McGehee, James Pittman

The adolescent stage of development is particularly challenging. Because of the biological, cognitive, and social transitions of adolescence, this stage of development is seen as an important time for interventions promoting well-being (Steinberg, 1999). Recent research suggests that self-compassionate teens experience greater psychological health than those without self-compassion (Neff & McGehee, in press). To date, however, there have been no self-compassion interventions targeted at the ad...

Dearden, Elizabeth Anne

This thesis is the pilot study of an ongoing investigation of the organization of the mental lexicon in children with specific language impairment and children who stutter (CWS). The current study analyzes the performance of 8 CWS, ages 4; 11 – 10; 1 and their typically developing age matches (CWNS) on a list recall task adapted from Roediger and McDermott (1995). Talker groups were matched for maternal education level, male to female ratio, and standardized measures of nonverbal intelligence, e...

Cockell, William Arthur

This thesis document was issued under the authority of another institution, not NPS. At the time it was written, a copy was added to the NPS Library collection for reasons not now known. It has been included in the digital archive for its historical value to NPS. Not believed to be a CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) title.

Hastie, Brent Andrew

For children who are learning to read, it is of the upmost importance that vocabulary knowledge is acquired in a timely fashion. Adequate vocabulary knowledge enables children to comprehend the majority of words in a text and this, in turn, influences reading and overall school success. Children who have delayed vocabulary at the point of school entry may increasingly fall behind their peers as reading demands increase. The identification of these children is necessary, yet despite its importanc...

Luk, Tat-fai, Samuel, 陸達輝

Gastric cancer is one of the worldwide leading cancers which is highly prevalent in Eastern Asia. In Hong Kong, there were 1101 new cases and 687 cancer death in year 2011. So far gastric cancer is known to have poor prognosis and high relapse rate, for which a more effective therapy is sorely needed. With increasing knowledge in the role of HER2 in gastric cancer, a novel targeting agent, Trastuzumab, in combination with chemotherapy has become a promising personalized therapy for advanced gast...

Senninger, Julia Thérèse

The aim of this research was to conduct a pilot study to identify if increased written communication at restaurants would affect customer and staff awareness of the restaurant’s sustainability efforts. By using before-after questionnaires among employees and customers possible changes among the two stakeholder groups be recorded. As the restaurants had recently joined the new network Sustainable Restaurants in Sweden, the effect of this collaboration on their CSR efforts and communication was ev...

Hansen, Rickard

There is presently no wildfire model developed for Swedish conditions, only a fire danger rating system (FWI) has been developed for Swedish conditions. The demand for a wildfire model has not been great in the past in Sweden but the climate changes now taking place increases the risk of large and intensive wildfires in Sweden. The need for additional and better tools for sizing-up wildfires will be in great demand in the future. This pre-study is aimed at: - Presenting what has been done in the...

Thompson, David Andrew

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Gladwell, Amy

This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information. / Bachelors / Health and Public Affair...

Herr, Jeffrey L.

University of Central Florida College of Engineering Thesis / As part of an Environmental Protection Agency grant to reduce the trihalomethane concentration in the Melbourne, Florida drinking water, a granular activated carbon (GAC) plant was operated for approximately 1 year. Four GAC pilot plant systems were operated in parallel each treating a different influent. Raw water, coagulated, settled and filtered water, filtered water with ozone pretreatment, and filtered water with chlorine dioxide...

Di Natali, Nicole, Ivarsdottir, Matthildur

The goal of this research is to better understand the gap between the consumer's actual self image versus their perceived ideal image; in which, could help an online retail company to respond more effectively and provide a better service to its target customer with an added goal of reducing the rate of returns. A two-phased mixed methods approach was applied to this research to test for participants perceived and actual ideas of themselves, as well as their attitudes towards ideals. The first ph...

Ograbek, Ewa

In recent years, Anammox process has been investigated extensively. Today is successfully used for treatment of supernatant from dewatering of digested sludge having a high concentration of ammonia nitrogen. Currently, studies are carried out for the application of this system for the main waste water stream, which has a low concentration of ammonium nitrogen. The aim of the study was to find the optimal conditions for the activity of Anammox bacteria at low concentrations of ammonia nitrogen, a...

