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Johnson, Stephen. "Hecate nocturne : for large orchestra." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99173.
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With Hecate Nocturne, I set out to create a unified piece of substantial length. The piece features certain sounds of British Columbia---birds, animals, wind, water, machinery, and folksong; their musical depictions represent a growing interest of mine, one which was expanded significantly in this piece.The primary goal of the thesis is a close interconnection of all musical material, at all levels; that a limited pool of material could produce, through motivic development, all the components of the piece, from small to large. The secondary goal is to give the music a "sense of place" through depictions of natural sounds occurring---in this case---in British Columbia. The tertiary goal is to write musical returns, or recapitulations, that are always significantly altered from their original presentations, to give the piece a feeling of consequence or alteration. This last goal arises from the aesthetic application of some of the composer's philosophical beliefs.
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Butera, Mary Jane Schiro. "Rencontres Nocturnes For Trio." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/830.
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The theme of the first movement of the of the trio is introduced by the violin playing a lyrical melody of four measures. The melody is then imitated by the cello. To make the trio a true one, the piano takes on the theme. This movement is based on interplay between instruments of various combinations. The second movement is made up of tonal colors.The piano introduces them by placid strokes of chords. The singing quality of the violin adds great color to the composition. The sonorous melodic line of the cello produces smooth quality of sound. The third movement is reminiscent of a child's carousel. It is playful and full of various whimsical rhythms.
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McKenzie, Emily Mary. "The Effects of Retention Control Training and the Urine Alarm on Nocturnal Enuresis and Attributions for the Therapeutic Outcome." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Health Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8483.
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Nocturnal enuresis is one of the most common and pervasive childhood problems. Without effective intervention, the child's nocturnal enuresis may persist. This may result in possible distress and even psychological problems in the child. The current study had two aims. The first aim was to examine the effectiveness of retention control training, and the urine alarm if necessary, as an intervention for primary nocturnal enuresis. The second aim was to explore children's attributions for the therapeutic outcome of the intervention method regarding their nocturnal enuresis. The first aim was important, as previous research has revealed contradictory findings. The second aim was also important, as to date, research has neglected to explore this topic. Six children aged 8 to 12 years and their primary caregivers participated in the current study. Attribution data was obtained at three intervals through one-on-one semi-structured interviews between the researcher and child. Results found that with retention control training: one child achieved nocturnal urinary continence, three children decreased the number of their wet nights, and two children failed to respond. The addition of the urine alarm enabled three more children to achieve nocturnal urinary continence. In terms of attributions, results found that brief psycho-education appeared to have influenced these children‟s attributions. However, overall attribution findings suggested that children perceived researcher assistance, unknown factors, and the techniques used in retention control training to have influenced their success in the achievement of nocturnal urinary continence. These results would help to inform general practitioners and psychologists in terms of intervention recommendations for evidence-based practice, and future research.
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Hirsh, S. S. "A Biotelemetry Unit for Monitoring Nocturnal Bruxism." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/611943.
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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaThis paper describes a biotelemetric application whereby information of tooth contact pressure from within the mouth of a human subject is transmitted to a bedside receiver where it is processed and used in the biofeedback treatment of nocturnal bruxism (grinding of the teeth). Bruxing information is encoded on a pulse width modulated 313 MHZ carrier. Issues that are addressed include miniaturization of the transmitter, minimization of power requirements, stabilization of carrier frequency, receiver selection, and the various problems associated with getting a radio frequency signal out of the mouth.
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Scarfogliero, Michaël Flaud Jean-Marie Picquet-Varrault Bénédicte. "Étude en atmosphère simulée de la chimie troposphérique nocturne de composés organiques volatils oxygénés." S. l. : S. n, 2008. http://doxa.scd.univ-paris12.fr:8080/theses-npd/th0411912.pdf.
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Homer, Scott Daniel. "Evoking the Mystery: A Pedagogical Method to Enable an Advanced Violinist to Master George Crumb’s Four Nocturnes (Night Music II)." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801940/.
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For more than three centuries, violin pedagogical practices have been extensively developed towards music covering the common practice period. However, a problem arises when a violin student performing avant-garde music needs to find realistic solutions to problems that are not addressed in the standard repertoire. This critical essay offers a pedagogical approach to a work that fits well within this paradigm: Four Nocturnes (Night Music II), George Crumb’s only published work for violin and piano duo. The multi-dimensional aspect of this avant-garde work requires an equally multi-faceted approach to overcoming the inherent technical hurdles. Through practical illustrations and concise explanations, musical examples indicate how the score may be re-notated and simplified to create a preliminary step towards advancing to the original notation. Borrowing from the methodology of Otakar Ševčík and other leading twentieth-century violin pedagogues, the author shows how students can modify their approach to fit contextually in the realm of avant-garde music. Students who approach the work with this methodology will find it helpful in eliminating many of the potential pitfalls that they are likely to encounter.
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Rooi, Pieter. "Structural processes in Gabriel Fauré's nocturnes for piano." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33003.
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This study constitutes an investigation of Gabriel Fauré's achievements in the genre of the piano nocturne through detailed analysis of each of his thirteen nocturnes. Fauré's nocturnes are widely considered to be representative of his pianistic style and musical language, showing a great spectrum of compositional procedures and covering the different stages of his life. The investigation is contextualised through a history of nocturne form, a biographical background of the composer, an overview of the three compositional stages in his life and of various aspects of his musical style, comparisons with the music of Fauré's predecessors and contemporaries and with the rest of his oeuvre, and a general appraisal of the contributions of other authors and scholars in the field. As a corpus, the nocturnes form a unique contribution to the genre, and, especially in the larger-scale examples, a more complex structure than one encounters in the examples by other exponents of the nocturne such as Field, Chopin, Liszt, Balakirev, Scriabin, Satie, Debussy and Poulenc. The investigation focuses on a close reading of the nocturnes, and especially on thematic, motivic and harmonic usage, and on Fauré's most original contribution, his complex integration of advanced chromaticism and extended modal procedures. The latter, which include the use of modes of non-diatonic scales and modes on altered degrees, have received hardly any scholarly attention, despite constituting a highly significant contribution to musical thought. By treating harmonic features as referential elements, Fauré creates a complex interaction between harmonic and structural procedures which greatly advances the scope and structural integration of the nocturne
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Sadek, Ibrahim Hussein Tahoun Ibrahim. "Télésurveillance nocturne non intrusive de signes vitaux dans des environnements d’assistance à l’autonomie à domicile." Thesis, Montpellier, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MONTS102/document.
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Les approches actuelles pour diagnostiquer les troubles du sommeil sont lourdes, intrusives et peuvent influer sur la qualité du sommeil du patient. Il y a donc un besoin crucial de systèmes moins encombrants pour diagnostiquer les problèmes liés au sommeil. Nous proposons d'utiliser un nouveau système de suivi du sommeil non intrusif basé sur un tapis à fibre optique à microflexion placée sous le matelas de lit. La qualité du sommeil est évaluée en fonction de différents paramètres, y compris la fréquence cardiaque, le rythme respiratoire, les mouvements du corps, l’heure du réveil, la durée du sommeil, le mouvement nocturne et l’heure du coucher. Le système proposé a été validé dans un environnement de santé et de bien-être, en plus d'un environnement clinique comme suit. Dans le premier cas, la fréquence cardiaque est mesurée à partir de signaux ballistocardiogramme bruités acquis de 50 volontaires en position assise à l'aide d'une chaise de massage. Les signaux sont recueillis discrètement à partir d'un capteur de fibre optique microflexible intégrée dans l'appui-tête de la chaise, puis transmis à un ordinateur par une connexion Bluetooth. La fréquence cardiaque est calculée à l'aide de l'analyse multi-résolution de la transformée discrète en ondelettes à chevauchement maximal. L'erreur entre la méthode proposée et électrocardiogramme de référence est estimée en battements par minute en utilisant l'erreur absolue moyenne où le système a obtenu des résultats relativement bons (10.12±4.69) malgré la quantité remarquable d'artefact de mouvement produit en raison des fréquents mouvements corporels et/ou vibrations de la chaise de massage pendant le massage de soulagement du stress. Contrairement à l'algorithme complet de décomposition du mode empirique de l'ensemble, précédemment utilisé pour l'estimation de la fréquence cardiaque, le système proposé est beaucoup plus rapide. Par conséquent, il peut être utilisé dans les applications temps réel. Dans ce dernier cas, nous avons évalué la capacité du capteur de fibre optique microflexible pour suivre la fréquence cardiaque et la respiration d’une manière discrète. En outre, nous avons testé la capacité du capteur dans la discrimination entre la respiration superficielle et pas de respiration. Le capteur proposé a été comparé à un dispositif de surveillance portatif à trois canaux (ApneaLink) dans un milieu clinique au cours d'une endoscopie sous anesthésie. Parmi les dix patients recrutés pour notre étude, le système a obtenu des résultats satisfaisants quant à la fréquence cardiaque moyenne et quant à la fréquence respiratoire moyenne avec une erreur de 0.55 ± 0.59 battements/minute et de 0.38 ± 0.32 respirations/minute, respectivement. De plus, le coefficient de corrélation Pearson