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Sanderson, Patrick M. "Unintentional Community." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2491.
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The contents of this thesis will detail the entire process I took in making the first episode of Unintentional Community. I have broken up my process into six parts. Part One will discuss the inspirations for the show as well as how it came about. Part Two will cover all of the pre-production work that my team and I went through. Part Three discusses the entire process of my shooting experience as a director and actor. Part Four details the long post-production process. Part Five talks about the show’s bible. Finally, Part Six lays out our entire plan for how we intend to shop Unintentional Community.
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Miller, Damon William. "Can communities be unintentionally 'utopian'? : unwittingly concreting the abstract - a critical investigation into unintentional ideal practice." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446162.
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Hang, Hoang Minh. "Epidemiology of unintentional injuries in rural Vietnam." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Public Health and Clinical Medicine, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-322.
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Sharer, Rustan. "Trends In Unintentional Drug Overdose-related Deaths." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/221390.
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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.Since undergoing a radical paradigm shift in prescribing trends in the late 80s/early 90s, the therapeutic use and non-therapeutic abuse of controlled prescription drugs (specifically opioids) has reached prolific levels in the US. Despite seemingly widespread awareness of such trends and associated dangers, mortality and morbidity associated with such medications continues to escalate in the face of rapidly increasing prescribing patterns. This investigation attempts to further characterize time trends of accidental deaths secondary to overdoses of various drugs (primarily comparing Arizona to national trends with respect to various demographic identifiers). Utilizing publicly available data sources, a statistical analysis was performed on yearly mortality rates for selected drug-overdose related causes of death between 1999 and 2007. Arizona consistently exhibited higher death rates--with Pinal County claiming the highest among all urbanizations--(but lower annual rates of increase) than the national trends. Men were also shown to have much higher death rates than women (although women’s rates are increasing much faster than men). Furthermore, Hispanics demonstrated significantly lower death rates than non-Hispanics (whose death rates were shown to be increasing three times faster than Hispanics). Rapidly increasing death rates pose a significant concern at both the state and national levels.
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Welch, Mariah Karyn, and Mariah Karyn Welch. "Pediatric Providers Knowledge on Unintentional Childhood Injury." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626653.
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Background: Unintentional childhood injuries are ranked as the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, with an average of 31 million children each year arriving in hospital emergency departments across the nation with accidental trauma related injuries (CDC, 2016). Pediatric providers are in a key position to assess, identify, and implement interventions to improve the rates of unintentional injuries that occur within the pediatric population.
Purpose: This study will examine pediatric providers’ knowledge of injury prevention and practice behaviors regarding educating families and/or caregivers regarding injury prevention, and the frequency that patients and/or caregivers are provided with safety education.
Method: An evidence-based educational intervention regarding home and environmental safety measure was delivered during a Phoenix Children’s Hospital “Grand Rounds”. The data was collected using a pre-test and post-test survey to assess providers’ pre-knowledge of unintentional injury and their practice behaviors.
Aim 1: (a) assess the knowledge of pediatric healthcare providers regarding home and environmental age-appropriate safety measures for children, (b) determine the practice behaviors of pediatric healthcare providers in educating patients and/or families regarding injury prevention, and (c) examine the frequency that patients and/or caregivers are provided safety education by their healthcare provider.
Aim 2: To evaluate the impact of the educational session on provider knowledge regarding unintentional injury in children.
Results: The McNemar test was used to analyze changes in providers scores from pre- to post-test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The McNemar test revealed a significant increase in the providers’ knowledge of injury prevention between pre- and post-test in the following areas: providers’ definitions of injury; providers’ knowledge of the organization that developed the Children Risk Assessment; the approach providers take to educate caregivers about age-appropriate injury prevention measures in the infant/child home and environment; and examination of how often providers assess patient developmental age.
Conclusion: The results of the study showed a statistically significant improvement in providers’ understanding of the prevalence of unintentional childhood injuries from pre- to post-test and the importance of providing patients and families with information that aid in their understanding of injury prevention and home environmental safety interventions.
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Holm, Heather Louise. "Unintentional community, alternative community in the Annapolis Valley." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ27582.pdf.
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Kendrick, Denise. "Preventing unintentional injuries in childhood in primary care." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10347/.
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Unintentional injuries in childhood are a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Numerous risk factors for unintentional injury have been identified over recent years, and there have been several suggestions that injury prevention programmes should be targeted at children identified as high risk, based on these risk factors. There has also been increasing interest in, and emphasis on, the role of members of the primary health care team in preventing unintentional injuries to children, including within recent government policy. There is some evidence, so far, that primary care interventions can be effective in reducing hazards, increasing knowledge and changing behaviour. There is however, less evidence that they can be effective in reducing injury frequency or severity, with very few studies of high quality addressing this issue. The objectives of the research presented in this thesis are: 1.) to examine the relationship between accident and emergency department attendance and future hospital admission following unintentional injury, and to consider the transmission of injury data between secondary and primary care and the uses of such data within primary care; 2.) to examine the associations between risk factors for childhood injury and a variety of injury outcomes and to calculate the sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value for risk factors in identifying children who will subsequently suffer an unintentional injury, and to consider high risk group and whole population strategies for injury prevention in the light of the findings; 3.) to assess knowledge, attitudes and current practices in childhood injury prevention amongst members of the primary health care team and to consider the implications of the findings for injury prevention in primary care. The first objective has been achieved by a matched case-control study. The main findings were that children who had been admitted to hospital following an unintentional injury were twice as likely to have previously attended the accident and emergency (A&E) department than community controls. However, only one third of hospital admissions had a history of previous A&E department attendance, hence most of the children admitted to hospital would not have been identified using A&E attendance. Current practice in many A&E departments is that a paediatric liaison health visitor notifies the community health visitor of children attending A&E following injury. Most authors in the field discuss post injury follow up visits as an appropriate response to receipt of such notifications, but there is little evidence for their effectiveness, and several studies show such visits are perceived to be difficult for both parents and health visitors. There is little evidence that, at present, injury data transmitted from secondary care is collated in a systematic way, to be used in primary care for needs assessment or injury surveillance. It is therefore recommended that the role of the paediatric liaison health visitor in the collection and transmission of injury data is in need of further consideration, and that post injury follow up visits require further study to demonstrate their effectiveness. The second objective has been achieved by a cross sectional survey followed by a cohort study. The main findings from this study are that only previous injury and male sex were associated with A&E department attendance and only previous injury with primary health care team attendance, despite sufficient power to demonstrate associations for several other risk factors. Consequently the sensitivity and positive predictive value of the risk factors in identifying children who will suffer previous injury was found to be low. The specificity was high for most risk factors, suggesting they will miss most children who will have injuries but will correctly identify most children who will not suffer future injury. The number of children needing to be targeted with an intervention to prevent one injury was similar for most risk factors, and similar to that if the whole population received an intervention. The results could not be adequately explained by bias, confounding or insufficient power Further work examining associations between risk fectors and unintentional injury in childhood is needed with larger sample sizes and in a population with a wide cross section of socioeconomic status to confirm these findings. At present, it is recommended that injury prevention programmes in primary care use a population approach. The third objective was achieved by a cross sectional survey of general practitioners, practice nurses and health visitors in Nottinghamshire. The main findings from this survey were that health visitors had a significantly higher score for knowledge of childhood unintentional injury epidemiology than general practitioners or practice nurses. They held significantly more positive attitudes to, and were undertaking significantly more injury prevention than, both general practitioners and practice nurses. Despite this both general practitioners and practice nurses held positive attitudes to at least some injury prevention activities. The activities most commonly undertaken were those using a preventive model of health education, for all professional groups. Activities involving empowerment or radical or political models of health education were used less often. There was little evidence of a systematic approach to injury prevention, with prevention occurring most often opportunistically. For all activities, and across all professional groups, a greater proportion of respondents agreed that an activity should be undertaken than actually undertook that activity, suggesting there may be barriers to undertaking injury prevention in primary care. The difference between the proportion agreeing an activity should be undertaken and doing so, was greatest for lobbying or campaigning and for collecting injury data. The conclusions from this study are that current injury prevention practice, which often uses a preventive model of health education, often as an isolated approach, and most often opportunistically, may not be the most effective strategy for reducing unintentional injuries in primary care. Further studies are needed to assess the effectiveness of primary health care team interventions offered systematically, using a combination of health education models and approaches. Such studies must address the barriers to injury prevention in primary care. The findings from this study suggest there is already some knowledge, and positive attitudes towards injury prevention, amongst at least some primary health care team members, on which to build interest in such future research. NB. This ethesis has been created by scanning the typescript original and contains some inaccuracies. In case of difficulty, please refer to the original text.
