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Progressive Response Effort Preference Assessments
… these results suggest that response effort is a variable that should be taken into consideration when evaluating effective treatments for individuals with disabilities. Preference and reinforcer effectiveness may shift as individuals are presented with tasks that require increased …
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Effort-Independent Asthma Severity Classification
… disorders, and would serve as a noninvasive and effort-independent tool, providing critical information to clinicians when patients are unable or unwilling to comply with spirometry testing. In this work, we demonstrate the viability of using features extracted from time-based capnography to …
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The Autonomic Correlates of Listening Effort
… life communication requires significant mental effort, even when using a hearing aid. This increased daily effort causes fatigue and reduced well-being. In recent years, researchers have utilised physiological measures to quantify listening effort; however, the chosen methods are seldom driven …
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Essays on Matching With Endogenous Effort
… matching literature by including an endogenous effort choice after the matching stage. We examine how different matching rules affect incentives to exert effort and the costs paid to induce various effort levels in three settings: a legal system, an education system, and a labor market. In an …
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Best effort measurement based congestion control
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Using Ensembles for Web Effort Estimation
Accurate effort estimation enables effective managerial decisions to be made by project managers when embarking on a project, and this trend also applies when managing Web projects. Web development has steadily increased over the years; research into identifying sound ways to improve the effort …
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The Effort Variable in Instrumental Conditioning
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0009024.pdf: 4946576 bytes, checksum: d7770d05ed91ba428d65941ea0541f8f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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To the Effort Itself: A Phenomenological Study of Wang Yangming's 王陽明 Theory of Moral Effort
… I phenomenologically clarify the theory on moral effort (<em>gongfu</em> 功夫) of the sixteenth-century Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming (or Wang Shouren 王陽明/王守仁 1472-1529). For Wang, the final purpose of moral effort is to cultivate one’s heart (<em>xin</em> 心) as the subject of consciousness, …
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Effort Estimation Model for Software Customisation Projects
Effort estimation is an important and challenging issue in software engineering. Software developers and/or project managers need to estimate the effort early in the software development life cycle, to evaluate the appropriate budget and manpower. Surprisingly, effort estimation for software …
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Accounting comparability, audit effort and audit outcomes
The paper investigates the usefulness of accounting comparability for audit engagement. Comparability among peer firms in the same industry reflects the similarity and the relatedness of firms’ operating environment and accounting reporting. From two perspectives of “inherent business risk” and …
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Individual decision making : pain, rules, and effort
… progress information may influence motivation, effort, enjoyment, and performance in two opposing ways: when uncertainty about progress is high, partitioning increases motivation and liking of a task, but when progress uncertainty is low, partitioning decreases motivation, liking, and subsequent …
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Intelligent Tutoring Systems Measuring Student Effort During Assessment
Each tutoring system must face the problem of dealing with uncertainty involved in student interactions. The quality of a correct answer to a question may be di erent for each individual student. Some answers are produced by careful thinking and anal- ysis using memorised facts, where other answers …
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Why Volunteer and is Volunteering Worth the Effort?
<p>This thesis analyzes why people volunteer in two counties of East Tennessee. The study describes the concept of volunteering and its positive impact upon society on a regional and national level. The characteristics of people who volunteer, why people choose to volunteer, and the significance of …
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Three Essays in Luck, Effort, and Economic Opportunity
… three essays studying the role of opportunities, effort and luck in economic decision making. The introduction argues that effort and redistribution choices rely on understanding the relative roles of these factors. Yet, individuals do not know the actual relative roles and act based on beliefs. …
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Evaluating courseware development effort estimation measures and models
… practical framework for evaluating courseware effort estimation models. Existing research into this area is thoroughly reviewed. Expert estimation, algorithmic and non-algorithmic estimation methods are evaluated in terms of well defined criteria adapted from software metrics research. …
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Anticipations of effort and accuracy in multiattribute choice
… decision makers' ability to anticipate the effort and accuracy consequences of their decision strategies in multiattribute choice. Previous studies have examined experienced effort and accuracy associated with various strategies. However, if strategies are selected early in the decision …
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Reduction of computational effort in structural dynamics calculations
The time-history analysis of realistic structures can often be computationally quite expensive. The main reason for the high volume of computation is the fact that the time interval must usually be very small. The factors that limit the time interval fall into three categories: (1) The input may …
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An Examination of Seasoned Equity Offer Placement Effort
Altınkılıç and Hansen (2000) show that underwriter spreads in seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) overwhelmingly reflect variable costs. This research attempts to begin filling the gap created by this result, as to what are the important constituents of the variable costs. In particular, I investigate …
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