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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Year One"”.
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YEAR ONE HUNDRED REFOUNDATION: A DIDACTIC PROPOSAL FOR A CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
In the late nineteenth century, classical physics seemed unassailable, firmly grounded in Newton’s mechanics for macroscopic bodies and Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory for radiation. This confidence was bolstered by the technological successes that marked a significant phase of the Industrial …
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Year one children's literacy behaviours and perceptions of literacy learning in the classroom and reading recovery contexts
This study investigates the ways in which four Year One children engage in the literacy events of their regular and Reading Recovery classrooms. It explores how these children perceived their beginning reading instruction and possible relationships between the children's perceptions and the ways in …
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Influence of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Invitations to Interview for Pharmacy Postgraduate Year One Residencies: A National Survey of Residency Program Directors
… between pharmacy student desire for postgraduate year one (PGY1) residency placement and the current residency capacity presents a challenge to graduates of colleges and schools of pharmacy. Research on the influence of advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) on the PGY1 resident selection …
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Why do I have to do key skills? : accounting for year one engineering college students' perspectives on work and vocalisational education : a case study
… Key Skills. The bounded case study research in one college, involving, firstly, one cohort of first year employed engineering apprentices (N=8); a second cohort of first year college based Motor Vehicle trainees (N=8) not in employment and interview with three past and present Coordinators of …
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Habitus is a fate not a destiny: A Study of Student Completion In First Year at an Irish Institute of Technology
… research examines student completion among first year students including those who enter from access schools in socio-economically disadvantaged areas. The study took place over a five year period, 2009-2014 and was carried out through surveys, interviews and an online diary that involved mainly …
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The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on the Progression of Parkinson’s Disease
… the medical records, denoted as baseline, and a one-year follow up visit. These values were then compared for each cohort with year one LEDD as the primary outcome variable. The year one LEDD of the high SES cohort was 513 ± 308 mg, while the year one LEDD for the low SES cohort was 647 ± 382 mg …
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Changes in body image and body weight and shape goals associated with weight loss and maintenance in overweight/obese adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus
… to lose more body weight from baseline to end of year one. The primary hypothesis tested in this study was that changes in weight would mediate treatment effects on body image variables. This hypothesis was partially supported for both genders. Change in weight mediated treatment effects on …
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Examination of the role of the teacher in early reading
… of the teacher of reading in the child's first year of school. It was undertaken in an attempt to find out more about how teachers go about teaching children to read. The research was inductive in design and adopted an ethnographic methodology. The research was undertaken in two parts with five …
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Establishment of Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) in Virginia and assessment of its impact on hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), throughout the eastern U.S.
… HWA, that L. nigrinus was released at least four years prior to the start of the study, and that the predator was determined to be established at that site. Three treatments were set up at each of the sites: no cage, closed exclusion cage, and open cage. Three assessments were taken during key …
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The impact of an adult-focused First-Year Seminar on Tennessee Reconnect students
… completion rates of this population of students. One small, rural community college approached this challenge by offering both first-time and returning adult learners an adult-focused First-Year Seminar (FYS) course. The course, entitled Work-Based Learning Seminar (WBLS), looked to assist with …
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Lifetime fitness and changing life history traits in Red-cockaded Woodpeckers
… age and hatch date affecting survival to year one and probability of attaining breeding status; and lay date, clutch size, age at first reproduction, and variance in clutch size affecting lifetime fitness. I also found that many traits were changing over time including lay date, clutch …
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Whose Safety Matters? Exaltation, Risky Refugees, and Canadian Safe Country Practices
… thesis seeks to examine what cultural work is done on behalf of the state by the Safe Third Country Agreement and Bill C-31’s designated country of origin policy? I will be drawing on the work of Critical Race feminists and Critical Security Studies theorists to examine the concept of safety, …
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Laying the Foundation to Improve Literacy in a K-12 Islamic School Through the Introduction of a Professional Learning Community: A Formative Evaluation
… describes and assesses the initiation and year-one implementation of the PLC, and focuses on teachers’ literacy instruction skills. A formative evaluation approach was used to monitor and assess progress and encourage teachers’ ownership of their learning. Teachers collaborated in large and …
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Social Anxiety and Psychosocial Functioning: Investigating Relations Across Emerging Adulthood
… cross-lagged analysis across three years of university. There were two major findings: the symptoms of social anxiety directly linked to academic achievement, and social ties appeared to play a pivot role through their reciprocal negative and positive relation with social anxiety and …
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An Analysis of The Handwriting of Elderly Chinese Subjects.
<p>Nowadays, one of the issues of concern that brought on by the aging population is legal disputes that have been increasing in number every year. One core problem in these legal disputes involves handwriting identification. There are however not many previous studies in China that have been …
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Early childhood HASS matters: An investigation of early childhood staff and their transition to the new Western Australian Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum in 2017
… the school leaders and teachers in Pre-primary, Year One and Year Two (PP to Y2) in two Perth metropolitan independent schools was explored. The preparation undertaken by the early childhood teachers and leaders, and the opportunities and challenges faced by the participants that facilitated or …
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The failure of altruism: Alternatives to improve the donor rate in organ transplantation
… the demand--indeed, it falls further behind each year. One set of alternatives involves (currently banned) financial incentives for organ donors. I will argue that some form of incentive, or other policy-type recommendation is the only possible method of catching up with the technological …
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