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Designing A Mental Health Institute For Adolescents In Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia (Healing Architecture), Heba Bin Seddeq

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The society in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia obstructs people who want to see a psychiatrist, especially adolescents. Based on the lack of mental health support in Saudi Arabia, this thesis will introduce a mental health institute project for adolescents that puts more attention on specific design factors, such as daylighting, color, and green roofs. These aspects provide help for the recovery process by supporting healing according to many psychological studies. This psychiatric institute will be specialized for teenagers 10-19 because the early intervention at this critical period has the possibility for the potential for making a lifelong difference. by …

Efficient Algorithms For Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Considering Time Of Use Pricing And Demand Charges, Brady Collea

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There is an ever-increasing focus on sustainability and energy consumption worldwide. Manufacturing is one of the major areas where energy reduction is not only environmentally beneficial, but also incredibly financially beneficial. These industrial consumers pay for their electricity according to prices that fluctuate throughout the day. These price fluctuations are in place to shift consumption away from “peak” times, when electricity is in the highest demand. In addition to this consumption cost, industrial consumers are charged according to their highest level of demand in a given window of time in the form of demand charges. This paper presents multiple solution …

New Technology For Old Models: Can Dioramas Resonate With A Modern Audience?, Carmen Ibis Lopez

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This thesis uses visitor studies from the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) to investigate whether dioramas are still a useful, resonant tool for visitor engagement and if they do fulfill this purpose, how do they do so. The case study is the newly revamped diorama Rochester in 1838: Young Lion of the West at the RMSC. This diorama, a 70-year-old model, has been mixed with modern Virtual Reality (VR) technology to create an experience that will provide the visitor with a new perspective on an old model. As context, this thesis uses the history of the diorama to show …

Decolonization Of Zimbabwean Museums: The Movement Toward Practices Informed By Indigineous Cultures, Rebecca Jarrett

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Since Zimbabwe won its independence from the United Kingdom in 1980, the country has sought to embrace and reinterpret its own cultural history. Influences of the colonial era linger in museums, especially in the areas of architecture, interpretation, administration, and community relations. How can Zimbabwean museums systematically identify the colonial influences affecting them, deconstruct those influences, and form new models that reaffirm indigenous cultures and stimulate growth for cultural institutions? The sources cited within this document discuss Zimbabwean history, colonial history, and cultural heritage. The BaTonga Community Museum, the first museum to serve a minority ethnic group, is an important …

“Natural State”: Navigating The Experiences Of Black Women’S Natural Hair Identities, Leah Green

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In 2009, The “Natural hair movement” developed and was widely discussed in online discourse. The goal of this contemporary movement was to encourage Black women to wear their natural hair to work in an effort to combat internalized negative images Black women might have surrounding natural hair. This transformative movement resulted in many books and articles being written on the shared experiences and adversities many Black women face about choosing to wear their natural hair today in the workplace. These inspiring books and articles prompted this project which will track my journey and the results of conducting a Black hair …

Walk A Mile In Their Shoes: Empathy And Rehumanization In Community-Based Programming, Rachel Baldwin

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In the past decade, museums have been changing their missions, definitions, and exhibitions to focus on activism and the interpretation of the controversial and polarizing. Through exhibiting controversy and engaging visitors with it, museums have attempted to foster feelings of empathy. This paper summarizes the results of the research done on community-based projects from the 2020 exhibition Hostile Terrain 94 and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Hostile Terrain 94 is an international pop-up exhibit concerning the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border. RIT will be exhibiting a piece of this map which will come together at the National …

Let's Go Camping: A Physical Experience On A Virtual Platform, Monica Conary

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Camp Kawanhee is celebrating its 100th Anniversary in 2020. How can creating an Esri Story Map using archival materials from the camp at its 100th Anniversary help individuals connect to their own time at camp, engage with the camp’s history, and offer present experiences? By utilizing the software Story Maps, I have created a platform that shares special moments in Camp Kawanhee’s history. Digitized items from my summer at Camp Kawanhee (brochures, pamphlets, letters, and photographs) are utilized in my story map to create a narrative of the past and present. By drawing upon literature on digital tourism and history, …

