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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"TWA"”.
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An investigation of the effectiveness of TWA on reading comprehension of students with and at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders
… (SRSD). One specific SRSD reading strategy is TWA (Think before reading, think While reading, and think After reading), which teaches students to self-monitor and self-evaluate while reading. The purpose of this study was to determine if TWA is effective in increasing reading comprehension of …
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Stochastic information in the assessment of climate change
… In part two, the tolerable windows approach (TWA) is extended to a probabilistic TWA. In part three, an integrated assessment of changes in flooding probability due to climate change is conducted within the TWA. The thermohaline circulation (THC) is a circulation system in the North Atlantic, …
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Self-Regulated Strategy Development and a Low-Intensity Behavior Strategy: Intensified TWA and Mindful Breathing to Improve the Reading Comprehension Skills of Middle School Students with Learning and Behavioral Disorders
… probe across classes single-case design study on TWA, a specific reading comprehension strategy used with the self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) instructional approach, which teaches students to self-regulate and self-monitor while reading. Five students in 5th, 6th, and 8th grades with …
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Vegetation, diversity and rarity on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… showed an 81 similarity with Two-Way Analysis (TWA) classification. Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) and Colonial Analysis (CCA) were used to relate floristic variation to environmental factors. These analyses revealed that altitude, rainfall and soil fertility were the principle …
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Electrocardiographic predictors of clinical outcome in ST-elevation myocardial infarction
… dynamics of ST-segment and T-wave alternans (TWA) were calculated, and myocardial area at risk (MaR) and infarct size (IS) were assessed. Predictors and prognostic impact of early VF in STEMI was assessed in a register-based study of 1,718 consecutive patients admitted for primary PCI during …
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A novel wideband 140 GHz gyrotron amplifier
… wave amplifier are presented. The gyro- TWA operates in the HE(0,6) mode of a novel cylindrical confocal waveguide using a gyrating electron beam. The electromagnetic theory, interaction theory, design processes and experimental procedures have been described in detail. The experiment has …
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A Prospective Investigation to Develop Data-Driven Interventions and Improve Process Efficiency at a Level II Trauma Center
… Room Design for Threat Window Analysis (RIPCHORD-TWA). Interdisciplinary subject matter experts (SMEs) utilized a human factors intervention matrix (HFIX) to generate targeted interventions designed to address the most detrimental disruptions. A multiple-baseline interrupted time-series (ITS) …
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Grid Structure and Space
… various kinds of amazing space. For instance, TWA terminal of J.F.K. International Airport. However, the grid structure still has several advantages that can not be substituted: (1) It costs less money due to repetition of components across similar bays. (2) It reduces the construction time, …
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“A Man’s a Man for a’ That”: The Search for Equality in the Poetry of Robert Burns
… Poverty”, and poems such as “The Vision,” “The Twa Dogs,” “Address of Beelzebub,” and “The Tree of Liberty,” to name a few. Nevertheless, the intertextuality of poems is not, by itself, the exclusive factor that clarifies Burns’s ideology. For that reason, there is additionally an attempt to …
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An assessment of multidimensional wellbeing in rural Rwanda: impacts of and implications for rural development and natural resource conservation
… for those with little relative power. The Twa, an indigenous people, suffer acute difficulties, exacerbated by reduced forest access. However application of a framework combining wellbeing and ecosystem services reveals that a landscape approach to natural resource management could realise …
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Determination of baseline data on respirable dust concentration for safety and health enhancement in selected small and medium industries in Johor
… respirable dust when the Time Weightage Average (TWA) result was above the permissible exposure limit which is 5 mg/m3 and 3 mg/m3 from Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) standard respectively. From the survey …
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Rheometry and direct flow observations of a model wax-oil system
… below their wax appearance temperature (Twa) and often exhibit a yield stress. The restart of pipelines containing gelled waxy crude is a commonly encountered problem in production scenarios where low ambient temperatures are encountered, especially due to the increasingly important role …
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Development of a Descriptive Model of Flow Disruption Effect on Bypass Time in a Cardiovascular Operating Room
… flow disruptions – coded based on the RIPCHORD-TWA taxonomy, team member disrupted, and where in the surgery the FD occurs.</p> <p>After a review of literature, a variety of models were explored to support the idea that FDs are impacting bypass time. Largely correlational in nature, these …
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Mahlamari eka Xitsonga hi ku kongomisa eka manwana ma matsalwa na mitlangu
… eka ku chava, ku chuhisa, ku khunguvanyeka, ku twa ku vava, ku delela, ku banga manyala, ku nyadza, ku rivala, ku tiputa na ku sandza. Mayelana na vulongoloxamarito, ku kumiwile leswaku mahlamari, ku fana na swihluvi swin’wana swa mbulavulo, ma va kona eka tindhawu to hambanahambana exivulweni, …
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Sustainable Utilisation of Raw Sewage Sludge (RSS) as a Water Replacement in Cement-Based Materials Containing Unprocessed Fly Ash
… density, Total Water Absorption (TWA), Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV), compressive strength, flexural strength, drying shrinkage, sulphate attack and leaching properties. Three series of cement-based materials were studied including mortar mixes with RSS and unprocessed fly ash …
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Voices of persistence: a case study analysis of African American male community college students participating in a first-year learning community
… focus group was conducted with five additional TWA students. One face-to-face interview with each of the faculty participants was also conducted. Three themes emerged from the participants’ experiences in the first-year learning community: 1) pre-college educational experiences influence higher …
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Risk factors for work-related asthma in health workers with exposure to diverse cleaning agents in two African health care settings
… of samples having levels higher than the NIOSH TWA exposure limit (0.016 ppm). Asthmarelated outcomes (increasing asthma symptom score and FeNO) demonstrated consistent positive associations with certain medical instrument cleaning agents (OPA, QACs and enzymatic cleaners) and tasks …