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Davies, R. A. "A calendar of the Archdeaconry of Stafford section of the register of Roger Northburgh, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, with some discussion of its contents." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496041.
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This thesis Is based upon the archdeaconry of Stafford section of the episcopal register of Roger de Northburgh, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1322-1358 and provides a calendar of the sixty seven, folios of text. The majority of the documents are institutions and collations to parish benefices, exchanges of benefice, appointments of abbots and priors to religious houses and collations and papal provisions of cathedral prebends and collations of prebendal houses. There is in addition a wide range of other documents, including one vicarage ordination and an episcopal letter concerning the non-distribution of oblations. The text has been indexed. The text is preceded by an introduction which comments on the parish priests, their origins and education, their career, their tenure of benefice and the length of vacancy between incumbencies. The patronage system and the appropriation of churches is discussed as is the effect of the Black Death of parish clergy. The last two chapters comment upon the family and the familia of the bishop and investigate at some length the itinerary of the bishop throughout his long episcopate. The introduction concludes with a short editorial note.
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O'Brien, Deborah Jean Steele. "'The veray registre of all trouthe' : the content, function, and character of the civic registers of London and York c.1274-c.1482." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2481/.
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Snodgrass, Tina. "Personality Types of Registered Nurses Employed in a Rural Community Hospital." TopSCHOLAR®, 1997. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/357.
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The purpose of this study was to identify the personality types of registered nurses in a rural community. An extensive literature review revealed that no studies, utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to identify personality types, had been conducted with rural nurses. Jung's Psychological Type Theory was the theoretical framework for the study. The MBTI operationalizes Jung's theory and was utilized to determine the most frequently occurring personality types of the nurses. A descriptive study was conducted at a 68 bed acute care hospital. The sample consisted of 40 experienced registered nurses working in staff positions within the hospital. Sensing, feeling, and judging were the preferred functions of the nurses, consistent with the expected tasks of the direct care giver. The greatest number of nurses were classified as ISFJ (N=9) followed by ENFP (N=6)
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Corbo, Elizabeth. "Learning through Language: A Study of the Appropriation of Academic Language of Sixth Grade Learners across Content Areas." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1302884209.
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Gray, Elizabeth Gertsch. "The processes used by ninth grade readers when encountering the textual features of register and cohesion while reading content area text /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487684245467867.
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Pires, Ana Luiza Resende 1984. "Desenvolvimento de curativos flexíveis e neutralizados de quitosana e alginato contendo Alphasan 'Marca Registra' RC2000." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/266655.
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Orientador: Ângela Maria MoraesDissertação (mestrado-) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Química
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Resumo: Polímeros biodegradáveis estão sendo amplamente aplicados na constituição de curativos para o tratamento de lesões de pele de diferentes origens, estando a quitosana e o alginato dentre os mais estudados. A associação de alginato e quitosana em curativos pode atuar de maneira positiva na absorção de fluidos das lesões, além de propiciar a incorporação de fármacos. Entretanto, a flexibilidade do dispositivo é baixa e o processo de obtenção é lento em função de etapas como a correção do pH para a neutralidade, secagem e reticulação. Neste trabalho teve-se por objetivo melhorar as propriedades mecânicas de membranas de quitosana e alginato pela incorporação de um gel de silicone comercial (Silpuran® 2130 A/B), avaliar os efeitos da correção do pH em etapa única, da temperatura de secagem e também da eliminação das etapas de reticulação nas características de membranas de quitosana e alginato na presença e ausência de AlphaSan®RC2000, um agente microbicida à base de prata. As membranas foram caracterizadas quanto à espessura, à absorção de fluidos, à perda de massa quando expostas a diferentes fluidos fisiológicos e à resistência mecânica. Análises complementares de FTIR e EDS também foram realizadas. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que as membranas secas a 60 °C apresentaram superfície mais lisa que as secas a 37 °C. A espessura diminuiu com a correção do pH para 7,0 e aumentou na presença de AlphaSan®RC2000. Para as formulações livres do antimicrobiano, a elevação do pH aumentou a absorção de soro fetal bovino e solução salina e aumentou também a perda de massa nesta última solução. Já as amostras obtidas na presença de AlphaSan® RC2000 apresentaram aumento na absorção de água. A elevação da temperatura reduziu somente a perda de massa após o contato com a água. A reticulação, após a secagem, com CaCl2 a 2% mostrou-se indispensável para a estabilização das membranas, resultando em materiais com aspecto mais rugoso e maior espessura. A absorção de fluidos, a estabilidade em diferentes fluidos e a resistência mecânica diminuíram tanto na presença quanto na ausência de prata. Análises por EDS e FTIR mostraram que tanto o AlphaSan® RC2000 quanto o Silpuran® 2130 A/B, não são removidos após a etapa de lavagem das membranas. As formulações contendo o composto siliconado apresentaram-se mais homogêneas, flexíveis e com maior caráter adesivo, assim como menor espessura. A absorção de soluções por estas formulações foi menor e a estabilidade em solução foi maior. A resistência mecânica aumentou significativamente com a incorporação de silicone, atingindo-se uma tensão de ruptura máxima de 63 MPa. Dessa forma, é viável a diminuição do tempo de processamento das membranas pelo ajuste do pH em etapa única, pelo uso de temperaturas mais elevadas de secagem e pela eliminação da etapa de reticulação primária. A incorporação de Silpuran® 2130 A/B mostrou-se uma boa alternativa para a melhora das propriedades mecânicas dos curativos de quitosana e alginato
Abstract: Biodegradable polymers are widely applied in the constitution of dressings for treating various types of skin lesions, being chitosan and alginate two of the most studied raw materials. The association between alginate and chitosan in wound dressings can act positively in the absorption of fluids from lesions, allowing also the incorporation of drugs. However, the device flexibility is frequently low and its production is time-consuming due to steps such as adjusting the pH to neutrality, sample drying and crosslinking. This study aimed to improve the mechanical properties of chitosan-alginate wound dressings by incorporating a commercial silicone gel (Silpuran® 2130 A/B) and to evaluate the effects of pH correction in one step, of the drying temperature and also of the elimination of the crosslinking steps in the characteristics of chitosan-alginate membranes obtained in the presence and absence of AlphaSan® RC2000, an antimicrobial agent containing silver in its composition. The membranes were characterized regarding thickness, absorption of fluids, mass loss in different fluids and mechanical resistance. Complementary analyzes of FTIR and EDS were also performed. The results showed that membranes dried at 60 °C presented smoother surfaces than when dried at 