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Showing 1 to 20 of 535 for “"change over time"”.
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The Rate of Team Performance Change over Time
… examined the growth patterns of action teams over time. Cognitive and non-cognitive (i.e., motivational) team composition variables were hypothesized to differentially predict initial levels of and changes over time in team performance. In order to test the hypotheses 78 two-person teams flew …
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Estimation of Regression Coefficients Which Change Over Time
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Retells and Remakes: Understanding How Horror Urban Legends Change Over Time
… to understand how horror urban legends undergo changes over time and the possible reasons for their alterations. Past researchers have yet to analyze the shifts that have occurred within the retellings of these dark tales, and through this analysis, light will be shed onto what truly affects the …
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Fire and Fuels: Vegetation Change Over Time in the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico
… are a region that has been dramatically changed by human interference. Anthropogenically, fire suppression practices have allowed a buildup of fuels and caused a change in the fire-adapted ponderosa pine ecosystem such that the new ecosystem now incorporates many fire-intolerant species. …
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Evolving Intentions: Support for Modeling and Reasoning about Requirements that Change over Time
… modeling, and reasoning about goals that change over time, enabling stakeholders to explore model evolution. We present Evolving Intentions in the context of both the i* and Tropos goal modeling languages. We specify a set of functions that define how intentions and relationships evolve, …
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Parental Quality of Life Among Parents in the NICU: Examining Moderators of Change Over Time
<p>Having a child is both an exciting and overwhelming time for parents (Wigert et al., 2006; Cooper & Pells, 2015). While having a child is an exciting time, approximately 10% of infants are born prematurely and admitted into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), with additional infants being …
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Roots as agents of soil change over time and as mediators of humanity’s imprint on Earth’s critical zone
… Roots allocate fixed C to processes that govern nutrient uptake, and in doing so redistribute soil resources. However, plant C for nutrient exchange strategies are not well understood and are proceeding amidst climate and land use changes that alter the amount of available C and nutrients, …
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Attitude Change Over Time: A Study of Adjacent Landowners Along the Frisco Highline Greenway Trail, Greene and Polk Counties, Missouri
… has become a popular planning technique over the past two decades. This method of developing public recreational opportunities is supported by many citizens but opposed by others. The objective of this study is to identify the attitudes of adjacent landowners and residents along the …
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Time will tell: Material surface cues for the visual perception of material ageing Insights from psychophysics, online experiments, image processing and a science festival
… explores the visual perception of material change over time, a novel topic that has received little attention so far. We aimed to understand the material surface features and mental representations associated with material change over time by the human visual system, and possibly wider …
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Citizen Satisfaction With Public Schools: A Study of Attitudinal Differences and Change
… citizens' views of schools at one point in time. However, relationships between demographic characteristics subject to change over time (e.g. parental status) and citizens' attitudes toward schools suggest that individuals' satisfaction with schools may change over time.
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A Spatial Analysis of the Impact of Development on Wetland Habitat in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
In response to growing concerns over wetland habitat loss and the associated impact on water resources, federal and state legislation has been enacted to protect vulnerable wetland habitats from the impacts of humans. In order to examine the efficacy of current coastal resource policy and its …
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Sensitivity to Change of the Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS-32)
… the validity of the instrument, not only on the overall and subtest level, but also on the item level. This study is particular in that it also measured the validity of the instrument in being sensitive to client reported change over time. Results found the BASIS-32’s total score, subtest’s …
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A general approach to temporal reasoning about action and change
Reasoning about actions and change based on common sense knowledge is one of the most important and difficult tasks in the artificial intelligence research area. A series of such tasks are identified which motivate the consideration and application of reasoning formalisms. There follows a …
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Longitudinal Examination of Diet, Physical Activity and Weight Changes in Rural and Non-rural Populations
… based on lifestyle -- and their relationship to changes in body composition over time, as well as to examine changes in physical activity and body weight and composition after marriage. In general, rural populations are understudied and differ from their non-rural counterparts in terms of …
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Gender differences in symptom change for court-placed youth in residential treatment : a latent growth curve analysis
… to obtain growth trajectories of symptom change over time. The hypothesis that females would enter residential treatment with greater psychopathological symptoms was supported; however, no gender differences were found in how youth responded to treatment. Females were found to have greater …
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An investigation into the process of recovery when substance misusers are attempting desistance
The term recovery has been recently re-launched within UK drug policy, with focus on individuals' engaging in treatment and achieving change. What constitutes recovery and the process of recovery is misunderstood, due to the term previously being attributed to an individual reaching total …
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Frequency-Domain Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Human Brain
… and deoxy-hemoglobin and how these quantities change over time during rest, functional activation, pathology, and disease. My dissertation describes the development, signal analysis, validity, and clinical feasibility of FD-NIRS and how useful the information may be for general health knowledge …
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Functionalism, Lexical Contrast And Sound Change
… discussed questions in the literature on sound change is whether functional factors play a role in shaping the lexicon over time, for instance by blocking the occurrence of a sound change (Gilliéron 1918), or whether sound change is entirely mechanical and phonetically determined (Labov 1987). …
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