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Journal articles on the topic "Visitors' programme"
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Cowley, Sarah. "Home visitors and child health in England: advances and challenges." Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP 45, spe2 (December 2011): 1810–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0080-62342011000800030.
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There is increasing interest in the early years as a focus for reducing health inequalities as well as one that is important for the children themselves. This paper describes the introduction in England of Sure Start Local Programmes, which included home visiting within a community development approach, and an intensive home visiting programme, the Nurse-Family partnership, for disadvantaged teenage mothers. It reflects on changes and challenges in service provision to mothers and their pre-school children in England, explaining that a long tradition of home visiting was, paradoxically, reduced as attention focused on the newer initiatives. This is now being addressed, with attention to a range of evidence based programmes and a specific focus on heath visitor provision.
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Flemington, Tara, and Jennifer Anne Fraser. "Maternal involvement in a nurse home visiting programme to prevent child maltreatment." Journal of Children's Services 11, no. 2 (June 20, 2016): 124–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcs-02-2015-0003.
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Purpose – Nurse home visiting programmes designed to reduce the likelihood of child maltreatment in families at risk have been widely implemented in Australia and overseas. The purpose of this paper is to examine the intensity and duration of maternal involvement in a nurse home visiting programme to prevent child maltreatment. Design/methodology/approach – A retrospective, longitudinal design was employed. The clinical records of 40 mothers who had received nurse home visits following the birth of a new baby for at least six months, and had provided consent for their details to be accessed for research purposes, were selected for analysis. The influence of antenatal characteristics and well-being on maternal involvement in a nurse home visiting programme was examined using reliability of change indices. Findings – Mothers with impaired family functioning reporting they experienced violence at home were more likely to leave the programme early and received fewer than the prescribed number of home visits compared to mothers who had been enroled into the programme for other complex psychosocial needs. At the same time, mothers enroled on the basis of impaired psychological functioning and who did not report violence in the home remained, and received more than the prescribed number of home visits over the course of their involvement. Originality/value – Results showed that domestic violence increased the risk of poor engagement with a targeted nurse home visiting programme. At the same time, home visitors responded to complex individual and family needs by increasing the number of home visits accordingly. This theoretically based pilot research has helped to disentangle antecedents of maternal involvement and the subsequent impact on programme outcomes. Further investigation using a larger study sample is needed.
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Basu, S., K. L. Evans, M. Owen, and T. Harbottle. "Outcome of Newborn Hearing Screening Programme delivered by health visitors." Child: Care, Health and Development 34, no. 5 (September 2008): 642–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00861.x.
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Holland, Amanda. "Development of an all Wales Health Visitor Observation and Assessment of the Infant tool." Journal of Health Visiting 7, no. 11 (November 2, 2019): 542–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/johv.2019.7.11.542.
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The Health Visitor Observation and Assessment of the Infant (HOAI) was introduced throughout Wales as a key intervention within the Healthy Child Wales Programme, launched by the Welsh Government in 2016. It is an approach used by health visitors in Wales to observe and assess an infant's physical development and emotional wellbeing. This article discusses the findings of the first phase of a research project aimed at developing an evidence-informed tool to guide and standardise health visiting practice when implementing and recording the HOAI. It will go on to explore health visitors' views of the current HOAI aids and the development of a HOAI tool. Phase one results indicate mixed views among health visitors relating to the accessibility, desirability and usability of current HOAI aids. A clear theme emerged relating to participants' desire for a HOAI tool that is user friendly, clear, concise and avoids duplication.
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Gray, Heather M., Layne Keating, Howard J. Shaffer, and Debi A. LaPlante. "Observations of the first GameSense-branded responsible gambling centre in a US casino." Health Education Journal 79, no. 1 (July 24, 2019): 104–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0017896919863121.
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Objective: To help mitigate potential gambling harm, responsible gambling information centres are launching across casino venues in North America. The launch of the first such centre in the USA provided an opportunity to achieve three goals: (1) document the centre’s reach among casino patrons, (2) generate a comprehensive description of services provided, and (3) explore the potential for a dose–response relationship between centre exposure and gambling beliefs and behaviour. Design: We documented services provided and surveyed consecutive centre visitors. Setting: We achieved these goals at the GameSense Info Center, located in the first Massachusetts casino. Method: Programme staff recorded their services via electronic checklist and administered one-page surveys to visitors with whom they discussed problem or responsible gambling. Results: Programme staff reported engaging directly with approximately 1% of daily patrons. About 70% of their interactions were casual. During conversations that did move beyond a casual nature, programme staff typically provided information about responsible gambling, consistent with patrons’ self-reported needs and concerns. Finally, among a sample of patrons who repeatedly engaged with programme staff at the most involved level ( N = 129), those with relatively little programme exposure were more likely to hold an accurate gambling belief but less likely to report having set time limits on their casino visits. Conclusion: We did not observe support for the notion that using an on-site information centre to teach patrons about important gambling concepts is associated with more responsible gambling behaviour.
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Sherring, Phill. "Declare or dispose: protecting New Zealand’s border with behaviour change." Journal of Social Marketing 10, no. 1 (June 3, 2019): 85–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsocm-09-2018-0103.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the case study of the Ministry for Primary Industries’ (MPI) Border Compliance Social Marketing programme. This programme aims to change the behaviour of international visitors to New Zealand. This is to protect New Zealand’s important horticultural and agricultural industries and environment from harmful pests and diseases. The programme encourages travellers to leave potential biosecurity risk items at home, or at least declare them to border staff or dispose of in special amnesty bins at New Zealand’s airports on arrival. It also influences local communities to advocate to friends and family overseas on MPI’s behalf. Design/methodology/approach Aimed at visitors with the highest identified risk, the programme uses a range of interventions in the pre-travel, in-journey and upon-arrival stages of travel. It is underpinned by social marketing theory and models, qualitative and ethnographic research and an understanding of the passenger journey. Findings The programme has delivered a significant reduction in the number of passengers being caught with prohibited items and has influenced behaviours in packing bags before travel and declaring items for inspection on arrival in New Zealand. Originality/value The programme contributes to the New Zealand biosecurity system, which protects the country’s key horticultural and agricultural industries. For example, the horticultural industry contributes $5.6bn annually to the New Zealand economy. It also protects native flora and fauna, which is a large attraction to overseas visitors, and contributes to the $12.9bn tourism industry.
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Mucavele, Patricia, Claire Wall, and Laura Sharp. "The ‘Eat Better, Start Better’ programme and opportunities for health visitors." Journal of Health Visiting 1, no. 1 (January 2013): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/johv.2013.1.1.14.
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Williams, Margiad E., Zoe Hoare, Dawn A. Owen, and Judy Hutchings. "Feasibility Study of the Enhancing Parenting Skills Programme." Journal of Child and Family Studies 29, no. 3 (September 25, 2019): 686–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01581-8.
