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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Measure design"”.
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Experimental analysis of specific auditory-light safety belt reminder systems and safety belt behavior: "prods" or "prompts"
… delays and second reminders) I and the measurement of the driver's safety belt use. Three modifications were explored: the presentation of a Delayed Reminder, Second Reminder, and comparisons of different auditory stimuli. The vehicle also permitted a single subject repeated measure …
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Modeling and Synthesis of Combinational Logic Circuits: A Power Dissipation Perspective
… increases fast, the automation of the VLSI design has become very crucial not only to reduce design time and cost, but also to improve design quality. There are several criteria to measure design quality: area, delay, testability and power consumption. Among them, the research is …
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Onsite Integrative Clinics: Acupuncture, Positive Patient Outcomes, and Frequency of Provider Office Visits
… the study. Methods: Correlational repeated measure design using retrospective data abstracted from medical records of a purposive sample of adults (n = 80) who received acupuncture treatments for pain at a health system integrative clinic. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to …
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Depression Outcomes in Care Coordination, Primary Care and Psychiatry Patients After Pharmacogenetic Testing
… This dissertation study is designed as part of a larger study nicknamed “PGXTIME”. The study is a longitudinal, utilizing one-group, repeated measure design. Participants will complete the Patient Activation Measure-Mental health (PAM-MH) before and after having …
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Older people’s fitness test, A feasibility study to develop a fitness test for older people that can measure variations in cardiorespiratory fitness.
… this study is to investigate the feasibility of designing a sub-maximal fitness test for older people that can be used without causing undue discomfort to the participant, is appropriate in multi-settings and does not require expensive equipment. The secondary aim is to evaluate the sub-maximal …
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Antepartum, Intrapartum, and Postpartum Predictors of Readiness for Hospital Discharge and Post-Discharge Outcomes
… guided the descriptive correlational repeated measure design study. A purposive sample of English and Spanish-speaking postpartum mothers who experiences a vaginal or cesarean birth of a healthy infant (N = 185) completed demographic, quality of discharge teaching, and readiness for hospital …
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Performance and test-retest reliability of the digits-in-noise test used in the sound field
… a cross-sectional, quasi-experimental research design. Fifty normal hearing participants (bilateral pure tone thresholds 0.5 – 8kHz ≤ 15dB HL) between the ages of 18 to 25 years (mean 20; SD ±1.93) were recruited. The study consisted of two test sessions over two days and used a repeated measure …
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Comparison of Fitness Training Efficacy of In-Person to Online Coaching on Goal Attainment for Adults
… online coaches create training programs that are designed to guide their clients to achieving their fitness goals. Frequently a client will not fully define what their goal(s) is, rather they use subjective terms such as "I want to lose weight" or "I would like to become more toned." From these …
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USING AUDIO SCREENCAST FOR FEEDBACK ON SHORT WRITTEN ESSAYS
… essay writing. The field of instructional design is also lacking in research on feedback in the teaching of writing. However, research in the field of multimedia learning including the personalization principle (Mayer, 2001) would seem to support providing conversational audio as an …
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Going beyond our means: A proposal for improving psycholinguistic methods
… in which certain standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis and presentation are preferred. Established methods are used to create and report research that will be published, in the hopes of advancing our knowledge. We often rely on existing methodologies and do not …
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Think First for Kids (TFFK): A Longitudinal Analysis of a School-Based Injury Prevention Curriculum
… longitudinal, matched comparative, with repeated measures, cohort design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of TFFK intervention. The data to be analyzed were from a quasi-experimental research design. Culturally diverse elementary schools in high injury-risk areas from San Diego Unified and …
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The Effects of Fatigue on a Dual-Task Postural Control Measure
… of the concussion and its effects. Any measure of assessment that connects underlying issues arising from concussion to help decrease long-term impairments by returning to play prematurely, risking further injury, is essential. The need for a dual-task assessment delivers an increased …
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The Perceived Invalidation of Emotion Scale (PIES): Development and Psychometric Properties
… of psychopathology (Linehan, 1993), no measures have been designed and statistically validated to index current emotion invalidation. Research on invalidation has thus grown slowly and often used measures that were designed to assess other constructs (e.g., criticism, abuse) or that …