...intention to exercise.(c b) H4: Individuals who score high on the intention to exercise questionnaire will report a higher mean rate of having engaged in some exercise. (b d) Results A Chi-square analysis revealed that the proportion of individuals whom engaged in any exercise from the treatment group (13.3%, N=8) was greater than in control the group(5%, n = 3), χ² (1) =2.50a, p = .010. The effect is small, ϕ = .14. Furthermore, an independent samples t-test showed that the attitude towards exercise of those who attended the intensive workshop (M=3.28, SD= 1.38) was slightly higher than those who were in the control group (M=2.88, SD= 1.21), t(100.5)=-1.56, p=0.12. This is a small effect, d= 0.3. As predicted, attitude towards exercise was positively correlated with intention to exercise r = .44, N = 120, p <.001. Lastly, an independent samples t-test revealed that the intention to exercise score for those who engaged in some exercise (M=4.45, SD= 1.37) was higher than those who didn’t engage in any exercise (M=4.12, SD= 1.46), t(118)=-7.31, p=0.47. This is a small effect, d= 0.23. Discussion The aim of this study was to ascertain whether or not the Theory of Planned Behaviour could be applied to exercise, such that attitudes about exercise influence intention to exercise, which in turn influences behaviour (exercising or not exercising). As hypothesised, there were a higher...
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...The major effects of Alzheimer’s disease The former liberal party leader, Michael Ignatieff said in his essay, “Deficits” (2010) “Sometimes I try to count the number of times she asks me these questions but I lose track” (p.108). Ignatieff is expressing his own feelings towards his mother’s Dementia of Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician discovered a patient that suffered from a severe dementia due to brain abnormalities. Alzheimer’s disease is the second most-feared irreversible illness in America, following Cancer. It affects as many as 5 million Americans, a number that could soar to 16 million by 2050 (Hoffman, Froemke, and Golant, 2009, para 1). These numbers are due to the fact that there is no cure. The major effects of this specific disease can be depicted by Ignatieff (2010) in “Deficits” and also scientific studies that create a clear picture of how an individual is affected through the brain, how the individual does not have that sense of security and those caregivers who are trying to cope with the disease to that individual. The brain is a vital organ in the human body, when the brain is affected; the entire functions of the body are affected. In most individuals affected by Alzheimer’s, memory loss is usually the first sign. The individual begins to lose memory of recent events and later the ability to complete regular tasks declines as nerve cells break down. In the book, “The Everything Health Guide to Alzheimer’s...
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... 3 Evaluation Methods Learning Objectives 1. Recognize differences between evaluation methods and how they support the human factors design cycle 2. Design formative and summative human factors studies 3. Understand representative sampling and the implications for study design and generalization 4. Design an experiment considering variables that are measured, manipulated, controlled, and cannot be controlled 5. Interpret results and recognize the limitations of a study 6. Identify the ethical issues associated with collecting data with human subjects 1 April 3, 2016 PURPOSE OF EVALUATION 3 TIMING AND TYPES OF EVALUATION 5 LITERATURE REVIEW, HEURISTIC EVALUATION, AND COGNITIVE WALKTHROUGHS USABILITY TESTING COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION AND CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS IN-SERVICE EVALUATION 5 7 8 9 STEPS IN CONDUCTING A STUDY 10 STUDY DESIGN 11 ONE FACTOR WITH TWO LEVELS ONE FACTOR WITH MORE THAN TWO LEVELS MULTIPLE FACTORS BETWEEN-SUBJECTS DESIGN WITHIN-SUBJECT DESIGNS MIXED DESIGNS SAMPLING PEOPLE, TASKS, AND SITUATIONS 13 13 13 14 14 14 15 MEASUREMENT 15 DATA ANALYSIS 16 ANALYSIS OF CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS ANALYSIS OF DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES 16 17 DRAWING CONCLUSIONS AND COMMUNICATING RESULTS 18 STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND TYPE I AND TYPE II ERRORS STATISTICAL AND PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE GENERALIZING AND PREDICTING 18 19 19 DRIVER DISTRACTION:...
