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Gallagher, Richard. "Contextus: A Modern Intervention in the Urban Fabric." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34586.

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The word "context" originates in "contextus", which is Latin for "weaving." An architectural question arises as to how a building can so integrate itself with a community that is it truly woven into the urban fabric. The Shaw Neighborhood branch of the District of Columbia Public Library system closed in 2004. The building at the intersection of 7th Street and Rhode Island Avenue could no longer serve the needs of the community, and shall be replaced by a new facility on the same site. What are the needs of the community that should be addressed, and by what methods? As a civic building, what role will the new library play beyond that of a place to find books? What are the contexts that the new architecture will confront, and how does this building transcend the contexts of the present to endure as something equally valuable in the future?
Master of Architecture
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Berkeley, Joshua David. "Modern Interventions on a Historic Campus." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104067.

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This thesis is an analysis of methods by which modern interventions uphold the existing architectural fabric of a historic place, thereby establishing a connection and legitimacy that should endure for the life of both the building and the setting.
Master of Architecture
Although there are several approaches architects may take when designing new structures in historic settings, this thesis studies two particular methods that offer the most promise of success and chance of survival for subsequent generations.
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Arnold, Colin Michael. "An architectural intervention to the Corcoran Gallery of Art." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44436.

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Hartle, Brett David. "Long Branch Nature Center - modern primitivism and the constructed dialogue of being within nature." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50961.

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The Architect's first drawn line marks a significant moment where alteration to the site is conceived and intervention with nature is beset. Equilibrium of the natural order; vegetative, habitat, hydrology, and geology are all in a vulnerable state. Rarely do these develop into harmonious balances. More often they are imposed instances. The Industrial Revolution forever changed the relationship between humans and nature, tilting the weight of power towards man. While humans capacity for innovation and destruction have grown enormously, our dependence on the natural cycles and resources of the planet remain and grow more voracious. Yet simultaneously, modern progress has facilitated the physical and psychological detachment of that interdependence. The fundamental elements of our existence are veiled through the efficiency of urbanization and its derivatives of specialization, mass-production, and globalization. This project is an examination of the interrelationship between humans and nature through the lens of civic architecture within a naturalistic setting. The fundamental thesis of this project is that there is a primal biological thread that connects human beings to the natural order, whether on a visceral or conscious level. This project explores the belief that humans intrinsically yearn to reinforce that bond - awakening primordial instincts developed over millions of years of evolutionary survival that have been suppressed by the artifice of modern life. Through a process of retreat and contemplation, this project offers the opportunity of individuals to evaluate and rebalance their own scales with nature and find their own accord and harmony.
Master of Architecture
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Pester, Amber M. "Language Intervention Effects of Norm-Referenced and Criterion-Referenced Test Scores." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1050351250.

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Sophat, SEAK. "The Typical Intervention Systems of Natural Resource Management in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: The Community Based and Modern Approaches." 名古屋大学大学院国際開発研究科, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/16948.

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Kajis, Natasha. "Modern statssuveränitet En analys av hur synen på statssuveränitet har förändrats med Bosnien-Hercegovina som exempel." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2604.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze how the parties (USA, Great Britain, UN and the European Union) legitimize their intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina as seen from without the conceptions of sovereignty and intervention.

USA and the UN have legitimized their intervention on security reasons. The American president, George W. Bush, claimed that democracies never engage in war with each other and that democracies were prosperous just because they were democracies. According to the president, that is why it is important to democratise the whole Balkan region to protect the international community from terrorism which grows in unstable and undemocratic states. UN resolutions claim that the situation in Bosnia is a threat to international peace and security and urged all state members to do everything they can for stability in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

European Union and Great Britain saw the organized crime that spreads through Balkan as a major threat to Europe. To be able to deal with his problem, EU is asking for more cooperation among the European states. Bosnia is a member of the Council of Europe and is also involved in the Stabilisation and association process for South eastern Europe with the EU. The purpose of these memberships is to foster the political and economic development in Bosnia and lead to full membership in the European Union, but only if Bosnia fulfils all the reforms that EU demands. To get economic aid from the EU, Bosnian leaders are forced to reform and engage in regional cooperation.

In the long run democratisation is the goal for all the parties, while security is the main issue at short-term. That is why the main concern for USA is for now the war on terrorism and organized crime for the EU. When signing the Dayton peace agreement, Bosnian leaders have agreed upon sharing sovereignty with the international community indefinitely. Dayton agreement calls also on all the parties to help Bosnia develop stable and democratic institutions and help the Bosnian leaders in theirs strive for peace.

The international community is based on principles of state sovereignty and non-intervention. Sovereignty can be defined as the right for autonomy and the right for non-intervention. These principles are not as important today as they were during the Cold War. Globalisation and marginalisation has made it more acceptable to intervene and share sovereignty with other states and ganisations. That means that the traditional view on sovereignty as a mean for maintaining order and view on interventions as a threat to the sovereignty is less significant in modern times. The reason for this is that the definition on sovereignty and intervention changes to able to adjust its self to the political situation in the world. That is, definition on sovereignty and interventionwill differ from time to time.

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Kirk, Christine Vogler. "The petits projets : a search for a method of intervention in the city of Paris." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23128.

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Rocha, Mércia Parente. "Patrimônio arquitetônico moderno: do debate às intervenções." Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/287.

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The recent debate on the conservation of modern heritage and the controversies raised in this regard have been, to some extent, fueled by the experiences of intervention in modern buildings, which have intensified in the last two decades. This paper examines the main issues raised by this debate, pointing to specifics, dilemmas and paradoxes related to the conservation of this architecture, its assumptions and its new status as historical patrimony, collated with some works of intervention carried out in this collection. It aims to understand how the issues related to conservation of this heritage are being resolved in practice, which means, to understand, from the works of interventions, how such architects are solving the dilemmas raised in the debate and what knowledge or theories are grounded.
O recente debate sobre a conservação do patrimônio moderno e as controvérsias suscitadas a esse respeito, vem sendo, em certa medida, alimentado pelas experiências de intervenção em obras modernas, que se intensificaram nas duas últimas décadas. Este trabalho examina as principais questões levantadas no debate, que apontam para especificidades, dilemas e paradoxos, relacionados à conservação dessa arquitetura, seus pressupostos e sua nova condição de patrimônio, cotejadas com algumas obras de intervenção realizadas nesse acervo. Objetiva perceber como as questões relacionadas à conservação desse patrimônio estão sendo resolvidas na prática, ou seja, compreender a partir das obras de intervenções, como os arquitetos estão solucionando os dilemas colocados no debate e em quais conhecimentos ou teorias estão ancorados.
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Mounts, Lauren. "To Intervene or Not to Intervene: An Analysis of American Foreign Policy in Modern Humanitarian Crises." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1913.