entre le capteur proposé et le dispositif de référence était de 0.96 et 0.78 pour la fréquence cardiaque et la respiration, respectivement. Au contraire, le capteur proposé a fourni une très faible sensibilité (24.24 ± 12.81%) et une spécificité relativement élevée (85.88 ± 6.01%) pour la détection de l'apnée du sommeil. On s'attend à ce que cette recherche préliminaire ouvre la voie vers la détection discrète de l'apnée obstructive du sommeil en temps réel. Suite à la validation réussie du système proposé, nous avons déployé avec succès notre système de surveillance du sommeil pendant plus de 6 mois dans treize appartements habités principalement par les personnes âgées. Néanmoins, dans cette recherche, nous nous concentrons sur un déploiement d'un mois avec trois résidents seniors de sexe féminin. Le système proposé montre l’accord avec l’enquête utilisateur recueillie avant l'étude. En outre, le système est intégré dans une plate-forme d’autonomie assistée existante avec une interface conviviale pour rendre plus commode pour les aidants le suivi des paramètres de sommeil des résidentsThe current approaches for diagnosing sleep disorders are burdensome, intrusive, and can affect the patient’s sleep quality. As a result, there is a crucial need for less cumbersome systems to diagnose sleep-related problems. We propose to use a novel nonintrusive sleep monitoring system based on a microbend fiber-optic mat placed under the bed mattress. The sleep quality is assessed based on different parameters, including heart rate, breathing rate, body movements, wake up time, sleep time, night movement, and bedtime. The proposed system has been validated in a health and wellness environment in addition to a clinical environment as follows. In the former case, the heart rate is measured from noisy ballistocardiogram signals acquired from 50 human volunteers in a sitting position using a massage chair. The signals are unobtrusively collected from a microbend fiber optic sensor embedded within the headrest of the chair and then transmitted to a computer through a Bluetooth connection. The heart rate is computed using the multiresolution analysis of the maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform. The error between the proposed method and the reference ECG is estimated in beats per minute using the mean absolute error where the system achieved relatively good results (10.12 ± 4.69) despite the remarkable amount of motion artifact produced owing to the frequent body movements and/or vibrations of the massage chair during stress relief massage. Unlike the complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition algorithm, previously employed for heart rate estimation, the suggested system is much faster. Hence, it can be used in real-time applications. In the latter case, we evaluated the capacity of the microbend fiber optic sensor to monitor heart rate and respiration unobtrusively. In addition, we tested the capacity of the sensor in discriminating between shallow breathing and no breathing. The proposed sensor was compared to a three-channel portable monitoring device (ApneaLink) in a clinical setting during a drug-induced sleep endoscopy. Across all ten patients recruited for our study, the system achieved satisfactory results in the mean heart rate and the mean respiratory rate with an error of 0.55±0.59 beats/minute and 0.38 ± 0.32 breaths/minute, respectively. Besides, the Pearson correlation coefficient between the proposed sensor and the reference device was 0.96 and 0.78 for heart rate and respiration, respectively. On the contrary, the proposed sensor provided a very low sensitivity (24.24 ± 12.81%) and a relatively high specificity (85.88 ± 6.01%) for sleep apnea detection. It is expected that this preliminary research will pave the way toward unobtrusive detection of obstructive sleep apnea in real-time. Following successful validation of the proposed system, we have successfully deployed our sleep monitoring system in thirteen apartments with mainly senior residents over six months. Nevertheless, in this research, we concentrate on a one-month deployment with three senior female residents. The proposed system shows an agreement with a user’s survey collected before the study. Furthermore, the system is integrated within an existing ambient assisted living platform with a user-friendly interface to make it more convenient for the caregivers to follow-up the sleep parameters of the residents
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Bastas, Selin A. "Nocturnal Bird Call Recognition System for Wind Farm Applications." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1325803309.
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Garrison, Scott Russel. "An exploration of new therapeutic options for nocturnal leg cramps." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42957.
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THE PROBLEM: Rest cramps (also known as nocturnal leg cramps) are painful muscle contractions, typically in the legs or feet, that occur during prolonged rest - most often while in bed at night. Although common in older adults, safe and effective treatment options are lacking.
OPPORTUNITY AND METHOD #1: Magnesium supplements are readily available and widely marketed to consumers for cramp prophylaxis. However the efficacy of magnesium for this indication is unclear and existing clinical trials are limited by the well recognized poor bioavailability of oral magnesium. To better assess the potential efficacy of magnesium in cramp prophylaxis I conducted a (N=46) double-blind, placebo-controlled RCT on community-dwelling rest cramp sufferers to determine whether a more reliable delivery method (5 consecutive days intravenous infusion of 20 mmol magnesium sulfate) could reduce the frequency of rest cramps. I additionally determined whether the response to treatment varied with the extent to which infused magnesium was retained (as measured by 24-hr urinary magnesium excretion) and performed a Cochrane Systematic Literature Review to find and synthesize all relevant randomised trials.
OPPORTUNITY AND METHOD #2: Anecdotal evidence suggested several medications might promote muscle cramping. If true, cramp sufferers using these drugs could potentially gain cramp relief through therapeutic substitution or reduction of these agents. To investigate this potential cramp link I searched BC Ministry of Health databases containing diagnostic and prescribing information on the 4.2 million residents of British Columbia to determine, using sequence symmetry methods, whether quinine starts (i.e. new cramp treatment) increased in the year following introduction of the three most commonly prescribed medications with a link to muscle cramps (diuretics, statins and inhaled long-acting beta2-agonists).
CONCLUSION: Although its role in pregnancy-associated rest cramps remains unclear, magnesium supplementation does not meaningfully reduce the frequency of rest cramps in older adults. Alternatively, for some cramp sufferers, reduction or discontinuation of select cramp promoting medications (inhaled long-acting beta2-agonists, potassium-sparing diuretics and thiazides) may be a useful therapeutic maneuver. Over a 13 year period 60.3% of quinine users (cramp sufferers) received at least one of these medications. In contrast, statin and loop-diuretic cramp associations were clinically unimportant.
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Wood, Nicola Kay. "Tailored hypnosis treatment for primary nocturnal enuresis in children and young people." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37947.
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Section A examines the association between nocturnal enuresis (NE) and Quality of Life (QoL) in children and young people. This paper systematically reviews the research literature in this area considering relationships between NE and QoL across demographic variables such as gender and age. Future research avenues and implications for clinical practise are discussed. Section B reports on a tailored hypnosis treatment for children and young people with NE. This used a prospective case series with multiple-case AB design with follow-up, and tested the hypothesis that this approach would increase number of dry nights. Changes in child and parent psychosocial variables were also examined. Results indicated that participants improved in nighttime dryness as predicted, and that improvements were sustained at follow up. Self-reported continence specific QoL showed improvement approaching significance from baseline to follow up. Mixed Results were found as to changes in other psychosocial variables as a result of treatment. Limitations of the research and its implications are discussed. Section C is a critical appraisal of the research process as a whole, covering issues such as choice of research and how this developed through clinical practice, training and previous research experiences. It explores issues across the research process at individual, team, systems and organisational levels. It provides a critique of the design and methodology, as well a reflection on personal and professional development. Section D reports on the results of a local questionnaire based service evaluation examining young people’s views of their paediatric diabetes clinics; including examples of good practice valued by young people. It also reports young people’s opinions and ideas about possible future service provision. It makes clear recommendations as to the ways forward in service user led service development.
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Kallushi, Abi Elena. "Healing Architecture for Troubled Nightowls: Restoring Natural Rhythms in Nocturnal U Street." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73776.
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This thesis is an exploration of architecture as an active participant in human life, not just as a stage. When architecture is considered a participant it contributes to the improvement of our quality of life as well as aiding the healing process when we fall ill. As more people are diagnosed with anxiety and sleep disorders, the thesis considered questions of how the places in which we carry out our day-to-day lives improve the prognosis and, further, can architecture be used as a powerful tool for healing? It is possible that our disconnection from nature is partially responsible for our disrupted sleep patterns and misplaced anxieties. Perhaps natural elements and rhythms are too absent in our daily urban lives. But as more of us move into cities and our urban centers become denser, designers must find clever ways to help city owls reset their circadian rhythm. Architecture can help reestablish that bond with nature. This thesis explores an architecture of healing by proposing a program and design that follows the day and night circadian rhythm of our bodies, which in turn follow the sun and other natural phenomena. Located in a tricky triangular site in one of the busiest nighttime neighborhoods of Washington DC, a wellness center and sleep clinic would allow city dwellers to find a peaceful oasis for healing. In parallel, this thesis is also a study of collage as a design tool, as well as designing from details and the human scale.Master of Architecture
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Stapp, Lonnie M. "Parental Personality Domains and Predicting the Effectiveness of Treatment for Nocturnal Enuresis." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/605.
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Worldwide, millions of children 5 years of age and older suffer with nocturnal enuresis,
also known as nighttime bedwetting. Nocturnal enuresis is a chronic elimination disorder
that while usually benign, too often results in the child being emotionally and physically
abused. Efforts to design effective treatments with low relapse rates have thus far been
thwarted by the array of organic and psychosocial variables related to its development.
