Diss.--Northwestern university. / Bibliogr. p. 257-261. Glossaire.

Small businesses are critical to the health of the United States economy as they account for approximately 50% of all jobs and 99% of all firms. The purpose for this descriptive multiunit case study was to explore what strategies small business owners used to achieve profitability by the end of the first 5 years of opening their business. The sample comprised 4 small business owners who have been profitable by Year 5 of being in business in Denver, Colorado. The conceptual framework for this study was built upon the general systems theory. The data were collected through semistructured interviews and company documents. Transcript review and member checking were completed to strengthen credibility and trustworthiness. Based on the methodological triangulation of the data sources collected, 3 emergent themes were identified after completing the 5 stages of data analysis: seasonality of the business, passion and dedication of the small business owner, and hiring the right employees. The findings from this study may contribute to social change by providing insights and strategies for small business owners in preparing and sustaining profitability. The data from this study may contribute to the prosperity of the small business owners' employees, their families, communities, and the local economy.

This thesis aims to explore and evaluate the traumatic space of Denver in Toni Morrison's Beloved. Currently, a lack of critical discourse exists to link together Denver, trauma, and theories of spatiality. This thesis evaluates three types of trauma that inform and develop Denver's traumatic space: direct, indirect, and insidious trauma. Paired with spatial theories, the origins of Denver's trauma are mapped throughout the various places of the novel. The result of this analysis reveals a complex and layered traumatic space, with lasting ramifications on Denver's sense of safety, identity, and stability in a post-slavery United States.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T18:16:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roxana Desterro.pdf: 688994 bytes, checksum: ceb8107f09c4ea13f75ca8e4a721da06 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-13 / The scientific and technologic advances that occurred in the neonatal ITU over the last decades increased the survival rate of babies over and over more premature. Due to the occurency of possible sequelae inherent to this condition, it has been a bigger interest for de development of egress babies from these unites of treatment. The present study is retrospective, longitudinal, analytical of a control case, nested to a cohort. It proposes to evaluate the motor and cognitive development of premature babies who had brain ultrasound alterations at the neonatal period and the possible risk factors for its delay. It has been selected 99 premature children weighting 1800 grams or less in the birth and pregnancy age inferior to 37 weeks, submitted to a transfontanelar ultrasound in the neonatal period during their neonatal ITU (Intensive Therapy Unity) internment. The socio-economic, cultural, environmental, perinatal clinic events and mother characteristics were analysed. To evaluation of the neural, psychomotor development, the Denver II test was used. A sample made, in the majority, of corrected 12 months old children. The birth weight average was 1032 grams and the pregnancy average was 31,3 weeks. The ultrasonic alterations were present in 49, 4% of the children. In them, the periventricular leucomalacy was more frequent corrected one year old babies with alterations in the Denver II test. 34, 3% of the realized tests had unsatisfactory results. As risk factors for the development alteration, Ultrasonic alterations and low family incomes were significant for the study. . The positive predictive value of transfontanelar ultrasonic exams for the neural psychomotor development was 51,02% and the negative predictive value was 82% When the family incomes variable is added to the transfontanelar ultrasonic alterations, the positive predictive value increased to 90% and the negative predictive value decreased to 71,91%. It is believed that the variable family incomes added to the analysis is a good alternative to increase the prediction capacity development alterations of premature children with transfontanelar ultrasonic alterations. / Os avanços científicos e tecnológicos que ocorreram nas UTI neonatais nas últimas décadas, aumentaram a sobrevida de bebês cada vez mais prematuros. Devido ocorrência de possíveis seqüelas inerentes a essa condição, houve um interesse maior pelo desenvolvimento dos bebês egressos dessas unidades de tratamento. O presente estudo é retrospectivo, longitudinal, analítico do tipo caso controle, aninhado a uma coorte. Foi avaliado o desenvolvimento motor e cognitivo de prematuros que tiveram alterações ultra-sonográficas cerebrais no período neonatal e os possíveis fatores de risco para o seu atraso. Selecionou-se 99 crianças prematuras com peso de nascimento menor ou igual a 1800 gramas e idade gestacional abaixo de 37 semanas e que fizeram ultra-sonografia transfontanelar no período neonatal durante sua internação em UTI neonatal. Analisaram-se variáveis sócio-econômicas, culturais, ambientais, eventos clínicos perinatais e características maternas. Para avaliação do desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor utilizou-se o Teste de Denver II. A população foi composta de crianças com 12 meses de idade corrigida. A média de peso de nascimento foi de 1032 gramas e a média de idade gestacional foi de 31,3 semanas. As alterações ultra-sonográficas estiveram presentes em 49,4% das crianças. Destas, a leucomalácia periventricular foi a mais presente nos bebês com alteração no Teste de Denver II na idade corrigida de 1 ano. Dentre os testes realizados, 34,3% tiveram resultados desfavoráveis. Dos fatores de risco para alteração de desenvolvimento, alterações ultra-sonográficas cerebrais e renda familiar mostram-se estatisticamente significantes para o estudo. O valor preditivo positivo dos exames ultra-sonográficos transfontanelares para alterações de desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor, foi de 51,02% e valor preditivo negativo de 82%. Ao se acrescentar a variável renda familiar às alterações ultra-sonográficas transfontanelares, o valor preditivo positivo aumentou para 90% e o valor preditivo negativo reduziu-se para 71,91%. Acredita-se que o acréscimo à análise da variável renda familiar baixa é boa alternativa para aumentar a capacidade de predição de alterações do desenvolvimento de prematuros com alterações ultra-sonográficas transfontanelares.

