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Showing 1 to 20 of 200 for “"Pilot Studies"”.
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Pilot Studies in Composition: Their Effects Upon Students and Participating English Teachers
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Functional Characterization of Green Sorption Media and Scaling of Pilot Studies for Copper Removal in Stormwater Runoff
… and the individual media components including studies of isotherm, reaction kinetics, column adsorption and reaction kinetics. Batch adsorption tests revealed that the media and media mixture follow both the Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm models and that the coconut coir had the highest …
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Competitive definitions in emergent markets: The case of market-data systems
This dissertation reports the results of three pilot studies, one background field study, and a large survey to buyers and suppliers of market-data systems. The dissertation uses a cognitive perspective on market structuring, competitive definitions, and rivalry.
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Factors associated with the decline of Euphorbia ingens in the Limpopo Province of South Africa
… Limpopo Province, which led to mass mortality. Pilot studies did not reveal a specific abiotic or biotic factor as the primary cause of the decline and the problem seems to result from a combination of these factors. The genus Euphorbia and specifically E. ingens is reviewed revealing the …
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The Impact of Gamma Stimulation on Neurological Phenotypes of Alzheimer's Dementia and Down Syndrome
… into human patients with AD. Initial pilot studies assessed safety, compliance, entrainment and exploratory clinical outcomes in patients with mild AD during acute and chronic exposure to GENUS. Additionally, due to the increase in amyloid burden and other shared biological and …
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Managing common mental disorders and PTSD in the community.
… of British Military Veterans. A series of three pilot studies (angling, falconry/archery and equine intervention) are carried out to explore the validity of a proposed new intervention to reduce PTSD symptomology, Peer Outdoor Exposure Therapy (POET). To extrapolate the learning achieved through …
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Evaluating Attitudes toward Women's Sports: A scale development and validation study
… instrument. Second, items were tested with two pilot studies to assess effectiveness of the items within the ATWS scale by performing item analyses. Total of 49 items were deleted in two pilot studies as a result of item analyses. The remaining items were used to create the ATWS scale, and …
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Task Parallelness : Investigating the Difficulty of Two Spoken Narrative Tasks.
… the equivalence of tasks is a prerequisite. Five pilot studies were conducted using two spoken narrative tasks from an ongoing speaking test of English in Japan, the Standard Speaking Test, including two feasibility studies using several linguistic variables to analyse candidate performances, a …
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From children's play to intentions : a play analytics framework for constructionist learning apps
… scaffolding on. To collect data, we ran two pilot studies and gathered audio and video recordings of play sessions. In addition, all of the children's interactions within the app were automatically logged. The fine-grained longitudinal data collected during the pilot studies provides a rich …
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Molecular Responses to Desialylation in a Rat Model of Induced Glomerulopathy
… in the rat. Information derived from the initial pilot studies has been used to formulate the hypothesis that loss of glomerular sialic acid, concomitant with functional glomerular damage, results in a re-sialylation event associated with sequentially increased levels of glomerular …
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Design for Low Power Irrigation Systems for Small Plot Farming in Eastern India
… system is being tested in the field in two pilot studies (ongoing as of this writing since February 2015) in two villages outside of Chakradharpur, Jarkhand, India.
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Pretreatment Characteristics of Legally Coerced Drug Treatment Seekers
… the Kentucky Treatment Outcome and Performance Pilot Studies Enhancement Project. Analyses examined whether users/addicts entering chemical dependency treatment under legal coercion differed from nonlegally coerced treatment seekers. Stanley Cohen's theoretical model of social control provided …
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A systematic approach to testing UML designs
… in order to detect faults, and (3) a set of pilot studies that are carried out to explore the fault detection capability of our testing approach. The test input generation technique involves analyzing design models under test to produce test inputs that satisfy UML sequence diagram coverage …
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Categories of Design for Sustainability: A Wearer's Perspective of Classic Design
… and the cultural context of classic design two pilot studies were conducted. The results of these pilot studies indicated that the interpretation of formal attributes determined how classic design was applied within personal and cultural contexts. Based on these findings, surveys and interviews …
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Investigating how educational technologies can enhance learning experiences by assisting different learning activities
… to the action research in the form of specific pilot studies. The following stage provides a discussion on the impact of educational technologies on learning activities. The main deliverable is a review of current technologies with emphasis on how they affect specific learning activities The …
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THE SPATIAL CHARACTERISATION OF TRANSITIONAL AREAS BETWEEN PLANT COMMUNITIES: A CASE STUDY FROM UPLAND BRITAIN
… understanding of function (vegetation dynamics). Pilot studies determined an appropriate methodology for studying transitional areas. The approach progressed from a linear transect to a two-dimensional rectangular transect. The pilot studies also evaluated a range of methods for data analysis. …
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The Effect of an Integrated Model of Dialogic Feedback with Encouraged Self-Regulation on Psychomotor Task Performance and Learner Experience and Understanding of Feedback
… quantitative effect of feedback via experimental studies and significant limitations of the literature available. They highlight the relative paucity of information available in relation to the effect of self-regulation on learning. Finally, they introduce the emerging reconceptualisation of …
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Phosphorus removal mechanisms at the Yellow River Sweetwater Creek Water Reclamation Facility, Gwinnett County, Georgia.
… events) , while in reactor experiments (pilot studies) , waste was subjected to various conditions to promote biological phosphorus release and uptake. Analysis of plant conditions at the time of experimentation indicates that one-half of the plant phosphorus removal is accomplished …
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Criminality Groups and Substance Abuse
… the Kentucky Treatment Outcome and Performance Pilot Studies Enhancement Project, this study provides further understanding of the crime-substance relationship. This study utilized Robert Agnew's 1992 general strain theory. Results suggest that substance addicts and substance users can be …
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Emotional Antecedents Of Alcohol Use: A Scale Construction Project
… psychometric properties. Focus groups and three pilot studies were conducted to develop and define the construct of alcohol consumption as a means of emotion regulation. Items were written based upon focus group results, existing published instruments, and a review of the literature. Independent …
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