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Reeder, Andrew Ernest. "An analysis of the incident management system and domestic terrorism incidents." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1154782.
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This project focuses on the Incident Management System (IMS) and how it was used to manage the Oklahoma City, World Trade Center, and Lafayette, IN terrorism incidents. The Incident Management System is used by emergency response agencies to manage the scene of a disaster and consists of eight management components which are: Modular Organization, Integrated Communications, Common Terminology, Unified Command Structure, Consolidated Action Plans, Manageable Span of Control, Designated Incident Facilities, and Comprehensive Resource Management. Through journal articles and interviews, this project assesses observations that occurred during the response phase of each terrorism incident. These observations are then categorized under each of the IMS components to determine whether unique, or more complex procedures occurred with terrorism, as compared to other types of emergency disasters. This study further explores why the IMS is important to communities, and why a community's comprehensive plan should include goals and risk management studies that affect a community's ability to effectively respond to a terrorism incident.<br>Department of Urban Planning
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Novák, Martin. "Analýza stavu Disaster Recovery Managementu v konkrétní firmě, rozbor incidentů a návrh opatření." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264707.
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This thesis focuses on the topics of Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recov-ery Management in the context of small and medium sized businesses which offer or use IT services in the cloud. The aim of this thesis is to carry out a theoretical research of BCM and DRM in the aforementioned context and to analyze situation in a specific company based on the results of the research. This includes analysis of specific incidents that hap-pened in the company, analysis of how the company reacts to the incidents and how are the incidents logged and reported. The analysis identifies weak spots in the company and their potentials of improvement. The most serious weak spot discovered is that BCM and DRM are not implemented in the company. In the last part this thesis suggests measures to im-prove the situation in the specific company. That includes both specifying general goals and procedures and also defining specific policies, plans and reaction schemes. Specifically those are politics handling the incidents categorization, warning and communication, inci-dent reporting and performing maintenance.
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Dodson, Eric Dean. "Opportunities for Incidental Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary from Teacher Speech in an English for Academic Purposes Classroom." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1639.
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This study examines an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) teacher's speech throughout one curricular unit of an intermediate grammar and writing course in order to better understand which high-value vocabulary students might acquire through attending to the teacher and noticing words that are used.
Vocabulary acquisition is important for English for Academic Purposes students, given the vocabulary demands of academic language. The Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000) has been shown to include important vocabulary in written academic texts, and has become a standard part of English for Academic Purposes curricula and pedagogical materials. Although explicit vocabulary instruction is important, research has shown that large amounts of vocabulary may be acquired incidentally by attending to meaning. Classroom instruction provides a great deal of input, and could potentially offer a chance for students to encounter and begin to learn academic vocabulary through incidental acquisition. However, existing research on incidental vocabulary acquisition in classrooms has focused on adult instruction and English as a Foreign Language settings, resulting in a lack of evidence about English for Academic Purposes classrooms.
To respond to these needs, this study analyzes the occurrence and repetition of Academic Word List items in the teacher's speech throughout two weeks of a course in an intensive academic English program in the United States. Two weeks of naturalistic class recordings from the Multimedia Adult Learner Corpus were transcribed and analyzed using the RANGE program to find the number of academic vocabulary types in the teacher's speech and how often they were repeated. Additionally, I derived categories of classroom topics and coded the transcribed speech in order to investigate the connection between topics and academic word use.
Academic Word List items are present in the teacher's speech, although they do not constitute a large proportion overall, only 2.8% of the running words. Most of the AWL types relate to specific classroom topics or routines. There are 13 AWL types repeated to a high degree, and 26 AWL types repeated to a moderate degree. These items are the most likely candidates for incidental vocabulary acquisition, though there is evidence from the videos that most of the students already understand their general meanings. It is unlikely that students could learn a great deal about AWL items that they were not already familiar with. However, it is possible that the teacher's speech provides incremental gains in AWL word knowledge.
These findings show that there may be a substantial number of AWL items that students learn about even before explicitly studying academic vocabulary. Teachers should try to draw out students' familiarity with these forms when explicitly teaching AWL vocabulary in order to connect familiar words with their academic meanings and uses.
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Boucharlat, Romain. "Optimizing Incident Management : Case of CSC." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-134945.
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I decided to write this master thesis in relation with my work experience at CSC within the service desk. Working at the service desk is a very complete mission that has to be well understood from analysts in order to reach high performance and thus satisfy users. Because it is the goal of CSC, satisfying customers, I decided to focus on this principle and with the results of my research and work experiences I would like to bring in this thesis some findings and recommendations I came up with in order to optimize the service desk quality and to improve the customer satisfaction. In the first chapter, I will mainly describe the work of an analyst at the service desk, and I will define the incident management process. It will help understanding how a service desk works. The incident management process is monitored by many metrics. Some of these metrics are documented and some of them are not and their impacts are different. We will see on what we should focus our efforts. We will see in the second chapter the impacts of these metrics on performance. Measuring the performance of the service desk is important in order to be aware of what should be improved to reach the highest standard of services provided. We will see in the end of this chapter that the most important performance indicator is the customer satisfaction. From this fact, I will bring some findings from seven months of experience within the service desk in order to improve the quality of the services and the customer satisfactions. I will focus on what can be implemented from the service desk analysts not from the management. I will also focus on the effects of the steps already taken to improve customer satisfaction.
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Proulx, Ginette M. "The decision-making process involved in divorce : a critical incident study." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31324.
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The present research explores the process of coming to terms with the decision to divorce. The research was conducted with 20 women of North-American culture, divorced or separated a minimum of six months with no thought of reconciliation.
The methodology employed retrospective accounts. A semi-structured interview using the critical incident technique pioneered by Flanagan (1954) was used to gather data. The subjects were asked to describe specific incidents which prompted them to reassess their marriage and eventually decide to separate or divorce. They were also asked to describe incidents which made it more difficult to come to that decision.
A total of 175 incidents were collected illustrating a range of experiences which either precipitated or hindered the decision to separate or divorce. Using an inductive method of analysis, the data was organized in a classification schema consisting of three superordinate categories - feelings, cognitions, behaviours - and 33 subcategories. In addition, a summary of the marital problems highlighted in the critical incidents is provided, with examples of the marital dynamics involved.
Finally, a four-stage model outlining the process of coming to terms with the decision to divorce was derived from the category system. The model focuses on the intrapsychic dynamics of the subjects in the decision-making process. The labels given to these stages are disillusionment, ambivalence, cognitive restructuring, and resolution.
The findings of the present research are compared and contrasted to those of social exchange theorists (Albrecht & Kunz, 1980; Levinger, 1965), stage theorists (Duck, 1982; Kaslow, 1981; Ponzetti & Cate, 1988; Vaughan, 1979), and grief theorists (Crosby, Gage & Raymond, 1983, 1986; Wiseman, 1975). The issues raised in the present research are discussed from a gender role perspective, in light of the theories of Attanucci (1988), Eichenbaum and Orbach (1983), Gilligan (1982), Goodrich, Rampage, Ellman and Halstead (1988), Herman (1977), Lerner (1977), Miller (1976; 1983; 1984; 1986) and Rubin (1983).
In conclusion, the category system and model delineated in the present research offer a comprehensive set of experiences of what facilitates and hinders the decision to divorce.<br>Education, Faculty of<br>Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of<br>Graduate
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Soulsby, Shane Alexander, and David James Hopper. "Investigation into service strike incidents and root causes." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Engineering Management, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8934.
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Currently McConnell Dowell Constructors Ltd. is involved in the horizontal rebuild of Christchurch as part of the SCIRT alliance. Part of installing new infrastructure is that work is commenced around existing and live services. During installation, live services are occasionally struck which have the potential to cause injury and/or death along with subsequent economic costs of having to repair the damaged services.
David Hopper and Shane Soulsby have investigated some of the root causes for service strikes to occur with a distinct focus on process, communication, culture and costs. From that, key findings have been established along with recommendations and an implementation plan in an effort to lower the number of service strikes on projects.
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Singh, Harkanwal Nain. "A Benefit-Cost Analysis of a State Freeway Service Patrol: A Florida Case Study." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001526.
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Bullis, Judith Elaine. "A social-psychological case history : the Manson incident." PDXScholar, 1985. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3564.
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This study examines the social-psychological impact of of the Manson incident; which begins with the Tate-Labianca murders, continues with the arrest of Charles Manson and some of his followers, continues with the trial of Charles Manson and the co-defendants, and results in a popular image.