Guided by the 5-factor theory of personality, this cross-sectional study investigated
whether a parent's personality characteristics significantly predict effective treatment for
a child's nocturnal enuresis. Effective treatment was defined as having no relapses of
symptoms in the 6 months following initial treatment success. A convenience sample of
parents (n = 165) was recruited from the online social network Facebook and other online
educational and support forums for parents seeking information on enuresis. Participants
completed the NEO-FFI-3 to measure their personality characteristics, and logistic
regression analyses were used to determine if parental personality characteristics,
parental history of childhood enuresis, and/or the child's gender were significant
predictors of effective treatment for a child's enuresis. None of these factors were found
to significantly predict effective treatment for enuresis. This study promotes positive
social change by identifying the need for an integrated biopsychosocial approach to
treating children with enuresis with effective evidence-based treatments. These
treatments are expected to result in fewer children exposed to the high rates of abuse and
the development of psychosocial disorders often associated with nocturnal enuresis
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PISANO, BARBARA. "Machine Learning Techniques for Detection of Nocturnal Epileptic Seizures from Electroencephalographic Signals." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/255953.
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Epilepsy is one of the major neurological disorders that affects more than 50 million people around the world; it is characterized by unpredictable seizures due to an abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
In this thesis nocturnal epilepsy has been investigated. In particular, Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy (NFLE), that is a form of epilepsy in which seizures occur predominantly during sleep with symptoms including nocturnal awakenings, dystonic and tonic postures and clonic limb convulsions.
The electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, which record the electrical activity of the brain, are used by neurologists to diagnose epilepsy. However, in almost 50% of NFLE cases, the EEG does not show abnormality during seizures, making the neurologists work to identify the epileptic events very difficult, thereby requiring the support of video recording to verify the epileptic events, with a subsequent time-consuming procedure.
In literature few scientific contributions address the classification of nocturnal epileptic seizures. In this thesis, the automatic systems, both customized for single patient and generalized have been developed to find the best nocturnal epileptic seizure detection system from EEG signals. The combination of feature extraction and selection methods, associated to classification models based on Self Organizing Map (SOM), have been investigated following the classical machine learning approach.
The ability of SOM to represent data from a high-dimensional space in a low-dimensional space, preserving the topological properties of the original space, has been exploited to identify nocturnal epileptic seizures and track the temporal projection of the EEG signals on the map. The proposed methods allow the definition of maps capable of presenting meaningful information on the actual brain state, revealing the mapping potential of clustering data coming from seizure and non-seizure states.
The results obtained show that the patient-specific system achieves better performance than a patient-independent system. Moreover, comparing the performances with those of a binary classifier, widely used in epileptic seizure detection problems, the Support Vector Machine (SVM), the SOM model achieves good and, for some patients, higher performances.
In particular, the patient-customized system using SOM model, reaches an average value of sensitivity and specificity equal to 82.85% and 89.92%, respectively; whereas the SVM classifier achieved an average sensitivity and specificity equal to 82.11% and 82.85%, respectively, suggesting the use of SOM model as a good alternative for nocturnal epileptic seizure detection.
The discriminating power of SOM and the possibility to follow the temporal sequence of the EEG recordings on the map can provide information on an imminent epileptic seizure, highlighting the possibility to promote therapies aimed at rapid and targeted disarming the seizures.
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Wittebol, Laura A. 1973. "Refinement of the nocturnal boundary layer budget method for quantifying agricultural greenhouse gas emissions." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115843.
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Accompanying materials housed with archival copy.Measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions directly at the farm scale is most relevant to the agricultural sector and has the potential to eliminate some of the uncertainty arising from scaling up from plot or field studies or down from regional or national levels. The stable nighttime atmosphere acts as a chamber within which sequentially-measured GHG concentration profiles determine the flux of GHGs. With the overall goal of refining the nocturnal boundary layer (NBL) budget method to obtain reliable flux estimates at a scale representative of the typical eastern Canadian farm (approximately 1 km2), fluxes of CO2, N2O, and CH4 were measured at two agricultural farms in Eastern Canada. Field sites in 1998 and 2002 were located on an experimental farm adjacent to a suburb southwest of the city of Ottawa, ON, a relatively flat area with corn, hay, and soy as the dominant crops. The field site in 2003 was located in the rural community of Coteau-du-Lac, QC, about 20 km southwest of the island of Montreal, a fairly flat area bordered by the St. Lawrence River to the south, consisting mainly of corn and hay with a mixture of soy and vegetable crops. A good agreement was obtained between the overall mean NBL budget-measured CO2 flux at both sites, near-in-time windy night eddy covariance data and previously published results. The mean NBL-measured N2O flux from all wind directions and farming management was of the same order of magnitude as, but slightly higher than, previously published baseline N2O emissions from agroecosystems. Methane fluxes results were judged to be invalid as they were extremely sensitive to wind direction change. Spatial sampling of CO 2, N2O, and CH4 around the two sites confirmed that [CH4] distribution was particularly sensitive to the nature of the emission source, field conditions, and wind direction. Optimal NBL conditions for measuring GHG fluxes, present approximately 60% of the time in this study, consisted of a very stable boundary layer in which GHG profiles converged at the top of the layer allowing a quick determination of the NBL flux integration height. For suboptimal NBL conditions consisting of intermittent turbulence where GHG profiles did not converge, a flux integration method was developed which yielded estimates similar to those obtained during optimal conditions. Eighty percent of the GHG flux in optimal NBL conditions corresponded to a footprint-modelled source area of approximately 2 km upwind, slightly beyond the typical length of a farm in Coteau-du-Lac. A large portion (50%) of the flux came from within 1 km upwind of the measurement site, showing the influence of local sources. 'Top-down' NBL-measured flux values were compared with aggregated field, literature and IPCC flux values for four footprint model-defined areas across both sites, with results indicating that in baseline climatic and farm management conditions, with no apparent intermittent NBL phenomena, the aggregated flux was a good approximation of the NBL-measured flux.
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Fuentes-Montemayor, Elisa. "The value of agri-environment schemes and farm woodland for bats and nocturnal insects." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3445.
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Many bat species in Europe have undergone severe population declines during the last century and one of the driving causes is believed to be the loss of roosting and foraging habitat through agricultural expansion and intensification. Modern agricultural practices have also had strong negative effects on many insect groups, such as moths, which are important components of the diets of many bat species. Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been introduced in many countries as an attempt to counteract the negative effects of intensive agriculture on biodiversity by providing financial incentives for farmers to adopt environmentally-sensitive agricultural practices. AES are potentially beneficial to bats and nocturnal insects, but the response of these taxa to their implementation had not been assessed prior to this study. Here, the potential benefits (or otherwise) that bats and their insect prey species gain from the implementation of certain AES management prescriptions was assessed using ultrasonic detectors (to assess bat activity levels) and heath light traps (to quantify nocturnal insect abundance) at 18 pairs of AES and conventionally-managed farms. In addition, the influence of the surrounding landscape on bats and insects was quantified to evaluate the relevance of a landscape-scale management approach for the conservation of these taxa. Some of the AES prescriptions assessed in this study benefited moths (and are potentially beneficial for moth-eating bats), but not Pipistrelle bats nor their insect prey. The most important factors associated with bat activity on farmland were metrics related to woodland configuration in the surrounding landscape, which suggests that conservation efforts for bats should focus on the creation and management of this habitat. Currently, some AES prescriptions aim to increase the amount and quality of woodland on agricultural land, but little is known about how woodland character relates to bat abundance and insect prey availability; therefore, recommendations for woodland creation and management rarely consider the requirements of foraging bats. Here, the influence of woodland character (e.g. vegetation structure and patch configuration) on bats and nocturnal insects was assessed. Vegetation surveys were conducted and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used to quantify the vegetation character and spatial configuration of 34 woodland patches within farmland. Two complementary methods (acoustic monitoring and bat trapping assisted by an acoustic lure) were used to assess the influence of woodland vegetation character, patch configuration and the surrounding landscape on bat populations. Nocturnal insect abundance at each site was assessed using heath light traps. Data presented here demonstrate that bats show species-specific associations with woodland vegetation structure and patch configuration; patterns of higher bat abundance and activity at small and isolated woodland patches suggest that bats utilize this habitat more intensively in landscapes where woodland is scarce. This thesis also shows that moths are strongly influenced by woodland character; in general, large woodland patches of compact shapes, composed of a large number of native tree species and a dense understory cover, and located close to other woodlands were associated with high moth abundance and species richness (and are potentially valuable for moth-eating bats). Other nocturnal insects (mainly Diptera) were not influenced by woodland character. This study also shows that bats and nocturnal insects are influenced by the landscape context; moths are mainly influenced by the extent of semi-natural environment (such as rough grassland and scrub) within small spatial scales (within 250 m; although effects of woodland extent were detected at larger spatial scales for woodland specialists moths). Bats are mainly influenced by woodland-related landscape metrics. Some bat species are influenced by the surrounding landscape at large spatial scales (within 3 km) and would benefit from woodland creation and management at a wide-landscape-scale. The findings presented in this thesis have important management implications for the design of agri-environment schemes. A list of management recommendations to optimize the benefits that bats and nocturnal insects gain from these schemes is presented in the final section.
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Puligheddu, Monica Maria Francesca <1969>. "Rationale for an adjunctive therapy with fenofibrate in pharmacoresistant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE)." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7057/1/M_Puligheddu_TESI_Dottorato.pdf.
