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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Differential Impacts"”.
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Community college dual credit: differential participation and differential impacts on college access and completion
… Rawls’ (1999) notion of justice as fairness, the differential impacts of dual credit participation are examined on sub-samples of students of color and low-income students. To do this, and to determine if there is effect heterogeneity in the ATT estimates, propensity score matching is used to …
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Predator Out of Place : The Differential Impacts of Native and Non-native Crayfish on Bufo Tadpoles
Predators have been shown to alter important fitness components (larval period, mass at metamorphosis, and overall survivorship) of larval anurans. Uncommonly studied predators of tadpoles include crayfish. Both native and introduced crayfish occur in NC. To gain a better understanding of the …
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Neighborhood Violence Perceptions and TANF Receipt
… and selfreports of violence will have differential impacts on TANF receipt.</p>
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Impact of Neurodevelopmental Disorder-Associated Clinical Variants on the Catalytic Activity of KMT5B
… and quantitative evidence showing the differential impacts of four select clinical missense variants of KMT5B on its lysine methylation activity. Recombinant KMT5B was purified and used for in vitro KMT assays to assess enzyme activity on nucleosome and peptide substrates. While three …
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Determinants and Consequences of Earnings Disclosure Readability
… Plain English Guidelines, Reg. FD and SOX had differential impacts on earnings disclosure readability. Additionally, it finds that earnings disclosure readability decreases as firm earnings decrease. Moreover, this study demonstrates that institutional investors contribute to earnings …
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Asymmetric and symmetric responses of the environmental performance on tourism industry : a case study of D-8 countries
… short-run and long-run symmetric and asymmetric impacts of environmental performance on the tourism industry within D-8 countries using advanced econometric models such as ARDL and NARDL. Employing a quantitative approach, the research utilizes panel data from 2008 to 2024, sourced from reputable …
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Restaurant Revenue Management: Effects of Customer's Perceived Scarcity of Capacity and the Price Difference on Perceived Value and Fairness Perceptions
… periods and low-demand periods may have differential impacts on customers' perceptions of value of the restaurant's expected offering and the fairness of RM practices. Based on commodity theory and equity theory, this study hypothesizes that two main effects, perceived scarcity of space …
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The effectiveness of pre-course and concurrent course interventions on at-risk college physics students' mechanics performance
… utilized propensity score matching to assess the differential impacts of the two approaches on at-risk student performance and persistence in the target course. Data analysis gauged the size and nature of the interventions’ impact on participants’ performance. By controlling for additional …
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Climate change, trade unions and the promise of climate solidarity in the UK, 1997-2010
… reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to address the differential impacts of climate and climate policy, and to coalesce other actors to tackle climate change. The recent experience of UK trade unions suggests they have a vital role to play as climate actors and, suitably reconfigured, the capability …
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Drought and climate change impacts on water resources: management alternatives
… basin in Spain. The results presented show the differential impacts of drought in physically similar systems that are subject to different regulation levels and the convenience of designing modified drought management plans in order to minimise the social and economic impacts of drought …
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Influence of dietary interventions on the immune system: an investigation of the impact of omega-3 fatty acids, dietary fermentable materials and high energy diets
… 30 healthy adults was conducted to examine impacts of β2-1 fructans on immunity. Subjects consumed an oligofructose-enriched inulin or maltodextrin supplement for a 28-day period (5 g, 3× daily with meals). β2-1 fructan supplementation significantly increased serum endotoxin and IL-4 …
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Impact of Psychometric Decisions on Assessment Outcomes in an Alternate Assessment
… considerable variability of student scores and differential impacts on item measures based on the choices or a combination of choices made during analyses. Clear patterns of change in scores when the lead questions were treated as correct seem to suggest a systemic change in item measures. High …
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Disasters and the “Other Gender”: Exploring the Experiences of the Hijra Community in Disasters in India
… a cyclone, Fani. It investigates the cyclone’s differential impacts and the social processes that lead to them. It further looks at the role of inclusive policies in influencing disaster risk governance for diverse gender identities. Seventeen in-depth interviews were conducted in Puri city, …
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Essays on food security
… is not accounted for. I also generate a differential impacts map based on the estimates from the spatial weighted regression. By identifying those regions or sectors of Ethiopia most at risk of losing agricultural value from land degradation, this paper provides important information for …
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Essays in Health Economics
… Care Act increased reimbursements in four states differentially across physicians. I run a difference in difference (DID) comparing physicians with higher reimbursement increases to those with lower increases. I focus on office-based physicians and find that physicians with higher reimbursement …
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Supporting the operational performance management of public service systems during slow-onset disasters
… This chapter explores the longitudinal impacts of long-term disasters for better service performance management since the timely and accurate prediction of deviations from the expected service demand is vital for utilizing limited resources. The study further discusses the differential …
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The effects of video programming, face-to-face instruction, modeling, and feedback on nutritious and economical food purchases
… question was to experimentally assess the differential impacts of a combined media and personal interaction condition (specifically using participant modeling procedures) to a condition that combined media and personal attention strategies. A no treatment condition was also employed. …
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Investigating the influence of Automated Programming Assessment Tools on self-reported understanding of threshold programming concepts in Key Stage 4 GCSE computer science students
… insights to provide a comprehensive view of the impacts of APATs. Quantitative data were collected through pre- and post-use assessments that measured students' understanding of specific programming concepts, including variables, selection, iteration, string manipulation, arrays, and subprograms. …
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Biogeochemical effects of an invasive grass across a land-use gradient: linking alterations of nitrogen cycling to depleted soil carbon pools
… mechanism explains variability in the invader’s impacts on soil C across a land-use gradient. To do this, I quantified the effects of M. vimineum on belowground C and N dynamics and enzyme activities in forests across a 45-km urban-rural gradient in Southern Appalachia, USA. Consistent with …
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Elucidating the functional states of tumor-resident dendritic cells that drive productive anti-tumor immunity
… can exist in distinct functional states with differential impacts on their function. In this work, we sought to study DC states associated with productive or dysfunctional anti-tumor immune responses and dissect the signals that drive them. To study DC states, we compared the DC infiltrate of …
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