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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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An Analysis of Psychologist Postdoctoral Psychopharmacology Training Materials for Critiques of Neurobiological Hypotheses of Depression's Etiology, Critical Analyses of the DSM's Rigor, and for Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Content.

Rowe, Chris William Nicholas 09 September 2016 (has links)
No description available.
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Os efeitos de uma intervenção interdisciplinar baseada na abordagem \"Health at Every Size®\": uma avaliação das escolhas alimentares utilizando o modelo de métodos mistos / The effects of an interdisciplinary intervention based on the \"Health at Every Size®\" approach: an evaluation of food choices using the mixed methods model

Ulian, Mariana Dimitrov 05 October 2018 (has links)
Introdução: A abordagem \"Health at Every Size®\" (HAES®) vem sendo utilizada para o cuidado de pessoas com obesidade. Objetivo: Compreender os efeitos de uma nova intervenção interdisciplinar baseada na abordagem HAES®, especialmente acerca dos processos de escolhas alimentares. Métodos: Este foi um ensaio clínico prospectivo randomizado controlado, de sete meses, que empregou o desenho de métodos mistos. Cinquenta e oito mulheres obesas compuseram a amostra e foram alocadas aleatoriamente nos grupos intervenção (I-HAES®, n = 39) ou controle (CTRL, n = 19). A intervenção do grupo I-HAES® consistiu em uma nova proposta de cuidado baseada na abordagem HAES®, consistindo de atividade física três vezes por semana, atendimento nutricional individual quinzenal e cinco oficinas filosóficas. Já a intervenção do grupo CTRL consistiu em uma intervenção tradicional baseada nesta abordagem, consistindo de palestras bimestrais. Para ambos os grupos foram feitos ao início e final da intervenção exames de sangue, testes de função muscular, aferição de peso corporal e das circunferências da cintura e quadril, além do preenchimento de escalas e questionários autoaplicados. Duas entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas e dois grupos focais foram conduzidos com todas as participantes. Os dados qualitativos foram analisados pela técnica da análise de conteúdo e os quantitativos pelos softwares estatísticos SAS e SPSS. Resultados: Embora ambos os grupos tenham reportado melhoras na qualidade da alimentação, estas foram mais expressivas no grupo I-HAES®. Essa melhora se relacionou com o maior engajamento com experiências culinárias e com o aumento no planejamento da alimentação. Outras estratégias que impactaram positivamente nas escolhas alimentares desse grupo foram comer com atenção, com tempo adequado e de acordo com as sensações de fome e saciedade. Inicialmente, as participantes de ambos os grupos relataram que seus corpos traziam consequências físicas e psicológicas negativas, impactavam na sua autoavaliação e eram alvo de estigmatização. Posteriormente, grande parte do grupo I-HAES® reportou que, embora a perda de peso ainda fosse uma expectativa, elas estavam satisfeitas com outros ganhos que tiveram, não colocavam mais a perda de peso como central para sua felicidade e entenderam que as mudanças se dariam em longo prazo. O peso corporal, o índice de massa corporal e as circunferências da cintura e quadril não diferiram significativamente intra ou entre grupos (p > 0,05). O grupo I-HAES® apresentou aumento no consumo de oxigênio máximo e no teste funcional -timed-stand? (P = 0,004 e P = 0,004, comparação entre grupos). Não foram observadas diferenças intra ou entre grupos para as medidas objetivas de atividade física, embora a maioria das participantes do grupo I-HAES® tenha reportado estar engajadas ou ter planos para incluir atividades físicas em suas rotinas. Ambos os grupos apresentaram melhoras relacionadas à qualidade de vida, mas no grupo I-HAES® estas foram mais expressivas. Conclusões: Uma nova intervenção baseada na abordagem HAES® pareceu superior a uma intervenção tradicional. Embora não tenham sido observadas mudanças no peso corporal e em níveis de atividade física, essa nova intervenção melhorou as escolhas, atitudes e práticas alimentares das participantes, sua percepção de imagem corporal, capacidade física e qualidade de vida. / Introduction: The \"Health at Every Size®\" (HAES®) approach is being more and more used to the care of people with obesity. Objective: To understand the effects of a new interdisciplinary intervention based on the HAES® approach, especially regarding food choice processes. Methods: This was a prospective, seven-month, randomized, controlled, mixed-method, clinical trial. Fifty-eight obese women composed the sample and were randomly allocated into the intervention (I-HAES®) or control (CTRL) groups. The I-HAES® intervention consisted of a new proposal of care based on the HAES® approach, comprising physical activity classes three times a week, biweekly individual nutritional sessions, and five philosophical workshops. The CTRL intervention consisted of a traditional intervention based on this approach, comprising bimonthly lectures. Both groups were assessed at the beginning and after the intervention for blood tests, aerobic condition, body weight and waist and hip circumferences, muscle function, in addition to the filling of scales and questionnaires self-administered. Two semi-structured individual interviews and two focus