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Cui, Zhiqiang. "Security incidents in an academic setting a case study /." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0330102-212624/restricted/cuiz042502.pdf.
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Cui, Zhiqiang. "Security Incidents in an Academic Setting: A Case Study." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/664.
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Academic institutes' networks, like commercial networks, have confidential and valuable information that attracts hackers. From 6 October 2000 to 29 March 2001, the authors collected data on possible attacks and probes against East Tennessee State University's campus network. The number of suspicious activities detected daily varied from 200,000 to more than 2,000,000, with ICMP-based attacks accounting for more than 81% of all attacks. While ICMP-based attacks were reasonably harmless, these activities as a whole depleted network bandwidth significantly. Severe attacks were detected daily. Port scans and host scans that involving 2 or more /24 subnets were detected every week. Attacks and probes were distributed throughout a typical day and week. Our research results suggested policy makers in academic institutions like ETSU should adopt standard measures to secure campus networks, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, server management, and risk assessment.
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Rahilly, Timothy J. "Teacher knowledge in the university classroom : inexperienced, experienced, and award-winning professors' critical incidents of teaching." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0022/NQ37015.pdf.
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McKnight, David. "Medication incidents in a private hospital : frequency, type, causes and outcomes." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1254.
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Background: Medication Safety has become a major health issue in Australia and internationally. Medication use is a part of most people lives with around seven in ten Australians and nine in ten older Australians having taken at least one medication over a two week period. But the taking of medications is not devoid of risk to the patient and a subsequent cost to society. This risk of an adverse outcome can be due to a predictable or idiosyncratic direct effect of the medication (adverse drug reaction) or a breakdown in the systems involved in the management of medications (medication incident). Although the risk of an adverse outcome is low and most medication incidents do not cause any harm, the volume of medications in use dictates that the problem when quantified is still significant. Following the publication of major patient safety studies it has become possible to estimate that almost 2 to 3 per cent of all hospital admissions are related to problems with medicines with an annual cost of $380 million.In 2002, following the publication of the Second National Report on Patient Safety ―Improving Medication Safety‖ it became apparent that despite medication safety issues growing in awareness in public hospitals, the same could not be said for private hospital practice which catered for about one third of all admitted patient episodes in Australia. Later that year a first step was taken with the Private Health Industry Quality and Safety workshop with representatives from most private hospitals attending. This meeting highlighted that medication safety practices at St John of God Hospital Subiaco was not aligned very well with public sector hospitals and that a number of deficiencies existed requiring urgent attention.Aims: This study had a broad range of aims. These were as follows: 1. To chronicle the development of medication safety procedures at St John of God Hospital Subiaco, nationally and internationally. 2. To quantify and uniformly classify, medication incidents reported from different sources in a private hospital. 3. To develop and assess a range of contributing factors as to why the medication incidents occurred. 4. To quantify the clinical significance of reported medication incidents. 5. To develop strategies to minimise/reduce the incidence of medication incidents in the future. 6. To investigate the influence of pharmacy ownership, location and employment of clinical pharmacists on medication incident reporting practices in Australian private hospitals.Method: The study was conducted in different phases. Initially the focus was a retrospective review of reported medication incidents in the hospital based on the date of occurrence of the medication incident rather than the date of review by a pharmacist. Secondly all incidents were then classified using a standardised format using the origin of the error. These included prescribing errors by medical practitioners, dispensing error by pharmacists and administration errors by nursing staff. Standard sub-categories were devised by St John of God Health Care, the national body coordinating the practices of all St John of God Hospitals, but in some instances they were noted to be too general. This led as part of this study to the development of more specific and sensitive categories for dispensing errors.Due to the realisation that medication error was now seen as a systems failure it was appropriate then to assess the risk to the patient and/or the organisation for a particular incident as well as determine some measure of harm to the patient. The level of risk associated with a medication incident was ranked according to the consequence of the incident and the likelihood of it recurring. Allied to this, a determinant of harm suffered by a patient following an incident or error was devised and promoted which differentiated harm into potential and actual harm.To further gauge private hospital medication safety practices, a national survey was undertaken of Australian private hospitals to gain an insight into the methodology used to collect and collate medication incidents and the roles played by pharmacy services in that process. In particular the survey sought to determine the influence of the ownership and location of the pharmacy service on those practices along with the employment or not of clinical pharmacists.Results: The classification of medication incidents by the date of occurrence aided in the assessment of why an incident occurred as it now became possible to study whether the ward location and day or time of an incident contributed in any way to causing that error. The classification of medication incidents by their origin in the medication cycle, highlighted that most incidents were reported by nursing staff and were therefore heavily weighted towards administration errors, which embodied their core medication function.The development of knowledge and understanding surrounding the causes and contributing factors associated, in particular with administration and dispensing medication errors, has helped to retrain caregivers to seek ways to avoid the incident in the future rather than focusing on any individual blame for what is a system failure.The clinical significance of a particular incident both to the patient and to an organisation can be more adequately assessed if a risk stratification and harm model is in place. This is apparent when dispensing errors were assessed as clinically significant to the pharmacy department but from a hospital perspective were noted only to have a potential for harm. In contrast, while the majority of administration errors had the potential for harm, some did cause actual harm.With the awakening of the need to improve our medication practices, the Pharmacy Department and the Hospital have committed to embracing more fully those practices more commonplace in public hospitals. These included having an active Drug and Therapeutics Committee and the implementation of clear medication polices and guidelines. Other initiatives have been embraced such as the use of standardised medication charts and ensuring a strong focus on medication reconciliation at the transitions of care. This included the employment of more clinical pharmacists to service areas such as preadmission and high risk areas such as Intensive Care and Oncology.The survey, with a response rate of 43%, highlighted that pharmacy services in private hospitals in Australia were either located On Site (52.8%) or Off Site (47.2%) and were either Hospital Owned (22.2%) or Contracted Out (77.8%). On Site pharmacy respondents were significantly more likely to be involved in the review of medication incidents (p = 0.047), have a policy on medication safety (p = 0.024), employ more clinical pharmacists (p = 0.006) and have a higher mean number of medication incidents reported (p = 0.001) as compared to Off Site pharmacies. Pharmacy providers who employed clinical pharmacists were more likely to be involved in the review of medication incidents (p = 0.02). Hospital Owned services were more likely to report a higher number of medication incidents (p = 0.011) and be On Site whilst Contracted Out services were more likely to be Off Site (p = 0.026).Medication safety has grown to become an international phenomenon. Two of the World Health Organisations top five priority areas to improve patient safety worldwide involve medication usage. In Australia, the formation of an active Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, has provided leadership to all hospitals both private and public whilst at state level Medication Safety Groups drive more local state based issues. The willingness of some private hospitals to embrace fully the concept of medication safety is very evident at St John of God Health Care where a national medication reference group was set up to lead all their hospitals along a common path and this has been complemented recently by the formation of a medication safety committee at the Subiaco campus.Conclusion: The safe use of medicines is still a major issue. Medication errors are now recognised to be a system failure. Great progress has been made to improve the system of how we manage medications in our hospitals, but the system must continue to evolve. Gaps still exist that need addressing to make our hospitals safer. The various private hospital models that exist lend themselves to differing levels of service and participation in medication safety. It is vital that the Australian Council for Health Care Standards, the private health insurers and the Commonwealth Health Department develop a higher expectation from all private hospitals to ensure systems are in place so that patients are safe regardless of the health care environment they enter.
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Chan, Lai-chu, and 陳麗珠. "The perspectives of the stakeholders on teacher appraisal: case study of a critical incident." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31962221.
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Nentrup, Randall. "Emergency Hazardous Materials Incidents: Case Studies for EPA Federal OnScene Coordinators." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1989. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8562.
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Leung, Wing-sze Grace, and 梁穎詩. "Emergency and crisis management: a case studyof Hau Tak Market fire incident and its impact on the Link and thesociety." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4440315X.
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Robinson, Louise Ann. "Facilitated case discussion as a method of multiprofessional, clinical audit." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287841.
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Nelson, Jeffrey. "Crisis Management Preparing School Leadership to Manage Critical Incidents| A Qualitative Case Study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13859078.
