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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"Watkins"”.
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Peaks and Valleys: The Life and Legacy of Carleton Watkins
… landscape photographers in America, Carleton Watkins. Watkins rose to prominence after the photographs he took of Yosemite Valley in the Summer of 1861. Throughout this story, Carleton battles his inner demons and greedy competitors to prove himself as one of the greatest artists of his time. …
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A Determination of the Custodial Services Required to Maintain and Operate the Watkins Glen Central Schools
… requirements. The author determines that the Watkins Glen school system does not have adequate staff to care for its grounds. He suggests expanding the staff, and he offers suggestions about how to best distribute the work among staff. Appendices include floor plans, work requisition forms, …
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Grateful recounting: do differences in participants' writing impact well-being?
… the ones most frequently used are what Watkins (2014) referred to as grateful recounting tasks. These tasks generally involve participants writing down things in their life that they are grateful for. While some studies have found this task to be effective at enhancing well-being, others …
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Infinite Planar Graphs
… does a planar graph have? Neimayer and Watkins studied these two questions and answered them for a certain class of graphs. Using the concept of excess of a vertex, the class of graphs that Neimayer and Watkins studied are extended to include graphs with positive excess at each vertex. …
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The Transformation of Electricity in my Brain
… of the world as seen through the eyes of Claire Watkins. The story takes place in the dusty corners of her art studio in the old confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. Ms. Watkins leads her audience through such unsuspecting places as her brain, the life of an African Dung Beetle, the center of …
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Effects of mental and physical practice on 6th grade beginning band instrumentalists' performance accuracy
… sightread selection #2 from Form A of the Watkins/Farnum Performance Scale. Subjects were then given instructions according to the practice condition to which they had been assigned. After a three minute practice session, subjects were asked to perform selection #2 from Form B of the …
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Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Formation: A Grounded Theory Study
… Linsky & Grashow, 2009; Lundgren et al., 2017; Watkins & Marsick, 1993). Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a dialogue-based organizational intervention that generates new thinking and approaches to address organizational challenges (Cooperrider & Whitney, 2005; Watkins, Mohr, & Kelly, 2011). There is …
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Continuous state Q-learning
… its limitations [6]. Q-learning was developed by Watkins to broaden the scope of problems that dynamic programming, MDP techniques, can solve. Classical Q-learning is a model free solution technique and is therefore able to address a variety of poorly modeled decision problems which were …
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Acquaintances and Other Stories
… Roupenian, Patricia Highsmith, Clair Vaye Watkins, among others.</p>
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Theoretical Studies of High Field, High Energy Transport in Gallium-Arsenide, Silicon and Heterostructures
… devices based on, e.g., the Hilsum-Ridley-Watkins mechanism, impact ionization phenomena, and recently real space transfer. It will become even more important as device sizes approach submicron dimensions. Current interest in small devices concerns not only scaling down and VLSI (very large …
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A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
… reading education in the novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sutton Griggs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, I reveal an underexplored genealogy of black educational thought from initial calls for educational access to more independent, ideological, and pragmatic modes embodied in the …
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Task oriented training and evaluation at home (TOTE Home)
… of changes in level, trend, and slope (Portney & Watkins, 2009). Change scores from standardized assessments for the upper extremity (Fugl-Meyer, 1980), Motor Activity Log (van der lee, Beckerman, Knol, de Vet, & Bouter, 2004), Stroke Impact Scale question of recovery (Duncan et al., 1999), …
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Confronting poverty and impoverishment : the challenges. : A comparative study of some church responses in South Africa and Zambia
… definition of human decency" (Cited in Kevin Watkins 1995:13). That remains a powerful description of the reality experienced by a large segment of the population in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). Although this study does not measure poverty directly, the various literature …
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Supervision in the Psychological Therapies
… weak (e.g. Freitas, 2002; Inman & Ladany, 2008; Watkins, 2011b; Wheeler & Richards, 2007a, 2007b). Watkins (2011b) identified only three methodologically robust research studies in this area in a period spanning thirty years, from 1981 to 2011 and only one of the three was situated within the …
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Memory as discrimination: Strategic processing of retrieval cues
… memory subsumed under a retrieval cue increases (Watkins & Watkins, 1975). Assuming these two factors can interact, a variety of outcomes are possible. The memory-as-discrimination view, investigated as part of this thesis, suggests that factors such as cue overload, distinctiveness, and …
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The Equity and Effectiveness of *Policies and Procedures Instrumental Music Instructors Deem Essential to Program Development for Beginning Percussionists
… was measured using a modified version of the Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale (Watkins & Farnum, 1954) (MWFPS). A one-way ANOVA was used to measure variation in MAP scores, revealing no significant differences. MAP composite scores were used as covariate in ANCOVA, with the MWFPS pre- and …
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wild|life: A Forest for the People
… work. Included are photographs from Carleton Watkins, the Archives of Appalachia, Joel Sternfeld, and Jeff Whetstone as well as literary and critical influences from poets Albert Camus and John Szarkowski.
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Modern technological environments and individual differences in attractiveness perceptions from physical characteristics
… J. R., Ritchie, K. L., & Watkins, C. D. (2021). Having options alters the attractiveness of familiar versus novel faces: Sex differences and similarities. Computers in Human Behavior, 124, 106937.<br/><br/>Sculley, J. R. & Watkins, C. D. (in press). The Great Porn …
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Cynicism and narcissism: masking the good life?
… of trait and state gratitude over time (Solom, Watkins, McCurrach, & Scheibe, 2016). The current study hoped to build upon those results by examining whether these two possible inhibitors affect grateful processing after a gratitude induction. I hypothesized that higher levels of cynicism and …
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