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Simões, Ana Sofia da Cruz. "A secagem no efectivo caprino leiteiro e seus efeitos na lactação subsequente." Bachelor's thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/1407.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina VeterináriaO processo de secagem há muito que é utilizado e estudado na espécie bovina, mas no que respeita à espécie caprina os estudos referentes a este processo são escassos. Assim, esta dissertação teve como principal objectivo estudar o efeito do processo de secagem na lactação subsequente de caprinos de raça Alpine e Saanen. Utilizaram-se os contrastes leiteiros de duas lactações consecutivas de 173 caprinos. No grupo Amostra (n=90) as cabras estiveram em lactação contínua, enquanto que o grupo Controlo (n=83) foi realizado um período de secagem entre lactações. Estes grupos foram ainda subdivididos de acordo com as lactações estudadas: 1ª e 2ª lactações, 2ª e 3ª lactações e 3ª e 4ª lactações. Os resultados obtidos indicam que a produção total aumenta até à 2ª lactação e que o factor que mais influencia a produção total numa lactação é a duração da mesma, assim como que as fêmeas submetidas ao processo de secagem foram aquelas que demonstravam na lactação prévia uma tendência para duração da lactação, produções médias diárias e, consequentemente, produções totais mais reduzidas. Foi ainda possível detectar uma tendência das fêmeas submetidas a período seco para demonstrarem maiores aumentos de produção na lactação subsequente, o que sugere que a realização do período seco é benéfico. Os resultados não comprovaram a superioridade da raça Saanen para a produção de leite relativamente à raça Alpine.
ABSTRACT - Days dry in dairy goats and the effects in subsequent lactation - The drying process has long been used and studied in dairy cows but concerning goats there is a lack of studies on this matter. This work aims to study the effect of drying process on subsequent lactation of goats from Alpine and Saanen breeds. Production data from two consecutive lactation of 173 goats were used. In the ‘Amostra’ group (n=90) goats were continuously in lactation, whereas in the ‘Control’ group (n=83) a dry period were performed between the two lactations. These groups were subdivided according to the lactations of the animals: 1st and 2nd lactations, 2nd and 3rd lactations and 3rd and 4th lactation. Results showed that total production increase till the 2nd lactation and this trait is mainly influenced by lactation length, and that goats from the ‘Control’ group had shorter lactation length, lower average daily production and lower total production in the previous lactation. Results also suggest that the dry period between lactations could have a benefic effect on total production and on average daily production in the consecutive lactation. Results of this work did not confirm the superiority of Saanen over Alpine breeds for dairy production.
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Greaves, Danielle Kathleen. "Désadaptations cardiovasculaires à la microgravité : techniques avancées pour améliorer la mesure et l'évaluation du risque cardiovaculaire induit par les vols spatiaux pour les équipages de longue durée Effects of exercise countermeasure on myocardial contractility measured by 4D speckle tracking during a 21-day head-down bed rest Cardiac and arterial structure and functional changes after four days of dry immersion with and without thigh cuffs Effect of thigh cuff on venous flow redistribution during 4 days in dry immersion." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMC433.
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L'objectif était de quantifier les modifications de la contractilité cardiaque au cours d’un bedrest de 21 jours (HDBR) par la methode speckle tracking 4D et de déterminer si la contre-mesure « exercice » était capable de préserver cette contractilité cardiaque. Les méthodes traditionnelles 2D ne mesurent qu'une variation de la taille du ventricule de la systole à la diastole et ne suivent pas la cinetique des mouvements de contractilité à l’interieur de la paroi. De plus l’echographie 2D ne permet d’acceder qu’a la contractilite longitudinale globale par la mesure de la distance Apex-Valve mitrale. Le suivi des mouvements des speckles (points singuliers a l’interieur du myocarde) en 4D montre que la contractilité radiale diminuée signifcativement pendant le HDTBR chez les sujets témoins alors qu’elle est conservée dans le groupe exercice. Par contre la contractilité longitudinale n’est pas affectée dans aucun des 2 groupes. Bien sûr, l'IRM pourrait fournir des données similaires, mais il n’est pas possible à ce jour d’imaginer avoir une IRM a bord de l’ISS dans un futur proche. A la suite de ces resultats nous avons mis au point un algorithme de traitement des video cardiaque qui permet d’acceder a la contractilite radiale et longitudinale en vol (prog Vasc-Aging en cours) .L’objectif de l’experimentation était de montrer que quatre jours en immersion seche suffisaient pour realiser un transfert liquidien important vers les régions céphaliques comparable à celui observé en vol spatial. Notre protocole consistait donc a mesurer les volume veineux au niveau cervical cerebral et porte au debut de la periode en immersion (a 2h) puis a 4 jours d’immersion. Compte tenu des problemes engendrés par ce transfert liquidien en vol nous avions proposé de tester la capacité des brassarts de cuisse a reduire l’amplitude du transfert veineux. Les résultats montrent que l’immersion provoque un transfert de sang veineux au niveau cervical maximal à 2H et que les Brassarts de cuisse reduisent signifcativement ce transfert dans cette phase precoce. Par contre a 4 jours d’immersion l’amplitude du transfert sanguin est considerablement diminuée (bien que toujours presente) et les brassarts de cuisse n’ont pas d’effet visible à ce moment-là. En fait le volume plasmatique decroit significativement à la fin du premier jour (env 20%) des lors la masse de sang deplacées vers la tete par l’immersion est insuffisante pour generer une stase importante au niveau cervical comme à 2h d’immersion. Pour cette meme raison la vitesse dans les veines cerebrales n’est pas augmentée à 4 jours d’immersion contrairement à ce qu’on avait observé à 2h d’immersion lors d’une precedente etude. Donc le modele immersion seche est un modele pour etudier les transferts liquidiens en microgravité mais seulement en debut de phase d’immersion. Sur cette période de temps, les Brassarts de cuisse ont bien un effet protecteur pour les organes de la zone cephaliqueObjective: to evaluate functional myocardial contractility after 21 days of head-down bed rest (HDTBR) in sedentary control (CON) or with a resistive vibration exercise (RVE) countermeasure (CM) applied, by using 4D echocardiographic (4D Echo) imaging and speckle tracking strain quantification.Methods: Twelve volunteers were enrolled in a crossover HDTBR design, and 4D Echo was performed in supine position (REST) at BDC-2 and at R+2, and in -6° HDTBR (on day 18), and also during the first and the last minute of the 80° head-up step of Standard Measures tilt test, performed at both BDC-2 and R+2. Radial (Rad-Str), longitudinal (Lg-Str) and twist (Tw-Str) strain were measured by 4D speckle tracking, as well as left ventricle diastolic volume (LVDV) and mass (LVmass).Results: On day 18: in the CON group, LVDV and LVmass were reduced (p<0.05), the Rad-Str decreased (p<0.05) and Tw-Str showed a tendency to increase (p< 0.11), with no changes in Lg-Str. In RVE group, LVDV and LV mass, as well as all the strain parameters remained unchanged.On R+2: in the CON group, LVDV and LVmass were not recovered in all subjects compared to pre-HDTBR (p<0.08), Rad-Str was still decreased (p<0.05), while Tw-Str tended to increase (p<0.09). These parameters remained unchanged in the RVE group.Tilt 80°: Rad-Str and Lg-Str values at 80° tilt were similar post HDT in both groups.Conclusion: 4D Echo and speckle tracking analysis showed that in the CON group, Rad-Str decreased concomitant with LVmass and LVDV with HDTBR, but this observation did not support the hypothesis that this HDTBR induced remodelling or a muscle atrophy. RVE acted to preserve both LVmass, LVDV and contractility during HDTBR, thus proving its effectiveness to this aim. Nevertheless, the significant HDTBR-induced changes observed in the CON group had only a limited effect on the cardiac contractile response as observed during post HDTBR tilt test. The level of contractility at 80° Tilt position was not affected neither by HDTBR nor by RVE CM.Purpose: The objective was to quantify the venous redistribution during a 4-day dry immersion (DI) and evaluate the effect of thigh cuffs.Methods: The study included 9 control (Co) and 9 subjects wearing thigh cuffs during daytime hours (CU). Ultrasound images were collected Pre DI, on the fourth day in the morning (D4 AM) and on the fourth day in the afternoon (D4 PM), to assess the following outcome variables: left ventricle dimension, stroke volume, and ejection fraction (LVD, SV, EF), jugular vein volume (JV), portal vein dimension (PV), middle cerebral vein velocity (MCVv). An additional measure of JV dimension was performed on the first day after having worn the cuffs for two hours (D1 2H).Results: The JV volume increased significantly from Pre to D1 2H in both groups, but increased more in the Co compare to the CU subjects (Co: 0,27+/0.15cm3 to 0.94+/-0;22 cm3;P<0.01 CU: 0,32+/-0.13 cm3 to 0.64+/-0.32 cm3 P<0.042).At D4 AM no difference was found between the two treatment groups for any of the parameters listed above.Stroke volume and EF decreased from Pre (SV:111+/-23cm3 to 93+/-24 cm3 p<0.05; EF:0.66+/-0.07 to 0.62+/-0.07 p<0.05). JV volume was slightly, but significantly increased (Co: 0.47+/-0.22cm3 CU:0.35+/-014cm3 P<0.05), while MCVv and PV remained unchanged from Pre DI. From D4 AM to PM these parameters did not show any significant change.Conclusion: The results confirm that DI induces, during the first 2-3 h, a significant cephalic fluid shift as observed in spaceflight. During this early phase the thigh cuffs reduced the amplitude of the fluid shift towards the head, but after 4 days in DI there was only a slight memory (residual) effect of DI on the jugular volume and no residual effect of thigh cuffs
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Khazanehei, Hamidreza. "Impacts of reducing the dry period to 40 days and eliminating the far-off diet on milk production, rumen and blood parameters, liver gene expression and rumen microbiome profile of holstein dairy cows." Canadian Journal of Animal Science, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31005.
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Effects of a short 40-d dry period with only a close-up diet (SHORT) and a conventional 60-d dry period with a 39-d far-off and a 21-d close-up diet (CONV) on milk production, feed intake, blood and rumen parameters, liver gene expression and rumen microbiota profile were compared in 11 second-parity and 15 third and later parity cows. Milk production was recorded daily during the first 16 wks of lactation. Differential liver gene expression was assessed by affymetrix microarray analysis and DNA extracted from rumen samples was subjected to Illumina sequencing for exploring the microbiome profile. The SHORT treatment reduced milk yield and DMI after calving in third and later parity cows, but not in second-parity cows when compared to the CONV treatment. Cows on the SHORT treatment had higher concentrations of NEFA in blood plasma and tended to have higher liver TAG immediately after calving. These effects tended to be greater in third- and later parity cows compared to second-parity cows. Expression patterns of genes involved in β-oxidation at the first week of lactation compared to those at three weeks before calving showed lower hepatic β-oxidation capacity in cows on the SHORT treatment compared to those on the CONV treatment. During this period, the expression of DGAT, a key gene in the triglyceride synthesis, increased in SHORT-treatment cows while it remained unchanged in CONV-treatment cows. The expression patterns of genes involved in gluconeogenesis showed a higher capacity at first week after calving in cows on the SHORT compared to those on the CONV treatment. Our study also showed that the SHORT treatment increased the relative abundance of Firmicutes and reduced the relative abundance of Bacteroidetes compared to the CONV treatment and reduced the shifting of rumen microbiota from before to after calving. Results also demonstrated that the rumen microbiota was more stable in the SHORT treatment during the transition period. Based on these results, a 40-d dry period management with only a close-up diet might be beneficial for second parity cows. However, this treatment may be detrimental for older cows as excessive energy intake and fat deposition during the dry period in these animals result in lower milk production and higher mobilization of NEFA and accumulation of fat in the liver.February 2016
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Silva, Gisele Machado da Silva. "Avaliação da ocorrência de seca no estado do Rio Grande do Sul." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2015. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br:8080/handle/prefix/3217.
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O Estado do Rio Grande do Sul tem acumulado perdas na produção agropecuária e econômica, em função da ocorrência de eventos de seca. Apesar de todo o avanço tecnológico, a agricultura ainda depende das condições climáticas e meteorológicas e, por isso, estudos devem ser realizados com o intuito de auxiliar na investigação do comportamento da seca, nas mais diversas regiões. Um passo importante para o entendimento dos eventos de seca é a utilização de índices, que fazem um levantamento da situação, conforme uma escala de intensidade, que objetiva dar um panorama do comportamento hídrico da região.Assim, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo identificar e caracterizar o comportamento da seca, utilizando índices meteorológicos, em diferentes escalas temporais para 40 estações, compostas por uma série de dados de precipitação de 90 anos (1913-2002), localizadas no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, obtidas através do banco de dados do Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e da Agência Nacional de Águas.Para tanto, foram utilizados dois índices de seca: Índice Padronizado de Precipitação, nas escalas temporais de 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 e 24 meses, nas intensidades severa e extrema,e o Índice de Moreno,em escala trimestral e semestral,nas intensidades intensa e severa, bem como a contagem do número total de dias secos e análise da sequência de dias secos.Para o preenchimento de dados das séries de precipitação diária, foi utilizada a modelagem estocástica Cadeia de Markov de dois estados. Os resultados mostraram que para o Índice de Moreno, a escala trimestral, comparativamente à escala semestral, apresentou maior concentração de eventos de seca. Para o Índice Padronizado de Precipitação,as maiores sequências de meses secos foram encontradas na intensidade extrema; a maior ocorrência de eventos de seca severa coincidiu em 85% com os períodos de La Niña e a maior incidência de eventos de seca severa e intensa ocorreu na década de 1943 a 1952. Quantoà espacialização do Índice Padronizado de Precipitação, nas escalas 6, 12 e 24 meses, esta representou adequadamente os resultados obtidos nas sequências de períodos secos.
