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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Objective measurement"”.
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A device for objective measurement of spasticity.
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Objective Measurement of Peripheral Edema as Symptomatic of Congestive Heart Failure
… use digital manipulation to assess severity, the measurements are subjective. Objectifying measurements requires standardization so the severity score reported is both reliable and consistent across providers. The HeartSMART system was developed to calculate the level of peripheral edema via four …
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An Evaluation of the Rasch Model in Providing Objective Measurement When Vertically Equating Tests
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913614.pdf: 4921202 bytes, checksum: 5d07ccd1a6db16bfb6f8ce7865564377 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Enhancing service delivery for chronic low back pain: evidence for patient-centred physiotherapy and the objective measurement of outcome.
… using gait and sit-to-stand (STS) analysis as objective measures, in order to enhance outcome measurement in CLBP patients. Convenience samples of 17 CLBP patients and 20 people without LBP were recruited. An optical motion analysis system was used to compare the spatial and temporal gait …
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Sex-specific differences in the association between history of concussion and cerebral blood flow volume
… using subjective symptom-reporting. The objective of this thesis was to use objective measurement of cervical arteries contributing to cerebral blood flow (Common Carotid Artery; CCA, Internal Carotid Artery; ICA and Vertebral artery; VA) between male and female athletes with and without …
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Assessment of Resident and Staff Activity in a State Residential Setting
… use of momentary time-sampling methods for the objective measurement of naturally occurring events (Zarcone, Iwata, Rodgers & Vollmer, 1993; Shore, Lerman, Smith, Iwata & DeLeon, 1995). These studies have provided information about observed levels and characteristics of direct care services, …
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Isoniazid and acetylisoniazid urine concentrations as a maker of adherence to isoniazid preventative therapy in children
… test results have not been evaluated against objective measurement of isoniazid and acetylisoniazid urine concentrations. This study seeks to measure the urine concentrations of isoniazid and acetylisoniazid at different time points after a dose in children, in order to establish reference …
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Subjective Vs. Objective Physical Pain in Individuals Who Report a History of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Closer Look at What it Means to Experience Pain
… NSSI, the subjective experience of pain, and an objective measurement of pressure pain threshold. Participants completed the Inventory of Statements About Self- Injury (ISAS; Klonsky & Glenn, 2009), which measures the functions that NSSI serves, and a measure assessing subjective pain experience, …
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The Development of a Basketball Battery for Middle School Male Students
… has always been a great deal of interest in the measurement of playing ability in team games and many researchers concerned with physical education have made efforts to measure individual aspects of games in relation to the total game situation. However, any objective measurement of skill in a …
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HEALTH EQUITY IN PAIN MANAGMENT DURING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC: HOW STEREOTYPES, RACISM, BIAS HARM VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
… of pain as it is, there exists no clinical, objective measurement of pain. Currently, vulnerable populations, such as individuals with obstacles to self-advocacy, are being left to suffer through pain crises. Additional oversight and inclusion of healthcare equity is needed to combat this …
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Análise da navegação com ECDIS (sistema de apresentação de cartas eletrônicas e informações) utilizando conceitos de engenharia de resiliência
… the system to maintain safety of navigation. The objective of the study is to analyze the shared cognitive system between the operator and the ECDIS system during navigation from the perspective of Resilience Engineering. The data for analysis were obtained through simulation. As stated in the …
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Mind the gap: brain-behaviour barriers to successful weight loss maintenance
The primary objectives of this dissertation were to investigate the behavioural and neurophysiological factors related to overweight and obesity, as well as to weight loss maintenance versus weight relapse in a purposively sampled group of healthy South African women. The battery of investigations …
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A comparative analysis of denial of service vulnerabilities in network protocols
… targeted and of the services it offers, making objective measurement infeasible. Thus, we take a comparative approach to protocol analysis { tracking an array of server- and client-side metrics for various attack vectors in a controlled testbed environment. We develop a software suite for this …
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High Resolution Phase Imaging using Transport of Intensity Equation
… path length delays of the specimen, QPI provides objective measurement of the cellular dynamics and enables imaging the specimen with high contrast. Transport of Intensity Equation(TIE) is a powerful computational tool for QPI because of its experimental and computational simplicity. Using TIE, …
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Caso de estudio: Análisis y diagnóstico de una empresa del sector agroindustrial peruano, propuesta de un plan estratégico
… see the mission, vision, policies and strategic objectives that the company has for the future. In the third and fourth part of the work we will present the possible redesigns of the organization chart that will help to implement the previously analyzed strategies and the indicators of objective …
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Emergency care assessment tool for health facilities
… health facilities in Africa have not had an objective measurement tool for evaluating essential emergency service provision. One major obstacle is the lack of consensus on a standardized evaluation framework, applicable across a variety of resource settings. The African Federation for …
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Developing frameworks to measure physical activity in free-living populations in sub-Saharan Africa
Background and objectives: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has an increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Comprehensive and context-specific evidence on the major modifiable risk factors for NCDs, such as physical activity, is required to help inform strategies to address this burden. …
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Beliefs about the Healthfulness of Common Foods
… highly processed foods, and compared them to an objective measurement of nutritiousness. An array of food choice items, including values such as health, price, and convenience, as well as physical health and fitness questions, were included in the current study to explore relationships with …
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Identification and evaluation of biomarkers for Huntington’s disease
… time periods. Improvements in the precision of objective measurement of disease progression in HD could lead to state markers (biomarkers) better able to predict onset, detect progression and measure the effects of therapeutic intervention. Biomarkers capable of detecting disease-related changes …
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