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Peçanha, Paulo Mendes. "Aspectos epidemiológicos e clínicos da paracoccidioidomicose no estado do Espírito Santo." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2012. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/5967.
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Previous issue date: 2012-08-31In a serie of cases of paracoccidioidomycosis we retrospectively reviewed the records of 546 patients treated at the Hospital Universitario Cassiano Antonio Moraes (HUCAM), Federal University of Espírito Santo - UFES, from 1978 to 2012. The patients ages ranged from 7 to 83 years, with 512 males and 34 females in a ratio of 15:1. Most of the patients( 81,34%) were from the state of Espírito Santo (ES), 18,66% came from other states, mainly from rural areas and 77,6% of them were farmers. The map of geographical distribution in ES showed higher concentration of cases in counties in the western border, along Minas Gerais state.Looking at the clinical features 60 (10.99%) patients presented the acute / subacute form of the disease, 485 (88.83%) the chronic form and one patient the subclinical form. The organs most often affected were the lungs, oropharyngeal mucosa, lymph nodes, skin and larynx. Several other organs were also affected less frequently. The diagnosis was established by histopathology in 252 (46.15%), direct examination in 168 (30.77%), direct examination and histopathology in 111 (20.33%) and serology in 15 (2.75%) patients. The infectious diseases more frequently associated were tuberculosis, AIDS, leishmaniasis and intestinal parasites. Patients were treated with sulfonamides, or azole in mild to moderate forms and amphotericin B in severe forms. The length of the treatment was analysed in 366 patients. Only 146 (40%) completed the minimum of 18 months needed when taking sulphonamides. The most common sequelae were residual pulmonary lesions and scars on skin and mucous membranes. The number of cases in this serie highlights the state of Espírito Santo as important endemic area of paracoccidioidomycosis in Brazil and the results follow the clinical and epidemiological patterns demonstrated in other series
Em série histórica de casos de Paracoccidioidomicose, foram analisados retrospectivamente os prontuários de 546 pacientes atendidos no Hospital Universitário Cassiano Antonio Moraes (HUCAM) da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo - UFES, no período de 1978 a 2012. A idade dos pacientes variou de 7 a 83 anos, sendo 512 do gênero masculino e 34 do feminino, com proporção 15:1. Em relação à procedência, 81,34% eram do Espírito Santo (ES) e 18,66% procediam de outros estados, predominantemente de área rural, sendo 77,6% dos pacientes lavradores. O mapeamento da distribuição geográfica no ES revelou maior concentração de casos em municípios situados na faixa oeste, junto à divisa de Minas Gerais. Quanto à apresentação clínica, 60 (10,99%) pacientes eram da forma aguda/subaguda da doença, 485 (88,83%) da forma crônica e um paciente apresentou a forma subclínica. Os órgãos mais frequentemente acometidos foram os pulmões, mucosa de orofaringe, linfonodos, pele e laringe. Vários outros órgãos se mostraram comprometidos, com menor frequência. O diagnóstico foi firmado através de exame histopatológico em 252 (46,15%), exame direto em 168 (30,77%), exame direto e histopatológico em 111 (20,33%) e sorologia em 15 (2,75%) pacientes. As doenças infecciosas mais frequentemente associadas foram: Tuberculose, AIDS, Leishmaniose e as parasitoses intestinais. Os pacientes foram tratados com sulfonamidas ou azólicos nas formas leves e moderadas e anfotericina B nas formas graves. A duração do tratamento foi analisada em 366 pacientes, sendo que, somente 146 (40%) completaram o tempo mínimo previsto de 18 meses de medicação com sulfonamidas. As sequelas mais comuns foram lesões residuais pulmonares e cicatrizes em pele e mucosas. O número de casos desta série destaca o ES como importante área endêmica de Paracoccidioidomicose no Brasil e os resultados seguem os padrões clínicos e epidemiológicos demonstrados em outras séries
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Abucci, Infantes Giuliana Catherine, Vera Jorge Luis Candiotti, Cárdenas Pablo Alonso Cotrina, Miranda Esther Amalia Martell, Rojas Teresina Muñoz-Nájar, and Castro Nelly Suárez. "Proyecto editorial serie Quiero Ser." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - UPC. Escuela de Postgrado, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/273949.
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El presente trabajo aplicativo tiene por finalidad desarrollar un proyecto editorial de Plan Lector El Plan Lector es la estrategia pedagógica implantada por el Ministerio de Educación (MINEDU) desde el segundo semestre del año 2006, para promover, organizar y orientar la lectura en los estudiantes de Educación Inicial, Educación Primaria y Educación Secundaria de las instituciones educativas (IIEE) públicas y privadas
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Díaz, Rengifo Verónica. "Pulpectomía tipo 1 en incisivos primarios: Serie de casos." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/16114.
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La caries de la infancia temprana afecta principalmente a los dientes anteriores
primarios y es un grave problema de salud pública. La conservación de los incisivos
primarios maxilares es imprescindible en el desarrollo de la forma del arco, la estética,
las funciones (masticación, fonación), nos sirve de guía en la erupción de los dientes
permanentes. Por lo tanto, el tratamiento pulpar se realiza con frecuencia en los
incisivos primarios para evitar su pérdida temprana. El objetivo de este estudio es dar a conocer el tratamiento de pulpectomía tipo 1, como una técnica alternativa en el abordaje de terapias pulpares en pacientes pediátricos, con caries y exposición de pulpa vital en incisivos primarios, aunque la pulpotomía es
el tratamiento de elección para la exposición vital de la pulpa del diente primario, existe
una tendencia entre muchos dentistas a realizar pulpectomías en incisivos primarios
vitales. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo dar a conocer la técnica de la pulpectomía
tipo1 en el tratamiento de la exposición de pulpa vital en incisivos primarios.
El correcto diagnóstico permite la selección de un tratamiento adecuado que, según
los signos clínicos y radiográficos de la pulpa, nos permite identificar si estamos ante
una pulpitis reversible, pulpitis irreversible, necrosis pulpar, periodontitis apical.
El presente estudio reporta una serie de casos en un paciente de tres años, de sexo
masculino, en ABESG, con caries severas, clínicamente se observa piezas con caries
inactivas, asintomáticas, radiográficamente se observa que no hay patología
periodontal, con diagnostico estomatológico de pulpitis reversible, no hubo dificultad
en el manejo de conducta del paciente. Para la rehabilitación del paciente la técnica
utilizada fue pulpectomía tipo 1 en los cuatro incisivos superiores con restauraciones
de coronas de resina compuesta Supra nano. Al finalizar el procedimiento, se reforzó a
la madre en continuar la aplicación de las medidas preventivas de salud bucodental en
el hogar. Durante un periodo de 7 días y 1 mes, se controlaron los dientes
rehabilitados mediante la técnica de pulpectomía tipo1 nos demostraron resultados
exitosos basándonos en los hallazgos clínicos, radiográficos y estéticos.
Concluye que la importancia del tratamiento de pulpectomía Tipo 1 en incisivos
primarios, está en que este permite rehabilitar las piezas dentarias anteriores con una
gran pérdida de estructura dental en un solo paso de forma práctica, sencilla y sirve
como base para otros estudios e investigaciones. Los resultados de la presente
contribuirán en una mejor decisión y motivación de enfrentar el problema que es de
salud pública, por todo lo anterior derivan la importancia del presente estudio.
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Gault, Nathalie. "Plans expérimentaux de type self-controlled en pharmacoépidémiologie." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC115/document.
