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Olumide, Babajide Adelekan. "Characterization of the Germania Spraberry unit from analog studies and cased-hole neutron log data". Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2795.
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The need for characterization of the Germania unit has emerged as a first step in the review, understanding and enhancement of the production practices applicable within the unit and the trend area in general. Petrophysical characterization of the Germania Spraberry units requires a unique approach for a number of reasons ?? limited core data, lack of modern log data and absence of directed studies within the unit. In the absence of the afore mentioned resources, an approach that will rely heavily on previous petrophysical work carried out in the neighboring ET O??Daniel unit (6.2 miles away), and normalization of the old log data prior to conventional interpretation techniques will be used. A log-based rock model has been able to guide successfully the prediction of pay and non-pay intervals within the ET O??Daniel unit, and will be useful if found applicable within the Germania unit. A novel multiple regression technique utilizing non-parametric transformations to achieve better correlations in predicting a dependent variable (permeability) from multiple independent variables (rock type, shale volume and porosity) will also be investigated in this study. A log data base includes digitized formats of gamma ray, cased hole neutron, limited resistivity and neutron/density/sonic porosity logs over a considerable wide area.
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Varignier, Geoffrey. "Construction de fonctions de sensibilité spatiales et prédictions rapides de diagraphies nucléaires en environnement de puits tubés". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Grenoble Alpes, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024GRALY026.
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Dans les puits pétroliers, de nombreux outils fonctionnant sur différents principes physiques sont couramment utilisés pour l’acquisition de données. Cette thèse se concentre sur les sondes de diagraphies nucléaires actives, faisant intervenir une source neutronique ou gamma. Elles sont utilisées dans l'industrie pétrolière pour caractériser la géologie des puits et ont été initialement développées pour réaliser des mesures quantitatives en conditions puits ouvert où la sonde est en contact direct avec la formation rocheuse. Une fois le puits pétrolier foré, un tube en acier est installé puis cimenté, les sondes ne sont alors plus en contact avec la formation rocheuse et les mesures sont considérées comme qualitatives en raison de la complexité de la géométrie et de l'atténuation du signal.Avec la raréfaction des ressources en hydrocarbures, le nombre de projets d’explorations diminue chaque année. Les compagnies pétrolières ont de plus en plus de puits dont il faut maintenir les capacités de production et d’autres en fin de vie qu’il faut abandonner, ce qui passe systématiquement par des mesures. La quantité de diagraphies en configuration puits tubé tend donc fortement à augmenter et il devient nécessaire d’améliorer leur interprétation.La problématique industrielle est de pouvoir caractériser de manière quantitative, dans un domaine à forte hétérogénéité radiale, l’ensemble de tous les éléments du puits (e.g. les fluides, le tubage, le ciment) et pas uniquement les paramètres du réservoir rocheux. L’approche développée dans la thèse se base sur le concept des fonctions de sensibilité des sondes diagraphiques nucléaires, qui représentent la dépendance en 3D de la mesure aux éléments du modèle et sont obtenues par simulation Monte-Carlo. Du fait du nombre important de variables, une inversion multiphysique prenant en compte l’ensemble des mesures des différentes sondes nucléaires (de porosité par diffusion neutronique, de densité par diffusion gamma, de lithologie par activation neutron-gamma) est indispensable.La première étape de la thèse a permis de comparer les codes Monte-Carlo de transport de particules GEANT4 et MCNP pour des applications de Géosciences. Les résultats montrent un très bon accord pour la physique gamma-gamma, un bon accord pour la physique neutron-neutron mais des écarts significatifs pour la physique neutron-gamma pour laquelle MCNP semble plus pertinent.La deuxième étape de la thèse a permis de valider expérimentalement les simulations Monte Carlo et de concevoir une méthode de calcul des fonctions de sensibilité numériques spécifique au domaine des puits tubés. La validation se traduit par une comparaison entre les fonctions de sensibilité expérimentales mesurées en centre d’étalonnage et les fonctions de sensibilité numériques calculées avec deux méthodes différentes, l’une basée sur des importances spatiales estimées par MCNP, l’autre sur les lieux d’interaction obtenus avec GEANT4. Les résultats montrent un bon accord expérimental entre les profils de sensibilité radial et axial mesurés et calculés, ce qui valide le concept de fonction de sensibilité avec une préférence pour la méthode des lieux d’interaction qui présente un contraste radial plus importante entre les différents constituants du puits.La troisième étape de la thèse a consisté à faire l’interprétation géologique d’une zone réservoir d’un puits tubé avec les fonctions de sensibilité. Les diagraphies neutron-gamma et de porosité prédites grâce aux fonctions de sensibilité sont comparées à celles mesurées en puits. Un modèle de terrain optimal est obtenu par itération, montrant une bonne capacité des algorithmes de prédiction à reproduire quantitativement en configuration puits tubé ce type de diagraphies à condition de choisir un étalonnage pertinentIn petroleum wells, many tools operating on different physical principles are commonly used for data acquisition. This thesis focuses on actives nuclear logging probes involving a neutron or a gamma source. They are used in the oil industry to characterize the well geology and have been initially developed to realize quantitative measurements in open hole conditions where the probe is directly in contact with the rock formation. Once the petroleum well is drilled, a steel casing is installed and cemented, the probes are then no longer in contact with the rock formation and the measurements are considered qualitative due to the complexity of the geometry and the signal attenuation.With the hydrocarbon resources rarefaction, the number of explorations projects decease each year. Petroleum companies have more and more mature wells whose production capacities must be maintained and others at the end of their life which must be abandoned. Those phases require systematically logging measurements. The quantity of logs in cased-hole configuration tends to increase a lot and it becomes necessary to improve their interpretation.The industrial problematic is to characterize quantitatively, in a filed with strong radial heterogeneity, all the components the well (e.g. the fluids, the casing, the cement) and not just the rock reservoir parameters. The approach developed in the thesis is based on the concept of sensitivity function of nuclear logging probes, which represents the 3D dependency of the measurement to the model elements and are obtained by Monte-Carlo simulation. Due to the large number of unknowns, a multiphysical inversion considering the all the measurements of the different nuclear probes (porosity by neutron diffusion, density by gamma diffusion, lithology by neutron-gamma activation) is essential.The first part of the thesis allowed to compare the Monte-Carlo particles transport codes GEANT4 and MCNP for Geosciences applications. Results show a very good agreement for the gamma-gamma physics and a good agreement for the neutron-neutron physics but significant discrepancies for the neutron-gamma physics where MCNP seems to be more relevant.The second part of the thesis allowed to experimental validate Monte-Carlo simulations and to design a sensitivity function computation method specific for the cased-hole configuration. The validation is a comparison between the experimental sensitivity functions measured in calibration center and the numerical sensitivity functions computed using two different methods, the first one based on spatial importances estimated with MCNP and the second one based on interaction locations obtained with GEANT4. The results show good experimental agreement between the measured and calculated radial and axial sensitivity profiles, which validates the concept of sensitivity function with a preference for the interaction locations method which presents greater radial contrast between the different components of the well.The third part of the thesis consisted of making the geological interpretation of a reservoir zone of a cased hole well with sensitivity functions. The neutron-gamma and porosity logs predicted using the sensitivity functions are compared to the measured logs. An optimal earth model is obtained by iteration, showing a good capacity of the fast forward modeling algorithums to quantitatively reproduce the logs in cased-hole configuration providing that a relevant calibration is apply
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Poon, Sun-mei Rebecca, e 潘新媚. "Students' perception towards home-school collaboration". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961265.