groups were conducted with all participants. The qualitative data were analyzed using the content analysis technique, whereas the quantitative data were analyzed using the statistical software SAS and SPSS. Results: Although both groups reported improvements in food quality, they were more expressive in the I-HAES® group. It seems that this improvement was related to this group higher engagement with culinary experiences and the increase in food planning. Other strategies that positively impacted on the food choices of this group were eating mindfully, deliberately, and in response to hunger and satiety cues. Initially, participants of both groups reported that their bodies had negative physical and psychological consequences, impacted their self-assessment, and were subject to stigmatization. After the intervention, most of the I-HAES® group reported that although weight loss was still an expectation, they were satisfied with other gains they had, no longer placed weight loss as central to their happiness and understood that the changes would take place in the long term. Body weight, body mass index, and waist and hip circumferences did not differ significantly within or between groups (p > 0.05). I-HAES® showed increased peak oxygen uptake and improved performance in the timed-stand test (P = 0.004 and P = 0.004, between-group comparisons). No significant within- or between-group differences were observed for objectively measured physical activity levels, although most participants in the I-HAES® group reported that they were engaged in or had plans to include physical activities in their routines. Both groups presented improvements related to quality of life, but in the I-HAES® group these were more expressive. Conclusions: A new intervention based on the HAES® approach seemed superior to a traditional intervention. Although no changes were observed in body weight and physical activity levels, this new intervention improved participants\' food choices, eating attitudes and practices, their perception of body image, physical capacity and quality of life.
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Development of Elicitation Methods for Managerial Decision Support

Riabacke, Ari January 2007 (has links)
Decision‐makers in organisations and businesses make numerous decisions every day, and these decisions are expected to be based on facts and carried out in a rational manner. However, most decisions are not based on precise information or careful analysis due to several reasons. People are, e.g., unable to behave rationally as a result of their experiences, socialisation, and additionally, because humans possess fairly limited capacities for processing information in an objective manner. In order to circumvent this human incapacity to handle decision situations in a rational manner, especially those involving risk and uncertainty, a widespread suggestion, at least in managerial decision making, is to take advantage of support in the form of decision support systems. One possibility involves decision analytical tools, but they are, almost without exception, not efficiently employed in organisations and businesses. It appears that one reason for this is the high demands the tools place on the decision‐maker in a variety of ways, e.g., by presupposing that reliable input data is obtainable by an exogenous process. Even though the reliability of current decision analytic tools is highly dependent on the quality of the input data, they rarely contain methods for eliciting data from the users. The problem focused on in this thesis is the unavailability and inefficiency of methods for eliciting decision information from the users. The aim is to identify problem areas regarding the elicitation of decision data in real decision making processes, and to propose elicitation methods that take people’s natural choice strategies and natural behaviour into account. In this effort, we have identified a conceptual gap between the decision‐makers, the decision models, and the decision analytical tools, consisting of seven gap components. The gap components are of three main categories (of which elicitation is one). In order to study elicitation problems, a number of empirical studies, involving more than 400 subjects in total, have been carried out in Sweden and Brazil. An iterative research approach has been adopted and a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods has been used. Findings made in this thesis include the fact that decision‐makers have serious problems in many decision situations due to not having access to accurate and relevant data in the first place, and secondly, not having the means for retrieving such data in a proper manner, i.e. lacking elicitation methods for this purpose. Employing traditional elicitation methods in this realm yield results that reveal an inertia gap, i.e. an intrinsic inertia in people’s natural behaviour to shift between differently framed prospects, and different groups of decisionmakers displaying different choice patterns. Since existing elicitation methods are unable to deal with the inertia, we propose a class of methods to take advantage of this natural behaviour, and also suggest a representation for the elicited information. An important element in the proposed class of methods is also that we must be able to fine‐tune methods and measuring instruments in order to fit into different types of decision situations, user groups, and choice behaviours.
