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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Dodson"”.
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Case Study.Relating Self-Concept and Learning Disabilities to Athletic Success and Academic Achievement
<p>Brad Dodson, a 21 year old male, served as the subject of this case study. The purpose of the study was to determine if self-concept in the learning disabled student can be improved after athletic success is realized and if an improved self-concept realized through athletic success can transfer …
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Anxiety and attention in beginning readers
… generally followed the predictions of the Yerkes-Dodson law (1908), allocating more attention to average reading tasks. Findings were discussed with regard to implications of the effects of anxiety on attention to reading and the development of this methodology.
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Consolidation in the Henry County Public School System
… operated 20 public schools. In 2000, Dr. Sharon Dodson became the superintendent of Henry County. She was hired to make schools more efficient by using the best available spaces and closing facilities in need of structural repair. In 2001 the school board voted to close three schools but the …
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A Hybrid Simulation Methodology To Evaluate Network Centricdecision Making Under Extreme Events
… decays in time, according to the Yerkes-Dodson curve, affecting the measures of performance of the whole organizational system. Accordingly we suggest that the hybrid model could be applied to other types of organizations, such as military peacekeeping operations and joint task forces. …
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Engaging with Uncertainty: Three Empirical Studies
… Drawing from the psychology-based Yerkes-Dodson (1908) Law, we propose that, while some amount of stress activated by constraints enhances performance, too much stress hampers performance. Using textual measures to gauge constraints that activate stress at the organizational level, we find …
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Efecto del proceso de imagery en la ejecución del tiro libre del baloncesto en distintos niveles de activación fisiológica en estudiantes de nivel elemental
… ratios, and Hypothesis Inverted U-Yarkes- Dodson (1908), which is that increasing activation a progressive increase in performance occurs until an optimum point, which overcome any increase in the activation state results in a drop in performance. The purpose of this research was to …
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Genetics and genomics in nursing.: What are the characteristics of genetic nurse adopters and nurse opinion leaders in genetics and genomics?
… into nursing education has been sporadic (Dodson and Lewallen, 2011). Influencing its uptake into practice may be via nurses who are already utilising genetics/genomics in their practice (adopters) and nurses who may lead the way and encourage others (opinion leaders) to do likewise. …
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Nahrungsnetzbewirtschaftung in Mittelgebirgstalsperren
… the size-efficiency hypothesis (Brooks & Dodson, 1965) but not those from the trophic cascade hypothesis (Carpenter et al., 1985). Undoubtedly the results underline the importance of indirect effects with respect to a successful "Biomanipulation" as predicted from the hypothesis …
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Interrogation of Conscience and Audience in Shakespeare's Early Plays
Interrogation scenes, in which a character confronts and questions himself, or in which inquisitors question a character in a dramatic dialogue, are dramatizations of confrontational interrogatory discourse. This thesis explores the relation between such scenes in Shakespeare’s early plays and …
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Fanaticos, Exiles and the Mexico-U.S. Border: Episodes of Mexican State Reconstruction, 1923-1929
Fanaticos, Exiles and the Mexico-United States Border: Episodes of Mexican State Reconstruction, 1923-1929,' examines the major challenges to state reconstruction in Mexico in the wake of its decade of revolutionary violence, 1910-1920. The Mexican state, since the beginning of the revolution, …
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Capability-based access control for cyber physical systems
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) couple digital systems with the physical environment, creating technical, usability, and economic security challenges beyond those of information systems. Their distributed and hierarchical nature, real-time and safety-critical requirements, and limited resources create …
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Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel
This thesis contests the widely-held view that literary modernism is a late manifestation of the romantic-symbolist tradition, arguing that the modern novel's self-reflexive preoccupation with the materiality of language is incompatible with the essentialist premises of romantic-symbolist …
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The transition experience to boarding school for male Aboriginal secondary school students from regional and remote communities across Western Australia
… received the attention it deserves (Calma, 2009; Dodson, 2009). The weight of public discourse and a paucity in research provided strong testimony for undertaking the current study. Moreover, it was evident the voice of those Aboriginal students undertaking the experience was absent from this …
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Dynasts or Disruptors: Gender and Representation in the Philippines Legislature
… contextual, and individual factors (Dodson 2006; Celis and Childs 2014; Espírito-Santo, Freire, and Serra-Silva 2020). Still, scholars view the study of the descriptive-substantive link as worthwhile and maintain that diversity of identity is relevant to the study of political …
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The word that makes you go hmmm: exploring the relation between African Americans’ linguistic ideologies, racial identity attitudes, and usage of the n-word
… et al., 2000), items from my previous research (Dodson, 2010), and open-ended questions. The data were integrated during analysis and combined during the presentation of the data in the results and discussion sections. In addition, individual interviews were conducted with philosopher and public …
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The Role of Harm, Detectability, and Knowledge of HIV Non-Disclosure Laws in Affecting Punishment Recommendations for HIV Law Violators
<p>Many U.S. states have passed HIV non-disclosure laws that criminalize sexual behavior on the part of HIV-positive persons who do not disclose their HIV status to sexual partners. This study broadly focused on the impact of two major philosophical approaches for meting out punishment to law …
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A Comparison of Trainee and Supervisor Perceptions of Transfer Climate in a Union-Based Training Program.
A supportive work climate is critical for successful transfer of learning. Influences in the work environment affect the trainee's ability to apply new skills to the job. The supervisor can be a significant figure in the trainee's perception of a supportive transfer climate. Little is known of the …
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Representations of Identity in Three 21st-Century Dystopian Novels: Omar El Akkad’s American War, Naomi Alderman’s The Power, and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl
Esta tesis doctoral trata la relación dialéctica entre el individuo y la sociedad distópica neoliberal en la ficción distópica contemporánea que conlleva una construcción de la identidad social de los personajes. El proyecto analiza cómo los protagonistas evolucionan y se adaptan y cómo sus …
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