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Les études de pharmacoépidémiologie consistent à étudier l’effet de médicaments en vie réelle, et sont menées de plus en plus souvent sur bases de données médico-administratives. Ce sont principalement des études observationnelles, et sont donc soumises à des biais liés à des facteurs de confusion. Ces facteurs ne sont pas toujours recueillis dans les bases de données médico-administratives qui sont implémentées à d’autres fins que la recherche. Des plans expérimentaux self-controlled designs (où le patient est son propre témoin, et dont les principaux sont le case-crossover et le self-controlled case-series) permettent d’étudier l’effet transitoire d'expositions brèves sur des évènements à début brutal. Ils sont soumis à certaines conditions d’application. Ils ont la particularité de réaliser des comparaisons sur différentes périodes plutôt que sur différents groupes de patients, permettant ainsi de prendre en compte des facteurs de confusion, y compris non mesurés, et qui ne varient pas entre les périodes observées. Ces méthodes ont montré leur utilité pour pallier l’absence de randomisation, et leur utilisation est recommandée quand leurs conditions d’application sont remplies. Nous avons étudié la fréquence d’utilisation des self-controlled designs en pharmacoépidémiologie sur bases de données, les opportunités manquées d’utilisation et leur usage approprié au regard de leurs conditions d’application, ainsi que la qualité de l’information rapportée dans les articles. Nous avons montré que leur utilisation est rare, que 15% des articles correspondent à des situations d’opportunité où ces méthodes auraient pu être implémentées, que 34% des case-crossover et 13% des self-controlled case-series étaient appliqué de façon inapproprié, et que pour 16% des articles la méthode aurait pu être adaptée pour être valide. Un usage plus approprié permettrait de contribuer à l’investigation en pharmacoépidémiologie tout en bénéficiant des avantages de ces méthodes en particulier sur bases de données de santéPharmacoepidemiology consists in the study of efficacy or safety of drugs in real life, with the use more and more frequently of medico-administrative databases. Study designs are generally observational, thus they are prone to confounding bias. Confounders are not systematically collected in databases, which are implemented for other purposes than research. Self-controlled designs (mainly represented by case-crossover and self-controlled case-series, and in which the patient acts as his own control), have been developed for the study of intermittent exposure with short-term effect on abrupt onset event. They require that validity assumptions being fulfilled. They consist in the comparison over different periods, rather than different groups of patients, thus allowing for confounding factors, also if not measured, which are invariant over observed periods. Such designs have been proved useful in observational studies in the absence of randomization, and their implementation is recommended in case of validity assumptions are fulfilled. We studied their frequency of use in pharmacoepidemiology in healthcare databases, missed opportunities for use, inappropriate use with respect to validity assumptions, as well as quality of reporting. We showed that self-controlled designs are rarely used, that opportunity for use was founds in 15% of articles where such methods could have been implemented, that 34% of case-crossover and 13% of self-controlled case series were inappropriately used, and that the method could have been adapted to be valid in 16% of articles. A more appropriate use of self-controlled designs could contribute to improve investigation in pharmacoepidemiology, while beneficiating from their advantages, especially in healthcare databases
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Smith, Ryan Bixby. "Serre Weights: The Partially Ramified Case." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/238612.
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We study the possible weights of an irreducible 2-dimensional modular mod p representation of Gal (F/F), where F is a totally real field in which p is allowed to ramify, and the representation is tamely ramified at primes above p. We describe a set of possible weights and completely determine the weights in some cases when e = 2, f = 2.
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Carvalho, Patrícia de. "Cistos radiculares em incisivos decíduos traumatizados: série de casos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/23/23132/tde-28032014-200450/.
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Este estudo buscou verificar a ocorrência de casos de cisto radicular em incisivos superiores decíduos traumatizados e descrever suas características relacionadas à criança, ao dente, ao trauma e ao cisto. Para tanto, realizou-se um levantamento das informações clínicas e radiográficas, de 2498 prontuários de pacientes atendidos na Clínica do Centro de Pesquisa e Atendimento de Traumatismo de Dentes Decíduos da Disciplina de Odontopediatria da FOUSP, no período de 1998 a setembro de 2013. Foi utilizado o método exploratório descritivo de uma série de casos. Foram avaliados 30 prontuários com casos de cistos, totalizando 32 incisivos superiores decíduos traumatizados com cisto. A ocorrência de cisto em pacientes com incisivos superiores decíduos traumatizados foi de 1,2%. Os resultados mostraram que a maioria dos cistos acometeram o gênero feminino (59,4%), os incisivos centrais superiores decíduos (93,8%), em crianças maiores de 5 anos (81,2%), mas que sofreram traumatismos com menos de 4 anos de idade (81,2%). A maioria dos casos não apresentou alteração clínica que levasse a suspeita de lesão cística, pois não foi encontrado em 90,7% retração gengival, 65,6% alteração de cor da mucosa vestibular, 65,6% fistula, 75% abscesso, 56,2% abaulamento gengival, 78,1% depressão da mucosa vestibular e 56,3% flutuação cistíca. A alteração clínica mais frequente foi a alteração de cor da coroa (56,3%). A média da idade do paciente no momento do trauma foi de 2,7 anos e do diagnóstico do cisto de 5,9 anos, sendo que a média de tempo do trauma até o diagnóstico do cisto foi de 2,8 anos. Em 46,9% dos dentes ocorreu trauma dental. A maioria dos traumas foram de baixa severidade (59,3%). Em 46,8% dos casos, o dente decíduo envolvido na lesão apresentava maior formação radicular que seu homólogo e em 62,5% o germe sucessor do dente decíduo com a lesão cística encontrava-se em estágio de Nolla anterior que o homólogo. A maioria das lesões císticas (81,2%) não envolveu dentes adjacentes, mas promoveram deslocamento de germes em 56,2%. Na dentição permanente foram encontrados repercussões em 31,3,% dos casos e retenção prolongada do permanente em 15,6%. Diante dos achados deste estudo observou-se que o cisto radicular em incisivos decíduos traumatizados é raro, assume um perfil menos agressivo, de crescimento controlado e necessitando de um tempo longo para se desenvolver. Além do mais, parece causar sequelas menos danosas às dentições, influenciar no processo de rizólise e rizogênese e estar relacionado a traumas de baixa severidade. O diagnóstico deve ser realizado pelos achados radiográficos, sendo que a reabsorção radicular externa sem formação óssea, assimetria no tamanho do folículo do germe dentário sucessor ao dente envolvido com a lesão cística e o folículo homólogo, bem como a diferença de altura e/ou posição entre os germes dentários homólogos deveriam ser considerados como sinais radiográficos no diagnóstico de cistos radiculares.The present study aimed to verify the occurrence of radicular cyst in traumatized primary upper incisors and describe their characteristics in relation to the children, teeth, trauma and cysts. The survey of 2, 498 patients that presented and were treated at the Research and Clinical Center of Dental Trauma in Primary Teeth of the School of Dentistry of the University of Sao Paulo from 1998 to September 2013 was carried out, in order to collect clinical and radiographic information. A descriptive and exploratory approach was taken in the study. A total of thirty clinical records involving radicular cysts included thirty two traumatized primary upper incisors were studied in detail. The overall occurrence of cysts in patients with traumatized primary incisors was 1.2% with females affected more (59.4%) often than males 93.8% involved the upper central incisors. 81.2% of the children were older than 5 year of age but suffered traumatic injuries before 4 years old. In most cases, gingival recession (90.7%); color change of the vestibular mucosa (65.6%); fistula (65.6%); abscess (75%); gingival bulging (56.2%); depression of the vestibular mucosa (78.1%) and cystic fluctuation (56.3%) were not present showing no clinical alterations that might suggest cystic lesion. The most frequent clinical alteration was the color change of the crown (56.3%). The mean patient age at the time of traumatic injury was 2.7 years and the diagnosis of cyst at 5.9 years, and the mean time from trauma to diagnosis of cysts was 2.8 years. The hard tissue trauma occurred in 46.9% of teeth. Most injuries (59.3%) were of low severity. The radicular formation in the primary tooth involved in the lesion in 46.8% of cases was larger than its homologous and 62.5 % of cases the successor tooth germ of primary tooth with the cystic lesion was at a Nolla stage earlier than the homologous. The majority (81.2%) of cystic lesions did not involve adjacent teeth but promoted displacement of tooth germs in 56.2%. Repercussions in the permanent dentition were found in 31.3% of cases and prolonged retention of permanent in 15.6%. Given the findings, this study observed that the radicular cyst in traumatized primary incisors is rare. It assumes a less aggressive profile, controlled growth and requiring a long time to develop. Moreover, it seems to cause less harmful sequelae in dentitions, influence the process of root resorption and root formation and is associated with low severity trauma. The diagnosis must be made by radiographic findings. An external root resorption without bone formation, asymmetry in size between dental follicle (dental follicle of successor germ to the primary tooth involved with the cystic lesion and th homologous tooth follicle) and the difference in height and/or position between homologous teeth germs should also be considered amongst the radiographic signs in the diagnosis of radicular cysts.
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Vladimir, Kurbalija. "Time series analysis and prediction using case based reasoning technology. Analiza i predviđanja toka vremenskih serija pomoću "case-based reasoning" -tehnologije." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/NS20091005KURBALIJA.
