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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"behavioral research"”.
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Adapting Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Behavioral Research with Coastal Marine Mammals
… of Central America, these systems should enable researchers to directly track dolphins and manatees underwater. However, the efficacy of small UAS for tracking these species and gathering crucial information on their presence and activity has not yet been examined.<strong></strong>The overarching …
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A Behavioral Research Model for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Data Gathering Operations
<p>According to Hitlin (2017) of the Pew Research Center, only 8% of U.S. citizens own an unmanned aircraft. Additionally, regarding feelings if U.S. citizens saw an unmanned aircraft flying close to where they live, 26% say they would be nervous, 12% feel angry, and 11% are scared. As of March 9, …
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Research in Public Spaces: Safety and Human Behavior
… realm of public spaces, safety standards, and behavioral research and aims to identify common ground or conflicts between people behavior in public spaces and safety standards of public spaces. Research is supported through detailed on-site analysis and various techniques of behavioral research …
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Much Ado About Immersion: Power, Reported Results, and the Validity of Research on the Psychology of Virtual Reality and Immersive Simulations
… a hotbed of interdisciplinary academic VR research to better understand its effects as a medium. It has become a popular subject of study in fields as varied as engineering, computer science, communication, and psychology. The present study evaluates methodological trends in behavioral …
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Conditioning planaria : device design based on an autonomous, large-scale parallel approach
Current behavioral research is conducted on planaria that have been conditioned manually, one at a time by a person. In an attempt to instrument at an organism level, a design for an environment that automatically conditions multiple planaria in parallel was produced. This design consisted of a …
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Entwine VR: A Toolkit for Creating Behavioral Experiments that Utilize Virtual Reality
… industries, the interest in VR-focused behavioral research is continuously growing. VR offers a powerful platform that allows behavioral researchers to experiment with new environments in a way that is safe, accessible, and able to be replicated. Although there are many tools that help …
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Indoor 3D Modeling Using Consumer Drones and Neural Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for Virtual Reality
… traditional indoor spatial capture methods. The research demonstrates high-quality mapping accuracy with consumer hardware, creates a modular architecture for simplified operation, and validates the system through real-world deployments. Novel contributions include a cloud-based framework …
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An Experimental Analysis of Electricity Conservation Procedures
The problem. To determine if behavioral procedures would be effective in lowering overall daily electricity consumption with residential consumers. Procedure. Electricity meters were read each night for 106 days at the homes of four experimental families. Each family experienced one or more of the …
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Effects of Sex and Visual Cues on Behavior in Heterandria formosa
… This study expands current cognitive and behavioral research by examining the evolutionary forces of natural and sexual selection and how they influence decision-making. By using the detour test, I measured the completion times of male and female focal fish in response to same and opposite …
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Fusion With Self-Referential Labels: Examining A Behavioral Measure
… interventions, it is also worthwhile to develop behavioral markers of fusion/defusion with self-referential content. The matching-to-sample (MTS) task, commonly used in basic behavioral research, examines the ability of participants to relate different stimuli. Performance on this task can …
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An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration
… a substantial and growing body of medical and behavioral research concludes that trauma associated with juvenile detention can cause long-term or even lifetime negative neurological and developmental outcomes. Building on previous research, this dissertation applies prison abolition and …
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Using Functional Communication Training to Reduce Self-Injurious Behavior for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… with ASD is supported by an emerging trend of behavioral research. FCT replaces SIB with a new functional communicative response (FCR) that serves the same function as SIB. However, there is a lack of evidence on how to sustain treatment gains obtained after treatment is discontinued. Thus, …
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Passive sensing of user behavior and Well-being at home
… in their homes is central to health sensing, behavioral research, and building smarter environments. In this thesis, we explore learning such information in a passive and contactless manner - without asking people to wear sensors on their bodies or change the way they normally live. We …
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Power comparisons of four post-MANOVA tests under variance-covariance heterogeneity and non-normality in the two group case
… methods have been strongly recommended in behavioral research employing multiple dependent variables. While the techniques are readily available, there is still controversy as to the proper use of the methods that have been developed for analyzing and interpreting data after finding a …
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Respect for research subjects: Reality or rhetoric?
… Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (National Commission) identified respect for persons as one of three fundamental ethical principles for research in its Belmont Report in 1979. Since then, the moral obligation to respect research subjects has been interpreted …
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Empowering consumers to reduce residential energy waste : designing, implementing, and evaluating the Connecticut neighbor to Neighbor Energy Challenge
… efficiency uptake in the context of an action research pilot. Action research includes experimental pilot deployment within a realworld system, continuously analyzing customers participating in their daily lives. The approach allows for simultaneous planning, execution, and evaluation, as well …
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Learning Landscapes: Theoretical Issues and Design Considerations for the Development of Childrens Educational Landscapes
This study is designed to explore the applied behavioral research available to designers of educational landscapes and determine what aspects of that research can be extracted and applied to a physical landscape design. Its purpose is to create an awareness and understanding of the issues that …
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Behavioral Intention Factors for Prescription Deliveries by Small Unmanned Aircraft in Rural Communities
… <p>As an emerging technology with little research into home delivery applications, the successful implementation of sUAS for prescription medication delivery requires public acceptance and positive behavioral intention toward its use. At the time of the current research, no prior studies …
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The Lamplighter: Strategic Leaders' Views on Leadership
… the organizational apex—are a subsection of the research that deserves more attention. In particular, what sets these leaders apart or enables them to excel is an area of particular interest and is explored in this dissertation. The purpose of this study was to understand the process of …
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The Informed Human Firewall: The Impact of Knowledge Dimensions on Employees' Secure Behavior
… used and accepted theory in information security behavioral research. Nevertheless, information security research has not examined the impact of knowledge mechanisms on PMT psychological processes. This study explains the key psychological processes that influence employees’ secure behavior and …
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