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Selmén, Anna, and Euler Anne von. "Service recovery : “To err is human; recover, divine”." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9065.
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Uppsatsen handlar om hur företag hanterar missnöjda kunder, vilket i teorin benämns service recovery. Uppsatsen behandlar ett företag som sedan mindre än ett år tillbaka är en sammanslagning av fyra olika varumärken. Syftet med uppsatsen är att kartlägga hur fallföretaget hanterar missnöjda kunder samt att undersöka möjligheter till förbättringar. Uppsatsen bygger på teorier om service recovery skrivna av Grönroos, Bowen, Hart, Spreng och Best. Avsikten med uppsatsen är att skriva en plan för hur företaget kan förbättra sitt hanterande av missnöjda kunder. För att besvara syftet har vi genomfört tre personliga intervjuer med tre gruppchefer inom fallföretaget. Vi har kommit fram till att det finns en vilja hos samtliga respondenter att hantera service recovery på ett bra sätt. Dock saknas både kunskap och gemensamma rutiner. En annan viktig slutsats är att företaget måste inse vilka kostnadsfördelar service recovery kan medföra. Uppsatsen avslutas med en plan för hur företaget gemensamt kan förbättras och utveckla hanterandet av missnöjda kunder.
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Francis, Meredith Wells. "Social recovery capital among women in early recovery." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1553271357710124.
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Sands, William A., Nikos Apostolopoulos, Ashley A. Kavanaugh, and Michael H. Stone. "Recovery-Adaptation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4643.
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Athlete Training Should Proceed From Thorough and Systematic Periodized Plans for the Implementation of Training Loads. The Time-course of Training Should Include Periods of High Loads Punctuated by Reduced Loads and Rest. As There Are a Wide Variety of Means and Methods Used for the Implementation of Loads, There Are Numerous Means and Methods for Enhancing Recovery and Adaptation (Ra). Ra From Athlete Training Are Poorly Understood and in Need of a Model or Framework to Advance Our Ability to Systematically Complement Training With Appropriate Modalities.
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Cataldo, Cortes Tatiana Del Pilar, and Orellana Ariel Francisco Gómez. "Car Recovery." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/146358.
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TESIS PARA OPTAR AL GRADO DE MAGÍSTER EN ADMINISTRACIÓNTatiana Del Pilar Cataldo Cortes [Parte I], Ariel Francisco Gómez Orellana [Parte II]
La seguridad en las personas es un tema común en nuestra sociedad, más aun cuando en los últimos años ha aumentado los robos de vehículos a través del “portonazo” no solo en el barrio alto, sino que en todo el país, afectando a todo tipo de familias. Durante el año 2016 este crimen se ha trasladado a comunas emergentes, dejando inseguros a gran parte de la población que cuenta con uno o más automóviles particulares, un 5,9% de ellos fue víctima de intento de robo o hurto de vehículos durante los últimos doce meses, una cifra no menor considerando el parque automotriz de RM es 1,8M vehículos particulares equivalente a 40% del parque total nacional (fuente INE 2015). El año 2015 las autoridades informaron que entre 4 y 5 autos eran robados cada 1 hora (102 autos por día en Chile) con una tasa de crecimiento de 4,2% respecto del 2014 (fuente Carabineros de Chile – La Tercera). Este alto crecimiento en los robos de vehículos particulares ha generado una industria en este tipo de delincuencia que supera los US $200M anuales, con más de 35.000 vehículos robados anualmente. Sabemos que a nivel mundial, la industria automotriz y la seguridad satelital han diseñados aparatos de rastreo en tiempo real para vehículos de alta gama, para la industria militar y las de uso estándar aplicada fuertemente en flotas. Entendiendo este contexto y dado el crecimiento en robo de vehículos particular, más la alta inseguridad ciudadana instalada, hemos visualizado una oportunidad de negocio para nuestro producto Car Recovery, el que ofrece monitorear y recuperar vehículos robados en tiempo real, a través de seguimiento en línea por un equipo especializado en vigilancia, acompañado de una plataforma robusta de operación 24/7, nuestra ventaja competitiva, es el equipo de rescatistas que acudirán motorizados al recupero del vehículo particular, mientras en paralelo nuestros operadores telefónicos se pondrán en contacto con seguridad ciudadana y Carabineros. Actualmente dimensionamos un mercado potencial superior a los US $310M, pero esta industria no se encuentra desarrollada, tampoco penetrada y tiene un alto potencial de crecimiento en el corto plazo, por ello, determinamos un mercado objetivo de US $50M anuales sólo en la región metropolitana. Car Recovery visualiza una oportunidad de negocio sobre $2.700M en ingresos al año 3 y sobre $9.900M al año 5, con un EBITDA de 29,1% al final de este período, con una TIR de 41,95%, lo que hace un negocio muy atractivo para un inversionista, entendiendo que ofreceremos a este, una rentabilidad de 30% y propiedad superior al 16% y compra de acciones preferentes.
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Adame, Alexandra Lynne. "Recovered voices, recovered lives a narrative analysis of psychiatric survivors' experiences of recovery /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1152813614.
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Adame, Alexandra L. "Recovered Voices, Recovered Lives: A Narrative Analysis of Psychiatric Survivors’ Experiences of Recovery." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1152813614.
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de, Ruiter Marleen Carolijn. "Post-disaster community recovery : linking environmental and economic recovery." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37554.
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This study examines the linkages between environmental and economic post-disaster recovery for coastal communities using the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study. The disaster literature often neglects to discuss the recovery of the natural environment in urban areas and how this influences the economic recovery of a community. This is caused in part by the difficulty of measuring recovery. However, it is a very important part of the post-disaster recovery and this study explores such ‘hidden losses’ as a declined contribution of the local fishery industry to the community. It is also important to recognize that the perception of how the natural environment relates to human societies is influenced by a society’s paradigm. This study first examines the influence of two contrasting paradigms on the assessment of the recovery of natural system: the anthropocentric and ecocentric paradigms. This provides insights into the influence of the contemporary anthropocentric paradigm and the contrast with an ecocentric approach. Secondly, this thesis research studies the linkages between environmental and economic recovery for coastal tourism and fishery industries, focusing on a case study of the Biloxi area of Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The empirical insights gained from the case study are used to refine a framework for linking post-disaster environmental and economic recovery. Fieldwork was conducted in October 2010 and included 13 expert judgment interviews with local stakeholders and authorities. Quantitative analysis was also conducted using statistical time series data on economic and environmental variables. Results indicate that the economic recovery of the environment-dependent fisheries sector lagged behind the recovery of the general economy. This is caused by several factors such as decreased demand for fisheries products due to perception of environmental damage. Findings are summarized in a diagram of linkages between environmental and economic recovery.
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Petersen, Katherine M. "Disaster preparedness and recovery for museums : a business recovery model /." View online, 2006. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/118/.
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Schmidt, Eric A. (Eric Alexander). "Node-Link Mapping and Rational Recovery: Enhancing the Recovery Process." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277722/.
