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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"TFA"”.
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Assessing pain management strategies with the TFA model
… used in the management of pain. Utilizing the TFA System (tm) to determine patient's behavior patterns, a second goal was to determine if treatments were more effective when they matched the behavior pattern. The TFA System is a systematic and integrated approach using thinking (T), feeling (F) …
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Behavior assessments of pregnant adolescents using TFA Systems (tm)
The purpose of this descriptive study was to assess the thoughts, feelings, and actions of pregnant teens at significant decision-making times: time of intercourse, confirmation of pregnancy, and six weeks post delivery. Factors associated with adolescent pregnancy and patterns of behavior were …
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Group psychotherapy for male spouse abusers using TFA systems (tm)
… psychotherapy for male spouse abusers using TFA Systems™. This treatment method examined the specific thoughts (T), feelings (F), and actions (A) experienced by abusive men in pre-violent situations. Situational specificity was followed throughout the treatment, making it relevant to the …
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Group treatment for female incest survivors using TFA Systems™
… for female adult survivors of incest using TFA Systems™. Specifically this study examined the coping response behavior patterns of adult survivors in situations of perceived victimization. During stage one of the treatment program, clients presented situations in which they had perceived …
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Comparisons of weight-loss behavior among dieters using TFA Systems™
… Data were collected by personal interviews. The TFA Clinical Interview was contained in the interview protocol and provided qualitative and quantitative data relevant to each dieter's thoughts, feelings, and actions. A comparison of individual and group thoughts, feelings, and actions contributed …
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Using TFA Systems (tm) to assess behavior patterns of alcoholics who achieve sobriety
… years of sobriety were analyzed. The study used TFA Systems™, an integrated and multidisciplinary theoretical model, to discern factors related to stopping drinking and maintaining sobriety. Research methodology included purposeful sampling from AA, residential, and outpatient substance abuse …
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The effects of incarceration on behavior patterns of DUI second offenders using TFA Systems (tm)
… information from confidential court records. The TFA Clinical Interview was contained in the interview protocol and provided qualitative and quantitative data relevant to each participant's decision about engaging in drinking at specific times. The Hutchins Behavior Inventory (HBI) was used at two …
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'Facilitation regimes' and maritime trade in Nigeria: A critical appraisal of Nigeria's Implementation of the IMO FAL and the WTO TFA
… (FAL) and the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), was critically examined. This focus is because both are central to the global facilitation regime; the nexus between the FAL and TFA has been underexplored, while previous studies seem not to have considered the impact of the …
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Bilanzierung und Biomonitoring von Trifluoracetat und anderen Halogenacetaten
… überwiegend in der Troposphäre bis zu 30% zu TFA abgebaut. TFA ist ökotoxikologisch von Bedeutung, selbst wenn seine Toxizität nur als relativ gering eingeschätzt wird, da es vollkommen persistent ist. Auch andere luftgetragene C2-Halogenkohlenwasserstoffe werden zu atmosphärischen …
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Quality and safety of oils and fats obtained as co-products or by-products of the food chain and destined to animal production
… was to evaluate the effect of trans fatty acid- (TFA), contaminant, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)- and oxidation productenriched diets on the content of TFA and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) isomers in meat and liver of both poultry and rabbit. The enriched feedings were prepared with …
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Giving birth to a new approach: a retrospective comparison of radiation safety parameters between transradial and transfemoral approaches for uterine fibroid embolization at Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa
… The conventional transfemoral access (TFA) in UAEs remains the method of choice for the majority of South African interventional radiologists. Transradial access (TRA) has grown as a viable alternate vascular access. The advantages of TRA over TFA have been well documented, however a …
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Essays on the economics of education
… experimental estimates of Teach for America's (TFA) impacts on student achievement to validate a non-experimental strategy for measuring the long-run effects of hiring TFA teachers. Randomized evaluations show that TFA teachers outperform colleagues in boosting achievement at hard-to-staff …
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Termination For Fetal Anomaly: What Is The Impact of Genetic Counseling On Coping?
<p>Pregnancy termination for fetal anomaly (TFA) is a unique experience that can cause women to develop long-term, complicated grief. Although a woman’s experience with her healthcare providers has been previously identified as an important factor in coping, studies have shown that many women …
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Precursors for perylene diimide dendrimers : synthesis and photophysics
… as a function of added trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). Previous work in laboratory has demonstrated that TFA can greatly enhance the fluorescence yield of related compounds, either by reducing intramolecular quenching or breaking up aggregates (or both). The UV absorption spectra demonstrated that …
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Evaluation of radiolabelled hynic-salmon calcitonin analogues as imaging agents for multiple myeloma and characterisation of novel hynic derivatives as chelators for technetium
… calcitonin (sCT) derivatives, sCTLys18-hynic-TFA and sCT(8-32)Lys18-hynic-TFA as potential imaging agents for MM and other CTR+ malignancies and the characterisation of novel hydrazinonicotinate (hynic) chelators. Following chemical characterisation in vitro stabilities of the radiopeptides …
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Synthesis and Characterisation of Tertiary Diallylalkylammonium Ionic Liquids and Their Metathesis
… [HSO4]¯, [H2PO4]¯, [BF4]¯, [PF6]¯, [TFSI]¯ and [TFA]¯. The ILs physico- and electro-chemical properties were evaluated in order to draw structure-property relationships between them. The thermal stability of the t-DAAA ILs depended heavily on the nature of the anion. The t-DAAA [TFSI]¯ ILs were …
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Membrane investigations using infra-red spectroscopy and multivariate target factor analysis
… with multivariate Target Factor Analysis (TFA) was used to investigate permeation and localisation of drugs through and within synthetic membranes and human skin. Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy was used for the diffusion experiments, and …
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State Estimation of Timed Discrete Event Systems and Its Applications
… a single clock, namely timed finite automata (TFA) and generalized timed finite automata (GTFA). In addition, a timing function is defined to associate each transition with a time interval specifying at which clock values it may occur. While the clock of a TFA is reset to zero after each event …
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HyflowCPP: A Distributed Software Transactional Memory Framework for C++
… uses the Transaction Forwarding Algorithm (or TFA) for concurrency control. While there exists implementations of TFA and other DTM concurrency control algorithms in Scala and Java, and concomitant DTM frameworks (e.g., HyflowJava, HyflowScala, D2STM, GenRSTM), HyflowCPP provides a uniquely …
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Nucleation and growth of unsubstituted metal phthalocyanine films from solution on planar substrates
… (CuPc) dissolved in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is chosen as a model system for an in-depth study. CuPc has sufficient solubility and stability in TFA and upon solution processing forms appropriate structures for OSCs. CuPc molecules aggregate into layers of nanoribbons with a thickness of ~ …
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