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Kreuser, Richard Gustav. "'n Voorgestelde generiese menslike hulpbronbestuur organisasiestruktuur vir geselekteerde departemente binne die Wes-Kaapse Provinsiale Administrasie." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53532.
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Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The new management model for the Government places the responsibility for the execution of the human resources function within the management domain of the executive authority, department heads and line managers. Other than in the past, the human resources function has been decentralised at all provincial departments within the Western Cape. Departments subsequently went ahead and established their own human resources components. However, the creation and structuring of the said function within the different departments were completed, to a great extent, in isolation with each other. Although all departmental components had to perform the same functions within the same regulatory framework, there was little consistency in the way it was structured. The purpose of the research is to create a generic organisational structure to serve as a guideline whereby departmental human resources components could be organised. In order to design a model a literature study has been undertaken with the emphasis on structuring of organisations and a functional analysis of the human resources function has been done. The focus was on literature that deals with the structuring of human resources components. An analysis was also done on the regulatory framework in which the human resource function should function, within the Government. In view of the preceding discussions and due to specific principles, a generic organisational structure has been developed and is recommended that it serve as a guide to be applied within the Western Cape Provincial Administration.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die nuwe bestuursmodel vir die staatsdiens plaas die verantwoordelikheid vir die uitvoering van die menslike hulpbronbestuursfunksie binne die bestuursdomein van die uitvoeringsgesagte, departementshoofde en lynbestuurders. Waar die menslike hulpbronbestuursfunksie ten opsigte van bepaalde departemente binne die Wes-Kaapse Provinsiale Administrasie voorheen vanuit 'n gesentraliseerde komponent gelewer is, is die funksie gedesentraliseer en het departemente gevolglik begin om hul eie menslike hulpbronbestuur komponente te vestig. Die vestiging en strukturering van hierdie komponente het in isolasie tot mekaar plaasgevind, en was daar weinig sprake van patroonmatigheid in die wyse waarop dit gestruktureer is, alhoewel almal dieselfde funksies ingevolge dieselfde regulatoriese raamwerk moet verrig. Die doel van die navorsingstudie is om 'n generiese organisasiestruktuur te ontwerp om as riglyn te dien waarvolgens hierdie departementele menslike hulpbronbestuur komponente gestruktureer kan word. Ten einde die model te ontwerp is 'n literatuurstudie ten opsigte van organisasie-teorie met die klem opdie strukturering van organisasies onderneem, en is 'n funksionele analise van die menslike hulpbronbestuur funksie gemaak. Aandag is geskenk aan literatuur ten opsigte van die strukturering van menslike hulpbronbestuur komponente en is daar ook 'n ontleding van die regulatoriese raamwerk waarbinne die menslike hulpbronbestuur funksie binne die staatsdiens verrig staan te word, gedoen. Op grond van die voormelde en aan die hand van bepaalde beginsels is 'n generiese organisasiestruktuur ontwerp, en word aanbeveel dat dit dien as riglyn vir toepassing binne die Wes-Kaapse Provinsiale Administrasie.
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Hauser, Doreen Ann 1961. "Teacher learning via video instruction: Five case studies." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291883.
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This research was conducted to study how five home economics teachers learned three new teaching techniques through an in service distance education project. The researcher looked specifically at: (1) How effective were video assisted self-instructional packets for teaching individual learners new methods of instruction? (2) How do teachers transfer knowledge of a particular method to actual classroom use? (3) Is there a relationship between one's learning style and style of teaching? Each case study draws upon data from the participant's background, test scores, interviews, self-reports, staff reports, student products, and observations. In three cases, it was concluded that learning style may influence style of teaching. The two teachers who were unable to transfer the information did not have consistent learning styles, were not comfortable users of the media, and reported having too many things going on in their personal life which interfered with the learning process.
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Polman, Montgomery. "Riglyne vir prestasiebeoordeling vir bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers by plaaslike owerhede." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50085.
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Thesis (MSocialWork)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to develop a theoretical and practical framework which can be utilised as a guideline for performance appraisal of occupational social workers employed by local authorities within the Cape Metropole. The study was preceded by a comprehensive literature study whereby the term performance appraisal was explained, the necessity and purpose of performance evaluation, were identified. Furthermore, the characteristics of performance appraisal in social work have been described. These characteristics serve as a basis for this study. An empirical study was then undertaken, which entailed an exploratory study to achieve the aim of this study. The social workers, who are employed by the local authorities within the Cape Metropole, were included in the study. The study was conducted by means of a group administrative questionnaire. Occupational social work is regarded as a relatively new area of specialisation in social work and very little has been written about it. Therefore a brief overview of occupational social work is provided, with specific reference to the U.S.A., Europe and South Africa. Furthermore emphasis is placed on the structural and functional characteristics of an organisation that influences occupational social work. The nature and scope of the social worker's service rendering, as well as the knowledge and skills that is required to render effective services, is discussed. The evaluation of work performance of social workers, the frequency thereof and the persons involved therein, were investigated to determine the nature and scope of the performance appraisal systems that are implemented. Performance appraisal requires the participation of both the supervisor and the social worker. The nature of communication during performance evaluation was identified and the manner in which communication should take place were also obtained. Social workers' opinions in terms of the manner in which they should be allowed to participate during supervision and performance appraisal were also obtained. Social workers' opinions of the valuable aspects of performance appraisal were explored to determine the value of performance evaluation for them. Hence it could be deduced that they experience performance appraisal as valuable and that they have insight into the fact that performance appraisal could contribute to their professional development. The social workers' opinions in terms of the type of principles that should be implemented during performance appraisal were also explored and the outcome of the study showed that the same principles as identified in the literature, are also viewed as important to them. The respondents' opinions in terms of the importance of guidelines for performance evaluation and that it should be conducted in terms of a specific process has been explored, and the results of the study showed that the respondents were positive about the use of guidelines for performance appraisal, which should amongst others include the utilisation of an educational model, evaluation and program. In conclusion, the responses from the occupational social workers of local authorities in the Cape Metropole are discussed and compared with relevant literature. This serves as basis for the recommendations that are made and can be utilised to establish guidelines for performance appraisal for social workers at local authorities within the Cape Metropole. The most important recommendation is that management of local government should utilise the results of this study to establish guidelines for performance appraisal for their occupational social workers.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie is om 'n teoretiese en praktiese raamwerk daar te stel wat as riglyn benut kan word vir prestasiebeoordeling van bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers by plaaslike owerhede binne die Kaapse Metropool. 'n Omvattende literatuurstudie is ten aanvang van die studie gedoen en hiertydens is die noodsaaklikheid en doel van prestasiebeoordeling in maatskaplike werk geïdentifiseer. Verder is die eienskappe wat prestasiebeoordeling in maatskaplike werk kenmerk, beskryf. Hierdie kenmerke dien as onderbou vir die studie. Na die literatuurstudie is 'n empiriese studie onderneem wat behels het dat 'n verkennende studie gedoen is. Die bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers in diens van die plaaslike owerhede binne die Kaapse Metropool is by die ondersoek betrek. Groepgeadministreerde vraelyste is as ondersoekmetode gebruik. Bedryfs-maatskaplike werk word beskou as 'n relatief jong spesialiteitsveld van maatskaplike werk en daar is nog min daaroor geskryf. Daarom word 'n beknopte historiese oorsig van bedryfs-maatskaplike werk gegee met spesifieke verwysing na die VSA, Europa en Suid-Afrika. Verder is daar klem gelê op die strukturele en funksionele eienskappe van organisasies wat bedryfs-maatskaplike werk beïnvloed. Die aard van die dienslewering van die bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers, sowel as die kennis en vaardighede waaroor hulle behoort te beskik, word ook bespreek. Die evaluering van die maatskaplike werkers se werkverrigting, die frekwensie daarvan en die persone daarby betrokke is ondersoek om die aard en omvang van die implementering van 'n stelsel van prestasiebeoordeling te bepaal. Prestasiebeoordeling vereis dat die supervisor en die maatskaplike werker aan prestasiebeoordeling moet deelneem. Die bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers se menings ten opsigte van die redes waarom werkverrigting nie geëvalueer word nie, is ook vasgestel. Die aard van kommunikasie wat tydens die implementering van prestasiebeoordeling gebruik word, is derhalwe geïdentifiseer, en die wyse waarop kommunikasie behoort uitgevoer te word is ondersoek. Die wyse waarop die maatskaplike werkers geleentheid tot deelname aan supervisie en prestasiebeoordeling behoort te verkry, is ook bepaal. Die waarde wat prestasiebeoordeling vir die maatskaplike werker inhou, is ondersoek deur die bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers se menings oor die aspekte wat tydens prestasiebeoordeling vir hulle waarde inhou, vas te stel. Hieruit kan afgelei word dat die bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers prestasiebeoordeling as waardevol beskou en insig openbaar in die feit dat prestasiebeoordeling tot verbeterde werkverrigting en tot hulle professionele ontwikkeling kan bydra. Die respondente se opinie oor die soort beginsels in prestasiebeoordeling is ondersoek en die resultate van die studie was dat dieselfde beginsels as wat in die literatuur geïdentifiseer word, ook deur hulle as belangrik beskou is. Die bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers se menings ten opsigte van die noodsaaklikheid van riglyne vir prestasiebeoordeling en dat dit volgens 'n proses behoort te geskied, is ook vasgestel. Daar is bevind dat die maatskaplike werkers positief ingestel is ten opsigte van die gebruik van 'n stelsel wat die benutting van 'n onderrigmodel, -evaluering en -program insluit en wat sal geskied volgens bepaalde riglyne vir prestasiebeoordeling. Ten slotte word die response van die bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers van die plaaslike owerhede binne die Kaapse Metropool bespreek en vergelyk met relevante literatuur. Dit dien as basis vir die aanbevelings wat gemaak word. Hierdie aanbevelings kan benut word om riglyne daar te stel vir prestasiebeoordeling van bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers by plaaslike owerhede binne die Kaapse Metropool. Die vernaamste aanbeveling is dat die Plaaslike Owerheid die resultate van die studie moet benut om riglyne vir prestasiebeoordeling van bedryfs-maatskaplike werkers saam te stel.
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Le, Cordeur Michael Lucien Arnaud. "Die bevordering van lees met behulp van media-onderrigstrategiee vir Afrikaans (graad 7) : 'n gevallestudie." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18126.
