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Systematic Review of Orthoses for Stroke-Induced Upper-Extremity Deficits
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
As the stroke population continues to grow, there is an urgent need in stroke rehabilitation to ensure that our interventions are evidence based. To further this aim, we conducted a systematic review of the evidence surrounding use of static orthoses in stroke-related upper-extremity deficits.
Primary Author and Speaker: Lea Tsao
Additional Authors and Speakers: Elizabeth Zubrenic, Kelsey Pustina, Jessica Edelstein, Kevin Pritchard
Contributing Authors: Mark Berendsen, Q. Eileen Wafford</jats:p
Perancangan Buku Cerita pop-up Petualangan Lentera Kunang-Kunang
Get PDFPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk merancang sebuah buku cerita pop-up
mengenai kerjasama. Buku cerita pop-up ini mencoba mengingatkan pentingnya
kerjasama bagi anak usia 3-6 tahun. Penelitian ini dilakukan karena semakin
menurunnya interaksi pada anak yang mengakibatkan turunnya rasa kerjasama
pada anak. Penelitian ini meliputi pengumpulan data survei pada anak usia 3-6
tahun, wawancara pada psikolog anak, studi literatur, dan observasi langsung.
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Perancangan karakter dan game assets blazable studio Jakarta Pusat
Get PDFLaporan kerja magang dengan judul ‘Perancangan Karakter dan Game Assets Blazable Studio’ ini dibuat berdasarkan pengalaman penulis sebagai pegawai magang divisi desain Blazable Studio periode magang Juni - Agustus 2013. Laporan ini dibuat sebagai salah satu syarat mendapatkan gelas strata satu di Universitas Multimedia Nusantara Jurusan Desain Komunikasi Visual.
Blazable Studio merupakan sebuah studio pengembang mobile social game di Indonesia. Penulis turut serta dalam pengembangan dua buah mobile social game dimana salah satunya memiliki visual 2D dan yang lainnya 3D. Kesempatan magang ini membuat penulis dapat lebih mempelajari sekaligus mempraktekan teori yang sebelumnya sudah dipelajari di Universitas ke dalam dunia kerja. Ilmu yang banyak penulis latih selama praktek magang ini antara lain digital painting, modeling, unwrap uv, dan texturing
Optimizing distribution center packing operations to reduce volumetric shipping costs
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Eng. in Advanced Manufacturing and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82).Improving the efficiency within a distribution center by reducing waste and optimizing process flow can result in significant cost savings regarding distribution center operation. One area with a large potential for improvement is outbound order packaging. Shipping costs are calculated based on package weight or volume, whichever results in a higher cost. With a finite number of box sizes stocked and available in the distribution center to package orders, some orders will inevitably be shipped in a box that is larger than needed to accommodate the SKUs inside. However, if a custom sized box could be made for every order, then the average box volume per order, and in turn the shipping cost, is reduced. This thesis details an integration plan and impact analysis for adding custom box-making technology to a current packing process flow. It compares the cost, sustainability, and throughput benefits to other solutions such as introducing padded envelopes as a packing option or creating algorithms to assist packers in choosing the most economical stock box while packaging an order.by Jessica Elizabeth Harsono.M. Eng. in Advanced Manufacturing and DesignM.Eng.inAdvancedManufacturingandDesign Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineerin
Design considerations for Oregon's statewide Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) Program
No full textprepared by Jessica Rodriguez-Jenkins, PhD, LICSW, Lorelei Mitchell, PhD, MSW, MPA, Elizabeth Tremaine, MS, Beth Green, PhD, Ashley Dupee, BSW, Diego Ordonez Rojas, BA, Sandra Lau, BSW, Jhoana Monroy, MSW.Title from PDF cover (viewed on March 1, 2022).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-67).Made possible by the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) grant program awarded to the Early Learning Division by the Office of Child Care at the Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Learning in the US Department of Education.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Correction to: Exploring multi-level system factors facilitating educator training and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBP): a study protocol
Get PDFAfter publication of the original article [1] it was brought to our attention that author Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick was erroneously included as Elizabeth McGee Hassrick. The correct spelling of the author’s name is included in the author list of this erratum
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
Sexists observing sexism: consequences for female targets of benevolent and hostile sexism
