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Goal Drought
<p><em>Goal Drought </em>is a collection of free verse and prose poetry that focuses on the sport of soccer. The collection explores the roles of fans and players within the sport as well as the strategy, concepts, and controversies that make up much of soccer. Beyond just the game, the collection …
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Zero-shot object-goal navigation using multimodal goal embeddings
… scalable approach for learning open-world object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) - the task of asking a virtual robot (agent) to find any instance of an object in an unexplored environment (e.g., "find a sink"). The approach is entirely zero-shot - i.e., it does not require ObjectNav rewards or …
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Goal Interdependence and the Role of Team Goal System Awareness
… I propose a new framework for conceptualizing goal interdependence in teams and expand our understanding of team-related goal cognition. In Chapters 1 and 2, I propose that the goals of any one team can be viewed as being embedded a team goal system made up of the goals each member holds for …
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English Goal Infinitives
… restrictions on the kinds of phrases to which goal infinitives can adjoin, as well as the identification of the referents of unexpressed arguments, follow from what it means to be a particular type of goal, and therefore need not be stipulated. Knowledge of goal relations is part of the …
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Predicting Goal Choice and Goal Commitment Within a Control Systems Framework
… specific links in a control systems model of goal choice and goal commitment. Male and female subjects performed five trials on either a paper and pencil text editing task (Study 1) or a text transfer task on a microcomputer (Study 2). The results demonstrated that both performance …
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Can goal specific self-efficacy measures predict goal choice: understanding the 2x2 achievement goal framework through self-efficacy theory
<p>The achievement goals that one adopts in an academic context have been shown to be associated with, as well as causally related to, important outcomes. Currently, the most widely accepted theory holds that achievement goals are the result of one's implicit </p> <p>theory of intelligence. …
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THE EFFECT OF GOAL DISTANCE ON GOAL VALUE AND ESCALATION OF COMMITMENT
… costs are confounded with progress made toward a goal and hidden payoff information. Thus, the apparent escalation tendency may be a consequence of goal proximity and information search rather than of sunk costs. Experiments 1 and 2 show that individuals' tendencies to escalate reflect the …
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Tests of Pre-Goal and Post-Goal Models of Satisfaction With Outcomes
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114955.pdf: 4154922 bytes, checksum: 029778ba645191a58880d6d8d2b55fda (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Goal-oriented Web search
We have designed and implemented a Goal-oriented Web application to search videos, images, and news by querying YouTube, Truveo, Google and Yahoo search services. The Planner module decomposes functionality in Goals and Techniques. Goals declare searches for specific types of content and Techniques …
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Distributed curricular goal mapping
… easily ensure consistency for courses and the goals they promise to teach across a curriculum. With such a structure, we can also begin to visualize these relationships between courses, to better understand where what students learn will lead them in their time in academia. To do this, I …
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Goal-oriented hardware design
… Fide, a hardware design system that uses Goal-oriented programming. Goal-oriented programming is a programming framework to specify open-ended decision logic. This approach relies on two fundamental concepts-Goals and Techniques. Goals encode decision points and Techniques are scripts that …
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The Interacting Effect of Self-Efficacy and Performance Goal Orientation on Goal Setting and Performance: The Positive Side of Performance Goal Orientation
The empirical literature on goal orientation is ambiguous in relation to the supposed effects of performance goal orientation (PGO) on goal setting and performance. In an attempt to clear up this issue it was hypothesized based on Carol Dweck's (1989) theoretical framework that dispositional …
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Trait inattention and goal representations.
… memory, particularly those functions related to goal maintenance. In six studies, the link between trait inattention and working memory limitations was investigated with the aim of differentiating inattention from hyperactivity and impulsivity, which are commonly comorbid with inattention in …
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Memory for Goal-Directed Events
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:22:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009087.pdf: 4434193 bytes, checksum: 5764366133708451afff8a73870e1b28 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Studies of goal directed movements
The principles underlying the production of goal directed movements are largely unknown, as evidenced by the lack of artificial systems matching the real-world performance of biological organisms. The ability to transform in real time a vaguely defined goal (skiing downhill) into a detailed motor …
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Relationships among Self-Construal, Goal Motives, and Goal Outcomes and the Moderating Effects of Culture
… which integrated different self-construal types, goal motivation types, and goal outcomes, and also to test the moderating effects of culture on the model. Based on previous literature, a hypothesized model was proposed. 250 American university students and 246 Chinese university students were …
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The Differential Relations of Perceived Goal Agreement and Actual Goal Agreement With Early Therapeutic Outcome
… concerns the influence of perceived and actual goal agreement between therapist and client on measures of early change. The results from 24 therapeutic dyads at 3 university counseling centers support the hypothesis that actual goal agreement between therapist and client is related to early …
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An Empirical, Evaluative Comparison of the Goal-Based and Goal-Free Approaches to Educational Program Evaluation
Theoretically, the use of different evaluation approaches yields different information. This information often leads to different conclusions, but it is not necessarily inaccurate. It is different information, sometimes relevant, sometimes irrelevant, depending on the audience. A comparative …
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