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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Intervention strategy"”.
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Exploring Animal-Assisted Therapy as a Reading Intervention Strategy
… to explore the ways it may serve as reading intervention program for struggling readers. Due to the low rate of literacy in the U.S., children are often put into reading intervention programs where they are required to read to an adult; potentially creating anxiety that may act as a deterrent …
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Exploring Animal-Assisted Therapy as a Reading Intervention Strategy
… to explore the ways it may serve as reading intervention program for struggling readers. Due to the low rate of literacy in the U.S., children are often put into reading intervention programs where they are required to read to an adult; potentially creating anxiety that may act as a deterrent …
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Imagining ‘possible selves’ as an intervention strategy for incarcerated youth
… exploring the idea of 'possible selves’ as an intervention strategy for incarcerated youth. The participants share experiences of their own incarceration as juveniles as well as insights gained through their recent working experience with incarcerated youth. This study concerns itself with risk …
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A Learning Control, Intervention Strategy for Location-Aware Adaptive Vehicle Dynamics Systems
… and local driving environment is known. An Intervention Strategy must be developed such that the vehicle is navigated successfully along a road via modest changes to the driver's commands and do so in a manner that is in harmony with the driver's intentions and not in a distracting or …
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Indigenous capability building as an intervention strategy for sustainable enerby implementation in vulnerable societies.
… These constraints determine the policy, strategy, and implementation priorities for sustainable energy consumption, generation, and distribution. This PhD research project focuses on the role of interfaces between sustainable energy policy and appropriate technology; and its iterative …
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Depression in underachieving gifted high school students and effects of a brief intervention strategy
… design was used to examine the effect of a brief intervention strategy in a single counseling session on Beck Hopelessness Scale scores, progress reported by teachers, and grade point averages. Various attribute variables were also considered. Results from a stepwise multiple regression support …
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Intervention Strategy to Promote Utilization of Cervical Cancer Screening Services at Vhembe District, South Africa
… The purpose of this study was to develop an intervention strategy to promote utilization of cervical cancer screening services in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Objective The specific objectives were to explore and describe the provision of cervical cancer screening services …
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The Attention-Hesitation Model. A Non-Intrusive Intervention Strategy for Incremental Smart Home Dialogue Management
… model uses system hesitations as a non-intrusive intervention strategy to coordinate the human attention with system speech. This theoretical model is based on interdisciplinary literature from HHI and HAI research. In the second part, I elaborate on the technical requirements implied by the …
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Utilizing Social Norms Theory to Delay the Sexual Debut of Early Adolescents: An Intervention Strategy
… DELAY THE SEXUAL DEBUT OF EARLY ADOLESCENTS: AN INTERVENTION STRATEGY Anna M. Gerard, MSW, LCSW Dr. Jeffrey Applegate, Ph.D. Background and Significance: Numerous programs have been developed in the last twenty years aimed at reducing the prevalence and consequences of risky sexual behavior among …
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An investigation into mental health care deficits in South Africa: exploring an alternative intervention strategy
… in South Africa and explores an alternative intervention strategy that promotes an integrated community-based intervention model to reach the vulnerable majority living with the debilitating consequences of mental illness. The research is grounded in human rights, empowerment and human scale …
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An Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research and Intervention Strategy Applied to the Problem of Pediatric Asthma in Kansas City
… a multilevel health disparities research strategy using pediatric asthma in Kansas City as a case study. The first chapter introduces the problem of pediatric asthma in Kansas City and the foundational theory, methods, and concepts used to develop the structure of the dissertation and …
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Obesity and Diabetes: Evaluating the Impact of Promotores as a Prevention and Intervention Strategy in the Latino Community
… </em>dramatically<em> </em>improve intervention outcomes. Evidence also points to the cost effectiveness of using community health workers for a program related to lifestyle modification for Latinos with type 2 diabetes. The program was cost effective, yielding results of lower AIC …
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Systems of accountability for abusive men in a domestic violence context: The nature of abuse, limited effectiveness and intervention strategy improvement
… abusive; 2) evaluate current domestic violence interventions to understand the rationale has produce the development of these strategies; 3) Describe and critically analyze the limitations of current domestic violence intervention strategies for abusive men; and 4) Present solutions to improve …
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An investigation into the effects of a child care intervention strategy known as Community Motivators in two sites in the Cape Town area
… investigation into the effects of a small scale intervention strategy known as the Community Motivator (CM) Programme on the childraising practices of caregivers in two informal settlements in the Cape Town area. The Community Motivator Programme, initiated by the Early Learning Resource …
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If She Can Do It, I Can Do It: An exploratory analysis of peer mentoring as an intervention strategy to increase exercise program adherence in sedentary adults with chronic health conditions
… behaviours of participants in a peer-mentoring intervention embedded in a community-based exercise program. A second purpose was to explore social support, self-efficacy, and perceived barriers and facilitators to exercise program adherence for study participants within the community-based …
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Using collaborative action research to improve classroom discipline: an action research study at a secondary school in the Boland
… implementation of human rights awareness as an intervention strategy. The purpose of the research was to prevent learners from misbehaving through the implementation of different teaching strategies. Learners transgression will not stop completely and a second objective was to use the …
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An investigation of organisations' current approach to HIV/AIDS Education programmes
… to education programmes and if an alternative intervention strategy is necessary to reduce the ignorance, negatives attitudes and anxiety about the disease. A stratified random sample of 200 employees was selected from a population of 1825. And a convenience sample of two employees of the …
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Location-Aware Adaptive Vehicle Dynamics System: Linear Chassis Predictions
… (terrain, traffic, weather) are predicted. An Intervention Strategy uses a novel measure of handling capability, the Performance Margin (PM), to assess the need to intervene. The driver's throttle and brake control are modulated to affect desired changes to the PM in a manner that is minimally …
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