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Showing 1 to 20 of 3587 for “"behaviours"”.
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The influence of familial smoking behaviours on adolescent smoking behaviours
… was to assess the importance of familial smoking behaviours on adolescent smoking patterns. The results were based on responses to The Grade 7 Lincoln County Smoking Survey designed by Chudzik and Partington (1994), and are a part of the "Peer Assisted Learning Program· (PAL) presented by the …
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Linking community variables to parenting behaviours and youth risk behaviours
… risk behaviors, or whether its influence on risk behaviours is primarily indirect through parenting variables. Both community disadvantage and urbanicity had virtually no relation to parenting and risk behaviour variables. Results found for relations of parenting variables and risk behaviour were …
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Testing a need satisfaction approach to organizational citizenship behaviours and counterproductive work behaviours
… outcomes, Organizational Citizenship Behaviours (OCB) and Counterproductive Work Behaviours (CWB), and to investigate the possible mechanisms through which satisfaction of psychological needs in the workplace might lead to those outcomes.
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Mental toughness and overtraining behaviours
The idea of mental toughness (MT) is bewitching. The construct is consistently associated with success and being able to overcome great difficulties while demonstrating dogged perseverance regardless of adversity (Gucciardi, Gordon, & Dimmock, 2008; Jones, Hanton, & Connaughton, 2002). It is no …
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Resources and Customer Engagement Behaviours
… from customers through their engagement behaviours. This dissertation explores resources and customer engagement behaviours (CEBs). It includes two essays: “A Resource-Based Perspective of Customer Engagement Behaviours: Definition, Typology, and Conceptual Framework (with Research …
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From user behaviours to collective semantics
… of the characteristics of the collective behaviours that create these interconnections. This thesis studies how user behaviours in collaborative tagging systems can be analysed to acquire a better understanding of the collective semantics of entities in folksonomies. We approach this …
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Bullying Behaviours, Helping Behaviours and the Academic Performance of Pupils with Disabilities Enrolled in Primary Schools in Tanzania.
The study aimed at investigating Bullying Behaviours, Helping Behaviours and Academic Performance of Pupils with Disabilities Enrolled in Primary Schools in Tanzania. It was deemed that pupils with disabilities encounter problems some of which are associated with bullying. The study was conducted …
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Longitudinal Trends in Early Childhood Napping Behaviours
This thesis explored longitudinal changes in nap behaviours among preschool-aged children, addressing inter- and intra-child variability. Using data from a large, nationally representative sample of Canadian children aged 1-6 years, Study One employed a generalized linear model to examine nap …
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Behaviours of steel connections with unfitted stiffeners
Steel beam-to-column connections are fundamental to the structural integrity and safety of steel-framed buildings. A critical issue arises when gaps exist between stiffeners and connected elements, referred to as unfitted stiffeners, which introduce uncertainties in the load-bearing capacity and …
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Properties and Behaviours of Fuzzy Cellular Automata
… half of the thesis we investigate the observed behaviours of the fuzzy cellular automata derived from balanced Boolean rules. We show that the empirical results of asymptotic behaviour are correct. In fuzzy form, the balanced rules can be categorized as one of three types: weighted average …
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Challenging behaviours : caregiver attributions and emotional experiences
… or staff, make sense of the causes of these behaviours can affect how they respond to the person. Additionally, challenging behaviours can have an emotional impact on caregivers, which may affect the attributions they make about the behaviours. A systematic literature review was conducted to …
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Physical Aggression and Controlling Behaviours Within Relationships
… aggression was associated with controlling behaviours in all relationship categories. To investigate Johnson's (1999) classification procedure in a non-stratified sample, a second sample was collected which consisted of 399 men and 951 women. In chapters 8 and 9 analysis was conducted …
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Tribological Behaviours Influenced by Surface Coatings and Morphology
Plasma electrolytic oxidizing (PEO) is an advanced technique that has been widely used in automotive industry to produce ceramic coatings on light metal components due to their high hardness, wear resistance, corrosion resistance and low friction coefficient. In this work, PEO process was used to …
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Why Do People Engage in Eating Disorder Behaviours?
… on an individual’s reasons for engaging in ED behaviours – or the functions of EDs – may improve treatment outcomes; however, no validated measures assessing these functions exist. The goal of this study was to complete the initial steps in developing a measure of ED functions. Individuals who …
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Branding in the promotion of healthy movement behaviours
… for promoting the full continuum of movement behaviours from sleep to vigorous physical activity. Study 1 examined a physical activity organization brand to test the brand equity pyramid. Participants were a large, representative sample of Canadian adults. The analyses indicated that there was …
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Understanding information communication in word of mouth behaviours
… allows precise measurement of individual level behaviours. The outputs of the models from this are also the probabilities of specific communication behaviours. These outputs are able to be used as inputs in systems and network based models of aggregate level WOM phenomenon. This offers one of …
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Social Behaviours on Multilayer Networks
… and exploring how it may shape most of our behaviours and choices, and why we are not just blindly driven by instincts: our decisions are based on more complex cognitive reasons, based on our connectedness on di erent spaces. Thus, human cooperation emerges from this complex nature of social …
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Exploring fast food consumption behaviours and social influence.
… (originally developed using ‘general’ eating behaviours) in the specific context of fast food consumption. Accordingly, a larger sample (n=407) was recruited via the Internet. Following path analysis, there was support for the time-extension hypothesis in the current data; eating with other …
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Evolving controllable emergent crowd behaviours with Neuro-Evolution
… with the time taken to achieve the desired crowd behaviours being either on par or faster than previous methods.
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