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Hodgkin, Julie. "Provision of intelligent user support in decision support systems." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366908.
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Iachini, Aidyn Lorraine. "Factors Influencing the Provision of Autonomy-Support." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1218218875.
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Watts, Samuel. "Cultural factors in the provision of psychological support." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.657996.
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Section one of this thesis considers the impact of culture on the therapeutic relationship. A metasynthesis of client experiences of cross cultural therapy is presented, which generated three themes. The first recognises the assumption of difference in a cross-cultural therapeutic relationship and the assumption that lived experience is qualitatively different from what can be learned by a therapist. The second elaborates the processes by which clients bridge this assumed divide in order to get benefit from therapy, including divorcing problems from the context of their culture. The third explores the emergence of the known variables of therapeutic relationship in this context. Clinical implications and the importance of recognising individual context in therapy is discussed. Section two of this thesis reports an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of six Islamic scholars in supporting members of the community. Four themes were derived from this analysis 'Building a personal relationship with the ultimate authority'; 'Treating the whole person'; 'God's Medicine'; and 'Duty bound to help'. The implications of these themes for the process of supporting people of Muslim faith are considered and the development of closer relationships with other support providers discussed. The third section of this thesis critically reviews and reflects upon the above research and explores the use of qualitative research as a cultural outsider and the process of developing and carrying out cross cultural research including reflections on the specific process of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in this research context.
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Simmonds, Lesley Anne. "Matching provision to needs : the example of victim support." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/418.
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The current study is an evaluation of a voluntary sector service, Victim Support. The focal points of this work are the impact of crime upon victims and the extent to which they feel that Victim Support, as a service provider, has helped to restore their sense of equilibrium. In this way the success of a community response to crime is considered. The research was undertaken between 1998 and 2002 and was largely based upon the work of one local scheme; Victim Support, Plymouth. The study included the views of service users (victims of crime) and those of service providers (paid staff and volunteers). In contrast to earlier studies, my work looks at Victim Support at a much later date in its history, at a time when service provision has become increasingly professionalised and standardised. Furthermore my work examined Victim Support at a time when it is being charged, fairly overtly, with responsibilities alongside other voluntary and state agencies for the governance of crime. At the same time Victim Support is under pressure to provide a service that IS 'community' In nature, whilst meeting the stricter economic imperatives of managerialism. Previous studies do not appear to have considered the value of all types of service provision that Victim Support makes, nor have they directly included victims who, though quite badly affected, were not typically offered assistance. More recent studies of Victim Support have also been undertaken more as a by product of national victim surveys, with only vague references to the contact made with victims, and within which support is offered/provided. The work that I have undertaken seeks to address these gaps in knowledge, making a clear link between the needs of crime victims and the organisational response of Victim Support at the local level.
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Costelloe, Ailbhe. "An exploration of bereavement support provision in primary schools." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10055540/.
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Child bereavement is associated with a range of negative psychological, academic and long-term outcomes (Parsons, 2011). Many authors argue that schools are well positioned to provide support to bereaved children following their experience of a loss (e.g. Abdelnoor & Hollins, 2004). However, there is little empirical evidence to support this position as there is a significant gap in research exploring Bereavement Support Provision (BSP) in schools. This research adopts a mixed-methods design to explore BSP in primary schools and school staff’s understanding of children’s grief. Participants were primary school staff across 14 primary schools in one London Local Authority. Phase 1 (n=260) consisted of a questionnaire which aimed to examine current BSP practices in schools and understanding of children’s grief. Phase 2 (n=16) consisted of semi-structured interviews that were used to explore perspectives of school staff on their experience of supporting a bereaved child. The findings highlighted that there is no systematic procedure for identifying a bereavement within the school system. BSP is characterised by social and emotional support and other indirect responses, such as a referral to external agencies. Several individual and systemic factors influenced BSP, such as developmental needs, relationships, personal experiences, internal and external communication and support from external agencies. Providing support to a bereaved child had a negative impact on the emotional well-being of staff, which was exacerbated by a lack of systemic support. Support for staff, such as training in bereavement and loss, is needed. Qualitative data revealed that staff have an informed understanding of children’s grief, with personal experience of loss enhancing this understanding. In contrast, exploratory quantitative analysis indicated that training, supporting a child bereaved of a sibling and responding to a child’s loss by a referral to external agencies are significantly associated with understanding children’s grief. The implications these findings have for Educational Psychologists are discussed.
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Hughes, Ian M. "The "Who", "When", and "How" of Workplace Support Provision: An Exploration of Workplace Support Provision Likelihood and Citizenship Fatigue Assessing Individual and Contextual Factors." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617284832734291.
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Demirci, Mehmet. "Facilitating the provision of auxiliary support services for overlay networks." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49089.
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Network virtualization and overlay networks have emerged as powerful tools for improving the flexibility of the Internet. Overlays are used to provide a wide range of useful services in today's networking environment, and they are also viewed as important building blocks for an agile and evolvable future Internet. Regardless of the specific service it provides, an overlay needs assistance in several areas in order to perform properly throughout its existence.
This dissertation focuses on the mechanisms underlying the provision of auxiliary support services that perform control and management functions for overlays, such as overlay assignment, resource allocation, overlay monitoring and diagnosis. The priorities and objectives in the design of such mechanisms depend on network conditions and the virtualization environment. We identify opportunities for improvements that can help provide auxiliary services more effectively at different overlay life stages and under varying assumptions.
The contributions of this dissertation are the following:
1. An overlay assignment algorithm designed to improve an overlay's diagnosability, which is defined as its property to allow accurate and low-cost fault diagnosis. The main idea is to increase meaningful sharing between overlay links in a controlled manner in order to help localize faults correctly with less effort.
2. A novel definition of bandwidth allocation fairness in the presence of multiple resource sharing overlays, and a routing optimization technique to improve fairness and the satisfaction of overlays. Evaluation analyzes the characteristics of different fair allocation algorithms, and suggests that eliminating bottlenecks via custom routing can be an effective way to improve fairness.
3. An optimization solution to minimize the total cost of monitoring an overlay by determining the optimal mix of overlay and native links to monitor, and an analysis of the effect of topological properties on monitoring cost and the composition of the optimal mix of monitored links. We call our approach multi-layer monitoring and show that it is a flexible approach producing minimal-cost solutions with low errors.
4. A study of virtual network embedding in software defined networks (SDNs), identifying the challenges and opportunities for embedding in the SDN environment, and presenting two VN embedding techniques and their evaluation. One objective is to balance the stress on substrate components, and the other is to minimize the delays between VN controllers and switches. Each technique optimizes embedding for one objective while keeping the other within bounds.
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Skene, James William. "Language support for service-level agreements for application-service provision." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5607/.
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My thesis is that practical language support can be provided for Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) for Application-Service Provision (ASP), which is better than that provided by pre-existing languages in that: it provides greater assistance in expressing conditions that mitigate the risks inherent in ASP; and disputes related to agreements expressed in this manner may be more easily resolved in so as to respect the original intent of the parties. I support this thesis by establishing requirements for SLAs for ASP based on an account of a typical ASP infrastructure and business model. These identify the particular risks inherent in ASP, permit comparisons between ASP SLA languages, and guide the development of an abstract, extensible, domain-specific language, SLAng. SLAng is defined using a meta-modelling approach that allows a high degree of precision in the specification of its semantics, traceability from SLA to language specification, and the testing of the language and SLAs to ensure they capture the original intent of the parties. SLAng supports the expression of mutually-monitorable SLAs, for which the determination of compliance depends only on events visible to both client and provider of the service. I demonstrate that such SLAs are the most monitorable possible in a typical ASP scenario, given current monitoring technology, and describe an approximately-monitorable constraint on the accuracy of evidence used to administer such SLAs. SLAng is shown to be of practical use in a case study, evaluated against the original requirements, and compared with pre-existing languages. The evaluation of SLAng is enhanced using metrics developed to assist in assessing the contribution of a domain-specific language specification to encoding the meaning of statements in that language.