37 °C. Membrane thickness decreased with the correction of the pH to 7,0 and increased in the presence of AlphaSan® RC2000. For formulations free of the antimicrobial agent, the pH adjustment increased bovine fetal serum and saline solution absorption, increasing also sample mass loss in the latter solution. Devices containing AlphaSan® RC2000, on the other hand, had increased water absorption. The increase of drying temperature, however, reduced mass loss due to prolonged contact with water. The crosslinking with CaCl2 2% after a drying step was shown to be essential for membrane stabilization, conducting to materials with less smooth surfaces and with greater thickness. The absorption of fluids decreased for samples prepared both in the presence and absence of silver, as did membrane stability and mechanical properties. EDS and FTIR analyzes showed that both AlphaSan® RC2000 and Silpuran® 2130 A/B were not removed from the membranes after the washing step. The formulations incorporating the silicone compound showed more homogeneous surfaces, greater flexibility and adhesivity, as well as lower thickness. The solution absorption was lower and membrane stability was higher for those devices. The mechanical strength increased with the incorporation of silicone, reaching a maximum of 63 MPa. Thus, it is viable to decrease the processing time of the membranes by pH adjustment in a single step, through the use of higher temperatures during drying and by the eliminating of the primary crosslinking step. The incorporation of Silpuran® 2130 A/B proved to be a good alternative for the improvement of the mechanical properties of chitosan and alginate dressings
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Mestra em Engenharia Química
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Mothersole, Peter John Michael. "Modelling physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge through purposeful relationships between semiotic registers : KEPLER - "Knowledge Environment for Physics Learning and Evaluation of Relationships"." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2005. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/3003/.
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Ramírez, Orozco Raissel. "High dynamic range content acquisition from multiple exposures." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/371162.
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The limited dynamic range of digital images can be extended by composing different exposures of the same scene to produce HDR images. This thesis is composed of an overview of the state of the art techniques and three methods to tackle the image alignment and deghosting problems in the HDR imaging domain.
The first method detects the areas affected by motion, registers the dynamic objects over a reference image, and combines low-dynamic range values to recover HDR values in the whole image.
The second approach builds multiscopic HDR images from LDR multi-exposure images. It is based on a patch match algorithm which was adapted and improved to take advantage of epipolar geometry constraints of stereo images.
The last method proposes to replace under/over exposed pixels in the reference image by using valid HDR values from other images in the multi-exposure LDR image sequence.El limitado rango dinámico de las imágenes digitales puede ampliarse mezclando varias imágenes adquiridas con diferentes valores de exposición. Esta tesis incluye un detallado resumen del estado del arte y tres métodos diferentes para alinear las imágenes y corregir el efecto ’ghosting’ en imágenes HDR. El primer método está centrado en detectar las áreas afectadas por el movimiento y registrar los objetos dinámicos sobre una imagen de referencia de modo que se logre recuperar información a lo largo de toda la imagen. Nuestra segunda propuesta es un método para obtener imágenes HDR multiscópicas a partir de diferentes exposiciones LDR. Está basado en un algoritmo de ’patch match’ que ha sido adaptado para aprovechar las ventajas de las restricciones de la geometría epipolar de imágenes estéreo. Por último proponemos reemplazar los píxeles saturados en la imagen de referencia usando valores correctos de otras imágenes de la secuencia.
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Pakbaz, Mojgan. "Vaginal prolapse – clinical outcomes and patients’ perspectives : a study using quantitative and qualitative methods." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Obstetrik och gynekologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-40613.
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Background: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a relatively common condition. In Sweden, the overall estimated prevalence of POP in the female population is 31% and the prevalence of symptomatic prolapse is 8–15%. The prevalence of POP increases with age. The lifetime risk of undergoing pelvic floor surgery is estimated to 11%. The aim of this thesis was to investigate outcomes of vaginal hysterectomy for treatment of prolapse; to study outcomes of cystocele repair surgery and patient satisfaction related to different anaesthesia methods; to explore women’s experiences of vaginal prolapse; and to investigate what is known regarding POP prior to surgery and healthcare-seeking behaviour. Methods: In the Swedish National Quality Register for Gynaecological Surgery (Gynop-register), 941 women were identified who underwent vaginal hysterectomy for prolapse from 1997 to 2005 and 1,364 women were identified who underwent cystocele repair surgery from 2006 to 2009. In-depth interviews were performed with 14 women with vaginal prolapse. Interview data were analyzed with a qualitative content analysis. To investigate women’s knowledge about POP and healthcare-seeking behaviour, a questionnaire was developed, validated and distributed to women with planned surgery for POP. Women undergoing hysterectomy or incontinence surgery were used as reference groups. Results: Severe complications after vaginal hysterectomy occurred in 3% of cases. Sexual activity was improved after vaginal hysterectomy, the number of women reported to have intercourse increased by 20% (p = 0.006). Subjective symptoms of urinary incontinence and overactive bladder were resolved in 50% of the women. De novo stress incontinence was reported by 11% of the women. Use of local anaesthesia (LA) in reconstruction of cystocele showed advantage over other forms of anaesthesia. Length of hospital stay, duration of use of postoperative pain-killing drugs, and time to return to daily activity were shorter among women who underwent surgery with LA compared to other forms of anaesthesia. Patient satisfaction was not related to methods of anaesthesia. In an interview study, the process from recognition the symptoms to seeking healthcare was highlighted. Two categories, “obstacles” and “facilitators” to seeking health care, were identified. One of the obstacles was lack of information on POP in the public domain. The main facilitators were feeling sexually unattractive and impaired physical ability due to POP. Some findings from the interview study were further explored in the questionnaire study. One out of five women with vaginal prolapse did not know that the symptoms were related to prolapse before consulting their physician. Over 30% of the women in the incontinence group were embarrassed to talk about incontinence, and they were unaware that it could be treated. The most frequent description of vaginal prolapse was vaginal bulging. Women in the prolapse group had significantly less access to information through brochures and public media than women in the incontinence group (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Short-term follow-up after vaginal hysterectomy showed that sexual activity and urinary symptoms had improved. Cystocele surgery using LA showed no disadvantage compared to surgery using other anaesthesia methods. POP surgery can therefore be performed safely with LA. Information on prolapse should be easily accessible to improve the possibility for women of gaining knowledge and thereby overcoming obstacles to seeking medical advice. Healthcare professionals have a significant role to play in informing women about symptoms and available treatment options.
