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Alnoor, Ahmadullah. "State as a Service : Towards Stateful Cloud Services." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-93754.

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Cloud ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as a Cloud Service delivers value by reducing initial and long term operating costs since infrastructure, platform and (certain) application management tasks are delegated to a specialist provider. Questions present at intersection of the ERP challenge landscape and the Cloud Computing opportunity horizon include characterization of Cloud friendly ERP modules and adaptation of stateful (on-premises ERP) components to a stateless platform. Contributions of this thesis work include the R.A.I.N. Cloud fitness criteria that encompasses Responsiveness, Availability, I/O and Native support aspects of Cloud Services. More importantly, the State abstraction, a reliable and elastic state management framework employing Autonomic Computing and Redo Recovery constructs is introduced. Construction of abstraction properties, namely, affinity aware state preservation and recovery consider Cloud strengths of scaling out and reliability as well as peculiarities of Cloud billing model. Proof-of-concept implementation of State as a Service has been comprehensively detailed and evaluated advocating infrastructure layer support of the kind and associated tooling.

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Jeffery, Roger. "Health and the State in India." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24023.

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Weaver, Jan W. (Jan Wilkerson). "Adult Day Services: State Regulatory and Reimbursement Structure." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332757/.

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As the need for community care increases, complete and up-to-date information about organizational structure is crucial to making appropriate decisions about the expansion of adult day services. The absence of uniform national policies results in states and communities being relegated to balancing limited funds with the demand for adult day services, and in many areas, the lack of adult day care centers altogether. This study provides an overview of the types of state reimbursement, the availability of different funding sources, and the utilization of the sources in various states.

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Jing, Yijia. "State prison privatization in the US a study of the causes and mangnitude /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1122571301.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 165 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-144). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Edwards, Keith Malcolm. "Professionalism, institutionalization and committee services in US. state legislatures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43194.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-57).
This thesis examines the relationship between legislative professionalism and institutionalization in the committee systems of six U.S. states. I examine whether increased professionalization, as defined by increases in levels of member salary, legislative staffing, and time in session, causes legislatures to institutionalize in a manner similar to the U.S. Congress. Specifically, this thesis focuses on the use (or lack thereof) of seniority as an automatic procedure for the assignment to, and transfer between, committees. I find that while it appears that all state legislators value service on committees, legislative professionalization is not an adequate explanatory variable to describe the variation in the institutionalization of committee systems that we see across states in the United States. This finding is especially evident in the analysis of California, the most professionalized state legislature in the U.S.
by Keith Malcolm Edwards.
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Baldridge, Kenan S. "Emergency medical services in the Rochester region of New York state organization, services and systems /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1177640876.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Public Affairs and Urban Studies, 2007.
"May, 2007." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 05/06/2008). Advisor, Raymond Cox, III; Committee members, Ralph Hummel, Nancy Grant, Lawrence Keller, Dena Hanley; Department Chair, Sonia Alemagno; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Nigenda-Lopez, Gustavo Humberto. "The medical profession, the state and health policy in Mexico, 1917-1988." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307755.

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This thesis assesses the participation of the medical profession in the development of the structure of the health system in Mexico between 1917-1988. The thesis considers that the major variable that influenced the development of the health system was the participation of the State as its most important financer, provider and regulator. The shaping of the health system in turn determined the mode of participation of doctors. The period is divided in three subperiods: 1917-1943; 1944-1970 and 1971-1988. The first describes the efforts of the profession to gain control over the demand for health services which remained private after the end of the 1917 Revolution. The second describes the way in which the State intervened in the redefinition of the health system, the achievement of the legal control of professions and the way in which medical work began to be determined by the constraints of institutions despite doctors' efforts to defend their autonomous status. Finally, the third period is characterised by a crisis of the economic and political system with repercussions in the definition of the educational and health policy, and the way doctors were faced these conditions. The thesis also points out the major changes during the period in four of the most important characteristics of the medical profession: professional organization, education, employment and geographical distribution. An analysis is finally presented where theoretical elements are used to interpret the historical events that characterized the participation of the Mexican medical profession in the development of the health system.

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Sears, Alan Carleton University Dissertation Anthropology. "Mental health, the state and labour-power; deinstitutionalization in Ontario 1959-1965." Ottawa, 1985.

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Baldridge, Kenan Stone. "Emergency Medical Services in the Rochester Region of New York State: Organization, Services and Systems." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1177640876.

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Edghiem, F. "The nature and impact of service employees' innovative behaviour : a personal-interactive services perspective." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4408/.

