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Zifčáková, Tatiana. "Sportovně rekreační centrum Vsetín, Ohrada." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-443711.
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The topic of this master's thesis is the revitalization of the former Spartakiad stadium. Nowadays it functions as a sports complex Ohrada, which is in neglected condition and not widely used. The area is located at the southern edge of the city Vsetín and is defined by a 1st class road from the northeast, Vsetínská Bečva from the western and agricultural areas from the southern side. Above Bečva, the Bečevná hill rises and together they create a pleasant, out-of-town atmosphere with a great potential. The priority of the proposal was to create an attractive place with a variety of sports and recreational activities for all ages. However, at the beginning it was necessary to somehow insulate the area from the overpass. Therefore a sports and recreation facility was designed at the entrance to the area - it copies the shape of the road and forms an imaginary entrance gate to the zone. A car park was designed under the overpass, so the rest of the area remained exclusively for pedestrians. Sufficient distances among the individual sports grounds are supplemented by recreational areas of greenery. Most playgrounds are designed as multi-purpose, for greater variability of the territory. The buildings have a maximum of two floors and they are located in a way not to disturb the views of the recreational areas. They contain sports facilities as well as a wide range of interior activities. Three materials are used on all the buildings - wood, steel and glass, complemented by neutral white plaster. Therefore, the area operates in a comprehensive and uniform manner.
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Zahuranic, Michael R. Boyd Gary. "Residential Communities Initiative : a case study /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FZahuranic%5FMBA.pdf.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003."MBA professional report"--Cover. Thesis advisor(s): Jeffrey R. Cuskey, Cary Simon. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109). Also available online.
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Brittain, Richard, K. James DeCook, and Kennith E. Foster. "Casa del Agua: Residential Water Conservation Retrofit." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296364.
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From the Proceedings of the 1985 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Association and the Hydrology Section - Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science - April 27, 1985, Las Vegas, Nevada
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Radtke, Lisa B. "Rehabilitating historic residential landscapes: Tucson, Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278806.
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Widespread rehabilitation of historic residential properties in Tucson, Arizona offers numerous benefits to the community. The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Property provides the best practical guidelines for the rehabilitation of historic landscapes, currently. However, interpreting national guidelines for use on local projects is necessary before widespread application can occur. Accordingly, the first section of this work addresses means by which the national standards might be applied to landscape rehabilitation of residential properties in Tucson, including mid to small-scale residences and historic houses of more recent construction. Because these homes often lack traditional sources of documentation, expanding research options within the design process is often necessary. The second part of this work utilizes suggested research options, including academic and non-academic sources, to synthesize information regarding local historic residential landscape practices useful in interpretive and design processes of historic landscape rehabilitation projects.
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Bremer, Jonathan Eddy. "Rusk's elasticity and residential income segregation in contemporary American cities." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217386.
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David Rusk claims in Cities Without Suburbs that elastic American cities are less segregated than other American cities. I demonstrate through statistical analyses that there is a strong correlation between Rusk's elasticity (an index comprised of a central city's annexation history since 1950 and its population density) and his income segregation index. The statistical correlation between these two variables is stronger than between Rusk's segregation index and any other variable I test, including city age, size, regional location, and black population percentage. I then consider several hypotheses that may explain these correlations and propose that the continuous annexation of peripheral, developing land by a central city prevents the incorporation of affluent suburbs. Suburban boundaries, especially those of affluent suburbs, function as population sorting mechanisms, which segregate migrant households by socioeconomic status and life-style. I ascertain that only rapidly growing, unbounded central cities prevent or ameliorate segregation by being elastic.Department of Urban Planning
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Redstone, Victoria. "Design analysis of the American residential garage, 1900-1940." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1260632.
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Research on the American residential garage from 1900 to 1940 has demonstrated that the following factors impacted garage design: the practical demands of the automobile, architectural styles, placement on a lot, and the socio-economic status of the garage builder. The shape and function of garages were dictated by the maintenance requirements of automobiles and the fire hazards associated with early cars. Architectural styles affected garage design by influencing the materials, roof shapes, and door designs of a given garage. These effects were more evident in garages designed to match an individual house. Catalog garages were shaped by current architectural styles, but these garages were simpler in order to be compatible with a wide range of house styles. Garage placement affected several aspects of garage design including amenities such as electricity and plumbing. Placement was also determined by external factors such as lot size and local zoning regulations. The socio-economic status of a homeowner molded a garage's appearance significantly. Economic considerations impacted garage design by resulting in anything from a simple wooden box with a roof to a two-story brick garage with an apartment.Department of Architecture
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Horowitz, Marvin J. "Economic determinants of residential mortgage choice." PDXScholar, 1985. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/827.
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Variable rate mortgages (VRMs) have been introduced into the mortgage market as a means of addressing the housing finance problems encountered over the past two decades. To learn more about the demand for VRMs, this study analyzes borrower choice behavior and its economic determinants. In order to estimate the probability of borrowers choosing VRMs rather than conventional fixed rate mortgages, discrete choice (logit) models are specified and validated for both cross-section and pooled time-series cross-section data samples. These samples contain mortgage application information for the years 1978 through 1981. They were drawn from the Loan Register Report of the California Department of Savings and Loan. The probability of choosing a VRM is estimated as a function of selected price components of the mortgage instrument, borrower characteristics, and economic expectations.
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Robson, Anna Marie. ""Violence and aggression although not acceptable will happen, can happen and does happen" : a study of staffs' experience of violence in child and family services." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26002.
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Background: Since the 1980’s incidents of workplace violence have been recognised as a serious problem within social care. It has been found to be particularly rife within residential settings and children’s homes in particular have been found to be one of the most violence-prone settings. And yet, there is a lack of literature on the prevalence and psychosocial impact of workplace violence on staff in residential units for looked after and accommodated children (LAAC). Method: Given the limited literature on residential childcare workers a systematic review was conducted on research of violence towards social workers in child and family services to achieve a better understand of violence within child and family social care generally. An empirical study was also conducted with staff of Local Authority residential units within Central Scotland. The aim of the empirical study was to explore staffs’ experience of workplace violence perpetrated by LAAC in residential settings, using the qualitative methodology Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: The systematic review showed that studies were mostly of medium methodological quality; verbal aggression towards social workers in child and family services was common place; physical violence was comparatively rare; and that all forms of violence impacted on wellbeing and practice. The empirical study had similar findings, but also provided new insights into how staff cope with workplace violence, particularly in the context of young peoples’ life experiences. Conclusion: Violence perpetrated by LAAC in residential units appeared to be lessening and a move towards more behaviour management was aiding staff to better understand the roots of violence. This in turn was found to help staff cope better with the emotional impact of violence. Management need to be mindful of the impact violence has on staff and continue providing training programs to better equip staff to understand violence and support LAAC to manage their aggression.
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Foster, Kennith E., Martin M. Karpiscak, K. James DeCook, Richard Brittain, Charles P. Gerba, Michael C. Parton, and R. Leslie Rawles. "Residential Water Conservation Progress Report for Casa Del Agua." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296371.
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From the Proceedings of the 1986 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Association, Hydrology Section - Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science and the Arizona Hydrological Society - April 19, 1986, Glendale Community College, Glendale, ArizonaCasa del Agua, a research and demonstration water conservation house, was opened to the public in September 1985. This typical 3 bedroom residence has been re-landscaped and retrofitted with storage for rainwater and graywater and low water use plumbing fixtures including toilets. A unique graywater treatment system employs two 300 gallon aquacells and a sand filter to upgrade graywater quality. The house is occupied by a family of three and detailed data are being obtained on water input, use and quality. Qualitative measures include microbiological, physical and chemical characteristics of filtered rainwater and treated, untreated and stored graywater. A model of water efficiency for dwelling units known as the "W-Index" is being formulated as a quantitative measure of residential water conservation options. The numerical evaluation of weighting of the index components will be aided by means of data generated in the monitoring program at Casa del Agua. A nomogram has been developed to provide a ready mechanism to determine the necessary storage volume for rainwater in terms of a specified availability of supply, catchment area, and rate of water use.
