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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"qualitative description"”.
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Stress and Coping in Nurse Managers: A Qualitative Description
Objective: This study provided a qualitative description of stress and coping as perceived by today's nurse manager incumbents. Background: The healthcare work environment as a source of overwork and stress has been implicated in today's nursing shortage. Nurse managers play a pivotal role in …
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Exact coherent structures in spatiotemporal chaos: From qualitative description to quantitative predictions
The term spatiotemporal chaos refers to physical phenomena that exhibit irregular oscillations in both space and time. Examples of such phenomena range from cardiac dynamics to fluid turbulence, where the motion is described by nonlinear partial differential equations. It is well known from the …
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The study of being an adult daughter of a hoarding mother: A qualitative description
… on young and grown children. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore what the positive and negative impacts on children or adult children are. Twelve women, each identifying themselves as an adult child of a compulsive hoarder completed a qualitative questionnaire via email. …
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Qualitatitive description : light in the urban environment
… a image of the place. The exchange of these descriptions heighten shared understanding, similar to the tacit understanding shared by architects. Buildings have been pubicly regulated to allow for light to the street throughout history. Qualitative description may offer the public a means of …
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Aspects of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Gauge Field Theories
… that the fermion-pair condensate offers a good qualitative description of the vacuum in the strong coupling regime of chiral theories. We analyze three types of interaction: short-range, confining and long-range unconfining, and show that three different mechanisms cause the condensation. The …
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Aspects of chiral symmetry breaking in gauge field theories
… that the fermion-pair condensate offers a good qualitative description of the vacuum in the strong coupling regime of chiral theories. We analyze three types of interaction: short-range, confining and long-range unconfining, and show that three different mechanisms cause the condensation. The …
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TIME-BASED CONSIDERATION IN CUSTOMER-VENDOR MODELLING
… literature in the realm of what has been mostly qualitative description of time-based competition.
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Need experienced by persons with late stage aids
This report documents a qualitative description of the special needs expressed by persons with late stage AIDS in the Richards Bay area. A phenomenological research design and methods were employed to impose rigour on this event. Once the needs of persons with late stage AIDS had been made …
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Exploring Healthcare Consumer Involvement in Clinical Practice Guideline Development
… being used to involve HCCs in CPG development, a description of these strategies is needed. This study utilized qualitative description to analyze CPGs and related documents. Professionals involved in CPG development were also interviewed. Patients, family members, and informal caregivers have …
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Three dimensional flow analysis by the vortex-lattice method
… coefficients calculations. The method gives a qualitative description of the wake configuration, but unrealistically high velocities are induced near the vortex elements. Work is underway to extend the technique to more general types of bodies and maneuvers.
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Clients' Perceptions of the Therapeutic Process: A Common Factors Approach
… perspective. Surveys provided a quantitative and qualitative description of the client's therapeutic experience and were compared with those aspects of therapy found in the research. Quantitative results indicate that therapeutic relationship, client motivation, factors outside of therapy, and …
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Numerical and Theoretical Developments for Coherent Structures
… organize the contents of a flow and lead to a qualitative description of the fate of material under the influence of a flow. While these methods have been adopted in geophysical and engineering applications, the theory is still relatively new. This dissertation aims to contribute to the …
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Silicon-Directed Nazarov Cyclization
… forces control the sense of cyclization. A qualitative description of the nature of reactive intermediates in the silicon-directed Nazarov reaction is proposed as well as an explanation for the remarkable efficacy of ferric chloride for inducing the reaction. Silyl substitution has been …
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A mixed-methods analysis of best practices for land-grant university mobile applications from a user experience design perspective
… overall apps were identified and reviewed using qualitative description analysis. The best overall app was created by the University of New Hampshire; other top apps examined in the study were developed by the University of Arizona, Ohio State University, University of Florida, Washington State …
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Essays on gasoline price spikes, environmental regulation of gasoline content, and incentives for refinery operation
… one provides a summary of the regulations and a qualitative description the costs the regulations impose on refiners, transporters and distributors of gasoline. In chapter two, I estimate two distinct effects of gasoline content regulations in California, Illinois and Wisconsin: (i) the effect of …
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A content analysis of selected United States history textbooks concerning World War II
… an objective, systematic, quantitative, and qualitative description of the textual content concerning the period of World War II.The population studied consisted of the five most widely used high school United States history textbooks. Three categories, people, events, and themes were …
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Random geometry in two and three dimensions
… of tools including Hall’s matching theorem, the qualitative description of the Gibbs property, and a double dimer swapping operation. In the second half of this thesis, we study discrete, geometrically-motivated coordinates called shears on the space of circle homeomorphisms up to Möbius …
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An Exploratory Case Study Examining Transformational Leadership and Organizational Change within the Presidency of a Small, Four-Year University
… define the parameters of the study, as well as qualitative description and the analysis of storytelling to gather my data. The methods of collecting data included formal interviews of three presidents of the institution, as well as three current faculty members who had served under those …
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Aspects of the Ising and tricritical Ising models
… relevant in both condensed matter physics as descriptions of the critical phenomena of two- dimensional systems and in String theory as building blocks of the string world sheet theory. The first part of the thesis is concerned with the derivation of differential equations for the critical …
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The Tambora project: an atmospheric simulation and historical evaluation of the Mount Tambora eruption and its impacts on global climate and society (1815-18)
… of the eruption. Marriage of these results with qualitative description from the historical record will enable the first comprehensive analysis of the global climate crisis of 1815-18. This thesis focuses on the scientific literature and modeling aspect of the project, specifically the climatic …
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