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Boudiab, Lina Daou, and Katharine Kolcaba. "Comfort Theory." Advances in Nursing Science 38, no. 4 (2015): 270–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/ans.0000000000000089.

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Kolcaba, Katharine, Colette Tilton, and Carol Drouin. "Comfort Theory." JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration 36, no. 11 (November 2006): 538–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005110-200611000-00010.

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Tiase, Victoria L. "Comfort Theory and Practice." AORN Journal 78, no. 5 (November 2003): 868–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0001-2092(06)60651-0.

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Rosier, Patricia K. "Comfort Theory and Practice." Clinical Nurse Specialist 19, no. 1 (January 2005): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00002800-200501000-00014.

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Tabah, Mohammad Ismail Mujid, Joni Haryanto, and Hanik Endang Nihayati. "Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort: Effects of Garra Rufa Fish Intervention Towards the Comfort of Elderly Dermatitis Patients." International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation 24, no. 02 (February 13, 2020): 4115–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.37200/ijpr/v24i2/pr200733.

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Morse, Janice. "Conceptualizing a theory of comfort." Health SA Gesondheid 2, no. 2 (December 1, 1997): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v2i2.292.

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This article presents a realistic perspective on the definition of health.Opsomming Die term gesondheid was nog altyd moeilik om te definieer, omdat daar soveel uiteenlopende beskouings is. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.
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Ebrahimpour, Fatemeh, and Akram Sadat Sadat Hoseini. "Suggesting a Practical Theory to Oncology Nurses." Journal of Palliative Care 33, no. 4 (March 21, 2018): 194–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0825859718763645.

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Purpose: Children with cancer are faced with many challenges related to their disease that disturbs their comfort. The aim of this study was to apply Kolcaba’s comfort theory for a child with cancer. Design: A case study design was used. Methods: We applied Kolcaba’s comfort theory for a young boy with cancer who was sad and in discomfort because of intravenous access procedures. Following Kolcaba’s taxonomy of needs for comfort in the spiritual and mental level, we designed a new intervention. Findings: Kolcaba’s comfort theory is an appropriate approach which not only helps to assess and evaluate comfort holistically but also assists in performing innovative interventions to provide comfort for children with cancer. Conclusions: Kolcaba’s comfort theory is a practical theory for oncology nurses. Clinical Relevance: Nursing theories can improve the quality of clinical care.
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Khasanah, Nopi Nur, and Yeni Rustina. "Menurunkan Skala Nyeri Bayi Prematur melalui Facilitated Tucking disertai ‘Hadir-Berbicara’ sebagai Upaya Penerapan Teori Comfort Kolcaba." Jurnal Ners dan Kebidanan Indonesia 5, no. 2 (November 7, 2017): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21927/jnki.2017.5(2).83-90.

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<em>Premature infants had been experience of pain in neonatal ward that occur each day during treatment. Nurse need to do an intervention for reduce the scale of pain on premature infants. Pain management have to do at birth because of the repeated painful procedures in early life can affect the development of central nerve system permanently. The objective of this study was to describe the application of Kolcaba Comfort’s theory through facilitated tucking accompanied with ‘being with-talking to’ techniques in premature’s infant at high risk infant care. The method that used was case study by applying the four contexts of comfort’s experience associated with the three types of comfort based on Kolcaba Comfort’s theory in providing nursing care on five premature infants who have some painful procedures. The nursing intervention through facilitated tucking accompanied by ‘being with-talking to’ based on the principles of Kolcaba Comfort’s theory gave a positive result against premature infants’s comfort level. Four from five premature infants are in the level of transcendence which is a type of supreme comfort after the ease and relief. Kolcaba Comfort’s theory can be applied within the scope of neonatal care due in accordance with the developmental care of the infants and could reduce the scale of pain.</em>
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Kolcaba, Katharine Y. "A theory of holistic comfort for nursing." Journal of Advanced Nursing 19, no. 6 (June 1994): 1178–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.1994.tb01202.x.

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Baker, Nick. "The irritable occupant: recent developments in thermal comfort theory." Architectural Research Quarterly 2, no. 2 (1996): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135500001287.

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This paper explores thermal comfort, following recent renewed interest in thermal comfort standards. It also reports on findings from the Thermal Comfort Task in the EU funded PASCOOL project which had an overall objective of promoting passive cooling and avoiding air conditioning. Finally, some tentative conclusions are developed together with their implications for architectural design.
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Thornton, Samuel B. "Thermal comfort and control in suited environments : theory and experiments /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3060148.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002.
There are no leaves 76-78; manuscript misnumbered between 75 and 79. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
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Norton, Elizabeth Anne. "A grounded theory of female adolescent behaviour in the sun : comfort matters." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2008. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/13472/.