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Feng, Wei. "A DSP based AC electronic load for unintentional islanding tests." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11991.
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The distributed generation (DG) system for the renewable energy resources is being used more and more widely around the world in the past decades. In order to protect the whole power system from the islanding situation, the interface inverters of the DG system have to pass the unintentional islanding test. In this study, a single phase AC electronic load is introduced to simulate the local loads under unintentional islanding conditions.
This thesis proposes a proper schematic of the electronic loads based on the H-bridge dc-dc converter and analyzes the performance of this system with PowerSIM. Then, a set of specifications for different ranges of the electronic loads are calculated through theoretical formulas and the PSIM simulations. Meanwhile, the transfer function of the system is also derived to analyze the stability of the PI control system.
According to the theoretical analysis and simulations, a control program is implemented based on the Texas Instruments (TI) Digital Signal Processor (DSP) TMS320F2407A for the different kinds of electronic loads.
A test circuit is then built to validate the performance of the system. Some experiments are performed for the resitive, inductive and capacitive loads respectively.
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Serrano-Fontova, Alexandre. "A novel assessment of unintentional islanding operations in distribution networks." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669187.
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This thesis aims to investigate an unexpected islanding operation (IO) which has been identified in a real distribution network. The process of recording and processing the data obtained from the field measurements in the distribution network (DN) has been the starting point of this research. It has to be underlined that this IO raised a problem and became a major challenge for the distribution operator. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is twofold; solving a real problem as well as further enhance the current research studies about IOs in DNs. IOs have been object of study during the recent years due to the rapid proliferation of the distributed generation (DG) within the so-called smart grids (SGs). Commonly, the power of these DG resources ranges between hundreds of kW and few MW and are allocated at either low voltage or medium voltage levels. One of the significant issues that these resources are raising is, undoubtedly, the IOs. These situations occur when a portion of the grid operates in parallel with the main grid following a disconnection. Thereby IOs, where the DG is energising the grid after a CB opening, must be identified and tripped in the minimum time possible. Failure to do so, the list of hurdles may include; power quality (PQ) disturbances (e.g., frequency and voltage out of range), a safety hazard for the network personnel or out-of-phase reclosings. That is the reason why the research towards the anti-islanding protection methods has elicited great interest.
Fundamentally, the substantial improvement of this thesis lies in the fact that, in this IO, there are no DG resources, but large induction motors. In fact, the grid remains energised after the CB disconnection due to the induction motors (IMs) which transiently, act as generators. The island begins with the CB operation and ends when the CB recloses the circuit to restore the electrical supply. This rapid reclosing operation is widely adopted in DNs to avoid manual operations in self-extinguished faults and typically ranges between 0.5 and 1s. Given the fact that usually IOs are originated in the presence of DG, indeed, this IO is utterly unexpectedly for the DSO.
Due to the phenomenon mentioned above, the specific goals of this thesis are described down below:
1. The first goal of this thesis focuses on developing a model suitable for validation purposes. To make a proper model validation, the simulations results obtained with this model will be compared with those obtained from field measurements. Thus, once the model has been validated, a thorough investigation regarding the most influential factors will be carried out.
2. The second goal of this thesis falls within the scope of the PQ. During the IO mentioned above, a new voltage sag topology is observed. Consequently, the efforts will be focused on modelling this new type of sag.
3. The third goal of this thesis emerges from the protective point of view. Once the IO has been defined and characterised, the need for identifying and preventing it becomes the main concern. In such a way, the third pillar of the thesis is targeted at implementing a suitable tool to prevent this particular IO. Besides, this new tool will be compared with the currently available methods for ID developed for scenarios with DG.Aquesta tesi te com a objectiu investigar una operació en illa no intencional, que ha set identificada en una xarxa de distribució real. El procés de registre i processament de les dades obtingudes a partir de les mesures de camp en la xarxa de distribució, ha estat el punt de partida d’aquesta investigació. Cal subratllar que aquesta operació en illa va plantejar un problema i es va convertir en un repte important per l’operador de distribució. Per tant, l'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és doble; resoldre un problema real, així com millorar els estudis de recerca actuals sobre les illes no intencionals en xarxes de distribució elèctrica. El fenomen de les illes dins una xarxa elèctrica, han estat objecte d’estudi durant els darrers anys a causa de la ràpida proliferació de la generació distribuïda. Habitualment, la potència d’aquests recursos distribuïts oscil·la entre centenars de kW i pocs MW i s’assignen a nivells de baixa tensió o mitja tensió. Una de les qüestions importants que plantegen aquests recursos és, sens dubte, les illes. Aquestes situacions es produeixen quan una part de la xarxa elèctrica funciona en paral·lel amb la xarxa principal després d’una desconnexió. Per això, les illes no intencionals es donen quan la generació distribuïda energitza la xarxa després de la obertura d’un interruptor. Principalment, l’objectiu es identificar aquesta situació i desconnectar dites fonts en el mínim temps possible. En el cas de que això no succeeixi, els següents disturbis poden produir-se; pertorbacions de la qualitat de potència (PQ) (per exemple, freqüència i tensió fora del rang), un perill per a la seguretat del personal de la xarxa o bé reconnexions fora de fase. Aquesta és la raó per la qual la investigació vers els mètodes de protecció “anti-islanding” han despertat un gran interès. Essencialment, la millora substancial d’aquesta tesi rau en el fet que, en aquesta illa, no hi ha recursos energètics distribuïts, sinó grans motors d’inducció. Així, la xarxa elèctrica continua energitzada després de la desconnexió del interruptor a causa dels motors d’inducció, que actuen de forma transitòria com a generadors. L’illa comença amb l’obertura del interruptor i finalitza quan aquest tanca el circuit per restablir el subministrament elèctric. Aquesta operació de reconnexió ràpid es freqüent en xarxes de distribució per evitar operacions manuals en faltes temporals i generalment oscil·la entre 0,5 i 1s. Tenint en compte que generalment les illes tenen l'origen en presència de generació distribuïda , realment, la illa elèctrica objecte d’aquesta tesi és inesperada per l’operador de distribució. A causa del fenomen esmentat anteriorment, els objectius específics d'aquesta tesi es descriuen a continuació: 1. El primer objectiu d'aquesta tesi se centra a desenvolupar un model adequat per la validació. Per fer una validació adequada del model, es compararan els resultats de les simulacions obtinguts amb aquest model amb els obtinguts de les mesures de camp. Així, un cop validat el model, es durà a terme una investigació completa sobre els factors més influents. 2. El segon objectiu d'aquesta tesi entra dins de l'àmbit d'aplicació del PQ. Durant l’esmentada illa, s’observa una nova topologia de forat de tensió. En conseqüència, els esforços se centraran en modelar aquest nou tipus de forat. 3. El tercer objectiu d'aquesta tesi s’emmarca en el punt de vista de proteccions. Un cop definida i caracteritzada l’illa, la necessitat d’identificar-la i prevenir-la esdevé la principal preocupació. D’aquesta manera, el tercer pilar de la tesi té com a objectiu la implementació d’una eina adequada per prevenir aquesta particular illa. A més, es compararà aquesta nova eina amb els actuals mètodes utilitzats per a identificar les illes en escenaris amb generació distribuïda.
