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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Multi-level modeling"”.
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Examining Inter-Relationships Between Supervisor Full-Range Leadership, Organizational Climate Strength, and Employee Job Satisfaction Using Multi-Level Modeling
… model. Second, existing studies are fraught with levels-of-analysis issues that yield findings that are either incomplete or inaccurate. This study addresses these issues by introducing organizational climate strength as a mediating variable (between supervisor leadership and employee …
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Efficiency of the built environment: Interdependencies in transportation, development form and public health
… an interdisciplinary team approach, and multi-level modeling to investigate how community design impacts transportation behavior in the context of smaller, northeastern cities.</p><p>Ten neighborhoods of varying design, connectivity, proximity to services, and average income were selected …
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Mothers’ perceptions of the climate of their children’s schools: Covariations with children’s academic adjustment in families of Mexican origin
… was collected from children and mothers. Multi-level modeling indicated that when mothers had more positive school climate perceptions, their children valued school more and performed better in school; mothers’ perceptions contributed to children’s educational expectations only in high …
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Multi-level Systems Modeling and Optimization
… the disciplines of system-of-systems (SoS) modeling, platform-based design, optimization and evolving design spaces to achieve a novel capability for designing solutions to key aeronautical mission challenges. A central innovation in this approach is the confluence of multi-level modeling …
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The Effects Of Individual-Level Income And Contextual-Level Income Inequality On Health
… health is often studied at either the individual-level or contextual-level. The purpose of this research is to assess both of these levels, by simultaneously examining the individual and contextual contributions of income inequality on health. To address this research objective, I use data for …
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School Resource Officer programs: implementation's effect on student perceptions of safety
… SRO programs feel slightly safer. Multi-level modeling was utilized to determine the effects that individual and school level variables have on perceptions of safety and on the ability of SRO programs to affect student perceptions. The results of this analysis indicated that none of …
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Racial Identification Fluidity and Psychological Outcomes from Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
… were between the ages of 18 and 26. Employing multi-level modeling, both environmental and personal factors were controlled for. Depressive symptoms and selfesteem were utilized as measures of psychological outcomes. Findings included main effects of racial trajectories on depressive symptoms …
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An analysis of outcomes for FEMA individual assistance recipients in the context of social vulnerability
… characteristics at the individual and community levels. This document covers my exploration of this data set in the context of social vulnerability. I employ high-level descriptive statistics as well as multi-level modeling techniques to depict the relationship between demographic variables …
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Modeling and Analysis of a Dc Power Distribution System in 21st Century Airlifters
… and analyzed using MATLAB/Simulink software. The multi-level modeling concept was used as a modeling approach, which assumes modeling subsystem of the PDS at three different levels of complexity. The subsystem models were implemented in Simulink and combined into the whole PDS model according to …
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Peer Defending and Bullying at School: The Impact of Popularity, Resource Control Norms, and Gender
… behaviours of popular youth. Study 1 used multi-level modelling to examine the influence of resource control norms on peer defending. Results indicated that popularity was positively associated with peer defending. Further, the association between popularity and peer defending decreased for …
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A Prospective, Longitudinal Evaluation of Early Temperament Indicators of Autism in Males with Fragile X Syndrome
… of anger, attention, and soothability. Using multi-level modeling, results indicated that higher levels of initial anger ratings as well as increases in anger ratings over time significantly predicted more severe autistic behavior. Initial levels of soothability were not significant; however, …
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Examining the role of uncertainty and goals in the threat of relationship talk and associations with avoidance, indirectness, and communication satisfaction
… observational and self-report procedures for a multi-method approach and I used multi-level modeling to test my model. Results provided partial or mixed evidence for my model. Typically, threat increases as relational uncertainty increases, and certain goals are deemed more threatening than …
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Impulsivity and Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disturbance as Interactive Risk Factors for Bipolar Disorder Mood Symptom and Episode Onset: Evidence from an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Study
… Linear regression, logistic regression, and multi-level modeling (MLM) revealed that higher impulsivity predicted increased mood symptoms during the EMA study, and less total sleep time (measured by actigraphy) predicted increased next-day EMA-assessed mood symptoms. Interaction analyses …
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Examining social climate and youth social goals on extended wilderness courses: A path toward improving participant experiences
… and perceptions of their experience and multi level modeling was used to better understand the relationship of social climate to peer interaction. The research was undertaken to improve the practical and theoretical understanding of organizations' and leaders' ability to facilitate a …
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GIBSS: a framework for the multi-level simulation of manufacturing systems
… into sub-designs, and their specification over multiple levels of detail. Through an iterative design and evaluation process, a system design progresses from an abstraction to an implemental specification. To facilitate the evaluation process, models of sub-designs must be applicable to modular …
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Anxious to detect deceit?: An empirical investigation of social defense theory
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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The Prevalence of Depression and Its Impact on Employment Earnings among Canadian Labor Force Participants
… score-matched cohort design and longitudinal multi-level modeling, results suggested a crude, cumulative ten-year earnings loss of ~$71,000 CAD for working-aged women and ~$115,000 for working-aged men who experienced a MDE. My last study employed parallel latent growth modeling to quantify …
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A Multi-Level Investigation of Leadership Effectiveness and Systems Awareness in the Leadership Circle Profile
Leadership is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, with scholarly literature that documents the progression from leaders focused on inspiring transformation in others, to leaders who can engage entire systems towards more globally conscious and ethically focused actions. Such leadership involves …
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Built Environment and Risk of Obesity in the United States: A Multilevel Modeling Approach
… between built environment and obesity by using multiple data sets and employing the state-of-art Geographic Information Systems methods. Several built environment factors including street connectivity, walkability and food environment, are for the first time measured across 48 contiguous states …
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How Do Student and Secondary School Characteristics Explain College English I Completion in a Rural Arkansas Community College?
… in Arkansas, students must complete college-level gateway courses. These courses are the first indicators of success. There are many established predictors of college success. These factors could fall in any level of Bronfenbrenner’s Theory of Ecological Development which is the foundation of …
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