Vernal Pool: A Participatory Art Project About Place + Precipitation

Produced by Karen Miranda Abel with Jessica Marion Barr, Vernal Pool is an immersive, elemental water installation created as a participatory, contemplative inquiry into our transitory interrelationships with water and landscape. From November 2013 to April 2014, 114 individuals across Canada and abroad gathered snow samples as a form of extrinsic artistic practice about place and precipitation. With the arrival of spring, the reservoir of melted snow was convened for four days at Toronto’s historic Gladstone Hotel to create Vernal Pool

An evaluation of the 'Living with Cancer' project: Using neuro-linguistic programming techniques to maximise the coping strategies of carers and patients living with cancer in Ellesmere Port

The 'Living with cancer' project aimed to improve communication, relationship, and coping skills of health professionals, cancer patients and their carers in Ellesmere Port. The project delivered NLP Diploma training to 55 health professionals between April 2001-March 2004.Commissioned by Chester and Halton NHS Trust and funded through the New Opportunities Fund

Exploring colorectal cancer patients' perceptions of the quality of their care

This report discusses the local situation in Halton with regard to colorectal cancer care by exploring how patients perceived the quality of their care.Widnes Primary Care Grou

An evaluation of the Wallasey Heart Centre

This project report discusses an evaluation of Wallasey Heart Centre, an intermediate cardiovascular clinic designed to provide accessible high-quality patient care to an area with a high prevalence of of coronary heart disease and poor access to existing secondary care services. The service began in October 2000 with funding for three years. The views of local GPs, local cardiologists, and Wallasey Heart Centre staff and patients were sought

Traduttore Traditore: All Translators are Traitors. Except, maybe, for Chaucer.

The aim of this project is to analyse plot elements and word choices in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Reeve’s Tale” from his greater work, The Canterbury Tales, and compare them to those used in a similar story from Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, Day 9, Story 6 in order to determine if there are enough similar elements between the two stories to infer that Chaucer could have been familiar with Boccaccio’s version of the tale when writing “The Reeve’s Tale . The paper also addresses the question of whether or not Chaucer “merely translated” his source text into English and, if so, what the act of translating really means. Nida’s concept of translation styles (specifically whether one uses to domesticize or forenize a work through their translation) defines translation for this paper and serves as the basis for how Chaucer can be interpreted as having been a translator, of sorts, when writing his own works

Desert Pool {If every desert was once a sea}

Desert Pool {If every desert was once a sea} is a site-specific art project by Canadian artist Karen Miranda Abel completed in 2016 while artist-in-residence at Joya: arte + ecología, an arts-led research centre situated in an alpine desert within a national park in southern Spain. The elemental installation represents an envisioning of the ancient sea that occupied the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park millions of years before the current desert ecology, a time when its highest mountain peaks may have been islands

Factor extraction using Kalman filter and smoothing: This is not just another survey

Dynamic factor models have been the main “big data” tool used by empirical macroeconomists during the last 30 years. In this context, Kalman filter and smoothing (KFS) procedures can cope with missing data, mixed frequency data, time-varying parameters, non-linearities, non-stationarity, and many other characteristics often observed in real systems of economic variables. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a comprehensive updated summary of the literature on latent common factors extracted using KFS procedures in the context of dynamic factor models, pointing out their potential limitations. Signal extraction and parameter estimation issues are separately analyzed. Identification issues are also tackled in both stationary and non-stationary models. Finally, empirical applications are surveyed in both cases. This survey is relevant to researchers and practitioners interested not only in the theory of KFS procedures for factor extraction in dynamic factor models but also in their empirical application in macroeconomics and financeFinancial support from the Spanish Government Project PID2019-108079GB-C22/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (MINECO/FEDER) is gratefully acknowledged by Pilar Poncela. Esther Ruiz and Karen Miranda acknowledge financial support from project PID2019-108079GB-C21 (MINECO/FEDER

Development of Methodology to Gather Seated Anthropometry Data in a Microgravity Environment

The Constellation Program is designing a new vehicle based off of new anthropometric requirements. These requirements specify the need to account for a spinal elongation factor for anthropometric measurements involving the spine, such as eye height and seated height. However, to date there is no data relating spinal elongation to a seated posture. Only data relating spinal elongation to stature has been collected in microgravity. Therefore, it was proposed to collect seated height in microgravity to provide the Constellation designers appropriate data for their analyses. This document will describe the process in which the best method to collect seated height in microgravity was developed

Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 como factor asociado a depresión en adultos mayores

Demostrar si diabetes mellitus tipo 2 es un factor asociado a depresión en adultos mayores. Material y Métodos: Se llevó a cabo un estudio de tipo descriptivo, observacional, prospectivo y trasversal. La población de estudio estuvo constituida por 384 pacientes adultos mayores con diagnostico diabetes mellitus tipo 2 atendidos en consultorio externo de endocrinología en el Hospital Víctor Lazarte Echegaray durante el periodo Noviembre 2016 – Febrero 2017. Resultados: La prevalencia de depresión en pacientes con diabetes de mellitus tipo 2 fue de 90.6%.Se encontró mayor prevalencia de mujeres de sexo femenino 57.3%.Se encontró que una mayor prevalencia en casados 56.5%.Además se encontró que hay correlación estadísticamente significativa con la depresión en los adultos mayores con diabetes mellitus tipo 2, siendo de mayor frecuencia en pacientes con un tiempo de enfermedad mayor de 10 años(36.5%) Conclusiones: La Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 es un factor asociado a depresión en adultos mayores.Demonstrate if type 2 diabetes mellitus is a factor associated with depression in older adults. Material and Methods: A descriptive, observational, prospective and cross - sectional study was carried out. The study population consisted of 384 elderly patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus treated at an external endocrinology clinic at Hospital Víctor Lazarte Echegaray during the period November 2016 - February 2017. Results: The prevalence of depression in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus was 90.6%. It found a higher prevalence of female 57.3% . It was found that a higher prevalence of in married 56.5%. In addition it was found that there is statistically significant correlation with Depression in the older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus, being more frequent in patients with a disease time greater than 10 years (36.5%), Conclusions: Diabetes mellitus type 2 is a factor associated with depression in older adults.Tesi