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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"cheat"”.
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Cheat River
Cheat River is a novel about balancing family obligations against self-preservation. That is what's at stake for Allison and Andrew McKenna, a pair of siblings in rural Appalachia who must endure their father's abandonment and their pregnant mother's breakdown. At first, the two find solace from …
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A Comparative Study of Selected Personality Characteristics of Students Who Cheat and Do Not Cheat in an Academic Situation
… personality differences between students who cheat in a given academic situation and students who do not cheat in the same situation. This was examined in terms of manifest needs, personality structure, and certain attitudes and values relative to the circumstances and setting in which the …
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The effect of rational choice and anti-intellectualism on students' intention to cheat.
… business students' (N = 485) intention to cheat in their academic studies. A descriptive research design was used and data was collected by means of a self-administered, cross-sectional survey. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that rational choice explains a significant …
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Accurate Player Modeling and Cheat-Proof Gameplay in Peer-to-Peer Based Multiplayer Online Games
… each action, the player is either prevented from cheating, or if they do cheat, the opponent will be able to prove they have done so. We show these methods are secure and may be used in many various styles of TCGs. We measure moves in a real TCG to compare to our implementation of Match+Guardian …
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Participatory GIS for growth management in the Cheat Lake planning district of Monongalia County, West Virginia
… land use can be incorporated into a PGIS for the Cheat Lake Planning District of Monongalia County, West Virginia. The research presented in this thesis demonstrates how qualitative information strengthens land use planning and improves communication about smart growth management options at the …
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Assessment of Age, Diet, and Growth of Yellow Perch ( Perca flavescens) in Cheat Lake, West Virginia
… of yellow perch ( Perca flavescens) in Cheat Lake, West Virginia, and is comprised of two chapters: 1) an introduction and literature review on the biology, ecology, and life history of yellow perch and studies regarding diet growth, and condition and 2) a study examining age and length, …
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Rationalizing the Decision to Cheat: An Empirical Analysis to Determine Whether Social Rational Orientation can Predict Academic Dishonesty
… profession. Due to the negative implications of cheating, researchers are trying to uncover the characteristics that encompass a typical cheater. While numerous variables have been tested to determine their effects on cheating behaviors, discrepancies exist that suggest inconclusive results. …
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A Study of Winter Wheat (Triticum Vulgare) and Cheat (Bromus Secalinus) When Crown Alone and When Grown in Combination at Different Populations
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T20:16:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0004421.pdf: 4605847 bytes, checksum: 215af8c8b6a8853c496f3ad7fa081940 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1952
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Cheating in Multiplayer Video Games
Cheating in video games has been prevalent ever since the days of Pong. Games have evolved much since then and the ways in which people play together have changed as well. Older systems required people to play together in the same room, but with the advent of the internet, gaming consoles allow us …
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The Automatic Consequences of Religious Priming
… priming in a task that misled people to cheat. Results showed that participants did indeed cheat more when primed with concrete as opposed to general religious words. Contrary to predictions, however, the suggested contrast found in the concrete religious word group showed no difference …
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The View From Here
… While the novel focuses much of its attention on cheating (both the reasons we cheat ourselves and the reasons we cheat on others), at its heart, The View from Here is a novel about friendship, created homes, and the way the lives we've led keep us from living the lives we desire.'</p>
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Academic dishonesty: a study in the magnitude of and justifications for academic dishonesty among college undergraduate and graduate students
… college undergraduate and graduate students cheat as well as to examine if the justifications for cheating differed amongst these groups. Cheating behavior scores and justifications for engaging in academically dishonest behavior scores were obtained from 138 college undergraduate and …
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Cooperation, conflict, and experimental evolution in social amoebae
Cooperation and cheater control have helped shape life as we know it, but there is still much to learn. A eukaryote microbial model organism, like Dictyostelium discoideum , is an excellent system for advancing our understanding. When faced with starvation, multiple genetically distinct clones of …
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Quantum speedups in query complexity
… algorithm. In the process, we introduce the "cheat sheet" method for turning partial Boolean functions into total Boolean functions, and examine some of its other applications. We also study lower bound techniques for randomized algorithms. We introduce a measure called randomized sabotage …
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Synchronised capacitor discharge in the management of cardiac arrhythmias with particular reference to the haemodynamic significance of atrial systole
… the tachycardia followed a sudden blow on the cheat at his school. Further drug treatment to the point of toxicity proved equally unavailing and ten days after the onset of the arrhythmia severe congestive heart failure was present.
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Born to Run: A Grounded Theory Study of Cheating in the Online Speedrunning Community
… has somewhat redefined what it means to “cheat” in a video game by accepting the use certain software and hardware violations that could be seen as “cheating” to the general gaming community. This paper examined the social construction of cheating in this digital community through the use …
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The General Anti Avoidance Provisions, as amended
… threats to this is those taxpayers who seek to cheat the system and pay lower taxes than that actually due by them. The General Anti Avoidance rules (GAAR) have been put in place in South Africa as a means to combat impermissible avoidance arrangements and collect what is actually due to the …
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A few words on word recognition: investigating the role of morphology in reading
… form priming when a prefix is involved (e.g., mischeat–CHEAT, trocheat–CHEAT). The findings of the experiments demonstrate the importance of morphological regularities in word recognition. They are discussed in relation to a model that features left-to-right parsing, morpho-orthographic …
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