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<p> The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify the critical information components that school leadership and first responders in K-12 schools must receive to support decisions leading to successful outcomes with managing critical incidents. Critical incidents are instances that range from a rumor of an incident may or may not happen such as manmade, natural disasters, severe weather, active threat or active shooter. These types of incidents can begin without a warning or notice, which conveys the essence of this study on preparing school leadership to manage critical incidents in K-12 schools. Methods for planning, preparation, and communication of critical information to school leadership and first responders were explored. There were 13 school leadership and seven first responders who were experienced in managing critical incidents in K-12 schools and were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone. The participants responses were recorded, transcribed, and evaluated to identify common themes identifiable to managing critical incidents. The rate of reoccurrence of word frequency were used to sort the interview transcripts. The analysis of the interviews revealed six themes; managing critical incidents/experience; planning/preparation; collaboration; communication; emergency crisis management team/implementation; and debriefings. School leadership for K-12 schools can gain understanding related to critical incident response and advance communication because of these findings.</p><p>
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Petrakis, James Michael. "Teacher Intent and Involvement in Incidents of Student Bullying: A Multiple Case Study." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1388.
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Public awareness of the negative impact of bullying on adolescents has increased due to social networking and news media reports. Prior research on bullying has focused on the prevalence of bullying in public schools, yet few studies have explored teacher intent, constructive or punitive, and teacher involvement in incidents of bullying. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine teacher intent and teacher involvement in responding to student bullying. The conceptual framework was based on Bandura's social learning theory and Marshall et al.'s conceptual model of teacher intent and involvement. The central research question asked how teacher intent and involvement are impacted by state, district and school antibullying policies. This multiple case study included two middle schools, one in the Pacific region and one in the Midwest region of the United States. Participants in each case included 3 Grade 7 and 3 Grade 8 teachers. Data were collected from multiple sources, including teacher interviews, reflective journals, and state, district, and school documents. Single case analysis involved open and axial coding and category construction. Cross-case analysis involved the constant comparative method to determine emerging themes and discrepancies. Key findings indicated that state and district policies and procedures positively impact teacher intent and involvement. Teacher participants reported their intent to follow school procedures by responding to bullying incidents with constructive interventions to resolve conflicts. Teacher involvement was constructive and direct. This study contributes to positive social change by providing educators and policymakers with a deeper understanding of how to promote learning environments free from intimidation and violence.
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Cunningham, Sally Rachel. "Criminal charges brought in cases of road death incidents in the East Midlands : implications for law reform." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4178.
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This thesis explores the way in which the criminal law deals with drivers who kill. Special offences exist to provide specific offence labels and punishment for drivers who cause death when driving dangerously or carelessly when under the influence of drink or drugs. However, the general homicide offence of manslaughter is also capable of providing an alternative offence label in cases involving the causing of death through gross negligence. A driver who kills might alternatively face the lesser charge of driving without due care and attention. Knowledge of the way in which these offences operate in practice in cases of road-death was previously sparse. This thesis involves an empirical study of police and Crown Prosecution Service files relating to road-deaths, in an endeavour to increase knowledge on such matters, and to inform proposals for law reform. Over three hundred road-death files were accessed across the three counties of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, in the East Midlands of England. This thesis explores the role of prosecutorial discretion in such cases, examines the difficulties faced by police and prosecutors investigating and prosecuting offences linked to road-death, and subsequently addresses the question of whether reform of the substantive law is desirable. Whilst the first six chapters deal with the practicalities of conducting the empirical research and presenting the results, the latter chapters engage in a more theoretical discussion of the importance of providing a clear and logical offence structure to this area of the law. This discussion draws on both the empirical findings of the current study and existing literature relating to the philosophy of the criminal law generally and to criminological and psychological explanations for breaches of traffic laws specifically. Ultimately, a new hierarchy of offences is proposed, requiring the abandonment of the current offences contained within the Road Traffic Act 1988.
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Sobreda, Simone Figueira. "SERA - uma ferramenta para análise e classificação do erro humano em acidentes e incidentes aeronáuticos." Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 2011. http://www.bd.bibl.ita.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1146.
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Com o constante aumento da confiabilidade da tecnologia aeronáutica, as falhas que ocorrem devido a equipamentos ou materiais são cada vez mais raras e as principais causas de acidentes são atribuíveis, hoje em dia, ao ser humano. Assim, a habilidade para investigar, classificar e detectar os fatores humanos, que se encontram na origem de acidentes e incidentes, passa a ter importância central no esforço de se evitar recorrências ou ainda no estabelecimento de defesas, de modo a impedir que os "erros humanos" se repitam ou se propaguem. O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar um software que fizesse a análise e classificação destes erros. A fim de se comprovar a aplicabilidade do programa, é feita também uma aplicação deste em um acidente aeronáutico ocorrido no Brasil, onde houvesse pelo menos um fator humano como uma das hipóteses prováveis para o acidente, e, cuja investigação já tivesse sido concluída pelo órgão investigador. Foi escolhido para tal aplicação o programa SERA (Systematic Error and Risk Analysis), que teve sua origem no objetivo de preencher o sistema HFACS (Human Factors Analysis Classification System). Sendo um programa de fácil utilização, o SERA conduz o investigador, através de perguntas simples e diretas, à emersão das falhas ativas do operador e das pré-condições nos diversos níveis da organização. O SERA provê também uma comparação das suas classificações com as do sistema HFACS durante a análise. A sequência estruturada da análise levou a evidência de duas falhas ativas no caso do acidente estudado. Ao final do trabalho faz-se uma breve comparação da classificação do SERA e do HFACS para este acidente.
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Swann, Sebastian Paul. "The Tientsin incident (1939) : a case-study of Japan's imperial dilemma in China." Thesis, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313623.
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Al-Hadlaq, Mohammed S. "Retention of words learned incidentally by Saudi EFL learners through working on vocabulary learning tasks constructed to activate varying depths of processing." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1263891.
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This study investigated the effectiveness of four vocabulary learning tasks on 104 Saudi EFL learners' retention of ten previously unencountered lexical items. These four tasks were: 1) writing original sentences (WS), 2) writing an original text (i.e. composition) (WT), 3) filling-in-the-blank of single sentences (FS), and 4) filling-in-the-lank of a text (FT). Different results were obtained depending on whether the amount of time required by these tasks was considered in the analysis or not. When time was not considered in the analysis, the WT group outperformed the other groups while the FS group obtained the lowest score. No significant differences were found between WS and FT. The picture, however, changed dramatically when time was considered in the analysis. The analysis of ratio of score to time taken revealed no significant differences between the four groups except between FT and FS, and it was in favor of FT. The differences in vocabulary gains between the four groups were ascribed to the level (or depth) of processing these tasks required the subjects to do and to the richness of the context available in two of the four exercises, namely WT and FT. The researcher concluded that composition writing was the most helpful task for vocabulary retention and also for general language learning, followed by FT. Sentence fill-in was considered the least useful activity in this regard.<br>Department of English
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Alahirsh, Hamed. "Exploring the effectiveness of extensive reading on incidental vocabulary acquisition by EFL learners : an experimental case study in a Libyan University." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27722/.
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Considerable worldwide research has investigated incidental vocabulary learning from L2 reading, yet so far nothing has been published about the actual learning that comes from reading various texts. This study investigated incidental lexical growth and retention by Libyan university EFL majors who were involved in a two-month ER programme. Their vocabulary gain was measured 1 week after the participants completed the Extensive Reading (ER) programme, 2 weeks later and 9 months later. The value of this study is that it used an innovative approach, which was developed from a research design by Horst (2005). This included the electronic scanning of books and lexical frequency profiling, helping the researcher to create individualised corpus profiles from the entire set of different texts the participants read. This data was then used to select target words for each participant. The methodology was an experimental case study, which entailed an experimental and control group design. The participants were EFL learners who studied English as their subject of specialisation in one of eight Libyan state universities. An original number of 80 participants were randomly selected from the entire population in the English Language Department and assigned equally between the experimental and control groups. However, due to the fact that this study was carried out in very anomalous circumstances (during the Libyan uprising, which started on 15/02/2011), the number of participants who successfully completed the ER programme was affected (18 participants in each group). The study showed that by using a corpus analysis strategy, it was feasible to measure learners’ individualised pre-post treatment acquisition of the vocabulary they encountered in a large number of ER graded texts. The findings of the study demonstrate that ER significantly improved the Libyan EFL learners’ incidental vocabulary acquisition. By the end of the study, it was found that about the third of the target words had been acquired by the participants at both receptive and productive levels of knowledge. The findings further indicate that word repetition was an important factor for an incidental pick up of vocabulary from the ER. In relation to long-term retention rate of learning, the findings suggest that incidental word knowledge, acquired through ER, significantly declines over time.