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The amount of research on service innovation rapidly increased since the start of the third millennium, likely due to the continuous diversification of manufacturing companies into the service sector and the decline of manufacturing in the traditional industrial western countries compared to the World’s emerging economies. Service innovation, furthermore, has received significant attention from academics and practitioners alike and has been increasingly perceived as a means of creating competitive advantage. Arguably, this is due to the growing competition between service companies to reach unconventional levels which led to higher customer expectations of continuous improvement of services. This study investigated the nature and impact of service employees’ innovative behaviour leading to initiating innovation within the sub-sector of personal-interactive services, where the hotel sector was investigated respectively. In doing so, the study also critically reviewed the established literature relevant to service innovation and added further insight to previous research underpinning service employees’ role in initiating innovation. A qualitative case-study research strategy, which compared between three cases, was applied to achieve the objectives of the study. The application of qualitative case-study research allowed closer assessment and observation while the researcher was directly present within the service delivery environment. The combining of qualitative research methods, such as semi-structured interviews, focus groups and direct observation, was applied to congregate evidence of employees’ innovative behaviour patterns from multiple perspectives. The expected limitations of the applied research methods are classically associated with qualitative case-study research such as access barriers, high volume of data outcome and also the complications associated with data collection and analysis. The research findings contributed to the general body of knowledge by highlighting the nature and impact of service employees’ innovative behaviour. A novel classification of six innovative behaviour patterns was established under the three main categories of mandatory, quasi-mandatory and voluntary conduct. The research findings further revealed the significant impact of service employees’ innovative behaviour in initiating innovation, where 49 out of 70 innovative ideas were realised as innovations through employees’ innovative behaviour. The research also added further insight by identifying management procedures and motivation as contextual determinants that enable or inhibit service employees’ innovative behaviour.

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Boal, Ashley Lynn. "Batterer Intervention Programs' Response to State Standards." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1504.

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The study of policy implementation has recently garnered research and federal attention highlighting the importance of implementation in achieving desired policy and program outcomes (Durlak & DuPre, 2008; Meyers, Durlak & Wandersman, 2012; National Institutes of Health, 2013). Psychology is one discipline that is well poised to guide the study of policy implementation as it can inform the creation, development, and outcomes associated with the introduction of a policy (Esses & Dovidio, 2011; Fischhoff, 1990). Given that batterer intervention programs (BIPs) have been developed to prevent future intimate partner violence (IPV) and improve victim safety, ensuring these programs have successfully implemented state standards for practice is immensely important. Despite the widespread use of state standards to guide BIP practices (Maiuro & Eberle, 2008), only one study (Boal, 2010) has assessed the extent to which BIPs comply with standards and no research has evaluated program responses to standards or the process by which implementation occurs. Given this, the current study focused on four areas of inquiry: (1) program compliance with state standards; (2) current and former BIP representatives' response to standards, including the social psychological constructs of actual control, perceived control, retrospective accounts of attitude change, absoluteness, and legitimacy; (3) program compliance as it relates to these responses; and (4) the process of implementing standards. In order to address these topics, key program representatives were assessed using a sequential mixed-methods design, which consisted of a preliminary quantitative phase (i.e., Phase One) (n = 35, response rate = 74%) and principal qualitative phase (i.e., Phase Two) (current providers: n = 13, response rate = 87%; former providers: n = 5, response rate = 100%) (Morgan, 1998). Findings from Phase One indicate that programs complied with 75% of the assessed components of standards. Phase Two findings suggest that participants primarily voiced experiences with the standards consistent with a lack of actual control, perceived control, and legitimacy. Contrary to hypotheses a statistically reliable difference in actual control, perceived control, and legitimacy were not detected across high and low compliance participants. Participants retrospectively described responses to the standards consistent with changing and maintaining negative attitudes towards the standards (31% and 31% respectively) and as hypothesized, those who shifted negative initial attitudes to be positive (i.e., a proxy for rationalization) were primarily from high compliance programs (75%) and those who maintained negative attitudes (i.e., a proxy for reactance) were all from low compliance programs (100%). While participants generally perceived the standards as primarily absolute, this construct did not differentiate those who changed and maintained negative attitudes as predicted. Participants' utilized diverse strategies to implement the standards and have changed or attempted to change many program characteristics to better comply with state standards. Participants have experienced diverse enablers to compliance (e.g., positive community collaborations; participation in the research process) and barriers to compliance (e.g., negative or lack of community collaborations; challenges understanding the standards) while attempting to implement standards. Suggestions to better facilitate compliance aligned with the enablers and barriers and centered on the need for positive information-sharing relationships among providers. Finally, former providers tended to disagree that the standards were the primary reason for program closure. Together, these findings provide valuable insight into the manifestation of common social psychological constructs during the policy implementation process, as well as information regarding the logistics of implementation. The information gathered in this study can be applied to better understand the role of actual control, perceived control, retrospective accounts of attitude change, absoluteness, and legitimacy, as they are experienced in the real world in relation to an actual policy. This extends the study of these constructs out of a laboratory and experimental context and suggests aspects of these constructs that may be relevant in applied settings. Further, data regarding the policy implementation process is useful to inform policymakers about the diverse steps that can be taken to assist implementation efforts and increase compliance.

