Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Political Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-323). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR19782

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1929. / Vita. Printed in Great Britain. Index.

Suicide as an individual event as well as a social phenomenon attracts great interest and attention in various spheres, both in the immediate environment of the self-murderer and in broader public. The definition of suicide differs according to authors and changes in the course of historical development. Most definitions are identical in two essential aspects of suicidal behavior. These are a voluntary individual's intention to terminate his life and a purposeful behaviour leading to death. Suicide is the conscious and intentional killing of oneself. About 95% of suicidal attempts are just acute intoxications by any amount or kind of a poisonous substance. Acute intoxication belongs to a group of serious conditions threatening human health and life. Acute poisoning is one of the frequent admission diagnoses in the Departments of anesthesiology and resuscitation and Intensive care units. 80% of poisonings are caused by drugs. Damage to the organism by ingesting a poisonous substance is the more significant the longer is the interval between the exposure to noxae and the professional medical assistance provision. For the future fate of the patient the medical equipment and the competence of health professionals who provide intensive care for these patients is crucial. After stabilization of all physiological functions, balancing inner environment of the patient and after the time that may have led to late complications of intoxication, the following phase of treatment is provided by psychological and psychiatric interventions. Determination of suicidal risk among the most common challenge in urgent psychiatry is suicide risk assessment. The aim is to prevent further suicide attempts. The objective of the thesis was to determine, with regard to the competence of nurses, the predominant character of patients´ experience after intoxication, and also the reasons for aggressive behavior of intoxicated patients towards the nursing staff. The third objective was to establish a standard of nursing care of intoxicated patients. The research was designed as explorative with the goal to map the nursing process in intoxicated patients and to provide information for the establishment of the standard of nursing care, which should include both somatic and psychological aspects. Quantitative and qualitative methods were combined. The outcomes of the thesis should lead to detection of the most frequent problems in nursing care for patients with intentional intoxication with suicidal tendency and the establishment of nursing standards to help improve the care of these patients.

<p>This thesis investigates the use of word order variation, in particular the variable use of subject-verb inversion and non-inversion in main declarative clauses, among adolescents in contemporary multilingual settings in Sweden. The use of non-inversion in contexts that in standard Swedish require inversion is sometimes claimed to be characteristic of varieties of Swedish spoken among adolescents in multilingual urban areas. The present study includes a wide range of data, both spontaneous and elicited, and explores how common the use of non-inversion is among a relatively large group of participants in different contexts, and how the use of non-inversion is influenced by different demographic, linguistic and socio-pragmatic factors.</p><p>The results show that non-inversions are used to a limited extent in all types of data in the studied population. Only certain individuals frequently employ non-inversions in some contexts. Further, no direct link is found between second language acquisition and the use of non-inversion in this study. Factors related to the issue of nativeness, for example participants’ reported age of onset of Swedish acquisition, only marginally explain the results. In general, examples of non-inversion are employed more extensively, and by more participants, in peer-peer interaction than with adults. The use of non-inversion appears to be part of some adolescents’ spontaneous language use in certain contexts. More importantly, however, the results suggest that some adolescents employ non-inversions as an active linguistic resource to express their identification with the multilingual environment and the different varieties of Swedish spoken there, to show solidarity with peers, to contest official school discourses, and to play around with linguistic stereotypes.</p>

This thesis investigates the use of word order variation, in particular the variable use of subject-verb inversion and non-inversion in main declarative clauses, among adolescents in contemporary multilingual settings in Sweden. The use of non-inversion in contexts that in standard Swedish require inversion is sometimes claimed to be characteristic of varieties of Swedish spoken among adolescents in multilingual urban areas. The present study includes a wide range of data, both spontaneous and elicited, and explores how common the use of non-inversion is among a relatively large group of participants in different contexts, and how the use of non-inversion is influenced by different demographic, linguistic and socio-pragmatic factors. The results show that non-inversions are used to a limited extent in all types of data in the studied population. Only certain individuals frequently employ non-inversions in some contexts. Further, no direct link is found between second language acquisition and the use of non-inversion in this study. Factors related to the issue of nativeness, for example participants’ reported age of onset of Swedish acquisition, only marginally explain the results. In general, examples of non-inversion are employed more extensively, and by more participants, in peer-peer interaction than with adults. The use of non-inversion appears to be part of some adolescents’ spontaneous language use in certain contexts. More importantly, however, the results suggest that some adolescents employ non-inversions as an active linguistic resource to express their identification with the multilingual environment and the different varieties of Swedish spoken there, to show solidarity with peers, to contest official school discourses, and to play around with linguistic stereotypes.