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This thesis seeks to identify the factors necessary to drive the United States to intervene in a humanitarian crisis. While some scholars have argued that humanitarianism in and of itself is a sufficient reason for an armed military intervention – I challenge this assumption and argue that while the United States can exhibit humanitarian impulses at times, that there are very observable limitations to these impulses. I argue that while humanitarianism can be a factor in the decision to intervene, that ultimately either national interest or another domestic political channel must also fervently push for intervention in order for action to occur. In testing my hypothesis, I examine American foreign policy in four modern humanitarian crises – Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Syria.
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Ramuhala, Mashudu Godfrey. "Military Intervention in Africa after the Cold War." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4186.

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Thesis (MMil (Military Strategy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Military intervention remains controversial when it happens, as well as when it fails to. Since the end of the Cold War, military intervention has attracted much scholarly interest, and it was demonstrated that several instances of the use of force or the threat to use force without Security Council endorsement were acceptable and necessary. Matters of national sovereignty are the fundamental principle on which the international order was founded since the Treaty of Westphalia. Territorial integrity of states and non-interference in their domestic affairs, remain the foundation of international law, codified by the United Nations Charter, and one of the international community’s decisive factors in choosing between action and non-intervention. Nonetheless, since the end of the Cold War matters of sovereignty and non-interference have been challenged by the emergent human rights discourse amidst genocide and war crimes. The aim of this study is to explain the extent to which military intervention in Africa has evolved since the end of the Cold War, in terms of theory, practice and how it unfolded upon the African continent. This will be achieved, by focusing on both successful and unsuccessful cases of military intervention in Africa. The unsuccessful cases being Somalia in 1992, Rwanda in 1994, and Darfur in 2003; and the successful cases being Sierra Leone in 2000 and the Comoros in 2008. The objective of this study is fourfold: firstly it seeks to examine the theoretical developments underpinning military intervention after the end of the Cold War; secondly, to describe the evolution of military intervention from a unilateral realist to a more multilateral idealist profile; thirdly, to demarcate the involvement in military intervention in Africa by states as well as organisations such as the AU and the UN and finally, discerning the contributions and the dilemmas presented by interventions in African conflicts and how Africa can emerge and benefit from military interventions. The intervention in Somalia produced a litmus test for post-Cold War interventions and the departure point for their ensuing evolution. Rwanda ensued after Somalia, illustrating the disinclination to intervene that featured during this episode. Darfur marked the keenness of the AU to intervene in contrast with the ensuing debates at the Security Council over naming the crime whether or not “genocide” was unfolding in Darfur. Positively though, the intervention by Britain in Sierra Leone and the AU intervention in the Comoros are clear illustrations of how those intervening, were articulate in what they intend to do and their subsequent success.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Militêre intervensie, of die afwesigheid daarvan wanneer nodig, bly ‘n twispunt binne internasionale verhoudinge. Namate die impak van die Koue Oorlog begin vervaag het, het militêre intervensie besonder prominent in die literatuur begin figureer en is soms so dringend geag dat dit soms sonder die goedkeuring van die Veiligheidsraad van die Verenigde Nasies (VN) kon plaasvind. Aspekte van nasionale soewereiniteit bly nietemin ‘n grondbeginsel van die internasionale orde soos dit sedert die Verdrag van Wesfale beslag gevind het. Territoriale integriteit van state en die beginsel van geen-inmenging in die binnelandse aangeleenthede van ‘n staat nie bly ook ‘n grondslag van die Internasionale Reg soos deur die VN erken word en dit rig steeds standpunte van die internasionale gemeenskap vir of teen intervensie. Sedert die einde van die Koue Oorlog het soewereiniteit en beginsel van geen-intervensie egter toenemende druk ervaar met groeiende klem op menseregte midde in ‘n opkomende diskoers oor volksmoord en oorlogsmisdade. Die klem van hierdie studie val op militêre intervensie en veral hoe dit na die Koue Oorlog ontvou het in terme van teorie en praktyk, in die besonder op die Afrikakontinent. Die bespreking wentel om suksesvolle en onsuksesvolle gevalle van militêre intervensie in Afrika. Die onsuksesvolle gevalle wat bespreek word is Somalië (1992), Rwanda (1994), en Darfur (2003). Die meer suksesvolle gevalle wat bespreek word is Sierra Leone (2000) en die Komoro Eilande in (2008). Die studie omvat vier aspekte van bespreking: eerstens, die teoretiese ontwikkelinge wat militêre intervensie na die Koue Oorlog onderlê, tweedens, die ewolusie van militêre intervensie vanaf ‘n eensydige realisme tot ‘n meer multilaterale idealistiese verskynsel, derdens, die betrokkenheid in militêre intervensie in Afrika deur state en organisasies soos die VN en Afrika-Unie (AU) en laastens, die bydraes en dilemmas van intervensies in Afrika. Die betrokkenheid in Somalië was ‘n kritieke toets vir intervensies na die Koue Oorlog en het baie stukrag verleen aan die daaropvolgende debat. Rwanda het die huiwerigheid ontbloot om in te gryp waar dit werklik nodig was. Darfur vertoon weer die gewilligheid van die AU om in te gryp in weerwil van lang debatte in die VN oor volksmoord en die gebeure in Darfur. Aan die positiewe kant figureer die Britse optredes in Sierra Leone en optredes deur ‘n AU-mag in die Komoro Eilande as gevalle wat toon hoe die vasberadenheid van partye om in te gryp en bedreigings in die kiem te smoor, suksesvolle militêre intervensies kan bevorder.
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Crawford, Lucie T., University of Western Sydney, College of Social and Health Sciences, and School of Applied Social and Human Sciences. "Public policy, the modern view and the training-investment decisions of the firm : is a minimalist approach to public sector intervention the answer?" THESIS_CSHS_ASH_Crawford_L.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/362.

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This thesis is an applied study of the response of a selected group of large construction companies in the Sydney Basin to the National Training Reform Agenda (NTRA). The thesis emanates from an interest in the modern view of public policy that suggests public sector intervention should 'augment rather than impede market forces' (Dollery, 1994:225). This view argues that too much public intervention has the potential to culminate in government failure because governments can be self-interested bureaucracies that are divorced from the interests and constraints of the market. To avoid such an outcome, this policy position advocates that governments should develop and implement public policy that encourages community, industry and individual participation in the policy agenda. This minimalist approach to public sector intervention, and the values it espouses, was investigated through research into the NTRA and the construction industry.
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Crawford, L. T. "Public policy, the modern view and the training-investment decisions of the firm : is a minimalist approach to public sector intervention the answer? /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030401.144315/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, [2001].
A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. "An applied study of the response of a selected group of large construction companies in the Sydney Basin to the National Training Reform Agenda (NTRA)" Includes appendices and bibliography: leaves 218-226.
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Perlaky, Andreas. "Russia's intervention in the modern Syrian conflict : A small contribution to understand Russian warfare in Syria through the lense of hybrid warfare theory." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10056.