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This thesis describes one promising approach where a problem of timeseries analysis and prediction was solved by using Case Based Reasoning(CBR) technology. Foundations and main concepts of this technology aredescribed in detail. Furthermore, a detailed study of different approaches intime series analysis is given. System CuBaGe (Curve Base Generator) - Arobust and general architecture for curve representation and indexing timeseries databases, based on Case based reasoning technology, wasdeveloped. Also, a corresponding similarity measure was modelled for agiven kind of curve representation. The presented architecture may beemployed equally well not only in conventional time series (where allvalues are known), but also in some non-standard time series (sparse,vague, non-equidistant). Dealing with the non-standard time series is thehighest advantage of the presented architecture.U ovoj doktorskoj disertaciji prikazan je interesantan i perspektivan pristuprešavanja problema analize i predviđanja vremenskih serija korišćenjemCase Based Reasoning (CBR) tehnologije. Detaljno su opisane osnove iglavni koncepti ove tehnologije. Takođe, data je komparativna analizarazličitih pristupa u analizi vremenskih serija sa posebnim osvrtom napredviđanje. Kao najveći doprinos ove disertacije, prikazan je sistemCuBaGe (Curve Base Generator) u kome je realizovan originalni načinreprezentacije vremenskih serija zajedno sa, takođe originalnom,odgovarajućom merom sličnosti. Robusnost i generalnost sistemailustrovana je realnom primenom u domenu finansijskog predviđanja, gdeje pokazano da sistem jednako dobro funkcioniše sa standardnim, ali i sanekim nestandardnim vremenskim serijama (neodređenim, retkim ineekvidistantnim).
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Sveen, Kim Andre. "EZ Running Belt eliminates heel-strike : Case series." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-2924.
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Aim: The purpose of the study is to explore within a case-study design if training with the EZ Run Belt in an ecological setting changes running kinematics and if it affects running economy. Methodology: A case study design has been chosen to answer the aim of this study. Four subjects (two men, two women) with different running background were recruited for this case study, but only two subjects completed the study. Subjects visited LIVI test laboratory on two different test sessions. The study design consisted of one pre-test followed by a 4-week training intervention and a post-test and it was administered as a case study. The training intervention was conducted in an ecological setting with no interference from the researcher. The study consisted of an economy test and a kinematic test. The subjects ran the test on a treadmill at two different self-selected submaximal paces (6 min each). Submaximal running economy was defined by the average VO2 (l ∙min-1, ml∙kg-1∙min-1) recorded over the last minute of each 6-min bout. Running kinematics was analyzed from video footage with the video analysis software Kinovea. Results: Both subjects eliminated heel-strike, increased step frequency, shortened stride length while the energy cost increased. Conclusions: The EZ Run Belt could be a good tool for heel-strikers as it eliminated heel-strike and helped with changing the stride into a more forefoot strike in the two case studies presented.
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Khajotia, Burzin K. "CASE BASED REASONING – TAYLOR SERIES MODEL TO PREDICT CORROSION RATE IN OIL AND GAS WELLS AND PIPELINES." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1173828758.
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Searson, Ruth. "Cognitive-behavioural therapy for bipolar disorder : a case series." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505523.
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Travis, S. Kyle, Satoshi Mizuguchi, Michael H. Stone, William A. Sands, and Caleb D. Bazyler. "Preparing for a National Weightlifting Championships: A Case Series." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3817.
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INTRODUCTION: Monitoring an athlete’s psychological, physiological, and performance level is important when preparing for a major competition. No study to date has tracked a high-level weightlifter peaking for a major competition all the way up to the day of competition. Assessing performance at a competition is vital to ascertain if the athlete has reached a peaked and if peak performance will actually be expressed during the competition. PURPOSE: Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine when peak jumping performance was achieved and whether psychological or physiological variables explained any jump performance changes in a high-level female weightlifter preparing for a national competition. We hypothesized that jumping performance would peak on competition day corresponding with improved recovery and stress states and preserved muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) relative to baseline values. METHODS: A USA national-level female weightlifter (23.5y; 54.0±0.6kg; 155.4cm) participated in this investigation. Laboratory testing was carried out over a 7-month period as part of an ongoing long-term athlete monitoring program. At 11-weeks out, testing was administered twice a week for each week leading up to competition, at the competition, and returning from the competition. Each testing session evaluated body mass, recovery-stress inventories using the short recovery and stress scale (SRSS), and vastus lateralis CSA via ultrasonography followed by a standardized warm-up preceding unloaded squat jumps (SJ) performed on dual force plates sampling at 1kHz. Hopkin’s effects size (ES) classifications for each data point was used to determine the potential magnitude of change observed for each test relative to baseline values. The smallest worthwhile change was used to determine a meaningful change relative to baseline values. This typical error and smallest worthwhile change were used to quantify the probability (i.e., precision) of performance change that took place. Values greater or less than baseline values with precision >95% signified a very likely change for each testing session relative to the competition. RESULTS: Weightlifting performance goals were met for the national championship (snatch=67kg, clean and jerk=92kg, total=159kg). Jumping performance (precision=99%,ES=2.7) was almost certainly peaked on competition day with increased recovery (ES=0.7) and decreased stress scores (ES=0.5). However, the athlete possibly exhibited a small decrease in muscle CSA (precision=64.8%;ES=0.4) the week of competition that corresponded with very large changes in body mass (precision=99%;ES=2.8). CONCLUSIONS: The training program was effective in ensuring the athlete was peaked the day of competition based on jumping performance and recovery-stress scores despite small decreases in CSA. Thus, weightlifting coaches and sport scientists working with high-level athletes should monitor jumping performance and recovery-stress state to ensure athletes peak at an appropriate time. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: SRSS and SJ testing can be used as monitoring tools for high-level weightlifters preparing for important competitions.
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Weldeselassie, Yonas Ghebremichael. "Smooth risk functions for self-controlled case series models." Thesis, Open University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607161.
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The self-controlled case series (SeeS) method is commonly used to investigate associations between vaccine exposures and adverse events (side effects). It is an alternative to cohort and case control study designs. It requires information only on cases, individuals who have experienced the adverse event at least once, and automatically controls all fixed confounders that could modify the true association between exposure and adverse event. However, timevarying confounders (age, season) are not automatically controlled. The sees method has parametric and semi-parametric versions in terms of controlling the age effect. The parametric method uses piecewise constant functions with a priori chosen age ~ . groups and the semi-parametric method leaves the age effect unspecified. Mis-specification of age groups in the parametric version may lead to biased estimates of the exposure effect, and the semi-parametric approach runs into computational problems when the sample size is moderately large . Moreover, both versions of sees represent the time-varying exposures using step functions with pre-determined cut-points. A less prescriptive approach may be beneficial when the shape of the relative risk function associated with exposure is not known a priori, especially when exposure effects can be long-lasting. i :1 This thesis focuses on extending the sees method to avoid the aforementioned limitations I by modelling the age and exposure effects using flexible smooth functions. Specifically, we used penalised regression splines based on cubic M-splines, which are piecewise polynomials of degree 3. We developed three new extensions: a method that represents only the age effect with splines, a method that uses splines to model only the exposure effect and a non-parametric sees method that represents both effects by splines. Simulation studies showed that these new methods outperformed the parametric and semi-parametric methods. The new methods are illustrated using large data sets. Review of sees vaccine studies and directions on how to use the method are also given. "':-.' ' .
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Travis, Spencer K. "Preparing for a National Weightlifting Championship: A Case Series." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3435.
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The purpose of this thesis was to observe psychological, physiological, and performance changes to determine when two high-level weightlifters were peaked for a major competition. We addressed this purpose by conducting a two-part case study series with one USA international level female and one USA national level male weightlifter. Both athletes were considered to be peaked on competition day. The results support our hypothesis that jumping performance would be peaked on competition day corresponding with an increased recovery and decreased stress state. However, contrary to our hypothesis, each athlete exhibited small decreases in muscle size leading into the competition relative to baseline values. Further, changes in inflammatory markers were inconsistent for each athlete and were not reduced as hypothesized. Based on our findings, this investigation supports the use of overreaching and tapering for individual strength-power athletes providing insight into underlying psychological and physiological basis for observed changes in performance.
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Travis, Spencer Kyle, Satoshi Mizuguchi, Michael H. Stone, William A. Sands, and Caleb D. Bazyler. "Preparing for a National Weightlifting Championship: A Case Series." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5785.
