Sogol, Elliott M.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-72).

Krcmar, Andrea Marie.

Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006. / Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Hearing and Speech Sciences. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

Steagall, Rebecca.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eshel, Inbal.

Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004. / Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Hearing and Speech Sciences. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

Carter, Chris F.

Thesis (M.S.N.)--Marshall University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 56 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-45).

Stout, Robert

Thesis (M.S. in Management of Technology)--Vanderbilt University, May 2005. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Kirmizioglu, Erkut

Traffic signs, which are extremely important for traffic safety, aims to regulate traffic by providing information about the characteristics of road and road environment for drivers. The success of traffic signs mainly rely on the easy comprehensibility of its meaning in a short time. Further more, today&rsquo / s global economies and transportation systems emphasize the need for more universial traffic signs which was the main motivation of two main treaties on traffic signs / Vienna Convetion ...

Sunel, Ezgi

This thesis reports on a design study, conducted for an advanced composite helmet shell for helicopter pilots. The helmet shell is expected to provide a level of protection against low velocity impacts with its weight criteria. Therefore, ergonomy, light weight, and the ability to withstand low velocity impact became the main issues for this study. For this purpose, an experimental program has been developed including low velocity impact tests on specimens. The drop height, drop weight, specime...

Tharakeshwarappa, Nethravathi

Transfers are crucial for independent mobility. However, transfers can cause problems if appropriate precautions are not considered. For instance, transfers can result in skin damage, overstretching of the low back, wrist and fingers, excessive motion in unstable spinal segments, and shoulder injury. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a transfer measurement system, to determine an objective method to delineate the different phases of a transfer, and to determine the peak dynam...

Gunea, Catalin Dragos

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Küçükada, Kurtul

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Beaudry, Michel G.

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Ling, James, Houlahan, Christina, Pomponi, Renata, Shields, Thomas, Stout, Todd, Cowap, Stacey

The Lean Aircraft Initiative began in the summer of 1992 as a “quick look” into the feasibility of applying manufacturing principles that had been pioneered in the automobile industry, most notably the Toyota Production System, to the U.S. defense aircraft industry. Once it was established that “lean principles” (the term coined to describe the new paradigm in automobile manufacturing) were indeed applicable to aircraft manufacturing as well, the Initiative was broadened to include other segment...

Saylor, Kirsten N.

The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their communities into a program evaluation. Convenience interviews of participants at farmers' markets around Oregon revealed significant economic, social and nut...

Duggan, Kenneth Everett

Graduation date: 1950

Lazard, Laurent

In this thesis, we develop a simulator for estimating the energy consumed in executing tasks on a mobile device - the Palm Pilot. We measured the energy consumed by each instruction of the device's assembly language and incorporated these measurements into a public domain emulator for the Palm Pilot. This emulator is cycle accurate and therefore our energy estimates for running high-level tasks is also quite accurate. We validated our simulator via a series of benchmarks where predicted and meas...

Cha, Woo Chang

A significant number of aircraft incidents and accidents have been caused, in part, by flightcrew failure to properly manage cockpit activities, such as failure to initiate activities at the appropriate time, misprioritization of activities, or the failure to appropriately monitor activities and terminate them when required. To facilitate the management of the cockpit activities, a computational aid, the Agenda Manager (AM) has been developed for use in simulated cockpit environments in an inves...

Zaspel, Joachim C.

Modern civil commercial transport aircraft provide the means for the safest of all forms of transportation. While advanced computer technology ranging from flight management computers to warning and alerting devices contributed to flight safety significantly, it is undisputed that the flightcrew represents the most frequent primary cause factor in airline accidents. From a system perspective, machine actors such as the autopilot and human actors (the flightcrew) try to achieve goals (desired sta...

Stout, Robert Tyler

Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV) is a way to develop systems in which the cost for the system is fixed and all other system attributes are traded off to meet the fixed cost. The Government has required CAIV to be used on systems that have billions of dollars committed to them. Research up to this point in time reveals that CAIV is effective in saving money on the front end up system development. However, there is no research regarding other system attributes that might be affected by CAIV....