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Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy (NFLE) is characterized by onset during infancy or childhood with persistence in adulthood, family history of similar nocturnal episodes simulating non-REM parasomnias (sleep terrors or sleepwalking), general absence of morphological substrates, often by normal interictal electroencephalographical recordings (EEGs) during wakefulness. A family history of epilepsy may be present with Mendelian autosomal dominant inheritance has been described in some families. Recent studies indicate the involvement of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the molecular mechanisms of NFLE. Mutations in the genes encoding for the α4 (CHRNA4) and ß2 (CHRNB2) subunits of the nAChR induce changes in the biophysical properties of nAChR, resulting generally in a “gain of function”. Preclinical studies report that activation of a nuclear receptor called type peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR-α) by endogenous molecules or by medications (e.g. fenofibrate) reduces the activity of the nAChR and, therefore, may decrease the frequency of seizures. Thus, we hypothesize that negative modulation of nAChRs might represent a therapeutic strategy to be explored for pharmacological treatment of this form of epilepsy, which only partially responds to conventional antiepileptic drugs. In fact, carbamazepine, the current medication for NFLE, abolishes the seizures only in one third of the patients.
The aim of the project is:
1)_to verify the clinical efficacy of adjunctive therapy with fenofibrate in pharmacoresistant NFLE and ADNFLE patients; focousing on the analysis of the polysomnographic action of the PPAR- agonist (fenofibrate).
2)_to demonstrate the subtended mechanism of efficacy by means of electrophysiological and behavioral experiments in an animal model of the disease: particularly, transgenic mice carrying the mutation in the nAChR 4 subunit (Chrna4S252F) homologous to that found in the humans. Given that a PPAR-α agonist, FENOFIBRATE, already clinically utilized for lipid metabolism disorders, provides a promising therapeutic avenue in the treatment of NFLE\ADNFLE.
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Puligheddu, Monica Maria Francesca <1969>. "Rationale for an adjunctive therapy with fenofibrate in pharmacoresistant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE)." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7057/.
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Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy (NFLE) is characterized by onset during infancy or childhood with persistence in adulthood, family history of similar nocturnal episodes simulating non-REM parasomnias (sleep terrors or sleepwalking), general absence of morphological substrates, often by normal interictal electroencephalographical recordings (EEGs) during wakefulness. A family history of epilepsy may be present with Mendelian autosomal dominant inheritance has been described in some families. Recent studies indicate the involvement of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the molecular mechanisms of NFLE. Mutations in the genes encoding for the α4 (CHRNA4) and ß2 (CHRNB2) subunits of the nAChR induce changes in the biophysical properties of nAChR, resulting generally in a “gain of function”. Preclinical studies report that activation of a nuclear receptor called type peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR-α) by endogenous molecules or by medications (e.g. fenofibrate) reduces the activity of the nAChR and, therefore, may decrease the frequency of seizures. Thus, we hypothesize that negative modulation of nAChRs might represent a therapeutic strategy to be explored for pharmacological treatment of this form of epilepsy, which only partially responds to conventional antiepileptic drugs. In fact, carbamazepine, the current medication for NFLE, abolishes the seizures only in one third of the patients.
The aim of the project is:
1)_to verify the clinical efficacy of adjunctive therapy with fenofibrate in pharmacoresistant NFLE and ADNFLE patients; focousing on the analysis of the polysomnographic action of the PPAR- agonist (fenofibrate).
2)_to demonstrate the subtended mechanism of efficacy by means of electrophysiological and behavioral experiments in an animal model of the disease: particularly, transgenic mice carrying the mutation in the nAChR 4 subunit (Chrna4S252F) homologous to that found in the humans. Given that a PPAR-α agonist, FENOFIBRATE, already clinically utilized for lipid metabolism disorders, provides a promising therapeutic avenue in the treatment of NFLE\ADNFLE.
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Jiang, Hua. "Three Nocturnes for Piano by Jackson Berkey: An Analysis and a Study in Performance Practice." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26506.
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This dissertation explores three nocturnes for piano composed by Jackson Berkey. Chapter one and two present a biography of Jackson Berkey and his thoughts about music. Only limited information is available concerning Mr. Berkey?s musical career and his piano music in written form or on the internet, but two one-on-one interviews with the composer provided valuable supplementary information for this study. In order to view Berkey?s nocturnes within the historical context of the nocturne genre over the past 200 years, chapter three provides a brief historical overview of the nocturne. Chapter four is an analytical discussion of three of Berkey?s 24 nocturnes: No. 13 in F-sharp Major: Homage to Robert Schumann; No. 20 in C Minor: Music in the Night; and No. 22 in G Minor (no subtitle). Analytical considerations are melodic, motivic, harmonic, and structural. After grouping Berkey?s 24 Nocturnes into three title-based categories, I selected one nocturne from each list for analysis. The three categories are grouped according to three title formats: homages to composers and poets identified by subtitles; those with descriptive titles; and those simply titled ?nocturne.? Chapter five examines Berkey?s interpretive indications regarding pedaling, dynamics, and tempo. Final conclusions and closing remarks comprise chapter six. These three Nocturnes will provide a broad-based introduction to Berkey?s compositional techniques and to his unique musical language, all of which serve to broaden the stylistic traditions of the nocturne genre. Another goal of this study is to demonstrate compositional and pianist validity within Jackson Berkey?s 24 nocturnes as new pedagogical and performance alternatives to traditional nocturne repertoire.
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Willson, Grant Neville. "Nocturnal non-invasive ventilation for the treatment of Cheyne-Stokes respiration in chronic heart failure." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27912.
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This thesis has investigated the efficacy of non-invasive ventilation in subjects with
congestive heart failure (CHF) and Cheyne—Stokes respiration (CSR). The effect of this
therapy on sleep, breathing and haemodynamic variables has been examined. This thesis
also describes the morphology and magnitude of the blood pressure (BP) and heart rate
(HR) oscillations associated with CSR and elucidates contributing factors to the changes
observed.
Chapter 1 - literature review - outlines the presentation and treatment of CSR in patients
with CHF. Cheyne-Stokes respiration is described with particular emphasis on the
polysomnographic features and haemodynamic consequences of this breathing pattern.
The mechanisms postulated for the genesis of CSR are reviewed. The prevalence and
consequences of CSR are discussed, highlighting the clinical features and their effects
on prognosis. The proposed treatments are considered, with attention being paid to the
mechanisms of action, the effect on sleep, breathing, haemodynamics and the clinical
utility of each therapy. Special emphasis is placed on oxygen and continuous positive
airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. It is proposed that given the lack of universal
acceptance of any one treatment modality, the role of new therapies that emulate the
positive effects of current treatments, warrant further investigation. A review of noninvasive
ventilation including a survey of its historical use, methodological
considerations, physiological consequences and clinical applications has been
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ROSSI, LUCREZIA SILVANA. "LA LEGITTIMA DIFESA NEL DOMICILIO (ART. 52 C. 2-4 C.P.) UN¿INDAGINE TRA STORIA, COMPARAZIONE, TEORIA E PRASSI." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/852006.
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L’elaborato tratta il delicato tema della legittima difesa esercitata nel domicilio, che è stato oggetto di due riforme negli ultimi quindici anni – prima nel 2006, poi nel 2019 –, suscitando diffuse critiche e contrastanti pareri in ordine alla sua esatta portata.
La grande attenzione pubblica per l’istituto e i due interventi legislativi hanno stimolato l’interesse e il desiderio di approfondire l’origine, la ratio e l’evoluzione della scriminante di cui all’art. 52 c.p. Lo scopo della presente indagine è duplice: da una parte, si è cercato di comprendere le esigenze sottostanti alle riforme e, più in generale, il fondamento del bisogno così ben radicato nella società contemporanea di una differenziazione di trattamento per le aggressioni perpetrate all’interno dell’abitazione; dall’altra, invece, partendo dallo studio della disciplina attualmente in vigore e dell’applicazione concreta della medesima ad opera della giurisprudenza, si è provato a trovare un equilibrio più soddisfacente tra le esigenze diffuse e il rispetto della Carta costituzionale e della Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo, in sintesi una “contro-riforma sostenibile”.
La tesi si articola in tre parti, di cui la prima è dedicata all’analisi storico-comparatistica della causa di giustificazione. In particolare, lo studio ripercorre le origini dell’istituto a partire dal diritto romano sino ai giorni nostri, cercando di evidenziare i precedenti storici atti a spiegare l’attuale predisposizione di una figura speciale di legittima difesa a beneficio di colui che sia aggredito in luoghi privati in ordine ai quali vanti uno ius excludendi alios nei confronti dell’aggressore. La ricerca storica è affiancata da un’indagine comparatistica, anch’essa impostata in prospettiva storica, che allarga lo sguardo alle scelte compiute in argomento dai principali ordinamenti europei – segnatamente quello francese e inglese –, nonché dal sistema federale statunitense.
La seconda parte della tesi ha ad oggetto il diritto interno vigente; in particolare l’elaborato affronta prima la legge n. 59 del 13 febbraio 2006 e poi la legge n. 36 del 26 aprile 2019, ossia le riforme che hanno conferito rilievo alla figura speciale della legittima difesa domiciliare. A tal fine, si considera tanto il contesto politico criminale che ne ha segnato l’origine, quanto il contenuto delle riforme alla luce della giurisprudenza di legittimità; è stato infatti svolto uno studio su tutte le pronunce emesse dalla Corte di Cassazione in materia di legittima difesa domiciliare dal 1° gennaio 2000 sino al 1° gennaio 2021. Grazie a tale ricerca è emerso da una parte come la prima riforma risulti sostanzialmente priva di ricadute concrete e, dall’altra, come il secondo intervento legislativo, ove non sottoposto a un’interpretazione correttiva alla luce delle direttrici costituzionali e convenzionali europee, sia pericoloso per la tenuta del sistema. Lungo tale direttrice, l’indagine si sofferma in particolare sul ruolo che dovrebbero assumere il requisito della necessità e le presunzioni normative di legittimità della reazione. Con riferimento al caso dell’eccesso, poi, si prospettano i criteri rilevatori del grave turbamento e delle condizioni di minorata difesa a cui si ricollegano effetti scusanti.