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Russian warfare is one of the most currently debated topics between military experts. Some define it as something wholly new and name it hybrid warfare. Others say that hybrid warfare is nothing but an old method brought back to life. Some experts also argue that any nation at war will use any method to win, regardless of being a defender or aggressor. One thing, however, binds these experts together—the will to understand Russian warfare.  Hybrid warfare uses both state and non-state actors together to achieve a common goal. Because of mixing these actors, it becomes hard to define further. Because of that, experts still struggle to understand Russian warfare and the use of hybrid warfare. Thus allowing Russia to continue to act within the grey area between a state of neither peace nor war.  By analysing Russia’s intervention in the ongoing conflict in Syria with Lewickis military and non-military dimensions. This study shows that Russian warfare and its actions in Syria are based more on international reputation. When there is a risk for tarnished reputation, they act through non-state actors. When there is a chance for improved reputation, they act through state actors. This study also shows that there are fundamental differences in what Russia does officially and unofficially, which is also based on international reputation.
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Tardio, Marco Carlos. "Interventions into the city." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24172.

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Berland, Carla Turczyn. "A intervenção do juiz nos contratos." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/7695.

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Contractual theory has undergone significant changes over the last years, mainly due to a shift from the liberal imprint of the 1916 Civil Code to a more socially-oriented perspective. This change, already noticeable in the 1988 Federal Constitution and in some statutes, such as the Consumer Code, grew more acute after the enactment of the 2002 Civil Code. Apart from incorporating the modern social contractual theory, using methods such as those of general clauses and indeterminate concepts, it gave judges more latitude to interfere in contracts. This thesis aims at examining aspects of modern contractual theory, as it appears in the Civil Code (expressed in a number of general provisions v.g. good faith; social function of contracts), as well as at analyzing the available forms for judicial intervention in contracts. It suggests that such judicial intervention is not only possible but even desirable mainly as a tool to prevent the contract from being unnecessarily terminated
A teoria contratual passou, nos últimos anos, por uma profunda transformação, motivada, principalmente, pela migração do pensamento liberal, predominante quando da edição do Código Civil de 1916, para o pensamento social. Esta evolução, que já se fazia sentir na Constituição Federal e em alguns ordenamentos, como o Código de Defesa do Consumidor, adquiriu um enfoque especial com a edição do Código Civil de 2002. Além de consagrar, de forma definitiva, a teoria contratual moderna ou social, o Código Civil de 2002, utilizando-se de métodos como as cláusulas gerais e os conceitos indeterminados, conferiu um maior poder ao magistrado para, inclusive, intervir nos contratos. Por meio do presente trabalho, objetivamos estudar os atuais contornos da teoria contratual moderna, tal como foi consagrada pelo Código Civil de 2002, com a previsão expressa das cláusulas gerais da boa-fé objetiva e da função social do contrato, bem como analisar as formas de intervenção do juiz nos contratos. Concluimos que realmente esta intervenção é possível, inclusive, com o objetivo de integrar o contrato, sempre objetivando a sua manutenção à sua rescisão. Analisamos, também os métodos utilizados pelos magistrados, tanto com relação às ações individuais, tanto no tocante às lides coletivas
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Green, Nathan. "Optimal intervention of epidemic models with parameter uncertainty." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2005. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:76732.

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Williams, A. Lynn. "Models of Assessment and Intervention: Phonology in Clinical Settings." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2090.

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Pritchard, Duncan. "Models and treatment relapse and a pilot prevention intervention." Thesis, Bangor University, 2015. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/models-and-treatment-relapse-and-a-pilot-prevention-intervention(a8096325-39b5-4ce2-9648-5d73bde1ed14).html.

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Children and young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) often present problem behaviours such as aggression and disruption. These behaviours can be successfully treated using Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). Unfortunately, despite effective treatment, the relapse of problem behaviour is common, especially when treatment integrity is not maintained. Behavioural Momentum Theory (BMT) suggests that the relapse of problem behaviour is likely to be greater if the behaviour has been reinforced at high rates. Chapter 1 provides an introduction into BMT, treatment relapse, and role-play training and its effect on treatment integrity. Chapter 2 presents a more detailed discussion of BMT and a review of three treatment relapse models (i.e., reinstatement, resurgence and renewal). Chapter 3 reports the results of two reinstatement and resurgence experiments that evaluated the effects of alternating rates of reinforcement on attention-maintained problem behaviour presented by a 16-year-old male with IDD. The two experiments demonstrated that that high rates of reinforcement can lead to greater magnitudes of treatment relapse. Chapter 4 describes a renewal experiment, again using alternating rates of reinforcement, that demonstrated similar findings. Chapter 5 reports the results of a long-term staff training programme that demonstrated that residential staff maintained high levels of treatment integrity following role-play training based on standardised scenarios than staff who received training via traditional methods. Chapter 6 discusses the implications of BMT and treatment relapse for practitioners and provides suggestions for future research.
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Bingham, Adrienna N. "Controlling Infectious Disease: Prevention and Intervention Through Multiscale Models." W&M ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1582642581.

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Controlling infectious disease spread and preventing disease onset are ongoing challenges, especially in the presence of newly emerging diseases. While vaccines have successfully eradicated smallpox and reduced occurrence of many diseases, there still exists challenges such as fear of vaccination, the cost and difficulty of transporting vaccines, and the ability of attenuated viruses to evolve, leading to instances such as vaccine derived poliovirus. Antibiotic resistance due to mistreatment of antibiotics and quickly evolving bacteria contributes to the difficulty of eradicating diseases such as tuberculosis. Additionally, bacteria and fungi are able to produce an extracellular matrix in biofilms that protects them from antibiotics/antifungals. Mathematical models are an effective way of measuring the success of various control measures, allowing for cost savings and efficient implementation of those measures. While many models exist to investigate the dynamics on a human population scale, it is also beneficial to use models on a microbial scale to further capture the biology behind infectious diseases. In this dissertation, we develop mathematical models at several spatial scales to help improve disease control. At the scale of human populations, we develop differential equation models with quarantine control. We investigate how the distribution of exposed and infectious periods affects the control efficacy and suggest when it is important for models to include realistically narrow distributions. At the microbial scale, we use an agent-based stochastic spatial simulation to model the social interactions between two yeast strains in a biofilm. While cheater strains have been proposed as a control strategy to disrupt the harmful cooperative biofilm, some yeast strains cooperate only with other cooperators via kin recognition. We study under what circumstances kin recognition confers the greatest fitness benefit to a cooperative strain. Finally, we look at a multiscale, two-patch model for the dynamics between wild-type (WT) poliovirus and defective interfering particles (DIPs) as they travel between organs. DIPs are non-viable variants of the WT that lack essential elements needed for reproduction, causing them to steal these elements from the WT. We investigate when DIPs can lower the WT population in the host.
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Wallace, A., and A. Lynn Williams. "Service Delivery Models for Phonological Intervention: Collaborative vs. Pull-out." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2000. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2099.