أثر ممارسات إدارة الموارد البشرية في رضا العاملين في الجامعات الحكومية: دراسة حالة جامعة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, عفاف حميد محمد الوحشي

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هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف عل ى أثر ممارسات إدارة الموارد البشرية )تخطيط القوى العاملة، الاختيار والتعيين، التدريب والتطوير، التعويضات والحوافز، وتقييم الأدا ء( في رضا العاملين ف ي الجامعات الحكومية في إمارة أبوظب ي. وقد تكونت عينة الدراسة من 146 موظفا من جامعة الإمارات، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة قامت الباحثة بالاعتماد على الاستبانة المحكمة لجمع وبرنامج Excel البيانات، وقد تم تحليل البيانات واختبار الفرضيات اعتمادا على كل من برنامج للحزم الاجتماعية. وتظهر صعوبة الدراسة في تحديد رضا العاملين وأبعاد قياس رضاهم SPSS من عدة ممارسات وتحديد هذه الممارسات من عدة جوانب مختلفة وعليه سيتم إلقاء الضوء على الأبعاد المتعلقة بهذه …

نطاق الرقابة القضائية على مشروعية القرارات التأديبية في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, نوره حمد راشد رحمه الدرمكي

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يهدف هذا البحث إلى دراسة نطاق الرقابة القضائية التي يمارسها القاضي الإداري على القرارات التأديبية، وهي الرقابة التي تقوم على عدد من المبادئ الأساسية التي تتفق مع مفهوم الدولة القائم على سيادة القانون، والتي يهدف بها المشرع إلى حماية الموظف العام من تعسف الإدارة. وقد مرت الرقابة القضائية على مشروعية القرارات التأديبية بتطورات ومراحل، حيث أدرك القضاء الإداري وهو يباشر وظيفته الرقابية اتساع السلطات التقديرية للإدارة على حساب حقوق الأفراد وحرياتهم، ومن هنا سعى لتوسيع عملية الرقابة على أعمال الإدارة لتشمل نواحي أكثر مما كانت عليه في السابق، فقد تحولت هذه الرقابة من رقابة ضيقة ومحدودة إلى رقابة أكثر توسعا،ً …

Smart Reversible Lanes In Dubai, Amna Nabeel Hamad Al Shamsi

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There is no doubt that transportation is one of the most important elements in any city and its development. However, traffic congestion is hurdle to any transportation system and especially in top cities like Dubai. Traffic congestions have many reasons like traveling from suburban to the city center for work and study, and relaying mostly on private vehicles. The impacts of traffic congestions reach beyond the increase in travel time, it also increase gas consumption, and affect people’s health negatively. One of the most practical ways to ease traffic congestion is using Reversible lanes (RL) which are lanes that can …

مفھوم النزاع المسلح غیر الدولي وأثره على تطبیق القانون الدولي الإنساني, عمر عبد الحلیم بكور

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عرفت البشریة النزاعات المسلحة غیر الدولیة منذ عصور قدیمة، ومع ذلك فقد ظلت بعیدة عن أي تنظیم قانوني لھا بما في ذلك القانون الدولي للحرب، حتى تنبھ المجتمع الدولي إلى خطورة ھذه الفئة من النزاعات، وما تتسم بھ من طابع مأساوي نتیجة انتشار العنف والأسلحة فیھا والانتھاكات الخطیرة للمبادئ الأساسیة للقانون الدولي الإنساني؛ ومن ثم فقد حصلت الكثیر من التطورات على صعید ھذا الأخیر طوال النصف الثاني من القرن العشرین، تجسدت باتفاقیات جنیف الأربع لعام 1949 وكذلك بروتوكولاتھا الأول والثاني لعام 1977 ، فضلا عن مجموعة الأدوات القانونیة الأخرى والمبادئ العرفیة، وبالرغم من ذلك مازال ھناك جدل محتدمٌ في الأوساط …

Modulation Of Anti-Microbical Defenses In The Gasrointestinal Tract By Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors, Alreem Abdulaziz Al-Dhalali Al-Mansori

