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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"FSD"”.
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A profile of a paediatric population with feeding and swallowing difficulties at a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape
Feeding and/or swallowing difficulties (FSD) have been associated with some of the leading causes of infant and child mortality in South Africa. Preventable conditions such as lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) and under-nutrition may be caused by FSD. FSD are frequently reported in …
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The validation of a screening tool for the identification of dysphagia in the paediatric population with HIV/AIDS
… risk for feeding and swallowing difficulties (FSD) than the general paediatric population, which may contribute to increased morbidity and mortality. Consequences of dysphagia may include insufficient nutritional intake leading to growth faltering, decreased quality of life, and risk of …
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Family Relational Dialectics: A Systemic Model for Explaining Relational Factors Contributing to Adolescents' Faith Maturity, Life Values, and Commitment to Christ
… was used to test the family systems dialectics (FSD) model. The FSD model is a synthesis of tenets of family systems theories (FST) and relational dialectics theory (RDT) used to conceptualize possible effects of certain parent-child relational encounters. The population sample consisting of …
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A study of some features of the fully stressed design algorithm
… results of a study of the fully stressed design (FSD) of rigidly convected plane steel frames. The objective is to: (1) formulate the FSD algorithm consistent with the most recent AISC Manual of Steel Construction, (2) study the effect of some of the features of FSD on the final design, and (3) …
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Mothering a neonate/young infant with feeding and swallowing difficulties: barriers, facilitators, and support
… one with feeding and swallowing difficulties (FSD). FSD in infants significantly impacts not only the infant's health and development but also the mother's emotional and psychological wellbeing. Caring for neonates and young infants with FSD in hospital settings presents unique challenges, …
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The feeding and swallowing impact survey (FS-IS): cross-cultural adaptation for the South African context
Background: Feeding and swallowing difficulties (FSD) are found in typically developing children and children with complex medical and developmental conditions. These difficulties may have negative health consequences which can be stressful for caregivers as they are required to provide care for …
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Understanding the experiences of university chief financial officers during institutional decline and closure
… with or diverge from the Five Stages of Decline (FSD) framework developed by Collins (2009). The study yielded seven key findings demonstrating that CFOs experienced varying levels of personal and organizational readiness and support for the crisis; they prioritized a compassionate commitment to …
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Accurate Docking is Achieved by Decoupling Systematic Sampling from Scoring
… of the thermal stability of a mini-protein, FSD-1. SKATE is a novel approach to small molecule docking. It removes any inter-dependence between sampling and scoring to improve docking accuracy. SKATE systematically and exhaustively samples a ligand's conformational, rotational and …
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The validation of a screening tool for the identification of feeding and swallowing difficulties in the paediatric population aged 0-2 years admitted to general medical wards
Background: Feeding and swallowing difficulties (FSD) have been found in typically developing children as well as in children with complex medical conditions and developmental disabilities. These difficulties cause negative health consequences such as aspiration pneumonia, chronic lung disease, …
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Estimation of the genetic parameters of boron and sorbitol concentration in fruit from a pear breeding population, and investigation of the relationship between these traits on the occurrence of flesh spot decay
… among deciduous tree fruits. Flesh spot decay (FSD) is one of the most important physiological disorders of Asian pears. The causes of this disorder remain unclear and no single nutrient or factor has been identified as the causal factor; however FSD has been related to environmental conditions. …
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An Analysis of the Development and Validation of the Decreased Sexual Desire Screener for the Diagnosis of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
… right; b.) the challenging divergence between FSD expert and regulatory agency opinion regarding existing FSD instruments circa April 2005 and the need for additional diagnostic instruments; c.) whether or not the development of a validated brief simple diagnostic instrument for HSDD by …
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Studies of premixed turbulent flames under flamelet assumptions
… between actual 3D flame surface density (FSD) Σ and conventional 2D FSD estimations. By converting the definition of 3D flame surface density into an angle form, 3D FSD Σω were measured by a cross-technique that measured flame edges on two orthogonal planes and evaluated the …
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Effects of Financial Sector Development on Income Inequality
The four strands of literature on the effects of FSD on income inequality allude to conflicting theoretical predictions. The major limitation of the previous studies is that they use financial institution depth measures as a proxy of aggregated FSD indicators. Financial depth alone does not …
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Effects of starting conditions and output data collection for simulation
… Corporation, Federal Systems Division, (IBM/FSD), Manassas, Virginia, manufacturing facility. Where appropriate, generalizations for other production system simulation models are made with regard to the arguments and methods used in: 1) the choice of an acceptable type of starting condition …
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Essays on empirical asset pricing
… that a new first-order stochastic dominance (FSD) condition can be employed as an additional search criterion to identify such skilled stock-pickers. I implement an FSD filter to select funds by bootstrapping the return distribution in a given period associated with a random stock-picking …
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‘’It’s not just the rape’’: an ecological exploration of the factors impacting female sexuality after rape
… after rape, including female sexual dysfunction (FSD), no ecological studies were found exploring sexuality specifically after rape. Substantial feminist research documents that female sexual difficulties are consistently medicalised and do not accurately reflect the biopsychosocial nature of …
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Affective and Autonomic Responses to Erotic Images among Young Women with and without Sexual Difficulties
Existing models of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) are broad and do not provide information about how to improve existing interventions. The purpose of the current study is to extend the empirical application of a disgust model of FSD (de Jong, van Overveld, & Borg, 2013) to a population of young …
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Characterisation of the putative Type VII protein secretion system of <em>Streptomyces</em> spp
… of genes encoding the T7SS FtsK/SpoIIIE ATPases (FSD) resulted in delayed actinorhodin production in S. coelicolor and slightly accelerated aerial development in S. scabies. In S. scabies, deletion of the genes encoding the WXG100 proteins, canonical substrates of T7SSs, led to a marked reduction …
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Development of a resource scheduling model
… process of IBM Federal Systems Division (FSD). The primary area of research is to evaluate existing effort estimating models and to develop a model best suited to IBM FSD's environment. The method of evaluation is an analysis of three existing models and their performance on a database of …
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Measurements of the structure of turbulent premixed and stratified methane/air flames
… commonly used to derive flame surface density (FSD) were investigated. FSD may be determined using a statistical method based on measurements of temperature and its gradient, or a geometric method based on 2D temperature or LIF imaging. A third metric, an extension of the geometric method, is …
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