Clinical tips: Actively supporting customers to make a significant lifestyle change for New Year

We have all made these New Year’s resolutions before ... to be healthier, to eat better, to look after ourselves more, to go to the gym more. Each year, we are adamant we will stick with these resolutions, but deep down, we all know most of us will have given up before February even arrives. So we have put together a few tips to help you actively support your customers to make a significant lifestyle change for the New Year. Healthy eating – it is important for your customers to have realistic expectations. It is all too easy to say they will stop eating junk food, and start ‘eating healthy’. Advising them that it is important to be realistic and starting with a few small measurable goals, such as aiming to eat two servings of fruits or five servings of vegetables each day, will work better in the long run. Small tweaks and modifications can add up to a major change quite quickly...

Avaliação crítica da pesquisa clínica no Brasil

Pós-graduação em Patologia - FMB

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In preface to pt. 6, p. xi misnumbered ix.

Jacob Wiener collection 1897-1988

Manuscripts and articles by Rabbi Dr. Jacob G. Wiener about Jewish communities in Germany.

Separações conjugais em datas comemorativas

Visando apontar as vicissitudes que possam estar relacionadas ao fato de alguns rompimentos conjugais ocorrerem em datas comemorativas foi produzida a dissertação. O tema surgiu em pesquisas sobre separação conjugal e guarda de filhos do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, nas quais se observou que as dissoluções que ocorreram nas datas festivas eram relevantes. Foram desenvolvidas análises bibliográficas sobre casamento, dissolução da conjugalidade, comemorações, memórias e rituais. Devido à interdisciplinaridade da temática realizou-se estudos em Psicologia, Antropologia, Direito, História e Sociologia. Pretendeu-se verificar quais os sentidos atribuídos pelos ex-cônjuges à data comemorativa na qual ocorreu a separação. Buscou-se constatar se houve alteração ou reconfiguração do significado das datas após o rompimento e visou-se apresentar reflexões que possam auxiliar a prática clínica e jurídica, mediante a atuação do profissional psicólogo nas questões tangentes à separação conjugal. A metodologia utilizada foi de História de Oral História de vida. Foram entrevistados quatro sujeitos, um rapaz que tomou a iniciativa no seu aniversário, uma moça que anunciou a decisão no aniversário de vinte seis anos de casamento, uma mulher que recebeu a notícia no Natal e um homem que foi comunicado no Ano Novo. Todos são do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e de classe média. A partir do discurso foi realizada a análise qualitativa dos dados, classificando-se as respostas em categorias essenciais à pesquisa. Como resultados verificou-se, no que se refere às datas comemorativas, que os entrevistados vivenciaram esses momentos como se estas possuíssem algo de mágico. Como se nestas épocas todos os problemas pudessem ser colocados de lado e tréguas pudessem ser feitas. Entretanto, os relatos mostraram que a tal mágica não ocorreu, as dificuldades continuaram expostas e, pelo contrário, o clima do evento evidenciou as convergências ficando difícil progredir como se nada estivesse acontecendo. Os sujeitos que tiveram a iniciativa em terminar com o relacionamento afirmaram que as datas das bodas de casamento e o aniversário natalício deram força e coragem que não tinham tido até aquele momento. Este ato favoreceu a sensação de realização e conquista que, no entanto, vinham misturada de dor, frustração e mágoa. Os sujeitos que receberam o comunicado da decisão do rompimento do casamento no Natal e no Réveillon reconheceram que a noticia configurou-se numa surpresa impactante, ao ponto de provocar silêncio. Identificou-se que não houve reconfiguração nos sentidos atribuídos às datas comemorativas, ao contrário o rompimento nestes eventos sociais fortaleceram o acontecimento. No entanto, foi possível perceber uma adição ao calendário oficial. O Natal, o Réveillon, as bodas e o aniversário é, também, o dia do rompimento conjugal. Soma-se marcos e fortifica-se o evento na memória dos sujeitos que vivenciaram estas histórias. Dentre as contribuições para a prática da Psicologia Jurídica e da clínica evidenciou-se que estes profissionais devem estar atentos ao caráter cíclico das festividades que estão nos calendários, configurando-se em momentos de transição, de inícios e fins.

EVENTOS TURÍSTICOS E SATISFAÇÃO DO TURISTA: O CASO DA FESTA DO FIM-DO-ANO NA ILHA DA MADEIRA

The identification and analysis of the tourist satisfaction in tourism events is fundamental to maintain or improve the image of an event. The knowledge concerning the tourist level of satisfaction at an event can help the organisers to better understand tourist behaviour and intention. Tourism events, particularly those which encompass the cultural identity of a region, allow a community to celebrate its cultural singularities. Such singularities wake the tourist’s desire to experience a culture different from his/hers. The present article aims at identifying and analysing the tourist level of satisfaction at the New Year’s Eve Festivity in Madeira Island.

The Phantom Carriage: a revaluation

This is a two-part audiovisual essay on Victor Sjöström’s extraordinary film The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen), which was released on New Year’s Day 1921. Part 1 explores a sequence in detail, revealing a mastery of three-dimensional film space which is remarkable for its period; the essay then look at the ways in which this handling of space is integral to the film’s rich articulation of character and action. Part 2 considers aspects of the film’s mise-en-scène and shows how the features of the sequence explored in Part 1 take on their full resonance within patterns and motifs that develop across the film. Published by Movie: a journal of film criticism, the essay complements our chapter on the film in the volume Silent Features, edited by Steve Neale (Exeter University Press, 2016).

