The thesis ``Quality of life in patients with chronic disease of musculoskeletal system`` is divided into two parts. The theoretical part deals with quality of life in general, its assessment, with chronic diseases of musculoskeletal system and their impact on quality of life. The objective of the thesis is stated and hypotheses are set in the practical part by means of which the research itself was started. The following chapter ``Methodology{\crqq} describes the research technique and methods used to confirm or disprove given objective and hypotheses stated. The next chapter ``Results{\crqq} contains charts and graphs with final values and their verbal description. Information obtained from the research is confronted in the discussion.

This work focuses on the evaluation of the growth capacity of czech red cattles in breeding conditions, without market production of cattle. A whole herd of czech red cattles was regularly weighed. The Czech Association of Cattle Breeders provided data from KUMP, which was added to the data. In statistical processing the data were compared with the growth capabilities of meat breeds (hereford, meat simmental, charolais and limousin) kept under similar conditions. A sample of blood was collected from selected individuals and processed by biochemical methods. Statistical analysis showed that in the weight at the age of 120 days there is a statistically significant difference between czech red cattle and meat simmental and charolais. Comparing the weights in 210 days and comparing the gains, there was no statistically significant difference between any breeds. Czech red cattle thus showed very good growth abilities. It was also found that calves from the ZF JU averaged better in terms of increments than the average of the whole population as early as 2010. Herd health status was evaluated as good in terms of hoof and limb excellent. The blood test showed a tendency to stress caused by animal manipulation and stabling in wintering grounds, as in a closed stable without enclosure. The Czech red cattle has been shown to have easy births without help, which is 99% and good level of reproduction. In conclusion, the czech red cattle is very suitable for extensive breeding with a year-round stay outdoors and is capable of achieving comparable increments such as extensive breeds of meat breeds and is ideal for the production of cattle for fattening.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseCRpp.pdf: 3849521 bytes, checksum: 3d8a043d6e3436180b6e5cc6a1e316b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-10-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Social participation, besides being considered one of main goals of rehabilitation, is defined by scientific literature and some specific public policies for the elderly as one of the pillars to active aging. Nevertheless, few studies have investigated the social participation of Brazilian elderly population and its predictors. The objective of this present study was to identify the predictors of variation of the social participation of independent elderly enrolled in Family Health Strategies units in the municipality of Araras/SP. Besides investigating the dimensions of LIFE-H 3.1- Brazil and its reliability; to characterize the profile of the elderly population; to identify associations between socio-demographic, health conditions, perception of intergenerational solidarity and quality of life and to compare levels of social participation amongst elderly subgroups. A total of 175 elderly, registered in 10 Family Health Strategies of all regions of the city have participated in the present study. All data have been collected through identification form, containing social-demographic variables, from health, familiar intergenerational solidarity aspects, among parents and children, perception of quality of life, besides the following standardized instruments: Geriatric Depression Scale, Katz Scale, Mini Mental State Examination, and LIFE-H 3.1-Brasil which evaluates social participation. Data analysis has been descriptive, comparative, correlational e multivariate performed on SPSS v23.0. The evaluation of predictors of social participation was conducted by Linear Regression Analysis, taking into account the dimension of LIFE-H 3.1 previously extracted from Factor Analysis, namely: Personal Care, Community, Recreation and Communication, apart from global evaluation of social participation which involved these four dimensions (LIFE-H Total). The factorial analysis and the internal consistency of the dimensions of LIFE-H 3.1-Brazil confirm the reliability of data and utilization of such instrument in independent elderly. The association among the variables contributed to identify the factors related to health and disease condition of such population, strengthening the influence of contextual factors in this life period. Main results revealed average variations of social participation due to different variables, with special highlight on marital status, schooling, city district where he/she lives, familiar intergenerational solidarity, comorbidities, presence if depressive symptomatology, cognitive ability, physical activities practicing and subjective perception of quality of living, which were