acase@tulane.edu / Introduction: The Home-based Management of Malaria (HMM) is a cornerstone of malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and is recommended by WHO to provide prompt access to antimalarial treatment for children in under-served areas. Although HMM has been shown to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality with chloroquine, it has not been examined previously in the era of artemisinin-based combination therapies. The objectives of this study were to determine whether HMM reduced: ...

Zalcman, Amy

<p> Duchenne&rsquo;s Muscular Dystrophy is a debilitating disease that affects skeletal and cardiac muscle of 1 in 5000 male births. In the last thirty years, the gene responsible for the encoding of Dystrophin has been identified, sequenced and the variations of mutations described. There remains a void in the successful treatment of the disease although corticosteroid use has proven useful in delaying progression. Novel therapies are produced in the categories of virus-mediated gene delivery a...

Chun-kuang Chiang, 蔣竣光

碩士 / 國立臺灣科技大學 / 化學工程系 / 99 / Total of 62 rainwater samples were collected from two rainwater harvesting systems (RWHSs) in a campus in northern Taiwan between September 2010 and June 2011. Harvested rainwater was analyzed, including pH, electrical conductivity (EC), turbidity, alkalinity, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), concentration of 14 metals (Al, Ca, K, Mg, Na, Cu, Fe, Mn, V, Zn, Cd, Cr, Pb and Ni) and concentration of 3 anions (Cl-, SO42- and NO3-). In addition, multiple-tube fermentation ...

Wemmer, Kathleen

The demands made on the profession of audiology by substantial theoretical, clinical and technological developments are extensive, resulting in an increased and specialised scope of practice. Professional bodies and tertiary institutions in the United States have responded to these demands by suggesting that the Clinical Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) be made the minimal entry-level into the profession. In South Africa, the minimum entry-level into the profession is a 4-year professional un...

Lorentzen, Line Harboe, Fleckner, Lisbeth Dauerhøj

Background: When people walk while performing a cognitive dual-task, a decrease in gait velocity will occur because of the demand for some of the same cognitive resources. However, in a previous study they found an increase instead of a decrease in gait velocity when subjects walked on a self-paced treadmill while performing a color-word Stroop task. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine if the increase found in gait velocity in the previous study was a consequence of the subjects’ positio...

吳思穎

碩士 / 國立交通大學 / 企業管理碩士學程 / 99 / Social network sites have been the most effective channels for information sharing, communication, and transmission of news in the society nowadays. Among these virtual websites, Facebook, established in 2004 and with seven hundred million members, is the biggest social network site in the world. The fast way to realize the growth model of Facebook is to explore the developing process and management implications of the services it offers. This research analyzes F...

Picchioni, Mary J.

PurposeThe purpose of this pilot study was to explore nutritional injury in the context of oral mucositis (OM). It was a beginning look at oral L-glutamine (L-Gln) treatment efficacy through investigation of three "Reaction-to-Nutritional Injury" hypotheses defining OM as a localized secondary nutritional disorder of deficiency (Van Itallie, 1977) resulting from absence of/limited nutritional collateral systems (Kight, 1994):(1) OM severity and human buccal epithelial cell glutamine syntheta...

Huang, Yi-Jiun, 黃毅軍

碩士 / 國立清華大學 / 通訊工程研究所 / 97 / In cognitive system, spectrum sensing technique exploits unused frequency band for opportunistic wireless transmission, It is known that pilot data transmission is a necessary function in digital communication for channel realization. Then we can determine whether the primary user is on or off by detecting the existence of the pilot signal [1]. However, the received signal is always correlated when it passed through frequency selective fading channel. The widely used...

Hsiao-Ting Kao, 高筱婷

碩士 / 國立高雄第一科技大學 / 口筆譯研究所 / 99 / This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of adopting pre-machine translation (pre-MT) editing in translation training. In the process of pre-MT editing, the controlled language is used to revise and edit the source text (ST) for MT application. Generally, the controlled language helps restrict the vocabulary and grammar of the ST, thus reducing the complexity as well as clarifying the vague expression in the ST. This study develops a 100,000-word parallel ...