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Owolabi, Elizabeth Aina. "Home Economics programs in Oyo state secondary schools". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28194.
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The purpose of this study was to identify the curricula emphases of home economics in Oyo state secondary schools, and to analyze the relationship between subject matter emphasis and selected aspects about teaching and the teacher.
Sixty-two home economics teachers in Oyo state, Nigeria, responded to a mailed survey asking them to indicate the degree of emphasis given to 50 topics in five subject matter areas of home economics: Human Development and the Family, Home Management and Family Economics, Foods and Nutrition, Textiles and Clothing, and Housing. The most taught subject matter area was Foods and Nutrition followed by Home Management and Family Economics, Textiles and Clothing, Human Development and the Family, and Housing. A similar rank order was observed for subject matter competence and for preference for teaching subject matter. Scores on the topics within each subject matter area, however, indicated that all of these topics and the subject matter areas were moderately emphasized in the curriculum. The philosophical views of home economics as homemaking education; home economics as household management and home economics as cooking and sewing exist concurrently.
Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between the above five subject matter areas and selected aspects about teaching and the teacher. The results of the multiple regression analysis indicated no significant relationship.
Some of the problems facing home economics as a subject in the secondary schools were lack of laboratory space, equipment, finance, and shortage of home economics teachers. Collaborative curriculum development and local co-operative responses may offer the means to overcome the shortage of resources for programs in specific locales. Further research in the form of case studies of successful home economics programs could be informative in understanding better the necessary components which should be fostered in strengthening home economics programs.Education, Faculty of
Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
Graduate
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Mahunga, P. "Determinants of home based care services provision for the people living with HIV/AIDS: A case study of Hope ('Tumaini') Home Based Care Programme in Tanzania". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10689.
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The higher increase in the number of HIV/AIDS patients in the country has necessitated the expansion of Home Based Care (HBC) programmes and has called for the need to strengthen the HBC services in Tanzania. Since scaling up of HBC services is fundamental and the resources dedicated into HBC programs are supposed to be utilized efficiently, the factors hindering the provision of HBC services should be known and resolved. A cross sectional study was applied in studying the factors that influence the provision of HBC services and a quantitative method of data collection and analysis was used. A sample of 8 civil society organisations out of 23 carrying out HBC activities under 'Hope' HBC program were selected, representing organizations from rural and peri urban areas.
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Misola, Jane. "The Development and Testing of the Life Sustaining Treatment Attitude Questionnaire (LSTAQ)". Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22061.
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Purpose:
To develop and test the validity and reliability of the Life Sustaining Treatment Attitude Questionnaire (LSTAQ), a survey instrument to elicit family member decision-maker attitudes toward life sustaining treatments for the critically ill at end of life.
Background:
Attitudes toward life sustaining treatments (LST) have been shown to influence decision-making at end of life (EOL). A reliable and valid tool to elicit attitudes specifically from family member decision-makers may help healthcare
professionals facilitate decision-making during serious illness at end of life.
Methods:
A 33-item LSTAQ instrument was tested in 170 adults. Construct validity was evaluated by exploratory factor analysis. Correlations established convergent and discriminant validity. Reliability testing for internal consistency was assessed by Cronbach's alpha and corrected split half reliability coefficients. All procedures were done with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 18) software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, 111).
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A 30-item final LSTAQ tool was derived from this study. Principal components factor analysis extracted six factors explaining 62.7% of variance. Correlations with a similar tool supported convergence (r = .72, ? <.01). Discriminant validity was confirmed by the absence of significant correlation with the dissimilar tool. LSTAQ internal consistency was good (Cronbach's alpha = .92). A preliminary exploration of differences in LSTAQ scores by ethnicity revealed a sampling size and distribution that was not optimally responsive to detection of ethnic differences.
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The LSTAQ is a reliable and valid tool to elicit LST attitudes specifically from family member decision-makers. The knowledge gained may help healthcare professionals promote interventions that facilitate family decision-making on life support for the ill relative at end of life. This might help reduce decision difficulties that cause preventable discomfort, unnecessary treatment and prolonged suffering for the terminally ill patient, as well as avoidable distress among family
members involved in decisions for the sick relative.
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Barter, Paul Alexander. "Changes to Malay village home gardens in the Kinta district of West Malaysia". Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envb283.pdf.
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Van, Alstyne Audrey May. "Computers in the home curriculum project : an atttitude and gender study". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31215.
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Computers are a valuable tool for education. Studies have proven that the computer can assist in the development of a positive self-concept and a positive attitude toward school. Computers can increase student-teacher interaction and achievement by individualizing the learning process. The research clearly documents the dominance of males in the computer field. Home economics educators have the ability to assist individuals and families in using this tool to their best advantage.
This research study included 224 students at Sir Charles Tupper School in Vancouver, B.C. The students were thirteen or fourteen years of age and in grade nine or ten. The study was conducted between September 1989 and February 1990.
The purpose of this study was to determine if the integration of computers into home economics can encourage attitude changes and promote equitable computer use between male and female students. This study will test the assertion of previous research that indicates females are less interested in computers and less likely to use computers than males. Can females do as well as males and males as well as females when given the opportunity to study personally relevant material under the supervision of a female role model?
Of the 224 students in the study, 185 were in the control group and 39 were in the treatment group. The treatment involved participation in the new course, Computers in the Home. This course studies the impact of computers on family life, and explores personal and home computer applications. The survey was designed
to assess student attitudes toward the computer and how they may have changed as a result of the course. Student responses to the survey were analyzed using SPSS-X and Chi-Square analyses were performed to determine any significant differences.
During the period of study, the enrollment patterns in both Computer Science and Computers in the Home refute the majority of research in that more females than males were enrolled in these computer classes. It was expected and postulated that students enrolled in Computers in the Home would have been exposed to a different experience than those not enrolled. Unfortunately, there was no significant difference between the attitudes of the students enrolled in the course and students not enrolled in Computers in the Home.
Although empirical observation throughout the study period lead the researcher to believe there were differences, statistical analysis of the survey responses did not support this observation. Males overtly displayed their enjoyment—they were more adventurous, aggressive and curious. Female students were quieter and tended to be more covert toward this machine. Since no difference in attitude was found, this research study has shown that females are as interested and use computers as often as male students at Sir Charles Tupper School. Although females react differently toward computers, the general trend appears to be moving toward more equitable computer experiences for all.Education, Faculty of
Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
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Arslanian, Varant Nerces. "Leaving home, staying home : a case study of an American Zen monastery". Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98535.
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The subject of this thesis is an American Zen monastery in New York, Zen Mountain Monastery (ZMM). The study is approached through a survey of methodologies: (1) through the scholarship on American culture and religion, (2) through the sociology of the study of religious institutions and communities and (3) through a comparison with East Asian Zen monasticism. The study reveals that ZMM's monasticism: (1) is part of a systematization of Zen in America that has made Zen into a mainstream option in American society, (2) has created group practices and commitment mechanisms that put ZMM in a better position than American lay Zen centers to challenge the individualist trends of American society and spirituality and (3) is based on a conception of the self more in line with the individualism of American society than the asceticism of East Asian Zen monasticism.
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Yuh, Yoonkyung. "Adequacy of preparation for retirement : mean and pessimistic case projections". Connect to resource, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261322824.
