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Showing 1 to 20 of 762 for “"Missed"”.
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Where Nothing Is Missing Or Missed
<p>These poems were written between August, 2011 and April, 2014.</p>
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Missed opportunities: NACA and jet propulsion
This study examines NACA's organization in the light of Alfred D. Chandler's <i>Strategy and Structure</i>. It analyzes the agency's administration. NACA's strategy of maximizing existing technology and its committee's structure were the key elements in its failure to develop jet propulsion in the …
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Tolstoy and Zola: Trains and Missed Connections
"Tolstoy and Zola" juxtaposes the two writers to examine the evolution of the novel during the late nineteenth century. The juxtaposition is justified by the literary critical debates that were taking place in Russian and French journals during the 1870s and 1880s, concerning Tolstoy and Zola. In …
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The Missed Connections: An Architecture of Identity
Missed connections are inherently everywhere: they exist within the passerby on the street and the one sitting next to us on our daily commute. Perplexingly, the most overlooked of all missed connections exist within the very buildings we inhabit on a daily basis. At this human scale, an inexplicit …
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Missed mental health outpatient appointments quality improvement project
… lost to operational inefficiencies such as missed appointments.The barriers to consider among patients who struggle to maintain mental health appointments include a belief by some that they no longer need to continue services because they are feeling better, have sufficient medication at …
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Missed connections: Exploring the impact of technoference on wellbeing
Attachment is the framework children utilize to model relationships across the lifespan (Chambers, 2017). Several studies indicate that attachment is critical for the development of self-regulation strategies that determine how a child behaves and reacts within their environment (Orehek et al., …
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Understanding missed diagnostic opportunities in bladder and kidney cancer
… improve outcomes. Prior work has indicated that missed diagnostic opportunities (MDOs) exist for a range of diseases, including cancer, and may contribute to diagnostic delay. How often and why MDOs might occur in bladder and kidney cancer is unknown. My PhD seeks to address this evidence gap. …
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Counterfactual Prescriptions Via Hierarchical ML For Missed Chemotherapy Appointment Prevention
Missed medical appointments, including cancellations and no-shows, disrupt clinical workflows, reduce efficiency, and compromise patient care. Using 1.8 million chemotherapy appointments from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, this study develops a hierarchical machine learning framework that first …
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Sources Of Missed Understanding: A Framework For Diagnosing Comprehension Breakdown
… created by the researcher (called the Sources of Missed Understanding construct) would be used by teachers to diagnose students’ reading comprehension challenges during authentic reading instruction, and to understand the context and supports teachers needed to use the tool effectively. A design …
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The ICT gender imbalance in schools and beyond: missed opportunities
‘Pipeline shrinkage’, the steady attrition of women in the ICT industry despite their academic achievement, has been of great concern not only in the United Kingdom but also internationally for almost a quarter of a century. This study reviewed literature and prior research from both national and …
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External cephalic version for breech presentation at term : missed opportunities?
… Objective: To evaluate whether there were missed opportunities for performing ECV in women that had caesarean sections for breech presentation at term, and to determine the reasons why ECV was not offered or attempted for women with breech presentation, who had a caesarean section for that …
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A Nomogram for Valproic Acid and the Effect of Missed Doses
… dosing recommendations when a dose is delayed or missed. For a neuropsychiatric agent like valproic acid (VPA), rational dosing recommendations are of particular importance. VPA is subject to therapeutic monitoring using total concentrations. Due to non-linear binding of VPA to plasma proteins, …
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Early Years Professional status: a new professional or a missed opportunity
Prior to 1997, an integrated legislative and policy approach to meeting the educational and care needs of children and young people, in the English context, had been absent. Separatist rather than integrated models of service delivery prevailed. In the early years specifically, research findings …
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Missed nursing care: Its impact on nurses working in intensive care
BACKGROUND Missed nursing care continues to have a presence throughout New Zealand (NZ) hospitals. Missed nursing care can be a controversial and politically sensitive topic. Nurses are aware of these issues and the patient outcomes when care is missed, and it is their responses to this concern …
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What Regulatory Mode tells us about Body Movement, Assortments and Missed Opportunities.
… to body movement, large assortments and missed opportunities. We explore underlying mechanisms, show that effects hold when priming or measuring orientations and when accounting for alternative accounts.
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Impact of missed beats on heart rate variability using time-frequency analysis
… errors in the automatic detection. As a result missed beats, extra beats and ectopic beats can occur. In this study analysis of missed beats is performed using time-frequency analysis. Some of the patient's data had missed beats. Fourier spectral analysis was first applied to the missed beats …
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Missed opportunities for immunisation in health facilities in the Western Cape metro
… of this study was to estimate the prevalence of missed opportunities for immunisation at different levels of healthcare in the Western Cape and assess factors associated with missed opportunities. Methods: The study included a health-facility based cross-sectional exit survey of caregivers with …
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A Missed Opportunity: The Rhetoric of Social Cohesion in Parliamentary Debates - 1994 – 2014
Introduction: This thesis aims to explore whether the parliamentary rhetoric of Members of Parliament as leaders in South Africa contributed to social cohesion in the country. The motivation for the thesis was the violent actions by South Africans towards foreign nationals, specifically from the …
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Elevated Blood Glucose Levels in the Emergency Department: Missed Opportunity for Informing and Referring
The purpose of this research was to examine (1) the rates of elevated blood glucose ≥ 150 mg/dL in adults without a prior history of diabetes, receiving care for a non-diabetes related visit to the ED and (2) Emergency Department provider patterns for informing and referring discharged Emergency …
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