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Makvandi-Nejad, Ewa. "Estimation of Survival with a Combination of Prevalent and Incident Cases in the Presence of Length Bias." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23306.
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In studying natural history of a disease, incident studies provide the best quality estimates; in contrast, prevalent studies introduce a sampling bias, which, if the onset time of the disease follows a stationary Poisson process, is called length bias. When both types of data are available, combining the samples under the assumption that failure times in incident and prevalent cohorts come from the same distribution function, could improve the estimation process from a revalent sample. We verify this assumption using a Smirnov type of test and construct a likelihood function from a combined sample to parametrically estimate the survival through maximum likelihood approach. Finally, we use Accelerated Failure Time models to compare the effect of covariates on survival in incident, prevalent, and combined populations. Properties of the proposed test and the combined estimator are assessed using simulations, and illustrated with data from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.
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Woo, Yuen Ying Grace. "Oral and written media coverage of mundane news in Hong Kong : a case study of a fire incident." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1995. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/95.
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Lam, Sau-yin, and 林守賢. "Social movement, net activism and urban governance : a case of Choi Yuen Village incident." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/195112.
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Urban social movements become one of the major forms of participation of urban governance of the public in recent years. Social values changed dramatically after the handover that people started to concern their right to the city. They demand for more power and influence in the formulation of urban policies and development strategy. However, urban governance in Hong Kong did not change with the time and resisted changes. This thus widened the gap of urban meaning between the formal government and the public. The conflict of their urban meanings thus led to urban social movement which aim to transform the urban governance. This also reinforce by the presence of new media in the mobilization of the movement. This dissertation aims to investigate how the changes of social values affect the conflict of urban meaning between urban actors and the impact on the urban governance in Hong Kong through analysing the framing of activists and urban managers.
Choi Yuen Village Incident is chosen as case study to examine how different urban actors frame the issue and the implied urban meaning in the framing. This would reveal the conflict of urban meaning and the root of the occurrence of urban social movements in Hong Kong.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Urban Planning and Design<br>Master<br>Master of Science in Urban Planning
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Novak, Anthony. "Exploring post-critical incident support training in a UK financial institution : a case-study." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020558/.
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The thesis is a case-study set in a large UK Financial Organisation which post the September 11th 2001 attack on the World Trade Building in New York (9/11) was faced with the prospect of having to develop strategies and training for employees who potentially might experience a critical incident. A critical incident, as used in this thesis, being a disaster that disrupts business continuity. The 9/11 attack is not a consideration per se but was the impetus for the Organisation's review of its business continuity strategy. Post-incident support for staff was an important element of the business continuity strategy review as the protection of staff was considered essential for ensuring business continuity. The Organisation considered that training may be the best approach to offering such support. The focus of the thesis is post-critical support training. In exploring the demand for post-critical incident support training, the paper argues that at a time of (generally perceived) increased levels of anxiety and insecurity within the workplace, the potential for a critical incident to occur is considered a real possibility. In responding to such threats, employees are called upon to develop their skills/knowledge beyond that of their job requirements. In effect, they are required to learn about the effects of a disaster on their own performance and that of colleagues. Such learning has implications for trainers, and those requiring training, as the criteria for offering post-critical support training differs from other training programmes. Within post-critical support training, the focus is not the acquisition of specific skills or factual job-related knowledge but on developing the employee's emotional self-awareness. Unlike most other vocational training, it will not enhance current job performance nor organisation profits. In deed, it is highly probable that employees will never be called upon to put their learning into practice. The thesis argues that such differences separate post critical incident support training from other training programmes and brings into question the purpose and the benefits for developing post-critical support training. In developing the argument, the thesis uses a case-study method drawing upon the work of Yin (2003) and Stake (2000). The case-study used both quantitative and qualitative sources of data. However, the main body of data is qualitative and was gathered from thirty-two semi-structured interviews based on narrative and psycho-social research approaches (Holloway, & Jefferson, 2000). The thirty-two participants interviewed all had had experience of being involved in a critical incident either directly, as victims, or indirectly in the planning and delivering of post-incident service provision. The purpose of the interviews was to explore participants' understanding of a critical incident and how training might support post-critical incident recovery. In considering the case for training, the thesis explores issues relating to postcritical incident training and in doing so, attempts to place workplace learning within a wider educational context. As part of this, it considers the role of human resources and how different human resource models affect approaches to training. The thesis argues that the economic imperative, as reflected within a 'hard' human resources approach, is too narrow a focus. What is required is an holistic learning approach to training that is centred on a humanistic educational model, as reflected in a 'soft' approach to human resources. This model of training would be the most beneficial, to both employee and employer, should a critical incident occur.
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Chan, Lai-chu. "The perspectives of the stakeholders on teacher appraisal case study of a critical incident /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B23568975.
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Nunes, Lélia Cápua. "Fatores dietéticos e antropométricos em casos incidentes de câncer de mama assistidos em Juiz de Fora-MG." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2009. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/2757.
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Previous issue date: 2009-03-23<br>No Brasil, o câncer de mama é a principal causa de morte entre as neoplasias em mulheres e o mais incidente na população feminina. Estudos apontam prováveis fatores de risco para essa patologia, estando entre esses os fatores dietéticos e antropométricos, relacionados ao Índice de Massa Corporal (IMC) e à dieta rica em gorduras saturadas. Alguns nutrientes têm sido relatados como fatores protetores contra o câncer de mama, como o beta-caroteno, vitaminas C e E e cálcio. O estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o estado nutricional e o consumo alimentar de casos incidentes de câncer de mama assistidos em Juiz de Fora-MG. Para tanto, entre janeiro e novembro de 2008, foram coletados dados sociodemográficos, reprodutivos, antropométricos, sobre atividade física e relativos ao laudo anátomopatológico, além de ser aplicado o Questionário de Frequência Alimentar para avaliação do consumo alimentar pregresso. Foram consideradas elegíveis todas as pacientes encaminhadas a dois serviços de referências no diagnóstico e tratamento de câncer no município, sendo entrevistadas 77 mulheres. Foram excluídas do estudo as mulheres com câncer recidivante ou que se submeteram a terapia neoadjuvante. Os dados foram analisados pelos softwares SPSS 8.0 e Programa de Apoio à Nutrição - NutWin. A média de idade foi de 56,6 anos (Desvio-Padrão=11,6). A maioria das mulheres estava com IMC maior ou igual a 25Kg/m2 (61%), sendo que a prevalência de sobrepeso foi maior entre as mulheres na pós-menopausa (p<0,05). As médias da Circunferência da Cintura e Relação Cintura-Quadril foram, respectivamente, 89,7cm e 0,87, mas as diferenças não foram estatisticamente significativas entre os grupos segundo estado menopausal. A média de consumo energético entre as entrevistadas foi de 1875,38Kcal (Desvio-Padrão=657,62). As médias de consumo de cálcio, vitaminas A, C e E foram, respectivamente, de 625,07mg; 730,31ER; 491,06mg e 3,58ATE. Os resultados do estudo ratificaram, em sua maioria, o que é descrito na literatura como fatores associados ao câncer de mama. A partir do que foi descrito torna-se possível conhecer a distribuição dos fatores investigados entre mulheres com câncer de mama assistidas em Juiz de Fora-MG, contribuindo para melhor compreensão da relação destes com a neoplasia.<br>Breast cancer is the principal cause of death due to malignancy in Brazilian women, and the most frequently diagnosed malignancy in the female population. Saturated fat-rich diets and increased body mass index (BMI) have been pointed as putative risk factors. Some nutrients have been reported as protective against breast cancer, such as beta-carotene, vitamins C and E and calcium. This study assessed the nutritional status and food consumption of women recently diagnosed with breast cancer assisted in Juiz de Fora-MG, Brazil. In the period from January through November 2008, the study participants were investigated regarding their sociodemographic, reproductive and anthropometric data, physical activity, histopathological diagnosis and past food consumption (with the Food Frequency Questionnaire). All patients referred to two municipal breast cancer reference services were considered eligible, 77 women having been interviewed. Women with relapsing cancer or on neoadjuvant therapy were excluded. The SPSS 8.0 and NutWin (Nutrition Support Program) softwares were used for data analysis. The mean of age was 56.6 years (Standard Deviation= 11.6). Most women had a BMI equal to or higher than 25Kg/m2 (61%), with a higher prevalence of overweight among post-menopausal women (p<0.05). The means of waist circumference and waist-hip ratio were 89.7cm and 0.87, respectively, but the differences were not statistically significant between the groups by menopausal status. The mean caloric intake was 1875.38Kcal (Standard Deviation=657.62). The means of calcium, vitamins A, C and E intake were 625.07mg; 730.31ER; 491.06mg and 3.58ATE, respectively. The study results mostly agree with the literature data about factors associated with breast cancer. This study contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between the investigated factors and breast cancer in Juiz de ForaMG, Brazil.
