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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Practice Effects"”.
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Establishment Method and Cultural Practice Effects on Sports Turf
… objectives of this research were to evaluate the effects of sod establishment methods and post- establishment cultural practices on the infiltration rate, moisture content, divot resistance, root mass, and overall turfgrass quality of hybrid bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. …
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Simulation of conservation practice effects on water quality under current and future climate scenarios
<p>Analysis of the effects of implementing different conservation practices, as well as increased levels of conservation practices under existing and projected future climate, will determine if current conservation practice recommendations will be sufficient to maintain soil and water resources. …
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Value-based Management in Practice: Effects of Implementation Forms, Compensation Schemes and Investor Relations on Financial Performance
… popularity and found its way into corporate practice in the mid 1990s. But the large breakthrough of value-based management held off, especially in the German landscape. The following four documents first analyze the status quo of value-based management in board compensation, second analyze …
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The development of skill : the coefficient of variation as an index of skill acquisition
Previous research has found that extensive practice usually leads to faster more stable reaction times (RTs). The goal of this study was to distinguish practice effects which are due to a speed-up (where reduced RTs and correspondingly reduced variability in RT indicate that the task is being …
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Validation of the adapted CogState brief battery in hematopoietic cell transplant patients
… neuropsychological tests that are susceptible to practice effects and thus may be inappropriate for repeated assessment at short intervals. The present study aimed to evaluate the construct and criterion validity of the Adapted CogState Brief Battery, a computerized measure that has demonstrated …
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An experimental determination of the effects of dot matrix/character size and font on reading times and eye movements
The effects of manipulating two parameters of legibility; matrix/character size and font, on two performance measures, reading times and eye movements, were studied in this experiment. The results showed significant practice effects for the 7 x 9, 7 x 9 (= 5 x 7), and 9 x 11 (= 5 x 7) sizes. The …
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The efficiency of routine standards in social comparison
… Therefore, in this research I wanted to look at practice effects in social comparison and the particular significance of routine standards. Whereas traditional research on standard selection mostly focused on goal-oriented and strategic standard selection processes, this research sets out to …
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Frequency-based training in the acquisition and retention of reading skills in students with emotional and behavioral disorders
… The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of frequency-based training versus accuracy training in the acquisition and retention of Dolch words (sight word vocabulary) in students with emotional/ behavioral disorders. The study accounted for practice effects by yoking the number of …
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Child- vs. adult-directed speech and self-esteem: effects on the task performances, arousal, and future esteem of elderly adults
In a sample of older individuals, the effects of speech type and initial esteem level on performance and subsequent esteem were explored in the present study. Results were inconclusive. Practice effects were found for all subjects, regardless of group membership on all tasks. Speech and Esteem …
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Exploring the Dynamic Assessment Paradigm and its usefulness at Assessing Learning Potential of Schizophrenia Patients
… those that would be expected from simple practice effects. Study 2 tested the relationship between Learning Potential (DA?s core construct) and intellectual function (IQ), age, medication dosage, and negative symptoms. The studies result supported the assertion that DA provides a unique …
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Investigating history of concussion and data from head impact telemetry (xPatch) in relation to neuropsychological outcomes in a sample of adult rugby players in Cape Town
… performance. However, a number of test practice effects are noted. Combined, these findings suggest that (a) identifying possible enduring neuropsychological difficulties retrospectively is limited, and issues such as test-practice effects and test sensitivity should be considered in …
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Determining clinically relevant neuropsychological change in an epilepsy sample
… However, potentially confounding issues such as practice effects and low test-retest reliability may influence a person’s test score when they are given the same neuropsychological test on a second occasion, such as following surgery. Determining how much change in test scores is due to …
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Exploring the relationship between HPW practices of acute ward staff in NHSL on employee experience
… search for links between high performance work practices and strategic organisational performance stream become a widely accepted debates in many organisations. However many of findings comes from outside of the health sector. <br/><br/><b>Aim</b>: The study filled the gap by exploring the …
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The development of a scoring system for an alternative form of the Visual Reproduction subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale - revised
… its publication in 1987 by Wechsler. Mindful of practice effects in serial assessment, a potential limiting factor in assessing recovery or decline with this subtest is the absence of an alternative form. This study aimed to develop an alternative form and a scoring system for this form. The …
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Evaluating Simulated Military Training Exercises
… academics followed by one week of simulator practice and testing. The didactic portion of the course is designed to teach the students those skills required of an operational ADAFCO. The simulator-based portion of the course, JKCE, tests those new skills in a simulated operational …
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The use of graphing and an effort and achievement rubric to increase students' multiplication fact accuracy and fluency
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of self-graphing and an effort and achievement rubric on increasing students' multiplication fact accuracy and fluency. The research design was a two-group pretest/posttest research design. Data was collected from student multiplication math …
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The short-term effects of off-pump cardiopulmonary bypass graft surgery on cognitive performance
… (CABG). This study investigates the short-term effects of off-pump cardiopulmonary bypass graft surgery (OPCAB) on cognitive performance, as a possible safer alternative in the treatment of coronary artery disease. This research forms part of a larger study in which, in addition to the OPCAB …
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Co-Occurring Social Anxiety and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Symptoms in Emerging Adults: Links with Working Memory and Social Functioning
… effort following the stressful experience or practice effects. The ADHD + Social Anxiety group reported significantly poorer social functioning compared to all other groups, replicating previous findings. Results suggest that while WM deficits were not detected in the current study, underlying …
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Register-based evaluation of primary care - Focus on chronic disease
… data and quality registers. In Studies I and II, effects of pay for performance were analysed for patients and medical data in a quality register, as well as the association of inappropriate medications with the tendency to code for medication reviews. Results: Paying for data entry led to …
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The Effects of Practice Procedure and Task Difficulty on Tonal Pattern Accuracy.
… proportions of time spent on physical and mental practice, in the context of a music performance of a tonal pattern over harmonic progressions of two difficulty levels. Using a sampling without replacement procedure, sixty undergraduate students were assigned to four practice groups partially …
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