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The use of alcohol and drugs by women has become a major health issue; though men use and abuse alcohol and drugs at a higher rate than women, this gap is closing and at an alarming rate. / In this study, the hypothesis is that women who have positive social support relationships have a higher probability to sustain and maintain their sobriety over time. Information was obtained through qualitative exploration N = (10) as these women recounted their experiences. The objective is to explore the similar factors that assisted these women throughout their recovery process. / The findings show that women come to recognize their need for recovery, as their sense of self develops and evolves over time: through positive attachments with others, rediscovery of self and identifying positive feelings. / The issue of women and recovery is a relevant factor for social work practitioners as clients and social workers need to function together as partners throughout the problem solving process.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed September 22, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-29)

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Desire to eat, hunger, feeling of having enough to eat, and fullness were measured in 11 eating disorder patients in treatment for less than two months, 7 eating disorder patients in treatment for more than two months, and 11 controls. The experimental group was female patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, or eating disorder not-otherwise-specified. The experimental and control groups ate a test meal two hours after a preload. The groups answered four questions about desire to eat, hunger, feeling of having enough to eat, and fullness, before they ate, halfway through their meal, immediately upon finishing the meal, and 15 minutes after finishing their meal. The groups were required to eat 100% of the meal provided. The difference in data between the experimental and control groups was not statistically significant. The experimental group that had been in treatment longer than two months had means closer to the control group than the other experimental group who had been in treatment less than two months. This may suggest that the experimental group who had been in treatment more than two months was starting to regain a more normal sense of hunger and satiety. However, a repeat study with a larger sample size would be needed to prove that statement.

O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre o amolecimento após laminação e recozimento da AA 7075, uma liga de alumínio endurecível por precipitação . As amostras recebidas no estado T6 foram caracterizadas com auxílio das técnicas de microscopia óptica de luz polarizada, microscopia eletrônica de varredura, espectroscopia de raios X por dispersão de energia, difração de raios X, condutividade elétrica e dureza Vickers . As amostras foram então separadas em dois grupos. O primeiro sofreu um tratamento térmico de solubilização (485°C por 5 horas) enquanto o segundo foi submetido a um tratamento de superenvelhecimento (300°C por 5 horas) e, em seguida, ambos os grupos de amostras tratadas foram novamente caracterizadas pelas técnicas descritas anteriormente (exceto microscopia óptica) e laminadas a frio. Durante a etapa de laminação, constatou-se a dificuldade em causar deformação plástica na amostra solubilizada. Optou-se em conduzir o estudo com as amostras superenvelhecidas, que foram laminadas com reduções de 45%, 75% e 90% em espessura. A seguir, estas foram submetidas a tratamentos isotérmicos e isócronos com o objetivo de estudar a cinética de amolecimento das amostras deformadas a frio. As amostras superenvelhecidas e deformadas em 45% em redução de espessura, apresentaram somente indícios de início de recristalização (nas amostras tratadas a partir de 250°C por 1 hora) via EBSD, sendo que a maior parte do amolecimento pode ser explicada pelo mecanismo de recuperação. Além disso, a cinética de amolecimento das amostras recozidas nesse grupo apresentaram boa concordância com a lei logarítmica proposta por Kulhmann (1948) e (coincidentemente) também com o consolidado modelo JMAK. As amostras superenvelhecidas e deformadas em 75% e 90% apresentaram comportamento similar (isso é, principalmente recuperação) para recozimentos realizados em temperaturas de até 350°C por uma hora. Recozimentos realizados a 400°C promoveram a recristalização total das amostras desse grupo para tempos inferiores a 15 minutos. Dessa forma, não foi possível estudar a cinética de recristalização para esse segundo grupo de amostras. / This work presents a study about the softening after cold rolling and annealing of aluminium alloy AA 7075. Firstly, polarized light optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, electrical conductivity and Vickers hardness have been used at the starting material (T6). The samples were then separated in two groups. The former underwent a solubilization heat treatment (485°C for 5 hours) whilst the latter underwent an overaging treatment to grow up the existing precipitates (300°C for 5 hours). Both groups of treated samples were again characterized by the techniques described above (except optical microscopy). In the rolling stage, the difficulty in straining the solubilized sample and the relative ease for doing so to the overaged sample was verified. It was therefore decided to conduct the study with the samples of the second group, which were 45%, 75% and 90% rolled in thickness reduction. Then, they underwent isothermal and isochronous treatments in order to study its softening kinetics by Vickers hardness measurements, polarized light optic microscopy and EBSD. The overaged and rolled samples (45% in thickness reduction) didn\'t present evidences of recrystallization except by very few grains found via EBSD (in samples treated from 250 ° C for 1 hour). So, most of the observed softening can be explained by recovery. In addition, the softening kinetics of the annealed samples in this group showed good agreement with the logarithmic law proposed by Kulhmann (1948) and (coincidentally) also with the consolidated JMAK model. The overaged samples that underwent thickness reduction of 75% and 90% showed a similar behavior (that is, mainly recovery) for annealing at temperatures up to 350 ° C. Annealing at 400 ° C promoted total recrystallization of the samples from this group (75% and 90% in thickness reduction) in less than 15 minutes. Thus, it was not possible to study the kinetics of recrystallization for this second group of samples.

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In most cases, data from petroleum industry wetland studies indicate that treatment wetlands are equally or more effective at removing pollutants from petroleum industry wastewaters than from other types of wastewater. In this study, we discussed the treatment efficiencies of oil-refinery industry wastewater by pilot-scale constructed wetland systems .The constructed wetland systems were one free water surface system filled with the sandy media and one subsurface flow system filled with the gravel media operated in parallel. Each system planted with Phragmites communis. The hydraulic retention time for the treatment wetland was controlled in turn at 0.96, 0.48, and 0.72 days. The experimental results showed that all of these contaminants could be reliably removed from wastewater by treatment wetland, especially the FWS. The effluents from the constructed wetland systems reusing and recovering were feasible.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity International University, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-241).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity International University, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-241).