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Risk assessment tool for diabetic neuropathy.
… is becoming the gold standard for neuropathy assessment. Devices like tuning fork, Biothesiometer and Neurothesiometer use this technology but require an operator to record and manually interpret the results. The results are user-dependent and are not consistent. To overcome these limitations, …
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Environmental sustainability assessment tool for factories
… types of industries. Li & Fung requires a tool that encompasses its full supplier base and is short and robust enough to provide valuable insight into its supply chain and help it engage factories in decreasing their environmental footprints. This thesis discusses the methodology used to …
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Creating an Assessment Tool for Muscle Dysmorphia
… MD. The goal of this study is to create such an assessment tool for use in clinical settings. Pope et al. (1997) outlined and Olivardia (2001) refined the diagnostic criteria for MD. Individuals with MD believe that they are not muscular enough, and, ironically, many are more muscular than the …
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Emergency care assessment tool for 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 Emergency Medicine has …
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The Development of a Novel Pitching Assessment Tool
Posture based ergonomic assessment tools are widely used to evaluate posture and injury risk for many workplace/occupational tasks. To date, there is no validated equivalent that can be used to assess the posture of a pitcher during baseball pitching. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to …
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Architecture-level risk assessment tool based on UML specification
… testing [2]. This thesis presents a prototype tool called Architecture-level Risk Assessment Tool (ARAT) to demonstrate the process of risk assessment. The final result of this process is to distinguish those potentially high risk components in the software system. ARAT is built on the risk …
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Development and Implementation of a Violence Risk Assessment Tool
… Research shows that the use of a violence risk assessment tool has been proven effective in attempts to prevent workplace violence. This paper will examine patient initiated violence in the workplace, explore the use of a workplace violence risk assessment tool to identify patients with …
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Evaluating team effectiveness: Examination of the TEAM Assessment Tool.
… the psychometric properties of the TEAM Assessment Tool. The assessment was developed to evaluate work team effectiveness as a basis for providing developmental feedback for work teams. The proposed TEAM Assessment Tool includes 12 dimensions of work team effectiveness with 90 items …
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Optimizating and Diffusing a Handover Behavioral Assessment Tool for Simulation
… study assesses the utility of the Liang Handover Assessment Tool for Simulation (L-HATS), a valid and reliable behavioral assessment tool tested during the transition to clerkship (T2C) handover module. Here, we use the L-HATS to assess handovers delivered during residency essentials (RE) and …
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Development of an ergonomic risk assessment tool for work postures
… wide range of workplaces. However, there are no tools available that cover the wide range of physical risk factors at workplaces. Most of the existing observational methods have not been extensively tested for their reliability and validity during the development process. Therefore, the main …
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Development of assessment tool for dyslexia screening using fuzzy logic
… this research's main objective is to develop an assessment tool by implementing fuzzy logic for rapid dyslexia risk outcomes using D-Test as the primary screening framework. The Mamdani-type Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) was developed based on 48 rule conditions, whereas the user interface was …
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Adapting the Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool for health care
The Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool (LESAT) is a product of the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This tool has been applied by many organizations to gage their progress toward lean enterprise management, however applying this tool in health care …
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A Model Assessment Tool for Classroom Technology Infrastructure in Higher Education
… framework allowed the researcher to develop an assessment tool designed to gauge classroom technology infrastructure at Texas State University. An assessment is accomplished through the use of a case study approach employing multiple methods. The methods used to collect data include focused …
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Development of the Liang Handover Assessment Tool for Simulation (L-HATS)
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Implementation of Violence Risk Assessment Tool on In-patient Psychiatric Unit
… months after implementation of a Violence Risk Assessment (VRA) tool. The ultimate goal was to maintain assault rates below NDNQI. Assaults on the unit for the fourth quarter of 2015 were 2.92, NDNQI 2.05. Assaults with injury were 2.43, NDNQI 0.75. A literature review was performed to ascertain …
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Validation of the Juvenile Sexual Offense Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool--II
<p>The accurate assessment of risk of sexual reoffense for juveniles has the potential to inform many actions, including the segregation of low risk from high risk offenders, allocation of limited resources, matching treatment assignments and other programming with risk, and implementation of …
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as an Assessment Tool in Critically Ill Patients
… could be used as an augmentative communication tool to allow patients to be involved in their own medical decision-making. Taken together, the proceeding chapters of this work demonstrate that functional neuroimaging can detect preserved cognitive functions in some acutely comatose patients, …
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An assessment tool for the appropriateness of activity-based travel demand models
… used in the United States and then describes the assessment tool that was developed to recommend whether a region should convert to the advanced modeling procedures. This tool consists of parameters that were decided upon based on their known linkages to the advantages of activity-based models.
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A Quality Improvement School Nurse Self-Assessment Tool For School Nursing Practice
… this project was to develop a school nurse self-assessment tool (SN-SAT) for school nurses to evaluate their school nursing practice. The self-assessment tool was constructed based on the Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice. A panel of school nurse experts (n=5) was asked to rate …
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An assessment for religious contexts: An ecological assessment tool for church environments
The Assessment of Religious Contexts (ARC) is a research instrument that seeks to measure the environment of a local church. The development of the ARC and initial studies of its reliability and validity comprise the present thesis. At the outset, the relevance and importance of the study are …
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