La terza ed ultima parte dell’elaborato, infine, tratta l’istituto in una prospettiva de iure condendo; nello specifico, prendendo le mosse dai risultati raggiunti attraverso l’indagine realizzata, si è provato ad avanzare una proposta di risistemazione della causa di giustificazione che si articola in tre passaggi, idealmente collegati tra loro. Secondo tale ipotesi di lavoro, l’art. 52 c.p. guadagnerebbe in razionalità ed efficacia se, anzitutto, fossero eliminati i commi disciplinanti la legittima difesa domiciliare attualmente in vigore; inoltre, alla disposizione di cui al c. 1 dell’art. 52 c.p. dovrebbe affiancarsi una scusante legata allo stato di turbamento emotivo vissuto dall’aggredito, applicabile alla fattispecie generale per i casi di eccesso e di errore sulla legittima difesa; infine, si potrebbe prevedere una presunzione iuris tantum di pericolo attuale per la sola incolumità dei presenti in caso di aggressione perpetrata all’interno del domicilio e dell’esercizio commerciale.
La compresenza di tali proposte modificative sembrerebbe in grado di conferire un rinnovato equilibrio alla causa di giustificazione, da una parte dando voce e riconoscimento alle istanze diffuse, dall’altra rispettando i principi e i valori di cui la Costituzione e la Convezione europea dei diritti dell’uomo sono espressione, dall’altra ancora imprimendo una spinta contraria rispetto all’attuale tendenza antistatalista, se non addirittura anticostituzionale, di cui le due recenti riforme in materia si sono rese portavoce.The thesis deals with the delicate issue of self defence exercised in the home, which has been the subject of two reforms in the last fifteen years – first in 2006, then in 2019 –, arousing widespread criticism and conflicting opinions regarding its exact scope. The great public attention for the institute and the two legislative interventions have stimulated the interest and the desire to investigate the origin, the ratio and the evolution of the justification regulated by art. 52 c.p. The purpose of this survey is twofold: on the one hand, an attempt has been made to understand the needs underlying the reforms and, more generally, the foundation of the need so well rooted in contemporary society for a differentiation of treatment for attacks perpetrated inside the house; on the other hand, starting from the study of the discipline currently in force and the concrete application of the same by jurisprudence, an attempt has been made to find a more satisfactory balance between the widespread needs and compliance with the Constitutional Charter and the European Convention of human rights, in short a "sustainable counter-reform". The thesis is divided into three parts, of which the first is dedicated to the historical-comparative analysis of the justification. In particular, the study traces the origins of the institute starting from Roman law up to the present day, trying to highlight the historical precedents capable of explaining the current predisposition of a special figure of self defence in favour of anyone who is attacked in private places, where individuals boasts an ius excludendi alios against the aggressor. The historical research is accompanied by a comparative survey, also set in a historical perspective, which broadens the gaze to the choices made on the subject by the main European systems – notably the French and English ones –, as well as by the US federal system. The second part of the thesis concerns the internal law in force; in particular, the paper first deals with law no. 59 of 13 February 2006 and then the law n. 36 of 26 April 2019, i.e. the reforms that have given prominence to the special figure of home self defence. To this end, both the criminal political context that marked its origin and the content of the reforms in the light of the jurisprudence of legitimacy are considered; in fact, a study was carried out on all the rulings issued by the Court of Cassation regarding home self defence from 1 January 2000 until 1 January 2021. Thanks to this research, it emerged on the one hand how the first reform is substantially devoid of concrete repercussions and, on the other hand, how the second legislative intervention, if not subjected to a corrective interpretation in the light of constitutional and conventional guidelines, is dangerous for system tightness. Along this line, the investigation focuses in particular on the role that the requirement of necessity and the normative presumptions of legitimacy of the reaction should assume. With reference to the case of excess, then, are presented the criteria for detecting the serious disturbance and the conditions of impaired defence to which excuse effects are linked. Finally, the third and last part of the paper deals with the institution from a de iure condendo perspective; specifically, starting from the results achieved through the survey carried out, an attempt was made to put forward a proposal for reorganization of the justification which is divided into three steps, ideally connected to each other. According to this working hypothesis, art. 52 c.p. would gain rationality and effectiveness if, first of all, the paragraphs governing home self defence currently in force were eliminated; furthermore, beside the provision referred to art. 52 c. 1 c.p., there should be an excuse linked to the state of emotional disturbance experienced by the attacked, applicable in cases of excess and error in self defence; finally, an iuris tantum presumption of current danger could be envisaged for the sole safety of those present in the event of aggression perpetrated within the home and business. The coexistence of these amending proposals would seem capable of giving a renewed balance to the justification, first of all giving voice and recognition to the widespread requests, furthermore respecting the principles and values of which the Constitution and the European Convention of human rights are an expression, and lastly still giving a push contrary to the current anti-statist tendency, if not even anti-constitutional, of which the two recent reforms on the subject have become spokesmen.
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Cheek, Rita Elaine. "The relationship between sleep hygiene practices and nocturnal sleep for midlife women with and without insomnia /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7207.
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Alcaraz, Roberto. "Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal, Op. 70 for guitar: A novel approach to program music and variation structure." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279989.
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This document is a study of Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal, Op. 70, a major work composed for solo guitar in 1963. It intends to demonstrate that the architecture used by the composer in this work is determined as much by its underlying program as well as to the variation structure used to convey it. This work is structured in eight sections: following an overview of the document in section one, section two consists of a brief biography of the composer as well as a general survey of his works, including those in which he makes use of the guitar. Sections three and four examine the works by Britten composed in variation form, as well as those which are related to the themes of night, death, sleep, and dreams. Sections five and six include a brief biography of Renaissance composer John Dowland, as well as a brief discussion of other Britten works inspired by the music of this composer. Benjamin Britten uses John Dowland's song "Come Heavy Sleep" as the basis for his Nocturnal, Op. 70. This song is examined and analyzed as part of section six. Section seven consists of a close examination of the Nocturnal, Op. 70. This examination looks closely at the most important harmonic, rhythmic, and formal elements of each variation and how they relate to the theme of Dowland. Finally, the conclusion sums up and reemphasizes the main thesis laid out in the introduction of this document.
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Carroll, Nadine. "The use of protriptyline or nocturnal mechanical ventilatory support for respiratory failure in chronic bronchitis and emphysema." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235493.
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Howard, Ian M. "A synoptic climatology of nocturnal rainfall events during May, June and July for northeast Kansas, 1950-2012." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16895.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of Geography
John Harrington, Jr
Nighttime rainfall has long been thought of as an important component to the central Great Plains hydroclimate during the wettest three-month period known as the “late spring -early summer precipitation maximum.” Research has suggested that nocturnal rainfall in the region results from a phenomenon known as the nocturnal Great Plains Low-Level Jet (GPLLJ). The jet, which originates in the Gulf of Mexico, transports moisture into the Great plains during the nighttime hours and often provides fuel for nighttime convection. The climatological characteristics of nighttime rainfall, as well the configuration of the low-level winds and the mechanisms behind its formation during this three-month wet period, however; are not well understood. Using hourly rainfall data from Topeka, KS, the nighttime rainfall characteristics are examined Topeka, KS and other Kansas stations for a 63-year period from 1950-2012 for May-July. Additionally, using the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data, the structure and configuration of the southerly wind phenomenon was analyzed based on its horizontal and vertical characteristics for nighttime rainfall events in May, June and July. A subsequent analysis also analyzed the larger synoptic-scale environment in place for six half-month periods from May to July. The results indicate that nighttime rainfall is a major contributor to the overall moisture budget in the Great Plains, contributing close to 50% of the overall rainfall total for the three-month period. The percentage of nighttime rainfall increases from west-east across the state, as well as temporally from May to July. The southerly winds are at their strongest during May events, tends to reach its peak at 850 mb at 6z (0000LST) near south-central Oklahoma, and forms as the result of both synoptic and thermal mechanisms. The synoptic mechanisms in place that generate the a southerly wind component change by month, leading to incredible variation in terms of its characteristics during nighttime rainfall events.
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Medford, Cynthia D. "In vitro simulation experiments for the implementation of a nocturnal hypoglycemic alarm based on near-infrared spectroscopy." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1108144876.
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Zuzarte, Ian Jeromino. "A Principal Component Regression Analysis for Detection of the Onset of Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetic Patients." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1226955083.
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Zuzarte, Ian. "A principal component regression analysis for detection of the onset of nocturnal hypoglycemia in Type I diabetic patients." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1226955083.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, 2008."December, 2008." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 12/12/2009) Advisor, Dale H. Mugler; Committee members, Daniel B. Sheffer, Bruce C. Taylor; Department Chair, Daniel B. Sheffer; Dean of the College, George K. Haritos; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Medford, Cynthia. "In Vitro Simulation Experiments for the Implementation of a Nocturnal Hypoglycemic Alarm Based on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1108144876.
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Wittebol, Laura. "Refinement and verification of the nocturnal boundary layer budget method for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from Eastern Canadian agricultural farms." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66706.
