The life of old people is not made complete by good physical care alone. Opportunity for participation in activities, companionship and a sense of being "part of things", are equally important. This survey of a well-established home for old people in Vancouver clearly Indicates that the people in a home for the aged tend to become cut off from the stream of life--their participation in adult activities, and their social contacts, become extremely limited. The survey begins with a discussion of some of the problems of the aged in our society and particularly those of housing. A variety of housing arrangements for old people are discussed and the special role of an institution for the aged is outlined. The history of Taylor Manor is reviewed. The rise and fall of its fortunes are traced against a background of changing attitudes and policies of administration. The central chapter presents a composite picture of the average Taylor Manorite based on an analysis of case records of forty-five residents. This composite picture is added to with the aid of a special questionnaire, with which the personal adjustment of twenty-five residents of Taylor Manor is evaluated. The results indicate that most of the people in Taylor Manor are lonely, withdrawn from the surrounding community, and hard pressed to find ways in which to "pass the time". The study concludes with recommendations as to how the loneliness and feeling of uselessness among Taylor Manor residents can be ameliorated. Possible parallels for an activities program are drawn (a) in the work done with senior citizens at Gordon House and (b) the auxiliary to the Provincial Infirmary at Marpole. Two major recommendations are made: (a) the appointment of a qualified group worker to start a program of planned activity in Taylor Manor and, (b) the establishing of a ladies' auxiliary to Increase contact with the outside community and to afford better opportunity for social contacts for the old people in Taylor Manor. Other recommendations on physical accommodation are also made. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate

Orientador : Fernando Iguti / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Campinas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-17T05:40:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PulinoFilho_AthailRangel_M.pdf: 1515892 bytes, checksum: 23af25f80ea687f9347c09013ec47144 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta duas técnicas para obtenção de equações discretas de diferenças finitas para a solução numérica de problemas de valor de contorno e de auto-valor, bidimensionais, descritos por equações diferenciais parciais de ordem igual ou inferior a 2. As duas técnicas baseiam-se na expansão em série de Taylor da função solução do problema em estudo, diferindo apenas no numero de pontos escolhidos para a montagem das moléculas (esquemas) de diferenças e no correspondente desenvolvimento algébrico para obtenção das equações discretas. A possibilidade de escolha arbitrária da localização dos pontos que compõem o domínio discreto de solução permite a elaboração de algoritmos para cálculo automático com a mesma versatilidade de algoritmos baseados no método dos elementos finitos, quer no que se refere ao tratamento de contornos curvos, quer na possibilidade de adensamento da malha em regiões em que o gradiente da função solução varie muito rapidamente. São apresentados exemplos de aplicação em condução de calor em regime permanente, Torção livre de hastes retas e vibração livre de membranas / Abstract: This work presents two procedures for obtaining discrete finite-difference equations for the numerical solution of two-dimensional second order boundary value and eigenvalue problems. These two procedures are based on the Taylor's series expansion of the solution function, and they differ from each other by the number of nodes of the difference scheme (star) and the corresponding algebraic derivation of the difference equations. A completely geometrically irregular array of nodal points opens the possibility for developing computational algorithms with the same flexibility as those based on the Finite Element Method for dealing with irregular boundaries and mesh refinement. Three example problems (Heat Conduction, Torsion of a Rod and Free Vibration of Flat Membranes) are presented / Mestrado / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

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Dados de contagem podem ser considerados, em geral, como provenientes de uma distribuição de Poisson. Neste contexto, a análise de tais dados apresenta certas dificuldades, pois não segue algumas pressuposições básicas para o ajuste de um modelo matemático. Desse modo, algumas transformações são sugeridas, mas nem sempre bons resultados são obtidos. No enfoque de Modelos Lineares Generalizados, a estatística que mede a qualidade do ajuste do modelo para os dados é chamada deviance. Porém, a distribuição da deviance é, em geral, desconhecida. No entanto, para dados com distribuição de Poisson, pode-se mostrar que a distribuição da deviance se aproxima de uma distribuição ?2, mas tal aproximação não é boa para tamanhos pequenos de amostra. Para melhorar essa aproximação, alguns fatores de correção para os dados são sugeridos, mas os resultados obtidos ainda não são satisfatórios. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é propor um novo fator de correção para os dados seguindo uma distribuição de Poisson, de modo a se obter uma melhora na distribuição da deviance para qualquer tamanho de amostra. Para isto, será adicionada uma constante à variável resposta e, através do valor esperado da deviance, calcula-se tal constante de modo a reduzir o erro cometido na aproximação. Para verificar a melhora na aproximação da distribuição da deviance a uma distribuição qui-quadrado, dados de uma distribuição de Poisson são simulados e o valor da deviance é calculado. QQ-plots são construídos para a comparação com a distribuição qui-quadrado. / Analysis of count data presents, in general, can be supposed coming from a Poisson distribution. The analysis of such data have some problems once the underlying distribution of them does not follow the basic assumptions to fit a model. Some tranformations can be suggested, but good results are not always obtained. In the approach of the Generalized Linear Models, the deviance is the statistics that measures the goodness of fit, but its distribution is unknown. Furthermore, considering Poisson distribution data, it is possible to approximate the distribution of the deviance for a chi-square distribution, but such approximation is not good for small sample size. In order of improve this approximation, corrections for the data are suggested, but the results are not good yet. Then, the aim of this work is to propose a new correction factor for data following a Poisson distribution in order to obtain an improvement in the distribution of the deviance for any sample size. For this, just adding a constant at the response variable and, through the expected value of the deviance, such constant is obtained in order to reduce the error in the aproximation. Simulated data from the Poisson distribution were made to calculate the deviance with and without the correction and QQ-plots were used to compare the values of the deviance with the chi-square distribution.

