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Showing 1 to 20 of 6647 for “"Fit"”.
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An integrative investigation of person-vocation fit, person-organization fit, and person-job fit perceptions.
Person-environment (PE) fit has been considered one of the most pervasive concepts in psychology. This study presents an integrative investigation of three levels of PE fit: person-vocation (PV) fit, person-organization (PO) fit, and person-job (PJ) fit, using multiple conceptualizations (e.g., …
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Induced-Fit Anion Sensing
… in their binding and sensing. In induced-fit anion sensing, the binding of an anion causes a shift in the equilibrium of conformers of the molecule, which in turn may lead to a change in a physical property. In this thesis four experimental chapters describe the synthesis and anion sensing …
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Volenti non fit iniuria
… merits of the modern principle of volenti non fit iniuria as it is applied in the context of the South African Delictual Law on patrimonial loss. Though a similar evaluation of the volenti doctrine in respect to the modern Actio Iniuriarum .falls outside the scope of this dissertation, …
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The fit family program
… to a health-related, home-centered family fitness program designed to improve lifestyle exercise and eating behaviors. This program involved five families (eleven subjects) recruited from Park Road High School in Rural Virginia. The program was based on family systems theory, and social …
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The Role of Personality in Person-Organization Fit: An Examination of Fit Styles
Person-organization fit has often been examined as a predictor of important workplace outcomes, but research examining the antecedents of PO fit is lacking. To date there is little information on how fit perceptions form, or if individuals react similarly to different types of fit. The present …
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Contextual Fit in ABA Practice: Utilizing a Contextual Fit Tool to Achieve Social Validity
… since the 1970s. Conjunctively, contextual fit has been utilized in home and school settings to make interventions viable and sustainable for those implementing them within diverse settings. A sizable portion of ABA practice typically involves providing services within home settings and …
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A comparison of resting metabolic rates among cardiovascular fit, muscularly fit, and sedentary men
Resting metabolic rate (RMR) was studied in 29 cardiovascularly-trained (CV), resistance-trained (WT), and sedentary men (Sed) between the ages of 18 and 35 years. The hypothesis was that CV (n = 9) and WT (n = 10) would have higher resting metabolic rates than Sed (n = 10). RMR was measured by …
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big space, little place and 11 retro-fit, future-fit strategies for emerging airports
Air traffic has experience worldwide exponential growth which has in turn sparked off another chain reaction of new expanded facilities for air travel. Although the individual's radius of action continues to expand, space itself is being steadily reduced to a zone that is traversed, an interval in …
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Helping the Shoe to Fit
<p><em>Helping the shoe to fit </em>is a collection of short stories and “flash fiction.” This collection explores animal perspectives, the medieval period, mythology, and family dynamics. Poetic devices within these stories put the reader into a position where they must interact with sound and …
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A better FIT: Risk stratification of screening intervals and FIT thresholds in bowel cancer screening
… improve the balance of screening harms and benefits, and to accommodate resource limitations. Within the bowel cancer screening pathway, risk stratification could be incorporated at the point of first invitation (eligibility), or at the point of the screening test via stratified screening …
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Does The Leader Fit The Place? Examining Leader-Culture Fit And Its Implications For Leader Effectiveness
… on a relatively new concept, Leader-Culture Fit (L-C Fit), to help bridge the empirical gap that exists between the literatures on leadership and organizational culture. L-C Fit, a subtype of Person-Environment fit, was examined here by testing the complex relationships between perceptions of …
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PERSON-CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FIT: CONSIDERING THE EFFECTS OF CORPORATE VALUES ON FIT WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION
… a new sub-dimension of Person-Organization (P-O) fit, such that there’s a Person-CSR (P-CSR) fit: the perceived congruence between an individuals’ values with an organization’s CSR initiatives. We predicted that P-CSR fit would explain additional variance over and beyond P-O fit for organizational …
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Assessing fit in the interview: How candidates consider content and context cues to Person Organization Fit
… for the job candidate to assess his/her fit with a potential employer. While much research from the recruiting literature shows that candidates' perceptions of PO Fit lead to important outcomes such as intentions to pursue a position and acceptance of job offers, fewer studies explore how …
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Pre-tenured Faculty Job Satisfaction: An Examination of Personal Fit, Institutional Fit and Faculty Work-life
… interested in examining demographic and personal fit factors, fit with the norms and values of the institution among pre-tenured faculty in different institutional types. The sample for the study included all pre-tenured faculty members who completed the COACHE 2009- 2010 job satisfaction survey. …
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Promotion and Prevention Fit Are Different but Lead to Equal Performance: Examining Fit Sensitivity and Task Performance
… with vigilant, create a state of regulatory fit. This state of regulatory fit leads to different outcomes which the current study has grouped into fit sensitivity and performance. Fit sensitivity is the sensitivity to fit effects with an absence of correctness while performance outcomes are …
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“Why fit in when you’re born to stand out?”: exploring athlete-environment fit using an implementation science approach
… little amounts of attention have focused on the fit between the two. While some coaches and researchers have suggested the athlete-environment fit to be an important area of research, this has yet to be explored empirically. This dissertation explored a novel approach to athlete development by …
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Assessing the Fit Between Child Welfare Information Systems and Frontline Workers: Development of a Task-Technology Fit Instrument
… such a measure based on the task-technology fit (TTF) framework, which posits that users will evaluate the usefulness of a technology based on how well it meets their tasks needs and individual abilities.</p> <p>Concept mapping with caseworkers was used to produce an initial pool of 100 items …
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Game Appropriation: Where does the gamer fit?
The socio-technological transformation of digital games means that they are no longer single-player, co-located game experiences but instead are multiplayer socially-oriented ones (e.g. World of Warcraft). This change underpins the central concern of this thesis, to understand game appropriation …
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Fit Buddy Prototype and KSUGo Mobile App
… at Kennesaw State University (KSU), called Fit Buddy. There are three key concepts that will be covered in this Proof of Concept project: social networking, fitness, and IoT (Internet of Things) usages.</p> <p>Additionally, the purpose of the CS Capstone project is to deliver a mobile app …
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