Kawalilak, Chantal E.

Introduction. Wrist (Colles') and forearm fractures commonly occur when a person falls on the outstretched forearm and the force exceeds bone strength. There is lack of experimental evidence testing the available force prediction models and assessing factors that determine forearm forces during a fall.<p> Objective. The primary objective was to compare experimentally measured force peaks (F1max-E and F2max-E) to the force peaks that were predicted by an engineering based force prediction model (...

Salehi, Sara

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in the industrialized world. This pilot study investigated demographic, clinical and environmental factors associated with return to work (RTW) among workers who sustained a mild to moderate work-related TBI (WrTBI). Using a retrospective cohort design, participants were recruited through an outpatient clinic dedicated to evaluating injured workers after a WrTBI. A mailed survey and medical record abstraction tool were use...

Reyes, Jared Michael

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Wichita State University, College of Education, Dept. of Human Performance Studies. / Despite the growth of telemedicine as an area of research, few studies to date have applied an interactive audio/video technology to exercise. To date, no publications utilizing a formative assessment process to help determine the effectiveness of an exercise intervention conducted via videoconference. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to develop an applicable formative assessment of resi...

Gupta, Samir

Norfloxacin For Hepatopulmonary Syndrome: A Pilot Study of a Rare Disease Samir Gupta, Masters of Science, 2008 Graduate Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation University of Toronto Introduction: Hepatopulmonary Syndrome is a rare disease characterized by abnormal gas-exchange and a poor prognosis, with no known effective medical therapy. A rat model and preliminary human data suggest that this disease may be caused by intestinal bacterial overgrowth, systemic endotoxemia an...

Smith, Aaron Douglas

Via mixed-culture fermentation, the MixAlcoTM produces carboxylic acids, which are chemically converted into industrial chemicals and hydrocarbon fuels. Using pilot fermentation data, The Continuum Particle Distribution Model (CPDM) overestimated acid concentration (30–90% error) but more closely estimated conversion (<15% error). Incorporating the effect of air into the model reduced the absolute error of all predictions by >50%. To analyze fermentation data with semi-continuous streams, the Sl...

Mattsson, Hans-Åke

The trend in many countries is to outsource maintenance with competitive tendering. The design of the tender is then a crucial issue. A new type of tendering contract, called "Integrated Bridge Maintenance", was introduced in one experimental area in Sweden. In this case the preventive bridge maintenance is separated from the standard road maintenance contract. The ideas behind these changes are that the new approach can increase efficiency through a combination of in­creased specialization, eco...

Snee, Laura Stacey

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-90). / viii, 90 leaves, bound col. ill. 29 cm

Young, John, 1949

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-52). / v, 52 leaves, bound 29 cm

Colarieti-Tosti, Massimiliano

This work should be seen as a pilot study of the effect that the common-sense based statement that one understands and learns best in their best language has on pupils in Swedish schools. A number of students have been given a mathematical test in the language they use for their normal school activities, and that is not their mother tongue. Some of them (approximately 50%) were led to believe this particular test to be language fair. Their average score on the test has then been compared to the ...

Hadziefendic, Adnan, Ullakko-Haaraoja, Kristian

Background: If a company does not have an optimal model for credit portfolio management they can face difficulties if they cannot forecast how the credit portfolio will behave during recessions. It can be explained with the fact that the management for the company might ask how the department forecasts a probable default within the credit portfolio. The senior management might want to know how the management for the credit portfolio measures how big credit losses can become. They might also want...

Chan, Tsz-ting., 陳紫婷.

published_or_final_version / Clinical Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Chung, Wai-ming, Laurence, 鍾慧明

published_or_final_version / Clinical Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Yeung, Wai-chow, David., 楊煒秋.

published_or_final_version / Behavioral Health / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Kwan, Kwok-loi, Queenie., 關幗萊.

published_or_final_version / Medical Sciences / Master / Master of Medical Sciences

Wong, Kai-hung, Peter., 黃啓鴻.