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Outcalt, Samantha D. "Support provision to sexual assault survivors in hospital emergency departments /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594493661&sid=20&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Dorio, Jay M. "The provision of spousal support : antecedents, consequences, and crossover effects." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002809.
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Dorio, Jay M. "The Provision of Spousal Support: Antecedents, Consequences, and Crossover Effects." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1938.
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The present study had four main objectives. First, the relationship between the provision of spousal support and its theoretical antecedents and consequences was assessed as informed by the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989). Second, the crossover of physicians' work interference with family conflict on their spouses' family demands (perceived family demands and family hours) was investigated. Next, the mediating role of social support as an explanation for the crossover process was examined using two distinct pathways. Lastly, the fourth objective of the present study was to investigate the relationships described above across multiple time points and using dual-source data (from physicians and their spouses). The final sample included matched responses from 126 couples across two time points. Results were generally supportive of the relationship between the provision of spousal support and the receipt of spousal support, perceived family demands, family hours, and work interference with family conflict (WIF) and were consistent with expected relationships according to COR theory. Results also provided support for the synchronous crossover of WIF on perceived family demands; however, results were generally unsupportive of the mediating role of the provision of spousal support in the crossover process. The present study makes several important contributions to the social support, work-family conflict, and crossover literatures by adding to the knowledge of the antecedents and consequences of the provision of spousal support, the growing body of research examining the crossover of WIF, and the understanding of the mediating role of the provision of spousal support in the crossover process. Major findings and areas of opportunity for future research are discussed.
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Trobst, Krista Kornelia. "Determinants of support provision : interaction of provider and recipient factors." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31150.
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Little research has examined the determinants of support provision. This study assessed the importance of provider empathy, provider gender, recipient gender, and recipient expressed distress in influencing supportiveness. The study made use of a 2 X 2 (gender of coper by distress of coper) between subjects design, with level of empathy and gender of subject as internal factors. Eighty-one male and 84 female undergraduates completed a measure of dispositional empathy and watched a videotape of a high or low emotion, male or female coper. Respondents then indicated via questionnaire responses, their reactions to the coper and the amounts and kinds of support they would be willing to provide. Subjects were then asked to volunteer to act as a peer counselor to the coper. As predicted, results indicated a positive association between supportiveness and empathy. Also consistent with predictions, greater supportiveness was evidenced among women than among men, and a significant portion of this tendency was attributable to gender differences in empathy. In general, no differences were found in supportiveness as a function of the gender of the coper. Last, high distress copers were liked more, and were perceived as needing more support than low distress copers. In turn, participants indicated a greater willingness to provide support to high emotion copers.Arts, Faculty of
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Manohar, Uttara. "Effective Support Provision for Coping with Everyday Racial Discrimination: An Assessment of Emotional Support and Social Identity Affirmation Support." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440087611.
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Hosley, Cheryl A. "Social support in parent-adolescent relationships : variation in support provision and the impact of support on adolescent psychological health /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488192960166935.
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Sugar, Lorne A. "Lending a helping hand social support provision from an interactionist perspective /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ66366.pdf.
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Stamoulos, Marios Nikolaos. "Provision of better VLE learner support with a Question Answering System." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2016. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6818/.
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The focus of this research is based on the provision of user support to students using electronic means of communication to aid their learning. Digital age brought anytime anywhere access of learning resources to students. Most academic institutions and also companies use Virtual Learning Environments to provide their learners with learning material. All learners using the VLE have access to the same material and help despite their existing knowledge and interests. This work uses the information in the learning materials of Virtual Learning Environments to answer questions and provide student help by a Question Answering System. The aim of this investigation is to research if a satisfactory combination of Question Answering, Information Retrieval and Automatic Summarisation techniques within a VLE will help/support the student better than existing systems (full text search engines).
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Hassell, Rhett Colin. "Corrosion of rock reinforcement in underground excavations." Curtin University of Technology, Western Australian School of Mines, Dept. of Mining Engineering and Surveying, 2008. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=17986.
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The effect of corrosion on the performance of rock support and reinforcement in Australian underground mines has not been widely researched and is generally not well understood. This is despite the number of safety concerns and operational difficulties created by corrosion in reducing the capacity and life expectancy of ground support. This thesis aims to investigate corrosion and relate how the environmental conditions in Australian underground hard rock mines impact on the service life of rock support and primarily rock reinforcement. Environmental characterisation of underground environments was completed at a number of mine sites located across Australia. This provided an improved understanding of the environmental conditions in Australian underground hard rock mines. Long-term testing on the impact of corrosion on the load bearing capacity of reinforcement and support under controlled experimental conditions was conducted in simulated underground environments. Rock reinforcement elements were examined in-situ by means of overcoring of the installed reinforcement and surrounding rock mass. Laboratory testing of the core determined changes in load transfer properties due to corrosion damage. These investigations provided an excellent understanding of the corrosion processes and mechanisms at work. Corrosion rates for a range of underground environments were established through the direct exposure and evaluation of metallic coupons in underground in-situ and simulated environments.It was found that the study of corrosion is challenging due to the time required to gather meaningful data. In particular, the wide range of materials that comprise ground support systems means that it is impossible to examine all the possible combinations of variables and their potential influence on the observed levels of corrosion and measured corrosion rates. Despite these challenges, the systematic investigation has resulted in new corrosivity classifications for both groundwater and atmospheric driven corrosion processes for various reinforcement and support systems used in the Australian underground mining industry. Previous corrosivity classifications were not found applicable. Furthermore, these new corrosivity classifications are simpler than previous classifications and corrosion rates may be predicted from readily obtained measurements of ground water dissolved oxygen and atmospheric relative humidity. Different types of reinforcement and surface support systems have been rated with respect to their corrosion resistance and estimates have been made for the expected service life for various rates of corrosion.
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Johnson, Bridget A. "Teacher support teams: a school-based strategy for the provision of education support services and health promotion." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 1997. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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Fryer, Lizelle. "Student support officers' perceptions of student support provision in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95992.
