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Showing 1 to 20 of 616 for “"contributing factors"”.
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Remedial Education: Addressing Contributing Factors
<p>This study explored factors that appear to contribute to the growing increase of remedial education in higher education. Participants included teachers and administrators from feeder high schools in northeast Tennessee, local community college instructors of remedial education, and …
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Determining Contributing Factors for Passenger Airline Pilot Perceived Fatigue
… concern for pilots and continues to be a common contributing cause of aircraft accidents. The purpose of the dissertation was to determine factors that influence fatigue in commercial airline pilots. The ability to accurately associate fatigue in pilots before a flight begins could have a …
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Child poverty in Canada : some contributing factors and issues
… objective is to identify some of the important factors related to child poverty in Canada. Poverty and inequality are examined from three theoretical perspectives: functionalist, conflict and feminist, in order to see which theory is better supported by the empirical evidence. Family type, …
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Return to Work After Retirement: Contributing Factors and Health Implications
… builds on work that has been done to identify factors relevant to the likelihood of involvement in post-retirement work by examining how interactions among various demographic variables impact this likelihood. Furthermore, we investigated how post-retirement work is related to three measures of …
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A Structural Equation Model of Contributing Factors to Adolescent Social Interest
… influences (FI) and school influences (SI) on factors hypothesized to be associated with adolescent social interest: school belonging (SB), extracurricular participation (EP), and peer/romantic involvement (PRI). The final model consisted of FI and SI that contributed to the expression of …
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Decision-Making for Teacher Professional Development: An Analysis of Contributing Factors
… development teachers receive, and the factors that contribute to school leaders' decisions for offering professional development and teachers' decisions for participating in professional development. The study was based on what the field knows about the characteristics of effective …
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Rearward visibility issues related to agricultural machinery: Contributing factors, potential solutions
<p>As the size, complexity, and speed of tractors and other agricultural self-propelled machinery have increased, so have the visibility-related issues, placing significant importance on the visual skills, alertness, and reactive abilities of the operator. Rearward movement of large agricultural …
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Police corruption and computer misuse: an analysis of the contributing factors
… contribution the author has examined a number of factors which impact on the likelihood of police officers undertaking deviant practice in the small but focussed area of computer misuse. In conducting the research four sample groups were identified; two from the organisational side of policing; …
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Vicarious Traumatization in Therapists: Contributing Factors, PTSD Symptomatology, and Cognitive Distortions
… examines the impact of personal and professional factors on vicarious traumatization. Quantitative results indicated that therapists' personal variables of sex, personal trauma history, and current stressfulness of personal trauma predict PTSD symptoms, while variables that include vicarious …
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Geometric Morphometric and Volumetric Analysis of Contributing Factors to Traumatic Brain Injury
It is estimated that 1.7 million people per year sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This represents a 21% increase from the 1.4 million TBI-related injuries reported in 2004. This increase has been partly attributed to the growing population of children and elderly. Motor vehicle crashes …
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Rising Healthcare Costs in the United States: Contributing Factors and Potential Solutions
… the most basic care. This thesis addresses the factors contributing to the rising cost of healthcare, the global context in which the U.S. ranks regarding system costs and outcome, and potential policy solutions to cap the cost and provide more affordable care.
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Axonal Damage in Repetitive Concussive Traumatic Brain Injury: Characterization and Contributing Factors
… second goal of this work was to determine what factors might contribute to axonal injury in concussion. Specifically, the hypothesis that microglia may increase axonal injury acutely following rcTBI was tested. The CD11b-TK mouse line, a valganciclovir-inducible model of microglial depletion, …
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Shoulder pain after stroke: prevalence, contributing factors and consequences in daily life
… is needed. An increased knowledge of prevalence, contributing factors and impact on the individual’s life could enhance the possibility to find more effective treatments and therefore more studies are needed. The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate PSSP with a special focus on prevalence, …
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Exploring the Contributing Factors to Achieving HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Malawi
Despite poor economic conditions, Malawi has achieved the United Nations 95-95-95 goals to achieve HIV/AIDS epidemic control. One factor scholars suggest made this possible is the diplomatic leadership approach employed by The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The diplomatic …
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Contributing Factors to the Bachelor's Degree Attainment of Males in the United States
… This study uses the NELS Database to analyze the factors that contribute to the degree attainment of men. The research used a logit model to determine the probability for the significant factors.
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Analysis of Contributing Factors to Obesity in Children and Adolescents in Southwest Georgia
<p>Today more than 23 million U.S. children and adolescents are either obese or overweight. Hospital costs from obesity-related diseases in youth have increased from $35 million (0.43% of total hospital costs) during 1979 to 1981 to $127 million (1.79% of total costs) during 1997 to 1999. During …
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