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Johansson, Charlotta, and Maria Löfgren. "Redo för yrket? : En intervjustudie om hur nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor uppfattas av sin omgivning." Thesis, Röda Korsets Högskola, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-419.
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Bakgrund: Under större delen av 1900-talet präglades sjuksköterskeutbildningen av medicinsk vetenskap och en naturvetenskaplig syn på människan var påtaglig. I och med Vård -77-reformen blev omvårdnadsvetenskap karaktärsämne och en holistisk syn på människan införlivades i utbildningen. Sjuksköterskeutbildningens utformning och övergripande innehåll styrs av Högskoleförordningen och sjuksköterskans kunskaper inom yrket styrs av Socialstyrelsens kompetensbeskrivning för legitimerade sjuksköterskor. Kritik har riktats mot dagens utbildning och forskning har påvisat att nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor tenderar att brista i många praktiska moment. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att belysa erfarna sjuksköterskors uppfattning om nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor. Metod: Empirisk intervjustudie med deskriptiv kvalitativ ansats. Resultat: Under intervjuerna framkom att nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor är inspirerade av ny kunskap och kan se på gamla rutiner med nya ögon. Stress och högt arbetstempo påverkar arbetsutförandet negativt. De uppfattades inneha gedigen teoretisk kunskap, dock påtalades svårigheter med att omsätta denna i praktiken. Nyutexaminerade beskrevs som noggranna och fokuserade men med svårigheter i att se helheten i arbetet. Vidare upplevdes de samarbeta väl i team men vara bristfälliga i den arbetsledande rollen. Slutsats: Nyutexaminerade sjuksköterskor är inte alltid redo för de krav som i verksamheten ställs. Främst beror detta på att de saknar erfarenhetsbaserad kunskap. Resultatet av studien tyder på att nuvarande utbildning inte är tillräckligt yrkesförberedande. Klinisk betydelse: Studiens resultat kan genom vidare forskning få betydelse för sjuksköterskeutbildningens framtida utformning. De områden som framförallt bör ses över är undervisning i praktiskt utförande samt i ledarskap. Dessa bör få större plats i utbildningen.Background: For the major part of the 20th century, the nursing education was dominated by medical science and a scientific view on the human being was distinct. As a result of the Vård-77-reform, nursing science became the main subject of the education and a holistic view of the human being was established. The nursing education is guided by The Higher Education Act, and the competence and knowledge required of the nurse is guided by The National Board of Health and Welfare´s description of competence regarding registered nurses. The nursing education has been criticized and research has shown that newly registered nurses are insufficient in several practical elements. Aim: To examine experienced nurses’ perception of newly registered nurses. Method: An empirical interview-study with a qualitative descriptive approach. Results: Newly registered nurses are inspired by new knowledge and look at old routines with new eyes. Stress and a high workload affect them in a negative way. They were perceived to have a great deal of theoretical knowledge, but were said to have difficulties in applying those to practice. Newly registered nurses were perceived as accurate and focused but with difficulties seeing the work as a whole. They were said to work well in teams but don’t seem to have the ability of leading them. Conclusions: Newly registered nurses are not always well enough prepared for the demands which are required in clinical practice. This is primarily due to lack of experience based knowledge. The result of the study shows that the current education isn’t vocational. Clinical implication: The result of the study can, through further research, be of importance for the future nursing education. The areas that above all need to be investigated are the education in practical skills and leadership. Those subjects need to get more focus in the education.
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Samala, Harikrishna. "Methodology to Derive Resource Aware Context Adaptable Architectures for Field Programmable Gate Arrays." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/484.
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The design of a common architecture that can support multiple data-flow patterns (or contexts) embedded in complex control flow structures, in applications like multimedia processing, is particularly challenging when the target platform is a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with a heterogeneous mixture of device primitives. This thesis presents scheduling and mapping algorithms that use a novel area cost metric to generate resource aware context adaptable architectures. Results of a rigorous analysis of the methodology on multiple test cases are presented. Results are compared against published techniques and show an area savings and execution time savings of 46% each.
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Bengtsson, Anna-Karin. "CONSTANTLY NEW CHALLENGES FOR NURSES." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26003.