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Abstract Objectives This study reports on the feasibility and initial effectiveness of an individually delivered parent programme for parents of young children with behaviour problems. Whilst parenting programmes are known to be effective in reducing behaviour problems, numerous barriers can prevent families from accessing programmes. Individually delivered parent programmes may be more accessible. In the UK, health visitors provide support to all families with a child under 5 years of age and are ideally placed to deliver interventions for child behaviour problems. Methods Fifty-eight parents reporting children with behaviour problems were recruited from four areas to intervention (n = 29) and treatment as usual, wait-list control (n = 29) conditions. Feasibility outcomes included recruitment, retention, programme delivery, and satisfaction. Baseline and six-month post-randomisation follow-up measures were collected in parents’ homes and included parent-report measures of child behaviour, parenting skills, and parental mental health as well as an observation of parenting behaviour during a parent-child play task. Results Significant changes in child behaviour, lax parenting, and parental mental health were found for the whole sample but there were no significant differences between conditions. Recruitment and retention rates were lower than expected questioning the feasibility of delivering the parent programme as it is in existing services. Conclusions This paper provides limited evidence for the feasibility of the Enhancing Parenting Skills programme delivered in existing health services. Further feasibility work, particularly for recruitment and retention, would be needed before conducting a larger study to examine the effectiveness of the programme.
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Stonehouse, Bernard. "Monitoring shipborne visitors in Antarctica: a preliminary field study." Polar Record 28, no. 166 (July 1992): 213–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400020672.
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ABSTRACTDuring every austral summer since the International Geophysical Year 1957–58 several thousand scientists and support staff have worked in Antarctica. A more recent development is the annual advent of 4000–5000 tourists, who now probably outnumber expedition members in the area covered by the Antarctic Treaty System. Most tourists come by ship, visiting coastal areas of the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Orkney and South Shetland islands that arc readily accessible beween November and March: smaller numbers visit the Ross Dependency and Adelie Land sectors. This article reviews Antarctic Treaty and International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) attitudes to tourism, and outlines a preliminary study of shipborne tourism between late December 1991 and March 1992 on Half Moon Island, South Shetland Islands. Within one month (January) a survey team from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, recorded 14 visits by six tour ships, bringing more than 2000 tourists. In addition, attitudes and expectations of visitors were studied on five ships. Arising from this study, a programme of visitor monitoring is planned as a joint project between British, Chilean, and Argentine scientific institutions during the next five years. Objectives are to find ways of minimizing both short-term and long-term impacts of tourists and other visitors on breeding birds and other ecological communities, and to provide a factual basis for regulation under the Antarctic Treaty System.
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Ahmad, Shamsidar, Mohamed Yusoff Abbas, Wan Zaiyana Mohd Yusof, and Mohd Zafrullah Mohd.Taib. "Museum Learning Experience:Turning visitors as participants." Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies 3, no. 10 (March 13, 2018): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i10.82.
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Public participation such as visitor satisfaction was directly related to experience of the effectiveness learning and discovery also involvement in motivating learning behaviour at the museum. These will enhance museum in direction shaping a sustainable future as the museums as institutions for lifelong learning. The study reports the current status of a study focusing on Research Framework (RF) towards an adult visitors’ learning within informal education setting through museum exhibitions that are a part of on-going doctoral research programme that correlated with the museum management in Malaysia.Keywords: visitors’experience and learning; public participation; informal learning; lifelong learning eISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Visitors' programme"
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Pocock, Robin. "Evaluating the training and supervision of home visitors in a Parent-Infant Home Visitation Programme." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11272.
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The training and supervision of home visitors for the Parent Centre's Parent-Infant Home Visitation Programme (PIHVP) was evaluated. The evaluation aimed to determine whether training and supervision prepared the home visitors to deliver the PIHVP as intended. The supervision questionnaire measured home visitors' views on the extent to which group and individual supervision fulfil their educative, supportive and administrative functions, and the extent to which they felt supervision prepared them for visits. The training questionnaire asked them to rate the extent of their home visiting skills and knowledge a) before training and b) immediately after training. Interviews were also conducted with 27 past programme recipients, during which they were asked a) in which areas their home visitor assisted them, b) which assistance they found most useful and c) if there were any other areas in which they would like to have been assisted.
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Chandool, Neemedass. "Participation in Park Interpretive Programs and Visitors; Attitudes, Norms, and Behavior about Petrified Wood Theft." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36995.
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The purpose of this study was to understand the relationships between participation in park interpretive programs and attitudes, norms and behavior about theft of petrified wood at Petrified Forest National Park (PFNP). The Theory of Reasoned Action guided the research. Data collection included observation of theft behavior, on-site interviews and mailback questionnaires.
Findings indicated that more time spent at interpretive centers and programs did not result in visitors; attitudes and norms about individual acts of wood theft being more negative. Also, attitudes and norms about petrified wood theft did not vary by type of interpretive programs judged most helpful in learning the park;s story and in learning the park;s rules and regulations. Tentative evidence suggests that the norm against taking a handful of wood was stronger among individuals who cited visitor centers as their most helpful source than it was for respondents who said the same about other national park interpretive programs. Similarly, the attitude variable that it is all right to take a piece of petrified wood as long as it is a small piece did vary for two categories of interpretive programs (other national park programs and all ranger programs). Ranger programs measured significantly higher than other national park programs. The rate of theft of petrified wood was not inversely related to the amount of interpretive programs participated in and did not vary by type of interpretation judged most helpful. Finally, attitudes and norms about petrified wood theft did not shape theft behavior. However, knowing visitors; attitudes helped to predict who would be a non-thief.Master of Science
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Perry, Joanne M. "Insights regarding early intervention from the perspective of mothers and home-visitors /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3013011.
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Littlefair, Carolyn Joy, and n/a. "The Effectiveness of Interpretation in Reducing the Impacts of Visitors in National Parks." Griffith University. School of Environmental and Applied Science, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050324.085357.
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With visitation to natural areas increasing, the appropriate management of these areas is important. There are a number of management tools available which endeavour to minimise environmental impacts of visitors. One such management tool is interpretation. Interpretation is widely used as a management tool because: it is perceived to be the most cost effective method; it is a light-handed approach and allows visitors the freedom of choice; and it enhances visitor experiences and satisfaction. However, the ability of interpretation to bring about a reduction in the impacts of visitors to natural areas, has rarely been quantified. This study was designed to determine the extent to which an interpretive program reduced the environmental impacts of visitors to national parks. Fieldwork was undertaken in Lamington National Park, where 41 guided walks were examined. To measure the actual behaviour or resulting impacts of visitors in a national park, three appropriate environmental indicators were chosen: shortcutting of corners, picking up litter already on the track, and noise levels. Five interpretive programs were created, each with a different combination of environmental interpretation, role modelling and verbal appeals. For the shortcutting results, the interpretive program with the combination of environmental interpretation, role modelling by the guide and verbal appeals from the guide, was always the most effective in reducing shortcutting. Visitors in this interpretive program were always, statistically, less likely to shortcut than visitors on all the other interpretive programs. The programs with only environmental interpretation or no environmental interpretation, were always least effective in reducing shortcutting. The interpretive programs with environment interpretation plus role modelling, or verbal appeals, were always in the middle of these extremes. They were more effective than having neither role modelling or verbal appeals, but less effective than having both. Results for the amount of litter picked up found that the inclusion of verbal appeals in an interpretive program was the only factor that influenced whether visitors picked up litter. In addition, there was no difference in the amount of litter picked up, by the interpretive program with environmental interpretation only, and the program with no environmental interpretation. Results for the noise levels of visitors, found that no interpretive program reduced the amount of shouting and talking loudly of visitors. Although not statistically significant, it did appear that there were lower proportions of shouting and talking loudly, following a verbal appeal and/or role modelling. Additionally, there was no influence of the interpretive program on the proportion of time visitors were talking, or quiet, during their walk. Overall, this research found that interpretation can be an effective management tool in reducing visitor impacts. Interpretation is most effective in reducing impacts when those impacts are specifically addressed through verbal appeals, combined with positive role modelling of appropriate behaviours. However, interpretation did not reduce all the impacts studied and therefore is not the solution to all problems. Implications of this study are that those using interpretation as a means of reducing visitor impacts, must ensure that they have a high standard of interpretation, which specifically addresses the impacts that need to be reduced. It also highlights the importance of the role of the guide, and that those employed should be well trained and competent in their position.
