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-C],
low-density lipoprotein cholesterol [LDL-C], triglycerides [TG]), glycemic markers
(fasting plasma glucose [FPG], insulin, and homeostatic model assessment for
insulin resistance [HOMA-IR], beta cell function [HOMA-%β] and insulin
sensitivity [HOMA-%S]) and resting blood pressure (BP) (systolic BP [SBP];
diastolic BP [DBP]) were assessed pre/post-intervention. Repeated measures
analysis of variance and two sample t-tests were used at analyze the date.
Results are reported as means±standard deviations. Results: There were
significant time, but not group, differences in BW (-5.1±2.6kg, p=0.0141), WC (-
7.3±3.6cm, p<0.0001), TC (-18.1±17.4mg/dL, p<0.0001), LDL-C (12.2±
16.2mg/dL, p<0.0001), TG (-25.3±56.2mg/dL, p=0.0064), insulin (-2.1±4.2mg/dL,
p=0.0048), HOMA-IR (-0.2±0.5, p=0.0062), HOMA-%β (-12.1±35.2%, p=0.0497),
HOMA-%S (28.5±78.4%, p=0.0357), and SBP (-3±9mmHg, p=0.214). There
were significant group x time differences in DBP (15PRO=-5±8mmHg, 25PRO=-
2±8mmHg; p=0.0024). There were no time or group differences in FPG or HDLC.
There were significant time, but not group, effects on changes in BW (-5.1kg±
2.6, p<0.0001), BF (-3.3±1.6%, p<0.0001), and LBM (-0.6kg±1.5, p=0.0283). The
15PRO group lost more absolute whole BF (-5.2kg vs. -3.9kg, p=0.0355) and
trunk fat (-3.1kg vs. -2.2kg) vs. the 25PRO group. Conclusion: Both diets
significantly improved BW, AbOb, MetS risk factors, glycemic control, and BF
(%); LBM (kg) loss was similar in both groups. Compared to the 15PRO diet had
significantly greater absolute BF-kg and trunk fat-kg losses. Increased PRO
intake did not improve AbOb or MetS risk beyond ER and HIT/CME. The impact
of HIT/CME and the greater (-1.3kg) changes in BW in the 15PRO group may
have contributed significantly to the changes in absolute BF and trunk fat. More
research is needed to separate the impact of HIT/CME and weight loss from the
impact of PRO during ER.Graduation date: 2013
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