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Bolton, Holz Kenna. "Men's fear of unintentional rape : measure development and psychometric evaluation /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1136094341&sid=20&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Islam, Sharnali. "ATOMISTIC MODELING OF UNINTENTIONAL SINGLE CHARGE EFFECTS IN NANOSCALE FETS." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/209.
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Numerical simulations have been performed to study the single-charge-induced ON current fluctuations (random telegraphic noise) in conventional (MOSFET) and non-conventional (silicon nanowire) nanoscale field-effect transistors. A semi-classical three-dimensional particle-based Monte Carlo device simulator (MCDS 3-D) has been integrated and used in this work. Quantum mechanical space-quantization effects have been accounted for via a parameter-free effective potential scheme that has been proved quite successful in describing charge set back from the interface and quantization of the energy (bandgap widening) within the channel region of the device. The effective potential is based on a perturbation theory around thermodynamic equilibrium and leads to a quantum field formalism in which the size of the electron depends upon its energy. To treat full Coulomb (electron-ion and electron-electron) interactions properly, the simulator implements two different real-space molecular dynamics (MD) schemes: the particle-particle-particle-mesh (P3M) method and the corrected Coulomb approach. For better accuracy, particularly in case of nanowire FETs, bandstructure parameters (bandgap, effective masses, and density of states) have been computed via a 20-band nearest-neighbor sp3d5s* tight-binding scheme. Also, since the presence of single impurities in the channel region represents a rare event in the carrier transport process, necessary event-biasing algorithms have been implemented in the simulator that, while enhancing the statistics, results in a faster convergence in the chan-nel current. The study confirms that, due to the presence of single channel charges, both the electrostatics (carrier density) and dynamics (mobility) are modified and, therefore, simultaneously play important roles in determining the magnitude of the current fluctuations. The relative impact (percentage change in the ON current) depends on an intricate interplay of device size, geometry, crystal direction, gate bias, temperature, and energetics and spatial location of the trap.
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Askar, Sally M. "Externalizing Behaviors as a Risk for Unintentional Injury in Children." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1470321664.
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Maskell, Jan. "No intention to learn : unintentional learning from the assessment of competence." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658039.
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This aim of this study was to examine what, and how, candidates learn from participating in an assessment of competence process where there is no explicit intention to learn. The awarding body, advisors and candidates focus on the assessment process as a route to membership and appear blind to the potential for learning from assessment. It was clear in this study that candidates pursued this route to membership precisely because it met their expressed motives to gain professional status and credibility with clients; a requirement for their current job role or for future roles - none claimed a motive to learn but they did recognise that overall the process was developmental. Advisors also acknowledged that candidates were pursuing this route for the outcome rather than for what development might happen during the process. The research addressed the questions of the role of narrative and of the advisor in the assessment of competence and what learning occurred as a result of the assessment process. This was driven by an interest in the applications of narrative in the assessment process and the research analysis. Candidates told the stories of their experience of the process and provided copies of their written accounts explaining how the evidence of t heir work met the assessment criteria. Advisors told the stories of their experiences with candidates. These sources were analysed using a methodological process of narrative inquiry from a social constructivist perspective. The findings showed evidence of learning occurring as a result of the assessment of competence process, beyond that required from the assessment criteria and standards, in the three areas of propositional, process, and personal learning. The role of written narrative as an artefact was important in motivating candidates: where they could see their portfolio growing. The role of the advisor was both as a mentor: directing and supporting; and as a coach: enabling and facilitating. Advisors offered an extra dimension to the candidates' reflections by interpreting the standards; making connections between the standards and the candidates' work experience; and giving formative feedback. The role of the advisor incorporated reflection and social learning: through helping candidates to make meaning of their experiences and expanding their stories, candidates moved fiom sense making to transformative learning, from surface to deep approaches to learning. Unintended learning should not be a surprise output from the competence assessment process: learning will occur despite the focus on the assessment of learning and despite there being no formal acknowledgement of assessment for learning. Because the process includes re-engagement with work experiences, written and spoken reflective processes, a deep approach to learning can ensue. There are possible applications of this research in the areas of competence assessment; academic tutorials; supervision or appraisal discussions; assessment and development centres; mentoring and coaching, where the use of competences, written and spoken narratives come together to enable learning from the process itself.
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Bain, Patricia. "Childhood unintentional home injury prevention in the primary health care setting." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416690.
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Livingston, Robert W. "Bias in the absence of malice : the phenomenon of unintentional discrimination /." Connect to resource, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osuosu1243027440.
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Yaguchi, Yujin. "Japanese Business in the United States: Unintentional Definition of the Other." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625651.
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McKerchar, Margaret Anne Australian Taxation Studies Program UNSW. "The impact of complexity upon unintentional noncompliance for Australian personal income taxpayers." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Australian Taxation Studies Program, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/19253.
