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Showing 1 to 20 of 1351 for “"cohorts"”.
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The housing progress of young cohorts
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Examining Construct Stability Across Career Stage Cohorts
… of the certification exam across testing cohorts at varied stages in their medical careers. The Rasch model was used for item analysis to calibrate the difficulty hierarchy of the exam items for each cohort. Correlations between the item difficulty hierarchies for each cohort supported the …
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Literacy and education in Chile : 1940-1970 cohorts
… data of censuses from 1907 to 2002, capturing cohorts born as early as the 1840 decade to the cohort born in the decade of 1970. The methodology used overcomes the fact that historically the criteria to categorize some individual as illiterate has changed, constructing a correction in order to …
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Duquesne University IDPEL Cohorts: A Laboratory for Leadership?
… research were members of the Pittsburgh IDPEL cohorts of 2000 and 2003, currently employed as school leaders, who changed jobs within one year of beginning their IDPEL coursework. In order to approximate longitudinal data regarding leadership behaviors, respondents were colleagues of the …
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Historical Changes in Elderly Cohorts' Attitudes toward Mental Health Services
… for the delivery of mental health care to future cohorts of older adults.
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Public Religious Participation: A Comparison Of Three Distinct Birth Cohorts
… between the Depression Era and Baby Boom Cohorts. This study extends research in this area by including Generation X to the extent possible. Using the General Social Surveys, this analysis employs an age/period/cohort analytical framework to examine religious involvement. Sociodemographic …
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A Visual Analytics Approach to Comparing Cohorts of Event Sequences
… do, researchers often compare two groups, or cohorts, of event sequences to find the differences and similarities between outcomes and processes. With temporal event sequence data, this task is complex because of the variety of ways single events and sequences of events can differ between the …
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Modelling survival in HIV cohorts with applications to data from Zomba, Malawi
… patterns in different patient subgroups in HIV cohorts in Malawi by using advanced and novel statistical techniques with an ultimate aim of informing targeted patient treatment and management practices. In this thesis, we aim to address the following four objectives; (1) to identify risk factors …
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Identifying Observational and Causal Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases through Large-scale Cohorts
Background Starting in the 1940s, prospective studies like the Framingham Heart Study helped scientists generate new knowledge on risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. While these data sources set in motion the decline in age-adjusted cardiovascular disease seen over the last five decades, they …
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Thermal preferences of two cohorts of juvenile silver kob, Argyrosomus inodorus (Pisces: Sciaenidae)
… preferred temperature might change with age. Two cohorts of juvenile silver kob were acclimatized at 18°C and then subjected to identical temperature preference trials using temperature gradient tanks where the temperature ranged between 16 and 21.5°C as well as to identical isothermal control …
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Participatory design process engaging intergenerational cohorts: using value elicitation to co-create interactive media experience
… or researchers working with intergenerational cohorts.The research contributes to social awareness by systemically modeling IGP’s underlying values and interaction dynamics while informing values-led design practices in the media industry. Further design and research hypotheses can be generated …
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Outcomes and effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children in South African treatment cohorts
… outcomes of published studies of paediatric ART cohorts in Africa, describes outcomes for children receiving ART in South Africa and examines determinants of mortality and generalizability across the Southern African region. Temporal trends in characteristics at ART initiation are also examined. …
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Outcomes and effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children in South African treatment cohorts
… outcomes of published studies of paediatric ART cohorts in Africa, describes outcomes for children receiving ART in South Africa and examines determinants of mortality and generalizability across the Southern African region. Temporal trends in characteristics at ART initiation are also examined. …
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Identification of clinical characteristics of large patient cohorts through analysis of free text physician notes
… study subjects, require identification of large cohorts of patients with specific clinical characteristics. Currently used conventional techniques are either labor-intensive or imprecise, while natural language processing-based applications are relatively slow and expensive. Specific Aims In this …
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Markov models to estimate and describe survival time and experience in cohorts with high euthanasia frequency
Unique to survival analysis of veterinary clinical data is classification of observations from euthanized animals. The first study highlighted limitations of Kaplan-Meier product limit analysis (KM) of veterinary clinical data. Three data sets with different outcome proportions (alive, …
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The effects of the social network upon academic performance in three cohorts of an undergraduate degree
… performance of individuals and groups in three cohorts of undergraduate students in management education. Information on the social networks of the three cohorts was gathered with the use of a roster choice questionnaire. The questionnaire listed each member of the cohort and required the …
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Attitudes towards family and marriage in time and context: using two British birth cohorts for comparison
… address the latter using the data of two British cohorts born 12 years apart: the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS) and the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS). The cohort’s attitudes are measured by a scale consisting of three items which relate to: marriage being a lifelong commitment, a …
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Understanding television demand for National Football League: factors influencing sport demand across gender and age cohorts
… demand will improve the understanding of various cohorts’ sports consumption patterns. Empirically, the results of this study also provide the trends of sport consumption based on demographic groups, which would help league to know well of its customers and contribute to making marketing …
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