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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"normative values"”.
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An investigation into normative values for the Functional Movement Screen?(FMS?) and its association to injury in female premier league hockey players in KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014.
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A Life without Gluten: Dietary Adherence, Physical Activity and Motives
… activity scores were higher than reported normative values (p = .00; Wilson et al., 2010). Specific motives predicted gluten-free dietary adherence (i.e., integrated and identified regulations) and PA (i.e., intrinsic and identified regulations; p < .05). Findings may be used by health …
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Odor sensitivity and the presence of p-cresol
… the blood of healthy participants and to collect normative values for an olfactory threshold test. Results supported the hypothesis that p-cresol is not present in the blood of healthy participants, which strengthens the idea that p-cresol may be the cause of olfactory dysfunction in ESRD patients.
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Human Versus Computer Algorithmic Measurements of Caloric Response: Implications for Test Analysis
… inter-individual variation and alter lab-derived normative values. Consensus is needed regarding optimal data cleaning methods.
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Turkey and the European Union: Creating Domestic Norms through International Socialization
… European Union exposes a divergence in norms, values and state identity. The process of international socialization is one explanation for the domestic changes occurring in Turkey as part of European Union membership negotiations. Through the lens of the constructivist-rationalist debate in …
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Men on the margin: onscreen outsiders and American masculinity
… is socially determined in accordance with strict normative values, what then of the outsider, who has ostensibly rejected, or been rejected by, society and is in many ways no longer subject to its rules? After a general introduction to psychological and philosophical notions of solitude and …
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Elite Perception and Biased Strategic Policy Making : The Case of India's Nuclear Build-up
… debate towards public sentiments explains how values other than security, especially those related to the country's status and prestige, are attributed to the nuclear issue. The concepts of "status" and "prestige" are socially constructed and exist only because actors attribute a certain …
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Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
… intervene in an ongoing debate over the field's normative values. Glidden pictures how journalism can be done differently and challenges mainstream conventions by constructing (1) a model of journalistic authority that refuses to cover over deep epistemological uncertainties and (2) a complex …
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Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand
… This makes their message starkly opposed to the normative values of New Zealand. The musicians of Homebrew and @Peace, a mix of Polynesian and Pakeha (people of European descent), employ methods of decolonization theory through the use of storytelling and focus on indigenous values. In a country …
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The Internet and professional journalism: content, practice and values in Irish online news
… journalism’s professional output, practices and normative values, as materialized online and as expressed in the opinions and attitudes of practising journalists as expert respondents, with the potentialities of the Internet. Where much of the discourse to date is framed in a narrative of …
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An investigation of factors predicting occupational and psychological distress in nurses: a comparative study of settings within a single hospital
… NHS-wide research, but higher than previous UK normative values. Overall, high levels of distress were associated with low social support, younger age, high workload, low clarity and low task orientation. For general mental health personal system factors were the more important predictors. For …
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The design of an intervention programme to address the prevalence of obesity and physical fitness of adolescents attending high school
… hand grip strength (t = 5.49, p < 0.05) than the normative values. Boys in the sample had higher mean (t = 13.2, p < 0.05) sit-and-reach than normative values. Multiple regression models were applied and BMI was found to be an inverse predictor for sit-ups ß = -0.07 (p < 0.05, CI 95% -1.0 to …
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A Retrospective Lateral Cephalometric Growth Study of Sagittal Airway Changes
… with increasing age. We were unable to establish normative values.</p>
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Remittance sending among Somalis in London : experiences, motivations, and practices
… demonstrate the importance of familial bonds and normative values and reveal that actors far beyond 1 sender and 1 recipient are participants and vital to these human support networks. Through active and passive remittance sending it demonstrates how negotiated commitments function in practice. It …
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A Web-Based Interprofessional Education Program for School Nurses and Athletic Trainers: A Pilot Study
… towards teamwork and communication compared to normative values prior to beginning the program. Following the program, there was an increase in TeamSTEPPS® Teamwork and Attitudes Questionnaire (<em>Z</em>=3.078, <em>P</em>=0.002), an increase in the knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of …
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The re-design of rural governance : New institutions for old?
… to be constructed within the context of the normative values which shaped its original design. The Thatcher government by contrast introduced a neo-liberal rural policy. Recently, New Labour has introduced a re-design of rural governance. It is argued that the Treasury was influential in its …
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On Health-Related Quality of Life and Diagnostic Improvements in Rhinosinusitis
… HRQOL was significantly decreased compared to normative values. Some significant differences in HRQOL scoring were found between the three subgroups. The study cohort reported 8-14 days of absenteeism per year due to their sinus problems. SNOT-22 and the total VAS appeared to be appropriate …
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A Study of Craniofacial Growth in Infant Heart Transplant Recipients Receiving Cyclosporine
… 86% (N=24), showed minor deviation from mean normative values. Four subjects (14%) did show cephalometric measures indicative of individuals with a vertical growth pattern. Analysis of the hand/wrist radiographs showed all but one subject to have normal bone age. Height, weight, and head …
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The social bases of climate skepticism: Risk perception, ideology, and the creation of carbon publics
… from anti-scientific attitudes per se, but from normative values regarding the balance between state and market in negotiating collective risk mitigation versus organizational and consumer choice. This project helps contextualize climate change beliefs in the United States and explains why actors …
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The South African bread cartel: a single case study exploring the scope for responsive regulation of white-collar crime in a developing country
… accidental. The relationships between and the normative values of the state, business and community sectors appear to influence the scope for responsive regulation. In addition to capacity constraints across sectors, contextual factors like historical legacies and the size and shape of the …
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