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Measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions directly at the farm scale is most relevant to the agricultural sector and has the potential to eliminate some of the uncertainty arising from scaling up from plot or field studies or down from regional or national levels. The stable nighttime atmosphere acts as a chamber within which sequentially-measured GHG concentration profiles determine the flux of GHGs. With the overall goal of refining the nocturnal boundary layer (NBL) budget method to obtain reliable flux estimates at a scale representative of the typical eastern Canadian farm (approximately 1 km2), fluxes of CO2, N2O, and CH4 were measured at two agricultural farms in Eastern Canada. Field sites in 1998 and 2002 were located on an experimental farm adjacent to a suburb southwest of the city of Ottawa, ON, a relatively flat area with corn, hay, and soy as the dominant crops. The field site in 2003 was located in the rural community of Coteau-du-Lac, QC, about 20 km southwest of the island of Montreal, a fairly flat area bordered by the St. Lawrence River to the south, consisting mainly of corn and hay with a mixture of soy and vegetable crops. A good agreement was obtained between the overall mean NBL budget-measured CO2 flux at both sites, near-in-time windy night eddy covariance data and previously published results. The mean NBL-measured N2O flux from all wind directions and farming management was of the same order of magnitude as, but slightly higher than, previously published baseline N2O emissions from agroecosystems. Methane fluxes results were judged to be invalid as they were extremely sensitive to wind direction change. Spatial sampling of CO2, N2O, and CH4 around the two sites confirmed that [CH4] distribution was particularly sensitive to the nature of the emission source, field conditions, and wind direction. Optimal NBL conditions for measuring GHG fluxes, present approximately 60% of the tLes don nées sur les émissions des gaz à effet de serre (GES) obtenues au niveau des fermes entières agricoles sont pertinentes au secteur agricole et ont le potentiel d'éliminer une partie de l'incertitude qui se produit quant à l'extrapolation du niveau de la parcelle jusqu'au niveau du champ. La couche limite nocturne (CLN) agit comme une chambre virtuelle dans laquelle on fait plusieurs ascensions pour déterminer les fluxes de GES. Dans le but géneral de raffiner la méthode du budget de la CLN afin d'obtenir de plus fiables estimées au niveau de la ferme typique (environ 1 kilomètre carré), les fluxes de CO2, N2O, et CH4 ont été mesurés sur deux fermes agricoles dans l'est du Canada. En 1998 et 2002, les sites d'étude se trouvaient sur une ferme près d'une banlieue au sud-ouest d'Ottawa (Ontario), où le terrain est relativement plat et les principales cultures sont le maïs, le foin et le soya. En 2003, le site d'étude se situait dans la communauté rurale de Coteau-du-Lac (Québec), environ 20 km au sud-ouest de Montréal. Bordé par le fleuve St-Laurent au sud, ce terrain est plat et on y cultive surtout le maïs, le foin et un mélange de soya et de légumes. Le flux moyen de CO2 mesuré aux deux sites par la méthode du budget de la CLN correspondait bien avec celui mesuré par la technique de la covariance des fluctuations et aussi avec ce qui est rapporté dans la littérature. Considérant toutes les directions de vent et toutes les pratiques agricoles, la moyenne des flux de N2O mesurés par la technique de NBL était du même ordre de grandeur, quoiqu'un peu plus élevée, que ce qui est rapporté dans la littérature pour les émissions de base de N2O des écosystèmes agricoles. Les résultats pour le CH4 ont été jugés non-valides car l'échantillonage concurrente des trois gaz aux alentours des deux sites a confirmé que le CH4 était particulièrement sensible à la
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Harris, Claire. "The quest for authenticity : self as constituted from the aesthetics of bodily adornment and the journeying into the nocturnal social reality /." Title page, contents and conclusion only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh3135.pdf.
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Mathieu, Nathalie. "A study of atmospheric properties and their impact on the use of the nocturnal boundary layer budget technique for trace gas measurement /." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82291.
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While most micrometeorological measurement techniques are only suitable for windy conditions, the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Technique can be used to measure trace gas flux during calm, clear nights as the nighttime stability enables gas emitted at the ground to accumulate. The difference between two measurements over the whole depth of this layer is believed to integrate emissions from a large area representative of, in this study, an agricultural farm. A tethersonde and infrared gas analyzer attached to a blimp carrying a bag sampling system monitored atmospheric variables for each ascent during two summer field campaigns. A mini-SODAR was installed in the field to obtain the wind flowfield. Strong accumulation was observed under low level jets suggesting that this feature acts as a good lid for trace gases. An average background vertical motion different from zero seemed to have more influence on gas propagation than did intermittent turbulence. On at least one night, a density current created by the nearby St-Lawrence River was observed to influence measurements.
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Routenberg, Scott Kevin. "Americana Suite: A Composition for Full Orchestra, Big Band, and Jazz Chamber Ensembles Inspired by American Master Paintings." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/80.
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Americana Suite is a seven movement musical composition inspired by nineteenth and early twentieth century American master paintings. Representative artists from each of the major schools of American painting include Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe. Essentially pluralist in style, the suite is written for ensembles of varying size and genre, spanning from full orchestra and contemporary big band to intimate jazz chamber ensembles and electro-acoustic hybrids. Four of the seven movements are written for jazz ensembles and incorporate improvisation, while the other three orchestral movements explore romantic, impressionist and cinematic idioms. Historical summaries of each school, artist and painting are followed by detailed aesthetic and theoretical analyses of the respective movements. Harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy performs as a special guest artist.
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Voogt, James Adrian. "Validation of an urban canyon radiation model for nocturnal long-wave radiative fluxes and the effect of surface geometry on cooling in urban canyons." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27679.
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The urban canyon radiation model of Arnfield (1976, 1982) is validated using measurements of long-wave fluxes taken within a scale urban canyon constructed from concrete building blocks. A custom-designed traversing system allowed miniature radiometers to be automatically moved around the perimeter of a canyon cross-section thereby providing for the validation of individual model grid-points.
Measured model input consists of surface temperatures obtained using fine wire themocouples, incident long-wave radiation at the canyon top, and emissivity of canyon materials. Tests were conducted to establish the expected accuracy and precision of the input data. Surface temperature data were filtered to remove a noise component. A probable error analysis of all measured model input and validation data is made.
Sensitivity tests of the model to variations in input data are presented. Surface temperature is the dominant control under the conditions tested. Model-calculated view-factors are shown to be in error for adjacent corner points and are replaced with view-factors calculated using equations derived from the Nusselt Unit Sphere method (Steyn, pers. comm.)
Validation results for a range of canyon height-to-width ratios, meteorological conditions and model parameters are presented. Excellent agreement between modelled and measured fluxes is obtained for points on the canyon floor and top. The agreement for fluxes at points on the canyon walls is generally good but is shown to suffer from errors in sensor orientation relative to the canyon walls. Use of the Unsworth and Monteith (1975) radiance distribution improves model performance statistics for incident and net long-wave radiation.
Four different estimates of surface temperature are used as model input in place of the measured values to investigate the differences in the model output. Surface temperature-based estimates are found to be superior to those based upon air temperature. The use of unmodified screen-level air temperatures measured at Vancouver Airport produces the poorest agreement.
The temporal and spatial variation of in-canyon temperatures and radiation are presented for three canyon height-to-width ratios. The canyon geometry is shown to significantly reduce the surface cooling on the canyon floor compared to an open site under ideal radiative cooling conditions. Results are compared to previous results from scale models (Oke, 1981) and field studies (Oke and Maxwell, 1975; Hogstrdm et al., 1978). . Atmospheric controls of incident long-wave radiation, wind speed and direction are also shown to affect the observed cooling.Arts, Faculty of
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Azam, Clémentine. "Impacts of light pollution on bat spatiotemporal dynamics in France : implications for outdoor lighting planning." Thesis, Paris, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016MNHN0021/document.