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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) continues to be the most accepted approach for the treatment of addictions in the United States. However, due to recent evidence questioning the effectiveness of AA, the need for alternative approaches to the treatment of addictions has become clear. The following research addresses the efficacy of one such alternative, Rational Recovery (RR). Node-Link Mapping (NLM), a graphic communication technique which uses links and nodes as building blocs to facilitate and enhance communication of information as well as awareness in a counseling environment, was implemented to enhance the recovery process. Three groups of ten (10), chemically dependent, adjudicated subjects were exposed to three different treatment approaches at an outpatient counseling center. The Experimental group received RR with NLM, the Comparison group was exposed only to RR, and the Control group continued in treatment according to the protocol of the counseling agency. All subjects were given the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory-2 (SASSI-2) as a measurement of symptoms associated with chemical dependency. The subjects were also administered the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (Rotter I-E Scale) to determine locus of control prior to treatment and any change after treatment.
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Elswick, Alex. "Emerging Adults and Recovery Capital: Barriers and Facilitators to Recovery." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hes_etds/51.
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Substance use disorders are chronic brain disorders and must therefore be treated on an ongoing basis. Accordingly, the concept of recovery capital has been developed to account for the internal and external resources that an individual can mobilize in order to recover from a substance use disorder. However, the concept has scarcely been applied to emerging adults. Although they are at twice the risk of developing a substance use disorder relative to their adult or adolescent counterparts, emerging adults in addiction and recovery are understudied. This phenomenological study aims to explore and describe the experience of emerging adults in recovery and to identify the barriers and facilitators to their recovery. The informants (n=8) were 18-25 year olds in recovery from substance use disorders. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews and subsequently analyzed for emerging themes. The results from this study suggest that the developmental tasks facing emerging adults are exacerbated in addiction and recovery.
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Johansson, Niklas E. "Self-Service Recovery." Doctoral thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-575.
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Service recovery is about problems. What happens when customers experience problems? Well, sometimes customers complain to the one responsible for the service. Sometimes customers do not complain but instead tell somebody else about the problem, possibly leading to a bad reputation for the one responsible for the service. Sometimes it happens that customers never return to the same provider because of the problem experienced. To avoid the customer leaving, service recovery can be used. Service recovery is a set of actions a service pro-vider can take in order to repair a failure (Tax and Brown, 1998; Zemke, 1995; Scheuing and Christopher, 1993; Levesque and McDougall, 2000).
In addition, many services today are Internet-based, meaning that services are self-services enabled by information technology (IT). Self-services enabled by IT, referred to as self-service technology (SST), are characterized by an interac-tion between a user and a machine rather than between two humans. Conse-quently, service recovery is no longer between two people interacting in a face-to-face manner when solving problems, but between a user and a machine when taking place in an SST context.
This change of context has resulted in difficulties but also opportunities in the work of service recovery. Instead of turning to the one responsible for the service when problems occur, it is now possible to turn to other customers and users to receive help. SST has opened up new opportunities to learn with and from other individuals through the sharing of knowledge. The sharing of knowledge for the purpose of turning problems into solutions and improve-ments depends on the ability to create value for people involved.
Service recovery in a self-service technology context, i.e. self-service recovery (SSR) is defined as the capability, enabled by self-service technology, of turning user prob-lems into solutions and improvements by means of sharing knowledge between users in order to create value.
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to answer the question, “Why self-service recovery works?” The question is addressed by seven research studies and by evolving a framework for understanding why self-service recovery works.
The contributions of this dissertation reside from the framework, which en-hances our understanding of self-service recovery as a value creation activity through not only recovery, but also improvement of the service in question.
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Svetinovic, Davor. "Agile Architecture Recovery." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1065.
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Many software development projects start with an existing code base that has to be tightly integrated into a new system. In order to make a robust system that will achieve the desired business goals, developers must be able to understand the architecture of the old code base and its rationale. This thesis presents a lightweight approach for the recovery of software architecture. The main goal of the approach is to provide an efficient way for architecture recovery that works on small to mid-sized software systems, and gives a useful starting point on large ones. The emphasis of the process is on the use of well established development techniques and tools, in order to minimize adoption costs and maximize the return on investment.
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Johansson, Niklas E. "Self-service recovery /." Karlstad : Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, Information Systems, Karlstad University, 2006. http://www.diva-portal.org/kau/theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=575.
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MAGALHAES, JOAO ALFREDO PINTO DE. "RECOVERY ORIENTED SOFTWARE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15420@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Software orientado à recuperação é construído com a perspective que falhas de hardware e software bem como erros de operação são fatos com os quais se deve conviver, pois são problemas que não podem ser resolvidos no desenvolvimento de aplicações reais e complexas. Consequentemente, qualquer software sempre terá uma chance diferente de zero de falhar. Algumas dessas falhas podem ser causadas por defeitos que podem ser removidos ou encapsulados. Uma questão chave é aumentar a detectabilidade de erros, ou em outras palavras, aumentar a auto-consciência comportamental de um software. Nesse trabalho, apresentamos os resultados da aplicação sistemática de técnicas conhecidas (design by contract, self-checking software, componentes de software, software depurável, design for testability, mock components e padrões) com o objetivo de criar software orientado à recuperação. Através da medição de cinco aplicações reais de tempo real, analisamos os efeitos da adoção dessas técnicas. Em particular, observamos o balanceamento do esforço gasto em diferentes estágios do desenvolvimento a exploramos o conceito de redundância de raciocínio que, além de prover uma maior detectabilidade de erros e depurabilidade, também leva ao aumento da qualidade por construção. Os resultados foram encorajadores por terem sido sistematicamente melhores do que aqueles reportados pela literatura e obtidos a um custo acessível.
Recovery oriented software is built with the perspective that hardware or software failures as well as operation mistakes are facts to be coped with, since they are problems that cannot be fully solved while developing real complex applications. Consequently, any software will always have a non-zero chance of failure. Some of these failures may be caused by defects that could be removed or encapsulated. A key issue is to increase the detectability of errors, in other words, increase the self-awareness of the software s behavior. In this work, we present the results of systematically applying already well known techniques (design by contract, self-checking software, software components, debuggable software, design for testability, mock components and patterns) with the intent of creating recovery oriented software. Measuring the development of five different real-time and real world applications, we analyzed the effects of the adoption of these techniques. In particular we observed the balancing of the effort spent in different development stages and explore the reduncancy of reasoning concept that, as well as providing a higher detectability and debuggability, also leads to enhancing quality-by-construction. The results were encouraging since they were systematically better than those reported in the literature and were achieved at a feasible cost.
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Müller, Karen E. "MPLS-based recovery." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53506.