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Teater, Barbra A. "Residential mobility and the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program factors predicting mobility and the residential decision-making process of recipients /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164641312.
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France, Glenn. "Current Residential Water Conservation Practices and Behaviors: Comparing Two Populations." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296422.
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From the Proceedings of the 1988 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Association and the Hydrology Section - Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science - April 16, 1988, University of Arizona, Tucson, ArizonaThe availability of quality water is an important issue facing the residents of Tucson, Arizona and several communities in the Southwestern United States. As cities continue to grow, more emphasis is being placed on the importance of adopting efficient water use practices and behaviors. A water conservation demonstration, education, and research single family residence named Casa del Agua (Spanish for House of Water) has been established in Tucson, Arizona. Water conservation information is presented to the public via oral and video presentations and a guided tour of the perimeter of the residence. A questionnaire is given to the visitors as they arrive for the tour. The responses to this questionnaire make it possible to determine the types of water conservation behavior being practiced by the visitors to Casa del Agua. Water conservation attitude questions were also included in the questionnaires as were questions about several water issues. From this preliminary study, it has been determined that the levels of adoption of water conservation behaviors have been low to modest. It appears that many of the visitors to Casa del Agua have about the same level of knowledge concerning water conservation as the general public, although the random survey data for the Tucson area has yet to be analyzed. A comparison was made of similar questions asked in a random survey conducted in the Phoenix metropolitan area March 17 -20, 1988. Some of the findings include: 1) The amounts of self- reported water conservation behavior adoption are similar, although the residents of the Phoenix area seem to report a slightly higher percentage of water conservation practices being implemented. 2) Few respondents from either survey indicated they have attended a water conservation demonstration or workshop. 3) Negative public perceptions of water utilities need to be addressed. 4) Water conservation programs that include economic incentives are favored by both survey populations.
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Regan, Raina J. "Safety in your backyard : the residential fallout shelter during the Cold War." CardinalScholar 1.0, 2010. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1569025.
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The impact of the Cold War on architecture in the United States is exemplified in
the promotion and construction of fallout shelters. The development of the hydrogen
bomb by the United States and Soviet Union in the first half of the 1950s increased fears
of the far-reaching effect nuclear war could have on public health and safety.
Government agencies, such as the Office of Civil Defense, promoted the widespread
construction and use of the fallout shelter as a safeguard against human annihilation in
the event of nuclear war. This thesis examines the various types of residential fallout
shelters designed by public and private entities. The location of the fallout shelter within
the family residence had the largest impact on the style and construction method adopted.
This thesis investigates a wide variety of examples and techniques used to encourage
fallout shelter construction. An in-depth discussion of the preservation of the residential
shelter completes the text, including two examples of current preservation practices.Nuclear weapons, the Cold War and a need for shelters -- Evolution, promotion and requiremens for residential fallout shelters -- Interior residential shelters -- Exterior residential shelters -- Preservation issues of the residential fallout shelter.
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Department of Architecture
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Polvino, Janet G. "A comparison of selected residential and non-residential public two-year college music programs' fulfillment of NASM guidelines for specific aspects of music in general education." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1167798.
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The purpose of this study was to compare specific aspects of music in general education between selected residential and non-residential public two-year colleges in the United States. The comparison was made by conducting a nationwide mail survey to see how well each college fulfills ten guidelines for specific aspects of music education for the non-major. These guidelines were determined by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) for music departments in higher education. A stratified random sample consisted of 140 colleges.One-hundred fifteen music educators completed surveys. In order to determine if a significant difference existed between residential and non-residential colleges, a two-way factorial analysis of variance was performed on the groups with region and group as factors. The analysis was carried out for each question of the survey. Respondents were given the option of making comments after each question. These qualitative data were compiled and compared for similarities and differences.Many similarities were discovered between the two groups. A significant difference (p<.05) was found between the groups regarding the involvement of the music department in institutional admissions and counseling processes used to convey opportunities for student participation in music studies and activities.School of Music
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Miller, Brigette Vanessa, and Mabel Salvatierra. "Effects of residential and school mobility on foster children's academic performance." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3136.
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When Child Protective Services (CPS) enters the picture assisting hard shipped families, the child may get placed in a foster home thus starting the cycle of mobility-the child is often moved from one home to another, one school to another resulting in a lack of residential and academic continuity for the child, which in turn results in negative effects in behavior, emotions and academia.
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Leech, Maureen E. "Home lights : the development of residential lighting in the United States." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1074545.
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This study presents a look at the development of residential lighting in America and the technological and social factors which inspired the development. Availability of fuels, quality of light provided, daily care needed by a light source, and safety were all direct influences on the development of artificial lighting. Technological advances in response to the social needs began with the closed font and continued through the removable burner, accommodating a variety of fuels including tallow, lard, whale oil, burning fluids, kerosene, gas and ultimately electricity. Along with the increasing illuminating power, the amount of decoration, both possible and accepted, increased.Department of Architecture
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KRIDEL, DONALD JACK. "AN ANALYSIS OF THE RESIDENTIAL DEMAND FOR ACCESS TO THE TELEPHONE NETWORK (ECONOMETRICS)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184006.
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Universal service is the focal point of the economic dilemma faced by the telecommunications industry. The advent of competition spurred by several regulatory rulings is forcing rates towards economic costs. It is feared that this movement or the erosion of the toll-to-local subsidy with concomitant increases in local prices severely threatens the concept of universal service. To adequately address these fears, accurate elasticity of demand estimates for telephone access are required. This thesis develops estimates of these demand elasticities for access. These estimates are derived consistently from an underlying theory of demand for access. Furthermore, the simultaneous access and class-of-service choice problems are addressed similarly. This consistent development facilitates model usage and interpretation. For example, the model provides the best available estimate for the size of the network externality. Taking into account the underlying demand theory and acknowledging the problems associated with the aggregated nature of the data set (census tract data from 1980 Census), a modified probit technique is developed to estimate the demand model. The estimation methodology is implemented using an iterative least square procedure. To analyze the reasonableness of the algorithm and procedure, a Monte Carlo study is performed. In addition, a jackknife technique is employed to estimate variances of coefficients when the standard measures are unavailable. The model results are used to analyze the effect of current policy decisions. For example, for a proposed doubling of access prices the demand for access elasticity is found to be quite small, about -.04. A welfare analysis is performed to discuss the costs and benefits associated with moving to cost-based rates. This analysis also provides the basis for rate recommendations to facilitate the transition to competition while attempting to preserve the concept of universal service.
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Gallegos, Kenny, and Leslie Stephanie Romero-Gallegos. "RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS AND DUAL-STATUS YOUTH CHALLENGES AND RESILIENCY." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/714.
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This study explored the common challenges that residential counselors face when working with dual-status youth, which we defined as any youth with at least one open case with the child welfare system or juvenile justice system (or both) and who have previously had a case with the latter in their lifetime. Data were collected through qualitative interviews with their residential counselors across five different residential treatment centers in southern California.
The most common challenges reported by the residential treatment counselors included multiple roles, role limitation, dual-status youth behaviors, deficiency in training, management, and preparation when working with dual-status youth in a residential treatment facility. This study also found that counselor resiliency served as a buffer against these common challenges.
Findings from this study highlight the importance of considering the challenges residential counselors face while working with their dual-status youth clients in residential treatment facilities because it may affect their clients overall treatment. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of continuing to conduct research on short-term residential therapeutic center policy changes; as well as, the experiences of social workers with dual-status youth clients in residential treatment facilities who are served by residential counselors.
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Yamin, Syed Muhiuddin. "Adaptability of commercial flexible partition systems to residential applications in North America." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59560.
