Tesis sobre el tema "Inventory Forms"

The current trend among theorists in counseling and psychotherapy is toward the development of metatheoretical models that can be used to organize, systematically and comprehensively, existing theories and techniques within the discipline. Some models also provide behavior adaptation guidelines for practitioners who wish to adapt their behavior to client behavior patterns. Hutchins created the metatheoretical TFA System to accomplish the above goals. He also created the Hutchins Behavior Inventory (HBI) to complement the TFA System. The HBI purportedly measures the thinking, feeling, and acting dimensions of behavior upon which the TFA System is built; it thus enables a practitioner to assess the unique, situationally specific, TFA behavior pattern of a client. At the time of this study, the only evidence concerning the measurement properties of the HBI was for a form that produces ipsative scores (the HBI-I) . But ipsative scores possess inherent psychometric properties that cause problems when they are subjected to certain types of statistical analyses. Thus, in this study, a normative form of the HBI (the HBI-N) was designed. The measurement properties of the HBI-I and HBI-N were then investigated and compared. Reliability was investigated using test-retest and internal consistency procedures. Construct-related validity was investigated using four procedures: internal consistency analysis of HBI-N scores; factor analysis of the items comprising the scales of the HBI-N; an analysis of a multitrait-multimethod validity matrix containing scores from the HBI-I, HBI-N, Strong Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); and a factorial validity analysis of scores from the HBI-N, SCII, and MBTI. Results indicated that the HBI-I possesses a high degree of reliability. Prior evidence of content-related validity suggested that the three constructs measured by the HBI are the thinking, feeling, and acting dimensions of behavior hypothesized by Hutchins. Some of the construct-related validity results obtained in this study supported this conclusion, while the main body of results supported the more limited conclusion that the HBI scales measure different, yet to be more clearly identified, constructs. Based on the evidence in this study, the HBI-I seems appropriate for research and clinical use.
Ph. D.

Att inventera är en påfrestande process där anställda samlar in data med en observationsundersökning. Ett exempel är livsmedelsbutiker som skriver ut meterlånga listor inför en lagerinventering där inventeraren anmärker skillnader på de fysiska varorna och vad som står på listorna. Inventering är något som de flesta företag gör men som skiljer sig från bransch till bransch. Eftersom det är ett resursslöseri att lösa samma problem flera gånger, utan att återanvända tidigare lösningar, har studenten valt att studera en relativt generell lösning på ett inventeringssystem som ska kunna användas av flera branscher.Syftet med denna studie är därför att studera vilka funktionalitetskrav som finns på ett inventeringssystem och vilka tekniska lösningar som kan användas vid utveckling av ett inventeringssystem.För att utreda detta tillämpades en abduktiv ansats där en fallstudie gjordes på inventering. En litteraturstudie gjordes på tekniska lösningar som kan användas vid utveckling av ett inventeringssystem.Studiens resultat är en kravspecifikation på ett inventeringssystem från lager- och skogsbranschen. Resultatet innehåller även tekniska lösningar som kan tillämpas och därmed uppfylla kraven. Parallellt med studien utvecklades en inventeringsklient tillsammans med Sweco som uppfyller både deras krav på klienten och de krav som studiens empiri erhållit. Resultatet av studien visar på ett system som klarar av att skapa, spara och återskapa dynamiska formulär. När formulär skapas kan dess kontrollelement ha restriktioner som klienten kan validera innan resultat sparas. Studiens resultat visar även på att en förstudie av ett system tenderar till att hitta indirekta/dolda krav.Den primära begränsningen i studien har varit tid. Hade mer tid kunnat ägnas åt studien skulle insamlingen av empiri ha varit mer omfattande.
Stocktaking is an exhausting process where employee’s collects data and is something that most companies do, although what they are collecting differs from business to business. Because it is a resource-waste to solve same problem multiple times, without reusing previous solutions, the student have choosen to study an overall solution for a stocktaking system that can be used by multiple businesses.The purpose of this report is to establish the end-user requirements on a stocktaking system and study which technical solutions can be used when developing a stocktaking system.The study used an abductive method with a case study on stocktaking. For the case study the empiricism was collected with interviews. A meta-analysis was implemented for the purpose to seek and analyse relevant literature.The result of the study was a requirement specification for an inventory system based on the forest and stock industry. The result also contains technical solutions that can be applied on the system in order to fulfill the requirements. In parallel with the study an attempt was made to develop a prototype of a stocktaking client togheter with Sweco that met both their requirements and requirements that was obtained from the interviews. The results show that the stocktaking client can manage to create, save and recreate dynamic forms. When forms are created their controls also have the ability to specify restrictions. The client can interpret these restrictions and validate the inputs before saving results. The results of the study also implies that a feasibility study of a system tend to find hidden requirements.The primary limitations of the study were time. If the study had a larger timescope more time could have been spent on collecting empirical data and gather end-user requirements.

While climate change is expected to have its greatest impacts in the earth's polar regions, most studies to date concentrate on Northern Hemisphere landscape changes. In contrast, Southern Hemisphere periglacial environments are poorly understood, both in terms of basic understanding of geomorphological dynamics as well as sensitivity to climate change. Marion Island constitutes such an environment and the purpose of this project was to assess the Late Pleistocene and Holocene glacial, periglacial and mass movement morphology on the island, and to use these data as indicators for climate change. A survey and thematic mapping, following an adaptation from the lTC working procedure, was used to compile an inventory of the glacial, periglacial and mass movement features for grey lavas on the eastern side of Marion Island. Glacial moraines, glacially polished and striated bedrock surfaces identified from previous research verified and mapped, while undocumented sites were added to the inventory. Data support the findings of Hall (1978; 1980a; 1982) and that the suggested palaeoreconstruction and glacial succession on Marion Island from that research is correctly interpreted. Periglacial landforms occur Qn all the grey lava areas that were surveyed on Marion Island. The features are found throughout the whole island altitudinal range, and definite trends can be discerned, where landform size increases with altitude. No significant differences, however, appear to exist between the warmer north-facing and colder south facing slopes with regards to the size distribution of periglacial features on Marion Island. Increasing periglacial activity with altitude is indicative of an increase in frequency and/or intensity of frost induced processes. Stone-banked lobes, stone-banked terraces, vegetation-banked lobes and blockstreams identified in this study and whose morphology cannot be explained by present day soil frost activity are considered relict. These features indicate and confirm conclusions from previous studies that Marion Island experienced a more severe frost environment than present. Rapid mass movement features are present in most grey lava areas, except where there is an absence of cliffs or where low slope angles are found. Screes are mostly found where high free faces exist and the extent of the screes is related to the morphology of the cliffs above. Peat slides are common in middle and low altitudinal areas between 150m a.s.l. and 450m a.s.l. where thick soil and steeper slopes are present. However, peat slides are conspicuously absent form the feldmark environments due to a lack of peaty soil. Most peat slides on Marion Island occur on the north facing slopes of the major ridgelines. It is concluded from observations that major scree production occurred during a period of more intensive periglacial activity during the early Holocene lasting from 12kBP until 7kBP. The area demarcated as Feldmark Plateau, is bounded by faults due to isostatic uplift on deglaciation, which indicates that the ice cover in this region must have been extensive. However, no irrefutable proxy evidence for glacial activity has been found in this area. Periglacial features on the Feldmark Plateau are relatively larger than the same landforms in other areas at similar altitudes and possible reasons for this could be that the Feldmark Plateau was not glaciated in the Pleistocene; the features would then have developed under a cold, but ice-free environment. It should be noted that all slopes of the Feldmark Plateau are south facing and thus receive less insolation than north facing slopes. In addition, the slopes occupy the southern sector of the island, which may further contribute towards a cooler and more intense frost environment. It is hypothesised that a period of intense scree production occurred during the early Holocene, and this is manifested in the scree on the slopes of the Feldmark. If glaciation did occur, over-steepend slopes following ice retreat, would also have been conducive to intense scree production. It can, therefore, be concluded that the Feldmark Plateau, if glaciated, became ice-free rapidly after glaciation, so that the intense periglacial activity, plus the oversteepend slopes left by the glacial activity, produced large amount of scree from the cliffs. The inventory of periglacial, glacial and mass movements on grey lava areas of Marion Island provides a useful baseline for geomorphological studies on Marion Island. Through refinement this database has the potential for palaeoenvironmental research and is a useful resource for earth and biological scientific studies.
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2001.
Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
MSc
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).
MIT App Inventor is a visual blocks language that allows users to create mobile applications for Android. App Inventor users have the option of posting in a public support forum to discuss anything from specific programming issues to education issues. In order to leverage the information on the forums to improve App Inventor, we must first understand what is being discussed. In this thesis, we used unsupervised machine learning methods to automate discovery of discussion topics. First, we transformed posts into feature vectors using a bag-of-words model. Next, we clustered posts using k-means clustering and evaluated our results both quantitatively, by calculating the average silhouette of the posts, and qualitatively, by simply looking at the clusters of posts. Finally, we used LDA topic modeling to determine the topics being discussed and compared the extracted topic words to a manual evaluation of each cluster. Using this technique, we were able to uncover common problems with App Inventor that users encountered. We hope to use this information to improve users' experience with App Inventor.
by Sylvan Tsai.
M. Eng.

