The English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme is a government-funded initiative that aims to provide timely and equitable access to evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, within a primary care setting. Despite the many achievements of the programme, there are several issues regarding research to clinical gaps, as well as a high rate of variation between sites concerning outcomes and attrition. This thesis explores the implementation process of the IAPT delivery model to understand which factors are influential in the successful uptake and integration of evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions. The aims of this thesis are:  To explore, identify and analyse the implementation process involved in establishing and delivering an IAPT service.  To uncover the factors that either facilitate or impede its development to provide a more in-depth and detailed account of the implementation and operation of services.  To develop an understanding regarding the applicability of evidence-based practice and the IAPT delivery model in a clinical setting, for the provision of psychological therapies. I conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with practitioners delivering and implementing services, across seven sites, and clients, across three sites. The design and analysis followed an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, focusing on personal meaning and sense-making processes. The objective of the interview was to understand the implementation process regarding the IAPT delivery model, exploring how this influences personal experiences and client engagement. Additionally, participant narrative was set in context using open-access data collected and published by the programme. The analysis generated three master themes for practitioners delivering and implementing services including: ‘A Call to Action’ describing how participants regarded this process as a genuine opportunity to make a real impact in mental healthcare; ‘Contextual Influences on Service Operation’ which explores the activities in becoming a locally determined, adaptable and relevant service; and a ‘Focus on Relationships’ outlining the relational and collaborative work involved during implementation. For the client group, three master themes were generated including: ‘A Personal Journey: From Discovery to Advocacy’ illustrating the changing experiences involved during service access and engagement; ‘Perception of Self’ which portrays how individuals made sense of their engagement by judging what it meant to them; 5 and ‘Outside Factors’ which explores the role of others and the physical journey made in getting to services. The analysis suggested that both groups made sense of their experiences in complex and varied ways. Heavily influencing the implementation of the IAPT delivery model is the over-arching need to boost throughput and quantity, possibly at a cost of quality. Additionally, it is argued that the use of routine outcome monitoring in services is useful for reflecting on the implementation process and engaging clients. The key to successful implementation appears to be about achieving integration, requiring a whole-systems based approach that considers the mediating pathways into and out of services. In light of the findings and literature, the thesis proposes several recommendations for future practice and further research.

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Muitas organizações utilizam o processo de aprendizado e de melhoria baseado na comparação e na observação, denominado de benchmarking, mas poucas sabem de fato como fazê-lo corretamente. A referida técnica fornece um estímulo externo que encoraja um ambiente de aprendizado contínuo, tornando as empresas adaptáveis a novos conhecimentos. O benchmarking tornou-se um enfoque interessante quando se percebe que a melhoria dos processos de uma organização é fundamental para que ela alcance vantagem competitiva, e também quando se torna claro que essa melhoria pode vir da troca de aprendizado com outras corporações. Este trabalho apresenta um protótipo de um repositório de informações de benchmarking com acesso via internet, que fornece uma base de dados às organizações participantes, e tem como intuito facilitar a troca de experiências entre as mesmas. Para a efetivação do presente trabalho foram realizados estudos da literatura sobre benchmarking, levantamentos das bases de dados de benchmarking existentes no Brasil e no exterior, que servissem de guia para o desenvolvimento do modelo conceitual do repositório, além da construção de uma base de dados composta por indicadores de desempenho e melhores práticas sobre benchmarking. Ao longo desse trabalho, procurou-se estudar os modelos de negócios eletrônicos, a importância e as formas de estruturação de um banco de dados e as questões relativas à segurança em sistemas de informação. Finalizando, demonstrou-se em detalhes como foi construída a base de dados de benchmarking e o website do projeto, denominado de RVB - Rede Virtual de Benchmarking, com o objetivo de enriquecer o modelo do repositório e o trabalho teórico/conceitual. / Many organizations use a learning and improvement process based in the comparation and observation, named benchmarking, but few organizations really know how to make it correctly. The technical provides an external stimulus which encourages a continuum learning environment, making the companies adaptable to the new knowledge. Benchmarking became an interesting focus when we notice that the improvement of the processes of an organization is fundamental for it to reach a competitive advantage, and also when it\'s clear that this improvement can come from the exchange of learning with other corporations. This study presents a prototype of a repository of benchmarking information with access through internet, which provides a data base to the participant organizations, and with the aim to make easy the exchange of experiences among the organizations. To the effectiveness of this work, literature study about benchmarking were carried out, as well as data bases benchmarking existing in Brazil and abroad, which could serve as a guide to the development of a conceptual model of repository, besides the construction of a data base composed of indicators of performance and better practices about benchmarking. Along this study it was studied the models of electronic businesses, their importance and the forms to structure a data bank and the questions related to the security in systems of information. To finalize it was demonstrated in details how was the benchmarkingdata base constructed and the website of the project, named RVB - Benchmarking Virtual Net with the objective of enrich the repository model and the conceptual/theoretical work.

