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Jones, Vanessa. "Admission Criteria: A Focus on Using the Interview." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3656.
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The growing number of candidates for allied health programs and the continued quest for identification of ideal candidates increases the pressure for allied health programs to continually improve their selection process. Despite past and recent research and the significant amount of literature on admission criteria for selective allied health programs, there is limited research on faculty perceptions of the interview as part of the admission criteria.
For this study, interviews were conducted with fifteen allied health faculty members who teach in a program with selective admissions. The interviews consisted of seven open-ended questions and were audio-recorded, then transcribed through Temi.com. The transcriptions were analyzed for common themes.
The participants agreed that an interview is an important component of the selective admissions criteria particularly for assessing the candidate’s ability to communicate and interact with others.
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Suliman, Alrazi. "Asylum Seekers Views and Experiences from Different Types of Interviews." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21285.
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how asylum seekers may experience different interview methods in the asylum investigation in Sweden. An inductive qualitative data collection technique was used in this study, where semi-structured interviews were conducted with six asylum seekers in four different cities in Sweden. This study was influenced by the grounded theory approach in the way of creating codes, concepts and themes from the empirical data analyzed in thematic and constant comparison method. The results show three different themes, namely ‘‘the expressions of the feelings, possibilities to expressions and possibilities and difficulties.’’ as they present the asylum seekers views of different interview methods. The role theory was chosen in relation to the asylum seekers different behavior toward the interview methods. The results indicated the possibilities for different roles as: ‘‘psychological unbalanced role, technology skilled role, technology challenged role and the apprehensive role’’
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Griffiths, Frances Ellen. "Hormone replacement therapy : perspectives from women, medicine and sociology." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5084/.
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Developed on the boundary between medicine and sociology, this thesis develops a critique of the perspectives of these disciplines through analysis of a study of women's perspectives on hormone replacement therapy. Women's perspectives are explored through a postal questionnaire survey and a study using individual interviews and focus groups. The survey results provide a measure of women’s attitudes towards, and knowledge of, hormone replacement therapy. The individual interviews detail the way women move towards a decision about the therapy and identifies common themes, particularly women's fears and what influences their fears. The focus groups explore contrasting themes including women's control and choice in decisions about therapy, contrary themes in women’s attitudes and the different ways of thinking used by the women. The results of the studies are assessed for their implications for clinical general practice. The thesis also takes a sociological perspective on women and HRT and on the research process, in particular exploring two themes. Firstly, the interaction between the social context, the research subject and the research process. This includes the social factors influencing the development of the research and choice of research methods, and the influence of the research methods on the results obtained. The second theme is the perspectives and levels of analysis used by the main disciplines contributing to the thesis; biomedicine, biostatistics, general practice and sociology. The thesis explores how the different perspectives and levels of analysis influence research and how they are used to manage the social context. These explorations are used to suggest future directions for research on hormone replacement therapy and for general practice.
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Ecker, John. "A Mixed Methods Analysis of Community Integration Among Vulnerably Housed and Homeless Individuals." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32953.
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This thesis presents four distinct studies of psychological and social integration of homeless and vulnerably housed individuals. The first study presents a predictive model of psychological integration, defined as a sense of belonging and membership to one’s community. The second study presents a predictive model of social integration, defined as how an individual engages with others in the community. The third study presents a mixed methods comparative analysis of homeless and vulnerably housed individuals with “high” and “low” levels of psychological and social integration. The fourth study presents a reflexive analysis of conducting interviews with homeless and vulnerably housed individuals.
Data for this research comes from a two-year longitudinal study conducted in Ottawa, Ontario. Participants were men and women, over the age of 18 (Baseline: N = 397; Follow-up 1: N = 341; Follow-up 2: N = 320) who were either homeless or vulnerably housed at the study’s outset. Quantitative data analyses occurred at Follow-up 1 and 2 and utilized hierarchical multiple regression. Qualitative data analyses used a general inductive approach utilizing a First Cycle and Second Cycle coding method (Saldana, 2009).
Social support was a significant predictor of both psychological integration and social integration. Individuals with high levels of social support had high levels of psychological and social integration. Social support proved to be the only predictor to be significantly associated with social integration at both Follow-up 1 and 2. Psychological integration was positively associated with several variables at Follow-up 1 and 2: increased age, living in high quality housing, and residing in a neighbourhood that is perceived as having a positive impact. The mixed methods analysis uncovered several salient themes that affected psychological and social integration, including substance use in one’s housing and neighbourhood, neighbourhood safety and location, and housing quality. The reflexive component of the thesis highlighted the importance of location when conducting interviews and the power dynamics of the interview process. The results are discussed in terms of implications for service delivery and policy.
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Spengler, Peter A., and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "Procedural validity of standardized symptom questions for the assessment of psychotic symptoms: A comparison of the DIS with two clinical methods." Technische Universität Dresden, 1988. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A26471.
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The study examines to what degree well-documented present and life-time psychotic symptoms in a group of former psychiatric inpatients are ascertained when using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). The Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale (IMPS) and the Manual for the Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology/Diagnostische Sichtlochkartei (AMDP/DiaSika) Interview-Checklist approach were used for the “clinical” evaluations of symptoms. The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms. Low to poor agreement was found in the assessment of many of the rather specific hallucinations and delusions. Generally, the concordance found was higher when compared to the more clinical AMDP/DiaSiKa approach than to the IMPS. More detailed comparisons with diagnostic subgroups of schizophrenic and schizoaffective patients substantiated the findings in the overall sample. Overall it was reconfirmed that the DIS approach is limited to those patients who are cooperative and at least partly remitted.
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Spengler, Peter A., and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "Procedural validity of standardized symptom questions for the assessment of psychotic symptoms." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-103807.
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The study examines to what degree well-documented present and life-time psychotic symptoms in a group of former psychiatric inpatients are ascertained when using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). The Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale (IMPS) and the Manual for the Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology/Diagnostische Sichtlochkartei (AMDP/DiaSika) Interview-Checklist approach were used for the “clinical” evaluations of symptoms. The results indicate fair concordance between the two clinical approaches and the DIS with regard to the presence of any delusional or hallucination symptoms. Low to poor agreement was found in the assessment of many of the rather specific hallucinations and delusions. Generally, the concordance found was higher when compared to the more clinical AMDP/DiaSiKa approach than to the IMPS. More detailed comparisons with diagnostic subgroups of schizophrenic and schizoaffective patients substantiated the findings in the overall sample. Overall it was reconfirmed that the DIS approach is limited to those patients who are cooperative and at least partly remitted.
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Clayton, Diana. "Knowledge sharing in pulsating organisations : the experiences of music festival volunteers." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16238.
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This research aimed to investigate how and why festival volunteers share knowledge in pulsating UK music festival organisations, through an interpretation of volunteers’ lived experiences of knowledge sharing during the event lifecycle. Within the UK music festival sector, competition for leisure spend is high, and successful management of knowledge activities has the ability to improve business, innovation, and competitive advantage. Research across Knowledge Management Studies, Festival Studies, and People and Organisation Studies is dominated by positivist, quantitative research; whereas, this research investigated a fuzzy concept (knowledge) in a socially-constructed world (music festival) and interpreted multiple realities of social actors (volunteers). To do this, a qualitative, phenomenological study was suitable to explore in-depth experiences and unveil meanings attached to them. Purposive sampling using social media resulted in a sample of adult festival volunteers (n=28) being recruited. The methods selected enabled the ability to privilege the participants’ voice and their lived experience; these were diaries (n=11) and in-depth interviews (n=9), or both (n=8). The empirical data generated was interpreted using thematic analysis, using Atlas.ti. The findings of this research illustrate how and why volunteers share knowledge that is attributed to a successful process of volunteering, which enables effective knowledge management and reproduction. Where volunteers’ motivations are satisfied, this leads to bounce-back, episodic volunteering. Knowledge enablers and the removal of barriers create conditions that are conducive for knowledge sharing, which have similar characteristics to conditions for volunteering continuance commitment. Where volunteers do not return, the organisation leaks knowledge. The original contribution of this research is through its use of qualitative phenomenological methods to explore how and why UK music festival volunteers share knowledge.
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Linkroum, Suzanne C. "Understanding How African-American Middle School Students Cope with Peer Victimization: A Mixed-Methods Approach." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1513.
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A mixed-methods approach was used to determine how African-American middle school students cope with peer victimization and to identify factors that inhibit and promote the use of prosocial coping strategies. In a previous study, participants had been categorized into four social clusters: well-adjusted, rejected, passively-victimized, or aggressively-victimized based on a cluster analysis of self-reported psychosocial variables. Interviews with a sub sample of 80 students focusing on identifying both how students thought they would respond and how they thought they should respond to hypothetical situations involving peer victimization were analyzed. Interviews also elicited factors that would support or impede the use of the coping responses generated by the participants. Qualitative analysis identified 15 coping responses that students would use, and categorized each individual response as prosocial, aggressive, or avoidant based on emotional, cognitive, and behavioral criteria. In addition, 13 coping responses were identified as strategies youth thought they should do. Ten supports, and ten barriers to prosocial coping responses were identified, representing a range of internal and interpersonal factors. Results of logistic regression models did not support the central hypothesis that the type of coping response generated (e.g., prosocial, aggressive, avoidant) would depend on social cluster. However, significant gender results were found, suggesting that girls were more likely than boys to identify prosocial coping strategies. Implications for violence prevention programs are discussed.
