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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Receptivity"”.
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Teacher Receptivity to Change
… to interview questions pertaining to teacher receptivity to instructional or organizational change. The findings suggest that a high degree of commonality exists among teachers regarding views on the necessity of change, and reasons for teacher reluctance towards innovation. In addition to …
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Receptivity to innovation - overcoming N.I.H.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1967. M.S.
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University students' receptivity to peers with disabilities
This research investigates university students' receptivity to peers with disabilities at two universities in Perth, Western Australia (Edith Cowan University and the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle), and two universities in India (The University of Kolkata (previously Calcutta) and the …
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Abdominal-B Neurons Control Drosophila Virgin Female Receptivity
… and opening vaginal plates, a process known as receptivity. To expand the mechanistic understanding of Drosophila receptivity, we set out to identify neurons directly involved in this behavior. Using a genome-wide neuronal RNAi screen, we identified a requirement for Abdominal-B (Abd-B), a …
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Neural Regions Affecting Female Aggression and Receptivity in Drosophila melanogaster
… of such behaviours include female aggression and receptivity to male courtship. Silencing a candidate region called the mushroom body (MB) was found to decrease female receptivity. Additionally, silencing a specific subset of the MB, the alpha/beta lobes, was also found to decrease receptivity. …
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ROLES OF HAND2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IN UTERINE RECEPTIVITY AND DECIDUALIZATION
… may be responsible for defects in the uterine receptivity. The expression of HAND2 was also critical in decidualization in vitro. Silencing and over-expression HAND2 disclosed the roles of HAND2 in regulating the expression of FOXO1A, IGFBP1, BMP2 as well as WNT4. It seemed that HAND2 promoter …
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The influence of culture and lifestyles on receptivity to direct mail
This study is an analysis of the differences in Receptivity toward Direct Mail between Anglophones (English Canadians) and Francophones (French Canadians). A Receptivity toward Direct Mail model is proposed and demonstrated. This model integrates the Pay Attention To, Cognitive, …
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Learning Performances of Dislocation, Receptivity and Hybridity in Women's Utopian Writing
The deconstructionist and revisionist gestures of this project also address the metaphysics of purity and imprintability that have been dominating educational notions of childhood. In particular, I explore two arguments: (a) The understanding of utopian writing as the literary supplement of …
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Experimental Manipulation of Intervention Timing to Improve Adolescents’ Receptivity to Physical Activity
Objective: Digital interventions may serve as an opportune modality for improving physical activity. However, their lack of empirical decision points is an evidence gap in the optimization of digital physical activity interventions. Given that adolescents are most likely to complete their exercise …
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The Beautiful and the Bullshit: Speaker and Listener Mental Representations Influence Bullshit Receptivity
… While the picture painted thus far suggests that receptivity to such statements (i.e., perceiving meaning where none exists) hinges upon an individual’s ability to engage in reflective (vs. reflexive) cognitive processing, little attention has been paid to how purveyors of bullshit influence one’s …
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Receptivity and growth of two- and three-dimensional disturbances in a Blasius boundary layer
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 2000.
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The receptivity to housing policy initiatives: adequate and affordable housing in the rural south
The main purpose of this study was to assess the impact of housing actors’ housing knowledge and involvement, perceptions of community Situations influencing housing, support for housing programs, and demographic characteristics on their receptiveness to housing policy initiatives. Perceptions of …
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The Evolution of Extended Sexual Receptivity in Chimpanzees: Variation, Male-Female Associations, and Hormonal Correlates
… sexual swelling that advertises sexual receptivity while concealing the exact timing of ovulation. Sexual swellings impose significant costs, yet can persist into pregnancy. Records from long-term studies of eastern chimpanzees (P. t. schweinfurthii) in Gombe National Park, TZ, and …
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Global alterations of the epigenetic landscape define endometrial receptivity and provide a hallmark for endometriosis
… Failure in the establishment or timing of receptivity is a primary cause of infertility. The endometrium is also the tissue chiefly involved in the aetiology of endometriosis, a condition in which endometrial tissue is found outside the womb where it forms lesions. Endometriosis affects …
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Receptivity to free stream acoustic disturbances due to a roughness element on a flat plate
The boundary-layer receptivity resulting from acoustic forcing over a flat plate with a surface irregularity is investigated. The unsteady free-stream disturbances couple with the steady perturbations resulting from the surface irregularity to form a traveling-wave mode. The resonance condition …
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Lecturer receptivity to a major educational change in the context of planned change at Rajabhats in Thailand
… education and aims to: (1) investigate lecturer receptivity to the major change, in the context of planned educational change at Rajabhat Universities, (2) investigate the relationships between lecturer receptivity, and nine aspects to the change, and (3) investigate why Thai lecturers at …
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Enhancing the Community College Transfer Pathway: Exploring Aspects of Transfer Receptivity at 4-Year Institutions in Engineering
… dissertation explores a few aspects of transfer receptivity at 4-year institutions to understand how they relate to the efficacy of vertical transfer pathways in engineering disciplines. The first manuscript is a case study of an articulation agreement partnership between one 4-year institution …
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