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Thesis (MEdPsych)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges (Formerly Further Education and Training [FET] Colleges) in South Africa have undergone many changes since 1994. The sector has been reformed with much policy change. There are currently 50 multi-campus sites spread across South Africa. Government has realized the plight of many jobless youth. The lack of trained workers with certain scarce skills has therefore come to light in the world of work. TVET Colleges have the potential to answer this need. In 2007, a new curriculum, National Certificate (Vocational) [NC(V)] was rolled out to replace the National Assembly Training and Education Department or NATED (N1-6) qualifications. This new curriculum was described as an equivalent to Grades 10 to 12, with students generally being between the ages of 16 and 18. Most of the students enrolled for these courses hold bursaries. Of concern for this study is the low throughput rate of roughly 40% of this age group per year, since roll-out in 2007. In this generic qualitative research study framed with a constructivist paradigm, I set out to explore the student support officers’ perceptions of providing support to these NC(V) students that did not pass their courses. I made use of semi-structured individual and telephonic interviews to gather data and the respondents were selected based on their role within the college. I developed thematic networks to organize the data before analyzing it into themes. Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological framework served as the theoretical framework underlying my research. Findings showed that the roles of the student supporters were not clearly defined. This lead to many challenges within the performance of their roles. Student supporters thus seemed to be in constant battle to support the students. In addition, working with adolescent students in the TVET College sector also presented unique challenges, since they are a new cohort of students entering the colleges. The student supporters shared recommendations that could be considered for the development of their roles within the college sector.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tegniese- en Beroepsonderwys- en- Opleidingskolleges (TVET Colleges) in Suid-Afrika het vanaf 1994 baie veranderinge ondergaan. Daar is beleide in plek gestel wat hierdie sektor herskep het (tot onlangs bekend as verdere Onderwys en Opleiding). Daar is huidiglik 50 TVET Kolleges regoor Suid-Afrika. Die regering het besef dat daar baie jongmense sonder werk is. Dit het aan die lig gekom dat daar ’n tekort aan opgeleide mense met sekere vaardighede is. Die TVET Kolleges is geïdentifiseer as die plek waar hierdie opleiding aangebied kan word. In 2007 is ’n nuwe kurrikulum by TVET Kolleges bekend gestel. Die doel was dat dit die ou NATED (N1-6) kursusse vervang en dat dit vir jonger studente opgestel is. Hierdie kurrikulum is die NCV (Nasionale beroepsgerigte Sertifikaat) genoem. Die studente is dan tipies besig om hul Graad10-12 by die Kollege te voltooi en is tussen die ouderdomme van 16-18. Die meeste studeer met ’n beurs. As daar nou teruggekyk word na die slaagsyfer van hierdie NVC kurrikulum vanaf 2007, is die gemiddeld 40%. Dit is iets waaroor die media gereeld rapporteer. In hierdie generiese kwalitatiewe navorsingstudie met ’n konstruktivistiese paradigma, het ek besluit om ondersoek in te stel oor die persepsies van die studenteondersteuners oor hul rol as ondersteuners vir hierdie groep jonger NCV studente wat sukkel om te slaag. Ek wou verstaan wat studentondersteuning binne die TVET Kolleges beteken. Ek het gebruik gemaak van semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude met persone binne die rol van studenteondersteuners. Die resultate is volgens temas geanaliseer en georganiseer. Bronfenbrenner se bio-ekologiese raamwerk het gedien as die teoretiese raamwerk wat die navorsing rugsteun. Die resultate het aan die lig gebring dat die studenteondersteuners se rolle nie duidelik omskryf was nie en dat hulle konstant moet baklei om die student te kan ondersteun. Die nuwe adolessente wat nou deel uitmaak van die studentestelsel het ook unieke uitdagings, aangesien hulle ’n nuwe ouderdomsgroep is wat nou ondersteun moet word. Die resultate gee ook aanbevelings weer wat deur die studenteondersteuners gemaak is ten opsigte van die uitvoer van hul rol binne hul spesifieke TVET Kollege konteks.
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Malherbe, Ethel Denise. "Intergenerational solidarity and the provision of support and care to older persons." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3503_1274312139.
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This thesis deals with a very important issue in South African society, i.e. the provision of financial and non-cash support to older persons. Older persons in South Africa can be described as a sizeable but vulnerable group requiring specific protection. Section 27 of the South African Constitution of 1996 obliges the state to take reasonable legislative and other measures within available resources to progressively realise the right of access to social security. Hence, the steps taken by the state to promote older persons&rsquo
right of access to social security and to protect their right to dignity need to be evaluated. The legislative framework for the provision of financial and non-cash support to older persons currently is fragmented into various statutes dealing with retirement income, state grants to older persons and care and support services for older persons. Therefore, the current legislation lacks an integrated approach to the provision of support and care to older persons, as well as a central principle on which to base future legislation concerning older persons. One such principle that could potentially be adopted is intergenerational solidarity, which can be described as the solidarity between the active working-age population, as one generation, from which benefits flow to older persons as the other. This thesis evaluates whether intergenerational solidarity should form the basis of South African legislation on the provision of retirement income and the provision of care and support to older persons, and if so, whether it in fact does. If the answer to the latter is in the negative, the thesis further examines whether the current process to reform the retirement income system and related legislation in South Africa would be a suitable platform to introduce the concept of intergenerational solidarity to legislation concerning older persons.
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LaRoche, Kathryn J. "The Availability, Accessibility, and Provision of Post-Abortion Support Services in Ontario." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32786.
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In a study we conducted with Ontarian women about their abortion experiences (OAS), one third of participants expressed a desire for post-abortion support. Yet, there is some anecdotal evidence to suggest that organizations offering these services are using judgmental frameworks. In order to rigorously investigate this, we explored what post-abortion support services are offered across the province of Ontario. This multi-methods study included an analysis of OAS data, creating a directory of post-abortion support services in the province, conducting an analysis of how these services represent themselves online, and carrying out mystery client interactions. We found that the majority of organizations offering post-abortion support services in Ontario are crisis pregnancy centers. The services offered at these organizations are built upon frameworks that are both shaming and stigmatizing of abortion experiences. Efforts to increase the online visibility and overall accessibility of non-judgmental, medically accurate post-abortion support services in Ontario appear warranted.
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Cachon, Jean-Charles, and Sara Carter. "Self-employed Females and the Workforce: Some Common Issues Across the Atlantic." Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 1989. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/287.
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While many significant studies have been made of small firms from economic, business
and sociological perspectives, the bulk of the work to date has concentrated upon the male-owned enterprise. The role of women as owner/managers and employers has been largely neglected as an area of serious academic study despite the fact that greater numbers of women are now choosing self-employment.
L'article abordera tout d'abord les rapports conceptuels qui existent entre Ie sexe des étudiants et les études entreprises en vue d'un emploi, puis il traitera, dans cette même perspective, de certains aspects significatifs que les chercheurs ont noté parmi les femmes établies à leur compte et enfin il identifiera les points qui devront être sujets d'étude à l'avenir.This paper was prepared with the support of the Scottish Enterprise Foundation's M. Sc. in Entrepreneurial Studies program, and the Foundation's Research division.
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Gaillard, Sarah C. "A Series of Studies to Support and Improve DPM Sampling in Underground Mines." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78720.
