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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Behavior model"”.
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Development of a Travelers' Information Search Behavior Model
… managers, understanding information search behavior of travelers is crucial for designing effective marketing communication campaigns because information search represents the primary stage at which marketing can provide information and influence travelers' vacation decisions. Therefore, …
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Manager-subordinate exchange relationships: investigation of a manager behavior model
… field study investigated the relationship among behavioral and perceptual measures of the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) relationship and organizational outcome variables. The major purposes of this study were to determine: (1) the extent to which the dyad is the appropriate level of analysis for …
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Towards a Comprehensive Bicycle Motion Behavior Model and Naturalistic Cycling Dataset
… bicycle traffic and the longitudinal motion behavior of cars. This research reparametrizes an existing car-following model to describe bicycle-following and motion behavior. Furthermore, the lack of naturalistic data has limited the validation of this model. This research aims at developing a …
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Antidepressant effect of pramipexole in a dexamethasone induced depressive-like behavior model
… 21° e 22° dia. Nossos dados demonstraram que o modelo da dexametasona promoveu uma redução no peso e na locomoção dos animais. Além disso, também foi encontrada uma diferença estatisticamente significante entre os grupos dexametasona e veículo na preferência pela sacarose no 21° dia de …
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Test of a Multidisciplinary Health Behavior Model of Medicare Elders' Antihypertensive Acquisitions
… relative utility of the enhanced Health Belief Model as compared to the proposed Pharmaceutical Acquisition Model for Medicare Elders (PAMME) in describing antihypertensive acquisition with usage intentions for Medicare elders (65 years or older) in Southeastern Virginia. Data collection …
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Behavior Model of Health Services Use: An Empirical Analysis using CDC Data
The Behavior Model of Health Services Use, initially developed by Andersen (1968) and later modified, in collaboration with Newman, Aday, and other researchers, has evolved over the last fifty years. The most recent model (2008) suggests that the individual and contextual characteristics, the …
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Addressing Behavior Model Inaccuracies for Safe Motion Control in Uncertain Dynamic Environments
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Predicting condom use from adolescence to emergent adulthood: A comprehensive health behavior model
<p>The study utilized a comprehensive health behavior model to predict condom use longitudinally from adolescence into emergent adulthood. The comprehensive model was created by combining and extending widely used models of health behavior. Participant data for this secondary analysis were drawn …
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Explanatory Power of the Behavior Model of Utilization for Pediatric Asthma Health Care in an Urban Managed Care Setting
<p>The Behavior Model of Utilization played a key role in explaining health services use for pediatric members with asthma in one urban, regional managed care company. The critical role the asthma management program played in promoting the health and well-being of enrolled members was elucidated. …
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Implications of Sticky Cost Behavior for Earnings Surprise and Market Reaction
This dissertation examines the cost behavior model implicit in analysts' and investors' decisions. Even though a cost behavior model that recognizes fixed and variable costs and cost stickiness can provide more accurate earnings forecasts, analysts and investors cannot fully capture sticky cost …
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Preservice adapted physical education teachers' intentions toward assessment of students with disabilities in South Korea
… and (b) to determine if the theory of planned behavior predicts the preservice APE teachers’ intentions toward assessment of fundamental motor skills and patterns and physical and motor fitness of students with disabilities in South Korea. The participants were 326 purposely selected preservice …
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Integrating driving behavior modeling
A framework for integrated driving behavior modeling, based on the concepts of short-term goal and short-term plan is proposed. Drivers are assumed to conceive and perform short-term plans in order to accomplish short-term goals. This behavioral framework captures drivers' planning capabilities and …
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The intention to purchase a night's stay in a hotel: an empirical test of the Hines' model of responsible environmental behavior
… the validity and reliability of a consumer behavior model specifically related to environmental behavior. The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate a consumer's intention to stay in a hotel based on the environmental strategies used by that hotel. Hines (1984) developed a conceptual …
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A geospatial tool for assessing potential wildland fire risk in central Texas.
… combines real-time weather data, a wildland fire behavior model, satellite remote sensing and geospatial data in a geographic information system to assess potential risk to human developments and natural resources within the Austin metropolitan area and surrounding ten counties of central, Texas. …
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Effective properties for flow in heterogeneous porous media
Modeling of groundwater flow and chemical transport calls for a good characterization of heterogeneity of soil properties. The effects of variabilities of soil properties at local scale on the mean behavior of heterogeneous flows were investigated via Monte Carlo method. Assuming log-normal …
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Modeling Driver Behavior and I-ADAS in Intersection Traversals
… of I-ADAS will be limited by driver's pre-crash behavior and other environmental factors. This study will characterize real-world intersection traversals to evaluate the effectiveness of I-ADAS while accounting for driver behavior in crash and near-crash scenarios. This study characterized …
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Causal Inference: A New Name for an Old Concept?
… literature in a paradigm utilizing a cat behavior model from the neuroscience studies.
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Risk-Aware Human-In-The-Loop Multi-Robot Path Planning for Lost Person Search and Rescue
… human searchers. We formulate a lost person behavior model and a human searcher model informed by data collected from past search missions. These models are used to generate a probabilistic heatmap of the lost person's position and anticipated searcher trajectories. We use Gaussian processes …
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A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF E-COMMERCE PURCHASING BEHAVIOUR INTENTION: A COMPARISON OF AMERICAN AND CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS
… study combines Hofstede's cultural dimension model with the Theory of Planned Behavior model in analyzing college students' purchasing intention differences between China and the U.S. Furthermore, this study summarizes the perceived motivation of college students' online purchasing intentions. …
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Towards high quality, scalable education: Techniques in automated assessment and probabilistic user behavior modeling
… (for addressing scalability) and developing new models for interpretable user behavior analysis in educational environments for improving the quality of interaction via personalized education. Specifically, I perform a study of automated assessment of complex assignments where I explore the …
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