No full textA growing body of research has documented the deleterious effects of benevolent sexism on women‟s performance, self-construals of competence, and acceptance of gender inequality (Barreto, Ellemers, Piebinga, & Moya, 2010; Dardenne, Dumont, & Bollier, 2007; Jost & Jay, 2005). Less research has examined perceptions of women who are the victims of benevolent sexism. Notably, Good and Rudman (2010) found that hostile sexist observers were particularly likely to punish a gender atypical female job applicant when she was treated with benevolent sexism by a male interviewer as opposed to hostile sexism or no sexism. The current research builds upon this finding to test a novel Model of Incongruent Sexism (MIS), in which ambivalent sexist perceivers‟ evaluations of a female target vary as a function of her gender typicality and the type of sexist treatment she receives. Study 1 (N = 281) tested the MIS by having undergraduate participants read a job interview transcript featuring a woman applying for a gender typical vs. atypical job, who was treated with benevolent vs. hostile sexism by a male interviewer. Results did not support the MIS in its current form, but indicated that hostile sexist observers punished a female job candidate regardless of her gender typicality. In Study 2 (N = 269) undergraduate participants listened to an audio recording of a job interview featuring a female applicant applying for a gender atypical job who either accepted or rejected a benevolent sexist male interviewer‟s treatment. Results showed that observers who evaluated the male sexist interviewer favorably tended to rate the applicant as less competent and therefore less hireable. When the applicant rejected the benevolent sexist treatment, female observers evaluated the applicant as more competent and the interviewer as less favorable; however this pattern was not found for men. Across both studies, a novel measure of appearance gender typicality was tested, showing preliminary reliability, convergent, and discriminant validity. Implications for reducing sexism in the workplace are discussed.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jessica J. Goo
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
Get PDFThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Critical habitat: Picturing extinction, conservation, and the American animal in the long twentieth century
Get PDFCritical Habitat’: Picturing Extinction, Conservation, and the American Animal in the Long Twentieth Century, looks at images of at one time endangered or threatened animals in order to develop what I have named a specifically American conservation aesthetic. Within a conservation aesthetic images are almost always dialectic – connected simultaneously to attempts to preserve biodiversity and the natural world while reifying tropes that lead to its destruction. Additionally, the conservation aesthetic is linked to legislation histories and practical actions both to preserve and destroy particular natural places or species – images within a conservation aesthetic can be never be read as isolated objects, but instead are always part of broader ecologies. Understanding this conservation aesthetic allows for an interpretation that extends beyond the traditional art historical understanding of American landscape as part of nation building, but rather reveals the potential each image holds for viewers in the here and now to think differently about the natural world, and their relationship with it. The conservation aesthetic becomes an analytic, presenting a new methodology for the incorporation of the study of material culture into the environmental humanities.
The dissertation examines material culture from the long twentieth century. It begins with the early trap camera photography of George Shiras, a Pennsylvania Senator and amateur naturalist, who attempted to use photography as a means to replace gun hunting and preserve American game animals. Next, I compare the sporting art of Carl Rungius and the natural history murals of Charles Knight to analyze the place of nostalgia in extinction, species endangerment and representation within the conservation aesthetic. To understand the role of time and place within the conservation aesthetic, my dissertation analyzes the photography series Diorama by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sugimoto’s images, uncanny photographs of the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History, destabilize the viewer, and perhaps hold more meaning for present day viewers than they did at the time of the photographs’ production. Lastly, I examine the mythology of Bigfoot and attempts to picture the beast. Bigfoot photography, on the one hand, attempts to reify tropes of early 20th century masculinity and Manifest Destiny, yet also disrupts the mythologies of wilderness which created Bigfoot in the first place. Overall, the dissertation uses material culture to expose and develop the dialectics of images viewed as part of a conservation aesthetic.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01The student, Jessica Landau, accepted the attached license on 2020-08-13 at 12:27.The student, Jessica Landau, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-08-13 at 12:31.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-08-19 at 08:55.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15772 on 2021-03-04 at 16:18:26Made available in DSpace on 2021-03-05T21:40:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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