International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 27-30, 1997 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / A target missile is a unique piece of test hardware. This test tool must be highly reliable, low cost and simple and must perform any task that the developing interceptor missile planners require. The target missile must have ample power and guidance resources to put the target in a specified place in the sky at a desired time. The telemetry and measurement system for the target missile must have the same requirements as its interceptor missile but must be flexible enough to accept new requirements as they are applied to the target and its interceptor. The United States Army has tasked Coleman Aerospace to design and build this type of target missile. This paper describes and analyzes the telemetry and instrumentation system that a Hera target missile carries. This system has been flying for the past two years, has completed seven out of seven successful test flights and has accomplished all test objectives to date. The telemetry and instrumentation system is an integral part of the missile self-test system. All preflight checks and flight simulations are made with the on-board three-link telemetry system through a radio frequency (RF) link directly through the missile antenna system to a ground station antenna. If an RF transmission path is not available due to test range restrictions, a fiber-optic cable links the pulse code modulator (PCM) encoder to the receiving ground stations which include the bitsync, decommutator and recorders. With this capability, alternative testing is not limited by RF test range availability. The ground stations include two mobile stations and a factory station for all testing including preflight testing of the missile system prior to flight test launches. These three ground stations are built in a single configuration with additional equipment in the mobile units for use at remote locations. The design, fabrication, testing and utilization of these ground stations are reviewed. The telemetry system is a modification of the classical PCM system and will operate with its interceptor missile at least into the first decade from the year 2000.

With one in two women delivering surgically, Iran has one of the highest rates of cesarean section (CS) worldwide. CS overuse in low-risk pregnancies potentially exposes women to Maternal Near-Miss (MNM) morbidity with minimal health benefits. This thesis studied obstetric care quality and MNM at hospitals with high rates of CS in Tehran, Iran. In Study I, we investigated whether audits of CS indications and feedback influenced CS rates at a general hospital. Subsequent to the audit, a 27% reduction in the risk of primary CS was found. In Study II, characteristics of MNM were investigated at university hospitals between 2012 and 2014. During a 26-month period, 82 MNM cases were identified using the WHO MNM approach. Severe postpartum hemorrhage (35%), severe preeclampsia (32%), and placenta previa including abnormally invasive placenta (10%) were the main three causes of MNM. Iran has a huge influx of migrants from Afghanistan. Women with antepartum CS and those who lacked health insurance, almost all Afghans, had increased risk of MNM. In Study III, audits examined whether MNM care quality differed between 54 Iranians and 22 Afghans and whether near-miss events were preventable. A majority of MNM cases (62%) arrived at hospital in a moribund state and obstetric care was more suboptimal for Afghans than Iranians (adjusted odds ratio 5.1, 95% confidence interval 1.2–22.6). Moreover, MNM was commonly (71%) potentially preventable and professionals with suboptimal practice were involved in 85% of preventable cases. In Study IV, a qualitative interview study was conducted to explore care experiences of Afghan MNM survivors. Discrimination, insufficient medical attention, and ineffective counseling were the main experiences. To a lesser extent, poverty and low education were perceived as contributing factors to delays in accessing care. This thesis emphasizes the importance of high-quality care for preventing undesirable maternal outcomes. The audit method along with interviews was useful to determine quality and equity gaps in care provision. Policymakers and professionals should consider these gaps when structuring programs to reduce adverse maternal outcomes.

Orientador: José Carlos Peraçoli / Resumo: Introdução: Nos últimos 20 anos, o conceito de near miss (risco de morte iminente) é abordado na saúde materna como adjuvante dos inquéritos confidenciais de morte materna. No sistema de saúde, o Hospital Terciário/Quaternário é centro de referência para pacientes em situações graves que as colocam em risco de morte. A Maternidade do HC-FMB-Unesp é um dos centros terciário/quaternário de referência para patologias obstétricas do DRS-VI do Estado de São Paulo. A análise da frequência de situações de risco que chegam à maternidadegestantes portadoras de hipertensão arterial, bem com a assistência que receberam até serem referenciadas e ao chegarem à maternidade, poderá identificar deficiências e propor o seu aprimoramento, reduzindo-se assim o risco do binômio mãe-feto. Objetivo: Determinar a frequência de casos de morbidade materna grave não near missque evoluíram para situação de near miss, associados à hipertensão arterial e propor protocolo clínico de assistência pré-natal, bem como aprimorar o protocolo de assistência praticada no centro terciário com finalidade de reduzir o risco do binômio mãe-feto. Sujeitos e métodos: Foram identificados todos os casos de gestantes ou puérperas com diagnóstico de morbidade materna grave e de near miss,relacionados à hipertensão arterial, que receberam assistência obstétrica durante os anos de 2015 e 2016.De forma descritiva os resultados foram apresentados em porcentagem sob a forma de tabelas. O projeto foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Étic... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Introduction: Between 10% and 15% of maternal deaths are related to hypertensive gestational diseases, and most of these deaths are avoided by effective and timely care. Over the past 20 years, the concept of near miss has been addressed in maternal health as an adjunct to confidential maternal death surveys. Objective: To determine the frequency of evolution of cases of severe maternal morbidity not near miss (SMM not MNM) for maternal near miss (MNM) associated with hypertension in the reference center of the Polo Cuesta and Jurumirim Vale subareas of the Regional Health Division - VI (DRS-VI) of the State of São Paulo. Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was carried out between 2015 and 2016 at a tertiary/quaternary reference center for the Polo Cuesta and Jurumirim Vale sub-areas of DRS-VI in the state of São Paulo. A total of 167 pregnant women or postpartum women with a diagnosis of hypertension with signs of severity were included. In addition to the frequency of near miss, demographic, clinical and origin data were obtained according to the subarea of the regional health study population. The project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu - Unesp (Opinion No. 2,309,947). The categorical variables were analyzed by the statistical program SPSS. Results: The demographic characteristics of the population studied were predominantly between 20-35 years old (68%), Caucasian (75.4%), stable union (71.9%), and no paid oc... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