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The aim of the research was to generate a grounded theory to explain the behaviour of young women in the sun. The study sought to explore the sun-related experiences of young women in order to gain new insights into the influences upon them. The study was qualitative by design and utilised grounded theory method as developed by Glaser. Twenty female participants, aged 14 to 17 years old were included in the study. They formed six groups. Thirteen interviews were carried out with the groups and six one-to one interviews took place with individuals. All interviews were semi-structured and were based upon the participants' experiences of being in the sun. Data was analysed using the constant comparative method of data analysis, concordant with Glaserian grounded theory method. Five explanatory categories emerged from the data; Fitting In, Being Myself, Being Physically Comfortable, Slipping Up and a core category of Being Comfortable. One of the issues that emerged was that some young women believed their social acceptance depended on their appearance and they conformed to this end. The theory, derived from the categories, proposes that when in the sun, young women direct their activities toward meeting physical and psychosocial comfort needs. Comfort matters to them because it has implications for their wellbeing. This thesis contributes to the literature about the behaviours of young women in the sun. By increasing understanding of the factors that influence them, it also adds to the body of knowledge related to the primary prevention of skin cancer with teenage girls in the United Kingdom. The outcome of the research and its contribution to knowledge is a grounded theory, which explains the basis of the behaviours of young women in the sun. It appears that no other study has explored the experiences of UK adolescent females specifically, in a qualitative way and with the intention of producing a theory to explain them.
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Hedman, Sara, Alexander Törnby, and Lisa Påhlman. "The Production of Comfort : - How Financial Auditors Experience that they Become Comfortable with I T -auditors." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-255986.

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Auditors need to feel comfortable when signing the audit in order to produce comfort to society. Today, most companies use complex IT-systems that require that an IT-audit is performed. Rarely auditors possess the sufficient knowledge to perform the IT-audit and therefore an external part of the audit team is involved, namely IT-auditors. It can therefore be problematic for the auditors to ensure the quality of this part of the audit. In this thesis we aim to widen the understanding of how IT-auditors affect how auditors experience that they become comfortable. To investigate the addressed problem the following research question is asked: How do financial auditors experience that they become comfortable with IT-auditors? Ten auditors were interviewed on how they experience the different senses of the Comfort theory to become comfortable. With these senses as background, the study’s aim is to gain a perception of how auditors in Sweden perceive that they become comfortable with IT-auditors, which makes the auditor comfortable to sign the audit. The conclusions are that certain characteristics, such as technical and social skills together with good communication and understanding of the IT- auditors work is perceived as important factors for auditors to become comfortable
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Coelho, Denis. "A growing concept of ergonomics including pleasure. comfort and cognitive engineering: an engineering design perspective." Doctoral thesis, Universidade da Beira Interior, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/660.

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The aim of this dissertation is to study and assess comfort, pleasure and cognitive engineering for relevance in engineering design processes, working towards finding an integrated theoretical structure. From this overall aim, operative aims and research questions were derived and pursued with the support of literature studies and analysis of five empirical studies. The operative aims are: establish the levels of scientific knowledge (in terms of development potential and feasibility); test the levels of development in practice of theoretical structures, data collection methods and representation formats; and, apply activity theory to attempt compatibilizing the three theoretical structures (broken down into subconcepts, operatives and measurable variables). Conclusions and conclusive remarks are delivered, springing from the analyses made. The results of the assessments of model validity and maturity showed that universal design methods in comfort, pleasure and cognitive engineering, for direct application by engineering design, are presently not available, with an exception found for thermal comfort. Predictability concerning seat comfort, cognitive engineering and pleasure with products has not yet been achieved, but it is deemed feasible for some of their sub-areas: modelling physical discomfort in sitting, modelling pleasurable product properties for cultural sub-groups and predicting patterns of the impact of change on joint cognitive systems. Other sub-areas are not considered worthwhile pursuing for attaining engineering systematization, since their predictability is not deemed attainable. This situation hence precludes the development of a complete integrated comfort, pleasure and cognitive engineering design method for unaided application by engineering design. In these areas, design problems are thus better tackled using a combined process of research and design, which recurs to the existing theoretical structures but also to context based research intended to fill in the gaps of theory. A moderate level of compatibility between the theoretical structures of comfort, pleasure and cognitive engineering was attained. While pleasure pursues in practice the goal of adding gains, comfort and cognitive engineering struggle in practice with relieving pain and minimizing loss. The psychological human aspect is common to all three areas, although it is not pursued in practice in comfort, nor does cognitive engineering pursue in practice the psychological aspect of emotions. Partial commonalities were found between comfort and pleasure (in what concerns physical aspects) and between cognitive engineering and pleasure (in what concerns psychological aspects) at the level of subconcepts. A common underlying activity structure of activity-goal-user-artefact was demonstrated for the empirical studies dealing with comfort and cognitive engineering. This showed, for both areas, that deriving measurable variables and identifying operatives could be done from the operation level of activity theory, once the elements relevant to the design problem are classified according to the activity-user-goal-artefact categories. Activity theory also enabled structuring and organizing a common research-design process underlying the conduction of specific design studies in comfort and cognitive engineering. This process is also suggested as applicable for designing Human Factors and Ergonomics quality wherever theory gaps are found.
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Johansson, Pontus, and Sofie Paulsson. "Komfortskapande i miljörevisioner : En studie om revisorers arbetsprocess vid certifieringsrevisioner av ISO 14001." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85115.