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Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study involves a qualitative and quantitative investigation into the promotion of reading by means media reading instructional strategies to Afrikaans grade 7 learners at one school. The research methodology used is a case study supported by a literature study. The aim of this study is five-fold. Firstly, based on the literature study, the study sets out to establish a theoretical framework for reading at school. This is related to three problem areas: poor reading comprehension, limited fluency in reading, and a negative attitude to reading. Underlying assumptions are that reading problems occur even in learners with above-average intellectual ability and that many learners cannot function optimally in society because they are poor readers. Instructional models and different approaches to teaching reading are explored. This study questions the efficacy of traditional approaches to reading instruction and makes a strong case for a balanced approach in which both topdown and bottom-up approaches are integrated in an interactive approach. Secondly, drawing on the literature survey the study provides a theoretical framework for using the media and technology in developing and improving reading. The role of visual literacy in the development of reading is also examined. It seems that learners have a strong interest in the media as well as technological aids so educators who have access to these should use them in the classroom. Thirdly, the study sets out to design media reading instructional strategies based on learners' interest in mass media, as well as technological aids. This is so that learners can be empowered with strategies that will enable them to successfully address their reading problems. The use of media reading instructional strategies is applied as an alternative to the traditional approach to reading instruction. The case study explores the use of media reading instructional strategies developed for grade 7 learners studying Afrikaans as a primary language and the extent to which this is successful. The learners are exposed to an instructional reading programme consisting of media reading strategies (designed by the researcher) for a period of 16 weeks. Data generation comprises individual diagnostic reading tests for learners, interviews with educators and learners and questionnaires administered to educators and learners. The literature study provides evidence that poor readers do not necessarily lack the intellectual ability to make sense of what they read or to read independently. Results from the case study support the findings that these learners have the ability to learn a variety of reading strategies which help them to apply the reading skills that enable them to read successfully. Although the learners in the experimental group still experienced problems with comprehension, they had made significant gains in reading fluency and developed a more positive attitude towards reading. The main conclusion is that interactive media reading instructional activities can make a meaningful contribution to learners with reading problems. According to the findings of this study, learners are more likely to read successfully and follow a successful academic career if their problems are diagnosed early and they receive the necessary help and support.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie was 'n kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe ondersoek na die bevordering van lees in Afrikaans by die graad 7-leerders van een skool deur die daarstelling van media-leesonderrigstrategieë. Die navorsingsmetode was 'n gevallestudie ondersteun deur 'n literatuurstudie. Die doelwit van die ondersoek was vyfvoudig. Ten eerste het die studie gepoog om op grand van die literatuurondersoek 'n teoretiese begranding van lees te verskaf. Dit sluit drie problematiese aspekte van lees in, naamlik gebrekkige leesbegrip en leesvlotheid en 'n negatiewe leeshouding. Die studie wys daarap dat leesprobleme manifesteer ten spyte van 'n bo-gemiddelde intellek en dat baie leerders nie optimaal in die samelewing kan fungeer nie omdat hulle swak lesers is. Verskillende benaderings tot die onderrig van lees is ondersoek. Die studie bevraagteken die effektiwiteit van tradisionele benaderings tot leesonderrig. Dit word ten sterkste aanbeveel dat 'n interaktiewe benadering gevolg word waar beide die top - down en bottom - up -benaderings geïntegreer word. Tweedens het die studie gepoog om vanuit die literatuurandersoek 'n teoretiese begranding van katalisators wat lees kan bevorder, naamlik media en tegnologiese hulpmiddele, te ondersoek. Die rol van visuele geletterdheid in die onderrig van lees is ondersoek. Die uitgangspunt was leerders se belangstelling in die media en tegnologiese hulpmiddele en dat opvoeders vandag toegang het tot 'n verskeidenheid media en tegnologiese hulpmiddele wat hulle van hulp kan wees met leesonderrig. Opvoeders moet hulself hiervan vergewis ten einde dit sinvol by die bestaande leesonderrigprogram te kan integreer. Derdens het die studie ten doel gehad om media-leesonderrigstrategieë te ontwerp wat gebaseer is op leerders se belangstelling in die media en tegnologiese hulpmiddele wat die swak leser in staat sal stel am sy / haar leesprobleme suksesvol aan te spreek. Die gebruik van die media-leesonderrigstrategieë is derhalwe aangewend as 'n alternatief tot die tradisionele benaderings van leesonderrig. Vierdens is hierdie media-Ieesonderrigstrategieë by wyse van 'n gevallestudie op die vlak van graad 7 in die vak Afrikaans geïmplementeer om die sukses daarvan te bepaal. Leerders is vir 16 weke aan 'n intervensie, 'n program bestaande uit media-leesonderrigstrategieë, in die Afrikaansperiode blootgestel. Datagenerering tydens hierdie tydperk van ses maande het behels individuele diagnostiese leestoetse vir leerders, onderhoude met opvoeders en leerders, en vraelyste wat deur opvoeders en leerders voltooi is. Uit die literatuurstudie was dit duidelik dat daar geen probleem was met die intellektuele vermoëns van die leerders nie en dat hulle wel oor die vermoë beskik om met begrip en onafhanklik te lees. Die resultate van die gevallestudie ondersteun hierdie bevinding dat die swak leser wel die vermoë het om strategies aan te leer wat hulle in staat sal stel om hul leesvaardighede te verbeter en met sukses te lees. Ten slote is daar tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat media-leesonderrigstrategieë wat deur middel van 'n interaktiewe benadering onderrig word, 'n betekenisvolle bydrae kan maak tot die bevordering van lees by leerders met leesprobleme. Alhoewel die leerders steeds met leesbegrip gesukkel het, het hulle leesvlotheid heelwat verbeter terwyl hulle ook 'n meer positiewe houding jeens lees gehad het. Daar is bevind dat ten spyte van leerders se leesprobleme hulle 'n baie goeie kans het om met sukses te lees en 'n suksesvolle loopbaan te volg, mits hulle betyds die nodige hulp en ondersteuning ontvang.
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Jian, Wen. "Analysis of Longitudinal Data in the Case-Control Studies via Empirical Likelihood." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_theses/8.
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The case-control studies are primary tools for the study of risk factors (exposures) related to the disease interested. The case-control studies using longitudinal data are cost and time efficient when the disease is rare and assessing the exposure level of risk factors is difficult. Instead of GEE method, the method of using a prospective logistic model for analyzing case-control longitudinal data was proposed and the semiparametric inference procedure was explored by Park and Kim (2004). In this thesis, we apply an empirical likelihood ratio method to derive limiting distribution of the empirical likelihood ratio and find one likelihood-ratio based confidence region for the unknown regression parameters. Our approach does not require estimating the covariance matrices of the parameters. Moreover, the proposed confidence region is adapted to the data set and not necessarily symmetric. Thus, it reflects the nature of the underlying data and hence gives a more representative way to make inferences about the parameter of interest. We compare empirical likelihood method with normal approximation based method, simulation results show that the proposed empirical likelihood ratio method performs well in terms of coverage probability.
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Tsui, Wai-kei, and 徐偉基. "The transformation of leadership from a vice-principal to a principal-to-be: a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37316072.
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Larsson, Jenny. "Människan, logistiken och förändringen : En case studie vid ICAs färskvarulager i Umeå." Thesis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Business, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-25978.
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Smit, Ilze. "'n Opleidingsraamwerk gerig op gehalte aborsiesorg vir verpleegkundiges aan hoëronderwysinstellings in die Wes-Kaap." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3174.
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Thesis (PhD (Education)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Before the implementation of abortion legislation in South Africa in February 1997, illegal abortions were the only way out for women with unwanted pregnancies. Because of the high morbidity and mortality rate of the women concerned, abortion legislation was implemented with the aim of ending illegal abortions in South Africa by having abortions carried out legally on request in designated health care facilities. The abortion legislation stipulates that registered nurses who have undergone the proposed abortion care training may terminate a pregnancy upon request of a woman during the first twelve weeks of the gestation period of her pregnancy. Although legislation authorises registered nurses to carry out first trimester abortions, an inadequate number of nurses are being trained in the Western Cape to provide pregnant women with guidance and counselling services, carry out the abortions and/or refer problem cases. Since the implementation of the abortion legislation no real attempts have been made by higher education institutions in the Western Cape to offer abortion care training for nurses. A need has therefore been identified to develop a comprehensive training framework for higher education institutions in the Western Cape for the training of nurses in abortion care. The case study was used as research design and the specific unit of analysis on which the researcher focused were the registered nurses who had received training in abortion care and the context in which they provide abortion care at the various levels of service provision in the different regions of the Western Cape. A random, stratified sample (non-proportional) was taken of the designated state health care facilities in the Western Cape, as well as a non-probability purposive sampling of registered nurses who provide abortion care, a non-probability convenience sample of women who have received abortion care and a non-probability purposive sampling of final-year pre-registration nursing students. Data was generated by means of questionnaires to the women who received abortions and/or counselling, the registered nurses who carried out abortions as well as final-year preregistration nursing students. A checklist was used to observe the abortions that were carried out by registered nurses in an objective and non-participatory manner and semi-structured interviews were conducted with various role-players in abortion care and training. The main findings of this study indicate that the necessary infrastructure within which the services could be provided according to the abortion legislation was adequate, but that the ongoing shortage of trained health care practitioners hampers the abortion care services. Only 10 (n=10) of the 15 certified nurses employed in state health care facilities actively offered abortion care services in the various designated facilities in the Western Cape. Deficiencies were identified in the existing provincial protocol and it was clear that some of the guidelines are either not in use or have become obsolete in the light of new research findings. It was found that midwives with appropriate and effective training are the ideal category of health practitioner for the provision of abortion care. The certified nurses who have been trained by the various regional offices of the Department of Health: Western Cape are skilled in carrying out the abortion procedure, but the other aspects of abortion care, that are mainly carried out by other categories of nurses, will probably require greater attention. The recommendations, which are based on a thorough literature study as well as on the findings and conclusions that arose from the empirical part of this study, have been included in a training framework. The researcher recommends that the training framework provide the basis for the development of a formal programme or programmes for the training of nurses in abortion care at higher education institutions. The purpose of the proposed framework is therefore to determine the context within which curriculation ought to take place, and to provide a focus or format for those who develop the curriculum for prospective students.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Voor die implementering van aborsiewetgewing in Februarie 1997 was onwettige aborsies die enigste uitweg vir vroue met ongewenste swangerskappe in Suid-Afrika. Weens die hoë morbiditeit- en mortaliteitsyfer van die betrokke vroue is aborsiewetgewing geïmplementeer met die doel om onwettige aborsies in Suid-Afrika te beëindig en aborsies op versoek wettiglik in aangewysde gesondheidsorgfasiliteite uit te voer. Die aborsiewetgewing stipuleer dat verpleegkundiges wat die voorgestelde aborsiesorgopleiding ondergaan het, ‘n swangerskap kan beëindig op versoek van ‘n vrou gedurende die eerste 12 weke van die draagtyd van haar swangerskap. Ten spyte van wetgewing wat verpleegkundiges magtig om eerste trimester aborsies uit te voer, word daar om verskeie redes onvoldoende aantal verpleegkundiges in die Wes-Kaap opgelei wat voorligting en berading aan swanger vroue gee, die aborsies uitvoer en/of probleemgevalle moet verwys. Geen daadwerklike pogings is sedert die inwerkingstelling van die aborsiewetgewing deur hoëronderwysinstellings in die Wes-Kaap aangewend om aborsiesorgopleiding vir verpleegkundiges aan te bied nie. Derhalwe is ’n behoefte geïdentifiseer om ’n omvattende opleidingsraamwerk vir hoëronderwysinstellings in die Wes- Kaap te ontwikkel vir die opleiding van verpleegkundiges in aborsiesorg. Die gevallestudie is as navorsingsontwerp gebruik en die spesifieke eenheid van analise waarop gefokus is was die verpleegkundiges wat opleiding in aborsiesorg ontvang het en die konteks waarbinne hulle aborsiesorg lewer by die onderskeie vlakke van dienslewering in die onderskeie streke van die Wes-Kaap. ’n Ewekansige, gestratifiseerde steekproef (nie-proporsioneel) is geneem van die aangewysde staatsgesondheidsorgfasiliteite in die Wes-Kaap, sowel as ’n nie-waarskynlike, doelbewuste steekproefneming van verpleegkundiges wat aborsiesorg verskaf, ’n nie-waarskynlike gerieflikheidsteekproefneming van vroue wat aborsiesorg ontvang het en ’n nie-waarskynlike, doelbewuste steekproefneming van finalejaar voorregistrasie verpleegstudente. Data is gegenereer met behulp van vraelyste aan onderskeidelik die vroue wat aborsies en/of berading ontvang het, die verpleegkundiges wat aborsies uitgevoer het, asook finalejaar voorregistrasie verpleegstudente. ’n Kontrolelys is gebruik om die aborsies wat deur verpleegkundiges uitgevoer is objektief en nie-deelnemend te observeer en semigestruktureerde onderhoude is met verskeie rolspelers in aborsiesorgdienste en -opleiding gevoer. Die hoofbevindings van hierdie studie dui daarop dat die nodige infrastruktuur waarbinne die dienste ingevolge die aborsiewetgewing gelewer kon word voldoende was, maar dat die voortslepende tekort aan opgeleide gesondheidsorgpraktisyns die aborsiesorgdienste kortwiek. Slegs 10 (n=10) van die 15 gesertifiseerde verpleegkundiges in diens van staatsgesondheidsorgfasiliteite het aktief aborsiesorgdienste aangebied in die onderskeie aangewysde fasiliteite in die Wes-Kaap. Leemtes is in die bestaande provinsiale protokol geïdentifiseer en dit het in die lig van nuwe navorsingsbevindings geblyk dat sommige van die riglyne óf nie in gebruik was nie, óf dat hulle intussen verouderd geraak het. Daar is bevind dat vroedvroue met toepaslike en doeltreffende opleiding die ideale kategorie gesondheidsorgpraktisyn is vir die verskaffing van aborsiesorg. Die gesertifiseerde verpleegkundiges wat deur die Departement van Gesondheid: Wes-Kaap se onderskeie streekskantore opgelei is, is vaardig in die uitvoer van die aborsieprosedure as sulks, maar die ander aspekte van aborsiesorg, wat meestal ook deur ander kategorieë verpleegkundiges uitgevoer word, sal waarskynlik groter aandag moet kry. Die aanbevelings is gegrond op ’n deeglike literatuurstudie sowel as op die bevindings en gevolgtrekkings wat uit die empiriese gedeelte van hierdie studie spruit en is vervat in ’n opleidingsraamwerk. Die navorser beveel aan dat die opleidingsraamwerk die grondslag sal bied vir die ontwikkeling van ’n formele program of programme vir die opleiding van verpleegkundiges in aborsiesorg aan hoëronderwysinstellings. Die doel van die voorgestelde raamwerk is dus om die konteks te bepaal waarbinne kurrikulering moet plaasvind, asook om ’n fokus of formaat te verskaf vir diegene wat die kurrikulum vir voornemende studente ontwikkel.
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Siegelaar, Leslie. "n Ondersoek na ernstige geweldsmisdaad : voorstelle vir opleiding ('n gevalstudie)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51853.
