Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-73). Also available on the Internet.

Although the research on the effects of cancer on the patient and its impact on the family system, as well as on the benefits of support groups for this population is abundant, there is relatively little research that examines the benefits of online cancer support groups, the meaning that users attribute to giving and receiving support, and the effects of use on the user's significant other. Using the theoretical frameworks of phenomenology, and Social Interactionism online surveys were conducted with seven individuals who considered themselves active members of the online Cancer Survivors Network, were all diagnosed with cancer and living with a significant other. These surveys were coded for themes using Thematic Analysis. The main themes identified included: feeling normal, belonging to a community, hope, honest and open place to talk about fears, feelings and possibility of death, that experiencing and recovering or dealing with cancer is a process, gaining understanding, acceptance and support, as well as information, a better sense of well-being related to hope and humor, and feeling helpful. The themes that emerged when looking at the partner relationships were: feelings of jealousy, and sharing the online community with their partner. Implications for clinical practice and suggestions for future research are included. / Master of Science

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Integrerad logistiksupport (ILS) är en teknisk process som ingår inom systemtekniken. Denna tekniska process utvecklades som svar på ett behov av integration mellan de olika tekniska processerna som ingår i ett systems livscykel. Syftet med ILS är att skapa ett samspel mellan de olika tekniska funktionerna som ingår i ett systems livscykel. Detta förhindrar att en enskild åtgärd drivs bort på egen hand i ett interagerat system, oavsett funktionsområde. Målet med ILS är även att reducera ett systems LCC, livscykelkostnad. ILS som supportprocess vanligtvis tillämpas vid design av avioniksystem. Till avioniksystem inkluderas de elektroniska samt elektromekaniska systemen ombord på ett luftfartyg. Dessa system har oftast en liknande intern uppläggning men kan olika ut externt. En nyckelfaktor till framtagningen av tillförlitliga och kostnadseffektiva avionik- och avioniksubsystem är krav och kravhantering. Denna studie ämnar att utforska om, och hur, ett systematisk tillvägagångsätt av ILS påverkar design- och utformningsprocessen för avioniksystem. Den syftar även att utforska hur en supportprocess som ILS kan påverka tillgängligheten av avioniksystem ur ett erfarenhetsbaserat perspektiv med input från avionik- samt ILS-kunniga ingenjörer. Resultat visar att ILS är ett väsentligt element inom systemdesign och vid framtagning av avioniksystem. Vidare visar resultatet att ett systematiskt framförhållningssätt vid design av avioniksystem är viktigt då det bidrar med ett helhetsperspektiv. I sin tur bistår detta med beslutsunderlag för beslutstagande beträffande systemets design och produktion. Resultatet visar även att framtiden för ILS ser positiv ut om lärdomar från avioniksystemen i operativdrift idag får influera morgondagens design- och produktionsprocesser.

ACette étude vise à apporter des réponses à trois questions fondamentales concernant la construction à verbe support : son identification, sa délimitation d’autres constructions qui partagent la même structure de surface et une révision de sa définition classique. Une fois identifié et défini l’objet d’étude, nous avons inscrit le verbe support dans le cadre théorique de l’emploi (G. Gross, 2012) qui nous a permis de l’aborder sous deux angles différents : l’étude contrastive français-espagnol et la traduction : sans oublier l’approche didactique. / This study aims to provide some answers to three basic questions concerning light verb structures: its identification, delimitation of other combinations that share the same surface structure and a review of its classical definition. Once identified and defined the object of our study, we adopt the linguistic theory of employ (G. Gross 2012), which allows us to approach light verbs from two perspectives: the contrastive study of French-Spanish light verbs and its translation.