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The flexible partition, one of the main components of the flexible housing schemes in West European countries exhibited a comparative technological lack. This research investigated the adaptability of selected commercial flexible partitions available in the North American market to residences since the most realistic way to influence the technological process was to start from the known products and developing them in an innovative direction. The consequences of the proposed sectoral transfer were seen as immediate and long term effects and categorized into three groups of constraints: legal, technological and marketing constraints. The context of evaluation was drawn, and the performance concept was used to form a set of evaluation criteria. Fifty partition systems were reviewed, characterized and mismatched portions were screened out. The analysis with thirteen selected partition systems suggested that the performances of most of them were above the level required for dwelling. The study showed that most of them were economically more feasible as compared to fixed gyproc partitions if life-cycle costs were considered. Since the study showed that the partitions were sound in technical terms, it recommended further studies to look into the matter of modifying them by introducing new materials which would cut down the unnecessary performances and might reduce the initial cost as well.
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Banks, Merrilyn Dell. "Economic analysis of malnutrition and pressure ulcers in Queensland hospitals and residential aged care facilities." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16966/.
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Malnutrition is reported to be common in hospitals (10-60%), residential aged care facilities (up to 50% or more) and in free living individuals with severe or multiple disease (>10%) (Stratton et al., 2003). Published Australian studies
indicate similar results (Beck et al., 2001, Ferguson et al., 1997, Lazarus and Hamlyn, 2005, Middleton et al., 2001, Visvanathan et al., 2003), but are generally limited in number, with none conducted across multiple centres or in residential aged care facilities. In Australia, there is a general lack of awareness and recognition of the problem of malnutrition, with currently no policy, standards or guidelines related to the identification, prevention and treatment of malnutrition. Malnutrition has been found to be associated with the development of pressure ulcers, but studies are limited. The consequences of the development of pressure ulcers include pain and discomfort for the patient, and considerable costs associated with treatment and increased length of stay. Pressure ulcers
are considered largely preventable, and the demand for the establishment of appropriate policy, standards and guidelines regarding pressure ulcers has
recently become important because the incidence and prevalence of pressure ulcers is increasingly being considered a parameter of quality of care. The aims of this study program were to firstly determine the prevalence of malnutrition and its association with pressure ulcers in Queensland Health hospitals and residential aged care facilities; and secondly to estimate the potential economic consequences of malnutrition by determining the costs
arising from pressure ulcer attributable to malnutrition; and the economic
outcomes of an intervention to address malnutrition in the prevention of pressure ulcers. The study program was conducted in two phases: an epidemiological study phase and an economic modelling study phase. In phase one, a multi centre, cross sectional audit of a convenience sample of subjects was carried out as part of a larger audit of pressure ulcers in
Queensland public acute and residential aged care facilities in 2002 and again in 2003. Dietitians in 20 hospitals and six aged care facilities conducted single day nutritional status audits of 2208 acute and 839 aged care subjects using the Subjective Global Assessment, in either or both audits. Subjects excluded were obstetric, same day, paediatric and mental health patients. Weighted average proportions of nutritional status categories for acute and residential aged care facilities across the two audits were determined and compared. The effects of gender, age, facility location and medical specialty on malnutrition were determined via logistic regression. The effect of nutritional status on the presence of pressure ulcer was also determined via logistic regression. Logistic regression analyses were carried out using an analysis of correlated data approach with SUDAAN statistical package (Research Triangle Institute, USA) to account for the potential clustering effect of different facilities in the model. In phase two, an exploratory economic modelling framework was used to estimate the number of cases of pressure ulcer, total bed days lost to pressure ulcer and the economic cost of these lost bed days which could be attributed to malnutrition in Queensland public hospitals in 2002/2003. Data was obtained on the number of relevant separations, the incidence rate of pressure ulcer, the independent effect of pressure ulcers on length of stay, the cost of a bed day, and the attributable fraction of malnutrition in the development of pressure ulcers determined using the prevalence of malnutrition, the incidence rate of developing a pressure ulcer and the odds risk of developing a pressure ulcer when malnourished (as determined previously). A probabilistic sensitivity analysis approach was undertaken whereby probability distributions to the specified ranges for the key input parameters were assigned and 1000 Monte Carlo samples made from the input parameters. In an extension of the above model, an economic modelling framework was
also used to predict the number of cases of pressure ulcer avoided, number of bed days not lost to pressure ulcer and economic costs if an intensive nutrition support intervention was provided to all nutritionally at risk patients in Queensland public hospitals in 2002/2003 compared to standard care. In
addition to the above input parameters, data was obtained on the change in risk in developing a pressure ulcer associated with an intensive nutrition support intervention compared to standard care. The annual monetary cost of the provision of an intensive nutrition support intervention to at risk patients was
modelled at a cost of AU$ 3.8-$5.4 million for additional food and nutritional supplements and staffing resources to assist patients with nutritional intake. A probabilistic sensitivity analysis approach was again taken.
A mean of 34.7 + 4.0% and 31.4 + 9.5% of acute subjects and a median of 50.0% and 49.2% of residents of aged care facilities were found to be malnourished in Audits 1 and 2, respectively. Variables found to be significantly associated with an increased odds risk of malnutrition included: older age groups, metropolitan location of facility and medical specialty, in particular oncology and critical care. Malnutrition was found to be significantly associated with an increased odds
risk of having a pressure ulcer, with the odds risk increasing with severity of malnutrition. In acute facilities moderate malnutrition had an odds risk of 2.2 (95% CI 1.6-3.0, p<0.001) and severe malnutrition had an odds risk of 4.8 (95% CI 3.2-7.2, p<0.001) of having a pressure ulcer. The overall adjusted odds risk
of having a pressure ulcer when malnourished (total malnutrition) in an acute facility was 2.6 (95% CI 1.8-3.5, p<0.001). In residential facilities, where the audit results were presented separately, the same pattern applied with moderate malnutrition having an odds risk of 1.7 (95% CI 1.2-2.2, p<0.001) and 2.0 (95% CI 1.5-2.8, p<0.001); and severe malnutrition having an odds risk of 2.8 (95% CI1.2-6.6, p=0.02) and 2.2 (95% CI 1.5-3.1, p<0.001), for Audits 1 and 2 respectively. There was no statistical difference between these odds risk
ratios between the audits. The overall adjusted odds risk of having a pressure ulcer when malnourished (total malnutrition) in a residential aged care facility was 1.9 (95% CI 1.3-2.7, p<0.001) and 2.0 (95% CI 1.5-2.7, p<0.001) for Audits
1 and 2 respectively. Being malnourished was also found to be significantly associated with an increased odds risk of having a higher stage and higher number of pressure ulcers, with the odds risk increasing with severity of malnutrition.
The economic model predicted a mean of 3666 (Standard deviation 555) cases
of pressure ulcer attributable to malnutrition out of a total mean of 11162 (Standard deviation 1210), or approximately 33%, in Queensland public acute hospitals in 2002/2003. The mean number of bed days lost to pressure ulcer that were attributable to malnutrition was predicted to be 16050, which represents approximately 0.67% of total patient bed days in Queensland public
hospitals in 2002/2003. The corresponding mean economic costs of pressure ulcer attributable to malnutrition in Queensland public acute hospitals in 2002/2003 were estimated to be almost AU$13 million, out of a total mean estimated cost of pressure ulcer of AU$ 38 526 601. In the extension of the economic model, the mean economic cost of the implementation of an intensive nutrition support intervention was predicted to be a negative value ( -AU$ 5.4 million) with a standard deviation of $AU3.9 million, and interquartile range of –AU$ 7.7 million to –AU$ 2.5 million. Overall there were 951 of the 1000 re-samples where the economic cost is a negative value. This means there was a 95% chance that implementing an intensive nutrition support intervention was overall cost saving, due to reducing the cases
of pressure ulcer and hospital bed days lost to pressure ulcer. This research program has demonstrated an independent association between malnutrition and pressure ulcers, on a background of a high prevalence of malnutrition, providing evidence to justify the elevation of malnutrition to a safety and quality issue for Australian healthcare organisations, similarly to pressure ulcers. In addition this research provides preliminary economic
evidence to justify the requirement for consideration of healthcare policy, standards and guidelines regarding systems to identify, prevent and treat malnutrition, at least in the case of pressure ulcers in Australia.
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Machado, Leonlida Bernice. "Exploration of program impact on adolescent girls residing in a group home." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/931.