Caglia, Stefania

Regions with a cold winter, as in the Baltic countries, have a problem to meet the nitrogen requirement in the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive 98/15/EC. Especially in the winter season, the temperature of the influent wastewater could arrive also below 10°C and this delays the biological processes that takes place in the wastewater treatment. With the decrease of the temperature, the efficiency of nitrogen removal in the system decreases and leads to a high nitrogen loading in the effluent....

Yatham, Venkata Krishna Reddy

This paper is about improving the efficiency of nitrogen and other organic nutrient removal from activated sewage treatment by adopting an innovative technology. The work is to study the changes in nitrogen removal in pilot-scale experiments with the ITEST unit. The report also describes the various sources contributing to the eutrophication of the sea and water, caused by an increase in nutrient levels in different water bodies. Ineffective treatment of sewage contributes to the eutrophication....

Rogers, Rebecca Marie

In this study, a promising new intervention implemented for adults with aphasia due to stroke, Multimodal Communication Treatment, was modified for its use with one child with autism spectrum disorder to identify if the child could learn and communicate new words through learning multiple modalities. Data was collected on the child’s communicative output as well to assess the frequency and types of his communication attempts. The child presented with challenging behaviors throughout the interven...

Townsend, Kerry Lynne.

Research on murder-suicide within the South African context has been limited with the last published study in 1992 (Roos, Beyers, & Visser, 1992). This particular study investigated the phenomenon of murder-suicide in the city of Durban using techniques previously applied in a broad range of international studies (Berman, 1979; Cooper & Eaves, 1996; Rosenbaum, 1990). The study served as a pilot for a broader national study. The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the incidence of murder-s...

Potter, Sebastian Ruxton.

The impact of the emotional climate in the home of the schizophrenic on relapse has been researched extensively through the construct of Expressed Emotion (EE). Most often patients from high EE homes have a higher relapse rate than those from low EE homes. This is a robust finding throughout many western and some non-western countries. However, no published research documents EE status and relapse in African countries. This study reports on the EE status and rehospitalisation rates of 29 Zulu-sp...

Mitchell, Belinda May.

Eating disorders were predominantly perceived to be a white, Western higher socioeconomic phenomenon. However, as Western cultural values have been embraced, eating disorders appear to have become prevalent across racial, ethnic and socio-economic groups. In the last decade there has been an increased interest in assessing eating disorders from a cross-cultural perspective. Many studies have been conducted in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Relatively few empirical studies h...

Hamilton, Adele.

This pilot study aimed to contribute to the development of a methodology for researching various aspects of the relationship between HIV/AIDS and suicide in South Africa. To date, few systematic studies into this relationship have been conducted in South Africa. Specifically this study investigated the aspect of suicidal ideation in relation to HIV seroposivity, CD4 cell counts and social support. Although this study did not find increased suicidality in this sample of people living with HIV, th...

Hattab, Ghaith

Feature-based spectrum sensing techniques have emerged as good balance between energy-based techniques and coherent-based techniques, where the former require minimal prior information of the observed signal, and the latter have robust detection performance when the observed signal is very weak. In this thesis, we focus on pilot tone-aided detection as a feature-based detection class. We propose an improved pilot tone-aided spectrum sensor that utilizes the presence of the pilot tone and the ove...

Huang, Hui

In this study, the pilot-scale struvite crystallization process developed at UBC was operated continuously for recovering phosphate, in the form of struvite, from anaerobic digester supernatants from the Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Lulu Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. In addition, the process performance for a synthetic supernatant with high phosphate concentration (100-190 mg/L) was verified. Study results showed that the process was capable of removing more than 9...

Esmail, Laura Caroline

Objective: To develop and pilot test the feasibility and usefulness of a drug therapy decision support system aimed to influence general medical practitioners' (GPs) drug therapy decision-making at the time of patient care. Sample: Over 6 months, 13 GPs and 3 clinical pharmacists (CPs) from ambulatory medical practice sites across British Columbia participated in the study. Methodology: GPs had immediate access to a network of CPs and other GPs through cellular telephone-based instant grou...