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Jean, Olivier. "Évaluation de la perception des visiteurs quant à l’utilisation de la méthodologie des traceurs dans le programme Qmentum d’Agrément Canada." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25885.
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Dans son programme Qmentum, Agrément Canada utilise la méthodologie des traceurs pour procéder à l’évaluation des établissements de santé au Canada. Adaptée à partir du modèle du Joint Commission aux États-Unis, cette méthode est utilisée depuis 2008. En se basant sur le Modèle synergique des qualités évolutives de Plante et Bouchard (2002), cette enquête a permis d’interroger les visiteurs d’Agrément Canada afin de déterminer quelle est, selon leur perception, la qualité de la méthodologie des traceurs sous l’angle de cinq qualités transversales et de déterminer quelles sont ses forces et ses faiblesses. La cohérence ainsi que la synergie s’avèrent être les deux qualités transversales dont les indicateurs ont un effet significatif sur la qualité de l’information obtenue. La contrainte du temps quant à elle est la plus grande faiblesse dans l’application de la méthodologie des traceurs et ce, à plusieurs niveaux.As part of the Qmentum program, Accreditation Canada uses the tracer methodology to evaluate the quality of services in Canada’s health care institutions. Based on the model used by the Joint Commission in the United States of America, the tracer methodology is in place since 2008. Based on the MSQE from Plante et Bouchard (2002), this study allowed to question Accreditation Canada’s surveyors to determine, according to their perception, the tracer methodology’s quality in terms of five transversal qualities and to determine what are its strengths and weaknesses. Consistency and synergy are the two transversal qualities that significantly affect the tracer methodology’s effectiveness. Meanwhile, the time constraint is its biggest weakness, affecting various aspects of it.
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Staas, Gretchen L. (Gretchen Lee). "The Effects of Visits by Authors of Children's Books in Selected Elementary Schools." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331813/.
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Guest author visits are popular events in schools across the United States. Little has been written, however, on a single author doing a single presentation in a school. This study addressed that situation. The study utilized two authors visiting four schools in a large North Central Texas school district.
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Mendonça, Margarete Knoch. "Licença, posso entrar? As visitas domiciliares nos programas de Agentes Comunitários de Saúde e Saúde da Família e a integralidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5137/tde-25082008-163059/.
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O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar as características das visitas domiciliares nos programas Agentes Comunitários de Saúde e Saúde da Família e sua possível contribuição para o alcance da integralidade. Em ambos os programas, a visita domiciliar apresenta-se como uma ação emblemática, como evidenciado pela designação de um profissional específico para essa atividade (o agente comunitário de saúde), embora se recomende que seja realizada por todos os profissionais de saúde. A integralidade foi buscada como representando um norte para a atenção primária, através de características do processo de trabalho em saúde. A metodologia adotada foi a pesquisa de tipo qualitativo, sendo os dados empíricos obtidos por meio de entrevistas com profissionais e usuários e pela observação do cotidiano de três equipes de agentes comunitários de saúde e três equipes de Saúde da Família em Campo Grande, MS, de novembro de 2005 a julho de 2006. A análise dos dados aponta que as coordenações estadual e municipal dos programas incentivam as visitas, mas consideram serem necessários critérios para as solicitações de visitas, definição do profissional que as realizará e mecanismos de avaliação, especialmente no que se refere às visitas feitas por profissionais com formação universitária. Na dinâmica de trabalho das equipes pesquisadas, as formas de organização do trabalho são diversas, podendo favorecer ou dificultar a realização das visitas domiciliares. As visitas são solicitadas majoritariamente por agentes comunitários de saúde, respondendo a demandas de usuários, ou decorrem de demandas internas dos serviços, com variados enfoques quanto às finalidades, conteúdos e prioridades. Os profissionais apontam como aspectos positivos das visitas uma leitura ampliada da realidade, das dinâmicas familiares, das condições de vida e das necessidades dos usuários, permitindo implementação de medidas preventivas e assistenciais e o fortalecimento do vínculo entre usuários e equipe de saúde. No entanto, evidenciam-se tensões relacionadas com o tipo de solicitações dos usuários, predominantemente de caráter clínico, muitas vezes requerendo referências secundárias e terciárias, nem sempre presentes. Por outro lado, a pobreza e as precárias condições de vida dos usuários, características das populações cobertas pelos programas, geram demandas de ações de assistência social, moradia, educação e trabalho, entre outras, que muitas vezes também permanecem sem resposta ou são tratadas de forma caritativa. Além disso, existem dificuldades relacionadas a horários, percursos, transporte e abordagem dos moradores durante as visitas, além de situações de resistência, de recusa e de contato com famílias em precárias condições de vida. Constatou-se que para atingir sua potencialidade de estimular a integralidade, a visita requer trabalho em equipe e respeito e singularização dos usuários. As visitas domiciliares constituem uma prática com potencial integrador, favorecendo o desenvolvimento de ações no domicílio, a ampliação do acesso à unidade de saúde, a adoção de medidas preventivas, a adesão ao tratamento, o apoio aos cuidadores e a longitudinalidade. No entanto, apesar de potencialmente aumentarem a visibilidade de problemas de difícil abordagem, como alcoolismo, violência doméstica ou sexualidade, as visitas domiciliares não os tomam como objetos de trabalho, geralmente evitando essas situações nos domicílios. As visitas podem colaborar com a integração com os níveis secundário e terciário, com a abordagem familiar e com o desenvolvimento de ações intersetoriais, sempre que houver incentivo e condições para isso. A atividade é, porém, permeada de tensões, por seu caráter por vezes autoritário e de intromissão na vida privada, pelas frágeis condições de trabalho e por sua utilização como atenuante de deficiências no atendimento nas unidades de saúde e na ação do poder público em problemas estruturais.The purpose of this study was to analyze the profile of home visits in the Brazilian health care programs \'Community Health Agents\' and \'Family Health\' with regard to their potential contribution toward integrality in health services. In both programs home visits occupy a prominent position, as shown by the assignment of a specific professional to carry out this activity--the community health agent--although performance of the visit is recommended for all health professionals. Integrality was the guiding principle intended for primary care, configuring the features of the work process in the health area. The methodology adopted was that of qualitative research. Empirical data were collected by interviewing health professionals and users and by observing the daily activities of three teams of community health agents and three teams of the Family Health Program in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, from November 2005 to July 2006. The activity is encouraged by program coordinators at the state and county level, who recognize the need for developing criteria for defining which newly detected cases should warrant the performance of home visits and which professionals should be assigned to perform them, in addition to mechanisms for evaluation of the activity, particularly in the case of home visits performed by health professionals holding higher education degrees. With regard to the operative dynamics of the teams investigated, workflow was found to be organized in various ways, which may facilitate or hinder the performance of visits. Most home visits are requested by community health agents in response to demands of users, but they can also be requested by the service itself, in response to internal demands, and the focus of the activity may vary in terms of purpose, content, and level of priority. According to the professionals interviewed, home visits have a number of positive aspects, as they provide a broader perception of reality, family dynamics, living conditions, and needs of users, in addition to facilitating the implementation of preventive and assistance measures and strengthening the connection between users and health care team. Nonetheless, the activity has inherent tensions, as those related to the type of requests placed by users, mostly of clinical nature, which may require secondary and tertiary care approaches, not always available. On the other hand, poverty and unfavorable living conditions, typical of the population assisted by the programs, generate demands for actions related to social assistance, housing, education and work, among many others, which often are not dealt with at all or are managed with a charitable focus. Additional difficulties involve schedules, transects, transportation, manner of establishing first contact and relating to residents during the visits, situations of resistance or refusal by residents, and the very contact with families living in dire conditions. It was found that in order to exert its potential for promotion of integrality, home visits require not only teamwork, by also respect for users and recognition of their singularity. Home visits have an integrative potential, facilitating the performance of health-related actions in the home setting, promoting broader access to health care units, encouraging adoption of preventive measures, adherence to treatment, and support to caretakers, and fostering the development of longitudinality. However, in spite of their potential for facilitating the perception of issues requiring a more sensitive approach, such as alcohol consumption, domestic violence, or sexuality, home visits do not take these occurrences as their object of action, but usually avoid direct contact with such situations. Visits also aid in the integration with secondary and tertiary levels, are valuable in the establishment of a family-focused approach, and are advantageous to the development of intersectoral actions whenever favorable conditions and incentive are available. The activity, however, is not without tensions. In some instances, its focus is authoritarian and intrusive into private life; working conditions are fragile; and visits play the extra role of lessening deficiencies in services and in the governmental ability to tackle structural issues.
