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Bibliotherapy : a mental health approach with institutionalized elderly peopleSakadakis, Venes January 1990 (has links)
Bibliotherapy is an innovative therapeutic technique that uses reading as a helping process for dealing with stress. It has been proposed as a mental health approach for individuals facing social, psychological or developmental problems. As reading tends to be a non-threatening method of sharing problems, a bibliotherapy group was implemented for 12 weeks with eight alert elderly people who had difficulties coping with their current life situation in a long-term care institution. The effectiveness of a bibliotherapeutic approach with this population is evaluated and implications for social work policy, practice and research are discussed.
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Understanding the quality of life of personal care home residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Family caregivers' perspectivesRona, Hazel 13 September 2010 (has links)
Manitoba’s population is aging. Trends in personal care home (PCH) use have also changed so that residents today have more cognitive impairments including Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). While quality of life (QoL) has emerged as an important PCH research outcome, this literature is relatively sparse for residents with versus without ADRD. This study was conducted to examine the QoL of PCH residents with ADRD, using a recently developed but as of yet untested framework by Kane and colleagues (1999, as cited in Frytak; Kane 2001, 2003). The specific aims of this study were to gather family caregivers’ perspectives on: (a) the meaning of the six domains that constitute Kane et al.’s ADRD-specific PCH-QoL framework; (b) domains they considered to be more important or lacking from this framework; and, (c) general PCH policies, practices, and activities that currently (or could better) facilitate positive QoL experiences for their loved ones.
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The impact of aggressive parental disciplinary strategies implemented in childhood on externalizing and internalizing problem behaviour in early adulthoodTaillieu, Tamara L. 18 January 2011 (has links)
Parental use of aggressive discipline, specifically corporal punishment (CP) and psychological aggression (PA), has been shown to increase the risk of problem behaviours in children and adolescents. A major gap in the research concerns our lack of understanding regarding how CP and PA contribute to adverse development in adulthood. Because these techniques do not occur in isolation, a number of protective factors were also considered. Both CP and PA were associated with lower levels of parental warmth/support and responsiveness, and more inconsistency in discipline; whereas high induction was associted with more frequent CP and PA. CP predicted later partner violence, and PA predicted anxiety and lower self-esteem in adulthood, even after the effects of positive parenting were considered. These findings suggest that not only do CP and PA tend to occur within environments that are less conducive to positive development, but also predict problematic outcomes in adulthood even after protective factors are considered.
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Long term care patients in acute care hospitals : examining the discharge barriersThompson, Margit. January 2000 (has links)
Many elderly patients remain in acute care hospitals while they await transfer to Long Term Care (LTC) facilities. Complex problems, common for this special group of patients, place them at risk for delayed discharge. Discharge planning, for these patients, has become an increasingly critical activity for social workers. / This study examined factors that predict the risks for inappropriate hospitalization for 244 patients waiting for LTC in 1999, and it explored the LTC application process to identify barriers to delayed discharges. / It was found that 63% of the hospitalization of these patients was inappropriate. System related factors, such as the timing of the LTC application, were identified as predictors. Timeline investigations revealed areas for improvement in the discharge process and were discussed with a view to social work implementation, for example, the introduction of a high-risk screening protocol.
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Ilgalaikio materialiojo turto analizė UAB „Flamega“ pavyzdžiu / Long-term asset analysis by example of JSC “Flamega”Račiūtė, Raminta 07 June 2005 (has links)
I n this master’s research project, there are defined long-term asset management (usage, accounting) problems, analysed and systematized aspects of theoretical and practical long-term asset management using laws and principles of Republic of Lithuania and opinions of Lithuanian and foreign authors. Moreover, there was analysed classification, purchasing, tariffing and pricing of long-term material asset in accounting and reparation, selling, transcription accounting using the example of JSC “Flamega”. In this paper there is given an analysis of long-term material asset composition, structure and dynamics. In addition, there are given calculations of long-term material asset profitability, net profitability, turnover, receptivity, renovation and others indicators and given their forecast for coming period. Hypothesized opinions of various authors were proved out, because results of research did not let identify bigger problems of long-term material asset management that affected success and work results improvement of analysed company.