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The Big Five theory has been the basis for much of the personality assessment work conducted recently. Currently this is the theory that provides a better understanding of personality. The Big Five inventory- 10 (BFI-10) is a scale composed of 10 items that assesses five dimensions of personality, with two items for each factor: Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness. The purpose of this study due to the need for a brief instrument based on Big Five Theory for use in research in Brazil. Were interviewed 1158 people, being the majority female (58%) aged between 14 and 35 years. In the original form of the instrument was added one item in each factor to select later the 10 items with better psychometric qualities. There was evidence of construct validity and the rates of internal consistence were acceptable. At the end of the analysis it was identified that Neuroticism was the factor that demonstrated greater legitimacy, whereas Agreeableness was the less representative. Associations were observed among factors and the sociodemographic variables: gender, age and scholarity. It has been concluded that the adapted BFI-10 can be used when the time available is very limited. Considering the limitations of a so brief scale, the results should be interpreted cautiously. Further studies should be made to complement the psychometric characteristics of the scale
Recentemente a teoria Big Five tem servido de base para grande parte do trabalho de avaliação da personalidade. O Big Five Inventory 10 (BFI-10) é uma escala de 10 itens (dois a cada fator), que avalia cinco dimensões da personalidade: Extroversão; Amabilidade; Conscienciosidade; Neuroticismo e Abertura a experiências. A adaptação de um instrumento baseado no BFI-10 foi o propósito do presente estudo, em função da necessidade de um instrumento breve baseado na teoria Big Five para uso em pesquisas no Brasil. Foram entrevistadas 1158 pessoas, 58% do sexo feminino, com idades entre 14 e 35 anos. À forma original do instrumento foi acrescentado um item em cada fator para selecionar posteriormente os 10 com melhores resultados. As evidências de validade de construto e os índices de fidedignidade foram aceitáveis. O fator Neuroticismo teve os melhores resultados, enquanto Amabilidade foi o menos representativo. Foram observadas associações entre os fatores e as variáveis sóciodemográficas: gênero, idade e escolaridade. Concluiu-se que a escala baseada no BFI-10 poderá ser utilizada quando o tempo disponível for muito limitado. Considerando as limitações de uma escala breve, os resultados devem ser interpretados com precaução. Novos estudos devem ser feitos para complementar as características psicométricas da escala

This thesis focuses on the management of a selected part of the production process in IMI Precision Engineering and aims to present a proposal for the introduction of a new approach to managing the production task of the given production process part using the Kanban model. The subject of the analysis is the inventory of the given production process part, which are analysed based on ABC / XYZ analysis, the conclusions of which, presented in the design part of the thesis, serve as basis for the creation of a proposal for the introduction of Kanban.

As counselors become aware of the importance of providing culturally sensitive counseling, they can use evaluation and assessment to support client career development (Swanson & Fouad, 2014). For culturally sensitive career assessment, counselors should understand cultural factors, including the values and level of acculturation that may influence the career development process (Byars-Winston, 2014; Leong & Gim-Chung, 1995). To address this issue, this study developed and validated the Career Maturity Inventory: A Korean Form based on the Career Maturity Inventory - Counseling Form C (Savickas & Porfeli, 2011). Using Korean high students, this study validated the Korean version of the Career Maturity Inventory by translating it from English into Korean and then back from Korean into English. The structures of the two versions of the Career Maturity Inventory were comparable. This is meaningful because cross-culturally valid career inventories for adolescents who have different ethnic and cultural backgrounds create opportunities for evaluating career development and supporting career issues.

This research began with the Hill Inventory. Cognitive style preference variables were classified as one of following four types: Theoretical Codes, Qualitative Codes, Social-Cultural Codes or Reasoning Modalities. A consumer behavior perspective was then used to form an alternative structure for the Hill Inventory variables. The following three constructs were proposed: Evaluation Codes, Perceptual Codes, and Reasoning Modalities. The purpose of this research was to assess the structural form and measurement validity of the Hill Inventory. Specific steps taken to accomplish this objective included: developing confirmatory factor and structural equation models; using the LISREL software package to analyze the model specifications; and assessing the validity of the questions used to measure the variables. A descriptive research design was used to compare the model specifications. The research instrument consisted of eight statements for each of twenty-eight variables for a total of 224 questions. Five-point response choices were described by the words: often, sometimes, unsure, rarely, or never. The sample consisted of 285 student subjects in marketing classes at a large university. Data analysis began by comparing the distributions of the data to a normal case. Parameter estimates, root mean square residuals and squared multiple correlations then were obtained using the LISREL VI software package. The chi-square statistic was used to test the hypotheses. This statistic was supplemented by the Tucker-Lewis index which used a null model for comparisons. The final step in data analysis was to assess the reliability of the measurements. This study affected the potential usage of the Hill Inventory for consumer behavior research. The major conclusion was that the measurement of the variables must be improved before model parameters can be tested. Specific question sets on the inventory were identified that were most in need of revision.

