Pour un Dictionnaire des Fréquences des Locutions Verbales

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-378
Author(s):  
Harald Ulland
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Type A ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Frequency Dictionary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fixed Expressions ◽  
French Words ◽  
Predicate Type

Although many frequency dictionaries of French words have been published over the past decades, they rarely include fixed expressions and idioms. I therefore view it as an important task to try to compile a frequency dictionary of French locutions verbales (fixed expressions of the predicate type). A pilot study of the frequency of about twenty expressions in the newspaper Le Monde 1996 and 1997 reveals that particular problems arise in creating such a dictionary. This paper discusses some of these problems, including variation (instability) and ambiguity, and concludes with a model entry for the dictionary.

A New Dimension in the Study of Human Functional Joint Instability

2012 ◽  
Vol 249-250 ◽  
pp. 1271-1276
Author(s):  
Wen Liu ◽  
Tarang Jain ◽  
Clayton Wauneka
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Stimulation ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Joint Instability ◽  
Ankle Instability ◽  
Soft Tissue Injuries ◽  
Functional Ankle Instability ◽  
The Past ◽  
Upright Standing ◽  
Unloading Reaction ◽  
Testing Condition

Functional joint instability is common after joint soft tissue injuries. We present in this report our pilot finding in a study of functional ankle instability. Although past studies have suggested multiple pathological factors for functional ankle instability, none of those factors has been confirmed in the past studies. More importantly, no known factor can provide an explanation for an ankle giving way phenomenon which is a key element in defining a functional ankle instability. In this pilot study, we tested five subjects with functional ankle instability using a dynamic ankle stretching device combined with nociceptive electrical stimulation. Three out of five subjects showed a drastic reaction in which they totally gave up their control of upright standing after their affected ankles were under the combined ankle stretch and nociceptive stimuli. Such drastic reaction was not observed in the same ankles under only the ankle stretch. There was no such drastic reaction in the unaffected ankle under either testing condition. This pilot finding indicates a possibility of a hyper-reactivity to unloading reaction in the ankles with functional ankle instability

scholarly journals Pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence with real-time adherence feedback and partner HIV self-testing: A pilot trial among postpartum women

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dvora L Joseph Davey ◽  
Kathryn Dovel ◽  
Rufaro Mvududu ◽  
Dorothy Nyemba ◽  
Nyiko Mashele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Pilot Trial ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Postpartum Women ◽  
Care Clinic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Testing ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

Background: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is safe and effective in postpartum women. HIV self-testing (HIVST) for partners combined with biofeedback counselling through real-time adherence measures may improve daily PrEP use among postpartum women. Methods: Between August 2020 and April 2021 we conducted a pilot study in one primary care clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. We randomized postpartum women who initiated PrEP in pregnancy 1:1 to the intervention group (HIVST + biofeedback counselling following urine tenofovir test) or to standard of care (facility-based HIV tests and routine counselling without biofeedback). The outcomes of interest were PrEP adherence in the past 48-72hours via urine tenofovir tests and partner HIV testing, measured 1-month after randomisation. Secondary outcomes included proportion of partners who tested for HIV and discrepancy between self-reported PrEP adherence and urine tenofovir result. Results: We enrolled 106 women (median age=26 years; median months postpartum=2). Almost half of women reported having sex since giving birth (48%); 76% of those reported condomless sex at last sex. At enrolment most women (72%) reported missing <2 doses in the past 7-days; 36% of women had tenofovir present in her urine (no significant differences by arm). One month after enrolment, 62% (n=33) of women in the intervention arm had tenofovir present in their urine compared to 34% (n=18) in the standard of care arm (RR=1.83; 95% CI=1.19, 2.82). Two-thirds of women in the intervention arm reported that her partner tested for HIV (66%; n=35); compared to 17% (n=9) in the standard of care arm (RR=3.89; 95% CI=2.08, 7.27). The proportion of women with a discrepant adherence result (self-reported good recent adherence with no tenofovir in urine test) was significantly lower in the intervention group (n=8; 17%) compared to the standard of care group (n=24; 46%) (RR=0.33; 95% CI=0.17, 0.67). No social or clinical adverse events were reported in the intervention arm. Conclusions: In this pilot study, HIVST for partners and biofeedback counseling increased levels of recent PrEP adherence, pointing to the importance of these interventions to support PrEP use in this population.

Effects of a Content Knowledge Intervention on Instruction and Learning: A Pilot Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emi Tsuda ◽  
Phillip Ward ◽  
Jacqueline Goodway
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Upper Elementary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Elementary Physical Education ◽  
Elementary Grade ◽  
Instruction And Learning ◽  
Intervention Condition

The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of improving a physical education teacher’s content knowledge and, in turn, the teacher’s instructional effectiveness and student learning in an upper elementary physical education setting. Four classes were randomly assigned to either a comparison condition (n4th = 9 students; n5th = 17) or an intervention condition (n4th = 7; n5th = 10). The teacher taught both conditions. The teacher first taught two classes in the comparison condition in a manner that he had taught for the past five years. Following the completion of the teaching, he received a content knowledge workshop. After the workshop, the teacher taught two classes in the intervention condition. Assessment of the teacher following the workshop showed that he obtained higher content knowledge scores than prior to the workshop. These improvements in content knowledge positively impacted his enacted teaching with more appropriate task selection and better instruction. Student learning also significantly improved in the intervention condition, not in the comparison condition, from pre- to posttest. The findings of this study extend the research demonstrating the effectiveness of improving the content knowledge of teachers in impacting student learning, in this case in the upper elementary grade band.

