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Students’ motivation in
pre-vocational secondary education is lower and dropout rates are higher than
in other forms of secondary education. In this dissertation we studied the
learning environment and self-regulation of motivation as two feasible
intervention points to enhance and increase the motivation of these students.
Students in a student-centred learning environment reported more
need-satisfaction and motivational engagement than students in a
teacher-centred learning environment. Boys also showed less absenteeism.
Our studies on self-regulation showed that most students prefer learning
goals, social goals and well-being goals above goals on material gain,
superiority and individuality. Few goals were related to motivational
engagement.
The use of motivational regulation strategies functions as a pa...
Students’ motivation in
pre-vocational secondary education is lower and dropout rates are higher than
in other forms of secondary education. In this dissertation we studied the
learning environment and self-regulation of motivation as two feasible
intervention points to enhance and increase the motivation of these students.
Students in a student-centred learning environment reported more
need-satisfaction and motivational engagement than students in a
teacher-centred learning environment. Boys also showed less absenteeism.
Our studies on self-regulation showed that most students prefer learning
goals, social goals and well-being goals above goals on material gain,
superiority and individuality. Few goals were related to motivational
engagement.
The use of motivational regulation strategies functions as a pa...
The aim of this thesis is to develop image processing
solutions that enable
the fully automatic pre-operative planning of aorta-related procedures, such
as Trans-catheter aortic valve replacement and aorta dilatation diagnosis.
Hence, the objectives of this thesis are as follows:
1. To fully automatically quantify the aorto-iliac vascular access route,
including the aortic root by image processing methods in CTA.
2. To broaden the scope of automatic methods into the detection of aorta
dilatation.
3. To integrate the automatic quantification methods into applications
which allow manual interactions and the calculation of clinically
relevant parameters.
4. To demonstrate the accuracy and feasibility of the fully automatic
planning and quantification methods in different patient cohorts.
The aim of this thesis is to develop image processing
solutions that enable
the fully automatic pre-operative planning of aorta-related procedures, such
as Trans-catheter aortic valve replacement and aorta dilatation diagnosis.
Hence, the objectives of this thesis are as follows:
1. To fully automatically quantify the aorto-iliac vascular access route,
including the aortic root by image processing methods in CTA.
2. To broaden the scope of automatic methods into the detection of aorta
dilatation.
3. To integrate the automatic quantification methods into applications
which allow manual interactions and the calculation of clinically
relevant parameters.
4. To demonstrate the accuracy and feasibility of the fully automatic
planning and quantification methods in different patient cohorts.
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is the most common complication
when premature birth occurs at less than 28 weeks gestational age. The
general aim of this thesis is to explore the therapeutic potential of
interventions in signaling pathways, involved in lung development and
oxidative stress-induced lung injury, to prevent or attenuate BPD in a
neonatal rat model, in which experimental BPD is induced by exposure to
hyperoxia. The therapeutic potential of the targeting compounds of signaling
pathways was investigated by studying their beneficial effects on
contributing factors to severe experimental BPD pathology, including aberrant
alveolar and vascular development, inflammation, fibrosis, coagulation,
vascular remodeling, pulmonary arterial hypertension and right ventricular
hypertrophy. We found ⑴angiotensin II type 2...
Today, virtually every country in the world has a written
constitution that contains a special amendment procedure. These procedures
are designed to regulate constitutional change. However, formal
constitutional amendment is not the only way in which constitutional norms
change, and in some systems not even the most important. To the contrary, it
appears to be more common for constitutional norms to adjust to changing
circumstances and demands through alternative, ‘informal’ processes of
change.
Key questions, central to this dissertation, are: how should we understand
and identify constitutional change that takes place without prior formal
constitutional amendment? Why do significant constitutional developments
sometimes occur without new constitutional writing? And are alternative
mechanisms of constitutional...
This book is the first comprehensive description of
Mundabli, a Southern Bantoid (Niger-Congo) language spoken in the Grassfields
region of Northwest Cameroon. Mundabli has four level tones plus a number of
contour tones. Its phonology is further characterized by a complicated vowel
system including a set of pharyngealized vowels. Its noun class system, with
paired singular and plural classes, is similarly elaborate as those of Bantu
languages. However, unlike in other related languages, noun classes in
Mundabli are often not marked on the noun. Some singular-plural class
pairings are instead marked by stem-initial consonant mutation or by tonal
changes. Agreement is restricted to the noun phrase. Verbs belong to one of
three inflectional classes or verb tone classes. Mundabli makes use of two
future tenses and fo...