Due to the occurrence of drought events, the state of Rio Grande do Sul has accumulated losses in the agricultural and economic production. Despite the technological advances, agriculture still depends on climatic and weather conditions and, therefore, studies should be conducted in order to help the investigation of drought behavior in various regions. An important step in the understanding of drought events is the use of indexes, which survey the situation, according to an intensity scale, which aims to give an overview of the water behavior in the region. Thus, this study aims to identify and characterize drought behavior by using meteorological indexes, at different time scales for 40 seasons, consisting of a series of rainfall data from 1913 to 2002, located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, obtained from the database of the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) and the National Water Agency (ANA). Therefore, two drought indexes were used: Standardized Precipitation Index, in the time scales of 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 months, in severe and extreme intensities, and the Moreno Index, a quarterly and half-yearly scale, in intense to severe intensities, as well as the count of the total number and sequence analysis of dry days. For data filling of daily precipitation series, the stochastic model was used applying the Markov chain from two states. The results indicated that for the Moreno Index, the quarterly level, compared to the half-yearly scale, showed a higher concentration of drought events. For the Standardized Precipitation Index, the main sequences of dry months were found in extreme intensity; the higher incidence of severe drought events coincided in 85% with periods of La Niña and the higher incidence of severe and intense drought events occurred from 1943 to 1952. As for the spatial distribution of the Standardized Precipitation Index, in the scales 6, 12 and 24 months, it adequately represented the results obtained in the sequences of dry periods.
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Subramaniam, Daniel Niruban. "Dynamics of nitrogen and suspended solids removal in experimental stormwater biofilters under intermittent wetting and drying." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83040/1/Daniel%20Niruban_Subramaniam_Thesis.pdf.
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This research study comprehensively analyses the dynamics of nitrogen and suspended solids removal in stormwater biofilters. The study focuses on pollutant removal during an event with time, rather than the conventional event-mean analysis. Antecedent dry days (number of days in between rainfall) during which biofilters remain dry and the inflow concentration of pollutants were two other important variables analysed in this study. The research outcome highlights the significance of dry-phase processes and the process of stabilization on filter performance and sets a paradigm shift from the current approach towards an innovative way of performance analysis of biofilters.
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Day, Toby Richard. "Intermountain West native and adapted grass species and their management for turfgrass applications." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/day/DayT0806.pdf.
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Thoithi, Wanjiru. "Assessing dry spell and wet day frequencies over southern Africa during the summer rainy season." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33990.
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Rainfall over southern Africa experiences substantial temporal and spatial variability which heavily impacts poor rural populations in the region that rely on rainfed agriculture for their livelihoods. Instead of totals, seasonal rainfall is better characterised by wet and dry events occurring within rainy seasons as knowledge of the frequency of such events is able to inform agricultural activity. Dry spells (pentads having <5 mm) and moderate wet days (10-30 mm) over southern Africa were assessed using high resolution (0.05◦) Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) datasets over the period 1981/82-2018/19 during October-November (ON), December-February (DJF) and March-April (MA) using climatology, intensity-frequency and trend analysis. Correlations with SST over the tropical southeast Atlantic and climate modes namely, El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Subtropical ˜Indian Ocean Dipole (SIOD) and Southern Annular Mode (SAM) were computed. These, together with regressed atmospheric and SST fields were used to identify possible mechanisms for changes in dry spell and moderate wet day frequencies during austral summer. Two strong gradients in dry spell frequency were found to be present during DJF, one diagonal along the western margins of the Kalahari desert and the other meridional, lying across 20-24◦S. Topographic influences on rainfall were observed near the Drakensberg and Chimanimani mountains, Mulanje massif and Madagascan highlands where dry spell frequency (DSF) (moderate wet day frequency (MWDF)) tended to be relatively lower (higher). A region which frequently experienced half of the season as dry was identified lying across 22-24◦S (18-25◦S) during DJF (MA), with a core in the central Limpopo River Valley where 85-100% (100%) of the seasons were dry for half the season. DSF and MWDF trends indicated that drying has occurred over central South Africa during ON whereas decreasing DSF and increasing MWDF trends pointed to a weakening diagonal and meridional gradient during DJF. Additionally, increasing MWDF trends over important agricultural areas have occurred during DJF. Trends over central South Africa, part of the diagonal gradient, were associated with changes in ENSO, SAM, the Botswana High and SST in the SE Atlantic whereas those in the western Botswana region, part of the meridional gradient, were associated with those in the SIOD, Mozambique Channel Trough and Mascarene High and SST in the eastern and western Pacific.
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Huston, John Martin. "Origins in Genesis day-ages or six-literal days? /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Fisher, Douglas. "One Day, Some Day." TopSCHOLAR®, 1996. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/867.
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When someone asks us how old we are, we tell them the number of years that we have lived. But those years are comprised of days: days that wrinkle our brows, burn searing holes in our souls, and those days--filled with joy, terror, humor, fear, and exasperation--are the sum totals of our age. One Day. Some Day is a collection of short fiction that deals with the events of one day in the life of the characters. The titles of the stories reflect this theme, i.e., "Thursday's Child, 11 "A Measure of Days," and "One of These Days." I have endeavored to inject my stories with the emotions and experiences that comprise our daily lives.
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Liu, Xuelu. "The estimation of genetic parameters of test day dry matter intake, energy intake and milk yield of Holstein cows." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ35907.pdf.
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Aiello, George A. "Antibiotic prophylaxis in orthognathic surgery : one day vs. five days." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61326.
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The effect of one day and five day antibiotic administration for prophylaxis in orthognathic surgical procedures was compared.A randomized double-blind clinical trial using placebo was conducted. Thirty patients were equally distributed between two groups. Each group received Penicillin G two million units intravenously pre-operatively, and one million units I.V. every three hours intraoperatively and three hours post-operatively. Group one then received Penicillin G, one million units I.V. every six hours for eight doses, then Penicillin V suspension 300 mg orally every six hours for eight doses. Group two received placebo in a similar dosing schedule. The wounds were inspected post-operatively for infection.
One patient out of fifteen in group one (2.2%) and nine patients out of fifteen (60%) in group two (placebo) became infected. The overall infection rate was 33.3%. There was a statistically significant difference in rates of infection between the two groups (p $<$ 0.01). Antibiotic prophylaxis for orthognathic surgical procedures should continue beyond the immediate post-operative period. Five days of antibiotic administration appears to provide adequate coverage.
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Carvalho, André Luiz de. "Estação de cultivo baseada na precipitação pluvial diária e na ocorrência de períodos secos para a região de Rio Largo, Alagoas." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2010. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/866.