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Preparing for a national weightlifting championship: A case series. J Strength Cond Res XX(X): 000–000, 2019—This study aimed to characterize psychological, physiological, and performance changes of a high-level female (24.5 years; 53.8 ± 0.3 kg; 155.4 cm) and male (25.8 years; 92.7 ± 1.2 kg; 189 cm) weightlifter over 28 weeks while preparing for a national championship. Body mass, hydration, psychological inventories, serum biomarkers, vastus lateralis muscle cross-sectional area (CSA), and squat jump (SJ) performance were assessed weekly beginning 11 weeks from the competition date. Weightlifting performance goals were met for the female athlete (actual total = 159 kg) but not for the male athlete (actual total = 292 kg). Reductions in vastus lateralis CSA possibly took place the week leading into competition for both athletes. Both athletes reported positive recovery-stress states on the day of competition relative to baseline values. Fluctuations between steroid hormone concentrations and inflammatory markers were unpredictable and inconsistent for both athletes throughout the training program. Unloaded SJ height and rate of force development were the highest on competition day for both athletes. Based on these findings, it is possible for high-level male and female weightlifters to achieve and maintain peak preparedness 3–4 days before competition following a 1-week overreach and 3-week exponential taper, where training volume-load is reduced by half and intensity maintained or slightly increased relative to pretaper values. Furthermore, the short recovery and stress scale and SJ testing seem to be useful tools for sport scientists and coaches when monitoring high-level weightlifters preparing for competition.
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Singh, Karandeep. "Sikh Terrorism in India 1984-1990: A Time Series Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279217/.
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In recent times, religion has become a powerful force in giving legitimacy to terrorist actions. The present work considers this highly salient fact, as well as stresses the necessity to consider the historical and social contexts and group power resources in any meaningful analysis of violent protest movements. Quantitative rigor is combined with a sensitivity to context. Terrorism is operationalized by taking a time-based count of terrorist killings of innocent people. Regime acts of omission and commission are coded as time series interventions. The analysis also includes a continuous variable measuring the incidence of economic distress in Punjab. A case is also made for the superiority of Box- Jenkins time series techniques for the quantitative analysis of problems of this nature.
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Fox, Sarah. "A case series examination of interaction-focused therapy for aphasia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-case-series-examination-of-interactionfocused-therapy-for-aphasia(c1452d19-7649-4b00-8a2e-da65d81a3bcd).html.
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This study reports the application and outcomes of Conversation Analysis (CA)-motivated interaction-focused therapy for a case series of eight couples managing the impact of aphasia on their conversations. It builds on previously reported interaction-focused therapy case studies (e.g. Lock, Wilkinson, & Bryan, 2001, Wilkinson, Bryan, Lock & Sage, 2010; Wilkinson, Lock, Bryan & Sage, 2011). Therapy was individualised for each couple, based on CA findings, but taking account of language, cognitive and self-reported disability assessments, and the couples' own observations during informal interviews. The participating couples were beyond the spontaneous recovery period for aphasia and presented with different types (e.g. Wernicke's, Broca's, Anomic) and severities of aphasia. Each couple video-recorded at least 80 minutes of baseline conversation at home, over eight recordings of ten minutes or more. Another eighty minutes were recorded immediately post-therapy, and again three months later. Results were evaluated by comparing pre- and post-therapy data, with the maintenance data used to evaluate whether changes were sustained three months after therapy ended. The findings indicated that four couples implemented behavioural changes following interaction-focused therapy. There was no systematic evidence of change in the other four couples' data. Reasons for successful and unsuccessful outcomes are hypothesised, including resistance to changing adaptations that mask aphasic difficulties, despite the loss of communicative effectiveness these adaptations may cause. Preliminary analysis of linguistic and cognitive assessment data has not revealed any patterns that can be related to response to therapy, but more work is warranted to further explore this data. New findings include two interaction-focused therapy targets: 1) eye gaze by people with aphasia to stall/mobilise help with repair from their partners, and 2) facilitating the person with aphasia to gain the floor more regularly by beginning a turn in the partner's turn space. Other new findings are the use of CA to assess aphasic comprehension impairments, the effectiveness of environments of possible occurrence (Schegloff, 1993) as a measure for evaluating success in interaction-focused therapy studies, and benign pedagogics. The study identified some areas for future research, including the development of an interview to elicit attitudes and beliefs about managing aphasia, as these seemed to influence response to therapy. Clinical applications have been suggested in terms of when this form of therapy may be relevant and for whom it might be expected to prove beneficial.
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Alvarez, Jenna M. "School Counselor Preparation to Serve Students with Disabilities." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1541091540369369.
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Fransson, Linda. "Enzyme substrate solvent interactions : a case study on serine hydrolases." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Biokemi, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4867.
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Reaction rates and selectivities were measured for transacylation of fatty acid esters in solvents catalysed by Candida antarctica lipase B and by cutinase from Humicola insolens. With these enzymes classical water-based enzymology can be expanded to many different solvents allowing large variations in interaction energies between the enzymes, the substrates and the surrounding. Further ,hydrolysis reactions catalysed by Bacillus subtilis esterase 2 were investigated. Thermodynamics analyses revealed that the enzyme contribution to reaction rate acceleration compared to acid catalysis was purely entropic. On the other hand, studies of differences in activation entropy and enthalpy between enantiomers and between homologous esters showed that high substrate specificity was favoured by enthalpic stabilisation. Solvent was found to have a profound effect on enzyme catalysis, affecting both reaction rate and selectivity. Differences in substrate solubility will impact enzyme specificity since substrate binding is an equilibrium between enzyme-bound substrate and substrate in free solution. In addition, solven tmolecules were found to act as enzyme inhibitors, showing both competitive and non-competitive behaviour. In several homologous data series enthalpy-entropy compensation relationships were encountered. A possible extrathermodynamic relationship between enthalpy and entropy can easily be lost under co-varying errors propagated from the experiments. From the data in this thesis, one instance was found of a real enthalpy-entropy compensation that could be distinguished from statistical errors, while other examples could not be verified.QC 20100722
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Nilsson, Markus. "A case-based approach for classification of physiological time-series /." Västerås : Mälardalen University, 2004. http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/publications/0718.pdf.
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Niepelt, R. T. "Psycholinguistic speech processing assessment for adults : development and case series." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20387/.
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In educational institutions there are a significant number of young adults with speech, language and literacy problems. Nevertheless, due to a lack of assessment tools, difficulties are often not recognised which in turn limits access to possible supports. The specific objective of this study was to develop a comprehensive speech processing skills assessment battery for native English-speaking adults, taking psycholinguistics into account. The assessment tool consists of subtests that assess auditory discrimination of non-words and non-word repetition, reading and spelling of non-words, and spoonerisms with non- and real words. Normative data from 101 English-speaking adults (age 18-35 years) were collected and analysed in terms of general psychometric properties. Further in depth analyses look at the nature of mistakes and reaction time of participants. Moreover, a case series of participants who stammer (N=6) was conducted to test the speech processing assessment in regards to profiling existing speech difficulties and comparing these profiles to norm data. Results support the establishment of objectivity, validity and reliability of the assessment tool, but also highlight important factors which need to be investigated in more detail. Results concerning the case studies showed individual differences of performances compared to the norm data which can be explained by theoretical knowledge about stammering. Outcomes encourage the usage of the assessment tool for research (e.g. comparison of speech processing profiles in adults with speech disorders) as well as the possibility of further development for clinical and educational settings (e.g. the development of specific disability support). A next step of this programme of work could be to modify the assessment tool based on analysed outcomes. Moreover, deeper investigation of people experiencing speech difficulties could follow to support the profiling of adults with persistent developmental speech difficulties in, for example, higher education.
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Hoover, Alex, Nicholas Fustino, Andrea Olivares Sparks, and Christopher Rokes. "Sweating blood: A case series of 2 siblings with hematohidrosis." Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/655821.
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El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.El texto completo de este trabajo no está disponible en el Repositorio Académico UPC por restricciones de la casa editorial donde ha sido publicado.
Hematohidrosis is a condition that presents with the excretion of blood from intact skin. Reported cases suggest emotional stress reactions as the most common inciting events. The pathogenesis of the condition is not well understood. We describe a 9-year old boy and his 6-month old half-sister with a history of bleeding episodes from the ears, eyes, and scalp, as well as other sites. Symptoms in both children have shown a positive response to propranolol, with decreased frequency and severity of bleeding. There are no prior reports of siblings with hematohidrosis, suggesting a possible genetic predisposition.
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Janse, van Rensburg P. J. "Paediatric cardiac anaesthesia in sickle cell disease : a case series." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13790.
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Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited haematological disorder, producing a mutation of the haemoglobin molecule known as haemoglobin S (HbS). The presence of HbS in the erythrocyte makes it prone to sickling - a process which may lead to vaso-occlusive injury, haemolysis and a hypercoagulable state. Sickling is precipitated by dehydration, hypoxia, hypothermia, acidosis and low flow states. Over time, multi-organ damage develops with significant morbidity and mortality. Paediatric patients with SCD and congenital heart defects may require anaesthesia for corrective cardiac surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). During the perioperative period these high-risk patients may suffer significant complications when exposed to the conditions that favour erythrocyte sickling. This case series details our experience of four paediatric patients with SCD patients who underwent corrective cardiac surgery at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. The pathophysiology is discussed and the perioperative management of transfusion, cardiopulmonary bypass and temperature regulation is highlighted.