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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: MPLS-based recovery is intended to effect rapid and complete restoration of traffic affected by a fault in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Two MPLS-based recovery models have been proposed: lP re-routing which establishes recovery paths on demand, and protection switching which works with pre-established recovery paths. lP re-routing is robust and frugal since no resources are pre-committed but it is inherently slower than protection switching which is intended to offer high reliability to premium services where fault recovery takes place at the 100 ms time scale. This thesis presents an overview of various recovery techniques and addresses the problem of how to find an in some sense optimal set of pre-established traffic engineered recovery paths, given a network with link capacities and traffic demands. We present and motivate our choice of a nonlinear objective function and optimization method for finding traffic engineered working and recovery paths. A variant of the flow deviation method is used to find and capacitate a set of optimal label switched paths. We present and evaluate two simple methods for computing a set of pre-established traffic engineered recovery paths by using the flow deviation method.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: MPLS-gebaseerde herstel is daarop gemik om verkeer wat deur 'n fout in 'n Multiprotokol Etiketwisseling (Multiprotocol Label Switching) (MPLS) netwerk geaffekteer is, vinnig en volledig te herstel. Twee MPLS-gebaseerde herstelmodelle is voorgestel: Internetprotokol-herroetering (lP rerouting) wat herstelpaaie op aanvraag tot stand bring, en beskermingsoorskakeling (protection switching) wat met voorafbeplande herstelpaaie werk. IP-herroetering is robuust en voordelig aangesien geen netwerkbronne vooraf gereserveer word nie, maar dit is inherent stadiger as beskermingsoorskakeling wat veronderstel is om 'n hoë graad van betroubaarheid aan belangrike dienste te bied waar die herstel van foute in die 100 ms tydskaal plaasvind. Hierdie tesis verskaf 'n oorsig oor verskeie hersteltegnieke en ondersoek die probleem hoe om 'n optimale versameling van voorafbeplande herstelpaaie te vind, gegee 'n netwerk met skakelkapasiteite (link capacities) en verwagte netwerkverkeer. Ons stel voor en motiveer ons keuse van 'n nie-lineêre objekfunksie en optimeringsmetode om verkeersontwerpde (traffic engineered) aktiewe en herstelpaaie te vind. 'n Variant van die vloeideviasie (flow deviation)-metode word gebruik om 'n optimale versameling van etiketwisseling (label switched) paaie te vind en om 'n optimale hoeveelheid kapasiteit aan die paaie toe te ken. Ons stel voor en evalueer twee eenvoudige metodes om 'n versameling van optimale voorafbeplande herstelpaaie te bereken deur die vloeideviasie-metode toe te pas.
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Currie, John S. "Absorption heat recovery." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/13527.
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Industrial drying operations are highly energy intensive, usually utilising a primary energy source to provide the necessary heat for the production of a wide range of materials. The use of hot air as the heat and mass transfer medium leads to a resultant loss of energy through the venting of humid exhaust streams. An absorption heat transformer pilot plant was designed and constructed to investigate the potential of recovering this waste heat. Using a two stage cycle, simulated dryer exhaust streams were successfully dehumidified and reheated. The first stage of the transformer employed a direct contact process which used a concentrated absorbent solution, in this case aqueous lithium bromide solution, to reduce the humidity of the gas stream. This stage was followed by an indirect contact process using a novel absorption column to reheat the 'dry' gas. It was found that, based on initial water vapour partial pressures of around 0.2 bar, exit partial pressures as low as 0.04 bar were achievable. Temperature lifts of 50 - 70°C were possible in the reheat column, while the maximum exit gas temperature achieved was 160°C. In conjunction with the experimental studies, a computer simulation program was also written. Results of the model show that the absorption process was extremely rapid, occurring within the first 5 cm (6%) of the absorption column. A good comparison between the experimental and computer results was achieved. A preliminary design of an industrial heat transformer was also proposed following an industrial case study of a spray drying operation.
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Dabney, Lucy. "Art for Recovery." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4806.
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This thesis explores the design of a space for opioid addicts in recovery that combines an art therapy studio with a gallery space. It would provide a new type of therapy available to the area, engage and educate the Richmond community and spread awareness of the disease of opiate addiction. It will also enable addicts to express themselves in a non-verbal, creative format that allows for them to create a legacy and leave an imprint on the community.
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Ellison, Cassandra J. "Recovery From Design." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4884.
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Through research, inquiry, and an evaluation of Recovery By Design, a ‘design therapy’ program that serves people with mental illness, substance use disorders, and developmental disabilities, it is my assertion that the practice of design has therapeutic potential and can aid in the process of recovery. To the novice, the practices of conception, shaping form, and praxis have empowering benefit especially when guided by Conditional and Transformation Design methods together with an emphasis on materiality and vernacular form.
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Silva, Fernanda Moreira da. "Breakdown and recovery." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106925.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2013Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-05T22:45:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 320320.pdf: 1509689 bytes, checksum: 2d22a285ddcfa3c29996085ae9044aaf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013
Embora Girl, Interrupted (1993), de Susanna Kaysen, tenha sido publicado trinta anos depois de The Bell Jar (1963), de Sylvia Plath, ambos os romances retratam a sociedade dos Estados Unidos pós-guerra, uma época de grandes mudanças no que diz respeito aos papéis profissional e intelectual desempenhados pelas mulheres. Deparando-se com o dilema entre a vida doméstica e uma carreira, as protagonistas desses dois romances sofreram profundas crises, as quais resultaram em um desequilíbrio emocional e uma busca por autoconhecimento e autorrealização. Baseando-se na crítica feminista (Phyllis Chesler, Betty Friedan, Barbara Hill Rigney, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Gayle Greene, Linda Huf entre outros) e em princípios gerais da teoria psicoanalítica (especialmente R.D. Laing e Jung), esta pesquisa examina as forças conflitantes que levaram as protagonistas a ser consideradas psicologicamente instáveis, argumentando que a chamada loucura é um resultado de uma divisão entre anseios pessoais e pressões externas em uma época que as relações de gênero estavam sendo questionadas e transformadas.
Abstract: Although thirty years separate the publications of Sylvia Plath?s The Bell Jar (1963) and Susanna Kaysen?s Girl, Interrupted (1993), both novels are set in post-war society in the United States, a time of great changes in the professional and intellectual roles for women. Caught in the dilemma between domesticity and a career, the protagonists of these two novels experience profound crises, which lead them to emotional imbalance and a search for self-knowledge and fulfillment. Based on feminist criticism (Phyllis Chesler, Betty Friedan, Barbara Hill Rigney, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Gayle Greene, Linda Huf among others) and on general principles of psychoanalytic theory (especially R.D. Laing and Jung), this investigation examines the conflicting forces which cause them to be considered psychologically impaired, arguing that their so-called madness is a result of a division between inner drives and external pressures at a time when gender relations were being questioned and transformed
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Gonzalez-Nieto, Juan Manuel. "Key recovery systems." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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Ruksa, Kitija, and Elrener Törnquist. "Service recovery : Vilka strategier har hotell som arbetar med service recovery?" Thesis, Örebro universitet, Restaurang- och hotellhögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-61245.
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Kinser, A. M., W. L. Kimmel, Brittany R. Wurtz, William A. Sands, and Michael H. Stone. "Recovery Stress Questionnaire: Marker of Drop Jump Performance and Under-Recovery?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4507.
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Beal, Heather L. "How Childcare Type and Disaster Recovery Funding Type Impact Childcare Recovery." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6820.
