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Showing 1 to 20 of 351 for “"wishes"”.
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A Narrative Study Carried Out With Older Women With Dementia Who Live Alone: Storytelling About Their Living Arrangements and Wishes For The Future
This study sets out to explore the significance of gender as an element in the experience of older women living alone at the time of a diagnosis of dementia. It places particular emphasis on power, voice and in/visibility in both research practice and co-production. Older women who live alone may …
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The adjustment of the deaf to a hearing world
The writer wishes to thank the staff of the Dominican School for the Deaf at Wittebome with whose ample assistance she was able to write the thesis. They allowed her to be present during lessons, attend staff discussions, consult the records of pupils and borrow books and pamphlets. In addition, it …
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DEFY: A Deniable File System for Flash Memory
… contents of files, in situations where a user wishes to hide even the existence of data, encryption alone is not enough. Indeed, encryption may draw attention to those files, as they most likely contain information the user wishes to keep secret, and coercion can be a very strong motivator for …
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On stochastic approximation
<p>In many statistical experiments one wishes to obtain a desirable “level of response” corresponding to some “level of treatment.” The response to a given treatment, however, is usually random, and the best one hopes for is to locate the level of treatment that produces the desired response on the …
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Projections toward the cultivation of a site by the Sinepuxent Bay
… is that an oceanographic research institution wishes to master plan the site to accommodate their activities and to expand the nearby harbor and fishing community. Some ideas on collective form, character, and site development are explored and discussed.
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Asymptotic cumulative risk and Bayes risk under entropy loss, with applications
… a relevent parametric family of densities and wishes to estimate the density from a random sample. In such cases one can use the family to generate an estimator. We fix a prior and consider the properties of the predictive density as an estimator of the density.
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Family Communication About End-of-Life Decisions
… and 3) the certainty of knowing the patient’s wishes versus the uncertainty of knowing how to honor those wishes. Conclusions: The results highlight three key aspects of family decision-making. First, because families perceived caring for a loved one at home as normative, relinquishing …
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An integer programming formulation for the music school timetabling problem
… and student regarding their availability and wishes for the semester. Tónmenntaskóli Reykjavíkur has agreed to share this information and provide the required data needed to create the model. The main goal of the project is to create an optimization model which automates the assign- ment …
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Alberto Ginastera's Twelve American Preludes : descriptive analysis and performer's guide
… and pianistic techniques for the performer who wishes to develop a deeper understanding of this remarkable twentieth century work. Equally important is the attempt to develop a greater appreciation of the importance and contributions of one Argentina’s greatest composers.
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A New Form In A Historic District
… to do to both comply with the preservationists wishes and fulfill their clients desires to have an innovative new construction? An architect must look past the prescribed ways of satisfying preservation commissions requirements and fully interpret the process.
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A study of the time variation of perturbation kinetic energy at the 500-millibar level.
… same and for adjacent wave numbers. The writer wishes to express sincerest appreciation to Professor Frank L. Martin for his suggestion of the topic and for his guidance during the study.
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Violet
… the kingdom of Atheria. More than anything, she wishes to escape her “prisoned” life and be free, but it is not until she loses everything that she realizes how much she would give to have it all back. With some help from her wizened advisor, assassin love interest, and her best friend, she grows …
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Humanisation in pregnancy and childbirth - providing individualised care to high risk women in the intrapartum period
… specific needs but require HCPs to support the wishes for their care. However, there is a dearth of evidence related to how women who are classified as high risk can attain individualised care in labour and birth. Methods: Using an interpretive descriptive approach, participants (n=12) were …
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Towards being heard : representations of the child's voice in custody evaluation reports by the Family Advocate's Office
… (2005) also require that the child's views and wishes be taken into consideration. Accordingly, this research study involved a thematic content analysis of 10 Family Counsellor reports, in order to determine how the child's voice is accessed by the Family Advocate's Office. A structural model …
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Overcoming the Penrose Stairs of history: the legislated treatment of the 'designated groups' within a hierarchy of discrimination approach
… the very types of racial identifiers that it wishes to have eliminated. This paper is an attempt to give greater content and context to the purpose of Employment Equity than the few sentences provided in the preamble of the Act. In particular, I have focused on the Act's own racial …
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Multiple transducer synthetic aperture sonar interferometry for emulating SAR interferometry
… to obtain in practice for the radar engineer who wishes to test algorithms using suitable data. This dissertation describes the implementation of a 40 kHz synthetic aperture sonar for acquiring radar-like data. Investigations into beamformed synthetic aperture sonar images as well as …
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The role of the independent director in maintaining good corporate governance
… of Incorporation, may attach any role it wishes the director to carry out. Most companies seem to entrust the independent director with three roles, which are the monitoring of managerial activities, strategy development, and ensuring that the company complies with the various companies' …
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The values history: an empowering approach for people with dementia
… they would refer to individuals’ past values and wishes. The study showed that the vast majority of professionals would refer to the documents and find them useful. The majority would attempt to maintain past wishes and values, although not if it caused agitation. General values, medical values, …
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Estate planning practices of rural residents of Virginia and case studies of alternative estate plans under the new laws resulting from the 1976 tax reform act
… owner-operator has certain objectives which he wishes to accomplish through estate planning, constrained by certain factors which influence his situation. The uninterrupted operation of the farm may be jeopardized during intergeneration transfer. If an heir wishes to continue operating the farm, …
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The Effect of Self Reflection on Preschool Children's Empathic Understanding and Prosocial Behavior
… responsiveness and the "normativeness" of their wishes. Performance on these measures served as criterion for selection of forty-two children who served as subjects. The mean age of subjects was 4 years and 6 months. The preschool classrooms were all located in middle class areas of …
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