Increased product proliferation and global competition are forcing companies within the supply chain to adopt new strategies. Postponement is an effective strategy that allows companies to be agile and cost effective in dealing with the dynamics of global supply chains. Postponement centres around delaying activities in the supply chain until real information about the market is available, which reduces the complexity and uncertainty of dealing with a proliferation of products. A two-echelon divergent supply chain entailing a central production facility and N retailers facing stochastic demand is studied within the inventory-distribution system. A periodic review order-up-to strategy is incorporated at all echelons. Unique to the study, five different systems are created and the effectiveness of several postponement strategies (form and transshipment) under various operational settings are compared. The importance of postponement under an integrated supply chain context and its contribution to various sector implementations are also discussed. Simulation is used to analyze the performance of the systems especially with respect to cost, order lead time and the effectiveness of transshipment policies. The study is unique in determining factors that favour one system implementation over another and distinguishing sector requirements that support postponement. In the study, postponement is found to be an effective strategy in dealing with managing item variety, demand uncertainty and differences in review periods in the two echelon supply chain for different experimental settings.

In this thesis, we focus on integration issue of manufacturing and sales functions from the perspective of aggregate production planning. The manufacturing function and sales function are performed by separate affiliated companies of the same business group, which operate as an integrated supplier-buyer system. In particular, this study provides theoretical and practical insight into the use of forecast volatility measure to better match supply with demand so as to reduce the costs of inventory and stock-outs in the manufacturer-buyer relationship under described master production-scheduling environment. Nature of forecast modifications provided by the buyer lays the foundation for the study. We modify the existing aggregate production planning model to accommodate a measure of historical forecast evolution. The overall objective of the thesis is to provide management with aforecast evolution-modeling framework to examine performance characteristics of the manufacturer-buyer interaction.

This study tested whether an American Sign Language (ASL) MMPI short form, the Brauer-Gallaudet MMPI-168 (B-G MMPI-168), could discriminate between groups of deaf adults with and without psychopathology. B-G MMPI-168 and MMPI-168 profiles were also compared in deaf adults without a history of psychopathology. Independent variables were history of mental health treatment, language of administration and reading ability. Dependent variables were MMPI-168 and B-G MMPI-168 validity and clinical scale evaluations. Fifty-nine deaf adults from the community and outpatient counseling services completed demographic information on a questionnaire developed especially for this study. Subjects were divided into Clinic and Control groups based on history (Clinic) or no history (Control) of mental health treatment. Reading Comprehension scores (Advanced Stanford Achievement Test) of Control subjects determined placement in Control (I), (11th grade and above) and Control (II), (6-11 grade) groups. All subjects took the B-G MMPI-168. Control subjects took the MMPI-168 at home within two weeks. Ten dollars was earned for participation. Results indicated that Clinic and Control (II) groups were not accurately discriminated by B-G MMPI-168 profiles. The "hit rate" for the Clinic group was 96.5 percent, but only 40.0% of the Control subjects were correctly classified as Not Disturbed. This version of the B-G MMPI-168 was judged unacceptable for clinical use until items are revised. Level of reading ability was not a significant factor in the clinical validity of the MMPI-168. The "hit rates" of correct classification of Control (I) and Control (II) subjects as Not Disturbed, 58.8 and 46.2, respectively, were unacceptable. Language of administration was not a significant factor in the clinical validity of Control group "168" profiles. B-G MMPI-168 profiles showed more psychopathology than MMPI-168 profiles, but both tests had unacceptably high percentages of Control subjects classified as Disturbed. Revision of B-G MMPI-168 items was recommended so that profiles can accurately discriminate between Clinic and Control groups. The MMPI-168 was recommended for use as part of a personality assessment battery for deaf adults having 12th grade equivalent or higher reading level.

Thesis (MComm (Industrial Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An urgent need exists for the development of a locally, multicultural personality instrument for South Africa. The South African Personality Inventory (SAPI) project was launched with the specific aim of developing a comprehensive personality questionnaire for all eleven South African language groups that covers all major aspects of personality deemed relevant in the South African context. The current study focused on developing an experimental instrument for the integrity cluster, one of the 9 SAPI clusters. This study forms part of the second phase of the SAPI project (quantitative phase). In this phase the experimental integrity instrument was administered to a sample of police reservists of the South African Police Service (SAPS; N = 1023). Findings revealed that certain items should be removed (30 of 132 items were removed). The first-order factor analysis confirmed one factor per facet that should be retained (specifically: Honest, Loyal, Pretending, Responsible, Trustworthy, Truthful, and Fair) for most of the facets. The exceptions were the Morally Conscious facet where two factors emerged and the Discriminative facet where no significant factor emerged. With the exception of the Discriminative facet (low reliability coefficient) and the Fair facet (average reliability coefficient) all the facets demonstrated acceptable levels of reliability. The study concluded that the underlying dimensionality of the data confirmed the structure of the integrity cluster and the experimental integrity instrument. This first draft instrument can thus be applied to multi-cultural groups.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrika het ʼn dringende behoefte aan die ontwikkeling van plaaslike, multikulturele persoonlikheidstoetse. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Persoonlikheidsinstrument projek is geloods met die spesifieke doel om ʼn volledige persoonlikheidsvraelys vir al elf Suid-Afrikaanse taalgroepe te ontwikkel, wat betrekking het op alle belangrike aspekte van persoonlikheid wat relevant is tot die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Die fokus van die huidige studie was om ʼn eksperimentele instrument op een van die SAPI se 9-kluster modelle te ontwikkel, naamlik die integriteitskluster. Dit vorm deel van die tweede fase van die SAPI projek (kwantitatiewe fase) waar die eksperimentele integriteitsinstrument op ʼn steekproef van intreevlak polisie-kandidate van die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens (SAPD), afgelê is (N = 1023). Die bevindinge het getoon dat sekere items verwyder moes word (30 van 132 items is verwyder). Die eerste-orde faktor analise het bevestig dat een faktor per faset behou moet word (meer spesifiek, Eerlik, Lojaal, Skynheilig, Verantwoordelik, Betroubaar, Waarheid, en Regverdig). Twee faktore het na vore gekom in die Moreel Bewuste faset en geen betekenisvolle faktor was verkry vir die Diskriminerende faset nie. Alle fasette het aanvaarbare vlakke van betroubaarheid geopenbaar, behalwe vir ʼn lae betroubaarheidskoëffisiënt vir die Diskriminerende faset, en ʼn gemiddelde betroubaarheidskoëffisiënt vir die Regverdigheidsfaset. Die gevolgtrekking was dat die onderliggende dimensionaliteit van die data die struktuur van die integriteitskluster en die eksperimentele integriteitsinstrument, bevestig het, asook dat die eerste proef-instrument toegepas kan word op multikulturele groepe.