Seip, Nils Darre

Minneapolis Water Works (MWW) in Minnesota, United States, have experienced occasional taste and odor episodes with their river water source. This thesis investigates the potential benefits of installing granular activated carbon (GAC) filters at MWW, replacing existing anthracite medium filters and eliminating the need for powdered activated carbon as taste and odor protection. Pilot scale filters of GAC and anthracite media have been studied and batch reactor tests have been performed – p...

Norington, Margaret A., n/a

The purpose of this study was to assess the immediate and delayed effectiveness of Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP), an Adlerian-based parent study group programme. STEP is a nine-session, multi-media package which combines communication skills with basic Adlerian principles. The focus of the study was the parents. The dependent variables were: parents' perceptions of their Target Children's behaviour; parents' knowledge of an Adlerian approach to child-rearing; and parental pe...

Langham, Anne Letitia, n/a

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Gordon, Sue, n/a

The aim of this research was to devise and norm a test of verbal memory suitable for use with children aged 5-10 years. Subjects were 204 Canberra school children. They were divided into six age groups, 5-10 years inclusive. Each age group of 34 children contained equal numbers of males and females. The main memory test involved free recall of a word-list over several learning trials and two delayed recall trials. This format allowed the assessment of a range of memory functions including immedi...

Young, Janelle Margaret

Mental illness is often associated with social isolation, unemployment and limited community participation. Mental health rehabilitation services aim to decrease these psychosocial effects of illness and encourage better community integration for mental health consumers. Volunteer work is one avenue in which consumers can become actively involved with their local communities. However whilst often supported clinically, limited empirical evidence exists which supports the use of volunteer work as ...

Barke, Steve

<p> This doctoral project is a pilot study to assess the effectiveness of a church discipleship co-op designed to convey a biblical worldview to middle and high school students enrolled in charter homeschooling in Southern California. Research by the Nehemiah Institute indicated that 90% of Christian families in the United States send their children to forms of education that are not likely to produce a biblical worldview. Research by The Barna Group, LifeWay Research, and The National Study of ...

Cole, Casey

<p> This pilot study investigates the sero-conversion rates of hepatitis B vaccinated individuals. The study was completed at a community clinic in Laguna Beach, California, where 100 predominantly white male individuals who were all vaccinated for hepatitis B were tested for sero-conversion. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine if the hepatitis B sero-conversion rates in a small sample of subjects reflected that of the published data, regardless of HIV status, after a hepatitis B vacc...

Sarbu, Claudia L.

Introduction: An injury surveillance system was piloted in 2011 to monitor injuries in Canadian Forces. This evaluation of the key system attributes examined system performance. Methods: A retrospective chart review, a coding reliability study, a completeness of forms study and a key informant interview. Results: Sensitivity was 0.36 (95% CI: 0.28, 0.46). The system was missing patients over age 35. Kappa coefficients over 0.80 demonstrated good agreement. Completeness of forms study demonstrate...

Horrall, Caitlin L.

The popularity of mother blogs is increasingly attracting sponsors looking to market their products to mother blog audiences. This combination of commercial and informational content calls on readers and writers to distinguish between informational content and commercial activity. This thesis examines how mother bloggers integrate sponsored content into their blogs and how both writers and readers interpret the credibility of these posts. The study takes place within a conceptual framework of so...

Mackinnon, Christopher

While bereavement interventions have proved effective in reducing complicated/prolonged grief reactions, the scholarship over the past 10 years suggests that the effectiveness of bereavement interventions for uncomplicated grief is negligible. However, these past studies have been critiqued for numerous design flaws, making any definitive conclusions about effectiveness premature. What has emerged is a need for theoretically-based uncomplicated bereavement interventions for individuals actively ...

Vrhovnik, Lydia

It has been hypothesized that a reduction in the awareness of food skills in the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) community may be contributing to the increasing rates of overweight and obesity. To date, a valid and reliable tool for examining the level of food skills among a population has not been created. This study sought to create such a tool through achieving face validity from key stakeholders, content validity from an expert panel and construct validity through factor anal...

Theodoridis, Eudoxios

This thesis explores the idea of igniting LPG in a compression ignition diesel engine using pilot diesel injection as spark ignition medium. The main advancement in using this technology on current diesel engines is the establishment of a better balance between NOx and PM emissions without losing too much of the CO2 benefits of diesel. With the advent of common rail diesel engines, it is now possible to get control of pilot diesel injection and make the LPG and diesel control systems work toget...

