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How coaching conversations contribute to organisational development
This thesis focuses on the coaching conversation. This inquiry explores, through action research methodology, the author’s own practice as a coach and produces a revised framework and model. The study seeks to understand the potential of the coaching conversation to support organisational learning. …
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Leadership Behaviors that Contribute to Teacher Morale
In this era of increased accountability and increased pressure to improve our public schools, elementary school leaders, working to meet the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, are focusing on developing effective leadership behaviors as they face the complex challenges of …
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FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO FOSTER PARENT TURNOVER
… quantitative study was to identify factors that contribute to foster parent turnover. A self-administered survey included 6 questions in each section of the following sections; interaction with agency staff, communication, and foster parent training. The study’s findings indicated that over 36% …
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Factors which contribute to orphaned learners' academic achievements
The research investigated the factors which contributed to orphaned learners resilience. Resilience was measured as good academic achievement of orphaned learners. This stud} further investigated the relationship between an area type and custodian type respectively and the resilience of orphaned …
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Astrocyte and vascular changes contribute to Alzheimer's disease
… and glucose delivery to the brain, is thought to contribute to neurodegeneration, although the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Astrocytes, critical regulators of both Aβ clearance and CBF, have garnered increasing attention in AD research. Astrocytes, one of the most abundant cell types in …
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Factors That Contribute to Enrollment in Band Programs
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that band directors may be able to use in enhancing enrollment in band programs. The categories of predictor variables were school leadership, level of support, student characteristics, band leadership, and band leader characteristics. There was one …
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Chromatin Architecture Aberrations Contribute and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Relapse
Cancer results from aberrations at the molecular level that enable biological hallmarks. These aberrations can be found within the chromatin architecture of cancer cells that includes the genome, molecular modifications to the genome, and the three-dimensional organization of the chromatin fiber. …
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Medial Temporal Lobe Structures Contribute to on -Line Processing
… view that structures of the medial temporal lobe contribute to the on-line processing of visual stimuli. These experiments uniquely demonstrate that the MTL is necessary for normal apprehension of even single stimuli when degraded, and for normal discrimination of even very simple representations …
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Organizational Processes Contribute to the Testing Effect in Free Recall
… mentally organizing information during learning contribute to the memorial advantage of testing. In three experiments with categorized lists, we asked whether the testing effect in free recall is related to enhancements in organizational processing. In the first experiment, different groups of …
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Exploring factors that contribute to resilience in individuals with disability
To challenge the medical model view of disability, this study will be focused on positive characteristics of individuals with disability that enable optimal human functioning, specifically how the need for cognition and attitudes towards technology relate to resilience in individuals with …
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Park Amenities and Crime: Do Neighborhood Parks Contribute to Crime?
Municipal parks are often assumed to be associated with crime, but if parks do foster crime, the specific relationships are unclear. Park data were collected for a national and a city sample, recognizing four typical amenities in parks: sports, family, ornamental, and undeveloped. These four …
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Paralogous genes in Arabidopsis thaliana contribute to diversified phenylpropanoid metabolism
… and subfunctionalization of duplicated genes contributed to metabolite diversification.^ The phenylpropanoid pathway intersects with primary metabolism at phenylalanine. Recently we identified a new set of phenylalanine derived compounds in Arabidopsis which we named arabidopyrones (APs) which …
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Factors that contribute to principal trust in the principalteacher relationship
<p>The purpose of this study sought to use qualitative research methods to answer the overarching question: Why do principals trust teachers? This study was generated from a lack of research noted by Wahlstrom, Leithwood, Louis, and Anderson (2010). I created open-ended questions to interview each …
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Individual Differences Contribute to Emotion Regulation via Visual Attention Deployment
This study examined the role of individual differences in the use of attentional deployment in emotion regulation following negative feedback. Fluid intelligence, working memory capacity, trait anxiety, self-esteem, and behavioral activation system/Behavioral activation system sensitivity were …
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TRPM5 Channels Contribute to Persistent Neural Activity and Working Memory
Working memory is a type of memory that is active only for a short period of time (Fuster and Alexander, 1971; Goldman-Rakic, 1992). A common example of working memory is our ability to hold a phone number in our minds transiently, until it is dialed. Working memory is critical for many cognitive …
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Participants' Motivations to Contribute Geographic Information in an Online Community
… and citizen participation. People's desire to contribute local knowledge should not be understood in limited terms of the geometric primitives of point, line, and polygon; rather, it should be interpreted as an expression of a desire to participate in the broad processes of social, cultural, …
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Participants' motivations to contribute geographic information in an online community
… (VGI), a Web 2.0 phenomenon in which users contribute geographic information online and collaboratively create maps. By examining the case of www.openstreetmap.org, I clarify why people contribute geographic information to an online community and offer a framework for researching different …
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Technological innovations in catholic institutions contribute to sustainable entrepreneurship in Zambia.
Though there are many studies done on the contribution of the Catholic Church to national development, especially through provision of basic and secondary education, little has been studied on the contribution of the Catholic Church to the growth of entrepreneurship in Zambia. Other scholars have …
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