Van Niekerk, Hester Susanna

Thesis (MNutr (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences. Human Nutrition))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction Complications of severe infection or acute trauma include a cascade of immunological dysfunctions known as SIRS (Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome), that affect response to treatment, prolonging and complicating the course of illness and jeopardizing clinical outcome. Timing and the nature of nutritional support in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settin...

Esposito, Francesca

Thesis (MNutr (Interdisciplinary Health Sciences. Human Nutrition))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / Background and objectives: An understanding of the effect of HAART on different aspects of health, including nutritional status, of HIV-infected individuals in South Africa is needed to ensure that appropriate population-specific guidelines and policies can be developed. This study aimed to investigate the impact of HAART on nutritional status, focusing on changes in anthropometric measures, ...

Daniels, Kurt John

Thesis (MScPhysio)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) remains a major concern worldwide. Although PTB is curable, both the disease and its treatment may have considerable medical, social and psychological consequences which may result in a decreased quality of life and functioning. Characterization of the functional capabilities of PTB patients post-treatment and the impact of PTB on their quality of life may identify a need for more holi...

Dragan, Irina F.

<p> <b>Aim &amp; Hypothesis:</b> The aim of the study was to compare the time dental students need to answer questions about drug-drug interactions (DDI) when using the Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support Resource (EBCDSR) UpToDate^&reg; to retrieve patient-critical information versus general internet access, during a preclinical session. We hypothesized that the dental students utilizing the UpToDate^&reg; would take less time to identify the correct DDIs and obtain hig...

Siddiqi, Noreen

For the past 40 years, most patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) have presented with the asymptomatic form of PHPT. Despite the dominance of the asymptomatic PHPT phenotype, current National Institutes of Health (NIH) indications for parathyroidectomy fail to identify as many as 80% of patients afflicted with asymptomatic PHPT. To date, studies of the therapeutic benefits of parathyroidectomy among asymptomatic PHPT patients have relied on general health questionnaires and patient re...

Margolis, Kathryn

There is strong research support for the effectiveness and feasibility of family-centered, evidence-based programs (EBPs) to prevent the developmental and negative effects of youth problem behaviors. Despite this support, there is a relatively low rate of disseminating existing EBPs to diverse nations and cultures, and there is even less research being conducted to evaluate the existing efforts towards dissemination and uptake. Youth problem behavior prevention is a burgeoning area of psychologi...

Clark, Jesse L, Segura, Eddy R, Oldenburg, Catherine E, Salvatierra, Hector J, Rios, Jessica, Perez-Brumer, Amaya Gabriela, Gonzales, Pedro, Sheoran, Bhupendra, Sanchez, Jorge, Lama, Javier R

Background: Patient-initiated partner notification (PN) following the diagnosis of a sexually transmitted infection is a critical component of disease control in men who have sex with men (MSM) sexual networks. Both printed and internet-based technologies offer potential tools to enhance traditional partner notification approaches among MSM in resource-limited settings. Objective: This randomized controlled trial aimed to evaluate the effect of 2 different PN technologies on notification outcome...

Wright, Brian Bradley

This case-study establishes the influences of power-knowledge relationships on capacity-building for sustainability in the European Union Funded ‘Wild Coast Spatial Development Initiative Pilot Programme’ (EU Programme). It aims to capture the lessons learned for capacitybuilding to support nature-based tourism initiatives on the Wild Coast. The EU Programme aimed to achieve economic and social development of previously disadvantaged communities through nature-based tourism enterprises, and to d...

Nyzell, Robin

This study aims to investigate what can be done to make internet users more aware of what information they share with service providers, as well as to serve as a pilot test for two prototypes as a part of a EU funded project called CREDENTIAL. For these tests 12 participants were recruited. They were divided into two groups, where one group used a tablet for the tests and the other group used a computer. The test participants are introduced to the tests under the pretense that they are going to ...

Stenis Perron, Simone

The Swedish Television ́s department for costumes and props is digitizing the work processes concerning the documentation, rental and storage of over two million objects. This thesis is a pilot study with the objective of investigating which design elements are crucial to ensure a smooth transition from the analog domain to the digital, in a specialized field. By utilizing core usability techniques, such as observations, workshops, paper prototypes and workload estimates, the key habits and work...