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Thompson, Sandra Samuelson 1958. "Special education service delivery: Perceptions and practices in intervention assistance models and traditional models." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289466.

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Intervention assistance models of special education service delivery are an alternative to traditional refer-test-place models. They are designed to promote problem solving and problem ownership among teachess regarding to difficult-to-teach students, and to reduce unnecessary special education referrals and placements. This study investigated teachers' perceptions of problem ownership as measured by their responses to vignettes which depicted students exhibiting academic and/or behavioral difficulties. The methods and results of the pilot study for this study are also presented. Participants in the present study included teachers from both intervention assistance and traditional model schools. Generalizability theory was used to estimate variance components at the model and the individual levels. Results indicated that no variance in teachers' perceptions of problem ownership was accounted for by different service delivery models. A substantial portion of variance was related to differences among individual teachers. However, the largest source of variance was the vignette-by-teacher interaction. Special education referral and placement practices were also investigated. Referral and placement rates across intervention assistance schools were compared with rates across traditional schools. Both referral and placement rates were significantly lower across intervention assistance than across traditional model schools. The proportion of placements to referrals was also compared between models. Results provided no evidence to indicate that the proportion of placements to referrals differs between the two models. Findings are summarized and discussed, and their implications for future practice and research are examined.
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Hu, Xiaoying. "Theoretical models of government interventions in China's economic growth." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428436.

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Torres, Marcella. "A Comparison of Obesity Interventions Using Energy Balance Models." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3927.

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An energy balance model of human metabolism developed by Hall et al. is extended to compare body composition outcomes among standard and proposed obesity interventions. Standard interventions include a drastic diet or a drastic diet with endurance training. Outcomes for these interventions are typically poor in clinical studies. Proposed interventions include a gradual diet and the addition of resistance training to preserve lean mass and metabolic rate. We see that resistance training, regardless of dietary strategy, achieves these goals. Finally, we observe that the optimal obesity intervention for continued maintenance of a healthy body composition following a diet includes a combination of endurance and resistance training.
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Mccready, Carlyle. "Latent Variable Models for Longitudinal Outcomes from a Parenting Intervention Study." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31822.

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This research project analysed data collected with the use of self-reporting questionnaires and observational video scores in order to determine the level of success achieved by the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme (SCFP). The SCFP aimed to reduce harsh parenting practices and child behavioural problems in high-risk South African families. This research project examined the use of structural equation modelling (SEM) for longitudinal profiles and latent growth mediation modelling. Improved behaviour was observed in terms of reported child behaviour problems and reported harsh parenting with differences between the intervention and control groups directly after the completion of the 3-month intervention program. Improved behaviour was also observed in terms of reported positive parenting with differences between the intervention and control groups directly after the completion of the 3- month intervention program and at the 12-month follow-up occasion. No improvement in observed child behaviour was mediated through reported positive parenting or reported harsh parenting. Furthermore, the intervention program led to improved positive parenting behaviour directly after the 3-month intervention period, however the improved behaviour of the parent did not act as a mediating variable and no improvement in child behaviour was observed as a result.
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Loza, Olivia G. "Optimizing Non-pharmaceutical Interventions Using Multi-coaffiliation Networks." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271860/.