confirmed in the correlation study. The variables which acted as predictors of global social participation (LIFE-H Total) were living in specific city districts, physical activities practicing number of diseases, cognitive ability, age, depressive symptomatology, subjective evaluation of quality of life and widowhood, in that order. The variables city district, physical activity practicing, cognitive ability and subjective evaluation of quality of living acted positively, whilst other variables acted negatively in the social participation variation. This study reveals the complexity and multidimensionality of elderly social participation and the influence of personal and environmental determining factors which, mostly, could be modifiable. It is argued that maximization of actions e programs destined mainly to elderly preventive health care along with investments in infrastructure, safety and implementation of services may be of great value to the feasibility of greater social participation of such population. The continuity of these studies is desirable for deeper theoretical and empirical understanding such theme, overall the qualiquantitative and longitudinal nature to the seizure of changes, tendencies and predictors of elderly social participation in different degrees of functionality and health condition. / A participação social, além de ser considerada um dos principais objetivos da reabilitação, é definida pela literatura científica e políticas públicas específicas para a população idosa como um dos pilares para o envelhecimento ativo. Entretanto, poucos estudos têm investigado a participação social da população idosa brasileira e seus preditores. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar os preditores da variação da participação social de idosos independentes cadastrados em unidades de Estratégias de Saúde da Família (ESFs) do município de Araras/SP. Além de avaliar as dimensões do LIFE-H 3.1-Brasil e a sua fiabilidade; caracterizar o perfil da população; identificar associações entre as condições sociodemográficas, de saúde, percepção de solidariedade intergeracional e qualidade de vida e comparar níveis de participação social entre subgrupos de idosos. Participaram 175 idosos cadastrados em 10 ESFs de todas as regiões da cidade. Os dados foram coletados por meio de ficha de identificação contendo variáveis sociodemográficas, de saúde, aspectos da solidariedade intergeracional familiar entre pais e filhos e percepção de qualidade de vida, além dos seguintes instrumentos padronizados: Escala de Depressão Geriátrica, Escala de Katz, Mini Exame do Estado Mental e do LIFE-H 3.1-Brasil, que avalia a participação social. A análise dos dados foi descritiva, comparativa, correlacional e multivariada realizada no SPSS v23.0. A avaliação dos preditores da participação social foi conduzida pela Análise de Regressão Linear, considerando, as dimensões do LIFE-H 3.1 extraídas previamente da Análise Fatorial do instrumento, a saber: Cuidados Pessoais, Comunidade, Recreação e Comunicação, além da avaliação global da participação social que envolveu essas quatro dimensões (LIFE-H Total). A análise fatorial e da consistência interna das dimensões do LIFE-H 3.1-Brasil apontam para a fiabilidade dos dados e utilização do instrumento em idosos independentes. A associação entre as variáveis contribuiu para identificar fatores relacionados à condição de saúde e doença dessa população, reforçando a influência de fatores contextuais nessa fase da vida. Os principais resultados revelaram diferenças de médias de participação social em função de diferentes variáveis, com destaque para o estado civil, escolaridade, região da cidade onde mora, solidariedade intergeracional, comorbidades, presença de sintomatologia depressiva, capacidade cognitiva, prática de atividade física e percepção subjetiva de qualidade de vida, que foram confirmadas no estudo de correlação. As variáveis que atuaram como preditores da participação social global (LIFE-H Total) foram viver em determinadas regiões da cidade, prática de atividade física, número de doenças, capacidade cognitiva, idade, sintomatologia depressiva, avaliação subjetiva de qualidade de vida e viuvez, nessa ordem. As variáveis regiões da cidade, prática de atividade física, capacidade cognitiva e avaliação subjetiva de qualidade de vida agiram de forma positiva, enquanto que as outras variáveis atuaram negativamente na variação da participação social. Este estudo revela a complexidade e multidimensionalidade da participação social de idosos e a influência de determinantes pessoais e ambientais, que, em sua maioria, podem ser modificáveis. Discute-se que a maximização de ações e programas destinados ao cuidado, principalmente, de saúde do idoso de forma preventiva e de investimentos no território, como melhorias de infraestrutura, segurança e implementação de serviços podem ser de grande valia para a viabilidade de maior participação social desta população. Indica-se a continuidade de estudos para o aprofundamento teórico e empírico sobre o tema, sobretudo de natureza quali-quantitativa e longitudinais para apreensão das mudanças, tendências e preditores da participação social de idosos de diferentes graus de funcionalidade e condição de saúde.