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Ad hoc wireless networks with femto-cell deployment : a studyBharucha, Zubin Rustam January 2010 (has links)
Nowadays, with a worldwide market penetration of over 50% in the mobile telecommunications sector, there is also an unrelenting demand from the subscribers for ever increasing transmission rates and availability of broadband-like experience on the handset. Due to this, research in next-generation networks is rife. Such systems are expected to achieve peak data rates of up to 1 Gbps through the use of innovative technologies such as multiple-input and multipleoutput (MIMO) and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). Two more ways of boosting capacity have also been identified: shrinking cell sizes and greater reuse of resources in the same area. This forms the foundation of the research presented in this thesis. For operators, the costs involved with planning and deploying additional network infrastructure to provide a dense coverage of small, high capacity cells cannot be justified. Femto-cells, however, promise to fulfil this function. These are user-deployed mini base stations (BSs), known as home evolved NodeBs (HeNBs), which are envisaged to be commonplace in homes and offices in the coming years. Since they drastically reduce communication distances to user equipments (UEs) and reuse the resources already utilised in the macro-cell, they help boost the system capacity significantly. However, there are issues to be addressed with the deployment of femto-cells, such as increased interference to the system and methods of access. These and other problems are discussed and analysed in this thesis. One of the first steps towards femtocell research has been the study of the time division duplex (TDD) underlay concept, whereby an indoor UE acts as a relay between the evolved NodeB (eNB) and other indoor UEs. In order to gain a deeper understanding of how and under what conditions such a self-organising network can be deployed, a mathematical analysis of the distribution of path losses in a network of uniformly distributed nodes has been performed. In connection with this, research has also been done in the identification of well connected nodes in such networks. Next, extensive simulations on traditional cellular networks with embedded femto-cells have been carried out in order to demonstrate the benefits of femto-cell deployment. This research has shown that femto-cells can cause severe downlink (DL) interference to badly placed macro UEs. Finally, a novel interference avoiding technique that addresses this problem is investigated.
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Sex, Dementia, and Long-Term Care: Public PerspectivesYelland, Erin L 01 January 2015 (has links)
The current mixed methods study utilized an ecological framework to examine public perspectives toward sexual behaviors among long-term care residents with dementia. Analyzing attitudes of the public is an integral component of understanding the entire ecological system that affects the development and overall well-being of a long-term care resident. Attitudes were examined using a multiple segment factorial vignette with a probability sample of 329 respondents from a southern state. Results indicate that attitudes were not statistically affected by sex or the elapsed time since diagnosis, and age, spousal disposition, and degree of intimacy predicted attitudes. A respondent’s education level also predicted attitudes across segments; those who attained higher levels of education were consistently more accepting of sexual behaviors, less likely to expect staff intervention in adulterous relationships, and were supportive of the healthy spouse beginning a new relationship. An ecological perspective provided a framework for guiding and informing future research on the influences of long-term care on sexual development and, in turn, for the development of relevant long-term care policy.
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Long term effects of MDMA administration in rats during early and late adolescence.Kolyaduke, Olga January 2011 (has links)
Drug use and abuse for recreational purposes is a common phenomenon, with club drugs such as MDMA (3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine) being popular for its energetic and euphoric effects – recreating an artificial feeling of “Ecstasy”. Although use of the drug itself has remained relatively constant over the years, the population among which it is popular has been shifting toward younger users, with MDMA use among adolescents becoming more prominent. However research on the effects that MDMA has on the developing adolescent brain has been limited. The current study focuses on the long term effects in rats following chronic MDMA exposure during either early or late adolescence. In adulthood, the rats’ memory, activity and emotional reactivity were assessed through frequency of ambulation, grooming, rearing, defecation, and corner or center occupancy of an open-field, novel object-recognition in the open-field, emergence from a dark chamber into a bright area, and recognition of the changed arm of the Y-maze. The results showed that there were significant long-term effects resulting in increased anxiety for rats treated with MDMA during late adolescence only. This increase of emotional reactivity was indicated through decreased ambulation on the open-field measures, decreased movement between the dark and light chambers, and decreased entries of both arms of the Y-maze. Sex of the animal was also found to differentiate MDMA effects, with females showing a greater increase in anxiety. Measures regarding spatial and working memory were not significant. Overall, the results suggest that animals are more susceptible to long-term effects following MDMA administration in late, but not early adolescence. Furthermore, memory appears to remain unaffected regardless of the age of administration, and only anxiety levels were affected by the drug.
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Agile supply partnerships : the paradox of high-involvement and short-term supply relationships in the Macerata-Fermo footwear districtCerruti, Corrado 08 1900 (has links)
Despite a general consensus concerning the relevance of supply partnerships to agility,
the literature reveals disagreements and contradictions regarding their characteristics
and, in particular, their duration. This is, whether partnerships in an agile strategy
should be long-term (strategic partnerships) or short-term (agile partnerships). The
research joins this debate by investigating the types and characteristics of supply
partnerships to achieve agility. The underlying premise of the work is that the type of
supply partnership is contingent on the degree of turbulence an agile strategy is
designed to face.