"The purpose of this study is to search out and record some of the social factors which influenced the patient's premature return to the hospital from a ninety day trial visit in his community. The goal is to gather and analyze the content of the records of these patients and to examine the literature relating to the problems of schizophrenic patients after they leave the hospital. The objective is to describe some of the stresses encountered by the patient which were more than he could bear and to isolate some of the social factors which upset his balance"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: William L. Leap, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to compare attitudes toward mental illness as expressed by the relatives of veterans on Regular Trial Visits from the Veterans Administration Center, Gulfport Division, Biloxi, Mississippi between January 1, 1959 and June 30, 1959. The secondary purpose was a comparison of nine identifying and seven hospital items of 82 veterans, and several characteristics of relatives"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1961." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Irene E. Morris, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97).

The problem of placing patients in the homes of paid caretakers is multifarious and complex. Among the most basic of the questions facing the agency planning to place patients is: what kind of patient to place in what kind of a home? When stated criteria are lacking for the selection of patients for both types of settings from the same hospital, the social worker's judgments become the gauge by which selection is made. This situation prevails at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Gulfport, Mississippi. Delineation of the factors contributing to successful placement would be useful in the selection and preparation of patients for community placement. The data of this study are primarily related to the successful community placement made by sixty white male veterans. Answers were sought to the following questions by an analysis of the data collected on 34 descriptive items. (1) How does the literature present and describe halfway house and foster home care as a form of community placement for male veteran patients? (2) Do the 30 veteran patients who have made a successful adjustment in the foster home care differ significantly from the 30 veteran patients who have made a successful adjustment to halfway house care when distributed on 10 selected social or baseline characteristics? (3) Do any of the 9 hospital and 8 military items significantly differentiate the patients in foster home care from the patients in halfway house care? (4) How do the 7 community placement adjustment items differentiate the two sub-samples? / Typescript. / "June, 1961." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Dorothy D. Hayes, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66).

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Submitted by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-11-14T11:06:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_HEITOR_MORSCHEL_COMPLETO.pdf: 965783 bytes, checksum: 493320a1a6c6597e5bddcab113a5cbcf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-11-14T11:06:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_HEITOR_MORSCHEL_COMPLETO.pdf: 965783 bytes, checksum: 493320a1a6c6597e5bddcab113a5cbcf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-14T11:06:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_HEITOR_MORSCHEL_COMPLETO.pdf: 965783 bytes, checksum: 493320a1a6c6597e5bddcab113a5cbcf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-25 / The present Work: The Catholicity of the Church in the Light of Evangelii Gaudium and the Challenges of the Plural Society aims to approach the relevance of the positive relationship of the Church, understood from its catholicity, with the increasingly diversity in the society, taking into account the Contributions of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium by Pope Francis. Today's diversity in the society is increasingly bringing humanity to pluralism, understood as a new way of reading, interpreting and living in this new reality. The challenges to the Christian faith are innumerable. However, three challenges stand out: cultural, religious and social. In face of them, the Church, through the category of Catholicity, understood as totality, which grounds its identity and universality, intends to be a sign of communion and hope. In front of cultural pluralism and globalization, Christian faith must recognize its catholicity based on religious identity, highlighting what is essential and what is formal in its identity. That allows being open to a dialogue with cultures. In front of religious and social pluralism, the Church, in the exercise of its mission, must open itself to dialogue and hospitality with the Christian Churches, with the various religions, in a perspective of an "outgoing" Church, going to the existential peripheries, leading to the Joy of the Gospel to all people. / A presente disserta??o de mestrado: A Catolicidade da Igreja ? Luz da Evangelii Gaudium e os Desafios da Sociedade Plural, pretende abordar a relev?ncia da rela??o positiva da Igreja, entendida a partir da sua catolicidade, com a sociedade cada vez mais diversificada, levando em conta as contribui??es da Exorta??o Apost?lica Evangelii Gaudium, do Papa Francisco. A sociedade diversificada atual est? levando cada vez mais a humanidade ao pluralismo, compreendido como uma nova forma de ler, interpretar e viver nesta nova realidade. Os desafios para a f? crist? s?o in?meros. Todavia, tr?s desafios ganham destaque: o cultural, o religioso e o social. Frente a eles a Igreja, atrav?s da categoria da catolicidade, entendida como totalidade, que tem como fundamento a identidade e como consequ?ncia a universalidade, pretende ser um sinal de comunh?o e esperan?a. Diante do pluralismo cultural e da globaliza??o, a f? crist? precisa reconhecer a sua catolicidade a partir da identidade religiosa, destacando o que ? essencial e o que ? formal nesta identidade e abrir-se a um di?logo com as culturas. Diante do pluralismo religioso e social, a Igreja no exerc?cio de sua miss?o, precisa abrir-se ao di?logo e ? hospitalidade com as Igrejas crist?s, com as diversas religi?es, numa perspectiva de Igreja ?em sa?da?, indo ?s periferias existenciais, levando a Alegria do Evangelho a todas as pessoas.

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