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Bastien, Maria. "From Family Literacy to Literacies in the Context of Newcomer Family Relationships: Mapping Literacies with Home Visitors from Home Instruction for the Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36495.
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This qualitative research project reconceptualizes conventional and prescriptive
views of family literacy as literacies in the context of family relationships, experimenting with data from the home visitor participants of one international family literacy intervention program (FLIP): Home Instruction for the Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY). Participants of the HIPPY program in Canada primarily include newcomer families. While the program targets conventional forms of literacy and education relating to children’s school readiness, in practice their work with these families goes far beyond this initial focus further engaging with issues related to settlement. For example, after completing HIPPY’s two-year program successfully with their own children, parents can be hired to become home visitors, receive professional development and guide newcomer families through the HIPPY materials they will use with their children. Using the theoretical and practical lens of Multiple Literacy Theory (Masny, 2006, 2009, 2013) this project asks what literacy practices home visitors engage in with newcomer parents, how these practices function in the relationship, and what these practices produce in these interactions. Lombard (1981) recognized the need for further research on home visitor experiences after program coordinators noted the “highly visible changes in home visitors’ level of understanding and performance” (p. 89). Since then, however, parents and children continued to be the main focus of research. This project seeks to to illuminate the under-researched experiences of HIPPY home visitors.
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2006, 2009, 2013) and the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari (1987), qualitative
observation and interview data were collected and analyzed through the process of
rhizoanalysis, creating four mappings. The first mapping experiments with HIPPY not as an isolated program, but as part of a much larger assemblage of programs and services focused on newcomers in a Canadian community. The second mapping looks closely at HIPPY and English language acquisition. Mapping three experiments with conceptualizations of HIPPY home visitors as instructors of “Canadian culture”, and the fourth and final mapping delves into a more specific cultural focus on home and school connections. The final chapter of the dissertation is not a conclusion, but a look forward. This chapter introduces the concept of literacies in the context of family relationships as an integral part of not only early learning, but public and community health.
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Acuña, Zavala Herless Grimaldo. "Aplicación de un modelo de ruteo de vehículos para optimizar el recorrido en el servicio de visitas turísticas." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/7775.
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Presenta un método para construir una solución que optimice el recorrido de rutas del servicio de visitas turísticas en Lima Metropolitana y alrededores, mediante un modelo de programación lineal implementado en el software LINGO. El modelo debe calcular la planificación de rutas de vehículos dentro de las limitaciones del problema y minimizar el costo de la planificación. Asimismo, se expone algunas técnicas para casos de mayor complejidad, heurísticas y metaheurísticas.
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Ronca, Marcela Pasqualucci. "Visitas domiciliares aos alunos: a visão das professoras sobre uma proposta de articulação escola família." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15996.
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The aim of this research was: (i) to identify how teachers describe and analyze their involvement in a students' home visiting program; and (ii) to collect their suggestions to improve the program and to overcome its problems. The investigation was guided by the well documented fact that schools and families should cooperate between them in a joint effort to improve the quality of education offered to children and adolescents. The expectative was that home visiting could modify, in a positive direction, teachers' knowledge about their students, their families and their way of life, leading to the construction of new and more adequate teaching strategies. The research adopted a qualitative approach. The data was collected in one of the Great São Paulo s county (SP-BR) using semi-structured questionnaires (applied to 13 teachers) and in-depth interviews (conducted with those who agreed in conceding them).The results showed that, according to the participants, this program has brought results for the pedagogical practice, as they were acquainted with the reality of their students and their families. The reflection of this participation occurred in the construction of new teaching strategies through which they could serve better and more precise the individual needs of students. This knowledge, however, was not enough to positively change the perception of teachers about families. It was concluded that to achieve the expected results, the specific program of home visits needs to rethink their actions, incorporating into their planning teacher's view, expanding to other professionals and providing space for discussion and improvement
O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi: (i) identificar como professoras descrevem e analisam seu envolvimento em um programa de visitas domiciliares a seus alunos; e (ii) coletar suas sugestões acerca de como aprimorar o programa e superar seus eventuais problemas. A investigação foi guiada pelo fato bem documentado de que escolas e famílias devem cooperar entre si em um esforço conjunto voltado para aperfeiçoar a qualidade da educação oferecida a crianças e adolescentes. A expectativa era a de que as visitas domiciliares pudessem modificar positivamente o conhecimento das professoras sobre seus alunos, suas famílias e seu modo de vida, levando-as à construção de novas e mais adequadas estratégias de ensino. A pesquisa seguiu uma abordagem qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados em um município da Grande São Paulo que tinha adotado um Programa de Visitas Domiciliares em suas escolas. As informações necessárias foram obtidas por meio de questionários semi-estruturados aplicados a 13 professoras e de entrevistas em profundidade conduzida junto às duas delas, que concordaram em concedê-las. Os resultados da análise empreendida mostraram que, para as professoras, participar deste programa trouxe resultados para a prática pedagógica, pois puderam conhecer melhor a realidade de seus alunos e suas famílias. O reflexo desta participação se deu na construção de novas estratégias pedagógicas, por meio das quais puderam atender melhor e de forma mais precisa e individualizada as necessidades dos discentes. Esse conhecimento, entretanto, não foi suficiente para alterar positivamente a percepção das professoras a respeito das famílias. Concluiu-se que para atingir os resultados esperados, esse programa específico de visitas domiciliares precisa repensar suas ações, incorporando em seu planejamento a visão das professoras, ampliando seu campo de ação para outros profissionais da escola e oferecendo espaço para discussão e aperfeiçoamento do programa
Books on the topic "Visitors' programme"
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Un ponte sull'Atlantico: Il "Programma di visitatori" e la diplomazia pubblica della Comunità europea negli anni Settanta. Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2014.