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Hunt, John Anthony. "The development of pharmaceutical services in the British welfare state." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266923.

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Armato, Jessica A. "Welfare reform at the state level a study of state waivers during the first three years of the Clinton administration and other developments /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2000. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2928. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-70).

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Hauser, Harald. "Rethinking the welfare state : towards an alternative to the American welfare state /." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142009-040446/.

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Egen, Olivia, Kate E. Beatty, and Randy Wykoff. "State of Tennessee. Understanding the impact of income." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6860.

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Yang, Fan Fiona, and 楊帆. "Understanding the uneven growth of service industries in China: state, market and the changing geography ofconsulting services." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38856359.

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Williams, Andrew R. "Current Usage of Helicopter Ambulances Services in the State of Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/221401.

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A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.
The overall goals of this research project were threefold: to characterize how the Helicopter Ambulance system in Arizona is used for trauma, comparison of Ground and Helicopter Ambulance usage, and recommendations to facilitate effective use of the Helicopter Ambulance system. Data for this project were obtained from the Arizona Department of Health Services Trauma Registry. Analysis included descriptive statistics, crosstabulation, calculation of two-year usage rates, and Z-score (for proportions) comparison between Ground and Helicopter Ambulance for statistical significance (using SPSS18/20). The American Indian/Alaska Native population was the most frequently transported (two-year rate 1572.3/100,000 population; all transport methods). Gila County and Yuma County had the highest rates of Ground Ambulance transport (Gila 1016.8/100,000, Yuma 1161.7/100,000) whereas Maricopa County was much lower (431/100,000). For Helicopter Ambulance use, the most common counties of transport were Navajo and Gila (414.1/100,000 and 606.4/100,000) whereas Maricopa county was much lower (24.2/100,000). 5 The significance of this project comes in the area of recommendations for system improvement. Recommendations include ground-based triage areas to determine whether a patient should be transported to a Level I trauma center (or whether a lower level of care is acceptable), as well as how the patient should be transported (Helicopter v. Ground Ambulance).

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Kambwa, Arlette. "Support services to aid international students adjustment to Ball State University." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1129715.

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This research focuses on exploring the developmental adjustment that international students experience while pursuing an education at Ball State University and the support services available to aid them. The research is both qualitative and quantitative. The research includes surveys of undergraduate and graduate students as well as residential and non-residential students. Past research completed at Ball State University related to international students have explored topics such as faculty behavior, graduate student perceived social support satisfaction, the history of international students, attitudes of American students, hierarchy of adjustment problems as perceived by African students, and evaluating educational credentials. The review of literature utilized as a foundation for this research identifies adjustment issues such as interpersonalrelationships, cultural differences, finances, language and academics. The literature also includes suggestions for services related to admissions, counseling, language assistance, academics, financial aid, social outlets and pre-departure orientations. The findingscomprise demographics of the Ball State University international students, the adjustment problems they reported experiencing, the support services they have utilized to help them solve their problems and their satisfaction level with the services. The conclusion of the research states numerous suggestions for implementation for the support service offices at Ball State University as well as recommendations for future research.
Department of Secondary, Higher, and Foundations of Education

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Moser, Michele R., Janet Todd, Eys P. van, and J. Dick. "Improving Services to Children in or at Risk of State Custody." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4976.

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Murphy, Janet Ann. "Parental Perceptions of Articulation Intervention Services Received at Portland State University." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5161.