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Aubertin, Bruce Lyndon. "Algebraic numbers and harmonic analysis in the p-series case." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30282.
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For the case of compact groups G = Π∞ j=l Z(p)j which are direct products
of countably many copies of a cyclic group of prime order p, links are established between the theories of uniqueness and spectral synthesis on the one hand, and the theory of algebraic numbers on the other, similar to the well-known results of Salem, Meyer et al on the circle.
Let p ≥ 2 be a prime and let k{x⁻¹} denote the p-series field of
formal Laurent series z = Σhj=₋∞ ajxj with coefficients in the field
k = {0, 1,…, p-1} and the integer h arbitrary. Let L(z) = - ∞ if aj = 0 for all j; otherwise let L(z) be the largest index h for which ah ≠ 0. We examine compact sets of the form
[Algebraic equation omitted]
where θ ε k{x⁻¹}, L(θ) > 0, and I is a finite subset of k[x].
If θ is a Pisot or Salem element of k{x⁻¹}, then E(θ,I) is always a set of strong synthesis. In the case that θ is a Pisot element, more can be proved, including a version of Bochner's property leading to a sharper statement of synthesis, provided certain assumptions are made on I (e.g., I ⊃ {0,1,x,...,xL(θ)-1}).
Let G be the compact subgroup of k{x⁻¹} given by G = {z: L(z) < 0}.
Let θ ɛ k{x⁻¹}, L(θ) > 0, and suppose L(θ) > 1 if p = 3 and L(θ) > 2 if p = 2. Let I = {0,1,x,...,x²L(θ)-1}. Then E = θ⁻¹Ε(θ,I) is a perfect subset of G of Haar measure 0, and E is a set of uniqueness
for G precisely when θ is a Pisot or Salem element.
Some byways are explored along the way. The exact analogue of Rajchman's theorem on the circle, concerning the formal multiplication of series, is obtained; this is new, even for p = 2. Other examples are given of perfect sets of uniqueness, of sets satisfying the Herz criterion
for synthesis, and sets of multiplicity, including a class of M-sets of measure 0 defined via Riesz products which are residual in G.
In addition, a class of perfect M₀-sets of measure 0 is introduced
with the purpose of settling a question left open by W.R. Wade and
K. Yoneda, Uniqueness and quasi-measures on the group of integers of a
p-series field, Proc. A.M.S. 84 (1982), 202-206. They showed that if
S is a character series on G with the property that some subsequence
{SpNj} of the pn-th partial sums is everywhere pointwise bounded on G,
then S must be the zero series if SpNj → 0 a.e.. We obtain a strong
complement to this result by establishing that series S on G exist for
which Sn → 0 everywhere outside a perfect set of measure 0, and for
which sup |SpN| becomes unbounded arbitrarily slowly.Science, Faculty of
Mathematics, Department of
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梁桂鏈 and Kwai-lin Leung. "An experiment with turning point forecasts using Hong Kong time seriesdata." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975975.
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Sander, Johanna. "The television series Community and Sitcom : A case study aimed at the genre of contemporary American Sitcom television series." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-15067.
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This thesis is asking whether the television series Community (2009-) can be defined as a Sitcom, combined with a look at how other genres that generally are considered to be non-comic are incorporated in the series and how those are identifiable as well as whether or not they compromise Community’s possible label as a Sitcom. In seeking to define this show’s place in its own genre I found that whilst Community does not follow the archetypal technical conventions of Sitcom, it still does follow some of its setups, tropes and ideas. It does not suffice as a classical Sitcom, but it does lean on some of the genres conventions and has not yet passed over the line where it would be part of a completely different genre. Instead I state that the series fits the term New Comedy, as devised by Antonio Savorelli, not a genre but a term representing the heightened use of metatextuality on four levels in Comedy. Thus Community suffices as a part of an evolved version of the Sitcom genre.
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Khajotia, Burzin. "Cased based reasoning Taylor series model to predict corrosion rate in oil and gas wells and pipelines /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1173828758.
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Yee, Nicole. "Qualitative Assessment of Activated Microglia and Astrocytes in Focal Cortical Dysplasia: Case Series of Pediatric Patients." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623560.
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A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine.Epilepsy is the most common neurologic condition seen in children. Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), a seizure disorder characterized by abnormal cortical laminar development, comprises approximately 75% of medically intractable epilepsies in the pediatric population. A greater appreciation of the pathology and intrinsic properties of the epileptogenic zone may help in understanding why FCD lesions are drug‐resistant, and could potentially lead to more effective treatments in the pediatric population. Neuronal support cells such as microglia and astrocytes have shown to have a role in FCD pathology. These cells are also activated during aging and traumatic brain injury as evidence by morphological change. This study aims to characterize the spatial distribution of microglia and astrocytes using immunohistochemistry in dysplastic tissue of eight male pediatric patients diagnosed with FCD. Cortical specimens from patients who underwent surgical resection of focally dysplastic cortex at Phoenix Children’s Hospital between 2008 and 2014 were examined using immunohistochemistry. Primary antibodies against GFAP and Iba1, as well as structural staining using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), were incubated on sections and further analyzed using bright‐field microscopy. A pattern of perivascular activated microglia was observed in five patients around at least one blood vessel, while a pattern of non‐localized ramified microglia was observed in the other three patients. No identifiable pattern of astrocytic distribution was found. Thus, distinct patterns of microglia, rather than astrocytes, suggest dual underlying mechanisms of epileptogenesis.
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Lughi, Riccardo. "Effetto del Metodo Mulligan in soggetti con cervicalcia cronica: case series." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/19319/.
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Tipologia di studio: Case series.
Background: La cervicalgia è una delle patologie più frequenti a livello globale con un picco di incidenza tra i 35 e 49 anni. Il 10% delle cervicalgie acute tende a cronicizzare. Il Metodo Mulligan propone degli esercizi ideati dall’unione della mobilizzazione passiva attuata dal fisioterapista ad un movimento attivo eseguito dalla persona assistita, al fine di ristabilire una corretta posizione della struttura muscolo scheletrica interessata.
Obiettivo: Valutare l’effetto del Metodo Mulligan sulla funzionalità e dolorabilità nelle persone con cervicalgia cronica.
Materiali e metodi: Sono stati selezionati 4 soggetti (1 F e 3 M) di età media 24±3 con diagnosi di cervicalgia cronica e sono stati sottoposti a 6 sedute incentrate sul Metodo Mulligan in 4 settimane. Alla fine di ogni seduta venivano affidati al soggetto trattato autotrattamenti da svolgere in autonomia al fine di mantenere i risultati ottenuti. I partecipanti sono stati valutati prima dell’inizio dei trattamenti, dopo l’ultimo trattamento e ad un mese dall’ultimo trattamento. Sono state valutate la funzionalità e la dolorabilità cervicale tramite il ROM attivo e passivo, il dolore evocato dalla pressione in direzione posteriore-anteriore fra C2 e T4 tramite Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NRS) e questionari Neck Disability Index (NDI) e Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK).
Risultati: Al termine della valutazione finale, i soggetti hanno evidenziato miglioramenti a livello del ROM cervicale, del dolore evocato dalle apofisi spinose e TSK; solo in due soggetti la scala NRS è rimasta invariata e la scala NDI non ha mostrato variazioni clinicamente rilevanti.
Conclusioni: Nei partecipanti allo studio il Metodo Mulligan ha mostrato un effetto positivo al trattamento della cervicalgia cronica. I dati ottenuti sottolineano un miglioramento di articolarità, qualità di vita e dolorabilità a livello cervicale.
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Zanella, Sara. "Bottom pressure time series study: the ANTARES deep sea observatory case." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12031/.
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Questo elaborato riguarda l'analisi delle variazioni di pressione sul fondale del Mar Mediterraneo. Il primo obiettivo era quello di identificare la variabilità a basse frequenze della pressione sul fondo. I dati osservati sono stati raccolti presso l'osservatorio ANTARES che si trova 40 km al largo di Tolone e ricopre un'area di 180x180 m. Sono state analizzate tre serie temporali, L1, L3, L8, e da esse è stata ricostruita una serie temporale dall'1 gennaio 2009 al 31 dicembre 2013. Sono state applicate delle procedure di despiking, media su 30 minuti e gap-filling.