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ABSTRACT Introduction: The number of patients treated in inadequate hospital wards is increasing. Elderly and fragile patients with medical conditions are particularly vulnerable for being placed in inadequate hospital wards. They also run a twice as high risk of health-related complications and increased mortality. RNs obtain specific knowledge by working on specific wards. However, RNs’ experience of caring for outliers seems relatively unexplored, as few studies explore RNs’ experiences in giving nursing care to outliers. Aim: The aim of the study was to explore RNs’ experience of giving care to outliers with medical conditions at a university hospital in Sweden. Method: An interview study with 14 RNs from medical and surgical wards were conducted by semi-structured interviews. The inclusion criteria were that they had worked as an RN for minimum two years and had experience of outliers. Data were collected between December 2016 and January 2018. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed using conventional qualitative content analysis to identify categories and themes according to the aim of the study. Result: One overarching theme emerged: The interviewed nurses experienced that outliers’ medical and nursing care was delayed and therefore hospitalization was prolonged. The informants’ experience is substantiated by five main categories: Inadequate information from ER to the ward leads to concern, Nursing interventions are performed later and lead to a sense of powerlessness, Unavailable drugs lead to delayed or no drug administration, Patients on inadequate wards do not receive proper information, and The RN does not know when the patient is ready for discharge planning. Conclusion: RNs described their experience of caring for outliers as an obstacle course and that this risks prolonged hospitalization. They are not equipped to make the most appropriate decisions, as they have other specific knowledge than the specific needs of outliers, and as a result, care is not given. Keywords: outlier, registered nurse, experience, qualitative study, conventional content analysis, care undone, patient safety.
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Gusdal, Annelie K. "Family caregiving for persons with heart failure : Perspectives of family caregivers, persons with heart failure and registered nurses." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Hälsa och välfärd, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-35194.
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Heart failure is a growing public health problem associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Family support positively affects outcomes for the person with heart failure while also leading to caregiver burden. Registered nurses have a key role in supporting and meeting the needs of family caregivers. The overall aim was to explore the situation and needs of family caregivers to a person with heart failure, and explore requisites and ways of supporting and involving family caregivers in heart failure nursing care. Two interview studies, one web survey study and one intervention study were conducted between 2012 and 2017. A total of 22 family caregivers, eight persons with heart failure and 331 registered nurses participated in the studies. Family caregivers' daily life was characterized by worry, uncertainty and relational incongruence but salutogenic behaviours restored new strength and motivation to care. Family caregivers experienced that their caregiving was taken for granted by health care professionals. Family caregivers expressed a need for a permanent health care contact and more involvement in the planning and implementation of their near one’s health care together with health care professionals. Registered nurses acknowledged family caregivers’ burden, lack of knowledge and relational incongruence. A registered nurse was suggested as a permanent health care contact to improve continuity and security. Registered nurses neither acknowledged family caregivers as a resource nor their need for involvement. Registered nurses working in primary health care centres, in nurse-led heart failure clinics, with district nurse specialization, with education in cardiac nursing care held the most supportive attitudes toward family involvement in heart failure nursing care. Family health conversations via telephone in nurse-led heart failure clinics were found to successfully support and involve families. The conversations enhanced nurse-family relationship and relations within the family. They also provided registered nurses with new, relevant knowledge and understanding about the family as a whole. Family health conversations via telephone were feasible to both families and registered nurses, although fewer and shorter conversations were preferred by registered nurses. This thesis highlights the divergence between family caregivers’ experiences and needs, and registered nurses’ perceptions about family caregivers’ situation and attitudes toward the importance of family involvement. It adds to the knowledge on the importance to acknowledge family caregivers as a resource and to support and involve them in heart failure nursing care. One feasible and successful way is to conduct Family health conversations via telephone in nurse-led heart failure clinics.
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Isaacson, Spencer W. "Hardware Support for a Configurable Architecture for Real-Time Embedded Systems on a Programmable Chip." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/971.
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Current FPGA technology has advanced to the point that useful embedded SoPCs can now be designed. The Real Time Processor (RTP) project at Brigham Young University leverages the advances in FPGA technology with a system architecture that is customizable to specific applications. A simple real-time processor has been designed to provide support for a hardware-assisted real-time operating system providing fast context switches. As part of the hardware RTOS, the following have been implemented in hardware: scheduler, register banks, mutex, semaphore, queue, interrupts, event, and others. A novel circuit called the Task-Resource Matrix has been created to allow fast inter/intra processor communication and synchronization.
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Ayub, Muhammad, and Muhammad Jawad. "Structuring and Modelling Competences in the Healthcare Area with the help of Ontologies." Thesis, Jönköping University, School of Engineering, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9627.
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Ontology development is a systematic technique to represent the existing and new knowledge about a specific domain by using some models to present the system in which conceptualization is involved. This thesis presents the use of ontologies to formally represent ontology-based competence model for potential users of quality registry report in a healthcare organization. The model describes the professional and occupational interests and needs of the users through structuring and describing their skills and qualifications. There are individual competences model having two main parts: general competence and occupational competence. The model is implemented in an ontology editor. Although our competence model gives the general view about all medical areas in a hospital, from implementation point of view, we have considered only Cardiology area in detail. The potential users of quality registry are medical staff, county council staff and Pharmaceutical staff. In this report we have also used different classifications of education, occupational fields and diseases. A user can get information about the patient and specific disease with treatment tips by using various organizational resources: i.e. quality registries, electronic medical reports, and online journals. Our model also provides a support of information filtering which filters the information according to the need and the competencies of the users.
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Arvidsson, Jennie, and Emelie Selström. "Anestesi- och intensivvårdssjuksköterskors upplevelser av överrapportering av postoperativa patienter." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Omvårdnad, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-69401.
