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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Parallel process"”.
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Parallel Process: An Empirical Investigation
… was to conduct an empirical investigation of parallel process. The study used a cross-sectional design in which 30 therapy relationships and the corresponding supervision relationships were studied. The therapist assessed the behavior manifested by the patient during a targeted therapy …
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A parallel process model and architecture for a Pure Logic Language
… this thesis has been concerned with the use of parallel logic systems for the implementation of large knowledge bases. The thesis describes proposals for a parallel logic system based on a new logic programming language, the Pure Logic Language. The work has involved the definition and …
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Genograms as threat appeals: Using the Extended Parallel Process Model with familial cardiovascular disease
… convenience and snowball sampling. The Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) contends that efficacy must exceed threat for protection motivation to dominate resulting in message acceptance and danger control responses. If threat exceeds efficacy, defensive motivation will dominate, resulting in …
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Modeling Physical Activity in Working Adults: How Suitable Is the Expanded Parallel Process Model?
… an assessment of the usefulness of the Expanded Parallel Process Model in predicting health enhancing physical activity as an outcome variable. The theory is tested in the context of risk for coronary heart disease and involves secondary analyses of a dataset from a group of working adults. These …
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APPLYING THE EXTENDED PARALLEL PROCESS MODEL TO EXAMINE POSTERS IN 2008 CHINESE ANNUAL ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN
… in China through the lens of the Extended Parallel Process Model. Four major factors of the EPPM (severity, susceptibility, response efficacy, and self-efficacy) served as the main coding categories of the content analysis to assess the posters’ potential persuasiveness. The findings …
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Understanding online behavioral advertising and consumers' coping mechanisms: Integrating the persuasion knowledge model with the extended-extended parallel process model
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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An Application of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Optimize Health Messages for At-Risk Populations during COVID-19: Investigating the Relationship between Threat Perception and Protective Health Behaviours in People with Obesity
… worsen feelings of weight stigma. The Extended Parallel Process Model was applied to explore perceptions of COVID-19 and protective behaviours, and the effects of targeted messages on motivation among PwO. Participants (N=76) completed an online survey and received a targeted COVID-19 message. …
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Exploration of the reflective supervision relationship: Meaning making, communication, and transformative learning in educational environments
… practice on educators, and to illuminate the parallel process to the students and learning environment. Five tenets of reflective supervision in education environments emerged from this qualitative study: (a) historical meaning making; (b) perspective taking; (c) finding voice and choice; (d) …
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The Development of Self-Perceptions of Aging: The Interplay Between Society and the Self Across the Lifespan
… negative stereotypes are internalized. Utilizing parallel process growth curve models on four waves of data from the German Aging Study, Study 2 analyzed the average growth trajectories of positive and negative self-perceptions of aging and the factors associated with the growth trajectories. …
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Related explorations in architectural and musical composition
… features, yet it can best be understood as a process in motion and as motion. Both architecture and music share attributes of qualitative movement. A composition unfolds in phases of tension and repose, extension, and arrival. Explicit patterns of organization are defined by proportions, …
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Restorative Justice & a Dean of Students: An Auto-Criticism of the Role of Care in School Discipline in a Poverty Impacted Public High School
… that restorative justice stimulates affective processes in both teachers and students. These affective processes offer a bridge between classroom instruction and the discipline process through a parallel process of support and an advocacy approach to teaching.</p>
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Parallel Plasma Field Directed Sputter Sharpening of Field Emitters
… field emitters are time consuming and can only process one field emitter at a time. In this thesis, a method is proposed to parallel process multiple field emitters using a DC glow discharge plasma as the ion source in conjunction with field directed sputter sharpening methodology. With field …
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Taiwanese International Students in Clinical Supervision: A Phenomenological Study
… progressed in their course of training, the parallel process of their professional growth and acculturation further supported their professional identity formation process as a psychologist in training. The humanizing practices they received in supervision became a nourishing foundation, that …
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Photolysis of fluorinated organic molecules: fluorine mass balances and the roles of nucleophiles, rings, and degree of fluorination
… formation may occur. Indirect photolysis is a parallel process due to reactive species present within the system absorbing photons and forming photochemically produced reactive intermediates that then go on to react with the contaminant of interest. In this work fluorinated compounds were …
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Parallel Processes of Posttraumatic Stress and Metabolic Dysfunction: Long-Term Costs of Trauma on the Psychological and Physical Health of 9/11 Survivors
… systemic physical sequelae of traumatic stress. Parallel process latent growth modeling wasapplied to longitudinal data collected from 35,788 9/11 survivors and used to model PTSD symptoms and MetC to determine how the development and course of one affect the other. A unidirectional relationship …
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The parallel nature of early visual processing in visual search
Visual search is a process that is ubiquitous in daily life. Some are relatively easy – looking for a red sock among black socks – while others are extremely difficult – looking for tumors in x-ray images. Classic theories and models of search have long assumed that these easy searches, referred to …
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Developing and evaluating a collaborative care intervention for depression
… Council. The outcomes of the trial and a parallel process evaluation are then presented and the limitations of the trial considered. The implications of the trial for the future development and evaluation of collaborative care in the NHS are discussed.
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A Comparison of Self-Acceptance among Counselor Education Master's Degree Students at the Beginning, Practicum Level, and Graduation from Their Program of Studies
… because this examiner proposed there is a parallel process between the client's relationship with the counselor and the counselor's relationship with oneself. This study was an investigation of the differences between three nonequivalent groups: Group A - Beginning Counselor Students, Group …
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Post-Processing Method for Determining Peaks in Noisy Strain Gauge Data with a Low Sampling Frequency
… detection algorithm, written in MATLAB, that can parallel process the 40,000 trips recorded in this naturalistic driving study. This algorithm uses an iterative LOWESS regression to eliminate the offset from zero when the strain gauge is not stressed, as well as a cumulative sum and statistical …
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