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The objective of this study was to determine the characteristics of the growing
season and dry spells based in daily rainfall data in Rio Largo, Alagoas. A serie time
with 36 years of daily precipitation data (1973 - 2008) was measured in the
conventional station (9 ° 28'S 35 ° 49'W, 127m) of the Agricultural Science Center
(ASC) of the Federal University of Alagoas (FUA). In the definition of dry days were
used six different values of precipitation (0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 mm). The day was
considered dry when it has a rainfall of less than one of these six values and it was
defined as wet if the rainfall w as higher. The dry periods were defined as the
sequence of dry days with precipitation less than or equal to the reference value of
precipitation. The beginning (potencial and success), end e length of the rainy
season and cultivation were measured by using direct methods. Statistical analysis of
rain occurrence and dry spell was done with Markov chain in the software Instat
Climatic. The dry periods were defined in three different intervals (≥ 5 days, ≥ 7 days
and ≥ 10 days). At 80% probability the rainy season began on April 7th and finished
on October 24th with length of 221 days. The beginning of the rainy season was
anticipated in La Niña years (10 days) and delayed in years of El Niño (9 days), and
consequently, cause a decrease in length of growing season for El Niño years and
increase in La Niña years. The highest occurrences of rainy days were observed
between April to August (50 to 90%). And November was the driest month (65 to
97%). In the rainy season (March to August) the dry spell of 5 days was the one that
had the greatest chance of occurrence (5 to 85%). The occurrence of dry spells was
low for 7 days (0 to 45%) and 10 days (0 to 5%). The occurrences of dry spells were
intensified by the occurrence of El Niño events (1 to 60%) between 1980 and 1983
and were reduced in years of La Niña events (0 to 45%) between 1983 and 1985.Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
O objetivo desse trabalho foi determinar as características da estação de cultivo e os períodos secos baseado em dados diários de precipitação pluvial para o município de Rio Largo, Alagoas. A série de 36 anos de dados de precipitação pluvial diária (1973 2008) foi obtida na estação convencional (9°28 S, 35° 49 O, 127m) do Centro de Ciências Agrárias (CECA) da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL). Na definição de dia seco foram considerados seis diferentes valores de referência para a precipitação (0, 1, 2, 3, 4 e 5 mm). O dia foi considerado seco quando possuiu precipitação igual ou inferior a um desses valores e definido como chuvoso em caso contrário. Os períodos secos foram definidos como a sequência de dias secos com precipitação menor ou igual ao valor considerado de referência de precipitação. O início (potencial e de sucesso), fim e comprimento da estação chuvosa e de cultivo foram definidos pela utilização de métodos diretos em função da precipitação pluvial e evapotranspiração de referência. As análises estatísticas de ocorrência de chuva e de períodos secos foram feitas através da cadeia de Markov no aplicativo Instat Climatic. Os períodos secos foram avaliados em três diferentes intervalos de tempo (≥ 5 dias, ≥ 7 dias e ≥ 10 dias). A 80% de probabilidade, a estação chuvosa iniciou-se no dia 07 de abril e terminou no dia 24 de outubro, com comprimento de 221 dias. O início da estação chuvosa foi antecipado em anos de La Niña (10 dias) e retardado em alguns anos de El Niño (9 dias), e assim, causa uma diminuição no comprimento da estação de cultivo para anos de El Niño e aumento em anos de La Niña. As maiores ocorrências de dias chuvosos foram observadas entre abril e agosto (50 a 90%), enquanto novembro foi o mês mais seco (65 a 97%). Na estação chuvosa (março a agosto), o período seco de 5 dias obteve as maiores chances de ocorrência (5 a 85%). A ocorrência de períodos secos foi baixa para 7 dias (0 a 45%) e 10 dias (0 a 5%). As ocorrências de períodos secos foram intensificadas pela ocorrência de eventos de El Niño (1 a 60%), entre 1980 e 1983, e reduzidas em anos de eventos de La Niña (0 a 45%) entre 1983 e 1985.
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Donaldson, John Wade. "Marking territory : demarcation of the DRC-Zambia boundary from 1894 to the present day." Thesis, Durham University, 2010. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/328/.
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From 1911 to 1914 an Anglo-Belgian boundary commission demarcated some 800 km of the boundary between the Congo Free State and Northern Rhodesia with 46 boundary markers. As was common practice across most British colonial boundaries in Africa prior to 1914, the process of demarcation was an exercise focused more on mapping and exploration than on clearly defining boundaries at the local scale. The division of territorial sovereignty through boundaries was known only at a small geographic scale. However, in 1927 a second Anglo-Belgian boundary commission was sent to demarcate what was by that time the Belgian Congo-Northern Rhodesia boundary. Working for six years at a cost that exceeded preceding boundary commissions throughout colonial Africa, the 1927-33 boundary commission erected boundary marks every 500 metres and literally carved the boundary line onto the local landscape. This research is framed by a ‘traditional’ understanding of a boundary as a fixed, bilateral and linear entity, taking an approach from international law. It is shown how boundaries developed as an essential component of the modern state territorial sovereignty that was imposed on the African continent through European imperialism. In making a boundary ‘known,’ demarcation is then isolated as a distinct process and recovered as a narrative in the study of the DRC-Zambia boundary from the colonial through the post-independence periods. Examining the disparity in demarcation methodology within in this narrative provides a unique lens through which to examine the relationship between state and territory throughout this narrative. It will be shown how economic aspects of land continue to affect demarcation methodology, reflecting some of the very foundational tenets of territorial sovereignty.
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Sander, Elin. "Skip-a-day feeding does not cause difference in liver lipid content in broiler breeders." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-138675.
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There has long been evidence for increased lipids in the liver of chickens exposed to feed restriction, commonly used for production hens. Lipogenesis is an important part of the metabolism and storing of glucose, a source of energy. Few studies compare the difference of lipids in the liver in chickens between regular feed restriction and skip-a-day diets, despite differences in lipid content found in other organs and in overall carcass. In this study I experimentally investigate if a difference in lipid content can be found in broiler breeders exposed to two different feeding regimes, 65 % feed restriction and 5:2 skip-a-day, along with the difference between days and time points (a.m. and p.m.). I also experimentally investigate the effect on dry weights of the liver. I expected to see a difference in lipids of the liver, with an increase found in skip-a-day birds. However, a difference could only be observed in the dry weights of the livers in birds exposed to skip-a-day feeding. Although there was no significant change in lipids, there is a pattern for increase in lipids in skip-a-day birds. Therefore, the conclusion can be drawn that an increase in lipogenesis caused by skip-a-day diet exists but it was not big enough to cause a significant difference in lipid content. For the dry weights of the livers, we can suspect lipids and glycogen as the reason for the increased weight but to determine exactly how these two components affect the skip-a-day birds’ further inquiry is needed.
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Wild, Laura. "Becoming invisible : art and day-to-day life." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9083.
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The thesis identifies a methodology for practice-led Fine Art research that emphasises day-to-day processes, which tend to be overlooked, and a practice, which becomes invisible to the mainstream art world. Attending to day-to-day habitual process is found to open up possibilities for embodied becoming through thinking and re-membering. Negotiating boundaries in face-to-face encounter is discovered to encourage inter-subjective becoming and is explored in terms of ethical interaction. The reflexive methodology considers questions arising from the possibility of exchange instead of gift, art as process rather than commodity, and an attitude of dissensus relating to artists as nonconformists. Tension and interaction in community leads to a pacific process of immanent invisibility, which functions as quiet activism and gentle politics provided by readymade situations. Mierle Laderman Ukeles s Touch Sanitation (1984), Allan Kaprow s Trading Dirt (1983) and selected works of Heath Bunting (2002-2010) are amongst the artworks cited in a discussion of artists who engage with materials or processes that are often overlooked including waste disposal, soil, and institutional structure. Emmanuel Levinas s approach to alterity (Levinas, 1988, 172) and Julia Kristeva s suggestion that connection cannot occur without severance (Kristeva, 1987, 254) have helped define an ethical practice of inter-subjective becoming. Victor Turner s notion of communitas (Turner, 1969) has affirmed a choice to avoid hierarchical structure and engage in processes that result in immanent invisibility. My contribution to practice-led, Fine Art research has involved testing a method rather than proving a hypothesis. I have developed a methodology that values art becoming invisible during the process of emphasising the overlooked in day-to-day life. Anecdotal passages throughout the text together with links in the text to my website and web log demonstrate an integration of practice with theory, which has been arrived at through a process of reflexive speculation. Two discs accompany the printed thesis that allow for digital reading.