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Bakgrund: Runt om i världen och på svenska sjukhus och , överrapporteras dagligen flertaletpostoperativa patienter mellan anestesi-och intensivvårdssjuksköterskor. Vad somkommunicerats har stor betydelse för patienternas fortsatta vård och sjuksköterskornasupplevelse av överrapportering. Bristande överrapportering kan få konsekvenser som sämrevårdkvalité och ökad risk för komplikationer för patienterna. Syfte: Att beskriva anestesi-ochintensivvårdssjuksköterskors upplevelser av överrapportering av postoperativa patienter. Metod:Intervjuer genomfördes i form av fokusgrupper, en med anestesisjuksköterskor och en medintensivvårdssjuksköterskor. Materialet analyserades enligt kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat:Fem huvudkategorier: Behov av att dubbelkolla och dubbeldokumentera, att inte veta vilkeninformation som är relevant och sakna förståelse för varandra, att den postoperativaavdelningen är rörig och orsakar störningar i överrapportering, attoperationssjuksköterskornas överrapportering är viktig och behov av att överrapportera vidpatienterna och upprätthålla fullständig sekretess. Slutsats: Tydliga rutiner behövs gällande vadpostoperativ överrapportering ska innehålla, samt utveckling av samarbete mellan de som deltar iöverrapportering. Behov av att kunna genomföra överrapportering vid patienterna men ändåupprätthålla sekretess var ett komplext område. Operationssjuksköterskans deltagande iöverrapportering var ett av de största förbättringsområden som framkom denna studie.
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Souza, Mateus Coqueiro Daniel de. "Análise das contribuições dos objetos educacionais digitais para a construção do conhecimento em matemática na educação básica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45135/tde-27082016-153913/.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar de que forma os Objetos Educacionais Digitais (OED) recursos recentemente integrados a algumas coleções de livros didáticos adquiridas pelo Ministério da Educação podem contribuir para a construção do conhecimento em Matemática. Para tanto, foi estabelecido um referencial teórico constituído por autores que conceberam teorias e desenvolveram pesquisas visando a construção do conhecimento em Matemática. Esses autores se entrelaçam, se relacionam e se complementam. Com base em tal referencial, foram estabelecidos os critérios para a análise. O primeiro diz respeito à relação aluno OED tarefa, e está relacionado ao modo como o OED contribui para que as capacidades cognitivas dos alunos sejam mobilizadas e eles construam o conhecimento. O segundo, baseado na Teoria dos Registros de Representação Semiótica, está associado ao modo como os OED trabalham as diferentes representações de um mesmo objeto matemático. Por fim, o terceiro critério foca em como o contexto utilizado no OED possibilita ao aluno estabelecer relações entre diferentes conceitos da Matemática ou mesmo de outras áreas do conhecimento. Os resultados mostraram, dentre outras coisas, que os OED lidam com dois ou mais registros de representação diferentes, porém sem levar os alunos a coordená-los e que, na maioria deles, estão presentes situações que permitem aos alunos atribuir significados aos conteúdos matemáticos.This study aims to examine how the Digital Educational Objects (OED) newly integrated features to some collections of textbooks acquired by the Ministry of Education can contribute to the construction of knowledge in mathematics. Therefore, it was established a theoretical framework consisted of authors who conceived theories and research developed to aim the construction of knowledge in mathematics. These authors intertwine, are closely relate and complement each other. Based on this framework, the criteria for analysis were established. The first, concerns the relationship student - OED - task, and is related to how the OED contributes to the cognitive abilities of students are mobilized and they build knowledge. The second, based on the Theory of Semiotics Representation Registers, is associated with how the OED work the different representations of the same mathematical object. Finally, the third criteria, focuses on how the context used in the OED enables students to establish relationships between different concepts of mathematics or even other areas of knowledge. The results showed, among other things, that the OED deal with two or more registers of different representations, but without having students to coordinate them, and in most of them, there are situations that allow students to assign meanings to the mathematical contents.
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Imnell, Annika. "Anestesisjuksköterskors, sjuksköterskors och undersköterskors upplevelse av att vårda patienter med inoperabel bukcancer direkt postoperativt innan besked om prognos- en fokusgrupp studie." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-9121.
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Background: The registered nurses specific area of competence is nursing care, which must be performed in a trusting relationship with the patient. Within perioperative care nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses work with varied specific tasks to provide patient good care, before, during and after surgery. Sometimes they care for patients with advanced abdominal cancer, whose surgery is crucial for the prognosis of their illness. This means they care for patients directly before and directly after they receive their updated prognosis. Sometimes this surgery for advanced abdominal cancer is considered inoperable shortly after start of surgery, abdominal cancer is often detected at a late stage due to diffuse symptoms. The survival rate after surgery is often short, and palliative care is therefore often initiated. Aim: To describe nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses experiences when caring for patients directly after surgery whose abdominal cancer was deemed inoperable. Method: Explorative qualitative studied design. Data collection, focus group discussions with nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses. Analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The result is described with three overarching themes. Feeling of inadequacy whitch described the feeling of not wanting to lie, of identifying with patients of the same age, insufficient information and that body language can inadvertently transmit information. Creating strategies describes the difficulty in answering questions and the need for recovery. A feeling of increased security is about the opportunity to prepare and feeling that the conversation with the patient is facilitated. The three themes are based on eight underlying categories. Discussion: No previous research could be found, whitch may indicate that the research question of the study is unique. The use of focus groups as a method was experienced positively, but the prevailing pandemic has affected the possibility of including participants. The experiences of nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses, assistant nurses was shown to be similar, probably unintentially provide to the fact that all participants worked with perioperative