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Till följd av det ökade allmänna intresset för hållbar utveckling har organisationers upprättande av hållbarhetsrapporter ökat. Samtidigt har tidigare forskning visat att hållbarhetsrapporter präglats av felaktig information i syfte att verka som ett skyltfönster. Därmed finns ett intresse för intressenter att en oberoende part granskar och säkerställer att organisationers hållbarhetsrapporter och miljöarbete överensstämmer. För att skapa legitimitet finns det en möjlighet för organisationer att certifiera sitt miljöarbete och miljöledningssystem enligt den internationella standarden ISO 14001 i syfte att påvisa att organisationens miljöarbete lever upp till standardens krav. Certifieringen inkluderar bland annat en revision utförd av oberoende revisorer. Tidigare forskning har påvisat att sannolikheten för att organisationer certifierar sig enligt ISO 14001 ökar när miljöarbetet är av en symbolisk karaktär. Tidigare forskning har även påvisat att revisorers arbetssätt inte är rationellt i lika stor utsträckning som tidigare antagits. Istället gör de känslomässiga och subjektiva bedömningar, detta tillsammans med fler delar benämns som revisorers komfort.  Syftet med studien är att undersöka om samt hur revisorer uppnår komfort i revisionsprocessen gällande certifiering av ISO 14001. För att besvara studiens forskningsfrågor genomfördes en kvalitativ studie med tio semistrukturerade intervjuer där respondenterna var revisorer vilka utför ISO 14001 certifieringsrevisioner. Studien visar att ISO 14001 revisorer uppnår komfort, dock skiljer sig processen till att uppnå komfort från vad tidigare forskning konstaterat om finansiella revisorer. Fortsatt visar studien att det går att urskilja två idealtyper av ISO 14001 revisorer där uppbyggnaden av komfort särskiljer sig mellan diverse typ. Vidare framkommer det att båda idealtyper kan uppnå komfort genom enbart praktisk kompetens alternativt genom praktisk kompetens kombinerat med defensiva strategier.
Due to the public interest in sustainable development increases organizations establishment of sustainability reports have increased. At the same time it has been shown that sustainability reports are characterized by incorrect information in order to act as a display window. Hence, there is in stakeholders interest that an independent part reviews and ensures that organizations sustainability reports and environmental work are consistent. For organizations to create legitimacy for their environmental work they have the opportunity to certify their environmental management system in accordance with the international standard, ISO 14001. This in order to demonstrate that the organizations environmental work meets the requirements in the standard. The certification includes, among other things, an audit performed by independent auditors. Former studies have shown that the probability of organizations certifying their environmental management system according to ISO 14001 increases when the environmental work is more of a symbolic nature. Moreover former studies has shown that the auditors working process is not rational to the same extent as previously assumed. Instead they make emotional and subjective assessments, this together with more parts is referred to as auditors comfort.  The purpose of the study is to investigate if and how auditors achieve comfort in the audit process regarding certification of ISO 14001. In order to answer the study’s research questions, ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with respondents consisting of auditors who perform ISO 14001 certification audits. The study shows that ISO 14001 auditors achieve comfort, however the process of achieving comfort deviate from what former studies has stated about financial auditors. Furthermore, the study show that it is possible to distinguish two ideal types of ISO 14001 auditors where the structure of comfort differs between various types. Moreover, it appears that both ideal types can achieve comfort through only practical competence or through practical competence combined with defensive strategies.
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Osborne, Michelle. "EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PAIN INTENSITY, COMFORT LEVEL AND PATIENT SATISFACTION AMONG ORTHOPEDIC PATIENTS FOLLOWING KNEE SURGERY ON POSTOPERATIVE DAY ONE." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Nursing Practice / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1430142885.

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Lundgren, Tobias, and Erik Paulsson. "Revision av verkligt-värde värderingar : Upplevda osäkerheter samt revisionsåtgärder." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-194430.