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Os efeitos de uma intervenção interdisciplinar baseada na abordagem \"Health at Every Size®\": uma avaliação das escolhas alimentares utilizando o modelo de métodos mistos / The effects of an interdisciplinary intervention based on the \"Health at Every Size®\" approach: an evaluation of food choices using the mixed methods model

Mariana Dimitrov Ulian 05 October 2018 (has links)
Introdução: A abordagem \"Health at Every Size®\" (HAES®) vem sendo utilizada para o cuidado de pessoas com obesidade. Objetivo: Compreender os efeitos de uma nova intervenção interdisciplinar baseada na abordagem HAES®, especialmente acerca dos processos de escolhas alimentares. Métodos: Este foi um ensaio clínico prospectivo randomizado controlado, de sete meses, que empregou o desenho de métodos mistos. Cinquenta e oito mulheres obesas compuseram a amostra e foram alocadas aleatoriamente nos grupos intervenção (I-HAES®, n = 39) ou controle (CTRL, n = 19). A intervenção do grupo I-HAES® consistiu em uma nova proposta de cuidado baseada na abordagem HAES®, consistindo de atividade física três vezes por semana, atendimento nutricional individual quinzenal e cinco oficinas filosóficas. Já a intervenção do grupo CTRL consistiu em uma intervenção tradicional baseada nesta abordagem, consistindo de palestras bimestrais. Para ambos os grupos foram feitos ao início e final da intervenção exames de sangue, testes de função muscular, aferição de peso corporal e das circunferências da cintura e quadril, além do preenchimento de escalas e questionários autoaplicados. Duas entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas e dois grupos focais foram conduzidos com todas as participantes. Os dados qualitativos foram analisados pela técnica da análise de conteúdo e os quantitativos pelos softwares estatísticos SAS e SPSS. Resultados: Embora ambos os grupos tenham reportado melhoras na qualidade da alimentação, estas foram mais expressivas no grupo I-HAES®. Essa melhora se relacionou com o maior engajamento com experiências culinárias e com o aumento no planejamento da alimentação. Outras estratégias que impactaram positivamente nas escolhas alimentares desse grupo foram comer com atenção, com tempo adequado e de acordo com as sensações de fome e saciedade. Inicialmente, as participantes de ambos os grupos relataram que seus corpos traziam consequências físicas e psicológicas negativas, impactavam na sua autoavaliação e eram alvo de estigmatização. Posteriormente, grande parte do grupo I-HAES® reportou que, embora a perda de peso ainda fosse uma expectativa, elas estavam satisfeitas com outros ganhos que tiveram, não colocavam mais a perda de peso como central para sua felicidade e entenderam que as mudanças se dariam em longo prazo. O peso corporal, o índice de massa corporal e as circunferências da cintura e quadril não diferiram significativamente intra ou entre grupos (p > 0,05). O grupo I-HAES® apresentou aumento no consumo de oxigênio máximo e no teste funcional -timed-stand? (P = 0,004 e P = 0,004, comparação entre grupos). Não foram observadas diferenças intra ou entre grupos para as medidas objetivas de atividade física, embora a maioria das participantes do grupo I-HAES® tenha reportado estar engajadas ou ter planos para incluir atividades físicas em suas rotinas. Ambos os grupos apresentaram melhoras relacionadas à qualidade de vida, mas no grupo I-HAES® estas foram mais expressivas. Conclusões: Uma nova intervenção baseada na abordagem HAES® pareceu