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Este estudo, que apresenta um trabalho de pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, caracterizada como estudo de caso, desenvolvida com o m?todo autobiogr?fico, pautado pela narrativa autobiogr?fica, teve como foco hist?rias de vida de professores universit?rios. A pesquisa foi realizada com o objetivo de compreender o processo de desenvolvimento profissional de professores, com idade de trinta a quarenta anos, que atuam a pelo menos cinco anos na educa??o superior, com forma??o em bacharelado, considerados bem sucedidos em seu trabalho, atrav?s da analise das narrativas que fazem de si. As hist?rias de vida dos professores pesquisados t?m como contexto fundamental a pr?pria hist?ria de constru??o e desenvolvimento da Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul, em que eles e a pesquisadora atuam. Todos fazem parte do quadro permanente de professores, admitidos por concurso p?blico e trabalham em cursos de gradua??o e de p?s-gradua??o da Universidade. Para a operacionaliza??o da pesquisa foi utilizada a entrevista-narrativa, submetida ? t?cnica de an?lise conforme explicitada por Bolivar (2001). Os resultados do estudo s?o apresentados em textos, enquanto dimens?es, constru?dos a partir dos achados das narrativas em di?logo com o referencial te?rico. Tenho por tese que a viv?ncia reflexionada no desempenho docente da vida universit?ria, na perspectiva do cuidado de si, contribui para o processo de desenvolvimento da profissionaliza??o, como parte integrante da est?tica da exist?ncia; da vida como obra de arte.

La recerca que he desenvolupat a la meva tesi doctoral està centrada en la comprensió del paper que desenvolupa el innovative performance per influir en la presa de decisions estratègiques a nivell individual i d’organitzacions, en un context intensiu de coneixement. La meva tesi doctoral s’articula en tres capítols principals, que corresponen a tres articles d’investigació de la meva línia de treball actual. Basant-me en la investigació prèvia sobre els nivells d’aspiració i presa de decisions a nivell de gerència, en el primer article s’examinaran les condicions en què les empreses farmacèutiques canvien el seu partnering behavior a través del temps. En línia amb el pensament actual en Behavioral Theory and Evolutionary Theory of the firm, sostenim que qualsevol canvi en partnering behavior és considerat de risc, i es posa en marxa per la diferència (o el gap existent) entre el rendiment actual i el rendiment desitjat. Hem estudiat una mostra de 988 empreses farmacèutiques entre 1990 i 2006 –els resultats confirmen la idea central del treball- que suggereixen que el tipus de performance (financer o innovador) té una marcada influencia en el associated feedback loop amb les subseqüents conseqüències a nivell organitzatiu de l’empresa. Quan la performance financera s’allunya de les expectatives (tan per sobre com per sota) les empreses farmacèutiques disminueixen la magnitud dels canvis en partnering behavior. Per contra, quan la innovative performance s’allunya de les expectatives (tan per sobre com per sota) les empreses farmacèutiques augmenten la magnitud de canvi en partnering behavior. El segon article, a partir d’investigacions anteriors i actuals de la mobilitat dels treballador, és un intent exploratori que busca construir sobre la Behavioral and Prospect theory més concretament sobre la literatura de managerial risk taking amb l’objectiu d’explorar les influències “motivacionals” sobre la mobilitat individual a través de les empreses de la industria farmacèutica –específicament com les desviacions del rendiment des de punts de referència específics expliquen la probabilitat de la mobilitat (una acció amb risc). En línia amb les teories del coneixement mencionades prèviament, els nostres resultats suggereixen que: quan un inventor performs per sobre del seu nivell d’aspiració/expectativa (tan històrica com social), trobem un recolzament pels arguments d’aversió de risc quan un inventor performs per sota les seves expectatives està més predisposat a participar en la mobilitat entre organitzacions, considerada com a acció arriscada, però només quan es compara la seva actuació amb les aspiracions socials (per exemple, considerant el risc del perfil). Finalment, en el tercer article s’intenta donar llum a les preguntes “per què els inventors es mouen?” Estudis recents proposen respostes a aquesta pregunta fonamental centrant-se principalment o bé en l’estructura d’incentius en els contractes d’inventors (mercat, és a dir laboral intern) o bé en les oportunitats externes del mercat laboral. Nosaltres creiem que aquestes teories econòmiques suposen una explicació parcial de per què els treballadors amb talent participen en la mobilitat entre organitzacions. De fet, no tenim una idea clara sobre els fonaments sociològics que caracteritzen la mobilitat, concretament desconeixem les raons que porten l’inventor a assumir aquests riscs/ que hi ha darrera de la inclinació dels inventors a assumir aquests riscs. Per tant, el present article és un intent d’oferir un model més comprensible per explicar els antecedents de mobilitat entre organitzacions. Prenent com a base la Behavioral and Prospect theories i més concretament, la literatura sobre managerial risk taking el document té com a objectiu principal el d’explorar i subratllar les influencies motivacionals sobre la mobilitat individual a través de les empreses de la industria farmacèutica –específicament es centra en com la desviació del “rendiment” respecte punts de referència específics (aspiracions socials) explica la probabilitat (la inclinació a la) mobilitat (una acció arriscada). Els resultats de la nostra investigació confirmen i amplien els estudis anteriors sobre la mobilitat; juntament amb l’estructura d’incentius d’empresa per retenir els empleats i inventors amb talent, el mercat laboral explica la inclinació a la mobilitat, la desviació en la performance dels inventors des de social aspiration levels i també pot predir a tendència a la mobilitat dels inventors. En conclusió, a la meva tesi doctoral intento millorar la comprensió, i per tant oferir a la comunitat acadèmica de managment, de com organitzacions i individus aprenen de les seves accions en el passat i prenen (decisions basades en la subseqüent strategic decision-making) com a resposta a la interpretació de la performance necessària per millorar la performance i aconseguir competitivitat exitosa.
La investigación que he desarrollado durante mi tesis doctoral se centra en la comprensión del papel que desempeña el rendimiento innovador para influir en las decisiones estratégicas a nivel organizacional e individual en contextos intensivos en conocimiento. Mi tesis doctoral se articula en tres capítulos principales, que representan tres papeles de trabajo actuales. Basándose en la investigación previa sobre los niveles de aspiración y toma de decisiones gerenciales, en el primer documento de trabajo se examinará las condiciones en que las empresas farmacéuticas cambian su partnering behavior a través del tiempo. Usando fundamentos de Behavioral Theory y Evolutionary Theory of the firm, sostenemos que cualquier cambio en el partnering behavior se considera riesgoso, y es accionado por la brecha entre el rendimiento real y el rendimiento de aspiración. Prueba de una muestra de 988 empresas farmacéuticas a partir de 1990 a 2006, nuestros resultados confirman la idea central del trabajo - que el tipo de desempeño (financiero o innovador) tiene una fuerte influencia en el circuito de retorno correspondiente y la acción organizativa posterior: cualquier desvío de desempeño financiero de aspiraciones predice risk aversión behavior (i.e. menos cambio en partnering behavior) mientras cualquier desvío de desempeño innovador de aspiraciones predice risktaking behavior (i.e. mas cambio en partnering behavior). El segundo documento de trabajo, a partir de investigaciones anteriores y actuales de la movilidad de los empleados, es un intento exploratorio que busca construir sobre Behavioral Theory y la perspectiva, sobre todo, en la literatura de managerial risk taking con el fin de explorar las influencias motivacionales sobre la movilidad individual a través de las empresas de la industria farmacéutica - específicamente cómo las desviaciones del rendimiento desde los puntos de referencia específicos (aspiraciones) explican la probabilidad de movilidad (una acción arriesgada). De acuerdo con las tradiciones teóricas mencionadas anteriormente, nuestros resultados sugieren que: cuando un inventor realiza por encima de su nivel de aspiración (tanto histórica como social), encontramos apoyo para los argumentos de aversión al riesgo (es decir, menos propensos a cambiar de empleador), cuando un inventor realiza a continuación sus niveles de aspiración es más probable que participen en la movilidad entre organizaciones, como la acción arriesgada, pero sólo cuando se compara su desempeño con las aspiraciones sociales (es decir, teniendo riesgo de perfil). Finalmente, en el tercer documento de trabajo se intenta responder a las preguntas "¿por qué los inventores se mueven?" Estudios recientes que proponen respuesta a esta pregunta fundamental se centran principalmente en la estructura de incentivos en los contratos de inventor (es decir, mercado laboral interno) o oportunidades externas del mercado laboral. Nosotros creemos que estas tradiciones económicas teóricas presentar una representación parcial de por qué los empleados talentosos participan en la movilidad entre organizaciones. De hecho, no tenemos una idea clara sobre los fundamentos sociológicos que caracterizan a la movilidad, en particular, las razones motivacionales del inventor detrás de la participación en tal toma de riesgo (es decir, movilidad). Por lo tanto, el presente articulo es un intento que busca ofrecer un modelo más amplio para explicar los antecedentes de la movilidad entre organizaciones. Sobre la base de Behavioral Theory y tomando la perspectiva, sobre todo, de la literatura managerial risk taking, el documento tiene como objetivo principal de explorar y llamar la atención a las influencias motivacionales sobre la movilidad individual a través de las empresas de la industria farmacéutica - específicamente cómo las desviaciones de rendimiento de los puntos de referencia específicos (aspiraciones sociales) explican la probabilidad de movilidad (una acción arriesgada). Los resultados de nuestra investigación confirman y amplían los estudios anteriores sobre la movilidad: junto con la estructura de incentivos de la empresa para retener a los empleados talentosos y a las dinámicas de mercado de laboral externo que explican los inventores la posibilidad de la movilidad, las desviaciones del inventor de su rendimiento desde los niveles de aspiración sociales también predicen la probabilidad de inventor de la movilidad. En conclusión, en mi tesis doctoral intento de comprender mejor, y por lo tanto ofrecer a la comunidad académica de administración de empresa, como las organizaciones y los individuos aprenden de sus acciones pasadas y deciden posteriores tomas de decisiones estratégicas como respuesta a la interpretación del rendimiento, necesario para mejorar el rendimiento y reunir el éxito competitivo.
The research I developed during my doctoral dissertation focuses on the understanding of the role that innovative performance plays in influencing strategic decision-making at the organizational and individual level in knowledge intensive contexts. My doctoral dissertation is articulated in three main chapters, which represent three current working papers. Building on the prior research on aspiration levels and managerial decision making, in the first working paper we examine the conditions under which pharmaceutical firms change their partnering behavior across time. Using insights drawn from behavioral theory and evolutionary theory of the firm, we argue that any change in partnering behavior is considered risky, and is triggered by the gap between actual performance and aspirational performance. Testing a sample of 988 pharmaceutical firms from 1990 to 2006, our results confirm the central idea of the paper - that the type of performance (financial or innovative) has a strong influence on the associated feedback loop and subsequent organizational action: any deviation of financial performance from aspirations predicts risk aversion behavior (i.e. less change in partnering behavior) while any deviation of innovative performance from aspirations predicts risk taking behavior (i.e. more change in partnering behavior). The second working paper, building on previous and current research of employees’ mobility, is an exploratory attempt that seeks to build on behavioral and prospect theory, particularly, on the literature of managerial risk taking in order to explore the motivational influences on individual mobility across firms in the pharmaceutical industry - specifically how performance deviations from specific reference points (aspirations) explain the likelihood of mobility (a risky action). In line with the theoretical traditions mentioned above, our results suggest that: when an inventor performs above her aspiration level (both historical and social), we found support for risk adversity arguments (i.e. less likely to change employer); when an inventor performs below her aspiration levels is more likely to engage in inter-organizational mobility, such as risky action, but only when comparing her performance to the social aspirations (i.e. risk taking profile). Finally, in the third working paper we attempt to answer to the questions “why do inventors move?” Recent studies propose answer to this fundamental question focusing mainly either on incentives structure in inventor’s contracts (i.e. internal labor market) or external labor market opportunities. We believe that these theoretical economic traditions present a partial representation of why talented employees engage in inter-organizational mobility. In fact, we do not have a clear understanding on the sociological underpinnings characterizing mobility, in particular about the inventor’s motivational rationales behind the engagement in such risky decision. Building on behavioral and prospect theory, particularly, on the literature of managerial risk taking, the paper mainly aims to explore and to bring attention to the motivational influences on individual mobility across firms in the pharmaceutical industry - specifically how performance deviations from specific reference points (social aspirations) explain the likelihood of mobility (a risky action). The results of our research confirm and extend previous studies on mobility: along with firm’s incentive structure to retain talented employees and inventors’ labor market explain the likelihood of mobility, inventor’s performance deviations from social aspiration levels also predict inventor’s likelihood of mobility. In conclusions, in my doctoral dissertation I attempt to better understand, and therefore offer to the academic management community, how organizations and individuals learn from their past actions and decide on subsequent strategic decision-making as a response to performance interpretation necessary to improve performance and gather competitive success.