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Dunn, Sarah E. "Interviewing Pre-school Age Victims of Child Sexual Abuse: Interviewing Methods and Disclosure Outcomes." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_theses/13.
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Disclosure rates among pre-school age victims of alleged sexual abuse were related to the type of investigative interview (forensic evaluation or forensic interview) that they received following a report of abuse. Variables expected to affect the likelihood of the child making a valid disclosure of sexual abuse including the relationship of the child to the offender and the severity of the abuse were also examined. The results indicated that children who underwent a structured, one-time 30 minute forensic interview were significantly less likely to make a valid disclosure of sexual abuse than children who underwent a semi-structured, therapeutic style evaluation over the course of several weeks. The current findings do not suggest that either offender relationship or severity of abuse significantly moderate the relationship between interview type and disclosure status. Limitations of the current study and future directions are discussed.
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Jordanov, Dejan. "Up-lift in Vaggeryd : Qualitative Analysis of Entrepreneurial Education in Vaggeryd." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-991.
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<p>PROBLEM DISCUSSION: Vaggeryd is a small municipality Småland. In addition to its</p><p>strategic position along the main traffic route E4, Vaggeryd is very interesting also because</p><p>of its advanced view on growing of the business sector, in both short and long-term per-</p><p>spective.</p><p>To meet that goal the municipality of Vaggeryd started to invest in “Egenföretagareutbildningen”</p><p>EFU in cooperation with Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). The</p><p>main idea is that students attend the courses that are held by JIBS and during their studies start their own business in a local business incubator called Fenix.</p><p>PURPOSE: To host such education requires a huge amount of energy and resources from</p><p>the municipality, which consequently would like to get answers to questions like “Is it worth investing in the education?” or “What are the results of such education?”</p><p>The aim of this paper is to give the answers to those crucial questions though I believe that</p><p>the time that has passed from the beginning of the education is too short and that the</p><p>number of the students was not large enough to get definitive answers.</p><p>This paper concentrates on a narrow part of the qualitative research methods – an inter-</p><p>view. It is divided into two parts, a theoretical part and the empirical findings.</p><p>FINDINGS: The research showed that six students out of a total of ten from generation 2005 started a new venture, three will take over a family business, and one has not decided</p><p>to start a business yet. Of six students in generation 2003 four have started a business and one of them finished in bankruptcy, one plans to start a business in the future and one does not have a good business idea.</p><p>RECOMMENDATIONS: Answers that the interviews returned gave interesting sugges-</p><p>tions to both the municipality of Vaggeryd and JIBS about how to improve EFU. I would</p><p>emphasise two, I believe, the most important recommendations. First municipality has to</p><p>attract neighbouring municipalities in the EFU project. In addition, a greater effort should be made to help students build a spider’s web of business contacts.</p>
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Hovorková, Denisa. "Komparace AC a výběrového pohovoru v procesu výběru zaměstnanců do bankovní instituce." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-198262.
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The dimploma thesis Comparison of AC and selection interview in process of employee selection in a bank institution is focused on comparison of financial, time and organizational difficulties of these two methods. The theoretic part defines basic terms as employee selection, Assessment Centre and selection interview. The Practical part compares process of selection in a bank institution for business positions. The thesis states time frame of each of the methods, defines invovled employees in processes, evaluates the processes according to costs and in the end copares results from selection interview which took place during AC and the overall results from AC.
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Ullrich, Peter. "Alte Psychoanalytiker/-innen." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-74797.
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Die Arbeit untersucht Berufstätigkeit und Berufsausstieg alter Psychoanalytiker/-innen. Dazu werden der konzeptuelle Forschungsstand zum Thema referiert, zu dem es bisher fast keine empirische Forschung gab, und eigene Ergebnisse aus zwei Befragungen (eine standardisierte Fragebogenerhebung und eine Studie auf Basis berufsbiographischer narrativer Interviews) vorgestellt. Diese geben Auskunft über die hohe Erwerbsneigung der untersuchten Gruppe vor dem 1.1.1937 geborener Analytiker/-innen (69 %) und ihre Tätigkeitsfelder. Dabei zeigt sich eine Abnahme im Ausmaß der Berufstätigkeit und eine Verschiebung der Tätigkeitsfelder (von Praxistätigkeit zu ausbildungsbezogenen Tätigkeiten) mit zunehmendem Alter. Unterschiedliche Motive stehen hinter der hohen Erwerbsneigung (u.a. Identifikation mit der Psychoanalyse, Bedürfnis nach sozialer Anerkennung, Einkommensabhängigkeit). Der Übergang in den Ruhestand erfolgt in wenigen Fällen radikal mittels eines deutlichen Bruchs mit der psychoanalytischen Tätigkeit und dem fach(gesellschaft)lichen Engagement und meist gleitend durch eine langsame Verschiebung der Tätigkeitsfelder und die sanfte Reduzierung der Praxistätigkeit (häufig). Herausforderungen und Probleme der Übergangszeit werden dargestellt und daraus Empfehlungen für eine „Kultur des Übergangs“ abgeleitet.
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Athreya, Brinda K. "Spatially Assessing the perceptions and motivations of farmers implementing Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the Western Lake Erie Basin." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1588932667586433.
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Pessalacia, Juliana Dias Reis. "Bioética e pesquisa: percepção dos sujeitos de pesquisa acerca de assuntos e situações constrangedoras em pesquisas com questionamentos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22131/tde-15052009-094043/.
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A valorização dos limites éticos, no que diz respeito à abordagem às pessoas, em pesquisas em que utilizem instrumentos contendo questionamentos é pouco considerada. Pensa-se que o risco para os participantes é quase nulo, uma vez que a utilização de tais instrumentos não envolve danos físicos. Deste modo, parece não estar muito clara para os pesquisadores a importância da reflexão sobre estes tipos de instrumentos de coleta de dados como possíveis geradores de riscos de ordem não-física (psicológicos, morais, sociais, espirituais). Assim sendo, este estudo teve como objetivo reconhecer os tipos de assuntos/questões que possam trazer algum tipo de constrangimento ou mesmo danos a sujeitos de pesquisa vulneráveis (ou não) circunstancialmente. Tratou-se de um estudo prospectivo, comparativo, de abordagem quantitativa onde foram abordados ao todo 1149 sujeitos de pesquisa subdivididos em população vulnerável e não vulnerável circunstancialmente. Tais populações foram convidadas a participar do estudo atribuindo graus de constrangimento relacionado a tópicos de sensibilidade e a situações possivelmente constrangedoras em pesquisa. Foram levantados como assuntos potencialmente constrangedores, falar sobre: traição, violência física, provocação sexual no trabalho, abuso sexual, violência psicológica, morte de pessoas próximas e questões envolvendo a sexualidade e o comportamento amoroso. Contudo, chamanos a atenção, como resultado, o fato de que o constrangimento aumenta se consideradas as condições nas quais tais assuntos são abordados, foram citadas: a falta de autorização/consentimento, a falta de esclarecimento prévio acerca do tipo de questões a serem abordadas, a questão do sigilo e anonimato e o uso de imagens ou gravador. Tais resultados trazem subsídios importantes para a avaliação ética por parte de pesquisadores e de Comitês de Ética em Pesquisa com Seres Humanos, no que diz respeito à prevenção de riscos em pesquisas com questionamentos.<br>The importance of ethical limits concerning the approaching of subjects in research that use poll instruments is not much considered. People think that the risk for the participants is almost null, assuming that such instruments do not cause any physical damages. This way, the importance of this reflection seems not to be very clear for the investigators using these types of instruments of data collection as possible creators of non-physical risks such as psychological, moral, social and spiritual. Thus, this study aimed at recognizing the types of subjects/questions that could bring some types of embarrassment or even damages to vulnerable (or not) subjects of research, eventually. This was a prospective, comparative, quantitative approach which addressed 1149 subjects of research subdivided into vulnerable and not vulnerable population, circumstantially. These people were invited to participate in the study giving a degree of embarrassment related to sensitive topics and possibly embarrassing situations in research. Issues were raised as potentially embarrassing, such as: betrayal, physical violence, sexual bullying at work, sexual abuse, psychological abuse and death of close people, questions involving sexuality and loving behavior issues. However, it calls us the attention, as a result, to the fact that the embarrassment may increase if considered the conditions under which such topics are approached, such as: the lack of authorization/consent, the lack of prior information about the type of questions to be addressed, the issue of confidentiality and anonymity and the use of images or recorder. These results provide important subsidies for the ethical evaluation by researchers and Research Ethics Committees involving human beings, regarding the prevention of risks in studies with polls.
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Marková, Petra. "Analýza systému hodnocení zaměstnanců." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-192418.
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The Master's Thesis is focused on the analysis of the employee performance appraisal system in the selected company. The aim of the thesis is to identify a strengths and weaknesses of the performance appraisal system and based on the discovered facts to suggest suitable solutions for increasing the efficiency of the evaluation system. The theoretical part deals with fundamental theoretical concepts and also with personal activities related to the employee performance appraisal. In the practical part is found out how the system of the employee performance appraisal is perceived through the questionnaire survey. Based on the survey results are identified shortcomings of the current system and proposed the measures for streamline the performance system.