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Diesel particulate matter (DPM) is the solid portion of diesel exhaust, which occurs primarily in the submicron range. It is complex in nature, occuring in clusters and agglomerated chains, and with variable composition depending on engine operating conditions, fuel type, equipment maintenance, etc. DPM is an occupational health hazard that has been associated with lung cancer risks and other respiratory issues. Underground miners have some of the highest exposures to DPM, due to work in confined spaces with diesel powered equipment. Large-opening mines present particular concerns because sufficient ventilation is very challenging. In such environments, reliable DPM sampling and monitoring is critical to protecting miner health. Though complex, DPM is made up primarily of elemental (EC) and organic carbon (OC), which can be summed to obtain total carbon (TC). The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) currently limits personal DPM exposures in metal/non-metal mines to 160 µg/m3 TC on an 8-hour time weighted average. To demonstrate compliance, exposures are monitored by collecting filter samples, which are sent to an outside lab and analyzed using the NIOSH 5040 Standard Method. To support real-time results, and thus more timely decision making, the Airtec handheld DPM monitor was developed. It measures EC, which is generally well correlated with TC, using a laser absorption technique as DPM accumulates on a filter sample. Though intended as a personal monitor, the Airtec has application as an engineering tool. A field study is reported here which demonstrated the usefulness of the Airtec in tracking temporal and spatial trends in DPM. An approach to sensitizing the monitor to allow "spot checking" was also demonstrated. Since DPM in mine environments generally occurs with other airborne particulates, namely dust generated during the mining process, DPM sampling must be done with consideration for analytical interferences. A common approach to dealing with mineral dust interferences is to use size selectors in the sampling train to separate DPM from dust; these devices are generally effective because DPM and dust largely occur in different size ranges. An impactor-type device (DPMI) is currently the industry standard for DPM sampling, but it is designed as a consumable device. Particularly for continuous monitoring applications, the sharp cut cyclone (SCC) has been suggested as a favorable alternative. In another field study reported here, the effect of aging (i.e., loading as an artifact of sampling) on the DPMI and SCC was investigated. Results suggest the effective cut size of the DPMI will be reduced much more rapidly than that of the SCC with aging — though even in a relatively high dust, high DPM environment, the DPMI performs adequately. In a third field study, the possibility of attachment between DPM and respirable dust particles was investigated. Such a phenomenon may have implications for both reliable sampling and health outcomes. Data collected by transmission electron microscope (TEM) on samples collected in the study mine showed that DPM-dust attachment does indeed occur. Moreover, the study results suggest that respirable particulate sampling — as opposed to submicron sampling, which is currently used — may be favorable for ensuring that oversized DPM is not excluded from samples. This strategy may require additional sample preparation to minimize dust interferences, but methods have been previously developed and were demonstrated here.Master of Science
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Al, Assaf Safwan. "An expert decision support system for strategic housing management in local authorities." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305094.
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Olsen, Sissel Tove. "Support provision to schools in a context of HIV/AIDS, poverty and gender." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1952_1248049219.
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The school environment presents a valuable opportunity for the identification, monitoring and support of children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and poverty. Many children are caring for parents suffering from AIDS related illnesses and/or they are the main breadwimnner of the household. As a reult of HIV/AIDS and poverty therefore, children might be dropping out of school, or their ability to performadequately at school might be significantly reduced. The main aim of this study was to use a case study approach to explore and describe support provision in a South African formal school, examining in particular, the relative significance of leadership, organisational development and gender-related matters in addressing the needs of children made vulnerableby HIV/AIDS and poverty.The availability and quality of this support is analysed within the context of the Western Cape Education Department (WECD) transforming itself from a system focussed on controlling schools to a system focused on supporting schools.
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Martínez, Sanz Inmaculada. "Control of AC/DC systems for improved transient stability and frequency support provision." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/25956.
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In this thesis, control of future AC/DC systems for improved system dynamic performance is studied. The objective is to determine mechanisms for providing AC network services (e.g. frequency support, damping, etc.) through coordinated control of HVDC power converters and FACTS devices while considering increased levels of wind generation. In particular, this work addresses some of the concerns associated with the stability of the future Great Britain (GB) transmission network as it evolves to support low carbon generation scenarios and the use of DC grids to integrate offshore renewable resources and form a sub-sea interconnection across Europe. The contributions of this thesis are in two main areas: emergency control for power system stabilization and exchange of frequency support across a DC grid. Fast control of FACTS devices and HVDC links can be exercised as a post-fault corrective action to maintain system stability without the need of constraining pre-fault transfer levels. This work employs a model predictive control (MPC) scheme that relies on system wide-area measurements to preserve the system stability after critical contingencies. MPC can explicitly account for system constraints and changing operating conditions and is therefore suited for on-line applications and power electronic actuators with limited short-term overload capability. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated using time domain simulations on representative equivalent models of the future GB transmission network. A detailed analysis of the dynamic behaviour and stability issues associated with the GB transmission grid have also been presented. In the DC grid context, this thesis investigates the provision of frequency services considering frequency droop loops in the control of the converters. The interaction between onshore AC systems and a DC grid is analyzed through an extended steady-state formulation. A methodology for providing frequency response from offshore wind farms connected through a DC grid is also proposed. The performance of this scheme is illustrated both analytically and also through simulation results.
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Douthat, Cameron. "Parents' Provision of Instrumental and Emotional Support to Young Adults with Criminal Justice Contact." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu156317016279803.
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Ntsholo, Abegail Busisiwe. "An evaluation of education support services provision in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1597.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty Arts in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Community Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zululand, 2017The aim of this study was to evaluate the support services provision in schools. The study is based on inclusive education which advocates the importance of collaborative work by all stakeholders for effective implementation. System’s theory was considered since the schools are part of the community. Both qualitative and quantitative methods, combined with appreciative inquiry were employed. The sample consisted of 100 educators, 5 psychologists and 6 parents. Positive outcomes are visible from the respondents’ responses. The majority indicated an overwhelming support by the stakeholders. These findings indicated that educators are enthusiastic and dedicated to implementing inclusive education, despite some shortfalls. It is noted that the respondents’ biographical characteristics have positive influence on the perceived support services.
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Pomasoncco, Alexander, Claudio Trujillo, Luis Arauzo, and Carlos Raymundo. "Optimized model for pre-cut blasting in mining operations in underground mining in Peru." International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, IIIS, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656287.
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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.In the mining industry of Peru, as a consequence of large scale mineral extraction and a dynamic process of ore dressing, the different activities of the operation are neglected. This neglect, in some cases, generates collateral damages that affect the structures, generate extra costs, and result in constant accidents due to rock-fall and delays in the activities of the mining cycle and the ones following it, which seriously harms the Mining Unit and directly affects the workers. In addition, this is directly related to the progress of the daily work and, in turn, it is related to the design of the mine mesh that is prepared to extract the largest possible mineral amounts per shift. This means that, by modifying the design of the mine mesh, the blasting method, and the type of explosive used, the current scenario and the results could be modified. In this respect, a research was conducted, exclusively based on simulations using the JK Simblast software, applying the pre-splitting blast method in the underground mine of the Minera Aurífera Retamas SA company, resulting in a reduction of over break in more than 60% as compared to the mesh used initially. This has an impact on the level of support to be used, and therefore, on the maintenance costs, which were reduced by 18%. Therefore, this article presents the possibility of reducing maintenance costs in underground mining using pre-splitting blasting. Copyright 2019.
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Looney, Elaine. "An Appreciative Inquiry of facilitative factors within educational provision perceived to support engagement of students attending a secondary school-based alternative provision unit." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53788/.
