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Retention in Health: Improving HIV Retention within the SF Community Health Network
<p>Previous work on HIV retention improvement has focused on improving access to care for communities who are either at-risk of falling out of care or who have difficulty engaging in medical care for the first time due to socio-cultural barriers. The San Francisco Department of Public Health …
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Student Retention In Florida Community Colleges:ccsse's Retention Index And Florida Accountability Measures
<p>Student retention has become a serious topic in the past several decades (Wild and Ebbers, 2002). Problematic, however, is how retention is defined and measured, as well as a lack of multi-institutional studies that support a theoretical model for improving student retention, particularly in …
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A Study Of Retention Rates Among Non-Resident Students Enrolled In Freshman Retention Programs
… determine the relationship between two freshman retention programs, cohort-based and non-cohort based freshman year experience (fye) courses, and the retention of academically less-prepared, non-resident students at a Southern University (SU). Structured interviews with open-ended questions were …
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Teachers' beliefs about grade retention
… better understanding of teachers' beliefs about retention in grades K-7. The participants in this study were the 135 classroom and specialty teachers in one school division (with six elementary schools, K-7). Two survey instruments were developed: (a) the Teacher Retention Belief Questionnaire …
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Trends in college student retention : identification of latent student classes with relation to retention statistics.
College student retention has been studied in depth at both 4-year and 2-year institutions, but not at technical colleges. Institutions of higher education continue to struggle with early identification and intervention strategies to aid in student retention. Technical Colleges are not an exception …
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ACTIVITIES NEGATIVELY INFLUENCING RETENTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS AND LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES TO INCREASE RETENTION
… of this study was to recognize the decrease in retention of African American college students. What are some of the reasons for a decrease in retention and what do the leaders do about it? Leadership can develop and implement to recruit and increase retention of some of these African American …
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Student Retention: Finding the Missing Perspective
This baseline study was designed to better understand non-withdrawing student leavers. An exploratory research design was utilized which consisted of pilot interviews and a survey. The pilot interviews in this study consisted of five on-campus Fall 2005 undergraduate student leavers. Leaver insight …
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Identifying Predictors of New Teacher Retention
Identifying Predictors of New Teacher Retention Abstract High teacher turnover is a financial and instructional problem in schools on the national, state, and district level. Because the greatest proportion of teacher attrition (not related to retirement) and turnover occurs in the first five years …
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Retention Pathways for African American Males
… in southeast Georgia as a means of understanding retention pathways for this population of students. The researcher approach to retention personified the slogan “Think Globally, Act Locally” by examining the nationwide dropout rate in the United States and implementing a dropout prevention program …
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Retention and Motivation of Veteran Teachers.
<p>The workforce in the United States is aging. Teachers, like all other workers in the country, are also aging. The veteran teachers in our nation's public schools possess wisdom gained through their on-the-job experience. With looming teacher shortages in our public schools, it is imperative that …
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The Affective Consequences of Grade Retention.
… of the affective consequences of grade retention and to uncover possible social and academic effects of grade retention on students’ subsequent elementary school experience. The participants were kindergarten through eighth grade students from a county in a rural area in Northeast …
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Employee Tenure: Executive Interaction and Retention
… into actionable steps to enhance hiring and retention practices at community banks. The mentorship program will provide a way for community banks to offer professional development and support for both CEO level bankers and employees who might otherwise look elsewhere to advance their career. …
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Microneedle gastric retention for drug delivery
… have been designed to test the efficacy of this retention mechanism. Coupled with work in the creation of new pharmaceutical formulations, these needles can be loaded with any drug to ensure uptake into the blood stream over the course of several days.
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Mechanisms governing phosphorus retention in streams
… bacteria, and fungi) growth. As a result, retention of phosphorus within streams largely determines productivity. Factors that influence retention include temperature (Elwood et al. 1981b), velocity (Bencala 1983), and organic matter (Mulholland et al. 1984). Watershed input-output budgets …
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Characterizing Retention behavior of DDR4 SoDIMM
We are in an ever-increasing demand for computing power to sustain our technological advancements. A significant driving factor of our progress is the size and speed of memory we possess. Modern computer architectures use DDR4-based DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) to hold all the immediate …
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