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Hobbs, Steven Douglas. "Clinical Nurses' Perceptions of Nursing Informatics Competencies". Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22055.
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This is a descriptive study undertaken to identify competencies and supporting knowledge and skills in informatics perceived to be necessary by nurses for nurses engaged in clinical practice. This study applied a non-experimental, descriptive research design to a quantitative survey performed through web-based technology. Based upon the foundational work of Staggers, Gassert, and Curran (2001, 2002), the goal was to substantiate with clinical nurses and their direct nurse supervisors the clinical competencies that Staggers' identified for Beginning and Experienced clinical nurses through a Delphi methodology of nursing experts. All study facility Registered Nurses received an e-mail inviting their participation. Respondents logged on to a website and completed sections applicable to their situation; that is Beginning Nurse, Experienced Nurse, or Nurse Supervisor. Reminder emails were sent at two and four weeks after the initial invitation. Respondents who accessed and completed the survey received a $5.00 food coupon redeemable at the hospital facilities. All of the knowledge, attitudes and skills identified were supported as valuable, that is, a mean score greater than neutral. Value ranged from just above neutral to strongly agree. Factor analysis generally supported categorization; however, many items did not load into the anticipated categories. Categorization is one area which deserves further study.
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Hsieh, Ching-Hsing. "Factors Influencing Osteoporosis Preventive Behavior Among Hakka". Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22056.
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There are about 4000 new hip fracture patients in Taiwan each year, and osteoporosis is the number one cause for these fractures. But, there has been no research article related to osteoporosis preventive behavior among Hakim living in countryside in Taiwan. Therefore, the purposes of this study were to assess osteoporosis preventive behavior; to measure the relationship among factors influencing OPB; to measure a model of factors influencing OPB; and to predict the direct and indirect effects of personal and social factors on OPB among Hakka living in Taichung County in Taiwan.
The development of a theoretical model of factors influencing osteoporosis preventive behavior was based on the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986, 1997, 2004) and the conceptual framework for addressing the social context of health behavior (Sorensen et al., 2003). According to the reviewed literature, the factors influencing osteoporosis preventive behavior include personal factors (age, educational level, self efficacy for calcium intake, self-efficacy for exercise, and knowledge of osteoporosis); and social factors (social support and social capital). The outcome variables are calcium intake and exercise.
This was a non-experimental, cross-sectional design. Convenience and snowball sampling were used in this study. In all, 243 participants were recruited. Path analysis was used to assess and modify the theoretical model and to test all the paths between exogenous variables and endogenous variables. The goodness-of-fit indicators ofthe final model showed that X2 was 26.99 with 21 degrees of freedom; the P-value for this model was .17; goodness-of-fit index (GFI) was .98; adjusted goodness-of-fit index (AGFI) was .95; normed fit index (NFI) was .96; non-normed fit index (NNFI) was .98; and comparative fit index (CFI) was .99. The results suggested that the final model fit the data well.
The final model demonstrated that the personal factors and environmental factors directly and indirectly influenced osteoporosis preventive behavior. It may provide guidance for the design of future nursing interventions, research and education related to osteoporosis prevention.
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Kristoffersson, Margaretha, Limin Gu e Yan Zhang. "Home-School Collaboration in Sweden and China". Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-70223.
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This article is a working paper presenting a network building cooperative project between Umeå University inSweden and Zhejiang University in China. The project focuses on parents’ involvement and home-schoolcollaboration in Sweden and China and has an ambition to entail a set of empirical objectives: (1) to map andcompare the systems, policies, curricula, and resources dealing with home-school collaboration in Sweden andChina at the national level; (2) to identify and analyze the similarities and differences in the definitions, foci,models, practices, and perspectives on home-school collaboration in the two countries at the local level; and (3) toidentify and seek out good examples and models from both countries for communication and interaction amongteachers, parents, and students. Following an introduction to the project design where a comparative case-studyapproach is presented, this article reviews policies and researches concerning home-school collaboration inSwedish and Chinese contexts. Cases from both countries are selected, described, and discussed. Relative issues forfurther study are suggested.Establishing research network between Sweden and China on cooperation between home and school
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Dolgoy, Rebecca Clare. "Bullet hole constellations : Berlin's Neues Museum : a case study in cultural memory". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b5781e8a-8b8e-413b-8ea1-c00ee68be469.
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This dissertation explores a shift in cultural memory theory and praxis that loosely coincides with the turn of the century. With Berlin as its focus, I trace this shift through three of its museum institutions (the Jewish Museum, the Masterplan Museumsinsel, and the Neues Museum). I specifically look at three aspects: their museum practices (how history is expressed), the main narratives embodied in their spaces (what history is being expressed), and the critical contexts in which they are embedded (what do these practices and narratives mean in the wider cultural context). Throughout, I develop the idea of a cultural memory that emphasizes how we use the past, or what we do with our cultural inheritance. This runs counter to the cultural memory that sees remembering as a categorical imperative ('never forget' or 'lest we forget'), a memory that is clearly embodied in Libeskind's Jewish Museum and is typified in critical work that either prioritizes trauma (Caruth, LaCapra) or stresses cultivating specific empathetic responses (Landsberg's 'prosthetic memory,' Hirsch's 'postmemory'). My cultural memory hypothesis fits within the general German field of Cultural Memory Studies, as typified in the work of Jan and Aleida Assmann. The outcome of thinking about memory as use, appropriation, and transformation of cultural inheritance is the characterization of the past as an analytical tool. This notion sits well amidst current work by Dekel and Arnold-de Simine who read museum/memorial spaces as facilitators of civic engagement. This new cultural memory can be found embodied in the architectural and curatorial framing of the Neues Museum, in its phenomenological approach to history, its narrative of fragmentary wholeness, as well as in its placing of the twentieth century in long narratives of historical continuity. These characteristics allow me to read the Neues Museum as an example of contemporary thinking about modernism, and thus as part of a discourse that looks to restore and transform crucial mythological tendencies.
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Lee, Christopher. "The significance of Christian hope in cancer care : an exploration of the theme of hope in patients with cancer at a major cancer centre". Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683009.
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King, John M. "An exegetical case for Spirit indwelling in the Old Testament". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Olsen, Nolen Ben. "Understanding Parental Motivation To Home School: A Qualitative Case Study". The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-09102008-155429/.
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Comparatively little educational research has focused on home schooling. Since most students are educated in public schools, parents' choice of other educational alternatives is often perceived as a deviation from the societal norm. Friends and neighbors of parents who home school rarely understand their motivation for doing so. This study addresses the following question: why do parents remove their children from traditional, public school programs to initiate home schooling, and how well do public school personnel understand this motivation? Using qualitative case study methodology, the researcher confined the study to a specific concentrated population of home schooling families. Phenomenological data analysis procedures were used to refine the volume of data and to construct a narrative containing the essence of parents' lived experience concerning the decision to home school their children. A total of 31 parents from 20 home schooling families participated in semi-structured face-to-face interviews with the researcher. Six public school administrators and 12 teachers from schools directly impacted by home schooling were also interviewed. Parents explained their motives for initiating home school programs and elaborated by telling their stories. Educators described their experiences with children being removed from their schools and with home school children returning to the classroom. They shared their experiences and perceptions of the value of home school and issues relating to student learning. Educators were included in order to determine how well they understand parents' reasons for choosing to home school a child. Data analysis revealed eight primary factors that initially motivated parents in this study to choose home schooling for their children: (1) negative effects of peer socialization; (2) religion; (3) a child's special learning needs and disabilities; (4) negative personal experiences of a parent as a student in school; (5) lack of administrative support; (6) an incident at school involving the child; (7) unique environmental needs of the family; and (8) recruitment. Data analysis also revealed that educators' understanding of these motivations was limited. Although educators' views of home schooling were primarily negative, they are clearly keenly interested in and concerned about the learning of all children, in and out of school.
