International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1998 / Town & Country Resort Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / This paper describes a distributed network client-server system developed for researchers to perform real-time or near-real-time analyses on ensembles of telemetry data previously done in post-flight. The client-server software approach provides extensible computing and real-time access to data at multiple remote client sites. Researchers at remote sites can share similar information as those at the test site. The system has been used successfully in numerous commercial, academic and NASA wide aircraft flight testing.

This thesis discusses the creation of a novel platform that incorporates multiple communication methods, including SMS, email and web-based technologies, for interacting with users of mobile communication devices. The platform utilises people in a mobile environment to solve a range of different application problems, where each problem is a separate and distinct scenario type with unique objectives. There are existing applications available that interact with users of mobile communication devices to provide a service, such as regular weather updates to the users. Other applications have been designed to manage and coordinate the users to perform tasks within a mobile environment, such as performing field studies for scientific purposes. However, the existing applications are designed for only one specific scenario, with the design and implementation solely focused on solving the objectives of that scenario. Each component of these applications needs to be developed from scratch in order to cater for the application s requirements. There is currently no integrated communications platform that offers a framework for supporting a range of different scenario types. The new platform, entitled the Connected-Mobile Platform, aims to support the rapid development and implementation of new scenarios. This platform is composed of a framework of generic components that enable the active running of multiple scenarios concurrently, with the ability to tailor to the requirements of new scenarios as they arise via a structured process. The platform facilitates a means to coordinate its users in order to tackle the objectives of a scenario. The thesis investigates several system architectures to determine an appropriate architectural design for constructing the proposed platform. The platform has a generic framework, based on a client-server architecture, to facilitate the inclusion of a multitude of scenarios. A scenario represents a problem or an event, whereby the platform can utilise and interact with users of mobile communication devices to attempt to solve the objectives of the scenario. Three mobile communication methods are supported; the Short Message Service, electronic mail and web-forms via the mobile internet. Users are able to select and switch between the different methods. The thesis describes the platform s tailored communication structure for scenarios and autonomous analysis of messages. The thesis discusses case studies of two different scenarios to evaluate the platform s facilities for rapid scenario development. The Diet Diary scenario, which is for individual users, aims to manage a user s daily calorie intake to help them reach their desired weight goal. The focus is on the platform s functionality for analysing and responding to messages autonomously. The Missing Persons scenario, which utilises multiple users, involves tracking and locating people who have been reported missing. The focus is on the platform s functionality for coordinating the multiple users, through the creation of assignments, in order to distribute the scenario objectives. The thesis concludes by highlighting the novel features of the platform and identifying opportunities for future work.

The aim of this study is to examine, with background of the swedish specialized social service, how the client is formed in a process by categorizing and sorting in the receiving department of the financial support. Which factors professionals are perceived to be problematic in the management of cases and the social workers approach to meet the clients needs. The study was conducted with one qualitative semi-structured interview with the head of the department of financial support, and two focus group interviews with social workers at the department of financial support. The theoretical approach is Hasenfeld´s theory about human service organizations, Billquist´s theory about the sorting process and Johansson´s theory about the client construction process. The empirical results also relate to Johansson´s theory about mass handling of clients and Svensson, Johnsson and Laanemets theory about the social workers action space. The conclusion of this study is that a specialized social service is categorizing and sorting the client through all parts of the process in the receiving department of financial support. The result shows that several factors makes it problematic for the social workers to respond to the client needs in a specialized social service, causing the social workers to use their acion space.

The interpreter is overlooked when considering the refugee claim process in Canada, even though refugee lawyers most often work with interpreters to understand their clients. Through qualitative interviews with refugee lawyers, this thesis aims to better understand how interpreters affect the lawyer-client dynamic. Tension surrounding the appropriate role of the interpreter, the complexity of communicating through interpreters, and interpreters’ effects on lawyer-client relationships emerged as themes and are explored with reference to the existing interpretation studies literature. The author proposes that an updated lawyer-interpreter-client relationships framework is necessary to fully encompass the realities of these complex relationships, and offers suggestions for best practices to ensure lawyers, interpreters, and clients maintain productive relationships. / Graduate / 0398 / actontess@gmail.com