Wasserman, Eli Shawn Jordan

This study used environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) to investigate waste vegetable oil (WVO) biodiesel production at the University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus, Centre for Agricultural Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES). CARES production data and Natural Resources Canada’s GHGenius LCA data were utilized to conduct a well-to-gate LCA. A range of scenarios were studied including using soybean oil feedstock and implementing methanol recovery. Results suggest that methanol is the ...

Tashkandi, Ghdeer

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a challenging problem in Nova Scotia and is a leading cause of disability and a contributor to high health related costs to the system. The primary objective of this thesis is to develop and test a methodology for the creation of an electronic standardized assessment tool for chronic conditions such as CLBP using a triangulation method. The methodology involves evidence-based, expert and explicit clinical knowledge in the development of the tool. The outcome of th...

Deal, Heidi J.

Medication errors are under-reported in community pharmacies, thereby reducing the opportunities for creating solutions and jeopardizing patient safety. This research identified challenges and facilitators of medication error reporting, and lessons learned from using a continuous quality improvement program. In-depth interviews with pharmacists and technicians from 13 community pharmacies in Nova Scotia were analyzed using iterative thematic analysis. The overall theme, From Secret to Shared, wa...

Fröberg, Henric

Metaproteomics, as a proteomic approach to analyse environmental samples, is a new and expanding field of research. The field promises new ways of determining the status of the organisms present in a sample, and could provide additional information compared to metagenomics. Being a novel field of research, robust methods and protocols have not yet been established. In this thesis, we examine several methods for a reliable extraction of protein from soil and periphyton samples. The extraction sho...

Salehi Sichani, Mahdi

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Bates, Heidi

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Holshouser, J. A., Spangenberg, Wolfhart

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Faulkner, D. G., Peterson, R. J.

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Rodriguez, Raymond J.

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Park, Jin Hwa

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Dimic, Anna

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Smith, Melissa A. B.

Studies about the dynamics of human-robot interactions have increased within the past decade as robots become more integrated into the daily lives of humans. However, much of the research into learning and robotics has been focused on methods that would allow robots to learn from humans and very little has been done on how and what, if possible, humans could learn from programmed robots. A between-subjects experiment was conducted, in which two groups were compared: a group where the participant...

Viafara, Jairo

This practicum report discusses the theory and methodology supporting three proposed instruments: (a) A Housing Condition Survey, (b) The Interviewer's Handbook and, (c) The Template or relational database. These proposed instruments are expected to be used by the West Broadway Housing Coalition, in the Revitalization$\sp1$ process taking place in the West Broadway Neighbourhood. This practicum report examines the theory and methodology supporting the design of the described instruments. These p...

McKay, Michael Andrew

This is a prospective, non-randomized pilot study comparing the cost-utility of hepatic resection, radiofrequency ablation (RFA), systemic chemotherapy, and symptom control only for the treatment of colorectal liver metastases. Seven patients underwent hepatic resection, 7 underwent RFA, 20 received chemotherapy, and 6 received symptom control alone. Liver resection provided an average of 2.51 QALY’s compared to 1.99 QALY’s for RFA, and 1.18 QALY’s for chemotherapy, and 0.82 QALY’s for symptom c...

Dao, Dai Trang Thi

Background Traditionally, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) were considered to be distinct and unrelated; however, increasing evidence is demonstrating an overlap between AD and VCI pathology. As such, the current criteria for the clinical diagnosis of VCI may not distinguish those with cognitive impairment exclusively due to subcortical ischemic small vessel disease from those with mixed vascular and AD pathology. Furthermore, it is unclear how co-existing amylo...

Tatla, Sandeep K.

BACKGROUND: Motivation, a key factor influencing pediatric rehabilitation outcomes, is rarely measured in clinical settings and limited research has explored this construct. Currently, no scale exists with which to measure motivation during rehabilitation from a child’s perspective. PURPOSE: To review evidence about the effects of motivational interventions in children and youth with acquired brain injury (ABI) and to examine the application of Self Determination Theory (SDT) in the rehabilita...