This thesis presents an Advanced Placement curriculum for the concentration section of the Drawing Portfolio. It is intended as a teaching tool to encourage and develop creative strategies related to idea generation and refinement based on creative problem solving, which is essential to the development of an effective concentration. One of the most difficult problems faced by Advanced Placement Studio Art students is idea generation for the artwork related to a central topic for the concentration section of their portfolios. This curriculum introduces lessons based on artist research, brainstorming, synectics, and SCAMPER techniques designed to foster creative idea generation for artwork development. It also gives students a tool with which to analyze the ideas generated based on specific criteria necessary to the concentration. This curriculum specifically encourages the creative process in students and provides teachers with a foundation with which to begin a unique and highly personal journey by the individual student.

Purpose – Evaluate the four popular communication methods to involve customers in the NPD process from customers’ perspective (In this thesis, the four chosen communication methods are: Quality Function Deployment, Prototype, Idea Generation Activities and Lead-user Involvement). Design/Methodology/Approach – This is a quantitative research which used questionnaire to collect data. The questionnaire form is distributed online to respondents. Findings – The findings show the comparison between the four communication methods. The differences are measured and analyzed using measurement system from Zaichkowsky (1985) including: Interests, Needs and Values. Research Limitations – This thesis face limitation regarding the chosen sample. In addition to that language is also one of the major obstacles. Managerial Implications – The findings provide companies with evaluation regarding option for communication method to increase customer involvement degree. Originality/Value – This research is unique in a way that the author filtered the four most popular communication methods based on reviewed articles then conducted an evaluation on these methods. The evaluation is performed based on customers’ perspective which has not been done before. This thesis provides a new perspective on how firms should look at customers’ involvement.

The object of the study is spatial planning / the point of view to spatial planning is idea of progress. Within this framework, this thesis will examine, planning activity, one of the most important mediation between planners and space. Planning activity will express itself as the circulation of purpose (analysis) and action during the thesis. Firstly, spontaneity of objective purpose, partial conscious character of political purpose and conscious position of subjective purpose will be admitted as global irrational action, and so spatial planning will be assumed as a priori against idea of progress. Secondly, (partial) conscious position will express itself as the conflict of truth and illusion. Thirdly, totality, the representative of process of becoming, will supply itself as the object of idea of progress. Therefore, while examining concrete forms of planning, totality will become the mean of idea of progress. Within this context, the first claim of our thesis is that concrete forms of planning cannot bring about the progress directly. The second claim is that they are unconscious about their position in conflict and developing one-sided attitude against space. Lastly, in the sense of totality, the third claim is that planning theories and practices, historically, produce opposinary dynamics in them. Therefore, it will be introduced that two one-sided critiques of comprehensive planning- one is materialist and the other is idealist- comes together and produces structure planning. Moreover, structure planning will be claimed as flexible modes of becoming, abstractly sublating historical ideologies. As a result the new modes of becoming will be considered, similarly, loading its conflict and opposinary dynamics in it, this conflict is the conflict between concrete form of planning departuring from reality and planning theory arriving to reality.