Το αντικείμενο αυτής της εργασίας είναι η μελέτη κάποιων κλάσεων καθολικών συναρτήσεων. Οι κλάσεις αυτές περιέχουν συναρτήσεις μιας μιγαδικής μεταβλητής, οι οποίες πραγματοποιούν εντυπωσιακές προσεγγίσεις πάνω σε συμπαγή υποσύνολα του μιγαδικού επιπέδου. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, θα ασχοληθούμε με δύο κλάσεις καθολικών σειρών Taylor, και με μία κλάση καθολικών συναρτήσεων ως προς τις παραγώγους. Καθολική σειρά Taylor, με την έννοια του Β. Νεστορίδη, ονομάζουμε μία συνάρτηση f , ολόμορφη σε κάποιο ανοιχτό σύνολο Ω ⊂ 􀀀 , η οποία με τη βοήθεια των μερικών αθροισμάτων του αναπτύγματος Taylor γύρω από ένα κέντρο ζ∈Ω, προσεγγίζει όλα τα πολυώνυμα ομοιόμορφα στα συμπαγή υποσύνολα του Ωc , με συνεκτικό συμπλήρωμα. Αυτή την κλάση συναρτήσεων την συμβολίζουμε με U(Ω,ζ). Επιπλέον υπάρχει η ασθενέστερη κλάση 1 U (Ω,ζ) , των καθολικών σειρών Taylor με την έννοια του Luh, η οποία περιέχει συναρτήσεις που πραγματοποιούν του ίδιου τύπου προσεγγίσεις, αλλά μόνο σε συμπαγή υποσύνολα του c Ω . Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο, παρουσιάζουμε κάποια γενικά αποτελέσματα, που είναι προαπαιτούμενα για ότι θα ακολουθήσει. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, διατυπώνουμε και αποδεικνύουμε το κλασσικό θεώρημα Baire που ισχύει σε πλήρεις χώρους καθώς και κάποια τοπολογικά λήμματα που ισχύουν στο μιγαδικό επίπεδο. Το πρώτο λήμμα είναι ένα κλασσικό αποτέλεσμα που μας εξασφαλίζει την ύπαρξη εξαντλούσας ακολουθίας συμπαγών συνόλων ενός ανοιχτού υποσυνόλου του 􀀀 , με κατάλληλες ιδιότητες. Το δεύτερο λήμμα είναι ένα πιο ειδικό και τεχνικό αποτέλεσμα, οφείλεται στον Β.Νεστορίδη και θεωρείται σημαντικό βήμα στην μελέτη των καθολικών σειρών Taylor. Επίσης, αναφέρουμε τα γνωστά προσεγγιστικά θεωρήματα των Runge και Mergelyan με την βοήθεια των οποίων, μπορούμε να μελετάμε μόνο τα πολυώνυμα και να έχουμε αποτελέσματα που ισχύουν σε γενικότερες συναρτήσεις. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο θα παρουσιάσουμε την απόδειξη του Β. Νεστορίδη, ότι η κλάση U(Ω,ζ) είναι Gδ και πυκνό υποσύνολο του Η(Ω), με την τοπολογία που αναφέραμε παραπάνω. Το αποτέλεσμα αυτό είναι ιδιαίτερα εντυπωσιακό, διότι μας αποκαλύπτει ότι με μερικά αθροίσματα αναπτύγματος της ίδιας συνάρτησης, μπορούμε να προσεγγίσουμε όλα τα πολυώνυμα πάνω σε μια πολύ μεγάλη κλάση συμπαγών υποσυνόλων. Στο κεφάλαιο 3, θα παρουσιάσουμε την απόδειξη ότι η κλάση (Ω) der U είναι Gδ και πυκνό υποσύνολο στο Η(Ω). Όπως το παραπάνω αποτέλεσμα, έτσι και αυτό έχει ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον, αφού μας εξασφαλίζει την ύπαρξη πολλών συναρτήσεων στην κλάση (Ω) der U . Το τελευταίο κεφάλαιο αποτελεί το κύριο μέρος της παρούσας εργασίας. Βασικός στόχος μας είναι να αποδείξουμε την ύπαρξη 1-1 συναρτήσεων στην τομή των κλάσεων 1( , ) ( ) der UΩζ IU Ω (βλ.[5]). Σημειώνουμε ότι για αυτό το αποτέλεσμα πρέπει το Ω να είναι ειδικότερα χωρίο Jordan. Στην 3 βιβλιογραφία έχει αποδειχτεί ότι η κλάση U(D,0) δεν περιέχει 1-1 συναρτήσεις, και μάλιστα είναι ξένη με την κλάση Nevanlinna οπότε δεν περιμένουμε από τις συναρτήσεις αυτές να έχουν καλές ιδιότητες (βλ.[14]). Αντίθετα το αποτέλεσμα που παρουσιάζουμε υποδηλώνει ότι το φαινόμενο αυτό δεν εμφανίζεται στις υπόλοιπες δύο κλάσεις καθολικών συναρτήσεων και δείχνει πόσο διαφορετική είναι η κλάση U(Ω,ζ) από την κλάση U1(Ω,ζ ). / -

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1945. / "Table of sermons": p. xiii. "Select bibliography": p. 345-355.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, Deerfield, Ill., 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-131).

Rev. Diss. Univ. of Jyväskylä, 2003. / Die Originalausgabe der Dissertation erschien 2003 als Bd. 224 der Reihe "Jyväskylä studies in education, psychology and social research" Bibliography: S. 363-382.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université Laval, 1997. / Bibliogr.: f. 157-158. Publié aussi en version électronique.