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Thesis (MPA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Not a single day passes in South Africa without various violent crimes making the front pages of the local media. The Cape Flats in the Western Cape is one of areas which is seriously affected by violent crime. During the past three years serious violent crimes committed with a firearm have shown a sharp increase. The investigation of such crimes is, just as its prevention, a priority of the SAPS. Investigation of serious violent crime has also changed since the amalgamation of the eleven police agencies in 1996. Whereas the Murder and Robbery Unit was responsible for investigation crimes such as murder and attempted murder using a firearm before 1996, most of these crimes are nowadays investigated by members attached to local detective units. Specialist knowledge is required for the investigation of the said crimes whereas local detectives have only received training in conducting general investigations. The question arising is what is the influence of this training on the investigation of serious crime and more specifically their solution. Against this background the current state of training received by local detectives is investigated as well as the influence on the investigation of serious violent crimes. The SAPS Ravensmead Detective Service is used as a case studyforthis purpose. Practice is compared to the theory and conclusions are drawn about the influence of training on the success rate during the investigation of serious violent crimes.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Nie 'n enkele dag gaan in Suid - Afrika verby sonder verskeie geweldsmisdade as voorbladnuus nie. Die Kaapse Vlakte in die Wes -Kaap is van die gebiede wat erg deur ernstige geweldsmisdaad geraak word. Die afgelope drie jaar het ernstige geweldsmisdaad wat gepleeg word deur die gebruik van 'n vuurwapen skerp gestyg. Die ondersoek van dié misdade is net soos die voorkoming daarvan vir die SAPD 'n prioriteit. Die ondersoek van ernstige geweldsmisdaad het na die amalgamering van elf polisie - agentskappe in 1996 verander. Waar die Moord - en - Roofeenheid voor 1996 vir die ondersoek van misdade soos moord en poging tot moord met 'n vuurwapen gepleeg, verantwoordelik was, word die meeste van die misdade nou deur lede verbonde aan plaaslike speureenhede ondersoek. Gespesialiseerde kennis word benodig vir die ondersoek van die genoemde misdade. Plaaslike speurders het slegs opleiding ontvang om algemene ondersoeke waar te neem. Die vraag wat nou ontstaan is wat is die invloed hiervan op die ondersoek van ernstige geweldsmisdaad en meer spesifiek die oplossing daarvan. Teen hierdie agtergrond word ondersoek ingestel na die huidige stand van opleiding van plaaslike speurders en die uitwerking daarvan op die ondersoek van ernstige geweldsmisdaad. Vir hierdie doeleindes word SAPD Ravensmead Speurdiens as gevalstudie gebruik. Die praktyk word met die teorie vergelyk en gevolgtrekkings word gemaak oor die invloed van opleiding op die suksessyfer in die ondersoek van ernstige geweldsmisdaad.
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Holböll, Katja. "Power to the People : Examination of (Non)Violent Protest Movements via the Case of Albania." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444597.
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Resistance movements have become one of the most visible signs of advocating for social change, challenging an unjust system, and changing the status quo. This study aims to enhance our understanding of why some resistance movements choose a non-violent strategy, while others choose a violent one, by answering the research question: what explains the choice of violent or non-violent strategy in resistance movements? This thesis argues that when there is a presence of leaders or organisers, a movement becomes more cohesive, coordinated and able to provide protesters with an outlet for their emotions. In contrast, in the absence of a leader or organiser, a movement is expected to remain fragmented and the outbreak of violence being closer. Using the method of structured focused comparison, the hypothesis is tested on two protest movements in Tirana, Albania. Data was collected through interviews with protesters and archive research. The findings indicate that coordinated measures taken by leaders and organisers result in a cohesive resistance movement where there is a viable platform for protesters to phrase their grievances and claims for social change without resorting to violence.
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Raftery, David Jonathon. "Competition, conflict and cooperation : an ethnographic analysis of an Australian forest industry dispute." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armr139.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 135-143. An anthropological analysis of an industrial dispute that occurred within the East Gippsland forest industry, 1997-1998 and how the workers strove to acheive better working conditions for themselves, and to share in the wealth they had created.
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Ward, Willie (Willem Jacobus). "Organisasie-innovasie vir omgewingsbestuur." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52981.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The complexity of environmental problems and the demands that these make on organisations to create integrated management outcomes in a participative way in a multilevel context with many role-players, have highlighted the search for new innovative organisational forms. Organisations have specific structural characteristics with regard to complexity, formalisation and (de)centralisation, that correspond with their core activities and their external circumstances. The traditional bureaucracy, as an organisational structure, is a rigid and hierarchical system that is based on formal rules, complex management systems and centralised decision-making. The spread of postmodernism highlighted the restrictions of bureaucracies and started a process, throughout the world, that is transforming organisations into flatter, less formal structures. The focus of this study was to determine to which extent organisations in the field of sustainable development adapt to new realities and experiment with innovative organisational forms. Greenpeace, as an international environmental organisation, a Representative Forum, as an Agenda 21 type institutional mechanism for interest groups in the integrated development planning processes at local government level, and Water Catchment Management Agencies, as organisational institutional form for the integrated management of all aspects with regard to water resources, were analysed as case studies. The case studies confirm the increase in and application of multilevel network type organisational forms in the field of natural resources management. It highlights a common vision, processes that work towards reaching consensus and the forming of partnerships. The rise of the network organisation, its advantages and potential problems, are finally discussed with a view to the future.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die kompleksiteit van omgewingprobleme en die vereistes wat dit stel aan organisasies om op 'n deelnemende wyse in 'n multivlak en multi-rolspeler konteks ge·'ntegreerde bestuursuitkomste te bewerkstellig, het die fokus op die soeke na nuwe innoverende organisasievorme laat val. Organisasies het bepaalde strukturele eienskappe in terme van kompleksiteit, formalisasie en (de)sentralisasie wat grootliks aanpas by hulle kernbedrywighede en die eksterne omstandighede waarin hulle hulself bevind. Die tradisionele burokrasie as organisasievorm is 'n rigiede en hierarqiese sisteem wat geskoei is op sentrale besluitneming, formele reels en komplekse bestuurstelsels. Met die koms van postmodernisme het die beperkinge van die reuse burokrasiee aan die lig gekom en is daar, regoor die wereld, 'n proses aan die gang gesit wat talle organisasies in platter, minder formele en losser strukture verander. In die studie is ondersoek ingestel tot watter mate organisasies in die veld van volhoubare omgewingsbestuur by die nuwe realiteite aanpas en met nuwe innoverende organisasievorme eksperimenteer. Greenpeace, as internasionale omgewingsorganisasie, 'n Verteenwoordige Forum as Agenda 21-tipe institusionele meganisme vir belangegroepe in die geYntegreerde ontwikkelingsbeplanningsprosesse op plaaslike regeringsvlak, en Wateropvanggebied-bestuursagentskappe as organisatoriese institusionele vorm vir die qemteqreerde bestuur van aile aspekte wat met waterhulpbronne te make het, is as gevallestudies ontleed. Die gevallestudies bevestig die toenemde voorkoms en aanwending van multivlak netwerk-tipe organisasievorme op die gebied van natuurlike hulpbronbestuur wat die klem laat val op 'n samebindende visie, konsensus-soekende prosesse en venootskapsvorming. Die opkoms van die netwerkorganisasie met sy voordele sowel as die potensiele probleme, word ten slotte in 'n toekomsblik beskou.
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Lacirignola, Martino. "Life cycle assessment of enhanced geothermal systems : from specific case studies to generic parameterized models." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CNAM1095/document.
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Cette recherche vise à étudier les impacts environnementaux d'une technologie émergente de production d’électricité basée sur une source renouvelable, les systèmes géothermiques stimulés (EGS), par l’analyse de leur cycle de vie (ACV).Après avoir analysé plusieurs études de cas, nous avons développé un modèle ACV paramétré capable de caractériser les performances environnementales de la filière EGS. Nos résultats montrent que les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des EGS sur leur cycle de vie sont bien inférieures à celles des centrales utilisant des combustibles fossiles.Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons mis au point un cadre méthodologique pour appliquer l'analyse de sensibilité globale (GSA) à l’ACV des technologies émergentes comme les EGS, prenant en compte les incertitudes élevées liées à leur caractère innovant. Nous avons appliqué notre nouvelle approche GSA pour développer un modèle ACV simplifié, à destination des décideurs, permettant une estimation rapide des impacts des EGS à partir de seulement cinq paramètres clefs: capacité installée, profondeur de forage, nombre de puits, débit géothermal et durée de vie.L'approche méthodologique développée dans cette thèse est applicable à d'autres technologies et ouvre de larges perspectives de recherche dans le domaine de l'évaluation environnementaleThis thesis investigates the environmental impacts of an emerging renewable energy technology, the enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), using a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach.Following the analysis of several EGS case studies, we developed a parameterized LCA model able to provide a global overview of the life cycle impacts of the EGS technology. The greenhouse gas emissions of EGS are found comparable with other renewable energy systems and far better than those of power plants based on fossil fuels.In a second stage, we developed a methodological framework for the application of global sensitivity analysis (GSA) to the LCA of emerging technologies like the EGS, taking into account the high uncertainties related to their description. We applied our new GSA approach to generate a simplified LCA model, aimed at decision makers, allowing a rapid estimation of the life cycle impacts of EGS from only five key parameters: installed capacity, drilling depth, number of wells, flow rate and lifetime.The methodological approach developed in this thesis is applicable to other technologies and opens large research perspectives in the field of environmental assessment
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Damian, Camilla, Zehra Eksi-Altay, and Rüdiger Frey. "EM algorithm for Markov chains observed via Gaussian noise and point process information: Theory and case studies." De Gruyter, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/strm-2017-0021.
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In this paper we study parameter estimation via the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm for a continuous-time hidden Markov model with diffusion and point process observation. Inference problems of this type arise for instance in credit risk modelling. A key step in the application of the EM algorithm is the derivation of finite-dimensional filters for the quantities that are needed in the E-Step of the algorithm. In this context we obtain exact, unnormalized and robust filters, and we discuss their numerical implementation. Moreover, we propose several goodness-of-fit tests for hidden Markov models with Gaussian noise and point process observation. We run an extensive simulation study to test speed and accuracy of our methodology. The paper closes with an application to credit risk: we estimate the parameters of a hidden Markov model for credit quality where the observations consist of rating transitions and credit spreads for US corporations.
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Kwok, Chi-yan Patrick, and 郭志仁. "Factors affecting the job satisfaction of a sample of vice-principals in aided secondary schools in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31955678.
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Yung, Wing-yee Angela, and 翁詠儀. "Thoughts and practice of a Hong Kong teacher in mathematics alternative assessment via concerns-based adoption model." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45884067.
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Zhang, Fengjiao. "Quantifying the Seismic Response of Underground Structures via Seismic Full Waveform Inversion : Experiences from Case Studies and Synthetic Benchmarks." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Geofysik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-187142.
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Seismic full waveform inversion (waveform tomography) is a method to reconstruct the underground velocity field in high resolution using seismic data. The method was first introduced during the 1980’s and became computationally feasible during the late 1990’s when the method was implemented in the frequency domain. This work presents three case studies and one synthetic benchmark of full waveform inversion applications. Two of the case studies are focused on time-lapse cross-well and 2D reflection seismic data sets acquired at the Ketzin CO2 geological storage site. These studies are parts of the CO2SINK and CO2MAN projects. The results show that waveform tomography is more effective than traveltime tomography for the CO2 injection monitoring at the Ketzin site for the cross-well geometry. For the surface data sets we find it is difficult to recover the true value of the velocity anomaly due to the injection using the waveform inversion method, but it is possible to qualitatively locate the distribution of the injected CO2. The results agree well with expectations based upon conventional 2D CDP processing methods and more extensive 3D CDP processing methods in the area. A further investigation was done to study the feasibility and efficiency of seismic full waveform inversion for time-lapse monitoring of onshore CO2 geological storage sites using a reflection seismic geometry with synthetic data sets. The results show that waveform inversion may be a good complement to standard CDP processing when monitoring CO2 injection. The choice of method and strategy for waveform inversion is quite dependent on the goals of the time-lapse monitoring of the CO2 injection. The last case study is an application of the full waveform inversion method to two crooked profiles at the Forsmark site in eastern central Sweden. The main goal of this study was to help determine if the observed reflections are mainly due to fluid filled fracture zones or mafic sills. One main difficulty here is that the profiles have a crooked line geometry which corresponds to 3D seismic geometry, but a 2D based inversion method is being used. This is partly handled by a 3D to 2D coordinate projection method from traveltime inversion. The results show that these reflections are primarily due to zones of lower velocity, consistent with them being generated at water filled fracture zones.
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Varney, Eliza Constantina. "An evaluation, via comparative case studies, of the most appropriate level for regulating bottlenecks in the digital television infrastructure." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421990.
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Casas, Martha. "Viva Emiliano Zapata! Viva Benito Juarez! Helping Mexican and Chicano Middle School Students Develop a Chicano Consciousness via Critical Pedagogy and Latino/Latina Critical Race Theory." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219198.
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This article describes how an anti-racist curriculum constructed on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Latino Critical Pedagogy
(LatCrit) helped Mexican and Chicano middle school students enrolled in an alternative education program to alter their
attitudes toward the use of English, and to change their forms of self-identification resulting in the development of a Chicano
consciousness. In the beginning of this fourteen-month study, 9.6% of the students identified with the Chicano label.
