AN ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR WEB-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY GÜL TOKDEMĐR IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS JANUARY 2009 Approval of the Graduate School of Informatics _________________________ Prof. Dr. Nazife BAYKAL Director I certify that this thesis satisfies all the requirements
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Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Meta Anderson NURS 4000 5/ NURS-4001-5 Res/ Scholarship Evid-Based Practice April 21‚ 2013 Pressure Ulcers are very serious‚ but common occurrences in healthcare in our older patients today. Millions of dollars are spent daily to prevent this occurrence. The purpose of this paper is to educate on the evidence based nursing practice surrounding pressure ulcers. Practice Setting Problem Pressure Ulcer is a breakdown of
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CIS: A Web-Based Course Information System Holger Gast‚ Albrecht Haug‚ R¨ diger Loos‚ u Volker Simonis‚ and Roland J. Weiss WSI 2004-1 February 2004 ¨ Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut fur Informatik Universit¨ t T¨ bingen a u Sand 13‚ 72076 T¨ bingen‚ Germany u Email: {gast‚haug‚loos‚simonis‚weissr}@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de c WSI 2004 ISSN 0946-3852 Abstract This report surveys the design and implementation of CIS‚ a web-based Course Information System. CIS has been developed
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The Effect of the Information Age on Family Values By Dennis M. Parker The Effect of the Information Age on Family Values The world might be increasingly reliant on high-tech gadgets and new-media information sources‚ but‚ contrary to popular belief‚ that has only seemed to strengthened traditional family values. What we need to realize is that “traditional family values” is a very hard thing to define‚ because it means different things depending on different families’ traditions. “The
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"Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again." Every 40 seconds somebody dies by suicide. 20 numbers of failed suicide attempts for each successful one. Women are more likely than man to attempt suicide‚ while men are much more likely to succeed.India ranks 43rd in descending order of rates
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Page 5-6 The definition of suicide is when a person who intentionally takes his or her own life. To do something intentionally is to do it on purpose‚ to mean to do it. (1) First Cause: When something is gravely wrong in a person’s life. As of anything bad that’s going on or something they can’t handle. For example financial problems‚ family problems‚ self-problems‚ and school problems. (2) Second Cause: Someone that have a mental or emotional disorder. Suicide victims suffer from major depression
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Mindful-Based Cognitive Therapy is an eight week group based program that helps people learn how to use relaxation techniques to pay attention to the current moment. It teaches the participants to become aware of their feeling and manage them‚ instead of being overcome by them. It is a mix of cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation practices to help manage the feeling associated with depression. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy has been proven to reduce relapse risk after a depressive occurrence
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The Internet: Connection or Disconnection? The Internet is an incredible invention. It brings a whole world of information to our fingertips. It can literally connect us with people across the globe; people who we otherwise would never have the opportunity to connect with. However‚ as Dr. Alex Lickerman shares in an article on Psychology Today.com‚ “even as the Internet has shrunk the world and brought us closer together‚ it is threatening to push us further apart”. The threat‚ the danger
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TWO GROUP BASED APPROACHES TO CHANGE Change is the window through which the future enters your life. It’s all around you‚ in many types and shapes. You can bring it about yourself or it can come in ways. One of the keys to dealing with change is understanding that change in never over. “Change brings opportunity to those who can grasp it‚ and the discontinuities of the new economy offer unlimited opportunities.” QUALITY CIRCLES A quality circle is a volunteer group composed of workers
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Most people who choose to end their lives do so for complex reasons. Research has shown that in the UK many people who die by suicide have a mental illness‚ most commonly depression or an alcohol problem. In many cases‚ suicide is also linked to feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness. Vulnerability to suicide Many experts believe a number of things determine how vulnerable a person is to suicidal thinking and behaviour. These include: • life history - for example having a traumatic experience
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