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Now more than ever, speech clinicians are being required to justify the effectiveness of their work by showing results. There are different ways to measure outcomes. For example, outcomes may be measured by testing to determine if change has occurred regarding clinical goals, or by comparing the cost of the treatment to the benefit of the treatment to determine if the treatment was economically sound. Another type of measure is subjective outcomes, such as client satisfaction. Subjective outcomes are difficult to define and measure and few studies of this type have been reported in the literature. Because clinical outcome is dependent, at least to some extent, on client satisfaction (Williams, 1994), and because few studies have been reported in the literature regarding client satisfaction with speech and language services, this area became the focus of the current study. This study sought to answer the following questions: (a) Did the parents think their child benefrtted from the articulation intervention services received at the clinic? and (b) What were parents' attitudes regarding the clinical atmosphere and staff? The Consumer Satisfaction Measure of the American SpeechLanguage- Hearing Association (ASHA) was used in this study because it is broad in scope and contains statements relating to the research questions of the current study. Answers to the research questions were derived from the responses to the survey that was mailed to the parents of 86 children who had received articulation services from the PSU Speech and Hearing Clinic. Ninety-five percent of the parental responses regarding whether parents felt that their children benefited from services obtained at the PSU Speech and Hearing Clinic were positive, indicating that parents were satisfied with the services received. Ninety-one percent of the parental responses regarding parent's attitudes toward the clinical atmosphere and staff were positive. It appears that parents hold favorable views regarding the clinical atmosphere and staff and that they were satisfied with the services their children received at the PSU Speech and Hearing Clinic.

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Pyne, Francis J. "Compensation in the public sector, is a change needed?" Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1988. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Santoro, Jon M. "Identifying Innovativeness Among Users of Wireless Features and Services." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20011115-120920.

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Research and case studies have emphasized the role Early Adopters play (as gatekeepers and disseminators) in the diffusion of new technologies and innovations (Rogers & Cartano, 1962; Robertson, 1971; Rogers, 1983; Flynn & Goldsmith 1993). Marketers have acknowledge the need to identify, profile, utilize and potentially influence Early Adopters to successfully launch a new product or service (Robinson, 1988). This research assists with identifying the salient characteristics of Early Adopters (those with a high predisposition towards innovativeness) of wireless phone features and services. The findings provide a framework for future identification of Early Adopters within the wireless market, as well as, contributing to the study of Early Adopters in general.The research utilized a random sample of 3,045 wireless phone users within an eleven state calling area. Each user completed a detailed survey regarding telecommunication needs, usage and attitudes. Basic demographics, psychographics and lifestyle measures were also collected from each user.An adapted cross-sectional measure of innovativeness (Midgely & Dowling 1978) based on prior wireless phone features and services adoption behavior, was used to identify a predisposition towards innovativeness, with regard to wireless features and services. Past research has identified the cross-sectional innovativeness measure as viable surrogate of adoption behavior (Stanton, 1999). A strong relationship was observed between traditional time-of-adoption measures and the cross-sectional innovativeness measures, within this analysis.The cross-sectional innovativeness measure was utilized as the dependent measure for the analysis. Two dependent variables were constructed from the cross-sectional innovativeness measure. The first dependent variable was a continuous variable, employing the cross-sectional innovativeness measure as a ratio scale variable. The variable provided a distribution from 0 (low innovativeness) to 20 (high innovativeness). The second dependent variable was a categorical variable that divided the cross-sectional innovativeness measure into to three distinct categories of adoption, similar to the adoption categories identified by Rogers (1983) in his definitive book Diffusion of Innovations. Similarly, the categories were labeled as Early Adopters, Middle Majority and Later Adopters.Three sets of independent variables were developed, based on past research findings concerning Early Adopters of the technology market and available measures found in the study questionnaire. The first set of independent variables, Demographics (Model 1), included the following predictor variables: age, marital status, education, household income, children in the household and home ownership. The second set of independent variables, Psychographics (Model 2), included self-perceived attitudes towards opinion leadership and risk taking/venturesomeness. The third set of independent variables combined both of the Demographics and Psychographics variables into one comprehensive set.In general the results of the study support many of the hypothesis posed. Few exceptions were noted. Early Adopters of the wireless market tended to be younger, more likely to be single, college educated, with higher household incomes, with fewer children, less likely to be owners of their primary residence, more likely to perceive themselves as opinion leaders, as well as having positive attitudes towards risk taking/venturesomeness. Analysis of the independent models, utilizing regression coefficients and uniqueness indices for the continuous dependent variable, and the proportional chance criteria and Press?s Q for the categorical dependent variable, pointed to the Demographics and Psychographics (Model 3) as the strongest model (followed by the Demographics (Model 1)). Age and income variables (followed by Opinion Leadership) provided the greatest contribution to the explanatory power of the independent models.The findings aid with present and future diffusion of wireless technologies, including wireless e-mail, wireless internet access and M-commerce, as well as other categories such as telecom and the technology market in general. The analysis marks the first step in a process of identifying, profiling, utilizing and potentially influencing Early Adopters of the wireless technology market.

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Al-Naimi, Fouzia Z. M. "Mother and child health care compliance and the immunization up-take study in the State of Qatar." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264320.

