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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Preplanning"”.
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A model for colleges of engineering to select a strategic planning methodology and implement a strategic planning process
… to desired planning outcomes. The model uses a preplanning instrument, a planning template, and a Gantt Chart. I designed the preplanning instrument based on six success/fail criteria identified from the research, desired outcomes and outputs of the planning process, and selected planning steps …
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A Series of Original Prints with the Human Image as an Important Compositional Element
… plate intuitively without sketches or preplanning, and (3) Planning the composition and integrating photographic images as a figurative element.
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The Effects of an Intervention Package on Student Teachers' Facilitation of Communication
… A form of expert coaching that included mutually preplanning teaching occasions was implemented. A multiple-probe design across student teachers was implemented to evaluate the effects of the training components on student teachers' use of the intervention procedures. The use of planned and …
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Anthills built to order : automating construction with artificial swarms
… agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. These natural systems motivate investigating the use of artificial swarms to automate construction or fabrication. The goal is to be able to take an unspecified number of simple robots and a supply of building material, give the system …
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Real-time quadruped gait controller for rough terrain locomotion
… without specific knowledge of the terrain or preplanning steps. Force and moment balance are conducted around the center of mass of the robot and ground reaction forces from the feet. Stance legs stabilize against disturbances in pitch, roll, and center of mass height. Swing legs attempt to …
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Prosodic Phrasing in Spontaneous Swedish
… have different implications for the amount of preplanning needed, which makes them particularly interesting to compare by testing spontaneous data. The results indicate that no or little preplanning is needed to produce tonally coherent phrases. No evidence is found to suggest e.g. that …
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Transitions to Assisted Living Within a Continuing Care Retirement Community
… Three major themes surfaced from the interviews: preplanning, executing, and adjusting to the transition. Older women had foreknowledge of the on-campus assisted living and had their names on the waiting list. Even with facility familiarity and family and staff assistance, the move was …
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Examining a business community's readiness to take on sustainability
… indicate the Champaign-Urbana community is at a preplanning stage to address business sustainability and would benefit from efforts to increase awareness on the need for greener business practices. Findings from the business interviews indicate a variety of factors can influence a business’s …
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A description of the efforts of home economists attempting to learn clothing and textile subject matter
… that self-directed learning involves detailed preplanning and progresses in a linear manner. The participants of this study sought assistance with their learning projects from professionals working in areas related to clothing and textiles. These professionals were identified most frequently as …
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Factors involved with successful weight loss maintenance
… the evening showed higher average weight gains, preplanning meals and higher self-motivation levels produced a lower average weight gain. Group 1 showed lower average weight gains for those individuals who joined another program and ate 3 meals a day. Group 2 showed individuals who had higher …
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Understanding Applications of Project Planning and Scheduling in Construction Projects
… and definition of project planning, including preplanning stages. Indeed, some planning issues have been completely overlooked, resulting in unsuccessful project performance. There is a lack of knowledge of, and understanding about, the significance of applications of project planning and …
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Death, Mortality and Consumer Decision Making: Two Essays
… packages and also the costs and benefits of preplanning funeral events and providing advanced directives for end-of-life care and death related expenses.
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Lexical and post-lexical tones in Akan
… Akan speakers anticipate the length of an IP. Preplanning (anticipatory raising) is argued to be an important process at the level of pitch implementation. It serves to ensure that declination can be maintained throughout the IP, which prevents pitch resetting. The melody of an Akan sentence is …
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Power Line Communications over Power Distribution Networks of Microprocessors - Feasibility Study, Channel Modeling, and a Circuit Design Approach
… through a power line avoids the necessity of preplanning the routing of a data path between the node and an external data pin. PLC over microprocessor PDNs also provide a viable means for "run-time testing" as well as for monitoring the so called "large time-constant errors" resulting from …
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Improved source code editing for effective ad-hoc code reuse
… abstraction mechanisms requires extra code and preplanning. When similar code fragments, which are only different by several code tokens, are reused just a couple of times, it makes sense to reuse text of one of the code fragments as a template for others. Unfortunately, code template reuse …