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Myléus, Anna, Olle Hernell, Leif Gothefors, et al. "Early infections are associated with increased risk for celiac disease : an incident case-referent study." Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-64524.
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BACKGROUND: Celiac disease is defined as a 'chronic small intestinal immune-mediated enteropathy precipitated by exposure to dietary gluten in genetically predisposed individuals'. Sweden has experienced an "epidemic" of celiac disease in children below two years of age. Celiac disease etiology is considered multifactorial; however, little is known regarding potential risk- or protecting factors. We present data on the possible association between early infectious episodes and celiac disease, including their possible contribution to the Swedish celiac disease epidemic. METHODS: A population-based incident case-referent study (475 cases, 950 referents) with exposure information obtained via a questionnaire (including family characteristics, infant feeding, and the child's general health) was performed. Celiac disease cases were diagnosed before two years of age, fulfilling the diagnostic criteria of the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Referents were randomly selected from the national population register after fulfilling matching criteria. The final analyses included 954 children, 373 (79%) cases and 581 (61%) referents, with complete information on main variables of interest in a matched set of one case with one or two referents. RESULTS: Having three or more parental-reported infectious episodes, regardless of type of infection, during the first six months of life was associated with a significantly increased risk for later celiac disease, and this remained after adjusting for infant feeding and socioeconomic status (odds ratio [OR] 1.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.1-2.0; P=0.014). The celiac disease risk increased synergistically if, in addition to having several infectious episodes, infants were introduced to dietary gluten in large amounts, compared to small or medium amounts, after breastfeeding was discontinued (OR 5.6; 95% CI, 3.1-10; P<0.001). CONCLUSION: This study suggests that having repeated infectious episodes early in life increases the risk for later celiac disease. In addition, we found a synergistic effect between early infections and daily amount of gluten intake, more pronounced among infants for whom breastfeeding had been discontinued prior to gluten introduction. Regarding contribution to the Swedish celiac disease epidemic, which partly was attributed to concurrent changes in infant feeding, early infections probably made a minor contribution via the synergistic effect with gluten amount.
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Pedrosa, Sócrates Alves. "Federalização dos crimes contra os direitos humanos: garantia ao cumprimento de obrigações decorrentes de tratados internacionais." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/8504.
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Previous issue date: 2016-02-15<br>The present work has as study object the federalization of crimes against human rights and judicial implementation of international human rights treaties to which the Federative Republic of Brazil is a signatory. To this end, it has as main objective to analyze the competence shift incident as a preventive institute of international accountability, focusing on the effective state response against impunity and the achievement of social justice of the decision rendered by the Judiciary. Analyzed the incident Competence Shift a protective human rights instrument from the case Manoel Mattos and the effects of judicial precedents and jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in order to contribute to the importance of preventing international accountability which governs the Brazilian State. The duty to investigate and prosecute criminals agents in cases of serious violations of human rights arises from the conduct of obligation assumed by the State in the International Covenants on Human Rights. The State willful failure to not punish those responsible, constitutes a real affront to human rights, subject to international condemnation. To evade the International Responsibility for the inertia of the Brazilian states, the EC No. 45/2004 authorized the federalization of crimes against human rights in the cases of Article 109, Paragraph 5 of CF / 88, thus allowing the Superior Court Justice shift the responsibility of the police investigations or ongoing claims in state court to federal court, by application of the Attorney General. Within the Competence Shift incidents judged by the Supreme Court, there was considerable speed in the progress of cases, however, the little amount of proposed incidents is not yet able, by itself, to reflect on the effectiveness of this procedural instrument. It used inductive method of approach therefore departed from the case Manoel Mattos, seeking to discuss the federalization as a preventive mechanism of international accountability. The prime research technique was the literature, with the analysis of laws, judicial decisions of international nature, especially the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and specialized doctrine.<br>O presente trabalho tem como objeto de estudo a federalização dos crimes contra os direitos humanos como garantia judicial ao cumprimento dos tratados internacionais de direitos humanos ao qual a República Federativa do Brasil é signatária. Para tanto, tem-se como objetivo geral analisar o incidente de deslocamento de competência como instituto preventivo de responsabilização internacional, tendo como foco a resposta estatal efetiva contra a impunidade e a realização da justiça social da decisão exarada pelo Poder Judiciário. Analisou-se o Incidente de Deslocamento de Competência como instrumento protetor dos direitos humanos a partir do caso Manoel Mattos, bem como os efeitos dos precedentes judiciais e a Jurisprudência da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos a fim de contribuir com a importância da prevenção da responsabilização internacional a que está sujeito o Estado brasileiro. O dever de investigar e de processar os agentes criminosos nas hipóteses de grave violações dos direitos humanos decorre da obrigação de conduta assumida pelo Estado nas Convenções Internacionais de Direitos Humanos. A omissão dolosa Estatal em não punir os responsáveis, constitui-se em verdadeira afronta aos direitos do homem, passível de reprovação internacional. Para eximir-se da Responsabilidade Internacional pela inércia dos Estados da Federação, a EC nº 45/2004 autorizou a federalização dos crimes contra os Direitos Humanos, nas hipóteses do artigo 109, §5º da CF/88, permitindo, assim, ao Superior Tribunal de Justiça deslocar a competência dos inquéritos policiais ou de processos em andamento na Justiça Estadual para a Justiça Federal, por petição do Procurador Geral da República. Dentro os Incidentes de Deslocamento de Competência julgados pelo STJ, observou-se considerável celeridade no andamento dos processos, todavia, a pouca quantidade de incidentes propostos ainda não é capaz, por si só, de refletir sobre a eficácia do presente instrumento processual. Utilizou-se do método de abordagem indutivo, pois, partiu-se do caso Manoel Mattos, buscando-se problematizar a federalização como mecanismo preventivo de responsabilização internacional. A técnica de pesquisa privilegiada foi a bibliográfica, com a análise de leis, decisões judiciais de cunho internacional, principalmente a jurisprudência da Corte Interamericana de Direitos Humanos e doutrina especializada.
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Lewis, Dawn M. "A qualitative case study| Hospital emergency preparedness coordinators' perspectives of preparing for and responding to incidents." Thesis, Capella University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3746279.
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<p> The purpose of this case study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of hospital emergency preparedness coordinators of preparing for and responding to incidents. Stakeholder and protection motivation theories provided the theoretical framework for the study. The nonprobability sampling technique of purposive sample was used to identify 10 hospital preparedness coordinators employed at acute care hospitals with emergency departments located in Connecticut and Massachusetts. A field-tested researcher developed 20-question interview questionnaire guided data collection. This qualitative case study answers the questions: What are hospital emergency preparedness coordinators perspectives of hospital preparedness? How do hospital emergency preparedness coordinators prepare for a hospital incident? How do hospital emergency preparedness coordinators respond to a hospital incident? What factors do hospital emergency preparedness coordinators believe best prepares a hospital for incidents? Ranked in order of replication, the researcher identified three themes using first and second cycle coding techniques with pattern coding: (a) planning, (b) training, and (c) communication. Control and motivation emerged as subthemes. Results of the study provide detail rich data for hospital emergency preparedness coordinators, and provide insight and information for stakeholders from all types of private and public organizations to improve hospital emergency preparedness programs. </p>
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Oliveira, Alexandra Martini de. "Período de psicose sem tratamento (PPST) em indivíduos com psicoses funcionais (casos incidentes) na Cidade de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5142/tde-05082010-160221/.