Jensen, Tony

The use of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) is relativity new with the first known lethal strike taking place in 2001. Few systems are operational but many are in development. The use of UCAVs is debated and many claim that UCAVs make it casual for the pilots to kill, and the pilots are not able to differentiate the ethics of what they do from those of a video game. When researched it is found that some factors regarding the use of UCAVs may make a pilot less reluctant to execute a remote ...

Jia-Sheng Hu, 胡家勝

博士 / 國立成功大學 / 機械工程學系碩博士班 / 96 / Since the beginning of the new millennium, the auto-balancing two-wheeled cart (ABTWC) has become more and more popular due to its responsive yet precise movement and pollution-free. This dissertation is devoted to investigating both the pilot control and fault diagnosis technologies for an ABTWC which is inherently unstable and has a non-minimum phase. In this dissertation, we present a pilot control algorithm, which converts two joysticks’ commands into two ...

Shi-Chi Chen, 陳錫祺

碩士 / 國立交通大學 / 電子工程系所 / 95 / Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a popular technique in modern wireless communications. There are many systems adopting the OFDM technique, such as IEEE 802.11 a/g/n, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, and Digital Video Broadcasting, etc. On the other hand, mobility is an important issue that needs to be taken into account in the design of future wireless communication systems. For example, IEEE 802.16-2005 supports vehicle speed up to 120 km/hr, and IEEE 8...

Hsin-Che Ho, 何欣哲

碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 通訊工程研究所 / 96 / In this thesis, One of the difficulties in the orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems is the multi-user interference (MUI) induced by the carrier frequency offset (CFO). In sub-band OFDMA systems, each user occupies a consecutive and non-overlapping frequency sub-band. The pilots are usually placed at the edges of a sub-band for frequency synchronization and channel estimation. However, the both frequency synchronization and channel estimation ...

Chiwire, Plaxcedes

Background: A South African report, Saving Babies 2010-2011, reports 32,178 still births in a 2 year period of January 2010 to December 2011 within the 94% of the total hospitals who provide data to a Perinatal Problem Identification programme (PPIP). In order to deal with perinatal mortality, specifically Intra-Uterine Growth there is needed to equip the primary health care (PHC) with technology for monitoring. An instrument called the Umbiflow Doppler ultrasound machine has been developed and...

阮大洋

碩士 / 國立交通大學 / 資訊科學與工程研究所 / 94 /

唐之璇

博士 / 國立交通大學 / 電子工程系所 / 95 / In CDMA systems, the narrowband message signals of different users are discriminated by multiplying the spreading signals with large bandwidth. The multiple access interference (MAI) is introduced when spreading signals are non-orthogonal. In the cellular environment, if the power of each user within a cell is not controlled appropriately, error performance of the user with small received power can be dramatically decreased by the user with large received power, i.e.,...

Shian-Jung Tang, 湯憲忠

碩士 / 國立成功大學 / 電機工程學系碩博士班 / 92 / For wireless applications on the fading channels, the channel coding is an important tool for improving the communication reliability. Turbo codes have been shown to perform near the Shannon limit in both the additive white Gaussian Noise channel and the Rayleigh fading channel with perfect knowledge of channel information. However, in practice, the channel responses are not available. A natural approach is to estimate the channel responses and then use the estima...

Wen-ChihChen, 陳文智

博士 / 國立成功大學 / 工業與資訊管理學系 / 103 / Under the increasing pressure of global competition, product life cycles are becoming shorter and shorter. This means that better methods are needed to analyze the limited information obtained at the trial stage in order to derive useful knowledge that can aid mass production. Machine learning algorithms, such as data mining techniques, are widely applied to solve this problem. However, a certain amount of training samples is usually required to determine the vali...

Fatou Gai, 葛祖兒

碩士 / 國立陽明大學 / 國際衛生碩士學位學程 / 101 / Giardia lamblia is a flagellated eukaryotic unicellular microorganism and causes giardiasis, a gastrointestinal disease, in human and animals. Giardiasis results in major public and veterinary health concerns worldwide. Transmission of Giardia lamblia cyst to humans occurs mainly ingestion of contaminated food or water, exposure to fecally contaminated environment and person-to-person contact. Genetic characterization of G. lamblia isolates has revealed the exist...