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Computational modeling is of fundamental significance in mapping possible disease spread, and designing strategies for its mitigation. Conventional contact networks implement the simulation of interactions as random occurrences, presenting public health bodies with a difficult trade off between a realistic model granularity and robust design of intervention strategies. Recently, researchers have been investigating the use of agent-based models (ABMs) to embrace the complexity of real world interactions. At the same time, theoretical approaches provide epidemiologists with general optimization models in which demographics are intrinsically simplified. The emerging study of affiliation networks and co-affiliation networks provide an alternative to such trade off. Co-affiliation networks maintain the realism innate to ABMs while reducing the complexity of contact networks into distinctively smaller k-partite graphs, were each partition represent a dimension of the social model. This dissertation studies the optimization of intervention strategies for infectious diseases, mainly distributed in school systems. First, concepts of synthetic populations and affiliation networks are extended to propose a modified algorithm for the synthetic reconstruction of populations. Second, the definition of multi-coaffiliation networks is presented as the main social model in which risk is quantified and evaluated, thereby obtaining vulnerability indications for each school in the system. Finally, maximization of the mitigation coverage and minimization of the overall cost of intervention strategies are proposed and compared, based on centrality measures.
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PEREZ, MIGUEL ANGEL FERNANDEZ. "MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR THE PROBLEM OF INTERVENTION IN ONSHORE OIL WELLS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30878@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Na indústria do petróleo e gás, uma das atividades de maior importância é a intervenção em poços para serviços de manutenção, a qual é necessária para garantir a produção de petróleo. Estas intervenções são realizadas por sondas workover que são disponibilizadas para atender uma grande quantidade de poços segundo um itinerário. Nesta tese são propostos três modelos de programação linear inteira para abordar eficientemente o problema de intervenção em poços terrestres de petróleo. O primeiro modelo determina o itinerário de um conjunto de sondas homogêneas, visando minimizar a perda total de produção. Este modelo é um aprimoramento do modelo proposto por Costa e Ferreira Filho (2004). O segundo modelo é uma extensão do anterior e considera também o dimensionamento de uma frota de sondas heterogênea, procurando minimizar o custo de perda de produção e o custo de aluguel de sondas. O terceiro modelo é uma abordagem estocástica que estende o segundo modelo e consiste em dimensionar uma frota de sondas considerando o tempo de intervenção incerto. A incerteza do tempo de intervenção é representada mediante a geração de cenários, usando para este fim os métodos de Monte Carlo, Redução de Cenários e Quasi-Monte Carlo. Os testes de estabilidade propostos por Kaut e Wallace (2003) são aplicados para avaliar os métodos de geração de cenários e estabelecer o número de cenários adequados para resolver o problema. Para avaliar o desempenho dos modelos propostos, diversos experimentos computacionais foram realizados em instâncias de pequeno, médio e grande porte. Todas as instâncias são baseadas em casos reais no Brasil. Os resultados mostram que os modelos propostos foram capazes de resolver todas as instâncias utilizadas, inclusive aquelas de grande porte, demonstrando serem eficientes quando comparadas com várias metaheurísticas, pois produzem soluções exatas em um curto tempo computacional. Uma análise do impacto nas soluções quando ocorre uma mudança no preço de petróleo e no horizonte de planejamento também é realizada. A metodologia de resolução empregada no terceiro modelo mostrou que o método Quasi-Monte Carlo proporcionou os melhores cenários para representar a incerteza e também o potencial do modelo para resolver problemas de grande porte.
In the oil and gas industry, one of the most important activities is the intervention in wells for maintenance services, which is necessary to ensure the production of oil. These interventions are performed by workover rigs that are available to serve a large number of wells according to a schedule. In this thesis, we proposed three integer linear programming models to efficiently address the problem of intervention in onshore oil wells. The first model determines the schedule of a set of homogeneous rigs, with the objective of minimizing the total production loss. This model is an improvement of the model proposed by Costa and Ferreira Filho (2004). The second model is an extension of the previous one and also considers the sizing of a heterogeneous rig fleet, with the objective of minimizing the production loss cost and the rig rental cost. The third model is a stochastic approach that extends the second model and consists of sizing a rig fleet considering the uncertainty in the intervention time. The uncertainty in the intervention time is represented by the generation of scenarios, using for this purpose the Monte Carlo, Scenario Reduction, and Quasi-Monte Carlo methods. The stability tests proposed by Kaut and Wallace (2003) are applied to evaluate the scenario generation methods and to establish the number of appropriate scenarios to solve the problem. To evaluate the performance of the proposed models, several computational experiments were performed in small, medium and large instances. All instances are based on real cases in Brazil. The results show that the proposed models were able to solve all of the instances considered, including the large instances, proving to be efficient when compared to various metaheuristics, as they produce exact solutions in small computational time. An analysis of the impact on the solutions when there is a change in the oil price and the planning horizon is also carried out. The resolution methodology employed in the third model showed that the Quasi-Monte Carlo method provided the best scenarios to represent the uncertainty and also the potential of the model to solve large-scale problems.
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Hill, Stephanie Lois. "Implementation of response to intervention models and job satisfaction of school psychologists." ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/801.

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Previous research has indicated that school psychologists have greater job satisfaction when they engage in more intervention and consultation activities and fewer assessment activities. The use of response to intervention (RTI) as a way to identify specific learning disabilities is a recent development in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that involves more intervention activities for school psychologists and provides earlier interventions for students. The way that RTI is implemented may affect job satisfaction of school psychologists. Grounded in the theory of work adjustment, this study used a causal comparative design to examine if there is a significant difference between 2 models of RTI and job satisfaction of school psychologists in a southwestern US state. Survey data were collected using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire from a convenience sample of school psychologists using a prescriptive model (leading to decisions of eligibility) of RTI (n = 26) and those using a flexible model (interventions and assessments to determine eligibility) of RTI (n = 26). ANOVA was conducted to determine if there were significant differences in school psychologists' job satisfaction, by group (flexible RTI vs. prescriptive RTI), years of experience (less than 6 years vs. 6 years or more), age (less than 40 years vs. 40 years and older), and gender (male vs. female). Results revealed similar levels of job satisfaction for school psychologists using both flexible and prescriptive models of RTI. Findings are important because they provide information about establishing and maintaining job satisfaction of school psychologists. This study may influence social change by assisting school districts in making decisions about RTI that directly impact educational outcomes for students.
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Merrifield, Claire Alexandra. "Characterisation of the immuno-metabolic interface in porcine models of nutritional intervention." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11661.

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There is increasing interest in the idea of using diet for health maintenance. Not only does dietary intake determine the availability of substrates for host metabolism, but it can also shape the composition of the intestinal microbiota, increasingly recognised as an ‘organ’ in its own right, which closely interacts with the mucosal immune system. Alterations in the mammalian-microbial-metabolic axis are associated with disease development and as such it is important to study the systemic consequences of dietary intervention on these interactions in an appropriate animal model such as the pig. The majority of the abundant metabolites present in porcine liver, kidney, serum and urine were assigned by one and two dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and qualitatively compared; inter-compartmental differences in relation to mammalian-microbial co-metabolic representation were identified in the pig, and the applicability of NMR-based urinalysis to interrogate mammalian-microbial co-metabolism in this species confirmed. The initial weaning diet of pigs was found to initiate sustainable metabolic reprogramming in the young pig, leading to a persistent urinary metabolic signature after four weeks; this signature included metabolites linked to microbial metabolic processes and could indicate a diet-induced microbial reprogramming event at weaning. Differences in the initial weaning diet were also found to impact the metabolic and immunologic consequences of Bifidobacterium lactis supplementation on the young pig. The urinary metabolic profile from these animals was significantly correlated with patterns of intestinal mucosal immunoglobulin secretion and thus indicates the potential utility of biofluid-based metabolic profiling to assess mucosal responses to dietary intervention.
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Toro, Quezada Edgardo Patricio. "Analysis of policy and legal frameworks, intervention models and intervention practices on commercial sexual exploitation of children in Chile : a discourse analysis approach." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31196.