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Kaiser, Edith Mary. "The chiastic structure and the day of the Lord in the Book of Amos." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Jackson, Alison Margaret. "Day-to-day variability in bipolar disorders." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6326/.
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Background. Bipolar disorder is characterised by recurrent acute episodes of mania and depression with the common occurrence of subsyndromal symptoms between episodes. Episode recurrence and frequent inter-episode symptoms have made identification of the factors that influence relapse an important focus for research in bipolar disorder. Objective. To determine whether dysregulation in bipolar disorder would be exhibited, outwith acute mania, in day-to-day variability and whether variability was associated with risk of relapse. Design. A prospective daily monitoring study was conducted with bipolar disorder and general population samples. Twenty participants with a bipolar episode experienced in the previous two years were recruited from a Lithium Clinic. A control group often participants from the general population were recruited by opportunity sampling. Main outcome measures. Biological, behaviour, cognition, and affect measures included self-report measures of behavioural activation/inhibition, social rhythms, self esteem, positive affect, negative affect, elation, depression and objective actigraph estimation of the sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythms. Results. Lower self esteem, lower positive affect, higher negative affect, higher depression levels and greater variability in self esteem, night waking and sleep efficiency across 14 days were evident in bipolar disorder. Survival analyses suggested greater variability in self esteem and sleep efficiency predicted earlier admission in bipolar disorder. Conclusions. Greater day-to-day variability in bipolar disorder was observed compared to the general population. Underlying disturbances in biological, cognition and affect measures were evident in bipolar disorder. Findings were clinically important since sleep and self esteem disturbances may be considered as potentially modifiable in reducing risk of relapse in bipolar disorder.
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Mcintosh, Candace L. "Does a day make a difference? a comparison of half-day and full-day kindergarten programs in two Ohio school districts /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1145454151.
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McIntosh, Candace L. "DOES A DAY MAKE A DIFFERENCE? A COMPARISON OF HALF-DAY AND FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS IN TWO OHIO SCHOOL DISTRICTS." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1145454151.
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Renbarger, Denna M. "A comparison of literacy achievement in full-day, alternate-day, and half-day kindergarten." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1263899.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the pre and post scores of literacy surveys to determine if there is a differential improvement in the literacy achievement of kindergarten students who attend one of three kindergarten programs: full-day, alternate-day, and half-day. The sample of this study consisted of 1530 kindergarten students enrolled in a centralized kindergarten program during the 2000-2001 and the 2001-2002 school years. Only the scores of the 1530 students who had both pre and post scores were included in the study. The hypothesis was studied at the .05 level of significance.The scores of 1530 students were studied at the pre and post level in two literacy skill areas, letter identification and concepts about print. The findings of the study were:1. There was a significant difference in the increase in student achievement of letter identification between alternate-day and half-day programs, with students in half-day making more gains.2. There was no significant difference in the increase in student achievement of letter identification between alternate-day and full-day programs.3. There was a significant difference in the increase in student achievement of concepts about print (CAP) between alternate-day and full-day, with students in full-day making more gains.4. There was no significant difference in the increase in student achievement of concepts about print between alternate-day and half-day programs.Overall, the findings indicate that students in the alternate-day program achieved the lowest gains in Letter Identification and concepts about print of the three kindergarten programs.Department of Elementary Education
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Steed, Robert. "A consulting approach to assisting Seventh-day Adventist Church Parishes /." View thesis View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030603.151459/index.html.
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Thesis (MSc. Soc. Ecol. (Honours)--University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, 1997.Thesis submitted for Masters of Science (Hon) Social Ecology. Thesis is an inquiry into how a consulting approach can be used by a church helping organisation in the Seventh-day Adventist Church to assist congregations.
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Shkedy, Elyezer. "Implementation of "Marginalism" in day to day life." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA345962.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1998."June 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Katsuaki L. Terasawa, William R. Gates. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57). Also available online.
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Taft, Kevin. "Power and narrative in day-to-day consuming." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4335/.
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In this dissertation I address the question, how does power operate in day-today consuming in a consumer society? My theoretical framework has two bases. One base is Foucault's theories of power, including but not limited to his work on normalization, surveillance, examination, confession, and identity. The other base is narrative theory, including the relevance of narratives to personal and social identities, the role of narratives in creating social order, the impact of narratives on such things as the organization of space and time, and the effect of narratives in creating coherence and directionality across operants of power. I suggest that many of the mechanisms of power identified by Foucault have unmistakable narrative features, and that by combining narrative and Foucauldian perspectives a more comprehensive understanding of the operation of power in day-to-day life is attainable. I apply my theoretical framework to data collected using autoethnographic methods. Specifically, I spent one year keeping a detailed journal of my and my family's experiences relating in the broadest sense to consuming. During this period we lived in a middle-sized Canadian city. To heighten my awareness of the taken-for-granted aspects of power and consuming we alternated lifestyles each month, living months 1,3,5,7,9, and 11 as conventional Canadian consumers, and months 2,4,6,8,10, and 12 as committed environmentally-mindful consumers. In addition, I conducted - interviews of small samples of conventional and environmentally-committed consumers; I undertook a content analysis of print advertising delivered to our house; and I conducted background research on various issues relating to consumerism. My research indicates that Foucauldian operants of power are used extensively to support consuming, and that; in addition, many narrative structures are also employed as operants of power, including charms and stories. These operants of power are aligned with one another to form coherent patterns through the effects of metanarratives. I argue that, despite claims by Lyotard (1984) and others, modern consumer societies are highly narrative, and have defining metanarratives. In addition, environmentally-based opposition to the dominant metanarrative of consuming has a metanarrative of its own, but is distinctly lacking in operants of power.
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Rose, Lucy. "Day-to-day engagement : a study of the complexities of climate change engagement in the context of day-to-day life." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17554.
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This thesis adds a complex account to existing climate change engagement literature, which captures the ways that interactions with, and interpretations of, climate change emerge across the spaces and practices of day-to-day life. The empirical research for this thesis was based in Penryn and Falmouth, two small adjoining coastal towns located in the county of Cornwall, in the southwest of the UK. Fieldwork across a number of sites including schools, community groups and the local fishery engaged participants in a wide variety of research interactions. A combination of ethnographic and autoethnographic techniques were applied to produce complex, nuanced and personal accounts of interactions with and reflections on climate change that emerged in a day-to-day context. This study employed the innovative use of a personal research archive to facilitate the process of sense making across a body of highly detailed and contextual data. Through the use of thematic coding, links between data collected in diverse research encounters has been drawn together to produce meaningful narratives of climate change engagement in day-to-day life. These narratives capture the adaptive, imperfectly situated and inconsistent engagement responses that emerge as a result of the challenging nature of climate change and the inevitable, multiple pressures of the day-to-day context. The research approach taken in this study, and the findings set out in the thesis make contributions to three main areas of climate change engagement literature. Firstly, it explores the way that climate change is situated and understood in the context of day-to-day life. Secondly, it considers the implications of conceptualising climate change engagement as either a ‘process’ or a ‘state’. Finally, it extends existing analysis of ‘barriers to engagement’, locating them within the complexity of the day-to-day context and identifying them as part of essential interpretive iterations of engagement.
