Help Seeking, Work Status, and Outcome: Counseling Psychologist’s Prospective Role

Exploring the effects on mental health outcome when individuals who admit they are in need of mental health help and actually do engage in help seeking (versus those who admit a need but do not seek help), in addition to work status may provide support to bolster the education and promotion of help seeking and work engagement. Moreover, counseling psychologists may be best positioned to understand how career and mental health issues interact by addressing the concerns of occupational mental health. The current study examined the effects of actual mental health help seeking and work status on mental health outcome

Help Seeking, Work Status, and Outcome: Counseling Psychologist’s Prospective Role

Exploring the effects on mental health outcome when individuals who admit they are in need of mental health help and actually do engage in help seeking (versus those who admit a need but do not seek help), in addition to work status may provide support to bolster the education and promotion of help seeking and work engagement. Moreover, counseling psychologists may be best positioned to understand how career and mental health issues interact by addressing the concerns of occupational mental health. The current study examined the effects of actual mental health help seeking and work status on mental health outcome

Cultural Representations of the Transformative Body in Young Adult Multi-Volume Vampire Fiction, 2000-2010

The literary vampire of traditional horror has moved away from the horror genre and found a new and unlikely home in the pages of Young Adult multi-volume vampire fiction, where s/he has embraced and indeed vampirised existing YA generic tropes to transform his/her own physicality in unprecedented ways into something uniquely situated within its new socio-cultural and generic position. This vampire has attracted vast audiences to the YA genre, has arguably been responsible for the increase in YA fiction titles available and has captured a unique socio-literary zeitgeist which will never exist again. The nascent YA “neoteric vampire”, as cultural construct, and its transformative body will form the topic of this thesis in relation to Gothic theories of the body and emerging YA critical theory. The novels will be used as an interpretive vehicle for discussion of the cultural context in order to establish a more formalist close reading and context-driven critical discourse. The key themes addressed will include adolescence and physical maturation, religion, sexuality and gender, beauty and food and each of these salient elements of discussion will look to over-arching topics and their use across these thematically specific areas. Such over-arching tropes will include heteronormative feeding, consumption and vampiric gendering. The original contribution to knowledge lies in the study of a newly introduced literary genre and a newly created kind of teen vampire, constructed specifically to speak to contemporary Western teen audiences of the 2000-2010 period like no vampire has before. This study evaluates and investigates this unique vampire construct in conjunction with linked interdisciplinary, culturally specific critical analysis, from spheres including literary food studies, transformation studies, gender studies and sociology, and Gothic theories relating to the body in metamorphosis. By examining five series of largely unanalysed YA vampire fiction as body-centric, as Gothic, as genre-specific, and as socio-culturally and geopolitically located for the first time as a whole, this thesis adds to and furthers the academic debate in the arena of YA vampire studies as it relates to notions of the body of the vampire, and ultimately the teen body, as represented, culturally constructed, transformable and ephemeral

A survey of partial differential equations in geometric design

YesComputer aided geometric design is an area where the improvement of surface generation techniques is an everlasting demand since faster and more accurate geometric models are required. Traditional methods for generating surfaces were initially mainly based upon interpolation algorithms. Recently, partial differential equations (PDE) were introduced as a valuable tool for geometric modelling since they offer a number of features from which these areas can benefit. This work summarises the uses given to PDE surfaces as a surface generation technique togethe

A PDE patch-based spectral method for progressive mesh compression and mesh denoising

The development of the patchwise partial differential equation (PDE) framework a few years ago has paved the way for the PDE method to be used in mesh signal processing. In this paper, we, for the first time, extend the use of the PDE method to progressive mesh compression and mesh denoising. We, meanwhile, upgrade the existing patchwise PDE method in patch merging, mesh partitioning, and boundary extraction to accommodate mesh signal processing. In our new method, an arbitrary mesh model is partitioned into patches, each of which can be represented by a small set of coefficients of its PDE spectral solution. Since low-frequency components contribute more to the reconstructed mesh than high-frequency ones, we can achieve progressive mesh compression and mesh denoising by manipulating the frequency terms of the PDE solution. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of our method in both progressive mesh compression and mesh denoising

Security systems in technological process

Import 29/09/2010Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá bezpečným řízením a jeho přínosem pro automatizace nepřetržitých technologií v průmyslu. Popisuji v ní technologii koksovny, zvláště pak její chemické části. Je zde shrnuta legislativa, právní normy a teoretické poznatky z oblasti bezpečnosti. V praktické části se řeší prodloužení doby vypírání sirovodíku z koksového plynu po dobu poruchy či odstávky navazující části provozu.This Bachelor’s thesis deals with the safe management and its benefits for the automation of continuous technology in the industry. I describe in it technology coking plant, especially its chemical part. There is a form of legislation, the legal standards and theoretical knowledge of the area of security. In practical part I solve time extension of pan out hydrogen sulphide from coke gas for a disruption time or shut down coherent part of plant.638 - Katedra automatizace a počítačové techniky v metalurgiivýborn

Detection of leakage of explosive and toxic gases of coking plant

Import 03/08/2012Tato diplomová práce se zabývá řešením detekce úniku koksárenského plynu a benzenu na provoze chemická část koksovny. Je v ní popsána technologie odsávání koksárenského plynu z koksárenských baterií a výroby surového koksárenského benzolu. Je zde rovněž shrnuta legislativa ochrany proti výbuchu a bezpečnosti práce s těmito látkami. V teoretické části jsou shrnuty principy analyzátorů plynů a nejčastěji používaných senzorů. V praktické části je pak řešena kontinuální detekce oxidu uhelnatého v ovzduší budovy turbo odsávačů a využití stávající detekce benzenu ve strojovně benzolové destilace k automatickému odstavení technologie.This thesis deals with leak detection solution of the coke oven gas and benzene into the chemical part of the coking plant. This work describes the coke oven gas extraction from coke oven batteries and the production of raw coke benzol. There is also summarized the legislation of explosion protection and safety at work with these substances. In the theoretical part there is summarized the principles of gas analyzers and the most commonly used sensors. The practical part summarizes continuous detection of carbon monoxide in the air of turbo exhausters that are located in the buildings and also using the exists benzene detection in engine room of benzole distillation to the automatic shutdown of the technology.638 - Katedra automatizace a počítačové techniky v metalurgiivýborn