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Rates of school exclusion continue to show annual increase in England (DfE, 2016; DfE, 2017a). Increasingly, there is an impetus to adopt a focus on 'what works' to promote educational success for students who experience, or who are 'at risk' of school exclusion (e.g. Hart, 2013). The importance of organisational intervention in the prevention of school exclusion is well-cited (e.g. Hallam & Castle, 2001) and gaining the views of students is seen as an essential component of this process (e.g. Cole, 2015). The current study used Appreciative Inquiry (AI) within qualitative, case study methodology to explore how facilitative factors within an internal alternative provision unit in an East Midlands secondary school enables educational success for students who had experienced fixed-term exclusion, according to the views of groups of students, staff and parents. Thematic Analysis (TA) (Braun & Clarke, 2006) suggested that positive teacher-student relationships was perceived as the most prolific enabling factor cited by students, reflecting previous research (e.g. Michael & Frederickson, 2013). The importance of regular, respectful and balanced home-school communication and of supportive peer relationships was also noted by all participants. A nurture-based, non-judgemental ethos, underpinned by high expectations and equality, which seeks to empower students and prepare them for life was reported as facilitative. Participant groups concurred on factors that facilitated a conducive learning environment, including. systems underpinned by consistent boundaries, small class groups. A curriculum perceived by students as relevant, meaningful and practical, as well as engaging, accessible, well-differentiated lessons with high levels of learning support, was reported by all participant groups reported as essential to students' educational engagement. Students articulated their sense of safety, belonging, autonomy and competence within these educational experiences as facilitating their engagement, positive behaviour change and intrinsic motivation to succeed at school. The AI process appeared to enable the surfacing of elements of best practice within the research setting, the elicitation of participants' visions to develop these and the generation of an action plan through which several of these ideas were realised. However, macro-systemic factors at a national level were described as current barriers to provision development for these students. Positive actions that can be taken by schools, local and national policy-makers and EPs to address the issue of school exclusion are discussed within this paper. It is hoped that these outcomes can contribute to a growing knowledge base of 'what works' for students deemed 'at risk' of school exclusion to punctuate the cycles of exclusion currently perpetuated within the education system.
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Miczo, Nathan. "A facework-based approach to the elicitation and provision of support in romantic dyads." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280562.
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Social support has been conceptualized as coping assistance (Thoits, 1986) and facilitated reappraisal (Burleson & Goldsmith, 1998). The present investigation sought to explore this conceptualization using a facework-based approach (Goldsmith, 1994a). Specifically, the Communication Model of Facework (Lim & Bowers, 1991) and Burleson's (1985) hierarchical model of comforting sensitivity were used to create the Face Interaction Support Coding Scheme (FISCS). The Communication Model of Facework is built on the premise that individuals want to be accepted for who they are (fellowship face), to be respected for their abilities and accomplishments (competence face), and to be allowed the freedom to make decisions for themselves (autonomy face). The hierarchical model of comforting sensitivity assumes that comforting messages that are more person-centered, rather than position-centered, are often more effective at meeting the needs of distressed persons. The FISCS is intended to assess how person-centered individuals are in meeting their partner's needs for fellowship, competence and autonomy. In addition to examining facework, this study also included an assessment of conversational involvement. Seventy couples participated in an interaction where they discussed a recent stressful event being experienced by one of the partners. Participants completed measures of pre-interaction appraisals of stressfulness and controllability, post-interaction appraisals, communication satisfaction, provider helpfulness, and interaction typicality. Results were analyzed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (Kashy & Kenny, 2000). Results of the analyses revealed that an increased use of fellowship face was related to pre- and post-interaction appraisals of problem stressfulness, as well as perceptions of communication satisfaction, provider helpfulness, and the typicality of the interaction. The partner's use of competence face was related to increased perceptions of provider helpfulness, while one's own use of autonomy face was related to perceiving the problem as less stressful following the interaction. Regarding conversational involvement, involvement and pleasantness exhibited opposite partner effects with controllability: increased partner involvement was related to perceiving the problem as more controllable after the interaction, while increased partner pleasantness was related to appraising the problem as more uncontrollable. Finally, partner involvement was also related to increased communication satisfaction and greater perceptions of interaction typicality.
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鄭永昌 and Wing-cheung Cheng. "A further implementation plan for the provision of resource support ofthe five year strategy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3125617X.
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Kessie, Kelsey-Jo Ritter. "Honey, I'm Home: The Provision and Perception of Work Recovery Support in Working Dyads." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1508498418808085.
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Varcoe, R. A. B. "An innovative approach to powered support design with particular reference to the accommodation and control of lateral strata movement." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382528.
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Lillbäck, Mikaela. "Student Perspectives of Hope, Stress, and Social Support Provision from Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184950.
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The present study investigated the relationship between hope, stress, and social support provision from teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants were 80 students (i.e., 34 males; 46 females) ranging in age from 16 to 22 from multiple gymnasiums across Sweden. The cross-sectional research design collected data using an online survey. Statistical analyses revealed that there was a negative correlation between perceived stress and hope. Social support from teachers was also found to be positively correlated with hope. The subcategories identifying the nature of the social support provision indicated that levels of stress were negatively correlated with appraisal, informational, and instrumental support. Students’ levels of reported hope were found to correlate with appraisal, informational, instrumental, and emotional support. Gender was also found to be associated with stress, where women reported more perceived stress than men. Taken collectively, the study found that students who feel more hope are less stressed perceive more social support provision from teachers. Implications for teachers and limitations of the present study are discussed.Denna studie undersökte förhållandet mellan hopp, stress och socialt stöd från lärare under COVID-19 pandemin. Deltagarna var 80 studenter (34 män; 46 kvinnor) i åldrarna 16 till 22 år från gymnasieskolor över hela Sverige. Datan samlades in med hjälp av en onlineundersökning. De statistiska analyserna visade att det fanns ett negativt samband mellan upplevd stress och hopp. Socialt stöd från lärare visade sig också vara positivt korrelerat med hopp. Underkategorierna som identifierade de olika karaktärerna av socialt stöd indikerade att stressnivåerna var negativt korrelerade med bedömning, information och instrumentellt stöd. Studenternas nivåer av rapporterat hopp visade sig korrelera med bedömning, informativt, instrumentellt och emotionellt stöd. Kön visade sig också förknippas med stress, där kvinnor rapporterade mer upplevd stress än män. Sammantaget fann studien att studenter som känner mer hopp är mindre stressade och upplever mer socialt stöd från lärare. Konsekvenser för lärare och begränsningar av denna studie diskuteras.
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Langille, Christopher Cameron. "Observations of shotcrete support in underground hardrock mines, a study of static and dynamic loading effects on the effectiveness of shotcrete support." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0001/MQ42648.pdf.
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Cheng, Wing-cheung. "A further implementation plan for the provision of resource support of the five year strategy /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25148485.
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Richardson, Robert Richard. "Creative housing : from provision to enablement : contexting housing policy through the investigation of support structures." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16356.
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In South Africa, the pressure on the infrastructure and facilities of the city - designed for a privileged few and now accessible to a growing populace - has resulted in two generic conditions. Urban economic centres have either relocated to areas outside of the city- exacerbating sprawl and destroying our urban legacy, or, as in the case of Cape Town, as a result of topography; the racial and political boundaries constructed by the colonial and apartheid state have been replaced by social and economic divisions. The coincidence of the natural topographic assets of Cape Town and the resultant eccentric focus of the city constructed by such topography has created a reversal of the normal population densities of the city. The most densely populated suburbs occur on the periphery while the economic opportunities still exist mainly in the centre. The resultant daily migration to and from work, creates huge pressure on public transportation and infrastructure. The desire for urbanization and the scarcity of affordable resources creates numerable urban pathologies which manifest themselves on the boundary between the periphery and interior. Rapid urbanization and the incapacity of the state to cope in the provision of accessible and affordable housing has resulted in the development of resilient self-aided local typologies which can accommodate the realities of the South African condition• It is my thesis that these local types form a necessary context through which housing design and urban policy should be informed, in order to create an alternative approach to housing in our country.
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Armstrong, Victoria Emma. "Mental distress and stigma : exploring the significance of interactions in the context of support provision." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11435/.