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This is a cross-sectional study with a control-case design, approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Catholic University of Bras??lia and the Health Secretariat of the State of Bahia under opinion n?? 913.952. After the previous experimentation of data collection instruments in a pilot study, the evaluation of children aged between zero and six years was started, accompanied by the Family Health Units (Caso Group) and Casa da Crian??a (Control Group). Data analysis was done using frequency distribution tables, chi-square test and Fisher's Exact and logistic regression. The sample consisted of 85 children, 55.3% (n = 47) of the case group and 44.7% (n = 38) of the control group. The individual analysis showed a significant association between the groups and the gestational age, birth weight, type of delivery, hospitalization and place of residence. There was also a significant association between the groups and the father's income, the age and the schooling of the mother. There was a higher percentage of cesarean delivery, of children who were hospitalized, of older mothers and a higher educational level in the case group, and a higher percentage of parents with income up to a minimum wage in the control group. In the case group, a greater percentage of delays and cautions were found in the individual items in the area of language and personal-social and in the control group in the area of language and motor-fine-adaptive. There was no statistically significant difference in the four areas in relation to the result of the individual items between the groups. Of the total number of children, 14.1% presented questionable results in Denver II, 21.3% of the children in the case group and 5.3% of the children in the control group. Children who were hospitalized and mothers with lower education were 18.52 and 8.57 times more likely to present questionable results in Denver II, respectively. In the multiple analysis, the groups showed no significant association with neuropsychomotor development. Only the child's hospitalization and the mother's schooling had a significant association with neuropsychomotor development. The importance of monitoring neuropsychomotor development in children born premature and / or underweight is highlighted. This will minimize the damage that possible delays and cautions can bring to the future life and signal the need for early intervention in specific cases where developmental delays have been identified. It is also recommended the guidance of mothers and / or caregivers on the importance of physical activity in stimulating child development. / Esse estudo teve como objetivo analisar o desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor em crian??as nascidas prematuras e com baixo peso acompanhadas nas Unidades de Sa??de da Fam??lia da cidade de Guanambi Bahia, por meio do Teste de Triagem de Desenvolvimento de Denver II. Trata-se de um estudo do tipo transversal com delineamento do tipo caso controle, aprovado pelo Comit?? de ??tica em Pesquisa da Universidade Cat??lica de Bras??lia e Secretaria de Sa??de do Estado da Bahia sob o parecer n?? 913.952. Depois da experimenta????o pr??via dos instrumentos de coleta de dados num estudo piloto, iniciou-se a avalia????o propriamente dita de crian??as com idades entre zero e seis anos acompanhadas nas Unidades de Sa??de da Fam??lia (Grupo Caso) e Casa da Crian??a (Grupo Controle). A an??lise dos dados foi feita por meio de tabelas de distribui????o de frequ??ncias, testes de qui-quadrado e Exato de Fisher e regress??o log??stica. A amostra foi composta por 85 crian??as, sendo 55,3% (n=47) do grupo caso e 44,7% (n=38) do grupo controle. A an??lise individual mostrou associa????o significativa entre os grupos e a idade gestacional, peso ao nascer, tipo de parto, interna????o e local da resid??ncia, renda do pai, a idade e a escolaridade da m??e. Observou-se maior porcentagem de parto ces??reo, de crian??as que ficaram internadas, de m??es mais velhas e com maior escolaridade no grupo caso no grupo caso e maior porcentagem de pais com renda de at?? um sal??rio m??nimo no grupo controle. No grupo caso foi encontrado maior percentual de atrasos e cautelas nos itens individuais na ??rea da linguagem e pessoal-social e no grupo controle na ??rea da linguagem e motora-fina-adaptativa. N??o houve diferen??a estatisticamente significante nas quatro ??reas em rela????o ao resultado dos itens individuais entre os grupos. Do total de crian??as, 14,1% apresentaram resultado question??vel no Denver II, sendo 21,3% das crian??as do grupo caso e 5,3% das crian??as do grupo controle. Crian??as que foram internadas e de m??es com escolaridade mais baixas t??m 18,52 e 8,57 vezes mais chance de apresentar resultado question??vel no Denver II, respectivamente. Na an??lise m??ltipla os grupos n??o apresentaram associa????o significativa com o desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor. Apenas a interna????o da crian??a e a escolaridade da m??e apresentaram associa????o significativa com o desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor. Ressalta-se a import??ncia do acompanhamento do desenvolvimento neuropsicomotor em crian??as nascidas prematuras e ou com baixo peso. Isso permitir?? minimizar os danos que poss??veis atrasos e cautelas podem trazer para a vida futura e sinalizar a necessidade de interven????o precoce em casos espec??ficos, em que tenham sido identificados atrasos no desenvolvimento. Recomenda-se tamb??m a orienta????o das m??es e ou cuidadores sobre a import??ncia da atividade f??sica no est??mulo do desenvolvimento infantil.