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This study explores the impact of complexity upon unintentional non-compliance behaviour for personal taxpayers in Australia. This area of research did not appear to have been previously studied in an Australian context and in this respect, the study represents an original contribution. While studies have been conducted both in Australia and overseas, they have generally been directed at other types of compliance behaviour and tend to be inconclusive in their findings. According to the compliance literature, there appeared to be little consensus of opinion on the factors that determined behaviour and appropriate research methods. It emerged that more narrowly-defined studies with stronger research methods offered potential for furthering knowledge in this field. Thus the study focused on one behavioural outcome and one type of taxpayer, using a multi-paradigm research method. Unintentional non-compliance, as an outcome, was selected as it appeared to hold promise for improvements in overall compliance to be readily made, provided its causes were understood. Complexity was considered to be the most likely cause of unintentional non-compliance, and those who prepared their own income tax return, the group likely to be most affected. The study used both a quantitative and qualitative component from which a number of convergent results emerged. These included that the major cause of complexity was the ambiguity of tax laws and the volume of explanatory material required. Further, personal taxpayers were committed to compliance even though they regarded the system as less than fair. Together, complexity and commitment to compliance caused taxpayers to experience unnecessary compliance costs. Where taxpayers completed their own return, complexity resulted in a high level of errors that generally resulted in an overstatement of tax liability. In addition, some taxpayers chose to be over-compliant as a means of dealing with complexity and commitment. It was concluded that complexity compromised the integrity of the Australian income tax system by imposing an unfair burden on personal taxpayers in respect of both tax paid and compliance costs incurred. However, there appeared to be little, if any, financial incentive for the tax authority to address the causes of complexity for personal taxpayers.
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Bolton, Holz Kenna. "The role of fear of unintentional rape in rape prevention programming response /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1895040961&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009."Department of Psychology." Keywords: Rape, Prevention, Fear, Men Includes bibliographical references (p.95-101). Also available online.
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Ramdas, Leonard Harichand. "Strategies to Prevent the Unintentional Retention of Foreign Objects in Surgical Patients." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1656.
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The Institute of Medicine's report in 2000, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health
System, highlighted the seriousness of medical errors in the U.S. health care system. The unintentional retention of foreign objects in surgical patients is one of those errors. At the time of this study, there was no standardized counting policy and process across operating rooms in the United States. The purpose of this project was to develop a best practice educational counting program to help prevent the unintentional retention of foreign objects in surgical patients. The Logic Model was used to guide the design of the educational program and expected learning outcomes. A draft of the educational program was distributed to 10 perioperative stakeholders for an initial formative review. Changes were incorporated into the program and it was distributed to 6 perioperative experts for an additional summative assessment and content validation utilizing the AGREE II Instrument. The overall quality evaluation of the educational program was 85%, indicating that it was of high quality. Four of the respondents recommended the educational program for implementation without any changes and 2 recommended it for implementation with some minor modifications related to rewording of one question in the pretest-posttest. There were no recommended modifications in the content of the educational program. As a result, the project was recommended for adoption as a best practices-based educational program to prevent the unintentional retention of foreign objects in surgical patients. The study promotes positive social change by providing suggestions to improve the provision of safe care to surgical patients and decrease health care costs.
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Karazsia, Bryan Thomas. "EXPLORATION OF A COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL MODEL OF PARENTAL INFLUENCES ON CHILDREN’S RISK FOR UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1235225044.
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AlSharidah, Michel E. "An active method for implementing the unintentional islanding test in distributed generation systems." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44001.
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A development of an island stabilizing element (ISE) for use in the IEEE 1547 unintentional islanding test is introduced. The new test setup for non- islanding inverters interconnected with the grid is proposed. The current testing standard uses discrete RLC elements to simulate the test-island. Even though the RLC simulated test-island is useful for its reproducibility, relative scalability and short setup time, as inverter power ratings increase so does the size and cost of the RLC simulated island. The proposed island stabilizing element can represent the function of the resonant part of the test island as well as provide compensation for dynamic changes in power during the test for producing near worst case conditions for an islanding test. This work introduces improvements to the unintentional islanding test. The island stabilizing element is designed and developed. Test cases proved the efficient application of the ISE as means to replace the LC elements in the unintentional islanding test.
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Pant, Puspa Raj. "Epidemiology, impact and prevention of unintentional child injuries in Makwanpur district of Nepal." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2013. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/23049/.
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Background: Injury is a major health problem in children throughout the world and its burden is borne particularly in poor countries. Nepal not only has a challenging economic environment but has a uniquely challenging physical environment, which exposes children to injury risk. Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to estimate the burden of unintentional injuries and injury risk factors among children aged 0-17 years in the Makwanpur district of Nepal; and to assess preventive strategies used in the community. Methods: The study applied a mixed methods approach. This thesis includes three studies: 1) A systematic review of the literature on childhood unintentional injuries was conducted for countries in the WHO’s South-East Asian region. 2) A community-based household survey on childhood unintentional injuries was conducted across Makwanpur district. The aim of this survey was to identify the magnitude of and risk factors for injuries in children and the burden faced by families and the community. 3) A qualitative study, whose aim was to obtain an in-depth understanding about the issue of child injuries using: focus groups (FGDs) and key informant interviews (KIIs). Results: The systematic review included 26 papers published between 2000 and 2009. Studies were available from only five countries out of eleven countries in the South-East Asia region. A wide variation in the definitions of non-fatal injury was observed in the included studies. Most of these papers simply presented the rates and proportions of injuries and very few papers analysed risk factors in detail. The community-based survey covered 7,844 children from 3,441 households. The response rates were 98 and 90 percent for rural and urban households respectively. More females were engaged in agriculture while more males are engaged in occupations such as service, labour work and business. Overall median of per capita monthly expenditure was below the level of 1 US$ per day. The annual rate of non-fatal injuries among children (aged 0-17 years) was 24.60 (95% CI 21.2-28.0) per 1,000 children, with the rates for boys almost double [32.5 (95%CI 27.0-38.1)] that for girls [16.7 (95%CI 12.7-20.8)]. The injury rate among children aged 5-9 years was found to the highest i.e. 30.3 (95%CI 22.9-40.0) per 1,000 children followed by 1-4 years. Falls, cuts/wounds and road traffic injuries were the major causes of non-fatal injuries. Injury rates varied greatly across the survey village development committees (VDCs) and geographical settings. Non-fatal injury rates varied for different geographical areas: high hill 12.3 (95%CI 7.6-19.7), mid-hill 27.5 (95%CI 20.9-36.1), low land 28.6 (95%CI 22.1-37.0) and urban area 25.5 (95%CI 17.2-37.5). Over 83% of the survey households have at least one child in them; the proportion of households having 3 or more children was 50% in the mid hills and 55% in low land VDCs. This thesis found a strong relationship between injury and the number of children in the household. Among the households with at least one injured child, the proportion of the households from the two lower quintiles of socio-economic status was 58.1% (95%CI 45.8-70.3) for mid hill and 60.3% (95%CI 48.2-72.4) for low land VDCs. The trend for the high hill and urban town of Hetauda was not consistent. The survey also examined the costs of treatment and time for caring for injured children. A total 53 households (29.28%) took loans to cover the costs of treatment (median USD 47; IQR 18-94). About 84% of all injured children received some treatment (including home treatments). Direct and indirect costs summed to be about NRs 1.3 million (~15,000 USD); two-thirds of which was medical expenses. Nearly 60% of families applied any safety measures after their child was injured. Most of the respondents actually provided some sort of instructions to their children or parents (in case of infants and toddlers). Only a small proportion of parents applied any environmental modifications. The qualitative study presented the findings from 27 focus group participants and 5 key informants from different parts of Makwanpur district. Overall a lack of knowledge about childhood injuries was observed. However, lack of supervision was identified as a major risk factor for injuries to small children. Community people were keen to contribute in the prevention of injuries and to safeguarding children in the future. Achievement: There is a lack of data on the epidemiology of injury and relatively little research has been conducted on child injuries in Nepal and the community-based studies in this thesis fill an obvious gap. As well as providing useful information for both practice and policy in Nepal, it is hoped that the findings have wider implications that will be helpful for other low- and middle- income countries.