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Bakgrund och problematisering: Till följd av ökad globalisering, datatillgänglighet och ökade möjligheter för informationsbehandling, är det nuvarande redovisningssystemet under förändring. Redovisningen går från att baseras på den mer traditionella industriella ekonomin till att anpassas mot en mer informationsbaserad ekonomi med större fokus på relevans i årsredovisningarna. Detta innebär ökad användning av värdering till verkligt värde snarare än värdering till anskaffningsvärden, vilket skapar nya utmaningar för revisorer i verifieringen av de finansiella rapporterna då osäkerheter kan uppstå angående verkliga värdens rimlighet. Syfte och frågeställningar: Genom tillämpning av verkligt värde-värdering har en ökad osäkerhet uppstått i de finansiella rapporterna. Dessa osäkerheter kan vara svåra att minska om värderingarna bygger på svårverifierbar data. Studien ämnar ge en ökad förståelse kring hur revisorer upplever de osäkerheter som uppstår vid revision av poster värderade till verkligt värde, samt hur dessa osäkerheter hanteras. Teori: Studiens teoretiska ramverk bygger på  Pentlands (1993) och Carrington & Catasús (2007) tolkning av trygghetsteorin i en revisionskontext. Pentland (1993) gör en tolkning av Collins (1981)  teori om rituella interaktionskedjor och applicerar denna i en revisionskontext. Carringston & Catasús (2007) studerar hur revisorer upplever själva “källan” av trygghet utifrån Kolcaba & Kolcabas (1991) trygghetsteori.  Studiens teoretiska perspektiv grundar sig i dessa två teoretiska utgångspunkter för att tolka och analysera den insamlade empirin. Metod: Studiens tillvägagångssätt bygger på en kvalitativ metod där den insamlade empirin utgörs av nio intervjuer med revisorer verksamma inom de fyra stora revisionsbyråerna. Uppsatsen har en hermeneutisk vetenskapssyn vilket innebär att den insamlade empirin tolkas utifrån de valda teorierna för att på sådant sätt öka förståelsen för hur de intervjuade revisorerna upplever och handskas med osäkerheter som följer av verkligt värde-värderingar.  Resultat och slutsatser: Studien finner indikationer på att revisorerna upplever informationsbristen som den främsta källan till osäkerhet. I linje med Pentlands (1993) studie om revision som en trygghetsskapande process, tolkas dessa osäkerheter utgöra en källa för otrygghet hos revisorerna. Studien finner indikationer på att mängden kunskap och erfarenhet revisorn besitter påverkar den upplevda otryggheten i samband med revision av verkligt värde-värderingar. Studien visar också hur revisorer genom interna- och externa värderingsexperter, modeller samt diskussioner inom revisionsteamet och inom revisionsbyrån minskar denna känsla av otrygghet och uppnår det tillstånd då revisorn känner sig trygg med värderingarna.
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Barberan, Reinares Maria Laura. "Commodified Anatomies: Disposable Women in Postcolonial Narratives of Sexual Trafficking/Abduction." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/84.

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This dissertation explores postcolonial fiction that reflects the structural situation of a genocidal number of third-world women who are being trafficked for sexual purposes from postcolonial countries into the global north—invariably, gender, class and race play a crucial role in their exploitation. Above all, these women share a systemic disposability and invisibility, as the business relies on the victim’s illegality and criminality to generate maximum revenues. My research suggests that the presence of these abject women is not only recognized by ideological and repressive state apparatuses on every side of the trafficking scheme (in the form of governments, military establishments, juridical systems, transnational corporations, etc.) but is also understood as necessary for the current neoliberal model to thrive undisturbed by ethical imperatives. Beginning with the turn of the twentieth century, then, I analyze sexual slavery transnationally by looking at James Joyce’s “Eveline,” Therese Park’s A Gift of the Emperor, Mahasweta Devi’s “Douloti the Bountiful,” Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon, Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail, and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, concentrating on the political, economic, and social discourses in which the narratives are immersed through the lens of Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial theory. By interrogating these postcolonial narratives, my project reexamines the sex slave-trafficker-consumer triad in order to determine the effect of each party’s presence or absence from the text and the implications in terms of the discourses their representations may tacitly legitimize. At the same time, this work investigates the type of postcolonial stories the West privileges and the reasons, and the subjective role postcolonial theory plays in overcoming subaltern women’s exploitation within the current neocolonial context. Overall, I interrogate the role postcolonial literature plays as a means of achieving (or not) social change, analyze the purpose of artists in representing exploitative situations, identify the type of engagement readers have with these characters, and seek to understand audiences’ response to such literature. I look at authors who have attempted to discover fruitful avenues of expression for third-world women, who, despite increasingly constituting the bulk of the work force worldwide, continue to be exploited and, in the case of sex trafficking, brutally violated.
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Metni, Elie, and Adam Grönvalls. "Hur revisorn skapar trygghet och säkerställer oberoendet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för ekonomi och företagande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-17327.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to seek understanding, describe and analyse how auditors practically reassure and maintain their independence towards clients. Methodology: The study is conducted with a qualitative method with a deductive approach. The study is based on interviews with both experienced and recently graduated auditors. Conclusion: Our empirical results show that there are economical incentives that contradict the requirements to fulfil the auditor’s independence. The conclusion is that the media view is narrow and biased. Furthermore the auditors agree that an acceptable level of comfort is achieved by offering a high value, being a part of a large network of professionals and the ability to set materiality and evaluate risks.
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Robinson, Dawn M. "Helping Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6739.

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Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) created multiple challenges for the mental health of soldiers who served there. The local facility in this study determined there was a gap in providing OEF/OIF veterans assistance with mental health issues. The practice-focused question explored whether a training module for nurses would assist in the identification of signs and symptoms of mental health issues in OEF/OIF veterans, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, addictions, and suicidal/homicidal ideations, to help ensure timely referral for services. The project used Kolcaba's comfort theory as the basis for the training module. A pretest, training module, and posttest were created and administered to the expert panel. Results showed the training module contained information to assist nurses in identifying the signs and symptoms of mental health issues as well as educated the nurses on various interventions that were available for the veterans. It was determined by the expert panel that the training module should be implemented to assist in decreasing the gap in care for OEF/OIF veterans. This training module might support positive social change by empowering nurses to assist veterans with coping skills overcome mental health issues and lead positive and productive lives.
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Books on the topic "Theory of comfort"

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Kolcaba, Katharine. Comfort theory and practice: A vision for holistic health care and research. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2003.