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La pollution lumineuse, induite par l’utilisation massive d’éclairage artificiel la nuit, est un changement global qui affecte une partie importante des écosystèmes terrestres et marins, et qui soulève de nombreuses inquiétudes quant à son influence sur la biodiversité et le fonctionnement des écosystèmes. En effet, la pollution lumineuse induit de nombreux impacts sur les rythmes circadiens et saisonniers des organismes, et affecte leurs mouvements et leurs distributions spatiales. L’accumulation de ces impacts dans le temps et dans l’espace sur les différentes espèces peut ainsi entrainer des perturbations en cascade sur les dynamiques spatiotemporelles des communautés et sur les écosystèmes.Dans ce contexte, l’objectif de cette thèse est de caractériser les impacts de l’éclairage artificiel sur les activités de chauves-souris (ordre: chiroptère) à de multiples échelles spatiales afin d’élaborer des mesures de gestion de l’éclairage public qui limitent ses impacts négatifs sur la biodiversité. Nous avons utilisé les chauves-souris comme modèle d’étude car elles sont nocturnes et directement exposées à la pollution lumineuse, et sont considérées comme des espèces bio indicatrices de la réponse des espèces aux pressions anthropiques.Dans un premier temps, nous avons caractérisé l’impact relatif de la pollution lumineuse à l’échelle du paysage par rapport aux autres pressions de changements d’usage des sols en utilisant une base de données nationale de sciences participatives. Nous avons trouvé que la pollution lumineuse avait un impact négatif sur l’activité et la probabilité de présence des espèces de chiroptères les plus communes en France, et que cet impact était significativement plus fort que celui de l’artificialisation des sols, mais moins important que celui de l’agriculture intensive. Ces résultats confirment l’importance de prendre en compte l’éclairage public dans les stratégies d’aménagement du territoire pour restaurer efficacement de l’obscurité dans les paysages anthropisés.Ainsi, nous avons élaboré une expérience in situ pour déterminer si i) restaurer de l’obscurité dans le temps en éteignant les lampadaires pour une partie de la nuit (extinction nocturne), ou ii) limiter l’étendue spatiale de l’éclairage à proximité d’éléments naturels pouvaient être des mesures efficaces pour créer des zones corridors et des zones de refuges obscurs dans les paysages anthropisés. Nos résultats ont montré que les mesures actuelles d’extinction ne limitaient pas efficacement l’impact de l’éclairage sur les espèces de chiroptères sensibles à la lumière. Par contre, nous avons déterminé que les lampadaires devraient être séparés d’au moins 50 m des corridors écologiques, et que l’intrusion de lumière dans la végétation autour des zones éclairées ne devrait pas dépasser 0.1 lux pour permettre l’utilisation de ces espaces par les espèces sensibles à la lumière.En conclusion, cette thèse a mis en lumière l’importance de traiter la question de la pollution lumineuse à de multiples échelles spatiales pour bien caractériser ses impacts sur la biodiversité. Elle a par ailleurs permis de souligner l’importance de la prise en compte de cette pollution dans l’aménagement du territoire, et de proposer des critères écologiques qui pourraient être intégrés dans les futur normes et standards européens pour l’éclairage publicLight pollution induced by the widespread use of nighttime artificial lighting is a global change affecting substantial part of terrestrial and marine ecosystems. As a result, major concerns have been raised about its hidden impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Light pollution has major impacts on the circadian and seasonal cycles of organisms, and on their movements and spatial distributions. As a whole, light pollution likely disrupts the spatiotemporal dynamics of biological communities and ecosystems. In this context, the aim of this PhD was to characterize the impacts of nighttime artificial lighting on bat activity (order: chiroptera) at multiple spatial scales in order to propose reduction measures that can effectively limit the adverse impacts of light pollution on biodiversity. We used bats as model species as they are nocturnal and directly exposed to light pollution and they are considered to be good indicators of the response of biodiversity to anthropogenic pressure.We first intended to characterize the extent of effect of light pollution at a landscape scale relative to major land-use pressures that are threatening biodiversity worldwide. Using a French national-scale citizen science database, we found that landscape-scale level of light pollution negatively affected common bat species, and that this effect was significantly stronger than the effect of impervious surfaces but weaker than the effect of intensive agriculture. This highlighted the crucial need to account for outdoor lighting in land-use planning in order to restore darkness in human-inhabited landscapes.Thus, through an in situ experiment, we investigated whether i) restoring darkness in a landscape for a part of the night through part-night lighting schemes, or ii) restraining the spatial extent of lighting at the vicinity of natural elements were effective options to enhance dark ecological corridors in human-inhabited landscapes. We found that part-night lighting schemes were unlikely to effectively mitigate the impacts of artificial lighting on light-sensitive species. However, we revealed that streetlights should be separated from ecological corridors by at least 50 m, and that the light trespass should be lower than 0.1 lux to allow their effective use by light-sensitive species.Overall, this PhD thesis revealed the major importance of addressing light pollution issues at multiple spatial scales to characterize its impacts on biodiversity. It also exposed the crucial importance of integrating outdoor lighting in land-use planning strategies and proposed to implement ecological criteria in future European standards for outdoor lighting
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Kraevska, Sofia. "Terra Mirabilis: A Composition for Symphony Orchestra in Three Movements." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/199.
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Terra Mirabilis is a three-movement musical composition for symphony orchestra with piano solo inspired by natural landscapes photographed by the composer. The three movement composition and its corresponding landscapes portray three times of a day: early morning (I. The Mists), evening (II. Oceanus), and late night (III. Nocturne). Each chapter is devoted to the discussion of one movement, wherein overall concept and form are addressed, followed by detailed analyses of harmonic structure, motivic and thematic development, orchestration, and representational elements. As a complement to the score and the text, a CD-R audio recording of orchestral mock-ups accompanies this dissertation.
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TSAI, CHIA-YUN, and 蔡佳芸. "The Analysis and Interpretation of “2 Nocturnes op. 5”, ”Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand op. 9-2” and “Poème-nocturne op. 61” by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4u9eq4.
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碩士東吳大學
音樂學系
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the compositional style of Alexander Scriabin’s (1872-1915) nocturnes from different periods, discuss musical interpretation, and also compare his nocturnes’ characteristics between the his early and late periods. The first chapter explains the motivation, purpose, methods, and references of this thesis. The second chapter outlines Scriabin's life and music style into three periods according to Scriabin: artist and mystic (1987) and also explains the characteristics of his nocturnes. The third chapter explores the background, form structure, melody, harmony, and rhythmic motive…etc of three Scriabin pieces. Furthermore, “Pitch-Class Sets Theory” theorized by Allen Forte (1926-2014) was utilized as a research resource for “Poème-Nocturne, Op. 61”. The fourth chapter expounds the author’s insight on interpretation and playing technique by using the “dynamic-graph” for performers to easily understand the texture changes of music. Finally, the fifth chapter concludes the thesis. Scriabin’s early period follows the late Romantic Period’s music style. Take “2 Nocturnes, Op. 5” (1893) and “Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op. 9-2” (1894) for example. These two pieces contain melodies which are influenced by Chopin. Scriabin’s late period piece “Poème-Nocturne, Op. 61” was composed in 1911 and finished in 1912. This late period piece removed the key signature and used mystic chords with a variety of scales as creative musical elements. Scriabin combined poeme with nocturne and added many symbolic terms, such as rest and fermata, to create a sense of mystery. Nowadays, most studies focus on Scriabin’s sonatas, poemes, and etudes more than his nocturnes. Hopefully in the future more specialists will provide an abundance of written and video information to complete the analysis of Scriabin’s nocturne works.
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–Yu, Nai, and 凃乃瑜. "Comparison between Imipramine and Desmopressin for Primary Nocturnal Enuresis." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09649291297428616722.
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碩士中山醫學大學
醫學研究所
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Aim: Nocturnal enuresis indicates involuntary urinary incontinence during sleep. Primary nocturnal enuresis is defined as persistent nocturnal enuresis for more than 6 months. The condition generally comes with emotional stress, psychiatric disturbance, altered social relationship, and even disordered personality development. It is estimated that 15% to 20% of 5 years old children and 2% of adolescent patients are affected by these problems. Medical treatment for childhood nocturnal enuresis had been successful since the introduction of tricyclic antidepressants and desmopressin. However, there is no experiential of these two drugs. The aim of this study is to compare the efficiency between desmopressin and imipramine, with a final goal of finding the most efficacious while and cost-effective treatment for clinical practice. Method: The current study is a randomized control trial subjected to intention-to-treat analysis. Children with nocturnal enuresis from a medical center and examined by a single physician, who meet the treatment indications were included for analysis. They are randomly assigned into Desmopressin group and Imipramine group. Desmopressin is given at a dosage of 0.2-0.6 mg daily before sleep, while Imipramine 25-50 mg daily before sleep. All patients are treated for a 3-month course of medications, followed by 6 months of observation. The effectiveness is measured by responsiveness and relapse rate. The reduction of the frequency of enuresis during the third month of treatment of 50% or greater is defined as responsive, greater than 90% as fully responsive, 50% to 90% as partial responsive, while less than 50% classified as non-responsive. A relapse is defined as an increase in the number of enuresis during any single month of the 6-month observation period, comparing to the frequency during the third month of treatment. Result: Eighty-nine children (45 in Desmopressin group and 44 in Imipramine) were enrolled in the study. Seventy children (37 in Desmopressin group and 33 in Imipramine group) had completed for analysis. Thirty-four children in Desmopressin were responsive (75.55%) while 29 in Imipramine group were responsive 65.91% with relative ratio 1.046; 95% confidence interval 0.892 to 1.226 (not statistically significant difference). Nineteen children in Desmopressin group (42.22%) and 17 in Imipramine group (38.64%) were fully responsive; 15 children in Desmopressin group (33.33%) and 12 in Imipramine group (27.27%) were partial responsive. 3 children in Desmopressin group (6.66%) and 4 in Imipramine (9.09%) were non-responsive. Eight children in Desmopressin group and 11 in Imipramine group did not complete the treatment course. Thirteen children in Desmopressin group (48.15%) and 7 in Imipramine group (35.0%) had relapse during the 6-month post-treatment follow up. (relative ratio 0.855; 95% confidence interval 0.532 to 1.862). Two children in Imipramine group (4.5%) had adverse reaction to treatment while no adverse reaction was reported in Desmopressin group. In summary, after 12-week treatment, there is no significant difference in responsiveness and relapse rate between desmopressin and imipramine. However, there is a significant difference in the rate of adverse drug reaction.
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Tu, Nai –Yu, and 凃乃瑜. "Comparison between Imipramine and Desmopressin for Primary Nocturnal Enuresis." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82618179125233019786.