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Hamilton, David Aaron. "Case study of a high efficiency home". [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2006.
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Hlungulu, Nolukholo Faith. "Home activities promoting mathematical skills in foundation phase : a case study of grandmother-headed households". Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/4926.
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Recent factors identified as contributory to poor mathematics performance in South Africa include lack of parental involvement coupled by the divorce of mathematics education to children’s everyday lives. This exploratory study, therefore focused on home activities grandmothers engage their Grade 2 grandchildren that may promote mathematical skills of Foundation Phase learners. This study followed a qualitative, interpretive and case study research design, to explore home activities grandmothers engage their Grade 2 grandchildren that may promote mathematical skills of Foundation Phase learners. A small scale study of six grandmothers and three Grade 2 teachers were sampled through purposive and snowball sampling. In line with the protocol of the case study, semi-structured individual face to face interviews and shadowing were used to collect data. One striking feature of the main findings was the diversity mathematics applications home activities contained. These include physical, financial and fun playful home activities. Data also revealed that these home activities could reinforce numbers and what numbers mean; reinforce shape recognition and spatial relationships; complement matching, classification and sorting and reinforce measuring and time. This implies that curriculum must incorporate children’s social capital. Both teachers and grandmothers acknowledged that children’s mathematics education is complex and an effective partnership between grandmothers and teachers is needed if children are to be competent in mathematics.
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Lam, Tak-wah, e 林德華. "Creating supportive environment in a healthcare facilities, Cheshire Home, Shatin". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980867.
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Downey, Hilary. "Consumer Identity: The Case of Home Confined Consumers". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492147.
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This thesis focuses on the lived consumption experiences that home confined consumers employ to retain an identity in absence of direct marketplace interaction. Home confined consumers account for a significant percentage of the population that are termed disabled. Disability itself has not featured highly on the marketing and consumer behaviour research agenda, the case of home confinement has not been addressed. This research aims to contribute to understanding and personal knowing about this population. The research adopted an interpretivist approach and drew on a radical constructivist epistemology to capture the lived experience and personal knowing of home confinement. This methodology has not been employed within the consumer research discipline. Three individual cases of home confinement were explored over a two-year period by means of ongoing 'conversational' style interviews. This thesis argues that home confined consumers are actively involved in the identity construction process. The findings illustrate the diversity of the home confined experience, and the overriding need to establish an identity that is both in keeping with the personal reality of the lived experience, but, one that will equally establish an identity as stemming from an abelist perspective. The study accommodates the Consumer Response Model introduced recently into disability studies, which aims to capture the lived experience and is in keeping with the agenda of Consumer Culture Theory. This study also acknowledges the implications of the Transformatory Consumer Research agenda in relation to consumer wellbeing. Far from being the powerless, weak, and feeble consumers generally depicted in literature, the home confined consumers in this study overcome many barriers to consumption to remain active, powerful, independent agents of change, 'within' an abelist society. In conclusion, the study highlights survival consumption behaviour, in both physical and emotional terms, as the ability to capture not only abelism but also a non-institutionalized freedom. Supplied by The British Library - 'The world's knowledge'
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Grenier, Amanda. "Home care : evaluation of a case management model". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0023/MQ50698.pdf.
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Zimmerman, Varda. "Professional development of home class teachersa case study". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536987.
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Stoller, Aaron. "An Experimental Hope: The Case for Emergent Pedagogy". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51952.
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This dissertation will make the case that education at the post-secondary level must be reimagined. Rather than being organized around abstract bodies of information, it must be centered on moments of transformation out of which teaching, learning, knowing and -- in fact -- democratic individuals emerge. This reconstruction of education takes place through two primary moves. First, I make the case that contemporary schooling is grounded in a flawed model of knowing, which draws together mistakes in thinking about the nature of the self, of knowledge, and of the world, which are contained in the epistemological proposition: "S knows that p." In doing so, I argue that the German conception of Bildung must replace "S knows that p" as the guiding paradigm of knowing within educational practice. In doing so, I develop a theory of creative inquiry in order to claim that knowledge emerges from embodied, social action and is a form of artistic practice. Second, I develop a pedagogy, which I call emergent pedagogy, based on the theory of inquiry articulated in the first half. Here, I argue that post-secondary pedagogy must emerge out of the contexts, situations, and communities in which students and faculty are embedded. In this way, pedagogy must be considered a kind of artistic practice in which methods are adapted to and intuited from unique problems experienced by the university community. Ultimately, I show that pedagogy must shift from being viewed as a kind of telling and hearing to a form of participatory making.Ph. D.
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Hoeflinger, Marilyn S. Morris. "An ethnographic case study of Christian home schooling /". The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486398195326108.
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Coleman, Rachel E. "Ideologues, pedagogues, pragmatics : a case study of the homeschool community in Delaware County, Indiana". CardinalScholar 1.0, 2010. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1562872.
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Access to abstract permanently restricted to Ball State community onlyIdeologue, pedagogue, pragmatic : homeschooling factions take shape on the national stage, 1970s-2010 -- Building a homeschool movement in Indiana and Delaware County, 1980-2010 -- Homeschooling at the grassroots : an ethnography of selected practitioners in Delaware County, 2001-2010.
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Kam, Ming-kin, e 甘銘堅. "Home ownership aspiration in Hong Kong : a case study of family financing in home owning". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207605.
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Many studies focus on the housing decisions of younger generation mainly on the households’ individual level such as affordability, house prices, income, interest rate and the relative costs of owning. However, the family financing is also another indispensable factor to affect the decision of home-owning. The home buyers save for several years to accumulate the down payment, but it will be nibbled up by the rising of home prices. Such rapid increases in house prices will make home-owning more difficult for home buyers, especially for first-time buyers. They may seek a loan from a family member to use as part of the down payment in order to achieve homeownership.
Forrest and Murie (1995) noted that family support in home owning may take an important contribution in home-ownership sphere. Moreover, many scholars pointed out that family financing is particularly important where housing prices are high, financial institutions are unwilling to provide mortgage loans or requiring high-ratio of down payment and government subsidies are not available. (Barrios, Colom and Moles, 2013; Engelhardt, 1996; Engelhardt and Mayer, 1994; Forrest and Murie, 1995; Meen, 2013; Mulder and Wanger, 1998; Ost, 2012). In Hong Kong case, parents give a finance support to their children for paying the down payment can be easily found in mass media. More significantly, the number of cases for parents getting direct involvement in helping children for home owning are largely increasing. Looking at the house price was increased 15% in average annually during the period of 2010-2012. Many parents have expectations that the house price will keep rising. If you do not buy it now, then you may not possible to afford this very soon.
In this paper, we will explore how importance the family support for home-owning, the kind of financing modes are adopted for the parent and the reasons for the parent to provide financing support in helping their children’s homeownership.published_or_final_version
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Rustige, Cindy L. "Maternal reactions, home environment, and the self-esteem of eight visually impaired children". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29210.