À l’aide du modèle de recherche de la simulation connu sous le nom de « comparaison de groupes connus » (known-groups studies / criterion- groups validation studies), la présente étude visait à vérifier l’efficacité de quatre échelles de validité du MMPI-2-RF (Fs, FBS-r, RBS et HHI-r) à détecter la simulation de l’invalidité découlant de la douleur (SIDD) auprès d’une population rapportant de la douleur chronique ayant subi une évaluation psychologique. Les données provenant de patients rapportant une condition de douleur chronique (n=111) ont été recueillies à partir de dossiers archivés d’une clinique indépendante spécialisée dans l’évaluation et le traitement de cas de douleur chronique et de troubles somatoformes. Une fois sélectionnés, les sujets ont été répartis dans l’un des deux groupes connus à l’aide de critères externes prédisant la simulation de l’invalidité découlant de la douleur : les simulateurs (SIDD Probable et Certaine) et les non-simulateurs (Non SIDD). Tel que stipulé dans la littérature actuelle existant sur l’évaluation de la simulation de l’invalidité de la douleur, les résultats indiquent que les quatre échelles à l’étude sont efficaces lorsqu’on cherche à différentier les sujets simulateurs des non- simulateurs. Dans la présente étude, l’échelle RBS a été la plus efficace à différencier les deux groupes, suivie de près par l’échelle HHI-r. Les implications de ces résultats sont discutées dans la perceptive de leur utilité clinique et psycho-légale.