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Booth, Katie Marie Poston Walker S. Carlos. "Relationship between the environment and health outcomes for public housing development residents." Diss., UMK access, 2004.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Psychology and School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004."A dissertation in psychology and education." Advisor: Walker S. Carlos Poston. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 22, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-140 ). Online version of the print edition.
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Morris, Jacob J. "Relationships between woodworking technology and residential millwork in the nineteenth century : with an appendix on the implications for the evaluation of historic millwork." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1348353.
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This document is an examination of the millwork industry in the nineteenth century and its influence upon the residential built environment. This study explores influences and results in relation to the development of millwork in the United States. The first is the technological divergence that developed between the United States and Europe, as America introduced different technologies to exploit the vast amounts of timber accessible to the New World. The second development occurred as the New World slowly developed a taste for the type of elaborate millwork previously associated with wealthy patrons. Low cost of materials and new technologies made more complicated wood finishes available to those of modest means. The third situation reflects the struggle between an elite class of architects and pattern book designers, who advocated restraint in design, and carpenter-builders and their clients, who wanted to display their talent or status through the use of a high level of ornamental millwork.Department of Architecture
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Al-Dailami, Ahmed Mahmood. "Reformers, rulers, and British residents : political relations in Bahrain (1923-1956)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:34575d84-bc76-4373-97e6-dc4f50fce860.
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This thesis explores the modern historical lineage of absolutism in Bahrain, and the history of challenges to absolutist state authority during the peak of British influence in the Persian Gulf, the period between the First World War to the Suez crisis of 1956. It rewrites the history of Bahrain and British colonialism in the Persian Gulf through two distinct narrative threads. First, it presents a new history of the colonial-dynastic state in Bahrain and the longer tradition of indirect rule from which its architects drew, and second, it retrieves the history of the popular movements that came to challenge it. This entails an examination of not only how colonial and dynastic authority was jointly exercised, but the ideas that justified such authority over a population conceived of as a set of cultural, and more specifically religious communities governed by their own 'custom' - the conceptual centerpiece of indirect colonial rule. Both these narrative strands constitute part of a broader history of the ideological clash between late colonial ideologies of rule and anticolonial nationalism in the twentieth-century Persian Gulf - a region that was never formally colonized, nor became the site of any successful popular nationalism. Yet both these forces exerted a profound influence on the nation-states that would emerge in the late twentieth century, especially on Bahrain. To chart that historical conjuncture, the thesis begins with the creation of the modern colonial-dynastic state in Bahrain in 1923. It ends in 1956 with the last and most important uprising in Bahrain's during the 20th century, one that was largely a revolt against the political and institutional structures that colonial reformers had established three decades earlier. At its broadest, the thesis argues that the process of state-building under indirect colonial rule in Bahrain derived from a body of colonial thought on native political life and behaviour, and particularly, on the prevention of rebellion that has its origins in mid nineteenth century North India. In Bahrain and the Persian Gulf, as elsewhere in the late colonial world, ideas about empire, the state, authority and rebellion are the intertwined threads that shaped political life and the prose of history.
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Carlsson, Maine. "Nutritional status, body composition and physical activity among older people living in residential care facilities." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Geriatrik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43780.
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The main purpose of this thesis was to study, whether drinkable yoghurt enriched with probiotic bacteria could have any effect on constipation and body weight (BW) among older people with dementia. Further, it concerns poor nutritional status among older people with physical and cognitive impairments and its relationship with factors commonly occur in older people living in residential care facilities. It also discusses how body composition changes with ageing and the associations between changes in muscle mass and functional balance after a high-intensity weight-bearing exercise program (the HIFE program) and the ingestion of an additional milk-based protein-enriched energy supplement. A six-month feasibility study that included a probiotic drink was performed among 15 old people who were living in special units for people with dementia and who all had constipation. The effects of the probiotic drink on stool habits, and BW were studied. The outcome measures were followed daily for bowel movements and at three and six months for BW. The staff found the study easy to carry out and that the drink was well accepted by the participants. No convincing beneficial effects on stool habits were observed. In addition, a mean BW loss of 0.65 kg/month was registered. A poor nutritional intake, low physical activity level, and an over-night fast of almost 15 hours, 4 hours longer than recommended were also observed. As a part of the FOPANU Study (Frail Older People-Activity and Nutrition Study), a randomized controlled trial was carried out in Umeå - the associations between nutritional status and factors common among old people with physical and cognitive impairments living in residential care facilities was studied. Assessments were made of nutritional status using the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) scale, fat-free mass (FFM) and fat mass (FM) using both bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS) and skinfold thickness measurements. The effects of a high- intensity functional exercise program with an additional protein-enriched milk drink on ability to build muscle mass were evaluated. Analyses were made to investigate whether nutritional status, assessed using the MNA scale, was associated with medical conditions, drugs, activities of daily living (Barthel ADL index), cognitive impairment (Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE)), and depressive symptoms (Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)) at baseline. The associations were assessed with multiple linear regression analyses with additional interaction analyses. An independent association was found between poor nutritional status and having had a urinary tract infection (UTI) during the preceding year and being dependent in feeding for both women and men, and having lower MMSE scores for women. A large proportion of the participants, were at risk of malnutrition or were already malnourished. Women, but not men, had significantly lower Fat-Free Mass Index (FFMI) and Fat Mass Index (FMI) with age. Bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy results correlated with skinfold thickness measurements, but on different levels on value for FM%. Despite the high-intensity exercise had long-term effects (at six months, three months after the exercise) on functional balance, walking ability and leg strength. No effects on muscle mass and no additional effects from the protein-enriched drink could be observed after the three months of high intensity exercise. A negative, long-term effect on the amount of muscle mass and BW was revealed at six months (three months after the intervention had ended). The effects from the exercise did not differ for participants who were malnourished. No statistical interactions were observed between sex, depression, dementia disorder, and nutritional status, and the level of functional balance capacity on the outcome at three or six months. In summary, the majority of the included older people with dementia had a low dietary intake, low physical activity level, and lost BW despite receiving a probiotic drink supplement every day for six months. The supplementation had no detectable effect on constipation. Among the participants in the FOPANU Study, UTI during the preceding year was independently associated with poor nutritional status. Being dependent in feeding was associated with poor nutritional status as were lower MMSE scores for women but not for men. Despite the high-intensity exercise program had long-term effects on the fysical function was no effect on the amount of muscle mass at three months observed. The FFM and FM expressed as indexes of body height were inversely related to age for women, but not for men. A high-intensity exercise program did not have any effect on the amount of muscle mass. The ingestion of a protein-enriched drink immediately after exercise produced no additional effect on the outcome and the results did not differ for participants who were malnourished. The negative long-term effect on amount of muscle mass, and BW, indicate that it is necessary to compensate for increased energy demands during a high-intensity exercise program. High age, female sex, depression, mild to moderate dementia syndrome, malnutrition, and severe physical impairment do not seem to have a negative impact on the effect of a high-intensity functional weight-bearing exercise program. Consequently, people with these characteristics in residential care facilities should not be excluded from training and rehabilitation including nutrition. More research is needed in large randomized controlled trials to further explore the association between energy balance and malnutrition among frail old people, with a special focus on UTI and constipation, but also to study how physical exercise affects older people’s nutritional status.Embargo
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Londa, Libor. "Bytový dům." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227576.
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The thesis is focused on the preparation of documentation project of new residential building with twenty flats. The building is located in Valašské Meziříčí. The building has four floors, which are used for housing and one underground technical floor with garage and cellar booths. The building is brick ceramic blocks Porotherm and it is covered with a flat roof. The drawings were processed in a computer program AutoCAD.
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Wilkinson, Callie Hannah. "The residents of the British East India Company at Indian royal courts, c. 1798-1818." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269319.