care. Conclusion: Nurse anaesthetists, registered nurses and assistant nurses considered it challenging to care for patients with inoperable abdominal cancer. The main challenge was to care for the patients of same age and to respond to patients questions without inadvertently conveying information with body language.Bakgrund: Den legitimerade sjuksköterskans specifika kompetensområde är omvårdnad, vilken skall utföras i en förtroendefull relation till patienter. Inom perioperativ vård arbetar anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor med olika specifika arbetsuppgifter för att ge patienter god omvårdnad inför, under och efter operation. Ibland vårdas patienter med avancerad bukcancer, vars operation är avgörande för sjukdomens prognos, vilket innebär att de vårdar patienter både direkt innan beskedet om prognos och direkt efter. Det händer att patienter som skall opereras för avancerad bukcancer, ibland bedöms inoperabla en kort tid efter att operationen påbörjats. Bukcancer upptäcks ofta i sent skede på grund av diffusa symtom. Överlevnaden efter operation bedöms i dessa fall kort, vilket betyder att palliativ vård ofta behöver initieras. Syfte: Att beskriva anestesisjuksköterskors, legitimerade sjuksköterskors och undersköterskors upplevelser av att vårda patienter direkt postopertivt vars operation avbrutits pga. inoperabel bukcancer. Metod: Explorativ kvalitativ studiedesign. Datainsamling, fokusgruppsdiskussioner med anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor. Analys enligt kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultatet beskrivs utifrån tre övergripande tema, Känsla av otillräcklighet, som handlar om att inte vilja ljuga, att jämnåriga patienter berör, om otillräcklig information och att kroppsspråket oavsiktligt kan överföra information. Skapa strategier beskriver svårigheten att bemöta frågor och behov av återhämtning och Känsla av ökad trygghet handlar om möjlighet att förbereda sig och en känsla av att samtalet med patienter underlättas. De tre tema baseras på åtta underliggande kategorier. Diskussion: Ingen tidigare forskning kunde hittas, vilket kan betyda att föreliggande studies forskningsfråga är unik.Fokusgruppsdiskussion som metod upplevdes positivt, men rådande pandemi anses ha påverkat möjligheten att inkludera ytterligare deltagare. Upplevelserna hos anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor visade sig vara liknande, troligtvis relaterat till att samtliga deltagare arbetade med perioperativ vård. Slutsats: Anestesisjuksköterskor, legitimerade sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor upplevde att det var en utmaning att vårda patienter med inoperabel bukcancer. Utmaningen bestod främst i att vårda jämnåriga patienter och att bemöta frågor utan att med kroppspråket oavsiktligt förmedla information.
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Goyat, Gilles. "Description morphosyntaxique du parler breton de Plozévet (Finistère)." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00763530.
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La commune de Plozévet est située à l'extrémité sud-ouest de la Bretagne, au bord de la baie d'Audierne. Son parler breton conserve des formes archaïques révélant une ancienne continuité méridionale qui allait des bords de la baie d'Audierne au Vannetais, continuité perceptible dans certains aspects de la phonologie, de la morphologie et du lexique. Il garde également des traits communs aux trois presqu'îles occidentales (Léon, Crozon, Cap Sizun et Cap Caval), caractéristiques aussi de la périphérie du domaine bretonnant.Mais des innovations, venues d'abord du centre de ce domaine (région de Carhaix), puis du Léon, toutes diffusées par Quimper, ont brisé ces anciennes continuités. Ce parler présente bien sûr des traits communs à tout le sud-ouest de la Cornouaille, mais aussi des spécificités : ainsi, la réalisation [-ŋ] des groupes historiques " -r n " et " -l n ", l'ouverture du second élément de la diphtongue /ew/ en /ea/, réalisée [eaɔ] en finale absolue, la prédilection pour les syllabes composées de voyelle brève suivie de consonne forte, y compris dans les monosyllabes, et aussi la neutralisation de l'opposition entre les morphèmes des deuxièmes personnes du singulier et du pluriel. L'étude du lexique breton du cadastre napoléonien (1828) révèle que, si certains lexèmes sont tombés en désuétude, le parler a peu évolué au cours des XIXe et XXe siècles. Au XIXe siècle, les maires de Plozévet ont réclamé des maîtres d'école, d'abord pour enseigner le français aux enfants, qui ne savaient que le breton. Celui-ci est resté la langue la plus parlée jusque dans les années 1960, mais a ensuite très vite décliné
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Snarskytė, Indrė. "Testamentas: sąvoka, rūšys ir registracija." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2004~D_20050612_160209-76874.
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The present thesis consists of three parts. The first one deals with the implementation of definition of will both in the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania and in the civil codes of foreign countries. When all the essential features of will individualizing it as a legal instrument are put into one, the definition of will is formed. The second part focuses on types of wills. While comparing different types of wills enacted in the legal acts of Lithuania and foreign states many will making peculiarities can be distinct and some attention given to the evolving legal regulation and practical application problems. The doubtful meaning of joint will of spouses, obstacles of discovering the existence of holographic will are of particular interest. The third part of the thesis concerns the recently established Will register, its activity prospects and the abilities of ensuring the rights of heirs after Lithuania’s accession to the Convention on the Establishment of the Scheme of Registration of Wills.
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Nuth, Peter R. "The Named-State Register File." 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6780.
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This thesis introduces the Named-State Register File, a fine-grain, fully-associative register file. The NSF allows fast context switching between concurrent threads as well as efficient sequential program performance. The NSF holds more live data than conventional register files, and requires less spill and reload traffic to switch between contexts. This thesis demonstrates an implementation of the Named-State Register File and estimates the access time and chip area required for different organizations. Architectural simulations of large sequential and parallel applications show that the NSF can reduce execution time by 9% to 17% compared to alternative register files.
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LI, JIA-HAU, and 李家豪. "XML Native Database Execute Content Management Registry/Repository." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42fu5a.
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凃長助. "Research On Video Content Management Registry/Repository Using Native XML Database." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9rpykr.