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This work aimed to evaluate nineteen tapering models divided into five groups as the framework for the estimation of the profile, relative height and volume on a planted forest of Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze. The settlements are located in the West of the State of Santa Catarina, deployed in the 1970 and 1980. The trees were divided into classes of diameter and height, by means of this stratification divided the data into two groups being 70% used for adjustment and 30% used for validation of the equations. In the adjustment of the models the best statistics were for the model described by Bi (2000), showing how R²aj. 0,9852, Standard Error of Estimate Relative (%) value of Syx 6,95% and Akaike information criterion (AIC) 964.5 value. Based on the graphical analysis of waste, statistics of the deviation (D), Sum of the square of the relative error (SQER) and residue in percentage (RP), it was found that for the estimation of the diameter along the stem form equations variable obtained the best settings, and the equation of Lee et al. (2003), obtained from value D 6,8361, SRRP 0,0796 end RP 0,3338. To estimate the heights in different diameters equation that best estimated Heights was the equation developed by Kozak (1988), as the value of D 0,1471, SRRQ 0,1457 and RP 4,9396. To estimate the volumes of mergers the equation that stood out was described by Lee et al. (2003), so variable, showing value of D 0,0004, SRRQ 0,2318 and RP 0,0028. Therefore, the estimates of the diameters, heights and the group volume of the equations that best stood out were those of variable shape and equation which best presented the results of estimates for the variables was the equation proposed by Lee et al. (2003). The Chi-square test (χ ²) all the equations were able to perform estimates. To do so, were generated a graph and a table of assortment which can figure out the percentage of each product generated and also the absolute volume of wood in each diameter class
Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar dezenove modelos de afilamento divididos em cinco grupos quanto a estrutura, para à estimativa do perfil, altura relativa e volume em uma floresta plantada de Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze. Os povoamentos estão localizados na região Oeste do estado de Santa Catarina, implantados nas décadas de 1970 e 1980. As árvores foram divididas em classes de diâmetro e de altura, por meio desta estratificação dividiu-se os dados em dois grupos sendo 70% utilizado para o ajuste e 30% utilizados para a validação das equações. No ajuste dos modelos as melhores estatísticas foram para o modelo descrito por Bi (2000), apresentando como R²aj. 0,9852, Erro Padrão da Estimativa Relativo (Syx%) o valor de 6,95% e Critério de Informação Akaike (AIC) o valor de 964,5. Com base na análise gráfica dos resíduos, na estatística do Desvio (D), Soma do Quadrado do Erro Relativo (SQER) e Resíduo em porcentagem (RP), verificou-se que para a estimativa dos diâmetros ao longo do fuste as equações de forma variável obtiveram os melhores ajustes, sendo que a equação de Lee et al. (2003), obteve valor de D de -0,0796, SQER 6,8361 e RP de -0,3338. Para estimativa das alturas em diferentes diâmetros a equação que melhor estimou as alturas foi a equação desenvolvida por Kozak (1988), tendo como valor de D -0,1471, SQER 0,1457 e RP -4,9396. Para estimativa dos volumes dos troncos a equação que se destacou foi a descrita por Lee et al. (2003), de forma variável, apresentando valor de D 0,0004, SQER 0,0028 e RP 0,2318. Portanto, para as estimativas dos diâmetros, alturas e volume o grupo das equações que melhor se destacaram foram as de forma variável e a equação que melhor apresentou os resultados de estimativas para as variáveis foi a equação proposta por Lee et al. (2003). No teste de qui-quadrado (χ²) todas as equações mostraram-se aptas a realizar as estimativas. Para tanto, foram gerados um gráfico e uma tabela de sortimento os quais pode-se perceber a porcentagem de cada produto gerado e também o volume absoluto de madeira em cada classe de diâmetro

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of coping behaviour on the stress and psychological well-being as experienced by South African teachers. A review of relevant literature revealed that the teaching profession is an extremely stressful occupation globally. Factors contributing to the stress that teachers experience include the downsizing of the number of teachers in schools and insufficient training being provided for teachers. Exposure to these chronically stressful conditions has psychological and physical consequences for some teachers. Numerous studies, however, have also pointed out that some teachers, in the same teaching environment, experienced less stress and had better physical health than others. In an effort to gain clarity on these contradictory findings, many studies regarding the effect of various coping behaviours have been undertaken. No literature could, however, be found regarding the different coping behaviours used by African teachers and which strategies proved a success. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect that coping behaviour had on the level of stress, as well as psychosocial well-being, experienced by black South African teachers. The current study was conducted as part of the SABP A (Sympathetic Activity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Africans) project conducted at the North-West University. Data for this sub study was collected through a cross-sectional design and the statistical consulting services of the university were involved in the analysis of the raw data. The Teacher Stress Inventory (TSI) (Boyle, Borg, Falzon, & Baglioni, 1995), the Coping Strategy Indicator (CSI) (Amirkhan, 1990), and the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) (Keyes, 2006) were administered to 200 urban African teachers residing in the Kenneth Kahunda district in the North West Province. The TSI was administered as a self report measure of occupational stress in teachers. The CSI was administered to all the participants in an attempt to establish what coping strategies were employed by them. It consists of three subscales (problem solving, avoidance, and seeking social support) which are independent of one another and, according to the authors, free from demographic influences. The MHC-SF was administered to all the participants as a measure of well-being. The MHC-SF places individuals on a continuum which ranges between complete mental health (flourishing) to incomplete mental health (languishing). Those who are neither flourishing nor languishing are said to be moderately mentally healthy. All the measures that were administered proved to be reliable and thus interpretable, except for the subscales of the TSI. Therefore, only the TSI total scale score was used for interpretation. Results indicated that this group of teachers were experiencing high levels of stress and were making above average use of all three coping behaviours to deal with their stressors. 70% of the teachers were reportedly moderately mentally healthy, while 2% of them were languishing, and only 28% of them were flourishing. Of these teachers, those who reported smoking and alcohol use as a coping behaviour were experiencing less stress than those who abstained. These results were, however, only of small to medium practical significance. Intercorrelational results indicated that, although stress levels were high, stress had no direct and significant relation to either coping or well-being. The use of certain coping strategies, however, correlated positively with some aspects of mental health. In order to elucidate the nature of the relationships that seemed to exist between these constructs, path analysis was conducted. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) results revealed a strong negative path between the use of avoidance as a coping strategy and the emotional well-being of participants. A direct significant path was reported between seeking social support and the social well-being of this group of teachers. Another significant finding was the existence of a direct path between problem solving and the social and psychological well-being reported by participants. The implications of these results, as well as the possible shortcomings of the current study and its limitations, were discussed. In conclusion, the results indicated that coping behaviour had little effect on the amount of stress that the teachers experienced, although it seems that coping behaviour does have a significant effect on some aspects of mental health.
Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