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Moseley, Barbara. An evaluation of a continuous training programme for a multi-disciplinary team of home-visitors involved in offeringan educational service to pre-school children with special needs and their families. London: North East London Polytechnic, 1986.
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United States. Government Accountability Office. State Department: Stronger action needed to improve oversight and assess risks of the summer work travel and trainee categories of the Exchange Visitor Program : report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: United States Government Accountability Office, 2005.
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Council, Nursing and Midwifery. Requirements for pre-registration health visitor programmes. London: NMC, 2002.
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Armisen, Fred. Portlandia: A guide for visitors. New York, N.Y: Grand Central Pub., 2012.
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United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Requirements for programmes leading to registration as a health visitor: Consultation document. London: United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting., 2001.
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Singer, Paula N. What you need to know about exchange visitors. Norwood, MA: Windstar Pub., 2007.
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Pacey, Patricia L. Nurse Home Visitor Program: Performance audit. Boulder, Colo: Pacey Economics Group, 2006.
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Richards, Julia. Internship at Begich, Boggs Visitor Center, Portage, Alaska. Bellingham, Wash: Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University, 1990.
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Sigurðardóttir, Ingibjörg. "Segmentation, marketing, venue selection and competitiveness of events." In Humans, horses and events management, 74–87. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242751.0074.
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Abstract Competitiveness of events is not a widely researched topic. As with destinations, countries, industries and businesses, competitiveness is highly relevant to events and their development. A number of factors affect the competitiveness of events, including segmentation, targeting, marketing, information flow and venue selection. This chapter focuses on identifying the target groups of the national championship of the Icelandic horse - Landsmót - and how the competitiveness of the event can be enhanced. The research included data from an on-site survey among visitors at Landsmót 2016 and online surveys among visitors following the 2014, 2016 and 2018 events. A total of 2729 responses was used for analysis. Findings indicated that, despite common interest in the Icelandic horse, the visitors to Landsmót have different expectations and needs. Accessible information, good facilities and a carefully planned programme are of importance for the competitiveness of the event. Taking care of repeat visitors and attracting new visitors are both important for the event. Finally, it is concluded that selection of two main venues, one in the rural north and another in the urban south, is most likely to meet the requirements of the current target market and to maximize the competitiveness of the event in the long run.
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Korfmacher, Jon. "Supporting the Paraprofessional Home Visitor." In Home Visitation Programs, 85–99. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17984-1_6.
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East, Cara. "Follow-Up Subject Visits." In Developing a Successful Clinical Research Program, 101–7. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54693-3_13.
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Sumanapala, Daminda, Nilakshi W. K. Galahitiyawe, and Isabelle D. Wolf. "Conservation-based elephant tourism: an importance- performance analysis." In The elephant tourism business, 134–46. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789245868.0011.
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Abstract This chapter presents the results of a visitor study undertaken in an 'elephant transit home' (ETH) in Sri Lanka. This ex situ conservation programme offers a unique experience of viewing rescued elephants that are raised and ultimately released to their natural habitat. The study (i) examines the importance and performance of various attributes of the visitor experience with the elephant conservation programme, and (ii) provides information to policy makers and relevant authorities on elephant-watching conservation tourism in Sri Lanka.
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Ettinger, Sabine, Giorgio Testanera, Terez Sera, Ronald Boellaard, Fred Verzijlbergen, and Arturo Chiti. "Quality Visits: The EANM/EARL FDG-PET/CT Accreditation Programme." In Quality in Nuclear Medicine, 415–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33531-5_27.
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Sgambati, Domenico, Erica Moura, Ala Eddine Said, Laura Rueda, Etienne Hoarau, Lidija Pribelja, Daniels Kļaviņš, Alba Fagnano, Antonella de Angelis, and Antonino Miccio. "Monitoraggio, conservazione e informazione nella Baia Di Ieranto: un modello circolare per la gestione delle Aree Marine Protette." In Proceedings e report, 597–609. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1.60.
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The 7 years monitoring-conservation-information program in the special B zone of Ieranto bay (belonging to the Marine Protected Area Punta Campanella - Naples, Italy) shows good results in terms of reducing illegal activities (such as illegal fishing, unauthorized boating, pollution and anchoring) and promoting environmental awareness for visitors. This 3-way management model represents one of the best practices of the MPA that could be applied to other MPAs in order to improve the correct usage of a protected area and to decrease/control the illegal actions and protect the environment
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Ecklund, Kirsten. "Sports-Related Injuries of the Pediatric Musculoskeleton." In IDKD Springer Series, 269–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71281-5_19.
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AbstractWorldwide, more than 50 million children and adolescents participate in organized athletic programs annually. Despite the numerous health and well-being benefits, this widespread involvement also leads to acute and overuse injuries that account for millions of medical visits each year. Musculoskeletal injury in childhood may lead to growth disturbance and lifelong disability. Imaging plays a critical role in the diagnosis and management of these injuries. While radiography is sufficient for most long bone fractures, MRI is often necessary for optimal evaluation of injuries involving the radiolucent growth mechanism and articular structures. The following review will discuss the imaging features associated with many sports-related injuries unique to the pediatric musculoskeleton, specifically the lower extremity.
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Bocci, Elena, Annamaria Silvana de Rosa, and Laura Dryjanska. "Destination@-Branding and Re-Branding of Ten European Capitals." In Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology, 1690–708. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch116.
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This contribution is a part of a broad research programme on Place-identity and Social Representations of European Capitals in first visitors of six different nationalities. In accordance with the model of “destination branding” including: brand identity, brand image and brand element mix (name, logo, sign, design, symbol, slogan…), this contribution focuses on the institutional stems and commercial logos and compares these iconic structural elements of the brands of ten historical European Capitals. The research also compares the social representations evoked by the brands among potential first-visitors. Moreover, this chapter analyses the recent transformations of some commercial brands in a longitudinal perspective (re-branding). Finally, this contribution integrates the results of the analysis of the main graphic elements of the branding in the framework of the more complex research programme, suggesting a preliminary overview of the Destination@-Branding focused on the iconic social representations.
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Jacob, George, and Martina N. Cummins. "Common Organisms Responsible for Healthcare-associated Infection (HCAI)." In Tutorial Topics in Infection for the Combined Infection Training Programme. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801740.003.0026.