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Betancourt-Cravioto, Miguel. "Unintentional injuries in children in Mexico : a proposal to analyse the policy response." Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440443.
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Ranucci, Melissa B. Guarnaccia Charles Anthony. "Self-inflicted and other-inflicted intentional burns versus unintentional burns a comparison study /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-9046.
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Howard, Mary V. Cunningham. "Unintentional ethanol consumption : acute effects on blood alcohol levels and performance in children /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Ranucci, Melissa B. "Self-inflicted and other-inflicted intentional burns versus unintentional burns: A comparison study." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9046/.
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Burn injuries are associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Intentional burn injuries are not well understood, and warrant study to improve adjustment and outcomes. The present study examined group differences between intentional and unintentional burn injuries, comparing individuals with self-inflicted (SIB; n=109) and other-inflicted (OIB; n=109) burns to an unintentional burn (UB) group. Compared to UB, those with intentional (SIB, OIB) burn injuries were more likely to be young, female, unmarried, unemployed, abuse substances, and have positive alcohol/drug screens at hospital admission. Individuals with intentional burns report more psychological distress, lower quality of life in some areas, and lower life satisfaction. When SIB and OIB were examined individually, OIB were more likely to be African American compared to SIB and UB. OIB also had more anxiety and paranoia than UB. SIB was more likely than OIB and UB to have had medical problems or psychiatric disorders and treatment prior to the burn injury. Those with SIB were 3 times more likely than UB to die in the hospital even after controlling for age, severity of burn, and inhalation injuries. Moreover, the SIB group had high rates of suicidal ideation at discharge and follow-up. Treatment implications for burn treatment providers were discussed.
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Fazeen, Mohamed, and Mohamed Issadeen. "Modeling and Analysis of Intentional And Unintentional Security Vulnerabilities in a Mobile Platform." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700067/.
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Mobile phones are one of the essential parts of modern life. Making a phone call is not the main purpose of a smart phone anymore, but merely one of many other features. Online social networking, chatting, short messaging, web browsing, navigating, and photography are some of the other features users enjoy in modern smartphones, most of which are provided by mobile apps. However, with this advancement, many security vulnerabilities have opened up in these devices. Malicious apps are a major threat for modern smartphones. According to Symantec Corp., by the middle of 2013, about 273,000 Android malware apps were identified. It is a complex issue to protect everyday users of mobile devices from the attacks of technologically competent hackers, illegitimate users, trolls, and eavesdroppers. This dissertation emphasizes the concept of intention identification. Then it looks into ways to utilize this intention identification concept to enforce security in a mobile phone platform. For instance, a battery monitoring app requiring SMS permissions indicates suspicious intention as battery monitoring usually does not need SMS permissions. Intention could be either the user's intention or the intention of an app. These intentions can be identified using their behavior or by using their source code. Regardless of the intention type, identifying it, evaluating it, and taking actions by using it to prevent any malicious intentions are the main goals of this research. The following four different security vulnerabilities are identified in this research: Malicious apps, spammers and lurkers in social networks, eavesdroppers in phone conversations, and compromised authentication. These four vulnerabilities are solved by detecting malware applications, identifying malicious users in a social network, enhancing the encryption system of a phone communication, and identifying user activities using electroencephalogram (EEG) for authentication. Each of these solutions are constructed using the idea of intention identification. Furthermore, many of these approaches have utilized different machine learning models. The malware detection approach performed with an 89% accuracy in detecting the given malware dataset. In addition, the social network user identification model's accuracy was above 90%. The encryption enhancement reduced the mobile CPU usage time by 40%. Finally, the EEG based user activities were identified with an 85% accuracy. Identifying intention and using it to improve mobile phone security are the main contributions of this dissertation.
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Schinzel, Sebastian [Verfasser], and Felix [Akademischer Betreuer] Freiling. "Unintentional and Hidden Information Leaks in Networked Software Applications / Sebastian Schinzel. Betreuer: Felix Freiling." Erlangen : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1022737198/34.
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Liang, Keyu. "A survey on unintentional injury among children aged 0-16 in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31636810.
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Damashek, Amy L. "The moderating role of maternal supervision in the social ecology of children's unintentional injuries." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4655.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on January 31, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Penland, Kimberly Sue. "The Relationship between Nurse Nutrition Knowledge and Unintentional Weight Loss in Nursing Home Residents." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194310.
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Unintentional weight loss is a common and significant problem among nursing home residents and an important indicator of malnutrition. Nursing home residents who lose more than 5% of their body weight in one month or 10% of body weight in six months are at increased risk for morbidity and mortality. Licensed nurses, who are responsible for maintaining the health and well-being of nursing home residents, have been shown to be deficient in nutrition knowledge. Little is known about the relationship between nurse nutrition knowledge and unintentional weight loss in nursing home residents.The purpose of this study was to revise a nurse nutrition questionnaire to reduce respondent burden and to examine the psychometric properties of the revised instrument. The revised instrument was then used to describe the relationship between nurse nutrition knowledge and unintentional weight loss in nursing homes across Northeast Indiana.A descriptive, correlational, and non-experimental design was used to describe the relationship between nurse nutrition knowledge and unintentional weight loss (UWL) in nursing home residents in Northeast Indiana. Licensed nurses (N = 101) from nine nursing homes were recruited for this study. Nurse nutrition knowledge was measured using a revised nutrition questionnaire (NKQ-R) and weight loss data was obtained from the Nursing Home Compare Database.Content validity of the NKQ-R was acceptable. Item analysis demonstrated six items below the acceptable point biserial of .15, and one question demonstrated a very high P value of 98 and had a nonfunctioning distracter response. Four of these problematic items were in subscale `3' (nutritional deficiencies of institutionalized older adults). Consistent with findings from previous studies, nurses scored below average on the nurse nutrition questionnaire, however relationships between nurse nutrition knowledge and unintentional weight loss were not supported. Level of nurse education was positively correlated with NKQ-R scores. Nursing home ownership type was significantly related to NKQ-R scores and unintentional weight loss; nurses working in not-for-profit nursing homes scored higher on the NKQ-R than nurses working in not-for-profit nursing homes, and not-for-profit nursing homes had a lower incidence of UWL than the for-profit nursing homes in this study.
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Liang, Keyu, and 梁可喻. "A survey on unintentional injury among children aged 0-16 in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40052102.
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Roche, Mary. "A critical assessment of the burden of unintentional child and adolescent injury in Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677456.