However, at the end of the study, 77% of the class selected the Chicano label for self-identification. Moreover, this
investigation bridges the theoretical concepts of Critical Pedagogy to everyday practice in a middle school classroom. In short, the tenets of this theoretical framework were applied in the design and the implementation of the curriculum.
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Eisazadeh, Moghaddam Arash. "Pocket beach wave processes and current systems investigated via field and numerical modelling studies: A case study of Okains Bay." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10478.
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Confined coasts in general, and pocket beach environments in particular, are under huge development pressures worldwide, not least due to their sheltered nature and perceived shoreline stability. However, understanding of their physical functioning is poor in comparison to that of open coast beaches. This study aims to improve understanding in terms of the existing gaps in knowledge of wave processes and nearshore currents, and also to examine the importance of local wind and tide factors in generating nearshore currents, in micro-tidal pocket beaches. The boundaries of embayments are generally recognized as important controls of their beach processes and responses, yet little detailed knowledge exists of how the exact embayment dimensions and characteristics influences these processes. One key embayment feature the influence of which is poorly understood is the downcoast headland. In this thesis, field observations plus Zanuttigh and Van der Meer’s (2008) approach, and the SWAN wave model were used to evaluate the downcoast headland effects on wave processes within Okains Bay, an example pocket beach environment. The results showed that incident wave heights and directions were significantly influenced by wave reflection processes from the downcoast headland inside the bay. The intensity of reflection effects on wave characteristics inside the pocket beach varied according to approaching wave direction. Reflection effects reduced when waves approached from angles close to parallel to the headlands, increasing towards headland-perpendicular wave approaches.
Field observations and the XBeach model were used to examine whether or not tides can significantly influence nearshore currents within example and model pocket beach environments. Results indicated that tides can be the primary driver of nearshore currents close to the bed inside micro-tidal pocket beaches, depending on incident wave conditions. In areas of micro-tidal pocket beaches exposed to direct approaching waves, currents were wave driven, while in areas further into the bay that experienced headland filtering of their wave environment, currents were mainly tide generated.
The results of this study demonstrated how the current circulation system within micro-tidal pocket beaches is related to the incoming directions of offshore waves. If high energy waves approach oblique or normal to the shoreline (with the assumption that the shoreline is at 90° to the headlands), the current system was found to consist of longshore currents influenced by headlands, plus a rip current in the center of the shoreline or a toporip in proximity to headlands. The location of the rip current or toporip was determined by the direction of approaching incident waves.
This study also examined the behavior of local winds in a pocket beach environment and their consequent effects on nearshore currents. Results for Okains Bay show that local winds tended to blow in offshore and onshore directions, as the bay is located in a valley, so orographic effects channel and shift the wind directions to angles close to offshore and onshore directions inside the bay. Results also indicated that local winds influence the hydrodynamic currents of pocket beaches that are confined by elevated topography, producing semi-cross shore influences since the winds are topographically channelled to blow in predominantly offshore and onshore directions.
This research significantly refines our understanding of micro-tidal pocket beach wave and current processes, including quantification of the filtering effects of headlands on their wave environments, revealing the various and variable influences of tides and winds compared to in open coast beaches; and, significantly, highlighting the role of downcoast headland wave reflection effects. With regard to the latter, this research elucidates some key process differences between pocket and embayed beaches and clarifies reasons why the application of embayed beach models that include refraction and diffraction but exclude reflection effects to the study of pocket beaches is inappropriate for studying pocket beaches. This research also provides methodological and topic suggestions for future research on pocket beach environments, including how to use the improved hydrodynamic knowledge of this study in future studies seeking to better understand pocket beach sediment systems, a topic that was beyond the scope of the current research.
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Säll, Anna. "The securitization of climate change in the United States : A case-study of the Biden-Harris administration’s first hundred days in office." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444493.
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The Biden-Harris administration’s discussion of climate change is analyzed during the transformative time of the administration’s first hundred days in office. The theoretical framework of the Copenhagen School of Security Studies (CS) is used to develop the coding frame to perform a qualitative content analysis of empirical material consisting of speeches and other documents of the administration. Several securitization moves have been identified and climate change has been presented as a security issue and an existential threat by the Biden- Harris administration. A wide range of referent objects are identified, which is the people and things presented to be threatened by climate change. The whole world, ecosystems, the American people and future generations are a few of the identified referent objects. International and national solutions are presented, though the solutions are not interpreted as extreme measures as discussed by the CS. Therefore, this study supports the critique of a too narrow definition of securitization by the CS.
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Ohlsson, Viktoria. "Att kommunicera hela vägen - : - En fallstudie av kommunikation via webbplatsen." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Information Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6778.
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Purpose/Aim: The aim of this paper is to find out how the company Japanporten can improve their communication through their website. I want to find possible weaknesses in the communication style, and suggest solutions to those. All for the purpose of managing to create understanding and interest to fulfil the purpose and goal for the communication.
Material/Method: I have used a qualitative research method, where I have interviewed the manager of Japanporten and made an contents analysis of their website.
Main results: Japanporten supplies good functions on their website. The have a clear purpose and explain who they are and what the can do for the visitor. The main weakness is the argumentation to create and keep an interest from the visitor. To improve the communication Japanporten should use more and better arguments and improve the navigation and design of the website.
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Magnusson, Camilla, and Sofia Andersson. "Går vägen till hållbar utveckling via hållbarhetsredovisning?" Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-889.
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Bakgrund: Med eskalerande miljöhot är det självklart att alla ska bidra till ett värnande om miljön och en hållbar utveckling.
Företag kan, frivilligt, utföra hållbarhetsredovisningar för att
legitimera sig inför sina intressenter. Ett bestyrkande från
oberoende part gör hållbarhetsredovisningen, som ligger
utanför traditionell redovisning, mer trovärdig.
Syfte: Syftet med fallstudien är att, utifrån en grundmodell och en
utvidgad modell inom hållbar utveckling granska tre företags hållbarhetsredovisningar, för att i analys och slutsats urskilja om hållbar utveckling kan uppnås genom hållbarhetsredovisningar.
Metod: Fallstudie
Resultat: Med lagar som grund i all redovisning, tillsammans med
normgivande riktlinjer som exempelvis GRI, toppat med företagens vilja att konkurrera och marknadsföra sig via redovisning av miljö- och socialt ansvar, kan resultatet bli att en uppstramning av lagen i nuläget är onödig.
Background: With increasing environmental threats a natural state of
mind is that everyone has to join the struggle for a sustainable development. Companies can, voluntarily, use sustainable reporting as a way of having legitimacy to their stakeholders. A higher level of credibility occurs when the sustainable reports are reviewed by a neutral person.
Purpose: The purpose of the case study is that, based on a basic model
and an extended model of sustainable development, three corporate sustainable accountings, to the analysis and conclusion on the identification of sustainable development can be achieved by sustainable accountings.
Method: Case study
Result: With the law as the basis of all accounts, along with standard
guidelines such as the GRI, topped whit the willingness of companies to compete and to market themselves through the accounts of environmental and social responsibility, the result may be that a tightening of the law in the present situation is unnecessary.
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Hoang, Haivan Viet. ""To come together and create a movement" solidarity rhetoric in the Vietnamese American Coalition (VAC) /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1086111070.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Document formatted into pages; contains 269 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2009 June 1.
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Kotzé, Judith Johanna 1969. "Interreligieuse dialoog as model vir die intra-geloofsgesprek rondom seksuele oriëntasie." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52309.
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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2001ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Dialogue between Christians of different sexual orientations is not taking place in the church. From a missiological perspective this lack of dialogue damages the unity of the church and therefore its credibility to the outside world. There is a diversity of opinions and experiences in terms of sexual orientation in the church. Dialogue with each other from an arrived and positioned attitude, where judgement and rejection dominates, does not model reconciliation and the experience of unity. This research aims to further the intra-faith dialogue regarding sexual orientation ecclesiologically in such a way that the unity of the body of Christ be embodied and the credibility of the church heightened. The interreligious experience of the dialogue process and the skills that have been learned from it, are researched via an extensive literature study to establish if it can serve as an source of experience from which a dialogue-skills model can be developed that furthers the intra-faith dialogue regarding sexual orientation, with specific mentioning of homosexuality, ecclesiologically. A historical overview of the interreligious dialogue development in the ecumenical movement is given. This overview highlights the tension that has developed between the church's understanding and use of witnessing and dialogue in its contact with and reflection on other faiths. Historically, priority has been given to witnessing, because it is understood as being part of the essence of the Christian faith. The role of witnessing in dialogue, however, is small, because dialogue does not have a missiological intention, but a missiological dimension. In this research the tension between dialogue and witnessing is handled via this distinction, without separating the two. This missiological dimension is understood to be concerned with the relevant, adequate, intelligible and credible communication of the triune God's communication with the Christian and the other of another faith. The research develops a model of interreligious dialogue-skills to make clear the procedure and polyhedral of this kind of dialogue in conjuction with the big challenge and demand for skills required. The research then gives a working definition for the concept "intra-faith dialogue", whereafter the intra-faith dialogue regarding sexual orientation, with specific mentioning of homosexuality is described and researched in two casestudies. The first casestudy is the World Council of Churches's "Padare" occasion at their Harare Assembly in December I998 and it serves as an example of an ecumenical intra-faith dialogue on macrolevel. The second casestudy is the Dutch Reformed Church's Western Cape Sinodical Commission for Doctrinal and Actuality's Adhoc Studycommission which, via a denominational intra-faith dialogue, developed guidelines for a Biblical founded pastoral care for the homosexual neighbour. This casestudy serves as an example of an intra-faith dialogue on microlevel. Both casestudies are then evaluated via the use of the developed dialogue-skills model. The results prove that the hipotheses that there is a lack of dialogue-skills and guidelines in these intra-faith dialogues, is correct. The research offers the dialogue-skills model as a praxismodel to further the intra-faith dialogue regarding sexual orientation ecclesiologically. The importance of a pastoral aptitude and attitude in this dialogueprocess and how pastoral care for a homosexual person ought to be, are described as an example.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Dialoog tussen Christene van verskillende seksuele orientasies vind nie plaas in die kerk nie. Vanuit 'n missiologiese perspektief, skaad hierdie gebrek aan dialoog die eenheid van die kerk en daardeur haar geloofwaardigheid na buite. Daar is 'n verskeidenheid van menings en belewenisse rakende hierdie saak en om vanuit 'n gearriveerde, geposisioneerde houding met mekaar te praat, bewerk nie versoening en die belewenis van eenheid nie. In hierdie navorsing word gepoog om die intra-geloofsgesprek rondom seksuele orientasie kerklik op so 'n wyse te bevorder dat die eenheid van die liggaam van Christus vergestalt word en die geloofwaardigheid van die kerk na buite verhoog word. Die ervaring van die interreligieuse dialoogproses en die vaardighede wat daaruit aangeleer is, word ondersoek deur middel van 'n uitgebreide literatuurstudie. Die literatuurstudie het ten doel om vas te stel of die interreligieuse dialoogproses kan dien as ervaringsbron waaruit n dialoogvaardigheidsmodel ontwikkel kan word. So n model sou dan die intra-geloofsgesprek rondom seksuele orientasie, met spesifieke verwysing na homoseksualiteit, kerklik kon bevorder. 'n Geskiedkundige oorsig oor die ontwikkeling van interreligieuse dialoog in die ekumeniese beweging word gegee. Hierdie oorsig toon aan dat daar 'n spanning ontwikkel het tussen die kerk se verstaan en gebruik van getuienis en dialoog in die kontak met en nadenke oor ander gelowe. In die geskiedenis is prioriteit gegee aan getuienis, omdat dit deel is van die wese van die Christel ike geloof. Die rol van getuienis in dialoog is egter klein, omdat dialoog nie 'n missionere intensie het nie, maar wei 'n missionere dimensie. Die navorsing hanteer die spanning tussen dialoog en getuienis kreatief deur bogenoemde onderskeiding, sonder om die begrippe van mekaar te skei. Hierdie missionere dimensie word dan verstaan as die relevante, verstaanbare en geloofwaardige kommunikasie van God Drie-enig met die self en die ander van 'n ander geloof. Die navorsing ontwikkel dan 'n interreligieuse dialoogvaardigheidsmodel om die multidimensionele aard van die soort dialoog, tesame met die groot uitdaging en eise aan vaardighede, aan te toon. Vervolgens word 'n werksdefinisie van die begrip intra-geloofsgesprek gegee, waarna die intra-geloofsgesprek rondom seksuele orientasie, met spesifieke verwysing na homoseksualiteit in twee gevallestudies ondersoek en beskryf word. Die eerste gevallestudie is die Wereldraad van Kerke se "Padare" geleenthede by hul Harare byeenkoms in Desember 1998 en dien as voorbeeld van 'n ekumeniese intrageloofsgesprek op makrovlak. Die tweede gevallestudie is die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk se Wes-Kaapse Sinodale Kommissie vir Leer en Aktuele Sake se Adhoc Studiekommissie wat via 'n denominasionele intra-geloofsgesprek, riglyne vir 'n Bybelsgefundeerde pastoraat aan die homoseksuele naaste ontwikkel het. Hierdie gevallestudie dien as voorbeeld van 'n intra-geloofsgesprek op mikrovlak. Beide gevallestudies word dan aan die hand van die ontwikkelde dialoogvaardigheidsmodel, krities geevalueer. Die resultaat bevestig die hipotese dat daar 'n gebrek aan dialoogvaardighede en riglyne in hierdie intra-geloofsgesprekke bestaan. Die dialoogvaardigheidsmodel word as praktykmodel aangebied om die intra-geloofsgesprek rondom seksuele orientasie kerklik te bevorder. Die belang van 'n pastorale ingesteldheid en houding in hierdie dialoogproses en hoe die pastoraat teenoor die homoseksuele persoon behoort te Iyk, word as voorbeeld beskryf.