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This study investigated the relationship among maternal reactions to visual impairment, home environment, and the self-esteem of eight visually impaired children. Educational research has clearly isolated a correlation between self-esteem, academic performance, and behavior. The premise of this study was that visually impaired children who perceived their home environments as supportive and nurturing; and who had parents, particularly mothers who accepted their loss of vision, would feel better about themselves more so than visually impaired children who held predominantly negative perceptions. The study also compared children's, mothers' and teachers' perceptions of the child's self-esteem.
The subjects were 8 visually impaired children between the ages of 5 and 8, their mothers, and their integrating teachers. A questionnaire pertaining to children's self-esteem was circulated to teachers and mothers. Children were interviewed separately.
Results indicated that the climate of the home was associated with both the use of functional vision and self-esteem in visually impaired children. The findings are congruent with educational and humanistic-phenomenological theory, and support the hypothesis that children's behavior and perceptions of themselves are influenced by the reflections of 'significant others', particularly their parents.Education, Faculty of
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Nance, Mary Moore. "Finding a (w)hole in the text, a case study of four readers reading". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0016/NQ54820.pdf.
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Wenban-Smith, Francis Frederick. "The Palaeolithic archaeology of Baker's Hole : a case study for focus in lithic analysis". Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301046.
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BASSI, Tiziana. "Accretion and ejection in transient black hole binaries: the case of GRS 1716-249". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/401924.
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I buchi neri transienti (BHT) sono tra le sorgenti con emissione ai raggi X più luminose della galassia. Grazie all’elevato flusso in banda X e alla loro alta variabilità temporale. queste sorgenti offrono un’opportunità unica per studiare la fisica dell’accrescimento in straordinareie condizioni fisiche. I BHT mostrano episodici outburst caratterizzati da diverse luminosità in banda X e γ, diverse forme spettrali e proprietà della variabilità temporale. L’obiettivo di questa tesi è lo studio della geometria, dei meccanismi e dei processi fisici coinvolti nell’emissione del buco nero transiente GRS 716-249. Di seguito presento l’analisi spettrale e temporale delle osservazioni della GRS 1716-249 ai raggi X effettuate con il satellite Neil Gehrels Swift bservatory durante l’outburst verificatosi nel 2016-2017. Questi dati mi hanno permesso di studiare l’evoluzione dei parametri fisici durante tutta la durata dell’outburst e di studiare come varia la geometria della materia in accrescimento attraverso le transizioni spettrali. In particolare, coerentemente con lo scenario del disco di accrescimento troncato in cui il disco si avvicina all’oggetto compatto durante l’evoluzione dell’outburst, ho osservato che il disco di accrescimento della GRS 1716-249 potrebbe aver raggiunto l’ultima orbita stabile mentre la sorgente si trovava nello stato hard intermedio. Grazie al monitoraggio radio effettuato durante l’outburst ho potuto localizzare la sorgente sulla sempre più popolata correlazione radio/X degli "outliers" (o radioquieti) nel piano delle luminosità radio/X. Successivamente, mi sono concentrata sull’emissione ai raggi X/γ della sorgente. Questo mi ha permesso di osservare un eccesso nell’emissione alle alte energie, sopra a 200 keV, in aggiunta allo spettro di Comptonizzazione termica, nello spettro della GRS 1716-249. L’origine di questa componente può essere dovuta a processi di Compton inverso tra i fotoni soft del disco d’accrescimento e una popolazione di elettroni non-termici nella corona, o all’emissione di sincrotrone prodotta dagli elettroni energetici nel getto. Inizialmente ho modellando lo spettro X/γ della sorgente con modelli ibridi di Comptonizazione termica/non-termica: EQPAIR e BELM. In particolare, utilizzando BELM ho potuto stimare un limite superiore sull’intensità del campo magnetico nella corona. Infine, ho considerato la possibilità che l’eccesso di energia alle ate energie sia dovuto all’emissioni del jet. A tale scopo, ho prodotto la distribuzione d’energia spettrale della GRS 1716-249 usando le osservazioni multi-banda (dalla banda radio ai raggi γ) eseguite quando la sorgente era nello stato hard. Il flusso di accrescimento l’ho modellato con un modello di disco irradiato unito ad un modello di Comptonizzazine, mentre l’emissione del getto l’ho modellata con il modello Internal Schock Emission Model (ISHEM). Questo modello assume che le fluttuazioni di velocità del getto siano guidate dalla variabilità
delle proprietà temporali del disco di accrescimento. Sebbene (ISHEM riproduce i dati radio e soft γ della sorgente GRS 1716-249, i risultati favoriscono lo scenario di Comptonizazione non termica nel flusso di accrescimento rispetto all’emissione di sincrotrone del getto oltre 200 keV.Black hole transients (BHTs) are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Galaxy. Thanks to their high X-ray flux and short variability time scales they offer a unique opportunity to study the physics of the accretion under extraordinary physical conditions. These sources show episodic outbursts characterised by different X/γ-ray luminosities, spectral shapes and timing properties. The aim of this thesis is the understanding of the geometry, mechanisms and physical processes playing a role in the bright black hole X-ray transient GRS 1716-249. I present the spectral and timing analysis of X-ray observations performed with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on GRS 1716-249 during the 2016-2017 outburst. These data gave me the opportunity to study the evolution of physical parameters and geometry variation of the accreting matter through the spectral transitions during the whole outburst. I found that the accretion disc could have reached the inner stable circular orbit during the hard intermediate state, coherently with the truncated accretion disc scenario in which the disc moves closer to the compact object. Then, the radio monitoring performed during the outburst let me locate the source on the ever more populated radio-quiet branch on the radio/X-ray luminosity plane. Thereafter, focusing on the soft γ-ray emission of the source, I observed a high energy excess, above 200 keV, in addition to the thermal Comptonisation spectrum. This component could be originate either through inverse Compton of the soft photons by non-thermal electrons in the corona, or from synchrotron emission of energetic electrons in the jet. First, I fitted the broad band X/γ-ray spectrum of GRS 1716-249 with hybrid Comptonisation thermal/non-thermal models: EQPAIR and BELM. Using BELM I obtained an upper limit on the magnetic field intensity in the corona. Finally, I investigated the possible origin of this high energy excess as due to jet emission. To this aim, I computed the Spectral Energy Distribution of GRS 1716-249 with the multi-wavelength observations (from the radio band to γ-rays) performed. I modelled the accretion flow with an irradiated disc plus Comptonisation model and the jet emission with the internal shock emission model (ISHEM). This model assumes that the jet velocity fluctuations are directly driven by the variability of X-ray timing proprieties of the accretion flow. Even though ISHEM reproduces the radio and soft γ-ray data of GRS 1716-249, the results seem to disfavour the jet scenario for the excess above 200 keV, in favour of non-thermal Comptonisation process.
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Wang, Yiyan, e 王裔艳. "Home care for older people in China: a case study of Shanghai". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45874839.
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Tschudy, Joseph Daniel. "Finding, Nurturing, and Instilling Hope in Family Therapy". DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/558.