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Diversos estudos têm demonstrado que indivíduos que apresentam sintomas psicóticos podem demorar meses ou anos para iniciar o tratamento. Este período em que o indivíduo apresenta sintomas psicóticos sem tratamento é descrito na literatura como \"período de psicose sem-tratamento\" (PPST). Estudos anteriores mostraram que o PPST em países ricos é geralmente inferior ao de países de renda baixa ou média. OBJETIVOS: estimar o PPST em indivíduos com psicoses funcionais (casos incidentes) na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil; investigar se o PPST está associado a características sociodemográficas e com as circunstâncias de moradia (morar com familiares ou não); verificar se existe associação entre o PPST com características clínicas (diagnóstico, funcionamento social, intensidade dos sintomas negativos, positivos e gerais e insight) e com o tipo de serviço de saúde onde foi realizado o primeiro contato para o tratamento do transtorno psicótico. MÉTODO: Os dados analisados fazem parte do estudo epidemiológico \"Estudo de casos incidentes (primeiro contato com serviços de saúde) de psicoses funcionais no Brasil\", que investigou a incidência das psicoses funcionais em diversas regiões da cidade de São Paulo. Os critérios de inclusão do estudo epidemiológico foram: ter entrado em contato, pela primeira vez, com serviços de saúde mental do setor público ou privado (internação, emergência, serviços intermediários ou atendimentos ambulatoriais), no período entre maio de 2003 e janeiro de 2005 por motivo de sintomas psicóticos; residir na área do estudo por pelo menos seis meses; idade entre 18 e 64 anos. O PPST foi definido como \"período entre o início dos sintomas psicóticos e o primeiro contato com serviço de saúde mental\". A mediana do PPST foi utilizada para dividir os participantes em dois grupos: curto PPST e longo PPST. Regressão logística foi utilizada nas análises de associação entre PPST e as variáveis sociodemográficas e clínicas e para investigar o possível efeito de variáveis confundidoras na associação entre PPST e circunstâncias de moradia. RESULTADOS: Duzentos indivíduos foram incluídos no presente estudo. Cento e cinco (52%) eram mulheres, a média de idade foi de 32,3 anos (desvio padrão=11,3), 165 (82,5%) moravam com familiares. Cento e quarenta e oito (74,0%) participantes haviam feito o primeiro contato em serviços de emergência, 122 (61,0%) apresentaram diagnóstico de psicose nãoafetiva e 78 (39%) de psicose afetiva, 106 (53,0%) apresentaram funcionamento social \"muito bom ou bom\", 133 (68,2%) apresentaram \"bom insight\". A média da pontuação dos sintomas psiquiátricos totais avaliados pela PANSS foi de 42,1 (desvio padrão=12,4). A mediana do PPST foi de 4,1 semanas para a amostra total, 3,1 semanas para os participantes com transtornos psicóticos afetivos e 5,5 semanas para os participantes com transtornos psicóticos não-afetivas. Indivíduos que não moravam com familiares tiveram uma chance aproximadamente três vezes maior de apresentarem longo PPST do que os que moravam com familiares, independentemente das características sociodemográficas e clínicas dos participantes (p=0,05 OR=2,53). CONCLUSÃO: Estudos anteriores sobre PPST, realizados principalmente em países ricos, apresentaram um PPST que variou entre 4 a 57 semanas, o que é bastante superior ao PPST encontrado em São Paulo. O curto PPST encontrado no presente estudo não confirmou a idéia de que o PPST em países ricos é menor do que o PPST em países de renda baixa ou média. Apesar da maioria dos participantes apresentarem características sociodemográficas e clínicas associadas a longo PPST, morar com familiares e a estrutura atual de atenção à pessoa em crise psicótica em São Paulo, particularmente os serviços de emergência psiquiátrica, parecem ter colaborado para o curto PPST nesta amostra e alterar o cenário esperado para o PPST em São Paulo. Características contextuais, juntamente com as características sociodemográficas e clínicas dos indivíduos, se apresentaram como importantes determinantes do PPST em São Paulo.<br>Several studies have shown that patients with psychotic disorders have experienced psychotic symptoms for long period before initiation of treatment. This period between onset of psychotic symptoms and first treatment has been described as \"duration of untreated psychosis\" (DUP). Previous studies have shown that DUP is lower between highincome countries when compared with low and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES: to estimate the DUP in subjects with functional psychoses (incident cases) in the city of São Paulo, Brazil; to investigate the relationship between DUP and socio-demographic data and \"living circumstances\" (living with family or not); to investigate if DUP is associated with clinical characteristics (diagnosis, social functioning, severity of general, positive and negative symptoms, and level of insight) and the type of service use for the first psychotic disorder treatment. METHOD: the data is part of the epidemiological study \"The study of incident cases (first contact with health services) of functional psychoses in Brazil\". Inclusion criteria were: who had a first contact with any public or private mental health service (inpatient, emergence, day-hospitals or outpatient) due to psychotic symptoms, between May 2003 and January 2005, residence in a defined geographical area of São Paulo for at least six months, and age between 18 and 65 years. DUP was defined by \"the period from the onset of the first psychotic symptoms until the first contact with a mental health service\". The median DUP was calculated and used to divide the sample into two groups: short and long DUP. Logistic regression was used to analyze possible associations between socio-demographic and clinical variables with DUP, and to investigate possible effects caused by independent variables between living circumstances and DUP. RESULTS: A total of 200 individuals were included, 105 (52%) were women and the mean of age was 32.3 (SD 11.3) years old in the total sample, 165 (82.5%) were living with relatives. One hundred and eight (74.0%) participants had the first contact with emergence services, 122 (61.0%) diagnosis of non-affective psychosis, and 78 (39.0%) had a diagnosis of affective psychosis, 106 (53.0%) presented \"very good or good\" social functioning, 133 (68.2%) presented \"good insight\". The mean total \"Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale\" (PANSS) score was 42.1 (SD=12.4). The value found for the median DUP was 4.1 weeks for the total sample, 5.5 weeks for the psychotic non-affective disorders compared with those who received a diagnosis of psychotic affective disorder (3.1 weeks). Participants who were not living with relatives were three times more likely to present long DUP compared to participants who were living with relatives, independently of the clinical and socio-demographic characteristics (p=0.05, OR=2.53). CONCLUSION: Previous studies about DUP, especially from high-income countries, have presented a median value DUP between 4 and 57 weeks, which is much superior when compared the DUP found in São Paulo. The shorter median DUP found in the present study is not in accordance with the hypothesis that refers that DUP is higher in low-and-middle income countries. Despite a number of participants have presented socio-demographic and clinical characteristics associated to long DUP, living with relatives and the context related to mental health system for the people with acute psychotic symptoms in the city of São Paulo, especially emergence services, seem to have collaborated for the shorter DUP in this sample and changed the scenery expected about DUP in the present sample. Some contextual characteristics, with socio-demographic and clinical factors were very important determinants of DUP in São Paulo.
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Mendez, Angela M. "Police High-Profile Critical Incidents and the Resulting Effects on Police and Community Resilience| A Case Study." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752507.
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<p> Critical incidents in law enforcement often either lead to a great divide between police agencies and the communities they serve, or they exacerbate a volatile relationship that already exists. Critical incidents may cause outrage within the community due to: misconceptions about the incident, extreme distrust of police, allegations of police misconduct, or racial tension. In an effort to improve and enhance organizational police and community resilience following a critical incident, a case study comparison of four recent high-profile critical incidents seeks to answer the following question: What lessons can we learn from police critical incidents and how do the events surrounding them affect police and community resilience? Analysis of the cases identifies specific factors that affect resiliency among police agencies and communities during and after critical incidents. The analysis leads to recommendations for police agencies to enhance police-community relations and resilience. </p><p>
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Norton, Giulia Distefano. "Three studies of spine disorders: cost-utility of cognitive behavioral therapy; classification of incident cases; and distribution of treatment cost." Thesis, Boston University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12174.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University<br>We performed three distinct studies of low back pain treatment using a generalizable database of medical and pharmaceutical claims paid by multiple commercial payers.
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(1) Evaluate the cost-utility, from the US commercial payer perspective, of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to manage chronic non-specific low back pain (LBP);
(2) Identify unique subgroups ofpeople with incident LBP based on health care utilization; (3) Specify the distribution of costs for people with intervertebral disc herniation (IDH).
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(1) We constructed and validated a Markov model with 1-year and 10-year time horizons. We applied rates of service utilization and recovery from a randomized controlled trial assessing CBT to treat chronic LBP, estimated standardized costs from the claims database, and derived utilities and recurrence rates from the literature. (2) Using Latent Class Analysis, we identified four subgroups (classes) ofpeople with LBP based on utilization over 27 months (9 quarters). We modeled increasing numbers of classes and service combinations to build the final model. (3) We compared empirical cost data to four candidate distributions.