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Sousa, Carina Isabel Correia de. "Diversidade genética e resistência natural ao Maraviroc em estirpes do vírus da imunodeficiência humana Tipo 1 (HIV-1) em circulação em utilizadores de drogas por via endovenosa na Grande Lisboa." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/8170.
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RESUMO: O maraviroc (MVC) é o único anti-retroviral antagonista do co-receptor CCR5 licenciado e interage com as ansas transmembranares de CCR5, induzindo uma
alteração da sua conformação e impedindo a interacção com gp120. O MVC é activo
apenas contra estirpes R5 de HIV-1, sendo utilizado em terapia de recurso.
Neste trabalho, foi estudada a diversidade genética da região C2V3C3 do gene env de estirpes de HIV-1 de oxicodependentes por via endovenosa da Grande Lisboa, pesquisando-se também a presença de polimorfismos genéticos naturais. Foram
utilizadas 52 amostras de plasma e para 35 destas foi amplificado por RT-nested PCR
um produto de 565 pb. A análise filogenética revelou a seguinte distribuição de genótipos: 23 B (incluindo, provavelmente, 2 CRF14_BG), 8 A, 3 G e 1 F1. Após tradução, e por comparação com a sequência consenso B, verificou-se uma elevada frequência de polimorfismos genéticos, sendo encontradas algumas “assinaturas de aminoácidos” relativas aos subtipos não-B. Realizou-se ainda uma pesquisa de locais de N-glicosilação e a previsão da utilização de co-receptores (abordagem genotípica), com
recurso às regras 11/25 e da carga líquida da ansa V3 e aos programas PSSM e
geno2pheno[coreceptor]. Observou-se uma conservação genérica do número de locais de
N-glicosilação e foram identificadas 5 sequências com tropismo X4 ou duplo. Por fim,
com base na literatura, realizou-se uma pesquisa de polimorfismos genéticos associados a resistência ao MVC presentes na ansa V3. Foi observado um número elevado destas mutações. A presença dos padrões 11S+26V e 20F+25D+26V, num total de 3
sequências, é relevante, visto estes estarem inequivocamente associados à resistência in
vivo ao MVC.
Apesar de não estar ainda definido um perfil de resistência para o MVC, a presença das mutações encontradas, em indivíduos sem contacto prévio com o fármaco, trará implicações relevantes na sua gestão clínica, considerando a introdução do MVC
na terapia de recurso.---------- ABSTRACT: Maraviroc (MVC) is the only CCR5 inhibitor licensed today. This drug interacts
with the transmembrane helices of CCR5 co-receptor, inducing a conformation change
of its extracellular loops and preventing the interaction with gp120. MVC is only active against R5 strains of HIV-1 and is currently used in salvage therapy.
The genetic diversity of the env C2V3C3 region of HIV-1 strains from injecting
drug users in the Greater Lisbon was studied, along with the presence of natural genetic polymorphisms. 52 plasma samples were used and the amplification by RT-nested PCR of a 565 bp-product was possible in 35 of them. The phylogenetic analysis revealed 23 sequences classified as subtype B (probably including 2 CRF14_BG), 8 A, 3 G and 1 F1. After translation, the presence of natural genetic polymorphisms was studied by
comparison to a subtype B consensus. A high frequency of genetic polymorphisms was
observed and significant “amino acid signatures” were found in association with non-B subtypes. A full characterization of the N-glycosylation sites was also performed and a coreceptor prediction (genotypic approach) was accomplished using the 11/25 and the V3 net charge rules and the programs PSSM and geno2pheno[coreceptor]. The number of N-glycosylation sites was generically preserved. Five sequences were defined as X4 or dual-tropic. Based on published data, a search for genetic polymorphisms, present in V3loop, associated to MVC resistance was finally undertaken. Several of such mutations
were observed, being particularly interesting the presence of the patterns 11S+26V and 20F+25D+26V, in a total of 3 sequences, since these patterns have unequivocally been associated with MVC resistance in vivo.
Although a resistance profile for MVC is not yet defined, the presence of these mutations in MVC-naïve populations may have significant impact in their clinical
management in the future, especially considering the introduction of this drug in salvage therapy.
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Andersson, Jan-Åke, and Joakim Sturesson. "Interaktiv samhällsplanering vid planering av civilt försvar : En komparativ studie mellan Halland, Värmland, Västra Götaland och Örebro läns arbete med planering av civilt försvar." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-69520.
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Denna uppsats är en komparativ fallstudie som undersöker fyra länsstyrelsers planering av civilt försvar ur ett samverkansperspektiv. De undersökta länsstyrelserna är Halland, Västra Götaland, Värmland och Örebro län. Den övergripande frågan är vilka likheter och skillnader som finns mellan länsstyrelsernas planering. Empirin är inhämtad genom semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer med tjänstemän i chefs- samt handläggarnivå vid de undersökta länsstyrelserna. Det inhämtade materialet är kategoriserat och analyserat utifrån en analysmodell som bygger på ett ramverk, An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance. I analysen jämförs de fyra länsstyrelsernas arbete med att planera civilt försvar genom samverkan. Resultatet av studien påvisar att det finns stora skillnader mellan de undersökta länsstyrelserna i hur de har tagit sig an uppgiften och vilken verksamhet de bedriver för att skapa legitimitet, gränsöverskridande åtgärder och helhetsförståelse mellan aktörer för att skapa förutsättningar för planering av civilt försvar. Det finns även stora skillnader i hur de har uppfattat den styrning som kommer från central nivå. Resultatet påvisar även att det finns stora likheter i de behov de fyra länsstyrelserna lyfter fram, bland annat samordning i den hierarkiska organisationen från central- ned till lokal nivå avseende branschöverenskommelser och en sammanhållen planeringsprocess. Ramverket kan konstateras vara användbart som analysmodell avseende samverkan vid planering av civilt försvar.This essay is a comparative case study that examines the planning of civil defense from Halland, Västra Götaland, Värmland and Örebro county administrative boards from a collaborative perspective. The overall question is what similarities and differences exist between the county administrative board planning. The empiric material is obtained through semi-structured qualitative interviews with officials at the executive and supervisory level of the investigated county administrative boards. The collected material is categorized and analyzed based on an analysis model based on a framework, An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance. The analysis compares the work of the four county administrative boards in planning civil defense through cooperation. The results of the study shows that there are major differences between the county administrative authorities in how they have taken on the task and what activity they are pursuing to create legitimacy, cross-border action and overall understanding between actors to create the conditions for civil defense planning. There are also major differences in how they perceived the governance that comes from national authority. The result also shows that there are major similarities in the needs of the four county administrative boards, including coordination in the hierarchical organization from national to local level regarding industry agreements and coherent planning. The framework can be found useful as an analysis tool for collaborative planning in civil defense.
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Engelbrecht, Adel. "Ontwerp en toetsing van 'n intervensieprogram vir gesyferdheid vir graad 2- en 3-leerders." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1623.
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Thesis (MEd) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Learning and the development of numeracy in the foundation phase are regarded as highly important. In this critical period learners attain the fundamental knowledge that is needed for future learning and development. A serious problem within South African schools is that a great number of foundation phase learners show difficulties in numeracy. Various reasons can be provided for these difficulties, for example, learners do not receive good teaching, they hold negative attitudes towards numeracy, they encounter language barriers, and so forth. It is important that the learners’ difficulties in numeracy are attended to immediately and effectively, to be able to minimise the gaps between the learners’ functioning level and the level the learner is suppose to be on. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) laid bare their concern with the current problem in numeracy when they launched the WCED Literacy and Numeracy Strategy 2006-2016. As part of this the Metropole North Education and Management Development Centre (EMDC) requested and implemented an intervention programme for grade 2 and grade 3 learners. Part of this problem is that many foundation phase educators lack the necessary knowledge to identify the learners with difficulties and especially to attend to these difficulties. The goal of this research study was to investigate the realization of an early intervention programme implemented over a limited period of time of ten weeks in grade 2 and grade 3 classrooms. The current study aimed at providing educators with resources to offer learning support to their disadvantaged learners within the Numeracy classroom. This study has implications for the way in which educators approach and teach numeracy, as well as for the type of learning support the educators provide their disadvantaged learners with. The intervention programme is based on a problem centered approach with constructivism as underlying epistemology. This approach views the educator as a facilitator who provides the learners with opportunities to be actively involved in the learning environment to construct knowledge. The importance of word problems and discussion within the Numeracy classroom are emphasized and it is necessary that the educator create the appropriate classroom atmosphere so that this approach can be implemented effectively. Learning is an active process and it is the responsibility of the educator to provide the learners with appropriate learning activities for learning and development to take place. The study made use of programme evaluation as research methodology. Programme evaluation refers to a research goal instead of specific research methods, because various methods can be used which may be quantitative or qualitative in nature. The gathering of data was done through classroom observations by the researcher, informal interviews with participating educators, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with the educators at the four schools the researcher monitored intensively during the implementation process of the intervention programme. The gathering of data was an ongoing process and the researcher analysed and interpreted the learners’ work at the end of the implementation process. The researcher checked this analysis by means of the literature review, transcripts and field notes. This formed the basis on which conclusions and recommendations could be made. The conclusions confirmed the importance of early intervention and the efficacy of the problem centered approach within the numeracy classroom. It also confirmed the disadvantages of the training model that was used, that is the Cascade model. With this study it was possible to determine that a ten week intervention programme was too short a period to observe meaningful improvements in learners. Therefore further research should be done on addressing learners’ difficulties and to train and support educators to provide learning support to their learners.
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Rezende, Jaqueline Oliveira. "Geração distribuída: legislação brasileira, perspectivas e estudos de casos via ATP." Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2015. https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/14591.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorThe constant concern to meet the growing demand for electricity has provided several researches in different areas in order to obtain new forms of power generation. In this context, distributed generation has emerged as a promising source of electricity located closely to consumer. Therefore, this work has as main objective to analyze the regulatory incentives for the use of distributed generation in Brazil, clearly display the current national legislation of this sector, report the future prospects to regulate this type of generation and assess the contributions of a distributed generation unit connected to a distribution feeder. Initially, it are considered the various descriptions and definitions for distributed generation, as well as concepts and differences between centralized and distributed generation. For a better understanding of distributed generation it is also presented the most prominent advantages and disadvantages of using such generation and the main energy sources that can be used in distributed generation whether renewable or non-renewable. In sequence, Brazilian laws that have contributed to promote the use of distributed generation in this country are presented in detail. It is also addressed the technical standards of the leading electricity distributors in Brazil, since the preparation of such regulations is determined by law. Comparisons are also made between national and foreign standards and presented the future prospects for the Brazilian law of this sector. To evaluate the effects of distributed generation in a distribution feeder, simulations of common disturbances are performed in an electric power system. They are: three-phase short-circuit, phase-to-ground short-circuit, islanding of part of the electrical system and load increase. All case studies are prepared and run with ATP software. To help the analysis, the distributed generator is first disconnected and after connected to the system.
A preocupação constante em atender à crescente demanda de energia elétrica tem proporcionado várias pesquisas em diversas áreas com a finalidade de obtenção de novas formas de geração de energia elétrica. Neste contexto, a geração distribuída tem se apresentado como uma fonte promissora de eletricidade localizada próxima do consumidor. Dessa forma, este trabalho possui como principal objetivo analisar os incentivos regulatórios para a utilização da geração distribuída no Brasil, apresentar de forma clara a legislação nacional vigente desse setor, relatar as perspectivas futuras para regular esse tipo de geração e avaliar as contribuições de uma unidade de geração distribuída conectada a um alimentador de distribuição. Inicialmente, são abordadas as várias denominações e definições destinadas a geração distribuída, assim como conceitos e diferenças entre geração centralizada e geração distribuída. Para a melhor compreensão da geração distribuída também são apresentadas as vantagens e desvantagens de maior destaque na utilização desse tipo de geração e as principais fontes energéticas, renováveis ou não, que podem ser empregadas na geração distribuída. Em sequência, são apresentadas detalhadamente as legislações brasileiras que têm contribuído para incentivar a utilização da geração distribuída no país. São abordadas as normas técnicas das principais distribuidoras de energia elétrica do Brasil, desde que a elaboração dessas foi determinada por lei. Comparações são também realizadas entre as normas nacionais e estrangeiras e apresentadas as perspectivas futuras para a legislação brasileira desse setor. Com a finalidade de avaliar os efeitos da geração distribuída em um alimentador de distribuição, são realizadas simulações de distúrbios comuns no sistema elétrico de potência, como: curto-circuito trifásico, curto-circuito fase terra sólido, ilhamento de parte do sistema elétrico e aumento de carga. Todos os estudos de casos são preparados e processados com o software ATP. Para auxiliar na análise, o gerador distribuído é primeiramente desconectado e depois conectado ao sistema.
