Essays about: "normative reference group"

Found 4 essays containing the words normative reference group.

  1. 1. ”Hand reach star excursion balance test” : Assessment of dynamic functional mobility in female elite team gymnasts in relation to overuse injuries

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för hälsovetenskap

    Author : Åsa Bocké; [2020]
    Keywords : adolescents; functional tests; injury prevalence; movement screening;

    Abstract : Background Clinical usable assessment methods to quantify mobility, balance, stability and postural control functions together in a full kinetic chain movement are sparse. Normative data of such dynamic functions in different group of athletes are  still lacking and therefore the relationship between dynamic functional mobility and overuse injuries are also unknown. READ MORE

  3. 2. Evaluating the Compliance Re-Certification Efficiency Enabled by the AMASS Platform for Medical Devices

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för innovation, design och teknik

    Author : Aleksandër Pulla; Antonela Bregu; [2020]
    Keywords : AMASS project; certification; re-certification; efficiency; medical devices; ISO 14971; NBRG Consensus paper; reuse; standard; tool-chain; metrics; directives; regulations;

    Abstract : The certification of systems in the medical domain aims to ensure that a system is acceptably safein order to bear the CE mark. Such process is exhaustive, expensive, time-consuming and safety-critical.Medical devices shall be re-certified under Medical Device Regulations. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Critical Reading of the Scholarly and ICT Industry’s Construction of Ambient Intelligence for Societal Transformation of Europe

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Simon Elias Bibri; [2012]
    Keywords : AmI; ICT; AmI vision; AmI discourse; construction; discourse analysis; power; ideology; social transformation; society; citizens; ISTAG; ICT industry; scholarly; European; social; critical; Foucault;

    Abstract : Ambient Intelligence (AmI) refers to a vision of the information society where everyday human environments will be permeated by intelligent technology: people will be surrounded and accompanied by intelligent interfaces supported by computing and wireless networking technology that is ubiquitous, embedded in virtually all kinds of everyday objects. These computationally augmented, smart environments - composed of a myriad of invisible, distributed, networked, connected, interactive, and always-on computing devices - are aware of human context; sensitive to people's needs; adaptive to, and anticipatory of, their behavior; personalized to their requirements; and responsive to their emotion and presence, thereby intelligently supporting their daily and social lives by providing limitless services in a seamless and unobtrusive way. READ MORE

  5. 4. Combining the Antagonistic: a critical discourse analysis of the Lisbon strategy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Olga Sementsova; [2007]
    Keywords : the Lisbon strategy; the European union; critical discourse analysis; comparative reference group; normative reference group; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In the light of the debate about the nature of the European Union, the current study proposes to look at how the EU is perceived by its policy-makers. The purpose of the study is to identify how the EU is understood in normative terms. Another aim of the study is to speculate as to why this kind of understanding is preferred in the documents. READ MORE