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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"GSS"”.
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Development and evaluation of a group support system in organisational settings
Group Support Systems (GSS) are systems, normally involving the use of Information Technology, that have been designed to support groups of people meeting to undertake some task. By providing an additional channel of communication, GSS attempt to reduce group process losses, such as domination of …
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Voting in group support systems : theory, implementation, and results from an exploratory study
… in organizations. Group Support Systems (GSS) can aide groups in making decisions by providing tools and process support. GSS is especially useful for geographically or temporally distributed groups. Researchers of GSS have pointed out that convergence processes are hard to accomplish in …
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Assessing Instructed Feigner's Response to the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale
… The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS-1) is currently the only validated assessment tool that measures interrogative suggestibility levels, and it is frequently used in forensic evaluations to help support or refute false confession claims. While it is imperative that the GSS-1 …
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Functional studies of lignin biosynthesis genes and putative flowering gene in Miscanthus x giganteus and studies on indolyl glucosinolate biosynthesis and translocation in Brassica oleracea
… and translocation of glucosinolates (GSs), bioactive secondary plant compounds, in broccoli plants. Changes in GS accumulation and gene expression levels in response to exogeneous methyl jasmonate (MeJA) treatment were analyzed in different tissue types at different developmental …
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Designing a High-Quality Network: An Application-Oriented Approach
… mechanism and a Generic Soft State (GSS) identification mechanism. To manage the knowledge of the applications we propose different QoS components, such as a GSS negotiation mechanism, a GSS communication mechanism and a GSS monitoring mechanism (such as GSS Relays and GSS …
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Decision interaction processes and decision product quality: a comparative study of a group support system: CyberQuest™ and the nominal group technique
… objective was to compare a Group Support System (GSS), i.e., CyberQuest, with the Nominal Group Technique (NGT). Its basic assumption was that discussion outcomes are enhanced by decision interaction processes, the quality of group facilitation, the intensity of group interaction, the …
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Geospatial Sharing as an Effective Governance Tool for Policy Decision: Comparative Analysis and Implication to Saudi Arabia
… the development of a Geospatial Sharing System (GSS). The GSS proposed by this research establishes mechanisms for sharing and accessing distributed geospatial data residing on an interoperability system across the Internet. The proposed GSS would be an effective governance tool for better …
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Determinants of Attitudes and Perceptions Concerning Married Women in the Labor Force
… study analyzes the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS) to determine what types of individuals believe in traditional versus nontraditional sex roles for mothers. The entire sample within the 2002 GSS was analyzed as well as subsets for married individuals. The significant variables in each model …
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Implementing a Grand Strategy system—by what method: a case/field study of National Grocers' Peterborough distribution warehouse's Grand Strategy System effort
… This research: Documents the Peterborough GSS implementation Documents warehouse performance results Evaluates the effectiveness of the PDSOF project Evaluates the effectiveness of the GSS framework in the PDSOF project Documents expert advice on GSS implementation By organizing and …
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Understanding public attitudes toward sentencing.
… study were from the 1999 General Social Survey (GSS) administered by Statistics Canada. For the first time in 1999, the GSS sought to examine public attitudes toward sentencing. The public's sentencing preferences for offenders were investigated through the use of scenario-type questions. …
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The Hosting of Major Sports Events in Developing Countries: What can Kenya Learn from South Africa?
… African countries and the global sports system (GSS), with a specific focus on Kenya and South Africa. Second, to critically assess the understandings of key actors and agencies in Kenya with respect to the possibilities and challenges of hosting major sports events, in comparison with actors and …
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The performance of certain combined sewer overflows with storage
… together with a prototype Gross Solids Sampler (GSS) manufactured by the UK WRc, and visible solids interception devices developed by the author and termed Trash Traps.<br/><br/>A relationship was developed for the variation of visible solids during dry weather flow at the inlet to one site based …
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Digestible methionine + cysteine:digestible lysine ratio in diets for broilers submitted to inflammatory challenge
… dismutase (SOD), glutathione synthetase (GSS), methionine adenosyltransferase (MAT2), cystathionine β-synthase (CBS), relative weights of liver and spleen, and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) estimated fat mass (%) and lean mass (%). The differences were considered significant at …
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Vergleichende Analyse der Gerstmann-Straeussler-Scheinker-Syndrom-assoziierten Mutation A117V mit der neuen pathogenen Mutation G114V des humanen Prion-Proteins in vivo und in vitro
… with Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS). Sequence-analysis of patients showing neurological disorders revealed a new point-mutation (G114V) in the central region of PrP. The age of affected individuals is strikingly low; the clinical symptoms overlap with GSS as well as …
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Happily Ever After: A Study of Social Correlates of Marital Unhappiness and Policy Implications
… more specifically the General Social Survey (GSS), I was able to accomplish the appropriate tests to determine if any of the above variables are significantly related to marital happiness. Due to the nature of this study, the survey data has already been collected by the researchers who make …
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Statehouse Mosaics and the American Electorate: How State Legislatures Affect Political Participation
… 2000 through 2010, and the 2002 through 2010 GSS data series, this dissertation focuses on how US state legislatures influence voting behavior and political attitudes of the American electorate. Specifically, this research takes on a comparative approach and illustrates how institutional …
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Secularization as a Decline in Religious Authority Over Gender
… for describing religious change over time. Using GSS data and the example of gender ideology, I attempt to illustrate this concept and argue that this view of secularization, combined with a multidimensional approach to gender, is necessary to more fully explain the changing relationship among …
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Assessing public opinion toward homelessness in the United States
… data analysis of the 2002 General Social Survey (GSS), which has a sample size of 3,000 non-institutionalized English speaking adults. Bivariate logistic regression and multivariate logistic regression were used to analyze the data.
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Psychosocial Work Environment Stressors, Health, and Health Disparities: Findings from the 2002 to 2014 General Social Surveys
… European nations. The General Social Survey (GSS) NIOSH Quality of Worklife (QWL) data enables us to investigate and contribute new information to both NIOSH and DHHS research priorities. Using the 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014 GSS QWL data, pursuing this dissertation’s aims produced the …
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Preferences for Emotional Dependence and Togetherness in Romantic Relationships: The Impact of Cohort, Race, Gender, and Gender Ideology
… of data from the 1996 General Social Survey's (GSS) gender and emotions modules. Gender, gender ideology, cohort, and specific sociodemographic variables, such as education and marital status were found to impact preferences for mutual emotional dependence, however, no racially distinct patterns …
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