Sono stati proposti due metodi di detiding, una media su tre giorni e il filtro di Doodson. Successivamente è stato eseguito un detrending. Un confronto tra l'analisi armonica e il filtro di Doodson mostra una similarità nei risultati. Per questa ragione, per continuare il lavoro, è stata utilizzata la serie a cui era stato tolto il trend e le maree tramite il filtro di Doodson. Togliere le maree ha reso possibile la rimozione dei segnali ad alta frequenza per potersi focalizzare sui segnali rimasti a bassa frequenza.
Uno spettro sulla serie ha mostrato i segnali stagionali dominanti insieme alla cosiddetta Chandler wobble con una frequenza di 14 mesi.
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Bost, Xavier. "A storytelling machine ? : automatic video summarization : the case of TV series." Thesis, Avignon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AVIG0216/document.
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Ces dix dernières années, les séries télévisées sont devenues de plus en plus populaires. Par opposition aux séries TV classiques composées d’épisodes autosuffisants d’un point de vue narratif, les séries TV modernes développent des intrigues continues sur des dizaines d’épisodes successifs. Cependant, la continuité narrative des séries TV modernes entre directement en conflit avec les conditions usuelles de visionnage : en raison des technologies modernes de visionnage, les nouvelles saisons des séries TV sont regardées sur de courtes périodes de temps. Par conséquent, les spectateurs sur le point de visionner de nouvelles saisons sont largement désengagés de l’intrigue, à la fois d’un point de vue cognitif et affectif. Une telle situation fournit au résumé de vidéos des scénarios d’utilisation remarquablement réalistes, que nous détaillons dans le Chapitre 1. De plus, le résumé automatique de films, longtemps limité à la génération de bande-annonces à partir de descripteurs de bas niveau, trouve dans les séries TV une occasion inédite d’aborder dans des conditions bien définies ce qu’on appelle le fossé sémantique : le résumé de médias narratifs exige des approches orientées contenu, capables de jeter un pont entre des descripteurs de bas niveau et le niveau humain de compréhension. Nous passons en revue dans le Chapitre 2 les deux principales approches adoptées jusqu’ici pour aborder le problème du résumé automatique de films de fiction. Le Chapitre 3 est consacré aux différentes sous-tâches requises pour construire les représentations intermédiaires sur lesquelles repose notre système de génération de résumés : la Section 3.2 se concentre sur la segmentation de vidéos,tandis que le reste du chapitre est consacré à l’extraction de descripteurs de niveau intermédiaire,soit orientés saillance (échelle des plans, musique de fond), soit en relation avec le contenu (locuteurs). Dans le Chapitre 4, nous utilisons l’analyse des réseaux sociaux comme une manière possible de modéliser l’intrigue des séries TV modernes : la dynamique narrative peut être adéquatement capturée par l’évolution dans le temps du réseau des personnages en interaction. Cependant, nous devons faire face ici au caractère séquentiel de la narration lorsque nous prenons des vues instantanées de l’état des relations entre personnages. Nous montrons que les approches classiques par fenêtrage temporel ne peuvent pas traiter convenablement ce cas, et nous détaillons notre propre méthode pour extraire des réseaux sociaux dynamiques dans les médias narratifs.Le Chapitre 5 est consacré à la génération finale de résumés orientés personnages,capables à la fois de refléter la dynamique de l’intrigue et de ré-engager émotionnellement les spectateurs dans la narration. Nous évaluons notre système en menant à une large échelle et dans des conditions réalistes une enquête auprès d’utilisateursThese past ten years, TV series became increasingly popular. In contrast to classicalTV series consisting of narratively self-sufficient episodes, modern TV seriesdevelop continuous plots over dozens of successive episodes. However, thenarrative continuity of modern TV series directly conflicts with the usual viewing conditions:due to modern viewing technologies, the new seasons of TV series are beingwatched over short periods of time. As a result, viewers are largely disengaged fromthe plot, both cognitively and emotionally, when about to watch new seasons. Sucha situation provides video summarization with remarkably realistic use-case scenarios,that we detail in Chapter 1. Furthermore, automatic movie summarization, longrestricted to trailer generation based on low-level features, finds with TV series a unprecedentedopportunity to address in well-defined conditions the so-called semanticgap: summarization of narrative media requires content-oriented approaches capableto bridge the gap between low-level features and human understanding. We review inChapter 2 the two main approaches adopted so far to address automatic movie summarization.Chapter 3 is dedicated to the various subtasks needed to build the intermediaryrepresentations on which our summarization framework relies: Section 3.2focuses on video segmentation, whereas the rest of Chapter 3 is dedicated to the extractionof different mid-level features, either saliency-oriented (shot size, backgroundmusic), or content-related (speakers). In Chapter 4, we make use of social network analysisas a possible way to model the plot of modern TV series: the narrative dynamicscan be properly captured by the evolution over time of the social network of interactingcharacters. Nonetheless, we have to address here the sequential nature of thenarrative when taking instantaneous views of the state of the relationships between thecharacters. We show that standard time-windowing approaches can not properly handlethis case, and we detail our own method for extracting dynamic social networksfrom narrative media. Chapter 5 is dedicated to the final generation and evaluation ofcharacter-oriented summaries, both able to reflect the plot dynamics and to emotionallyre-engage viewers into the narrative. We evaluate our framework by performing alarge-scale user study in realistic conditions
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Frazier, Elisabeth Anne. "Multinutrient Supplement as Treatment for Severe Mood Dysregulation: A Case Series." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338328658.
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Lendrum, James. "The Mild Cognitive Impairment of Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Case Series." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626862.
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Chung, Sam-man. "Causes and effects of U.S. military expenditures (time-series models and applications) /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9713213.
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Bauer, André [Verfasser], and Samuel [Gutachter] Kounev. "Automated Hybrid Time Series Forecasting: Design, Benchmarking, and Use Cases / André Bauer ; Gutachter: Samuel Kounev." Würzburg : Universität Würzburg, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1225684927/34.
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Poletti, Paola. "Non facciamone (solo) un drama: proposta di adattamento per il doppiaggio di due episodi della serie I May Destroy You." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.
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Nonostante la rivoluzione digitale e i cambiamenti da essa causati all’industria dell’intrattenimento e alle abitudini di visione degli spettatori, il doppiaggio resta saldamente la modalità di traduzione audiovisiva di più ampio utilizzo in Italia. Oggetto di questo elaborato è l’analisi del copione di una proposta di adattamento per il doppiaggio della serie TV britannico-statunitense I May Destroy You (BBC/HBO, 2020). Come contesto vengono fornite una panoramica dell’ambiente mediale e della sua influenza su teoria e pratica della traduzione audiovisiva, nonché un’introduzione all’industria italiana del doppiaggio, alla sua storia e alle sue problematiche. L’analisi coinvolge sia il processo di traduzione, sia il testo target, e mette sotto la lente le sfide poste dall’adattamento e le soluzioni trovate per superarle. Alla radice delle problematiche traduttive segnalate vi è la natura complessa e multi-semiotica del mezzo audiovisivo, e i vincoli che questa impone al traduttore, che si intreccia a questioni riguardanti caratteristiche linguistico-culturali come slang, oralità simulata e riferimenti culturo-specifici.
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Hiragi, Shusuke. "Acetaminophen administration and the risk of acute kidney injury: a self-controlled case series study." Kyoto University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/259708.
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Hawken, Steven. "Methodological Approaches to Studying Risk Factors for Adverse Events Following Routine Vaccinations in the General Population and Vulnerable Subgroups of Individuals Using Health Administrative Data." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31774.
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Objectives: This thesis included 6 manuscripts which focused on the analysis of adverse events following immunization (AEFIs), including general health services utilization (emergency room (ER) visits and hospital admissions) and specific diagnoses (e.g. febrile convulsions). The main objectives of this research were: 1) To demonstrate the utility of the self-controlled case series (SCCS) design coupled with health administrative data for studying the safety of vaccines; 2) Introducing an innovative approach using relative incidence ratios (RIRs) within an SCCS analysis to identify risk factors for AEFIs and to overcome the healthy vaccinee bias; and 3) To demonstrate how SCCS and RIR analyses of health services outcomes in health administrative data can provide important insights into underlying physiological and behavioural mechanisms.
Data Sources: This work utilized Ontario health administrative data housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). The study included all children born in Ontario, Canada between 2002 and 2011 (over 1 million children). Vaccinations were identified using OHIP fee for service billing codes for general vaccination. Admissions and ER visits for any reason were identified in the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS). Primary reasons for admissions and ER visits were investigated using ICD-10-CA codes reported in the DAD and NACRS databases.