Bakgrund/syfte: Det finns en alltmer ökad fokusering på hemrehabilitering för personer diagnostiserade med stroke. Dock kan utförandet på hemrehabiliteringen variera och det är ännu inte klarlagt hur ett fungerande åtgärdsprogram ska utformas. Syftet var att identifiera vad en hemrehabilitering för personer med stroke bör innehålla utifrån personalens perspektiv i multidisciplinära hemrehabiliteringsteam. Metod: Studien är en deskriptiv studie i enlighet med Delphi-tekniken. Frågeformulär skickades ut via e-mail i 3 rundor till 12 experter bestående av arbetsterapeuter, sjuksköterskor och sjukgymnaster. I Runda 1 fick experterna svara på öppna frågor för att få deras personliga åsikter i ämnet. Frågeformulären i Runda 2 och 3 utformades utifrån svaren från föregående runda där experterna fick markera grad av instämmande på en Likert skala efter varje påstående. Resultat: Sextifyra av 74 påståenden uppnådde en nivå av konsensus på 75 % eller mer. Hemrehabilitering bör innehålla patientens självbestämmande och delaktighet i utformandet. Detta säkerställs av ett klientcentrerat arbetssätt genom samarbete, samverkan och samordning på olika sätt med den sociala omgivningen under rehabiliteringsprocessen. Slutsats: Övergripande komponenter i en hemrehabilitering för personer med stroke är egenmakt, delaktighet och självständighet som uppnås genom det ”det goda teamet” och strategier för samordning. Studiens betydelse: Resultatet i studien kan bidra med värdefull information vid utformandet av hemrehabiliteringsprogram i klinisk verksamhet inom strokerehabilitering. / Background/aim: There is an increasingly focus on home-based rehabilitation for persons diagnosed with stroke. However, rehabilitation in the home environment can be delivered in many different ways and the best way to deliver home-based rehabilitation and its content is not yet clarified in the literature. The aim was to identify what home-based rehabilitation should contain from the perspective of members working in multidisciplinary teams in homes of persons diagnosed with stroke. Methods: The study design was a consensus-building, three-round Delphi survey. Questionnaires were sent by e-mail to a panel of 12 experts including occupational therapists, nurses and physiotherapists. In round 1 the experts were asked to answer open-ended questions to obtain their personal views on the subject. The questionnaire in Round 2 and 3 were built on the results of the previous ones and the experts were asked to mark on a Likert scale the importance of each statement. Results: Sixty-four of 74 statements reached a consensus level of 75% or more.  Home-based rehabilitation should contain patient’s autonomy and participation in the rehabilitation program. This is ensured by a client-centred approach characterized by cooperation and interaction with the social environment throughout the rehabilitation process. Conclusions: Overall components in home-based rehabilitation for persons diagnosed with stroke is empowerment, participation and autonomy achieved by ”The good team” and coordination strategies. Significance of the study: The result of the study could be an important source of information when designing home rehabilitation programs for persons with stroke.

In the staffing agency business, the responsibility of the working environment are divided between the client companies and the staffing agencies. Therefore the temporary workers should be double protected, but the consequences are that the responsibility of the working environment falls between the cracks in many businesses.The purpose of the essay is to examine how the workers in industrial businesses from the staffing agency are protected by the shared responsibility that exists between the client companies and the staffing agencies, regarding work environment. To be able to answer this questions, the legal method is used.The conclusion of this essay is that the temporary workers are protected by the Work Environment Act, stating that the staffing agency and the client company have a responsibility for the employee´s work environment. Since the staffing agency is the employer, they have the largest work environment responsibility. This means, however, that staffing agencies are in a special situation because they are not in the place where the employee works. Since the client company is equated with an employer according to 1 § SAM, the systematic work environment is shared equally between the client companies and staffing agencies. On the grounds that there is a lack of clarity concerning who is responsible for what from the both parties, it leads to that the working environment responsibility are neglected. It also depends on the fierce competition that exists between various staffing companies today, which means that staffing companies do not always take part of the client companies' risk assessments or requirements on the grounds that they are afraid of losing the customer. This results that the temporary employees do not get the protection that the Work Environment Act is intended to give them.

