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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Quality resources"”.
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Intraspecific variation in resource use, dormancy investment, and competitive ability in the facultative parthenogen Daphnia pulicaria
… They provide ecosystem services including moving resources from the primary producers up to higher trophic levels and have served as models for grazers in other systems. Decades of research on Daphnia demonstrate substantial interspecific (between species) and intraspecific (within species) …
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Network exploration effects in machine and human groups
… to balance exploration of new opportunity and resources with exploitation of already-found safe bets. Humans seem to leverage exploration not only to find quality resources, but also to find quality sources of information, such as people or communities. In this thesis, I explore how exploration …
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The family child care trilemma and community development : seeking a balancing strategy
… for community development. Accessing high quality, affordable child care is a vital need in low income communities. Often times, however, the care available is of low educational value, prohibitively expensive, or located far from the neighborhood. The research in this thesis examines how …
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PRINCIPALS AS STEM LEADERS MANAGING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A STEM BASED PRIMARY CURRICULUM
… the curriculum. These challenges include teacher quality, resources to include finances, and technological tools. The data also reveal that principals try to resolve these challenges as best as they possibly can. The research also highlighted that principals who have spent a longer time in the …
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School Based Experience Assessment Tool Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of Two Universities in South Africa
… The SBE tool needs to assess student teacher quality, performance, and effectiveness in the teaching practice exercise. The study aims to evaluate the quality of the SBE assessment tool used by assessors. To achieve the aim, a case study of the comparative analysis of the SBE tool between two …
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Role of Provisions and Season on Foraging and Female Dominance Behavior in Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta) on St. Catherine's Island
… ringtailed lemurs have access to the highest quality resources and can monopolize food patches. Lemurs on St. Catherine's are free ranging and have unlimited access to natural food sources, but they are also provisioned with supplementary food to ensure a balanced diet. My study aimed to …
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Understanding the Impact of Information Quality on Customer Relationship Management
… represents a valuable firm resource. The quality of this resource can benefit or adversely impact social and/or economic outcomes within the organization. Previous studies predominately establish that a global measure of information quality has a positive relationship with the success of …
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Direct and indirect effects of native and invasive plants on mosquito ecology
… pipiens adult emergence rates, addition of high-quality resources is not sufficient to offset the deleterious effect of R. allegheniensis leaves. I then explored two integrated vector management applications of these findings. First, a field experiment demonstrated the feasibility of exploiting a …
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An exploration of interventions for supported self-management and behaviour change delivered as routine clinical care for people living with long-term health conditions.
… change technique taxonomy v1); provision of quality resources to facilitate lifestyle change, including self-monitoring tools; and linking in with third-sector. These components are summarised in a guiding template, and mapped onto theoretical constructs and specific behaviour change …
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The Spatial Ecology of Wild Pigs (Sus scrofa) in Southwest Florida
… by temperature and time of day, and how those resources changed at broad and fine-scales, given their availability. I found that as temperature increased, the probability of foraging increased while the probability of traveling decreased. Foraging behavior occurred predominately between 8:00 …
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The Impact Of Quality Management On The Thermal Performance Of Social Housing In The United Kingdom
… of evidence showing that despite the number of quality management procedures put in place in social housing projects, defects affecting the thermal performance of dwellings are still a major issue to be managed. Within this context, this research sets out to investigate how quality management …
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Life cycle assessment e water footprint assessment nella progettazione di una filiera bosco-energia in Sardegna
… issues related to the exploitation of forest resources), by interpreting them from the environmental viewpoint. Indeed, for a really sustainable supply chain, none of the abovementioned components should be excluded, being them connected each other. LCA provides a valid interpretation of the …
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DISPERSAL BEHAVIOR OF WHITE-TAILED DEER IN AN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE
… or as a means of searching for higher quality resources in this fragmented landscape, 2) compare occurrence rates and path movement metrics for dispersal and excursion movements to determine if underlying differences in behavior exist that would allude to mechanisms for accepting the …