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Showing 1 to 20 of 991 for “"Rewards"”.
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Religion, Rewards, and Prosocial Behavior
… these studies confound religion with anticipated rewards. I present the results of a new experiment that primes reward-related and reward-unrelated religious or secular concepts. Results show that priming reward-related concepts positively impacts prosocial behavior, regardless of their religious …
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Monetary Vs Non-Monetary Rewards: How Different Rewards Influence Employee Motivation in the Manufacturing Sector in the UK
… the influence of monetary and non-monetary rewards on employee motivation, aiming to identify which reward mechanisms are perceived as most effective. A quantitative research design was employed, with data gathered through a structured survey distributed to 50 employees working in the UK …
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Reinforcement learning with supervision beyond environmental rewards
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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The 48 hour patient - who reaps the rewards?
The purpose of this evaluative case study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 48 hour Medical Unit in relation to Patient Satisfaction, Patient Care, Nursing Staff Job satisfaction and the Average Length of Stay for patients' Pre and Post a Rapid Assessment Medical Unit's (RAMU) inception. The …
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Using incentives and rewards in worksite smoking interventions
… monoxide detector before receiving monetary rewards. As a result, 54% of the 28 participants were smoke-free after nine months. In the non-incentive condition, participants were offered the same smoking cessation program but without major incentives. Participants were assessed on the carbon …
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Effects of Non-Monetary Rewards Towards Employee Motivation
… an investigation of the impact of non monetary rewards toward employee motivation. The main objective is to analyze the effect of non monetary such as recognition, training, and rewards & incentives on employees’ productivity. When employees are motivated, they develop the drive to work hard and …
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Parametrized Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits with Binary Rewards
… assume that the arms have Bernoulli distributed rewards, independent across arms and across time, where the probabilities of success are parametrized by known attribute vectors for each arm, as well as an unknown preference vector. For this model, we seek an algorithm with a total regret that is …
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Total rewards or totally not what the people want? Examining the preferred total rewards of those at home vs. in the workplace
… between work location and various total rewards categories (i.e., benefits, work-life effectiveness, performance management, and talent development) and age with work-life effectiveness and performance management. Furthermore, gender and parental status t-tests indicated statistical …
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Finding the loudest megaphone: recognition rewards and narcissistic investors
… platforms adopts aspects of venture capital and rewards-based crowdfunding markets, with startups offering rewards in addition to equity. Using an experiment, I investigate whether a certain type of reward, which I call a recognition reward, tends to attract a narcissistic investor base, which, …
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Total rewards that retain : a study of demographic preferences
… and the ideal combination and quantum of total rewards that retain employees from various demographic groups including: knowledge workers, employees of different races, genders and age groups.
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THE EFFECTS OF COMPETITION AND EXTERNAL REWARDS ON INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
<p>A number of studies have demonstrated that the presence of an external reward reduces intrinsic motivation. Deci's (1975) theory of cognitive evaluation and Lepper, Greene and Nisbett's (1973) overjustification hypothesis account for these findings using attribution theory. Basically, these …
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The inner life of goals : costs, rewards, and commonsense psychology
… looking at children's ability to infer costs and rewards given partial information, their reasoning about knowledgeable versus ignorant agents, and their reasoning about the moral status of agents. Moreover, a formal model of this theory, embedded in a Bayesian framework, predicts with …
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Rewards, locus of control and ideational fluency in preschool children
… study was to examine the relationship between rewards, locus of control and ideational fluency. Forty-three preschool children were initially administered the Revised Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale. Based on a median …
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Multiple dimensions of floral rewards drive pollinator behavior and pollen movement
Animal pollinated plants produce a diversity of rewards to attract pollinating insects. Most commonly these are nutritional rewards; either pollen (primarily protein and lipids) and/or nectar (primarily carbohydrates) in varying combinations and qualities. This reward strategy varies inter- and …
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"That's What Families Do": Rewards and Challenges of Informal Kinship Care
… for a relative's children, with a focus on the rewards and challenges within those experiences. A second purpose was to enable participants to tell their stories so that information could be used by practitioners and policymakers. The 14 participants in this study described a path to informal …
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Reimagining loyalty rewards programmes via blockchain: usage, loyalty, and firm performance
The emergence of blockchain technology is poised to revolutionise the loyalty programme (LP) landscape. Still, there is a dearth of research exploring the factors that influence the acceptance and resultant loyalty creation of blockchain-based LPs. This study examines the relationship between …
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The Limits of Temporal Abstractions for Reinforcement Learning with Sparse Rewards
Skills are temporal abstractions that are intended to improve reinforcement learning (RL) performance through hierarchical RL. Despite our intuition about the properties of an environment that make skills useful, there has been little theoretical work aimed to characterize these properties …
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Challenges and rewards of mechanical platforming strategy within wireless handset industry
The internship project studied Motorola competitors' products and identified their mechanical platform strategy. Recommendations were developed for Motorola to improve product development and/or portfolio planning, in terms of hitting key performance parameters for design differentiation, field …
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Risks and rewards of continuing care retirement communities : a developers's perspective
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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