Representing one of the influential motivational variables on learning, interest includes both cognitive and affective components, arising from the interplay between an individual and a particular content and environment (Dewey, 1913; Hidi, Renninger, and Krapp, 2004). According to Hidi & Renninger (2004), interest can develop from situational to individual interest and be strengthened along with external support. On the basis of their propositions, this report explores how student interest may be intensified by enhancing cognitive facets of interest through the teacher’s instructional support. From the perspective of self-determination theory (SDT), support for autonomy as a contextual factor has been reported as a catalyst for student interest and engagement. In particular, Stefanou, Perencevich, DiCintio, and Turner (2004) stressed the importance of cognitive autonomy support as an instructional support in terms of deep-level thinking and cognitive engagement in comparison to other types of autonomy support such as by providing students choice in class. This report explores how different levels and types of student interest are associated with different types of autonomy support in an educational setting, focusing on cognitive aspects. Using a path analysis, this paper presents a full model to undergird a study of the direct and indirect relationships between student interest, different types of autonomy support, and cognitive engagement. / text

Les magazines féminins offrent un univers de signification construit à partir des régimes d’interaction. Par interaction, nous entendons un ensemble de logiques sémiotiques, des discours programmés, des manipulations des sujets manipulateur/manipulé, des ajustements stratégiques dotés de sensibilité et des accidents caractérisés par l’aléa et dépourvu de compétence. Notre recherche articulée autour de trois composantes fondamentales, le titre-logo, la photographie et les énoncés textuels, vise à lire la première de couverture à la lumière des méthodes de la vitrine. Ces pratiques de vitrine magazine fondées sur la volonté de séduire son lectorat en tant que médiation entre deux espaces, marques commerciales, identité rédactionnelle, associées aux sémiotiques du corps, des vêtements et des passions, nous interpellent particulièrement.Notre objectif est de mettre l’accent sur les ensembles signifiant qui font sens en première de couverture et participent à la construction d’une forme de vie de vitrine, à partir des pratiques spécifiques. Nous proposons les régimes d’interaction comme le noyau organisateur des situations sémiotiques du magazine. En tant grandeur discursive du fait de son hétérogénéité, la question est celle d’une pratique de lecture spécifique inscrit une pratique spécifique sémiotique liée à l’action. Dès lors, les composantes fondamentales, les valeurs sémiotiques du magazine, les instances de médiation entre deux espaces, les types de valorisation, les opérations cognitives liées au corps, au vêtement, aux motions passionnelles, permettent d’établir la vitrine comme l’instrument de reconnaissance même d’une pratique de lecture spécifique aux supports médiatiques. Pour ce faire nous avons sélectionné quelques «Unes» de magazine que nous avons analysées qui nous ont servi à présenter le magazine comme une forme de vie de vitrine. / Women's magazines offer a universe of meaning built from interaction regimes. By interaction we mean a set of semiotic logics, programmed speeches, manipulations of manipulative / manipulated subjects, strategic adjustments with sensitivity and accidents characterized by randomness and lacking in competence. Our research based on three fundamental components, title-logo, photography and textual statements, aims to read the first cover in light of the showcase methods. These magazines practices based on the desire to seduce readership as a mediation between two spaces, trademarks, editorial identity, associated with the semiotics of body, clothes and passions, are particularly appealing to us. Our goal is to focus on the meaningful sets that make sense in front cover and participate in the construction of a showcase life form, based on specific practices. We propose the interaction regimes as the organizing nucleus of the semiotic situations of the magazine. As a discursive quantity because of its heterogeneity, the question is that of a specific reading practice inscribes a specific semiotic practice linked to action. Consequently, the fundamental components, the semiotic values of the magazine, the instances of mediation between two spaces, the types of valorisation, the cognitive operations linked to the body, the clothing, the passional motions, make it possible to establish the showcase as the instrument recognition even of a reading practice specific to media. To do this we have selected some of the first covers we have analyzed that have served us to present the common magazine life form showcase.