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The development of a personal theory of therapy and change is an integral part of the training and educational philosophies of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Utah State University. This personal theory attempts to identify and explain each student's beliefs regarding the specific mechanisms by which change occurs, thus providing a therapeutic backbone from which one may integrate various interventions, ideas, concepts, and approaches to therapy. As one engages in the process of integration, it becomes critical for students to evaluate their performances. A thorough self-evaluation that includes the utilization of scientific methods leads to the development of important scientist-practitioner skills that may be difficult to obtain through any means. This study was designed to elucidate and investigate a single therapist's utilization and integration of hope theory in an effort to increase his ability to find, nurture, and engender greater hope in family therapy. Three individuals who presented for therapeutic services at the Utah State University marriage and family therapy clinic participated in the study. Eight therapy sessions were conducted. Each session was videorecorded and coded with an intervention checklist. The Outcome Questionnaire 45.2, Personal and Family Information Form, case notes, teammate/supervisory observation notes, personal reflection journal, DVD reflection journal, homework assignments, and a hope scaling question were used to assess hope as well as the therapist's decision-making process. The results of this study suggest that the therapist applied and integrated interventions consistent with hope theory during the course of therapy, which appeared to be beneficial to clients. The decision-making process of the therapist and the effects of the integration and utilization of hope theory upon the therapist were revealed. Other findings, implications, and limitations are discussed.
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To, Siu-ling Tury Beatrix, e 陶小玲. "An exploratory study of the problems encountered by pre-discharge residents in a probation home". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31979063.
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Gäfvert, Matilda, e Caroline Laursen. "Home Care in Thailand A Qualitative Study of Patients‟ Experience of Being Cared in Their Own Home". Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Vårdvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20243.
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This study is sponsored by Minor Field Study (MFS) scholarships from the University of Borås, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). Thailand is a densely populated developing country situated in Asia. The relatives are the most important social network in Thailand. People all over the world, including Thai people are in need of aftercare when they have left the hospital. In Thailand this care mostly executed by relatives.There is not much research done that shows the patient‟s perspective of home care in Thailand so it is important to do this study. The aim of the study is to illuminate the Thai patients‟ perspective of being cared in their own home. The qualitative interviews were made with six patients at a hospital in Bangkok. The authors had one in beforehand-prepared question, but had to put in some stimulating questions in all of the interviews. To describe and analyze the result the authors did qualitative content analysis. The criteria to take part in this study were that the interviewees were Thai, over 25 years old and had experiences of being cared in their own home, by relatives or by professionals.The result is presented with meanings units, codes, sub-categories, categories and content areas. The content areas are; the patient does not experience any problems with home care and the patient experience problems with home care. The categories are good experiences and naturally and hard experiences. The authors then made sub-categories and named them; safety, family as caregiver is expected, solidarity, grateful, sense of guilt, insecure and hard to be dependent.The authors found out that all the interviewees experienced home care as something naturally, when it is a part of life to be cared by your relatives in Thailand. This expression fits in under the first content area, but some of the interviewees also expressed feelings that fit in under the opposite content area. In the end of the study the authors discusses different choices that they have done, and the consequences that followed with them, in a discussion of the method. Even the use of an interpreter is discussed in this part. In the discussion of the result the authors discusses the most interesting parts of the result and verify this with references from scientific articles. One thing that the authors found out was that home care in Thailand can be expressed with both positive and negative experiences from the same person.Program: Sjuksköterskeutbildning
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Wei, Nicklas, e Richard Blomberg. "Home sweet home : a case study on persuasive technology to promote usage of an m-health application by elderly living at home". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86874.
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Much of the developed world is experiencing an aging population. This requires society to adapt to take care of a growing elderly population and improve their quality of life. Today, mobile systems are available that makes it possible to monitor and improve health (m-health). Even though these systems could be immensely helpful for the elderly population, this has not been the primary demographic for the current m-health systems. This case study aimed at examining how persuasive technology (technology for changing behavior and/or attitude) can be used to promote usage of m-health applications by the elderly. For this purpose, a theoretical framework for supporting m-health systems is proposed. This framework consist of persuasive technology (for motivation and support for fulfillment of human needs), knowledge of elderly issues in interacting with mobile interfaces, smartphone usability heuristics and the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle (to support goalsetting and incremental progress). To determine how persuasive technology can be used to motivate elderly and find effective strategies for this purpose, the case study examined health behavior, motivations for healthy behavior, attitude to health, general goal setting behavior, needs, preferences, technological experience and self-efficacy, as well as usage of m-health systems using qualitative and participatory methods. Methods used included semi-structured interviews, future workshop, revolutionary rapid prototyping and usability evaluation. The findings of the interviews and the future workshop suggested the primary motivation for healthy behavior was derived from social aspects. Thus, the most effective persuasive strategies for the elderly likely target their need for social belonging and socialization. Based on the findings, an interactive prototype was developed. The prototype proposed an m-health application with self-monitoring that implemented an elderly community around healthy behavior, with opportunities to earn digital rewards and challenge other users to competition. The interactive prototype was then used in a usability evaluation to gauge its usability by the elderly and revised in higher fidelity according to their feedback.
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Chetty, Marshini. "Making infrastructure visible: a case study of home networking". Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/41152.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
In this dissertation, I examine how making infrastructure visible affects users' engagement with that infrastructure, through the case study of home networking. I present empirical evidence of the visibility issues that home networks present to users and how these results informed the design of a prototype called Kermit to visualize aspects of the home network. Through my implementation and evaluation of Kermit, I derive implications for making infrastructure visible in ways that enable end-users to manage and understand the systems they use everyday. I conclude with suggestions for future work for making home networks, and infrastructure more generally, more visible.
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Schemmer, Beverly Ann Sollenberger. "Case studies of four families engaged in home education". Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/440434.
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The purpose of the study was to give a description of the curricula and methods used in the home schools of home educators and to evaluate by means of case studies the effects of home education upon those included in the study.Chapter I presented an overview of the background and significance for the study and five research questions which were addressed by the study. The questions were:1. Will students being educated in the home be able to obtain academic achievement at comparable levels with those students being educated in the public school? 2. Will students being educated in the home be able to show at least one years' gain in academic achievement when scores of the previous year are compared with scores from the current year?3. What curricula and methods are being used in the home education of the children included in the study?4. What attitudes and values motivated the parents in the study to home educate their children?5. What legal actions, if any, did the parents included in the study face as a result of their choice to home educate?Chapter II provided a review of related literature. Reviewed were: compulsory attendance laws, related court decisions, and research related to home education.Chapter III presented the plan of organization and procedures used in gathering, reporting, and summarizing the data.Chapter IV contained the data collected from the four home educators. The data were presented in narrative form and in tables for each family case study.Chapter V presented a summary of the case studies, answers to research questions, observations, and recommendations. The data provided the following answers to the five research questions:1. Forty percent of the home educated students scored equal to the median national score.2. Students showed inconsistencies in average gains for the year.3. Three of the four families used curriculum materials commercially prepared for home educators.4. The parent educators appeared motivated by socialization concerns and desires for values training.5. Legal action was taken against one of the four families in the study.
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Hutchinson, Geraldine. "Decline of a subject : the case of home economics". Thesis, London South Bank University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245074.
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Rennert, Karin I. "An evaluation of intervention designed to teach communication strategies to care-givers of nursing home residents". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29787.