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Ullberg, Oskar. "Styrketräning av tårnas flexormuskulatur vid plantar fasciit : Tre Single-Case studier." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-31432.
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Bakgrund: Hälsmärta drabbar en av 10 individer någon gång i livet, i cirka 80 procent av fallen är orsaken plantar fasciit. Läkningstiden för plantar fasciit kan bli mycket lång, i vissa fall upp till två år. Följsamhet till träningsprogram är av stor betydelse för utfallet vid fysioterapeutiska behandling. Syfte: Att undersöka hur styrketräning av tårnas flexormuskulatur, med fokus på excentrisk belastning, påverkar tilltro till aktivitetsnivå (rask promenad) och symtom vid plantar fasciit. Vidare är syftet att utifrån socialkognitiv teori undersöka faktorer av betydelse för följsamhet till träning, samt hur deltagarna upplever träningen. Metod: Studien har en A-B-A Singel-Case Design. Patienter tillfrågandes löpande på en privat fysioterapimottagning. Tre deltagare inkluderades i studien. Baslinjemätningen under två veckor (A1) följdes av sex veckor intervention med avslutande baslinjemätning under två veckor (A2). Data samlades in genom självrapporterade skattningar av variabler av intresse i en träningsdagbok. Visuell avläsning har gjorts utifrån trend och lutning. Resultat: Deltagare A visade på förbättring, B och C har kvarstående eller något ökade symtom. Samtliga deltagare visade på hög self-efficacy för utförande av övningen. Deltagare A och B visade på hög följsamhet och C på lägre följsamhet till träningsprogrammet. Slutsats: Författarens slutsats är att träningsupplägget är genomförbart för patienter med plantar fasciit. För eventuell gruppstudie kunde inklusions- och exklusionskriterier föreslås baserat på resultat av denna studie.Background: Heel pain affects 1 in 10 individuals at some point in life, in about 80% of the cases, the cause is plantar fasciitis. The healing time for plantar fasciitis can be very long, in some cases up to two years. Adherence to treatment is of great importance for the outcome in physiotherapy. Aim: To investigate how the strength of the toe flexor, focusing on the eccentric load, affecting self-efficacy for activity (power walking) and symptoms of plantar fasciitis. Further to investigate and examine factors affecting adherence to exercise, and how participants feel the workout, based of social cognitive theory. Methods: The study has an A-B-A Single-Case Design. Patients asked to participate at a private physiotherapy clinic in Sweden. Three participants were included in the study. Baseline measurements was collected for two weeks (A1) that was followed by six weeks of intervention with ending baseline measurements for two weeks (A2). Data were collected through self-reported estimates of the variables of interest in a diary. Visual reading was made based on the trend and slope. Results: Participants A showed improvement, B and C have persistent or increased symptoms. All participants showed high self-efficacy for performing the exercise. Participant A and B showed high adherence and C showed lower adherence to the exercise program. Conclusions:. The author's conclusion is that the exercise program is feasible for patients with plantar fasciitis. For a future group study the inclusion and exclusion criteria are proposed to be based on the results of this study.
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Rautenbach, Marina Ninette. "Riglyne vir maatskaplike werkers by etnies-sensitiewe rouberaad met Xhosa-sprekende persone." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53036.
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Thesis (MSocialWork)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study was to establish guidelines for ethnic-sensitive bereavement counselling with Xhosa speaking people. These guidelines are specifically aimed at Social Workers who do bereavement counselling with Xhosa speaking people. In order to formulate the guidelines, both literature review and empirical studies were undertaken. The literature review consists of two chapters. In the first chapter the ethnicsensitive perspective and bereavement counselling models are discussed and attention is given to the integration of the ethnic-sensitive perspective with bereavement counselling models. The second chapter deals with death and bereavement in the Xhosa culture, the role of the Social Worker as bereavement counsellor and the knowledge, values and skills required to do bereavement counselling. Through the literature review it was established that specific knowledge of a Xhosa speaking person's bereavement process is essential for any Social Worker who wishes to do ethnic-sensitive bereavement counselling with a Xhosa speaking person. Skills and values must be tailored to the needs of the Xhosa speaking person in bereavement. During the literature review it also became clear that successful ethnic-sensitive bereavement counselling can only be done if the Social Worker is totally knowledgeable about hislher own experiences and attitudes in respect of the bereavement process as well as in respect of another culture, for example the Xhosa culture. The empirical study was done to establish the needs of Xhosa speaking people in respect of bereavement counselling. The respondents consisted of Xhosa speaking individuals who were in the bereavement process. The measurement instrument consisted of a questionnaire with quantitative and qualitative questions and these were completed by ten respondents. The sample of ten respondents were selected from amongst respondents who were available and willing to participate in the research. The findings of the empirical study pointed to the unique needs of Xhosa speaking people which must be considered during bereavement counselling with them. It was also confirmed that a Social Worker required specific knowledge of Xhosa speaking people's bereavement process in order to deliver ethnic-sensitive bereavement counselling. The finding establishes clear guidelines for Social Workers doing ethnic-sensitive bereavement counselling with Xhosa speaking people.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van die studie was om riglyne vir etnies-sensitiewe rouberaad met Xhosa-sprekende persone daar te stel. Die riglyne is spesifiek gerig op maatskaplike werkers wat rouberaad met Xhosa-sprekende persone doen. Ten einde die riglyne te formuleer is 'n literatuurstudie en 'n empiriese studie gedoen. Die literatuurstudie bestaan uit twee hoofstukke. In die eerste hoofstuk is die etnies-sensitiewe perspektief en rouberaad modelle bespreek, daar is ook aandag gegee aan die integrering van die etnies-sensitiewe perspektief met die rouberaad modelle. Die tweede hoofstuk handel oor dood en rou in die Xhosa-kultuur; die rol van die maatskaplike werker as rouberader en die kennis, waardes en vaardighede wat benodig word om rouberaad te doen. Met die literatuurstudie is vasgestel dat 'n maatskaplike werker wat etnies-sensitiewe rouberaad met 'n Xhosa-sprekende persoon wil doen, spesifieke kennis van die Xhosa-sprekende persoon se rouproses moet hê. Vaardighede en waardes moet ook aangepas word by die behoeftes van die Xhosa-sprekende persoon in rou. In die literatuurstudie het dit ook duidelik na vore gekom dat suksesvolle etnies-sensitiewe rouberaad slegs gedoen kan word indien die maatskaplike werker deeglike kennis dra van sy/haar eie ervaringe en houdings ten opsigte van die rouproses en ten opsigte van 'n ander kultuur, byvoorbeeld die Xhosa-kultuur. 'n Empiriese studie is gedoen om Xhosa-sprekende persone se behoeftes ten opsigte van rouberaad te bepaal. Die respondente het bestaan uit Xhosa-sprekende persone wat in 'n rouproses was. 'n Vraelys met kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe vrae is as meetinstrument gebruik, en is deur tien respondente voltooi. Die steekproef van tien respondente is verkry deur doelbewuste seleksie, van respondente wat bereidwillig en beskikbaar vir die navorsing was. Die bevindinge van die empiriese studie het aangedui dat Xhosa-sprekend persone unieke behoeftes het wat in ag geneem moet word tydens rouberaad. Daar is bevestig dat dit vir 'n maatskaplike werker nodig is om spesifieke kennis van die Xhosa-sprekende persoon se rouproses te hê, ten einde etnies-sensitiewe rouberaad te lewer. Die bevindinge lig duidelike riglyne vir maatskaplike werkers by etnies-sensitiewe rouberaad met Xhosa-sprekende persone uit.
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Fredriksson, Mathias, and Caesar Iseri. "Sjuksköterskors upplevelser av ansvar vid delegering : En empirisk studie." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39343.
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Bakgrund: Tidigare forskning visar på en stressig arbetsmiljö för sjuksköterskor med flera komplexa arbetsuppgifter. Behovet av att delegera arbetsuppgifter ökar i och med detta och kraven på att delegera patientsäkert beskrivs som centralt. Den tidigare forskningen ger ingen klar bild över vem som har vilket ansvar i delegeringsfrågan. Syfte: Syftet med examensarbetet var att undersöka sjuksköterskors ansvar vid delegering av hälso- och sjukvårdsinsatser i kommunal verksamhet. Metod: Studien följer en kvalitativ ansats med en innehållsanalys. Insamlingen av data skedde via inspelade semistrukturerade intervjuer. För examensarbetet blev sex sjuksköterskor intervjuade. Resultat: Tre kategorier utformades av resultatet: ansvar gentemot patienten vid delegering, ansvar under delegeringstillfället och ansvar efter utförd delegering. Gemensamt hade informanterna ett standardiserat – webbaserad – delegeringsrutin. Dock fanns det lite till ingen uppföljning på delegeringar. Slutsats: delegeringsprocessen är komplex med oklar ansvarsbild. Sjuksköterskan ansvarar för att patienten i slutänden får god och säker vård även om det är helg, kväll eller sjukdomsfall i personalgruppen.Background: Previous studies show a stressful work environment for nurses with complex job assignments. The demand to delegate job assignments is increasing as an aftermath and the requirement to delegate job assignments with patient safety in mind is described as a central factor. The previous studies gave no clear image of who has the responsibility in delegations. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the registered nurses’ experiences of responsibility during delegations. Method: The study has a qualitative approach and is assembled in content analysis. Data has been collected through semi structured interviews. For the study six nurses have been interviewed. Result: The manifested results formed up in three categories: responsibility towards patients when delegating, responsibility during the delegation and responsibility after the delegation. The informants had in common that they were following a standardized web-based delegation routine. Though there was slight to no follow up on the delegations. Conclusion: The delegation process is complex with unclear responsibility. The nurse is responsible for ensuring that the patient receives good and safe care in the end, even if it is weekend, evening or illness in the staff group.
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Karlsson, Anders. "Egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom - en balansakt : Metaetnografisk studie." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - avancerad nivå, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-15758.
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Bakgrund: Bipolär sjukdom orsakar ett stor lidande för individen med återkommande återfall i depression eller hypomani/mani. Omvårdnad som stödjer individen till att aktivt bedriva egenvård kan stärka individen till att bli mer självständig och aktiv i behandlingen av bipolär sjukdom. Det saknas en systematisk översikt över kvalitativa studier om individers erfarenheter av att genomföra egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom. Syfte: Belysa individers erfarenheter av att genomföra egenvård relaterat till bipolär sjukdom. Metod: Den kvalitativa metoden metaetnografi användes vid studien. Sökning i databaser resulterade i 22 kvalitativa artiklar. Syntetisering av artiklarna resulterade i tre metaforer med en modell över hur metaforerna är sammanlänkade. Resultat: Studiens resultat består av metaforerna "Egenvård som balansakt", "Sjukvårdens erbjudande av en balanspinne" samt "Risker för fall av linan". Slutsats: Resultatets tre metaforer skapar tillsammans en metaforisk modell som visar att egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom kan ses som att individen behöver "balansera på en lina" för att inte "falla ner från linan" i depression eller mani. Den metaforiska modellen åskådliggör att egenvård vid bipolär sjukdom är ett komplext fenomen som sträcker sig längre än utförandet av egenvård. Specialistsjuksköterskan inom psykiatrin bör aktivt uppmuntra individer med bipolär sjukdom till att aktivt bedriva egenvård för att stärka deras självständighet och inge en ökad möjlighet att erhålla en förbättrad hälsa och välbefinnande. Studiens resultat stärks av att det går teoretisk anknytas till Orems egenvårdsteori.Background: Bipolar disorder causes a great deal of suffering for the individual with recurrent depression or hypomania/mania. Nursing that supports the individual to actively pursue selfcare can strengthen the individual to become more independent and active in the treatment of bipolar disorder. There is no systematic review of qualitative studies on individuals' experiences of performing self-care in bipolar disorder Aim: Highlight individuals' experiences of conducting self-care related to bipolar disorder. Method: The qualitative method of meta-ethnography was used in the study. Searching databases resulted in 22 qualitative articles. Synthesizing the articles resulted in three metaphors with a model of how the metaphors are interconnected Results: The study's results consist of the metaphors "Self-care as a balancing act", "Health care's offering of a balancing stick" and "Risks for falls of the line". Conclusion: The three metaphors of the result together create a metaphorical model that shows that self-care in bipolar disorder can be seen as the individual having to "balance on a line" so as not to "fall off the line" in depression or mania. The metaphorical model illustrates that self-care in bipolar disorder is a complex phenomenon that goes beyond self-care. The specialist nurse in psychiatry should actively encourage individuals with bipolar disorder to actively pursue self-care to strengthen their independence and to provide an increased opportunity to grant improved health and well-being. The study's results are strengthened by the fact that it is theoretically linked to Orem's self-care theory.
