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Showing 1 to 20 of 180 for “"Weekend"”.
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“Did you have a good weekend?” A week-level diary study examining the relationship between weekend recovery and weekday performance
… Since most students and employees use the weekend to recover, this study investigated the relationship between recovery experiences (i.e., psychological detachment, relaxation, and mastery) over the weekend and the state of being recovered on the following Monday. Further, the relationship …
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The weekend effect on the Johannesburg stock exchange
… first. This anomaly has come to be known as the Weekend Effect. Explanations proffered for this phenomenon have failed adequately to justify the pattern of returns across the weekdays. These explanations include settlement period delays, dividend effects, measurement error in share prices, …
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Place attachment and alumni's experience during the homecoming weekend
… to the local community during the homecoming weekend in college towns. A conceptual framework was developed to capture the relationship among alumni homecoming attendees’ festival experience, destination experience, place attachment, and satisfaction. A self-administrated questionnaire was …
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Will the Two-Day Weekend Bring More Leisure (Yutori) to Japanese Adolescents
What are the main barriers to the increase of yutori experiences? This researcher believes that there are two. One is inadequate leisure opportunities for adolescents resulting from delayed development of the leisure service system. The second is inadequate programs for educating for leisure …
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Popular newspapers in post-Mao Guangzhou: toward a social history of Southern Weekend, 1984-2010
… 1980s. Foregrounded by the history of Southern Weekend [Nanfang Zhoumo], a news weekly based in Guangzhou yet with national influence especially since the late 1990s, the study aims to examine how popular newspapers have explored the forms and politics of their journalism under new historical …
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Influence of Opening Weekend and Weather on White-tailed Deer Harvests at Milan Army Ammunition Plant, Tennessee
… to hunter effort. I hypothesized that opening weekend (first Saturday and Sunday of a hunt) conditions and weather variables could influence white-tailed deer harvests, when controlling for hunter effort. Three opening weekend conditions were evaluated: higher opening weekend hunter effort, …
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Beating the Weekend Trend: Increased Mortality in Older Adult Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Patients Admitted on Weekends
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Differences of weekend versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, patient diagnoses, and direct nursing care time
… time spent providing direct nursing care time on weekends versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient ratios, medical-surgical nursing units, and weekend versus weekday patient diagnoses. Specific aims were (a) determine differences in nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and direct care time on …
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LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL
… (im)migrant statuses through participation in a weekend Chinese language school. The title of this dissertation speaks to how this group, while appearing peaceful and at ease on the surface, is actually paddling non-stop underneath. Through individual and communal bootstrapping, they manage to …
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Recharged and ready: a week-level diary study exploring an integrated model of weekend recovery, incorporating circadian and boundary perspectives, and their relationship with weekly performance
… recover from work-related stressors during weekends is increasingly recognised as vital for the well-being and performance of employees. Given their theoretical alignment with recovery, this study extends an integrated model of weekend recovery by incorporating a boundary perspective (i.e., …
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An Investigation into Children’s Out-of-School Physical Activity
… independent mobility. Study 2 confirmed that the weekend was a period of low moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), and revealed that raw PA levels derived from the wrist-worn GENEActiv are not comparable with hip-worn ActiGraph. Agreement between the devices differed according to PA intensity and time …
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A Comparison Of Marriage Education And Brief Couples Counseling
… Empowering Couples marriage education weekend workshop (Olson & Olson,2000). This study examined the following research questions: Do couples show a different level of marital adjustment following Brief Integrative Couples Counseling compared to those who receive a marriage education …
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Husbands' time use in Virginia families, 1978 and 1986
… study. Husband’s time use was recorded for both weekend and weekdays in 1978 and 1986. The men were analyzed as a whole and then broken down into three age cohorts so that they could be "tracked" over the eight year period. Analysis of variance and t-tests were used to determine significant …
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Active play and sedentary behaviour in preschool children : from patterns to intervention
… physical activity (MVP A) during weekdays and weekend days among preschool children; b) investigate the effect of a curricular Active Play intervention on children's sedentary and P A behaviours; and, c) investigate the effect of a family focused Active Play intervention on children's weekday …
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"""Some of these kids are gonna be my nurses, some of these kids are gonna be my doctors, but they can't be if they're hungry"": a qualitative inquiry of a school-based weekend feeding program"
… with food-filled backpacks to carry home for weekend meals. Because the selection process for this program has been minimally explored, this study used twenty semi-structured qualitative interviews to explore school staff approaches to implementation. Staff members believed that both societal …
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How has Twitter changed how journalists report on sports? : the 2012 Missouri Grand Prix
… Twitter use by eight journalists during the weekend of the 2012 Missouri Grand Prix, which took place February 10 through 12, 2012. A convenience sample was used (n=249) representing all of the tweets posted by these eight people between 12:01 a.m. on February 10 and 11:59 p.m. on February …
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Outcomes Of A Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Driven Front-Line Care Delivery Model In An Academic Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
… care NPs, limits work hours and night time and weekend patient-to-provider ratio, on the outcomes of patients cared for in an academic Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).</p> <p>Methods: A retrospective quasi-experimental design was used to describe the outcomes of an NP Team model compared to …
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The Relationship Between Vitamin D Status of Adult Women and Diet, Sun Exposure, Skin Reflectance, Body Composition, and Insulin Sensitivity
… correlated with serum 25(OH)D levels (fall weekend SEI: r = 0.47, p = 0.0059; spring weekend SEI: r = 0.43, p = 0.0135; average weekend SEI: r = 0.43, p = 0.013; and average overall SEI: r = 0.39, p = 0.0247). Reported sun exposure appeared to be least during winter weekdays and the most …
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