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Childcare is critical community infrastructure, yet it is typically not eligible for recovery assistance postdisaster. The effect of disaster on children has been extensively studied and research indicates that the return to normalcy (e.g., through restoration of childcare programs) helps aid recovery. Despite this, little research has been conducted on how childcare programs recover. The purpose of this research was to investigate how the recovery times for childcare programs affected by Superstorm Sandy varied based on childcare typology and the recovery funding resources used. A quasi-experimental research design was selected and data from 76 surveys was evaluated using one-way and factorial analysis of variance. The research questions were designed to evaluate the impact of recovery funding types used, childcare type, number of recovery funding resources used, and the interaction of childcare type and recovery funding types used on recovery time. Resource dependence theory was chosen as the theoretical framework because of its precept that only effective organizations survive through application of behaviors such as diversification of resources. The results revealed that there was a statistically significant relationship between the number of recovery resources used and recovery time (p = .04). Social change starts with information. This study supported social change by providing a baseline for childcare recovery research and emphasizing the importance of childcare to both community recovery and the recovery of children in disaster recovery policy.
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Allvin, Renée. "Postoperative recovery : development of a multi-dimensional questionnaire for assessment of Recovery." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Hälsoakademin, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-7731.
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This thesis aims to present a multi-dimensional instrument for self-assessment of progress in postoperative recovery. The author employs different research paradigms and methodologies to achieve this aim. Walker and Avant’s approach to concept analysis was used to examine the basic elements of postoperative recovery (Study I). The analysis identified different recovery dimensions and developed a theoretical definition showing postoperative recovery to be an energy-requiring process of returning to normality and wholeness, defined by comparative standards. Fourteen patients and 28 staff members participated in individual and focus group interviews aimed at describing patient and staff experiences of patient recovery (Study II). The essence of the postoperative recovery process was described as a desire to decrease unpleasant physical symptoms, reach a level of emotional wellbeing, regain functions, and re-establish activities. In Study III, 5 dimensions and 19 items were identified as a part of the operationalization process of the concept postoperative recovery. Fifteen staff members and 16 patients participated in the evaluation of content validity. On average, 85% of the participants considered the items as essential to the recovery process. In a test run of the questionnaire, 14 of 15 patients considered the questionnaire to be easy to understand and easy to complete. Twenty-five patients participated in the evaluation of intra-patient reliability. Percentage agreement (PA), systematic disagreement (RP, RC), and individual variability (RV) between the two assessments were calculated. PA measures ranged from 72% to 100%. The observed disagreement could be explained mainly by systematic disagreement. In total, 158 patients participated in the evaluation of construct validity, the ability to discriminate between groups, and the investigation of important item variables (Study IV). A rank-based statistical method for evaluation of paired, ordered categorical data from rating scales was used to evaluate consistency between the assessments of the Postoperative Recovery Profile (PRP) questionnaire and a global recovery scale. The number of months needed by participants to be regarded as fully recovered was studied by means of recovery profiles displayed by the cumulative proportion of recovered participants over time. A ranking list based on the participant’s appraisal of the five most important item variables in the PRP questionnaire was compiled to illustrate the rank ordering of the items. In comparing the assessments from the PRP questionnaire and the global recovery scale, 7.6% of all possible pairs were disordered. Twelve months after discharge 73% in the orthopaedic group were regarded as fully recovered, compared to 51% of the participants in the abdominal group (95% CI: 6% to 40%). The pain variable appeared among the top five most important items on eight measurement occasions, of eight possible, in both study groups. In conclusion, the PRP questionnaire was developed and support was given for validity and reliability. The questionnaire enables one to evaluate progress in postoperative recovery.
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Caldwell, James. "Individual Reactions to Organizational Ethical Failures and Recovery Attempts: A Recovery Paradox?" Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3273.
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The vast majority of behavioral ethical research focuses on the antecedents of unethical behavior. Consequently, questions involving the consequences of organizational unethical behavior remain largely unanswered. Therefore, extant business ethics research largely neglects the impacts of organizational unethical behavior on individuals. Moreover, questions involving what organizations can do to correct or recover from having engaged in unethical behavior as well as individual responses to those efforts are also mostly ignored. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of unethical activity on employees and explore organizations that have failed ethically and their attempts at recovery. This study explores two issues. First, how do employees react to organizational unethical behavior (OUB) and to what extent are those reactions dependent on contextual and individual factors? Second, to what extent can organizations recover from the negative impacts of ethical failure? More specifically, is it possible for organizations that fail in their ethical responsibilities to recover such that they are paradoxically "better-off" than their counterparts that never failed in the first place? To explore these issues I review, integrate and draw upon the ethical decision-making and service failure recovery literatures for theoretical support. Empirical testing included two studies. The first was a field study using survey data acquired from the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) in which over 29,000 participants were asked about their perceptions of ethics at work. Second, a supplemental field study was conducted in which 100 employees rated the characteristics of unethical acts (e.g. severity). Results revealed a negative direct effect of severity and controllability of the OUB on perceptions of organizational ethicality and a negative direct effect of controllability of the OUB on organizational satisfaction. Ethical context moderated the relationship between OUB controllability and perceived organizational ethicality. Partial support was found for the moderating effects of ethical context on the relationship between OUB severity and perceived organizational ethicality. Results also supported an ethical failure recovery paradox.Ph.D.
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Minnen, Molly E. "The Association of Subordinate Perceptions of Supervisor Recovery with Subordinate Recovery Outcomes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96430.
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Recent literature surrounding the process of recovery from work and work-related demands has included the supervisor as a key variable influencing how and if employees recover from work. Recovery represents the return of personal resources to their pre-work levels and is typically conceptualized as taking place during non-work time (e.g., at night after work, weekends, holidays). It is theorized to take place through four main recovery experiences: psychological detachment from work, relaxation, mastery experiences, and control over leisure time. This study extends the literature surrounding recovery experiences to include subordinate perceptions of supervisor recovery as a potential predictor of subordinate recovery and well-being. Participants (N=252) completed three time-lagged surveys and reported their perceptions of their supervisor’s recovery (Time 1), their own recovery (Time 2), and their feelings of vigor and fatigue (Time 3). Perceived supervisor recovery was empirically distinguishable from supervisor support for recovery and provided incremental validity in predicting subordinate recovery beyond this support perception. These results bolster the conclusion that supervisor recovery can spillover to directly influence subordinate recovery.M.S.
Recent research has focused on how the supervisor may influence how and if subordinates are able to rest and recover from the demands they face at work. The process of recovery from work is usually thought to take place during time away from work (e.g., at night after work, weekends, holidays) and is thought to occur through four experiences: psychological detachment from work (cutting mental and physical ties with work), relaxation (positive mood and low effort), mastery experiences (building skills or hobbies), and control over leisure time (being able to decide how to spend one’s time). This thesis extends previous work to include subordinate perceptions of how his / her supervisor is recovering from work as a potential predictor of subordinate recovery and recovery related outcomes. Participants (N=252) completed three surveys over the course of four weeks and reported their perceptions of their supervisor’s recovery (Survey 1), their own recovery (Survey 2), and their feelings of vigor and fatigue (Survey 4). Subordinate perceptions of the mastery and control of their supervisor was related to subordinate mastery and control above and beyond existing measures of how the supervisor may influence subordinate recovery. These results suggest that the supervisor may be an important role model in how subordinates recover.