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Calderwood, Charles. "The role of trait neuroticism in predicting subjective fatigue states." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31728.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.Committee Chair: Ackerman, Phillip; Committee Member: Kanfer, Ruth; Committee Member: Roberts, James. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Guenther, Ben. "oPPOSITE dAY." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1265385993.
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Martyn, Raewyn. "DAY FOLDER." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3039.
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Provisional or unfinished images, forms and actions can sustain their status by continuing to change. This can resist programmed experience of their state, and shift their relationship as images within time. The sub-aesthetics of the unfinished and entropic can alter our understanding of where and how images are formed and located within time. My paintings each exist within their own emergent systems of time, structure and productive disorder. This thesis discusses these ideas in relation to DAY FOLDER and other work made during my MFA studies.
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Van, Hooser David. "Opening Day." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9018/.
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Although I've read and written poetry for my own pleasure for about twenty years now, I've only seriously studied and written poetry on a consistent basis for the past two years. In this sense, I still consider myself a beginning poet. When attempting to pursue an art form as refined and historically informed as poetry, only after spending a number of years reading and writing intensively would I no longer consider myself a beginner, but a practitioner of the art. I've grounded my early development as a poet in concision, voice, and imagination, and hope to build upon these ideas with other poetic techniques, theories, and forms as I go forward. I am particularly interested in mastering the sonnet form, a concise and imaginative form that will allow me to further develop my skills. Hopefully, the works in this thesis reflect that effort.
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Van, Hooser David Bond Bruce. "Opening day." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9018.
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Kellermann, Alan Michael. "Columbus Day." Thesis, Swansea University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678545.
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Walker, L., and Rebekah J. Byrd. "Interdependence Day." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/876.
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Book Summary: In this versatile new book, practicing school counselors share their favorite group activities 67 of them in all for working with children and adolescents in the schools. For ease of use, activities are arranged by age as well as by stage. Introductory chapters highlight selection, use, and processing of activities, as well as ethical issues inherent in working with students in the schools. Each activity contains specific directions, goals, materials, and suggestions for adaptation. Suggestions for creating a supportive environment for groups are also included.
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Boccaccio, Jason. "Day laborers speak on organization." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2007. http://165.236.235.140/lib/JBoccaccio2007.pdf.
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Leiva, Germán. "Gaze-supported pointing devices for day-to-day computerinteraction." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-174853.
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In this work we assess four prototypes of gaze-supported input devices that aim o be more ergonomic alternatives than the mouse and touchpads for day to day omputer usage. These prototypes (nunchuck, ring, smartphone and trackball)have hree properties. First, they enable a distant interaction from the computer, letting he user have a 135-degree body-thigh sitting posture. Second, they allow one-handed nteractions, a convenient setting for people that can only use one hand due to rgonomic complications in the other one. And last, they are based on familiar nput technologies and conventions, so users can easily learn how to use them. An xperiment on pointing and drag & drop tasks was conducted to evaluate quantitative roperties of the devices and get qualitative user feedback. The smartphone ranked first n almost all the user feedback entries. The measures of speed and accuracy presented everal outliers. According to the measured results, the smartphone was the fastest ointing device and the most accurate for every task; the trackball was the fastest evice for drag & drop tasks. The nunchuck ranked last in all the measures. Based on his study, future work should be conducted on improving the design of the companion evices based on multitouch and trackball technologies.
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Mann, R. J. "Aspects of the day-to-day variability of Sq." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370932.
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Alexander, Bayarma. "On variability and heterogeneity of day-to-day travel." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/136201.
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Larrazabal, Carrillo Maria Alexandra. "Distress Tolerance Predicts Day-To-Day Emotion Regulation Behaviors." W&M ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1563899047.
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Distress tolerance (DT), or the ability to effectively withstand aversive internal experiences, is related to diverse physical and mental health benefits, including resilience to depression, anxiety, and substance misuse. DT might prevent health problems by promoting more adaptive and less maladaptive emotion regulation decisions in the face of stressful events. The present study—a pilot investigation that is the basis for a forthcoming study—tested this hypothesis by examining between- and within-person associations of DT with a repertoire of 12 common emotion regulation strategies. We recruited 25 high-anxiety university students to complete surveys of DT and emotion regulation efforts in response to stressors for 14 consecutive days. Multilevel structural equation modeling analyses indicated that higher DT was inversely associated with select maladaptive regulatory strategies (i.e., procrastination and rumination) both within and across persons, although this trend unexpectedly did not extend to behavioral avoidance, experiential avoidance, drug use, suppression, or distraction. Findings regarding adaptive strategies indicated that higher DT may enable greater reflection, reappraisal and acceptance within, but not across, persons. Also, higher DT unexpectedly predicted less social support seeking and affect labeling between- and within-persons. In several cases, there were discrepant associations among DT and emotion regulation strategies across between- and within-person levels. In these scenarios, within-person associations were most consistent with theory and evidence. Taken together, findings suggest that higher DT limits maladaptive emotion regulation behaviors and inconsistently predicts adaptive regulatory efforts. We discuss our findings and their implications for theory and intervention.
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Morrison, Laurie Elena. "Māori Women and Gambling: Every Day is a War Day!" The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2537.