Abstract This thesis describes the development of a personal machine-to-machine (M2M) healthcare system that is both flexible and scalable. Based on the IPv6 protocol, the system can be used over a low-power wireless personal area network (6LoWPAN). Since a hierarchical network structure offers excellent accessibility, the system is applicable both to local and international healthcare services. To further enhance scalability and reliability, the proposed system combines 6LoWPAN with mobile techniques, depending on whether the sensor is located inside or outside the range of a wireless sensor network (WSN). Employing wearable low-power sensors, the system measures health parameters dynamically. For wireless transmission, these sensors are connected to an M2M node either through the internet or through an external IPv4/IPv6-enabled network. The applicability of the IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN protocols to wide area networks were verified in practical tests using an M2M gateway. To assess the physical health of an individual, the system uses heart rate variability analysis in time and frequency domains. Acquired data are first stored on a server for analysis. Results of the analysis are then automatically sent to Android-based mobile devices carried by the individual or appointed healthcare providers. In this way, mobile techniques are used to support remote health monitoring services. This personal M2M healthcare system has the capacity to accurately process a large amount of biomedical signals. Moreover, due to its ability to use mobile technology, the system allows patients to conveniently monitor their own health status, regardless of location. / Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksessa kehitetään henkilökohtainen mobiililaitteden välillä toimiva (M2M) terveydenhoitojärjestelmä, joka mahdollistaa joustavan ja skaalautuvan potilaan terveyden monitoroinnin. Perustuen IPv6-protokollaan, sovellusta voidaan käyttää matalatehoisen langattoman 6LowPAN-verkon yli. Koska hierarkkinen verkkorakenne tarjoaa erinomaisen saavutettavuuden, järjestelmän kapasiteetti riittää paitsi kaupungin sisäisten myös kansainvälisten terveyspalvelujen järjestämiseen. Skaalattavuuden ja luotettavuuden vuoksi ehdotettu järjestelmä yhdistelee 6LowPAN-tekniikkaa mobiiliteknologiaan riippuen siitä onko sensori langattoman sensoriverkon kuuluvuusalueella vai sen ulkopuolella. Puettavia matalatehoisia sensoreita käyttävä järjestelmä kykenee mittaamaan terveysparametreja dynaamisesti. Langatonta siirtoa varten nämä sensorit on kytketty M2M-solmuun joko internetin tai ulkoisen IPv4/IPv6-verkon kautta. Käytännön testeissä IEEE802.15.4- ja 6LowPAN-protokollien soveltaminen laajaverkossa mahdollistettiin tähän soveltuvalla M2M-yhdyskäytävällä. Yksilöiden fyysisen terveyden arvioinnissa järjestelmä käyttää sydämen sykevaihtelun analysointia aika- ja taajuustasossa. Data tallennetaan palvelimelle analysointia varten. Analyysin tulokset lähetetään automaattisesti henkilöiden omiin tai heidän lääkäriensä mobiililaitteisiin. Näin mobiiliteknologiaa käytetään tukemaan terveyden etämonitorointipalveluja. Tämä henkilökohtainen M2M-kommunikointiin perustuva terveydenhoitojärjestelmä kykenee käsittelemään tarkkaan suuriakin määriä 6LowPAN-verkon ja internetin kautta tulevia biolääketieteellisiä signaaleja. Lisäksi kyky käyttää mobiiliteknologiaa tekee järjestelmästä potilaille miellyttävän tavan monitoroida omaa terveydentilaansa sijaintipaikasta riippumatta.

The author in her diploma theses deals with the problem of elderly suicide rates in the helping professionals' point of view in the district of Karlovy Vary. Her two key focus areas are personal experiences of the helping professionals with this particular topic and their knowledgeableness of it. Furthermore, the author validates whether the helping professionals are supported adequately enough to be able to deal with this phenomenon appropriately. In the theoretical part of the study the author presents basic introduction into the issue of suicide itself - briefly outlines the history of suicide rate and the most common motive, causes and forms of suicidal behavior. Moreover, she sketches the specifics of suicide rate among seniors and ways of working with this particular target group. Last but not least she drafts possible preventive techniques of suicide behavior among seniors. In the empirical part of the study the author explains the research methodology and briefly describes the district of Karlovy Vary. Most importantly the author presents findings concerning experience and knowledgeability of suicide rate among seniors by helping professionals gathered by research consisting of semi-structured interviews. She also thoroughly examines the professionals' point of view on individual elements...

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My work offers a view of the care allowance as one of the sources of funding for social services, which over time has become a support for people with disabilities, which greatly helps sustain the limited number of social services - residential or field. Allowance realy gives recipients purchasing power pay part of the service / private assistance at their decision. I perceive the care allowance as an important state support for people dependent on the help of another person and I consider it a tool that should help to live a free life for people with disability. The allowance became very non-individualized (inflexible) - it is unable to respond to changes or adapt to the needs of its beneficiaries. Act on Social Services is strict in the individual approach, setting, way of working with people in the framework of social services, but in the care allowance practice does not apply this. The granting and payment of contributions is not individualized, each of them must be assigned / be classifiable in four levels. Ruthless whether it needs it and it uses the level of support it need. The care allowance system does not have one problem, but several that they do a lot. This is nothing without which the system should not function, it's something that could be better.