superior a uma intervenção tradicional. Embora não tenham sido observadas mudanças no peso corporal e em níveis de atividade física, essa nova intervenção melhorou as escolhas, atitudes e práticas alimentares das participantes, sua percepção de imagem corporal, capacidade física e qualidade de vida. / Introduction: The \"Health at Every Size®\" (HAES®) approach is being more and more used to the care of people with obesity. Objective: To understand the effects of a new interdisciplinary intervention based on the HAES® approach, especially regarding food choice processes. Methods: This was a prospective, seven-month, randomized, controlled, mixed-method, clinical trial. Fifty-eight obese women composed the sample and were randomly allocated into the intervention (I-HAES®) or control (CTRL) groups. The I-HAES® intervention consisted of a new proposal of care based on the HAES® approach, comprising physical activity classes three times a week, biweekly individual nutritional sessions, and five philosophical workshops. The CTRL intervention consisted of a traditional intervention based on this approach, comprising bimonthly lectures. Both groups were assessed at the beginning and after the intervention for blood tests, aerobic condition, body weight and waist and hip circumferences, muscle function, in addition to the filling of scales and questionnaires self-administered. Two semi-structured individual interviews and two focus groups were conducted with all participants. The qualitative data were analyzed using the content analysis technique, whereas the quantitative data were analyzed using the statistical software SAS and SPSS. Results: Although both groups reported improvements in food quality, they were more expressive in the I-HAES® group. It seems that this improvement was related to this group higher engagement with culinary experiences and the increase in food planning. Other strategies that positively impacted on the food choices of this group were eating mindfully, deliberately, and in response to hunger and satiety cues. Initially, participants of both groups reported that their bodies had negative physical and psychological consequences, impacted their self-assessment, and were subject to stigmatization. After the intervention, most of the I-HAES® group reported that although weight loss was still an expectation, they were satisfied with other gains they had, no longer placed weight loss as central to their happiness and understood that the changes would take place in the long term. Body weight, body mass index, and waist and hip circumferences did not differ significantly within or between groups (p > 0.05). I-HAES® showed increased peak oxygen uptake and improved performance in the timed-stand test (P = 0.004 and P = 0.004, between-group comparisons). No significant within- or between-group differences were observed for objectively measured physical activity levels, although most participants in the I-HAES® group reported that they were engaged in or had plans to include physical activities in their routines. Both groups presented improvements related to quality of life, but in the I-HAES® group these were more expressive. Conclusions: A new intervention based on the HAES® approach seemed superior to a traditional intervention. Although no changes were observed in body weight and physical activity levels, this new intervention improved participants\' food choices, eating attitudes and practices, their perception of body image, physical capacity and quality of life.
