Client satisfaction is an important outcome indicator because it measures multiple domains of the quality of healthcare and rehabilitation service delivery. It is especially important in occupational therapy because it is also client-centered. There are multiple domains of satisfaction and findings described in previous research; however, there is no single standard of measuring client satisfaction or any single working model describing the relationship among variables influencing satisfaction. This research was designed to apply a measure of satisfaction in rehabilitation and to develop a working model of satisfaction. This study was an exploratory and predictive study using a large existing dataset to test a working logic model of client satisfaction, determine the best predictors of satisfaction, and then to revise the model for future research. After developing the Satisfaction with a Continuum of Care (SCC) in a pilot study, the SCC was completed by 1104 clients from a large Midwest rehabilitation hospital. The SCC results were paired with administrative data with client demographics, functional status, and measures of the` rehabilitation process. Six research questions on the predictors of satisfaction with client-centeredness and clinical quality were answered using logistic regression. Significant predictors of satisfaction were having a neurological disorder, total rehabilitation hours, and admission to rehabilitation within 15 days of onset. The most robust and consistent predictors of satisfaction in this study were aspects of functional status as measured by the Functional Independence Measure especially improvement in overall and self-care functioning. The results in the study were consistent with some previous research and inconsistent with others. The finding that improvements in functional status were highly predictive of satisfaction supports the worth that clients place on rehabilitation results including the self-care improvements focused on by occupational therapy. This study was a partnership involving occupational therapy and a rehabilitation hospital. The finding that changes in self-care function were predictive of satisfaction was intended to isolate the effects of OT. There is a need to demonstrate outcomes and link these to occupational therapy and other rehabilitation disciplines to continue to identify best practices and contribute to the rehabilitation literature.

Elderly recreational vehicle campers are attracted to the Lower Colorado River area during the winter season. Their numbers have grown in recent years and many are seeking alternatives to the usual practice of establishing residence in private trailer parks. As a result, various public land sites in the region are being subjected to concentrated winter use. Units in these camping areas represent users who are retired couples or individuals on fixed or limited incomes, living in "self-contained" campers, travel trailers or motor homes. Some of these visitors are utilizing designated campgrounds; others are squatting on the public domain where there are few, if any, sanitary or other facilities. The impact of elderly winter visitors on the public land resource of the Lower Colorado River basin area is varied. An understanding of environmental effects is important, but proposed solutions depend upon our ability to understand the people causing environmental deterioration. Answers have been sought to basic questions about winter visitor characteristics and behavior. The findings were applied toward the development of basic policy recommendations pertinent to appropriate public land management for the desert areas of the Southwest. Of theoretical interest was the evaluation of the relative importance of camping socialization experiences in explaining user behavior. Data were gathered from 580 visitor units during the winter of 1973-74 with a personal interview schedule. Important classes of variables included socio-economic characteristics, camping experience, and users' campground behavior and preferences. Interviews were conducted in seven sites representing various kinds of public and private camping facilities in the region. Discriminant function, correlational, multiple regression and bivariate analyses were utilized to render the collected data meaningful. The basic sub-groups in the sample were distinguished by significant differences in various socio-economic and experiential characteristics. The most important of these were income, education, age, value of mobile quarters, and pre-retirement adult camping experience. Length of stay in public land camping areas was not explained by differences in site characteristics. Differences in visitor characteristics accounted for 40-50% of variation in length of stay. Important predictor variables included income, age, average annual pre-retirement camping experience and the amount of previous recreational vehicle camping without utility and sewerage hookups. Support was evidenced for a basic theoretical orientation: that post-retirement behavior is, in part, a reflection of pre-retirement recreational socialization and leisure life style patterns and persistence. The results suggested certain implications for public land management. Recommendations include the desirability of moving elderly winter camper use to sites away from the Colorado River. High fees imposed along the river would discourage extended-stay winter use and restore a unique resource to the short-term water-oriented visitor. The establishment of a spectrum of "inland" camping sites with varying levels of facilities and fees would serve as a positive inducement to the older winter camper, and restore some order to what has been, in some areas, an uncontrolled camping environment. A public campground on Bureau of Land Management land in Why, Arizona, offers a possible solution to the problems posed by the limited resources available to most public land management agencies. There a parcel of public land has been leased by a non-profit community association and developed into a public campground with basic facilities for elderly winter visitors. Management expenses are met through the imposition of a modest graduated fee schedule which favors the extended-stay camper. In this case a squatting problem has been resolved through local initiative; the public land management agency, with its limited budget, has been spared the expense of development and that of direct management responsibility.