The purpose of this study was to investigate psychiatric staff’s descriptions of working with children of the clients and furthermore to analyse recollections on how the staff supports their clients in their parenting role. We’ve taken inspiration from a hermeneutic approach and conducted interviews with four individuals in closed psychiatry. The interviews was carried out using a semistructured conversation methodology. The analysis of staff depositions in our study shows that the work with the children happens both direct and indirect. It also shows that staff feel that they must have the ability to see their clients individual needs of emotional support, but also that their working to strengthen the clients self trust. The staff has to be aware that their work indirectly have an impact on the client’s children. As psychiatric staff it’s important to support the client in their current situation. As a professional, you should also be able to see everyone’s equal value, independent of diagnosis or committed crimes.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 23-26, 2000 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / This paper describes a PC-based Advanced Telemetry Processing and Display System (ATPDS)- a highend, real-time telemetry processing and display system implemented on a COTS PC platform. for A network-centric architecture was chosen from candidate architectures as the most viable for the ATPDS. The network-centric architecture is Windows NT-based, client/server based, supporting clients and servers on both local or remote PC workstations. The architecture supports distributing processing loads across multiple workstations, optimizing mission processing requirements. The advantage of this system is its flexibility and expandability with low acquisition and life-cycle support costs. The ATPDS allows the user to configure one or more small systems into a larger high-end system based on varying mission requirements.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / The Telemetry Definition and Processing (TDAP II) application is a PC-based software tool that meets the varied needs - both now and into the 21st century - of instrumentation engineers, data analysts, test engineers, and project personnel in the Test and Evaluation (T&E) community. TDAP II uses state-of-the-art commercial software technology that includes a Microsoft Access 97Ô database and a Microsoft Visual BasicÔ Graphical User Interface (GUI) for users to view and navigate the database. Developed by the Test and Analysis Division of the 96th Communications Group for the tenants of the Air Armament Center (AAC), Eglin AFB Florida, TDAP II provides a centralized repository for both aircraft and weapons instrumentation descriptions and telemetry EU conversion calibrations. Operating in a client/server environment, TDAP II can be effectively used on a small or large network as well as on both a classified or unclassified Intranet or Internet. This paper describes the components and design of this application, along with its operational flexibility and varied uses resulting from the chosen commercial software technology.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores patterns of separation and/or connection in the narratives of the respondent, a female farm worker living and working in the Western Cape, South Africa. The major objective of this qualitative case study is to examine the possible construction, co-existence and interaction of separation-connection themes in the reality of the respondent. Founded within the social constructivist tradition, an approach that assumes reality to be constructed through language and within relationships, a window on the respondent's narrative construction of her reality, relationships and separation-connection processes was obtained. To compliment the explorative nature and social constructionist approach of the study, Grounded Theory and Narrative Analysis were administrated. Through the analysis the two central themes, separation and connection, manifested on two different levels - firstly on a content level (what the participant has to say regarding the themes) and secondly on a process level (what is happening between participant and researcher). Findings provided a preliminary understanding of the techniques the respondent implores to construe a sense of separation and connection. Results confirmed the co-existence of separation-connection themes and indicated a possible interaction between the two constructs. Findings also provided a glimpse on the experiences and impact of the separation-connection process in the idiom of the respondent. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie belig patrone van binding en/of skeiding in die narratiewe van die respondent, In vroulike plaaswerker in die Wes-Kaap, Suid-Afrika. Dié kwalitatiewe gevallestudie is gerig op In ondersoek van die potensiële konstruksie, naasbestaan en interaksie van binding- en/of skeidingstemas soos wat die respondent dit beleef en verwoord. Deur die fundering van die navorsing in die sosiaal-konstruktivistiese tradisie, In benadering wat glo dat die realiteit in verhoudings via taal gekonstrueer word, is toegang tot die respondent se narratiewe konstruksie van haar realiteit, verhoudings en binding- en/of skeidingstemas verkry. In ooreenstemming met sosiaal-konstruktivistiese aannames, het die data-analise Narratiewe Analise en Grounded Theory metodiek behels. Met behulp van die ontleding het die twee sentrale konsepte, binding en skeiding, op twee vlakke gemanifesteer - eerstens op In inhoudsvlak (dit wat die respondent daaroor vertel) en tweedens op In prosesvlak (dit wat tussen die respondent en die onderhoudvoerder gebeur). Die resultate bied In voorlopige verstaan van die wyses waarop die respondent binding en/of skeiding konstrueer. Bevindings bevestig die naasbestaan van binding- en skeidingstemas en dui op In moontlike interaksie tussen dié twee konstrukte. Die studie verskaf ook In blik op die respondent se ervaring van die konstrukte in haar eie idioom.