Master of Science / Department of Agronomy / Scott A. Staggenborg / Irrigated cropping systems on the High Plains are dominated by water intensive continuous corn (Zea mays L.) production, which along with other factors has caused a decline in the Ogallala aquifer. Potentially demand for water from the aquifer could be decreased by including drought tolerant crops, like grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) and cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), in the cropping systems. This study calibrated the CERES-Maize, CERES-Sorghum, and CROPGRO-Cotton models for the High Plains and studied the simulated effects of different irrigation amounts and initial soil water contents on corn, cotton, and grain sorghum. Input files for calibration were created from irrigated and dryland research plots across Kansas. Information was collected on: soil physical properties, dry matter, leaf area, initial and final soil water content, management, and weather. CERES-Maize simulated grain yield, kernel number, ear number, and seed weight across the locations with root mean square errors (RMSE) of 2891 kg ha-1, 1283 kernels m-2, 1.6 ears m-2, and 38.02 mg kernel-1, respectively. CERES-Sorghum simulated grain yield, kernel number, head number, and seed weight with RMSEs of 2150 kg ha-1, 5755 kernels m-2, 0.13 heads m-2, and 4.51 mg kernel-1. CROPGRO-Cotton simulated lint yield and boll number with RMSEs of 487 kg ha-1 and 25.97 bolls m-2. Simulations were also conducted with CERES-Maize, CERES-Sorghum, and CROPGRO-Cotton to evaluate the effects of irrigation amounts and initial soil water content on yield, evapotranspiration (ET), water use efficiency (WUE), available soil water at maturity, and gross income per hectare. Simulations used weather data from Garden City, KS from 1961 to 1999. Irrigation amounts were different for all variables for corn and grain sorghum. For cotton, yield, WUE, soil water, and gross income were not different between the top two irrigation amounts. For corn and grain sorghum, initial soil water content was only different at 50% plant available water. Initial soil water had no affect on cotton, except for ET at 50%. Simulations showed that cotton yields are similar at lower irrigation. Also, cropping systems that include cotton have the potential to reduce overall irrigation demand on the Ogallala aquifer, potentially prolonging the life of the aquifer.

