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Showing 1 to 20 of 263 for “"Unintentional"”.
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Differences in Pediatric Unintentional Injury Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity
Unintentional injuries contribute significantly to childhood mortality and morbidity nationally and globally. In the United States, they are the leading cause of death in children over the age of 1, causing more than 9,000 childhood deaths each year. Moreover, for every fatality, there are over …
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Multilingual writers' unintentional plagiarism: action research in college composition
… and the raters identified five categories of unintentional plagiarism. The results suggest that students, regardless of their academic and cultural history, need maximum opportunities to practice paraphrasing, summarizing, and citing sources all to prevent unintentional plagiarism.</p>
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Claiming your ideas to be mine: Moderators of unintentional plagiarism
Contains fulltext : 116863.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Intentional and Unintentional Light Emission Diode in Power Electronics applications
… (CM). In this perspective, the LED is an “unintentional” source of light in Power Electronics. More specifically, the reliability of power electronics devices is raising a great interest, especially, in some critical applications. In this perspective, several condition monitoring methods …
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A Study on Unintentional and Intentional Sources of Variability in Nanometer Scale Digital Circuits
… lower battery life and increased system costs. Unintentional reliability failures due to circuit aging pose serious threat for safety-critical and security applications, and must be mitigated. Intentional errors, on the other hand, can be introduced to a limited extent in circuits pertaining to …
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Itching and Parental guilt: Parent Responses to Children's Symptoms Following Unintentional Burn Injuries
Background: Unintentional burn injury can be a traumatic and stressful event for the affected children and their parents. Young children experience persistent itching and emotional distress associated with the injury. Parents assume the responsibility to manage their child’s itching since young …
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The approach of the Supreme Court of Appeal to the interpretation of fiscal legislation and the (unintentional) demise of the contra fiscum principle
The decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal in Natal Joint Municipal Pension Fund v Endumeni Municipality 2012 (4) SA 593 (SCA) (“Endumeni”) enjoins the courts, when interpreting legislation, to consider the context of the document as a whole, in light of all the relevant circumstances. The contra …
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The Relationship between Unintentional Injury Risk and Risk Taking Behaviors: The Effects of Impulsivity/Overactivity and Inattention, Grade, and Gender in School-Age Children
… impulsivity/overactivity), grade, and gender to unintentional injury risk and risk-taking behaviors among primary school-age students. The participants included the parents, guardians, and teachers of 109 primary school-age students. The students represented 1st - 3rd grades (n= 61) and 4th - 5th …
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The Determinants of Childhood Injury
Unintentional injuries is an important health concern among children in that it is a major cause of hospitalizations and disability in North America, and is the leading cause of death for children in Canada. This is in light of the fact that a majority of unintentional injuries can be avoided. The …
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Characterization of Rib Cortical Bone Thickness Changes With Age and Sex
… vehicle crashes (MVCs) were the leading cause of unintentional fatal injuries and the fourth leading cause of unintentional nonfatal injuries in the United States in 2007. Of these injuries, the thoracic injuries rank second in terms of frequency as well as overall economic cost. Of the thoracic …
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Vehicle Lane Departure Prediction Based On Support Vector Machines
<p>Advanced driver assistance systems, such as unintentional lane departure warning systems, have recently drawn much attention and R & D efforts. Such a system will assist the driver by monitoring the driver or vehicle behaviors to predict/detect driving situations (e.g., lane departure) and alert …
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Random Access Satellite Communication in the Presence of Interference
… service for satellites with the possibility of unintentional or intentional interference. Previous work does not address large bandwidth-delay product systems and interference. This thesis combines the challenges of each, developing a methodology for modeling and stabilizing the random access …
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Coopetition as an emerging organisational strategy for supply chain resilience: an exploratory study of the UKCS oil and gas sector.
… have acknowledged that coopetition can occur unintentionally, particularly among organisations in pre-existing collaborative relationships, it remains unclear how or if the nature of formation affects the performance or outcome of the coopetitive relationship. It is therefore necesssary for …
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"But it's just paracetamol" : caregivers ability to administer over-the-counter painkillers to their children with the information provided
Unintentional overdose of over-the-counter (OTC) medications has become an increasing global public health concern due to the common and frequent use of painkillers among end users, to self-medicate and medicate others, without fully understanding the associated health risks. While many developed …
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Impact of Human Disturbance on the Behavior and Physiology of the Endangered Ringed Sawback Turtle (Graptemys oculifera)
… impacts such as hunting and pollution, unintentional indirect human disturbance affects poikilothermic turtles by disrupting thermoregulatory basking behavior. In this thesis I assess the behavioral and physiologic impacts of high boat traffic, reductions of basking structures, and …
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Critical considerations in development of mesoporous silica nanoparticles for biological applications.
… tumor target. Another hurdle is the possible unintentional toxicity of such nanoparticles. If the designed mesoporous silica nanoparticles cause unintentional damage to benign cells or healthy tissue and organs, their use will be greatly limited in therapeutic applications. Prior to in vivo …
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The Experiences of Counseling Victims of Trauma as Perceived by Master's Level Post-Practicum Students
… educators risk having trainees implement unintentional interventions that could re-traumatize clients. For this study, eight master's level post-practicum students were interviewed regarding their experiences of working with traumatized clients during their practicum. The results were …
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Ruinscapes in poetry and architecture
… in the domain of poetry, whether intentional or unintentional, integral or fragmented, and in the domain of architecture, whether intentional or unintentional, integral or fragmented. Architecture and poetry ruinscapes manifest a common aesthetics based on different configurations of the tragic, …
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Performance variations due to layout-dependent stress in VLSI circuits
… stress-induced band deformation, respectively. Unintentional sources of mechanical stress and intentional stress variability cause device performance to depend upon the underlying layout topology and its location in the layout. Advanced packaging technologies have exacerbated this class of …
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Barriers to Adherence to Medical Recommendations Following Pediatric Injury
… research examining adherence following pediatric unintentional injury. Empirical evidence from studies with pediatric chronic illness samples indicates that youth experience a number of barriers to adherence to medical recommendations. Adherence is especially difficult for adolescents due to the …
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