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Ma, Jun. "Attribution, Expectation, and Recovery: An Integrated Model of Service Failure and Recovery." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1186171198.
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Caldwell, James L. "Individual reactions to organizational ethical failures and recovery attempts a recovery paradox? /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002655.
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Seres, Sandu. "Resource recovery from MSW fly ash : Resource recovery from MSW fly ash." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Kemiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-154377.
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Abu, Bakar Siti Zakiah. "SERVICE RECOVERY IN E-SERVICES: SERVICE RECOVERY PROCESS, PERCEIVED JUSTICE AND SATISFACTION." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1328.
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The Internet has changed the platform for how services are delivered. In the absence of one-to-one personal interactions between a service provider and a customer, failures unique to e-service are bound to occur. E-service failures are likely to result in unsatisfied customers. Therefore, a recovery system is important to tilt the balance of satisfaction/dissatisfaction to a more favorable condition. An e-service recovery process is an important operational process to affect this change. It is in a sense, a second chance to gain/retain loyal customers by rectifying e-service failures. Equity Theory and Exchange Theory were the theoretical bases for how customers’ perceptions transitioned from loss and unfairness to equity and satisfaction after an e-service recovery. This study investigated the relationships between e-service recovery processes attributes (compensation, respond speed, and apology) and perceived justice constructs (interactional, distributive, and procedural), and examined the relationship between perceived justice and e-service recovery satisfaction. Data from a community of students and knowledge workers in a Mid-western university was collected to analyze the effects of these constructs in service recovery processes for the purpose of designing recovery policy. The study used MANOVA and Multiple regressions for hypotheses testing. The results indicate that all service recovery process attributes had a significant main effect on all perceived justice variables. This suggests that the different levels of compensation, response speed, and apology will impact a customer’s perception of perceived justice. There is also a marginally significant interaction effect for compensation and apology. This significant interaction effect could indicate that the positive impact of an apology as part of a service recovery process could be intensified when accompanied by monetary compensation. Furthermore, the findings indicate that perceived justice (interactional justice, distributive justice, and procedural justice) are significant drivers of satisfaction in an e-service recovery. There was also a significant interaction effect with distributive justice and procedural justice in predicting e-service recovery satisfaction. The result suggests that when compensation is given, customers perceive that the e-service provider is following the rules and regulations in providing compensation in exchange for their losses.This helps transition the customer to a more equitable and satisfied state. The study also supports past research in traditional services by finding that all three perceived justice predictors were significant drivers of recovery satisfaction and that at least one interaction was significant in predicting e-service recovery satisfaction. In addition, another contribution from this study is the development of a new e-service recovery satisfaction scale. Lastly, this study contributes to the emerging stream of research on e-service recovery processes and satisfaction, and the empirical results further delineate the role of social justice in e-service recovery.
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Edmondson, Sally. "The context of recovery: Individual experiences of recovery from work-related trauma." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1512.
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In this study the recovery experiences of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to a work-related trauma was investigated. The aim of the study was to explore individual experiences within an ecological framework in order to develop a clearer understanding of the significance of contextual factors. The study utilised a multiple case methodology and data was analysed using the qualitative method of focused conceptual development. Participants were four males and one female ranging in age from 37 to 57 years and two female key informants who had four and seven years of experience of working with stress claims in the worker's compensation system. Participants were interviewed about their experiences of recovery. The data was triangulated with archival data from the participant's vocational rehabilitation file and information provided by the key informants. Findings suggest that viewing work-related trauma within an ecological framework enhance our understanding of the trauma recovery process. This study revealed a number of key influences in participant's experience of recovery, such as the influence of the worker's compensation system, social support and coping style. These included issues such as recognition and legitimacy of psychological injury and the type of services offered in the system. Implications for clinical practice and the wider community are discussed including the importance of a comprehensive ecological assessment when working with work-related trauma victims.
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Pashayev, Orkhan H. "Imbibition assisted oil recovery." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1107.
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Imbibition describes the rate of mass transfer between the rock and the fractures. Therefore, understanding the imbibition process and the key parameters that control the imbibition process is crucial. Capillary imbibition experiments usually take a long time, especially when we need to vary some parameters to investigate their effects. Therefore, this research presented the numerical studies with the matrix block surrounded by the wetting phase for better understanding the characteristic of spontaneous imbibition, and also evaluated dimensionless time for validating the scheme of upscaling laboratory imbibition experiments to field dimensions.
Numerous parametric studies have been performed within the scope of this research. The results were analyzed in detail to investigate oil recovery during spontaneous imbibition with different types of boundary conditions. The results of these studies have been upscaled to the field dimensions. The validity of the new definition of characteristic length used in the modified scaling group has been evaluated. The new scaling group used to correlate simulation results has been compared to the early upscaling technique.
The research revealed the individual effects of various parameters on imbibition oil recovery. Also, the study showed that the characteristic length and the new scaling technique significantly improved upscaling correlations.
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Rojas, Tena Fernando, and Reber Kadir. "Waste Heat Recovery Modellering." Thesis, KTH, Förbränningsmotorteknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-39923.