RyuheiHayashida, 林田龍平

碩士 / 國立成功大學 / 民航研究所 / 102 / Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely studied and used. But most UAVs are not capable to carry on high payload missions. Development of large UAVs demands high investment. However, conversion from ultra-light aircraft (ULA) into large UAV can economically solve the cost problem. This thesis proposes a large UAV solution using ULA for high mission requirements. Using electrically driven lever by reserving the original control sticks, the ULA can be switched ...

Olofsson, Jonas

The acidification has been a known problem in Sweden for several decades. Sulphurous compounds, spread from the British Isles and the European continent led to a decrease in the pH-value of the rain that fell over Sweden. Since the acidification was discovered in the 1960s, active measures against the sulphurous deposition have been undertaken. The sulphurous deposition has decreased by 90 %, and the problem was for some time considered under control, until recently when a new era of the acidifi...

Callerström, Emma

Patients treated at intensive care units (ICUs) are failing in one or several organs and requireappropriate monitoring and treatment in order to maintain a meaningful life. Today clinicians inintensive care units (ICUs) manage a large amount of data generated from monitoring devices.The monitoring parameters can either be noted down manually on a monitoring sheet or, for some parameters, transferred automatically to storage. In both cases the information is stored withthe aim to support clinicia...

De Wet, C J, Leibbrandt, M V, Palmer, R C G, Mills, M E, Tantsi, V

This Working Paper contains the results of a pilot investigation undertaken in 1986/87 in selected areas of the Keiskammahoek District of Ciskei. The pilot study was undertaken in order to compile a comprehensive plan for a long-term study of the Keiskammahoek District as a whole. Such a study would be designed to analyse socio-economic and political changes which have taken place in the District, measured against the results of a major multidisciplinary research project (The Keiskammahoek Rural...

Adhikari, Bikram

Mobility is one of the most significant factors that determines older adults’ perceived level of health and well being. Cognitively impaired older adults are deprived of using powered wheelchairs because of the operational safety risks. These users can benefit from intelligent assistance during cognitively or visually challenging tasks such as back-in parking. An intelligent powered wheelchair that assists a cognitively impaired elderly user to perform a back-in parking task is proposed. A singl...

O'Donnell, Rose Marie Roisin

<p> Providing care for a frail older adult who is suffering from dementia has been described as a stressful experience that may erode psychological well-being and physical health of caregivers. The burden and stress is increased when the caregivers are themselves elderly. The present study investigated an 8-week stress-reduction program, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and compared it to a similarly structured, alternative behavioral intervention, Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR), ...

Kum, Wan Fung

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Marchant, P. Brad

Bench and pilot scale testing has shown that biooxidation of a refractory arsenical sulphide concentrate enhanced gold and silver extraction by cyanidation. Direct cyanidation of Southern Tail bulk sulphide concentrate typically resulted in less than 10% gold and silver recovery. Biological pretreatment of the sulphide concentrate resulted in 70% gold extraction and at least 30% silver extraction within economic process constraints. Biooxidation of a low grade arsenical sulphide concentrate, 5...

Travis, Julia

Includes bibliographical references (leaves185-195).

Vadlejch, Filip

Diplomová práce se zabývá představením, popisem a vytvořením modelu postranní řídicí páky pilota s aktivní silovou zpětnou vazbou firmy Honeywell International Inc. v prostředí MATLAB Simulink. Dále pak představením problému pilotem indukovaných oscilací a možnostmi jejich předcházení, detekce a potlačení. Model řídicí páky se silovou zpětnou vazbou je použit pro potlačení detekovaných oscilací v simulaci letounu.

Seck, Ibrahima

<p> <b>Introduction:</b> The Home-based Management of Malaria (HMM) is a cornerstone of malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and is recommended by WHO to provide prompt access to antimalarial treatment for children in under-served areas. Although HMM has been shown to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality with chloroquine, it has not been examined previously in the era of artemisinin-based combination therapies. The objectives of this study were to determine whether HMM reduced: 1] the t...

