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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Physical Assessment"”.
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Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors
… Health and Human Performance Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors Chairperson: Dr. Steven Gaskill STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: While there is adequate literature on elite alpine skiers there is limited reporting relating to fitness in junior alpine …
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Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors
… Health and Human Performance Establishment of Physical Assessment Percentile Ranks for Junior Alpine Ski Competitors Chairperson: Dr. Steven Gaskill STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: While there is adequate literature on elite alpine skiers there is limited reporting relating to fitness in junior alpine …
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Sensory and Physical Assessment of Microbiologically Safe Culinary Processes for Fish and Shellfish
… of doneness at temperature endpoints, and physical changes of texture (TPA, KSC, and WB), color, and cook loss. Temperature endpoints represented the recommended internal temperature and ten degrees higher to increase lethality of Salmonella spp. Differences (p < 0.05) in texture were …
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Prediction of Discharge Destination from Initial Physical Therapy Assessment using the Physical Assessment Key (PAK)
… be predicted by information available upon the physical therapy initial evaluation using the Physical Assessment Key (PAK). There were 141 subjects (58 male, 83 female) included in this study and their ages ranged from 19 to 89 years (mean age=57.1 years). Each subject was given a PAK score on …
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A physical assessment of Snake Pond of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, including a thermal and surface/ground water model
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Variability in Growth and Age of the Duskystripe Shiner Along a Stream Gradient
… spring of 2010 using seining techniques, and the physical assessment of fish and habitat was performed within 24 hours after collection. Shiners were categorized into populations based on stream order for statistical analysis. Ages were determined using the asterisci otoliths (inner ear bones), …
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Peripheral Arterial Disease Screening of an Underserved High Risk Population
… the San Diego Claudication Questionnaire and a physical assessment were used in this crosssectional study to determine the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease. An abnormal ankle-brachial index value (≤ 0.90), indicating a high suspicion of peripheral arterial disease, was assessed in 22.5% …
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The effect of ankle-foot orthosis on gait and the procedures used to assess bi-articular muscle length and spasticity in subjects with diplegic cerebral palsy
… diplegic cerebral palsy. Appropriate clinical assessment including assessment of these muscles enables optimum ankle-foot orthosis footwear combination (AFO-FC) prescription and any required adjunct therapy.The overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate the effect of optimisation of the …
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Flight nurse perceptions of factors influencing clinical decision making in their practice environment
… nurse, and the challenges associated with the physical and atmospheric environments. The majority of participants (73%) worked in more than one type of team configuration, for example, nurse only, nurse and doctor. Twenty one participants perceived there to be a difference in clinical decision …
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Emergency Department Nursing Psychological Care (Early Crisis Intervention) for Adult Victims of Violent Crime: A Quantitative Study
… for ongoing psychological care. Nursing care, assessment and early intervention with victims of violent crime was the focus of this dissertation study.</p> <p>A quantitative study, with a non-experimental, descriptive design employed retrospective chart reviews to determine whether ED nurses …
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Development of a photobioreactor for the cultivation of the freshwater microalga Haematococcus pluvialis
… the photosynthetic cultivation of H. pluvialis. Physical assessment revealed that the four systems differed in terms of their mass transfer, gas hold-up, flow rate and photostage turbulence (Reynolds number). The photo stage of each photobioreactor acted as the main area for light absorbance, …
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Learning Needs and Barriers to Continuing Education Among Rural Montana Nurses
… needs in descending order of priority were: physical assessment, legal issues in nursing, motivating or influencing others, cardiovascular nursing, coping with difficult patients, and ethical issues in nursing. The majority of participants requested continuing education offered at the …
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Participatory action research to improve physical health care within a crisis resolution home treatment service
… action research (PAR) study focusing onimproving physical health assessment at a Crisis Resolution Home Treatment(CRHT) service. The aim of the study was to develop a robust and consistentapproach in addressing an issue that had not previously been researched. It hadbeen reported via clinical …
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Salivary VIP concentrations are elevated in humans after acute stress
… these markers help us in distinguishing between physical and psychological stress. Psychological stress can be experienced in a situation such as that in anticipation of an important exam or mental task. Physical stress can be experienced usually by strenuous exercise. Salivary NPY and salivary …
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Triage in Health Department of Western Australia accident and emergency departments
… for private conversation, hand washing and physical assessment are not always available. The majority of departments without TNs do not have a satisfactory triage priority category system in place. The average time taken by nursing staff to triage patients is an acceptable 3.2 minutes in …
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Moving towards an evidence informed approach to talent identification and development in Scottish soccer long term athlete development pathways.
… utilising linear mixed effect models across physical performance parameters (papers I, III and IV), Pearson's Chi squared and odd's ratios on relative age impacts (papers II and III) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) logistic regression with multiple imputation and …
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A Machine Learning Approach for the Objective Sonographic Assessment of Patellar Tendinopathy in Collegiate Basketball Athletes
… examination, including a patient history and a physical assessment. Because PT has similar symptoms to injuries of other knee structures like the bursae, fat pad, and patellofemoral joint, imaging is regularly performed to aid in determining the correct diagnosis. One common imaging modality for …