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This thesis explores the complexities of the issue of injury for children and young people in Ireland. It looks at Irish quantitative data on mortality and morbidity, qualitative data drawn from Coroner's records, interviews with practitioners and reviews policy issues presented by injury. The rationale for the study stems from concern that injury is the principle cause of death for children and young people aged 1-19yrs. It argues that injury and unintentional injury in particular does not receive sufficient attention, in research and policy terms. A Sociological position informs the exploration of injury from theoretical frameworks on childhood and risk. A pragmatic worldview has informed the study methodology. The study focuses on unintentional injury in the context of all injuries and determines the gendered patterns and priorities for four age groups for a 10 year period. Findings show that external injury mortality rates are underestimated. Transport-related injury death has sharply declined but is still the most relevant factor for all age groups, followed by poisoning and drowning for the 15-19yr olds age group for whom the mortality burden is largest. Falls, being struck or pierced, transport and poisoning injuries are the main causes for hospitalisations across all age groups and 0-4yr olds have the highest rates. 10% of all hospital discharges result from unintentional injury. There are knowledge gaps in significant areas such as sport and recreational injuries. Injury practitioners were found to have important potential as injury prevention stakeholders. Injury prevention policy directions are proposed. These include establishing a comprehensive child death review process and a coordinated dedicated child injury prevention approach at government level. It is believed that focussed attention on the issue will help to reduce injury incidence and strengthen the commitment to children's rights
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Mellquist, Joanna. "Officially Categorized Queers : Strategies, Risks and Unintentional Effects When Navigating the Swedish Asylum Apparatus." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30648.
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This thesis investigates the experiences and strategies of queer migrants seeking asylum in Sweden due to sexuality and/or gender identity. By conducting ethnographic fieldwork and biographical interviews within the RFSL Newcomers support network, the thesis analyses how queer migrants navigate the Swedish asylum apparatus. Building on recent research in queer migration studies, it explores how power relations related to class, gender and race affect queer migrants’ strategies. Applying Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network theory, the thesis furthermore analyses the queer migrants in an actor network together with RFSL Newcomers and the asylum apparatus as independent actors. This thesis additionally aims to contribute to the sociological debate on categorization and construction of identity using Ian Hacking’s concept of the looping effect. Lack of social capital, of not having the right networks, gendered possibilities of visibility and speaking about sexuality can establish obstacles for queer migrants in the credibility assessment and the success of the asylum claim. The asymmetric power relation forces queer migrants into conflicting strategies. Forced visibility and hyper hiding are strategies that are specifically produced in relation to the asylum apparatus creating gendered risk and precarious living conditions. This thesis concludes that queer migrants and the RFSL Newcomers network, in their asylum activism both challenge the asylum apparatus and Western narratives of LGBTQ identity. Nevertheless, RFSL and the queer migrants become complicit in the production of official essentialistic LGBTQ identities when navigating the asylum apparatus. By exploring the Swedish context of LGBTQ asylum and categorization of LGBTQ identity in the asylum process, this thesis contributes to the somewhat undertheorized field of queer migration in Swedish academia.
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Koert, Emily Christina. "When time runs out : the experience of unintentional childlessness for women who delayed childbearing." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46027.
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Given that an increasing number of women are waiting to have children there is growing concern that more women will end up unintentionally childless as they continue to delay childbearing past the time when a viable pregnancy is possible. However, little is known about the experience of permanent, unintentional childlessness for women who have delayed childbearing. This phenomenon was the focus of this study. A qualitative approach was used to answer the question: What is the meaning and experience of permanent unintentional childlessness for women who delayed childbearing? In-depth, tape recorded interviews were conducted with 15 women who had expected to become mothers but were now permanently and unintentionally childless after delaying childbearing. The interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using van Manen’s (1990) hermeneutic phenomenological method. Thematic representations and rich descriptions of the experience of this phenomenon were developed. Six common themes were identified across the women’s experiences of unintentional childlessness after delay including: 1) Sense of Grief and Loss; 2) Sense of Being an Outsider in a World of Mothers; 3) Sense of Judgment and Assumptions; 4) Sense of Powerlessness; 5) Need to Make Sense of Childlessness; and 6) Sense of Reconciliation and Acceptance. Trustworthiness of the results was determined using criteria consistent with the hermeneutic phenomenological method.
The findings are compared with the theoretical and extant literature, with emphasis being placed on how they extend our current understanding of the phenomenon of permanent unintentional childlessness after delay for women. The implications for Counselling Psychology practice and future research are also addressed.
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Van, Liew Julia Rose. "Unintentional weight loss after head and neck cancer : a dynamic relationship with depressive symptoms." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2158.
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Although unintentional weight loss (UWL) and depressive symptoms are critical outcomes following diagnosis and treatment for head and neck cancer (HNC), there is a limited understanding of how they influence one another over time. As part of a large, prospective study on HNC outcomes, growth curve modeling was used to evaluate 564 patients’ trajectories of depressive symptoms and percentage UWL and analyze longitudinal associations between these variables across the first year following HNC diagnosis. The hypothesized temporal precedence model was not supported—pretreatment depressive symptoms predicted neither total percentage weight loss at 6 months (t(561) = -1.50, p = .13), nor rates of curvilinear change in percentage weight loss over time (t(561) = 1.38, p = .17). The opposite temporal precedence model also lacked support—early weight loss predicted neither level of depressive symptoms at 6 months (t (432) = 0.24, p = .81), nor rates of linear change in depressive symptoms over time (t (432) = 1.31, p = .19). Instead, a pattern of concurrent covariation emerged—changes in depressive symptoms over time were associated with concurrent changes in UWL (t (1148) = 2.05, p = .041) and changes in UWL over time were associated with concurrent changes in depressive symptoms (t (556) = 2.43, p = .015). That is, to the extent that depressive symptoms increased on a monthly basis, patients lost incrementally more weight than was lost due to the passage of time, and to the extent that weight loss increased on a monthly basis, depressive symptoms also increased.
Together, these bidirectional results depicted an ongoing transactional interplay between depressive symptoms and UWL across time, such that changes in either variable resulted in deviations from the average trajectory of the other variable. Patient-reported pain and eating abilities emerged as potential mechanisms through which these variables influence one another. The results have important clinical implications, indicating that ongoing screening and treatment for depression and weight loss throughout the first year after HNC could benefit patients’ psychological and nutritional outcomes alike.
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Iker, Carolyn E. "Early unintentional pregnancy loss as it is experienced by the couple : a phenomenological study." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29734.
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This phenomenological study examined the experience of miscarriage from the couple's perspective. The study participants were six couples who had miscarried within four weeks of the initial interview. Data were collected in interviews and were analyzed concurrently. Themes were identified and validated by the couples as the interviews progressed. Findings from analysis confirmed that couples grieve following a miscarriage. This grief experience is represented by a composite of four interacting motifs called Discovery, Disclosure, Definition and Decision. Each motif is characterized by dominant emotions and behaviours. The composite interacts with the external theme of Health Care Interactions. Findings supported assertions that individuals within the couple relationship grieve incongruently. The grief experience is facilitated or hampered by the quality of health care interactions the couple experiences. Couples identified needs that were unmet during the experience particularly the need to talk through the experience at a later time and the need to have their losses acknowledged by their health care givers. Differences in Discovery were found between couples who had a prodromal phase of miscarriage and those who had a missed abortion. Couples who had a missed abortion experienced confusion in addition to the shock and disbelief encountered at this time.