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This study evaluated the ability of nursing home staff to implement communication strategies as a result of inservice education. Seventeen subjects, from two occupational groups (patient care aides, and rehabilitation staff), were observed twice each during routine interactions with the nursing home residents. The measurement tool consisted of 11 communication behaviours, which were scored according to degree of use. There were two categories of strategies: those that could be used in all situations, and those that were appropriate only for some situations. Results were mixed: the experimental group (N=5), who attended the inservice, showed an increase in the use of latter category of communication strategies, while the control group (N=12) decreased their use of the same strategies. In the former category of strategies, no difference was found between the experimental and control groups. The discussion focused on possible sources of confound, and recommendations for further research.Medicine, Faculty of
Audiology and Speech Sciences, School of
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Gudorf, Gerald E. "The effects of life review therapy with elderly nursing home patients". Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1991. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/gudorf_1991.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1991.A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Bradley, Margaret Antoinette. "In search of home : Hillman's archetypal perspective on the therapeutic process of an adult patient". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006290.
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The case study method was used to trace the therapeutic process of a 23 year old woman, over a period of 12 sessions. The focus of the study was her issue with abandonment which emerged as the central theme in therapy. Hillman's archetypal approach was used as a framework in understanding the process and resolution of her feelings of abandonment. According to Hillman, the therapy process activates the archetypal abandoned child. For a successful therapeutic outcome the process of de-literalisation must occur in order for the patient to move from literal acting out to symbolic containment. Core moments in the therapeutic process were used, together with an interpretation from Hillman's approach, to illustrate the various themes around the issue of abandonment. The present case study illustrates how the theory in area was relevant in practice with this particular case.
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Kim, Youngjoo. "Assisted Living Facility as a Home: Cases in Southwest Virginia". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27868.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Older people are as diverse a group as they were as younger people. Home environments should reflect these diverse individuals' varying interests, preferences, and needs. In spite of efforts to remain independent and at home, some elderly people have to leave conventional housing and move into long-term care facilities because of factors such as mental or physical health problems or the loss of family members. Most elderly people who move into these facilities do not feel "at home" in their new living arrangements. Assisted living facilities (ALFs) have been developed as a response to these issues. The major goal of assisted living is to create a supportive social setting that elderly residents can call home. Although assisted living is the fastest growing long-term care alternative, it still needs to continually change in response to the needs of older residents and the desires and interests of family members.
The purpose of this study was to examine the features that make residents feel "at home" in ALFs in Southwest Virginia and to suggest further policy and design guidelines for better quality of ALFs as a "home." For this purpose, residents' needs, experiences, and opinions of the physical environment, the social environment, and the organizational environments such as policies and programs of ALFs were identified.
As a multi-site case study, I studied five ALFs in Southwest Virginia and did a cross-case analysis. In addition to face-to-face interviews with 25 residents and five administrators of five ALFs, I also conducted observations and recorded my feelings in a personal journal with document review. To analyze the data gathered in this study, I used the constant comparative method of data analysis.
The respondents' age range was between 64 and 95 and the average age was 82. There were 6 males and 19 females among the respondents and most of them were widowed. They came from a wide geographic area, and most of them have lived in single-family homes for a long time. Many had children or family members nearby.
Overall, the five sites selected presented homelike features showing the philosophy of assisted living which combines housing and services. Each facility was designed to be a single-family house or multi-family dwelling in outside appearance. However, the older the structure, the fewer homelike features were provided.
As a whole, residents felt isolation and loneliness and they did not have active interaction with other residents because of diverse background among the residents. During meals, people had active interaction with one or two residents. However, all of them had close relationships with the staff. The staff's attitude and behavior seemed to influence greatly the residents' feeling "at home." Friends and family members also provided an important role for the residents to adjust to their new environment.
Despite the provision of diverse activities by the facilities, many residents did not participate in the programs. Among the services provided, there were only a few complaints about food and mealtimes. Most of the residents agreed that the rules and regulations were fair; however, one person disagreed with the smoking rules.
For the meaning of "home," many residents talked about love, fellowship, privilege, stability, and security. The administrators tried to make the residents feel "at home;" however, they mentioned the limitation of providing a real "home" for the residents due to the residents' diversity. Some categories which could contribute to the perception of ALFs as a "home" were classified by the researcher: safety and security, services and care, autonomy/privacy, independence, social life/friendship, family support, daily routine, personalization, physical environment, and management.
Regardless of the type of facilities and the residents' characteristics, most of the respondents were satisfied with their current dwelling. In spite of high satisfaction with the facility, many people did not think of their current dwelling as a real "home." As the biggest difference between living in their own homes and living in the ALF, people pointed out a lack of independence, freedom, and autonomy. Moreover, they talked about the loneliness stemming from living with strangers who are not their family or friends.
Residents of ALFs may have reordered their priorities in their current life situation so that safety, security, and care were more important to them than feeling "at home." Among the four factors --personal, physical, social, and organizational-- that affect the residents' perception of ALFs as a "home," many emphasized the importance of social factors such as relationships with the staff and residents, and social support from their family or friends.Ph. D.
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Melrose, Heather. "How do resource foster parents conceptualize concurrent planning?" Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83166.
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In this small qualitative study, the researcher explores how four families involved in resource foster care services conceptualize concurrent planning in the child welfare system. Analysis of the four semi-structured transcribed interviews revealed four dominant themes: hope and optimism that resource foster care could be a rewarding alternative to further infertility treatment; anger and fear of disruption related to birth family visits; identification of the foster child as their own; and uncertainty regarding resource foster care team rules, roles, and responsibilities. Each theme was influenced by an attachment to the child they were fostering and the fear of losing that child.The findings suggest that resource foster parents do not fully embrace concurrent planning as a philosophy of care that supports and works towards the best interests of children. Practice principles central to concurrent planning were often abandoned as a result of intense identification with adoptive parenthood status.
The researcher has included a number of recommendations with respect to future studies, training needs, and recruitment strategies. The conclusion states that in the best interests of children, resource foster parents must fully embrace the concept of concurrent planning defined within child welfare context and legislation.
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Kwok, Woon-ming. "Experience of individuals with public housing : the case of Ma On Shan /". Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14743309.
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De, Lange Romeo. "An integrated development approach for policing : the case of Operation Good - Hope". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51602.
