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Showing 1 to 20 of 1259 for “"Positive effect"”.
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Does Foam Rolling have a Positive Effect on Performance and Recovery from Post Exercise Induced Muscle Damage: A Systematic Review of the Literature to Guide Practitioners on the use of Foam Rolling
… determine if foam rolling enhances performance, positively affects recovery from exercise induced muscle damage, and whether there is a consensus on the protocol to achieve performance and recovery enhancement. Seven electronic databases, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Pubmed Central, Pubmed, …
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A Theoretical Integration and Empirical Test of Strategic Management: Environment, Strategy, Structure, Implementation, and Performance in the Hospitality Industry
… causality in the model. Results also indicated a positive relationship between perceived environmental certainty and the defender type of strategy. A negative effect of the defender type of strategy and a positive effect of the prospector type of strategy on organic organizational structure were …
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The Effect of Brand Crowding on Brand Differentiation: The Moderating Effect of Product Knowledge
… This paper proposes that brand crowding has a positive effect on brand differentiation. It further suggests that product knowledge has a positive effect on this relationship while brand differentiation has a positive effect on both brand preference and purchase intention. Chocolate brands are …
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The role of ethnicity and gender in evaluating observed social interactions
Non-verbal behaviors may facilitate effective social interactions, which are crucial aspects of human life. Among non-verbal behaviors, interpersonal touch has an important role in social interactions because of its emotional impact. However, it has remained ambiguous how ethnicity and sex …
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Do Academic Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?
… directors, female academic directors have positive incremental effect on firm’s CSR performance. We also find that academic directors’ and female academic directors’ influence on CSR activity is not similar across CSR components. Among seven qualitative components of CSR, academic directors …
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An empirical investigation of the effect of Intellectual Property Rights systems on Foreign Direct Investment Flows and Spillovers
… the existing theoretical frameworks the distinct effect of the public IP enforcement element of IP systems on FDI horizontal spillovers. By employing a meta-analysis approach and the ordered probit model estimation technique, it finds that the strength of public IP enforcement in a host country …
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Managing Uncertainty During Organization Design Decision-Making Processes: The Moderating Effects of Different Types of Uncertainty
… (i.e., instability in one's perception of positive regard from relevant others) - are qualitatively distinct. The study also examines whether both types of uncertainty are heightened by ongoing organizational factors (i.e., organization role and tenure) as well as temporary factors (i.e., …
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The relationship between financial inclusion, economic growth and poverty: A study of Jordan
… financial services to individuals is an effective way to enhance economic growth and reduce poverty. It investigates the access to and usage of financial services in Jordan. This study applies the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to examine the annual time-series data collected …
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Infrastructure, institutions and economic growth : a time-series study of the South African economy
… and output in South Africa, finding a broadly positive effect that operates largely via the marginal productivity of private capital. We extend this literature by investigating the relationship between infrastructure, output and institutional quality: protection of property rights, political …
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Developments in the South African credit market and analysis on indebted consumers using NIDS data
… analysis indicate a dampening of the negative effect for female, Black, Coloured, no schooling and primary schooling variables; a strengthening of the positive effect for formal house structure made of brick; a dampening of the positive effect for house ownership, post-secondary education, …
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An Evaluation of the Relationships Between Safety Management System Intiatives, Transformational Safety Leadership, Self-Efficacy, Safety Behavior and Safety Related Events Mediated by Safety Motivation in Collegiate Aviation
… personnel to sample their opinions on the effectiveness of the SMS initiative. Factual safety performance data on the flight program over a six-year period was analyzed to complete a triangulation approach. The results indicate that perceptions of SMS policy implementation have direct, …
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The effect of breathing techniques on test anxiety among students at the University of Zululand
The study investigated the effect of breathing techniques on test anxiety among students at the University of Zululand. Data was collected on a sample of one hundred (N=100) full time students aged between eighteen (18) and thirty two (32). The study consisted of the intervention group (N=60) and …
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EFFECTS OF SUPERVISORS' UPWARD EXCHANGE RELATIONSHIPS ON EMPLOYEES: TESTING MULTILEVEL MEDIATION ROLE OF EMPOWERMENT
… individual empowerment sequentially mediated the positive effect of LLX on subordinates' job satisfaction and job performance. Further, LMX mediated the positive effect of LLX on individual empowerment. It was also found that the indirect relationships of LMX with job satisfaction and job …
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Formative assessment: the implementation of Learnia and the impact on students' proficiency of the New Jersey Mathematics Standards
… was that a formative assessment program had a positive effect on student proficiency of the mathematics standards. The second conclusion was that professional development had a positive effect on changing teachers' formative assessment practices. The third conclusion was that the researcher's …
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The Assessment of Capable Guardianship Measures against Bullying: Victimization in the School Environment
… that increased security alone has not had a positive effect on the rate of bullying in schools. This study will empirically test the effectiveness of school resource officers as a variable of capable guardianship and its correlation with the rate and quality of bullying in schools. This …
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Quantile Regression Methods for Recursive Structural Equation Models
The second essay explores the heterogeneous peer effects in Dutch primary schools by employing a series of percentiles of classmates achievement distribution as the peers outcome measurement and the quantile regression estimation method. It is found that better performance by lower attainment peers …
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Visual feedback in orthopaedic rehabilitation
… sub-optimal outcomes. Visual feedback has had a positive effect in other patient populations, such as stroke survivors, and therefore may also improve the efficacy of TKA rehabilitation. Currently, the most effective way to deliver visual feedback is with motion analysis technology. However, …
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Creating Links: Building an Educational Platform to Ask Relevant Questions in Education
… platform (JANN) to do research while having a positive impact on a community. Through JANN we have coordinated more than 100k hours of tutoring sessions and built (to our knowledge) one of the largest databases of educational recordings in the world. Broadly the contributions here are twofold: …
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
In this paper I explore the effects of political institutions—historical tax structure, political party power, neocorporatism, and federalism—on the implementation of explicit carbon tax (ECT) policies. This represents one of the first quantitative studies of ECT adoptions. The event history …
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A Study of the Effectiveness of the Introduction of Background Music in a Traditional Library
… background music in a traditional library has a positive effect on the attitude of students toward the library and toward the use of print materials.
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