Findings also supported the assertion that grief following a miscarriage is generally resolved within twelve weeks.
This description of the grief experience following a miscarriage will assist nurses to provide couple-centred care to facilitate resolution of their grief. Implications for practice, research and education are described to enhance the nurse's ability to provide more effective care to miscarrying couples.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Genao, Ana. "False memories evidence for unintentional processing of semantically related words using a Stroop variation task /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://thesis.haverford.edu/117/01/2005GenaoA.pdf.
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Karazsia, Bryan Thomas. "Exploration of a cognitive-behavioral model of parental influences on children's risk for unintentional injuries." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1235225044.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 25, 2010). Advisor: Beth G. Wildman. Keywords: injury, unintentional injury, children, mediation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-72).
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Barat, Atena. "Understanding the prevention of unintentional child injuries at home setting : a qualitative study in Iran." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43306/.
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Background: Injuries include potentially life-threatening problems associated with increased hospital admission and permanent disability among children, with considerable financial, emotional and social effects on the child and the family as well as on the community and society as a whole. The preventability of injuries through adopting a variety of interventions necessitates stakeholders (e.g. parents, health professionals and policymakers) supporting and implementing such interventions. There is paucity of evidence in Iran regarding the needs for controlling home injuries among children. Objectives: To explore the practice of parents, health professionals and policy makers associated with the prevention of home injuries among urban children under 5 years; and to identify barriers to and facilitators of success for such practices in Iran. Methods: A generic qualitative approach was adopted with home observation and semi-structured interviews undertaken with: 18 parents attending urban health centres in Tehran for childhood immunization; 28 health professionals whose scope of duty was child health and safety and working in the urban health centres; and 19 policymakers working as top-level managers in different organisations concerned with child health and safety. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim and the data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Children are living in hazardous environments which increase their risk for home injuries. All parents adopted a range of insufficient child proofing measures at the study time. They need to be supported, particularly financially and educationally, to enhance the safety level of their homes. Health professionals can potentially be supportive to meet their needs, but practice is hampered by the lack of a comprehensive national strategy. Policymakers who are responsible for tackling this problem have confronted barriers at the individual (e.g. lack of awareness) and societal (e.g. lack of rules and enforcement) levels. Conclusion: Child home injury is a complex and multifaceted subject whose prevention is affected by a wide range of facilitators and barriers to be considered in developing new strategies and revising the current initiatives. This study has implications for advocating policies that improve safety culture throughout society as well as mobilizing communities to solve the issue.
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O'Neal, Elizabeth Elaine. "Parent-child conversations about safety in children with and without ADHD." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6235.
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Unintentional injury is a leading cause of childhood death and disability in the U.S. Notably, atypically-developing children are at greater risk for unintentional injuries than their typically developing peers. A key question is how to prevent these injuries in both typically- and atypically-developing children. As children gain independence, responsibility for the regulation of risky behaviors must transfer from parents to children. This likely happens in a variety of ways, one of which is parent-child conversations about safety. Past work has examined the content of parent-child safety conversations in typically-developing children and found that mothers use disagreements, supported by references to dangerous features of the activity and the adverse outcomes that might result, as a means of bringing children around to their own way of thinking about safety. Still unknown is what these conversations look like while parents and children are engaged in common, yet potentially unsafe activities, such as crossing roads with traffic. Nor do we know what these conversations look like in at-risk populations, such as children with ADHD. Evidence points to poor executive function and oppositionality, commonly comorbid with ADHD, as driving the increased injury risk in this population.
We assessed parent-child safety conversations in real time while parents and their children (with and without ADHD) were engaged in a simulated risky activity: crossing traffic-filled roads in our pedestrian simulator. Recorded conversations were coded and parents completed several questionnaires and diagnostic assessments regarding their and their child’s ADHD symptoms. While fewer symptomology differences related to parent-child conversations emerged than initially anticipated, many that did were primarily driven by oppositionality. These findings support previous claims that oppositionality increases injury risk in this population and contributes to poorer parent-child interactions.
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Lartice, Jonathan. "The return of the proletariat : Badiou's dialectical materialism as an unintentional bridge between Marx and postanarchism." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2017. http://research.gold.ac.uk/22034/.
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Ablewhite, Joanne. "Parental perceptions of child safety and unintentional injuries that occur within the home environment : a qualitative study." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555801.
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Childhood unintentional injury is a leading cause of death and disability in the UK and shows steep social gradients. Few qualitative studies have explored potential explanations for the inequality amongst parents living in advantaged and disadvantaged areas. This thesis aims to generate potential explanations by: • Exploring differences in perceptions of child injury risk between parents living in advantaged and disadvantaged areas, • assessing differences in safety practices including parental supervision, between parents living in advantaged and disadvantaged areas, and • gaining an understanding of parental perceptions of, and possible barriers to implementing safety information and advice. Data was collected by qualitative face to face interviews with 21 parents in an advantaged area and 16 parents in a disadvantaged area. Original contributions to existing literature have been made as follows: • Mothers living in the disadvantaged area are not less aware of child home injury risks. • Some parents perceive the risk of child injury based on their own experiences with their child rather than on general safety awareness. • Parents make a distinction between 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' unintentional injuries and do not seek to prevent 'acceptable' injuries. • Parents use listening and watching as a supervision strategy differently for boys and girls. • Parents living in the advantaged area described older children as an injury risk to younger siblings. Parents living in the disadvantaged area described older children as supervisors of younger siblings. • Parents living in the disadvantaged area describe less control over, and face greater barriers to adapting their homes. • Parents living in the disadvantaged area fear talking to professionals due to the potential consequences. Explanations for unintentional injury are related to the broader cumulative effects of socio-economic disadvantage. Parents living in disadvantaged areas face greater challenges in keeping their children safe from injury.
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Guilfoyle, Shanna M. "Caregiver Perceived Self-efficacy and Supervision in Childhood Unintentional Injury Prevention: The Moderating Role of Developmental Knowledge." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1244735628.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 25, 2010). Advisor: Beth Wildman. Keywords: health, health care, psychology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-66).
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Ricci, Alison. "Unintentional ingestions of prescription and over the counter medications in children five years of age and younger." The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623571.