Morales, Stephanie Ruíz, Morales, Stephanie Ruíz

Mexican immigrant women are a vulnerable population group in the U.S., and face challenges as a result of the nation’s anti-immigrant landscape. To help Mexican immigrant women cope with these realities, scholars have proposed the implementation of social support interventions. Yet only two studies have executed social support interventions for immigrant women. Those tailored specifically for Mexican immigrant women are nonexistent. To address this gap, this Master's thesis piloted the first soc...

Suleman, Taghreed

Ce travail fait partie d'un grand projet pour la mise en œuvre d'un réseau urbain intelligent sur le Campus de la Cité Scientifique qui est équivalent à une petite ville d'environ 25000 habitants. Le réseau intelligent comprend (i) la mise en œuvre d’une instrumentation pour le suivi en temps réel et le contrôle du réseau de distribution d'eau et (ii) le développement d'un système expert basé sur l'expérience développée par l'industrie de l'eau ainsi que sur des recherches fondamentales et appli...

Roux, Céline

Le Site Pilote de Tchernobyl (CPS) est voué à l’étude de la migration des radionucléides à partir de l’une des tranchées creusée pour enfouir la matière contaminée à la suite de l'accident de Tchernobyl (1986). L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier les processus de migration des éléments dans la nappe phréatique.D’abord, l’extension maximale du panache de contamination est étudiée à l’aide du traceur conservatif 36Cl. Dans la nappe, les rapports 36Cl/Cl sont 1 à 4 ordres de grandeur supérieurs...

O'Donnell, Rose Marie Minna, O'Donnell, Rose Marie Minna

Providing care for a frail older adult who is suffering from dementia has been described as a stressful experience that may erode psychological well-being and physical health of caregivers. The burden and stress is increased when the caregivers are themselves elderly. The present study investigated an 8-week stress-reduction program, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and compared it to a similarly structured, alternative behavioral intervention, Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR), to d...

Ally, Corinne

A dissertation completed in partial compliance with the requirements for a Master's Degree in Technology Chiropractic, Durban Institute of Technology, 2006. / Neck pain is a common problem, globally, as well as in South Africa. Zulu is the first language of a very large proportion of the South African population, and as such, addressing the needs of this population group with respect to neck pain is a priority. Many reliable pain indexes exist in English to record the degree of disability wi...

Babico, Mary, Lundeen, Emily, Spencer, Jenene

Class of 2012 Abstract / Specific Aims: To assess the number of patients referred to ASHLine during the health screenings performed by University of Arizona College of Pharmacy students; and to identify the comfort level of students who asked patients about their smoking status. Methods: An anonymous questionnaire was sent via electronic mail to evaluate students’ comfort levels in implementing a smoking cessation referral program and subject demographics. Chart reviews quantified the number ...

Sheely, Angela

This study examined the effectiveness of training low income Black American parents in child parent relationship therapy (CPRT). In response to the cultural values and challenges faced by low income Black American parents, the CPRT manual was adapted slightly for use with parents for this study. In this quasi-experimental design, 14 parents were assigned to the experimental group and 13 parents were assigned to the no treatment control group. Six hypotheses were analyzed. Different analyses wer...

Gordon, Heather Ann

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood psychiatric disorders characterised by impairments in attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Pharmacological and behavioural treatments have been shown to be effective in treating ADHD. However, with 30% of the population that do not respond or respond poorly to pharmacological treatments, and the growing concerns over the long-term impact stimulants may have on the developing brain, investigation into altern...

Naidoo, Linton S.

Evaluation is not unfamiliar : educators in classrooms use constant feedback from learners as the basis for self-evaluation. What may be less familiar is for groups of educators in a school to carry out a self-evaluation or experience a whole-school evaluation process, which in the latter case means more than a single educator. Whether familiar or not school evaluation has increased in importance in recent years, particularly at the level of the whole school. The introduction of WSE, notwithstan...

Dickson, Owen Cassell.

In order to establish its status within the increasingly competitive global market South Africa needs to become a more active participant. In economic terms the current conjunction has often been characterised as a period of revitilised capital accumulation based on globalisation which in turn has helped bring about new forms ofproduction, distribution and consumption. Globalisation involves the integration of the economies of nation states through market mechanisms accompanied by increased tran...