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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"CWS"”.
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The Classroom Communication Resource (CCR) intervention to change grade 7 peers' attitudes towards children who stutter (CWS) in the Western Cape: a randomised controlled trial
… teasing and bullying of children who stutter (CWS) through changing the attitudes of their peers. The intervention, the Classroom Communication Resource (CCR), was implemented by teachers in classrooms. The primary objective of the main study was to determine the effectiveness of the CCR …
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Community-Based Workers’ Health and Wellness: Supporting Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
… determinant of health. Community-based workers (CWs) provide vital support to survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV); they are directly and repeatedly involved in serving those who experience harmful acts of violence, which may subsequently affect health. By using a salutogenic orientation, …
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A large-scale analysis of lexical diversity in children who stutter
… abilities in 99 pairs of children who stutter (CWS), ages 25 – 100 months and age-, gender-, and SES-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS) in spontaneous conversation and on standardized vocabulary tests. Correlations among lexical diversity measures and dissociations between receptive and …
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Corporations as Custodians of the Public Good? Exploring the Intersection of Corporate Water Stewardship and Global Water Governance
… of how Corporate Water Stewardship (CWS), and its facilitation of the inclusion of companies’ perspectives to address water issues, affects GWG. Understood as a form of market environmentalism – a doctrine premised on mutual synergies between environmental conservation and economic …
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Associations Between Drinking Water Source Watershed and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Central Appalachia
… waters treated by local community water systems (CWSs). Contamination associated with specific types of land cover can result in downstream water quality degradation, which may reduce the effectiveness of treatment by CWSs. Surface mining has been hypothesized as a source of drinking water …
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Crossover Kids: Maltreatment Experiences, Subsequent Maladjustment, and Systems of Care
… who have experienced the Child Welfare System (CWS) are more likely to be involved in early criminal and delinquent behaviour. These youth who are involved in this system of care are more likely than youth in the general population to “crossover” into another system of care - The Youth Justice …
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An analysis of the performance of constructed wetlands in the treatment of domestic wastewater in the Western Cape, South Africa
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are being introduced in many parts of the world to treat wastewater. CWs offer several advantages over conventional treatment, most notably to save costs and energy. By contrast there are several limitations associated with the use of CWs, such as variability and …
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Association Between Walking Speed and Cognitive Executive Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
… in comfortable to fast walking speed (├â┬ä FWS-CWS). This exploratory investigation was carried out using cross-sectional measures on 129 community-dwelling older adults aged 66 to 92 years. All participants had been treatment-receiving patients at an outpatient physical therapy clinic. …
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On the use of Constructed Wetlands in mountain regions: innovative tools and configurations
The use of Constructed Wetlands (CWs) has been increasing over the last twenty years for decentralized wastewater treatment projects (e.g. rural communities, isolated houses, etc.) because of the low maintenance requirements and operational costs, efficiency in terms of organic matter, nitrogen and …
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Effectiveness of the classroom communication resource in changing primary school learners' attitudes towards children who stutter after one month: A feasibility study
… aiming to improve peers' attitudes towards CWS. The focus of this feasibility study was to determine the initial treatment effect of the CCR to improve peers' attitudes towards CWS and the feasibility for a larger scale cluster randomised trial (CRT) in future. Peer attitudes were determined …
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Coal gasification for fuel synthesis: Multiphysics modeling and new concepts
… mechanism of carbon-in-water suspensions (CWS) under intense radiation were studied both experimentally and theoretically. CWS have unique optical properties and have received increasing interest recently for various applications. In the field of combustion science, CWS have been …
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Understanding how microbial community contributes to wastewater treatment performance in constructed wetlands within Scotch whisky distilleries
Constructed wetlands (CWs) play a crucial role in biological water treatment, particularly within the Scotch whisky industry. The first parth of this thesis explores methods to enhance biodiversity information from wetlands. It focuses on optimising DNA yield, comparing substrates, and evaluating …
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Adapting the Single-Request/Multiple-Response Message Exchange Pattern to Web Services
… solution is a Clearinghouse Web service (CWS), which serves as a communication proxy and realizes the correlation of responses with requests. One and only one CWS will be needed per enterprise that wishes to handle any number of SRMR Web services and their respective clients. Using the …
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Evaluation of Heat Rejection Strategies for Liquid Desiccant Air-Conditioning Systems
… the study), namely, (i) a cooling water storage (CWS) system and (ii) a ground-source heat exchanger (GSHX) system. These were simulated and evaluated in detail. Finally, an experimental investigation of a stratified cooling water storage tank (SCWS) and night cooling water storage (NCWS) was …
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The Development of Curriculum-based Measurement Local Norms in the Area of Written Expression
… Correctly (WSC), and Correct Word Sequence (CWS). Data collected from this study are presented as norms at the building and district-wide levels. Each table (see Tables 2 -16) indicates student performance from each school on TWW, WSC, or CWS for a specific grade level. The tables illustrate …
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Posterior cerebral artery (PCA) infarcts and dreaming : a neuropsychological study
… reformulation of Charcot-Wilbrand Syndrome (CWS) into two distinct disorders of dreaming, and caused substantial confusion in dream research as far as the neurological correlates of dreaming are concerned. This study attempted to confirm these case reports and determine whether there were any …
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Promoting Better Outcomes for Black Girls with Multiple Youth-Serving System Involvement through Benevolent Childhood Experiences
… youth-serving systems—the Child Welfare System (CWS), Juvenile Legal System (JLS), education system (ES), and mental health system (MHS)—despite their role in safeguarding vulnerable youth. Youth involved with the CWS are more likely to have JLS contact and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), …
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Dual-System Youth and Emancipating from Foster Care: Examining the Relations Between Delinquency, Independent Living Services, and Criminal Justice Involvement
<p>Youth who touch both the child welfare system (CWS) and juvenile justice system (JJS), termed dual-system youth, represent a particularly high needs population at risk of poor outcomes into adulthood. Among CWS involved children, youth aging out of foster care are particularly high risk of …
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Modeling transient flow in intermittent water supply System
… from intermittent to continuous water supply (CWS) as this involves an increase in the operating water pressures which promotes higher rates of leakage. There are currently no reliable computational models for characterizing the transient hydraulic behavior of IWS systems (including pipe …
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Gait Coordination: Controlling Footwear and Lower Limb Dimensions in Clinical Gait Study
… FAST (FWS), and comfortable walking speed (CWS). We found that the walking speed interacted with footwear conditions to affect the gait coordination and suggested that barefoot and shod walking used different coordination strategies to cope with increasing walking speed. The second and third …
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