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Class of 2011 AbstractOBJECTIVES: Accidental ingestions of medications in children under five years old are an increasing problem faced by parents and caregivers. This study will determine which medications are most commonly ingested and which cause more harmful side effects. METHODS: A descriptive, retrospective study was performed by obtaining data from electronic patient charts from the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center (APDIC). Subjects were selected if they were younger than five years old and had ingested a medication during 2009. Age and gender were analyzed by calculating percentages and means and comparing them using an independent t-test. Adverse effects of medications were compared using a Chi Square test. RESULTS: A total of 4,373 cases met inclusion criteria for analysis, including 2,019 females and 2,354 males. The average age of patients was 2.2 years. Of 3,275 cases (74.4%) involving OTC medications, 119 patients (3.6%) developed minor effects and 20 patients (0.6%) developed moderate effects. Of 1,129 children (25.6%) ingesting prescription medications, 78 patients (6.9%) developed minor effects, 35 patients (3.1%) developed moderate effects and 1 patient (0.1%) developed a major effect (p=0.003). CONCLUSION: Males were more likely to have unintentional ingestions than females. The incidence of OTC ingestions was higher than prescription ingestions. Toddlers tended to have more ingestions than infants or older children. Unintentional prescription medication ingestions resulted in significantly more adverse effects than unintentional OTC ingestions.
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Maseko, Busisiwe Jane. "Caregiver's safety practices regarding unintentional poisoning amongst preschool children in the Elias Motsoaledi Sub-District of Limpopo Province." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/67795.
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Aim: The study was to explore and describe caregivers’ safety practices regarding unintentional poisoning in preschool children in the Elias Motsoaledi Sub-district, Limpopo Province.
Background: Unintentional poisoning remains a global concern and is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality amongst preschool children. Although in the literature review, some authors show a decline of poisoning in different countries, the emergency and paediatric departments still admits children with poisonings from different agents.
In response to increasing admissions of preschool children with poisoning in the paediatric department, this study was conducted to explore and describe caregivers’ safety practices regarding unintentional poisoning amongst preschool children in the Elias Motsoaledi Sub-district, Limpopo Province. The researcher had no prior information concerning safety practices of caregivers in Elias Motsoaledi Sub-district.
Methods: The methodology utilised was a qualitative approach to explore and describe safety practices concerning unintentional poisoning within the local context. The target population were caregivers with preschool children residing in the Elias Motsoaledi sub-district in Limpopo province. Purposive sampling was use to select 57 caregivers with preschool children who received their healthcare services in four Primary Health Care clinics. Data collections was through conducting eight (8) focus group interviews, each comprising of five (5) to twelve (12) participants. Data was analyse using qualitative content analysis. Findings: Three themes emerged that were 1) Indoor safety practices, 2) Outdoor safety practices 3) and Consinderation of child’s developmental skills. These showed that caregivers’ safety practices concerning unintentional poisoning remains a challenge. There seemed to be a limited awareness of environmental safety harzards, limited knowledge of best indoor and outdoor safety habits and supervision of preschoolers at home to prevent unintentional poisoning.
Conclusion: The recommendations made were in the form of health information and education (pamphlets, posters, workshop and radio broadcasts) of good indoor and outdoor safety practices to prevent unintentional poisoning in preschool children shared with the community and stake holders. In addition the findings of the research will be used to inform the reviewing of local prevention of childhood emergencies guidelines and further research into factors which influence unintentional poisoning. In conclusion the sharing of health information and education regarding the safe indoor outdoor practices with caregivers may improve their knowledge and therefore prevent unintentional poisoning in preschool children.Dissertation (MCur)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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Johnson, Jared A. "A determination of the risk of intentional and unintentional electromagnetic radiation emitters degrading installed components in closed electromagnetic environments." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45882.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThis report proposes a method of risk determination that incorporates a loss function and a probability function in order to better enable decision makers in determining the risk of implementing wireless technologies in reverberant enclosed spaces that contain sensitive installed components. There is a constant desire to include new technology into the systems being designed to operate onboard U.S. Naval vessels. One of these technologies is wireless communications. This technology relies on the use of the electromagnetic spectrum in order to transfer information from one point to another. This type of information transfer can be advantageous in various applications. Exposing sensitive electronic components to a time-varying electromagnetic field increases the risk of an electronic upset in those components that will degrade the functionality of installed systems. This risk determination should provide a way to weigh the risk of introducing wireless technologies in enclosed spaces. This risk determination relies on the assumption that at some point there will be enough data collected to properly determine the overall risk to at-risk equipment. Until that occurs, incorporating new methods of shielding and low power technologies is recommended.
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Dodds, Cassandra Marie. "Safety Involving Brothers And Sisters: Gender Differences." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1335540143.
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Mohamed, Suraya. "Unintentional childhood injuries in the home: the perceptions of first time mothers on the risk factors in Delft, Cape Town." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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Injuries continue to be a significant health problem in children. Injuries put more children in hospital than any other single cause. Injuries to children are due to falls, burns, poisoning, crushing, suffocation, traffic incidents and other causes both intentional and unintentional. Preschool children most commonly experience injuries in the home where they spend most of their time. The Western Cape Department of Health has decided to focus on the prevention of unintentional injuries to preschool children in and around the home. It is necessary to first determine the risk factors to these injuries before embarking on safety promotion and injury prevention programmes. To date there have been no studies documented in South Africa looking at the perceptions of the risk factors associated with household unintentional childhood injuries of first time mothers. This study therefore attempted to explore the perceptions of risk factors of first time mothers in Delft. Delft was chosen because it is a low-income area (which is recognised as being a risk factor to unintentional childhood injuries) and it is one of the pilot sites for the injury prevention programme of the Western Cape Department of Health.
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Chong, Andrea Denise. "Unintentional contaminant transfer from groundwater to the vadose zone via gas exsolution and ebullition during remediation of volatile organic compounds." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57060.
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Historical heavy use of chlorinated solvents in conjunction with improper disposal practices and accidental releases has resulted in widespread contamination of soils and groundwater in North America. As a result, remediation of chlorinated solvents is required at many sites. For treatment of source zone contamination, common remediation strategies include in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) using potassium or sodium permanganate, and the enhancement of biodegradation by primary substrate addition. It is well known that these remediation methods tend to generate gas (carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the case of ISCO using permanganate, CO₂ and methane (CH₄) in the case of bioremediation). It is hypothesized that the generation of gas in the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including chlorinated solvents, may lead to stripping of the contaminants from the source zone due to gas exsolution and ebullition. This process may lead to ‘compartment transfer’, whereby contaminants are transported away from the saturated zone into the vadose zone, with possible implications for soil vapour intrusion. Two sites in the U.S. undergoing enhanced bioremediation have exhibited behavior suggestive of contaminant transfer into the vadose zone via gas generated during remediation. These sites provided the impetus for a more in-depth investigation into this process.
To this extent, benchtop column experiments were conducted to observe the effect of gas generation during remediation of the common chlorinated solvent trichloroethylene (TCE/C₂Cl₃H). Two common in situ treatment strategies were simulated for source-zone subsurface contamination of TCE, including ISCO and enhanced bioremediation.
Results confirm that these aggressive remediation methods can lead to gas production and induce vertical transport of contaminants away from the treatment zone, following the formation of a discontinuous gas phase (bubbles). The generation of gas and the potential for unintentional contaminant stripping and transport should be taken into consideration when treating VOCs to avoid release into the atmosphere or into underground structures via soil vapour intrusion. This study also suggests that the suitability of gas-generating remediation techniques in proximity to buildings and in populated areas should be evaluated with care.Science, Faculty of
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