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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"CDL"”.
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Psychological factors and physical outcomes in patients with chronic diseases of lifestyle
INTRODUCTION: Chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL) are a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. Although CDL are largely preventable and treatable through adopting and maintaining healthy lifestyle behaviours, CDL rehabilitation programmes remain an underutilised resource. Behaviour …
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Prevalence and risk factors of chronic diseases of lifestyles in endurance runners
Background: Chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL) are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality in South Africa. Although prevalence of CDL has been established in the general population, there is limited research regarding the prevalence and risk factors for CDL in individuals taking …
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Osteoarthritis in women living in Cape Town: prevalence, characteristics, and the effects of a non-pharmacological intervention
… with other chronic diseases of lifestyle (CDL). A paucity of epidemiological data exists on the relationship between OA and CDL in women attending primary health care centres in Cape Town in South Africa, therefore, there was a need to further explore these inter-relationships to be able to …
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Examination of Web-based teaching strategies at the University of North Texas.
… (49%) and UNT Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) (31%) were the most frequently used types of training in preparation for teaching a Web-based course, whereas peer taught (17%) and conferences/workshops (3%) were the least used; (b) the average number of Web-based courses taught by the …
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Ecosystem services provided by agricultural land as modeled by broad scale geospatial analysis
… database, and the land cover datasets NLCD and CDL. Furthermore I sought to model tradeoffs between provisioning and other services. First I assessed the accuracy of agricultural land in NLCD and CDL over a four county area in eastern Virginia using cadastral parcels. I uncovered issues …
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Personalisation through pricing co-creation: Customer’s willingness to pay and pricing strategies in the B2C context of hospitality
… The evolution towards customer-dominant logic (CDL) illuminates the transmission of value-creating roles to customers beyond visible service interaction. While the advantages of personalising the products and services are evident, a level of ambiguity persists when considering the tacit …
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Advancing Multimedia: Application Sharing, Latency Measurements and User-Created Services
… for measuring the capture-to-display latency (CDL) and frame rate of real-time video conferencing sessions. vDelay enables developers and testers to measure the CDL and frame rate of any video conferencing application without modifying the source code. Further, it does not require any …
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Virginia School Bus Driver Training: Does Training Program Adequacy Affect school Bus Accident Rates?
… preparation for the Commercial Drivers License (CDL). The transportation directors survey included items regarding training topics, training methods, program description, and employer expectations. Other topics included were the impact of the CDL, and government mandated training programs. Data …
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Robotics, artificial intelligence and service automation in hotel service process design: can customer dominant logic provide improved value?
… model (incorporating Customer Dominant Logic; CDL) to better purposefully design-in rapidly evolving service technology. This thesis uses a literature review to provide an outline of the use of RAISA in hotel SPD and contrasts the current situation with the future potential through an updating …
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Toddler music: a socio-cultural/historical examination of the musical development of two-year-olds and their carers in a child development laboratory classroom
… of a two-year-old Child Development Laboratory (CDL) classroom share, negotiate, and transform musical understanding and activity through participation in a musical community of practice? 2. What are the cultural meanings behind what is shared and how are these meanings negotiated and …
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A Temperature-Dependent Development Model for Willow Beetle Species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Ireland: Simulation of Phenology/Voltinism in Response to Climate Change
… of constant temperatures. A critical daylength (CDL) for P. vulgatissima facultative reproduction was calculated. The relationship between temperature and P. vulgatissima and G. lineola life-cycle stage development was represented by applying criteria satisfying non-linear deterministic and …
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Biomass assessment in the U.S. midwest using MODIS time-series
… time-series products and Cropland Data Layers (CDL) from 2000 to 2009. In addition, this study is to extract WSG biomass proximity by integral NDVI. Besides, based on Multiple Linear Regression, this study aims to identify the sensitive environmental factors that affect distributions of WSG. …
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A study of outdoor environments for young children: re-envisioning the child development laboratories at UIUC
… (including a child development laboratory – CDL, and an early child development laboratory – ECDL) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the site of research, through on-site observation and interviews with parents and teachers, the major barriers to young children’s daily outdoor …
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Conceptual modelling of adaptive web services based on high-level petri nets
… Web service standards such as WSDL, WSBPEL, WS-CDL and many others offer just static, manual, purely process-centric and ad-hoc techniques to deploy such services. The main objective of this thesis consists therefore in leveraging the development of service-driven applications towards more …
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Evaluating time-series smoothing algorithms for multi-temporal land cover classification
… 2006 and 2011 data, and Cropland Data Layers (CDL) from 2008 to 2013 to conduct these evaluations. Inter-class separability was measured by Jeffries-Matusita (JM) distances between selected land cover classes (both general classes and specific crops), and intra-class variability was measured by …
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Doping in Esports: A Content Analysis of Responses to Cuyler “Huke” Garland’s Disclosure of Adderall Use in Call of Duty
… to violating the Call of Duty League’s (CDL) anti-doping policies by using Adderall to gain a competitive advantage. Many First-Person Shooters (FPS), which is a type of Esport, include policies against cognitive enhancing drugs such as Adderall due to its potential performance enhancing …
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A method for identifying commission and omission errors for cultivated crops in the national land cover dataset (NLCD) 2006
… mainly because the NASS Cropland Data Layer (CDL) dataset is not as accurate in these areas as in the traditional agriculture areas. The average agreement between model-identified and reference data on commission error was high (79%). On the other hand, the average agreement between …
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The Role of Language Ideologies in Curriculum Design: Possibilities in Computational and Digital Literacies Integration in Teacher Education
… how computational and digital literacies (CDLs) are integrated and how teacher candidates and teachers learn about them, especially those who are being trained to become bilingual teachers or will inevitably work with emergent bilinguals and linguistically diverse learners<a …
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An electrochemical investigation on the mechanisms of interfacial interactions of a xanthate collector on PGM surfaces in the presence of ions
… series with a parallel circuit of a capacitor, Cdl, representing the electrical double layer and a resistor indicating Rct. For an electrochemical system with both salt and SIBX, it has been surmised that an equivalent circuit consisting of a resistor, Rs, in series with a parallel circuit of a …
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BlueBird: national-scale real-time crop cover classification using multi-stage deep learning approach
… maps thatcompare BlueBird’s predictions with CDL and scatter plots that compare BlueBird’s county- level acreage with NASS’s ground truth to demonstrate the large-scale effectiveness. In the map of June 1, we can see that corn belt counties where corn and soybean are dominant crop types …
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