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Reducing stigma and discrimination encountered by people who experience mental distress is a policy objective of the British government’s current mental health strategy. This strategy considers third sector organisations providing support to people who experience mental distress to have a responsibility for, and a role in, stigma and discrimination reduction. The study takes a case study approach involving two third sector organisations in the North East of England; participant observation over the course of 6 months, 30 semi-structured interviews with staff and members, and 6 focus groups also involving staff and members. It is this combination of methods and the location of the study which makes this contemporary empirical study on stigma and discrimination relating to mental distress and support, and its contribution to knowledge, original. The research explores, describes, and analyses members’ experiences of stigma and discrimination, and staff and members’ experience of providing, performing, and receiving support. The study not only explores experiences of stigma and discrimination but also focuses on interactions in the support environment. Particularly by considering how relationships fostered in the support context of the organisations contribute to support which members describe as relatively free from stigmatising interactions. Employing a predominantly interactionist analysis of the empirical material, the findings indicate that the notion of ‘proximity’ of actors in the support environment is integral to deepening our understanding of stigma and relationships deemed by members as ‘supportive’. Exploring the wider socio-political context in which support is performed highlights how aspects of the stigma discourse continue to be individualised via the paradoxical attribution of ‘self-stigma’ by some staff members- despite the ‘hidden labour’ of many members. However, and as identified by this study, the ways in which staff ‘work’ to reduce the distance that members are ‘set apart’ or ‘distanced’ seems to be a significant contributing factor to truncating the scope for stigmatising interactions in the context of the case study organisations.
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Warren, Sean N. "Empirical Ground Support Recommendations and Weak Rock Mass Classification for Underground Gold Mines in Nevada, USA." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10126161.
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Ground conditions at underground gold mines in Nevada range from good to extremely poor and implementing the most appropriate ground support can be challenging. Existing empirical ground support design methods were developed predominantly from experience in tunneling or more competent ground, making them less applicable to underground gold mining in Nevada. This research presents empirically derived support guidelines from experience at 5 underground gold mines in Nevada, including: discussions with engineers and miners, review of ground control management plans and consulting documents, and roughly 400 ground control case-studies. Support design recommendations are based on the Weak-Rock Mass Rating (W-RMR) which is a modified Rock Mass Rating (RMR) classification incorporating the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS) for very weak rock masses. Ground support recommendations include rock bolt pattern support pressure, rock bolt length category, excavation surface support, and excavation strategy.
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Wilson, Suzanne Elizabeth. "Mothers with a learning disability : their experiences of service provision during the postnatal period." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6387.
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Introduction: There is growing evidence that many parents with learning disabilities, when given adequate support, can parent successfully. Childbirth is a significant life event that marks a woman's transition to motherhood and is a time when parents first learn to nurture their children. Postnatal care aims to facilitate this learning experience as well as promote the emotional and physical well-being of both infant and mother. To date, no research has explored the support mothers with learning disabilities receive during the postnatal period. To fill this gap in the research and help inform service provision, this study aims to explore how mothers with learning disabilities experience postnatal care. Method: Semi-structured interviews were carried out with six mothers with learning disabilities. The data were collected and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results: Mothers experiences of postnatal care were conceptualised within four superordinate themes: challenges of providing support, how support was delivered , learning to cope and challenges to building trust. All of these had accompanying subthemes. Discussion: The results are discussed in the context of relevant literature. Consistent with previous research which has been carried out with parents with learning disabilities, participants were found to be highly dependent on informal support. The participants acknowledged the value of professional input and their perceptions of how this support was delivered had important implications. Learning how to cope with the demands of their new role raised issues not dissimilar to those of parents without learning disabilities. Challenges, however, were faced in establishing trusting relationships with professionals. The findings were found to have implications for clinical practice which are described and suggestions for future research made. Conclusion: The findings suggest that participant informal supports play a key role during the initial stages of parenthood particularly with providing practical support in areas which present challenges. Professional input was valued when delivered according to the typical pathway of care post-birth. It is recommended that consideration is given to how the support is delivered to participants. This should essentially seek to empower parents rather than undermine them as how support was perceived by parents impacted on their subsequent engagement with professionals.
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Medina, Medina Esunly. "An approach to pervasive monitoring in dynamic learning contexts : data sensing, communication support and awareness provision." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/387553.
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It is within the capabilities of current technology to support the emerging learning paradigms. These paradigms suggest that today’s learning activities and environments are pervas ive and require a higher level of dynamism than the traditional learning contexts. Therefore, we have to rethink our approach to learning and use technology not only as a digital information support, but also as an instrument to reinforce knowledge, foster collaboration, promote creativity and provide richer learning experiences.
Particularly, this thesis was motivated by the rapidly growing number of smartphone users and the fact that these devices are increasingly becoming more and more resource-rich, in terms of their communication and sensing technologies, display capabilities battery autonomy, etc. Hence, this dissertation benefits from the ubiquity and development of mobile technology, aiming to bridge the gap between the challenges posed by modern learning requirements and the capabilities of current technology.
The sensors embedded in smartphones can be used to capture diverse behavioural and social aspects of the users. For example, using microphone and Bluetooth is possible to identify conversation patterns, discover users in proximity and detect face-to-face meetings. This fact opens up exciting possibilities to monitor the behaviour of the user and to provide meaningful feedback. This feedback offers useful information that can help people be aware of and reflect on their behaviour and its effects, and take the necessary actions to improve them.
Consequently, we propose a pervasive monitoring system that take advantage of the capabilities of modern smartphones, us ing them to s upport the awarenes s provis ion about as pects of the activities that take place in today’s pervas ive learning environments. This pervasive monitoring system provides (i) an autonomous sensing platform to capture complex information about processes and interactions that take place across multiple learning environments, (ii) an on-demand and s elf-m anaged communication infras tructure, and (ii) a dis play facility to provide “awarenes s inform ation” to the s tudents and/or lecturers.
For the proposed system, we followed a research approach that have three main components. First, the description of a generalized framework for pervasive sensing that enables collaborative sensing interactions between smartphones and other types of devices. By allowing complex data capture interactions with diverse remote sensors, devices and data sources, this framework allows to improve the information quality while saving energy in the local device. Second, the evaluation, through a real-world deployment, of the suitability of ad hoc networks to support the diverse communication processes required for pervasive monitoring. This component also includes a method to improve the scalability and reduce the costs of these networks. Third, the design of two awareness mechanisms to allow flexible provision of information in dynamic and heterogeneous learning contexts. These mechanisms rely on the use of smartphones as adaptable devices that can be used directly as awareness displays or as communication bridges to enable interaction with other remote displays available in the environment.
