Protecting the Autonomy of Patients with Severe Mental Illness Through Psychiatric Advance Directive Peer-Facilitation by Nicholas Karasik

“…Service User-Level Barriers to Psychiatric Advance Directive Uptake Several barriers exist at the service-user level that prevent the widespread adoption of PADs. These include a lack of trust, support, and knowledge of PADs, as well as a lack of understanding in completing a PAD.[21] Concerning trust, one study found that 43 percent of patients did not feel they had someone they could trust to help them complete their PAD.[22] Other studies indicated that patients had limited trust in their healthcare professionals.[23] Regarding the lack of support, one survey found that 94 percent of respondents would be unable to complete a PAD without assistance or without a facilitator.[24] Many patients lack knowledge and awareness of PADs, how to complete, and what to include in them.[25] Due to their complex legal nature, over half of the respondents in one survey indicated that they had problems understanding the PAD.[26] Similarly, 79 percent of clients interviewed in one study felt that PADs posed too much of a burden.[27] Through their shared lived experience, peer-support facilitators would be in a greater position to foster trust with patients and create the environment necessary for patients to explore their values and preferences through this process. …”
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A Comparative Study to Assess the Level of Stress and Coping Strategies among Introvert and Extrovert Nursing Students in Selected Colleges of Nursing, Delhi and NCR by Shilpa Sharma, M. Jibanlata Devi, Arshi Anjum Khan

“…Whereas, 44% of introvert Nursing students adopted emotion-focused coping strategies, 40.5% adopted problem-focused coping strategies and 15.5% adopted avoidant coping strategies. …”
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Strategic Management of Manufacturing - Proposal of a method that recommends Production Techniques to Leverage Different Competitive Dimensions by Luis Felipe Maldaner, Rafael Kreling

“…However, the literature is much more restricted when it comes to determining which particular manufacturing technique should be adopted among different possibilities. This study aims at filling this gap by proposing a method, which directs decision-making when one needs to define the most appropriate production technique(s) to be adopted within a specific industrial reality. …”
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Close-Proximity Operations Design, Analysis, and Validation for Non-Cooperative Targets with an Application to the ClearSpace-1 Mission by José Vasconcelos, Serena Gaggi, Tiago Amaral, Charles Bakouche, Adina Cotuna, Ana Friaças

“…The analysis is adopted for functional chains such as the Navigation and Control, and the combination of a prototyping and a high-fidelity simulator is adopted for directed Model-in-the-Loop Monte-Carlo campaigns. …”
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The Linear Fitting Method for Model of PIN Array Receiver in Space Optical Communication by H. Qinggui

“…The experimental result validates the reasonability of adopting the double diode model to study PIN array. …”
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Instrumental practice and body discomfort: study with musicians of violin and viola by Clarissa Stefani Teixeira, Rubian Diego Andrade, Fausto Kothe, Érico Pereira Gomes Felden

“…The positions adopted during the work routines can generate problems of health and possible removals of the professional practice. …”
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Predictive Analysis for the Thermal Diffusion of the Plasma-Assisted Machining of Superalloy Inconel-718 Based on Exponential Smoothing by Chen Shao-Hsien, Kun-Tan Tsai

“…The plasma-assisted machining adopted in the research is a kind of the complex machining method. …”
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Research on Hysteresis of Piezoceramic Actuator Based on the Duhem Model by Miaolei Zhou, Jingyuan Wang

“…Contrasting the simulation results of recursive least squares algorithm and gradient correction algorithm, the modeling accuracy is 0.24% when adopting the recursive least squares algorithm, and the modeling accuracy is 0.11% when adopting the gradient correction method. …”
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Finite-time anti-synchronization of a 6D Lorenz systems by Hu Tang, Kaiyu Liu, Zhengqiu Zhang

“…Adopting the new study methods studies the FTAS of the MS6DLSS, and the novel results on the FTAS are gotten for the MS6DLSS, which is innovative study work.…”
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Tourism and the demonstration effect: Empirical evidence by J. Carlos Monterrubio, M. Marivel Mendoza-Ontiveros

“…They observe, analyse, compare, evaluate and decide on what and how tourists’ specific behaviours are adopted.…”
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Literary Translation Techniques in Professor Pamela Smith’s Translation of Akinwumi Is̩ola’s Ogun Omode to Treasury of Childhood Memories by O̩lálérè Adéyemi

“…This study, therefore, examined the literary techniques adopted by the translator in the Target Language (TL).  …”
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Les monolingues parlent aux bilingues : Plurilinguisme et parole politique aux États-Unis et au Canada by Charles Brasart

“…Conversely, a strategy of divergence (Giles, Coupland & Coupland 1991) may be adopted by using two languages when addressing a monolingual speaker.Beyond the matter of the choice available to bilingual speakers, that issue is rarely addressed from the opposite point of view: what strategy can a monolingual speaker adopt when wishing to accommodate a bilingual speaker? …”
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Which Agroforestry Practice Is Beneficial? A Comparative Assessment of the Traditional and the Improved Agroforestry Techniques in the Midhills of Nepal by Deepa Paudel, Krishna Raj Tiwari, Nani Raut, Bishal K. Sitaula, Suman Bhattarai, Yajna Prasad Timilsina, Shivaraj Thapa

“…An individual household adopting the improved practice annually generated 841.60 US$, which was more than two folds of the traditional practitioner. …”
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Challenges, Coping Strategies, and Social Support among Breast Cancer Patients in Ghana by Ruth Boatemaa Benson, Bernice Cobbold, Ellen Opoku Boamah, Cynthia Pomaa Akuoko, Daniel Boateng

“…Results. The most and least adopted active coping strategies were religious coping and humors, respectively. …”
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Resilience Project Interventions and its Effect on Vulnerable Household’s Standards of Living in Uganda: An Empirical Evidence from USAID ICAN Project in Kigezi Sub-Region. by Sunday, Dismus

“…The two Sample tests of proportions for livelihood and nutrition sub-purpose were statistically different for both interventions and adoptions and even for governance adoptions but not governance interventions. …”
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Anthropological Perspective on the Decision-Making Process in Environmental Protection by Grzegorz Embros

“…The systemic perspective on environmental action adopted in the paper, allows in this thematic area, issues related to the decision-making process. …”
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The Influence of Perceptions of Risks and Benefits on the Continuity of Use of Fintech Services by Artur Barretti Mascarenhas, Cristiane Koda Perpétuo, Erika Borgonovo Barrote, Maria Paula Perides

“…The main results confirmed seven of the eleven initial hypotheses, highlighting that the perceived benefits, especially the economic ones, were relevant to early adopters and seamless transactions were relevant for late adopters. …”
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Desplazados de Haití: movilidad intrarregional sudamericana y las medidas compulsivas en Brasil y Chile by Joseane Mariéle Schuck Pinto, Rodrigo Ríos Álvarez

“…This paper analyzes the compulsory measures adopted by Brazil and Chile in processes of expulsion of migrants. …”
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BİR MUTASAVVIF OLARAK KUŞEYRÎ’NİN KELAMİ GÖRÜŞLERİ by İsmail Şık

“…Kuşeyrî who adopted to Ashari theology’understanding, have important effect to became systematized in the İslamic Sufism’tradition. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of the Sniffing Position with Simple Head Extension for Laryngoscopic View and Intubation Difficulty in Adults Undergoing Elective Surgery by Smita Prakash, Amy G. Rapsang, Saurabh Mahajan, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Rajvir Singh, Anoop R. Gogia

“…An upright stance is adopted by more anesthesiologists performing intubation with patients in the sniffing position.…”
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