Statistical Methods: The self-controlled case series design (SCCS) was used to calculate the relative incidence of admissions, ER visits and other AEFIs. To investigate relative incidence for AEFIs across risk groups of interest, as well as addressing the healthy vaccinee effect bias, RIRs were calculated. RIRs are the ratio of incidence ratios in a subgroup of interest relative to a designated reference group.
Results and Conclusions: The combined approach of using the SCCS design and RIRs to identify risk factors and overcome the healthy vaccinee bias proved to be a powerful approach to studying vaccine safety. Future work will be important to characterize the performance and validity of the SCCS + RIR approach in the presence of increasing levels of confounding and differing manifestations of the healthy vaccinee bias, as well as to elucidate the biological and behavioural mechanisms underlying our findings.
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Bevan, Denise. "A preliminary study of metacognitive therapy for postnatal depression : a case series." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525170.
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Robertson, A. "Anger in women with developmental disabilities : cognitive behavioural therapy : a case series." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.661223.
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There is very little literature on the nature of anger in clinical populations of women, and little by way of individual anger treatment in people with a developmental disability. There has been considerable criticism of the assumptions made within forensic services that women can be treated in the same ways as men. The purpose of this study was twofold: firstly, it explored the nature of women’s anger in a small sample (n=27) with a developmental disability in a hospital forensic service, and compared them with men in a study based in the same setting; secondly, it evaluated treatment outcome for those meeting inclusion criteria for an eighteen session individual treatment programme. The design of the outcome study (n=9) was a multiple baseline study with participants acting as their own controls. Some qualitative material is presented in relation to three case studies in order to illustrate process and because this has been a consistent recommendation regarding research into women in forensic services. Results showed that there were virtually no differences in self reported or staff reported anger, but more women had assaulted than men during their admission. Results also showed that the majority of women improved post treatment and through follow up. It was concluded that women in this service experienced similar anger to the men and could benefit from the same cognitive behavioural treatment programme.
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Coulter, Kiera Midori, and Kiera Midori Coulter. "Mental Health and Resilience in Youth of Deported Parents: A Case Series." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621170.
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Background: The United States has pursued stricter immigration enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border, resulting in the deportation of approximately 2 million individuals over the past decade. This is significant in that deported persons are often caregivers of children, who are then placed at an elevated for developing mental health disorders (e.g. anxiety and depression). Mental health in youth of deported parents is a new topic to academic literature, and this study specifically examines mental health, coping strategies, and resilience in five adolescents of deported parents in Tucson, Arizona. Methods: This study employed mixed-methods, where participants completed two self-report surveys (the DASS-21 and brief COPE inventory) and a semi-structured interview with the researcher. Participant's survey responses and interviews were analyzed to assess their symptomology of depression, anxiety, and stress, exhibition of maladaptive and adaptive coping behaviors, and the factors that influence their resilience post-deportation. Results: The results of the DASS-21 found that participants experience symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress, but in varying degrees. The data from the brief COPE inventory suggested that participants mostly refrained from maladaptive coping behaviors (e.g. substance use), but were not drawing from critical adaptive coping strategies like getting emotional support. The interviews revealed that certain risk factors (poverty, living instability, rapid transition to adulthood, and poor academic performance) and promotive factors (family networks, school, group activities, and future orientation) moderate their resilience following deportation. The qualitative data also revealed that participants desire and are not connected to mental health services. Conclusions: The study suggests that youth of deported parents are able to be resilient and avoid negative coping behaviors when experiencing the trauma of familial separation. However, given mild-extremely severe symptomology of depression, anxiety, and stress of participants, it was notable that none of the participants mentioned being connected to or seeking mental health services. Thus, this study's result underscore the need for a comprehensive school-based health system where mental health assistance can be provided on-site.
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Palejwala, Sheri K., Jesse Skoch, and G. Michael Lemole. "Removal of symptomatic craniofacial titanium hardware following craniotomy: Case series and review." Elsevier, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621246.
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UA Open Access Publishing FundTitanium craniofacial hardware has become commonplace for reconstruction and bone flap fixation following craniotomy. Complications of titanium hardware include palpability, visibility, infection, exposure, pain, and hardware malfunction, which can necessitate hardware removal. We describe three patients who underwent craniofacial reconstruction following craniotomies for trauma with post-operative courses complicated by medically intractable facial pain. All three patients subsequently underwent removal of the symptomatic craniofacial titanium hardware and experienced rapid resolution of their painful parasthesias. Symptomatic plates were found in the region of the frontozygomatic suture or MacCarty keyhole, or in close proximity with the supraorbital nerve. Titanium plates, though relatively safe and low profile, can cause local nerve irritation or neuropathy. Surgeons should be cognizant of the potential complications of titanium craniofacial hardware and locations that are at higher risk for becoming symptomatic necessitating a second surgery for removal.
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O'Shea, Martin. "A series of case studies to enhance the social utility of RSS." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2016. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/276/.
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RSS (really simple syndication, rich site summary or RDF site summary) is a dialect of XML that provides a method of syndicating on-line content, where postings consist of frequently updated news items, blog entries and multimedia. RSS feeds, produced by organisations or individuals, are often aggregated, and delivered to users for consumption via readers. The semi-structured format of RSS also allows the delivery/exchange of machine-readable content between different platforms and systems. Articles on web pages frequently include icons that represent social media services which facilitate social data. Amongst these, RSS feeds deliver data which is typically presented in the journalistic style of headline, story and snapshot(s). Consequently, applications and academic research have employed RSS on this basis. Therefore, within the context of social media, the question arises: can the social function, i.e. utility, of RSS be enhanced by producing from it data which is actionable and effective? This thesis is based upon the hypothesis that the fluctuations in the keyword frequencies present in RSS can be mined to produce actionable and effective data, to enhance the technology's social utility. To this end, we present a series of laboratory-based case studies which demonstrate two novel and logically consistent RSS-mining paradigms. Our first paradigm allows users to define mining rules to mine data from feeds. The second paradigm employs a semi-automated classification of feeds and correlates this with sentiment. We visualise the outputs produced by the case studies for these paradigms, where they can benefit users in real-world scenarios, varying from statistics and trend analysis to mining financial and sporting data. The contributions of this thesis to web engineering and text mining are the demonstration of the proof of concept of our paradigms, through the integration of an array of open-source, third-party products into a coherent and innovative, alpha-version prototype software implemented in a Java JSP/servlet-based web application architecture.
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Andersson, Melanie. "Multi-Class Imbalanced Learning for Time Series Problem : An Industrial Case Study." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för systemteknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412799.
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Classification problems with multiple classes and imbalanced sample sizes present a new challenge than the binary classification problems. Methods have been proposed to handle imbalanced learning, however most of them are specifically designed for binary classification problems. Multi-class imbalance imposes additional challenges when applied to time series classification problems, such as weather classification. In this thesis, we introduce, apply and evaluate a new algorithm for handling multi-class imbalanced problems involving time series data. Our proposed algorithm is designed to handle both multi-class imbalance and time series classification problems and is inspired by the Imbalanced Fuzzy-Rough Ordered Weighted Average Nearest Neighbor Classification algorithm. The feasibility of our proposed algorithm is studied through an empirical evaluation performed on a telecom use-case at Ericsson, Sweden where data from commercial microwave links is used for weather classification. Our proposed algorithm is compared to the currently used model at Ericsson which is a one-dimensional convolutional neural network, as well as three other deep learning models. The empirical evaluation indicates that the performance of our proposed algorithm for weather classification is comparable to that of the current solution. Our proposed algorithm and the current solution are the two best performing models of the study.
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Jordaan, Pieter Willem. "Surface replacement of proximal interphalangeal joint (SR-PIPJ) arthroplasty - A case series." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20858.
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Surface replacement (SR) proximal interphalangeal joint replacement consists of a cobalt-chrome alloy component articulating with an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene component. After experiencing a high rate of subsidence and complications with a pyrocarbon implant, our unit has changed to the cemented SR system in the hope of decreasing these complications. The main aim of this study was to determine whether this change in practice has led to a decrease in subsidence and complications. A retrospective chart review was performed including 43 joints in 28 patients. Subsidence was noted in 26% of the joints and complications in 31% of the joints. Even though subsidence remains a problem, the change in implant has led to a decrease in subsidence and other complications.
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Vera, Barberán José María. "Adding external factors in Time Series Forecasting : Case study: Ethereum price forecasting." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-289187.