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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is a serious violation of the Human Rights with global and local implications. The multidimensionality of CSEC requires us to understand its historical elements, legal definitions, and psychosocial characteristics. International agencies, states, and national agencies (statutory and voluntary sectors) have agreed on an agenda of responses including research on CSEC, partnership and collaboration, legal changes and adjustment, promoting criminal prosecution, social policies and interventions for children and young people that have been made subject to CSEC. These interventions are diverse in their approaches, purposes, types of services, models, and critical points. In accordance with international agreements, the Chilean State recognised CSEC as a social problem and developed social policies, legal changes and intervention programmes across the country. In this context, practitioners have built a 'know-how' of social intervention in CSEC based on technical guidelines (social policy on CSEC), institutional directions and pragmatic decisions from fieldwork reflexivity. However, there is no clear evidence about the rationale, models, practices, strategies and critical points in the interventions and weakness in the monitoring and evaluations. Applied Discourse Analysis was conducted to explore the relationship between different levels of social intervention on CSEC: policy, intervention models and practices. The research purpose was to describe, understand, and analyse the programmes of social intervention in CSEC, the social intervention models, and the interdisciplinary practices in Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, implemented in the decade of 2004-2014 in Chile. Government and alternative documents were analysed (13 each), discussion groups with interdisciplinary professional teams in CSEC (3), and a focus group (1) composed of policymakers, academics, researchers, police and judicial representatives was undertaken. These materials were data-managed and analysed using the software dedoose. All University of Edinburgh Research Ethics procedures were followed. The findings indicate that Government documents highlight two discursive styles: Mandatory and Pragmatic, regarding the intervention and the approaches used. These discourses (1) defined the interventions as a part of a system or building a network of services, (2) established a condition of the intervention that recognised children as a subject of law or recognised the specialised character of the intervention, and (3) based interventions on guidelines and ethical principles or challenges, and evidence-based approaches. Alternative documents developed a discursive style of Monitoring and Evaluation that emphasised (1) the complexity of CSEC and the need to develop responses, (2) then recognised challenges such a making visible CSEC and problems with the interventions; and finally (3) recommended the basis for the intervention. Mixed Stakeholders group (1) emphasised CSEC characteristics, and the institutional responses (2) specified the structure of the intervention, and (3) identified tensions and challenges in the adjustments of social policies and intervention practices, methodological needs, and the judicial system rationale and practices. These findings are significant because they help us to understand the processes involved in building appropriate and situated responses for children and young people that have been made subject to CSE on a local, regional and global level.
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MENDES, EVANDRO LUIZ. "INTERVENTION MODELS TO FORECAST MONTHLY DEMAND OF ELETRIC ENERGY, CONSIDERING THE RATIONING SCENERY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3336@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Nesta dissertação é desenvolvida uma metodologia para previsão de demanda mensal de energia elétrica considerando cenários de racionamento. A metodologia usada consiste em, a partir das taxas de crescimento da série temporal, identificar e eliminar os efeitos do racionamento de energia elétrica através da aplicação de Modelos Lineares Dinâmicos. São analisadas também estruturas de intervenção nos modelos estatísticos de Box & Jenkins e Holt & Winters. Os modelos são então comparados segundo alguns critérios, basicamente no que tange à sua eficiência preditiva. Conclui-se ao final sobre a eficiência da metodologia proposta, dado a grande dificuldade para solucionar o problema a partir dos modelos estatísticos de Box & Jenkins e Holt & Winters. Esta solução é então proposta como a mais viável para criar cenários de racionamento e pósracionamento de energia para ser utilizado por agentes do sistema elétrico nacional.
In this dissertation, a methodology is developed to forecast monthly demand of electric energy, considering the rationing scenery. The methodology is based on, taking the growth rate from the time series, identify and eliminate the effects of electric energy rationing, using Dynamic Linear Models. It is also analyzed intervention structures in the statistics models of Box & Jenkins and Holt & Winters. The models are compared according to some criterions, mainly forecast accuracy. At the end, we concluded that the methodology proposed is more efficient, due to the difficult to solve the problem using the statistics models with intervention. This solution is proposed as the best among them to create scenery during the energy rationing and after energy rationing, to be used by the national electric system agents.
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Niebuhr, Carin. "A Comparison of Evaluation Models for Handicap Intervention in a Head Start Program." DigitalCommons@USU, 1985. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5951.

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The Model A and Model C Title I evaluation options were compared by using both options to measure the effectiveness of handicap intervention in a Head Start program. Two hundred three children in Jackson County (Oregon) were pretested with the Developmental Indicators of Learning Test (DIAL), the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), the Visual-Motor Integration Scale (VMI), and the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory (CELI). The 43 children who scored below the predetermined cut-off level were placed in a six-month intervention program. One hundred forty-nine children remaining in the Head Start program in May were posttested with the same tests. Model A analysis of mean scores of the intervention group indicated significant score change on all three testing instruments. Model C analysis indicated no positive score change. It was posited that the Model A effect in this project was large because it combined a positive intervention effect with a positive general program effect. The Model C option showed no effect because the estimated nonintervention scores were very large due to the large positive score change in the nonintervention group.
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Ulbrich, Sherri. "A stage-based community intervention to promote physical activity in healthy adults." free to MU campus, to others for purchase free online, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/preview?3052224.

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Li, Haojie. "Impacts of traffic interventions on road safety : an application of causal models." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/18068.

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This thesis is concerned with the causal relationship between traffic interventions and road safety. It focuses on two issues that have been overlooked in the existing empirical literature: the establishment of a causal link between traffic interventions and road traffic accidents, and the application and development of formal causal approaches, which have not yet been applied in the field of road safety. In the past decades substantial studies have been conducted to investigate the risk factors contributing to road accidents. It has been shown that the frequency and severity of road accidents are associated with various factors, including traffic characteristics, road environment and demographic characteristics. However, the existence of a causal link between traffic interventions and road accidents remains unclear due to the complex character of traffic interventions. Meanwhile, the lack of formal causal models makes it difficult fully to address issues such as confounding effects and regression to the mean bias. This thesis begins by reviewing and discussing different types of traffic interventions in order to demonstrate the chains through which traffic interventions are related to road safety. To address the shortcomings in empirical literature, three models for causal inferences are discussed: the difference-in-difference method, the propensity score matching method and Bayesian methods. These formal causal approaches are then applied to three empirical studies: the London congestion charging scheme, speed limit enforcement cameras, and the road network design. The conventional models are also employed and compared with formal causal models.
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Rasoulian, Abtin. "Statistical models of the spine for image analysis and image-guided interventions." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45759.

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The blind placement of an epidural needle is among the most difficult regional anesthetic techniques. The challenge is to insert the needle in the midline plane of the spine and to avoid overshooting the needle into the spinal cord. Prepuncture 2D ultrasound scanning has been introduced as a reliable tool to localize the target and facilitate epidural needle placement. Ideally, real-time ultrasound should be used during needle insertion to monitor the progress of needle towards the target epidural space. However, several issues inhibit the use of standard 2D ultrasound, including the obstruction of the puncture site by the ultrasound probe, low visibility of the target in ultrasound images of the midline plane, and increased pain due to a longer needle trajectory. An alternative is to use 3D ultrasound imaging, where the needle and target could be visible within the same reslice of a 3D volume; however, novice ultrasound users (i.e., many anesthesiologists) have difficulty interpreting ultrasound images of the spine and identifying the target epidural space. In this thesis, I propose techniques that are utilized for augmentation of 3D ultrasound images with a model of the vertebral column. Such models can be pre-operatively generated by extracting the vertebrae from various imaging modalities such as Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). However, these images may not be obtainable (such as in obstetrics), or involve ionizing radiation. Hence, the use of Statistical Shape Models (SSM) of the vertebrae is a reasonable alternative to pre-operative images. My techniques include construction of a statistical model of vertebrae and its registration to ultrasound images. The model is validated against CT images of 56 patients by evaluating the registration accuracy. The feasibility of the model is also demonstrated via registration to 64 in vivo ultrasound volumes.
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Varghese, Ashley Daniel. "Human trafficking and models of governing security." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28686.

