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Do Gestural Interfaces Promote Thinking? Embodied Interaction: Congruent Gestures and Direct-Touch Promote Performance in Math
Can action support cognition? Can direct touch support performance? Embodied interaction involving digital devices is based on the theory of grounded cognition. Embodied interaction with gestural interfaces involves more of our senses than traditional (mouse-based) interfaces, and in particular …
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Does Social Media Promote Disordered Eating?
<p>Hispanic people are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the U.S. with a total of 18.5% of the U.S population being of Hispanic descent (United States Census Bureau, 2020). Although eating disorders (ED), particularly those involving binge eating, comprise a significant health …
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Extracellular Metabolic Energetics Can Promote Cancer Progression
… Creatine Kinase Brain (CKB). CKB was found to promote metastasis and the second part of this thesis present mechanistic studies that describe CKB-mediated modulation of intra- and extracellular energetics by colon cancer cells that contributed to colon cancer cell survival in the liver …
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Volunteer Spotlighting: Costly Signaling to Promote Volunteerism
<p>Prosocial behaviors, because they are initially costly and do not guarantee a direct benefit to the actor, can nonetheless increase social status by signaling a willingness to incur cost on behalf of another. Given this signal value, nonprofit organizations may be able to leverage this knowledge …
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Do Academic Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?
We find significant evidence that academic directors enhance firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance after examining a sample of S&P 1,500 firms for years 2002 to 2011. The presence of academic directors in corporate board increases firms’ CSR performance. Within academic …
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Special education remediation programs promote HSPA success
<p>The purpose of this study was to analyze the results of New Jersey's March 2004 High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) and the 2001 Grade Eight Proficiency Assessment (GEPA) to recommend remediation opportunities for high school students with special needs. Student demographics and content …
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Using electronic writing to promote students' writing
<p>"The purpose of this study was to promote students' writing by using electronic writing (e-writing) tools. Formal writing can lack the use of imagination and fun; thus, it is important to combine formal writing strategies and digital tools to offer a more enjoyable experience for students via …
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Integrating bioinformatic approaches to promote crop resilience
Even under the best management strategies contemporary crops face yield losses from diverse threats such as, pathogens, pests, and environmental stress. Adding to this management challenge is that under current global climate projections these impacts are predicted to become even greater. Natural …
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Community-based feedback to promote road safety
The theory of risk compensation predicts that when individuals increase the practice of a safe behavior, they will also increase the practice of an unsafe behavior in order to maintain the same level of overall risk. In contrast, response generalization predicts that an increase in safe behavior …
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Can Products be Designed to Promote Subjective Wellbeing?
… to the question, ‘can products be designed to promote subjective wellbeing’? To achieve this, three different forms of research are undertaken and cross-compared. The exploration of existing literature, primary research into users’ interaction with chairs they own and finally, primary research …
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An Educational Initiative to Promote Evidence-Based Practice
… into practice are an effective modality to promote evidence-based clinical decision-making about patient care.
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Fraction Models That Promote Understanding For Elementary Students
<p>This study examined the use of the set, area, and linear models of fraction representation to enhance elementary students' conceptual understanding of fractions. Students' preferences regarding the set, area, and linear models of fractions during independent work was also investigated. This …
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Best Practices to Promote Racial Unity in Theatre
… a variety of practices that I believe will promote racial unity in theatre. I have included lesson plans and games that will help instructors create an open environment for students of all races. I will present research from theatre experts to conclude my best practices to create a more …
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Minigrids for electrification : policies to promote industry growth
The International Energy Agency estimates $331 billion dollars will be invested over the next 12 years to provide energy access to the 1.1 billion people who currently lack access to reliable electricity service. Of the $331 billion, the IEA estimates that 34% of this capital will be directed …
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Using Public Policy to Promote Community Economic Development
… made in transportation and workforce policy to promote economic development. These changes will revolve around the amalgamation of place-based and people-based strategies with an emphasis on investment in people. The people-based strategies will relate to transportation policy, while place-based …
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY
… aim ed to develop and evaluate intervention s to promote IH among a student sample . Participants were placed in one of four conditions; factual writing, prospective writing, self - distancing, and a control condition. The effectiveness of each condition on each of four dependent variables – …
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An Instruction Profiling Based Framework to Promote Software Portability
… instruction profiling framework that promotes portable software by allowing developers to estimate certain metrics inherent to their software on other platforms without modifying their code and without direct access to hardware. Specifically, the framework includes three modules: (1) …
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Apoptotic cells promote circulating tumor cell survival and metastasis
… arrest in the lung vasculature. Apoptotic cells promote CTC survival by recruiting platelets to the forming metastatic niche. Apoptotic cells externalize the phospholipid phosphatidylserine to the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane, which we found increased the activity of the coagulation …
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Rbfox1 Regulates mRNA Translation to Promote Germ Cell Differentiation
… the translation of specific target mRNAs to promote differentiation. In the Drosophila ovary, this activity provides a genetic barrier that prevents germ cells from reverting back to an earlier developmental state. These findings have thus advanced our understanding of germline development …
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