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Comfort theory and practice: A vision for holistic health care and research. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2003.

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Nemiroff, Lyons Matthew, ed. Right-wing populism in America: Too close for comfort. New York: Guilford Press, 2000.

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Poisson, Benoît. Apprivoiser sa personnalité: Le respect de soi dans un monde de performance. Montréal: Méridien, 1999.

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Manfrida, Roberto, and Daniele Contini, eds. Proceedings of Physmod 2003 International Workshop on Physical Modelling of Flow and Dispersion Phenomena. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/88-8453-095-4.

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The various articles which make up this book concern both modelling (numerical and analytical) and experimental activities in relation to aspects of environmental fluid dynamics. Issues dealt with include the dispersion of pollutants in both urban and extra-urban areas, the effect of obstacles on the flow and dispersion in the turbulent boundary layer, and the simulation of the planetary boundary layer in proximity with the earth's surface. There is also a discussion of advanced issues which are also of interest in the sphere of urban planning, such as "wind comfort" and the effects of the shelter belt.
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Kolcaba, Katherine. Comfort Theory and Practice. Springer Publishing, 2000.

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Prior Analytics [EasyRead Comfort Edition]. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006.

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Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism [EasyRead Comfort Edition]. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006.

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Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method [EasyRead Comfort Edition]. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2007.

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A Discourse on Method [EasyRead Comfort Edition]. ReadHowYouWant.com, 2006.

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Lee, Na-Young. "The Korean Women’s Movement of Japanese Military “Comfort Women”." In Feminist Theory Reader, 452–59. Fifth edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003001201-52.

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Barbadilla, Elena, José Guadix, Pablo Aparicio, and Pablo Cortés. "Thermal Comfort Field Study Based on Adaptive Comfort Theory in Non-residential Buildings." In Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering, 327–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45748-2_35.

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Carlucci, Salvatore, Lorenzo Pagliano, William O'Brien, and Konstantinos Kapsis. "Comfort considerations in Net ZEBs: theory and design." In Modeling, Design, and Optimization of Net-Zero Energy Buildings, 75–106. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783433604625.ch03.

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Schuiling, Kerri Durnell, Carolyn Sampselle, and Kathryn Kolcaba. "Exploring the Presence of Comfort within the Context of Childbirth." In Theory for Midwifery Practice, 197–214. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-34563-8_9.

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Ciabattoni, Lucio, Gionata Cimini, Francesco Ferracuti, Gianluca Ippoliti, and Sauro Longhi. "Indoor Thermal Comfort Control Based on Fuzzy Logic." In Advances in Chaos Theory and Intelligent Control, 829–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30340-6_35.

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von Bomhard, Thomas, Dominic Wörner, and Felix Wortmann. "Designing an Information System for Residential Heating and Ventilation to Improve Comfort and Save Energy." In Advancing the Impact of Design Science: Moving from Theory to Practice, 398–402. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06701-8_33.

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Arapova, Elizabeth A., Galina V. Lukyanova, Lyudmila V. Sakharova, and Gurru I. Akperov. "Fuzzy-Logic Analysis of the Level of Comfort and Environmental Well-Being of the Urban Environment on the Example of Large Cities of Rostov Region." In 13th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing — ICAFS-2018, 643–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04164-9_84.

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Garrett, Steven L. "Comfort for the Computationally Crippled." In Understanding Acoustics, 1–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44787-8_1.

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Abstract The difference between engineering and science, and all other human activity, is the fact that engineers and scientists make quantitative predictions about measurable outcomes and can specify their uncertainty in such predictions. Because those predictions are quantitative, they must employ mathematics. This chapter is intended as review of some of the more useful mathematical concepts, strategies, and techniques that are employed in the description of vibrational and acoustical systems and in the calculation of their behavior. Topics in this review include techniques such as Taylor series expansions, integration by parts, and logarithmic differentiation. Equilibrium and stability considerations lead to relations between potential energies and forces. The concept of linearity leads to superposition and Fourier analysis. Complex numbers and phasors are introduced along with the techniques for their algebraic manipulation. The discussion of physical units is extended to include their use for predicting functional dependencies of resonance frequencies, quality factors, propagation speeds, flow noise, and other system behaviors using similitude and the Buckingham Π-theorem to form dimensionless variables. Linearized least-squares fitting is introduced as a method for extraction of experimental parameters and their uncertainties and error propagation is presented to allow those uncertainties to be combined.
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Califano, Rosaria, Iolanda Fiorillo, Giovanni Baglivo, Claudia Chirico, Antonietta Dello Russo, Jose Garro, Michele Leo, Conrado Pacheco, Gianluca Vitolo, and Alessandro Naddeo. "Comfort Driven Redesign: The Case of Library Chairs." In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 155–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70566-4_25.