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This thesis seeks to address the complex forms assumed by the problem of human trafficking in the contemporary world and in particular to analyse and overcome certain identified shortcomings in existing models of intervention. It begins by locating the problem historically through its foundations in slavery, and explores the incomplete nature of the abolition of that institution. These observations provide the context for the emergence of contemporary forms of exploitation. The complexity of the problem of human trafficking is reflected in the variety of approaches to intervention thus far attempted and in the lack of consensus among stakeholders concerning the effectiveness of competing models. The tendency towards institutional failure in current approaches, and the consequent growth of the trafficking phenomenon are compounded by the ability of criminal networks to infiltrate and corrupt the very systems that are meant to safeguard vulnerable populations. This thesis argues that the shortcomings of existing models are themselves evidence that one of the foundational reasons for the emergence of human trafficking as a networked global crime is the security deficit created by the replacement of the structures of state with criminal networks embedded within communities. These observations are supported by empirical evidence in the form of i) a detailed review of records relating to a number of prosecutions and ii) first-hand observations and interviews with officials and civil society organisations in India, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. I argue, in conclusion, that the evolution of models of intervention, leading to the creation of a preferred multidisciplinary model, show that this security deficit is best countered by emergent partnerships between the structures of the state, communities and civil society groups. Such innovations prefigure new hybrid structures, which offer a degree of hope for holistically tackling common global problems and networked crimes such as human trafficking.
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Walker, Jerry V. III. "Effects of a brief character strengths intervention| A comparison of capitalization and compensation models." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3612520.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the differential effects of the Capitalization vs. Compensation model applied to a brief, group-based intervention that focused on Character Strengths, as defined by Peterson and Seligman (2004). Traditional Character Strengths interventions in Positive Psychology apply a Capitalization model, in which individuals engage their top-ranked strengths of character, and this approach has amassed substantial empirical support. However, it is not known whether a Compensation model, in which individuals engage their bottom-ranked strengths, can offer similar benefits. One hundred and eighty-seven employees from eighteen small organizations were randomized at the group level to receive one of four psychoeducational interventions: Top Strengths, Bottom Strengths, Placebo (behavioral health), or a delayed-treatment Control. Participants completed the VIA Survey of Character Strengths and a pre-treatment battery of outcome measures that assessed both positive psychological variables, such as life satisfaction and psychological well-being, and negative life functioning variables, such as depression and negative affect. Post-treatment outcome measures and a compliance measure were completed approximately one month following the psychoeducational presentations. Results revealed few differences between experimental conditions for most measures; however, participants in the Bottom Strengths condition experienced a decrease in symptom distress and an increase in emotional well-being relative to those in the Placebo and Control conditions. Regression analyses revealed several interesting relationships between Character Strengths and outcome measures, with implications for applications in multiple fields. A discussion of methods to strengthen brief group-based interventions, as well as the future direction of Character Strengths interventions, concludes the paper.

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Johnson, Courtney Anne. "Science intervention programs for Southern Black students a cluster evaluation and two proposed models /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000710.

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Albtoush, Nansy. "Inhibiting the Function of TSG-6 in Inflammatory Models as a Possible Therapeutic Intervention." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1544060182841309.

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Hemmings, Peta. "Social work practice with children bereaved of a parent : comparing two models of intervention." Thesis, University of York, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10787/.

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Kulchaitanaroaj, Puttarin. "Evaluation of a physician-pharmacist collaborative intervention for treating hypertension." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4670.

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Quality of care is identified as a major problem in the current health care system. Multidisciplinary teamwork has been proposed to address quality-of-care problems because, theoretically, a health-care team can expand knowledge and follow up patients more efficiently. However, questions about how to successfully implement team-based care in ambulatory settings and its long-term costs are still unanswered. The first objective of this dissertation is to estimate the marginal effects of process measures including number of counseling sessions about lifestyle modification and number of specified-dose antihypertensive medications provided by a physician-pharmacist collaborative intervention and usual care on blood pressure reduction and direct treatment costs by comparing the results from as-treated and instrumental variable methods. The second objective is to estimate the long-term cost changes attributable to the physician-pharmacist collaborative intervention by considering costs related to coronary heart disease, stroke, and heart failure. To accomplish both objectives, data from two prospective, clustered randomized controlled clinical trials implementing a physician-pharmacist collaborative intervention in the Midwest were used. In the first study, multiple linear regression models included blood pressure reduction and costs as outcome variables, and the two process measures and other control variables as explanatory variables. As-treated methods revealed insignificant associations between the two process measures and blood pressure reduction outcomes. On the other hand, both process measures were significantly associated with the costs. By using instrumental variable methods, utilizing two instruments of randomization and the trial indicator, the models were unidentified and showed no significant associations between the process measures and all of the outcomes. However, the post-hoc analysis of the instrumental variable models, evaluating one process measure at a time without controlling for the other process measure, showed significant associations between the process measures and all of the outcomes. The estimates from instrumental variable methods were larger than the estimates from the as-treated methods. The second study used a Markov model cohort simulation in a 10-year timeframe, transition probabilities estimated by several risk estimation systems and published statistics, and published event costs. The reference case employed a sample of patients aged 30 to 74 years from the trials and assumed that blood pressure after the intervention was constant. The total costs of the intervention for hypertension care and the costs related to the vascular diseases in the intervention group were shown to be lower than the usual care group at 6.5 years. However, cost-savings by the intervention were sensitive to patient risk profiles and sustainability of blood pressure after the intervention. To conclude, from the first study, combining multiple studies and using instrumental variable methods may be useful for evaluating marginal effects of the care process but further research is needed to address under-identification problems. The results of the second study suggested that it was likely that the physician-pharmacist collaborative intervention to treat hypertension was appropriate for high-risk patients.
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Daack-Hirsch, Sandra Elaine. "Context for Filipino community based orofacial cleft prevention interventions." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/172.

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Kooshkghazi, Mahshid Deghan. "Chemoprevention of intestinal cancer : dietary and pharmaceutical interventions in mutant Apc mouse models." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388729.

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Ventura, Neyra Edgar. "Explaining the determinants of the frequency rate interventions in Peru using count models." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/8037.

