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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Horowitz"”.
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Essays on choice modeling
… tests for non-nested models proposed by Vuong, Horowitz and Ben-Akiva and Swait. Our results indicate that some criteria (especially CAIC) work better than others; and that, when feasible, information criteria should be complemented by the Vuong test, which has a low power, but it virtually …
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Length functions in flat metrics
… of a result of Randol (building on work of Horowitz) for subfamilies of at metrics coming from q-di erentials. In addition we also describe how these equivalence relations are related to each other.
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The Speech of the World: Art and Normativity in Modernity
… a diagnosis of modernity offered by Gregg Horowitz. For him, the triumphant attitude of the age hides our inability to digest a series of traumatic losses - the loss of nature's normativity, of art's significance for cross-generational transmission of values, and of history's demand to …
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Soft-sediment Deformation and Dune Collapse in the Navajo Sandstone
… features correspond to predictions made by the Horowitz (1982) model of dune collapse, formulated from less fortuitously exposed architectures in the Navajo Sandstone. Unlike the Horowitz (1982) model, however, this site preserves distinct indications that the bulk of deformed material …
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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in High School Science: Assessing the Implementation in Title 1 Classrooms
… as conduits for teaching them more effectively (Horowitz et al., 2018). Building relationships with students to understand their backgrounds and experiences to implement the best teaching practices such as accessing prior knowledge and making connections is imperative in a culturally diverse …
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Pigeonhole Equal Subset Sum in O ⃰ (2ⁿ/³)
… sums and look for a match takes O∗(2ⁿ) time. Horowitz and Sahni improve this to O ⃰ (2ⁿ/²) using a classical meet in the middle algorithm [1]. Recently, Jin and Wu improved this further to [formula] [2]. In this paper, we build on Jin and Wu’s techniques to improve the runtime even further to …
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The Need for Arts Education and Alternative Assessment in Light of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
… Research by James S. Catterall, J. Burton, R. Horowitz, and H. Abeles on the question of learning transfer taking place across the disciplines is also examined.
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The development of interpersonal distance in children and adolescents
… be approached is introduced as a variable. The Horowitz, et al. (1964) study was used as a model again, because it offers a simple method for accurate measurement of interpersonal distances in a controlled situation.
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Impact of community violence on African-American children and adolescents in a high violent crime neighborhood
… measures including Sexual Abuse Fear Evaluation, Horowitz Impact of Events Scale, and Children's Depression Inventory were administered. Consistent with previous findings, the results indicate that inner-city African-American children are exposed to a considerable amount of community violence. As …
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Attachment to mother, father, and best friend as predictors of the quality of adolescent romantic relationships
… Relationships Questionnaire (RQ: Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). Scores were calculated to form perception of one's worthiness with the target figure (Model of Self) and perception of the target figure's availability (Model of Other; Griffin & Bartholomew, 1994). Hypotheses were: (1) attachment …
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Adolescent attachment : implications for adolescent interpersonal behavior
… Relationship Questionnaire (RQ; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). Subjects completed a daily diary for one week in which they described two interactions per day, either positive or negative, one with parents and one with close friends, and a measure of emotional expressiveness (EES; Kring et al., …
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Semantic and phonological context effects in visual search
… name information, remains controversial (Wolfe & Horowitz, 1994). This thesis studied search for a target (e.g., baseball-bat) in the presence of semantically related (e.g., racquet), phonologically identical (homophones, e.g., animal-bat) and phonologically related distractors (e.g., bag). …
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The white rightwing in South African politics : a descriptive study of its roots : an assessment of its strength, and an elucidation of its territorial policies and political strategies, 1969-1991
… thesis relies on the theoretical framework of Horowitz, which suggests that the rightwing should be analyzed in terms of a collective drive for power, which in turn could be used to confirm the social status of the Afrikaner ethnic group. It is argued that in the rightwing view, the best way to …
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Hidden disabilities: A study in the application of IDEA and Section 504 in the high school athletics
… or more students go unidentified (Cortiella & Horowitz, 2014). These disabilities often go unnoticed; they are hidden. According to Beyer, Flores, and Vargas-Tonsing (2008) most athletic coaches at the varsity level believe that athletes with disabilities have a right to participate in …
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Associations between parenting style and quality of attachment to mother in middle childhood and adolescence
… Relationship Questionnaire (RQ; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). All participants provided ratings on three dimensions of parenting style characteristic of their families (parental involvement, psychological autonomy granting, and behavioral control) using the Steinberg Parenting Styles …
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An historical and analytical survey of the Transcendental Etudes by Sergei Liapunov.
… Josef Lhévinne, Ferruccio Busoni, and Vladimir Horowitz. However, they are rarely included in modern pianists' repertoire both in Russia and abroad, and are often viewed merely for their historic significance. Works of Liapunov are characterized by a life-affirming character and monumental …
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An Epidemiology of Big Data
… this decade the big data decade in healthcare (Horowitz, 2012). But a precise definition of big data is hazy (Dumbill, 2013). Instead, the healthcare industry mainly relies on metaphors, buzzwords, and slogans that fail to provide information about big data's content, value, or purposes for …
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Genetic studies of mutants of Neurospora crassa lacking ornithine transcarbamylase
… of its close relation-ship to urea. Srb and Horowitz (1944) isolated many arginineless mutants of Neurospora crassa and found the mutants confirmed Krebs' claim (1932) that ornithine and citrulline are precursors in the biosynthesis of arginine. With the characterization of more enzymes, …
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The Relationship Between Needs and Interpersonal Problems of Women in Four Interpersonal Categories
… 1985), The Inventory for Interpersonal Problems (Horowitz, 1986), and The Marlowe-Crowne Social-Desirability Scale (1964).</p> <p>Subjects were assigned to one of four interpersonal categories (Friendly-Dominant, Friendly-Submissive, Hostile-Dominant, Hostile-Submissive) on the basis of their …
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