Objective Safety-net clinics such as health department family planning (HD) and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) provide free or low-cost contraceptive care to low-income and uninsured populations. Integration of contraceptive focused training within safety-net clinics is essential to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered contraceptive care. In SC, HDs receive Title X funding, which requires providing training to staff. However, due to different funding policies, trainings may be less available to FQHC staff which creates gap in care. This study examined perceptions of impact of trainings on overall performance and patient care among safety-net clinics in South Carolina (SC) that received externally funded contraceptive trainings for healthcare providers and clinic staff. The key focus of this study was to identify the perceptions of training among clinical staff and providers in HDs and FQHCs in SC. Our study showed that when equal funding opportunities were provided, it expanded the opportunity of positive impact. Method Key informant interviews were conducted among 58 individuals, 31 HD and 27 FQHC clinic staff and system leaders in 2019. Interview questions assessed the respondent’s perception of trainings on overall performance and patient care. Formal informed consent was obtained before the interview and participation was voluntary. Interviews were conducted privately via phone by study staff at East Tennessee State University. The interview recordings were transcribed and coded with QSR International’s NVivo 12 qualitative data analysis software. A codebook was developed, and inter-rater reliability and consensus coding methodologies were utilized to ensure consistency of coding. Results The majority of HD and FQHC respondents identified improved quality of services and infrastructure as positive impacts of provided trainings (N=14 and N=12, respectively). Additionally, four respondents from FQHC sectors mentioned that training increased capacity for contraceptive provision. Challenges with staffing capacity such as not having time for training were mentioned as a negative perception among both sectors. Perception of impact of training on patient care were positive among most respondents (N=44). Most respondents from both sectors indicated improved capacity for patient counseling as a positive impact of training (N=26). Two FQHC respondents mentioned that training led to implementing best practices. Conclusion Positive perception of contraceptive training on overall performance and patient care have been identified throughout this study. Federal funding provides support for training implementation but restrictions in funding due to policy changes and different funding mechanisms limit some clinics. Although external funding provides support; this does not ensure the sustainability of trainings after completion of the funding period which can create gaps in care and contraceptive provision. Future research should focus on training sustainability models such as Train-the-Trainer to ensure continuity of positive impact in local and state levels.

The purpose of this research study was to determine what service attributes were perceived as important factors for a successful Office of Research Administration (ORA) to provide to principal investigators and department administrators. Initially established more than 50 years ago, The Office of Research Administration (ORA) has evolved into an integral component for the fiscal sustainability of many institutions of higher education. Existing performance metrics based on financial measures do not sufficiently capture the quality of the level of service demands placed on the ORA by the two internal user groups. The conceptual basis of the Balanced Scorecard modified for the non-profit sector served as the theoretical framework. The study involved 668 respondents (433 principal investigators and 235 department administrators) from 72 research universities. Principal investigators and department administrators agreed on 18 service items as important performance metrics for successful Offices of Research Administration. However, the two groups did vary somewhat in the degree of importance of these 18 service items. Four services, responding to email and phone messages within 24-48 hours, easy access to forms, and timely setup of the internal award account were identified as priority factors by greater than 90 percent of the principal investigators. In addition to these four items, another six items-trainings for new employees and training updates for existing employees, equal treatment by the ORA, easy access to policies, and promoting a team effort approach to research-were identified as prior factors by greater than 90% of the department administrators. Demographics did not display a significant relationship in the perceptions of either group. Principal investigators did display a higher satisfaction for level of performance for the items of importance, especially related to the priority factors at their current institutions.

Title: Responses of the sports press to the success of Czechoslovak and Czech football. Introduction: Football is the most widespread and most popular sports industry enjoying everyone without the difference in age, gender or race. In the Czech lands, football has a long history an she managed to raise many successful footballers who represented us on World Championships, European Championships and Olympic Games. This work is done dedicates the history, personalities and achievements of Czechoslovak football. Objectives: Describe the history of Czechoslovak and Czech football. By using literature, magazines and Internet resources collect and study information on the history of Czechoslovak and Czech football and to organize and interpret this information. On the basic of literary and other sources to gather available information on the success of Czechoslovak and Czech football. Methods: During the processing of the thesis, I would like to use standard historical methods, mainly based on qualitative research, chronological method of capturing the major events from the periodical press. Results: The Czech team became the amateur champion of Europe in Roubeix 1911. The Czechoslovak team won 1st place at the Pershing Olympics in Paris 1919. In 1920, the participation in the final of OH in Belgium. The...

