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Showing 1 to 20 of 584 for “"Wait"”.
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Wait Time- Is True Science Understanding Worth the Wait?
… science classroom. One tool that can be used is Wait-time. Wait-time can be defined as the periods of silence that follow teacher questions and completed student responses. Research has shown a variety of benefits derived from wait time. Wait time helps to achieve the National Science Education …
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Wait-learning : intelligent systems for making productive use of wait time
… there are numerous moments in a day when people wait, such as waiting for the elevator or waiting for an instant message reply. These fleeting moments could instead be used for completing short, concrete microtasks towards accomplishing long-term goals. This thesis presents novel systems and …
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Change Does Not Wait
The changes found in the growth patterns of trees, as they are impacted by their environment, can be seen as reflecting the journey that one progresses through over their own life. This thesis is the result of inner revelations that led the author to create a series of images that depict …
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Wait time in the classroom
… study was to evaluate the effects of increasing wait time, the time interval after a teacher poses a verbal question to students and when a teacher calls on a student, as it affects the amount of class participation. There were two phases of the study: phase one was teaching using unmodified wait …
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wait for it to bloom.
<p>"wait for it to bloom." is a poetry collection of free verse poetry that examines black motherhood and womanhood in order to interrogate the sociopolitical implications of black women’s existence in a patriarchal, capitalistic society. Due to the intersections of our identities, black women face …
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Experiencing the wait: Civic Connector
… aims to celebrate the act of walking and waiting as an addition to the experience of the ‘every-day. Cape Town Station, the point of arrival and departure, is integral to the story of most an urban dweller and everyday traveller, and thus provides a unique opportunity for the built form to …
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In a small room I wait
Me. Watch me. It's me. Can you see me? Look I am running now, and I can run fast, as fast as a car, you don't believe me? Watch me. Now, I am going to throw this ball to you, are you going to catch it? Catch it. Don't let it fall. Don't let it fall.
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Fast wait-free symmetry breaking in distributed systems
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.
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Mitigation of human supervisory control wait times through automation strategies
… Inefficient attention allocation leads to system wait times, which could eventually lead to critical events such as missed times on targets and degraded overall mission success. One potential solution to mitigating wait times is the introduction of automated decision support in order to relieve …
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A Wait-free Queue with Poly-logarithmic Worst-case Step Complexity
In this work, we introduce a novel linearizable wait-free queue implementation. Linearizability and lock-freedom are standard requirements for designing shared data structures. To the best of our knowledge, all of the existing linearizable lock-free queues in the literature have a common problem in …
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Decreasing Wait Times for New Referrals to an Outpatient Specialty Clinic
… patients to an Outpatient Allergy Clinic are waiting for 60 days or more for an appointment which is of concern because of severe allergic reactions, such as anaphylaxis, from which they could suffer.</p> <p>The aim of this project was to reduce the wait time by 25 percent or 15 days for all …
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The Design, Implementation, and Refinement of Wait-Free Algorithms and Containers
… My research has resulted in the development of wait-free versions of the stack, hash map, ring buffer, vector, and a multi-word compare-and-swap algorithms. Through this experience, I have learned and developed new techniques and methodologies for implementing non-blocking and wait-free …
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Wait 'til next year? The politics and timing of treaty ratification
… best efforts of skilled negotiators, some states wait for months, years, and even decades, to ratify the treaties they took part in negotiating. In this dissertation, I investigate the phenomenon of ratification delay and attempt to provide an explanation for why some states wait to ratify …
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Improving the estimation of platform wait time at the London Underground
… the accuracy of the estimation of platform wait time (PWT) at the London Underground (LU) by determining the methodology that provides the most accurate and robust estimates of PWT. Three methodologies are tested: (1) LU's current PWT methodology using train tracking data that has been made …
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Reducing intraday patient wait times through just-in-time bed assignment
… high bed utilization and long intraday patient wait times. This project focuses on the neuroscience units as a microcosm of the hospital. MGH consistently operates near capacity. Patients from the emergency department, the perioperative environment, intensive care units (ICUs) and other sources …
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TO WAIT OR TO LOSE? FRAMING ATTENUATES DELAY DISCOUNTING ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
… upon our current situation, which often requires waiting. People tend to devalue future rewards as a function of the time they must wait receive them, a phenomenon known as a delay discounting. Nearly all species exhibit delay discounting, yet there is a striking level of inter-individual …
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Wait Time: A Contributing Factor in Sex-Related Differences in Mathematics Instruction
… of Georgia served as subjects for this study on wait time. The students were identified as high, medium, and low academic achievers on the basis of their performance on the math portion of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Wait time was measured from the video camera-recorded teaching sessions. …
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'I can't wait til I'm an actual journalist' : how students begin to become journalists
This research investigates the ways in which students in an academic, practice-based journalism program acquire the traits and dispositions of journalists. It draws on the framework of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, including his concepts of field, habitus and capital. It applies a thematic analysis …
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An exploration of parents' experiences in 'Watch, Wait and Wonder' parent-infant psychotherapy groups.
… Among them is an adaptation of the “Watch, Wait and Wonder” parent-infant psychotherapy programme, which was modified to be run as a group intervention in a number of Children’s Centres. The aim of this thesis was to explore the experiences of parents who have taken part in this group. Five …
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Three-wait-citizen: narratives of lived experiences of older persons with depression in Macau
Three meta-categories are drawn from the dominant categories and themes reflected across the findings; physical/material meta-category, social/family meta-category, and mental suffering meta-category. These three meta-categories illuminate the complex phenomenon of depression among these older …
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