The thesis deals with the further education of pedagogical employees at selected hight school. The work is divided into theoretical and empirical part. At the beginning of the first chapter are explained the basic terms. The next section is focused on legal framework that deal with further education. At the end of the theoretical part are presented some of the studies, which have already been conducted and which have investigated the opportunities of teacher´s further education and trends in that field in Czech republic and all over the world. The empirical part concentrates on the research and describes its implementation and the results and conclusions, which are derived from the research.

Abstract The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model. Because of the globalization we live in the world where {\clqq}the borders are getting closer`` which also means to live our lives in more multicultural society. That is why a nurse must react to modern nursing care and must be well prepared to cope with specific problems of various communities in their health and illnesses. In my diploma work we deal with transcultural evaluation of nursing care according to the J. N. Giger and R. Davidhizar Nursing Care Models. These models are about regardful and tailored care which we apply to members of Vietnamese community living in the Czech Republic. The theoretic part contains problems of the globalization, migration of foreign people, transcultural nursing, the Giger and Davidhizar nursing care models, information about Vietnam and the model application to members of Vietnamese community living in the Czech Republic. In the practical part we created standard of nursing care named Nursing of Vietnamese patient/client in health care institutions and we are interested in its using in the working practice. Then we found out opinions of people working in health care institutions who work with this standard and found out expectation of Vietnamese patients/clients hospitalized in health care institutions whose findings could help with prevention of hospitalization problems. The goals of the work: 1. Using of modification the Giger and Davidhizar nursing care models with giving care to Vietnamese people in health care institutions 2. To find out cultural changes in nursing process and their influence on behaviour of Vietnamese people in an illness 3. To identify problems and expecting of hospitalized Vietnamese people The research was conducted with the help of quasiexperiment and interview in the Regional Hospital Příbram. We addressed 10 nurses and 6 Vietnamese patients/clients. We must point out that in the year 2007 only 6 Vietnamese people were hospitalized there. The goals of the work were achieved. We hope that our work may help to increase quality and efectivity of the nursing care given to Vietnamese people.

This paper deals with one of quality standards in homecare services {--} individual planning during the homecare services. It shows principal and content of individual planning during the assistance with a client on present legislative background. It pays attention to homecare services characteristic and specification of its target group, particularly to skills, knowledge and key competences of employees, who are necessary for discovering clients´ personal goals, activating their resources and settling adequate support. There are also integrated theoretical requirements with practical instructions of methods usage and techniques of individual planning during homecare services with communicative and non-communicative clients. These principals are contact, dialog and relationship between key worker and client. The aim of this material is to give proposal for methodical content of individual planning in homecare services, thus set of rules describing course of this process.