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AbstractUniversity students spend most of their time in a sitting position. Prolonged sitting on ill-fitted furniture and the resulting lousy posture is making students having different musculoskeletal disorders and is strictly related to students learning outcomes. This study aims to improve postural comfort of chairs placed inside the Science & Technology Library at the University of Salerno. A previous study about these library chairs showed that the lumbar area was the most suffering part while perceived (dis)comfort was dependent on time. Based on this, an ergonomic redesign and, consequently, manufacturing of the chair has been done. A perceived-comfort comparison between the library chair and the redesigned one has been performed. A statistical sample of 28 healthy students performed a 20-min experiment two times, alternatively on the library chair and the redesigned one. The 20-min experiment was divided into two 10-min tasks (“Reading & Writing” and “Laptop use”) to simulate a study day. The participants’ postures were acquired non-invasively using cameras and processed by Kinovea; questionnaires were used to rate the perceived subjective (dis)comfort. A procedure for improving an existing product through a comfort-driven redesign is proposed. Results showed the redesigned library chair lead on increasing postural comfort (particularly in the lumbar area) thanks to the new design and modifications.
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Lebens, Mary, and Roger Finnegan. "Using a Low Code Development Environment to Teach the Agile Methodology." In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 191–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78098-2_12.

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AbstractThe Agile development methodology is soaring in popularity in the business world. Companies are turning to Agile to develop products quickly and to achieve digital transformation of their organization. Because of this push, companies need employees who understand Agile. Therefore, higher education is obligated to provide an understanding of Agile to students as they enter the workplace. Providing Agile experience to students who are new to programming is difficult because they are so worried about the coding aspects of the assignment, they cannot take time to think about the methodology they are using. The coding crowds out the time needed to get an understanding of how Agile actually works. One remedy for this is to use a low or no-code development platform. With this type of platform students spend less time learning to create apps, freeing them to experience the rituals and roles of Agile. This study examines using the Agile methodology along with the Microsoft Power Apps platform to provide an Agile experience to students. Two course sections were surveyed to learn if students perceived that they acquired a better understanding of Agile and to learn their perceptions of a no-code platform experience. The students completed surveys to ascertain their comfort with the Agile methodology and whether the no-code environment increased their comfort level. The results showed students perceived the no-code platform increased their comfort with using the Agile methodology. The implication is that no-code platforms can be used broadly to help students to gain experience with Agile.
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Conference papers on the topic "Theory of comfort"

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Zhang, Lu, and Shankar Sanake. "Thermal Comfort Aggregation Modeling Based on Social Science Theory: Towards a Comfort-Driven Cyber Human System Framework." In ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering 2019. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784482438.069.

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Jiammin Sun and Qingmei Yang. "Comfort and safety analysis of automotive active suspension based on adaptive filter theory." In 2009 4th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iciea.2009.5138493.

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Roshany-Yamchi, Samira, Kritchai Witheepanich, Juan M. Escano, Alan McGibney, and Susan Rea. "Selective distributed model predictive control for comfort satisfaction in multi-zone buildings." In 2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icstcc.2017.8107109.

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Verbeeck, Griet, Werner Carmans, and Veerle Martens. "Theory Versus Practice of Energy and Comfort in 4 Low Energy Houses in Belgium." In World Renewable Energy Congress – Sweden, 8–13 May, 2011, Linköping, Sweden. Linköping University Electronic Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp110572080.

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Xin Li, Wenxue Hong, JinJia Wang, Jialin Song, and Jiannan Kang. "Research on the Radar Chart Theory Applied to the Indoor Environmental Comfort Level Evaluation." In 2006 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wcica.2006.1713386.

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Iza, David, and Luis Tipan. "Electrical Efficiency Control applied to the Comfort of a Smart Home using Graph theory." In 2021 Second International Conference on Information Systems and Software Technologies (ICI2ST). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ici2st51859.2021.00017.

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Du, Wenhua, Dawei Zhang, and Xingyu Zhao. "Research on battery to ride comfort of electric bicycle based on multi-body dynamics theory." In 2009 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ical.2009.5262700.

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Zanoli, S. M., C. Pepe, L. Orlietti, and D. Barchiesi. "A Model Predictive Control strategy for energy saving and user comfort features in building automation." In 2015 19th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icstcc.2015.7321338.

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Langer, Thomas H., Michael R. Hansen, Morten K. Ebbesen, and Ole O̸ Mouritsen. "A Tire Model for Off-Highway Vehicle Simulation and Comfort Evaluation." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87802.