The research was carried out in the fashion industry, given the relevance of agility in
this industry. Specifically, the research focused the supply partnerships developed by
the footwear companies in the Macerata-Fermo district, the largest footwear district in
Italy. The focus on district companies allow the comparison of several companies
sharing a very similar business context, allowing a better control of external variables
and increasing the internal validity of the study.
The field research consisted of a preliminary survey on agility drivers and agile
capabilities in the Macerata-Fermo footwear district, followed by an in-depth
investigation on supply partnerships using multiple embedded cases studies. Overall six
medium-large footwear companies have been analysed in their supply relationships with
respect to five key supply categories. For each supply category, the buyer view of the
focal firms has been complemented with a view from the supplier side. In total the
fieldwork is built upon 30 interviews with 22 informants from 18 companies for a total
of more than 23 hours of interviews. In all cases, except two, the key informant was
owner, CEO or general manager of the company, eventually supported by another
company manager. In two cases, the interviews data have been strengthened by a
longitudinal analysis of purchase orders over eight years.
The fieldwork highlights that agility drivers and agile capabilities impact on the
footwear companies’ decision of developing agile supply partnerships. Specifically
footwear companies that are under the pressure of high-turbulence agility drivers (here
represented by a high collection renewal rate) and that have developed strong agile
capabilities (here represented by a local supply network and a purchase orders
postponement) choose agile supply partnerships with respect to supply categories that
are sensitive to the fashion trends and therefore difficult to be sourced in a stable way –
season after season – from the same suppliers.
The main contribution to theory is related to the characteristics of supply partnerships in
an agile strategy and specifically to the apparent paradox of “high-involvement & short-
term” relationships (i.e. agile supply partnerships). In spite of the presence of time
compression diseconomies in building up partnership and of the loss of relational (non-
redeployable) benefits in closing down partnerships, scenarios of high-turbulence can
give companies an incentive to look for short-term partnerships. Such finding can
support a wider claim that different levels of turbulence call for different agility
strategies requiring different capabilities and practices.
The main contribution to practice is related to the way agile partnerships are selected,
started and ended. Given that many industries are facing an increase in market
turbulence, it appears that many companies – even outside the fashion industry – might
have to learn how to balance high-involvement supply relationships with respect to a
shorter time horizon.
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Historical Trends in Water Quality in the Grand River, Ontario: Reconstruction of Phosphorus LoadingsShaker, Saliy January 2014 (has links)
Phosphorus, a mineral nutrient, is an essential element in aquatic systems. It is only available for biological activity in the form of orthophosphate and soluble restrictive phosphate. Eutrophication, caused by nutrient enrichment, is a problem in many freshwater systems, which results in increased algal blooms, anoxic conditions, and consequently, biodiversity loss and ecosystem failure. Low dissolved oxygen levels trigger the release of sediment bound phosphorus, which reinforces eutrophication. Nutrients in aquatic systems are provided by point and non-point sources and these sources can be affected by several factors, including population, land-use, and climate change. There are many long-term historical phosphorus studies on rivers, but there are very few that are conducted on the Grand River watershed and none that look at factors that might be driving the phosphorus loadings.
The Grand River watershed, located in Ontario, Canada, is a highly agricultural watershed with a growing population of approximately one million. It has experienced eutrophication, which has led to excessive production of cyanobacteria and regions of hypoxia. In this study, historical phosphorus concentration data (Total Phosphorus, Soluble Reactive Phosphorus, and Particulate Phosphorus) in five sites along the Grand River were analyzed temporally and spatially from 1965 to 2010 in the upper, middle, and lower parts of the watershed. The Particulate Phosphorus was calculated by subtracting SRP from TP. Several other data such as climate, land-use, geology, and population were also explored and considered as possible factors that may have influenced the trends over time.
TP, SRP, and PP average flow weighted concentrations and fluxes were calculated in 2-6 year intervals. SRP load was higher prior to the early 1970???s, declined in the 1970???s, was more stable in the 1980???s and 1990???s, and increased in the 2000???s. The initial decrease in SRP in the early 1970???s was likely due to the phosphorus ban in detergents in 1973 that was implemented over several years. The constant SRP loadings in the 1980???s and 1990???s, despite population and urban development growth, may have been due to upgrades in waste water treatment plants during that time period. The recent increase in phosphorus in more recent years coincides with a large increase in the number of livestock in the 2000???s and population growth. SRP and PP loads increase from upstream to downstream regions are likely due to nutrient accumulation by the river. The higher loads and concentrations of SRP in the CGR is expected because the region is highly urbanized and contains most of the tile drainage in the watershed.
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