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Lundberg, Johanna. "Social status : a state of mind?" Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15552.

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This thesis is concerned with social stratification of psychosocial factors and social position measurement in population samples collected in mid-Sweden 2000-2006. Traditional resource-based measures of social position (occupation, education) and so far less explored prestige-based measures (subjective status, status incongruence) are tested with respect to their associations with psychosocial factors, emotions, and selfrated health. Three papers in this thesis are based on data from the Life Conditions, Stress, and Health (LSH) study, using a randomly selected population sample. Data for the fourth paper is a regional sample drawn from the health-related survey “Liv och Hälsa 2000”. Statistical methods range from correlation analysis to logistic regression and repeated measures analyses. Results from studies I and IV show that psychosocial factors are unequally distributed within the population in a linear manner, so that the lower the socioeconomic position (SEP), the more unfavourable levels. This is independent of whether we study this in a highly unequal setting such as Russia, or in a more egalitarian society such as Sweden. The stability of psychometric instruments over two years tend to be lower for all instruments among low SEP groups, and differ significantly for self-esteem and perceived control among groups with high and low education, and for cynicism among groups with high and low occupational status. Results from studies II and III point to the relevance of individuals’ own thoughts about themselves, and the potential impact on the self by normative judgements of social position in a certain hierarchical setting. In paper II, the prestige-based measure of subjective status was influenced by resource-based measures, such as self-rated economy and education, but also by life satisfaction and psychosocial factors. The importance of self-evaluation was especially obvious from the study on status incongruence (study III) where the traditionally protective effecs of a high education seem to disappear when combined with a lowstatus occupation. Shaming experiences may play an important role here for our understanding of self-perception.

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Mackay, Alison. "Assessing children's visual acuity with steady state evoked potentials." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6573/.

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The majority of children attending ophthalmology clinics require a visual acuity assessment. The optimal technique depends on age as well as the ability to cooperate with testing. Most acuity assessments are performed subjectively by an orthoptist. Objective acuity assessment by Visual Evoked Potential (VEP) provides a complementary assessment in those subjects who cannot complete subjective tests. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a rapid, objective visual acuity assessment. The technique was named the step_ VEP and is based on the real-time analysis of steady-state VEPs (ssVEP). It presents high contrast checkerboard stimuli of sizes 0.4 to 3.0 LogMAR with a successive approximation algorithm. Speed of response detection, specificity and sensitivity were optimised by investigation of recording montage and analysis techniques in a group of normal children and adults (N=102). The success, duration and outcome of step_ VEP acuity assessment was compared to transient VEP (t-VEP) acuity assessment and subjective acuity assessment in a group of paediatric patients (N=218). I-D Laplacian analysis of three occipital electrodes was significantly faster than conventional recording and analysis (Oz-Fz) at detecting ssVEP responses near visual acuity threshold (3' checks) from three years upwards, and at detecting responses to 6' and 9' checks in the 7-9 year age group. A lateral electrode site at 15% of the half-head circumference was fastest most often in adults. Step_ VEPs were 16% more successful than t-VEPs and 9% more successful than subjective tests in providing a complete acuity assessment. Subjective acuity scores were systematically higher than VEP acuity scores in subjects who successfully completed both assessments. A closer agreement with subjective acuity scores was found for step_ VEPs than t-VEPs. The disparity between step_ VEP acuity score and subjective acuity score was shown to reduce with age.

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Zimmerman, Jeffrey T. "An investigation of state run lotteries as alternative funding for public programs." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2001. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2965. Typescript. [Abstract] precedes thesis as preliminary leaves 1-2. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-80).

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Maikudi, Abdullahi Ahmed. "Health care delivery in Nigeria in terms of distribution, access and uses with particular reference to Bauchi State." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281135.

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Yang, Fan Fiona. "Understanding the uneven growth of service industries in China state, market and the changing geography of consulting services /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38856359.

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Clipson, Edmund Bede. "Constructing an intelligence state : the colonial security services in Burma, 1930-1942." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/98382.