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"In recent years the writer has noted from time to time the recurrence on best seller lists of titles that could be called, because of the setting, characterization, and problems, religious fiction. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the titles of religious fiction for the period 1900-1953 with view to determining how many such novels achieved best seller status; of ascertaining what types have been widely read; and with view of determining what in the minds of authors and reviewers was the need served and the reason for their popularity. No attempt will be made to show that these books ought to be read, that they are outstanding literature, or that they will necessarily live--the aim is to show that the religious novel is a force that cannot be ignored in the study of fiction and current trends in writing"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "May, 1955." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Robert G. Clapp, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

This study discusses the monitoring requirements of an effluent credit trading system that allows point source discharges to purchase effluent reductions by financing agricultural nonpoint source best management practices. It describes the results of a national survey of existing trading programs that assessed how each program determines nonpoint source baseline pollutant discharges, pollutant reductions attributable to best management practices, verification of best management practice(s) installation and maintenance activities, and how often this verification is performed. This study surveyed the nonpoint source discharge monitoring programs of several of the successful effluent credit trading systems in the U.S. It documents and discusses specific characteristics of nonpoint source pollutant discharge monitoring strategies. Finally, this thesis compares trading program discharge monitoring characteristics to the current Virginia Cost-Share nonpoint source monitoring program. The goal of this study is to recommend elements of a nonpoint source discharge monitoring strategy to the Commonwealth of Virginia that can be used in a trading program of its own. The study shows that the majority of existing effluent credit trading programs use watershed models and land use evaluation algorithms to indirectly monitor nonpoint source pollutant discharges on a watershed basis rather than relying on empirical sampling and analysis activities for individual farms of fields. Monitoring takes a variety of forms to provide the diverse information necessary to indirectly determine nonpoint source discharges. Most trading programs monitoring strategies are no more comprehensive than agricultural cost-share programs even though many stakeholders believe that a trading program's monitoring activities should be exact enough to determine contributions from individual nonpoint sources to support the payments for individual activities. This objection is a barrier to the acceptance of trading programs by the public. A Virginia trading program must enhance its agricultural best management practice cost-share program monitoring practices to track nonpoint source discharges from individual farms or fields to be accepted and successful. / Master of Engineering

Innovation is extremely important for companies to gain and sustain competitive advantage in the modern business environment. Nowadays ability to adapt and evolve is crucial for any company willing to survive. The key to effective adaption and evolvement is innovation. New products are commonly seen as an output of innovation whereas new product development process is considered to be a sub-process of innovation.  The thesis focuses on development of a new product in the company the author has been working for. It aims at assessing the methods that the company is employing to develop new products. The goal is to determine the flaws in the new product development process of the company and the negative effects on performance and output the flaws have.  The thesis describes the generic new product development process, a certain form of which is used by majority of the companies involved in new product development. It contains a narrative literature review of articles documenting research in the field of best practices of new product development. It also reviews studies of critical factors of new product success, which separate the best performing companies from the others.  The thesis uses the best practice research and success factors studies as a reference point to assess the methods and evaluate the process that the company used to develop the product the thesis is focused on. The thesis also describes the market and the competition that the company is facing. In the end it gives a number of recommendations. The company can use the results as guidelines for improvement.