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Inflammation is a crucial defence mechanism that protects the body from the effect of invading pathogens. However, the inflammatory response needs to be controlled in order to avoid systemic manifestations with serious consequences to the host. Accumulating evidence indicates that the inflammatory response is tightly regulated through immunological and neural pathways. Previously, it has been demonstrated that cholinergic stimulation by paraoxon, a specific and irreversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), improved survival in mice following oral infection with virulent Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium). However, paraoxon is an organophosphorus compound unsuited for human use. In this study, the …

Dynamic Speed And Separation Monitoring With On-Robot Ranging Sensor Arrays For Human And Industrial Robot Collaboration, Shitij P. Kumar

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This research presents a flexible and dynamic implementation of Speed and Separation Monitoring (SSM) safety measure that optimizes the productivity of a task while ensuring human safety during Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC).

Unlike the standard static/fixed demarcated 2D safety zones based on 2D scanning LiDARs, this research presents a dynamic sensor setup that changes the safety zones based on the robot pose and motion.

The focus of this research is the implementation of a dynamic SSM safety configuration using Time-of-Flight (ToF) laser-ranging sensor arrays placed around the centers of the links of a robot arm. It investigates the viability of on-robot …

Advancing Multi-Modal Deep Learning: Towards Language-Grounded Visual Understanding, Kushal Kafle

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Using deep learning, computer vision now rivals people at object recognition and detection, opening doors to tackle new challenges in image understanding. Among these challenges, understanding and reasoning about language grounded visual content is of fundamental importance to advancing artificial intelligence. Recently, multiple datasets and algorithms have been created as proxy tasks towards this goal, with visual question answering (VQA) being the most widely studied. In VQA, an algorithm needs to produce an answer to a natural language question about an image. However, our survey of datasets and algorithms for VQA uncovered several sources of dataset bias and sub-optimal evaluation …

Design Approval Smart Application For Dubai Electricity Installations (Dasa-Dubai), Maryam Ahmad Mohammed Al Ali

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Design Approval smart application for assure the healthy and safety installations for buildings and properties in Dubai using programming and automations. It will enable the engineers in the concerned departments to have effective use of time and effort through having automatic first line defends reviewing the submissions of the electrical engineers contractors/ consultants who will be referred to as customers through the project description. The application will be a data base that carries the original standards and regulations that related to the installations of the electricity wiring in the government of Dubai. That kind of information’s are already distributed as …

Young Patient Education On Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Margaret Jane Atieno Mcfarland

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder that primarily causes the degeneration of major muscle groups. It’s caused by the absence of an essential sarcolemma protein called Dystrophin due to mutations in its gene that is in the X-chromosome. DMD affects 1 out of 4,000 boys worldwide with most being diagnosed between ages 3-5 and if left untreated, most patients would succumb to the disorder by their late teens or early twenties. While there currently isn’t a cure for DMD, there are different treatments available that are effective in prolonging patients’ lives.

Because DMD is such a deadly disorder, …

Pleasure From Erotic Nipple Stimulation, Pre-Pregnancy, As A Predictor Of Successful Initiation Of Breastfeeding, Jessica Jolie Badonsky

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The erotic association with breasts and nipples can be a barrier to breastfeeding due to fear and misunderstanding by breast feeders and health professionals alike (Polomeno, 1999). Little is known about erotic pleasure from nipple stimulation and its correlation to initiate breastfeeding. This study was to determine if erotic pleasure from nipple stimulation prior to pregnancy is a predictor of successful initiation of breastfeeding.

Cross-Modal Data Retrieval And Generation Using Deep Neural Networks, Premkumar Udaiyar

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The exponential growth of deep learning has helped solve problems across different fields of study. Convolutional neural networks have become a go-to tool for extracting features from images. Similarly, variations of recurrent neural networks such as Long-Short Term Memory and Gated Recurrent Unit architectures do a good job extracting useful information from temporal data such as text and time series data. Although, these networks are good at extracting features for a particular modality, learning features across multiple modalities is still a challenging task. In this work, we develop a generative common vector space model in which similar concepts from different …

Optimization And Characterization Of Low-Cost Substrates For Iii-V Photovoltaics, Elisabeth L. Mcclure

