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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Natural settings"”.
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Measuring Outcomes of Occupational Therapy Facilitated in Natural Settings with Young Children
… explored the benefits of OT intervention in Natural Settings (NS) for children by examining development in the areas of self-regulation, social skills, sensory processing, confidence, and motor skills. A quantitative, quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design was used in this study. …
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Content-based Image Understanding with Applications to Affective Computing and Person Recognition in Natural Settings
… a person detection and recognition system in natural settings that can robustly handle various pose, viewpoints, and lighting conditions. The system is then put into several real scenarios that has different amount of labelled data. Our algorithm that utilizes unlabelled data reduces the …
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Visit motivations and perceived benefits of farms, private forests and state/national parks in Missouri
… benefits of Missouri households from three natural settings: (1) Farms; (2) Private Forests; and (3) State/National Parks. Specific goals of this study were: (1) To describe outdoor recreation preferences and behavior; (2) to contrast motivations for visiting these three natural settings; …
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Subexponentials in Nonassociative Lambek Calculus
… We also prove equivalences of these systems in natural settings.
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The Child's Emotionality: A Naturalistic Investigation
… childhood was undertaken through a three year naturalistic investigation of emotional interactions in preschool-age children. Following interpretative interactionism, children were observed in natural settings, interacting with relatives, friends, and strangers, using the ordinary language of …
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Factors Affecting Changes in Adult and Continuing Education Programs in Private, Liberal Arts Colleges
… theories because of the emphasis on existing natural settings and the lack of theory relative to recent changes in continuing education programs in small, private, liberal arts colleges.
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
… “A Dunnet Shepherdess,” and “William’s Wedding.” Natural settings in the novel and in the appended stories allow characters in Country to transcend apparently conventional human limitations such as physical and emotional isolation from community, linear time, traditional Christian religions, and …
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Fundamentals in unsteady fluid fragmentation from drop impact
… is ubiquitous in industrial, agricultural and natural settings. An important class of fragmentation processes is unsteady, continuously generating droplets of properties that vary over time. Yet, the dynamics of unsteady fragmentation has received little attention thus far. Common examples of …
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Effect of Photographs of Visible Genetic Conditions On Quality of Life Perceptions
… perceptions of the depicted individual. Natural photographs which include individuals in non-clinical environments may impact perceptions. To assess the influence of photographs on a viewer’s perception, 649 students from medical, nursing, genetic counseling and dental programs were …
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Computing with strategic agents
… auction for any set of bids. We focus on two natural settings - the limited demand setting where bidders desire at most a fixed number of copies and the limited budget setting where bidders can spend at most a fixed amount of money. In the limit demand setting, all prior auctions employed the …
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Effects of display contrast and field of view on distance perception
… ability to estimate distances of targets within natural settings. Images were video taped with a rotating camera and the targets were placed between 9.14 m and 60.96 m from the camera. The fields of view ranged from 20 deg to 74 deg. A lightly wooded area and an open field were used to provide …
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Does dispositional mindfulness predict perceived stress in daily life?
… prospectively predict lower perceived stress in natural settings. The current study examined a sample of 73 undergraduate students using a daily diary design to better understand and predict perceived stress in response to difficult events. Participants completed a baseline survey capturing their …
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Propagation of Vallisneria Americana (MICHX): Vegetation Management In South Carolina Piedmont Reservoirs
… that are typical of those found in more natural settings which may benefit reservoir managers and users through the associated enhancements that aquatic plants can bring to reservoir purposes. Reservoirs are anthropogenic components of our landscapes, that are often intended to provide …
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Examining Social Support Seeking Online
Research across healthcare and organizational settings demonstrates the importance of social support to increase physical and mental well-being. However, the process of seeking social support is less well-understood than its outcomes. Specifically, research examining how people seek social support …
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Chromium and uranium isotopic exchange kinetics and isotope fractionation during oxidation of tetravalent uranium by dissolved oxygen
… concentration, neutral-pH experiments (closer to natural settings) were conducted to determined Cr(III)-Cr(VI) and U(IV)-U(VI) isotopic exchange kinetics. Experiments were also conducted to investigate U isotope fractionation caused by oxidation of both dissolved and solid U(IV) by dissolved …
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Constructing entrepreneurial identities: the case of entrepreneurial dyads
… dynamics were directly observed in their natural settings. The business stories produced by the dyads were analysed using the narrative method. First, the narrative styles of the business stories were assessed looking at elements such as plot, structure, and characterisation. This analysis …
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A Tender Head
… by nature. These poems illustrate a multitude of natural settings while shining a bright light on the beings (both human and otherwise) within these settings. The poems in the portraiture section (beginning with “A Tender Head”) describe the experiences of the speaker, members of the speaker’s …
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Natural Learning Environments and the Social-Emotional Development of Students with Sensory Processing Challenges
<p>This study examined the impact of a natural learning environment on the social-emotional development of students with Autism and/or Sensory Processing Disorder. For this research, social-emotional development consisted of social behavior, communication, and participation. The elements of a …
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Beyond nature and health: do the benefits of nature extend from health to healthcare spending and opioid-related mortality?
Human exposure to natural settings holds numerous health benefits that are suspected or known to be substantial and wide-ranging, from simple outcomes such as improved sleep up to a reduced chance of mortality. This dissertation includes three studies that investigate the ability of nature exposure …
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The ecophysiological significance of insectivory as well as nitrogen and phosphorus availability to sundew nutrient cycling, growth, and success
… increased growth in D. capensis (N and P). In natural settings, insectivory was not found to be a significant source of nutrients for the species of Drosera studied. Larger subtropical species such as D. capensis and D. binata var. multifida is found in relatively richer (nutrient) soil than …
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