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... |Sorrow, Chronic related to | |Obtain complete medical history including allergies, neurological , |depressive state. | |cardiac, renal, biliary, and mental disorders including blood |Thought Processes, Disturbed related to | |studies: CBC, platelets and liver enzymes,. |effects of drug therapy | |Obtain patient’s drug history to determine possible drug interactions|Adjustment, Impaired related to inadequate | |and allergies |drug effectiveness. | |Obtain 24 hour dietary history to identify |Knowledge, Deficient, related to drug | |tyramine containing foods ingested |action and side effects. | |recently |Suicide, Risk for related to inadequate drug | |Assess neurological status, including identification of recent mood |effectiveness. | |and behavioral patterns |Hopelessness related to emotional state...
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...Alcoholism Emma Lattany NU250 Mental Health Instructor: Lori Barnes RN, BSN, LNC Alcoholism, is a destructive pattern of alcohol use that includes tolerance to or withdrawal from the substance (Dryden-Edwards, 2012). It is also known as alcohol dependence or alcohol addiction. Using alcohol longer than planned or having difficulty reducing its usage is a part of alcoholism. Alcoholism is not a chosen pattern of behavior but it is considered to be a disease. Those with alcoholism show signs of physical addiction to alcohol, but still continue drinking despite problems with physical and mental health. It also causes them problems with their social and family life as well as job responsibilities. Alcoholism may also take control over and alcoholic’s life and relationships. Some of the medical complications of alcoholism are: pancreatitis, cardiomyopathy, alcohol-related cirrhosis, and gastrointestinal bleeding. The use of alcohol on a daily basis has also been associated with many different types of cancers (Thompson, 2012). Alcohol use during pregnancy could lead to fetal alcohol syndrome which is a leading cause of mental retardation. Alcoholism is also linked to dementia, depression, suicide, accidents and homicide (Thompson, 2012). Alcoholism is the third most common mental illness and in the United States, more that 14 million people are affected by it (Dryden-Edwards, 2012). Alcoholism has a pattern of afflicting about 10% of men and 4% of women and costs...
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...Autonomous vehicles could transform the way we move. The work that is done now has the opportunity to drive a transformation in the relationship between humans and machines. However, before we jump into using the technology, we need to evaluate whether we are willing to give up control to our cars and whether it is ethical to release technology that could cause harm to innocent people. Autonomous cars offer many benefits, including removing human error from driving, increasing the mobility of people, and decreasing congestion in roadways. While autonomous cars may eventually be safer than self-driving ones, they will never be able to completely avoid accidents-- and when they fail, it could be catastrophic. In cars that have no fallback option...
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...entry level is VSOP, unlike the VS-dominated traditional markets. Hennessy has a share of 43% of global cognac volume sales, with a 63% share of its major market the US, due to a successful repositioning of the brand from an elderly and affluent target to a young and urban one. The brand is in a very favourable position to capitalise on the global 5% CAGR expected for cognac over 2011-2016, as the growth will be driven predominantly by China, where the company has its own strong distribution network, further enhanced with capacity and market knowledge via the acquisition of the Wenjun distillery. Hennessy: Volume Sales by Geography Spirits: Cognac vs Total Spirits Market by Y-o- Growth 2011-2016 45,000 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0 2006/2011 Rest of the World Eastern Europe US 6 5 4 3 Western Europe 2 Other Asia Pacific China 1 2006 2011 0 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 Global spirits volume growth Cognac volume growth © Euromonitor International SPIRITS: LVMH MOËT HENNESSY LOUIS VUITTON SA PASSPORT 19 Volume sales '000 litres % y-o-y volume growth Absolute volume growth, '000 litres % CAGR 2011-2016 MARKET AND CATEGORY OPPORTUNITIES Emerging economies driving growth Global cognac volumes are expected to grow at a 5% CAGR (+23 million litres) over 2011-2016, with China...