Aquatic sediments, at a lake beach site in the Tonto National Forest, Arizona, were experimentally disrutped to quantitatively determine the impact of sediment resuspension on recreational water quality. Sediment resuspension was found to significantly degrade the quality of recreational waters. Mean sediment fecal coliform densities exceeded mean fecal coliform densities in overlying waters by 24.7 fold. When these sediments were experimentally disrupted, fecal coliform densities and turbidity levels in the water column increased by 1.4 to 2.8 and 1.1 to 5.4 fold, respectively. The impact of sediment resuspension on overlying waters was short-lived at the point of disruption. Increasing FC densities and turbidities generally peaked within 5 sec of resuspension and declined to preresuspension levels within 500 sec. The magnitude of the resuspension impact was most significantly influenced by water depth. The greatest risk to public health was found to be within the 0.3 m depth zone; that near-shoreline area most intensively used by young children for water play.

Tyrimo tikslas yra išanalizuoti Prienų rajono saugomų ir rekreacinių teritorijų tvarkymą ir naudojimą, aptarti, kuo unikalus šis rajonas. Tyrimo objektas yra Prienų rajono saugomos ir rekreacinės teritorijos. Tyrimo uţdaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti Prienų rajono saugomų ir rekreacinių teritorijų infrastruktūros pritaikymą. 2. Aptarti Prienų rajono turizmo galimybes. 3. Atlikti anketinę apklausą, siekiant įvertinti saugomų teritorijų problemas, būklę bei nustatyti saugomų teritorijų rinkimų aktualumą. Tyrimo metodika. Tyrimui atlikti taikomi literatūros šaltinių analizės, statistinių duomenų analizės ir anketinės apklausos metodai. Siekiant ištirti saugomų ir rekreacinių teritorijų planavimą, saugojimą ir naudojimą, atlikta Prienų rajono saugomų teritorijų analizė, aptarta rekreacinės teritorijos. Pateikiami anketinės apklausos rezultatai. Tyrimo rezultatai: * pirmoje dalyje išsamiai išanalizuotos Prienų rajono saugomos teritorijos; * antroje dalyje aptartos turizmo galimybės, išanalizuota Prienų rajono dvarų duomenų bazė, nustatyta, kad 70 proc. rajono dvarų nėra naudojami, rekonstruota tik Daugšiagirės buvusi dvaro sodyba, atskleisti rajono unikalūs poţymiai: aukščiausias Lietuvos maumedis, dvikamienis ąţuolas, 46 saugomos teritorijos ir kt.; * trečioje dalyje atlikta anketinė apklausa, pagal apklausos duomenis nustatytos saugomų teritorijų problemos, lankymosi prieţastys, nustatyta geriausių saugomų teritorijų rinkimų būtinumas ir vertinimo kriterijai. Pagrindinės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The purpose of research is to analyse the clearing and usage of the protected and recreational territories in Prienai district and discuss wherewith this district is unique. The subject of research is protected and recreational territories in Prienai district. The tasks of research: 1. To analyse the infrastructure adjustment of protected and recreational territories in Prienai district. 2. To discuss the tourism facilities in Prienai district. 3. To accomplish the survey seeking to evaluate the problems of protected territories, conditions and identify the relevance of protected territories selection. The methodology of research: Accomplish the research there were used methods of literature sources analysis, statistical data analysis and questionnaire survey analysis. Seeking to investigate the planning, protection and usage of protected and recreational territories, there were accomplished Prienai district protected terrritories analysis, discussed recreational territories. There is presented the results of questionnaire survey – protected territories vacationing approach to these territories and possibility to arrange protected territories selection. The results of research: ● There were thoroughly analysed Prienai district protected territories in the first part of work; ● In the second part of work, there was discussed tourism facilities, analysed Prienai district basis of estate data, it was revealed, that 70 percent district‘s estates are not used, only... [to full text]

