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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Low performance"”.
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A Comparative Case Study of Factors Distinguishing Between High and Low-Performance on Reading Achievement in Elementary Rural Appalachian Schools
… factors that distinguish between high and low-performance on reading achievement in elementary rural Appalachian schools. This study determined the most effective instructional reading strategies, as well as other influential factors, implemented by school districts in the rural Appalachia …
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Achievement goals and student motivation in the middle school years: Teachers' use of motivational strategies with high and low performance students
… teachers within a classroom treat their high and low performing students differently. It may be that these teachers use different motivational strategies with their high and low performers. Since a mastery goal is an important predictor of adaptive student motivation for learning, the purpose of …
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Building a Reliable Operating System
… timer, scheduler and network while maintaining low performance overheads.
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Optimisation of Valve Regulated Lead Acid Battery Design for High Power Applications
… the investigation of the primary cause(s) of the performance issues of lead acid batteries using qualitative and quantitative research methods. In this research, various real time products have been tested with the view to improving performance by resolving any issues before they launch into the …
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The influence of knowledge sharing on performance among Malaysian public sector managers and the moderating role of individual personality
… to enhance individual and organisational performance. This, due to a lack of knowledge of current practices of knowledge sharing, especially in developing countries, has been the motivation behind this research. The study examines the roles of personality traits in facilitating knowledge …
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ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE OPTIMIZATION
… (OPV) is making great progress on solar cell performance in the past decade. As a potential alternative to conventional expensive photovoltaic technology, the ability of processing in solution enables OPV technology to be more and more popular in research area as well as the photovoltaic …
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Sensorless starting of a brushless D.C. motor
… motors that have found wide application in high performance servo drives need absolute rotor position sensors. However, the cost of the position sensor limits the use of brush less DC motors for low performance applications such as automotive and home appliances. A sensorless starting scheme for …
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An energy efficient sub-threshold baseband processor architecture for pulsed ultra-wideband communications
… operation is traditionally used for low energy, low performance applications such as wrist-watches, this work examines how sub-threshold operation can be applied to low energy, high performance applications. Simulation results for a 100-Mbps UWB baseband processor using the digital …
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Challenges Of Studying Attributes Associated With African American Males Who Are Not Successful With Testing Measures
… Americans continue to perform significantly lower on high-stakes measures of educational achievement than do other ethnic groups. Osborn (1997) attributes this low performance by African Americans to their disidentification with the academic discourse. Ickes and Layden (1976), Metalsky, …
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Context dependencies for younger and older adults in learning a 4-key motor sequence
The role environmental context has on performance level may change based on the skill being learned and the performer of that skill. The present study was designed to examine the role of environmental context in the learning of a 4-key motor sequence task. The present study had two primary …
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Face Saving at the Singles Bar: Effects of Women's Perspectives of Men and Their Performances on Women's Methods of Rejection
… was examined using Erving Goffman's concepts of performance and face to help distinguish variables that influence a woman's decision to help a man save face. Each woman (N=2 0) was observed rejecting a man, then was interviewed about the encounter through a semi-structured interview. The subjects …
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Stereotype Threat: A Proposed Process Model on the Impact of Stereotype Threat on Self-Efficacy and Minority Performance
… impacts self-efficacy and minority academic performance and implications for cultural mistrust, imposter phenomenon, and self-fulfilling prophecies. All these factors have the propensity to place minority individuals at risk for low performance, leading to gaps in education. The population of …
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The Cerebral Hemispheres Cooperate to Perform Complex but Not Simple Tasks
… (i.e., across-hemisphere processing) underlies performance when within- and across-hemisphere processing are equally possible. When task complexity was relatively low, performance in a midline condition (which allowed for either within- or across-hemispheric processing) resembled …
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Analysis and design of a novel controller architecture and design methodology for speed control of switched reluctance motors
… speed control design methodology suitable for low cost, low performance switched reluctance motor drives. By utilizing inexpensive components in a simple, compact architecture, a low cost controller is developed which achieves a performance level similar to many high performance controllers. A …
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Impact of Immigration Parent-Child Separation Policies on Children’s Attachment Experiences
… styles, anxious-ambivalent attachment styles, low- performance at school, medical conditions, relational problems, mental health conditions, and family disintegration. Findings are presented in terms of theoretical and practical implications and directions for future investigations. …
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Using an Importance-Performance Analysis of Summer Students in the Evaluation of Student Health Services.
… students have not evaluated the importance and performance of services provided by the student health service (SHS) at East Tennessee State University. An evaluation could provide valuable feedback to providers and administration.</p> <p>In 2001, there were 944 student visits in the summer …
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Formation Flying Performance Measures for Earth Pointing Missions
Clusters of low-performance spacecraft flying in formation may provide enhanced performance over single high-performance spacecraft. This is especially true for remote sensing missions where interferometry or stereographic imaging may provide higher resolution data. The configurations of such …
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The role of emotional intelligence in sports performance
In the realm of sports performance it is self-evident that not all athletes or teams are made equal, and thus it is understandable that researchers concerned with the quest for high performance in sport would wish to identify empirically what differentiates high from low performance. While research …
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Satisfação no trabalho: um estudo de caso em uma fábrica de confecção e artigos esportivos na cidade de João Pessoa
… motivational and hygiene factors Herzberg, Maslow hierarchy of needs and the theory X and Y McGregor. The studied factory operates in the manufacturing industry and sporting goods. This research is a case study and used the deductive method, exploratory. The participants were 25 employees and …
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