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Karpen, Samuel C., and Nicholas E. Hagemeier. "Assessing Faculty and Student Interpretations of AACP Survey Items with Cognitive Interviewing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1482.
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Objective. To use cognitive interviewing techniques to determine faculty and student interpretation of a subset of items from the AACP faculty and graduating student surveys.
Methods. Students and faculty were interviewed individually in a private room. The interviewer asked each respondent for his/her interpretation of 15 randomly selected items from the graduating student survey or 20 items from the faculty survey.
Results. While many items were interpreted consistently by respondents, the researchers identified several items that were either difficult to interpret or produced differing interpretations.
Conclusion. Several interpretational inconsistencies and ambiguities were discovered that could compromise the usefulness of certain survey items.
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Chudán, David. "Association rule mining as a support for OLAP." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-201130.
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The aim of this work is to identify the possibilities of the complementary usage of two analytical methods of data analysis, OLAP analysis and data mining represented by GUHA association rule mining. The usage of these two methods in the context of proposed scenarios on one dataset presumes a synergistic effect, surpassing the knowledge acquired by these two methods independently. This is the main contribution of the work. Another contribution is the original use of GUHA association rules where the mining is performed on aggregated data. In their abilities, GUHA association rules outperform classic association rules referred to the literature. The experiments on real data demonstrate the finding of unusual trends in data that would be very difficult to acquire using standard methods of OLAP analysis, the time consuming manual browsing of an OLAP cube. On the other hand, the actual use of association rules loses a general overview of data. It is possible to declare that these two methods complement each other very well. The part of the solution is also usage of LMCL scripting language that automates selected parts of the data mining process. The proposed recommender system would shield the user from association rules, thereby enabling common analysts ignorant of the association rules to use their possibilities. The thesis combines quantitative and qualitative research. Quantitative research is represented by experiments on a real dataset, proposal of a recommender system and implementation of the selected parts of the association rules mining process by LISp-Miner Control Language. Qualitative research is represented by structured interviews with selected experts from the fields of data mining and business intelligence who confirm the meaningfulness of the proposed methods.
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Omar, Azmi. "Insourcing a government information system : a case study from Malaysia." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2441.
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Insourcing, outsourcing and co-sourcing are three approaches to procuring an information system. This research contributes to the body of knowledge on insourcing an information system; exploring and discussing the enabling and inhibiting factors of the insourcing of an information system in selected government agencies in Malaysia. This study was undertaken in response to a paucity of similar projects and a limited literature focused on developing countries. It considers the post outsourcing context following the decision to insource a major Malaysian Government Information System in 2011. A qualitative research method was used to obtain empirical evidence from selected government agencies through 69 semi-structured interviews in two data collection periods: 2013-2014 and 2015. Interviews were conducted with civil servants at all levels, from senior management to clerical staff, including users of the government information system. By using coding principles from grounded theory to analyse the data, seven exciters and six inhibitors of insourcing a government information system were identified and mapped in the analytical framework. Further, this is the first research to use an enhanced model, devised by combining the OPTIMISM model and two distinct theoretical traditions: institutional theory and the capability approach; in order to analyse the insourcing of government information system adoption. The enhanced model was created by mapping the OPTIMISM model (that has a set of dimensions) to an analytical framework comprising the capability approach, institutional theory and technology (ICTs). The main research contribution of this thesis is in the area of capacity building of the internal development team. The increased budget for training, the selection of appropriate training providers and knowledge sharing among experienced and novice developers all contribute to building capacity in the internal development team; and consequently help to improve the quality of the system which will improve service delivery to the general public. The approach and findings of this study contribute to the body of knowledge and understanding of the subject in government information system development and implementation, and can also be applied to improving the quality of service delivery. While this study has focused on government information systems, the wider area of eGovernment, and applications serving the needs of the general public, is equally important, and therefore the researcher suggests that insourcing eGovernment applications would also assist in the capacity building of internal IT staff.
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Cedervall, Ylva. "Physical Activity and Alzheimer's Disease : Measurements, Observations and Subjective Experiences." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Geriatrik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-223687.
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Gait disturbances such as slow walking speed and step-to-step variability have been reported among people with mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and as risk factors for functional decline, dependency, and falls. Additionally, AD-related emotional reactions and decreased initiative can lead to physical inactivity. The aims of this thesis, therefore, were to explore how the ability to be physically active is affected in the early years of AD, and how people with mild AD and their cohabitants reason about physical activity as part of their everyday life. To meet the aims, an approach inspired by mixed methods research was used, covering measurements, observations and subjective experiences. Data were collected from different sources in parallel. Participants with mild AD were recruited at the Memory Clinic, Uppsala University Hospital. In Study I, a case study with two couples in which one member had AD, in-depth interviews and participating interviews were performed. Physical activity such as walking was viewed as a meaningful routine improving well-being. Participants were positive about making adjustments to enable physical activity. In Study II, the 25 participants with AD showed a significant lower walking capacity (10 m comfortable walk test, 6-minute walk test, Timed-up-and-Go test) at baseline compared to controls. The decline continued during the subsequent two years. The influence of a cognitive task on walking was distinct, despite this, participants maintained a health-promoting level of physical activity during the two-year study-period. In Study III, gait testing in the motor laboratory of 21 participants with AD showed a marked impact on gait parameters (e.g. slowed speed, decreased step length) by a cognitive task. Additionally, specific dual-task gait disturbances were frequent. In Study IV, in-depth interviews with 14 participants with AD indicated that physical activity was viewed as a meaningful activity, used as a means to maintain well-being and selfhood, and contributed to continuity in life. In conclusion, walking capacity deteriorates and declines in the early stages of AD. A simple cognitive task can have a substantially negative impact on walking already in mild AD. In contrast, people with AD can also gain “self-promoting benefits” from physical activity beyond the common health-promoting benefits.
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Chheda, Bijal Mavji Bharti. "Evaluation of narrative interview as an assessment method." Thesis, University of Hull, 2004. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8080.
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This thesis examines the role of the narrative interview as an assessment method. The main aim of the study was to ascertain the value of subjective and holistic methods of assessment in facilitating and enabling psychological processes. Traditional psychometric techniques of assessment are compared with narrative interviews, based on Bartram's (1990) 'Factors to consider when choosing an assessment method'. Data collection was in two phases. During phase one, 40 participants were administered traditional assessment tasks: Differential Aptitude Tests, Career Interest Inventory and structured guidance interviews. This enabled an evaluation of traditional assessment techniques to allow a comparison of the open-ended narrative interview. For phase two 10 participants from phase one and 30 new participants were administered the narrative interview in order to ascertain its value. Assessment profiles which were formulated, feedback questionnaire results and focus group feedback results portrayed particular strengths of the narrative interview. The narrative interview is seen to provide rich, holistic and deep assessments. It also instilled motivation and encouraged participants thereby facilitating the overall psychological process. The narrative interview thus fulfils aspects of assessment, which traditional assessment techniques fail to provide. The phenomenological and subjective nature of narrative interview aids reconceptualisation of the term 'assessment' from classification and categorization to understanding and exploration.
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Endrikat, Jan, Franziska Schlage, and Julia Hillmann. "Ökonomische und ökologische Bewertung der Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Siedlungsentwässerung." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-38553.
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In recent publications it is questioned whether the existing wastewater management system is suitable for future requirements. The today’s wastewater infrastructure is a complex socio-technical system characterized by centralization, very long life-spans and sunk costs. Thus, it appears questionable whether this system is suitable against the background of a context of dynamic conditions as demographic change, climate change and the emerging requirements in terms of sustainability.
This paper adds a contribution to the growing body of literature on prospective waste water management systems. Focusing on long term developments this paper aims to build up scenario-modules towards the year 2050. Our approach combines three methodologies which appear to be suitable with each other, namely the method of explorative scenario development, a modified Delphi method and content analysis.
As the waste water sector is a very complex system with various impact factors which are characterized by high dynamics and strong uncertainty the scenario technique appears as an appropriate method. Within the scenario building process a modified Delphi method had been applied to generate the input for the scenario-modules. Key drivers and uncertainties in the field of waste water management were identified by interviewing 16 experts who are scientists or practitioners in the waste water sector. The interviews had been transliterated and then evaluated by using the content analysis approach. Afterwards scenario-modules were derived which provide a basis for further procedure towards complete scenarios for future wastewater infrastructure.
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Laham, Claudia Fernandes. ""Percepção de perdas e ganhos subjetivos entre cuidadores de pacientes atendidos em um programa de assistência domiciliar"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5160/tde-10082005-151808/.
