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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Ceiling Effect"”.
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Perceptions of the Glass Ceiling Effect in Community Colleges
… study was to determine the existence of a glass ceiling effect within community colleges by examining faculty, staff and administrator's perceptions of a glass ceiling as it relates to the advancement of women at their institutions. This was done by using a cross-sectional survey administered …
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The glass ceiling effect in South African companies: An illusion or reality
… and discrimination in South Africa, the glass ceiling still inhibits the advancement of women to top positions in both the private and public sectors. The glass ceiling entails inherent and assimilated factors that contribute to barriers that limit women’s advancement in executive positions. In …
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The glass ceiling effect and its impact on mid-level female officer career progression in the United States Marine Corps and Air Force
… Specifically, this inquiry looks at the "glass ceiling" effect and any strong similarities or differences that may exist between the Marine Corps and the Air Force. Resulting information is expected to reveal a better understanding of military women's career progression and factors that may …
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Empirical Evaluation of Ground, Ceiling, and Wall Effect for Small-Scale Rotorcraft
<p>Ground effect refers to the apparent increase in lift that an aircraft experiences when it flies close to the ground. For helicopters, this effect has been modeled since the 1950's based on the work of Cheeseman and Bennett, perhaps the most common method for predicting hover performance due to …
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The Effects of Therapeutic Listening on Bilateral Coordination
… analyzed after eliminating those with a strong ceiling effect and focusing on items that approached significance in the previous study. Results showed the Quickshift series to have a moderate effect on qualitative movements during bilateral tasks by improving smoothness and rhythmicity. Overall, …
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Exploring the self-reference effect and its educational applications in typically developing children and children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… This has been termed the ‘self-reference effect’. There is a lack of research concerning self-referential processes within typically developing children, and children diagnosed with ADHD as well as the educational applications of the self-reference effect. <br/><br/>Objectives: Experiment …
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The effect of lip-slur practice on increasing pitch range in brasswind instrument students
… statistical procedures used to calculate the effect of family background. The results of this study indicated that lip-slurs play an important role in the acquisition of the high register by brasswind students. The degree of importance is dependent on various factors. From this study, it …
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ESTIMATING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF GENDER WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN ETHIOPIA
… suggesting the presence of both a sticky floor effect and a glass ceiling effect. Using repeated cross-section data for the years 2006, 2010 and 2014, we find a strong evidence of a sticky floor effect but not a glass ceiling effect in the Ethiopian urban labor market. Our paper also provides …
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Language Competence and Information Processing Strategy: A Comparison of First and Second Language Word Recognition in Connected Speech
… information is not hindered by the competence-ceiling effect. The subjects consisted of two groups of non-native speakers of English with different proficiency and one group of native speakers of English. Experiment 1, which was designed after Miller and Isard's (1963) study, compared the use …
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Asymmetry in hemi-attention and auditory-linguistic processing as measured by focused-attention dichotic listening: a comparison of reading- disabled and non-disabled children
… their REA while the nonRD group did not. A ceiling effect was suggested as a possible reason for the nonRD group's lack of REA accentuation. When instructed to attend to the left ear, the nonRD group attenuated their REA, but the RD group did not. Based on the effects of the attentional …
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The effect of different imagery ratios on learning and performing a gymnastic floor routine
<p>The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of different imagery ratios to physical practice needed to learn and perform a gymnastic floor routine. It was assumed that an increase in imagery ability would reflect positively on the floor routine performance. Twenty-seven school-aged, male …
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Redesigning Airport Diagrams with Principles of Cognitive Psychology
… significant. The results showed evidence of a ceiling effect which may indicate that the taxiing tasks were too easy to show performance differences. This research issues should not be abandoned. However, future studies should include increased workload within the experimental tasks to create a …
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Effects of sample-set size on delayed-matching-to-sample
… results of this experiment were confounded by a ceiling effect and so a different procedure was required. The procedure used for the remaining experiments was a two-sample DMTS task, where the sample stimuli were also used as comparison stimuli. This type of DMTS task is similar to that typically …
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Work - family conflict among women from a collectivistic culture
… data skewness was possibly caused by the floor effect, which was the situation that the sample consisted of only female teachers from a Collectivistic culture. The high negative data skewness was possibly caused by the ceiling effect, which is the situation that the women in this sample have a …
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A Descriptive Study of Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Principles of Pain Management
… deficit in pharmacokinetics (e.g., opioid ceiling effect, morphine's effect on respiratory depression, equianalgesic dosing, meperidine's toxic metabolite, preferred route of administration for opioids, treatment of choice for prolonged cancer pain, and duration of action of certain …
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Faith development of Christian college students engaged in a one-month study abroad mission trip
… were of concern for the researcher, as was the ceiling effect (pre-trip levels above the highest national levels for any age group) with the Christian college student population. Qualitative data indicated that the Study Abroad Mission Students developed in their relationship with God and their …
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Enhancement of verb retrieval: Neuromodulation, repetition priming, and aphasia rehabilitation
… to enhance language training and rehabilitation effects. However, our data from healthy individuals did not reveal effects of neuromodulation, and the data with patients was ambigous: it is not possible to discern whether tDCS indeed incrteased the effects of therapy or wether the data are better …
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Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
… for extrajudicial killings because of the ceiling effect), in autocracies judicial constraints promote only private property rights (and unexpectedly reduces the number of extrajudicial killings). In the third chapter I revisited the impact of political institutions in autocracies on …
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