La tesis tiene su origen en una cita publicada por la OMS en el año 1951 que proviene de la primera reunión del comité de expertos en enfermería, constituido en el año 1950, y que dice: "En aquellos países donde sólo la medicina ha alcanzado un alto grado de desarrollo, y no así la enfermería, el estado de salud de la población no refleja el nivel de progreso logrado por la primera". Esta cita estimuló a indagar sobre los vínculos de la organización profesional de la enfermería con la innovación, entendiendo ésta como una forma de introducir cambios y mejoras, desde la creación de una nueva idea hasta su aplicación y evaluación. Para iniciar este proceso se han tenido en cuenta dos mensajes que transmite la cita · Una advertencia: existen países en los que la enfermería evoluciona con un desarrollo equiparable a la medicina, y por tanto la salud de la población es mejor, mientras que en otros no. · Una posibilidad: compararse, medirse o validarse con otras profesiones, en este caso la medicina. Las dos noticias son fortuitas para la enfermería, aunque sería bueno conocer cómo han ocurrido la evolución y el desarrollo de la profesión, y dónde está la enfermería exactamente: compartiendo el grado de desarrollo con la medicina y otras profesiones, o muriendo en el intento. El estudio de la trayectoria histórica de la enfermería en este trabajo de investigación revela que, siendo una profesión de soporte, la mayoría de la innovación en la enfermería es exógena, es decir, generada por actores externos a la enfermería. Existe la percepción de que la enfermería innova poco por sí misma, y es preocupante que, siendo una profesión imprescindible como enlace de transmisión de la salud a la población, no se perciba el progreso a la misma velocidad que la medicina, o que no avance, como colectivo, igual que otras profesiones. La innovación existente en el campo de la técnica en la enfermería es una parte fundamental en el progreso de desarrollo profesional. Sin embargo, hay que tener en cuenta que la dinamización de la innovación en el área más asistencial, más empática, podría ampliar expectativas en los campos sanitario, cultural y social. Como cualquier profesión, la enfermería conoce bien su terreno, y es ella misma la más adecuada para juzgar si una innovación resulta en una mejora o no. Si la enfermería generase más innovación propia (endógena), se constituiría un valor fundamental para equiparar los niveles de actuación, actualmente más técnicos y colaborativos, pero, por tanto, menos autónomos. Usar la técnica delphi permitió la ubicuidad en tiempo y lugar, evitando, además, conflictos de jerarquías o apasionamiento, ya que, al realizarse de forma anónima y por escrito, las respuestas fueron más reflexionadas. A través del intercambio de conocimiento se saca a la luz la innovación propia, proactiva y endógena, evidenciando la invisibilidad y el silencio profesional que subyacen en la enfermería. El tribunal que presidió la defensa de la tesis recomendó unánimemente difundir y divulgar la idea para que la innovación asistencial se haga realidad entre todas las profesionales que entiendan que para este objetivo es necesario mantener este espacio propio de la enfermería mediante la formación y el intercambio de conocimiento necesarios. / The external configuration of the nursing profession by the Church, the state, and the medicine has led to an ideology in which professional invisibility and silence are part feature. An essential part and characteristic of nursing, assistential caring, seems to lack the same intensity of technical innovation or same speed than other health related professions. The thesis studies the phenomenon and concludes that the more autonomous is assistential nursing, the more innovative. The main identified barriers to innovation in nursing are attitudinal and legal. Also, having self time and space to self-organize and share knowledge, and designing, implementing, evaluating and disseminating innovative health care projects are also factors identified as positive to innovation.

In recent years, there has been a strong interest in developing Creativity Support Tools for many exciting areas of research such as art and music. Yet few such tools have been developed to support creativity in advertising. This is unusual since advertising, like art and music, is a highly creative endeavour of the human mind. The goal of advertising is to transform a communicational objective of a product or a service into a creative idea. A tool that would enhance the development of creative ideas in advertising would be highly beneficial for the advertising industry and possibly shed light on the mystery behind creativity. In this thesis, I developed Creative Pad, a new Creativity Support Tool to assist advertising creative in generating creative ideas for advertising. In developing Creative Pad, I studied advertising creativity and human creative thinking. I developed a framework for analysing the advertising process, in which the process is viewed as having three distinct phases: a message, an idea, and an execution. A significant implication of this view is that the process for developing ideas for new advertisements and the process of executing those ideas and turning them into creative products are independent. Each step is the result of a significant creative process. Creative Pad is developed to assist in the development of creative ideas for new advertisements. To assist this creativity, relevant triggers are needed. Research has shown that individuals with high associative skills produce more creative advertising. Creative Pad supports the associative skills of the advertising creative and exploits the use of the Internet as a dynamic database. It finds words and sentences related to the original communicational objective, providing relevant triggers for the associative creative process in the minds of the advertising creative. Several experiments using Creative Pad were conducted with advertising creative and students with no advertising background. The results show that Creative Pad supports the generation of new ideas in two ways. First, and most important, all the subjects were able to develop interesting new ideas. In particular, the advertising creative were able to design a sketch of the advertisement from ideas generated using Creative Pad. Second, I was able to find a connection between the triggers, the words and sentences selected by the user during the creative process, and the ideas generated. Although the connection might be considered a weak one, it nonetheless demonstrates that a connection exists between the ideas developed by the advertising creative and those suggested by Creative Pad.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities and certain medical conditions are at risk for a variety of adverse outcomes in childhood as well as into adulthood. Early identification and early intervention are essential for improving the trajectories and outcomes of these children. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law that affords protections to children with disabilities and those at risk for developmental delays. IDEA provides guidance and regulations to early intervention programs, schools, and states for identifying and delivering intervention services to children ages birth through 21 years. Although the provision of early intervention services are regulated by the federal government through IDEA, states have autonomy to decide how they define and measure disabilities and developmental delays. As a result, states differ greatly in their eligibility criteria as well as in the percentages of children identified for early intervention (IDEA Part C) and preschool special education (IDEA Part B). Thus, children who receive early intervention services may or may not continue to meet criteria for special education once they reach age 3. Few studies have examined the child, family, and early intervention characteristics that relate to how, when, and if children will transition from Part C to Part B. Those studies that have examined these relationships have not focused specifically on how these transitions occur in Florida. The purpose of the present study was to examine child, family, and early intervention characteristics that increase the likelihood of children transitioning from Part C to Part B in Florida. Participants in this study included infants and toddlers who exited the Bay Area Early Steps Program (one of Florida’s Part C providers) in 2016. Archival data were examined using a combination of descriptive statistics, Chi-squares, independent t-tests, and logistic regression analyses. Results of this study indicate that children exiting the Bay Area Early Steps Program were more likely to be eligible for preschool special education (Part B) if they were Black/African American, Hispanic, had an established/diagnosed condition, had a lower socioeconomic status, received speech/language services in Early Steps, received multiple different service types in Early Steps, and/or received Early Steps services in Polk County (as opposed to Hillsborough County). Children were not more likely to be eligible for Part B based on their gender, primary language, length of time in Early Steps, or receipt of occupational therapy, physical therapy, or early intervention services while in Early Steps. The findings of this study provide preliminary information about factors that relate to children’s transitions from early intervention to preschool special education in Florida. The findings also offer practical implications for the day-to-day operations of the Bay Area Early Steps program and the local school districts to which these children transition.