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Eråker, Barbro, and Maria Heggen. "Barnmorskors dokumenterade vård vid förlossning : Empirisk studie." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1026.
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Förlossningsvårdens processer har vanligen utvärderats med jämförelsetal samt statistik över bakgrundsfaktorer och interventioner. Utvärderingarna har använts som argument för att likna vården vid normal förlossning med den som krävs vid komplicerade förhållanden. WHO (1996) rekommenderade och kategoriserade vård vid normal förlossning. Ett instrument fanns utvecklat som använts i ett kvalitetsutvecklingsarbete för att kartlägga förlossningsvård i förhållande till WHO: s rekommendationer. Studiens syfte var att kartlägga barnmorskors dokumenterade vård enligt WHO: s rekommendationer om vård vid normal förlossning tre år efter föregående kartläggning. Studien var prospektiv och genomfördes på en medelstor svensk förlossningsavdelning. Det ovan beskrivna instrumentet användes för att granska barnmorskors dokumentation av medicinska och omvårdnadsmässiga ställningstaganden i 200 förlossningsjournaler. Resultatet består av data som beskrivs med deskriptiv statistik.
Resultatet visade att barnmorskorna använde vårdinsatser inom samtliga av WHO: s kategorier och att WHO: s rekommendationer följdes delvis. Barnmorskorna gjorde riskbedömning av kvinnorna vid ankomsten till förlossningen men anpassade sedan bara delvis vården utifrån denna riskbedömning. Medicinska interventioner exempelvis CTG, farmakologisk smärtlindring och oxytocinstimulering var ofta dokumenterade trots att de flesta kvinnorna bedömts som lågrisk vid ankomst. Basal övervakning av kvinnans fysiska välbefinnande exempelvis puls, blodtryck och temp dokumenterades sporadiskt och omvårdnadsmässiga variabler som exempelvis stöd var bara dokumenterat i enstaka journaler. Jämfört med de tidigare mätningarna och i förhållande till WHO: s rekommendationer har ett antal variabler fortsatt att utvecklas i positiv riktning och några har återgått efter att ha förändrats under kvalitetsutvecklingsarbetet. Några variabler har försämrats efter att kvalitetsutvecklingsarbetet avslutades.
Childbirth and the delivery process have traditionally been evaluated using descriptive statistics to describe background factors and interventions. These evaluations have been used as an argument to liken care in normal birth with the care necessary for women with complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. WHO (1996) classified the practices common in the conduct of normal childbirth in to four categories. An audit instrument intended to measure midwifery care in relation to these four categories was found. The instrument had been used within a quality improvement program.
The aim of the study was to describe documented intrapartal care in relation to WHO recommendations for care in normal birth, three years subsequent to the last auditing. The design was prospective and descriptive and the study was conducted in a middle sized Swed-ish maternity unit. The instrument was used to study midwifes´ documented care in 200 delivery records.
The results of the study showed that the midwives uses care and interventions from WHO´s four categories and that the recommendations from WHO were only partly adhered to. Midwives conducted risk assessments of the women on admission to the mater-nity unit, but they did not adjust the care to the result of the risk assessments. Medical interventions such as electronic fetal monitoring, use of pharmacological pain relief and oxytocin augmentation were frequently documented in spite of the fact that 82 % of the women were considered lowrisk. Physiological items such as pulse, blood-pressure and temperature were sparingly documented and caring variables for example support were scantily documented. Comparisons with previos audits and the relation to WHO´s recom-mendations shows that some variables developed positively, some changed during the quality improvement program and has now reverted to the state previous from the program. Some of the variables deteriorated.
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Gustafsson, Johanna. "Single case studies vs. multiple case studies: A comparative study." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33017.
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Hansson, Pernilla. "Cash Management : en studie av netting som verktyg vid likviditetshantering." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1042.
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Background: Liquidity and the management of liquidity are of great importance for companies. Cash management is not a new term, but the need for it has increased recently, for one thing because of the internationalisation and growing harmonisation between the countries in Europe. Netting is a cash management technique, where receivables and liabilities are netted. This technique can be used to release capital and increase the company’s cash flow by reducing the number of transactions in the internal payment system.
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study and describe the idea of netting, and to examine how netting can be used as a cash management tool.
Method: The study is based on literature as well as personal interviews with co- workers at the case company.
Result: Netting leads to a reduction in internal payments and hence a reduction of the transaction volume. Some conditions must however be fulfilled in order to make the implementation of this technique profitable. Among other things, the company’s internal transactions must be of considerable proportions.
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Strand, Karin, and Caroline Wolf. "Vändpunkt : En studie av behandlingsupplevelser vid Magelungens dagverksamheter." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215840.
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Denna studie är en fallstudie vid två av Magelungens dagverksamheter. Studien inkluderar tre olika perspektiv: ungdom, förälder och behandlare. Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka informanternas upplevelser av ungdomens tid på Magelungens dagverksamhet. Detta har gjorts genom en kvalitativ metod där sekundärdata, i form av nio intervjuer genomförda av Magelungens forskningsgrupp, har bearbetats och analyserats genom meningskoncentrering. Studien tar avstamp i den kunskapslucka kring kvalitativ forskning om dagverksamheter som forskningsgenomgången visar på. Resultatet tyder på att informanterna generellt sett är nöjda med tiden på dagverksamheten. Det positiva kretsar kring gemenskap, det lilla sammanhanget, personalens förhållningssätt och en individanpassad verksamhet som inkluderar flera områden. Det framkommer även negativa upplevelser som då framförallt handlar om att personalen borde ställt mer krav på ungdomarna. Det kretsar även kring att ungdomarna inte förbereddes tillräckligt inför avslutet från Magelungen och övergången till ”en vanlig skola”. De negativa upplevelserna kommer framförallt från föräldrar och personal medan ungdomarna själva är mer positiva. I diskussionen har systemteori samt risk- och skyddsfaktorer använts som utgångspunkt för att tolka resultaten. Resultaten diskuteras vidare i förhållande till implikationer för vidare forskning utifrån svårigheterna i att bedöma dagverksamheternas kvalitet då ungdomar placerade där utgör en mycket heterogen grupp.This study is a case study at two of Magelungens day treatment centers. The study includes three different perspectives: adolescent, parent and therapist. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interviewees' experiences of the adolescents’ time at Magelungens day treatment center. This has been done through a qualitative approach where secondary data, in the form of nine interviews conducted by Magelungens research group, were processed and analyzed by the method of sense concentration. The study takes off from the gap of knowledge on qualitative research on day treatment centers as the research review shows. The result indicates that the interviewees are generally satisfied with the adolescents’ time at the day treatment center. The positive experiences revolve around solidarity, the small context, the approach of the staff and an individualized setting that includes several domains. It also reveals negative experiences that mostly centers on the fact that the staff should have put more demands on the adolescents. It also revolves around the adolescents not being prepared enough for the transition to “a regular school”. The negative experiences mainly belong to the parents and staff, while the adolescents themselves are more positive. In the discussion, systems theory as well as the understanding of risk and protective factors is used as a basis for interpreting the results. The results are further discussed in relation to implications for further research with regards to the difficulties in assessing the quality of day treatment centers since the adolescents placed there are such a heterogeneous group.
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Ek, Ann-Christin, and Gina Larsson. "Personcentrerad omvårdnad vid demens : En deskriptiv kvalitativ studie." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Omvårdnad, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-23537.
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Bakgrund: Demens är en av de stora folksjukdomarna och vårdpersonal möter dessa personer med demens både inom akutsjukvård och kommunal vård. På slutet av sitt liv bor de flesta personer som drabbats av demens på institution. Personcentrerad vård beskrivs vara gynnsamt i vården av personer med demens och personalens erfarenhet av detta har stor betydelse. Syfte: Syftet var att studera sjuksköterskors, enhetschefers och undersköterskors erfarenhet av personcentrerad omvårdnad inom kommunal hälso och sjukvård. Metod: Designen var en deskriptiv studie med kvalitativ ansats som har analyserats med hjälp av en induktiv innehållsanalys. Deltagarna som inkluderades i intervjustudien kom från samma kommun. Det var tio personer och bestod av fyra sjuksköterskor, fyra undersköterskor och två enhetschefer. De valdes ut av verksamhetschefen där inklusionskriteriet var att ha arbetat med personer med demens i minst fem år. Resultat: I resultatet framkom fyra kategorier och 12 subkategorier. Personcentrerad omvårdnad ansågs relevant i samband med god omvårdnad av personer med demens. I arbetet med personcentrerad vård var fokus att; anpassa sig till personen med demens, att se till dennes identitet och personlighet. Vidare lades vikt vid anhörigas deltagande, bemötande och ett gemensamt arbetssätt, vilket bestod av att identifiera behov och se personen bakom sjukdomen. Slutsats: Resultatet visade att de flesta intervjupersonerna hade liknande erfarenheter i att arbeta med personer med demens. Det framkom i studien att bemötandet hade stor betydelse i omvårdnaden. Fokus i personcentrerad omvårdnad var de redovisade kategorierna och dess innehåll och ansågs betydelsefull och nödvändig för att personer med demens får ett så bra och värdigt liv som möjligt efter sjukdomsdebuten.Background: Dementia is one of the major diseases and health professionals encounter these people with dementia both in emergency care and municipal care. At the end of life most people affected by dementia live in institutions. Personcentered care is described to be beneficial in the care of people with dementia and staff's experience of this is of great importance. Purpose: The aim was to study nurses, unit managers and staff nurses' experience of person-centered care in local health care. Method: The design was a descriptive study with qualitative approach which has been analyzed by means of an inductive content analysis. Participants enrolled in the interview study came from the same municipality. There were ten people and consisted of four registered nurses, four enrolled nurses and two managers for the organization. They were chosen by business manager and had worked with people with dementia in at least five years Results: The result showed four categories and 12 subcategories. Personcentered care was considered relevant in the context of good nursing care of people with dementia. In the process of person-centered care was the focus to; adapt to the person with dementia, to ensure the identity and personality. Furthermore, it was stressed relatives' participation, treatment and a common approach, which consisted of identifying the needs and sees the person Conclusion: The results showed that most interviewees had similar experiences in working with people with dementia. It emerged from the study that the patient specific approach had positive outcomes when caring for a person with dementia. Person-centered care was considered very important and necessary to ensure that people with dementia have good and dignified life after being diagnosed with the disease.
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Elliott, Peter Vincent. "Intra-metropolitan agglomerations of producer services firms : the case of graphic design firms in metropolitan Melbourne, 1981-2001 /." Connect to thesis, 2005. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001532.
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Löfvenhaft, Åsa. "Seeking Safety som behandling vid PTSD : En single case studie i psykiatrisk öppenvård." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-90642.
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Denna single case studie, med multipel baslinjemätning över beteenden, utvärderade huruvida frekvensen traumarelaterade undvikandebeteenden minskade vid 12 sessioners behandling under 6 veckor med Seeking Safety (en behandlingsmanual med copingstrategier för PTSD och samtidigt missbruk), hos patienter med PTSD som inte bedömts lämpliga/redo att direkt börja traumafokuserad KBT. Därutöver utvärderades huruvida behandling med Seeking Safety, kunde öka villigheten att genomgå traumafokuserad KBT. 4 patienter deltog i studien varav 3 fullföljde behandlingen. Resultaten visade en svag tendens i riktning med hypoteserna, men studiens resultat i sin helhet ger ej stöd för behandlingens effekt hos patientgruppen. Av denna studie går ej att utläsa huruvida behandling med Seeking Safety kan leda till minskning av traumarelaterade undvikande-beteenden.
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Berggren, Johan, and Mikael Palmqvist. "Sjuksköterskors erfarenheter vid vård av vuxna i livets slutskede : En litteraturbaserad studie." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11838.
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Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskan arbetar nära vuxna patienter i livets slutskede där försök till läkande behandling gått över till en palliativ behandling. Många av dessa patienter har en komplicerad symtombild som kräver kunskaper i symtomhantering och de har också ofta oro, ångest och funderingar kring existentiella frågor som sjuksköterskan kan behöva hantera.Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda vuxna patienter i livets slutskedeMetod: Metoden som valdes var en litteraturbaserad studie grundat på kvalitativ forskning, baserat på tolv vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultat: Ur analysen framträdde tre kategorier såsom Frustration, skicklig kommunikatör, få till ett nära samarbete med åtta underkategorier. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskors erfarenheter vid vård i livets slutskede påvisar betydelsen av att relationer mellan patienten, anhöriga och vårdpersonal skapas.
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Wikfeldt, Emma. "Generalising from Case Studies." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-32565.
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The generalisability of case study findings is heavily criticised in the scientific community. This study attempts to answer to what extent generalisation is possible, through a literature review. Resources were collected by searching in databases and in reference lists. A presentation of arguments from both sides will follow, finding that generalisation is possible to almost the same extent as quantitative research, if done correctly and carefully, with great concern and accuracy.