Lithium-Ionen-Batterien besitzen ein ausgezeichnetes Potential für die Energiespeicherung. Das derzeit dominierende Anodenmaterial in Lithium-Ionen-Batterien mit einer Energiespeicherkapazität von 339 mAh/g ist Graphit. Als Alternative hierfür bieten sich Lithiumsilicide und Lithiumstannide an. Diese Materialien zeichnen sich durch eine viel größere Speicherkapazität und geringere Selbstentladungspotentiale aus. Für die kommerzielle Anwendung dieser beiden Systeme in Lithium-Ionen-Batterien werden grundlegende und verlässliche thermodynamische Daten benötigt. Derzeit ist die Existenz von sieben Lithiumsiliciden sicher nachgewiesen. Dazu zählen die sechs stabilen Phasen Li17Si4, Li16.42Si4, Li13Si4, Li7Si3, Li12Si7, die Hochdruckphase LiSi und die metastabile Phase Li15Si4. Für die ersten fünf genannten Phasen wurden in der ersten Förderperiode des Schwerpunktprogrammes 1473 Wärmekapazitäten und Standardentropien bestimmt. Bei den Lithiumstanniden sind derzeit sieben Phasen gesichert belegt. Allerdings existiert für keine Phase der Lithiumstannide ein verlässlicher thermodynamischer Basisdatensatz. Aus diesem Grund wurden für die beiden zuletzt genannten Lithiumsilicide (Li15Si4 und LiSi), sowie für die Lithiumstannide Li17Sn4, Li7Sn2, Li13Sn5 und Li7Sn3 die fehlenden thermodynamischen Daten experimentell bestimmt. Die hergestellten Phasen wurden zunächst mittels Röntgenbeugung, thermischer und chemischer Analyse charakterisiert. Ein Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit lag auf der experimentellen Bestimmung der Wärmekapazitäten in einem Temperaturbereich von 2 K bis zur jeweiligen Zersetzungstemperatur der untersuchten Verbindungen. Hierfür wurden zwei unterschiedliche Kalorimeter verwendet: ein Physical Property Measurement System (Quantum Design) von 2 K bis 300 K und eine DSC 111 (Setaram), beginnend ab 300 K. Die experimentellen Daten konnten mit Messunsicherheiten von 1 % bis 2 % über 20 K und bis zu 20 % unterhalb von 20 K angegeben werden. Die Messungen bei niedrigen Temperaturen erlauben zudem die Berechnung der Standardentropien, sowie die Bestimmung von elektronischen Beiträgen und Gitterschwingungsbeiträgen zur Wärmekapazität. Weiterhin ist Fokus dieser Arbeit die Bestimmung der Standardbildungsenthalpien der Lithiumsilicide und Lithiumstannide auf Basis von Wasserstoffsorptionsmessungen mittels einer Sieverts-Apparatur. Hierfür wurden erstmals Messungen an den Lithiumsiliciden ausgehend von Li17Si4, LiH:Si (Li:Si = 17:4), Li16.42Si4 und LiSi durchgeführt. Für die Lithiumstannide dienten als Ausgangsmaterial Li17Sn4, LiH:Sn (Li:Sn =17:4), sowie Li7Sn2 und LiH:Sn (Li:Sn = 7:2). Die Anwendung des van´t-Hoff-Plots resultierte in Messunsicherheiten von mindestens 10 %. Aus diesem Grund wurde eine alternative Auswertemethode gewählt, bei der die ermittelten Wärmekapazitäten und Standardentropien mit den Gleichgewichtsdrücken aus den Wasserstoffsorptionsmessungen miteinander verknüpft werden. Auf diese Weise konnten Standardbildungsenthalpien für die untersuchten Phasen mit Fehlern kleiner 1 % ermittelt werden. Aus den Ergebnissen dieser Arbeit resultierte ein vollständiger, gesicherter thermodynamischer Datensatz für das System Li-Si. Das berechnete Li-Si-Phasendiagramm ist im sehr guten Einklang mit experimentellen literaturbekannten Daten. Für die Lithiumstannide erfolgte eine Validierung der ermittelten thermodynamischen Werte. Die in dieser Arbeit erzielten Ergebnisse liefern einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Datenbasis für thermodynamische Berechnungen und für das Verständnis von Phasensequenzen und Gleichgewichten beim Einsatz von Lithiumsiliciden bzw. Lithiumstanniden als Anodenmaterialien in Lithium-Ionen-Batterien.

The background in this study is that over the years analysis of grade 12 results in Ekurhuleni South District indicates that most secondary schools obtain 100% pass rate but not quality results isiZulu home language. IsiZulu home language quality results often range from 20% to 40%. The research findings point at two casual factors: (1) inside the classroom and (2) outside the classroom. Inside the classroom refers to quality of educators teaching isiZulu home language and outside the classroom refers to what is supposedly isiZulu home language’ yet a close analysis of the kind spoken in the township Zulu homes is in fact pidgin Zulu. In terms of quality evaluation this so called isiZulu home language can never pass quality assurance. The researcher recommends that educators of isiZulu home language be put through vigorous quality training in the teaching of isiZulu (HL). / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)