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Application of a framework for guiding integrated use of social media to support knowledge management in project management / Aplicação de um framework para guiar o uso integrado de mídias sociais no suporte à gestão do conhecimento em gerenciamento de projetos

Narazaki, Rosana Yasue 14 December 2017 (has links)
Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2018-04-03T18:35:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosana Yasue Narazaki.pdf: 6250505 bytes, checksum: 6740b17cf0ae92f594c884443f115a11 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-03T18:35:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosana Yasue Narazaki.pdf: 6250505 bytes, checksum: 6740b17cf0ae92f594c884443f115a11 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-14 / A gestão do conhecimento (GC) é essencial para manter e desenvolver o conhecimento como ativo da organização. A equipe de projeto está se tornando mais descentralizada, exigindo tecnologia para suportar a GC nas atividades de gerenciamento de projetos (GP). A premissa para o fluxo do conhecimento acontecer é ter um ‘ba’ (espaço compartilhado) e este deve ser apoiado por um conjunto de ferramentas colaborativas, como as mídias sociais (MS). No entanto, as melhores práticas em GP não lidam com a dinâmica da GC de forma explícita, o que tem causado falta de rastreabilidade e perda de conhecimento explícito e tácito durante o ciclo de vida do projeto. Além disso, os indivíduos desejam facilidade de uso e acessibilidade, contudo não querem mais uma ferramenta para gerenciar, sugerindo que as MS devam ser integradas. Nesse propósito, o presente estudo analisou uma solução por meio de um instrumento técnico, sob a abordagem Design Science Research (DSR), com a intenção de responder à questão de pesquisa: Como o uso integrado das mídias sociais suportam à GC nas atividades relacionadas ao GP em um projeto de uma instituição de segurança pública? O artefato SM4PM (Social Media for Project Management), um framework prescritivo que guia o uso integrado de mídias sociais para apoiar atividades relacionadas ao GP, foi instanciado para avaliar GC no GP em um projeto de uma instituição de segurança pública. A coleta de dados foi feita por meio de quatro técnicas: 1) Entrevistas, 2) Observação direta, 3) Análise documental e 4) Grupo focal. Estes dados foram analisados em cinco etapas com o suporte do software de análise qualitativa MaxQdaPlus: 1) Compilação, 2) Decomposição, 3) Recomposição, 4) Interpretação e 5) Conclusão. Os resultados mostram que as MS suportam a GC em atividades relacionadas ao GP, dando uma forte evidência de que o framework SM4PM pode ser generalizado para resolver uma classe de problema, tais como coletar lições aprendidas naturalmente durante o ciclo de vida do projeto, gerenciar o conhecimento no gerenciamento de projetos, entender o relacionamento entre os processos e a sua integração. Como contribuição, o estudo aplicou empiricamente a ‘teoria para prática’ pela instanciação de um instrumento técnico baseado na “teoria de fazer bem’ e aplicou a ‘teoria que vem da prática’ para refinar este instrumento técnico. O uso do framework SM4PM pode beneficiar os gerentes de projeto, os membros da equipe e as partes interessadas no projeto. / Knowledge management (KM) is essential for keeping and developing knowledge as an asset of organizations. Project team is becoming more decentralized, requiring technology to support KM in project management (PM) activities. The premise to the flux of knowledge to happen is to have a ‘ba’ (shared space) and this should be supported by a set of collaborative tools, such as social media (SM). Nevertheless, best practices in PM do not deal with the KM dynamics explicitly which has caused lack of traceability and loss of explicit and tacit knowledge during the project lifecycle. In addition, individuals desire ease of use and accessibility and yet no longer want a tool to manage, suggesting that SM should be integrated. For this purpose, this research analyzed a solution by a technical instrument, under Design Science Research approach, with the intention of answering the research question: How does the integrated use of SM support KM in activities related to PM in a project of a public security organization? The SM4PM (Social Media for Project Management), a prescriptive framework for guiding integrated use of SM in PM, was instantiated to evaluate KM in PM in a project of public security organization. Data collection was done through four techniques: 1) Interviews, 2) Direct observations, 3) Document analysis and 4) Focus group. These data were analyzed in five stages with the support of the MaxQdaPlus qualitative analysis software: 1) Compilation, 2) Decomposition, 3) Recomposition, 4) Interpretation and 5) Conclusion. Results showed that SM support KM in activities related to PM giving strong evidence that SM4PM framework can be generalized to solve a class of problems, such as collecting lessons learned naturally during the project lifecycle, managing the knowledge in PM, understanding relationship among processes and their integration. As a contribution, the study empirically applied ‘theory to practice’ by instantiating a technical instrument based on ‘theory of doing well’ and applied ‘theory from practice’ to refine this technical instrument. The use of SM4PM framework can benefit project managers, team members and project stakeholders.
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Perpetuating Domestic Ambivalence: A Duality of Gender Role Advice in American Women’s Prescriptive Literature, 1920-1960

Lester, Arielle J. 29 May 2013 (has links)
No description available.

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