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In the hope to increase the detection rate of faults in combined heat and power plant boilers thus lowering unplanned maintenance three machine learning models are constructed and evaluated. The algorithms; k-Nearest Neighbor, One-Class Support Vector Machine, and Auto-encoder have a proven track record in research for anomaly detection, but are relatively unexplored for industrial applications such as this one due to the difficulty in collecting non-artificial labeled data in the field.The baseline versions of the k-Nearest Neighbor and Auto-encoder performed very similarly. Nevertheless, the Auto-encoder was slightly better and reached an area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC) of 0.966 and 0.615 on the trainingand test period, respectively. However, no sufficiently good results were reached with the One-Class Support Vector Machine. The Auto-encoder was made more sophisticated to see how much performance could be increased. It was found that the AUPRC could be increased to 0.987 and 0.801 on the trainingand test period, respectively. Additionally, the model was able to detect and generate one alarm for each incident period that occurred under the test period.The conclusion is that ML can successfully be utilized to detect faults at an earlier stage and potentially circumvent otherwise costly unplanned maintenance. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of room for improvements in the model and the collection of the data. / I hopp om att öka identifieringsgraden av störningar i kraftvärmepannor och därigenom minska oplanerat underhåll konstrueras och evalueras tre maskininlärningsmodeller.Algoritmerna; k-Nearest Neighbor, One-Class Support Vector Machine, och Autoencoder har bevisad framgång inom forskning av anomalidetektion, men är relativt outforskade för industriella applikationer som denna på grund av svårigheten att samla in icke-artificiell uppmärkt data inom området.Grundversionerna av k-Nearest Neighbor och Auto-encoder presterade nästan likvärdigt. Dock var Auto-encoder-modellen lite bättre och nådde ett AUPRC-värde av 0.966 respektive 0.615 på träningsoch testperioden. Inget tillräckligt bra resultat nåddes med One-Class Support Vector Machine. Auto-encoder-modellen gjordes mer sofistikerad för att se hur mycket prestandan kunde ökas. Det visade sig att AUPRC-värdet kunde ökas till 0.987 respektive 0.801 under träningsoch testperioden. Dessutom lyckades modellen identifiera och generera ett larm vardera för alla incidenter under testperioden. Slutsatsen är att ML framgångsrikt kan användas för att identifiera störningar iett tidigare skede och därigenom potentiellt kringgå i annat fall dyra oplanerade underhåll. Emellertid finns det fortfarande mycket utrymme för förbättringar av modellen samt inom insamlingen av data.

The diploma thesis deals with problems of depression in older people. Mainly the work is focused on identifying and analyzing the role of nurses in screening for depression in older people in primary care, acute care, long-term care and home care. This thesis was focused on theoretical direction and was used the method of design and demonstration. In this thesis was set one main goals with five research questions. The main goal was to identify and analyze the role of nurses in screening for depression in the elderly. RQ 1: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in the elderly? RQ 2: What is the role of the nurse in the primary care in screening for depression in the elderly? RQ 3: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in hospitalized patients in acute care? RQ 4: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in seniors in long-term and home care? RQ 5: What rating scales and methods are used in screening for depression in the elderly? The thesis introduce the concept of depression. The following are specified the causes of and the important factors that affect depression in the elderly. It also deals the differences in the clinical symptomatology of depression in old age. It explains possibilities and various barriers in the diagnosis of depression. Another chapter introduces complete geriatric examination, diagnostic classification systems, possible screening methods and scales for detection of depression in the elderly population. It also deals methods of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment and its possible complications associated with older age. By reason of increased suicide rate caused by depressive disorder the issue of suicidal behavior in the elderly is introduced. The next chapter deals with the nursing process, which is used by nurses in practice. It consists of the evaluation of the patient's health condition, making nursing diagnosis, creating nursing plan and subsequent implementation and evaluation. The nursing process is also needy for providing quality care. The nursing process in the stage of nursing diagnosis, introduces possible nursing diagnosis for a patient suffering from depression, which are based on the latest classification. Finally is described the role of nurses in screening for depression in the elderly in different health facilities and their contribution to the timely evaluation of depression in the elderly. This chapter introduces the role of nurses, nursing screening and collaboration with a physician. The role of nurses in screening for depression in different medical facilities is based on the first phase of the nursing process of assessment. On the basis of objective and subjective information, the nurse will assess the overall health and mental condition of the patient. Primarily, it was investigated what is the role of the nurse in screening for depression. On the basis of content analysis and synthesis it was necessary to used and processed domestic and foreign literature. A number of relevant sources are the results of various studies and Meta-analyzes, mostly from abroad, but also from the Czech Republic. The thesis can serve as a basis for nurses. The result of this thesis is to create e-learning material available for students in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice in the tutorial called Moodle.