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SammanfattningI ett tidigare projekt, utfört under våren 2010, modellerades och simulerades en ånggenerator i GT-SUITE för att analysera och jämföra dess resultat med de faktiska motormätningarna. Projektet utfördes på Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm, på uppdrag av företaget som introducerat idén, Ranotor. Konceptet gick ut på att ersätta EGR-kylaren i en lastbilsmotor och med hjälp av Rankine cykeln försöka öka motorns verkningsgrad. Ånggeneratorn består av 48 mikro tuber, som alla innehåller vatten med högt tryck, vattnet värms upp av de varma avgaserna som letts in i ånggeneratorn. Detta gör att vattnet förångas och leds sedan för att driva en expander för att avlasta motorn.Huvudfokus i detta examensarbete har varit att modellera, studera och analysera ånggeneratorns prestanda i simuleringsprogrammet GT-SUITE. För att kunna göra detta måste ånggeneratorn, även kallad HRSG (Heat Recovery Steam Generator), modelleras från grunden med specifikationer från tillverkaren. En elementarmodell byggdes inledningsvis upp för att belysa beteendet av flödet inuti mikro tuberna och vilka parametrar som påverkar resultatet av simuleringarna. Senare gjordes även en komplett identisk modell av den verkliga ånggeneratorn. Modellen användes i ESC-cykeln och även för transienta körningar, där all indata är samlad från motormätningar på den verkliga ånggenerator, monterad på en DS1301, 6-cylinder 12 liter Scania diesel motor. För att kunna förbättra simuleringen av den kompletta modellen, gjordes en nedskalad modell som bara innehöll två tuber. Denna modell har samma dimensioner och egenskaper med den kompletta modellen, men fördelen med denna tvåtubs modell är den förkortade simuleringstiden.Inlopps parametrar såsom, vattenflöde, ångtryck, avgasflöde och avgastemperaturen togs från verkliga motormätningar. Samtliga parametrar varierar med tiden; detta gör det möjligt att göra en direkt jämförelse mellan den verkliga ånggeneratorn och den modellerade. Ångans och avgasernas temperatur samt tryckfallet över ångpannan är huvudparametrar som har jämförts med de verkliga mätningarna. Testkörningen är baserad på ESC-cykeln, European Stationary Cycle, som innehåller tolv lastpunkter och en tomgångspunkt. Jämförelser mellan den kompletta modellen och de faktiska provkörningarna visade följande: i det bästa fallet avviker ångans temperatur ~5% motsvarande 10°C. För det sämsta fallet är temperatur skillnaden ~20%, ca 40°C, övriga lastpunkter visar en felmarginal mellan 5-10% motsvarande 10-35°C. Tryckfallet över ångpannan visar en större felmarginal, vilket beror på mätningar under testkörningar där vissa filter var igen satta, därav uppmättes tryckfallet i vissa fall upp till 20 bar. I bästa fallet skiljer det ~1 % mellan simulering och verklighet, vilket är nästan identiskt, medan det i det sämsta falletskiljer uppemot 70 % som motsvarar 10 bar, övriga lastpunkter ligger i intervallet 10-15 % felmarginal, motsvarande 1-4 bar.Två tubs modellen beter sig som den kompletta modellen; avvikelsen mellan dessa modeller är 1-5% ~5-15°C i de flesta fallen, där skillnaden för det mesta liknar mätningarna. Värmeöverföringen, Reynolds tal, ångans effekt studeras i tvåtubs modellen. Analys av modellen visar att ~40-55 % av värmeöverföringen sker i fasomvandlingen, vilket var förvånande mycket och Reynolds tal ökar med ~450 % i denna region, från 1500 till ~6500, vilket tyder på en flödesövergångs fas. Ångans effekt varierar mellan 5-23 kW beroende på lastpunkt.Den slutliga modellen ger tillfredställande resultat och anses vara tillräckligt bra för vidare analys.AbstractIn a previous project, made in the spring of 2010, a steam generator was modelled and simulated in GT-SUITE, in order to analyze and compare with engine measurements. This was made at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, on behalf of the company that introduced this idea, Ranotor. The concept was to replace the EGR-cooler in a heavy duty engine and with help of the Rankine cycle, try to improve its efficiency. The steam generator consists of 48 micro tubes, all containing high pressured water, which in turn is heated by the warm exhausts that are led into the steam generator. This causes the water in the tubes to evaporate which propels an expander that will unload the engine.The main focus of this thesis is to model, study and analyze the performance of the steam generator built in the simulation program GT-SUITE. The steam generator, called Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG), is modelled from scratch with the specifications of the manufacturer. An elementary model was initially made to highlight the behaviour of the flow inside the micro tubes and what parameters affect the outcome of the simulations. Finally a complete identical model was made of the actual steam generator. The model was used in an ESC-cycle and also for a transient cycle, where all the input data is gathered on engine measurements of the actual HRSG, mounted on a DS1301, 6-cylinder 12 litre Scania diesel engine. In order to improve the simulation of the complete model a downsized model, only containing two tubes, was made. This model has the same dimensions and properties as the complete model but the advantage of this double-tube model is the shortened simulation time.The inlet parameters to the model such as water mass flow, steam pressure, exhaust mass flow and exhaust temperature were taken from actual engine measurements. All the parameters vary due to time; this makes a comparison possible between the real steam generator and the modelled one. Steam temperature, exhaust temperature and pressure drop along the HRSG are the main parameters from the simulations that are compared to the actual measurements. The engine measurements are made based on the ESC-cycle, European Stationary Cycle, which contains twelve load points and one idle point. During comparison between the complete model and the engine measurements following is observed, in the best case the steam temperature differs ~ 5 %, equalling 10°C. In the worst case the temperature difference is ~20 %, which is approximately 40°C, the rest of the load points shows a margin of error between 5-10 % equalling 10-35 °C. Pressure drop along the HRSG is less accurate;this is due to an error during the measurement where some filters where clogged. Disparity in pressure drop is ~1% in best case, which is almost identical and ~70% in worst case, corresponding to approximately 10 bar, where rest of the load points shows a margin of error between 10-15% equalling 1-4 bar.The double-tube model behaves like the complete model; the difference between the models is 1-5 % in most cases ~5-15°C, where the difference is mostly closer to the measurements. Heat transfer, Reynolds number and steam power are taken and studied from the double tube model. Analyses of the models reviles that ~40-55 % of the heat transfer is in the transition phase, which is surprisingly much and Reynolds number increases by ~450% in the same region, from 1500 to ~6500 which indicates a flow transition phase. Steam power varies between 5-23 kW depending on load point.The final model shows satisfying result and therefore assumed to be good enough for further analyse.
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Truant, Laurie Gail. "Recovery from bulimia nervosa." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31151.
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Current research on formal treatment approaches to normal-weight bulimia presents inconclusive results on the efficacy of various treatments and limited empirical knowledge of the curative mechanisms involved. In the literature on therapeutic change agent studies which interviews individuals who have recovered from an eating disorder, only isolated aspects of the recovery experience are uncovered so that the meaning and process of recovery are limited. This case study applied Colaizzi's (1978) existential-phenomenological approach to elucidate thematic categories underlying the recovery experience as recounted by a former bulimic in order to provide a more complete and holistic understanding of the process and nature of recovery from bulimia. Initially, four individuals who self-reported feeling genuinely recovered from bulimia were prescreened by an independent rater in order to ensure that they had a previous diagnosis of bulimia nervosa as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition Revised (1987) and no previous history of anorexia nervosa, that they were free of bulimic symptoms, and that they exhibited no significant indicators of other active psychological problems since having recovered from bulimia. The four co-researchers described their recovery experience and each interview was transcribed. Categorical themes were formulated from the richest and most comprehensive transcript and information from another co-researcher's transcript served to cross-validate the categories. The remaining two transcripts were not included in the analysis
process. The co-researcher validated the thematic categories and their descriptions and also verified that the clustered categories clearly outlined the pattern or meaning of her recovery experience.
Results showed that recovery involves a synergetic interaction of curative factors both inside and outside of formal therapy. Once the individual acknowledges her eating problem, her bulimic behaviours begin to decrease as she experiences an increasing sense of efficacy and self-respect in areas of her life other than her body weight and shape. Her bingeing and purging gradually diminish to the point where she no longer engages in them. Aside from an occasional lapse, she now implements other activities to deal with uncomfortable emotional states. She feels stronger in knowing who she is, she cherishes herself as she is, and she is eager to affirm her personal growth by sharing her experience with recovering bulimics. In addition to a more comprehensive theoretical understanding of recovery, this study provided a deepened appreciation of the complexity of the recovery process. It also underscored the need for a multifaceted and individualized treatment approach which is adjusted throughout the recovery process as the adaptive functions or meanings of clients' eating behaviours change.Education, Faculty of
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Krupa, Teresa M. "Work recovery in schizophrenia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49899.pdf.