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...officials prepare the residents of the neighborhood adequately? What is required to handle a wildfire emergency? What other public health agencies could have assisted with this emergency and how would this affect the outcome of the wildfire at the neighborhood forest? Wikipedia defines (“Emergency,” n.d.) as, “A situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment.” Emergency preparedness involves interventions to prevent situations from becoming worse. Identifying potential risk factors is the key for communities to devise an effective emergency plan to decrease the potential for increase injuries or death. How a community recovers from a disaster is just as important as the preparations taken to minimize the effects of that particular emergency or threat. The neighborhood community has a forest located along the banks of the Neighborhood River with a population of 64,000 residents. The past five days firefighters are trying to control a wildfire west of the forest, which is raging out of control, and is not contained because of the early windy season that is causing destruction of acres of...
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...successful treatment for lazy eye. Lazy eye is a disorder starting from early childhood where one eye becomes harder to use. Li and colleagues (2011) performed experiments in which some adults with this disorder played action video games using only the bad eye while the good eye was covered. Other testing with adults with the same disorder were done while the good eye was covered, for example watching tv or crocheting. Results showed that the people that were playing games showed more improvement in their lazy eye, almost back to a normal function, while the others showed little if any improvement. Quite a few of the gamer subjects tested at a 20/20 or better for their vision following this study. Subjects also showed improvement that their visual contrast sensitivity was added by using 50 hours of playing action type video games, this was done by spreading it out over 10 to 12 weeks,. They gained the ability to tell the subtle differences in shades of gray, compared to controls. Green & Bavelier (2012) “found that action video gaming improved performance on the ability to locate, quickly, a target stimulus in a field of distractors-a test that has been found to be a good predictor of driving ability. Improved ability to track moving objects in a field of distractors.” With that being said it was shown that action games increased children and adults ability to keep a better eye on moving objects that were visually the same as other moving objects in the same area. Action games improved...
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...developments and controversies. 100 years ago, Alois Alzheimer gave a lecture at a congress in Tubingen, Germany, on the first case of the disease that Kraepelin some years later named Alzheimer's disease.1 In this single case. Alzheimer described typical clinical characteristics with memory disturbances and instrumental signs, and the neuropathological picture with miliary bodies (plaques) and dense bundles of fibrils (tangles), which we today know are the hallmarks of the disease. Here, we review the epidemiology, genetics, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease. We also cover the latest discoveries on the molecular pathogenesis and the implications for the development both of new drug candidates with potential disease-modifying effects and of new methods for early diagnosis, taking into account existing...
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...next to public housing. I also see new housing developments starting. Townhouses and condominiums with price points starting at $349,900. There are some single-family homes but there seems to be more multi-unit properties. There is one public elementary school, one charter elementary school, and 3 catholic grammar schools, 1 public high school, 1 catholic high school, and one branch of the city college. I see 3 Catholic churches and one Christian church that has about 10 properties that takes up one city block. Some used as housing for the homeless and for people who have been a abused, a clinic, and a café. I see many children ranging from 5-18 years old walking to school with an adult or with other children. I see many men and women driving and taking public transportation such as buses and trains to go to work. As I drive down some of the main streets I see people lined up waiting for dentists and doctors to open. These clinics are first come...
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...12 Angry Men PROC 5840, Negotiations, Midterm Case Analysis Table of Contents Table of Contents……………………………………………………….……………………………….…2 Character Listing…………………………………………………………………………………………...3 Major Case Issues…………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Analysis of Juror Number Eight……………………………………………………………………………7 Analysis of Juror Number Four…………………………………………………………………………...13 Analysis of Juror Number Nine…………………………………………………………………………...17 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………………….19 12 Angry Men Character Listing Juror Number One (Martin Balsam): The jury foreman, he got off to a shaky start. However, he took his role seriously and facilitates voting. He was generally passive. Outside of the jury room he was an assistant high school football coach. Juror Number Two (John Fielder): This shy bank clerk was initially reluctant to participate and seemed intimidated by other jurors. Although he exhibited a tendency toward avoidance, eventually he contributed to the discussion. His opinion was easily swayed and he appeared to parrot other jurors. Juror Number Three (Lee J. Cobb): This small business owner shared the story of his turbulent relationship with his own son. He was aggressive and confrontational, using hard bargaining tactics such as intimidation, threats, and insults to influence others. He was the last juror to change his mind. Juror Number Four (E.G. Marshall): A calm, rational, and self-assured stockbroker, he concentrated...
