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Showing 1 to 20 of 1261 for “"Advice"”.
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Auditors' Use of Formal Advice from Internal Firm Subject Matter Experts: The Impact of Advice Quality and Advice Awareness on Auditors' Judgments
… call upon subject matter experts to provide advice. While these experts are the knowledge experts in their area, the quality of the advice depends upon their ability to fully understand and incorporate client specific facts. PCAOB inspection reports suggest that audit teams are neglecting to …
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Handheld computer for personal health advice
… computers on a real-time basis to provide "advice" (intelligent and knowledge) anytime and anywhere so that a consumer can take practical and immediate actions to maximize their vitality to enjoy life. The conception phase included the identification of technologies and approach to deliver …
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Miranda rights comprehension and advice to juveniles
… of juveniles’ Miranda understanding and their advice to juveniles being questioned by police. Online participants (n= 498) completed measures of Miranda knowledge and read one of eight hypothetical scenarios varying the juvenile’s age (13 or 16 years), Miranda rights version (standard or …
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Consensus Information in the Newspaper Advice Columns
… covariation model of attribu tion. Newspaper advice columns were used as a naturalistic source of social data.</p><p>The first question addressed in this study was whether or not Kelley's (1967) three information variables are ecologically valid. If perceivers in the "real world" actually use …
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Telephone Advice and Triage within Paediatric Oncology.
… Network. This Unit provides 24 hour telephone advice for patients, families and carers. In addition, professionals within the network access the line for specialist information to support patients who are receiving on-going treatment for cancer, in particular, designated shared care centres and …
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Controlling Bodies: Mothers, Adolescents, and Bad Advice
Since the 1990s, medical and media articles containing the word "obesity" inevitably included the word "epidemic" as well. These articles usually pointed to the exponential growth in overweight and obese persons in high-income and low-income countries alike. A recent field of literature called "fat …
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Learning from expert advice framework: Algorithms and applications
… rounds. This so-called ``learning from expert advice'' framework has been extensively studied in the literature. In this dissertation, we investigate various settings and applications ranging from partial information, adversarial scenarios, to limited resources. We propose provable algorithms …
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An Investigation of Advice Giving in the Íslendingasögur
This thesis examines the advice-giving practices depicted in the *Íslendingasögur* (Sagas of the Icelanders), especially how they form, structure, and alter relationships. It argues that Icelandic society as depicted in these sagas benefits from advice-giving norms, which can facilitate …
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Control of pain with patient advice sheets: COPPAS. A randomised control trial of advice, acupressure vs non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
… experience by assessing the effectiveness of advice to use acupressure or NSAIDs in controlling pain by measuring the degree of pain after bonding of brackets to teeth and placement of an initial archwire. For the secondary objectives, pain diaries were used to record the impact of orthodontic …
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Paediatric caregivers: The characteristics of inpatient and discharge advice
… experience and understanding of discharge advice as improved caregiver understanding may reduce representations to hospital, improve health literacy, and improve long term health outcomes. METHOD A qualitative inductive approach allowed caregiver experience to emerge from ten randomised …
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Children's Text Password Behaviors and Parental Advice
… personal information, and also the parental advice they get to create these passwords. To understand this, we conducted two studies. The first study was conducted with children ages 11 to 13 to understand their password practices. The second study was conducted with parents to understand …
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Japanese and U. S. mothers' concerns and experts' advice : content analyses of mothers' questions on online message boards and experts' advice in parenting magazines
… and 2006 were also content analyzed to examine advice given to parents in the six domains. The results suggested that mothers' childrearing concerns and the advice by experts in the two countries were similar in some areas but differed markedly in others, such as within the sleep domain. The …
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Generating computer-based advice in web-based distance education environments
… A taxonomy containing three main categories of advice related to the performance of individual students, groups of students, and the whole class is proposed, and an advice generator mechanism is developed. Important situations are highlighted to instructors and, when appropriate, possible …
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The Experience of Decision-Making among Telephone Advice/Triage Nurses
The role of the telephone advice/triage nurse is both complex and demanding. All decisions are made while assessing patients without seeing or touching patients. In addition, the role is often developed to decrease health care costs which can be perceived by nurses as being in conflict with their …
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Using Network Analysis of Job Transitions to Inform Career Advice
The importance of good career advice has become especially salient as the COVID-19 pandemic forces millions of displaced workers to look for stable employment. This research hopes to add to the career advice literature by using network analysis of U.S. job transitions data to model the universe of …
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A study of legal aid and advice in England and Wales.
It is the purpose of this study to examine the social nature of legal aid. The thesis takes as its point of departure the dehates about the problems identified in the administration of the legal aid scheme and the suggestions to improve this scheme. It seeks firstly to provide the reader with an …
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