The Economic Effects of Ski Resorts on Communities in the State of Maine

Skiing and snowboarding is a fairly expensive activity for participant and one in which the industry as a whole makes handsome profits. In the 2005/06 season, resorts in the Northeast reported an average gross revenue of $18.5 million. (NSAA) With the current weather phenomenon of El Nino, however, resorts in New England especially, have been suffering economically. The gross revenue in New England in the ’05/’06 season was down 4% from the previous year, likely due to the fact the total snowfall declined by 16%. (NSAA) Much of this loss in revenue came during the Christmas to New Years vacation period. In the 2007 season, most mountains were less than half-opened during this peak week and the number of skiers and riders was especially low. With such a large decrease in profits, it is likely that many people will soon be affected (if they have not already been), including local employees. This project, therefore, seeks to analyze the impact that the resorts have on the local economies in order to determine the potential problems the changing snowfall patterns could have on locals’ well-being. It is hypothesized that there will be a strong correlation between the proximity of a community to a resort and the relative economic prosperity of that community; meaning that the ski industry is a pivotal part of their income and livelihood.

1.6 School of Law, Lincoln University

Another dilemma also had to be dealt with; Lloyd Gaines was determined to attend law school, not just anywhere but at the University of Missouri. Shortly after the Supreme Court decision, Lloyd Gaines left his civil service job in Michigan and returned home to St. Louis, arriving on New Year’s Eve, 1938. In the meantime, to pay his bills, he took a job as a filling station attendant. On January 9, 1939, Gaines spoke to the St. Louis chapter of the NAACP. He told them he stood “ready, willing, and able to enroll at MU.” Gaines later quit his gas station job. He explained to his family that the station owner substituted inferior gas and that he could not, in good conscience, continue to work there. In the meantime, the state Supreme Court sent the Gaines case back to Boone County to determine whether the new law school at Lincoln would comply with the US Supreme Court’s requirement of “substantial equality.”

Middle years teacher education : new programs and research directions

Teacher education programs focussing on the development of specialist teachers for 'the middle years' have proliferated in Australian universities in recent years. This paper provides some insights into middle years' teacher education programs at the University of Queensland, Edith Cowan and Flinders Universities with regard to their: philosophical underpinnings; specific educational context; scope and nature of the program. In addition, some of the research directions and efficacy strategies utilised in conjunction with the programs will be shared, along with some early findings from a longitudinal study in one of the programs. We propose that the pattern of programmatic growth heralds a new time for teacher education, and we speculate about the production of new kinds of teacher identities as graduates take their place in the profession.

The Special Broadcasting Service after 30 years : public service media and new ways of thinking about media and citizenship

This article considers the distinctive ways in which the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has evolved over its history since 1980, and how it has managed competing claims to being a multicultural yet broad-appeal broadcaster, and a comprehensive yet low-cost media service. It draws attention to the challenges presented by a global rethinking of the nature of citizenship and its relationship to media, for which SBS is well placed as a leader, and the challenges of online media for traditional public service media models, where SBS has arguably been a laggard, particularly when compared with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It notes recent work that has been undertaken by the author with others into user-created content strategies at SBS and how its online news and current affairs services have been evolving in recent years.

Achieving high reliability for ambiguity resolutions with multiple GNSS constellations

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-based observation systems can provide high precision positioning and navigation solutions in real time, in the order of subcentimetre if we make use of carrier phase measurements in the differential mode and deal with all the bias and noise terms well. However, these carrier phase measurements are ambiguous due to unknown, integer numbers of cycles. One key challenge in the differential carrier phase mode is to fix the integer ambiguities correctly. On the other hand, in the safety of life or liability-critical applications, such as for vehicle safety positioning and aviation, not only is high accuracy required, but also the reliability requirement is important. This PhD research studies to achieve high reliability for ambiguity resolution (AR) in a multi-GNSS environment. GNSS ambiguity estimation and validation problems are the focus of the research effort. Particularly, we study the case of multiple constellations that include initial to full operations of foreseeable Galileo, GLONASS and Compass and QZSS navigation systems from next few years to the end of the decade. Since real observation data is only available from GPS and GLONASS systems, the simulation method named Virtual Galileo Constellation (VGC) is applied to generate observational data from another constellation in the data analysis. In addition, both full ambiguity resolution (FAR) and partial ambiguity resolution (PAR) algorithms are used in processing single and dual constellation data. Firstly, a brief overview of related work on AR methods and reliability theory is given. Next, a modified inverse integer Cholesky decorrelation method and its performance on AR are presented. Subsequently, a new measure of decorrelation performance called orthogonality defect is introduced and compared with other measures. Furthermore, a new AR scheme considering the ambiguity validation requirement in the control of the search space size is proposed to improve the search efficiency. With respect to the reliability of AR, we also discuss the computation of the ambiguity success rate (ASR) and confirm that the success rate computed with the integer bootstrapping method is quite a sharp approximation to the actual integer least-squares (ILS) method success rate. The advantages of multi-GNSS constellations are examined in terms of the PAR technique involving the predefined ASR. Finally, a novel satellite selection algorithm for reliable ambiguity resolution called SARA is developed. In summary, the study demonstrats that when the ASR is close to one, the reliability of AR can be guaranteed and the ambiguity validation is effective. The work then focuses on new strategies to improve the ASR, including a partial ambiguity resolution procedure with a predefined success rate and a novel satellite selection strategy with a high success rate. The proposed strategies bring significant benefits of multi-GNSS signals to real-time high precision and high reliability positioning services.