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My doctoral research focuses on the development and operation of the intelligence services in British colonial Burma during the years 1930 to 1942. This involves an examination of the causes of intelligence development, its progress throughout 1930-1942, its rationale and modus operandi, and the pressures it faced. This time period permits us to assess how intelligence development was a product of the colonial government's response to the 1930 peasant uprising which came as such a shock to colonial security and how thereafter intelligence helped prevent popular hostility to the government from taking the form of an uprising. As a result, intelligence information was increasingly used to secure colonial power during the period of parliamentary reform in Burma in 1937. The thesis further examines the stresses that riots and strikes placed on colonial security in 1938, the so-called ‘year of revolution’ in Burma. The thesis then proceeds to consider how intelligence operated in the final years of colonial rule before the Japanese occupation of Burma in 1942. This study is significant not only because very little work on the colonial security services in Burma exists for the period under review, but also because it reveals that intelligence was crucial to colonial rule, underpinning the stability of the colonial state and informing its relationship with the indigenous population in what remained, in relative terms at least, a colonial backwater like Burma. The argument that intelligence was pivotal to colonial governmental stability in Burma because of its centrality to strategies of population control departs from conventional histories of Burma which have considered the colonial army to have been the predominant instrument of political control and the most significant factor in the relationship between the state and society in colonial Burma. Rather it will be argued here that the colonial state in Burma relied on a functioning intelligence bureau which collected information from local indigenous officials and informers and employed secret agents to work on its behalf. This information was collated into reports for the government which then became integral to policy formulation. The primary source base for this work includes British colonial material from government and private collections predominantly in the British library as well as government papers in the National Archives in Kew.

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Sams, Lois K. "Discovering and Assessing Desired Student Financial Services at East Tennessee State University." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2037.

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The purpose of this study was to discover and assess student financial services delivered to students enrolled at East Tennessee State University. The research was undertaken for institutional self-improvement. The research explored changes that have occurred in student financial services in the dynamic higher education market. The research revealed universities pursued best practices for the delivery of student financial services through expanded employee knowledge, restructured organizations, and integrated information technologies. The research was conducted during October and November, 2006. The data were gathered from an online student survey of student financial services. The areas researched included: the Bursar office, the Financial Aid office, and online services. The results of the data analysis revealed problems with the students' perceived quality of existing financial services and the additional services students desire. The research focused on student perceptions of the quality of financial services by age and gender classifications and response categories. Although no statistically significant difference was found between the age-gender classifications on the perception of the quality of the financial services studied, the research adds to our understanding of student financial services at East Tennessee State University. Recommendation for continued research included annual surveys of segmented student populations that include ethnicity, age, gender, and educational level. The research would be used for continuous improvement efforts and student relationship management. Also additional research was recommended for employee learning in relation to the institution's mission, goals, and values.

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Burden, Bridget. "Support Services from Prison to Home: Reentry Programs in a Western State." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6716.

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People released from incarceration are not equipped to deal with the challenges of transitioning back into society. Previous research on reentry suggests that correctional institutions may fail to adequately prepare inmates to transition to community life at the time of release, and little research addresses the perspectives of incarcerated people who have experienced reentry. Using social justice theory and the institutional analysis and development framework as guides, the purpose of this ethnographic study of reentry programs in a western state was to (a) determine how well they meet the needs of ex-offenders receiving reentry services, (b) identify best practices if their needs are being met, and (c) document challenges experienced by participants and program staff. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 2 staff members, and 12 male and 3 female ex-offenders recruited through flyers at three different reentry programs. Interviews were transcribed, subjected to deductive coding, and a thematic analysis procedure. The key finding of this study was that participation in reentry programs supports the values and hope of second chances for ex-offenders, but formerly incarcerated people need access to resources and support in order to achieve social and financial independence. The results of this study validated the two theoretical frameworks used. To the results of the study indicate that program administrators should establish methods to monitor and track outcome success, and policy makers should consider increases in funding to expand reentry projects that have demonstrated successful reentry projects and thus promote improved public safety outcomes.

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Terrible, Heather A. "Workplace discrimination against gay & lesbian employees are state and local governments responding? /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2003. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2963. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as 2 preliminary leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63).

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Girard, Edward J. "Organizational reform a study of contrasts on improvements to processes involving the Unites [sic] States Coast Guard and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2001. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2941. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).

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Posey, Jamie. "Student Perceptions and Expectations of Library Services Quality and User Satisfaction at Walters State Community College." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1836.

