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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “""minimal living""”.
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The Effect of Minimal Care Pets on Homebound Elderly and Their Professional Caregivers
… study was to determine whether or not keeping minimal care pets, such as goldfish, could have an effect on the health status and social interaction of homebound elderly people living alone and receiving home health care services. Another purpose was to assess the effect of this activity on the …
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Rigidity and Fluidity in Living and Nonliving Matter
… <p>In Chapter 2 we revisit the concept of minimal rigidity as applied to frictionless, repulsive soft sphere packings in two dimensions with the</p> <p>introduction of the jamming graph. Minimal rigidity is a purely combinatorial property encoded via Laman's theorem in two dimensions. It …
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Multi-Modality Plasma-Based Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
… of “liquid biopsies” for early detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) on early-stage TNBC patients using next-generation sequencing. For the first part of this study, I focused on detecting circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from TNBC patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery. …
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Rigidity in Frictional Particle Packings and Dynamics in Living Polymeric Packings
… concepts, frictional rigidity percolation and minimal rigidity proliferation, to help identify the nature of the frictional rigidity transition. To probe frictional rigidity percolation, I construct rigid clusters using a (3,3) pebble game for sliding and frictional contacts first on a …
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Compare Nutritionally Related Health Outcomes Between Least Developed Countries Receiving Minimal Versus Substantial Food Aid from the United States
… related health parameters in children under five living in LDCs receiving high amounts of food aid per capita from the U.S. were compared to the same prevalences in LDCs receiving low amounts of food aid per capita. Compared to low food aid per capita LDCs, both under five mortality rate (p=0.001) …
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Continuum Models of Collective Migration in Living Tissues
… cells and tissues. In Chapter 2 we formulate our minimal continuum model of a tissue as an overdamped active elastic medium on a frictional substrate. The model couples mechanical deformations in the tissue to myosin-based contractile activity and to cell polarization. Two new ingredients of our …
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Investigation of Traditional and Alternate Living Hinge Designs for Fused Deposition Modeling Additive Manufacturing Process
… of three studies covered the application of living hinge designs in the additive manufacturing process of fused deposition modeling. Initial research included comparing numerical and analytical linear analyses on a traditional living hinge design. The second research consisted of tensile …
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Public relations and marketing techniques used by assisted living communities to attract and retain residents
… and marketing techniques used by assisted living facilities (ALFs) to attract and retain senior residents, investigate the perception of effectiveness in PR and marketing practices among assisted living administrators and identify the role of community relations within ALFs. Consistent with …
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An exploration of how non-governmental organisations market their skills training programmes to marginalised youth living in Cape Town
… from low skills levels, lack of experience and minimal job opportunities. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play a vital role in bridging this gap by providing Skills Training Programmes (STPs) to broaden youth’s access to employment, as well as to open up opportunities for entrepreneurship. …
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Developing frameworks to measure physical activity in free-living populations in sub-Saharan Africa
… indicators, including physical activity, in free-living populations. Methods: Using existing large-scale population data from SSA (N=29606), I examined the prevalence and determinants of physical activity. The association between physical activity and key intermediate risk factors for NCDs was …
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Carbohydrate Supplementation During Prolonged Aerobic Exercise for People Living with Type 1 Diabetes on Insulin Pump Therapy: The ExCarbs Study
… to arm 1 (all P < 0.05). All strategies had minimal hypoglycemia throughout exercise, with arm 2 having increased fat oxidation and improved counter-regulatory function.
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Cellular delivery and site-specific targeting of organic fluorophores for super-resolution imaging in living cells
… cellular proteins with high specificity and minimal interference. We describe herein the development of new methods for cellular delivery and sitespecific targeting of organic fluorophores to proteins in living cells. Building on our lab's previous work on engineering new substrate …
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Wearable sensor systems to study the physiological and behavioral manifestation of cigarette smoking in free-living
… of cigarette smoking, especially under free-living conditions. This dissertation proposes new wearable sensor systems and related signal/image processing and pattern recognition methods for the objective, accurate and automatic detection of cigarette smoking with minimal effort from the …
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Organ Donation in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Quality of Life of Living Liver Donors
… Currently cadaveric organ donation remains minimal and, as a result, patients in need of heart transplantation must often pay for surgery performed abroad. One of the saddest sights on Japanese streets is a child standing on the street with a poster saying "Please donate money for a …
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Exploring the functioning of families living in the socially disorganized communities of Khayelitsha and Delft: A family resilience perspective
… a large but impoverished majority, (Sisk, 1995). Minimal efforts have been made at policy level to advance the issue of family resilience, that does not equate it to economic development. Resilience goes beyond just economic stability. Resilience is defined as, “people's internalized capacities …
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARS: THE MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS AND COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF LIVING GARS (ACTINOPTERYGII: LEPISOSTEIDAE)
There are seven living species of gars in two genera (Lepisosteiformes: Actinopterygii). In my first chapter, I estimate phylogenetic relationships among six of them using DNA data generated from four complete mitochondrial loci (cytb, CR, 12S, and 16S) and a single, partial nuclear …
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The Nurses' Experience Using Non-pharmacological Interventions for Persons Living with Dementia in Rural Long-Term Care Facilities in Saskatchewan
… of care, including interventions for RB. Minimal research exists including nurses' use of NPIs. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to discover the nurse experience using NPIs for persons living with dementia in rural LTCF. With no current evidence describing the nurse experience, this …
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Socialist Constructions: Modern Urban Housing and Social Practice
… investigates the modernist production of living space by focusing on housing reform in Weimar Germany’s Berlin and Frankfurt am Main as well as on the subsequent projects of German modernist architects working in the USSR in the early 1930s. Broadly, my work addresses questions of urban …
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Development of a powered transtibial prosthesis for ball room dancing
… has primarily focused on activities of daily living, such as walking and running, but has largely overlooked less common activities. As a result, traditional prosthetic devices are designed for a walking/running gait, and are difficult to use for other activities. This study aims to take the …
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Frameworks for the design of passive prosthetic knee components using user-centered methods and biomechanics of level-ground walking
… (above-knee) amputees to ambulate with minimal gait deviations leading to higher user satisfaction. The goal of developing these frameworks is ultimately to design a low cost, fully passive prosthetic knee device for persons with transfemoral amputations living in the developing world. …
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