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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Systematic assessment"”.
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MODELLING AND SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF MARITIME CONTAINER SUPPLY CHAIN RISKS
… the effective risk management of MCSCs. However, systematic studies on this topic are relatively few. In view of this, this study aims to explore and analyse various MCSC risks, develop suitable risk assessment methods, and evaluate the overall performance of MCSCs from a systematic perspective, …
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Systematic assessment of the influence of voids on the material performance and failure in additively manufactured polymers.
Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is increasingly used for small-scale manufacturing for niche applications, however, its wide adoption for industrial-scale production of structural components requires significant improvement in the overall quality and functionality of the produced products. While …
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Effects of Two Modes of Training Observers in the Systematic Assessment of Patient Functioning in Mental Institutions
The comparative effectiveness of two time-limited modes of training observers to code the behavior of clients in residential treatment programs on the Time-Sample Behavioral Checklist (TSBC) was evaluated. In addition, the susceptibility of training procedures to consensual observer drift and the …
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Documentation: Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult
… drugs, it is imperative that accurate systematic assessments are charted to determine the actual need for these medications. The purpose of the study was to describe medical record documentation of a systematic assessment of delirium in older adults who had been administered an …
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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Event History Analysis: A Quantile Regression Approach
… methods on what we consider to be the first systematic assessment of the duration of financial analysts' employment spells. Our concluding remarks and suggestions of future research are given in Chapter 6.
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Instructional Development: A Case Study of Program Planning for Active Learning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… The study showed that there is a need for systematic assessment to document the success of programs and interventions by the Division of Instructional Development to monitor the transfer of learning from programs to teaching practice.
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A Comparative Analysis of Social Interactions Between Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Infants and Their Mothers
… mother-infant interactions or from quantitative assessments of either mother or infant alone. What has not been widely attempted is the systematic assessment of both mother and infant together--observing the affective quality of their interactions through the analysis of various communicative …
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Medication Expenditure and Resource Utilization Among Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders: Analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data
… the disease condition. </p><p> Conclusion: The systematic assessment of MSD's and their associated incremental costs to the society is essential in increasing the awareness of decision makers to implement intervention strategies that are effective in lowering the disease incidence and in …
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Proteomic Signatures of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Metabolic Traits
Advances in profiling technologies have enabled systematic assessment of a plethora of molecules from genome via proteome to a variety of metabolic phenotypes, providing unique opportunities to better understand disease mechanisms and identify molecular signatures that can help to predict, screen …
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Evaluation of Security and Privacy Flaws of Cross-platform Android App Development Frameworks
… sources of vulnerabilities. To facilitate a systematic assessment, we developed a set of automated scripts for conducting static analyses on decompiled Android applications. Additionally, to perform a large-scale and reproducible evaluation, we collected a dataset of Android applications from …
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Rescinding Rights: An analysis of governmental changes and indigenous land demarcation in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
… underpinnings of these theories allowed for a systematic assessment of the dynamics influencing the relationships observed. For data collection and analysis, this project utilized quantitative spatial data obtained from primary GIS sources and explained the observed patterns through a review of …
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Woman-Centered Outcomes for Medical and Surgical Abortion: A Systematic Review of Core Outcomes
… global abortion rates coupled with the lack of systematic assessment tools for monitoring women's abortion experiences has necessitated the creation of a core outcome set (COS) outlining key outcomes of women's abortion experiences. Objectives: Utilizing a woman-centered lens, this project …
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Assisting Spatial Referencing for Collaborative Augmented Reality
… used for spatial referencing. Last, we provide a systematic assessment of an AR collaborative application that supports efficient spatial referencing in remote learning to demonstrate its benefit. Overall, the dissertation provides empirical evidence of spatial referencing challenges and benefits …
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A study to assess the status of staff development programs for the identification, assessment, and/or training of prospective principals in public school districts in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… development programs for the identification, assessment, and/or training of prospective principals in the public school districts in Virginia. All superintendents were surveyed to determine if they had programs in effect for the identification, assessment, and/or development of leadership for …
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Woody plant richness and landscape preference
… Landscape preference is a quick and essential assessment of how people imagine they would function in a landscape. This study explores how greenness levels and tree species richness affect preference for neighborhood landscapes. I conducted a systematic assessment of greenness and biodiversity …
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A critical discourse analysis of the new management discourse of virtual organisation
… discourse analysis which enables a rigorous and systematic assessment of the theoretical principles underpinning virtual organisation against the discursive practice of practitioners. The primary research constructs and deploys a fieldwork strategy that uses a series of semi-structured interviews …
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