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This study was concerned with the health implications of new forms of gambling such as casinos, pokie machines and internet gambling for Māori women and their families in Auckland and the Bay of Plenty region of Aotearoa (New Zealand). It set out to discover what culturally appropriate services were available and the extent to which Māori women gamblers were utilising them. The literature documenting Māori perceptions of gambling shows that Māori women gamblers and their partner/whānau members and gambling service providers have been little studied previously. These goals translated into the following specific aims: 1) to study how Māori women problem gamblers, their partner or whānau members and key informants perceived gambling, what it meant to them and why they did it; 2) to investigate the consequences of gambling for Māori women, whānau and service providers in dealing with the effects of gambling; 3) to report on how these three groups dealt with the effects of gambling; and 4) to discover what helped to bring about positive changes for the three groups. All of the aims were achieved. A Māori approach (Kaupapa Māori), combined with a naturalistic approach to data collection, was adopted. Qualitative methods are most appropriate to use when working with some Māori, as there is a growing realisation that research with Māori needs to be interactive. A Māori research procedure modelled on the ritual ceremony of encounter (Pōwhiri) provided an appropriate structure for the development and presentation of the research process. The major focus was on the qualitative data obtained from semi-structured interviews in two locations - Rotorua and Auckland. The interviews were conducted with twenty Māori women gamblers, sixteen whānau members including partners and ten interviews with staff involved in services that provided help for problem gamblers. The three interview schedules were based on a number of broad themes and open-ended questions to obtain meaningful descriptive data. The interviews were audio recorded and used to produce transcripts that were then sent back to the participants for feedback. Qualitative data analysis was conducted on the returned documents. The findings from this study revealed major impacts of the women's socio-economic, familial and societal circumstances on gambling behaviour and its effects, which are areas of concern for mental health professionals and researchers. The mythical Māori canoes on which Māori voyaged from their place of origin (Hawaiiki) to Aotearoa, the Waka, provided an appropriate metaphor to present the interrelationship between the pull and push factors toward gambling, and its implications for society. This is illustrated as a spinning waka, Te Waka Hūrihuri. On the other hand, Te Waka Māia (courageous) demonstrates the relationships between the variables that help Māori women gamblers to cope and helpful strategies found to assist them to modify or stop their gambling behaviour. It is recommended that the government limit the proliferation of gaming venues and continue to encourage development of emerging Māori services. Moreover, a coordinated approach is essential, as Māori women gamblers, partners and whānau members need to heal together for positive outcomes for Māori health development in Aotearoa. The main implication of this study is that a wide range of further research into Māori and gambling is required. Recommendations on ways in which the current delivery of services in Rotorua and Auckland could be improved are: That the Ministry of Health purchase services that establish support groups for Māori people with problem gambling and their whānau, and That non-Māori provider services and organisations support the development of emerging Māori services. Heeding the outcome of this research should help improve New Zealand's existing health policy and capacity for Māori women's health development. It should also enrich our understanding of the adaptation patterns of Māori whānau member/s, and thus should have implications, not only for Māori health policies, but also relevance for the wider field of international cross-comparative research on indigenous gambling and mental health issues. Limitations of this study included a small, localised sample that means the findings can only tentatively be generalised to the wider population of Māori women gamblers. Nonetheless, information gained from the study contributes to understanding of the adaptation patterns of Māori women gamblers, their whānau member/s, and those who are trying to help them. It is hoped that the study will make it at least a little less true that every day is a war day for Māori women and their whānau trying to deal with the problem of gambling.
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Chau, Ka-kin Helen. "An oasis for children nursery and daycare centre in Victoria Park /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31984459.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999.Includes special report study entitled : Child's cognition of space. Content page of Thesis report missing. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
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Morris, Margaret N. "Daycare environments : a prescription for change." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25474.
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Using methods derived from post occupancy evaluation and ethnography, the visual and physical environmental characteristics of eighteen daycare centres were studied and inventorized. The attitudes, perceptions and ideologies of the directors and staffs to these learning environments and arts activities were also ascertained. The centres were located in Edmonton, Alberta, and both private and public centres were studied. The children attending these centres came from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds.
The characteristics were recorded in an informal manner, through field notes, photographs and a pre-coded checklist which rated the quality of the items. From this, three subcategories of quality were derived; standard, below standard and above standard. The descriptive data indicated that the majority of the components of the centres constitute a standard quality, that centres have hard, institutional like qualities and that adult standards predominate.
Analysis of 38 questionnaires returned from the directors and staff of the centres and evidence from the data and descriptive material, revealed there was a significant lack of knowledge or concern for the child's intrinsic needs, and the role of the visual and physical environment in learning. Their concern within the the learning environment was primarily for the physical aspects and changes to those aspects and arts activities were made according to adult standards. Apparent in the data was an adult product oriented approach to arts activities.
What is recommended in this study is the need for early childhood educators to recognize the importance of the visual and physical environment to learning, and the role arts activities play in the total development of a pre-school child. Further recommendations include the investigation of training programmes for day care personnel, and the development of, through co-operation with arts educators, artists and architects, environmental alternatives for learning.Education, Faculty of
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Tull, Zachary. "Just a Day." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/3enza.
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Schwanse, Nina E. "Trouble Every Day." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1535.
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My interests lie in the intersection of the public and private, the corporate and personal, especially with regard to self-representation within cultural power structures. Utilizing video and web technologies, performance, and painting, I create imagined realms of fantasy, desire, obsession, and anxiety. Operating within, but not bound by, feminist discourse, my work explores the vehicles and effects by which both analog and digital technologies influence the relationship between the self and the object of desire (whether physical or virtual, interior or exterior to the body) and have produced both progressive and regressive offspring. By performing the role of both producer of cultural archetypes and the compulsive consumer of signs, my characters embody the representation(s) of their source but, through action and voice, invent a mutant surrogate who dictates its own agency.
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Bernartová, Jana. "A Perfect Day." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta výtvarných umění, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232205.
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Tabb, Juanita K. (Juanita Kay). "A Comparison of Academic Achievement of Boys and Girls from Full-Day and Half-Day Kindergartens." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331064/.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether any differences in academic achievement existed between full-day and half-day kindergarten students at the end of their kindergarten and first-grade school years. Two public schools considered comparable in size, philosophy, and socioeconomic levels of a large school district in Texas participated in the study. One of the schools provided a full-day kindergarten program; the other school provided a half-day kindergarten program. Kindergarten students from each of the two schools were match-paired according to birthday and sex. The total sample size was fifty students. All students were tested in December, 1985, with the Metropolitan Achievement Test. Preprimer Level, and in May, 1986, the end of the kindergarten year, with the Primer Level of the Metropolitan Achievement Test. The Metropolitan Achievement Test. Primary I Level, was additionally administered to the subjects in April, 1987, at the end of their first-grade school year. During each testing period, the subjects were administered the Reading, Language, and Math subtests of the Metropolitan Achievement Test. The following supplemental data also were gathered on the students: The Metropolitan Readiness Test II scores and the TEAMS test scores. The data obtained from the testing batteries were statistically analyzed using the .05 level of significance to test each hypothesis. In analyzing the data of all of the academic achievement testing batteries, statistical conclusions revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean scores of children (boys or girls) attending the fullday kindergarten program and children attending the half-day kindergarten program in academic achievement at the end of the kindergarten year or at the end of the first-grade year. It is recommended that continued studies be conducted to investigate the academic achievement of students attending full-day and half-day kindergarten programs. It is also recommended that other variables rather than academic achievement be studied to determine their effects on full-day and half-day kindergarten students.
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Fink, Jerrell N. "Perceptions of seventh-day adventist church ministers toward seventh-day adventist schools." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71197.
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The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church operates one of the largest private educational systems in the United States. However, throughout the past ten years, there has been a steady decrease in the enrollment of Seventh-Day Adventist schools, although church membership has increased. Previous research has shown that SDA ministers have considerable influence, and have proved particularly influential in decisions regarding SDA schools. Since the educational values of SDA schools are conveyed to the church members by their ministers, it is important for Church leaders to have a knowledge of the values held by their ministers. The primary purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of the SDA Church ministers concerning the values, effectiveness, fiscal status, and future structure of the SDA schools.Ed. D.
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Donovan, Elizabeth Emery. "Day to Day Change Making: The Transformative Potential of Dumpster Diving." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/59.