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MRSA are S. aureus which become methicillin resistant by the acquisition of the mec A gene which is on a mobile chromosomal determinant called staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCC mec). The mec A gene encodes for a penicillin- binding protein (PBP2a) which has a low affinity for isoxazolyl-penicillins (MICs to oxacillin/ meticillin ≥ 4μg/ ml) and is resistant to all classes of beta-lactam antibiotics. Current Department of Health (DOH) guidance (2014) recommends that mandatory MRSA screening be streamlined to include only: ● All patient admissions to high- risk units; ● Healthcare workers; and ● All patients previously identified as colonized or infected with MRSA. The guidance also advises Trusts to follow local risk assessment policies to identify other potential high- risk units or units with a history of high endemicity of MRSA; and The guidance also recommends regular auditing of compliance with MRSA screening policy. The 2006 guideline for the control and prevention of MRSA in healthcare facilities recommends the following four measures. ● Isolation MRSA- positive patients should be nursed in a single room or if none is available, cohorting into a bay after risk assessment. Patient movement, and the number of staff and visitors looking after the patient, should be minimized. ● Hand hygiene and use of personal protective equipment (PPE) All staff and visitors should decontaminate their hands with soap and water/or an alcohol rub before and after contact with the patient or their immediate surroundings. Single-use disposable gloves and aprons/non- permeable gowns should be used by staff and visitors if there is a risk of contamination with body fluids. ● Disposal of waste and laundry All waste from colonized/ infected patients should be placed in the infectious waste stream. All linen and bedding from patients colonized/infected with MRSA should be considered as contaminated and processed as infected linen. ● Cleaning and decontamination The patient’s room should be cleaned/disinfected daily with an appropriate detergent/disinfectant as per local policy. On discharge of the patient, the room needs to be terminally cleaned before it is reused. All patient equipment should either be single-patient use or be cleaned, disinfected, and sterilized.
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Fazzi, Fabiana. "Museum Learning Through a Foreign Language." In Studi e ricerche. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-227-7/031.
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One of the most interesting effects of internationalisation is certainly the increase, in Italy, of museum educational programmes delivered through the means of a foreign language and based on the CLIL methodology. The aim of these programmes is for visitors to practise their foreign language skills in an authentic and stimulating context, while at same time developing their knowledge of science, art or other discipline related contents. Their target is mainly school-students, which is in line with current European policies that encourage member states to bridge the gap between in- and out-of-school language learning. This article will first offer a broad overview of how internationalisation has affected museum educational programmes in Italy. Thus, it will give an overview of museum and CLIL-based pedagogies, discussing the challenges encountered to integrate them through summarising Fazzi’s evaluation of a CLIL museum programme. It will then outline a research project carried out in collaboration with the Civic Museum of Venice, through discussing (i) the steps taken in developing a CLIL museum programme at the Natural History Museum of Venice, (ii) the programme structure and (iii) the challenges encountered. The project, which is currently in its second year, adopts a participatory approach and involves the museum educational staff, the museum educator/researcher, and secondary school teachers and students.
Conference papers on the topic "Visitors' programme"
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Smith-Briggs, Jane. "DTI Nuclear Legacy Programme: Andreeva Bay." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-4863.
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Andreeva Bay is located in the Zapadnaya sea inlet at the extreme North-West of the Kola Peninsula (Russian Federation), about 40km from the Norwegian border. It is rather inaccessible, except by sea and the nearest town with facilities for Western visitors is Murmansk some 80km to the SE. Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) was initially stored in two large pools within building 5, however after serious leaks the fuel was transferred to an external “drystore” constructed by adapting three existing concrete tanks, previously allocated for the storage of liquid radwaste. There are currently approximately 20,000 spent fuel assemblies (SFA) stored within the three tanks. The storage conditions of the assemblies are less than adequate, the steel canisters used to store the assemblies are in poor condition and their standard of manufacture was not good. Shielding is locally inadequate and the concrete roof segments are ill fitting with snowmelt known to enter the tanks. Building 5 still contains some fuel fragments that could not readily be moved. The remaining water and structure remain highly active and this included some 4000Ci in sludge and debris at the bottom of the pool. The UK has agreed to support activities to improve the conditions at Andreeva Bay, with respect to SNF management, and DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) have appointed RWE NUKEM as their project management consultants for their Nuclear Legacy Programme in North-West Russia. A number of projects have been identified by the Russian Federation Ministry of Atomic Energy, MINATOM, and these are currently in the project definition stage. These include the characterisation of Building 5, an options study for SNF management at the site, and the construction of a cover for Tank 3a. This paper will describe the current conditions with respect to spent nuclear fuel at Andreeva bay and will discuss the proposed projects under consideration for funding by DTI.
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Jankova, Liga, Andrejs Lazdins, Madara Dobele, and Aina Dobele. "Topicality of crafts in the development of Jelgava old town quarter." In 21st International Scientific Conference "Economic Science for Rural Development 2020". Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2020.53.019.
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The development of small towns in Latvia is strongly affected by the growth of the tourism industry. New tourism products and sightseeing objects are created to develop local tourism and increase the number of visitors to cities/regions owing to municipal support. It has been found that in artisanal quarters, product sales and educational masterclasses create a new added value for tourism, thereby contributing to the sustainable development of the area. The first part of the research explained the role of crafts and artisans in urban development. The second part of the research performed a comparison of the operational patterns of current houses and centres of crafts, conducted an expert survey of administrators of the houses and centres of crafts and identified the demand for artisan products by the population and their interests in the development of the Jelgava Old Town street quarter. The research has concluded that in order for crafts to survive, national and local government support is needed for creating houses, centres, quarters and streets of crafts, improving the infrastructure for artisans to work and for tourists to visit them. Municipalities need to develop and implement a policy and a programme for craft development. Crafts have transformed into the cultural industry and in many autonomous communities, the craft competences have merged with tourism and contributed to a broad supply of products and have become important for the development of the area. Overall, the number of visitors to some Jelgava city tourism facilities increased in 2018, yet the total number of visitors decreased. This indicates that the city needs new local tourism facilities. Four operational patterns of houses and centres of crafts were identified in Latvia. Crafts as an important and supportive activity to be developed are incorporated in a number of European, national, Zemgale planning region, Jelgava city and region development strategies and programmes, thereby emphasizing the support needed for traditional artisan activities. Respondents highly rated the need for a house of crafts in the Jelgava Old Town street quarter – 45% expressed very convincing opinions, while 42% rated it as average. The main benefits in the context of craft functions pertain to the cultural and historical heritage and social value. Further research studies are needed to analyse the economic and creative/innovative functions of crafts.
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BITSANI, EVGENIA, ANDRONIKI KAVOURA, and PARIS KALOMENIDIS. "A FIELD STUDY OF THE EXPLORATION OF THE FACTORS INFLUENCING VISITORS' PREFERENCES IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AREA OF NAFPAKTIA, GREECE: IMPLICATIONS FOR AN ADVERTISING COMMUNICATION PROGRAMME." In Proceedings of the International Conference on ICMMS 2008. IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781848165106_0051.
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Lisovetc, Irina. "The Modern Multi-Functional Cultural Center (Yeltsin Center) as a Platform for Dialogue Both Public & Private." In The Public/Private in Modern Civilization, the 22nd Russian Scientific-Practical Conference (with international participation) (Yekaterinburg, April 16-17, 2020). Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities, Yekaterinburg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35853/ufh-public/private-2020-11.
