Project Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1992. / This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #090-0220. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-219).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-156).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, 2005. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-156).

<p>This thesis is a report of the evaluation of an industrial alcoholic rehabilitation program. The evaluation covered the years 1970 - 1974 inclusive and all those referred to the program were included in the sample.</p> <p>Since employed problem drinkers are identified by deteriorating job performance, the variables selected for investigation were directly related to job performance. Absenteeism in four categories and visits to the industrial medical clinic were compared for three years; the year before referral, the year of treatment and the year after referral. Number of accidents sustained, both occupational and non-occupational and number of suspensions incurred were compared for the year before referral and the year after referral.</p> <p>Information was collected on age, marital status, number of years employed in the industry and diagnosis of one or more selected alcohol-related conditions. Data were collected on the number of appointments scheduled and kept to determine compliance and its' relationship to outcome.</p> <p>Those win refused to enter the program are described by mean age and mean number of years worked in the industry. Those who dropped out of the program before completing one full year post-referral are described by mean age, marital status, number of dependents, mean number or years worked in the industry and the mean number of months between referral and drop-out.</p> <p>The evaluation demonstrated that the program has a 78.8% success rate. The data obtained led to the formulation of hypotheses suitable for testing in future controlled trials.</p> / Master of Science (MS)

<p>Quality of care evaluation strategies are needed for meaningful assessment of health care delivery for research, quality assurance and educational purposes.</p> <p>For the purpose of improving strategies for measuring quality of care, this thesis first reviews methodologic features of available measurement strategies as reported in the current scientific literature. Secondly it proceeds with the development of a descriptive research design to evaluate the criterion validity of a strategy for evaluating process items by comparison with comprehensive outcome measures including physical, emotional and social function. Thirdly, the development of a new strategy for measurement of interpersonal skills, which is incorporated into the process evaluation, is described.</p> <p>The objective of the study is to study patients with acute myocardial infarction in order to determine whether measurable differences in the care administered to and received by these patients result in clinically significant differences in these patient's health status six months later. Acute myocardial infarction has been chosen as a disease appropriate for the testing of this strategy because if its high incidence, its functional impact upon the patient, the variation in process management items performed by different physicians, the different clinical settings involved, the relative diagnosis and availability of an inception cohort. A community hospital setting has been selected for the reason that, compared with a teaching hospital setting, the generalisability of the study to the practice of other physicians will be greater since the majority of physicians involved in the care of patients with acute myocardial infarction work in community hospital settings.</p> / Master of Science (MS)

<p>This thesis is a study of chronic methylmercury exposure in two Indian Reserves in Northwestern Ontario - White Dog and Crassy Narrows.</p> <p>The study consists of three major divisions which are the analysis of trends in human mercury levels in the two communities from 1970 to 1978; the design of a study to examine three major research questions; and conclusions drawn from the study.</p> <p>The analysis of data from White Dog and Grassy Narrows indicate that mean human mercury levels have declined significantly in the 1970 to 1978 period. This attributed to the success of programs designed to discourage the consumption of local fish.</p> <p>A cross-sectional prevalence study is designed to address the question concerning possible neurological effects of chronic methylmercury exposure in White Dog and Grassy Narrows. A second sub-study utilizes a sample of individuals for whom early information is available on peak mercury levels to examine the question of a mercury exposure gradient. A retrospective study of stillbirths and congenital abnormalities is designed to examine the effect of prenatal exposure to methylmercury.</p> / Master of Science (MS)

<p>This thesis describes the development and preliminary assessment of social function measures applicable to noninstitutionalized children ranging from 2-14 years of age. The measures are to be used in a cohort comparison study to evaluate neonatal intensive care for under 1500 gram birth weight infants. A lack of earlier attempts to develop measures that focus specifically on the social health of children provided the motivation for creating the scales reported in this paper.</p> <p>The three major divisions of the thesis include a discussion of measurement criteria applicable to new child health scales; a content analysis and evaluation of available measures of social functioning; and the analysis of results from a pilot study designed to assess a battery of instruments created for the neonatal intensive care project.</p> <p>Emerging from this work are three social function scales. One of the scales assesses the quality of social relationships and applies to children from 2-14 years. Pilot study results suggest, however, that this scale may overlap excessively with measures of emotional function. The remaining social function scales are applicable to children from 4-14 years: they measure quantitative dimensions of social health which include friendships, interpersonal contacts and social activities.</p> / Master of Science (MS)

<p>Existing statistical measures of agreement are reviewed and organized into a series of flow charts to facilitate their selection for analysis. A subset of "useful" measures is selected on the basis of their measuring meaningful agreement, hating interpretable referent values, being subject to hypothesis testing, being hand calculable and continuous (categorical) measures having categorical (continuous) analogues. "Useful" measures for continuous data sets are all intraclass correlation coefficients, applicable to different ANOVA models depending on the assumptions involved. "Useful" measures for categories data include various chance corrected (kappa) types, sensitivity-specificity and predictive value measures. The "useful" measures are displayed in a single condensed flow chart. A strategy to evaluate the use of this flow chart is also developed.</p> / Master of Science (MS)

<p>Schistosomiasis is known to affect over 200 million people in tropical countries. It is well known to have variable manifestations in similar geographical regions. It is also known to have variable responses to treatments in different geographical regions.</p> <p>Literature on its treatment though abundant reveals no agreement on doses of drugs to be administered.</p> <p>This thesis presents a design to determine doses of a recommended drug in the treatment of haematobium schistosomiasis. Three dosage levels of niridazole (ambilhar) will be tested against a recommended dose of metrifonate. The trial will be conducted over a 12 month period and will involve infected school children in a town in Ondo State of Nigeria.</p> <p>Children will be followed up during the trial period to determine the effects of treatment on their urinary egg output.</p> / Master of Science (MS)

Engaging the work of Barry Allen and Karl Marx, a range of topics come together in an analysis of civilization as the buildup and breakdown of tissues. Life and death are both moments and directions. Death, as a moment in life, is certain. Human life, lived against death at its present scale, doesn't succeed in controlling or securing what it seeks to control and secure. Concerns about human knowledge and economies-civilizational tissue and its behaviours-are contrasted with familiarity and wealth as tissue, which are valuable goods against which their bastardizations can show up. We cannot place blind faith in technology, since it often fails the test of good tissue-life and the means to continued life. We cannot place blind faith in market freedom, as long as economic agents are programmed as they are, and as long as wealth is not understood as good, living tissue.