Nancy Bayley’s research is used to this day regarding the physical development of babies and young children. Her research was entitled the ‘Bayley Scales of Infant Development’ and medical institutions use it to this day when measuring the growth of babies from 2 to 30 months. This research was drawn from 16 new born babies‚ where she monitored the motor and physical development. McGraw‚ who practiced at the same time as Bayley and who was also a child psychologist put her research into children’s
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Introduction The Braden Scale is a tool that is used to measure patients at risk for developing pressure ulcers. A pressure ulcer is an injury to the skin over a bony prominence on the body. Pressure ulcers are staged depending on the severity of the injured tissue. A registered nurse administers the Braden Scale in a hospital setting or long-term care facility. The Braden Scale is administered by assessing the patient’s risk for developing pressure ulcers depending on the scores from the specific
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Glasgow coma scale is a neurological scale which is used in assessing the level of consciousness of a person the initial score of a person is taken and recorded and this is compared with the subsequent score of the person. This is done to note if the patient is improving or deteriorating. The scoring is made based on certain criteria and a score of 3-15 is made. The score 3 indicates deep unconsciousness while the score 15 indicates full consciousness. The Glasgow coma scale was published in 1974
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS‚ MAN‚ AND CYBERNETICS PART C: APPLICATIONS AND REVIEWS‚ VOL. 42‚ NO. 3‚ MAY 2012 Movie Rating and Review Summarization in Mobile Environment Chien-Liang Liu‚ Wen-Hoar Hsaio‚ Chia-Hoang Lee‚ Gen-Chi Lu‚ and Emery Jou Abstract—In this paper‚ we design and develop a movie-rating and review-summarization system in a mobile environment. The movie-rating information is based on the sentiment-classification result. The condensed descriptions of movie reviews are generated
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The Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS): The study of Validity and Reliability Ahmet AKIN* Bayram ÇET‹N** Abstract This study investigated the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS). The sample of the study consisted of 590 university students‚ 121 English teachers and 136 emotionally disturbed individuals who sought treatment in various clinics and counseling centers. Factor loadings of the scale ranged from .39 to .88. Findings
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References: Abaka‚ E.K.‚ and Mayer P. (eds) (1994). Promotion of Small – Scale Enterprises in Ghana Masilela‚ E. and Rees‚ S. S. (2001). Smes’ access to finance in south africa‚ a supply-side regulatory review Abor‚ J.‚ and Adjasi‚ C.K.D. (2007). Corporate governance and the small and medium enterprise sector: Theory and
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Ruby Huang 10A April 26th‚ 2015 The Balek Scales Literature Assignment 1.New year’s day is the beginning of a new year‚ which is the start of the twentieth century‚ but it can also symbolize the beginning of a new era. On that particular day‚ the Baleks got a title and became even more powerful. However‚ it is also the day when little Franz Brucher and the villagers discovered the injustice imposed by the Baleks that had lasted for five generations. It marked a new start‚ the start of rebellion and
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behind bars. Oddly‚ there’s been little public discussion about the dramatic increase of women in the prison system. What exactly is happening here‚ and why? This paper will be a critical analysis of the book‚ “Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System. This paper will Introduction Journalist Silja Talvi’s Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in The U.S Prison System is an overview of issues affecting incarcerated women. The goal of the book Women Behind Bars is to
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Part I: Construct Development and Scale Creation Choose a construct you would like to measure. I picked self-confidence. According to Brown (2004) self confidence is defined as one’s ability to rely on themselves‚ to assert oneself socially‚ regarding what one thinks and possessing the skills to work independently‚ based on one’s learning from personal experience and the ability to make use of prior knowledge. Self confidence measures include self efficacy‚ self esteem‚ knowledge and ability
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“Literacy behind Bars” “Literacy behind Bars is a narrative that is taken from “The Auto-biography of Malcom X.” In it‚ he explains how being incarcerated gave him the oppritunity to expand his vocabulary and help foster his love for reading. Like many people in prison‚ he spent time reading books‚ the issue was that many of the words in the books he did not understand. He decided to expand his vocabulary and each day copied a page from the dictionary by hand and then read it aloud to himself. By
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