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Showing 1 to 20 of 5334 for “"intensive"”.
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Comparative Analysis of Intensive Filial Therapy with Intensive Individual Play Therapy and Intensive Sibling Group Play Therapy with Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence
… this study was to determine the effectiveness of Intensive Filial Therapy in: (a) improving the self-concept of child witnesses of domestic violence; (b) reducing internalizing behavior problems, such as withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety and depression, of child witnesses of domestic …
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Sedation in paediatric intensive care
Paediatric intensive care is an expanding specialty that has been shown to improve the quality of care provided to critically ill children. An important aspect of the management of critically ill children includes the provision of effective sedation to reduce stress and anxiety during their stay in …
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Nosocomial infections in intensive care
… and management of secondary infections in the Intensive Care Unit. 2) To present the findings of a study of the technique of selective parenteral and enteral antisepsis regimen (SPEAR) in the patient population of the Respiratory ICU at Groote Schuur Hospital, aimed at reducing the incidence of …
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Analyzing compute-intensive software performance
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Early intensive behavioral intervention for autism: Is it actually more "intensive" than a typical child's day?
… the most demonstrably effective treatment, Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI), has been a target of much criticism, including accusations of being too intense. A large number of learning trials in relatively short periods of time supposedly induce children to have disordered stress …
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Intensive Supervision Probation: Assessing Texas Programs
This paper identifies effective practices for Intensive Supervision Probation (ISP) programs and assesses the extent to which Texas ISP programs use those practices. Effective ISP practices are derived from a review of criminal justice and ISP literature. The effective JSP practices identified in …
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Computationally Intensive Methods for Spectrum Estimation
Spectrum estimation is an essential technique for analyzing time series data. A leading method in the field of spectrum estimation is the multitaper method. The multitaper method has been applied to many scientific fields and has led to the development of new methods for detection signals and …
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Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Patient Transition
… following admission to the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). We aim to improve CVICU patient continuum of care through transferring patients to a step-down telemetry unit starting October 13<sup>th</sup>, 2014 exemplified by a 95% patient satisfaction of care provided by January …
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Intensive management of barley in Saskatchewan
Two experiments were conducted in barley to assess the feasibility of Intesive Cereal Managment (ICM) and to evaluate plant growth regulator (PGR) type, rate and time of application. The first experiment consisted of ten tests assessing ICM with three levels of N (0, 50 and 100 kg ha-1) above soil …
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Workload Management for Data-Intensive Services
<p>Data-intensive web services are typically composed of three tiers: i) a display tier that interacts with users and serves rich content to them, ii) a storage tier that stores the user-generated or machine-generated data used to create this content, and iii) an analytics tier that runs data …
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Data-Intensive Biocomputing in the Cloud
… for running and managing large-scale data-intensive scientific applications in the cloud. Based on the learning from our parallel implementation of a genome analysis pipeline in the cloud, we aim to provide a framework for users to run such data-intensive scientific workflows using a hybrid …
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Skin-Care Team
… at or greater than stage two in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Pressure injury prevention was not a high priority for the nursing staff; nurses were unaware of current PI prevention protocols or the PI prevalence in the PICU.<strong> </strong>The goals are to reduce PIs by 20% in 3 …
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Patient Perception of Intensive Care Unit Discomfort
… the effects of discomfort experienced in intensive care. <strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this study was to describe select sociodemographic characteristics and other factors associated with the perception of ICU discomfort among adults 18 years and older after they were …
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Occupational Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit
… around America. Occupational therapists in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame, California) lack a standard protocol for addressing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial factors in patients post cardiac surgery. Furthermore, individuals’ experience and …
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Positioning and exercises in intensive care units
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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Understanding lactate in an intensive care setting
We investigated the relationship between initial lactate levels and ICU patient outcomes using the MIMIC II (version 2.6) database. We divided ICU admissions based on their initial lactate measurement into three groups: admissions with high lactate (above 4.0 mmol/L), admissions with medium lactate …
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Modelling patient states in intensive care patients
Extensive bedside monitoring in hospital Intensive Care Units (ICU) has resulted in a deluge of information on patient physiology. Consequently, clinical decision makers have to reason with data that is simultaneously large and high-dimensional. Mechanisms to compress these datasets while retaining …
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Characterisation of glucose management in intensive care
Patients in intensive care routinely have their blood glucose monitored and controlled using insulin. Two decades of on-going research has attempted to establish optimal glucose targets and treatment policy for patients with hyperglycemia in the intensive care unit (ICU). These efforts rely on the …
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Building dependability arguments for software intensive systems
… high-level requirements of complex software-intensive systems, especially properties that cross-cut normal functional decomposition. The resulting argument documents and validates the justification of system-level claims by tracing them down to component-level substantiation, such as …
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