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Generations of historians have looked to Bengal, Bombay, and Madras to detect the emergence of the legal and administrative mechanisms that would underpin Britain’s nineteenth-century empire. Yet this focus on ‘British’ India overshadows the very different history of nearly half the Indian subcontinent, which was still ruled by nominally independent monarchs. This dissertation traces the increasingly asymmetrical relationships between the East India Company and neighbouring Indian kingdoms during a period of intensive British imperial expansion, from 1798 to 1818. In so doing, it sheds fresh light on the contested process through which the Company consolidated its political predominance over rival Indian powers, setting a precedent for indirect rule that would inform British policy in Southeast Asia and Africa for years to come. The relationship between the Company and Indian governments was mediated through the figure of the Resident, the Company’s political representative at Indian courts, and the Residents therefore lie at the heart of this dissertation. Given their geographical distance from British administrative centres and their immersion in Indian political culture, the Residents’ experiences can be used to chart the growing pains of an expanding, modernizing empire, and to elucidate the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction and exchange. Based on the letters and papers of the dozen Residents stationed at major Indian courts, this dissertation shows how practical and ideological divisions within the Company regarding the appropriate forms of imperial influence were exacerbated by mutual suspicions resulting from geographical distance and the blurring of personal and public interests in the diplomatic line. This process was further complicated and constrained by the Residents’ reliance on the social and cultural capital of Indian elites and administrators with interests of their own. The Company’s consolidation of political influence at Indian courts was fraught with problems, and the five thematic chapters reflect recurring points of conflict which thread their way through these formative years. These include: the fragility of information networks and the proliferation of rumours; questions about the use of force and the applicability of the law of nations outside Europe; controversies surrounding political pageantry and conspicuous consumption; ambivalent relationships between Residents and their Indian state secretaries; and the Residents’ embroilment in royal family feuds. Ultimately, this dissertation concludes that the imposition of imperial authority at Indian courts was far from smooth, consisting instead of a messy and protracted series of practical experiments based on many competing visions of the ideal forms of influence to be employed in India.
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Souza, Bruna Fernanda do Nascimento Jacinto de 1987. "Condições de vida e saúde de idosos residentes em Campinas-SP : estudo caso-controle com usuários de restaurante popular." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/308669.
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Orientador: Leticia de Las Mercedes Marin LeonDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
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Resumo: As transições demográfica, epidemiológica e nutricional, o envelhecimento populacional, bem como o aumento das doenças crônicas não transmissíveis, dentre elas a obesidade, passaram a ser temáticas importantes nos países em desenvolvimento. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi comparar as condições de vida e saúde de idosos usuários do restaurante popular Bom Prato, e seus vizinhos no município de Campinas. Os resultados desta dissertação são apresentados em dois capítulos. No primeiro, Condições de vida e saúde de idosos residentes em Campinas-SP: estudo caso- controle com usuários de restaurante popular, foram analisadas as diferenças nas condições de vida e saúde entre idosos usuários do restaurante popular do município e de seus vizinhos de Condições de vida e saúde de idosos residentes em Campinas-SP: estudo caso- controle com usuários de restaurante popular endereço. Apesar de os idosos usuários do restaurante apresentarem condições socioeconômicas desfavoráveis em relação aos seus vizinhos, mostrando-se como grupo de vulnerabilidade social, suas condições de saúde e autonomia foram melhores que as de seus vizinhos. No segundo capítulo, Condições de vida e saúde associadas ao sobrepeso e obesidade em idosos, avaliaram-se os fatores demográficos, socioeconômicos, de estilo de vida e saúde associados ao sobrepeso e obesidade. Os idosos com sobrepeso ou obesidade foram comparados aos eutróficos. Verificou-se que os idosos com excesso de peso apresentaram piores condições de saúde e autonomia. Estes resultados podem auxiliar na orientação de políticas públicas de saúde, visando à promoção da saúde, por meio da prevenção das doenças crônicas e incentivo de hábitos alimentares e estilo de vida saudável, provendo assim melhor qualidade de vida no envelhecimento
Abstract: The demographic, epidemiological and nutritional transitions led to major changes in population structure and patterns of mortality and morbidity. Thus, aging population and the increases in chronic diseases, among them obesity, have become an important issues also in developing countries. Through these considerations, the objective of this study was to compare the living and health conditions of elderly clients of the social restaurant Bom Prato and its neighbors in the city of Campinas. The results of this work are presented in two chapters. In the first chapter, Living and health conditions of elderly residents in Campinas-SP, Brazil: casecontrol study with social restaurant clients, we analyzed the differences in living and health conditions among elderly clients of the social restaurant in the city and its neighbors address. Although the elderly clients of the restaurant present unfavorable socioeconomic conditions in relation to their neighbors, showing themselves as a group of social vulnerability, their health and autonomy were better than their neighbors. In the second chapter, Living and health conditions associated with overweight and obesity among elderly, we assessed the demographic, socioeconomic, lifestyle and health variables associated with overweight and obesity in the elderly. The elderly with overweight or obese were compared to normal weight. It was found that elderly people with excess of weight had poorer health and autonomy. These findings may help in guiding public health policies aimed the promotion health through the prevention of chronic diseases and encourage eating habits and healthy lifestyle, thus providing better quality of life in aging
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Shen, Qin. "Investigating the Effects of Racial Residential Segregation, Area-level Socioeconomic Status and Physician Composition on Colorectal Cancer Screening." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4152.
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Background: The current adherence to colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) guidelines is suboptimal. How neighborhood characteristics, e.g., racial residential segregation (RRS), area-level socioeconomic status (SES) and physician composition, affect CRCS adherence are not fully understood. We assessed associations between facility proximity to RRS areas, area-level SES, physician composition, and CRCS adherence.
Methods: Data sources included 2013 Minnesota Community Measurement, 2009-2013 American Community Survey, 2012 U.S. and 2012-2013 Washington State Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data, and 2013-2014 Area Health Resource File. Logistic regressions and weighted multilevel logistic regressions were used to assess the association between facility proximity to RRS areas and CRCS adherence, and association between area-level SES, physician composition and CRCS adherence, respectively.
Results: Facility proximity to RRS areas was positively associated with low CRCS performance, e.g., facilities located < 2 miles away from Hispanic-segregated areas were 3 times more likely to have low CRCS performance than those at ≥5 miles away (odds ratio (OR): 2.83, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.29, 6.24). Most area-level SES measures showed negative bivariate associations between deprivation and colonoscopy/overall adherence, and measures such as education had relatively strong associations, although few of fully-adjusted associations remained statistically significant. Further, a one-unit increase in the percentage of gastroenterologists among physicians was associated with 3% increase in the odds of colonoscopy (OR: 1.03, 95% CI: 1.01-1.04) and overall adherence (OR: 1.03, 95% CI: 1.01-1.04) in the rural-metropolitan areas.
Conclusions: Developing culturally tailored CRCS programs, increasing percentage of gastroenterologists, and targeting deprived communities may improve CRCS adherence.
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Nabukera, Sarah K. "Delayed childbearing, pregnancy spacing and impact on subsequent pregnancy outcomes Missouri resident mothers, 1978-1997 /." Thesis, Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2007p/nabukera.pdf.
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Smith, Elizabeth A. "Living in the American style : an analysis of House Beautiful magazine, 1935-1955." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2363.
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Mwangi-Powell, Faith. "Impact of development projects upon fertility-related behaviour among couples resident in Kakamega and Vihiga districts of Western Province, Kenya." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284630.
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Scott, Angela Maria. "The Not-So-Public History of Colonial Williamsburg's Port Resident-Ferrykeepers: Interpreting the Moody Family of Capitol Landing, 1715-1781." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626704.
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Singer, Susan Sullivan. "Acid rain provisions of the 1990 clean air amendments : affects on residential electric customers /." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09192009-040223/.
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Dalby, Laura. "Weak Governance, Divided Residents: The Development of Gated Communities in Guatemala City." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26269.
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This thesis asks the question: how can one describe the development of gated communities in Guatemala City? It collects and analyzes data on gated communities in Guatemala City in order to explore the nature of their development in a violent geographical region, which has also been neglected by the academic community. It argues that the development of gated communities in Guatemala City does not fit the mutually exclusive ‘security’ argument as scholars have made. Instead, a mixture of economic factors, social status, weak governance, and security concerns are involved as large private corporations draw upon security-related fears, unregulated development of real estate and weak governance, resulting in a disorganized model of spatial organization. This study adds to the growing body of literature on gated communities by laying the groundwork needed to fill the gap that currently exists in Central America.