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...Fire Alarm System Research – Where it’s been and where it’s going Wayne D. Moore, P.E., FSFPE Principal Hughes Associates, Inc. 2374 Post Road, Suite 102 Warwick, RI 02886 401-736-8992 Fire Alarm System Research We’ve Come A Long Way!....Or Have We? First Alarms - roving watchmen using hand bell-ringers or church sextons ringing church bells or factory steam whistles Telegraph Invented by Sam Morse in 1840s From the beginning of recorded history people have learned that early response to fires had positive results in controlling those fires. When someone discovered a fire the fire brigades and fire departments were alerted by roving watchmen using hand bell-ringers or church sextons ringing church bells or factory steam whistles. Unfortunately these systems did not provide very much detail and often directed the fire department to the wrong location. But with the advent of the telegraph, invented in the early 1840’s by Samuel F. B. Morse, firefighters were given a faster and more accurate fire reporting system. In 1847, New York became the first American city to begin construction of a municipal fire alarm system required by ordinance “to construct a line of telegraph, by setting posts in the ground, … for communicating alarms of fire from the City Hall to different fire stations, and [to] instruct the different bell-ringers in the use of said invention.” March 1851 Channing/Farmer Municipal Fire Alarm System Installed in Boston April...
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...is for students who want to go into the writing exam feeling confident that they have excellent ideas, opinions and vocabulary for as many topics as possible How do you get an IELTS score of 7 or higher? The key to a high score is not grammar, it is not your use of words like “moreover” or “in addition”, and it is not your use of phrases like “this is controversial issue nowadays”. To get a high score you need to use good “topic language” (words and phrases that are related to the question topic). You need good ideas in order to answer the question well. How should you prepare for IELTS writing task 2? There is an enormous amount of advice on my website ielts-simon.com. Here is a summary of what I suggest: Spend more time preparing than testing When you test yourself, you find out what your level is, but you do not learn anything new. You will not improve if you only write test essays. Before writing an essay, study the topic and prepare your ideas, opinions and vocabulary. Steal my ideas If you only use the vocabulary that you already know, you will not learn anything new, and you will not improve. Practise linking my topic ideas together to write “perfect essays”. See the website for examples of how to do this. Use this book together with the website The website ielts-simon.com contains lessons and videos that show you how to use the ideas from this book. You can speak to me there if you have any questions. Content 24 topics: 1. Advertising Positives of Advertising ...
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...who want to go into the writing exam feeling confident that they have excellent ideas, opinions and vocabulary for as many topics as possible How do you get an IELTS score of 7 or higher? The key to a high score is not grammar, it is not your use of words like “moreover” or “in addition”, and it is not your use of phrases like “this is controversial issue nowadays”. To get a high score you need to use good “topic language” (words and phrases that are related to the question topic). You need good ideas in order to answer the question well. How should you prepare for IELTS writing task 2? There is an enormous amount of advice on my website ielts-simon.com. Here is a summary of what I suggest: - Spend more time preparing than testing When you test yourself, you find out what your level is, but you do not learn anything new. You will not improve if you only write test essays. Before writing an essay, study the topic and prepare your ideas, opinions and vocabulary. - Steal my ideas If you only use the vocabulary that you already know, you will not learn anything new, and you will not improve. Practise linking my topic ideas together to write “perfect essays”. See the website for examples of how to do this. - Use this book together with the website The website ielts-simon.com contains lessons and videos that show you how to use the ideas from this book. You can speak to me there if you have any questions. Content 24 topics: 1. Advertising Positives...
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