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Showing 1 to 20 of 453 for “"Multi-method"”.
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How successful entrepreneurs lead? : Multi-method Analysis of Entrepreneurial Leadership
… competencies. The study relies on a multi-step research process that combines qualitative and quantitative elements and employs methodological triangulation. Successful entrepreneurs employ various leadership strategies and rely on a wide range of leadership competencies to achieve …
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A Multi-Method Analysis of Hospital Readmissions and Medicare Penalties
Hospital readmissions can worsen patient outcomes and contribute to substantial healthcare costs. Because many readmissions are considered preventable, reducing them has become a national priority in the United States, with Medicare penalizing hospitals whose readmission rates exceed benchmarks. …
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A Multi-Method Approach to Re-associating Fragmented and Commingled Human Remains
… of bioarcheological and forensic anthropological methods. Depending on the extent of fragmentation, human remains from disturbed contexts are often approached similarly to faunal assemblages. Anderson (1964), for example, states that fragmented and commingled human remains are typically analysed …
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A Multi-Method Systems Approach to Antimicrobial Management in Continuing Care Wards
… The SEIPS model was used in the design of the methods, data analysis and results to identify the systems barriers and facilitators to safe and effective management of antimicrobials in continuing care wards. <br/><br/>The research questions included; <br/><br/>1. What are the challenges and …
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Searching for the Past: Archaeological Research Using a Multi-Method Geomatics Approach
Adopting a multi-method geomatics approach using cybercartography, a geographic information system (GIS) with fuzzy set theory, and remote sensing software, can overcome limitations encountered with isolated geomatics tools. Using Roman building practices as a test case, the strengths of each …
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Comparing extrinsic and intrinsic processes of whistle-blowing: a multi-method approach
… the wrongdoing. I adopted a sequential mixed methods design consisting of two distinct phases: Quantitative survey followed by qualitative semi-structured interviews with some of the survey respondents. I found strong support for the intrinsic processes of whistle-blowing. Specifically, my …
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The design of composite indicators of healthcare quality: a multi-method analysis
… and rankings of hospitals to the exact technical methods by which composite indicators are produced. I show that composite indicators can be highly sensitive to technical decisions, and that different composite indicators are affected differently by these, rarely examined, technical issues. The …
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Multi-Method Approach to Understand Pilot Performance in a Sociotechnical Aviation System
… experimentation. Using this combination of methods, the functional system of pilots performing a landing approach (both instrument and visual) with a Cessna 172 to the Roanoke Regional Airport (ROA) was described and analyzed. In the field study, data collection was guided by an integrative …
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Exploring Ethnocultural Empathy and Cultural Attunement in Youth Mentoring: A Multi-Method Study
This multi-method study explored volunteer mentors’ ethnocultural empathy and cultural attunement. Ethnocultural empathy involves understanding and responding to another’s racial/ethnic experiences, and attunement includes a behavioral response that prioritizes the other’s needs. Cultural …
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Shifting Masculinities Amongst Men Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: A Multi-Method Phenomenological Inquiry
… population. Embedded theoretically and methodologically within a critical qualitative health framework, the research has two parts. Part one is a qualitative synthesis of nine existing international studies exploring men’s breast cancer experiences, following Noblit and Hare’s (1988) …
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Costly Signaling and Social Valuation: A Multi-Method Examination of Social Information Processing
… Finally, we utilize NeuroEconomic theory and methods to develop a novel functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm to examine how the presence of competition modulates the brain's encoding of reward value (i.e., desirability) in the Nucleus Accumbens. Activation increases in the …
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On-call work scheduling : a multi-method analysis of psychological effects and moderators
… into account aspects of personality, uses a multi-method approach in its investigations. A series of four studies were carried out to investigate these issues. The first examines the operational practices and outcomes of on-call working in a group of medical professionals using a qualitative …
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Brain structure and function associated with emotion-cognition interactions: A multi-method investigation
… for the examination of emotional factors at multiple levels (i.e., brain structure, brain function, behavior, and individual differences), in order to elucidate the mechanisms of emotion-cognition interactions. These issues were investigated in a series of studies using an interdisciplinary …
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Construct Validity of Psychopathy in Mentally Disordered Offenders: A Multi-trait Multi-method Approach
Psychopathy continues to receive increased attention due to the negative outcomes, including recidivism, violence, and poor treatment amenability. Despite the vast amount of attention psychopathy has received, research on its applications to mentally disordered offenders remains sparse. The current …
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A multi-method investigation into physical activity in middle-age through a lifecourse perspective
… perspective, within a pragmatic paradigm. Methodological Bricolage employed both qualitative and quantitative multi-methods to look at the research questions from differing perspectives. In Study 1, 10 practitioners were interviewed qualitatively to see if the original observations were …
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Parsing Hedonic Capacity in Schizotypy: A Multi-Method Assessment of Consummatory and Anticipatory Pleasure
… this study examines hedonic capacity using a multi-method approach (consisting of self-report, clinical interview, and an emotionally evocative stimulus) in schizotypy within a sample of undergraduate college students. Results were able to confirm that individuals with schizophrenia spectrum …
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Understanding the dynamics of a mixed sand and gravel coastline: a multi-method approach.
A multi-method approach was developed to characterise the behaviour of a mixed sand and gravel (MSG) coast at Thorpeness, Suffolk, UK (52.1823°N, 1.6130°E). The field site is highly complex due interactions of the underlying geology, bimodal sediment size distribution and great alongshore …
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A Multi -Method Investigation of Consumer Browsing Behaviors and Unintended Information Acquisition: Three Essays
In essay three, a set of three experiments were conducted to examine what information consumers may acquire through unintended information acquisition and how this information is retrieved and used in consumers' subsequent activities. Psychology literature on implicit and explicit memory was used …
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A multi-method investigation of police defensive tactics training using a social cognitive framework
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-03-24 at 09:40.
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