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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Individual responses"”.
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Responses of raptors to habitat fragmentation : from individual responses to population susceptibility
… of fragmentation than others. Contrasting responses suggest there are particular species' attributes that make an organism more or less susceptible to the effects of fragmentation. Much research has focused on identifying which of these traits are the most useful indicators of a species' …
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Organizational Change In The Legal Education Environment: Institutional And Individual Responses To Times Of Crisis
… an increase in applications and enrollment as individuals sought an education that would lead to employment. Within a few years, however, the job market for new lawyers deteriorated. By 2010-2011, the number of applications to law schools plummeted, as did the enrollment numbers. Since tuition …
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Cities for birds, birds for cities: The urban ecology of birds across scales from global sampling to individual responses
… to city-level drivers of species prevalence and individual behavioural responses to human activity in an urban songbird. In Chapter 2, I describe and validate the Global Urban Bird Survey, a standardized acoustic monitoring protocol applied across multiple cities to generate spatially …
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Do Individual Responses to Resistance Exercise Exist to an Extent That Can be Detected Beyond That of Measurement Error/Random Biological Variability?
Millions of dollars are spent analyzing inter-individual differences in response to resistance exercise, but the lack of a non-exercise control group means they may simply be examining random error. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are inter-individual differences in …
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Mind over matter: an exploratory case study of mind-body interventions in the burn unit
… therapy (MB-OT) while in the burn unit. Individual responses to mind-body practices were assessed and patient perspectives were included to better understand what MB-OT brought to the recovery process.
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Hospitality and mood : enriching Ciborra's metaphor to understand mobile technology implementation on the police front-line
… work, and the technology itself inunderstanding individual level responses to an organisational level IT implementation process.Ciborra's hospitality metaphor is used as a theoretical lens to explore the introduction ofmobile hand held devices into a police front-line context. This thesis argues …
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The role of collaboration in children's understanding of informational texts
… than is often the case in studies based on individual responses to questions or group discussions.
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MODELING, ANALYSIS, AND CONTROL OF SYK-MEDIATED SIGNALING EVENTS FOR B CELLS AND ASSOCIATED CELLULAR RESPONSE FOR B CELLS
Understanding the immune system and its responses to foreign threats (antigens) is a matter of understanding the immune cells involved, their individual responses, and chemicals responsible for intracellular and intercellular communication. The overall immune response is driven by individual …
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The Validity of The Job Characteristics Model: A Review and Meta-Analysis
… on job characteristics; the job characteristics-individual responses relationships; the mediating effect of psychological states; and the moderating role of potential moderators. While the first two issues were evaluated on the basis of a narrative review, the other three issues were examined …
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The moderating effects of executive functioning on the relationship between life stress and depression
… which is often related to stressful life events. Individual responses to life stress can vary depending on vulnerability factors, such as ability to regulate emotions. Studies have demonstrated that emotion regulation involves executive functioning abilities. Executive functioning is not only …
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Audience frames elicited by televised political advertising
… were interviewed and asked questions about their individual responses to political advertising. Overall, this study found that five common frames were elicited: political cynicism frame, issue frame, third person frame, gender frame and ad frame. This study also examined audience frames elicited …
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Relationship between Horizontal Violence among Registered Nurses and Falls
… study of the relationship between nurses' responses to an online questionnaire regarding prevalence of horizontal violence and NDNQI data submission of the number of unit falls, with and without injury. Data was analyzed and correlated at the individual and group levels but was not …
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A Qualitative Study: Understanding the Value of Formal Leadership Preparation Programs to Novice Principals
… a series of semi-structured interview questions, individual responses revealed leadership preparation experiences were beneficial and highly valued by novice principals. Formal experiences such as internships, mentoring relationships, shadowing experiences and educational leadership coursework …
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Here we remain : the legacy of El Movimiento in Crystal City, Texas.
… Next, this thesis details the development of individual identity and community within the town. This thesis explores the paradox between citizens' positive individual responses and negative community reactions towards El Movimiento. Finally, this thesis presents the legacy of El Movimiento …
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Response of salivary IL-8 to prolonged and interrupted sitting
… Weekly variability in salivary IL-8 and individual responses were also explored. Prolonged sitting increased salivary IL-8 concentrations, while interrupted sitting attenuated this response. Among males, there was no increase in salivary IL-8 during interrupted sitting. Prolonged sitting …
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Pushing the limits of performance. is it really mind over matter? an investigation into the effects of menthol mouth rinsing and the capacity for fatigue amelioration in trained adolescent male cyclists under heat stress
… menthol (MEN) mouth rinsing (MR) on performance responses in trained adolescent male athletes during a modified variable power cycle test (M-VCT). Participants (n=11) cycled for 30-min in hot conditions (31.4±0.9 °C, 23.4±3.7% RH) on two occasions. In a randomized crossover design, (1) menthol MR …
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The effect of the "20 Word Chant" on student sight word recall
… word fluency pre and post test. When looking at individual responses to each intervention, most students increased their sight word knowledge. Overall, when using the 20 Word Chant, thirteen students increased the number of sight words, and three remained at the same number of sight words. When …
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Attitudes Toward Science Among Participants of a Summer Science Enrichment Program
… Differences between pretest and posttest responses indicated changes in attitudes towards science.</p> <p>Changes occurred in 37.1% of all individual responses. Analysis of responses within the various categories of items revealed the greatest positive change in attitudes occurring in …
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Infectious disease as a cause and consequence of phenotypic responses to challenge in a songbird species
… systems, with downstream implications for individual fitness. Infectious disease presents a significant ecological challenge for most organisms on earth. Additionally, how an animal responds to disease can be shifted by exposure to other ecological challenges. Thus, infectious disease can …
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Environmental Cues in the Seasonal Development of the Southern California Annual Grassland
… winter rains. In spring, however, differing individual responses to environmental opportunities and stresses segregate these species along a time gradient. The effect is that the grassland then passes successively through a spring phase dominated by filaree (Erodium spp., Geraniaceae), an …
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