The subject of thesis Process management and its use in optimization is drafting process change in real company and its subsequent implementation. The work focuses on the steps important to the change process, their explanation and subsequent use in practical part. Thesis is divided into two main parts. First part is a theoretical background of the process management and a development of this sector, explanation of key concepts closely related with process management to a description of a specific methods, which play a role in the process of company management.Next part is a practical part where most of the theoretical background was used. Practical work itself is a real-world example of the banking environment, where was actually implemented. Because of a limited possibility to publish the practical part, I do not mention a particular company and the data used for the preparation example are type data - these are not real data. However, the implementation of process changes was set this way and works now, and since it was the optimization, it is therefore expected that this change will bring its savings in the future. Since the implementation of the changes has already occurred, even this assumption was fulfilled and set change of process still generates its savings.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar questões ligadas ao pensamento social brasileiro da virada do século XIX para o século XX. Utilizando como fontes textos significativos do período, mais especificamente as principais obras de Sílvio Romero, Raymundo Nina Rodrigues, Euclides da Cunha e Alberto Torres, procurou-se observar a presença da noção de raça e, a partir desta noção central, a análise social naquele momento, perceber a apropriação, a adequação e a utilização de idéias estrangeiras na interpretação do Brasil, ainda destacando a relevância da raça para esse pensamento social brasileiro através de quatro de seus expoentes. / The main purpose of this research is study the development of Brazilian’s social ideas in the eve of changing from XIX Century to the XX Century. The documents utilized to do this paper are from the most important works of Sílvio Romero, Raymundo Nina Rodrigues, Euclides da Cunha and Alberto Torres. In this paper we research how these authors worked with the idea of Race, and from this idea, crucial for the Brazilian social studies during the late XIX Century to the beginning of XX Century, perceive the appropriations, the changes, and the use of foreign ideas for the interpretation of the idea of Brazil. Then, will also stress the relevance of the idea of Race for the Brazilian social studies from the late XIX Century to the beginning of XX Century through the four Brazilian thinkers quoted above.

Accumulative family risk factors can have a detrimental impact on young children's social emotional development and future school readiness. Identifying family risk and resilience factors can be a first step in linking families to needed services. Programs that serve families and children need a brief and valid screening tool that can quickly assess family strengths and needs. This study examined the validity and utility of the Environmental Screening Questionnaire (ESQ), a brief caregiver report of the family's situation. Participants included 324 parent/child (ages 3-60 months) dyads from a sample of programs that serve at-risk families (n = 72) and an online sample of caregivers (n = 252). Results from data analyses evaluating the validity and utility were promising. Validity was investigated by examining convergent validity using the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form. Caregivers from the online sample who had more family risk factors, as identified in the ESQ, were more likely to have elevated levels of stress (r = .23). Moreover, children from families with increased risk factors tended to have higher scores on the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social Emotional (ASQ:SE) for two age intervals, 6 and 48 months, for the online sample. Utility data were gathered from caregivers and program staff. Results suggest the ESQ is an effective and useful screening measure that can help professionals identify areas of resource need, organize referral information, and monitor family outcomes. Caregivers found the ESQ to be helpful in understanding personal areas of risk and how risk and resilience factors can affect children's social emotional development. This study assisted in developing preliminary "red flag" risk factors that may be useful to programs serving families and children. Testing of the "red flags" is discussed for future research. / 10000-01-01