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The article covers the modern multi-functional cultural centre as an institution of Russian culture of the 21st Century in the terms of the interaction of publicity and privacy. On the basis of the institutional approach in cultural theory and the philosophical and aesthetic analysis of the space of the cultural centre, the most important role of this institution in individual and personal assimilation of sociocultural values is substantiated. The objectives (programme) of such an institution, its chronotope and functionality are directed at the involvement of contemporaries into various forms and levels of the culture of the past, and its emotional-sensual assimilation via media-communication technologies. The ‘Yeltsin-Center’ in the city of Yekaterinburg was taken as the example not only for being orientated on the familiarisation of its visitors with the history of the Russian state and its culture of the late 20th century and the early 21st century, but also for the subjective experience of turning points of those times and the city where the personality and activities of the first Russian president were shaped and began. The calibre of the President’s personality, in this case, is diversely represented within the space of the Centre, and becomes crucial for understanding what was going on at that time. The ‘Yeltsin-Center’ is a principally new cultural complex, each component of which, and above all its central part - the Museum of the First President - is structured to show the turning point in Russian history as the President’s life journey and to encourage citizens to understand the past and present. The use of modern information technologies in this cultural complex, and primarily in its museum exhibition having been arranged as an artistic artefact, becomes crucial to the dialogue of publicity and privacy.
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Hunter, Jacob G., Christopher A. Mattson, and Spencer P. Magleby. "Benefits of a Short-Term Engineering Study Abroad: A Survey of Students Over the Past 15 Years." In ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-98419.
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Abstract Since 2004, Brigham Young University has offered a graduate study abroad course in mechanical engineering to help prepare students to be leaders in globally-influenced product development organizations. The course is offered as a study abroad program where faculty lead a group of students across several countries to learn about global product development. This is accomplished in a 2–3 week time period consisting of visits to companies and universities as well as participation in cultural activities. While much research has been done on the benefits of study abroad, it remains unclear how effective study abroad programs are at helping engineering students, especially short-term study abroad programs. The purpose of this paper is to present and examine the benefits of a short-term, study abroad program to engineering students. Data was collected from students who have taken the Global Product Development Course over the past 15 years in a mixed methods survey. Trends show that technical and cultural visits positively effect engineering students in their perception of global product development. It is also shown that a short, 2–3 week, engineering study abroad program can be as or more effective than traditional study abroad programs in certain areas.
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Marlowe, Joseph, John Smith, Dravin Thomas, and Subha Kumpaty. "A Minimalistic and Historically-Based STEM Learning Approach." In ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-10465.
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Abstract As part of Milwaukee School of Engineering’s (MSOE) 2019 Senior Design program, a design team has worked with Old World Wisconsin (OWW) — a museum in Waukesha County — to incorporate STEM education into their historical platform. This involved introducing methods to teach STEM concepts to visitors, most of which are school children in the K-12 system. Background research on current Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) methods for K-12 audiences show that there is an overall lack of STEM introduction for students in the United States, and as such, students in the U.S. fail to meet averages for international testing standards for STEM concepts. Research shows that young students require hands on programs in which they can form hypotheses, test hypotheses, and question how these concepts can be applied to real life scenarios. The physical designs in this project consist of stations which relate to OWW’s current exhibits, and introduce statics and dynamics concepts, such as the concepts of mechanical advantage. These concepts are introduced through physical mechanisms that visitors to OWW can interact with in a safe manner, without the need of close supervision. With the guidance of facilitators, school children on field trips will learn mechanics concepts in a tactile and visual manner while being taught key points by the facilitator. The physical designs in this project exist in OWW’s Bicycle Shop, Peterson Wagon Shop, and Loomer Barn. The bicycle shop station consists of a sprocket and chain setup in which visitors can drive a sprocket using a handle, to discover how gear ratios can affect output speeds and torque for a given input speed and torque. The station in the wagon shop has a table with multiple tracks on which a scale wheel can be rolled, to show the relationships between translational and rotational dynamics. In the Loomer Barn, there is a lever station which shows the concepts of moments and moment arms, as well as mechanical advantage, which visitors can solve problems with to understand the relationship between moment arms, and the applied forces required to balance a lever. Also in the barn, a pulley station explores the use of multiple pulleys to make lifting require less force, while increasing the required pulling distances. Each station is accompanied by worksheets that can be distributed to teachers and other visitors via e-mail, which will serve as further supplementary learning tools to enhance visitors’ understanding of the subject material. Design specifications are defined for the size, weight, and types of components to be allowed in the wagon and sprocket modules. These design specifications are met by the finalized designs. The separate stations have undergone some revision over time through different design prototype phases. In the prototype phases, 3D printing was the main means of design, but since these devices are meant to be large and sturdy to offer permanent visual cues to young students, these prototypes were not only temporary solutions, but impossible to 3D print or manufacture within a reasonable cost and time frame. Because of this, the use of externally sourced parts from McMaster-Carr and Menards was decided upon to fulfill the goals of this project. This project was feasible in that it was accomplished by meeting standards related to the background research on STEM education, as well as falling within the realm of historical relevance to OWW’s exhibits. The project was assembled and distributed to OWW within the desired time-frame of both MSOE, and OWW.
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Khudadad, Hanan, and Lukman Thalib. "Antibiotics Prescription Patterns in Primary Health Care in Qatar – A Population based study from 2017 to 2018." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0169.
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Background: Antibiotics are antimicrobial drugs used in the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections. They played a pivotal role in achieving major advances in medicine and surgery (1). Yet, due to increased and inappropriate use of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance (AR) has become a growing public health problem. Information on antibiotic prescription patterns are vital in developing a constructive approach to deal with growing antibiotic resistance (2). The study aims to describe the population based antibiotic prescriptions among patients attending primary care centers in Qatar. Methodology: A population based observational study of all medications prescribed in the all Primary Health Care Centers during the period of 2017-2018 in Qatar. Records with all medication prescriptions were extracted and linked to medical diagnosis. Antibiotics prescriptions records were compared to non- antibiotics records using logistic regression model in identifying the potential predictors for antibiotic prescriptions. Results: A total of 11,069,439 medication prescriptions given over a period of two-years, we found about 12.1% (n= 726,667) antibiotics prescriptions were antibiotics, and 65% of antibiotics are prescribed and received by the patients at the first visits. Paracetamol (22.3%) was the first highest medication prescribed followed by antibiotics (12.1 %) and vitamin D2 (10.2 %). More than half of all antibiotics prescribed during the period of January 2017 to December 2018 were Penicillin (56.9%). We found that half of the antibiotics (49.3 %) have been prescribed for the respiratory system comparing to the other body system. We found that males were 29% more likely be given an antibiotic compared to females (OR=1.29, 95% CI= 1.24- 1.33). Implications: The study provides a baseline data to enable PHCC management to design effective intervention program to address the problem of antibiotics resistance. Furthermore, it will help the policymakers to comprehend the size of the issue and develop a system to manage the antibiotics therapy. Conclusion: Antibiotics was the second highest medication prescribed in the Primary Health Care Centers in Qatar after paracetamol and most of the patients received it at the first visit. Most of the prescriptions in Primary Health Care Centers in Qatar were for the respiratory system, and Penicillin was the highest class prescribed. Male visitors were prescribed antibiotics more than female visitors.
