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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Response options"”.
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The impacts of cleaner energy policies on coal-dependent Appalachia and our response options
Through conducting an extensive literature review of current policies, interviewing Appalachian residents, and surveying the energy and employment landscapes both regionally and nationally, this thesis aims to shed light on the effect cleaner energy policies have on employment in the Appalachian …
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Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP): An Examination of the Impact of Response Options Theoretically Deemed as Contextual Relations versus Relational Coherence Indicators
… were to investigate the use of different response options (e.g., contextually cued relational responding (Crels) or relational coherence indicators (RCIs)) in the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP). In each of the four studies, participants (total N=124) completed two …
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Survivability in Mars transit architectures : analysis framework for failure contingency strategies
… allows for a function-based failure and response analysis applicable across many possible futures. The Failure-Survivability Analysis Framework for Early Concepts (Fail-SAFE) is developed which 1) defines a generalized architecture, 2) injects a functional failure and assesses its impact, …
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Elementary Principals Decision-Making Process During Crisis Situations In One Northern New Jersey District
… severity ofthe negative event (b) deterrnining response options, and (c) evaluating response options (Sweeny, 2008) during crisis situations. This is the first time crisis decision theory will be used to explore how schoolleaders respond to a crisis. CriticaI Incident Technique (CIT) (Flanagan, …
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Exploring the explicit knowledge of the Duchenne marker and asymmetry in smile judgment
… Likert scale to examine the possible effect of response options on smile judgment tasks. Participants also were asked to judge both the happiness and authenticity of smiles. Three types of smiles (symmetrical Duchenne, non- Duchenne and asymmetrical) were presented for the smile judgment task. …
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Assessment of no opinion and don't know responses to community surveys
… more or less funding. In addition to substantive responses, respondents might also be afforded the opportunity to indicate a "no opinion" or "don't know" response to these questions. In the absence of a "no opinion" or "don't know" option, the respondents might choose not to answer a question or …
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Exploring Influences on Strong Interest Inventory Profiles: An Investigation of Demographic, Psychological, and Career Developmental Factors
… an extreme endorsement of one of the available response options. Despite the widespread use of the SII in counseling, educational, and occupational settings, little is known about the characteristics of those clients who present with these types of challenging interest profiles. The present …
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Teacher Acceptability of Curriculum Based Measurement as a Universal Screener in Reading
… Reading Fluency as a universal screener with response options ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). In the present study an average item rating of 3.5 would indicate a neutral attitude toward the measure. Teachers who participated found Curriculum Based Measurements …
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Beyond the Margins of the Model Minority: The Development and Validation of the East Asian American Situational Judgment Test
… can be susceptible to social desirability response biases, as they tend to focus on more cognitive and affective components of attitudes, rather than behavioral expectations. The goal of this study was to develop and provide initial validation for a behavior-based measure of racial …
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A Validation Study of the Competitive Prosocial/Aggression Continuum Task
… is that they fail to provide participants with response options other than the administration of an aversive stimulus. Thus, the goal of this project is to develop and validate the Competitive Prosocial/ Aggression Continuum Task (COMPACT), a portable competitive reaction time aggression …
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Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness
… in a relationship, individuals have a variety of response options. While one can seek revenge or avoid that person, another option – forgiveness – can repair the relationship and foster health for both relationship partners. In coming together to confront the conflict and move beyond it, …
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Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness
… in a relationship, individuals have a variety of response options. While one can seek revenge or avoid that person, another option – forgiveness – can repair the relationship and foster health for both relationship partners. In coming together to confront the conflict and move beyond it, …
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Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion on Human Evolution
… have polled about evolution, but offered limited response categories that mask complexity in public opinion (Bishop 2006; Moore 2008). The main problems concerning the leading survey questions about evolution are: first, questions measure only a single dimension, thus they ignore the potential for …
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Intermedicate Grade Mathematics: Hands-on Strategies and Strands Stressed by Teachers
… of instruction or they narrow the response options so much that teachers are not able to freely discuss their techniques. Fifteen fourth through sixth grade teachers from varying schools within the county, (schools which differ in Academic Performance Index scores and English …
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Response styles in consumer research
… specific statements, is very popular. However, responses to such items may be biased by response styles, defined as respondents’ tendencies to disproportionately select specific response options. A well-known example is the acquiescence response style, i.e. the tendency to disproportionately use …
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The illusion of control: influencing factors and underlying psychological processes.
… the illusion – factors such as the number of response options available in the gambling task, the degree of need for money, the average frequency of successes/wins in a sequence of rounds, and success-slope (i.e., whether wins are concentrated at the beginning or end of the sequence). The …
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Robust Regression Methods For Massively Decayed Intelligence Data
… the recognition of threats (e.g. theory) and response options. Less effort was placed in the analysis of the collected data through statistical modeling. In a field that collects more than 20 terabyte of information per minute though diverse overt and covert means and indexes it for future …
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EFFECTS OF RESPONSE FREQUENCY CONSTRAINTS ON LEARNING IN A NON-STATIONARY MULTI-ARMED BANDIT TASK
… between exploratory (choosing lesser-known options) and exploitive (choosing options with the greatest probability of reinforcement) human choice in a trial-and-error learning problem. In Experiment 1 a different probability of reinforcement was assigned to each of 8 response options using …
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Valuing biodiversity: Decision support for biosecurity response
… Support System (DSS) to improve biosecurity response decisions affecting indigenous biodiversity. The key elements of the DSS are a synthesis of three components of non-market valuation: choice modelling, a systematic database of values and benefit transfer, with risk simulation to account …
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