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Observable Teaching Behaviors
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Firefighters: attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that contribute to high-risk behaviors
… study investigated the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that contribute to risk-taking intentions among firefighters. To examine if attitudes have an effect on risk-taking intentions, the Theory of Planned Behavior by Ajzen (TPB; 1988, 1991, 2001) was applied. A questionnaire and scenarios were …
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Neuropsychological Functioning, Parenting Behaviors, and Healthcare Behaviors Among Youth with Spina Bifida
… and executive functions) and parenting behaviors (acceptance, behavioral control and psychological control) are associated with medical adherence and autonomy among preadolescents and adolescents with spina bifida. <bold>Methods</bold> Questionnaire and observational data were collected …
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Mindfulness and Health Behaviors
… interventions geared towards changing health behaviors. Mindfulness is a Buddhist-based concept that has received an increasing amount of attention by clinicians and researchers in the field of psychology and medicine over the past 20 years (Bishop et al., 2004). Although mindfulness has its …
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Mindfulness and Health Behaviors
… interventions geared towards changing health behaviors. Mindfulness is a Buddhist-based concept that has received an increasing amount of attention by clinicians and researchers in the field of psychology and medicine over the past 20 years (Bishop et al., 2004). Although mindfulness has its …
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Incentives and Firm Behaviors
<p>My research interests focus on the economic behavior, choices, and actions of organizations as well as individuals given their incentives, and analyze the consequences of such decisions to the financial health of firms and the macro economy. A firm is incentivized by the value investors place on …
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The role of caregiver anxiety, sleep, distress, and emotion socialization behaviors on child behaviors
… leading to an increased likelihood of problem behaviors over time. While some literature has highlighted an association between caregiver anxiety and child behavior problems, little is known about the mechanisms by which anxiety negatively impacts child behaviors. Caregiver risk factors such as …
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Behaviors and Feelings Toward Immigrants
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how people behave and feel toward immigrants, specifically Mexican immigrants, predicted by a number of independent variables. The independent variables of interest are (1) people’s perception of immigrants’ competence and warmth, (2) two factors of …
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Reporting behaviors of women inmates
… adequate protection against inappropriate sexual behaviors is not ensured. The best way to ensure inmates’ protection is to have a reporting system in place, but this system can only work if the inmates trust the system and feel that it is legitimate enough for them to utilize it. If inmates do …
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Social Support And Health Behaviors
… a correlation between social support and health behaviors. However, does social support act the same across several health behaviors? The purpose of this study was to determine if social support has an impact across diet, physical activity and smoking in adults. The participants were 2,821 adults …
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Procrastination behaviors in college students
The purpose of this study was to explore a student's procrastination and how it relates to their motivation and self-esteem. Procrastination has been found in previous literature to be a prevalent behavior among college students, about 95% of students engage in procrastination. It was hypothesized …
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Determinants of Feedback-Seeking Behaviors
… feedback on the frequency of feedback-seeking behaviors (FSB). The design was a 2 (task difficulty) x 2 (goal value) x 2 (effort) x 3 (day) mixed model analysis of variance. Eighty undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of eight experimental conditions. Each participant played a …
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Bullying Behaviors and Attachment Styles
… outcomes, such as the presence of aggressive behaviors. Parental involvement has also been linked to the likelihood of becoming a victim of school bullying (Jeynes, 2008). Although some researchers have found correlations between maternal attachment and externalizing behaviors in females and …
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Childhood Factors Affecting Aggressive Behaviors
<p>In the past there have been numerous studies regarding how childhood factors can affect adult behavior and attitudes. In the present study 124 East Tennessee State University students were given surveys. The surveys included items measuring demographics, parenting styles, and aggression. This …
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Withdrawal Behaviors Among Hospital Employees
… and absence. Incidental absence and turnover behaviors were monitored for five months subsequent to survey assessment.
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Site reliability against anomalous behaviors
… providers and legitimate users are anomalous behaviors out of specification, and this dissertation mainly focuses on detecting “large” Internet flows consuming more resources than those allocated to them. Being able to identify large flows accurately can greatly benefit Quality of Service …
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Emergent behaviors in microbial communities
… phenomena. During my PhD, I studied how some behaviors of microbial communities can be simple at emergent level despite the underlying complexity at microscopic level. First, I demonstrated that competition for resources may lead to the experimentally observed simplicity in community assembly. …
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Tactic behaviors in bacterial dynamics
… the dynamics of bacteria swimming using tactic behaviors (movements or reorientation in response to chemical, physical or environmental stimuli) in flowing, viscous media. Physical descriptions are developed for bacterial chemotaxis (response to chemical agents) near particles exuding …
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Autonomous communicative behaviors in avatars
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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