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The highest achieved photovoltaic power conversion efficiency (approximately 47% under concentration) is available from III-V multijunction solar cells made from subcells of descending bandgap that optimize light collection from the solar spectrum. Unfortunately, both III-V multijunction and single-junction solar cells are expensive, limiting their use to niche concentration or space power applications and precluding their competitiveness in the terrestrial flat-plate market. The majority of the III-V solar cell cost is attributed to the thick, monocrystalline substrates that are used as a platform for epitaxial growth, and to the throughput, precursors, and utilization of those precursors associated with traditional growth reactors. …

Hearsay, Lei Xue

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The inspiration for my artworks comes from my life experience and cultural background. There is an idiom in China, “daotingtushuo,” which explains that “most people’s impressions of a certain person/thing are easily affected by irresponsible rumors.” In general, people are more likely to add their personal and emotional perspectives to a certain person/thing when describing it to others. After observation and research, the rumor propagation process needs a medium—the emotions of a human being. To materialize this concept of the emotions, I related color psychology to my work. Based on psychological research, I introduced five different colors to represent human …

Smart Inverters For Distributed Pv Network Management, Colin Charles Levis

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Securing a sustainable decarbonised economy involves moving towards a decentralised power system with increasing penetration levels of distributed photovoltaics (PVs) within the low voltage distribution network (LVDN). Increasing penetration levels of PV systems pose challenges for maintaining grid voltage and frequency stability. Thus requires studies and simulations to estimate the needs and technical requirements to overcome the challenges and maximise the opportunities. These simulations require time-domain system models with a high dynamic resolution such as electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulations with small-time steps that capture the required performance with large numbers of network elements. However, the small-time step implies a high …

To Investigate Nurse Preceptors’ Perceptions Of Their Role And Responsibilities When Preceptoring Undergraduate Nursing Students In The South West Of Ireland, Jia O’Connell

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Background: In Ireland, there is limited research and no clear guidance related to a preceptor’s role and responsibilities. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (2016) has indicated that it plans to develop a national approach to preparing preceptors for their role and responsibilities.

Aim: To investigate preceptors' perceptions of their role and responsibilities when preceptoring undergraduate BSc nursing students.

Research design: A correlational, quantitative descriptive design.

Data collection: The Preceptor Roles and Responsibilities Assessment (PRRA) (Omer, Suliman and Moola, 2016) was adapted for data collection. The modified PRRA comprised of 4 preceptor roles encompassing 43 preceptor responsibilities, utilizing a …

Evaluating The Impact Of Land Surface Properties On Simulated Dust Emissions And Air Quality, Erica Burrows

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Strong winds and dry surface conditions result in frequent occurrence of dusty conditions in the Southwestern United States (SW US) causing degraded air quality and harmful health effects. The Weather Research and Forecasting with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) model is often used to forecast such events. Biases in specifications of soil moisture and vegetation cover in the land surface component for initialization of WRF-Chem can result in systematic errors in forecasts. This study examines how WRF-Chem dust forecasts for the SW US can be improved through better prescriptions of soil and vegetation for the following cases: 27 April 2014, 23 March 2017, …

Exploring The Use Of Planetscope Data For Particulate Matter Air Quality Research, Jeanné Le Roux

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Planet, a commercial company, has achieved a key milestone by launching a large fleet of small satellites (smallsats) that provide high resolution imagery of the entire Earth’s surface on a daily basis with its PlanetScope sensor. Given the potential utility of this data, this thesis explores its potential use for air quality applications. Before this data can be utilized for air quality applications, key features of the data including geolocation accuracy, calibration quality, and consistency in spectral signatures need to be addressed. In this study, data from PlanetScope is screened for geolocation consistency, and is compared to Moderate Resolution Imaging …

Safety And Effectiveness Of Stoss Therapy In Children With Vitamin D Deficiency, Paul Tannous

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Objectives: Paediatric vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D - 25OHD) deficiency can lead to nutritional rickets and extra-skeletal complications. Compliance with daily therapy can be difficult, making high dose, short-term vitamin D (stoss) therapy attractive to correct vitamin D deficiency. We compared the effectiveness and safety of standard versus stoss therapy in treating childhood 25OHD deficiency.

