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Showing 1 to 20 of 236 for “"Initial Study"”.
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Racetrack Engineered Surface Project Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration
<p>The Professional Project addressed here is an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration for a project proposed by the staff of the Del Mar Fairgrounds pursuant to legal mandate by the State of California Horse Racing Board.</p> <p>The “Project” subject to documentation under CEQA consisted of …
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Total Metal Analysis in Hookah Tobacco (Narghile, Shisha) – an Initial Study
In this initial study, the concentrations of eighteen elements (Na, K, Mg, Ca, Al, Fe, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se, Mo, As, Cd, Sb and Pb) in 12 hookah tobacco formulations (moassel) were studied by ICPMS. Eight of these were formulated in the United States, and four were from the Middle East. The …
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An Initial Study of A Method for Instructing Educators About The Revised Taxonomy
… items following the taxonomy. The goal of this study was to investigate a method in teaching the RT to support educators in making more accurate use of the taxonomy. The study participants were 123 teacher candidates in four sections of an undergraduate course on classroom assessment. The …
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An initial study to develop instruments and validate the Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators (ECPE)
… evaluator competencies. The purpose of this study was to develop instruments (a web-based survey and interview protocol) to initially validate the Essential Competencies for Program Evaluators using Messick's (1989, 1995a, 1995b) concept of unitary validity as a framework. The validated …
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Promoting a Reduction in Meat Consumption: An Initial Study on the Efficacy of a Commitment Strategy
The current study employed an ABA design with a control group to assess the effectiveness of a commitment strategy in reducing meat consumption among university students (n=70). Participants who were randomly assigned to the commitment condition did not consume significantly less meat than …
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Introducing the Texas Euclid Survey for Lyman Alpha (TESLA) survey : initial study correlating galaxy properties to Lyman-alpha emission
… North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) field. Using TESLA, we study how the physical properties of Lyman-α emitters (LAEs) correlate with Lyα emission to understand the escape of Lyα from galaxies at redshifts 2 – 3.5. We present an analysis of 43 LAEs performed in the NEP field using early data from the TESLA …
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Effects of Gestational and Lactational Exposure to 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-P-Dioxin or Coplanar PCBs on Reproductive Development and Sexually Dimorphic Behaviors in Rats
… in TCDD and coplanar PCB exposed rats. In the initial study, the play behavior in TCDD exposed rats was suppressed. However in the follow-up study, when play behavior was tested with a different protocol than in the initial study, the effects were not replicated. The loss of effects could be …
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Carry-over effect of a handwriting readiness program on handwriting-related skills of children the year following intervention
The purpose of this follow-up study was to determine if children who had participated in an occupational therapy based handwriting readiness program would show greater improvements in handwriting-related skills a year following intervention when compared to a control group and an alternate …
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The face is the thing: faces as a whole are responsible for the lateralization of visual perceptual facial processing
… typically display a right hemisphere bias. In an initial study using factor analysis to examine the relationship between many of the tasks that have previously shown hemispheric asymmetry, results showed that tasks involving the perception of a face and tasks involving non-face perception loaded …
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A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques
Our initial study indicates that successful integration of new communication medium into South African schools is not only challenging from the financial point of view, but also in terms of designing tools that fit within educational goals, as well as the training and support of relevant personnel …
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Estudo de irregularidades de superfície das pistas de pouso de dois aeródromos militares
… surface unevenness evaluation is presented. An initial study with the BPR roughmeter in two Military Aerodrommes is presented. Topographic levelling of points one meter from each other and data analysis either through drafted profiles and special template or using a statistical approuch. These …
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Uncertainty quantification applied to the analysis and design of a hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator for spacecraft reentry
… flowfield uncertain variables identified in the initial study. The deflection uncertainty is shown to be primarily driven by the structural modeling uncertain variables and found to be insignificant in contributing to the resulting surface condition uncertainties. Uncertainty analysis is finally …
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An initial electrochemical study into the (Bio)Leaching of chalcopyrite
… work in this present thesis is presented as an initial study to commission the potentiostat instrument, investigate the common trends that are observed in running potential controlled (voltammetric) studies of chalcopyrite and compare them to those reported in literature, and investigate the …
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Feasibility Study of Partially Restrained Connections
… story heights and lower steel weights. This initial study analyzes partially restrained connections for both hot rolled shapes and steel joists using non-composite and composite construction. The designs are than compared with respect to complexity, practicality, serviceability and economics. …
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An evidence-based classification framework for Hallux Rigidus
… This was achieved through four studies. An initial study of 110 patients was used to determine the clinical parameters of HR. In addition to other pertinent findings this showed a positive relationship between second toe length and first metatarsophalangeal joint pain (P
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Attention-Based Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
… this environment. This thesis aims to conduct an initial study of applying Decision Transformers to combinatorial optimization problems.¹
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Surface Microstructure Evolution of Metallic Specimens Using the Large Chamber Scanning Electron Microscope
<p>An initial study into the use of the large chamber scanning electron microscope (LCSEM) to interrogate the surface microstructure evolution of metallic specimens has been carried out. The LC-SEM located at Western Kentucky University is the largest instrument of its type at any university in the …
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Inhibition of Margination and Diapedesis of Neutrophils by Protein Synthesis Blockade
… treatment strategies, there seems to be no known study tailored to its prevention. Neutrophil extravasation within the tissues during inflammation is the hallmark of this syndrome. Our study sought to block excessive neutrophil infiltration by inhibiting the biosynthesis of some essential proteins …
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Feedback Control and Nonlinear Controllability of Nonholonomic Systems
In this thesis we study the methods for motion planning for nonholonomic systems. These systems are characterized by nonholonomic constraints on their generalized velocities. The motion planning problem with constraints on the velocities is transformed into a control problem having fewer control …
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The association between oestrogen, memory, cognition and mood in a male-to-female transsexual population
… offer one of the few opportunities for studying the effect of oestrogen and other cross-sex hormones on human cognitive function. The present research examined the effect of gonadal hormones on memory, cognition and mood in a transsexual population. The aim was to determine whether …
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