ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, respected Prof. Debjani Chakraborty under whose supervision and guidance this work has been carried out. Without her whole hearted involvement, advice, support and constant encouragement, it would have been impossible to carry out this project work with confidence. CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the thesis entitled " Optimizi...

OBJECTIVES To identify underlying causes for failure of medical thesis projects and the constantly high drop-out rate in Germany from the supervisors' perspective and to compare the results with the students' perspective. SETTING Cross-sectional survey. Online questionnaire for survey of medical thesis supervisors among the staff of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. Published, earl...

Objective The individually delivered Supervising for Home Safety (SHS) program improves caregivers' injury-related beliefs and supervision practices. The current randomized controlled trial used a group delivery in a community setting and assessed program impact, feasibility, and acceptance. Methods Caregivers of 2-5-year-olds were randomized to receive either the SHS or an attention-matched ...

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BACKGROUND Uganda introduced a multipronged intervention, the supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS), to improve medicines management (MM) in public and not-for-profit health facilities. This paper, the first in a series, describes the SPARS intervention and reports on the MM situation in Uganda before SPARS (baseline). METHODS To build MM capacity at health fac...

OBJECTIVE This study compared boys' with girls' hazard-directed behaviors at home when the mother was present and absent from the room. METHODS Videos were coded for how children reacted to a contrived burn hazard ('Gadget'), maternal verbalizations to children about the hazard, and children's compliance with directives to avoid the hazard. Children's behavioral attributes (risk-taking tenden...

PURPOSE Supervision is typically mandatory for therapists in training and plays an important role in their professional development. A number of qualitative studies have considered specific aspects of supervision. This systematic review aimed to synthesize these studies' findings and explore the experience and impact of supervision for trainee therapists. METHODS A systematic search of the li...

Navigation and taxis behavior of the Kompaï Robot Shani Martin Master’s Thesis in Computing Science, 30 credits Under the supervision of: Assoc. Prof. Thomas Hellström, Umeå University, Sweden Examined by: Prof. Frank Drewes, Umeå University, Sweden Umeå University Department of Computing Science SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden

II DECLARATION Herewith I declare that the experiments of the present thesis were carried out under the supervision of Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Freissmuth. Each article in the " Results " section contains a small introduction with the information which experiments were conducted by me. purified the peptides used for the ATPase assays in section 2.1 fig.1 C, D.