Study Design: Children aged 2 - 16 years with 25OHD <50nmol/L were randomized to either standard (5,000IU daily for 80 days) or stoss (100,000 IU weekly for 4 weeks) cholecalciferol. Participants underwent evaluation of effectiveness and safety. 25OHD, random spot calcium: creatinine ratio (Ca:Cr) and compliance were measured at 12 weeks.

Results: 151 children were enrolled in the study (68 standard and 83 stoss), median age 9 years (IQR: 6 - 12 years). Baseline 25OHD levels were 26 nmol/L (IQR: 19 - 35 nmol/L) and 32 nmol/L …

Hysterical Women: Moral Treatment Of Female Patients In The Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, 1858 – 1908, Alexandra Wallis

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From 1858 to 1908, at least 452 women were admitted to the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum. Through an exploration of nineteenth-century theories of moral treatment, new insights into female patient experiences will allow for greater understanding of Fremantle’s working-class women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including those behaviours that were considered insane. The appraisal of moral treatment techniques also allows for a new investigation into the enforcement of nineteenth-century, socially-accepted ideas of womanhood.

In its three parts, using patient records, case books, and other sources, this thesis examines understandings of women’s insanity as they evolved in nineteenth-century Britain. It …

Incorporating An Interdisciplinary Approach To Examine The Relationship Between Physical Capacity, Perceptual Motor Skill, Mental Toughness And Match Performance In Australian Football, Benjamin Piggott

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Performance in sports involves a combination of components such as physiological, psychological and perceptual-cognitive-motor. Yet, despite a call in the literature dating back more than 20 years for an interdisciplinary approach, the majority of studies in sports science have used a monodisciplinary approach focusing on one component to understand sport performance. Accordingly, the primary aim of this thesis was to investigate the value of an interdisciplinary approach to understand match performance using Australian Football (AF) as the exemplar sport. The secondary aim of this thesis was to quantify individual differences in performance and representative task design (RTD) of tests used …

Worker Psycho-Spiritual Self-Care Choices: Making Sense During Times Of Stress And Anxiety, Peter Devenish-Meares

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This thesis explores and extends the use of psycho-spiritual self-care choices in support of sense-making and inner healing of workplace stress. The study was motivated by a lack of research about and the observation that, despite their usefulness in other disciplines, psycho-spiritual self-care choices are often poorly understood or ignored in the workplace. Yet, chronic stress, if left unaddressed, can lead to adverse mental health consequences. This is particularly so when harsh self-criticism, poor self-acceptance and lack of self-kindness stymie self-care and meaningful sense-making. Notably too, there is next to no research that shows how workers might detach from work …

A Study Of The Contributions Of Fr. Johannes Hofinger S.J. And Msgr. Eugene Kevane To The Catechetical Renewal Of The 20th Century And Their Relevance For Catechesis Today, Ronald Bolster

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The Kerygmatic renewal of the 20th century, facilitated and documented by Fr. Johannes Hofinger, S.J., was launched in response to the recognition that the traditional method of instruction from the catechism was no longer bearing the fruit of lived Christian discipleship. During this period, Msgr. Eugene Kevane associated this decline in effectiveness with the influence of Modernism. The contributions of both were consistent with the conciliar and post-conciliar catechetical interventions of the Catholic Church. Resistance to the Church’s implementation of these interventions demonstrates that the challenge for catechesis today is a contemporary manifestation of the historical tension intrinsic to the …

Understanding Falls In People With Intellectual Disability In Western Australia, Portia Ho

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Adults with intellectual disability (ID) experience earlier age-related changes, compared with other age-matched populations, but concurrently their life expectancy is increasing. Falls often result in serious injuries and reduced health-related quality of life, however there is limited research regarding falls in older adults with ID. The purpose of this research was to investigate falls among community dwelling older adults with ID, including the epidemiology, risk factors and experiences when engaging with health services after a fall.

A meta-analysis of the incidence and prevalence of falls in adults with ID was initially conducted to inform the research aims. Prospective research was …