L’imposition sur le revenu en République de Guinée héritée du système fiscal français, constitue l’un des éléments importants de la structure fiscale guinéenne. Mais paradoxalement, cette imposition, par rapport à la TVA, reste de nos jours très peu rentable au budget de l’Etat. Or, le potentiel fiscal autant vaste, prenant en compte les revenus provenant des activités commerciales, industrielles, artisanales, agricoles, professionnelles, etc., réalisées par les contribuables y existe ; mais non encore « judicieusement exploité ». En effet, parler d’imposition sur le revenu revient à se pencher aussitôt sur les deux dimensions fondamentales qui sous-tendent cette notion : l’impôt sur le revenu (IR) des particuliers et l’impôt sur le revenu des entreprises ou sociétés dont les enjeux contributifs caractérisant véritablement la problématique de cette imposition s’enchevêtre dans une série de réalités complexes d’ordres politique, socio-économique, environnemental, juridique, etc., différentes d’un pays à un autre et d’une communauté à une autre.Le but ultime visé par cette thèse est de faire un constat diagnostic pertinent afin de retracer les causes et les effets de la faible part de l’imposition sur le revenu dans les recettes fiscales intérieures et de proposer des solutions efficaces en vue d’améliorer la rentabilité de l’IR et de l’impôt sur les bénéfices des sociétés qui impacterait tant soit peu la performance des services du fisc, du budget de l’Etat, de l’économie nationale et du système fiscal en République de Guinée. / Income tax in the Republic of Guinea as inherited from the French fiscal regime is one of the most important elements of the Guinean fiscal structure. But paradoxically, this tax, with regard to the VAT, remains less profitable in terms of state budget revenues. Despite the huge fiscal potential, taking into account all revenues from commercial, industrial, handcraft, agricultural and professional activities undertaken by taxpayers, it is yet not judiciously exploited. Indeed, talking about income tax will lead to focus on the two basic dimensions of the notion: Private Income tax (IT) and companies income tax the contributive challenges of which truly characterizing the problem of this tax to be expressed in variety of complex realities of political, social, economical and environmental natures, varying from a country to another and from a community to another.The goal of this dissertation is to proceed to a relevant diagnosis finding in order to be able to retrace the causes and effects of the low contribution share of the income tax in the internal fiscal revenue and to propose efficient solution with a view to improving the profitability of said tax on companies profits, which will impact the performances of fiscal services, state budget, national economy as well as the fiscal system in the Republic of Guinea.

Les pays membres de l'UEMOA ont, à partir des expériences inachevées de précédentes tentatives d'intégrations, ont décidé, au lendemain de la dévaluation du Franc CFA, de se retrouver dans une nouvelle organisation d'intégration, L'union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA). Dans cette Nouvelle, ils entendent allier une politique économique et monétaire pour bâtir une intégration dans le cadre d'un Marché commun ouvert et concurrentiel. Mais les politiques économiques mis en oeuvre dans le cadre de ce marché commun n'arrivent pas à donner les résultats escomptés. L'objet de notre étude est de comprendre les raisons de cet échec relatif alors que c'est le socle même sur lequel le processus a été bâti. Y'a t'il pas une difficulté résultant de la nature du processus engagé? une intégration par le marché dans un espace qui ne dispose pratiquement pas de marché susceptible de générer les effets attendus de création de commerce et d'amélioration de la situation économique des pays? Ou une économie de marché dans un espace dans lequel tous les Etats ont les mêmes industries, les mêmes produits au lieu d'avoir des industries différentes pouvant réaliser des économies d'échelle par l'effet de commerce qui se crée avec le processus d'intégration porté par le désarmement douanier et l'uniformisation de la fiscalité intérieure communautaire. Par ailleurs, ce qui est une autre préoccupation, la politique économique et fiscale de l'Union peut 'elle être conduite en dehors des orientations monétaires qui sont toujours conçues et mises en oeuvre dans le cadre d'institutions indépendantes. D'un coté les Etats qui conçoivent la politique économique, de l'autre la commission qui définie les objectifs de convergence économique et, enfin, une autre institution, l'institution monétaire régie encore par les textes de l'UMOA de Novembre 1973 qui définit et conduit la politique monétaire. C'est une réponse à ces questions voudraient s'atteler notre thèse. / African countries, members of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), have agreed in their treaty, in particular article 4, to build an economic and monetary union. To this end, the Union has aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of the economic and financial activities of the Member States in an open and competitive market and a rationalized and harmonized legal environment. It also intended to ensure the convergence of the performance and economic policies of the Member States through the institution of a multilateral surveillance procedure. In implementing these objectives, the States of the Union have established among themselves: the pact of convergence and stability, Growth and Solidarity in December 1999. This integration tool, despite numerous adjustments at different stages of its renewal has not yet made it possible to achieve the desired economic convergence. The aim of our study is to examine the economic environment of the Member States in an attempt to understand the reasons for this Community economic underperformance. Have the proposed ratios been elaborated according to the economic realities of the integration area or are they rather a theoretical vision that does not focus on the economic realities of the member states of the Economic and Monetary Union? How to perform these ratios in order to impulse real development of the west Africa, that is the objective of this these.