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(1) The incremental cost-utility of CBT, compared to education, was $7197 per QALY in the first year and $5833 per QALY over ten years. (2) We identified four mutually exclusive subgroups ofpatients. Two groups were very likely to receive services in each quarter (Pr>0.70 for 7% and >0.40 for 33%), implying continuing symptoms or frequent relapse. The extremely high utilization group (8%) had >85% likelihood of receiving services, >70% painkillers, in each quarter after the first. Differences in types of service received imply the groups were characterized by pain or disability. Just over half the patients recovered, not receiving services after the frrst quarter. (3) Lognormal distribution fit costs of iDH more closely than Weibull, Gamma, or Exponential. Results for all studies were robust across numerous sensitivity analyses.
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(1) CBT is a cost-effective approach to managing NSLBP among commercial health plans members, regardless of plan structure. (2) Almost half of people with low back pain are at high risk of continuing symptoms or repeated relapse over 27 months. (3) Costs for IDH follow a Lognormal distribution.
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Cohen, Stacy E. "National Incident Management System| A case study of collaboration and the 2012 Chardon, Ohio, high school shooting." Thesis, Capella University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3714470.
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<p> Public safety organizations in rural communities often face unique challenges during an emergency response that differ from their metropolitan counterparts. Despite implementation of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) in 2004 to better facilitate collaboration among local, state, and federal emergency response partners, many rural communities have had difficulty complying with the policy. Using a case study design, the current study considers the successful collaborative response to the 2012 Chardon, Ohio, high school shooting within the context of three foundational theories: meta-leadership, structural functionalism, and social constructivism. The perspective of the successful response comes from 10 public safety response personnel who worked for organizations in Northeast Ohio and who responded to or were familiar with the collaborative response to the 2012 shooting incident. The findings from the study consider the unique challenges faced by the Chardon emergency response community and identify the benefits of pre-disaster preparedness training as recommended by NIMS, the need to build relationships through informal channels, and, most importantly, that alternative approaches to NIMS may be necessary in small communities that lack resources or have other inherent challenges. </p>
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Ravikumar, Meera. "Pre-Service Elementary Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs About Science Using Critical Incident Technique: A Case Study Approach." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5843.
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The primary goal of this case study using qualitative and quantitative methods was to investigate pre-service elementary teachers' initial self-efficacy beliefs about science and science teaching by exploring the K-12 science experiences of these prospective elementary teachers. Of the 108 participants who completed the science teaching efficacy belief survey (STEBI-B) (Enochs & Riggs, 1990), 12 participants were selected to be interviewed using Flanagan's (1954) critical incident technique. Participants were asked to share their past positive and negative incidents during their K-12 years with science and science teachers. They were also asked to report how past incidents affected them at present and how they believed they would impact them as future teachers of science in elementary schools. The past positive and negative incidents were analyzed using Bandura's (1977) four sources of self-efficacy (mastery, vicarious, social persuasion, and physiological/emotional) and by school level; and the impact of the past science incidents on the subjects' present and future beliefs as science teachers were categorized. The results of this study revealed that pre-service elementary teachers' self-efficacy and beliefs were largely influenced by their past experiences with science in the K-12 years, and mastery experiences dominated as a source of self-efficacy. Implications for practice and recommendations for future research were made based on the findings of the study.<br>Ph.D.<br>Doctorate<br>Dean's Office, Education<br>Education and Human Performance<br>Education; Science Education
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Roberts, Calpurnyia Bonyka Heiss Gerardo. "The association between socioeconomic position over the life-course and incident heart failure and its case fatality." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2143.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Feb. 17, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Epidemiology from the School of Public Health." Discipline: Epidemiology; Department/School: Public Health.
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Collinson, Graeme Stuart. "Major incidents in high hazard industries and development of risk regulation : case studies in developed and developing countries." Thesis, University of Salford, 2010. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26622/.
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This work considers the development of risk regulation in high hazard industries, and explores differences by conducting case studies across a number of developed and developing countries. It draws on concepts from a variety of fields: risk perception, the structure of society, the nature of the law and regulation, and the management of industrial risk. The project begins with a consideration of risk perception in society to give a wider context to the research, and explores the implications for risk regulation. A number of theories of regulation are described followed by a more detailed consideration of the regulation of risk and approaches in the high hazard industry. These influences are then assessed and conclusions drawn through a three stage process. Firstly a theoretical framework is established that incorporates theories from some diverse disciplines, such as systems thinking, analysis of regulation, and safety management. Secondly, case studies are conducted to draw comparisons across different societies and to explore the validity of this framework. Finally, reflecting on these differences, a conceptual model is developed to provide an explanation of past experience, help predict future consequences and enable an improvement in the effectiveness of new regulation. The research has identified key influences, and three additional variables have emerged; risk temperament, risk pathways, and the impact of globalisation. The hypothesis was that the processes of risk regulation in societies are influenced by serious incidents in different ways and that such processes could be modelled to help understanding and support the effective development of risk regulation. Through objective analysis, this has been demonstrated, and, in addition, a modified conceptual model has been developed to enable further research in this important area.
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Dehideniya, Udugamage Ranasinge Wathsala Jayanthi. "Empirical evaluation of the travel time reliability indicators: A case study for Brisbane corridor under recurrent and non-recurrent conditions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83043/1/Wathsala_Dehideniya%20Udugamage%20Ranasinge_Thesis.pdf.
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This research quantifies traffic congestion and travel time reliability with case study on a major arterial road in Brisbane. The focus is on the analysis of impact of incidents (e.g., road accidents) on travel time reliability. Real traffic (Bluetooth) and incident records from Coronation Drive, Brisbane are utilized for the study.
The findings include significant impact of incidents on traffic congestion and travel time reliability. The knowledge gained is useful in various applications such as traveler information systems, and cost-benefit analysis of various strategies to reduce the traffic incidents and its' impacts.
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Bounds, Sharon L. "The incidental leader| The role of Reading Recovery(RTM) training in the professional lives of teachers in a rural Alabama school system. A multiple case study." Thesis, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3591608.
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<p> This qualitative multiple case study was undertaken to answer the following question: How did Reading Recovery<sup>®</sup> (RR) teachers and former Reading Recovery teachers in a mid-sized rural school system in the southeastern United States describe the influences of their Reading Recovery training as it related to their current professional lives? Additional questions included: (1) How did training in Reading Recovery position the teacher as a reading expert within her school? (2) How did Reading Recovery change her approach to working with struggling readers? (3) How did the "behind the glass" experience impact the teacher's own teaching? (4) How did training affect the teacher's ability to discuss complex reading problems with co-workers? (5) How has Reading Recovery training influenced the teacher's professional goals and ambitions? (6) How has the passage of time since the teacher's training year altered her perception of the usefulness of her training? </p><p> Two case studies were undertaken to answer these questions. Both studies involved face to face interviews, teacher observations, and electronic journal entries submitted by the participants. Case Study One looked at the professional lives of three currently active Reading Recovery teachers and revealed five themes: (1) Instructional empowerment, (2) Increased professional status, (3) Reliance on a community of learners, (4) Concern for the whole child, and (5) Lack of teaching/working time. </p><p> Two years later, Case Study Two was initiated. At this time Reading Recovery had been discontinued in the county school system. A total of 12 former RR teachers were interviewed, observed on the job, and contributed to electronic journals. Five themes emerged from this study: (1) Instructional knowledge from theory, (2) Student benefits, (3) School and community benefits, (4) Professional benefits, and (5) Personal benefits. The overarching theme for both cases was - Power through <i>Knowledge</i>. Unanticipated findings included: self-imposed teacher accountability, professional courage, "knowledge envy" by non-RR individuals, and the transferability of Reading Recovery knowledge outward into the school and local community.</p>
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Wang, Qinqin. "The Understanding of Absolute Right to Freedom of Expression in the Case of Hate Speech." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7240.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore whether there is an absolute right to freedom of expression with regard to hate speech, and more specifically, whether tolerance should be exercised toward speech even in circumstances where this speech presents a clear and present danger to the public. The author will use legal research methods to analyze this question. The paper will delve into four major Supreme Court cases in the case of hate speech, as well as the decision by the Virginia Court that allowed the rally in Charlottesville which ended with the death of 32-year old woman. The aim is to determine how the Supreme Court has looked at hateful expression over the years and the status of hate speech in America today. The four major cases are Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977), R.A.V v. City of St. Paul (1992), and Virginia v. Black (2003). Although the case of Kessler v. Charlottesville (2017) is not a Supreme Court case, its significance in relation to the right to freedom of expression is no less than those precedent four cases. This incident and related legal cases bring the concerns about hate speech and the constitutional right to freedom of expression directly into the public discourse.