This contribution addresses a music editorial youth project in the context of extracurricular music education: Where and in which manner does musical education take place, particularly regarding music journalism? Opportunities for music journalism do not so much arise in schools or music schools but rather in actively used leisure time. The present study examines the motivation of participants in relation to their peers, host organisations, and project tutors. The concept of serious leisure perspective (Robert A. Stebbins) delivers the frame to discuss the results of the study.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur barnets bästa konstrueras i LVU-domar 2 § i Sverigeunder tidsperioden 1985-2015. Studien utgår från en socialkonstruktionistisk grund där endiskursanalys har genomförts på det insamlade materialet. I analysen har Laclau och Mouffesmaktbegrepp och diskursteori nyttjats i syfte att förstå hur barnets bästa konstrueras. Resultatenvisar att det förekommer varierande konstruktioner av barnets bästa under den studeradeperioden, där det i de tidiga årtiondena fokuseras på en skyddsaspekt och utvecklas i de senareårtiondena till att inkludera barnets behov i en bredare aspekt. Resultatet visar även attkonstruktionen av barnets bästa i relation till föräldrar skiftat under den studerade perioden, dåföräldrarnas intresse minskar till förmån för barnens ju närmare nutid studien sträcker sig.Avslutningsvis framkommer det att barnets bästa går från att vara implicit i de tidigare domarna,till att vara explicit i de senare domarna. Studien bedöms vara relevant för professionerinvolverade i LVU-processen, utifrån att förstå hur förändringarna av barnets bästa påverkas avdess aktuella kontext. Att belysa varierande konstruktioner av barnets bästa kan även belysabehovet av en mer enhetlig syn gällande innebörden av begreppet – framförallt utifrån etträttssäkerhetsperspektiv. / The objective of this study is to examine how the best interest of children is constructed in LVUrulings 2 § in Sweden during the period 1985-2015. The study builds from a foundation ofsocial constructionism, where a discourse analysis was implemented on the collected materials.In the analysis, Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory and idea of power have been used tounderstand the construction of the best interest of the child. The results show that there aredifferent constructions of the child´s best interest during the examined period; in the earlydecades there were focus on the protection of the child, while in the latter years the constructionincluded more areas of the child´s best interest. The study also shows that the construction ofthe child in relation to their caregivers developed in the latter years. In the early years thecaregivers were constructed as a big part of the child´s best interest, a construction thatdecreased in the latter years. It also emerges that the best interest of the child goes from assumedto defined, as we proceed through the period. The study is estimated to be relevant toprofessionals involved in the LVU-process, to aid their understanding of how the narrative isinfluenced by the current societal context. The identification of the varied constructions in therulings, demonstrate the need of a more standardized view of the concept.

Background: Breastfeeding protects against a variety of adverse health outcomes for mothers and babies. Global best practices, known as the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), have been developed to support the initiation and exclusivity of breastfeeding during the post-delivery hospital stay. The aims of this study were to explore the literature related to the impact of the BFHI on breastfeeding disparities in the U.S.; compare the impact of exposure to these best practices on exclusive breastfeeding rates in Appalachian and non-Appalachian hospitals; and to understand knowledge, perceptions, and barriers to breastfeeding of postpartum mothers receiving care in a Northeast Tennessee OB/GYN clinic and regional International Board Certified Lactation Consultants’ (IBCLCs®) knowledge, perceptions, and barriers to implementation of the BFHI. Methods: A scoping review was completed to explore literature related to exposure to the BFHI and breastfeeding disparities using the Levac, Colquhoun, and O’Brien methodology. A linear regression analysis of Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) breastfeeding best practice scores and breastfeeding rates at discharge was conducted comparing this relationship in Appalachian and non-Appalachian hospitals. Finally, a qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis to gather information from postpartum mothers and regional IBCLCs®. Results: The BFHI has been found to reduce both geographic and racial/ethnic disparities in the U.S., but there are limited studies examining this topic. While there was a significant negative relationship between Appalachian hospitals and exclusive breastfeeding rates at discharge (p=0.0003), there was no significant difference in the relationship between total mPINC scores and exclusive breastfeeding rates at hospital discharge between the two designations (0.4539). Furthermore, both postpartum patients and regional IBCLCs® reported that support, education, and self-efficacy were all necessary to assist mothers on their infant feeding journey. Implications: These findings highlight the need for studies examining the impact of the BFHI on breastfeeding disparities. Research also needs to be conducted to better understand breastfeeding rates in economically distressed, rural areas of the country. Ultimately, risk-stratified interventions supporting the specific needs of a population should be identified or developed to support and empower postpartum mothers to achieve their infant feeding goals.