scholarly journals Toward the prevention of alcohol use disorders: Overdrinking (unintentional binge drinking) in a community sample

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205510291879270 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Michler Bishop ◽  
Jose Luis Rodriquez Orjuela
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
Problem Drinking ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorders ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past

Approximately 64,000,000 people in the United States report binge drinking at least once in the past month. Unlike overeating and oversleeping, “overdrinking”—defined as drinking more than a person intends to drink—does not exist in the literature. Terms such as binge and problem drinking do not consider the intent of the drinker. The results of this pilot study suggest that most people drink more than they intend to drink. Moreover, they also report often being surprised that they overdrank. Smartphones may help overdrinkers be less often surprised by overdrinking and may prevent drinkers from developing an alcohol use disorder.

A Randomized Pilot Study Comparing the Action Halos of Two Commercial Preparations of Botulinum Toxin Type A

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
DORIS HEXSEL ◽  
TACIANA DAL'FORNO ◽  
CAMILE HEXSEL ◽  
DÉBORA ZECHMEISTER DO PRADO ◽  
MARYELLE MOREIRA LIMA
Keyword(s):  
Botulinum Toxin ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Botulinum Toxin Type A ◽  
Type A ◽  
Botulinum Toxin Type

scholarly journals Topic-centered Scientific Collaborations of Scholarly Journals in Information Science: A Pilot Study of Implementation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwan Yi
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Collaboration Networks ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extended Work ◽  
Scientific Collaborations

This proposal is the extended work in implementation of a framework of topic-centered collaboration network. A goal of this study is to investigate the question of: In which topics and in what extent researchers collaborate with others? Topic-centered collaboration networks for two scholarly journals in the field of information science are constructed using bibliographic datasets for the past five years. This proposal contributes to the areas of both collaboration social network and big metadata.

Results from Phase I of a Pilot Study on Dynamic Ramp Metering in Houston

2020 ◽  
Vol 2674 (11) ◽  
pp. 478-489
Author(s):  
Hongmin “Tracy” Zhou ◽  
Magdy Kozman
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Phase I ◽  
Ramp Metering ◽  
Cost Ratio ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Benefit Cost Ratio ◽  
The Past ◽  
Texas Department ◽  
The Right ◽  
Benefit Cost

Traffic in Houston, U.S., has continued growing over the past decade. The Houston District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) recently began a pilot study to evaluate a dynamic ramp metering system. The project is aimed to convert ramp metering from local control to system-wide dynamic operation. In Phase I of the project, major control parameters and different metering strategies were tested and evaluated in simulation and field settings for a study corridor installed with six ramp meters. The study identified a base metering plan that overall worked well for sites without restrictive queue conditions. This base plan was that average speed of 50 mph or lower in the right-most two mainlanes will call for metering at a constant metering rate of 850 vehicles per hour for at least 4 min, and that queue occupancy of 50% or higher will call for meter shutdown for at least 1 min. Ramp metering coordinated with the downstream intersection performed well by accommodating diverted traffic caused by ramp metering. When operating ramp meters in a group, metering the immediately upstream meter performed best compared with metering further upstream meters. It is evident that ramp metering caused traffic diversion to the frontage road and also caused reduced queue-jumping behaviors on the frontage road at ramp meters with an immediately upstream exit ramp. The coordinated ramp metering strategy can potentially generate a benefit/cost ratio of 117:1 compared with local metering in the District.

CSFs for Pre-Development Implementation of New Product Development in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

2011 ◽  
Vol 338 ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
Noor Hidayah Abu ◽  
Baba M. Deros ◽  
Dzuraidah Abdul Wahab ◽  
Mohd Nizam Ab Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Products ◽  
New Product ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Systematic Identification

Success in the pre-development process is important for every organization in order to compete with competitors. In order to survive, organizations need to introduce new products in the marketplace drastically. In view of that, understanding critical success factors (CSFs) that contribute to successfully implementing pre-development is becoming more important. However, most of the past studies were conducted in large organizations; very little has been done in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). SMEs have certain limitations in terms of their financial, human, and technical resources that could hinder their progress towards implementing the pre-development. This paper reviews and analyses CSFs developed by previous authors in order to propose a set of CSFs, which were thought to be critical for SMEs. Besides, pre-testing with pre-development experts and SMEs practitioners, the questionnaire was also validated through a pilot study with fifty five SMEs. The questionnaire was designed comprising three compulsory activities of pre-development and CSFs for successful pre-development implementation. The final form of the questionnaire consists of twenty five items of pre-development activities within four constructs, and thirty six items of CSFs within nine constructs. Through systematic identification and validation, it is hoped that the set of CSFs could be used as guides for SMEs to implement the pre-development process successfully.

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