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O objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar as percepções dos cuidadores informais de pacientes de um serviço de assistência domiciliar sobre o cuidar e seu impacto, estudando aspectos positivos e negativos associados a este papel e a influência da assistência domiciliar para o seu desempenho. Participaram 50 cuidadores de pacientes inscritos no NADI Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP, que responderam uma entrevista semi-dirigida e a Caregiver Burden Scale. Os cuidadores referem aspectos positivos dos cuidados, associados ao aprendizado e ao ganho narcísico, bem como aspectos negativos, como a perda de liberdade. Conclui-se que cuidar traz perdas e ganhos ao cuidador, relacionados ao seu envolvimento com a atividade e que as orientações da equipe são importantes para o sentimento de segurança do mesmo<br>The objective of this research was to investigate the perception of informal caregivers of patients attended by a home care program, about the care and its impact, studying positive and negative aspects associated with this role and the influence of home care and its development. Fifty caregivers of patients registered at NADI Hospital das Clínicas of FMUSP, participated in the study, answering the questions of a semi-structured interview and the Caregiver Burden Scale. Caregivers refer to positive aspects of caring related to learning and narcisistic gains, as well as to negative ones, such as the loss of freedom. It includes that caring brings losses and gains to the caregiver which are related to his involvment with the activity and that the staff´s orientation is very important for their feeling of security
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Fink, Gerhard, Marcus Kölling, and Anne-Katrin Neyer. "The cultural standard method." Europainstitut, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2005. http://epub.wu.ac.at/450/1/document.pdf.
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The proposed method enables us to identify cultural standards, i.e. the underlying norms of thinking, sensing, perceiving, judging, and acting that the vast majority of individuals in a given culture is considering as normal for themselves and others. Norms of behaviour can be different across societies even if the underlying values are the same and can cause critical incidents to emerge. A sequence of methodological steps allows systematically dealing with sampling, interviewer, interpretation, construct, and culture bias in cross-cultural qualitative research based on narrative interviews.(author's abstract)<br>Series: EI Working Papers / Europainstitut
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Hornungová, Jana. "Návrh na zvýšení efektivity přijímacího řízení." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264859.
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Diploma thesis is oriented for intake and selection of employees. Right selected worker can increase effectiveness of company and in that way he is one of the pivot elements of the organization. That’s why is necessary do not downgrade selection procedure and find perfect worker and then try to create conditions for two-sided satisfaction. Diploma thesis contains theoretic and practical part, which will be processed on base obtained from Center for leisure time Lužánky. The point is to design a new way of in taking employees which would lead to elevation of effectiveness and would get specific order to the whole selection procedure.
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Hill, Colin J. "The 10,000-Hour Threshold: Interviews with Successful Percussionists." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/31.
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Musicians are universally reliant on practice to improve and perfect their craft and there is substantial evidence that suggests mastery can only be achieved after 10,000 hours of practice early in life. This dissertation explores the validity of this theory as it pertains to master percussionists and examines their discoveries and recommendations as to how those 10,000 hours should best be spent. Research sources include selected published literature and personal interviews with thirty-six percussionists, conducted between 2010- 2013. The research is summarized in the following six sections: the 10,000-hour threshold; planning a practice session; warming up; learning new music; problem spots; and performance preparation. The primary goal of this dissertation is to detail the specific practice methods currently implemented by many of today’s most successful percussionists. This research should reveal the various ways success can be achieved in the practice room and help aspiring and accomplished professionals alike explore and integrate new practice methods and philosophies into their own careers and the careers of their students.
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Norén, Viveca. "When water becomes a threat : Risk assessment and risk management plans for floods and drinking water in Swedish practice." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-301940.
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Water is an essential but vulnerable resource. A shortage of good quality drinking water is a threat to human health and society as a whole. Abundance of water in the form of floods can also be a serious threat which can have consequences for the drinking water supply. To reduce these risks there is a need for systematic risk reduction. In the last decades a risk management approach has been developed in the management of both flood and drinking water risks. This means that a reactive, ad hoc management is being replaced by a more proactive and systematic approach where risks are analysed and evaluated as a basis for prioritising counter-measures. The complex nature of water issues has also made it evident that there is a need for a holistic view of the management, involving a variety of actors and sectors. An integrated management approach to floods and water resources has emerged. This thesis aims to examine how local level risk management, especially risk assessments, of floods and drinking water supply have been or can be performed in practice in Sweden. The existing practices have been characterised in relation to current risk management frameworks. Furthermore, the thesis aims to investigate how the effects of flood on drinking water supply have been considered in risk assessment methods and in flood risk management plans, as well as whether flood and drinking water risks have been considered in an integrated manner. The studies are based on interviews with flood risk managers in Swedish municipalities and Swedish water producers as well as on document studies of risk assessment methods and flood risk management plans. There are large variations between different municipalities and water producers in how, and to what extent, risk assessments have been performed. Some have performed very little, if any, risk assessment while others have worked systematically. The tools used are often those that are promoted by national agencies and are often less advanced than those described in the literature. The risk assessments do not always cover all relevant aspects of the risk and few actors have discussed an acceptable risk level. Flood risk assessments focus mostly on the exposure of objects to flood and investigate the consequences of such an exposure only to a limited extent. The incomplete risk assessments may result in a biased view of the risk which in turn can lead to poor decision-making. The theoretical knowledge about risk management is in many cases low and there is still often a practical approach. Strategic and holistic approaches are mostly lacking. The consequences of flood on drinking water supply are not known in detail and are not considered in detail in risk assessments commonly used in Sweden. There is an awareness of the need to coordinate the management of flood and water resources. However, despite the good intentions regarding integration, there are few signs in the risk assessments and risk management plans that integration is actually occurring. Both the risk management approach and integrated management have started to be implemented in Swedish flood and drinking water risk management. It is however on a basic level and it is still a long way to go. Further guidance and knowledge about risk management as well as commitment from and collaboration among all actors concerned is needed to make this development possible.<br>Vatten är en livsnödvändig men sårbar resurs. Brist på dricksvatten av god kvalitet är ett allvarligt hot mot människors hälsa och för hela samhället. Även överflöd av vatten i form av översvämningar kan vara ett allvarligt hot och kan bland annat får konsekvenser för dricksvattenförsörjningen. För att minska dessa risker finns det behov av systematiskt riskreducerande arbete. De senaste decennierna har systematisk riskhantering (risk management approach) utvecklats inom hanteringen av översvämningar och dricksvattenförsörjning. Detta innebär att en reaktiv och osystematisk hantering ersätts med en mer proaktiv och systematisk hantering baserad på analys och utvärdering av risker som stöd för beslutsfattande. Den komplexitet som vattenfrågor omfattar har också gjort det tydligt att det finns behov av en helhetsyn på hur vatten hanteras och att ett flertal aktörer och sektorer behöver involveras. Teorier om integrerad hantering (integrated management) har vuxit fram och börjat implementeras. Syftet med denna avhandling är att undersöka hur riskhantering, särskilt riskbedömningar, på lokal nivå utförs eller kan utföras i praktiken i Sverige. Praktiken har beskrivits och karakteriserats i förhållande till befintliga ramverk om riskhantering. Dessutom är syftet att undersöka hur konsekvenser av översvämningar på dricksvattenförsörjningen behandlas i metoder för riskbedömning och riskhanteringsplaner för översvämning liksom att studera om risker relaterade till översvämningar och dricksvatten har behandlats på ett integrerat sätt. Studierna är baserad på intervjuer med översvämningshanterare i svenska kommuner och svenska vattenproducenter samt dokumentstudier av metoder för riskbedömning och riskhanteringsplaner för översvämning. Det är stora skillnader mellan hur och i vilken omfattning olika kommuner och vattenproducenter har gjort riskbedömningar. Vissa har knappt gjort någon riskbedömning alls medan andra har arbetat mer systematiskt. De verktyg som används är ofta de som finns i handböcker från svenska myndigheter och är ofta mindre avancerade än vad som beskrivs i litteraturen. Riskbedömningarna täcker inte alltid all relevanta aspekter av risken och det är få som har diskuterat vad som är en acceptabel risknivå. Översvämningsbedömningarna har fokuserat på vilka objekt som exponeras vid en översvämning och möjliga konsekvenser på drabbade objekt har undersökts i mycket begränsad utsträckning. Ofullständiga riskbedömningar kan ge en felaktig bild av risken och därmed vara ett inkomplett underlag för beslutsfattande. Den teoretiska kunskapen om riskhantering är i många fall låg och många har en praktisk inställning till riskhanteringen. Det saknas oftast strategi och helhetstänkande. Kunskapen om konsekvenser av översvämning på dricksvattenförsörjningen är begränsad och behandlas inte heller i detalj i de metoder för riskbedömning som är mest vanligt förekommande i Sverige. Det finns en medvetenhet om behovet av att koordinera hanteringen av översvämning och vattenresurser. Trots de goda intentionerna om integrering visar riskbedömningar och riskhanteringsplaner få tecken på att integrering sker i praktiken. Både systematisk riskhantering och integrerad hantering är synsätt som har börjat utvecklas och implementeras inom svensk hantering av översvämningar och dricksvattenförsörjning. Det sker dock fortfarande på en relativt grundläggande nivå och det är en lång väg kvar. Det finns behov av ytterligare vägledning och mer kunskap om riskhantering liksom engagemang från och samarbete mellan alla berörda aktörer för att stödja vidare utveckling.
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Erngren, Lisa. "Healthcare-associated infections in Kenya : An interview study about nurses’ experience." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-6903.