L’objectif de ces travaux de thèse est la reconnaissance automatique des espèces d’arbres à partir de scans laser terrestres, information indispensable en inventaire forestier. Pour y répondre, nous proposons différentes méthodes de reconnaissance d’espèce basées sur la texture géométrique 3D des écorces.Ces différentes méthodes utilisent la séquence de traitement suivante : une étape de prétraitement, une étape de segmentation, une étape d’extraction des caractéristiques et une dernière étape de classification. Elles sont fondées sur les données 3D ou bien sur des images de profondeur extraites à partir des nuages de points 3D des troncs d’arbres en utilisant une surface de référence.Nous avons étudié et testé différentes approches de segmentation sur des images de profondeur représentant la texture géométrique de l'écorce. Ces approches posent des problèmes de sur-Segmentation et d'introduction de bruit. Pour cette raison, nous proposons une nouvelle approche de segmentation des nuages de points 3D : « Burst Wind Segmentation », inspirée des lignes de partage des eaux. Cette dernière réussit, dans la majorité des cas, à extraire des cicatrices caractéristiques qui sont ensuite comparées à un dictionnaire des cicatrices (« ScarBook ») pour discriminer les espèces d’arbres.Une grande variété de caractéristiques est extraite à partir des régions segmentées par les différentes méthodes proposées. Ces caractéristiques représentent le niveau de rugosité, la forme globale des régions segmentées, la saillance et la courbure du contour, la distribution des points de contour, la distribution de la forme selon différents angles,...Enfin, pour la classification des caractéristiques visuelles, les forêts aléatoires (Random Forest) de Leo Breiman et Adèle Cutler sont utilisées dans une approche à deux étapes : sélection des variables importantes, puis classification croisée avec les variables retenues, seulement.L’écorce de l’arbre change avec l'accroissement en diamètre ; nous avons donc étudié différents critères de variabilité naturelle et nous avons testé nos approches sur une base qui présente cette variabilité. Le taux de bonne classification dépasse 96% dans toutes les approches de segmentation proposées mais les meilleurs résultats sont atteints avec la nouvelle approche de segmentation « Burst Wind Segmentation » étant donné que cette approche réussit mieux à extraire les cicatrices, utilise un dictionnaire de cicatrices et a été évaluée sur une plus grande variété de caractéristiques de forme, de courbure, de saillance et de rugosité
The objective of the thesis is the automatic recognition of tree species from Terrestrial LiDAR data. This information is essential for forest inventory. As an answer, we propose different recognition methods based on the 3D geometric texture of the bark.These methods use the following processing steps: a preprocessing step, a segmentation step, a feature extraction step and a final classification step. They are based on the 3D data or on depth images built from 3D point clouds of tree trunks using a reference surface.We have investigated and tested several segmentation approaches on depth images representing the geometric texture of the bark. These approaches have the disadvantages of over segmentation and are quite sensitive to noises. For this reason, we propose a new 3D point cloud segmentation approach inspired by the watershed technique that we have called «Burst Wind Segmentation». Our approach succeed in extracting in most cases the characteristic scars that are next compared to those stored in a dictionary («ScarBook») in order to determine the tree species.A large variety of characteristics is extracted from the regions segmented by the different methods proposed. These characteristics are the roughness, the global shape of the segmented regions, the saliency and the curvature of the contour, the distribution of the contour points, the distribution of the shape according to the different orientations.Finally, for the classification of the visual characteristics, the Random Forest method by Leo Breiman and Adèle Cutler is used in a two steps approach: selection of the most important variables and cross classification with the selected variables.The bark of the tree changes with the trunk diameter. We have thus studied different natural variability criteria and we have tested our approaches on a test set that includes this variability. The accuracy rate is over 96% for all the proposed segmentation approaches but the best result is obtained with the «Burst Wind Segmentation» one due to the fact that this approach can better extract the scars, it uses a dictionary of scars for recognition, and it has been evaluated on a greater variety of shapes, curvatures, saliency and roughness

AIMS: This study investigated the perception of generic and disease-specific Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) for adults living with hearing impairment (HI) in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ). This study aimed to answer three questions: (1) What is the perception of HRQoL amongst adults with hearing impairment in NZ? (2) How do these perceptions compare to adults with HI living in other countries for which we have data? (3) What are the demographic and audiometric variables related to device ownership? METHOD: HRQoL, demographic, and audiometric information was collected from 126 adults in NZ. The following demographic information was collected: age, relationship length, hours worked per week, income, ancestry, sex, level of education, city size, and sexual orientation. The following audiologic information was also collected: ownership of hearing aids (HA), ownership of hearing assistance technology (HAT), better-ear pure-tone average (BEPTA), worse-ear pure-tone average (WEPTA), and signal-to-noise ratio loss (SNR loss). HRQoL information was collected using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36; Ware & Sherbourne, 1992), and the Hearing Handicap Inventory (HHI) for both elderly (HHIE) and adults (HHIA; Ventry & Weinstein, 1982; Newman, Weinstein, Jacobson, & Hug, 1991). Variables discriminating HA and HAT owners from non-owners were also analysed. RESULTS: The relationship between demographic variables and HRQoL scores revealed that only age and income were significant. Audiometric variables had significant relationships with disease-specific HRQoL scores, as well as HA and HAT ownership. Finally, disease-specific HRQoL scores and all audiometric variables differentiated HA owners from non- owners, but demographic variables did not. Generic HRQoL scores and all audiometric variables differentiated HAT owners from non-owners. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the negative impacts of HI on HRQoL as reported overseas are also present in NZ, and that not only do audiometric variables including SNR loss are related to HRQoL, but HRQoL is a significant predictor for HA and HAT ownership. Further QoL research is warranted amongst the HI population in NZ to identify and understand any causal relationships present amongst these variables. Furthermore, HRQoL instruments and a test of speech understanding in noise have been shown to provide additional meaningful information, and therefore clinicians might consider including them during consultation.

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臺北醫學大學
護理學系
91
Fatigue is the most distressing, prevalent, and ignorant common symptoms in cancer patients. Cancer symptom distress is subjective sense and experience of cancer patients, that seriously interfere with usual functioning and affect quality of life. It requires a simple, available, reliable, sensitive and self-reported instrument, to assess accurate severity levels of fatigue and interference with usual functioning of cancer patients. The purposes of this study was to (1) Development and Validation of the Brief Fatigue Inventory-Taiwan Form and M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory-Taiwan Form. (2) Explore the severity levels of fatigue, cancer symptom distress, and interference with usual functioning of cancer patients, and correlation between them. A cross-sectional descriptive correlational design was adopt for the study and the structured questionnaire interview was used. Two hundred eligible subjects were recruited by convenience sampling from the oncology inpatients and outpatients in Southern Taiwan. The instruments included BFI-Taiwan Form, MDASI-Taiwan Form, Short Form -POMS, SF-36-Taiwan Form, and KPS. The validation were establishing reliability by internal consistency (Cronbach’s α) and test-retest reliability, and validity by construct, discriminant and criterion validity. The sensitivity was presented by comparing the repeated measure scores of received chemotherapy patients. The study results revealed that fatigue and interference intensity of the BFI-Taiwan Form Cronbach’s αwere .89 and .91, test-retest reliability r were .80 and .97. Symptom distress and interference intensity of the MDASI-Taiwan Form Cronbach’s αwere .85 and .93, test-retest reliability r were .97 and .96. Both instruments have good construct, discriminant criterion validity, and sensitivity. Most of the cancer patients experienced moderate to severe severity levels of fatigue, symptom distress and interference. Cancer-related fatigue and symptom distress were interfere with usual functioning of cancer patients. Severity levels of fatigue and symptom distress were high, the levels of interference were higher. BFI-Taiwan Form and MDASI-Taiwan Form provide rapidly and accurate assessment of the severity levels of fatigue, symptom distress and interference with usual functioning in cancer patients to professionals. Namely provides proper nursing intervention and improve the quality of life in cancer patients.