Diverse aspects of the proposed system were evaluated through a number of simulations, real-world experiments, user studies and prototype evaluations. The experimental evaluation of the data capture and communication aspects of the system provided empirical evidence of the usefulness and suitability of the proposed approach to support the development of pervasive monitoring solutions. In addition, the proof-of-concept deployments of the proposed awareness mechanisms, performed in both laboratory and real-world learning environments, provided quantitative and qualitative indicators that such mechanisms improve the quality of the awareness information and the user experienceLa tecnología moderna tiene capacidad de dar apoyo a los paradigmas de aprendizaje emergentes. Estos paradigmas sugieren que las actividades de aprendizaje actuales, caracterizadas por la ubicuidad de entornos, son más dinámicas y complejas que los contextos de aprendizaje tradicionales. Por tanto, tenemos que reformular nuestro acercamiento al aprendizaje, consiguiendo que la tecnología sirva no solo como mero soporte de información, sino como medio para reforzar el conocimiento, fomentar la colaboración, estimular la creatividad y proporcionar experiencias de aprendizaje enriquecedoras. Esta tesis doctoral está motivada por el vertiginoso crecimiento de usuarios de smartphones y el hecho de que estos son cada vez más potentes en cuanto a tecnologías de comunicación, sensores, displays, autonomía energética, etc. Por tanto, esta tesis aprovecha la ubicuidad y el desarrollo de esta tecnología, con el objetivo de reducir la brecha entre los desafíos del aprendizaje moderno y las capacidades de la tecnología actual. Los sensores integrados en los smartphones pueden ser utilizados para reconocer diversos aspectos del comportamiento individual y social de los usuarios. Por ejemplo, a través del micrófono y el Bluetooth, es posible determinar patrones de conversación, encontrar usuarios cercanos y detectar reuniones presenciales. Este hecho abre un interesante abanico de posibilidades, pudiendo monitorizar aspectos del comportamiento del usuario y proveer un feedback significativo. Dicho feedback, puede ayudar a los usuarios a reflexionar sobre su comportamiento y los efectos que provoca, con el fin de tomar medidas necesarias para mejorarlo. Proponemos un sistema de monitorización generalizado que aproveche las capacidades de los smartphones para proporcionar información a los usuarios, ayudándolos a percibir y tomar conciencia sobre diversos aspectos de las actividades que se desarrollan en contextos de aprendizaje modernos. Este sistema ofrece: (i) una plataforma de detección autónoma, que captura información compleja sobre los procesos e interacciones de aprendizaje; (ii) una infraestructura de comunicación autogestionable y; (iii) un servicio de visualización que provee “información de percepción” a estudiantes y/o profesores. Para la elaboración de este sistema nos hemos centrado en tres áreas de investigación. Primero, la descripción de una infraestructura de detección generalizada, que facilita interacciones entre smartphones y otros dispositivos. Al permitir interacciones complejas para la captura de datos entre diversos sensores, dispositivos y fuentes de datos remotos, esta infraestructura consigue mejorar la calidad de la información y ahorrar energía en el dispositivo local. Segundo, la evaluación, a través de pruebas reales, de la idoneidad de las redes ad hoc como apoyo de los diversos procesos de comunicación requeridos en la monitorización generalizada. Este área incluye un método que incrementa la escalabilidad y reduce el coste de estas redes. Tercero, el diseño de dos mecanismos de percepción que permiten la provisión flexible de información en contextos de aprendizaje dinámicos y heterogéneos. Estos mecanismos descansan en la versatilidad de los smartphones, que pueden ser utilizados directamente como displays de percepción o como puentes de comunicación que habilitan la interacción con otros displays remotos del entorno. Diferentes aspectos del sistema propuesto han sido evaluados a través de simulaciones, experimentos reales, estudios de usuarios y evaluaciones de prototipos. La evaluación experimental proporcionó evidencia empírica de la idoneidad del sistema para apoyar el desarrollo de soluciones de monitorización generalizadas. Además, las pruebas de concepto realizadas tanto en entornos de aprendizajes reales como en el laboratorio, aportaron indicadores cuantitativos y cualitativos de que estos mecanismos mejoran la calidad de la información de percepción y la experiencia del usuario.
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Jones, Katherine. "Literacy and numeracy support for homeless adults : an exploration of third sector employment and skills provision." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/124661/.
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This research is focused on the literacy and numeracy support offered by third sector organisations as part of their efforts to help homeless adults move into employment. Whilst homeless people are increasingly expected to move into work, many face a number of barriers to labour market participation. A small but growing evidence base suggests that one key barrier is poor literacy and numeracy, or ‘basic’ skills. However, research has found that homeless people, alongside other disadvantaged adults, are often excluded from formal opportunities to improve these skills. Third sector homelessness organisations are settings in which this exclusion might be redressed. However, whilst many offer employment and skills support, the extent and nature of literacy and numeracy education within it is largely unknown. Additionally, scant attention has been paid to the various factors shaping this support. To address this knowledge gap, this thesis presents new data from semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted with 27 homelessness practitioners. The research uncovers the extent and nature of literacy and numeracy provision offered in these organisations. A range of factors shaping it are also identified. These include: the needs and demands of service users; the roles and capacity of staff working in homelessness organisations; organisational purpose and structures; national policies relating to adult education, austerity and welfare reform; support from other adult education providers; non-governmental finance; and the time and expertise of volunteers. With some modification, this is argued to be consistent with Boeren’s (2016) Comprehensive Lifelong Learning Participation Model. The thesis concludes that although organisations have demonstrated a propensity to develop literacy and numeracy support, while government policy and related funding does not recognise and support such provision, it seems likely to remain piecemeal and highly contingent on the contribution of volunteers and short term funding opportunities.
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Patsimas, Tatiana, Karen E. Schetzina, and Gayatri Bala Jaishankar. "Improving the Provision of Health Information and Support to Parents and Caregivers through Online Data Collection." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5070.
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As part of the ReadNPlay for a Bright Future initiative, an online survey was conducted to determine the preferences of parents and caregivers in regards to receiving health information and support and to identify opportunities to improve existing support groups in Northeast Tennessee. An anonymous online survey with ten closed-ended questions was designed on Survey Monkey and posted on social media sites of the ReadNPlay project, BABE Regional Breastfeeding Coalition, and local mothers’ support groups. After a two-week period, during which a reminder of the survey was posted, the results of the survey were summarized using Survey Monkey and Excel. A total of 39 surveys were collected. Of the 39 participants, all identified themselves as either a mother (97.44%) or other female caregiver (2.56%). Sixty three percent of mothers and caregivers wanted to receive support or health information through face-to-face support group meetings compared to 78.95% who wanted to receive the same information through social media and 68.42% who wanted to receive information via email. Less popular options for receiving health information and support include community events (60.53%), classes (44.74%), text messages (36.84%), childcare centers/schools (34.21%), handouts from healthcare providers (28.95%), and snail mail (21.05%). Forty six percent of respondents have attended support group meetings several times, 41.03% have never attended a support group meeting, and 15.38% have only attended a support group meeting once. Mothers and other caregivers identified the greatest barriers to participation in a support group as inconvenient timing (47.22%), lack of time (50%), inconvenient locations (47.22%), and lack of information about time and location (25%). Respondents were interested in receiving the following health and parenting information: learning/development (83.78%) breastfeeding (75.68%), active play (75.68%), behavior (72.97%), nutrition (64.86%), safety (45.95%), and prevention (40.54%). Mothers and other caregivers were interested in receiving the following types of support when they attend group meetings: socialization with other parents (81.58%), activities sponsored by community organization (78.95%), information about community resources (65.79%), parenting tips (63.16%), health information (44.74%), and food and supplies (34.21%).Additionally, when respondents were asked to identify preferred locations for support group meetings, the most popular option was a kid-friendly location (97.37%) followed by a community center (57.89%). The results obtained above are being used to improve existing support groups by providing parents and caregivers with child-friendly environments in which to socialize and receive a variety of parenting information, including information on learning and development.