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre des travaux sur la description des prédicats nominaux du LDI (Lexiques, Dictionnaire, Informatique), un laboratoire de l’Université Paris 13. Nous étudions les constructions prédicatives du malgache en les comparant à celles du français, langue pour laquelle on a mis au point une méthodologie adéquate à la description de ces structures. Le premier chapitre présente les outils descriptifs utilisés ainsi qu’une vue générale de la langue malgache. Le deuxième chapitre offre une vue d’ensemble des recherches faites sur les verbes supports, à la fois en français et en malgache, en insistant en particulier sur l’importance de la détermination nominale. Le choix des bverbes supports dépend de la nature des prédicats nominaux qui sont subdivisés selon qu’ils dénotent des actions, des états ou des événements. Ce classement est repris au troisième chapitre (prédicats d’actions), au quatrième chapitre (prédicats d’états) et au cinquième chapitre (prédicats d’événements). Dans chacun de ces chapitres, sont décrits avec précision quelques substantifs prototypes selon des critères constants et syntaxiquement fondés. On met ainsi en évidence le fait que les verbes supports ne sont qu’un des éléments de l’actualisation des prédicats nominaux, parallèlement aux déterminants et à certains adjectifs ou adverbes aspectuels. Cette thèse fournit un cadre à une future étude plus complète des prédicats nominaux du malgache. / AThis thesis is part of the work of L.D.I (Lexiques, Dictionnaire, Informatique) of the University of Paris 13 on the description of the nominal predicates. We study the predicative constructions of the Malagasy by comparing them with those of the French, the language for which was proposed the development of a methodology appropriate to the description of its structures. The first chapter presents the descriptive tools and a short description of the Malagasy language. The second chapter provides an overview of the research done on «verbs supports», both in French and Malagasy, with particular emphasis on the importance of nominal determination. The choice of «verbes supports» depends on the nature of the nominal predicates which are thus divided into three classes : actions, states and events. This classification specified in the third chapter (predicates of actions), in the fourth chapter (predicates of states) and in the fifth chapter (event predicates). In each chapter, some accuracy substantives prototypes were described, according to consistent criteria which are syntactically based. It thus highlights that «verbs supports» are only one part of discounting nominal predicates, along with determination and aspectual adverbs or adjectives. This thesis provides a framework for a future more comprehensive study of the Malagasy nominal predicates.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Hospitals and policymakers acknowledge the importance of the family in improved healthcare outcomes. Although there has been an increase in policies and research to bring families into planning, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare, there has not been a means to assess health-focused perceived support and communication behaviors. Without a means of assessing these factors, healthcare professionals cannot succinctly evaluate support and communication in a family system or provide recommendations for engaging family members in providing beneficial health-focused support and communication. This study involved the creation of the Inventory for Family Health-Focused Perceived Support and Communication Behaviors (Family HF-PSCB). Informed by family systems theory, social support literature, and health communication behaviors research, this three-phase study consisted of (a) generating items for the Family HF-PSCB, (b) establishing test-retest reliability, and (c) establishing a factor structure and convergent validity. Because of the increase of chronic disease in the United States, the Family HF-PSCB was created and tested with samples of individuals having chronic disease(s). Using a mixed methods approach, in-depth interviews with 12 participants generated 91 items for psychometric analysis. These items were tested through expert content review, and in pilot testing (n = 23), the remaining 84 items demonstrated test- retest and internal reliability. Through factor analysis (n = 209), two factors emerged to explain 72.1% of the variance. The final Family HF-PSCB contains 13 items, which indicates an individual’s perception of family health-focused support and communication behaviors. The factor explaining 63.2% of the variance has 8 items demonstrating healthfocused communication behaviors, and the second factor has 5 items demonstrating health-focused instrumental support. The developed scale suggests that family healthfocused communication behaviors may be a more explanatory variable in the family system for someone with chronic disease(s). The 13-item Family HF-PSCB demonstrates convergent validity through significant correlations with the Perceived Social Support Family Scale and the General Functioning Scale of the McMaster Family Assessment Device. Future studies should explore the correlation of the Family HF-PSCB with health outcomes attributed to symptom management in populations of chronic disease patients.

The cross-case analysis described in this study examined the patterns of practice that support the beginning teacher in the elementary school environment of a large suburban school district. Bronfenbrenner’s (1976) systemic model of the educational environment as a series of nested, interacting sub-systems was used as a compass for this study. Data were collected beginning in the exo-system and continued through the meso-system and micro-system of the educational environment. Interviews with central office staff at the exo-system level, with the school administrator at the meso-system level, and with beginning elementary teachers at the micro-system were the primary means of data collection. Interview data were collected from three beginning teachers in the elementary school with the largest number of beginning teachers in the district, the principal of the school, and central office personnel. Evolving display matrices were the primary strategy for data analysis. Themes were identified at each level of the educational environment. Findings reveal consistent themes within the levels of the elementary school environment. / Ed. D.