abstract: In the middle of the 20th century, juried annuals of Native American painting in art museums were unique opportunities because of their select focus on two-dimensional art as opposed to "craft" objects and their inclusion of artists from across the United States. Their first fifteen years were critical for patronage and widespread acceptance of modern easel painting. Held at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa (1946-1979), the Denver Art Museum (1951-1954), and the Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery in Santa Fe (1956-1965), they were significant not only for the accolades and prestige they garnered for award winners, but also for setting standards of quality and style at the time. During the early years of the annuals, the art was changing, some moving away from conventional forms derived from the early art training of the 1920s and 30s in the Southwest and Oklahoma, and incorporating modern themes and styles acquired through expanded opportunities for travel and education. The competitions reinforced and reflected a variety of attitudes about contemporary art which ranged from preserving the authenticity of the traditional style to encouraging experimentation. Ultimately becoming sites of conflict, the museums that hosted annuals contested the directions in which artists were working. Exhibition catalogs, archived documents, and newspaper and magazine articles about the annuals provide details on the exhibits and the changes that occurred over time. The museums' guidelines and motivations, and the statistics on the award winners reveal attitudes toward the art. The institutions' reactions in the face of controversy and their adjustments to the annuals' guidelines impart the compromises each made as they adapted to new trends that occurred in Native American painting over a fifteen year period. This thesis compares the approaches of three museums to their juried annuals and establishes the existence of a variety of attitudes on contemporary Native American painting from 1946-1960. Through this collection of institutional views, the competitions maintained a patronage base for traditional style painting while providing opportunities for experimentation, paving the way for the great variety and artistic progress of Native American painting today. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Art History 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a scarcity of research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and available early interventions, as most of what is known about the disorder is from highincome countries. Early detection and intervention methods were found to have positive effects on developmental delays and to alleviate symptom severity in children with ASD or at risk of it. There is a need for scalable interventions in low-resource settings, which are characterised by a lack of highly-trained specialists, infrastructure and funding. This study explored the barriers and facilitators to implementing and sustaining a caregiver-coaching ASD early intervention, informed by the principles of the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), adapted for South Africa and for delivery by non-specialists. The study also identified some changes that could be made to improve intervention adoption and sustainability. Nine multilevel stakeholders involved in the implementation of the caregiver-coaching intervention were purposively sampled, individual in-depth interviews were conducted, transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. Major implementation facilitators included: ECD worker baseline ASD knowledge and experience; skills gained from the training received and coaching; clear in-session caregiver-coaching structure; value of strong team relationships; clear video illustration of intervention concepts; and the mastery and generalisation of skills by the ECD workers, ECD supervisors and caregivers. Implementation barriers included: the complexity of the intervention and coaching concepts; misalignment of ECD teacher training with the caregiver-coaching approach; logistical challenges; and mismatch of the video content with the South African context. Facilitators to sustain the intervention included: child outcomes; caregiver ‘buy-in;’ and competence; and the need for ongoing live supervision. Barriers to sustaining the intervention included: structural issues of poverty, transportation and unemployment. Positive child and caregiver outcomes could be offset by larger contextual and system-level issues such as poverty and the need for ongoing support, supervision and local coaching materials in South African languages. The results will inform tailoring of the intervention training and supervision approach for a larger pilot study.

