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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"benefits and limitations"”.
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Facilitators, barriers, benefits and limitations of a nurse mentoring relationship
… study explores the facilitators, barriers, benefits, and limitations of the mentoring relationship between recently graduated nurse mentees and their mentors. These nurses participated in a seven-week New Nurse Internship Mentoring Program in an urban hospital. The study sample consisted of …
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Piecing together modular : understanding the benefits and limitations of modular construction methods for multifamily development
… primary purpose of this thesis is to explain the benefits and limitations of modular construction as it pertains to primarily wood-frame, multifamily housing in the United States. This thesis attempts to educate the consumer/builder/developer about what the modular construction process entails …
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Creators, classrooms, and cells : designing for the benefits and limitations of learning in immersive virtual reality
… medium. However, the methods of creating and assessing high-fidelity immersive VR for learning remain nascent. With the growing demands for change in the 21st-century American education system, it is increasingly important for designers and developers to approach the topic of VR for K-12 …
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Improving the daylighting conditions of existing buildings : the benefits and limitations of integrating anidolic daylighting systems using the American classroom as a model
Awareness of the benefits of good daylighting has risen in recent years, and the designs of many new buildings take daylighting into consideration. However, the majority of our built environment is older than this recent trend, and was not designed with daylighting as a top priority. A need exists, …
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Blockchain : digitally rebuilding the real estate industry
… property titles- by comparing the benefits and limitations of a blockchain with those of the current record keeping system. This paper will begin with a brief overview of the current state of the title recording system in the U.S. followed by a deeper look into the procedures of one …
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The knowledge and attitude of family members who have receIved predictive genetic test results for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer in South Africa
… 1997. The aim of this study is to evaluate the benefits and limitations, as perceived by family members, of the current management of inherited colorectal cancer.
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An evaluation of the relative importance of technical and non- technical factors which affect water and sanitation projects in developing countries
Technical factors, such as engineering and medical approaches, and non-technical factors, such as education and community participation, were evaluated with regard to how they affect water and sanitation programs. Benefits and limitations of each factor were assessed to determine which limitations …
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“Please Turn and Talk”: Mathematical Discussions in Elementary Classrooms
… is to better support all students by understanding the benefits, limitations and strategies that are used to utilize mathematical communication to support higher-level thinking. Data were collected for this study over a period of 4 weeks using the transcribed audio recordings of …
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The Application of Reinforcement Learning for Interceptor Guidance
The progression of hypersonic vehicle research and development has presented a challenge to modern missile defenses. These attack vehicles travel at speeds of Mach 5+, have low trajectories that result in late radar detections, and can be highly maneuverable. To counter this, new interceptors must …
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Video for All: An Argument Towards Standardization Of Video Production Practices and Research
… for instructors within both higher education and professional writing environments. By researching contemporary academic literature and creating video artifacts that put theory into practice, this capstone project answers three important questions: 1) How could video pedagogy shift student …
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Personal Experiences of a Capsule Wardrobe
… so that they will not discard them so frequently and easily. Moreover, creating different daily outfits through playing around with limited items of the capsule wardrobe provides people with an opportunity to enhance their creativity. The purpose of this study is to examine the personal …
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An information theoretic approach to EEG-fMRI integration
… of signals from electro-encephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), acquired simultaneously from the same observer, holds great potential for the elucidation of the neurobiological underpinnings of human brain function. However, the most appropriate way in which to …
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Challenges in Managing Information Extraction
… can help make it easier for developers to write and understand IE programs, and show how to automatically optimize IE programs written in this framework to reduce runtime. Next, given that relational database systems (RDBMSs) were designed to store and process large data sets, we study the …
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Continuous living cover for the Upper Midwest: from hairy vetch nodules to the lanscape scale
… work in this dissertation illustrates challenges and opportunities related to implementing continuous living cover across the Midwestern U.S. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 exemplify the challenges specific to one crop, hairy vetch. Temperature constraints in the region limit the utility of hairy vetch …
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Comparisons in End-to-End Pipeline Designs for Customized Document Information Extraction
… tasks, one particular remaining financial and temporal bottleneck is the need for manual labor in interpreting digital documents and recording relevant information. Much work and research has been done, utilizing both machine learning techniques and traditional algorithmic approaches, to …
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Development of a design and evaluation framework for supplier cities
For companies pursuing opportunities by expanding manufacturing to new markets, one major challenge is unavoidable: identifying and developing capable, local suppliers. In developing markets suppliers often lack the cutting edge technology, processes, and management methodologies driving the …
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Topics in Geometric Machine Learning
Recent advances and the widespread adoption of neural networks have revolutionized machine learning and artificial intelligence. These developments demand learning paradigms capable of processing data from diverse applications and sources. In structured domains such as molecules, graphs, sets, and …
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Referral Patterns and Utilization of Clinical Genetic Testing For Patients With Inherited Cardiac Disease
… inherited cardiac disease are becoming clearer, and genetic testing for these conditions is rapidly expanding as new genes are being identified which contribute to disease phenotypes. The diagnosis of inherited cardiac disease in a family holds implications not only for the proband, but also for …
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EMERGENT THEMES SURROUNDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICS FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN MATHEMATICS
… new national curriculum, the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), educators face the challenge of meeting the needs of a diverse student population coupled with a change in standards. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand educators’ perceptions surrounding …
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