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Bronhara, Bruna. "Estado nutricional de órfãos por aids ou homicídios residentes no município de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/6/6138/tde-31082009-133600/.
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Introdução A orfandade pode trazer conseqüências importantes para as condições de vida das crianças. Na África subsaariana, por exemplo, órfãos tem apresentado maiores riscos de desnutrição em relação aos não-órfãos. No Brasil, não há relatos sobre as relações entre variáveis relacionadas à orfandade e o estado nutricional de crianças. Objetivos Avaliar o estado nutricional de órfãos por aids ou homicídios residentes em São Paulo e estimar a associação de índices nutricionais com variáveis relacionadas à orfandade. Métodos - Estudo transversal de base domiciliar que utilizou amostra representativa de 484 indivíduos de 5 a 14 anos que perderam um ou ambos os pais durante os anos de 2000 e 2004 devido à aids ou homicídios no município de São Paulo. A avaliação nutricional foi feita com o índice de massa corporal-para-idade e da altura-para-idade. A associação entre índices nutricionais e variáveis relacionadas à orfandade foi estimada em análise hierárquica, com uso de modelo de regressão linear múltiplo. Resultados Órfãos por aids ou homicídios diferiram quanto às características da orfandade e à idade média. As condições econômicas, domiciliares, o estado de saúde e o estado nutricional foram semelhantes entre os grupos. O déficit de IMC ocorreu em 1,3 por cento das crianças abaixo de 10 anos e em 2,1 por cento dos adolescentes. O déficit de altura ocorreu em 0,7 por cento das vii crianças e em 4,0 por cento dos adolescentes. O excesso de peso ocorreu em 19 por cento e 20 por cento das crianças e adolescentes, respectivamente. A análise hierárquica indicou ausência de efeito das variáveis relacionadas à orfandade sobre o IMC ou a altura; o principal determinante do estado nutricional foi de natureza econômica. Conclusão Órfãos por aids ou homicídios de São Paulo apresentaram estado nutricional semelhante e majoritariamente influenciado pela situação econômica. O perfil nutricional identificado no grupo, caracterizado pelo excesso de peso, sugere que órfãos de São Paulo não apresentam riscos adicionais decorrentes da orfandade.Introduction Orphanhood has important consequences in life conditions of children. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, children orphaned by AIDS have shown increased risks for undernutrition when compared to their counterparts. There are no studies available investigating the relation among orphanhood-related variables and nutritional status of children. Objectives To evaluate the nutritional status of children orphaned by AIDS or homicides in the city of Sao Paulo and to estimate the association of nutritional indexes with orphanhood-related variables. Methods Household survey carried out between 2006 and 2007. We sampled 484 children representative of Sao Paulo, aged 5-14 years old who lost either or both of their parents from AIDS or homicides between 2000 and 2004. We selected bodymass- index(BMI)-for-age and height-for-age as outcome for analysis. Multiple linear regression in the light of a conceptual hierarchical approach was used for estimating the factors associated BMI-for-age and height-for-age. Results Children from AIDS and homicides groups differed in terms of orphanhood-related variables and age. Economic, household, health and nutritional conditions were similar among groups. Underweight accounted for 1.3 per cent and 2.1 per cent of children under the age of 10 and adolescents, respectively. Stunting accounted for 0.7 per cent and 4.0 per cent of children and ix adolescents, respectively. Overweight accounted for 19 per cent and 20 per cent of children and adolescents, respectively. BMI-for-age and height-for-age were unaffected by orphanhood-related variables after adjusting for selected classical determinants of nutritional status in hierarchical model. Economic condition was the main determinant of nutritional profile. Conclusion Nutritional status of children orphaned by AIDS or homicides from Sao Paulo was similar and mainly influenced by the economic condition. Nutritional profile, characterized by being overweight, suggests that these orphans have not shown additional risks due to those orphanhoodrelated variables.
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Enfield, Kyle B. "Factors influencing medical students and residents to pursue careers in clinical research a systematic review /." Oklahoma City : [s.n.], 2003. http://library.ouhsc.edu/epub/theses/Enfield-Kyle-B.pdf.
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Albassami, Ali Abdullah M. "A Framework for International Commercialization of Innovative Products in Residential Construction: A Case of Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) in the United States and Saudi Arabia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47792.
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This dissertation presents the development of a new framework for international commercialization of innovative structural products in residential construction. Development of his framework required the examination of six subjects related to international commercialization.
1) commercialization models previously developed, locally and internationally,
2) barriers to the process,
3) stakeholders, actions, and decisions critical to the process,
4) characteristics of innovations that are suitable for international use,
5) characteristics of foreign markets that are ideal to adopt such innovations, and
6) strategies to overcome barriers
The framework development was based on one structural product, SIPs. This product has been successfully developed and implemented in the United States and is being considered for commercial use in Saudi Arabia. Structural product clusters are particularly appropriate because of their innovative nature and their major influence on the structure of residential buildings.
The study relies on sequential explanatory mixed-method research design, consisting of two distinct phases (Creswell 2003), to gain insight into processes surrounding commercialization. The rationale for this approach is that quantitative data and its results provide a general picture of the barriers to international commercialization in the available sample, which can mapped onto an initial framework. The qualitative data and its analysis help to refine and expand statistical results by exploring participants' actual decision processes that can be also mapped to a second framework. Both data sets can be merged, mapped onto one final framework.
Variables related to the six subjects, mentioned above, were distilled from literature into open-ended questionnaires for two groups of key stakeholders in the supply chain of innovative structural products: 1) SIPs stakeholders in the US and 2) stakeholders of innovative structural products in Saudi Arabia. The primary purpose of the open-ended questionnaires was to ensure usage of correct terminology used in this study and to encourage full, meaningful answers—capturing all possible factors affecting the process of international commercialization. The author collected responses using web-based surveys. The results yielded the development of a reliable instrument to be implemented in further steps of this research.
Next, the researcher collected variables related to the questions from previous open-ended questionnaires into closed-ended questionnaires to collect the data (on perceived barriers to international commercialization), using web-based surveys, and performed a preliminary analysis of the data using frequency analysis. This process yielded market-based strategies for developing an initial framework for international commercialization in residential construction.
Subsequently, a focused examination of barriers to international commercialization was needed. The researcher collected such data through an applied understanding of the specific development processes for SIPs to be introduced to a new, international market, namely Saudi Arabia. Based on the model's structure, the researcher conducted six case studies of real stakeholder processes along the supply chain, SIPs development domestically and internationally, and tracked data for real risks of the commercialization process.
Findings suggested perceived versus actual risks and barriers to the commercialization process for an integral product to the residential construction process. This was an important distinction because of proposed development methods and the application of market diffusion. Based on the barriers identified, the researcher developed market-based strategies to be incorporated into a second framework. This framework along with the initial framework and the literature-based framework have been triangulated to develop one final framework. The final framework was then introduced to a few experts in the industry to increase its validity.Ph. D.
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Blackley, David, Liang Wang, James Anderson, and Shimin Zheng. "The Association between Marital Status and Extensive Stage Small-cell Lung Cancer at Diagnosis in Kentucky Residents, 2005-2009." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/75.
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Matsumaru, Takashi Michael. "Defending Desire: Resident Activists in New Orleans‟ Desire Housing Project, 1956-1980." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/449.
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The Desire Housing Project opened in 1956 as a segregated public housing development in New Orleans‟ Upper Ninth Ward. The Desire neighborhood, one of the few neighborhoods in the city where black homeownership had been encouraged, was transformed by the project. Hundreds of former Desire residents were displaced by the mammoth project, which became home to more than 13,000 residents by 1958. Built on what had once been a landfill, the Desire Housing Project came to epitomize the worst in public housing, before it was torn down by 2001. Although the project was isolated from the rest of the city and lacked basic services, residents worked to create a viable community, in spite of the pitfalls of segregation. Within the context of the civil rights movement, Desire residents fought to bring in basic services, pushing local government to more fully develop their neighborhood.