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Culpepper, Timothy M. "The Ghanaian economic recovery." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/38912.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.From 1961 to the present, Ghanas gross domestic product (GDP) change deviated significantly (more than 5.8 percent) from that of the region eight times; of these eight deviations, four were positive, outperforming the region, and four were negative, underperforming the region. This study utilizes process tracing in order to test whether economic policiesprotectionist and liberalhad any impact on those deviations. This study shows that every negative deviation year was preceded by protectionist policies, and, with one exception (explained by currency devaluation), every positive deviation year was preceded by economic liberalization policies. This relationship suggests that the nature of economic policies (liberal versus protectionist) do not necessarily cause large, acute GDP movement, but they may be prerequisites for significant GDP movement in any given year.
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Hussain, Zaib-un-nisa. "Metal recycle and recovery." Thesis, Brunel University, 1999. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7122.
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The development of techniques for the removal and recovery of metals from industrial effluent taking account of the consequences of the definition of waste in the Basel Convention on transfrontier shipment of waste is reported. The use of fluidised bed cell electrolysis in the recovery of metals from dilute solutions is investigated, and the conditions for recovery optimised. For the first time the application of a novel activated carbon cloth concentrator cell to recover metals from effluent solutions is reported and the conditions for its use optimised. Comparative studies using conventional mesh and plate electrodes, and novel activated carbon cloth electrode for the recovery of cobalt from dilute solution, and copper from three different hydrometallurgical solutions viz (i) Cu/Zn, (ii)Cu/Zn/Fe and (iii) Cu/Zn/Cd containing effluents were carried out. Application of concentrator cell technology including activated carbon cloth and ion exchange resin to the recovery of metals, including precious group metals, from industrial as-supplied samples is reported. Optimisation leads to successful recovery of iridium and palladium from very dilute solutions. The alternative recovery of metal as added-value chemicals is also investigated. The Basel Convention is concerned with transfrontier shipment of waste from developed to developing countries and has produced a need to investigate the leachability of metals in various forms. In this work the leachability of copper and zinc is studied under various conditions that model environmental situations and the results have been used to develop a methodology to determine whether a metal containing material would be subject to a shipment ban under the Convention. As part of the development of the methodology, leaching studies were also carried out on single chemical compounds of copper, zinc, cadmium and lead, and their bioavailability determined.
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Milligan, Kevin Robert. "Recovery from outpatient anaethesia." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336202.
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Stephens, Peter Jeremy. "Recovery of stressed salmonella." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429640.
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Barry, Jacqueline. "Models of muscle recovery." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359744.
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Mitchell, Margaret. "Recovery from personal injury." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1991. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/40922/.
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Costa, Rui Filipe Vital Guerreiro da. "Web services recovery mechanisms." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/3929.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Engenharia InformáticaIn web services context it is not possible to use the usual concept of ACID transactions because of several factors. For instance, business transaction in general have a long duration that can be extended to several months or can involve the coordination and interaction of activities executed by different partners. In these cases, atomicity is not preserved, therefore the usual recovery mechanisms cannot be used, like the rollback. In business transaction, failure treatment can be made by compensation mechanisms in which are defined actions of compensation for the actions that cannot be reverted automatically. The goal of this dissertation is to define a set of patterns that represent the common use of the recovery mechanisms at business level. A graphical notation of easy comprehension will be developed to show how the recovery mechanisms work to all kind of people with different background formation.
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Cabrita, Guilherme Manuel Robalo da Silva. "Iguarias project debt recovery." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7837.
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Mestrado em FinançasAs leis económicas mudaram, devido à falta de liquidez no mercado, depois da maior crise da última década. Os bancos restringiram o financiamento às empresas, obrigando os gestores a encontrar formas alternativas de financiamento. De estudos anteriores chegamos à conclusão que os fornecedores de uma empresa podem ser também credores da mesma. O mercado experienciou uma mudança no peso do crédito comercial no balanço das empresas, no passado visto como uma força oposta ao financiamento bancário, nos dias de hoje é considerado uma alternativa válida de financiamento das empresas. Este projeto centra-se no estudo de uma empresa que concede crédito comercial a empresas do sector da restauração e hotelaria, a Iguarias d'Excelência, e todo o processo desenvolvido para a recuperação de dívida dos seus clientes.
The lack of liquidity in the market since the worst crisis of the last decade changed the laws of credit in the market, the banks restricted the supply of loans and the managers found the urge to be financed from other sources. From past studies the conclusion is that the suppliers of a company can be creditors as well. Also, the market experienced a change in weight and impact of trade credit in the balance sheet of the firms, in the past an opposing source of funding in relation to bank credit but nowadays a valid alternative to the companies financing. This project approaches the view of a trade credit company, Iguarias d'Excelência, supplier of firms present in the restaurant businesses and hotels, that suffered from the lack of liquidity in their clients accounts and the process developed to recover the credit and the re-balance of Iguarias balance sheet.
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Hendry, Paul. "Enhanced recovery after surgery." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29151.
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The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery model of perioperative care targets the obstacles to recovery following major abdominal surgery: pain, gastrointestinal dysfunction and immobility. This model of care combines elements that have individually been shown to attenuate the surgical stress response, reduce postoperative analgesia requirement or maintain perioperative nutrition. Through combining these elements it has been possible to improve early postoperative function and reduce the requirement for hospital stay with an unaltered or even reduced complication rate. Within the available ERAS studies subjective postoperative outcomes are employed and it is difficult to assess the true contribution of many of the individual protocol elements to postoperative recovery. The reduction in length of stay, in itself, may represent more efficient use of inpatient care rather than an improved rate of functional recovery. Further refinement and validation of the ERAS model will be achieved by establishing randomised controlled trials that test its feasibility and effectiveness within other surgical specialties, establish objective, reproducible outcome measures and examine the specific contribution of individual protocol elements within the ERAS protocol. It is expected that further improvement in postoperative recovery may specifically rely on reducing gut dysfunction in the early postoperative period. The establishment of randomised controlled trials and objective endpoints will facilitate testing individual element that target gastrointestinal recovery. This thesis demonstrates that the application of an ERAS model of care to hepatic surgery is feasible and results in a reduction in postoperative stay similar to that seen in colorectal surgery. This suggests that the ERAS programme of care may be extrapolated to other surgical specialties. The present thesis also demonstrates that activity meters and stable isotope gastric empting breath tests can be employed in the early postoperative period to provide objective measures of postoperative recovery. Most significantly this thesis demonstrates through a randomised controlled trial that within an ERAS protocol early routine administration of laxatives can improve postoperative rate of gastrointestinal recovery following hepatic resection.
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Veijola, T. (Tommi). "Domestic wastewater heat recovery." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201704271600.
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The aim of this thesis is to study and explain the purpose and the function of drain water heat exchangers. The thesis goes over theory behind heat transfer and heat exchangers and presents the general solutions of domestic drain water heat recovery systems. Systems gone over in detail are the different general shower drain water heat recovery systems.