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The purpose of this study was to explore students' perceptions of library services offered at Walters State Community College. This research involved LibQUAL+™, a nationally known academic library assessment instrument that measures three dimensions on a scale of approximately 22 aspects of service, divided into 6 groups (Heath, Kyrillidou, & Askew, 2004, p.264). These 3 dimensions are the following: Affect of Service (AS), Information Control (IC), and Library as a Place (LP). Responses of 666 students at Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee, indicated the students' perceptions of acceptable minimum level of service, perceived levels of service, and desired levels of service. Each dimension was assessed by mean scores and p values to determine students' level of satisfaction with the library. Independent samples t tests were conducted to analyze the association between perceived means of the 3 service quality dimensions for the following: (1) Walters State Community College compared to 4 other community colleges, (2) male and female students at Walters State Community College, (3) traditional students 22 years old and younger and nontraditional students over age 22 at Walters State Community College. Pearson's correlation was conducted to analyze the relationship between library budgets and library services. Based on the findings of this study, Walters State Community College Library's mean scores were higher than the other 4 community college's in the 3 service quality dimensions. However, Walters State Community College's results indicated substantial room for improvement in the Affect of Service dimension. The mean scores between male and female students at Walters State College showed no differences among the 3 service quality dimensions. The findings also indicated that nontraditional students over age 22 rated Affect of Service and Information Control higher than did traditional students age 22 and younger. In addition, findings indicated a fairly strong relationship between library budget and the Information Control dimension for the 5 community colleges studied. The data offered in this study provided useful information for library self-study and ideas for improving the college's library services.

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Monro, Dugald. "The results of federalism an examination of housing and disability services /." Connect to full text, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/493.

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Title from title screen (viewed 15 April 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Government and International Relations, School of Economics and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Business. Degree awarded 2002; thesis submitted 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Han, Ik-Hee. "Health care policy, equity and the welfare state : the case of national health insurance programme in the Republic of Korea." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302096.

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Smith, Michael Richard. "Pennsylvania's state-owned institutions of higher education the appropriations process from 1974-75 through 1991-92 /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1993. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2962. Abstract precedes thesis as [1] preliminary leaf. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-93).

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Greene, Joseph Harrison. "Development of a social service program for college health services." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1869.

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The initial development of a social services program in a college health setting is presented, with discussion regarding causes, methods, and outcomes. Both empirical and anecdotal data which were influential in the initial formation of the program are reviewed, in the context of an examination of the research literature relating to this area. The actual development and implementation of the program is followed through its first year of existence. Outcomes are presented in the form of qualitative data analysis and case studies. Discussion of the results and recommendations for both future research and improvements to the program are presented.

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Horst, Lori A. Brucker. "An investigation into the status of public employee training within the state of New Jersey." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1994. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2944. Abstract precedes thesis as 3 preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-86).

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Moore-Cooper, Robin LaJune. "A national census state of disability services at historically black colleges and universities /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1143483711.

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Manyibe, Edward Ombati. "Outcomes of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury Served by State Vocational Rehabilitation Services." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193943.

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Consumers with spinal cord injury (SCI) served by state vocational rehabilitation services programs receive a variety of services to help them achieve competitive employment and higher earning outcomes. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to determine whether there was a relationship between specific vocational rehabilitation (VR) services and vocational outcomes (i.e., competitive employment and weekly earnings) at closure and (b) to establish whether there was a relationship between specific demographic variables and vocational outcomes (i.e., competitive employment and weekly earnings) at closure. The RSA-911 data for fiscal year 2006 were analyzed. The analysis of specific VR service variables indicated job placement, maintenance, and rehabilitation technology were significantly related to competitive employment of consumers with SCI. However, rehabilitation technology was negatively related to competitive employment. Vocational rehabilitation counseling and guidance, college/university training, and rehabilitation technology were positively related to weekly earnings; whereas occupational/vocational training, on-the-job training, and job placement services were negatively related to weekly earnings. An analysis of demographic variables indicated that gender and age were not related to competitive employment. Level of education and race were related to competitive employment. Gender, age, educational level, and race were related to weekly earnings. Males, young consumers, consumers with most education, and Whites were more likely to earn higher salaries.

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Lohani, Sapana. "Linking ecosystem services with state-and-transition models to evaluate rangeland management decisions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/314685.

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Rangelands are a major type of land found on all continents. Though they comprise around 70% of the world's land area, knowledge of rangelands is limited and immature. Rangelands supply humans with food and fiber at very low energy costs compared to cultivated lands. They are inherently heterogeneous, highly variable in time and space. Rangeland management needs to consider the impacts of long-term vegetation transition. It needs a conceptual framework defining potential vegetation communities, describing the management induced transition of one vegetation community to another, and documenting the expected benefits provided by the various potential vegetation communities. The most widely used conceptual unit in the rangeland discipline is the "ecological site". Ecological sites can be an effective unit that should respond to management consistently and can help managers understand the site's potential to meet human needs. A state and transition model (STM) brings ecological sites and their potential vegetative states together to build a conceptual framework showing the major causes of transitions between states of an ecological site and thus helping make adaptive management decisions. Within the STM there is a need for an indicator of ecosystem health. Ecosystem services can be important to evaluate alternative states. Ecosystem services do not pass through a market for valuation, though often the cost would be very high if, through mismanagement, the ecosystem is no longer capable of providing those services. Vegetation communities are constantly facing reversible or irreversible transitions triggered by natural events and/or management actions. The framework generated in this study is significant in using remote sensing to generate state and transition models for a large area and in using ecosystem services to evaluate natural and/or management induced transitions as described in the STM. This dissertation addresses the improvement of public rangelands management in the West. It applies geospatial technologies to map ecological sites and states on those sites, characterizes transitions between states and selects a desired state to manage towards based on a systematic assessment of the value of flows of environmental services. The results from this study are an evaluation of improved draft ecological site maps for a larger area using remote sensing images, a simplified state-and-transition model adapted to remote sensing capabilities to study transitions due to climatic events and management practices, and a constrained optimization model that incorporates ecosystem services and the simplified STM to evaluate management costs and conservation benefits. The study showed that brush treatment is the most effective management practice to cause state transitions. The highest increase in the high cover state was by 24%. Areas under grazing and drought show slow transitions from brush to grass and also after prescribed fire vegetation take at least two years to recover.