Baigiamajame darbe tiriami ryšiai tarp miškingumo, miškų pasiekiamumo, rekreacinės paskirties (2B) grupės miškų ir gyvenimo kokybės parametrų. Darbo objektas – Lietuvos savivaldybių (išskyrus Neringos miesto savivaldybę) rodikliai. Darbo tikslas – nustatyti miško rodiklių ir gyvenimo kokybės sąsajas Lietuvos savivaldybių lygmenyje. Darbo metodai – darbe vertinti Lietuvos savivaldybių miškų, gyvenimo kokybės (oro kokybės, sveikatingumo, gimstamumo, nusikalstamumo), kiti, galimai sąlygojantys gyvenimo kokybę, rodikliai. Tyrimui naudoti 2008-2013 m. Lietuvos statistikos departamento, Valstybinės miškų tarnybos, Higienos instituto sveikatos informacijos centro duomenys. Atskirai analizuojami ir palyginami Lietuvos miestų ir rajonų savivaldybių rodikliai. Miškų pasiekiamumo rodiklis savivaldybėms nustatytas taikant GIS technologijas, duomenų apdorojimui ir atvaizdavimui naudota Microsoft Excel programa, STATISTICA programinis paketas, daugiamatės statistikos metodas – RDA (ReDundancy analysis). Darbo rezultatai. Miškingumas turi sąsajų su sveikatingumu ir oro kokybę miestų savivaldybėse. Nustatytas ryšys tarp miškingumo ir taršos anglies monoksidu patvirtina, kad miškingumas teigiamai veikia urbanizuotos teritorijos orą, kartu ir gyventojų sveikatą. Labiau miškingose miestų savivaldybėse gyventojai mažiau lankosi medicinos įstaigose, rečiau pasitaiko insultų atvejai. Miškų pasiekiamumas labiau sąlygoja gyvenimo kokybę miestų savivaldybėse, nei miškingumas. Nustatytas stiprus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Thesis investigated connections between the parameters of the forest cover, forests accessibility, recreational (2B) group forests and quality of the life. Subject of the research – Lithuanian municipalities (except the town of Neringa municipality) indicators. Aim of the research – to identify the connection between forests’ characteristics and quality of the life on the level of Lithuanian municipalities. Methodology – in the work forests of Lithuanian municipalities, quality of the life (air quality, wellness, birthrate, criminality), other potentially influencing the quality of the life indicators were assessed. For the study data from Statistics Lithuania, National Forest Service, Hygiene Institute Health Information Centre form 2008-2013 year period were used. Separately Lithuanian cities and districts indicators were analyzed and compared. Forest accessibility index for municipalities was determined using GIS technology, data processing and visualization was done using Microsoft Excel programme, STATISTICA software package and multivariate statistical method - RDA (ReDundancy analysis). Results. Forest cover has connections with wellness and air quality in cities’ municipalities. Determined link between the forest cover and carbon monoxide emissions confirms that forest cover has the positive effect on the air of urban areas, herewith on the inhabitant's health. In more forested urban municipalities inhabitants less visit clinics, less were paralytic stroke. Forests... [to full text]