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Öberg, Mikaela. "Case studies as literature." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-32646.
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Edwards, Bradley D., Michael Braswell, and Larry Miller. "Case Studies in Corrections." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/177.
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Case Studies in Corrections invites the reader to analyze hypothetical situations confronted by judges, probation officers, inmates, correctional officers, counselors, clerics, and administrators. Concise but thorough introductions to each section provide background for assessing the scenarios. Thought-provoking questions stimulate reflection about possible courses of action and the potential consequences of choices made. The Sixth Edition encourages an interactive approach—whether rethinking effective punishment, analyzing the role of the community in corrections, or addressing ethical and legal issues.
Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Haas-Alpert, The Dilemmas of Corrections: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Fifth Edition (ISBN 9781577663980) and Quinn, Corrections: A Concise Introduction, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577662464).https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1197/thumbnail.jpg
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Johansson, Johanna, and Lina Magnusson. "Palliativ vård i hemmet − närståendes upplevelser av vård vid livets slutskede : En litteraturbaserad studie." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avdelningen för omvårdnad - grundnivå, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-13632.
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Background: About 80 percent of the people dying in Sweden are considered to have been in need of palliative care. When death is approaching, due to age or illness, the ill person's and the relatives' needs must be met which is the main aim of palliative care. It has been increasingly common that people choose to be cared for in their own home in the end of life and therefore knowledge of the relatives' experience is important for the healthcare professionals. Aim: To highlight relatives' experience of palliative care at the end of life in the dying person's home. Method: A literature review based on qualitative studies. Eight articles were analyzed in five steps according to Friberg's qualitative content analysis for literature based studies. Results: Three main themes and six sub-themes emerged through the analysis. The main themes were: To fulfill a wish, To experience security and To be a caregiver. Conclusion: In order for relatives to feel confirmed as caregivers and to preserve a good health it is of great importance that the nurse communicates and makes them feel involved by giving them both support, information and the possibility to participate in the care but also to be unloaded.Denna studie beskriver hur närstående upplever palliativ vård i hemmet vid livets slutskede. I Sverige väljer allt fler personer att vårdas i sitt hem den sista tiden i livet, vilket innebär att det också är fler närstående som är i behov av vård då även deras hälsa påverkas. Därför är kunskap om de närståendes upplevelser viktig för sjukvården. Resultatet i studien baseras på åtta vetenskapliga artiklar där studiens resultat presenteras i tre huvudteman och sex subteman. Resultatet visade att närstående upplevde ett krav och en förväntan att uppfylla den döende personens önskan. De kände även ett behov av att få stöd och information från sjuksköterskan, men också att vara delaktiga och bli bekräftade. Vårdandet påverkade både de närståendes hälsa och relationen till den döende personen, men genom att sjuksköterskan fanns där som ett stöd för dem kunde den betydelsefulla relationen mellan den döende personen och dennes närstående bevaras. Därför har sjuksköterskans närvaro en betydande roll i hur närstående upplever den palliativa vården vid livets slutskede.
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Klingström, Emil, and Joakim Caperman. "Patientdelaktighet och information vid hygienrutiner i hemsjukvården : en intervju studie." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11751.
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Bakgrund: Idag insjuknar många personer i infektionssjukdomar vilket ställer stora krav på sjukvården. Forskning visar att en god handhygien förebygger och minskar risken för att drabbas av en infektionssjukdom. Egenvård och patientdelaktighet är en viktig faktor för att patienter ska kunna bibehålla en god handhygien och på så sätt förhindra att insjukna i infektionssjukdomar. Syfte: Att beskriva faktorer som avgör om sjuksköterskan gör patienten delaktig vid hygienrutiner i hemsjukvården. Metod: En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av 8 stycken semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Resultat: Det identifierades 3 kategorier och 8 underkategorier i resultatet. Huvudfynden i resultatet beskriver att sjuksköterskan sällan informerar om handhygien och att detta påverkar patientdelaktigheten. Patientens integritet, kognitiva funktion och hemmiljö beskrevs som hämmande faktorer vid information om handhygien. Samtidigt var situationer som medförde ökad risk för infektioner och smittspridning tillfällen då patienten erhöll mer information om handhygien vilket gav en ökad patientdelaktighet. Vidare påvisade resultatet att relationen mellan sjuksköterskan, patienten och andra yrkeskategorier inom vården påverkade patientdelaktigheten vid hygienrelaterad omvårdnad. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskan i hemsjukvården informerar sällan patienten om handhygien. Ytterligare forskning skulle kunna påvisa patientens behov och de positiva effekterna av delaktighet vid hygienförfarande.Background: Infection related diseases have a great effect on today’s healthcare. Research shows that a proper hand hygiene can prevent infection related diseases. Patient participation and self-care plays a great part of whether a patient is able to maintain a proper hand hygiene. Purpose: To describe factors that determine if the nurse involves the patient when performing hygiene related care in home nursing. Method: A qualitative analyze of content gathered from 8 semi-structured interviews. Results: Three categories and eight subcategories were found in the content. The categories described that the nurse doesn’t inform patients about hand hygiene, conditions that enables information as well as how the patient-caregiver relationship affected the patient participation and the information that was given. When the nurse cared for wounds or when there were an elevated risk for infection the patient got more information and got a bigger part in his care. Patient’s integrity and cognitive ability affected the patient participation. The respondents described the relationship as the foundation for good care. Conclusion: Nurses seldom inform patients about hand hygiene and further research could prove the value of patient participation in hygiene related care.
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Moraitou, Ioulia. "The heritage as an object of the E.U policies: what are the consequences in the development process and in the quality of life in the Southeast Mediterranean space of the EU ?case studies." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210358.
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Au niveau international, la conservation du patrimoine a fait l’objet de discussions philosophiques et pratiques considérables au cours des dernières années. La question du lien entre patrimoine et développement est abondamment évoquée, fait l’objet de convictions largement partagées mais les mécanismes qui entrent en action dans ce lien sont très mal identifiés. Etroitement intégrée aux questions environnementales, à l’aménagement rural et aux processus de régénération urbaine, la relation entre patrimoine et développement appartient tant à l’économique qu’au social et au politique. Notre recherche fait entrer les préoccupations patrimoniales dans le champ de la gouvernance locale et régionale elle s’intéresse à leur rôle dans les stratégies d’identité et dans la construction du capital social.Où se situe le patrimoine dans les politiques de la cohésion européenne? Quels sont les objectifs de la politique de cohésion? Quelles sont les interactions entre développement, cohésion et patrimoine? Les politiques en faveur du patrimoine, actuellement appliquées, sont elles classiques? C’est-à-dire :sont-elles focalisées sur la protection et la restauration du patrimoine ;ou bien sont-elles plus complexe, en ce sens qu’elles impliquent la valorisation et l’insertion du patrimoine parmi les ressources d’un territoire, permettant à la fois d’y greffer des politiques d’emploi, des politiques commerciales et des politiques de cohésion sociale ?Actuellement quelles sont les limites d’une mise en œuvre performante? Au final, le patrimoine a-t-il vraiment la signification et la place qu’on veut lui attribuer? Outre ce qu’ils postulent en matière de développement, les textes produits par l’UE indiquent que le patrimoine et sa valorisation sont d’habitude considérés comme éléments qui contribuent positivement à l’amélioration de la qualité de vie. Mais quelles sont les définitions qui sont actuellement disponibles? Quels sont vraiment les rapports entre toutes ses notions et leur concrétisation sur le terrain? La thèse ambitionne de contribuer à une réponse à ses questions.
Les instruments fournis dans le cadre de la politique européenne, sont extrêmement nombreux et multiformes. Une analyse est tentée afin d’évaluer l’efficacité de divers instruments disponibles de la politique de cohésion, en termes de valorisation du patrimoine et de son intégration, dans un contexte de développement local et régional. L’analyse s’effectue au travers d’études de cas. Les études de cas proposées (deux études de cas dans deux pays européens différents, la ville de Nicosie à Chypre et la ville de Xanthi en Grèce) traitent de l’espace du sud-est méditerranéen de l’U.E. La Grèce et Chypre ont été choisis en tant qu’exemples tout à fait représentatifs d’un point de vue géographique mais également d’un point de vue Européen. (Grèce:U.E 3 et Chypre: UE 12)
Le cas de Xanthi, Grèce, est le plus développé. Notre étude le présente comme un résultat globalement positif du rôle des politiques et des programmes de l’ U.E. Les mécanismes locaux d’utilisation des opportunités offertes par les financements européens sont expliqués. On montre comment l’identification, la réhabilitation, la valorisation d’un patrimoine spécifique à la région et la polarisation des politiques de développement sur ce patrimoine ont entraîné d’importants changements dans le comportement de la population vis-à-vis de son territoire. Outre un réinvestissement massif des groupes sociaux moyens et supérieurs dans le cœur urbain, on a pu constater une forte croissance de toutes les activités tertiaires et l’émergence d’une vie locale extrêmement dynamique. Tant la démographie que le nombre d’emplois montrent une courbe ascendante. Si l’on ne peut pas faire abstraction de phénomènes qui se rapprochent de la gentrification, on doit admettre que l’évolution des prix des immeubles et du foncier, n’a pas eu des conséquences identiques à celles qui sont observées en Europe occidentale. On peut semble–t-il dans ce cas (proche d’autres cas voisins dans les petites villes grecques) parler d’amélioration de la qualité de la vie.
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Al-Mazrooa, Nada. "Arabic localisation : key case studies for translation studies." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/117575/.
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This thesis investigates the practices of Arabic localisation as it presents a neglected area of localisation research, localising to a developing market. The thesis aims to establish a connection between localisation and Translation Studies, by exploring the ways in which this area can be theorised starting from the approaches developed by Lawrence Venuti (in particular the notions of foreignisation and domestication), and Christiane Nord (translation as interpersonal activity). Creating a theoretical framework which marries the cultural turn and functionalist approaches helps address the dynamics of Arabic localisation on both micro and macro levels. The thesis also aims to provide a holistic view of Arabic localisation, by considering translation processes and outcomes, and by attempting to understand how Arabic localisation is perceived by its target audience. In order to achieve these goals, the thesis presents three case studies devoted, respectively, to the FIFA 15 video game, the Knorr website and the educational platform Blackboard Learn. It follows a mixed method approach to answer about the unique nature of each case study. This includes text analysis which covers each medium’s localisation literature, the Arabic translated content of the selected products and related business articles. In addition, relevant online materials, such as gaming fora and Youtube gaming channels, are analysed to assess the response of the FIFA and Knorr target audience to the translation they receive. Due to the privacy of Blackboard Learn’s content and users, access to a student’s and an instructor’s accounts were sought from an Arabic university, and a questionnaire was developed to assess quantitatively and qualitatively the Arabic users’ response to the platform’s Arabic localisation. The significance of this thesis lies in its methodology and findings. Employing strategies from a range of backgrounds, academic, professional and social, produces a novel methodology for translation research and for addressing the complexity of the discipline of localisation, as well as understanding the effect of its technical and commercial aspects on translation practices and outcomes. By approaching localisation from a Translation Studies perspective, the thesis contributes to both disciplines. The thesis highlights the ways in which localising to a developing market is different from many of the practices discussed in the localisation literature. In addition, the context of Arabic localisation proves to be a fertile ground where Venuti’s theory of foreignisation and domestication can be relocated, and the debate about it acquires new nuances.
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Kowalczyk, Angelika, and Monika Kustra. "Transport Planning and Sustainability : The Via Baltica Case." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för planering och mediedesign, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-4647.
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Road transport is most commonly used out of other modes in terms of freight and passenger transportation on local and regional levels. For European citizens it is a primary mean of their access to services, social activities and employment. The scope of road infrastructure differs in some regions. The major disparity appears when the East of Europe is compared with the West. Actions to link periphery with the core of Europe are being continuously performed, what in this case represents itself in constructing Pan-European Transport Corridors, which will contribute to the connection of the whole territory of Europe. The Via Baltica, chosen as a case for this thesis, is a route to connect Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas, Budzisko and Warsaw. It is the common initiative of Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. In addition, it is to be an express road and part of the I Pan-European Transport Corridor, which is going to connect Baltic countries with the West and South part of Europe. We focus on presenting how the Via Baltica is introduced in official documents and compare it with the process in practice. Our final goal is to assess the planning process of the Via Baltica route in Poland according to top down planning approaches and sustainability criteria. We are trying to find out what are the advantages and disadvantages of the ongoing process. After introducing results of the analysis made for the Via Baltica by Polish experts, we present how stakeholders and local authorities try to reinforce the process, regardless of environmental issues, to achieve economic and social profits. As the result we try find out how are the dimensions of sustainable development handled in the Via Baltica case in Poland. The conclusions are based on our findings concerning several conflicts which appeared during the planning process. They are also based on one-dimension as well as multi-criteria analyses.angelikakowalczyk@o2.pl monika.m.kustra@gmail.com
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Van, Zyl Johannes Lambertus Petrus. "'n Strategie vir die bemarking van hervervaardigde enjins in die Suid-Afrikaanse naverkope mark." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10561.
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