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This paper investigates the potential of dumpster diving as a tactic of the freegan movement. The goal of the freegan movement is the realization of a postcapitalist world. I first investigate the scope, legality and demographic of dumpster diving in the U.S. I then contextualize dumpster diving within the history of waste, consumerism and excess in the U.S. since the beginning of the 20th century. I conclude by assessing the viabaility of freegan dumpster diving as a transformative tactic in light of its inaccessibility to various individuals as a result of their race and class. I ultimately argue that freeganism has the potential to inspire individual action for social change as well as de-naturalize trash.
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Revell, Roger James. "The day-to-day work of primary headteachers : an ethnographic study." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2107.
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Scarpare, Fábio Vale. "Determinação de índice biometeorológicos da videira 'Niagara Rosada' (Vitis labrusca L.) podada em diferentes épocas e fases do ciclo vegetativo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11131/tde-18022008-105038/.
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Tendo em vista a importância de se conhecer as exigências climáticas da videira nas condições de cultivo, o objetivo deste trabalho foi determinar os índices biometeorológicos: graus-dia (GD), índice biometeorológico de Primault (IB), índice heliotérmico de Huglin (IH) e índice heliotérmico de Geslin (IHG) para a cultivar Niagara Rosada podada em diferentes épocas e fases do ciclo vegetativo. A poda seca foi realizada no final do inverno (fase de mobilização de reservas) e a poda verde foi realizada no verão (fase de acúmulo de reservas). O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos ao acaso, constituídos os tratamentos de 9 datas de poda: 20/07, 04/08, 19/08, 03/09, 18/09, 01/02, 15/02, 02/03 e 16/03 em dois anos agrícolas (2005/2006 e 2006/2007). A parcela experimental foi composta de 12 plantas sendo duas bordaduras (dez plantas úteis) com treze anos de idade, no espaçamento de 2,0 m x 1,0 m, conduzidas no sistema de espaldeira sob irrigação. As variáveis analisadas foram os períodos e subperíodos, em dias, poda-colheita, brotação-colheita, podabrotação, brotação-florescimento, florescimento-"veraison" e "veraison"-colheita. Para a análise de variância dos índices biometeorológicos foi utilizado o teste de Tukey para comparar as médias das datas de poda, duas a duas, e o teste F para contrastes ortogonais comparando a média da poda seca versus poda verde. Na análise do índice GD e IH verificou-se que plantas podadas em épocas distintas apresentaram valores diferentes para completar o período poda-colheita. Para IB e IHG verificou-se a mesma tendência em plantas podadas em épocas distintas, apresentando valores diferentes para completar o período brotação-colheita. Os subperíodos que não diferiram estatisticamente entre as épocas de poda foram respectivamente: florescimento- "veraison" para o IB e brotação-florescimento para o IH e IHG. Os demais subperíodos apresentaram diferenças pelo teste F para contraste ortogonal para as épocas de poda.The goal of this work was to determine four biometeorological indexes: degreedays (DD), Primault's biometeorological index (BI), Huglin's heliothermal index (HI) and Geslin's heliothermal index (GHI) for grape 'Niagara Rosada' (Vitis labrusca L.) pruned at different seasons and physiological phases. The dry pruning was done at the end of winter (carbohydrate mobilization phase) and green pruning (carbohydrate stock phase) was done during summer. The experiment was carried out in a randomized block design consisting of 9 treatments, pruning dates 20th July, 04th August, 19th August, 03rd September, 18th September, 01st February, 15th February, 02nd March and 16th March during two years (2005/2006 and 2006/2007). Twelve plants were used as experimental plot, being two border plants. The grapevine was 13 years old grown under trellis system with a 2.0 x 1.0 meter spacing under irrigation. The grape phenology was evaluated considering numbers of days for each one of the following period and sub-periods: pruning - harvest, sprout - harvest, pruning - sprout, sprout - flowering, flowering - early ripening and early ripening - harvest. To analyze those indexes, the Tukey test was used comparing pruning dates and F test for orthogonal contrast comparing plants pruned at different seasons (dry pruning versus green pruning). It was observed that plants pruned at different seasons do not require the same amount of energy to complete pruning - harvest period when using DD and HI. The same tendency was observed when using BI and GHI for those plants to complete its period sprout - harvest. Some sub-periods that did not differ statistically between dry pruning and green pruning: flowering - early ripening for BI and sprout - flowering for HI and GHI. Other sub-periods differ statistically when using F test for orthogonal contrast.
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Thornburg, Chrissie. "“Valentine’s Day” and Other Works." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115171/.
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The following collection includes three short stories and two essays compiled with a critical preface. “Valentine’s Day” explores the limits of friendship and love in various situations including, two road trips (one fictional and one factual), pet ownership, and the impersonations of Frank Sinatra.
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Murphy, Juanita. "Strategies older New Zealanders use to participate in day-to-day occupations." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/684.
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This exploratory study investigated the strategies that eight older New Zealanders use to enable participation in day-to-day occupations that they need or want to do, in their homes and the community. The types of strategies older people use to overcome barriers to participation and manage limitations are not widely known or reported. Exploring strategies for participation employed by older people is important because the majority of older New Zealanders live in the community and their numbers are growing, and projected to reach 25% of the total population by the year 2051 (Ministry of Health, 2002). New Zealand’s Positive Ageing Strategy (Minister for Senior Citizens, 2001), advocates for a society where people can age positively, where they are highly valued and their participation encouraged. The literature relating to occupation, participation and health was explored, and provided some evidence that older people are developing strategies and, with some education, are able to manage their own health conditions. The assumption underpinning this study is that they are equally able to manage strategies for participation, particularly those devised by older people themselves. A qualitative descriptive methodology was used. The participants were selected following a presentation to a group of older adults and snowball recruitment. They were aged between 73 and 98 years old and were receiving assistance to live in community, which was taken to indicate they had experienced some limitation in, or barrier to their everyday activities, in response to which they might have discovered or developed coping strategies. Interviews were conducted in the participants’ homes, and analysed using a general inductive approach. Four main categories emerged; strategies for keeping me safe, strategies for recruiting and accepting help, strategies for meeting biological needs, and strategies for conserving resources. Overarching themes of managing and getting on with it, sprinkled with a sense of humour by some participants was present in the attitudes of many participants. The study revealed that this group of older people can and do use strategies to enable occupation in their everyday lives, which differ from those recommended by occupational therapists and other health professionals. This finding suggests that health professionals, policy makers and educators have much to learn from older people. The provision of help to older adults should take into consideration the importance of social interactions, not just the physical needs. There is a need for transport to be more readily available and affordable for older people to attend occupations that meet social needs. Health professionals complement the strategies developed by older people, and finding ways to combine the strategies should be developed. Listening to older adults’ current ways of managing and working with them to develop alternate, yet acceptable methods will provide a challenge. Health professionals should take a greater role in advocating for the social and transport needs of older adults. A self-management approach in education for older people, using peers and making use of existing education groups in the community and health system, is suggested. Education of those who engage with older people, such as carers, family, health professionals and community groups should include developing their skills in assisting older people to identify their strategies and developing strategies for the future.
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Truhan, Nathan D. "Intrusion Detection for 0-Day Vulnerabilities." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1310682482.
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