Prompted by increased interest in understanding microporosity, recent efforts at describing and classifying pore types in mudstones have focused primarily on siliceous, gas producing unconventional reservoirs with little attention being paid to carbonate, mixed oil-and-gas producers. The Niobrara Formation in the Denver-Julesburg Basin is a self-sourced resource play producing oil and natural gas from low permeability chalks. Key reservoir lithologies consist of chalk, chalky marl and marl. These lithologies contain flattened chalk fecal pellets which play a significant role in providing porosity. Integration of depositional fabric with pore-type distribution emphasizes the unique textural and depositional nature of chalk and provides a starting point for evaluation of diagenetic porosity modification. Chalk depositional textures comprise two main subdivisions. The first, called rainstone, includes chalks that form largely from settling of planktonic skeletal remains and fecal pellets as marine snow. New terms related to pelagic chalk textures are pelagic mudstone, pelagic wackestone, and pelagic packstone. The second, called allochthonous chalk, consists of chalks formed from syndepositional tectonic disruption of the seafloor, resulting in mass-movement and redeposition of chalk as turbidites and slide sheets. New terms related to allochthonous chalk textures are allomudstone, allofloatstone, and allorudstone. A chalk porosity classification consisting of four major pore types is presented that can be used to quantify Niobrara chalk pores and relate them to depositional texture, porosity networks, diagenetic history, and pore distributions. Interparticle porosity occurs largely between coccoliths and coccolith fragments, and decreases with burial ranging from 27-38% to 5-17%. Intraparticle porosity occurs within chalk pellets, coccospheres, coccolith plates and foraminifera tests, and also decreases with burial. Organic matter pores are intraparticle pores located within organic matter and are related to hydrocarbon generation. Channel pores, where present, can have significant influence on hydrocarbon storage and permeability networks. In the Niobrara, burial diagenesis in the form of mechanical compaction, chemical compaction, and syntaxial cement overgrowths, modifies pore shape and abundance. Porosity distribution is controlled by the abundance of chalk pellets and the mineralogy of the matrix. Permeability is a function of matrix lithology (micrite-rich vs. silt- and clay-rich). Understanding chalk depositional and diagenetic processes, and how they relate to porosity formation and pore evolution provide a foundation for more accurately predicting the occurrence and distribution of hydrocarbon source and reservoir rocks within the Niobrara.

A questionnaire survey was conducted to ascertain the scope and methods used to involve citizens in public library facility planning and design. Because of the paucity of written material on this subject in the literatures of both library science and architecture, this descriptive study was undertaken.

Already in the late 1970´s it became clear that the traditional catalogs in libraries were not suited for children, neither their interests nor their way expressing themselves were accounted for. The goal of this thesis is to investigate if and how children’s OPACs (Open public access catalogs) interface design is at present adapted to the presumed audience of children. My method consists of literature studies and an investigation on the graphical interfaces in OPACs for children, according to the five criteria formulated by childrens library consultant Lena Lundgren and IT-consultant Kia Gumbel. The aims are to find out: a) what requirements for children’s OPAC interfaces and their usability are defined in literature and b) what the actual (real) features of the children’s OPAC interfaces are. What interests me, regarding the graphical interfaces, is the actual appearance seen by the children, and partly the interactivity supplied by the OPACs. Using the criteria of Lundgren and Gumbel, I analyse figures, the front page, key-words, the text and the quality appearing in the different OPACs. In conclusion, the graphical interfaces of the three OPACs for children are somewhat adapted for children according to the Lundgren/Gumbel criteria. By using for example more user-polls, individualized graphical interfaces and reference groups consisting of children, the graphical interface for OPACs can be modified, and hopefully optimised, to take full account of the varied abilities of children. / Uppsatsnivå: C