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La presente investigación analiza los determinantes de la frecuencia de las intervenciones de tipo de cambio por parte del Banco Central de Reserva del Perú (BCRP). Esto a partir de información semanal entre enero de 2001 y diciembre de 2010, usando modelos de conteo como Poisson, Negativo Binomial y Zero Inflated. Los resultados muestran que las desviaciones del logaritmo del tipo de cambio respecto de su tendencia de largo plazo, las intervenciones del periodo anterior (persistencia), el riesgo país medido por el EMBIG, el spread entre las tasas de interés bancarias, y el interés entre las tasas de interés doméstica y foránea son importantes determinantes.
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Williams, Rachel A. "Investigating the effectiveness of the intervention reading models of two teachers in grades K-2." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2013. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/498.

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This study examines the effectiveness of two reading interventionists and their teaching methodologies with students in grades K-2. The two interventionists were selected because they are the two teachers responsible for reading intervention in the primary grades. The students were selected because they are being served by the interventionists and they are performing below proficient in reading. Many students come into Title I schools underperforming for a variety of reasons. These include a lack of literacy resources in their homes and also a lack of outside experiences. Many parents in this school setting are working poor. They hold jobs, but do not have a much time to spend with their child due to making ends meet financially. A case study approach was used to gather data. The researcher conducted three observations on each teacher for a total of six observations. All three grades levels (K-2) were observed in a pull out setting. The observer utilized an observation instrument and also an interview protocol to interview both teachers. Additionally, student achievement was analyzed using DIBELS Reading 3D data. The data was collected at the beginning of the year and the end of the year and compared to measure student reading growth. The researcher found that both teachers regardless of age, race, and experience were effective at raising student achievement with at risk students. There were no significant differences in the achievement between males and females, between students who received free and reduced lunch and those who did not, or among ethnicities. First grade students however made significantly higher gains than the other two grade levels in this study. Both teachers showed 100% growth according to Reading 3D scores. Additionally, they agreed that given autonomy and time to plan and build trust with regular education teachers they were more successful. They believe in the importance of accountability and providing supports to underachieving students. The conclusions drawn from the findings suggest that various teaching methodologies which include differentiation, a focus on the big five components of reading, and small teacher to student ratios were successful. Strong connections with students were seen from each teacher as they both knew their children and their strengths and weaknesses. This research suggests that given full autonomy to deliver instruction without a scripted program, both teachers were highly effective. Districts should use teachers, such as the ones in this study, to conduct professional development trainings on best practices in literacy. Leaders are encouraged to give teachers more autonomy in their classrooms. Intervention should be considered in higher grade levels to bridge gaps in reading.
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Bennett, Steven Prescott. "Molecular Intervention in Mouse Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s Disease – Neuropathology and Behavior." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3694.

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Neurodegeneration describes the progressive loss of structure and function of neurons, leading ultimately to cell and organism death. Although the initiating factors of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis may be different, they share common pathophysiologies. Proteinopathies, as these diseases are now termed, are characterized by atypical deposits of proteins, often due to misfolding. Associated with these deposits are dysfunctional mitochondria, oxidative stress, disrupted axonal transport, inflammation, and apoptotic cell death. If this occurs in motor neurons, as in ALS, ataxia precedes death with little or no change in cognition. On the other hand, if the deposits are found in cortical neurons, as in Alzheimer’s disease, the outcome is dementia and motor function remains largely intact. Each disease is selective for particular types of neurons and brain regions. Although research has elucidated much of the molecular biology involved in these diseases, their initiating causes remain largely unknown. Most of our current understanding originated with the identification of gene mutations that cause rare familial forms of these diseases. As a result, numerous strains of transgenic animals have been developed to study neurodegenerative disease phenomena and were central to the studies presented in this body of work. Novel routes of drug and gene delivery are described here as well as characterization of the mouse models studied. In particular, this work demonstrates that the blood brain barrier is disrupted in ALS followed by the formation of autorosettes in ALS mice. In various Alzheimer’s disease mouse models, it was demonstrated that the acute phase reactant alpha-1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) not only interacts with amyloid plaques, but also induces tau phosphorylation in vivo; tying together these disease hallmarks. It was also shown that small fragments of Aβ (1-11) could disrupt the formation of mature amyloid plaques in these mice. Lastly, it was demonstrated that mature plaques could also be decreased by intracranial delivery of granulocyte-macrophage stimulating factor (GM-CSF). My dissertation research goal was to understand and develop these treatment strategies based on protein disaggregation, neuroprotection, and inflammation, meanwhile developing novel methods for targeted delivery of molecules into the CNS of mice.
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Schumacher, Brian James. "Potential of the city the interventions of The Situationist International and Gordon Matta-Clark /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1453653.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 10, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-41).
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Mikešová, Veronika. "Komparace japonského a německého modelu kapitalismu." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-199919.

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The paper deals with the comparison of the japanese and the german model of capitalism and the search for the answer to the question asking if these two models are becomming closer to each other thanks to globalization or not. The research is based on work with historical sources, reports published by international organizations and also articles available on the Internet. The first chapter defines the term of economic policy and globalization and describes historical development of japanese and german economy. The second chapter describes development between the world wars. In the third chapter I focus on the World War II and its influence on the economy of both states. The final chapter follows the development from the 70s of the 20th century to nowadays. At the end of each chapter I summarize the main features of both states in the researched period that enable me to answer the main question of my work.
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Corley, Courtney D. "Modeling the Impact and Intervention of a Sexually Transmitted Disease: Human Papilloma Virus." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5289/.

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Many human papilloma virus (HPV) types are sexually transmitted and HPV DNA types 16, 18, 31, and 45 account for more than 75% if all cervical dysplasia. Candidate vaccines are successfully completing US Federal Drug Agency (FDA) phase III testing and several drug companies are in licensing arbitration. Once this vaccine become available it is unlikely that 100% vaccination coverage will be probable; hence, the need for vaccination strategies that will have the greatest reduction on the endemic prevalence of HPV. This thesis introduces two discrete-time models for evaluating the effect of demographic-biased vaccination strategies: one model incorporates temporal demographics (i.e., age) in population compartments; the other non-temporal demographics (i.e., race, ethnicity). Also presented is an intuitive Web-based interface that was developed to allow the user to evaluate the effects on prevalence of a demographic-biased intervention by tailoring the model parameters to specific demographics and geographical region.
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Tiede, Gabrielle Marie. "Exportable Communication Intervention for Classroom Staff Serving Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Towards Improving the Feasibility of Evidence-Based Practices in Community Settings." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1499684839741718.

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