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Gavin Turk in the house: a reader
No full textWritten and illustrated by Deborah Curtis; with a conversation between Tim Marlow and Gavin Turk
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No full textturk'rapscallion' OED 4 among others - young turk, or little turk unmanageable or violent child or youth 1904 Police magistrate Not in NID _Not much evidence_ or context. EDD 2 tiresome, mischievous childWithdraw?? [check]Not usedNot usedWithdraw
"DEVONU LUG'OTI-T-TURK" ASARIDA MIQDOR IFODALOVCHI LUG'AVIY BIRLIKLAR
No full textMаqоlаdа miqdor ifodalovchi lug‘aviy birliklаrning bоshqа lingvistik birliklаr bilаn o‘zаrо munоsаbаti, o‘zigа хоs хususiyatlаri va ”Devonu lug’oti-t- turk” asarida ifodalanish mаsаlаlаri yoritilаdi
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No full textturkBring turk and pie and gladness to the homes of empty sadness:PRINTED ITEM Feb 11 1965W.J. KirwinNot usedNot usedWithdraw
Neuromechanical measurement of motor impairments in relation to upper limb activity limitations after stroke
No full textLoss of upper-limb function is a problem following stroke. Recent research has led to the emergence of new treatments but progress is hampered by lack of reliable objective measures of impairment, and understanding of the underlying impairment mechanisms associated with loss and recovery of functional activity. The aim of this research was to identify, using neuromechanical measurement methods, inter-relationships between motor impairments, and correlates of motor impairments with functional activity limitation in the upper limb of acute and chronic stroke survivors.An instrumented rig has been developed to measure impairments: muscle weakness, active range of movement, motor control accuracy in rhythmic and discrete tracking tasks, spasticity, coactivation, contracture and non-neural stiffness. In pilot studies, signal processing and data analysis techniques have been used to generate novel, clinically and physiologically relevant indices to quantify impairments. In a Main Study, 13 older impaired participants in the acute phase post-stroke, 13 in the chronic phase 14 age-matched unimpaired participants underwent rig assessments and performed a test of upper limb activity. A sub-group of impaired participants were tested on two days for test-retest reliability evaluation.Statistical tests have confirmed the validity of the impairments to distinguish between acute and chronic patients and unimpaired individuals, except coactivation during discrete movements and non-neural stiffness. Repeatability coefficients for the active test indices have been presented as benchmark values for use in future trials. The muscle activation indices showed lower repeatability which highlights the challenge of using these to measure change over time. The impairments that contributed to lower motor control accuracy were reduced extensor weakness, delayed extensor onset timing, coactivation and smaller extension AROM and PROM; coactivation was more strongly associated with motor control accuracy than with spasticity or stiffness.The most important contributors to functional activity in the acute group was extensor weakness, and in the chronic group was motor control accuracy and coactivation (rhythmic task). Contracture was important contributor in both groups, and was associated with weakness and loss of active range of movement rather than spasticity. The findings support the notion that rehabilitation strategies should focus on increasing muscle strength and prevention of contracture. However, assessment of more complex impairments like motor control accuracy and coactivation may be crucial to better target therapy, especially in the later phases post-stroke
Microcredit and its effect on poverty
No full textRevščina ter dejavniki, ki na le-to vplivajo so v zadnjih desetletjih tako v ekonomiji, kot tudi v drugih vedah pridobili veliko pozornosti. V diplomskem delu smo preko pregleda empirične evidence o vplivih mikrokreditov na revščino skušali ugotoviti, ali lahko posojanje majhnih vsot finančnih sredstev revnim uvrstimo med pomembnejše dejavnike znižanja stopnje revščine, ki smo ga zabeležili v zadnjih desetletjih. V prvem delu smo se osredotočili predvsem na razloge za pojav mikrokreditov, torej dejavnike, ki ustvarjajo potrebo po aktivnem upravljanju finančnih sredstev ter dejavnike, ki revnim posameznikom in gospodinjstvom onemogočajo dostop do formalnih bančnih storitev ter produktov. Nato smo na podlagi raziskav iz Bangladeša ter Indije, dveh držav z največjim mikrofinančnim sektorjem, skušali ugotoviti ali imajo mikrokrediti pozitiven vpliv na revščino, oziroma posamezne dimenzije revščine in tako revnim posameznikom ter gospodinjstvom pomagajo pri izstopu iz le-te. Ugotovili smo, da so vplivi mikrokreditov na revščino večinoma majhni in zanemarljivi, zato smo se v zaključku osredotočili tudi na morebitne dejavnike, ki bi lahko bili razlog za omejen pomen mikrokreditov pri zniževanju stopnje revščine.In recent decades poverty and its factors have gained prominance in economics as well as in other fields. By examining empirical evidence about microcredit and its effect on poverty we were keen to know whether microcredit was an important factor in the drop of poverty rates that has been observed in recent decades. In the first part of our diploma we focused on the reasons for the emergence of microcredit. These are the same reasons that can be found behind the need to actively manage financial assests and the limited access of poorer individuals and households to formal banking services and products. With the help of research from Bangladesh and India, the two countries with the biggest microfinance sectors, we aimed to find out whether microcredit has a positive impact on poverty, on dimensions of poverty and consequently helps poor individuals and households to escape poverty.We discovered that microcredit has a small and negligable effect on poverty, that is why at the end of our diploma we also focused on possible factors affecting this limited importance of microcredit in lowering poverty rates
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