O medo de recorrência do cancro é um dos stressores mais prevalentes entre os sobreviventes de cancro, que afeta a sua qualidade de vida. Diversos estudos têm demonstrado que estes pacientes reportam preocupações, ruminação e pensamentos intrusivos acerca da possibilidade da doença recorrer e dificuldades em estabelecer projetos para o futuro. Nesse sentido, foi desenvolvido o Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI) com o intuito de avaliar o medo de recorrência do cancro. Atualmente, em Portugal, existem lacunas no que diz respeito à validação de medidas que avaliem este construto, que se tem manifestado como uma variável importante para os sobreviventes de cancro, a longo prazo. Este estudo tem assim como objetivos traduzir e adaptar culturalmente a versão reduzida de nove itens do Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI-SF) para a Língua Portuguesa, através de uma amostra de 90 sobreviventes de cancro.
Fear of cancer recurrence is one of the most prevalent stressors among cancer survivors, which affects their quality of life. Research has shown that these patients report concerns, rumination, intrusive thoughts about the possibility of the disease coming back and difficulties in establishing projects for the future. Therefore, the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI) was developed in order to assess the fear of cancer recurrence. Actually, in Portugal, there are gaps in the validation of measures that examine this construct, which has emerged as an important variable for cancer survivors in long-term. This study aims to translate and culturally adapt the short form of nine items of the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI-SF) to the Portuguese language, through a sample of 90 cancer survivors.
Mestrado em Psicologia da Saúde e Reabilitação Neuropsicológica

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臺北醫學大學
護理學研究所
97
In this study is to development the Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory-Short Form Chinese Version（MFSI-SF-C）and examine its reliability and validity to evaluate the severity of fatigue of cancer patient. This is a cross-sectional descriptive design study through structured questionnaires. We included 282 patients (107 cancer patients in wards and 175 depressive patients at outpatient department) at regional teaching hospitals in middle Taiwan by purposive sampling. The tools included MFSI-SF-C, fatigue symptoms inventory Chinese version (FSI), Beck depression inventory (BDI-II), and SF-36-Taiwan Form. To examine reliability and validity of MFSI-SF-C, it uses internal consistency Cronbach’s α and rest-retest reliability, construct validity, content validity index（CVI）, and criterion-related validity. to check the sensitivity to change of the MFSI-SF-C , We retesting the cancer patients before and after their chemotherapy was performed. The result revealed the internal consistency Cronbach’s α of Chinese short form multidimensional fatigue inventory falls between .83 to .92; the test-retest validity r falls between .39 to .66. There were good construct validity, content validity, criterion-related validity and the sensitivity to the fatigue change. Most cancer patients have feeling of fatigue with fluctuation with time and treatment. The MFSI-SF-C could differentiate the dimensions from cancer patients to depressive patients. The MFSI-SF-C we afford in this study could provide the caregivers and clinic staffs a quick, effective, and sensitive device for evaluating the severity and dimensions of fatigue in cancer patients. We hope to provide a proper care and improve quality of life in cancer patients.

Dissertação de mestrado em Psicologia Clínica (Sistémica, Saúde e Família), apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra
A doença oncológica traduz-se, frequentemente, num impacto significativo, não apenas para o doente mas, igualmente, para todo o sistema familiar, particularmente para o cuidador. Ao longo do ciclo da doença, o doente e a sua família confrontam-se com perdas sucessivas que originam, frequentemente, processos de luto antecipatório. Considerando a relevância da compreensão do luto em familiares de doentes oncológicos, o presente estudo de natureza exploratória, consiste na adaptação e validação do Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory – Short Form (MMCGI-SF Marwit & Meuser, 2004) a uma amostra portuguesa, constituída por 41 familiares de doentes com cancro, com idades compreendidas entre os 20 e os 82 anos. Foi levado a cabo um estudo de análise fatorial exploratória, tendo sido encontrados três fatores no Inventário do Luto para os Cuidadores de Marwit-Meuser (ILCMM), coincidindo a maioria dos itens com os da versão original (MMCGI-SF). Relativamente aos estudos de precisão/ consistência interna, obteve-se um bom coeficiente de alfa de Cronbach (α= .89) para a escala total. No estudo de validade convergente, obtiveram-se correlações estatisticamente significativas entre a maioria das dimensões do Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) e o ILCMM. O estudo da influência das variáveis sociodemográficas relativas ao familiar/ cuidador e da doença no luto antecipatório apontou apenas para uma diferença estatisticamente significativa para a variável ser cuidador principal. Trata-se, assim, de um primeiro estudo de adaptação/ validação do MMCGI-SF, tendo em conta a pertinência do processo de luto antecipatório na doença oncológica.
Oncologic disease has very often a significant impact, not only on the patient but also on the patient’s family, especially on the patient’s caregiver. Over the duration of the disease, the patient and his family face consecutive losses which can very often cause an anticipatory grief process. Considering the importance of understanding the families’ process of grief of oncologic patients, the present exploratory study consists of the adaptation and validation of the Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory – Short Form (MMCGI-SF Marwit & Meuser, 2004) to a Portuguese sample, composed by 41 relatives of oncologic patients, with ages between 20 and 82 years old. A study of exploratory fator analysis was carried out, and three factors were found on the Inventário do Luto para os Cuidadores de Marwit-Meuser, and the majority of the items matched with the ones from the original version (MMCGI-SF). Regarding the studies of precision/ internal consistency, we obtained a good Cronbach alpha (α= .89) for the total scale. In the convergent validity study we obtained statistically significant correlations between the majority of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) dimensions and the ILCMM. The study of the influence of sociodemographic variables regarding the relative/caregiver and the disease in the anticipatory grief process, pointed out just for one statistically significant difference for the variable being head caregiver. This is a preliminary study on the process of adaptation/validation of the MMCGI-SF, taking in consideration the significance of the anticipatory grief process in the oncologic disease.

Exame público realizado em 2 Maio 2016.
Resumo: Introdução: A realização desta tese foi motivada pela necessidade de observar o resultado, em Portugal, da importância da saúde mental do indivíduo e o impacto que a mesma tem na capacidade para o trabalho. Estudos referem que a Saúde Mental influencia a capacidade para o Trabalho. Objetivos: Neste estudo pretendeu-se analisar estatisticamente o contributo da ansiedade, depressão e stress, e de que forma interferem na capacidade para o trabalho. Metodologia: Amostra não aleatória composta por 51 participantes, na empresa Remax Convictus, após consentimento informado por parte dos participantes, estes foram submetidos a um conjunto de testes psicológicos, adaptados à população portuguesa. Resultados: Os resultados mostram que existem diferenças estatisticamente significativas neste grupo de participantes, entre as variáveis ansiedade e depressão e a capacidade para o trabalho. Conclusões: Conclui-se que a Saúde Mental influencia a Capacidade para o Trabalho, considerando as variáveis deste estudo, e os resultados obtidos pelo mesmo.
Abstract: Introduction: The realization of this thesis was motivated by the need of observing the result, in Portugal, of the importance of the individual mental health and the impact of it in the ability to work. Studies show that Mental Health influences the ability to work. Goals: In this study we intend to statistically analyse the contribute of anxiety, depression and stress, and in what way they interfere in the ability to work. Methodology: Non random sample of 51 elements, in Remax Convictus, after signing consent forms, they were submited to a set of psychological tests, adapted to portuguese population. Results: The results show statistically significant differences in the group, between the variables of anxiety, depression and stress, and the ability to work. Conclusions: Concludes that Mental Health interferes with the ability to work, considering the variables of this study, and the results of it.