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Hotel Guests' Intentions to Choose Green Hotels
<p>As consumers are becoming increasingly interested in green products and services, many hotels are going green or are considering becoming green. The current study used a model adapted from the Theory of Planned Behavior in order to determine the relationships between environmental concern, …
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A psychometric study of the Choose Respect Measure
… examined the reliability and validity of the Choose Respect Measure (CRM), a 65 item scale that assesses adolescents’ knowledge of unhealthy relationship, warning signs, and behaviors of dating abuse; it also assesses their likelihood of engaging in a healthy dating relationship, employing …
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Why Parents Choose Catholic School: A Social Theory Understanding
… The Catholic bishops speak as if parents choose a Catholic school mainly because of the spiritual mission of the school. But what are the real reasons that parents choose Catholic school for their children? Current research provides no social or religious understanding of the phenomenon of …
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COAG, democracy and the Australian Constitution: you can choose two
A ‘democratic deficit’ has been well identified in the operations of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). This has previously been identified as a primarily political problem. However, perhaps there is more to the story. If COAG is fulfilling a constitutional role as well as a political …
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The Return: Understanding why Black Women Choose to "Go Natural"
The purpose of this study is to analyze and understand why some Black women in Greensboro, North Carolina have made the decision to wear their hair naturally, in its original kinky, curly, non-straightened form. I’ve chosen this topic because “in our society, long straight hair has generally been …
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Why Do Parents Choose to Send Their Children To Private Schools?
Private schools were the original educational entities in the United States and have continued playing a prominent role in educating America's youth. The number of private schools has increased over the last decade while the number of private school students has remained stable at approximately …
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UNDERSTANDING WHY INTERNATIONAL STUDENT APPLICANTS CHOOSE A PUBLIC FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION
… Why International Student Applicants Choose a Public Four-Year Institution </em>was to apply a mixed-methods research approach to California State University, San Bernardino’s (CSUSB) international student population to better understand the factors associated with an international …
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Factors that influence students to choose cybersecurity careers: An exploratory study
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Male reproductive health : reasons why men may choose to participate in trials
This portfolio thesis comprises of three parts: a systematic literature review, an empirical report and a reflective statement.Part one is a systematic review in which literature relating to the empirical paper is reviewed. Due to a paucity of literature about reasons to participate in male …
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Parenting style, moral development and friendship : (how) do we choose our friends?
Parenting, morality, and friendship may be interrelated in the area of interpersonal attraction. Friend selection has been argued to occur on the basis of similar moral development. Research indicates that different parenting styles lead to differing levels of moral development. This study examined …
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How to choose what to do? Essays on adoption of organisational routines
… choices in adopting routines i.e. how to choose what to do? Building on the concepts in evolutionary economics, behavioural theory of the firm, and attention-based theory of strategic decision making, we argue that performance is not just a function of availability of resources and …
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PRO-CHOICE? SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONSTRICTIONS UPON WOMEN’S ABILITY TO CHOOSE MEDICATION ABORTION
Unintended pregnancies resulted in $21 billion in avoidable health care costs in the United States as of the most recently available data in 2010 and are associated with myriad negative health effects for mothers and children. They disparately impact vulnerable groups of women, such as those 18-29 …
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Why Families Choose Catholic High Schools In Neighborhoods With Highly-Ranked Public Schools
<p>In the San Francisco Bay Area of California, there are numerous options for secondary education, including free, well-ranked public schools and costly Catholic high schools. Although enrollment at Catholic schools is declining nationwide, there is still an interest in attending Catholic high …
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Why do African American and Latino undergraduate students choose to attend Rowan University?
… about why African American and Latino students choose Rowan University. The analysis of the data calculated the frequency, percentage, mean as well as the standard deviation for each item. An Independent Samples T Test with a .05 level of significance compared the means of the African American …
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Choose the middle way: supporting coding experiments according to their particular context characteristics
Experiments play an essential role in evaluating solutions in software engineering. A field of software engineering where experiments are frequently used is software development. In this field, many solutions are proposed to foster coding activities, such as different programming languages, …
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Incorporating sustainability into business decisions: how companies choose to build a better world.
Businesses have a critical role in the transition to a sustainable economy, but this requires them to include social and environmental considerations in their decision-making. However, this creates the problem of resolving competing economic, social and environmental commitments over the long and …
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The Motives and Experiences of College Students Who Choose to Abstain from Drinking Alcohol
… was to understand why and how college students choose to abstain from drinking. The study also examined the experiences of the abstaining college students on a campus where 83% of the student body drinks. Methods: Twelve undergraduate students from the University of Richmond participated in this …
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Quantity versus quality : the opportunity to choose back-up reinforcers in a token economy
… condition. Next, the opportunity to choose single versus varied token reinforcers was presented in a concurrent -chains arrangement. The dependent variables were the number of letters traced per min and the number of tokens earned per min during 3-min sessions, and the percentage of …
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