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Background: Healthcare associated infection (HCAI) is a global issue and one of the most frequent adverse events in healthcare. HCAI is a major burden for patients’ and leads to added pain and higher cost for the society. The most important measure to prevent the transmission of HCAI is hand hygiene. In developing countries can insufficient equipment and supplies, lack of financial support and understaffed hospital units have a negative effect for the patients safety and makes it difficult to reduce HCAI. Aim: The aim of the study was to get knowledge about Kenyan nurses’ experiences of healthcare-associated infections. Method: The author used a qualitative method. Individual semi-structured interviews were made with four nurses at a government financial hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. The interviews were analyzed with a manifest analysis. Result: The analysis of the transcribed text made five categories, Education for healthcare workers, students and patients, Lack of equipment and supplies, The issues with crosscontamination, Prevention of HCAI and Understaffed hospital. The results were discussed with Dorothea Orem’s Self-care Theory with a focus on the Theory of Nursing system and other studies relating to the results. Conclusion: Knowledge about HCAI is one of the first steps to be able to reduce infections. Cross-contamination is the main risk factor for HCAI and multiple interventions are an effective strategy to successfully increase hand hygiene.
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Becker, Martina. "Werterleben im biographischen Rückblick eine empirische Untersuchung auf der Basis von persönlichen Gesprächen." München M-Press, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2671145&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Deetjen, Ulrike. "Internet use and health : a mixed methods analysis using spatial microsimulation and interviews." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:92b1d35c-1aed-435d-8daa-18b1cd9ccaa1.
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Internet use is considered a lever for empowering patients, levelling inequalities and reducing healthcare expenditure. However, with digital inclusion, health provision quality and health system efficiency high on the UK and EU policy agendas, we need to better understand the relationship between Internet use and health outcomes to assess potential benefits and adverse effects. This research addresses the question of how Internet use influences individuals' health service use and their perceived health in the context of England. Focusing on health information-seeking, it analyses variations across different kinds of users, mechanisms between Internet use and both health outcomes, and the role of individual and contextual factors in this relationship. To answer this question, this research uses a mixed methods approach. Quantitative data from the Oxford Internet Surveys (OxIS), the English census and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) was connected through spatial microsimulation based on output areas. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured, face-to-face interviews, primarily with former OxIS participants from output areas in the quantitative strand. The quantitative data was revisited based on emerging interview themes. The results indicate that Internet use influences perceived health and health service use via various mechanisms based on the Internet's content, mediation and connection affordances. However, the boundaries between users and non-users are blurry and outcomes vary for different types of individuals, classified here as learners, pragmatists, sceptics, worriers, delegators and adigitals. Age, education, socioeconomic status, long-term health conditions, and geographic context influence Internet use and health outcomes separately, while the social context shapes their relationship too. These findings advance the theoretical understanding of Internet-based health outcomes, and provide practical implications for health professionals and policymakers with insights down to the local level. Moreover, this research demonstrates how novel insights for public wellbeing can be derived from qualitatively enriched secondary data in privacy-preserving and cost-effective ways.
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Barcytė, Laura, and Aidanas Barzelis. "STUDENTŲ TARPKULTŪRINĖS KOMPETENCIJOS UGDYMAS TAIKANT KOOPERUOTŲ STUDIJŲ METODĄ." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080925_115700-40157.
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Šio darbo tikslas – nustatyti ir įvertinti kooperuotų studijų metodo įtaką ugdant studentų tarpkultūrinę kompetenciją Filosofijos ir pilietinio ugdymo studijų programoje. Tyrimo instrumentas – autorių sukurtas atviro tipo interviu klausimynas. Magistro darbe, remiantis Lietuvos ir užsienio mokslinės literatūra bei dokumentų analize išanalizuotas tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos teorinis-hipotetinis modelis, atskleidžiantis jos sampratą, struktūrą, dimensijas ir ugdymo ypatumus akademinėje kultūroje; atskleista kooperuotų studijų programa, jos struktūra, metodika ir ypatumai. Tyrimas patvirtina autorių suformuluotą mokslinio tyrimo hipotezę, kad kooperuotų studijų metodas įtakoja Filosofijos ir pilietinio ugdymo studentų tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos raišką.<br>The aim of this paper is to measure and evaluate the impact of method of cooperative studies developing Philosophy and public science study program students‘ intercultural competence. The instrument of research – open interview questionnaire created by the authors. By analyzing the foreign and local academical literature theoretical-hypothetical model of intercultural competence was designed, which develop the conception, structure and education peculiarities in academic culture; cooperative study program, its‘structure, methodology and peculiarity was developed. The research confirmed the hypothesis that authors had formulated – that the method of cooperative studies have an impact on intercultural competence of the Philosophy and public science study program students‘.
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Brazill-Murray, Colleen Marie. "Adolescent Perceptions of Addiction| A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Instagram Hashtags and Adolescent Interviews." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747222.
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<p> Addictive disorders are a public health crisis that affects our society by draining our workforce, health care, judicial, education, and law enforcement, resources. Adolescents are particularly susceptible to social influence—for better and for worse—and addiction. Through social media, today’s youth experience a whole new way of communicating. Not enough is known about adolescent perceptions of addiction, and messages of addiction they are exposed to on social media. Social Learning Theory and the Learning Theory of Addiction provided the framework for understanding how adolescents are at risk for developing unhealthy practices that create numerous psychological, social and physical problems in adulthood. Concurrent, mixed-methods, were used to explore adolescent perceptions of addiction and Instagram hashtags related to addiction. A content analysis of Instagram hashtags related to addiction and interview data from 11 adolescents aged 16-18 from a Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) club in New Jersey was collected and analyzed. The sample for phase one of this study was comprised of 819,155 Instagram posts, hashtagged #addiction, #recovery, #alcohol, and #drugs, collected on 5 dates over a month. Phase 2, adolescent interviews, included open-ended and Addiction Belief Survey (ABS) questions. The study’s findings led to the conclusion that the adolescents interviewed have uncertain, and at times prejudicial, understandings of addiction. They see social media as potentially helpful in the fight against addiction and feel protected from negative messages of addiction by a strong circle of friends and family. Addiction related posts on Instagram, though littered with unhealthy messages, reflect the belief that addiction is recoverable and avoidable through social support. Adolescent perceptions of addiction align with those expressed on Instagram in both healthy and unhealthy ways. Beliefs of addiction expressed by adolescents and on Instagram reflect recent findings in the scientific literature on the nature of addiction, stigma, social support, and wellness. Study recommendations include for school and government leadership to take a multi-pronged, community based, approach in supporting adolescents. Future research should focus on social media support for adolescents and adolescent social learning of addiction. Secondary school curricula and interventions that include social media should be created and improved using design-based research because it allows for evidence-based improvement.</p><p>
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Zakher, Maged Sobhy Mokhtar. "The use of sacred texts as tools to enhance social research interviews." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622699.
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Background – Enhanced social research interviews seek to engage interviewees in extended conversation-like dialogues where they are empowered to produce output by discussing themes of relevance to them. Photos, videos, vignettes and other enhancing tools have been used before in social sciences research interviews to contextualise the interview interaction. Initial Assumption – Sacred texts (such as excerpts from the Bible and the Quran) enjoy some features that make them potential tools to enhance research interviews. This study set out to answer the Research Question: ‘What are the benefits and challenges of using sacred texts as tools to enhance social research interviews?’ Methodology – Selected Biblical and Quranic verses were used in three sets each, to start social discussions with fifteen Christian and thirteen Muslim participants, respectively, in semi-structured interviews. Findings – The findings of this empirical study show that using sacred texts was perceived favourably by the participants, enhanced the dynamics of the interviews and provided a platform to produce data that are rich, varied and nuanced. Conclusion – This research points out the usefulness of sacred texts – as enhancing tools – when used in social research interviews to produce natural conversations that, in turn, lead to rich, nuanced data. This suggests that sacred texts can be added to the qualitative research interview-enhancing toolbox especially with exploratory studies that are open for emerging themes during interview settings. Research areas where sacred texts can be used in interviews include: ethics, social relations, gender roles, psychology, moral choices, cultural studies and spirituality, among other social sciences disciplines. Researchers as well as participants will be expected to have a degree of familiarity with the sacred book or texts to make both interviewers and interviewees interested enough in discussing it in an open and respectful setting.
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Fernandes, Angela Maria do Carmo. ""Representação social da dor por doentes de fibromialgia"." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5160/tde-10082005-123737/.
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Para avaliar se ocorreriam mudanças cognitivas, sensoriais, comportamentais e emocionais positivas duradouras em mulheres submetidas à psicoterapia cognitivo-comportamental em grupo em relação à fibromialgia, foram selecionadas 36 doentes do sexo feminino, 18 formando o grupo experimental e 18 o grupo comparativo. O grupo experimental foi submetido a 10 sessões em grupo de psicoterapia cognitivo-comportamental. Os resultados foram comparados e analisados qualitativamente, o que permitiu a elaboração da representação social da mulher com fibromialgia<br>In order to evaluating if the cognitive-behavioral group psychotherapy would provide cognitive, sensorial, behavioral, emotional, lasting and positive changes in women with fibromyalgia, in comparison to those who had not been submitted to this intervention, thirty-six women participated in this study; eighteen formed an experimental group and eighteen, a comparative group. The experimental group underwent ten sessions of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. The recollected data had been compared and analyzed qualitatively, which allowed elaborating the social representation of the woman with fibromyalgia.