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碩士中山醫學大學
醫學研究所
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Aim: Nocturnal enuresis indicates involuntary urinary incontinence during sleep. Primary nocturnal enuresis is defined as persistent nocturnal enuresis for more than 6 months. The condition generally comes with emotional stress, psychiatric disturbance, altered social relationship, and even disordered personality development. It is estimated that 15% to 20% of 5 years old children and 2% of adolescent patients are affected by these problems. Medical treatment for childhood nocturnal enuresis had been successful since the introduction of tricyclic antidepressants and desmopressin. However, there is no experiential of these two drugs. The aim of this study is to compare the efficiency between desmopressin and imipramine, with a final goal of finding the most efficacious while and cost-effective treatment for clinical practice. Method: The current study is a randomized control trial subjected to intention-to-treat analysis. Children with nocturnal enuresis from a medical center and examined by a single physician, who meet the treatment indications were included for analysis. They are randomly assigned into Desmopressin group and Imipramine group. Desmopressin is given at a dosage of 0.2-0.6 mg daily before sleep, while Imipramine 25-50 mg daily before sleep. All patients are treated for a 3-month course of medications, followed by 6 months of observation. The effectiveness is measured by responsiveness and relapse rate. The reduction of the frequency of enuresis during the third month of treatment of 50% or greater is defined as responsive, greater than 90% as fully responsive, 50% to 90% as partial responsive, while less than 50% classified as non-responsive. A relapse is defined as an increase in the number of enuresis during any single month of the 6-month observation period, comparing to the frequency during the third month of treatment. Result: Eighty-nine children (45 in Desmopressin group and 44 in Imipramine) were enrolled in the study. Seventy children (37 in Desmopressin group and 33 in Imipramine group) had completed for analysis. Thirty-four children in Desmopressin were responsive (75.55%) while 29 in Imipramine group were responsive 65.91% with relative ratio 1.046; 95% confidence interval 0.892 to 1.226 (not statistically significant difference). Nineteen children in Desmopressin group (42.22%) and 17 in Imipramine group (38.64%) were fully responsive; 15 children in Desmopressin group (33.33%) and 12 in Imipramine group (27.27%) were partial responsive. 3 children in Desmopressin group (6.66%) and 4 in Imipramine (9.09%) were non-responsive. Eight children in Desmopressin group and 11 in Imipramine group did not complete the treatment course. Thirteen children in Desmopressin group (48.15%) and 7 in Imipramine group (35.0%) had relapse during the 6-month post-treatment follow up. (relative ratio 0.855; 95% confidence interval 0.532 to 1.862). Two children in Imipramine group (4.5%) had adverse reaction to treatment while no adverse reaction was reported in Desmopressin group. In summary, after 12-week treatment, there is no significant difference in responsiveness and relapse rate between desmopressin and imipramine. However, there is a significant difference in the rate of adverse drug reaction.
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Wong, Jeannifer. "An exploration of patient experiences in training for nocturnal home hemodialysis." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=452886&T=F.
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Tepper, Ute Hedwig. "The development and use of the bedwetting alarm for nocturnal enuresis." Diss., 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16174.
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Since 1904 bedwetting alarms have been developed and scientifically
described for the treatment of nocturnal enuresis, also known as
bedwetting. Currently, several bedwetting alarms of various designs are
available on the overseas market. These can be imported to South
Africa at great cost. As affordable alarms were not readily available in
South Africa, there was a need to develop and evaluate a new unit.
In order to improve the efficacy of this new device, it was accompanied
by detailed user guidelines and instructions. The use of this alarm was
tested and the observations of thirteen bedwetting children recorded.
Additionally, a programme was developed to counsel enuretic children
with accompanying problems, and to assist the parents in dealing with
their child's bedwetting problem. The observations and findings will
be useful in practice and future research.Psychology of Education
M. Ed. (Educational Psychology - Specialisation in Guidance and Counselling)
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Grazian, David Ira. "Blue Chicago : cultural commerce and the search for authenticity in the nocturnal metropolis /." 2000. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9965082.
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Lamsdale, Allison M. "Development of an interactive reviewing tool for enhancing training of nocturnal home hemodialysis patients." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=452999&T=F.
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Moß, Dorothee Maria [Verfasser]. "Reference values for nocturnal home polysomnography in primary school children / vorgelegt von Dorothee Maria Moß." 2006. http://d-nb.info/979197090/34.
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Martincevic, Inez. "Evidence for enhanced transsulfuration as a mechanism underlying lower hyperhomocysteinemia in patients undergoing home nocturnal hemodialysis." 2008. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=772116&T=F.
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Wei, Chang-Ching, and 魏長菁. "Single nucleotide polymorphisms as biomarkers applied for searching candidate genes and exploring mechanisms of primary nocturnal enuresis." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06674660537401577950.
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碩士中國醫藥大學
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Primary nocturnal enuresis (PNE) is a common childhood problem. The incidence of PNE is approximately 10% of 7-year-old children. PNE make significant psychosocial distresses for both children and their parents and a child with PNE seems to have low confidence. Despite numerous studies on PNE, its etiology remains elusive. The etiology of PNE is multifactor, involving genetic influence, maturational delay, sleep disorder, psychological problem and decreased nighttime secretion of antidiuretic hormone. Normal voiding might include the synchronized circadian rhythm in the secretion of arginine vasopressin (AVP) and functional maturation of the central nervous system (CNS), which reduces the child''s ability to inhibit bladder emptying at night. Our major concerns for PNE are the compromised vasopressin production and the balance of CNS transmitters. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant types of DNA sequence variation in the human genome. The SNP marker provides a new way for the identification of complex gene-associated diseases such as PNE. We tried to use SNPs as biomarkers to search candidate genes and the pathogenesis of PNE. This study is the first to search the 5HTR2A gene polymorphisms in children with PNE. It was determined that 5HTR2A gene polymorphism, a predominantly TT genotype, may be associated with non-mono-symptomatic NE in Taiwanese children. These findings confirm previous observation that the heterogenisity of NE and open a window for the future research to find the mechanisms of NE.
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Cafazzo, Joseph Anthony. "Facilitating patient self-care through remote patient monitoring: Validation, design, and evaluation of an intervention for nocturnal hemodialysis." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=742415&T=F.
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WANG, YA-HSUAN, and 王雅萱. "The Analysis and Interpretation of Nocturnes: A Cycle of Five Songs for Soprano, Horn, and Piano by Arnold Cooke." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/aj7z3r.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
音樂學系
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In the middle of the 20th century, the German Nazis provoked the Second World War (1939-1945). The people of the Europe and Asia suffered the hardship of war. In the post-war musical culture, special phenomena such as self-criticism, reflection, and deconstruction of traditions occurred. Traditional materials and music technology innovation became two important major musical influences in the post-Second World War, eta. Arnold Cooke (1906-2005) was inspired by the World War II and created in the style of traditional music. It was composed of a little twentieth-century music material and special compilation. In this research report, from a Horn player’s perspective, Arnold Cooke's Nocturnes cites the poems of five different poets to explore the interpretation of Nocturnes and his works.
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Hui-ChenHuang and 黃慧珍. "The effect of elevating head of bed for patients with esophageal cancer suffered from nocturnal reflux symptom after esophagectomy and reconstruction." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z66gj8.
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碩士國立成功大學
護理學系
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Background: Patients with esophageal cancer suffered from nocturnal reflux symptom after esophagectomy and reconstruction. It has been demonstrated that nocturnal bed head elevation improves the symptoms of gastro-esophageal reflux (GE reflux) by facilitating the clearance rate of digestion fluid with gravity. However, no study examines the effect of nocturnal bed head elevation on patients with esophageal cancer undergoing esophagectomy and reconstruction. Purpose: To examine the effect of elevating head of bed by using the wedge form pillow on the gastro-esophageal reflux symptoms among patients who had underwent esophagectomy and reconstruction. Method：The research employed a cross-over design with one week as the intervention time. The same intervention was adopted for all participants after two weeks, with a longitudinal follow-up to review any difference between before intervention and at varied time points, including a period within 14 days and after one, two, and three months after the administration. The study was conducted in a medical center in Southern Taiwan. A list of qualified subjects was screened from the esophageal cancer database and randomized to two groups for drug administration by permuted block randomization. Data collection included self-reported reflux symptom, sleep quality and endoscopic changes of esophageal mucosa. Collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, linear mixed model. Result：A total of 14 cases were included in this study. The results showed that the average score of reflux symptom by combination of medication and wedged pillow was reduced than that of single drug administration in 14 days. However, taking into account of measurement time and other controlled variables, it showed no statistical significance in the improvement of reflux symptoms. Further investigation on long-term improvement of reflux symptom by combination of medication and wedged pillow, the results showed continuous decrease in the score of reflux symptom in one, two, and three months with statistical significance, where the reflux symptom was reduced much more in the second month. In terms of sleep quality, the average of total score declined regardless of time over the three months. However, no statistical significance was reported. For endoscopic view of esophageal mucosal injury, 11 patients (84.6%) showed above average improvement, but 2 (16.7%) patients' condition exaggerated after administration. Fourteen patients felt satisfactory with wedged pillow. Conclusion and Clinical Recommendations: Single drug administration or drug/wedged pillow combination wedge improved the reflux symptoms, but both had limited effectiveness in improving sleep quality. It is recommended that in addition to focusing on recurrence of esophageal cancer disease, surgeons should pay attention to the symptom of GE reflux and arrange regularly endoscopic examination to confirm the presence of reflux esophagitis in these patients. They should be prescribed with proper medication and taught to control their lifestyle and diet intake after opertaion. Furthermore, by industry-academic cooperation, an ergonomic design of wedged pillow can be produced in accordance with individual body to reduce reflux at nighttime to improve the quality of life.