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Byam-Williams, Janet Jestina. "Factors Influencing Health Status in Community-Dwelling Older Adults." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1894.
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Kemp, Audrey June. "Quality of Life and the Health Care System in New River Valley, Virginia: Residents' Perceptions and Experiences." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26611.
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The present study involved the implementation of one component, Community Health Status Assessment, of a comprehensive, strategic planning tool, Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), to qualitatively uncover the perceptions of the quality of life and local health care system of 28 residents in New River Valley (NRV), Virginia. The current study represents the initial qualitative study utilizing MAPP in Virginia. Interviewees perceived an overall good quality of life (e.g., ample green space, safe neighborhoods), with an urgent need for health care reform, affordable insurance, and transportation, particularly for after-hours medical care. The current study also reviews the specific findings from the one-on-one interviews, and provides a step-by-step look at the MAPP process for potential users as applied to a real-world community, specifically, the NRV.Ph. D.
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Wikby, Kerstin. "Nutritional Intervention in Elderly People Admitted to Resident Homes." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-7470.
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Sanchón, Macías Maria Visitación. "Influencia del status social subjetivo en la salud de las mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas residentes en la Comunidad de Canabria." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/97301.
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El propósito de la tesis es estudiar las características socioeconómicas y el estatus social subjetivo de las mujeres inmigrantes y analizar su relación con la salud. Así como, explorar los determinantes del estatus social subjetivo y como las mujeres explican la influencia de los mismos en sus trayectorias de salud.
El estudio utilizó metodología cuantitativa y cualitativa. Se observó una asociación débil entre las medidas del estatus socioeconómico y la salud percibida. El estatus social subjetivo fue significativamente asociado con la salud percibida, lo que sugiere que puede ser un indicador relevante para el estudio de las desigualdades en salud
Las entrevistas muestran las trayectorias de salud y las desigualdades en los determinantes sociales de salud de las inmigrantes en relación a la población Cántabra. Los determinantes del estatus social subjetivo y de la salud de las mujeres se encuentran, principalmente, en el contexto socioeconómico y político de España.
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Arnold, David Frederick. "Environmental Justice in Virginia’ s Rural Drinking Water: Analysis of Nitrate Concentrations and Bacteria Prevalence in the Household Wells of Augusta and Louisa County Residents." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33759.
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This research studied two predominantly rural counties in Virginia to understand whether residents have equal access to uncontaminated drinking water by socio-economic status. Statistical associations were developed with the total value of each residence based on county tax assessment data as the independent variable to explain levels of nitrate, the presence of bacteria (total coliform and Escherichia coli), and specific household well characteristics (well age, well depth, and treatment). Nearest neighbor analysis and chi-square tests based on land cover classifications were also conducted to evaluate the spatial distribution of contaminated and uncontaminated wells.
Based on the results from the 336 samples analyzed in Louisa County, rural residents with private wells may have variable access to household drinking water free of bacteria; particularly if lower-value homes in the community tend to be older with more dated, shallower wells. This study also suggested that, in Louisa County, the presence of water treatment devices was also significantly related to total home value as an index of socio-economic status. Analysis of the 124 samples taken from household wells in Augusta County did not result in any significant associations among selected well characteristics, total home value, and water quality. Lower community participation in Augusta County as a result of a more expensive water quality testing fee may have contributed to the lack of hypothesized relationships in that countyâ s case study.Master of Science
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Jurek, Benjamin K. M. A. "Motivation, global functioning, and stage of change as predictors of substance abuse treatment outcome in a public health residential treatment facility." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1385993458.
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Rocha, Ariana Vieira. "Estado nutricional relativo ao selênio de crianças residentes em duas localidades de Rondônia, Amazônia Ocidental." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/9/9132/tde-26012017-172245/.
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Estudos sobre o estado nutricional da população de Rondônia são escassos, principalmente nas localidades ribeirinhas mais isoladas. Estas populações estão expostas a vários fatores ambientais que podem interferir no seu estado nutricional. Portanto, o objetivo principal deste estudo foi avaliar o estado nutricional relativo ao selênio de crianças ribeirinhas de 3 a 9 anos de idade residentes nas localidades de Demarcação, no Rio Machado e Gleba do Rio Preto, no Rio Preto. O método utilizado para avaliação do selênio foi a espectrometria de absorção atômica por geração de hidretos acoplada à cela de quartzo (HGQTAAS). Das 42 crianças estudadas, 74% pertenciam à localidade Demarcação e 26% à Gleba do Rio Preto. De acordo com os pontos de cortes estabelecidos para antropometria, a maioria das crianças das duas localidades apresentou eutrofia. Em relação aos níveis de selênio no plasma, 84% das crianças de Demarcação apresentaram concentrações abaixo do valor de referência, e 16% apresentaram concentrações normais. Por outro lado, as crianças da Gleba do Rio Preto apresentaram concentrações elevadas e acima dos valores de referência estabelecidos. Nos eritrócitos. 45% das crianças residentes na Demarcação apresentaram concentrações baixas do mineral e as demais, níveis normais. Na Gleba, 45% apresentaram concentrações normais e as demais, concentrações acima dos valores de referência. O consumo médio de selênio em Demarcação foi de 41,8µg/dia e na Gleba do Rio Preto, de 179,0µg/dia. Houve correlação significativa apenas entre o consumo de selênio e a concentração deste elemento nos eritrócitos, nas crianças de Demarcação. Desta maneira, conclui-se que as crianças estudadas apresentaram diferenças em relação ao estado nutricional para selênio, as crianças de Demarcação apresentando um estado entre deficiência e normalidade, e as da Gleba do Rio Preto, sujeitas a um possível risco de excesso com possibilidade de efeitos adversos. As concentrações de mercúrio nos cabelos das crianças e em peixes da região foram determinadas por espectrometria de absorção atômica com geração de vapor frio (CV AAS), visando estudar a interação deste elemento com o selênio, e os resultados confirmaram esta possível relação. A maioria das crianças de ambas as localidades apresentou níveis elevados deste metal nos cabelos, assim como foram elevadas as concentrações nos peixes da região. As crianças da Gleba do Rio Preto apresentaram níveis superiores às de Demarcação.Studies about the nutritional status of population from Rondônia State are scarce, mainly at more isolated riverine places. Populations from these communities are exposed to several environmental factors that interfere in the nutritional status. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the selenium nutritional status of riverine children aged between 3-9 years from Demarcação, placed at Madeira River, and from Gleba do Rio Preto, placed at Rio Preto River. The selenium was analyzed by hydride generation (quartz cell) atomic absorption spectrometry (HGQTAAS). From the 42 evaluated children, 74% of them resided at the first community and the others, at the second one. According to the established cut-offs for anthropometry, the most part of the children from both places were eutrophic. In relation to the plasma selenium levels, 84% of the children from Demarcação presented low levels, while the others 16% had normal levels. On the other hand, all children from Gleba do Rio Preto presented high plasma selenium levels, exceeding the established reference values. In the case of the erythrocyte levels, the percentage of normal and low selenium concentrations in those children from Demarcação was 55% and 45%, respectively. At Gleba do Rio Preto there were high selenium erythrocyte levels in 55% of the children. The mean selenium intake from diet was 41.8 µg/day at Demarcação, and 179.0 µg/day at Gleba do Rio Preto. There was a significant correlation only between the selenium ingested by diet and the erythrocyte selenium levels in those children from Demarcação. Taking the results together, it is possible to conc1ude that the studied children presented differences in relation to the selenium nutritional status with those from Demarcação showing a status between deficiency and normality, and those from Gleba do Rio Preto, a possible risk of excess, being liable to adverse effects. The hair and fishes mercury concentrations were determined intending to study the interaction between this metal with selenium, and the obtained results corroborated this possible relation. The great majority of the children from both places showed high hair mercury levels, as well as the fishes of that region. Children from Gleba do Rio Preto presented higher levels than those from Demarcação.