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The main thrust of time-series forecasting models in recent years has gone in the direction of pattern-based learning, in which the input variable for the models is a vector of past observations of the variable itself to predict. The most used models based on this traditional pattern-based approach are the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) and long short-term memory neural networks (LSTM). The main drawback of the mentioned approaches is their inability to react when the underlying relationships in the data change resulting in a degrading predictive performance of the models. In order to solve this problem, various studies seek to incorporate external factors into the models treating the system as a black box using a machine learning approach which generates complex models that require a large amount of data for their training and have little interpretability. In this thesis, three different algorithms have been proposed to incorporate additional external factors into these pattern-based models, obtaining a good balance between forecast accuracy and model interpretability. After applying these algorithms in a study case of Ethereum price time-series forecasting, it is shown that the prediction error can be efficiently reduced by taking into account these influential external factors compared to traditional approaches while maintaining full interpretability of the model.Huvudinstrumentet för prognosmodeller för tidsserier de senaste åren har gått i riktning mot mönsterbaserat lärande, där ingångsvariablerna för modellerna är en vektor av tidigare observationer för variabeln som ska förutsägas. De mest använda modellerna baserade på detta traditionella mönsterbaserade tillvägagångssätt är auto-regressiv integrerad rörlig genomsnittsmodell (ARIMA) och långa kortvariga neurala nätverk (LSTM). Den huvudsakliga nackdelen med de nämnda tillvägagångssätten är att de inte kan reagera när de underliggande förhållandena i data förändras vilket resulterar i en försämrad prediktiv prestanda för modellerna. För att lösa detta problem försöker olika studier integrera externa faktorer i modellerna som behandlar systemet som en svart låda med en maskininlärningsmetod som genererar komplexa modeller som kräver en stor mängd data för deras inlärning och har liten förklarande kapacitet. I denna uppsatsen har tre olika algoritmer föreslagits för att införliva ytterligare externa faktorer i dessa mönsterbaserade modeller, vilket ger en bra balans mellan prognosnoggrannhet och modelltolkbarhet. Efter att ha använt dessa algoritmer i ett studiefall av prognoser för Ethereums pristidsserier, visas det att förutsägelsefelet effektivt kan minskas genom att ta hänsyn till dessa inflytelserika externa faktorer jämfört med traditionella tillvägagångssätt med bibehållen full tolkbarhet av modellen.
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Garley, Ailyn. "A case series to pilot cognitive behaviour therapy for female urinary incontinence." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422963.
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Roche, Lauren. "Acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome : a case series approach." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2016. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/24006/.
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Background: Acceptance is understood to be an important element in coping with chronic illnesses, linked to positive outcomes such as reduced symptoms and greater quality of life. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a disabling syndrome that is associated with a poor reported quality of life even in comparison to other chronic conditions. Given that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a psychotherapeutic model aimed at increasing psychological flexibility, with an emphasis on experiential acceptance and the pursuit of values, this approach holds potential for living and coping with CFS. Methods: This study used a mixed method multiple single case design to explore the effects of a six week self-help ACT intervention with six participants with CFS. Results: Significant increases in ‘engaged response style’ was replicated in four out of six participants and maintained at follow up, with the qualitative data adding further validity to the importance of the values component of the intervention. Low initial acceptance scores improved in four participants but were not maintained. Overall measures of psychological flexibility indicated improvements maintained at follow up for three participants. All participants wearing the activity monitor showed increased physical activity post-intervention, three of which maintained this at follow up. Five participants reported less symptoms and disability, which was maintained for three participants. The implicit measure indicated that underlying beliefs remained stable. Conclusion: This study was largely exploratory but it seems that this intervention might be of benefit to some individuals with CFS, particularly in the promotion and pursuit of individual values. This study adds support to the role of acceptance in CFS however in this format at least it seems that any benefits from the intervention are difficult to maintain. Although improvements in overall psychological flexibility were replicated in three out of six participants, this prompts discussion about the ineffectiveness of the intervention for other participants.
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Saerri, Guglielmo. "The Brexit : a case of financial contagion?" Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18042.
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Mestrado em FinançasO objetivo do trabalho é entender se o Brexit pode ser visto como um choque capaz de provocar contágio financeiro nos mercados bolsistas europeus. O contágio financeiro é definido como um aumento significativo nas correlações cross-market e nas volatilidades após um choque. Para testar a hipótese de contágio procedeu-se com a estimação das correlações e dos DP condicionais por meio de um modelo VAR-MGARCH: obteve-se evidência empírica de que o Brexit causou contágio financeiro.
The objective of this work is to understand if the Brexit can be considered as a shock capable of causing financial contagion in the European stock markets. Financial contagion is defined as a significant increase in cross-market correlations and volatilities after a shock. To test the hypothesis of contagion I estimated the conditional correlations and standard deviations through a VAR-MGARCH model: I got empirical evidence of financial contagion caused by the Brexit.
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Clark, Leisa Anne. "Butterbeer, Cauldron Cakes, and Fizzing Whizzbees: Food in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4012.
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ABSTRACTThis thesis situates the Harry Potter books into the greater body of food studies and into the extant children's literary tradition through an examination of how food can be used to understand cultural identity. Food is a biological need, but because we have created social rules and rituals around food consumption and sharing, there is more to eating than simple nutritional value. The Harry Potter series is as much about overcoming childhood adversity, and good versus evil, as it is about magic, and food in the Harry Potter series is both abundant and relevant to the narrative, context, and themes of the books. Sweets such as candy, puddings, and cakes, help construct both wizard and Muggle identity in addition to serving as a bridge between readers and characters. How the characters use sweets to create and reinforce friendships or exclude those who do not belong is important, especially since children usually lack other cultural capital and, in their worlds, food is reward, treat, and punishment. Examples of this are shown in the scene where Harry first travels on the Hogwarts Express, in the ways the Dursleys deny Harry birthday celebrations, and in how holidays are celebrated by the witches and wizards in the series.The sharing of food in the novels builds tensions, creates bonds, and codes different characters as "acceptable" or "unacceptable" based on their willingness, or refusal, to share food. Teatime and feasting are examples of how food is shared by analogous and disparate groups of people in the series. Tea is served most often by those in subordinate positions of power, but is one way in which the characters can socialize and create community. Feasts at the beginning and end of the school term bookmark the year by immersing students and faculty into a shared world at first, and then by sending them back to their families, aware of their own triumphs and accomplishments. When feasts are used to unite outside groups, such as before the Triwizard Tournament, the ways that different foods are embraced or rejected serve to reinforce identity and inclusion.Using cultural studies methods in conjunction with food studies and Reader-Response critical theory, this thesis argues that food in the Harry Potter series represents the socially constructed identities of the characters within the texts, and also serves to bridge the gap between the readers and the characters.
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Joo, Seang-Hwane. "Robustness of the Within- and Between-Series Estimators to Non-Normal Multiple-Baseline Studies: A Monte Carlo Study." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6715.
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In single-case research, multiple-baseline (MB) design is the most widely used design in practical settings. It provides the opportunity to estimate the treatment effect based on not only within-series comparisons of treatment phase to baseline phase observations, but also time-specific between-series comparisons of observations from those that have started treatment to those that are still in the baseline. In MB studies, the average treatment effect and the variation of these effects across multiple participants can be estimated using various statistical modeling methods. Recently, two types of statistical modeling methods were proposed for analyzing MB studies: a) within-series model and b) between-series model. The within-series model is a typical two-level multilevel modeling approach analyzing the measurement occasions within a participant, whereas the between-series model is an alternative modeling approach analyzing participants’ measurement occasions at certain time points, where some participants are in the baseline phase and others are in the treatment phase. Parameters of both within- and between-series models are generally estimated with restricted maximum likelihood (ReML) estimation and ReML is developed based on the assumption of normality (Hox, et al., 2010; Raudenbush & Bryk, 2002). However, in practical educational and psychological settings, observed data may not be easily assumed to be normal. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the robustness of analyzing MB studies with the within- and between-series models when level-1 errors are non-normal. A Monte Carlo study was conducted under the conditions where level-1 errors were generated from non-normal distributions in which skewness and kurtosis of the distribution were manipulated. Four statistical approaches were considered for comparison based on theoretical and/or empirical rationales. The approaches were defined by the crossing of two analytic decisions: a) whether to use a within- or between-series estimate of effect and b) whether to use REML estimation with Kenward-Roger adjustment for inferences or Bayesian estimation and inference. The accuracy of parameter estimation and statistical power and Type I error were systematically analyzed. The results of the study showed the within- and between-series models are robust to the non-normality of the level-1 error variance. Both within- and between-series models estimated the treatment effect accurately and statistical inferences were acceptable. ReML and Bayesian estimations also showed similar results in the current study. Applications and implications for applied and methodology researchers are discussed based on the findings of the study.