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Showing 1 to 20 of 2788 for “"Social and Behavioral Sciences"”.
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Engagement, Trust, And Reciprocity: Exploring The Relationship Between Social Captial And Participation In Nonprofit Organizations
… examines the extent to which various forms of social capital impact participation in nonprofit organizations. Previous research has focused on the importance of trust and engagement among social and political networks to form strong community ties that can cultivate the growth of social capital …
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The Impact Of Nested Testing On Experiment-Wise Type I Error Rate
… experiment. There is a growing trend in the social and behavioral sciences utilizing nested designs. A Monte Carlo study was conducted using a two layer design. Five theoretical distributions and four real datasets taken from Micceri (1989) were used, each with five different samples sizes …
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Faculty perception and use of learning-centered strategies to assess student performance
… the researcher explored collegiate faculty use and perception of learning- centered strategies to assess student performance on various learning tasks. Through this study, the researcher identified the assessment strategies that faculty participants most frequently used, as well as the …
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Methods for Handling Missing Data for Multiple-Item Questionnaires
… data is a common problem, especially in the social and behavioral sciences. Modern missing data methods are underutilized in the industrial/organizational psychology and human resource management literature. Recommendations for handling missing data and default options in software packages …
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Health Promotion for the Community Advocate
The aim of this capstone is to review social and behavioral factors relevant to health promotion for obesity and chronic diseases in impoverished communities. Obesity and chronic diseases have displaced infectious diseases as the most immediate threat to morbidity and mortality in the United …
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A resource-based systems approach to globalization, organization and people: a case study in the outsourcing sector of the US-based global pharmaceutical industry
As an interdisciplinary attempt to explore and demonstrate the complementarity of natural and social sciences and to achieve synergy effects in the contemporary global scholarship of humanistic social and behavioral sciences, this dissertation proposes a resource-based systems approach to the study …
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A Factorial Description of Tasks of the Family
<p>Problem</p> <p>An understanding of the adjustment of the family may be facilitated by analyzing the tasks and the task performance of the family. This analysis requires a knowledge of the content and the construct of family tasks. The purpose of the study was to describe a factorial construction …
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Repeated Measures ANOVA with Latent Variables: A New Approach Based on Structural Equation Modeling
… commonplace for investigating phenomena in the social and behavioral sciences, and researchers often use RM-ANOVA as a statistical method for analyzing data from repeated measures designs. The popularity of RM-ANOVA is, to some extent, due to its generality (i.e., many hypotheses may be tested …
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