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Showing 1 to 20 of 2238 for “"distress"”.
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Sensitivity of Distress Rate to Observed Distress Levels
… PSI. A key component of this index number is the Distress Rate (DR) which is comprised of pavement distress severities and extents with a weighting factor assigned for each distress. Until 2013, NMDOT conducted pavement evaluations manually and in 2012 revised how pavement distress data were …
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Distress detection
… tied to existing methods. This thesis proposes Distress Detection (DD), a detection method providing novel web attack resilience while suppressing false alerts. It is partly inspired by the workings of the human immune system, that is capable to respond against previously unseen infections. The …
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Parent distress, parent behavior, and infant distress during pediatric immunizations
Infant procedural distress historically has been ignored, and the importance of reducing infant distress only recently has been addressed. To understand and manage infant procedural distress, it is essential to examine the correlates and potential predictors of this distress. The purpose of this …
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Implicit abandonment distress
… a dynamic perspective, observable indicators of distress and the hypothetical internal mechanism (or “latent entity”) presumed to cause these symptoms are defined in such a way that they cannot be disentangled from each other. The current research aimed to address this issue by conceptualizing …
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Sexual Satisfaction in Older Marriages: Effects of Family-of-Origin Distress and Marital Distress
… of 55 and 75) was affected by family-of-origin distress (recent measure of recollection of childhood experiences) and marital distress (measure of current marital relationship) for husbands and wives. The hypotheses of this study were that both family-of-origin distress and marital distress …
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Distress Effects in Stock Returns
… topic in financial economics: the effects of distress risk in the cross section of equities returns. Initial results show that both raw and risk-adjusted excess returns are rising in distress risk, and the remainder of this thesis examines the general robustness of the distress premium. …
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Respiratory distress in newborn infants
The greatest less of infant life occurs around the time of birth (Eliet, 1958) and the mortality rate for first day deaths has shown less improvement than for any other time during the first year (Arey and Dent, 1953). "Once the human feetus has attained a gestational age permitting extra-uterine …
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The Authoritarian Personality and Economic Distress
… constructs, and also examined whether economic distress increases authoritarianism and its internal coherence. The writer, in contrast with the time-series designs used in previous social-indicator studies, controlled for extraneous historical events by sampling individuals within the same time …
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Distress and failure of pavement systems.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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Perfectionism and Distress Tolerance as Psychological Vulnerabilities to Traumatic Impact and Psychological Distress in Persons with Psychotic Illness
… perfectionistic self-presentation, and distress tolerance as psychological vulnerabilities associated with poorer theory of mind, stronger traumatic impact, and worse psychological distress in persons with psychotic illness. A sample of 61 persons with a diagnosed psychotic illness was …
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Psychological distress among two American Indian tribes
… I compare the level of psychological distress between two tribal populations from a study from the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (CAIANH) at the University of Colorado at Denver. I use logistic regression to examine the relationship between the psychological …
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Parents, adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress
International prevalence rates of both Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Mental Health Difficulties (MHD) are consistently high. Research has also repeatedly identified strong positive correlations between these two widespread public health issues, both of which demonstrate intergenerational …
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Paternal postpartum distress : a discourse analytic study
… Literature concerning the prevalence of paternal distress within the first year postpartum is addressed. The review attempts to determine levels of severity and aims to stipulate when distress is more prevalent within the year. The usefulness of such epidemiological data is also considered. Part …
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Studies using the MOOS menstrual distress questionnaire
Symptoms usually assoicated with the menstrual cycle were studied weekly for four weeks in men and women by taking simultaneously measures of mood and personality.
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Social Workers' Experience of Moral Distress
According to Jameton (1985), “moral distress arises when one knows the right thing to do, but institutional constraints make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of action” (as cited in Pendry, 2007, p.1). The issue of nurses and moral distress has been studied extensively; however, …
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Endotype Discovery in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Endotype Discovery in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Dr Romit Samanta Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) affects 10% of critical care patients and is characterised by acute refractory hypoxaemia and bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on thoracic imaging. Mortality from severe ARDS is …
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Psychological Distress Among South African Civil Engineers
… recent years. Research focused on psychological distress has become popular in recent studies due to its close relationship with workload issues and worklife conflict among employees. This study investigates the determinants of psychological distress among South African civil engineers. …
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