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Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was embarked upon to identify an alternative approach to policing. It was an attempt to investigate whether an integrated development approach will be more successful in preventing crime and violence than heterogeneous police task teams and operations. Operation Good - Hope in the Western Cape, a SAPS crime prevention strategy to police the urban terror and related crimes (PAGAD and gang violence), was the focus of the study. Plurality of research methodology was introduced to compile data. The data collected was analysed in relation to the topic and the objective of the study and to the research hypothesis. Based on the data analysis the following are the main research findings: • a working relationship existed between various SAPS components within Operation Good - Hope, but was not properly managed and coordinated; • Operation Good - Hope did not allowed for external collaboration with relevant stakeholders and showed no sense of partnership; • Operation Good - Hope did not police the social crime problems; and • Operation Good - Hope was not shaped by a clear analysis and cohesive strategy. The findings of the study gave rise to the following recommendations: • That a local - based strategy for crime prevention be develop and lead by local government to normalise crime and violence; • That a provincial framework be developed for an integrated development approach to police and stabalise serious violent crimes; • That crime prevention solutions must be based on factors that causes crime; and • A crime prevention strategy be designed and implemented. Finally, the study indicates that provincial crime prevention strategies should be supplementive to local - based crime prevention strategies, to simultaneously stabalise and normalise crime and violence.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie is onderneem om 'n alternatiewe benadering tot polisieëring te identifiseer. Dit is ook 'n poging om uit te vind of 'n geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsbenadring meer suksesvol is as hetrogene polisie taakspanne en operasies met die bekamping van misdaad en geweld. Operasie Goeie - Hoop in die Wes - Kaap, 'n SAPD misdaadvoorkoming strategie om stedelike terreur en verwante misdade (PAGAD en bende geweld) te polisieer, was die fokus van die studie. Data was ingesamel deur middel van 'n pluraliteit van navorsingsmetodologie. Die ingesamelde data was geanaliseer in verhouding tot die tema, doelwitte van die studie en met die navorsingshipotese. Gebaseer op die data analise, is die volgende die hoof bevindinge van die studie: • Daar was samewerking tussen verskillende SAPD komponente betrokke by Operasie Goeie - Hoop, maar dit was nie deeglik bestuur en gekoordineer nie; • Operasie Goeie - Hoop het nie voorsiening gemaak vir eksterne samewerking en vennootskap met relevante rolspelers nie; • Operasie Goeie - Hoop het nie die sosiale - misdaad probleme gepolisieër nie; en • Operasie Goeie - Hoop was nie bestuur deur 'n deeglike analise en deur 'n samehangende strategie nie. Die studie het tot die volgende aanbevelings gelei: • Die ontwikkeling van 'n plaaslike - gebaseerde strategie vir misdaadvoorkoming onder leiding van die plaaslike regering om misdaad en geweld te normaliseer; • Die ontwikkeling van 'n provinsiale raamwerk vir 'n geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsbenadering tot polisieëring en om ernstige geweldsmisdade te stabaliseer; • Dat oplossings tot misdaadvoorkoming gebaseer moet wees op faktore wat misdaad veroorsaak; en • Dat 'n misdaadvoorkomingstrategie ontwerp en geïmplimenteer moet word. Ten slotte toon die studie aan dat 'n provinsiale misdaadvoorkomingstrategie ondersteunend moet wees tot 'n plaaslike - gebaseerde misdaadvoorkomingstrategie, om te gelyke tyd misdaad en geweld te stabaliseer en te normaliseer.
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Major, Yolanda. "Effect of Home Telehealth on Vterans with Chronic Heart Failure". ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2609.
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More than 5 million Americans have heart failure, with approximately 5% of those affected being veterans. As the number of patients with CHF continues to rise, new treatment options are needed to improve the quality of care. Current studies show Telehealth is one treatment option. The purpose of this scholarly project was to determine if veterans diagnosed with CHF were able to maintain optimal weight and blood pressure following participation in Care Coordination Home Telehealth (CCHT) program. The CCHT program provides care to veterans, through the use of monitoring devices placed in their home. Bandura's self-efficacy theory was used as a guide to develop veterans' self-management skills. A retrospective chart review was conducted on 26 veterans with CHF enrolled in the CCHT program. Post participation weight and blood pressure were analyzed at 16 weeks to determine whether there was a difference from the pre-participation measures. There was no change in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, or weight levels during the 16-week period. Limitations of this project were the small sample size (n = 26), attrition rate (n = 43), no data on nurse interaction, and a short follow-up period. Implications for nursing practice and enhancing the program's efficacy are recommended. This scholarly project has the potential to support social change by expanding veteran's access to care.
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Hattori, Keiko. "Good Death Among Elderly Japanese Americans in Hawaii". Diss., University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/22054.
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The purpose of this focused ethnographic study was to describe the patterns of a good death held by elderly Japanese Americans living in Hawaii. Eighteen "healthy active" elderly Japanese Americans were interviewed individually. In addition, supplementary data, such as interviews with experts and field observations were collected for triangulation of the data. Four themes were derived from 1224 keywords, 56 categories, and 13 patterns. These were: being a burden to the family, process of life and death, individual views on death, and Japanese culture in Hawaii. Being a burden to the family was the largest concern in the participants' idea of dying a good death. Having secure financial resources were key for adequate preparation. The elderly Japanese Americans believed that suffering at the end-of-life should be avoided in order to achieve a good death. Their concept of suffering included: unmanageable pain, being ill for a long time, and being bedridden. Several participants preferred a sudden type of death because they would not have to suffer and not be burdens their family. Contentment in life was also an important aspect of a good death. There was a common belief that the way a person lived was connected with the way he/she died. A number of the participants preferred to die in their own home. Hospitals and retirement homes were other alternatives for the place of death. Individual views on death contributed to establish the concept of good death among elderly Japanese American participants. They shared similar attitudes toward death which were a part of life and inevitable. These attitudes were influenced by religious beliefs and past experiences with death. Different generations of elderly Japanese Americans had different views. The Shin-Issei (first generation who immigrated after World War II) and the Nisei (second generation) held more Japanese views compared to the Sansei (third generation) who were more acculturated. Although the Japanese American parents and children might have different views on life and death, the importance of close family relations and family support was passed on to younger generations.
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Lam, Yu-hin. "The relationship of employment, household income and housing tenure : a case study of Hong Kong /". View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36438704.
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Losch, Ashley Peter. "Home at last' : die storie van Freedom Park en sy inwoners". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52297.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The escalation in the growing upsurge of informal settlements seems to create a few problems for local municipalities in the Cape Metropolitan Area (CMA). At the beginning of 1998 the capacity of the City Of Cape Town Municipality (CCT) was fully tested with the coming into being of a new informal settlement in the Tafelsig, Mitchell's Plain area. During the Easter weekend of that year homeless people started to invade a piece of vacant land, which belongs to this municipality, illegally. With the establishing of Freedom Park many of the homeless felt that the time was ripe for this municipality to address their problems and grievances. However up till now this has not materialised, as this municipality is refusing to make any service delivery and infrastructure available to them. Despite this, the people are still reluctant to submit to the demand of the municipality to evacuate the piece of land. Hitherto many had asked questions about the settlement and its people. With the asking of these questions, people had shown their ignorance about the Freedom Park issue. This ignorance led people to make certain assumptions, which are clearly far from the truth. The aim of this study is thus to present more clear-cut answers to the most common questions people had asked and still are asking.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die groeiende toename in informele nedersettings in die Kaapse Metropolitaanse Gebied blyk toenemend om 'n probleem vir plaaslike owerhede te wees. Aan die begin van 1998 was die kapasiteit van die Kaapse Munisipaliteit om sulke situasies te hanteer ten volle getoets. In hierdie tydperk het haweloses van die Tafelsig, Mitchell's Plain, area die reg in eie hande geneem deur 'n stuk grond wat aan hierdie munisipaliteit behoort onwettig te beset. Met die vestiging van Freedom Park het baie van hierdie mense gedink dat hulle frustrasies en probleme deur hierdie munisipaliteit aangehoor sou word. Dit het egter tot op hede nog nie 'n werklikheid geword, deurdat dié munisipaliteit huiwer om tydelike en korttermyn infrastrukture aan hierdie mense beskikbaar te stel. Ten spyte hiervan is die inwoners van hierdie nedersetting egter vasbeslote om nie in te gee aan die versoek van die munisipaliteit om die grond te ontruim nie. Tot op hede was daar baie vra gevra rondom hierdie nedersetting en sy inwoners. Met hierdie vrae het sulkes hulonkunde om die Freedom Park kwessie suksesvol te hanteer en te verstaan bewys. Dit is dus in hierdie lig dat hierdie studie onderneem was. Die sentrale doelwit van dié studie is dus om meer duidelikheid te werp op vrae soos: Wie is hierdie mense? Waarvandaan kom hulle? Hoekom het hulle tot so 'n drastiese stap oorgegaan?