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Sanford, Michele L. "Attitude toward gay and lesbian students: an investigation of resident advisors at Virginia Tech." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40642.
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Silva, Juliana Vasconcelos Lyra da. "Parasitoses, estado nutricional, consumo alimentar e indicadores sociais em crianças e adolescentes residentes em uma área de invasão em Maceió, Alagoas." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2008. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/910.
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Common problems in the developing countries includes protein-energy undernutrition
and iron deficiency anemia. These nutritional deficiencies are commonly associated
with intestinal parasites, causing damage to growth and development and increasing
the risk to morbidity-mortality. However, studies have shown controversy about this
relationship. This study aimed to evaluate the association between parasitic,
nutritional status, food intake and social indicators in children and adolescents, living
in a slum area of Maceio, Alagoas. A cross-sectional was taken in a public with 367
individuals under 16 years old, living in a substandard settlement in Maceio, Alagoas.
Parasitological, socioeconomic and nutritional evaluations were performed.
Sedimentation concentration method and Kato-Katz techniques were used for stool
examinations. Socioeconomic data was collected through the use of questionnaires
addressing issues relating to housing conditions, economic characteristics and
behaviors related to sanitation education. The nutritional evaluation included dietary
assessment, biochemical examinations and anthropometric measurements. The
dietary evaluation used the method of Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) as a
cutoff point, and the data collected through 24 hour recall, adjusted for intrapersonal
variability. Serum concentrations of hemoglobin (Hb), iron (SI) and ferritin (SF) were
measured to assess the organic iron status. Anthropometric measurements were
evaluated using the height-for-age index and body mass index for age, expressed as
Z scores in relation to anthropometric growth patterns of WHO 2005/2006. The
association between variables was performed by bivariate followed by multivariate
logistic regression analysis. In all the tests a 5% statistical level of significance was
adopted. The population studied lacked basic sanitation and most had an income
lower or equal to the minimum salary. The frequency of enteroparasitosis in children
and adolescents was 68.0% with 63.7% having polyparasitosis. Of the total number
of individuals assessed by anthropometry, 12.3% presented with stature deficit and
3.5% with low weight. The frequencies of short stature and overweight (13.4%) were
equivalent. Levels lower than the reference values were found for SF, SI and Hb in
15,9%, 33,2% and 10% of individuals, respectively. With respect to food intake, 5.6%
presented with excessive and 3.7% with insufficient energy intake. The frequency of
inadequate protein intake ranged from 28.6% to 47.8% between age groups, and
consumption of micronutrients was more deficient in the age group from 1 to 3 years.
Concerning association between variables, it was not possible to build a final
multivariate logistic model for short stature and low weight, because no association
was found with these anthropometric deficits and the other variables. The serum
concentrations of SF and SI and economic class were associated with anemia.
Intestinal parasitosis was associated with economic class and overcrowded living
conditions. Because of morbidity caused by parasitic infections and the adverse
effects of anemia and nutrition on the growth and development of children and
adolescents, the results presented warn of the need for implementation of actions to
correct the identified problems.Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas
Problemas comuns nos países em desenvolvimento incluem a desnutrição energético-protéica e a anemia ferropriva. Estas carências nutricionais são comumente associadas ao parasitismo intestinal, causando prejuízos ao crescimento e desenvolvimento infantil, além de aumentar os riscos de morbimortalidade. Entretanto, estudos têm demonstrado controvérsias a respeito desta relação. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar a associação entre parasitoses, estado nutricional, consumo alimentar e indicadores sociais em crianças e adolescentes, residentes numa área de invasão em Maceió, Alagoas. Para tal, realizou-se um estudo de delineamento transversal com 367 indivíduos menores de 16 anos, residentes em uma área de assentamento subnormal de Maceió, Alagoas. Foram realizadas avaliações parasitológica, sócio-econômica e nutricional. Para os exames coproparasitológicos foram utilizados os métodos de sedimentação espontânea e Kato-Katz. Os dados socioeconômicos foram coletados através da aplicação de questionários abordando aspectos referentes às condições de moradia, características econômicas e comportamentos relacionados à educação sanitária. A avaliação nutricional incluiu inquérito dietético, exame bioquímico e avaliação antropométrica. Na avaliação dietética utilizou-se o método da Necessidade Média Estimada (EAR) como ponto de corte, sendo os dados coletados através de recordatório de 24 horas, ajustados quanto à variabilidade intrapessoal. Foram dosadas as concentrações séricas de hemoglobina, ferro sérico (FeS) e ferritina (FER) para avaliação do estado orgânico de ferro. As medidas antropométricas foram avaliadas através do índice altura para idade e do índice de massa corporal para idade, expressos em escores Z em relação ao padrão antropométrico de crescimento da OMS 2005/2006. A associação entre as variáveis foi realizada por análise logística bivariada seguida da multivariada. Em todos os testes, foi adotado um nível de significância estatística de 5%. A população estudada não possui saneamento básico, encontra-se nas piores classes econômicas e a maioria dela possui renda menor ou igual a um salário mínimo. A freqüência de enteroparasitoses nas crianças e adolescentes foi 68,0%, sendo 63,7% com poliparasitismo. Do total de indivíduos avaliados pela antropometria, 12,3% apresentou déficit estatural e 3,5% baixo peso. As freqüências de déficit estatural (12,3%) e sobrepeso (13,4%) foram equivalentes. Dosagens abaixo da referência para FER, FeS e Hb foram encontradas, repectivamente, em 15,9%, 33,2% e 10% dos indivíduos. Com relação ao consumo alimentar, 5,6% apresentavam ingestão energética excessiva e 3,7% insuficiente. A freqüência de ingestão protéica inadequada variou de 28,6% a 47,8% entre as faixas etárias, e o consumo dos micronutrientes foi mais deficiente na faixa etária de 1 a 3 anos. Na verificação da associação entre as variáveis, não foi possível construir um modelo logístico multivariado final para déficit estatural e baixo peso, pois não foi encontrada associação destes agravos antropométricos com as demais variáveis. A concentração sérica de FER, concentração de FeS e classe econômica associaram-se com anemia. As enteroparasitoses apresentaram associação com classe econômica e aglomeração familiar. Devido à morbidade causada pelas parasitoses, e os efeitos prejudiciais da anemia e nutrição inadequada para o crescimento e desenvolvimento de crianças e adolescentes, os resultados apresentados alertam para a necessidade de implantação de ações para correção dos problemas identificados.
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Choi, Sungkyu. "Cross-cultural attitudes toward deaf culture in a multi- and singular cultural society : a survey of residential school based teachers for the deaf who are deaf and hearing." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/941571.
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During the past few years, Deaf culture has emerged as an important philosophy that could lead to a radical restructuring of Deaf education methods. The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes concerning Deaf culture from teachers of residential based schools for the Deaf who are Deaf and Hearing.Prior to initiating direct contact with the teachers, the superintendents or principals of the selected residential schools were contacted via mail, and their permission secured. In the United States, 279 teachers (69 teachers who are Deaf, 210 teachers who are Hearing) from seven midwest residential based schools for the Deaf and in South Korea 310 teachers (26 teachers who are Deaf, 284 teachers who are Hearing) from all eleven residential based schools for the Deaf participated.Two-factor ANOVA procedures with repeated measures on one factor were utilized to analyze the teachers' attitudes toward Deaf culture in America and South Korea from a 30-question survey using a five-point Likert scale.This study concluded that: (a) Deaf culture was a subculture in mainstream society whether it was a multi- or singular cultural society--although attitudes toward Deaf culture were accepted more negatively in a singular society than those in a multi-cultural society; (b) Deaf culture was accepted by teachers of schools for the Deaf who are Deaf more readily than those who are Hearing in both multi- or singular cultural societies; and (c) there was no significant correlation between attitudes of teachers who were employed at different levels of instruction, such as elementary and middle or secondary school.Department of Special Education
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Peltz, Claudia. "Facility design & planning to improve nurses' effectiveness in administering care to fulltime residents of nursing homes." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/436.
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