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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Calendars"”.
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Year-Round School Calendars Versus Traditional School Calendars: Parents' and Teachers' Opinions.
… academic performance, and opinions on school calendars.</p>
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A Resource-constrained CPM (RCPM) Scheduling and Control Technique with Multiple Calendars
… practical, functions to handle multiple project calendars and progressed schedules have been included as well.
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An analysis of monthly calendar anomalies in the Pakistani stock market: a study of the Gregorian and Islamic calendars
… little attention has been given to other calendars based on different religions or cultures. This thesis examines monthly calendar anomalies in the Pakistani stock market for both the Gregorian calendar and its Islamic counterpart. This is one of the first studies to investigate both …
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Calendars and the Cosmic Race: Popular Art and the Negotiation of National Identity, Idigeneity, and Gender in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
… people behind their cause. By the time the calendars had reached the height of their popularity, a particular vision of la Revolución had been established. This work looks at how this popular artwork reflected prevailing ideas among producers and consumers of these calendars with regards to …
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Implementing a digital calendar in a portfolio management context using temporal expressions
Different systems implement digital calendars according to their context-specific needs. In the case of a portfolio management system for the financial industry, a digital calendar needs to keep track of financial events that can be both recurring and nonrecurring as well as provide business …
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An In-Depth Analysis of Students' Academic Retention Abilities in Traditional and Alternative Calendar Schools
… school districts are considering alternative calendars. A recent study by Nofsinger (1999) of elementary students used Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) probes to measure academic skills in the Spring and the Fall in both traditional and alternative calendar schools. This present study …
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Attendance at Activities with a Geriatric Population: Antecedets and Consequences
… more effective than the other two antecedents (calendars of events and announcements). Conclusions. To maintain attendance at activities, staff at a geriatric facility should encourage residents to come to activities and offer to bring them, post large, easy to read calendars of events, and each …
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The Effect of Allocated Assessment Time and Allocated Instructional Time on Student Achievement in Small, Medium, and Large School Districts in Florida
… school district using school district testing calendars and State assessment calendars. These data were examined and the number of minutes spent on each assessment was calculated. The calculation was used to determine the amount of time spent on State and school district mandated assessment. …
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Tuberculosis, HIV, food insecurity, and poverty in rural Zambia : an ethnographic account of the Southern province
… methods included time lines, seasonal calendars, observation and semi-structured interviews. The main aim of all methods was to find out how the nine TB patients experienced life in a wider social context, the problems they faced within their households in terms of food security and …
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Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices
… users' personal information, such as files, calendars, contacts, emails, and bookmarks. This dissertation presents the results of two studies that examined users' mental workload in this context, especially when transitioning tasks from one device to another. In a survey of 220 knowledge …
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Are All These Elementary Assessments Necessary? Phenomenological Study of Standardized Assessments in the Elementary School Setting
… society and a global economy. Based on testing calendars, teacher testimonials, and applied research from other state and local mandated testing studies, this study found that the length of time students spend taking and preparing for the test is extensive. CBS News (2015) noted between 20-25 …
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Lived experiences of children with disabilities in various movement programs
… A document analysis of Ontario university course calendars in the fields of physical education and kinesiology, disability studies, and teacher education was utilized. Data from each data context underwent four levels of reduction: 1) content, 2) categorical, 3) thematic, and 4) indigenous …
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Digital persona : a gateway to personal information
… use personal information, such as electronic calendars and cellular phones, can manage this information by using a DP. Information which is accessible through a DP can be stored in the DP itself or in other applications. Since a DP facilitates the transfer of information between devices and …
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A Comparison of the Effects of a Modified School Calendar Versus a Traditional School Calendar on Student Achievement
… for comparison of student achievement under both calendars. Finally, a t-test was used to calculate the significance of comparing test scores between the two high schools. The results of the t-test were based on the difference between the mean of each group measured against the difference expected …
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The Perceptions of Taproot Teachers and Their Sustaining Force on a Year-Round Educational Program
… on the history, costs, achievement, discipline, calendars, and attendance in YRE. This study investigated the perceptions of taproot teachers in a rural agrarian Delaware school district. Two questions drove the investigation: 1) What character traits are demonstrated by taproot teachers? 2) How …
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A Step Towards an Intelligent Digital Training Management System (I-DTMS)
… resources, and create schedules and master calendars for training. Currently, the U.S. Army uses DTMS to manage unit training and help commanders at each step of the training management process from planning and preparing to execute and assessing the training plans. This research aims to add …
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The application of "Decision Aids for Tunneling (DAT)" to the Sucheon tunnel in Korea
… A new development of the DAT in form of calendars in SIMSUPER was made to be able to keep track of specific and real calendar dates. This study on the DAT application to the real tunnel project in Korea can be a model for the future DAT applications in tunnel projects and this will also …
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Extensions to the iCalendar Data Model Hierarchical Schedules and Temporally Related Events
… has matured to the point where peoples calendars are easily synchronized across devices, shared between other people and organizations, and used to coordinate and schedule mutually agreeable meeting times. These and other advances have made computer calendaring indispensable in peoples …
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