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Maparura, Loreen. "Challenges experienced by hospitalised forensic state patients regarding mental health services in Namibia." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65578.

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For years, mental health has not been a priority in both developing and developed countries and this is seen in low budgets, if at all, allocated to various mental health sectors worldwide. Recent studies show that one in three countries has a budget dedicated to mental health. This is further compounded by a shortage of infrastructure and mental health staff. Consequently, this has a huge impact on forensic state patients (FSPs) who receive fragmented services from various stakeholders. Namibia has a shortage of mental health staff and only has one fully fledged centre offering mental health services. Whilst FSPs experience a wide array of challenges, there is a dearth of studies that particularly explore these challenges from a Namibian perspective. This user-led research sought to inform mental healthcare workers on these challenges. The goal of the study was to explore and describe the challenges experienced by hospitalised FSPs regarding mental health services in Namibia. The study utilised a qualitative approach and was applied in nature. It employed a collective case study design and utilised purposive sampling to intentionally select a sample of hospitalised FSPs. A sample of 12 participants was drawn from a population of 75 hospitalised FSPs at the Mental Health Care Centre of the Windhoek Central Hospital. The study?s findings show that participants faced challenges such as lack of access to mental health treatment prior to their admission, stigmatising attitudes, and lengthy stays in both holding institutions and at the forensic unit. The study proposes the training of all staff on the Patient Charter (Ministry of Health and Social Services, 2016) and the utilisation of a patient-centred approach to treatment of FSPs. It also proposes granting leave of absence to FSPs so as to prepare them for eventual discharge.
Mini Dissertation (MSW)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Patton, Angela Havard. "Parental Understanding and Satisfaction with Special Education Services in the State of Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4946/.

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Parental participation in educational issues is relevant in assisting parents in understanding and becoming satisfied with their child's educational experience. Parental involvement is not only an ethical issue for teachers, but mandates have been established for special educators through various public laws. When involving parents in their children's education, it is relevant to consider various factors associated with students who are culturally and linguistically diverse. Parental satisfaction plays an important role in many cultures in obtaining parental involvement in decision-making meetings. If parents experience negative interactions, parental participation can be diminished. In other cultures, the satisfaction level raises parental trust in allowing school staff to make the appropriate choices for their children. Family values and beliefs among the various cultures should be a consideration when encouraging parents to participate in their child's educational process. Several barriers exist when involving different cultural groups; therefore, it is essential for educators to become aware of these barriers and learn strategies to overcome them. This study addresses parental understanding and satisfaction among ethnic group and throughout various disability groups by evaluating parental responses from a statewide survey and three focus groups.

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Wong, Kam-man Joseph, and 黃錦文. "A comparative study of the role of the state in policy making and implementation in welfare services for the handicapped in Hong Kongand Guangzhou." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31964643.

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Meit, Michael, and Kate E. Beatty. "The Changing Role of Public Health. State Office of Rural Health Regional Partnership Meeting, Region B." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6842.

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Carroll, Patrick Eamonn. "Engineering Ireland : the material constitution of the technoscientific state /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9935447.

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Stamos, Peter Spiro. "The welfare state and the challenge of economic crises : the case of Sweden 1974-1987, with particular attention to the Swedish health care system." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385812.

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Nwufoh-Oladimeji, Victoria I. "Non-formal education in Oyo State of Nigeria with special reference to the evaluation of family planning education in a community-based distribution project." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338972.

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Kisthardt, Adam M. "Selecting hostage negotiators for the Pennsylvania State Police Special Emergency Response Team an examination of methods of personnel selection /." Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only. Instructions for remote access, 2000. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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