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MEYER, FREDERICK JOHANNES. "THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT MATERIAL TO ASSIST FET PHASE ACCOUNTING EDUCATORS IN THE FREE STATE PROVINCE." Thesis, Welkom Campus: Central University of Technology, Free State, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/217.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) - Central University of Technology, Free State, 2008This study primarily focuses on the factors that should be taken into account when developing Learning and Teaching Support Material (LTSM) to be used by FET Accounting educators to improve the results of their learners. In order to accomplish this aim, literature from published books, textbooks, guidelines and syllabi from the Department of Education, speeches and articles on the internet, interviews and questionnaires were used in capturing data to establish the essence of Accounting and Accounting principles, to determine the educational changes regarding the curriculum that were made and the influence of these changes on the Accounting syllabi for the FET phase, to identify the factors that hamper the improvement of FET Accounting results in schools and to identify, describe and analyse a curriculum and LTSM. A triangulation methodology was employed in this study where qualitative data (interviews) and quantitative data (questionnaires) were captured. Through the interviews with the Learning Facilitators of Accounting and questionnaires completed by Accounting educators, it became clear that a lack of LTSM exist in Accounting. Accounting educators indicated that they are in dire need of LTSM for the FET phase to be able to improve the results of their Accounting learners in tests and examinations.
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Makana, Lewis O. "Development of a decision support system for sustainable and resilience evaluation of urban underground space physical infrastructure." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6262/.
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The research described in this thesis proposes a new,novel evaluation ‘framework’ and accompanying operational ‘model’, the ‘SUURE’ (Sustainable Underground Use Resilience Evaluation) ‘framework’, which adopts a socio-ecological systems (SES) approach to evaluation, combining sustainability science and resilience theory, at the same time incorporating a range of interdisciplinary tools and methods to achieve this. It purposes at its core to aid in sustainability evaluation of urban underground space, by evaluating the process to the outcome of sustainable solutions i.e. the capacity to adapt to change in different steady states. In consequence, a fundamentally different approach to planning that utilises future socio-ecological scenarios (NSP, PR, MF and FW) is incorporated in the ‘framework’ as a means of evaluating through its operational ‘model’, the sensitivity of investment decisions made today in the name of sustainability i.e. will the proposed engineering sustainability solution continue to deliver its intended function into the future, whatever that may be. The SUURE operational ‘model’ was employed as a proof of concept to the case study area of Birmingham Eastside, evaluating the potential use of multi-utility tunnels (MUT) in Eastside as a means of engendering sustainable and resilient use of urban underground space, through sustainable utility placement, both now and into the future. The flush-fitting MUT was found to be having the highest overall baseline (present-day) performance resilience index ratio at mean of 0.739, the shallow MUT second at 0.656, and the deep MUT last at 0.212. With regard to the evaluation of continued MUT functional performance into the future (whatever that may be), all three MUT options, if implemented today in the name of sustainability, would continue to deliver and retain their core functional performance, the deep MUT showing the most significant increase across all evaluation clusters (social, economic, physical, bio-physical and location aspects).
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Hutchins, Lewis Anthony. "Development of a Decision Support Tool for Identifying Appropriate Means and Methods for Locating Underground Utility Assets." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76943.
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The location of utilities buried beneath the built environment has always been a concern for those conducting work that involves excavation or the placement of items into the ground. Whether physically removing material or driving piles, posts, and more, the potential for accidental utility strikes is increasing with the movement of more traditional utilities from above ground to below. Also, the addition of utilities and new technology in underground spaces that hasn't existed in the past, such as fiber optics and more highspeed telecommunication lines, is occupying more space. Traditional methods of surveying, in combination with surface geophysics and the development and improvement of processes and technologies to track the location of buried assets led to the engineering services category termed Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE). In order to aid utility engineers and consultants who are responsible for the collection of utility data this research aimed to help identify a way to compare the various technologies and incorporate information about the individual project in order to choose the most appropriate locating method for a project with a defined set of parameters. The result was the development of standard evaluation forms that can be sent to technology vendors and consultants to evaluate the performance and limitations of a technology. This data can then be compiled into a database located within an Excel-based program created to compare the technologies. The program, VT PALMS (Virginia Tech Program for Asset Locating Method Selection), consists of the performance and economic databases, a project information Page sheet, and the results of the comparison of each technology in the database to the information on the project information sheet. The results are presented in three ways; 1) a speedometer chart with a needle that indicates the percentage of the parameters used in the database that are compatible - also referred to as the Reliability Factor, 2) a matrix view that indicates the parameters where a potential conflict may exist, and 3) an economic indicator that shows the comparable cost of using each technology listed in the database.Master of Science
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Sumic, Zarko. "The concept and feasibility of automated electrical plat design via an intelligent decision support system approach /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5885.
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O'Carroll, Valerie Jane. "The provision of social support to injured high school football players: The role of the head coach." Scholarly Commons, 1992. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2954.
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Coaches of high school athletes are one potentially important source of athletes' social support. This leads to the possibility that at least some coaches provide little social support to their players and thus could contribute to players' injury rates. I examined the social support high school football coaches provide their players in a specific circumstance where coach social support might be considered forthcoming, the circumstance of injured players. I sent a 21-item, 9-point Likert scale questionnaire to 2,000 California, Texas, Ohio, and Florida high school football coaches, asking about the amount of social support they provided to their injured players. A total of 668 questionnaires were returned. The social support items were reasonably homogeneous (coefficient alpha .84). Mean levels of self-reported coach social support ranged from 3.1 (almost no social support provided) to 9.0 (strong social support, provided consistently), with a mean of 6.9 (median=7.0) and a S.D. of 1.0. I then examined the relationship between the social support reported to be provided and coach-reported numbers of minor and major player injuries in a typical season. Both relationships were low and negative, but significant (r = -.14 in both cases,p is less than .0005), indicating a weak tendency for the players of low social support coaches to experience more injuries than those of high social support coaches. The results overall suggest that (a) coach social support of athletes is indeed quite low in some cases, and (b) coach social support may be an important element in determining the injury rates of high school athletes.
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Wootton, Robert James Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Investigation into the feasibility and application of composite materials in conveyor support structures for use in underground coal mines." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43697.
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Composite materials are well-renown for their strength to weight ratios and are widely used in many industries where high strength and low weight is required. Although steel is the traditional material of choice in the mining industry, and particularly for conveyor support structures, the strength and weight advantages offered by composite materials has prompted this investigation into the feasibility of using composite materials in underground mining conveyor support structures. The first phase of the project centred on establishing and applying selection criteria for the materials and processes which could be used in such a structure. Key concerns include fire performance, electrical conductivity, cost, availability and manufacturability. Based on these considerations, the project identified a phenolic-glass laminate manufactured using the RTM method (for moulded components) or the pultrusion process (for tube sections) as a possible basis for a composite conveyor support structure. The second phase of the project developed a set of design criteria for the use of composite materials in conveyor support structures and a series of preliminary designs based on current conveyor configurations. After analysing each preliminary design against key design criteria, in particular cost, weight, assembly time, susceptibility to damage and torsional loading, the Linestand Suspended - Beam configuration was selected as the preferred option. The third phase of the project used the findings of the preliminary design analysis and the key design criteria to develop a prototype final design. The prototype design is based on a hybrid style of frame. The majority of the structure is constructed from a custom pultruded beam connected with a composite connection piece, while the interface between the rollers and the frame utilises a steel bracket to reduce the risk of damage to the composite frame. The final design is 12kg lighter than the current smaller steel design of similar function. The project has demonstrated the feasibility of using composite materials in conveyor support structures and the weight savings that may be achieved.