This diploma thesis with the title To the recommendations of John Hus is mainly focused on the translation and subject analysis of Hus´ five selected university speaches, which have never been translated to Czech yet. This diploma thesis is also concerned with the recommendations like a genre and its individual aspects {--} structure and quotations of reputable authorities etc. There is also compared with the confrontation of other authors of recommendations from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it tries to point out on some conformities and differences between the medieval and present ones academical utterances. The accent is also put on the ethical benefits of proclamations and suggestions, which the teachers gave in their speaches to their students.

Clinical neuropsychologists assess the cognitive functioning of individuals with a wide range of psychiatric and neurological disorders. They provide feedback to patients that include both conclusions about their diagnosis and prognosis, as well as specific recommendations related to improving their everyday functioning. Despite the importance of this part of the assessment, there has been limited research on the types of recommendations that are provided to patients. The study surveyed 309 clinical neuropsychologists who work with adult patients to address this open question. The results from this research can be used to improve the lives of patients and their family members by informing best practices for what recommendations clinical neuropsychologists should give to patients with specific concerns.

Participation in contributing content to online communities remains heavily skewed. Yet little research has focused on lowering the contribution effort. I describe a general approach to facilitating user-generated content within the context of Wikipedia. I also present the IntelWiki prototype, a design and implementation of this approach, which aims to make it easier for users to create or enhance the free-form text in Wikipedia articles. The IntelWiki system i) recommends article-relevant reference materials, ii) draws the users' attention to key aspects of the recommendations, and iii) allows users to consult the recommended materials in context. A laboratory evaluation with 16 novice Wikipedia editors revealed that, in comparison to the default Wikipedia design, IntelWiki's approach has positive impacts on editing quantity and quality. Participants also reported experiencing significantly lower mental workload while editing with IntelWiki and preferred the new design.

BACKGROUND: Antibiotics are essential medicines and their effectiveness is under threat due to antimicrobial resistance. Guidelines are one way to conserve antibiotic effectiveness given that they are intended to modify clinician prescribing. Guidelines that provide antibiotic recommendations should make explicit contextual considerations that influence antimicrobial resistance and their downstream effects on resistance emergence. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, and respiratory tract infection guidelines and recommendations to examine how and to what extent they are considering contextual factors that influence antimicrobial resistance. We also investigated whether there are guidelines and recommendations that can be adopted or adapted to local contexts. RESULTS: We found that within 74 included guidelines, two thirds of recommendations considered antimicrobial resistance. Of which only five guidelines considered all factors required to consider local aspects such as values, resource use, acceptability, feasibility, and equity. As such, these five guidelines can be either adopted or adapted to Canadian and other contexts. We also found that 39% of guidelines met credibility scores of 60% or greater in AGREE II domains: scope and purpose, rigor of development, and editorial independence. CLINCAL IMPLICATIONS: There are very few Infectious disease guidelines for highly prevalent diseases that do not consider all important contextual factors may influence antimicrobial resistance. Our findings can support societies and organizations, public health policy, and health care stakeholders to develop and implement guidelines that are applicable to local contexts efficiently and resourcefully. Our antimicrobial resistance recommendation framework, used in addition to GRADE Evidence to Decision frameworks, is a start to having this come to fruition. / Thesis / Master of Public Health (MPH)

This paper investigates both the information contents of recommendations disseminated by foreign security firms and the interaction of foreign security firms’ trading activities with their recommendations in Taiwan’s stock market. Using event study, correlation test, and regression analysis, we find negative average abcdrmal returns(AARs) and average cumulative abcdrmal returns(CARs) for negative and neutral foreign analysts’ recommendations levels and recommendation changes in the pre-recommendation period. AARs and CARs for positive recommendations in pre-recommendation period are positive, but reverse to negative three days after the event day. Our results also show that correlation coefficients of recommendations (both in recommendation levels and recommendation changes) and holding period returns are significantly positive in the pre-recommendation period, but insignificantly negative in the post-recommendation period. In the regression analyses, we find that price momentum factor is significantly related to foreign analysts’ recommendation, but the incremental contribution of this factor to foreign analysts’ recommendations are marginal and not significant. We also find that foreign security firms respond more rigorously to stocks receiving recommendation above buy recommendations and stocks being downgraded. These results show that foreign security firms are more conservative toward trading stocks in Taiwan’s stock market. They only buy stocks above buy recommendations (in a delay pattern), but immediately sell downgraded stocks.

10 pp. / Pruning recommendations for shrubs commonly planted in the low and mid-elevation desert in Arizona are given based on the intended use and individual plant growth characteristics.