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IKEDA, Keiko, and 佳子 池田. "A Critical Examination of the Interview as a Research Method for Qualitative Language-Based Studies." 名古屋大学大学院国際言語文化研究科, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/10082.
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Matznerová, Silvie. "Návrh AC jako účinného nástroje personálního výběru v podniku ABC, s r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-221822.
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This work is aimed at the problems of finding and selecting employees through the application of the latest knowledge and approach of staff selection. From the knowledge gained it suggests a possible method of choosing employees in the company, ABC Ltd. for the position of a dealer.
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Taylor, Lauren A. M. "What influences educational psychologists' assessment practice : a grounded theory mixed methods analysis using interviews and reports." Thesis, University of Essex, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573090.
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2 Abstract Educational Psychologists (EPs) use a range of assessment methods in practice, a number of factors influence this. Studies in America and the United Kingdom have explored EPs' practice. However, little attention has been directed towards what influences EPs in their choice of different assessment methods and the reports associated with them. Previous ,'.,.1 •....• - research has predominantly focused on quantitative perceptions of EPs' practice, using national surveys and questionnaire data, which has not allowed for detailed qualitative descriptions of EP assessment practice. A dearth of research has explored assessment's written about in EP reports (Buck, 2000). Frequently, the appraisal of various assessment practices has focused on exploring stakeholders' perceptions. The quantitative content analysis allowed an added dimension by exploring assessments EPs report on. The research explored influences on EPs' assessment practice using a Critical Realist exploratory mixed methods flexible research design. Using a sequential embedded strategy, the initial qualitative level developed a Grounded Theory from 6 semi-structured interviews with EPs, (then a quantitative content analysis of their reports). Using MAXQDA-2007 software (Kuckartz, 2007) a theory named 'balancing internal and external influences' developed about perceived influences that guided EPs' practice decisions. The results indicated a balance between interrelated internal beliefs about good practice, external impacting variables and child-centred influences. Internal influences included: how EPs defined and perceived their role; perceived benefits and drawbacks of different practices; and supportive influences on effective practice. External impacting influences include: external pressures and constraints; perceptions of others in relation to the EP's role; and influences imposed by special educational needs and Local Education Authority processes. Child-centred influences 3 connect the balance between internal beliefs and external influences and include considerations when working with children with English as an additional language, with children in early years, and children with social, emotional behavioural difficulties.
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Thakur, Seema. "The validity of situational interview ratings as a function of channel of communication." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1271.
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Fängström, Karin. "‘I don’t even remember anything’ : Optimising the choice of method when interviewing preschoolers." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Socialmedicin, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-331193.
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There is increasing need and demand in various contexts to take children’s perspectives into account, including the views and opinions of the youngest children. However, listening to the voices of children is a challenging and complex task, and the field is normatively loaded. There is thus a growing need for valid and reliable methods and techniques that aid children to verbalise their experiences. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine the ability of the In My Shoes computer assisted interview and a Standard verbal interview to elicit accurate information and evaluative content, when used with preschool-aged children and determine their suitability in relation to situationally shy children. Our studies show that the two interview methods, in general, provided equally accurate and complete statements. In addition, the IMS interview can be a more useful and suitable tool during the rapport phase with situationally shy children compared to the Standard verbal method. For non-shy children, the interview methods were equally adequate. In relation to evaluative information, the recommended open-ended questions in the Standard verbal interview were insufficient. Children appeared to need evaluative questions in order to provide evaluative content. Examining the ability of IMS to elicit subjective experiences showed that using IMS aided children to provide detailed and varied descriptions of emotions, somatic experiences, and objects such as toys. Thus, when choosing the optimal child interview method, there are several aspects that need to be considered, including the degree to which children’s statements need to be accurate and complete and/or contain evaluative information and the child’s level of shyness. These studies have increased the number of evaluated methods for interviewing children and contributed to new knowledge about the challenging task of optimising the choice of method for interviewing preschoolers.<br><p>Forskningsfinansiering: Stiftelsen Allmänna Barnhuset, FB13-0014 </p>
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Barieva, Philippa. "”Vi har olika förutsättningar och jag måste prioritera utefter hela min situation” : en intervjustudie om distriktssköterskornas upplevelser av arbetet." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-11947.
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Bakgrund: Allt fler svårt sjuka patienter får vård i hemmet. Områdesansvarig distriktssköterska i kommunal hemsjukvård ansvarar ensam för både omvårdnad och medicinska insatser kring patienten. En hög arbetsbelastning ökar risken för att göra fel när distriktssköterskan har ansvar för många patienter. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva distriktssköterskornas upplevelser av arbete inom kommunal hemsjukvård med omvårdnadsansvar för patienter i ordinärt boende. Metod: Kvalitativ metod med induktiv ansats användes i studien. Genom ett strategiskt urval har 14 distriktssköterskor från fyra kommuner intervjuats. Resultat: I resultatet framkom tre kategorier: ”Arbetsglädje”, ”Stödjande resurser” och ” Upplevelser av svåra situationer”. Distriktssköterskornas upplevelse av arbetsglädje kunde relateras till patientkontakten, användandet av sin kompetens, allmänhetens förtroende, variation i arbetet, trivseln på arbetsplatsen och samarbetet med andra i vården. Distriktssköterskornas kompetens, relation med patienten och anhöriga, teamarbete och arbete i grupp, samarbete med andra vårdenheter, stöd från ledningen, arbetsmiljö och hjälpmedel och administrativt arbete är stödjande resurs i distriktssköterskans arbete. Distriktssköterskor i studien hade individuellt olika belastning i arbetet och förutsättningar till stödjande resurser i sitt arbete, därför upplevde de olika mycket arbetsglädje och upplevelser av svåra situationer såsom etiska dilemman, oförutsägbarhet, otillräcklighet, frustration och irritation. Slutsats: Fungerande stödjande resurs i distriktssköterskans arbete kan öka distriktssköterskornas upplevelse av arbetsglädje. Tillsammans med resurser och kontinuerlig kompetensutveckling finns förutsättningar för att uppleva arbetsglädje, vilket behövs för att uppfylla distriktssköterskornas skyldighet att ge bra vård till patienterna. Ytterligare forskning behövs inom området eftersom kommunal hemsjukvård är i ständig utveckling i alla kommuner och det är oklart vilket sätt som är bäst att bedriva den.<br>Background: An increasing number of severe ill patients receive care at home. Area manager district nurse in municipal home care alone is responsible for both nursing and medical interventions regarding the patient. A high workload increases the risk of making mistakes when district nurse have the responsibility for many patients. Objective: The aim of this study was to describe district nurses' experiences of working in municipal home care with nursing responsibilities for patients in regular housing. Methods: Qualitative methods with inductive approach used in the study. Through the strategic selection 14 district nurses from four municipalities had been interviewed. Results: The results revealed three categories: "Job satisfaction", "Supporting Resources" and” Experiences of difficult situations". District nurses experience of job satisfaction could be related to patient contact, use of their skills, public trust, variation of work, being at work and cooperation with others in care. District nurses skills, relationship with the patient and family, team work and group work, collaboration with other health care units, management support, work environment and facilities and administrative work is supportive resource in the district nurse work. District nurses in the study had individually different workloads and prerequisites for supporting resource in their work because they experienced different amounts of job satisfaction and perceptions of difficult situations such as ethical dilemmas, unpredictability, inadequacy, frustration and irritation. Conclusion: Functional supportive resource in the district nurse work can increase district nurses experience of job satisfaction. Along with resources and continuous professional development are prerequisites for experiencing job satisfaction, which is needed to fulfill the district nurses obligation to provide good care to patients. Further research is needed in the area since the municipal home care is in constant development in all communities and it is unclear how best to pursue it.
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Cele, Sofia. "Communicating Place : Methods for Understanding Children's Experience of Place." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-20088.
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This dissertation explores how children communicate their experiences of place. It focuses on the qualitative methods of group interviews, walks, drawings and photographs, and asks how children communicate different aspects of place. Drawing on feminist theory and qualitative methodology, the importance of situated knowledge for understanding children’s narratives is argued. Through studies in Sweden and England, it is shown how children’s place experiences are multi-dimensional, consisting of both concrete and abstract processes, places and objects. The different methods reveal different aspects of these dimensions and the children provided rich evidence of their experience of place in regard to physical, social and cultural aspects. It is found that children’s individuality affects the success of the methods, rather than factors such as gender, age or nationality. The methods’ different characteristics, such as creative and interactive aspects, and how power relations are reflected through them are determining factors as to how and what children communicate. Place-interactive methods allow children to communicate the direct experience of place and include subconscious actions as communication occurs through movement and play. The creative aspects of the methods allow children to focus more on their abstract experiences and to include experiences based on a wider time perspective than the present. Walking is discussed as a critical method for the researcher to include place as an active and multi-sensuous phenomenon. As it is shown that the methods reveal different aspects of the children’s place experiences, it is also discussed how this can be used from an adult perspective.
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Harder, James David. "Legislative Oversight Processes in U.S. States." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86201.
