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Showing 1 to 20 of 251 for “"Exploratory analysis"”.
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Tattooed college students: an exploratory analysis
Tattooing is an ancient art. Tattoos have been used to worship gods, to show tribal membership, and to display wealth. However, in modern Western culture tattooing has been a devalued practice reserved for the those on the fringe of society. In the last twenty-five years, however, more mainstream …
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Privatization in Texas Government: An Exploratory Analysis
No abstract prepared.
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An Exploratory Analysis of Public Resource Online Auctions
The purpose of this study is to provide an exploratory analysis of public resources’ allocation through online auctions. Online auctions are new ways of public resource allocation in China, but they are promising because of its broad participation and low transaction costs. In addition, compared to …
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African legislatures and HIV/AIDS : an exploratory analysis
Since 1981 AIDS has killed more than 25 million people world-wide, the majority of whom lived within developing countries. The worst affected region, Sub Saharan Africa, currently has 3.5% of the world’s population yet 37% of the world’s people living with HIV. In light of the magnitude of the …
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An exploratory analysis of ideological and organizational secularization
… were developed conducive to sociological analysis. The remainder of this study considered the utility of the secularization reconceptualizations. The sacred-secular model of ideological secularization was applied to major shifts in Protestant theology in the 20th century in an effort to …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Affirmative Action in Admission Processes
<p>This paper looks at the current case of <em>Fisher v. University of Texas</em> at Austin in conjunction with previous affirmative action cases. I question what the Court’s decision for the <em>Fisher</em> case will be and what this means for future affirmative action policies in higher …
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Parental Attitudes Toward Socially Inhibited Children: An Exploratory Analysis
Intergenerational transmission of shyness, or the social process through which shy characteristics or behavioral patterns demonstrated by parents are passed on to their children, has received recent empirical attention and has suggested a positive relationship between levels of shyness in parents …
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The Domestic Politics of Entering International Communities: An Exploratory Analysis
In the last thirty years, there has been a significant increase in the globalization process, or as other refer to it, the internationalization, free trade, or liberalization. This trend was reflected in the increasing number of newly formed international organization (economic and security) as …
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Visual exploratory analysis of large data sets : evaluation and application
… Visualization has been proposed to assist exploratory data analysis (EDA) as our visual systems can process signals in parallel to quickly detect patterns. Nonetheless, designing an effective visual analytic tool remains a challenge. This challenge is partly due to our incomplete …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Access to Specialist Dermatological Care in Ontario
… greater attention. This thesis is thus an exploratory project on access to dermatological care to see what might be found at this specific level of specialist care in Ontario. I surveyed 49 adults who had visited a dermatologist regarding a chronic skin disease. Responses were analyzed …
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Autonomy in foreign language learning: An exploratory analysis of Japanese learners
Learner autonomy has received increased attention: in the recent language teaching and learning literature. Although Holec (1981) proposed a somewhat categorical definition of learner autonomy, this concept can be viewed in various ways depending on factors such as context and culture. One may …
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An exploratory analysis of gender, sexual orientation and mental health outcomes
… statistical techniques were employed in analysis. The sample was drawn from students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Data were collected through an online survey administered Fall semester 2011. The sample was comprised of 116 respondents 98 of which identified as …
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An exploratory analysis of large health cohort study using Bayesian networks
… between variables. We used BN to perform an exploratory analysis on a rich collection of data from one large health cohort study, the Nurses' Health Study (NHS), with the focus on breast cancer. We explored the data from the NHS using BN to look for breast cancer risk factors, including a …
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An exploratory analysis of the restaurant dining patterns of older adults
The main objective of this study was to describe the restaurant dining patterns of a representative random sample of adults 65 years of age and older and to evaluate the impact that their health concerns and special diets have on their restaurant dining patterns. In addition, the specific features …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Three Water Conservation Alternatives for San Marcos, TX
The purpose of this study is to analyze three water conservation methods for San Marcos, TX. After reviewing the relevant literature, three popular water conservation alternatives were chosen, case studies from historic conservation initiatives from the San Antonio Water System (SAWS), rainwater …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Conflict in African Immigrant and African American Marriages
… <p>This was a non-experimental comparative exploratory study of conflict in African immigrant and African American marriages in terms of their scores on the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2) and its subscales. This involved administering a combined questionnaire comprised of the CTS2, Attitude …
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Exploratory analysis of algorithms for fair and efficient allocation of indivisible chores
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Product strategies for packaged software : an exploratory analysis of the spreadsheet market
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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