Chow, Ka Ying. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-133). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i-ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv-vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vii-ix / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.X / Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION OF THIS STUDY --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- General concept of the mobility --- p.1 / Chapter 1.3 --- The role of job-housing relations and socio-economic factors in mobility --- p.2 / Chapter 1.4 --- Time use allocation and mobility --- p.3 / Chapter 1.5 --- Economic restructuring and mobility --- p.3 / Chapter 1.6 --- Focuses of the study --- p.4 / Chapter 1.7 --- Organization of the thesis --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- "MOBILITY, TIME ALLOCATION AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING" --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- What is mobility? --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Socio-economic and demographic factor and mobility --- p.9 / Chapter a) --- The impacts on commuting time/distance --- p.9 / Chapter b) --- The impacts on daily trips --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3 --- Time allocation and mobility --- p.12 / Chapter a) --- Commuting hours --- p.12 / Chapter b) --- Working hours (Work at job) --- p.13 / Chapter c) --- Non-working hours (Necessities. Housework and Leisure) --- p.14 / Chapter d) --- Literature on time use theory and daily trips --- p.14 / Chapter 2.4 --- Post-industrial restructuring and mobility --- p.16 / Chapter a) --- Post-industrialization --- p.16 / Chapter b) --- Spatial and social impacts --- p.21 / Chapter 2.5 --- Framework for mobility pattern --- p.25 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE : --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1 --- Data collection --- p.29 / Chapter 3.2 --- Data process and manipulation --- p.31 / Chapter 3.3 --- Data variables --- p.33 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR: --- MOBILITY PATTERN IN HONG KONG --- p.35 / Chapter 4.1 --- Case Background in Hong Kong --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2 --- The changes of employment sector by regions/districts --- p.37 / Chapter 4.3 --- Temporal Change of mobility pattern --- p.40 / Chapter 4.4 --- Spatial Change --- p.41 / Chapter a) --- Three Macro regions --- p.41 / Chapter b) --- 18 Districts --- p.43 / Chapter 4.5 --- Mobility pattern change associated with personal characteristics --- p.46 / Chapter a) --- Economic sectors --- p.47 / Chapter b) --- Job Types --- p.48 / Chapter c) --- Income --- p.51 / Chapter d) --- Ages and car ownership --- p.54 / Chapter 4.6 --- Mobility pattern change associated with allocation of time --- p.56 / Chapter a) --- Total working hours --- p.56 / Chapter b) --- Total Traveling Minutes --- p.57 / Chapter c) --- Non-Working Hour --- p.58 / Chapter d) --- The variation of time use and mobility pattern by income --- p.59 / Chapter e) --- The variation of time use and mobility pattern by position --- p.60 / Chapter f) --- The variation of time use and mobility pattern by industry --- p.61 / Chapter g) --- The Correlations analysis between socio-economic factors and mobility pattern --- p.65 / Chapter 1. --- Pearson Correlation --- p.65 / Chapter 2. --- Spearman Correlation --- p.66 / Chapter 4.7 --- Job-housing spatial mismatch and relations --- p.72 / Chapter a) --- Three Macro Regions --- p.72 / Chapter b) --- 18 Districts --- p.74 / Chapter 4.8 --- The combination of Spatial Mismatch and Mobility Level --- p.82 / Chapter 4.9 --- Chapter Summary --- p.83 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND MOBILITY --- p.86 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.86 / Chapter 5.2 --- Two stages of post-industrial restructuring --- p.86 / Chapter 5.3 --- Three geographical shifts of economic activities and population --- p.90 / Chapter 5.4 --- Impact on mobility pattern --- p.96 / Chapter 5.5 --- Impacts of restructurings: spatial mismatch and qualification mismatch --- p.98 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX: --- THE TREND OF MOBILITY --- p.105 / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.105 / Chapter 6.2 --- The trend of mobility gap --- p.105 / Chapter 6.3 --- Shopping Malls and mobility pattern --- p.115 / Chapter 6.4 --- Findings and implication --- p.117 / Chapter 6.5 --- Recommendations for further studies --- p.121 / BIBLOGRAPHY --- p.123