Bakgrund För att uppnå en god prestationsförmåga är det viktigt att tillföra energi och näring före, under och efter träning. Det finns ett flertal rekommendationer som beskriver hur detta kostintag bör se ut.Syfte Att jämföra svenska elitinnebandyspelares och motionärers kunskap gällande etablerade kostrekommendationer i samband med träning, samt att undersöka om deltagarna anser sig ha kunskap gällande kost för att optimera sin prestationsförmåga, var den eventuella kunskapen förvärvats och om det finns intresse för mer kunskap.Metod En kvantitativ metod, i form av en enkät, användes. Till databearbetningen utformades en rättningsmall, som baseras på rekommendationer från American Dietetics Association and Dietitians of Canada, Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté och Uppladdningen - Ladda för Innebandy. Vid statistiska test sattes en signifikansnivå till p<0,05.Resultat I studien deltog 79 elitinnebandyspelare och 101 motionärer. Ingen skillnad kunde noteras mellan grupperna vad gäller kunskap om kostrekommendationer i samband med träning. Båda grupperna uppvisade sämre kunskaper om kostrekommendationerna gällande före träning, jämfört med under och efter träning. De flesta av deltagarna, 96 % (n=76) av innebandyspelarna och 83 % (n=84) av motionärerna, ansåg sig ha kunskap om hur de ska äta för att optimera sin prestationsförmåga, samtidigt som många ville ha mer kunskap inom området.Slutsats Elitinnebandyspelarna ansåg sig i högre grad besitta kunskap om kost vid träning, men gruppen uppvisade i stort sett samma kunskap som motionärsgruppen. Kostrekommendationerna som finns för uppladdning inför träning behöver i större utsträckning förmedlas till svenska elitinnebandyspelare och motionärer, vilka även visar ett intresse för ökad kunskap inom ämnet. / Background It is important to add energy and nutrients before, during and after a workout session to perform on a high level. Several guidelines which describe this nutritional intake exist.Objective To compare the knowledge among Swedish elite floorball players and amateur athletes regarding nutritional guidelines before, during and after training sessions. Also to investigate their knowledge of how to optimize their performance with the correct nutrition, where this knowledge has been found and their interest in learning more about recommended nutrition.Method A quantitative study, based on a questionnaire which examines the parameters suited to the objective. A correction template was formulated for processing the data. The template is based on recommendations from the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada, the Swedish Olympic Committee and Uppladdningen – Ladda för Innebandy. The significance level was chosen to be p<0.05.Results The study involved 79 Swedish elite floorball players and 101 amateur athletes. No statistically significant difference was found between the groups in terms of their knowledge of the recommendations regarding nutrition in conjunction with training. Both groups seemed more knowledgeable of the recommendations regarding nutrition during and after workouts compared to their knowledge of how to prepare for a workout. Most participants wanted to learn more about performance optimization with nutrition, at the same time 96 % of the floorball players and 83 % of the amateurs considered their knowledge to be sufficient.Conclusion Generally the elite floorball players estimated their knowledge about nutrition for exercising to be higher, but their exhibited knowledge were similar to the knowledge shown by the amateur athletes. Guidelines regarding nutrition before workouts should be focused on when informing Swedish floorball players and amateur athletes, and the interest to learn more exists.

The aims of this research were to describe the role that coaching plays in the development of educators and to make recommendations for the way in which schools can make use of coaching as an educator human resource development tool at the workplace. According to the findings from the literature review, coaching plays an important role in the success of novice educators. Educators who are coached typically develop a strong self-concept, become consistent in the implementation of policies and procedures, show a greater focus on the teaching and learning purpose within the classroom and display more confidence in themselves, which increases their personal ability and selfefficacy to help and develop learners, and thereby increasing the learners' love for learning and academic achievement. Educators who display the personal traits mentioned in the above paragraph, according to the findings from the literature study, become effective and expert educators who have something to offer to the learners and are recognized as professionals in their field. Various researchers in the reviewed literature stress the need for coaching for its inherent potential of being a panacea for educator attrition and turnover which are always the result of job dissatisfaction. The qualitative research method in the form of focus group interviews was used to elicit primary empirical data from a population sample of eighteen educator participants who were all at post level one. This educator participant population sample was engaged by the researcher on a three-day coaching session in Outcomes-Based Education and Training as a new teaching and learning system in South Africa. After this three-day coaching session, the participants were interviewed to determine the role that coaching plays in the development of educators, with a view to making recommendations for the way in which schools can make use of coaching as an educator human resource development tool at the workplace. The results of the empirical research revealed that educator participants who formed the population sample of this research experienced the three-day coaching session which the researcher conducted as follows: developmental; providing support and guidance; leading to paradigm shifts; setting aside any power differences to offer a relaxed atmosphere; and eventful. Recommendations for educational practice and further research were made. / Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2006.

This study investigates the extent to which sell-side analysts make full use of available financial and nonfinancial information signals in formulating stock recommendations. Prior research shows that investors rely strongly on sell-side analysts’ recommendations and that sell-side analysts pay considerable attention to nonfinancial measures in making their decisions. However, prior research has primarily focused on the mere presence of nonfinancial measures and not the extent to which the direction of such measures (i.e. favorability) is associated with firm value, or assessed the extent to which any interaction between financial measures and the direction of nonfinancial measures may influence analysts in formulating stock recommendations. Using a data set hand-collected from annual proxy statements, I use ordered logistic regression analysis to provide a multivariate test of the relation between sell-side analyst recommendations, financial and context-specific nonfinancial measures. I find that analysts do incorporate the direction (favorability) of nonfinancial measures in formulating stock recommendations and that unfavorable nonfinancial measures attenuate positive financial information.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States, however vaccination uptake remains low. One of the known barriers of low vaccination rates is lack of a health care provider recommendation. The purpose of this project was to implement a practice change to increase the number of HPV vaccine recommendations provided by primary care providers (PCPs) to patients aged 9-26 years. The setting for this project was the Little Colorado Physician’s Office, a primary care clinic in rural northern Arizona. Four PCPs, including three family physicians and one family nurse practitioner, and members of the QI team participated in the project. The project was designed as a quality improvement project, guided by the Model for Improvement framework. The needs of the individual practice and their population were assessed by a quality improvement (QI) team using a fishbone diagram for root-cause analysis. A practice change was then implemented by the QI team and evaluated for its effectiveness in improving HPV vaccination recommendations. Outcome measures included the number of HPV vaccine recommendations made by a primary care provider to eligible patients and the number of HPV vaccines administered to patients. In a four-week period of practice change implementation, eight patients were considered eligible for the HPV vaccine. Of these patients, 100% were offered the HPV vaccine by their healthcare provider. The practice change was successful in promoting HPV vaccination recommendations by PCPs, and the QI team reported the change was beneficial to their practice.