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O'Neill, Brian. "A model assessment tool for the incident command system : a case study of the San Antonio Fire Department /." View online, 2008. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/270.
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Chang, Chun-Hua, and 張鈞華. "PROTOTYPE OF A MICROSCOPIC INCIDENT-INDUCED TRAFFIC SIMULATOR FOR THE CASES OF SURFACE STREET INCIDENTS." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87686792615289112125.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>土木工程學研究所<br>89<br>Real-Time incident management has become an important issue in the development of ITS. For lack of real incident-induced traffic data, related studies must rely heavily on simulation data to verify the validity of their models. However, published simulators seem to be incapable of characterizing the incident-induced traffic behavior, efficiently and effectively. This study presents a microscopic simulation approach for analyzing the traffic maneuvers for the cases of surface street incidents, and serves to develop a microscopic simulation model for further applications. We consider the effect of the front platoon in our model to formulate the inter-lane and intra-lane traffic maneuvers. In addition, we take account of the turning factor, the incident factor, and the effect of front platoon’s average speed and lane changing frequencies in lane-changing decision-making logic rules. Vehicles moving at intersections are simulated by the combination of turning and conflicting traffic maneuvers. We also establish the logic framework of incident-induced traffic simulator for the cases of surface street incidents, and construct a C-code computer program to implement the proposed traffic behavior model. The proposed simulation model are calibrated and tested with video-based incident data sets provided by the traffic management center at the city of Irvine, California. Test results have indicated that this simulation model is able to adequately simulate incident-induced traffic conditions. It is expected that the proposed simulation methodology, herein, is helpful for the development of advanced incident detection and management systems and related techniques.
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LIN, JUI-YU, and 林瑞育. "Case Study and Countermeasures of Firework Incidents." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m9ynew.
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碩士<br>國立高雄應用科技大學<br>土木工程與防災科技研究所<br>106<br>Since the invention of fireworks, the continuous advances in science and technology have made the pyrotechnics more and more spectacular. In the meantime, fireworks have continuously caused damage and casualties along the time. General firecrackers, if approved by the government, can be used by the general public for recreational purpose. However, application should be filed and permission must be obtained before using the professional firecrackers.
The top three kinds of firecrackers used by the people in Taiwan are: liftoffs, explosives, and flying firecrackers. It is a custom in Taiwan to set fireworks during certain festivals. However, it often causes damages and casualties. Previous studies have found that the major factors causing general firecrackers disasters is not following the instructions, such as insufficient safety distance, uneven ground, placed upside-down, uncontrolled spectators, and poor firecracker quality. In addition, previous studies found that the total amount of professional firecrackers imported was 1.9 times more than general firecrackers between 2011 and 2016. The amount increased to 3 times in the year of 2016. Professional fireworks commonly are used in large-scale activities in Taiwan to attract people to participate in the event. Previous studies also found that the risk factors for professional firecracker hazards are: poor quality, insufficient safety distance, wind speed, unfixed products when they were released, placed upside-down, unlicensed personnel, not following procedures in the application, and unregulated population.
In this research, information regarding past firework incidents is collected and analyzed to identify firework hazards. Then, expert interviews are conducted to identify high risk factors. In the mean time, countermeasures are proposed. In this study, literature review, statistical analysis are conducted to investigate the causes of firecracker incidents and identify hazard factors. Along with expert interviews, critical factors are identified and countermeasures are proposed to reduce the damage and loss caused by firecrackers incidents.
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"Security Incidents in an Academic Setting: A Case Study." East Tennessee State University, 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0330102-212624/.
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Eshareturi, Cyril, and L. Serrant. "Embedding learning from adverse incidents: a UK case study." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15224.
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Yes<br>This paper reports on a regionally based UK study uncovering what has worked well in learning from adverse incidents in hospitals. The purpose of this paper is to review the incident investigation methodology used in identifying strengths or weaknesses and explore the use of a database as a tool to embed learning.
Documentary examination was conducted of all adverse incidents reported between 1 June 2011 and 30 June 2012 by three UK National Health Service hospitals. One root cause analysis report per adverse incident for each individual hospital was sent to an advisory group for a review. Using terms of reference supplied, the advisory group feedback was analysed using an inductive thematic approach. The emergent themes led to the generation of questions which informed seven in-depth semi-structured interviews.
“Time” and “work pressures” were identified as barriers to using adverse incident investigations as tools for quality enhancement. Methodologically, a weakness in approach was that no criteria influenced the techniques which were used in investigating adverse incidents. Regarding the sharing of learning, the use of a database as a tool to embed learning across the region was not supported.
Softer intelligence from adverse incident investigations could be usefully shared between hospitals through a regional forum.
The use of a database as a tool to facilitate the sharing of learning from adverse incidents across the health economy is not supported.
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Petrov, Svyatoslav. ""Such cases are awakenings!" Transforming clinical relationships through critical incidents in refugee care." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16193.
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A positive physician-patient relationship is crucial for high quality and effective health care. Yet, cultural and language differences between providers and patients often challenge the establishment of effective physician-patient relationships. These challenges are especially evident in provider-refugee-patient interactions in which patients have experienced loss, torture, and trauma. Understanding of what constitutes a positive doctor-patient relationship is fundamental to diagnosis and treatment and is crucial for the delivery of quality care for diverse patient populations, including refugees. This qualitative, phenomenological case-study focuses on physician-reported experiences caring for refugees in order to identify what experiential factors contribute to effective therapeutic relationships.
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Mpuru, L. P. "Narrative accounts of the involvement of victims and perpetrators in mob-justice related incidents : a Limpopo case study." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27022.
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Increasing incidents of mob justice have left a trail of murders that remain unsolved in the rural areas of South Africa. As such, little attention has been given to the experiences of victims and perpetrators involved in mob justice related incidents in these areas in particular. The purpose of this study was to examine narrative accounts of the experiences of victims and perpetrators engaged in mob justice associated incidents in the Diphale village, Limpopo. Twenty participants, consisting of 14 perpetrators and 06 victims, were chosen through sampling techniques, like, convenience and snowball sampling. A qualitative approach was adopted using semi-structured interviews as the key research instrument. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 09 perpetrators, and two focus groups involving 06 victims and 05 perpetrators. Data was analysed using thematic analysis to interpret data collected from the participants. The findings indicated that unsolved crime leads to persistent mob justice activities in the Diphale village. The findings in the study were further bolstered through the provision of recommendations aimed at preventing future mob justice activities. The recommendations highlight proper service delivery, including community development, and the reduction of corruption and bribery.<br>Criminology and Security Science<br>M.A. (Criminology)
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Kitamura, Jun. "The causes of the Manchurian Incident : subtitle a non-Marxist interpretation." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13542.
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si tu veux la paix, connais la guerre
History repeats itself and war invariably brings tragedy to the world.
In contemporary society where powerful weapons are developed one
after another and world peace is a matter of ongoing concern, it is
important for sociologists to carry out thorough investigation of the
causes of war in order to help prevent future armed conflicts.
I selected the Manchurian Incident as a subject of my
investigation of the causes of war because there is some doubt as to the
existing explanation of its causes. After the end of World War II, the
economic determinist explanation--that the nature of capitalism caused
this imperialistic aggressive war--has predominated in Japanese
academic circles. The economic determinists deduce the causes of war
from the consequences of war and also disregard military factors, in
particular the motives of actors. Consequently, their anti-Weberian
explanations are not considered to be accounts of war as such.
I believe that war should be understood, not from a socioeconomic
viewpoint alone, but also from a military viewpoint. Thus, I
constructed my own approach as suggested by Qausewitz's theory of
war. My starting point follows Qausewitz in asserting that no one
starts a war without a war plan in which the objectives of the war must
be clear. I then reconstruct the war plans for the Manchurian Incident
through examining the primary sources. I infer the motives of the
actors from the war plans, and thereby determine the central causes of
the war.
My analysis reveals that an important feature of the Manchurian
Incident was an ongoing ideological battle between commercial pacifism
and militaristic realism. In addition, my study shows that the Tokyo
leaders thoroughly opposed the war in order to protect Japanese
capitalist interests; but the Kanto Army's leaders decided to go to war
exclusively for Japan's national defense. The Manchurian Incident
suggests, therefore, that the expansion of capitalist interests does not
always precipitate war; rather, ideological factors can be central in
making war; in this case, the military defense ideology of Japan.