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Showing 1 to 20 of 188 for “"Facilitative"”.
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Navigating Reentry Shock: The Use of Communication as a Facilitative Tool
Even though many university students travel and study abroad, there is minimal literature and research about supporting these students when they return from their study abroad experience. In order to understand and incorporate the experience into the students everyday life, communication plays a …
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Effectiveness of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitative stretching combined with administration of Diclofenac compared to proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitative stretching and placebo medication for the treatment of cervical facet syndrome
Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Health in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2001.
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The effects of facilitative packaging and verbal reinforcement upon compliance with medication regimens by psychiatric outpatients
In the present study, the effects of (a) unit-dose packaging to facilitate self-monitoring of medication-taking behavior and (b) positive verbal reinforcement to maintain the reactive effects of self-monitoring were evaluated in six psychiatric outpatients.
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istance-Mediated Christian Higher Education: Student Perceptions of the Facilitative Nature of Selected Instructional Development Factors
… the least helpful. Overall, perceptions of the facilitative nature of the instructional development factors were similar among most groups. Older students seem to focus more on organization while younger students exhibit a balance between their perceptions of the facilitative nature of content …
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An examination of facilitative interactions between shrubs and local desert organisms within the desert ecosystems of southern California
In recent decades, facilitative interactions have been the focus of ecological studies, specifically those with foundational shrubs within drylands. However, little has been done to analyze how the density of shrubs influence the frequency of these interactions. Here, I aim to establish shrub …
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Parenting styles and spiritual maturity.
… between gender and the authoritative (facilitative) parenting style comprised the main focus of the study. Participants for this study were recruited from a large, non-denominational Christian church located in north Texas. A total of 300 individuals were randomly selected. A total of …
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Hit Me Again: A Qualitative Examination of The Lived Experience Of Anger in Mixed Martial Arts
… al. (2011) observed that anger may in fact be a facilitative factor in helping Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters experience optimal performance. Moreover, Woodman et al. (2009) found when angry, extraverts' peak force increased more than introverts. In concordance with these findings, Murphy …
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A whole brain® action research approach to the development of a beginner teacher self-regulated professionalism framework
This study explored the transformation of a facilitative mentor’s practice and cultivation of her self-regulated professionalism and the construction of a beginner teacher self-regulated professionalism framework using a Whole Brain® Action Research design. Although a mentoring framework was the …
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A therapeutic relationship?: an interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring aikido practitioners' perspectives on their relationship with their instructor
… aspects of the relationship they perceive as facilitative or problematic for personal development. Semi-structured interviews with eight practitioners were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Practitioners evaluated the relationship with their instructor as central …
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The effects of vicarious reinforcement on Type A and Type B children in a competitive situation
… to produce two different types of effects: 1) facilitative, or 2) debilitative when children coact in a more competitive situation. Since Type A children have been found to engage in more comparison processes and are more competitive, the purpose of the present study was to empirically …
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Appropriate dispute resolution for women married under customary law in Malawi, with special reference to marital violence
… up by punitive threats. On the other hand, facilitative mechanisms of dispute resolution such as mediation do not have the power to impose punishment on contemptuous parties. However, facilitative dispute resolution processes encourage joint problem solving, which is desirable in maintaining …
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The Effect of Questioning on Young Children's Memory for an Event
… demand retrieval from long-term memory has a facilitative effect on memory.
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Effectiveness of Staged Partner Training on Conversational Interactions Involving a Person with Severe Aphasia
… number of exchanges per topic, percentage of facilitative communication acts, communication role and function, and success of conversational exchanges. Descriptive statistical analysis showed that the partner noticeably increased and maintained his use of natural facilitative strategies …
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The Relationship of Implicit Family Process Rules to Adolescent Presentation of Psychological Systems
… and somatization. It was hypothesized that more facilitative implicit family process rules would be related to fewer adolescent psychological symptoms. In addition, a model was created that included theexogenousindependent variables of family status, (defined as intact-marriage or non-intact), …
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Identification of Effective Strategies to Promote Language in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
… The purpose of this study was to identify the facilitative language techniques that are most effective in facilitating receptive and expressive language development in young deaf children. Ninety-three deaf children, ages 2 years and under were enrolled at six implant centers. Deaf children …
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Community- and species-level consequences of competition in an unproductive environment: an experimental approach using boreal forest understory vegetation
… survival and biomass of 6 species indicating a facilitative effect of neighbouring plants. The second study used the Community Density Series (CDS) methodology. The first of these was a 10-speciesexperimental community established from seed and grown in sandboxes at 6 densities with 2 watering …
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Indirect genetic effects of rhizobium symbiosis plasmid on legume-grass dynamics
… terrestrial ecosystems, but outcomes vary from facilitative to competitive depending on nitrogen (N) availability in the environment. Rhizobial bacteria provide fixed N to their legume hosts, and thus the presence or identity of rhizobia can influence host interactions with other species. In …
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Using patchy plant invasions to understand how diffuse interactions modify facilitation and competition
… pair-wise studies have shown direct facilitative effects of one species on another, these results demonstrate another form of biotic conditionality; strong facilitative effects manifest in pair-wise experiments can be eliminated or diminished by the presence of other competitors. In …
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