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Zulfa, Siti Zakiah, and Cesa Septiana Pratiwi. "Implementation of Home Visit Programs in Improving Nutritional Status of Under-Five Children in Developing Countries: A Scoping Review." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.11.
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Background: In developing country, malnutrition of under five children was still a severe problem because it may have an impact on the quality of human resources in the future. Various program has been tried in many places to overcome this problem, one of which is through a home visit program, which is very necessary for educational purposes to manage malnutrition. This study aimed to determine how to implement a home visit program to improve the nutritional status of under five children in developing countries. Subjects and Method: A scoping review method was conducted using Arksey and O’malley (2005) framework with five steps: (1) Identify the scoping review question; (2) Identify relevant articles; (3) Article selection; (4) Mapping; (5) Present the results, discussion and conclusion. The search included Pubmed, Wiley, Ebsco, Science Direct, and Google scholar databases. The inclusion criteria were original articles in Indonesian and English from developing countries published from 2010 to 2019. The data were reported by PRISMA flow chart. Results: Five of the 159 articles were selected, and found that five themes were summarized, namely: (1) effective implementation of home visits, (2) types of rehabilitation of nutritional status of under-five children on home visits, (3) home visit officers 4) time and activities for conducting home visits and 5 ) constraints on home visits for malnutrition education purposes. Conclusion: Home visit program is an effective and significant strategy to reduce the incidence of underweight, moderate and severe malnutrition, stunting and wasting in under five children only when combined with other programs. Several knowledge gaps identify which confirm through further research. Keywords: home visit, nutritional status of under-five children, malnutrition, developing countries Correspondence: Siti Zakiah Zulfa. Universitas ‘Aisyiyah Yogyakarta. Jl. Ringroad Barat No.63, Mlangi, Nogotirto, Gamping, Sleman, Yogyakarta. Email: zakiya_zulfa@ymail.com. Mobile: 085641349694. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.11
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Silva, Gessica, and Amanda Cristhie Trummer Gomes. "PROGRAMA DE VISITAS COMO FORMA DE APROXIMAÇÃO PORTO-CIDADE NO PORTO DE IMBITUBA." In VI CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL DE DESEMPENHO PORTUáRIO. Galoa, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17648/cidesport-2019-114776.
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Stanley, Bryan, Dena Izadi, and Kathleen A. Hinko. "Perspectives on informal programs: How site visits can help us learn more." In 2020 Physics Education Research Conference. American Association of Physics Teachers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/perc.2020.pr.stanley.
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White, Eric M., Stanley J. Zarnoch, and Donald B. K. English. Area-specific recreation use estimation using the national visitor use monitoring program data. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/pnw-rn-557.
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López Boo, Florencia, María de la Paz Ferro, and Pedro Carneiro. ¿Funciona integrar servicios de primera infancia con los servicios de salud?: Evidencia experimental del programa de visitas domiciliarias Cresça Com Seu Filho. Inter-American Development Bank, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003230.
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Un desafío clave de la política pública es cómo llevar a escala programas de primera infancia efectivos. Si la entrega de estos programas pudiera hacerse a través de la infraestructura de servicios públicos existentes, esto resultaría no solo escalable sino más costo-eficiente. Este documento es de los primeros en evaluar los impactos de corto plazo de un programa de visitas domiciliarias a escala integrado completamente con los servicios de atención primaria en salud (en este caso, la Estratégia Saúde da Família de Brasil). Nuestra estrategia de identificación explota la aleatorización original del programa Cresça Com Seu Filho en Fortaleza a nivel de agente comunitario de salud (ACS). En la estimación de intención de tratamiento (ITT, por sus siglas en inglés) encontramos un impacto positivo modesto en la calidad del entorno familiar (0.12 desvíos estándar, DE). Este resultado se alinea con el foco del currículo del programa en el cuidado sensible, receptivo y no punitivo de los niños. No encontramos evidencia de impacto en desarrollo infantil, muy probablemente debido a los desafíos con la intensidad y la fidelidad de las visitas. Nuestros resultados apuntan a la importancia de mejorar los sistemas de supervisión y acompañamiento del personal para lograr mejoras en la fidelidad de la intervención, así como en esquemas de motivación intrínseca del recurso humano que, en un contexto de mayor carga laboral, resulta central para el éxito de este tipo de intervenciones.
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Martin, S. W., M. H. Killinger, and M. A. Segura. Review of the US Department of Energy Classified Visits Program. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10164420.
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Martin, S., M. Killinger, and M. Segura. Review of the US Department of Energy Classified Visits Program. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/7275681.
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Attanasio, Orazio, Lina Cardona-Sosa, Carlos Medina, Costas Meghir, and Christian Posso. Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia. Banco de la República, August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/be.1170.
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Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Acción, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage pregnancy, high school dropout and college enrollment using a Regression Discontinuity design on administrative data. ITT estimates show a reduction on arrest rates of 2.7pp for men and a reduction on teenage pregnancy of 2.3pp for women. High school dropout rates were reduced by 5.8pp and college enrollment was increased by 1.7pp for men.
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Warta, Katharina, Tobias Dudenbostel, María del Carmen Calatrava Moreno, Francesca Guadagno, Simon Zingerle, Sandra Skok, and Harald Grill. Evaluierung des COMET-Programms. Technopolis Group - Austria, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2022.524.
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Technopolis wurde im Mai 2020 vom Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie (BMK) und dem Bundesministerium für Digitalisierung und Wirtschaftsstandort (BMDW) mit der Evaluierung des COMET-Programms beauftragt. Die vorliegende Evaluierung bezieht sich auf die 25 aktuell existierenden Zentren. Der Fokus der Evaluierung liegt auf der Charakterisierung der COMET-Zentren und auf dem Monitoring- und Kennzahlensystem von COMET. Im Jahr der Corona-Pandemie wurden die Methoden angepasst, Interviews mit Stakeholdern und den Zentren wurden meist per Videocalls oder telefonisch geführt, geplante on-site Visits sowie internationale Workshops konnten nicht durchgeführt werden. Zentrale Quellen der Evaluierung sind eine Befragung der Zentren und der Unternehmens- und Wissenschaftspartner sowie die Datenbasis der FFG, die wir durch diverse Harmonisierungsschritte für neuwertige Auswertungen nutzbar machten. Dies umfasst insbesondere einen historischen Rückblick sowie eine Cluster- und Netzwerkanalyse. Die Auswartungen sind in zwei Dashboards angelegt, das Dashboard zur COMET-Befragung ist anonymisiert und daher öffentlich zugänglich.
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none,. Report from the Committee of Visitors on its Review of the Processes and Procedures used to Manage the Theory and Computations Program, Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), March 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1206492.
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Johannsen, Julia, Sebastian Martinez, Cecilia Vidal, and Anastasiya Yarygina. Evaluación de impacto del programa de desarrollo infantil temprano "Crecer Bien para Vivir Bien" en Bolivia: Modalidad visitas domiciliarias. Inter-American Development Bank, November 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002029.
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Hughes, Patricia. The Asthma Management Program as a Predictor of Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations at David Grant USAF Medical Center. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, August 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada372311.
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Henderson, Jennifer L. The SMILE Program: Does Timing and Dosing of Nurse Home Visits Matter in Reducing Adverse Birth Outcomes for African American Women. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, February 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ad1012983.
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