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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"critical variables"”.
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Performance Assessment for Quality Teaching: Three Critical Variables for Measuring and Improving Teaching and Learning
… instrument was developed which measures the critical skills associated with highly effective teaching. These include a teacher's content knowledge, pedagogical expertise, and the ability to establish a classroom culture conducive to sustained learning. The instrument is also consistent with …
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Facilitators and Barriers in the Community Placement Process for Developmentally Disabled Individuals Facing Deinstitutionalization
… developmentally disabled individuals; (3) the critical variables that facilitated and hindered release from the institution; (4) the critical variables that determined whether a released person was placed into a nursing, group, or foster home; (5) the way the placement process system was …
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Project dispute resolution satisfaction of construction clients in Hong Kong
… in-depth investigation and exploration, of the critical attributes that distinguish between Good and Bad projects in terms of their project dispute resolution satisfaction, and the development of a quantitative model for the prediction of same. Project dispute resolution satisfaction is defined …
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Applying Log-linear Models And GIS To Study The Safety Of Pedestrians And Bicyclists : A Case Study Of Orange County School Children
… As such there has been a necessity to identify critical variables and assess their importance in pedestrian/bicycle crashes occurring in and around school zones. The current study is an endeavor in this direction. The literature review identified some studies that were conducted on school zone …
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A simulation model of road user behaviour and traffic conflicts at unsignalized intersections
… of the model is to study traffic conflicts as critical traffic situations and understand the driver's behaviour at these situations. The Author rejected the use of pure gap acceptance criteria to describe driver's behaviour at unsignalized intersections. As an alternative, a combination of some …
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Mathematics anxiety and women : cognitive, motoric and physiological dimensions
… A triple mode analysis was used to identify critical variables and to establish patterns of synchrony, desynchrony and partial synchrony. A total of six women participated in two math tasks. While performing these two tasks, high threat and low threat, heart rate, self-reported anxiety and …
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Quantifying the Impact of Traffic-Related and Driver-Related Factors on Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Emissions
… Second, the thesis identifies a number of critical variables as potential explanatory variables for estimating vehicle fuel consumption and emission rates. These explanatory variables include the average speed, the speed variance, the number of vehicle stops, the acceleration noise …
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Effects of Ventromedial Hypothalamic Lesions on Food-Reinforced Fixed Ratio Responding
… electrode and the degree of pretraining are critical variables influencing the fixed ratio performance of rats with ventromedial hypothalamiC lesions. The importance of these variables will necessitate a reinterpretation of the role of the hypothalamus in operant and consumatory behavior. In …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la elaboración de suplemento alimenticio a base de yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius)
… as well as laboratory studies to determine the critical variables to be considered to preserve the safety of the product. Likewise, production in the first year will be 198,011 packages of finished product. By the economic evaluation of the project, it was determined that the investment to start …
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The development and optimisation of novel flow injection analysis methods for GSK
… approaches for optimisation of the method variables have been applied in this work. Classical univariate optimisation, where one variable is altered at a time (whilst keeping all others constant) was applied for the early publications in this thesis. A more recent and efficient approach …
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An analysis of engine assembly and component production behavior
… Interviews were primarily used to establish critical variables in the system, and a system dynamics modeling technique was used to generate a model that mirrored historical shipment data. The model was then manipulated to test the sensitivity of specific production variables, and suggestions …
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A leading indicator approach to safety: a case study of Nigeria’s construction sector
… equation modeling. This model identified critical variables for SLI implementation. Through factor analysis in SPSS, the study ranked the most vital variables for SLIs in the construction industry. The outcomes can guide safety improvements not only in Nigeria but also in other developing …
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TQM implementation in health care : a proposed framework
… a proposed TQM implementation framework. The variables within this proposed model were examined for their applicability in three Canadian hospitals undergoing a quality initiative. Additionally, the differences between TQM theory used for the private manufacturing sector and its application in …
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Low-dimensional carbon nanotube and graphene devices
… of water at the graphene surface. The critical variables were the voltage difference between the tip and graphene and the atmospheric humidity. An unstable solid oxide intermediate was also observed. Thermal annealing revealed the presence of a layer of water beneath flakes. Finally, …
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Modelling and simulation of drying process for ceramic membrane fabrication
… ability to determine the changes of dynamic critical variables during drying, modelling and simulation seems to be the right option to determine and investigate these nonlinear and dynamic variables and will be the focus of this study. This two-dimensional mathematical modelling approach is …
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Describing the Relationship Between Psychosocial Distress and Extent of Criminal Justice System Involvement for Men and Women in a Sober Living Environment
… on feminist theory and previous literature for critical variables involved in increasing psychosocial distress, the following research hypotheses were generated. Regression was used to explore the how gender and length of current stay in residency at Oxford House influences psychosocial …
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Moving from conventional bus service towards bus rapid transit : establishing priorities
… a prioritization process to understand the variables that would lead to achieve the first two key attributes. All components but AVL systems were identified to impact these key attributes. The evaluation process to prioritize the critical variables of each component was based on the time …
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Advanced AI techniques for comprehensive traffic incident analysis: enhancing incident duration prediction and accident risk forecasting
… estimation methods, such as SHAP, to identify critical variables, and incorporates anomaly detection techniques like One-Class SVM and Isolation Forest into the prediction models. Exploration of Data Fusion Techniques: A key contribution of this research is the exploration of data fusion. By …
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Chemical sensors based on swellable molecularly imprinted polymer microspheres in a hydrogel
… mum. The percentages of NIPA and crosslinker are critical variables affecting polymer properties including the magnitude of swelling and shrinking, sensitivity, and selectivity. The response of PVA membranes containing templated microspheres in water and buffer were investigated. These …
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Spatiotemporal Variability of CO2, Solar-Induced Fluorescence, And Precipitation Over the Tropical Rainforests
… variability, and correlation among critical variables (e.g., Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF), CO2, precipitation, high vapor pressure deficit (VPD), and burned areas). Specifically, we use Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) SIF, OCO-2 CO2, Global Precipitation …
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