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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Cognitive barriers"”.
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Teaching Engineering Students About Cognitive Barriers During Design for Sustainable Infrastructure
… principles and help them recognize potential cognitive traps, or barriers, that may prevent more consideration for sustainability during design. Each of my three case studies is built into a PowerPoint-guided module for undergraduate engineering classes, which may be taught in 1-3 class days. …
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Cognitive Barriers to Energy Efficient Decision Making in US Coast Guard Facility Management
… and in this manuscript research focuses on cognitive bias, choice architecture, and decision making in relation to energy decisions answer this question. Potential impacts cognitive bias has on the decision maker is examined, and if it is possible to design better decision environments to …
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Using boundary objects to generate better value in the construction industry : interpreting cases from an activity theory perspective
… processes and tools, and about possible socio-cognitive barriers that mayhinder the collaborative work of design professionals, clients and users. It is argued thatintegrated teams is a new form of work that requires revisiting clients' and experts'roles and relationships - rethinking existing …
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Preference Construction and Decision-Making for Green Infrastructure: How Do Behavioral Interventions Influence Choice and Neurocognition?
… change in the urban built environment. Policy barriers, resources barriers, governance barriers, and cognitive barriers are limiting the practice. Cognitive barriers are cited as the most critical barrier because most of the barriers limiting green infrastructure stem from and are intensified …
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Barriers and facilitators to yoga practice in adults with chronic low back pain
… condition, the current study sought to examine barriers and facilitators to trying yoga in a population of adults with chronic low back pain. Participants self-reporting chronic low back pain were recruited from community sites in a collegiate town in western Alabama. Primary analyses utilized …
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Helping Students Help Themselves: An Intervention to Facilitate Campus Food Pantry Use at a Public University
… students’ knowledge of the pantry and reducing cognitive barriers. A sample of enrolled students (N=11,400) were randomly assigned to be in either the partial intervention (n=3,800), full intervention (n=3,800), or control (n=3,800) group. The partial intervention group received a postcard in …
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Self-Presentation and the Looking-Glass Self: Synergistic Frameworks for Influencing Agreeable Personality States
… in trait-level antagonism might have some social-cognitive barriers that reduce the effectiveness of these interventions. Based in two complementary social-cognitive frameworks (i.e., self-presentation theory; looking-glass self), I theorized that public self-presentation of an agreeable …
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User Engagement Dynamics: The Impact of Platform Design and Generative AI
… design choices influence feedback loops, cognitive load, and content discovery has become critical for designing sustainable digital ecosystems. Through three empirical studies using large-scale behavioral data, this dissertation examines the consequences of two distinct platform …
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Business model innovation towards energy transition in emerging markets: the case of South African coal industry
… overcome deep-seated financial, operational and cognitive barriers within the constrained context of the South African coal industry. The study utilises the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capabilities (DC) as its theoretical lens to explore how decision-makers allocate resources and adapt …
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The medication mismanagement system : causes, evidence of user innovation, and a view towards a product/service solution for the elderly
… modifications that address the physical and cognitive barriers they face, while product manufactures are innovating products and services that address the motivational issues users face.
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Examining Girls’ Experiences of Discriminatory Practices in Ghanaian Secondary Education against International Human Rights Standards
… where there are psychological, social and cognitive barriers to education. <br/>The research elicited the voice of female and male students, teachers, traditional and religious leaders, whose feedback established discrimination in leadership roles, the imposition of higher moral …
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Interactive applications and rhetorical devices for guiding parent-clinician communication through data visualizations
… the emotional strain, parents also experience a cognitive burden due to medical jargon or presentation of data that is inaccessible to them. In fact, in most health care settings, parents reported their expectation of more accessible information than is currently provided. In order to address …
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Mechanisms of turbulence, sexual intimacy challenges, and sexual communication in depressed couples
… as multi-layered and including lost libido, cognitive barriers, and interactive dilemmas, but a quantitative documentation of these challenges remains to be added to the literature. Sexual communication is linked to relationship and sexual satisfaction (Byers, 2005; Theiss & Solomon, 2007), …
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CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON URBAN STORMWATER SYSTEM AND USE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ADAPTATION: AN INVESTIGATION ON TECHNOLOGY, POLICY, AND GOVERNANCE
… more prominent. Second, if there exist any other barriers, they should be replaced with strategies that help expedite the use of GI. This multidisciplinary research dealt with these two challenges. The study consisted of two major parts. In the first part, a computer model was developed for a …
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An analysis of the emergence of adaptive governance for sustainable management of marine resources
… and requires further study of institutional and cognitive barriers in adaptive governance. Third, while there is a proliferation of participatory arrangements, a<br/>lack of co-ordination between governance levels was identified, limiting transfer of the learning and benefits from local …
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A model of compelled nonuse of information
… somatic conditions, 2) socio-environmental barriers, 3) authoritarian controls, 4) threshold knowledge shortfall, 5) attention shortfall, and 6) information filtering. This dissertation explains and provides examples of each condition. The study of a novel area that had no prior theory or …