Another part of the thesis is a case study of an actual shower drain water heat recovery system of a Finnish household. The purpose of the case study is to study the actual temperature increase of cold water in a drain water heat recovery unit and efficiency of such heat exchanger. An alternate goal is to study the difference in efficiency values and temperature gains between two heat exchangers of the same model, where the other has been used significantly more than the other. In other words, another target is to study the fouling effect. The calculations are done using real measurement data.
The most important findings are that utilizing a shower drain heat recovery unit provides real energy savings in the long run, and that there is a significant difference of efficiency between a dirty and a clean heat exchanger. Drain water heat recovery systems provided as high as 15 °C increase in the temperature of cold water. A clean heat exchanger boasts an impressive 50.4% efficiency, whereas the dirtier heat exchanger provides a 36.1% efficiency. The results can be further used to calculate the energy savings of the household on a yearly basis. Furthermore, the results show that domestic drain water heat recovery could potentially make a significant difference in national energy usage if implemented nationwide.
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Law, Heather Louise. "Understanding recovery in psychosis." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/understanding-recovery-in-psychosis(8c6ef0e7-0ede-47d9-af46-302926d68b0b).html.
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This thesis explored conceptualisations of recovery, associated psychological factors and predictors, measurement of subjective recovery, and attitudes towards recovery. A multi-method approach was utilised, including reviewing evidence from the existing literature, cross-sectional, survey and longitudinal designs, and a computer based implicit association task. Chapter 1 provided a review of the literature, followed by an overview of the methodology employed throughout this thesis in chapter 2. Chapter 3 (study 1) included a user informed review of existing recovery measures. The Recovery Assessment Scale appeared to be the most valid and acceptable measure currently in use, although the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR) received particularly positive feedback from service users, but lacked further psychometric validation. Consequently, chapter 4 (study 2, N=335) went on to explore the psychometric properties of the QPR. Exploratory factor analysis suggested a one factor model with high internal consistency, test re-test reliability and convergent validity. Recommendations for the use of the QPR in routine clinical practice was discussed. Chapter 5 (study 3, N=381) utilised the Delphi method to consult a large sample of service users about their views on recovery. A high level of consensus (>80%) was reached for a number of items on defining recovery, factors which help and hinder recovery and factors which show recovery. Implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed. Chapter 6 (study 4, N=110) examined longitudinal predictors of recovery. Negative emotion, positive self-esteem, hopelessness, and to a lesser extent symptoms and functioning predicted subjective recovery. Psychosocial factors and negative emotion appear to be the strongest longitudinal predictors of subjective recovery. Chapter 7 (study 5, N=146) used an online survey and computer task to explore attitudes towards recovery in health professionals and the general public. Explicit attitudes towards recovery were generally positive, with health professionals having significantly more positive attitudes than the general public group. Positive attitudes towards recovery were predicted by greater knowledge of recovery and a preference for psychosocial causal models of psychosis. Implications for focussing on psychosocial causal explanations in recovery training and awareness programmes for health professionals and the general public are discussed. This thesis has advanced our understanding of recovery by reaching consensus about what recovery means to individuals with experiences of psychosis, evaluating tools for measuring recovery and determining some of the key psychological processes and predictors of recovery, including causal beliefs, locus of control and negative emotion. These findings appear to fall into four main themes: conceptualising and defining recovery, measurement of recovery, relationships between psychological processes and recovery, and facilitating recovery. Further research is needed to explore recovery across the continuum of psychosis and investigate recovery focussed interventions which target the key psychological processes identified throughout this thesis.
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Wijk, Lena. "Enhanced Recovery After Hysterectomy." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-58057.
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Objectives: To study recovery after hysterectomy under Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) care, and in relation to different operation techniques. Materials and Methods: An observational study was conducted comparing 85 patients undergoing hysterectomy with ERAS care to 120 patients immediately before establishing ERAS. In a prospective cohort study of 121 consecutive patients undergoing hysterectomy, the outcome was compared for patients with malignant versus benign indications. The main outcome measure was length of stay (LOS). A randomised controlled trial (RCT) of 20 women scheduled for hysterectomy compared robot-assisted laparoscopic with abdominal hysterectomy in terms of the development of insulin resistance, inflammatory reactions, and clinical recovery, and examined the relation to hormonal status. All studies were conducted in 2011--2015, at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden. Results: Implementation of a structured ERAS protocol significantly reduced LOS compared to non-ERAS care. The effect was similar between patients with malignant and benign indications for surgery. No difference in complications was found. There was no difference in development of insulin resistance between robotic and abdominal technique, but clinical outcomes and inflammatory responses significantly favoured robot-assisted hysterectomy. Female sex hormone status was associated with the development of insulin resistance. Conclusions: Recovery after hysterectomy can be influenced. ERAS care seems to be effective and safe. Clinical outcome can also be influenced by operational technique. Hysterectomy triggers a stress reaction in both the metabolic and the inflammatory system. It remains unclear why the reduced inflammatory reaction and favourable clinical outcome in robotic surgery were not mirrored by less insulin resistance. This could not be explained by female sex hormone status.
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Levo, Hilla. "Vestibular schwannoma : postoperative recovery." Helsinki : University of Helsinki, 2001. http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/laa/kliin/vk/levo/.
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Tan, Xing. "Bayesian sparse signal recovery." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0041176.
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Griffin, Alexandra Rose. "Improving Recovery from Whiplash." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29530.
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Recovery after whiplash is poor despite decades of intensive research. Recovery rates approximate 50%, current treatments offer only modest effects, and synthesis of recovery data is hampered by outcome measure heterogeneity. In response to this, this thesis aimed to explore opportunities to improve recovery after whiplash across three key areas: prognosis, treatment and measurement. The association between known and new prognostic risk factors and recovery were examined, with expectations of recovery and the therapeutic relationship found to have an association with recovery at 3 months (Chapter 2). Expectations of recovery was subsequently incorporated into a prognostic risk assessment tool for whiplash and appeared to improve its accuracy (Chapter 3). To investigate opportunities to improve recovery through treatment, individuals with chronic whiplash were interviewed to generate hypotheses regarding the characteristics of people that may respond to guideline-based care (Chapter 4). Individuals likely to respond may be those whose past experiences and beliefs align well with exercise and those experiencing early positive effects. To improve the consistency and integrity with which recovery is measured, the clinimetric performance of tools used to measure self-reported disability, and often recovery, in whiplash was investigated (Chapter 5), alongside the meaning of recovery to people with whiplash (Chapter 6). The Neck Disability Index and Whiplash Disability Questionnaire were the most clinimetrically robust patient-reported outcome measures, whilst people with whiplash tended to conceptualise recovery within the themes of pain, emotional wellbeing, and self-perception.
The studies in this thesis have together achieved the aim of identifying key gaps in current practice relevant to improving recovery from whiplash. These findings have relevance for improving prognostic risk assessment, treatment provision and the measurement of recovery.