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Manufacturers of construction machinery are challenged to accommodate legal requirements on the vibration exposure associated with their products. Hence, the ability to evaluate ride comfort by virtual prototyping is needed. One of the derived necessities is a modeling approach that can handle big off-road tires on irregular terrain and even the passing of sharp corner obstacles. In this paper a simple tire model combining the well known slip theory and a displaced volume approach is presented. A non-gradient optimization routine is applied for parameter identification by minimizing the difference between simulated data and experimental data obtained from a full vehicle model passing a set of well defined obstacles. The two most important deviations have been identified as frequency and force amplitude response because comfort is computed as a frequency weighted acceleration of the operator. Based on the obtained agreement between simulated and measured results the tire model is considered as well suited for comfort evaluation and, subsequently, reliable model based design.
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Kargarnovin, M. H., D. Younesian, D. J. Thompson, and C. J. C. Jones. "Nonlinear Vibration and Comfort Analysis of High-Speed Trains Moving Over Railway Bridges." In ASME 7th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2004-58498.

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The ride comfort of high-speed trains passing over railway bridges is studied in this paper. The effects of some nonlinear parameters in a carriage-track-bridge system are investigated such as the load-stiffening characteristics of the rail-pad and the ballast, rubber elements in the primary and secondary suspensions systems. The influence of the track irregularity and train speed on two comfort indicators, namely Sperling’s comfort index and the maximum acceleration level, are also studied. Timoshenko beam theory is used for modelling the rail and bridge and two layers of parallel damped springs in conjunction with a layer of mass are used to model the rail-pads, sleepers and ballast. A randomly irregular vertical track profile is modelled, characterised by a power spectral density (PSD). The ‘roughness’ is generated for three classes of tracks. Nonlinear Hertz theory is used for modelling the wheel-rail contact.
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Tucker-Blackmon, Angelicque. Engagement in Engineering Pathways “E-PATH” An Initiative to Retain Non-Traditional Students in Engineering Year Three Summative External Evaluation Report. Innovative Learning Center, LLC, July 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.52012/tyob9090.

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The summative external evaluation report described the program's impact on faculty and students participating in recitation sessions and active teaching professional development sessions over two years. Student persistence and retention in engineering courses continue to be a challenge in undergraduate education, especially for students underrepresented in engineering disciplines. The program's goal was to use peer-facilitated instruction in core engineering courses known to have high attrition rates to retain underrepresented students, especially women, in engineering to diversify and broaden engineering participation. Knowledge generated around using peer-facilitated instruction at two-year colleges can improve underrepresented students' success and participation in engineering across a broad range of institutions. Students in the program participated in peer-facilitated recitation sessions linked to fundamental engineering courses, such as engineering analysis, statics, and dynamics. These courses have the highest failure rate among women and underrepresented minority students. As a mixed-methods evaluation study, student engagement was measured as students' comfort with asking questions, collaboration with peers, and applying mathematics concepts. SPSS was used to analyze pre-and post-surveys for statistical significance. Qualitative data were collected through classroom observations and focus group sessions with recitation leaders. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with faculty members and students to understand their experiences in the program. Findings revealed that women students had marginalization and intimidation perceptions primarily from courses with significantly more men than women. However, they shared numerous strategies that could support them towards success through the engineering pathway. Women and underrepresented students perceived that they did not have a network of peers and faculty as role models to identify within engineering disciplines. The recitation sessions had a positive social impact on Hispanic women. As opportunities to collaborate increased, Hispanic womens' social engagement was expected to increase. This social engagement level has already been predicted to increase women students' persistence and retention in engineering and result in them not leaving the engineering pathway. An analysis of quantitative survey data from students in the three engineering courses revealed a significant effect of race and ethnicity for comfort in asking questions in class, collaborating with peers outside the classroom, and applying mathematical concepts. Further examination of this effect for comfort with asking questions in class revealed that comfort asking questions was driven by one or two extreme post-test scores of Asian students. A follow-up ANOVA for this item revealed that Asian women reported feeling excluded in the classroom. However, it was difficult to determine whether these differences are stable given the small sample size for students identifying as Asian. Furthermore, gender differences were significant for comfort in communicating with professors and peers. Overall, women reported less comfort communicating with their professors than men. Results from student metrics will inform faculty professional development efforts to increase faculty support and maximize student engagement, persistence, and retention in engineering courses at community colleges. Summative results from this project could inform the national STEM community about recitation support to further improve undergraduate engineering learning and educational research.
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Bendixen, Shannon, Michael Campbell, Corey Criswell, and Roland Smith. Change-Capable Leadership The Real Power Propelling Successful Change. Center for Creative Leadership, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.35613/ccl.2017.2049.

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If you could ask 275 senior executive leaders about how to lead change, what would they have to say? What if they talked about the most important factors for success, what you should do more of, do less of, or avoid all together? What if their experiences could help you lead change in your organization and provide an early warning system to avoid failure? Do we have your attention? If you are a leader facing complex business challenges in your organization that require changes in the way people have always done things, we offer the following insights from the senior executives we asked about their experiences in leading change: 1. Change yourself. Leading change successfully means spending time outside of your comfort zone. As the individual leading an initiative you must change your mindset, actions, and behaviors. 2. Don’t go it alone. Leading change is a team activity. People come together driven by a compelling, and frequently communicated, message about why we are changing. 3. Know the signs . Recognize the early warning signs that indicate an initiative is starting to derail.
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Miller, James, Anthony Latino, Chandana Konidala, and Raymond Patenaude. Army R-22 refrigerant phase-out strategy. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/40039.