In the United States, adult ICU patient care consumes $90 billion annually, or 1% of the gross national product. In the ICU, about 40% of the patients are mechanically ventilated resulting in an 11% greater length of stay (LOS) that requires 35% more resources. And, an estimated 60% of these patients are adversely impacted for as long as five years following discharge. Patient immobility while ventilated contributes to poor quality and financial outcomes. The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) reports on average early patient mobility (EPM) reduces a 4.5-day LOS by as much as 1.3 days; and reduces the risk for complications such as ventilator associated pneumonia, thromboembolisms, and pressure ulcers. The purpose of this evidence-based practice (EBP) quality improvement project was to evaluate an EPM program based to improve interdisciplinary collaboration and care coordination. The introduction, development, and evaluation of this project were guided by the Iowa Model and the Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring/Management, and Early Exercise/Mobility (ABCDE) bundle. The EPM program was implemented in a 20-bed ICU in a 400-bed hospital as the Mobilization Criteria / Algorithm for Critical Care Patients (MCACCP). Retrospective data was collected for six months from the electronic health record and evaluated with a web-based analytics tool. The project resulted in a 1.2-day decrease in ICU LOS and a 6.7% reduction in ventilator days. The average daily census decreased from 16.2 in 2015 to 14.7 through 2016. EBP research supports the benefit of early mobility of ICU patients to reduce complications, ventilator days, LOS, and the overall cost for care. This project demonstrates standardizing clinical practice based on EBP guidelines and protocols translates into improved teamwork, patient outcomes, and organization metrics.

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This thesis is an exploratory study of the lives and experiences of international students who apply for and gain permanent residency (PR) after completing tertiary study in Australia. The thesis uses sociological theories and methods to focus on the ways that students-turned-migrants maintain transnational connections, and negotiate their memberships and sense of belonging across Australia and other countries. This research is important because there is negligible extant literature that connects the international study experience and the skilled migration experience as two steps in the same process. Furthermore, research that does address this phenomenon tends to look at students-turned-migrants as a 'policy problem', usually focusing on their labour market integration. In contrast, this thesis foregrounds this distinctive group of contemporary migrants' subjective experience of the migration process and their ongoing transnational connections. The research used cultural probes (packages of mixed media materials such as diaries, maps and disposable cameras, which participants used to document aspects of their lives) and in-depth interviews to provide a rich understanding of the multiplicity and breadth of participants' individual experiences, with various reflective representations of the individuals' narratives at the core of the study. The analysis covers two aspects of the student-turned-migrant experience: the acquisition of memberships, such as PR and citizenship, and the maintenance of mobilities, including virtual mobility through media and communications technology, and corporeal mobility through forms of travel such as return visits. The analysis reveals that students-turned-migrants undergo a distinct migration experience, characterised by three sequential gates of membership: their entrance as transient students, their acquisition of residency and their decisions about citizenship. Transnational consciousness diffuses their decision-making at each stage of this process, as they negotiate the memberships available to them as a means to balance their desires and obligations across home and host countries. The analysis reveals that student-turned-migrant choices and experiences are often affected by macro-political forces. Choices about citizenship are heavily influenced by global regimes of mobility and the media, and their acqu isition of residency is negotiated through the institutions and regulations of the immigration regime. The analysis also reveals that students-turned-migrants engage with a diverse range of transnational practices, many of which are closely grounded in the use of technology to maintain transnational connections. The findings reframe students-turned-migrants as more than just a policy problem, but rather as a unique group of contemporary migrants, with several key features that set them apart from previous waves of Australian migrants. While they are less integrated into established local ethnic communities, they maintain very strong connections overseas. They maintain regular contact through virtual mobilities and display a high propensity for return travel. They value mobility highly and display an acute awareness of both the advantages and challenges of sustaining mobile lives. The study of their experiences not only reveals a great deal about the nature of transnationality and mobility in an increasingly globalised world, but also suggests that if this type of migration continues in the future, it may have implications for Australia's patterns of cultural diversity and international integration.

Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Economics. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2007. / "A thesis in economics." Typescript. Advisor: Erik Olsen. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Dec. 18, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-148). Online version of the print edition.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Notions such as transference, movement, transit and mobility have become fundamental to understand the mechanisms that rule the circulation, reception and production of contemporary cultural artifacts. In spite of the growing scholarship on the topic, very little attention has been given to a particular cultural arena: the realm of contemporary entertainment. By contemporary entertainment, I refer to a set of industrial products which are especially directed to urban young audiences: cartoons, comic books, computer games, blockbuster movies, theme park attractions, etc. This thesis argues that the realm of contemporary entertainment is marked by the presence of intense mobility, by movement and acceleration on at least two levels. First, movies (The Matrix, City of God, Run Lola Run, etc.), TV programs (the so-called “MTV aesthetics”), computer games (Doom or games based on blockbusters) and even cartoons for children (Spongebob, Pokémon, etc.) present frantic editing and engage the audiences’ senses through moving images in a vertiginous “bombardment” of signs – a phenomenon I will call kinesthesics. Second, the production and reception of these cultural objects take place in a highly intermedial environment: computer games become feature movies (Tom Raider, Resident Evil), comic books become feature movies (Sin City, Spiderman, etc.) feature movies become theme park attractions (Jurassic Park), theme park attractions become feature movies (Pirates of the Caribbean) and so on. This thesis shows how these two basic mobile characteristics play a determinant role in the complex economic, technologic and aisthesic rationale that drives the contemporary entertainment industry. i The investigation of these basic traits suggests the existence of mobility paradigms that help us better understand not only products like the ones mentioned above, but also disparate cultural artifacts such as the Brazilian aparelhagem – a traveling technological paraphernalia that brings musical entertainment to poor audiences in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Aparelhagens present an intricate blending of physical displacement, media mobility, visual spectacle and musical frenzy. This successful combination propels a popular and powerful entertainment industry in Northern Brazil known as tecnobrega. By analyzing the phenomenon and comparing it to global entertainment products, the thesis discloses aisthesic patterns that cross social, economic and cultural boundaries.

The primary objective of the study was to address two aspects of construct validity (i.e., face and criterion validity) of the Environmental Analysis of Mobility Questionnaire (EAMQ). The EAMQ is a self-report questionnaire, which consists of items that inquire about older adults tendencies to both encounter and avoid community mobility challenges that address several dimensions of community mobility. The EAMQ was compared to selected tasks from the Walking InCHIANTI Toolkit (WIT) and with a community mobility self-efficacy questionnaire (SE). Sixty independently living, community dwelling older adults (mean ± SD; age = 74 ± 5 years) volunteered to participate. Participation included a single visit by the researcher to the home of the participant. During the visit, demographic, health information, EAMQ, SE, and the modified WIT were completed. Regarding the first hypotheses, four of the six correlations between walking speed on the modified WIT and the EAMQ-encounter score were significant (range of significant correlations was 0.169 to 0.299; p < 0.05). By contrast, all of the correlations between walking speed on the modified WIT and EAMQ-avoidance score were significant (range of significant correlations was -0.330 to -0.410; p < 0.05. Regarding the second hypotheses, a significant positive correlation was found between SE and EAMQ-encounter (r = 0.345; p< 0.01) while a significant negative correlation was found between SE and EAMQ-avoidance (r = -0.531; p < 0.01). Furthermore, SE was significantly correlated with modified WIT performances (range of significant correlations was 0.332 to 0.578; p < 0.01). The secondary and exploratory purpose of this validation study was to determine if the EAMQ and SE both individually and additively contributed to the prediction of CWT performances. Results indicated that the EAMQ, significantly predicted walking speed on all modified WIT tasks; however, the avoidance score was the only significant predictor in the model. When SE was added to the prediction model it became the dominant and significant predictor of walking speed on most modified WIT tasks. As walking task complexity increased SE accounted for more of the variability in walking speed than the EAMQ. In conclusion, the results demonstrate partial support for the validity of the EAMQ. The EAMQ-avoidance score appears to be a valid correlate of the modified WIT and could be used as one predictor of community mobility. Recommendations are made for improvements to the EAMQ and for further investigation of its validity.