Search results for "Concordance"

Appropriateness of surgery performed for abdominal aortic aneurysm at tertiary hospitals in Spain

2021

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the appropriateness of the type of repair (open or endovascular) performed for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in five university hospitals in Spain, according to evidence-based recommendations. Methods: A multicenter, retrospective cross-sectional study of patients with AAA who underwent elective open surgical repair (OSR) or endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). Data were collected on demographic and clinical variables and type of surgical repair. A pair of vascular surgeons from each participating hospital performed a blinded assessment based on GRADE recommendations. The concordance between the two evaluators and the agreement between thei…

Managing Relations: a study of positioning strategies in British international discourse

2008

This work deals with corpus-assisted research into speaker ideological positioning in the language of diplomacy. It concentrates on the resources used by the foreign minister Margaret Beckett to construe the speaker “orientation” (Lemke 1992) through the analysis of the main participant in the discourse that is international community and the subject matter being debated namely terrorism. The findings have shown assertiveness and determination from the speaker by the use of contractive mechanisms. The image of the international community is based on cooperation and unity just like a family and it is appraised mainly through judgements of tenacity. These are the resources required to fight t…

Appraisals of education-related goals during educational transitions in late adolescence : consequences for academic well-being and goal attainment

2012

Sympathetic nervous system synchrony between participants of couple therapy

2017

Synchrony, or the moment-by-moment coordination between people in social situations, has been connected with increased liking and rapport. However, this type of synchrony is an underexplored area with regard to autonomic nervous system activity. The purpose of this research was to study physiological synchrony between participants in couple therapy by focusing on the sympathetic nervous system (SNS), which reflects arousal and emotional reactions. The data comprised 12 couple therapy cases (24 clients, 10 therapists) participating in the Relational Mind in Events of Change in Multiactor Therapeutic Dialogues (2013-2016) research project. Electrodermal activity (EDA) and heart rate were reco…

Zero-Heat-Flux and Esophageal Temperature Monitoring in Orthopedic Surgery: An Observational Study

2021

Judy Munday,1,2 Niall Higgins,1,3 Lee Jones,1,4 Dimitrios Vagenas,4 André Van Zundert,1,5,6 Samantha Keogh1,3 1School of Nursing & Centre for Healthcare Transformation, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia; 2Department of Health and Nursing Science, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway; 3Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, QLD, Australia; 4Research Methods Group, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia; 5Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hosp…

Digital Community Storytelling as a Sociopolitical Critical Device

2016

Este artículo analiza 40 historias digitales comunitarias basadas en los principios de estudios de discurso crítico basados ​​en corpus (Baker et al., 2008). Las historias se analizan con la intención de probar si pueden clasificarse como ejemplos de historias sociopolíticas digitales. Las historias digitales socio-políticas se describen aquí como una herramienta que los individuos pueden usar para hacer llegar al público opiniones sobre temas que puedan afectar a la democracia (Couldry, 2008), el bienestar social y la estabilidad; y puede servir para facilitar la comunicación, interacción e intercambio de información sobre prácticas sociales conflictivas. Las historias analizadas pueden co…