Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2008. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Feb. 13, 2009). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1942.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1942.

Thesis--University of Oklahoma. / Bibliography: leaves 154-165.

Thesis (M.S.P.H.)--Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 2006 / Typescript (photocopy)

Objectives: The objective of this thesis is to explore the association between delayed rapid response team activation and patient mortality and morbidity in adult in-patients. Methods: Study 1 presents a protocol for a systematic review of literature regarding the association of delayed activation of rapid response teams and patient outcomes. Study 2 contains the results of the conducted systematic review, performing a search of the literature to critically appraise, aggregate, and present a narrative synthesis of included studies. The final study examines the association between delayed rapid response team activation and hospital mortality, ICU transfer, and cardiopulmonary arrest risk in a retrospective observational cohort study conducted as part of the “Hospital without Code Blues” initiative at Hamilton Health Sciences. Results: Studies included in the systematic review report an association between delayed activation and patient mortality and ICU transfer odds. Results of study three find that these delays may not be associated with patient mortality, but are significantly associated with ICU transfer events and a composite outcome of patient in-hospital mortality, ICU transfer, and cardiopulmonary arrest. Overall, patients experiencing a delayed rapid response team activation were at greater odds of experiencing a negative event during their course of stay in hospital. Conclusions: This thesis presents findings that suggest delayed activation of rapid response teams is associated with an increase in patient mortality and ICU transfers. Increased durations of delay are associated with increased odds of experiencing the above events. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

Time, the one educational resource educators desire most, is so often in short supply in America 's schools. The ability of the school administrator to schedule teachers' and students' time so that both groups can maximize opportunities for teaching and learning each day has become an essential skill. Changing the structure of the school day to extend learning opportunities requires that administrators, teachers, and students have a firm commitment and clear understanding of the educational resources and processes of time. Successful practices regarding the use of time include: (a) careful planning and design, (b) adequate staff preparation and training, (c) effective use of extended time, and (d) a focus on equal access for students to multiple learning opportunities. Schools are under enormous pressure to show, through improved test scores, that they are providing every student with a thorough and efficient education. A review of the literature on alternative scheduling practices that use specified and structured blocks of learning time, focuses, overwhelmingly, on high school alternative scheduling models. However, there is a paucity of current research on the effects of alternative scheduling practices on elementary school cultures even though the elements of one particular method, parallel block scheduling, have been employed for over 30 years in elementary schools. This lack of research points to the necessity of exploring the benefits of alternative scheduling practices for delivery of instruction as well as changes in elementary school scheduling since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind mandate. / Ed. D.

No / When formulating an estimate of event time, the human sensory system has been shown to possess a degree of perceptual flexibility. Specifically, the perceived relative timing of auditory and visual stimuli is, to some extent, a product of recent experience. It has been suggested that this form of sensory recalibration may be peculiar to the audiovisual domain. Here we investigate how adaptation to sensory asynchrony influences the perceived temporal order of audiovisual, audiotactile and visuotactile stimulus pairs. Our data show that a brief period of repeated exposure to asynchrony in any of these sensory pairings results in marked changes in subsequent temporal order judgments: the point of perceived simultaneity shifts toward the level of adaptation asynchrony. We find that the size and nature of this shift is very similar in all three pairings and that sensitivity to asynchrony is unaffected by the adaptation process. In light of these findings we suggest that a single supramodal mechanism may be responsible for the observed recalibration of multisensory perceived time.