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R-22 (also known as HCFC-22) is one of the most widely used refrigerants in U.S. Army air-conditioning and refrigeration (AC&R) systems since the phase-out of R-12 refrigerant in 1995. The need to phase out R-22 is attributed to its global warming potential and high ozone-depleting capability. The U.S. Army has tens of thousands of aging AC&R systems that will remain dependent on R-22, or one of the recently developed substitutes for R-22, until they reach the end of their operational life. This project conducted a survey to understand the current R-22 usage and types of R-22 AC&R equipment that are in use across U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) installations. This study describes several methods to remove or retrofit R-22 from typical AC&R equipment and implementation strategies to meet the stated goal of eliminating R-22 from IMCOM installations. The scope of this project included the review of BUILDER SMS data for IMCOM installations, which included data on 13,000 pieces of comfort cooling equipment for 31 installations. The report also provides an analysis of several R-22 alternatives and their physical properties and compatibility. Mission critical tactical cooling that uses R-22 refrigerant was not within the scope of this project.
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DeRobertis, Michelle, Christopher E. Ferrell, Richard W. Lee, and David Moore. City Best Practices to Improve Transit Operations and Safety. Mineta Transportation Institute, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.1951.

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Public, fixed-route transit services most commonly operate on public streets. In addition, transit passengers must use sidewalks to access transit stops and stations. However, streets and sidewalks are under the jurisdiction of municipalities, not transit agencies. Various municipal policies, practices, and decisions affect transit operations, rider convenience, and passenger safety. Thus, these government entities have an important influence over the quality, safety, and convenience of transit services in their jurisdictions. This research identified municipal policies and practices that affect public transport providers’ ability to deliver transit services. They were found from a comprehensive literature review, interviews and discussions with five local transit agencies in the U.S., five public transportation experts and staff from five California cities. The city policies and practices identified fall into the following five categories: Infrastructure for buses, including bus lanes, signal treatments, curbside access; Infrastructure for pedestrians walking and bicycling to, and waiting at, transit stops and stations; Internal transportation planning policies and practices; Land development review policies; Regional and metropolitan planning organization (MPO) issues. The understanding, acknowledgment, and implementation of policies and practices identified in this report can help municipalities proactively work with local transit providers to more efficiently and effectively operate transit service and improve passenger comfort and safety on city streets.
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DiGrande, Laura, Sue Pedrazzani, Elizabeth Kinyara, Melanie Hymes, Shawn Karns, Donna Rhodes, and Alanna Moshfegh. Field Interviewer– Administered Dietary Recalls in Participants’ Homes: A Feasibility Study Using the US Department of Agriculture’s Automated Multiple-Pass Method. RTI Press, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2021.mr.0045.2105.

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of administering the Automated Multiple-Pass Method (AMPM), a widely used tool for collecting 24-hour dietary recalls, in participants’ homes by field interviewers. Design: The design included computer-assisted personal interviews led by either a nutritionist (standard) or field interviewer. Portion estimators tested were a set of three-dimensional food models (standard), a two-dimensional food model booklet, or a tablet with digital images rendered via augmented reality. Setting: Residences in central North Carolina. Participants: English-speaking adults. Pregnant women and individuals who were fasting were excluded. Results: Among 133 interviews, most took place in living rooms (52%) or kitchens (22%). Mean interview time was 40 minutes (range 13–90), with no difference by interviewer type or portion estimator, although timing for nutritionist-led interviews declined significantly over the study period. Forty-five percent of participants referenced items from their homes to facilitate recall and portion estimation. Data entry and post-interview coding was evaluated and determined to be consistent with requirements for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Values for the number of food items consumed, food groups, energy intake (average of 3,011 kcal for men and 2,105 kcal for women), and key nutrients were determined to be plausible and within reasonably expected ranges regardless of interviewer type or portion estimator used. Conclusions: AMPM dietary recall interviews conducted in the home are feasible and may be preferable to clinical administration because of comfort and the opportunity for participants to access home items for recall. AMPMs administered by field interviewers using the food model booklet produced credible nutrition data that was comparable to AMPMs administered by nutritionists. Training field interviewers in dietary recall and conducting home interviews may be sensible choices for nutrition studies when response rates and cost are concerns.
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Unsettled Issues on HD Mapping Technology for Autonomous Driving and ADAS. SAE International, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/epr2021013.

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Current advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving systems (ADS) rely on high-definition (HD) maps to enable a range of features and functions. These maps can be viewed as an additional sensor from an ADAS or ADS perspective as they impact overall system confidence, reduce system computational resource needs, help improve comfort and convenience, and ultimately contribute to system safety. However, HD mapping technology presents multiple challenges to the automotive industry. Unsettled Issues on HD Mapping Technology for Autonomous Driving and ADAS identifies the current unsettled issues that need to be addressed to reach the full potential of HD maps for ADAS and ADS technology and suggests some possible solutions for initial map creation, map change detection and updates, and map safety levels.
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