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State legislatures have variable levels of professionalism. Measures of state legislative professionalism typically include metrics such as the number of legislative staff, legislative session length, and legislator compensation. This research considers the influence of variability in levels of legislative professionalism on the state’s oversight process. Few prior studies engage the legislative oversight process in states. To fill this gap, this research takes a grounded theory approach that uses thirty-three interviews with legislators, legislative staff, committee staff, and legislative research organizations in five states to test existing concepts and to develop new directions for research. The current scholarship on oversight and legislative institutions emphasizes the importance of broad factors like elections and committees, as well as more specific concepts like inter-branch conflict, partisanship, and legislative term-limits. This research confirms and extends those ideas, reaching the conclusion that oversight in states is a deeply political action. A central contribution of this work is a consideration of how the oversight process in states operates on the ground. The interviews uncover that many measures of professionalism often perform in unforeseen ways than what might expected. For instance, a lengthy legislative session can prohibit oversight actors from performing oversight functions. Conversely, long legislative interim periods provide actors with the space to conduct meaningful reviews of administrative action. This research also advances understandings of state legislative research organizations – like the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission and Texas Sunset Commission – which play a vital role in performing meaningful legislative oversight. To catalyze these ideas a new concept, the oversight entrepreneur, is used to describe how stakeholders use the oversight process to achieve their preferences and enhance their reputations. The interviews contained here also expose the importance of each state’s individual context – including Constitutional, institutional, normed and historical factors. The dissimilarities that play out across states (and their secondary effects) demonstrate that future scholars would be well served to adopt caution in the application of concepts across contexts.<br>Ph. D.
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Bailey, Chantelle. "The evaluation of the antimicobial self-assessment toolkit for NHS trusts." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-evaluation-of-the-antimicobial-selfassessment-toolkit-for-nhs-trusts(4d6f04ab-0011-48e3-818c-dd8c878e69ab).html.
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Introduction: The Antimicrobial Self-assessment Toolkit for Acute NHS Trusts (ASAT) was developed by a pharmacist reference group of an Advisory Non-Departmental Public Body on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections (ARHAI). It was developed in conjunction with the Department of Health. The primary purpose of the ASAT is to identify and to measure the methods of implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programmes in acute NHS trusts. The face validity was previously tested by ARHAI. The overall aims of this programme of work were to investigate the validity of the ASAT and to make iterative changes to improve its validity. Ethical approval was not required for this PhD project because it was categorised as service evaluation by the LREC. Also, ethical approval from the University of Manchester Research Ethics Committee was deemed unnecessary at the time of the PhD project due to the nature of the data collected. Methods: A mixed methodology approach utilising a sequential exploratory strategy was used to investigate the validity of the ASAT. This PhD project was composed of four sequential studies which resulted in iterative changes to the ASAT, that is, from ASAT v15a to ASAT v18. In Study 1, cognitive interviews were conducted with eight antimicrobial pharmacists in order to investigate the content validity of ASAT v15a. In Study 2, both cognitive interviews and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 clinical microbiologists in order to investigate the content validity of ASAT v16. In Study 3, Rasch modelling and analyses using the Partial Credit Model (PCM) were conducted on the responses to ASAT v17 from 33 NHS trusts across England. In Study 4, simple OLS regression analyses were conducted using the NHS trust ‘ability’ estimates or calibrations and Clostridium difficile (CDI) rates of participating NHS trusts in order to investigate model fit and the predictive validity of the ASAT. Results: The cognitive interviews conducted in study 1 indicated that AMPs encountered cognitive difficulties along the cognitive processing pathway in response to ASAT v15a. These difficulties included comprehension in 27 (32.5%) questions and response generation/formatting in 13 (15.7%) questions. Also respondents indicated that the role of clinical microbiologists in ASPs was underrepresented in ASAT v15a. The interviews conducted in Study 2 were confirmatory in nature as they reflected the findings of Study 1. For example terms such as ‘formulary’ and ‘policy’ were misinterpreted by respondents. Rasch modelling and analysis showed that there were items within ASAT v17 which were underfitting and overfitting the Partial Credit Model. Item fit was investigated after removal of these items which resulted in improved fit for domains 2 and 5. ASAT v18 was developed after these analyses and was included items that were productive for measurement. On examination of the OLS regression analyses conducted in Study 4, it was seen that there was poor model fit and very limited predictive validity of the model. Conclusion: The iterative methodology utilised to investigate the validity and subsequently improve the ASAT was effective in establishing content and construct validity. However, the predictive validity of the ASAT was limited. This may be due to the outcome variable chosen for the OLS regression modelling. A more sensitive outcome measure such as compliance to treatment or prophylaxis guidelines may have been more effective at establishing predictive validity. The findings of this programme of work highlighted that there is further work required to validate the ASAT such as the determination of the appropriate weights and scores for ASAT domains and also the determination of the appropriate outcomes measures to determine the efficacy of ASPs. It is recommended that further validity testing should be conducted before a further iteration of the ASAT is used as a set of quality standards or as a hospital benchmarking tool
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Glenn, L. Lee, Rubye W. Beck, and Gary L. Burkett. "Effect of a Transient, Geographically Localised Economic Recovery on Community Health and Income Studied With Longitudinal Household Cohort Interview Method." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1998. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7538.
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Study objective - The main purpose of the study was to determine whether the health or economic status of a cohort of residents in an economically troubled geographical area changed between 1990 and 1993. Design - Longitudinal, single cohort, interview survey method with the key variables of health status and economic status. Quasi-experimental pre-post design with economic rebound as the intervention. Setting - A relatively low income geographical area in a rural, mountainous region before and after an economic rebound. In 1990, the local economy and health care system collapsed because of the closure of a series of manufacturing plants; outward migration from the area peaked. Between 1990 and 1993, new industries opened, and state and private community assistance programmes intervened, resulting in an economic rebound, migration into the area, and marked growth of the health service sector. Participants - A 2% sample of residents of households, using a combination of random, stratified, and clustered sampling. Residents included in the study had lived within the area throughout the 1990-1993 period of the study. Main results - Stable, non-migrating residents had a statistically significant 7% reduction in health status between 1990 and 1993, as measured by a composite of subjective and objective measures. The non-migrating residents also had a significant decrease in average household income ($14,700 in 1990 and $12,400 in 1993 in constant 1990 dollars) during the strong economic expansion, and therefore did not participate in or receive direct economic benefit from the expansion. There was a rapid population increase during the expansion, attributable to inward migrants who were younger and healthier than existing residents. The decline in health for the non-migrating residents was tentatively attributed to either direct or indirect effects of the decline in family income. Conclusions - Local economic development accompanied by expanded health care services availability can leave existing area residents poorer and less healthy, and this problem may be masked by an abundance of healthier, wealthier inward migrants.
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Wilken, David M. "The correlation between Doug Elliott's embouchure types and playing and selected physical characteristics among trombonists." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1180775.
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Although traditional methods of teaching brass embouchure tend to favor a more centered mouthpiece placement, individual differences in facial structure may make a centered placement inefficient for many individuals. Thirty-four test subjects (N = 34) who volunteered from a mid-sized, Midwestern university school of music, a mid-sized Midwestern high school, and professional and semiprofessional trombonists from around a Midwestern state were tested for an efficient embouchure and then photographed while playing specific pitches into a transparent plastic mouthpiece. Additionally, each subject filled out a brief survey and had various facial characteristics photographed. Statistics from this data suggest that the three basic types defined by Doug Elliott, Very High Placement Type, Medium High Placement Type, and Very Low Placement Type, are accurate. Evidence also suggested that airstream direction and the use of an embouchure motion is dependant on vertical mouthpiece placement. The angle of the airstream also changes according to the register being played. It was also determined that certain physical characteristics, most notably lip protrusion, suggested that a subject will play with a specific mouthpiece placement.<br>School of Music
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Walser, Johanna. "Crisis communication applied to mega-events and festivals : A multi-method analysis of communicative preparedness." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40778.
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Crisis communication has been widely researched for an economic purpose, with the focus on preventing damage to a corporation’s reputation or the restoration of a politician’s image. Additionally, crisis communication also found its utility for natural hazards as well as for terrorist attacks. However, identified as being a research gap, this thesis focuses on studying the prepared crisis communication of mega-event and festival organizations in case of a serious incident. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the area of crisis communication in the way that it focuses on the process of preparing for a possible crisis with the creation of effective communication manuals, action plans, etc. rather than investigating the post-crisis communication. Through using the uncertainty reduction theory and the chaos theory, it is possible to investigate the internal crisis management processes of organizers that go beyond protecting its reputation, but focus more on saving human lives as uncertainty and chaos get reduced. A deductive approach was taken through conducting interviews and carrying out a thematic analysis of written documentary sources, such as manuals and action plans, as well as the transcripts. In general, one can say that the awareness about the importance of a crisis management and communication plan rises. Regular trainings and a constant collaboration with external partners, such as the blue light organizations, are seen as central to the emergency planning process. Moreover, to guarantee an effective crisis communication, often smaller task groups within the crisis management team are in charge of instructional crisis communication. Knowledge about different threat-scenarios and functions of external specialists reduces uncertainty and supports actions to reduce chaos. This thesis and its findings have a societal relevance, in the sense that it allows a wider and deeper understanding of crisis communication in an area of application that does not seem to be very common. Through insights into the crisis management process of the different event- and festival organizations, one can become active today and threats to human lives can be minimized or even avoided in the future.