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Due to the advance of computer technology and the rapid growth of multimedia applications, a huge quantity of video contents are available for browsing in our daily life. Management of video clips in proper classification schema is becoming more important. Therefore, the development of video content management registry/reposit- ory(VCMRR) which aims at providing a friendly user-interface and an efficient retrieval mechanism is an urgent issue. In this thesis, we attempt to use Semantic Web and native XML-based database (eXist) to enrich the capability of VCMRR. We proposed using RDF/OWL documents to depict video contents and storing them in the eXist database. Users can create the RDF/OWL document for a newly uploaded video clip. This enables users to describe the video contents in more effective and intelligent way. Our system also facilities the search of video contents using XQuery and RDF/OWL. Moreover, we also integrate Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and Windows Media Server (WMS) in our VCMRR. It not only supports on-demand and broadcast mode to watch the video contents but also enables users to schedule their playing list whatever they want. In order to provide more viewers for internet video broadcasting services, Our system can integrate with Peer-to-Peer broadcast server and form an efficient Content Delivery Network(CDN) for streaming services.
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Duarte, André Maciel Machado Miranda. "Mobile metadata logging system for audiovisual content." Dissertação, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/72574.
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Duarte, André Maciel Machado Miranda. "Mobile metadata logging system for audiovisual content." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/72574.
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Chien, Meng-Chun, and 簡孟軍. "Research On Video Content Management Registry/Repository Using Native XML Database and Silverlight Web Technology." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17573573881952236035.
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Due to the advance of computer technology and the rapid growth of multimedia applications, it is getting popular for people to share video contents on the internet. However, the complexities of video applications have made video contents suffer from the problem of multiple format and the difficulty for searching. Therefore, the development of video content management registry/repository(VCMRR) which aims at providing a friendly user-interface and an efficient retrieval mechanism is an urgent issue. In this thesis, we use Silverlight, eXist, RDF/OWL and SMIL to develop a VCMRR system, which has the ability to store and classify video contents. We develop a XML storage mechanism for video package. Users can upload and search these video contents in VCMRR. Two kinds of video package formats, SMIL and playlist are supported in our system. Using video package we can extend the functionality of video file to provide multimedia functions such as interactive and picture in picture video, etc. Besides, we develop an advertisement model to embed an advertisement video before or after a scheduled video. In order to improve the efficiency of video searching, we use Semantic Web technology to associate RDF/OWL document with video contents and provide a classification scheme for video content. In our system, Silverlight is also included to provide a decent interactive user-interface. Moreover, we also integrate Media Server to broadcast scheduled video contents. Finally, we use native XML-based database to store the XML-format video for searching and management.
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Kruger, Alet. "Lexical cohesion register variation in transition : "The merchants of Venice" in afrikaans." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2988.
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On the assumption that different registers of translated drama have different functions and that
they therefore present information differently, the aim of the present study is to identify textual
features that distinguish an Afrikaans stage translation from a page translation of Shakespeare's
The Merchant of Venice. The first issue addressed concerns the nature and extent of lexical
cohesion in these two registers. The second issue concerns my contention that the dialogue of a
stage translation is more "involved". (Biber 1988) than that of a page translation. The research was
conducted within the overall Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS) paradigm but the analytical
frameworks by means of which these aims were accomplished were derived from text linguistics
and register variation studies, making this an interdisciplinary study. Aspects of Hoey's ( 1991)
bonding model, in particular, the classification of repetition links, were adapted so as to quantify
lexical cohesion in the translations. Similarly, aspects of Biber's (1988) multi-dimensional
approach to register variation were used to quantify linguistic features that signal involvement.
The main finding of the study is that drama translation register (page or stage translation) does
have a constraining effect on lexical cohesion and involved production. For Act IV of the play an
overall higher density of lexical cohesion strategies was generated by the stage translation. In the
case of the involved production features analysed, the overall finding was that the stage translation
displayed more involvement than the page translation, to a statistically highly significant extent.
The features analysed here cluster together sufficiently to reveal that in comparison with an
Afrikaans page translation of a Shakespeare play, a recent stage translation displays a definite
tendency towards a more oral, more involved and more situated style, reflecting no doubt a
general modern trend towards creating more appropriate and accessible textsLinguistics
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Johnson, William Peter. "The language of "professionalism" as held by registered staff nurses a grounded dimensional analysis of content and process /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/17569540.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-65).
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Barreira, João Carlos dos Santos. "Desenvolvimento de aplicações de realidade aumentada coerentes com o contexto ambiental." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10348/7302.
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Tese de Doutoramento em InformáticaA Realidade Aumentada (RA) caracteriza-se pela mistura de elementos virtuais no mundo real de uma forma interativa e em tempo real. Diversas aplicações em áreas como o património cultural, arquitetura ou engenharia requerem que os objetos virtuais sejam integrados com o maior realismo possível. O principal problema para conseguir uma integração realista entre objetos reais e virtuais é obter coerência visual. Para isso, é necessário um correto registo geométrico dos elementos virtuais com o cenário real em termos de transformações geométricas, e as condições de iluminação da cena devem ser determinadas em tempo real, num processo de registo fotométrico. O registo geométrico tem sido amplamente investigado na literatura com soluções eficientes. Contudo, o registo fotométrico ainda é problemático. As principais abordagens apresentadas para registo fotométrico requerem a utilização de uma light probe no ponto da cena em que o objeto virtual é colocado ou um objecto de calibração a partir do qual a informação fotométrica da cena é disponibilizada. Embora eficiente para cenários interiores, estas técnicas dificilmente podem ser aplicadas a cenários exteriores visto que em cenas dinâmicas as informações da light probe se tornam inválidas. Nesta tese, é investigada a coerência em aplicações de RA através da utilização do contexto ambiental. A utilização de informações de contexto fornece uma ligação entre o mundo real e as aplicações, podendo essa informação ser utilizada para determinar o que deve ser exibido, onde e como. É proposto um novo método de registo fotométrico, baseado no contexto ambiental, para calcular a iluminação incidente na cena e usar essa informação para aplicações de RA visualmente coerentes sem recorrer a light probes. Os parâmetros de iluminação são adquiridos a partir de dados dos sensores integrados em dispositivos móveis. A posição e direção do sol é calculada com base na localização do utilizador e data/hora atual. Por outro lado, atualmente dentro dos ambientes existentes de RA poucos são os que exploram a estimulação multissensorial. A maioria das abordagens considera apenas a visão, limitando assim o efeito de coerência. Nesta tese, são realizados testes experimentais desenvolvidos no sentido de determinar como os estímulos multissensoriais infuenciam a perceção de uma cena de RA. Os resultados mostram que a coerência dos estímulos é importante (os dados são significativamente diferentes), mas também que a adição de mais estímulos corretos aumenta a perceção de coerência. Com os resultados obtidos é proposta a adição de um módulo de contexto ao sistema típico de RA. O módulo facilita a integração e processamento de informações de contexto e a sua utilização eficiente no registo fotométrico e síntese de estímulos multissensoriais.
