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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"Past Experience"”.
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Industrial relations law in Tanzania : past experience and prospects under the new labour legislation
This paper deals with how Tanzania Mainland industiral relations have evolved during the said different periods since independence up to now. The main focus will be to discuss the current legislation and how it seeks to improve industrial relations as compared to its predecessors. Also it will …
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Day hiker preparedness: assessing the roles of past experience, safety messages & knowledge of safety practices
… were analyzed and the results suggested that past experience, safety messages and knowledge about safety practices influenced safety preparedness behaviors. This study also found that safety preparedness behavior influenced day hiker posterior attitudes about safety preparedness. The resulting …
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The future of the historic city from perceptions of the past: Experience of place, authenticity, and architectural preservation in Barcelona
… meaning into the built environment using their experiences and perceptions of architecture and the destinations they visit as a way to understand their place in the world. Historic architecture draws tourists and travelers with the promise of forging a connection to the past. As we enter an age …
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Comparisons to Others, Past Experience, and Present Status as Determinants of Satisfaction With Material Consumption and Satisfaction With Way of Life
… relative importance of comparisons to others, past experience, and present status as determinants of satisfaction with material consumption and with way of life; and (2) to examine individually satisfaction with material consumption and with way of life by using a different set of independent …
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The moral of the story Is... extract a generalizable lesson from a fable through emotional explanation and alignment with a past experience
… System. From a fable and a description of a past experience written in English, MAXIM extracts and generalizes the moral of the fable and explains it in English. For example, from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Math Aficionado, MAXIM concludes It's ok if you are different because …
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Firms' Resilience to Supply Chain Disruptions
… stock market performances of over 300 firms that experienced a supply chain disruption during 2005 to the end of 2014. The results show that supply chain disruptions are still associated with a significant decrease in operating income, return on sales, return on assets, sales, and a negative …
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Bed and breakfasts in Virginia: identification and success factors
… the correlation between the attitude/belief, past experience and actual past experience in hotels, restaurants, and large organizations was significant in the success group as well as high knowledge of cash flow/accounting and use of financial data. Stronger correlations were present in …
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The influence of grades on learning behavior of students in MOOCs
… Afterwards, we look into the effects of past experience and how these metrics can be used to predict grades with various machine learning models. We observe that both certified and continuously participating students do not change their learning behavior after receiving a specific grade. …
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An Eclectic Approach to Individualized Reading in the First Grade
Past experience has revealed a definite need to release children, at least partially, from the traditional ability groupings and allow more flexible groupings. The past also revealed that individual children's unique interests and abilities were not being provided for. Since the teaching of reading …
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Investigation of the rate of convergence in the two sample nonparametric empirical Bayes approach to an estimation problem
… which is conditional on θ. Using x and our past experience we are asked to estimate the value of θ with a squared error loss function. After we have made our decision we are given the value, y, of a detailed random variable Y, which has an unknown distribution conditional on θ. The random …
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The African Charter on democracy, elections and governance: A normative framework for analysing electoral democracy in Africa
… treaty which is not yet enforced on the basis of past experience. In effect, it shed light on the possible measures that could be taken to guarantee its realisation and to circumvent the shortcomings in ensuring its effective implementation.
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Letter reading by bilinguals as a function of approximation to english and french
… of the present study was to control for the Ss' past experience with English and French in order to determine whether faster reading on French texts was due to past language experience or to the greater redundancy of French. Balanced bilinguals were asked to read zero-, first-, and second-order …
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Conflict among hikers and horseback riders in the Mount Rogers High Country of Virginia
… measure of conflict revealed that 64% of hikers experienced conflict toward horseback riders, while only 3% of horseback riders reported conflict due to hikers. Because of the clearly asymmetric nature of the conflict, the conflict predictor variables (past experience, wilderness involvement, …
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Personality differences between talented high school achievers and underachievers
… his scholastic ability to its maximum level. Past experience has shown that there is a large number of talented students who are not achieving scholastically in terms of their apparent intellectual potentials. Research on the differences between achieving and underachieving talented students, …
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Parental Understanding of Miranda Rights
… also suggests that parents' and juveniles' past experience with the justice system may not help them during their current interrogation and waiver. A 17-item questionnaire was used to assess the two dependent variables and the two independent variables. The two dependent variables were …
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Learning 3D Robotics Perception using Inductive Priors
… (priors for short), often available in terms of past experience as well as assumptions of how the world works, helps the autonomous agent generalize better and adapt their behavior based on past experience. In this thesis, I demonstrate the use of prior knowledge in three different robotics …
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Does professional language affect help seeking in young people? : A randomised study
… did not directly affect help seeking intentions. Past experience and perceived helpfulness of previous mental health care significantly predicted an increase in help seeking intentions. An interaction effect was also observed where psychiatric language predicted higher help seeking intentions in …
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Factors Influencing National Implementation of Online Computer-aided Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Primary Care Trusts across England: A Mixed-Methods Study
… FFNHS patients were extracted. Three factors (past experience of the Lead, number of self-help books available and length of assessment) explained 76% of the variance in FPs uptake. Availability of specific self-help books reduced FF completion rates. Phone screening associated negatively with …
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The effect of newness of physical surroundings on theme park visitors' repurchase behaviour
… of physical surroundings by comparing the past experience with present experiences of consumers have not been explored. This study integrates the concept of newness and the concept of physical surroundings to explore the effect of the level of newness of physical surroundings on theme park …
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In Color
… the author explores her identity, as well as her past experience and imagined future. While the document consists chiefly of nonfiction, the narratives contained within are based on faulty memory and the author’s imagination, and therefore, like all nonfiction, are purely speculative. The author …
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