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Ng Wing Kei. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-81). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Present Study --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1 --- The Internet as an Advertising Medium --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Advertising Hierarchy of Effects and Internet Advertising Effectiveness --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3 --- Effect of Context on Advertising Effectiveness --- p.14 / Chapter 2.4 --- Effect of Clutter on Advertising --- p.18 / Chapter 2.5 --- Effect of Advertising Repetition --- p.23 / Chapter Chapter Three --- Hypotheses / Chapter 3.1 --- Primary Hypotheses --- p.28 / Main Effect of Clutter on Advertising Effectiveness / Chapter - --- Main Effect of Advertising Repetition on Advertising Effectiveness / Chapter - --- Interaction Effect between Clutter and Advertising Repetition on Advertising Effectiveness / Chapter 3.2 --- Secondary Hypotheses --- p.32 / Chapter - --- Relationship between Attitude toward the Web page and Constructs of Advertising Hierarchy of Effects / Chapter Chapter Four --- Methodology / Chapter 4.1 --- Operational Definitions of Variables --- p.33 / Chapter 4.2 --- Pre-Test --- p.38 / Chapter 4.3 --- Design and Stimuli --- p.40 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Findings / Chapter 5.1 --- Number of Valid Responses --- p.43 / Chapter 5.2 --- Reliability of Measures --- p.45 / Chapter 5.3 --- Manipulation Check --- p.47 / Chapter 5.4 --- Data Analysis --- p.48 / Chapter 5.5 --- Primary Findings --- p.49 / Chapter 5.6 --- Secondary Findings --- p.57 / Chapter 5.7 --- Summary of Findings --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Discussion and Conclusion / Chapter 6.1 --- Discussion of Findings --- p.61 / Chapter 6.2 --- Limitations and Future Research --- p.68 / Chapter 6.3 --- Conclusion --- p.71 / Reference --- p.73 / Chapter Appendix 1 --- Pre-Test Questionnaire / Chapter Appendix 2 --- Experimental Web page (four versions) / Chapter Appendix 3 --- Post-Experiment Questionnaire

Duan, Xin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 36-43). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i-ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Related Literature --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Exchange Market Pressure Index --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Sentiment Index --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Stock market sentiment --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Data --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- Methodology --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3 --- Estimated Results --- p.25 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Application to the Hong Kong stock market --- p.28 / Chapter 4.1 --- Threshold Model Estimation --- p.28 / Chapter 4.2 --- Trading Strategy --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.32 / Appendix: Principle Component --- p.34 / References --- p.36

A short form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory was administered to 146 clinical patients who suffered from either tinnitus or a hearing disorder or both. Patients were assigned to four groups on the basis of their subjective complaint and their audiometric report: patients with tinnitus only, patients with tinnitus and a hearing loss where the tinnitus was the primary complaint, patients with tinnitus and a hearing loss where the hearing loss was the primary complaint, and patients who had a hearing loss but no tinnitus. The purpose of the study was to determine whether there were certain measurable personality characteristics unique to the tinnitus patient. The results indicated elevations for all four groups on some combination of Scales 8, 6, 3, and 2. The differences obtained were significant between those groups who suffered from tinnitus as opposed to those whose primary complaint was a hearing loss. The tinnitus patients had social adjustment problems that were not evidenced for patients with hearing impairment. This finding was especially true for patients whose only problem was tinnitus. It appears that for those patients with both a hearing loss and tinnitus the scores are less elevated, indicating that the patient who has had a hearing loss for a period of time is better able to cope with the tinnitus than the patient who is suddenly and unaccountably afflicted with tinnitus. Thus, it is reasonable to conclude that the MMPI can be used as an instrument to differentiate between the tinnitus versus the hearing loss patient.

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The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a reliable, cost-effective implanted device designed to terminate life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias and prevent sudden death. The recent exponential increase in implantation rates emphasises the need for nurses, doctors and other clinicians to understand the experience of living with an ICD for patients and partners. Current knowledge of patient experiences is mostly derived from overseas studies of specific variables, including physical problems, psychosocial outcomes, ICD shocks and quality of life issues. Studies of partner experiences focus on psychosocial concerns. Using van Manen's (1990) hermeneutic phenomenological approach, this study describes the experience of living with an ICD for seven Australian patients and six partners. Experiential descriptions, obtained in tape-recorded conversational interviews, were subjected to three levels of analysis. The first descriptive analysis summarised individual experiences of living with an ICD. The second, thematic analysis phenomenologically described the collective lived experience of being a patient, and of being a partner. Each description identified a challenging and changing experience through the themes of Being Disrupted and Distressed, Reconstructing Life, Appreciating and Celebrating Life, and Accommodating the ICD. For the patient, various everyday interactions, events and activities meant either being able to trust the ICD as a reassuring protection or experiencing it as an inescapable intrusive object. For the partner, a trusting reliance on the ICD's protective security eased the vulnerability and onerous perceived responsibility for the patient's survival and well-being. Threats to the partner's restored sense of normality, security and hope occurred when the patient wanted the ICD removed or discontinued. The third hermeneutic analysis specifically explored how the ICD, as an implanted biomedical device, was perceived, embodied and comprehended by patients. This analysis disclosed the varied, ambiguous existential meanings derived from and accorded to the ICD's presence, power and potential. The interpretation concluded that the ICD was either embodied as a trusted and reassuring friend, or existentially rejected as an intruder that thwarted meaningful possibilities. Theoretical and practical implications of this understanding of living with an ICD included several recommendations for improving staff education, as well as practical interventions for informing and supporting patients and partners. A proposal for implementing these recommendations concluded with suggestions for future inquiries that would extend understanding of this increasingly common human phenomenon.

A literature review revealed the strong evidence that youth aged 16 to 25 years (World Health Organisation, 1989) in many jurisdictions world-wide report experiencing significant harmful impacts arising from gambling. The exact nature and prevalence of these impacts and the processes that underlie their origins remain obscure in part because of the common assumption that measures and criteria developed with adult populations may be applied to youth. Therefore, the approach adopted in this doctoral sequence of empirical studies was to focus on the core addictive construct of self-control (Heather, Miller and Greeley, 1991) using in the first instance a qualitative data analysis of 34 youth who gambled regularly at least once per week. The main cognitive themes from the interviews were used to develop a Limit Maintenance Model which outlined five qualitatively different approaches to the control of gambling. With certain aims in mind, three empirical studies provided a mixed-methods approach to identifying the cognitive, emotional and developmental barriers to self-control of gambling. In so doing, they emphasized the imperative for youth to embark on a learning process to ensure their self-regulatory skills are sufficiently developed to manage the temptation to gamble to excess, and instead, maintain self-controlled and safe gambling behaviours. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

352 leaves : / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (M.D. 1980) from the Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide

Graduation date: 2002