Augmented reality (AR) technology aims to display virtual objects in the real environment, interactively and in real-time. Many AR applications in areas such as cultural heritage, architectural visualizations or building engineering require that the virtual objects appear to the user as real as possible. In order to create convincing AR applications visual coherence between virtual and real objects is a major concern. To achieve seamless integration the real light conditions must be determined in real-time, known as photometric registration. The prominent approaches proposed in the literature to address this problem require either having knowledge of the 3D geometric model of the scene and/or having an HDR environment map obtained from a light probe placed in the scene. While efficient for indoor scenarios, these techniques hardly can be applied to outdoor scenes as in dynamic scenes the light probe information becomes invalid when changes occur in the illuminations conditions, and reconstruction of the 3D geometry is a very difficult task. In this thesis, we present the development of coherent AR applications through the use of the environmental context. The use of context information provides a link between the real world and the applications that can be used to determine what should be displayed, where and how. We propose a novel method for photometric registration which estimate daylight illumination and use this information in AR applications to render virtual objects with coherent illumination and shadows. The illumination parameters are acquired in real-time from context-aware live sensors data. The sun position is calculated based on the user location and time of the day. On the other hand, within existing AR environments there are few who exploit the multisensory stimulation. The main approaches consider only one sense, thus limiting the applications coherence. In this thesis, we present experimental tests developed to determine how multisensory stimuli influence the perception of an AR scene. The results clearly show that the consistency of stimuli is important (the data are significantly different), but also that the addition of more correct stimulus also increases the perception of consistency. With these results we proposed to add a context module to the typical AR system. This module facilitates the integration and refining of context information to be used in new photometric registration and multisensory approaches.
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Mischke, Gertruida Elizabeth. "Analysing "involvement" in distance education study guides: an appraisal-based approach." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1864.
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The main aim of this study is to extend our current understanding of the linguistic characteristics of student-centred distance education texts. This aim links directly with the shift in South Africa from an objectivistic, content-centred teaching approach towards an outcomes-based, studentcentred one. Partly because few guidelines exist as to what the linguistic characteristics of student-centred texts are, developers of such texts in a distance education environment face many challenges and thus, a secondary, more indirect aim of this study is to benefit developers of distance education study materials. In view of the educational context in which the study is situated, a brief overview of some of the most relevant pedagogic perspectives underlying the notion of student-centredness is provided.
Student-centredness is then interpreted in terms of Biber's (1988) construal of `involvement' and
also in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL): more particularly, the interpersonal
discourse semantic metafunction of SFL and on insights developed in Appraisal Theory. The
focus of the study is thus on `involvement' and the expression of evaluative stance, and
consequently on attitudinal language through `involvement' features. Of particular interest to the present study is how learning is advanced through the use of attitudinal language.
The data for the study include six print-based distance education teaching texts (study guides)
from three different academic departments at the University of South Africa. Two guides from
each department are analysed and compared: one developed by way of a content-centred
approach to teaching and the other by way of a student-centred approach. The linguistic construal of evaluative stance in these guides is analysed and interpreted in interpersonal
terms. The thesis develops a theoretically motivated explanation of the linguistic characteristics of student-centred distance education texts, and in the process provides evidence of the interpersonal and pedagogic relevance of evaluative stance in the context of distance education. Some of the main conclusions reached are that student-centred texts differ from contentcentred ones with regard to: the extent to which the social presence of discourse participants is signalled in such texts; the extent to which solidarity is negotiated with students; the participation of students in the knowledge construction process; the relationship that prevails between lecturers and students; and the identity developed for both students as well as lecturers.Linguistics
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Lebese, Moipone Veronicah. "A phenomenological study of the experiences of nurses directly involved with termination of pregnancies in the Limpopo Province." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2947.
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The South African government promulgated the Choice on Termination of pregnancy Act (CTOP Act, 92 of 1996). This was a dramatic declaration of intent unprecedented in the African continent and globally. This act changed the outlook of the practice of termination of pregnancy by ensuring that services play a critical role in the delivery of the service. This study, which is qualitative in nature, explored the experiences of Termination of Pregnancy service providers working in three designated public health institutions in the Limpopo Province. Interviews were conducted with six service providers to look at how they construct their practice of providing termination of pregnancy services. The information was analyzed and interpreted by means of a thematic analysis method. Major themes that emerged from the participants’ experiences centred on their relationship with family, colleagues, management, clients, and the community reflecting a sense of alienation and lack of adequate infrastructural support. Inadequate support has been found to greatly contribute to the loss of interest in the work around abortion.Psychology
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