The diploma work is dealing with solution of concrete problem from the industrial practice. The main aim is to increase the quality in trailer production. The section of state of the art includes the description of selected characteristics about the company AGADOS, analysis of production process including controlling and monitoring activities. The theoretical study introduces processes and methods of planning for continuous improving of quality. The evaluation of monitored results with the support of IS tools was proceeded by construction of recognized divergences by the help of Pareto diagram. After the implementation of corrective proceedings to improve the quality, which was estimated in terms of processing engineering, repeated evaluations have been applied. The effectiveness of proposed proceedings is illustrated by construction of Pareto diagrams, which are presenting the complex examination of changes before and after implementation of corrective proceedings.

The thesis is devoted to evaluating the performance of companies selected companies. Said performance evaluation model focuses on START. In the first part, the author describes the evaluation model business performance. In the analytical part introduces company and characterized the current situation. In the practical part is to conduct an assessment of company performance model applied questionnaire Start. This model are identified strengths and weaknesses of the company, but also the weaknesses of the company and place to improve performance. The results are drawn suggestions and recommendations for the company.

I detta arbete genomförs utvecklingen av ett realtids objektdetekteringssystem för iOS. För detta ändamål används YOLO, en ett-stegs objektdetekterare och ett s.k. ihoplänkat neuralt nätverk vilket åstadkommer betydligt bättre prestanda än övriga realtidsdetek- terare i termer av hastighet och precision. En dörrdetekterare baserad på YOLO tränas och implementeras i en systemutvecklingsprocess. Maskininlärningsprocessen sammanfat- tas och praxis för att undvika överträning eller “overfitting” samt för att öka precision och hastighet diskuteras och appliceras. Vidare genomförs en rad experiment vilka pekar på att dataaugmentation och inkludering av negativ data i ett dataset medför ökad precision. Hyperparameteroptimisering och kunskapsöverföring pekas även ut som medel för att öka en objektdetekringsmodells prestanda. Författaren lyckas öka modellens mAP, ett sätt att mäta precision för objektdetekterare, från 63.76% till 86.73% utifrån de erfarenheter som dras av experimenten. En modells tendens för överträning utforskas även med resultat som pekar på att träning med över 300 epoker rimligen orsakar en övertränad modell. / This paper features the creation of a real time object detection system for mobile iOS using YOLO, a state-of-the-art one stage object detector and convoluted neural network far surpassing other real time object detectors in speed and accuracy. In this process an object detecting model is trained to detect doors. The machine learning process is outlined and practices to combat overfitting and increasing accuracy and speed are discussed. A series of experiments are conducted, the results of which suggests that data augmentation, including negative data in a dataset, hyperparameter optimisation and transfer learning are viable techniques in improving the performance of an object detection model. The author is able to increase mAP, a measurement of accuracy for object detectors, from 63.76% to 86.73% based on the results of experiments. The tendency for overfitting is also explored and results suggest that training beyond 300 epochs is likely to produce an overfitted model.

The quality of piano education in international schools in China has been affected by an increasing number of piano students and piano teachers experiencing heavy teaching loads. The research questions in this qualitative case study included both teachers' and parents' perceptions of the quality of teaching and learning in piano classes at multicultural international schools in a suburban district of Beijing. The 4 principles of the Suzuki method provided the conceptual framework for the study. Data were collected through interviews with 10 experienced piano teachers, 10 selected parents of K-12 piano students, and observations of 3 group piano classes, 8 individual lessons, and 3 student recitals. All data were coded and analyzed using the Suzuki principles of character, use of the mother tongue, parental involvement, and positive environment. Findings indicated that school leaders, teachers, parents, and students need to understand each party's expectations to build and maintain a healthy relationship and positive learning environment as promoted by the principles of the Suzuki method. A professional development program, Piano Teaching in a Beijing Suburb: 21st Century Effective Piano Teaching, was created to engage and support local piano teachers' needs and to improve their understanding of various eastern and western teaching approaches, traditional and functional piano teaching, and effective teaching strategies to better prepare them for teaching in diverse classrooms. Implementation of the project might affect social change and benefit the local international community by providing a professional development model for all piano teachers to help international piano students during their transitional years in China.