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

Liu, Kai-sheung, Bonnie., 廖繼嫦.

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

Vandover, David L., Villarosa, John P.

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Bertsche, Mark Steven

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Duffy, Timothy William

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Ruangvaidya, Sompun

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Wilson, Clark Albet.

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Rodrick, Peter Thomas.

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Hitz, Stephen E

The purpose of this thesis is to conduct a risk assessment and analysis for the M109 l55mm Self Propelled Howitzer (SPH) Fleet Management Pilot Program. The objective of this program is to reengineer the fleet's logistical support system by outsourcing those functions which make sense and that can be performed more efficiently by private industry. This innovative approach places one contractor, or Fleet Manager, in charge of sustaining the entire fleet, The researcher used the Concept of Operati...

Willey, Tanya

<p> Caregivers interacting with young children in natural settings have been found to provide language input that is in tune with the child's output in terms of mean length of utterance (MLU). Previous research suggests that caregivers provide language input within the child's proximal zone of language development, that is 2.0-3.0 morphemes ahead of their child's MLU. The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate whether speech-language pathologists (SLP) working in early interventio...

Sjödahl, Sofie

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a medical term describing the heart’s natural varying time difference between heartbeats (called NN-intervals). A higher HRV i.e. a larger variability between NN-intervals is connected to healthiness, and lower HRV to unhealthy states. Biofeedback (BF) is a method that can detect and send physiological signals back to the user on a screen. Every individual has a resonant frequency, and when breathing at this frequency, the interplay between blood pressure and resp...

Bengtzboe, Lina, Öskog, Stina

Peri-implantitis is an infectious disease and one of the treatment methods involves surgical debridement of the infected area. The aim of this pilot study was to investigate treatment outcome after surgical treatment of peri-implantitis in humans. Outcome measures were reduction in pocket probing depth (PPD) and bleeding on probing and/or suppuration (BOP/Sup). Eight patients, with a total amount of 28 implants, who were diagnosed with peri-implantitis were surgically treated with a non regenera...

Habib, Ali, Al-Khateeb, Zaid

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of veneering zirconia surfaces with feldspar-based ceramics or glass ceramics on bond strength when using a resin composite cement. Forty-eight ytteria tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) specimens were randomly divided into four groups. Six pairs were created in each group by bonding two of the specimens to each other after having the bonded surfaces treated differently as the following: I) polished and heat-treated (served as control), ...

Turner, Marie D.

<p> This is a double-blind, placebo-controlled, exploratory study examining the efficacy of Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) in the treatment of depression. Twenty participants who met criteria were selected from a rural community. Ten were randomly assigned to the active/experimental group, and 10 were randomly assigned to the placebo/sham group. A pre-test Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) was administered prior to administration of CES to measure baseline of depressive symptoms. T...

Bridgewater, Laura Elizabeth

The purpose of this study was to investigate the issues surrounding implementation of a School Fruit and Vegetable Snack Program (SFVSP). Ten schools were selected to participate in the SFVSP, nine schools were elementary schools (kindergarten to grade seven), and one school was a comprehensive school (kindergarten to grade 12). These schools were selected by the project Provincial Advisory Committee to provide maximal variation across schools on geographical location and socioeconomic status (S...

Toland, Patricia Anne

A combination of quantitative and qualitative data analysis was utilized in the evaluation of a six module training program designed for new caseworker staff within the Alberta Ministry of Children's Services and Delegated First Nation's Agencies. A total of 102 participants completed the five modules of training over 32 sessions scheduled during the training program pilot. Evaluation data included the use of participant workshop feedback, participant pre-test and post-test knowledge improvement...

Day, Meghan E.

Background: The incidence of childhood obesity and associated risk factors is increasing. Schools are an ideal vehicle for the delivery of obesity prevention programs for children and adolescents. Action Schools! BC - Healthy Eating is a school-based obesity prevention initiative that utilizes an innovative whole-school approach to target fruit and vegetable consumption. Objective: To assess the effectiveness of Action Schools! BC - Healthy Eating in affecting positive change in: 1) students' i...