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Shirai, Yumi. "Impact of Care-Recipient Resistance During Care Provision on Caregiver Emotional/Physical Well-Being: A Sequential Mixed Method Design with Between- and Within-Person Analyses and Semi-Structured Interviews." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194742.
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To address some remaining questions in the extant family caregiving literature, the present study examined a specific care-recipient (CR) problematic behavior that could be the most critical to family caregiver (CG) emotional and physical well-being--CR-resistance or uncooperative behaviors vis-Ã -vis the CG. In order to provide detailed descriptions of CR-resistance and to determine the impact of CR-resistance on CG emotional and physical well-being, the present study applied a sequential quantitative-qualitative mixed method design approach with 8-day diary survey data on 63 family CGs and follow-up semi-structured interview data from 19 of those CGs.The quantitative data documented and revealed significant within- and between-person variance in CR-resistance. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analyses results further revealed that neither the mean level nor the daily fluctuation of CR-resistance across 8 survey days by themselves appeared to have a significant impact on CG emotional or physical health. However, the combination of having relatively high mean level and daily fluctuation of CR-resistance brought had a significant impact on CG physical health; when CGs with relatively high mean level CR-resistance faced more than their usual amount of CR-resistance on a given day, they reported increases in physical health symptoms.The qualitative inductive thematic analyses revealed that based on the context in which CR-resistance occurred and the occurrence patterns, CR-resistance experiences could be divided into four types, and these four types of CR-resistance seem to pose different types and/or magnitude of impact on CG emotional well-being.Furthermore, informed by Social Cognitive Theory and Stress Theory, the present study also examined CG personal, interpersonal, and social resources as possible moderators of the link between CR-resistance and CG emotional/physical well-being. HLM analyses results revealed that CG sense of efficacy, community/professional service utilization, and family disagreement regarding care played significant moderating roles. The qualitative thematic analyses clearly suggested that specific CG cognitive resources--particularly those that were transferred and/or generalized from the CG's past professional or personal experiences--have a strong influence on CG resilience in the face of CR-resistance. The moderating results were interpreted light of theoretical frameworks and extant literature. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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Horsthuis, Christopher. "The importance of organisational slack as an unexplored determinant of firm level innovation and performance in the construction context." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21519.
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Construction literature forwards innovation as a desirable objective for firms. Innovation is argued to; improve the firm s performance, increase market share, establish a competitive advantage, and ultimately ensure firm survival. Literature has overlooked the role of organisational slack within construction firms as a determinant of innovation despite the concept being well developed within the general management literature. This research uncovers and examines the impact of organisational slack on firm-level innovation as a determinant of innovation within the construction sector. This work forwards organisational slack as an unexplored firm level determinant of innovation within the construction context. Using the resource-based view of the firm, as a framework for firms, the thesis develops links between previously established firm level determinates of innovation to and slack to support its proposal as a determinant of innovation. Following this traditional measures of innovation argued fail to accurately capture innovation in the construction context, with patents represent inventions, while R&D expenditure is not applicable within the construction. Due to these failures of traditional approaches to measuring innovation, firm level performance is forwarded as a proxy measure for innovation outcomes. Developing existing slack literature, this thesis develops hypotheses proposing inverse U-shaped (n) and U-shaped (u) relationships between the level of slack and innovation outcomes. The thesis presents mixed method research. Study 1 adopts a deductive research strategy, incorporating statistical analysis to test the hypothesised relationships. The Research Design develops and Archival analysis research method; mirroring the approaches of econometric research found in slack literature. The data analysis explores two contexts: construction and manufacturing, allowing a comparative baseline to be established. The analysis of data from this study reveals that discrepancies in the R2 between the contexts is largely the result of the inability of control variables (Age, Size and Number of employees), to explain variation in firm performance (as a proxy for innovation outcomes) in a construction context, rather than the unsuitability of slack in the construction context. In construction firms, Unabsorbed Slack and Financial Slack demonstrated statistically significant results supporting an inverse U-shaped relationship with firm performance (n) supporting Hypothesis 1a and 1b. Contrary to this Absorbed Slack and Human Resource Slack demonstrated statistically significant results demonstrating a U-relationship (u) between slack and performance supporting hypothesis 2b (H2b). Study 2 adopts a deductive research strategy, incorporating semi-structured interviews as a source of primary data in order to explore the slack-innovation relationship in greater depth. Primarily, this study provided evidence to suggest that construction firms do not directly measure innovation. Instead, firms choose to measure outcomes of changes within the firm, typically in terms of measure relating to firm financial performance. Evidence from this study supports the proposal of firm financial performance as a viable proxy for innovation outcomes in Study 1. In addition to this when faced with changes to their environment, participants responses typically supported a positive linear relationship between the level of organisational slack and the firm. This research is the first to examine the impact of organisational slack on construction firm financial performance (as a proxy for innovation). This relationship is curvilinear in nature, however, the results are inconclusive if it is inverse U shaped (n) or U shaped (u) based upon conflicting evidence from different slack variables. What can be ascertained however, is that the level of slack impacts firm level performance and theoretically impacts firm level innovation.
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Lorenzi, Mikaela, and Sofia Bergström. ""I can tell a story that my dads friend tell me" : A corpus- and interview-based study on grammar education, with focus on verb forms." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-275268.
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This study consists of two methods: textual analysis and interviews, which are based on text from The Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC), and teachers as interview objects. The textual analysis investigates errors made by students in year seven and year nine, regarding the construction of different verb forms in written English essays. A potential difference between errors made in year seven and nine is also examined. Moreover, the interview based analysis investigates professional junior high school teachers’ teaching methods and attitudes towards grammar. The errors investigated in the textual analysis are compared with the responses of the teachers’ perception of common errors in verb forms made by their students. The textual analysis showed that the most common errors made regard spelling within the verb phrase, auxiliary verbs, subject-verb agreement, and irregular verbs, and that year seven had a higher frequency of errors than year nine in most categories, even if the results differed inconsiderably. The analysis of the interviews of the teachers found that teachers, in general, enjoy grammar, and aim to have a student-centered approach, however, the teachers testify of characteristics of traditional teacher-centered grammar teaching. It is reasoned that traditional teacher-centered grammar teaching is fundamentally established, where teachers today appear not to acquire the tools to move away from the teacher-centered approach onwards to a student-centered grammar teaching. We reason that the education of L2 teachers needs to be reformed and provide tools to help teachers achieve a student-centered approach, and therein enable students to become more successful in grammar.
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Wojciechowski, Valéria. "Reações iniciais e níveis de stress da gestante frente ao diagnóstico de malformação fetal não letal." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5160/tde-15102014-114135/.
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O trabalho foi realizado com 40 gestantes que haviam recebido diagnóstico de malformação fetal não letal. Descreve as repercussões emocionais iniciais após o diagnóstico; avaliando a relação entre o tipo de malformações e as repercussões emocionais; a presença e a fase de stress em que estas gestantes se encontravam. Foi realizada uma entrevista semidirigida e aplicado o Inventário de Sintomas de Stress de Lipp. Os resultados apontaram repercussões emocionais com choque e negação. Não houve diferenças emocionais associadas à gravidade ou ao tipo de anomalia. Quanto ao stress, este está presente na maioria das gestantes e, parece associado a interpretaçãos individuais de fontes estressoras<br>This research was done with 40 pregnant woman that had received the diagnosis of non lethal fetal malformation. The emotional repercussions are described after the diagnosis; evaluation the relation between the type of malformation and the emotional repercussions; the presence and level of stress that these pregnant woman were in. A semidirected interview was done and the Inventory of Stress Symptoms by Lipp was applied. The results showed emotional repercussions such as shock and denial. There were no emotional differences associate with the degree or type of anomaly. And as for stress, it is present in the majority of the woman and is associated to individual interpretations of stress causes
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Lott, Emily Carol. "Investigating Time During Residential Program Until Transition for Adjudicated Youth: a Mixed Methods Study Using Event History Analysis with Follow-Up Interviews." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4636.
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Residential placement is considered the most severe sanction for adjudicated youth, yet there is little consensus on best practices and interventions in residential settings. Demographic trends in the juvenile justice system further exacerbate challenges in studying residential placements. Disparities among minority youth, diverging state definitions of juvenile sex offenses, discrepancies in recidivism measures, and variations in local and state juvenile courts have contributed to a convoluted system that has struggled to identify the meaning of "success" in residential settings.
Building on theories of engagement in residential care and program theory of change, this mixed methods study explores how various components of a residential program for adjudicated young males contribute to time in the program leading up to transition out of the program. Event history analysis was used to examine administrative program data. Then, follow-up interviews were conducted with program employees to gather further insight to supplement quantitative findings.
Findings indicated that juvenile sex offenses and home visits played a significant role. Additionally, race, ethnicity, and duration and engagement in family, individual, and group sessions also played varying roles in youths' transition out of the program. Findings from the employee interviews further supported that race, ethnicity, culture, and family are all critical parts of residential treatment. The interviews also discussed the role that Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, a behavioral modification approach used in this program, plays in youths' overall engagement during their time in the program.