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Co-Creating Solutions: Affordable Healthy Eating for Individuals Living with Cognitive Disabilities
Background: Access to safe and nutritious food is a fundamental human right, yet it remains elusive for many, especially those living with cognitive disabilities. Cognitive disabilities affect one's ability to plan, recall information, make decisions, use tools (like recipes), or even stay …
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MintEra : a testing environment for Java programs
We introduce MintEra, an automatic testcase generator and verifier. Using an simple, easy-to-read yet expressive language called AAL, users can specify representation- invariants and assertions within programs. MintEra uses the representation-invariant to generate testcases and translates …
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Light manipulation with photonic fibers and optical light guides : dynamic structural color and light distribution in microalgae cultures
Optical and photonic fibers represent versatile systems for light manipulation. They are used to guide, reflect, emit, and absorb light, and can be designed to alter the light's spectral composition in any of these light-matter interactions. Additional functionality arises from the combination of …
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Assessing text and web accessibility for people with autism spectrum disorder
… Spectrum Disorder experience di culties with reading comprehension and information processing, which a ect their school performance, employability and social inclusion. The main goal of this work is to investigate new ways to evaluate and improve text and web accessibility for adults with …
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Paper-based microfluidic device with a gold nanoparticle sensor for arsenic detection applied to groundwater in Bangladesh
… device (μPAD) with a gold nanosensor (Au-TA-TG) to detect arsenic contamination in Bangladesh groundwater at the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline level (10 μg/L). A method has also been developed to prevent interference from alkaline metals (Ca, Mg, K and Na) by altering the pH level on …
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The Quicksort algorithm and related topics
… and study, as they have numerous applications to Mathematics, Computer Science and related fields. In this thesis, we first deal with the mathematical analysis of the Quicksort algorithm and its variants. Specifically, we study the time complexity of the algorithm and we provide a complete …
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Attendance at Activities with a Geriatric Population: Antecedets and Consequences
… However, few residents of nursing homes seem to take part in social and leisure activities. Many strategies have been suggested for increasing attendance at activities of residents in geriatric facilities, but few of these strategies have been empirically evaluated. This study investigated the …
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New Data-Driven Approaches to Text Simplification
… very complex. This makes them difficult to understand for people with intellectual or reading impairments, and difficult for various natural language processing systems to process. This motivated the need for text simplification (TS) which transforms texts into their simpler variants. …
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Instructional design from theory to practice: A guidebook for designing and implementing effective instruction. Alcohol abuse prevention programs for adolescents.
… injuries resulting from alcohol abuse continues to be the number one cause of death for young Canadians. While the transfer of planning and implementation of prevention programs to the more "grassroots" organizations has empowered communities, many organizations and community groups lack the full …
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Isogeometric Analysis: Fundamentals and details of implementation. From first steps to two-dimensional non-linear problems
… technique that can serve as an alternative to the traditional finite element method (FEM) in approximating solutions to differential equations. IGA is not necessarily more efficient that traditional FEM, but because of its nature, can naturally handle a greater variety of complex geometries. …
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Testing collaborative accessibility-based engagement tools : Santiago de Chile case
… in decision-making has emerged as key to providing better transport solutions. As part of a transport planning engagement process, new technologies and new forms of measuring benefits are emerging in practice. Accessibility-based metrics and web-based map visualizations could improve …
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The use of print library materials in the era of digital resources in institutions of higher learning in Namibia: a case study of the University of Namibia (UNAM) and Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST)
… learning in Namibia. The main objective was to establish the extent to which students prefer print resources in the digital era. A mixed method research approach was adopted, with the use of a self-administered survey questionnaire and a semi-structured interview guide to gather data from the …
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Aligning Eye Care Provider Beliefs with Behaviors: Exploring and Improving Ocular Surface Disease Decision-making in a Cataract Surgery Clinic
… that are advocated in the medical literature to identify and manage ocular surface disease prior to surgery. As a result, patients risk suffering several significant consequences with regard to their vision, comfort and safety. Personal observations from my 25 years of experience working with …
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Retention of mathematics and reading comprehension skills among Navy Functional Skills Program graduates
This study was conducted to investigate mathematics and reading comprehension skill retention of Navy’s 1987 Functional Skills Program graduates over three to twelve month period immediately following training. Two separate studies were conducted. One studied math retention for a course using …
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Interactive pedigree plotter for genetic analysis
… by mutations in the genome. A very useful way to try to determine how these mutations occur and are inherited in families is by looking at a pedigree. A pedigree is a diagram that depicts the biological relationship between an individual, its ancestors and other relatives. It is often used to …
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Increasing Patient Satisfaction and Decreasing Hospital Readmission Due to Deep Venous Thrombosis by Providing Anticoagulation Education for Orthopedic Patients
… Patients</p> <p>The aim of this project is to improve anticoagulation education for orthopedic patients to increase patient satisfaction. The microsystem for this project is a medical-surgical (MS), 50-bed unit in a medium size hospital. Because orthopedic patients are at high risk to …
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Pengaruh pengembangan karir terhadap kinerja karyawan di Swalayan Dinasti Pare Kediri
… Dinasti Swalayan. Jenis penelitian adalah explanatory research (penelitian penjelasan), yang merupakan penelitian yang menyoroti hubungan variabel-variabel penelitian dan menguji hipotesa yang telah dirumuskan sebelumnya, yaitu variabel inisiatif individu dan inisiatif organisasi. Analisis data …
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Assessing Organizational Health Literacy at an Academic Health Center: A Quantitative Research Study
… million Americans. Health literacy is the degree to which a person is able to make good health decisions based on his/her ability to read, understand, and use health information and services. Organizational Health Literacy (OHL) is the degree to which an organization considers and promotes the …
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Analisis penerapan insentif untuk meningkatkan kinerja karyawan pada PT. Duta Bangsa Mandiri Pasuruan
… Bangsa Mandiri. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan metode observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Analisis datanya menggunakan triangulasi dengan teknik analisis datanya dimulai dari pengumpulan data, reduksi data, …
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