Where and how can the live experience 'being there' be positioned in Scottish live art culture? Such transformatively liminal corporeity is situated in three examples of performative objects intrinsically linked to readings of Scottish identity. By collating a 'blood culture imprint' of 1970s performance art with Scottish live artist Alastair McLennan's positioning of the artist body as art, the thesis presents a revised understanding of how and where the live can be placed within Highland Gaelic culture. The specificity of this frame is intrinsically linked to the 'blood culture imprint' of Culloden and as such presents a liminal outworking in the three examples chosen which collectively portray an object body in the form of a textual anatomy of 'Scotland' or 'Alba'. Using contemporary live art discourse, the ontological origins of performance art in Scotland are situated as potentially live within the transfixed frame of the thesis itself, thereby positioning the authorship and readership of its contents as a revivifying act per se, reflecting the theoretical argument. I will argue that despite a seeming lack of performance art tradition in Scotland, this 'blood culture imprint' of the 1970s can be used to define Culloden and post- Culloden culture as necessarily animated by instances of live art. The examples chosen are James Clerk Maxwell's first colour photograph of a tartan ribbon, scalping survivor Scotsman Robert McGee's cabinet card and James MacPherson's Ossian repositioned as a post-genocide numinous wish text. Each performative object betrays its ontological origins, displaying a textual anatomy which argues that collating a performer body of 'Alba' can demonstrate a fundamental and historical performance culture.

"The problem of this thesis is to study the recreational interests of children in grades four through seven and to compare the interests of boys with those of girls in order to ascertain whether the interests of the two sexes begin to differ appreciably during these grades, and, if so, to determine the grade level where differences occur."--1-2.

The objective of the diploma thesis is to capture the phenomenon of internationalization of second housing in Czechia using the example of Dutch investment in tourism and recreation with a focus on new recreational localities and their impacts on the destinations. The development of this phenomenon has occurred in Czechia since 1990s in the context of the changing geopolitical and geo-economic situation. An important role plays also the offer on real estate market and environmentally attractive localities in the country. Recreational localities owned and used mainly by foreign (Dutch) clients for individual recreation and commercial purposes are established in areas with high tourist-recreational potential. They become an integral part of the physical and social environment and their specific features change its structure and links. Their benefits and risks depend on the nature of recreational localities projects and the target destinations as well. Key words: Czechia, impacts of tourism and recreation, second housing, internationalization, recreational localities

Title: Difference wrist mobility with players racing and recreational tennis Objective: The aim of this work is to measure and compare the range of motion of the wrist in racing and recreational tennis players and both upper limbs (playing, not playing). To compare the values measured 2D electrogoniometry, by sex and game levels. Method: Research probands were divided into two groups, a total of 20 people. In one group, there were ten boys and ten girls aged 14-17 years who play tennis at competitive level and train four to five times a week for at least 4 years. The second group also consisted of 10 boys and 10 girls in the same age range, but tennis is played on a recreational level once maximum twice a week for at least 4 years. It was important that the criteria for selecting probands had several common denominators. These are gender, age, level of game, whether measured by an individual not had any injury, regeneration is not and should not do other activities besides tennis. Wrist probands were tested using an electric goniometer. Were measured in the frontal plane (radial and ulnar reduction) and sagittal plane (dorsal and palmar flexion). These data were measured by sitting electrogoniometry and subsequently were compared and statistically analyzed. Results: Measurements confirmed...

Title: Abuse of anabolic steroids of Youth in fitness centers Objectives: The main aim of the thesis is to determine the current state of the issue of doping Youth visiting the fitness centres and gyms. Another object is the comparison of the current data with data from the research conducted in 2002. Methods: There was applied the method of the sociological questionnaire survey and the interview method in this diploma thesis. The sociological questionnaire survey method was used to determine the current situation dealing with the doping of recreational sporting Youth visiting the fitness centers and gyms. Information obtained during the research have been supplemented by informal interviews with visitors of fitness centers and gyms. Both researches were compared for comparison purposes of present situation with the situation in 2002 and based on the results, conclusions were drawn. Results: The thesis describes the current situation of the issue of doping recreational sporting Youth visiting the fitness centers and gyms. In the final section of the thesis was discovered that the extent of this phenomenon, awareness about danger that supporting remedies especially anabolic steroids introduce, relatively improved when it is compared with the previous research dealing with this subject of...