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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Low response rate"”.
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Understanding healthcare workers' responses to violence and aggression at work.
… firstly, whether behavioural and cognitive strategies prevented change in the nature of the trauma memory and appraisals of the trauma and its sequelae over time; secondly, whether aspects of trauma memory and subsequent appraisals of the trauma and its sequelae mediated the relationship …
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The Impact a Technology Leader and Their Leadership Style Makes in K-12 Classroom Teacher's Implementation of Technology
… the large sample size of 500 school districts, a low response rate of 5.6% resulted. While demographic data and descriptive statistics could be analyzed, it was not possible to run meaningful analytical statistics to show if correlations existed between technology leaders' leadership styles and …
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The inclusion of herbal remedies in the patient care practices of nurse practitioners
… family nurse practitioners (FNP). Because of the low response rate for specialties outside of family nurse practitioners, the study sample utilized consisted exclusively of family nurse practitioners; As a result of the study's findings, recommendations include that nurses in advanced practice …
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Responsiveness in American schools overseas: discrepancies between parental expectations and school performance
… Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay were surveyed. A low response rate reflected the nature of the population. Characteristics of non-response in overseas settings are discussed. Results were biased in favor of the politically interested/active parents. Frequencies and crosstabulations were used to …
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Work-family enrichment and well-being amongst working fathers
… in order to survey their employees. Due to a low response rate, snow-ball sampling was then also employed. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the work-family enrichment scale is uni-directional as fathers did not distinguish between the two directions of enrichment. A three dimensional …
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Two for the Price of One! A Study of Persistence of Adult Education Students pursuing a High School Equivalency Credentiial and a Study of the Researcher's Experience Conducting that Study.
… were statistically insignificant due to the low response rate.</p> <p>The second study, a qualitative study, was added to understand my experience trying to gather data during the quantitative study and to explore the implications of data collection, sharing, and use in the adult education …
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A cross-cultural study of accounting concepts applied in international financial reporting standards
… sub-culture was also found. Although the low response rate was a problem, the consistency of the respondents’ demographic profile with the population and the insignificant non-response bias suggest that the results are generalisable. The discovery of the accounting motivational values has …
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Recruitment of Generation Y into clinical trials
… are tentative due to the small sample size and low response rate. Future studies will be required to definitively address this question.</p>
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Cognitive factors in NHS staff responses to violence and aggression
… a range of cognitive factors, immediately following an incident of violence or aggression. Of these participants, twenty provided data concerning PTSD symptoms at three-month follow-up, despite implementing strategies to maximise response rates. It was therefore not possible to address the …
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Constructing learning models from data : the dynamic catalog mailing problem
… due to the significant mailing cost and the low response rate. The problem is a dynamic one - when a customer is ready to purchase, s/he may order from a previous catalog if s/he does not have the most recent one. In this sense, customers' purchasing behavior depends not only on the firm's …
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Social sustainability in the city: the relationship between density and social interaction
… people socialise in higher (I00-300hh/ha) and lower (up to 50hh/ha) density neighbourhoods. That is, the lower density neighbourhood had weak ties between residents but significant levels of informal interaction between neighbours; in higher density neighbourhoods it was the opposite. Even with …
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Does psychological capital moderate the degree of stress and turnover intention associated with experienced workplace incivility? : an exploration in the South African context
… 83 participants due to incomplete data and a low response rate, descriptive statistics, the non-parametric Spearman’s rho and two separate Moderated Multiple Regression (MMR) analyses were used to analyse the responses of the reduced samples (n = 188 and n = 185). The first MMR revealed …
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Research Centers as Modes of Technology Transfer between the University and Industry and the Implications for Public K-12 Schools
… in the study area received a hyperlink to a separate survey instrument in which items were selected for inclusion that likely match the participant's knowledge based upon his or her job title. Specifically, they provided their perceptions on teaching staff development needs, administrative staff …
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Re-Designing Cancer Immunotherapy to Enhance Anti-Tumor Immunity
… However, clinical challenges of toxicity and low response rate offer opportunities to develop novel, rational strategies to integrate into current clinical oncology treatment. To address these challenges, we designed a novel local mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) based immunotherapy to study the …
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Flow within the engineering pipeline: Motivation of high -achieving students during the high school to college transition
… to high-achieving students' motivation. The low response rate in the study highlights the need for traditional forms of contact for follow-up such as phone calls and post cards when doing a longitudinal web-based survey.</p>
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The STRATA Study: Structural Antecedents of Tdap Administration in Obstetrical Practices in the Midwestern United States
… Tdap during pregnancy have a significantly lower risk of hospitalization, intubation, and death. Despite the evidence of their effectiveness, maternal Tdap vaccination rates remain suboptimal. Reasons for stagnant Tdap vaccination rates are complex and multi factorial. Evidence suggests that …
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Industrial Technology Education Teachers Perceptions of National Standards for Technological Literacy in the State of Arizona
… small size of the population and historically low response rate from teachers in the field, a census study was conducted (Creswell, 2002). The instrument was adapted from a survey questionnaire developed through Utah State University after a review of the literature failed to reveal any …
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Working with trauma : interpersonal and process issues in therapy for people suffering from the effects of traumatic experience
… of therapy is considered. Furthermore, the low response rate resulted in the collection of insufficient data to fully test the hypotheses and, as a result, the study was treated as an exploratory, preliminary analysis and used to highlight research questions for a second phase of the …
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Automation bias and prescribing decision support – rates, mediators and mitigators
… little is known about specific impact of inaccurate CDSS output on clinicians. Although there is high heterogeneity between CDSS types and studies, reviews of the ability of CDSS to prevent medication errors through incorrect decisions have generally been consistently positive, working by …
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Towards the Development of a Cultural Competence Framework for Human Resource Development Professionals in International Business: A Study of Best Practice Learning and Diversity Companies
… sample represented various sectors in the corporate industry such as information technology, financial services, manufacturing and retail. Due to a low response rate, eight senior global diversity officials from companies credited as Best Diversity companies by DiversityInc. were interviewed. …
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