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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"dual systems"”.
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Ages of Engagement in Risk Taking and Self-Harm: An Investigation of the Dual Systems Model of Adolescent Risk Taking
… of high frequency engagement in RT based on the Dual Systems Model of Adolescent Risk Taking (DSMART; Steinberg, 2010). The sample consisted of 228 college students, ranging in age from 18 to 48 years (mean 22.8), who completed a survey of commonly investigated RT (12 items) and SH (18 items) …
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Investigation of Modular Cross-Laminated Timber Rocking Walls and Rocking Wall -- Light-Frame Shear Wall Dual Systems for Seismic Resilience
… and numerical investigations into PT-CLT-RW systems, both as stand-alone and as a dual lateral force resisting systems (LFRS) with wood light frame shear walls (LiFS). The first part of this dissertation details the experimental cyclic testing of six large-scale PT-CLT-RW with modular base …
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Structural Redundancy of Dual and Steel Moment Frame Systems Under Seismic Excitation
… factor is verified for the 5-story, one way dual systems.
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ΔΙΕΡΕΥΝΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΕΛΑΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΣΕΙΣΜΙΚΗΣ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑΣ ΠΟΛΥΟΡΟΦΩΝ ΚΤΙΡΙΩΝ ΑΠΟ ΟΠΛΙΣΜΕΝΟ ΣΚΥΡΟΔΕΜΑ
… LOADING). R/C FRAME STRUCTURES, AS WELL AS DUAL SYSTEMS WERE ANALYSED FOR A SERIES OF INPUT ACCELEROGRAMS, USING A GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER PROGRAM, EXTENDED AND MODIFIED DURING THE COURSE OF THE PRESENT STUDY. REGARDING STAGE (A) THE MAIN CONCLUSIONS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING (I) AS FAR AS THE …
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Seismic stability of buckling-restrained braced frames
… occur in multistory structures, even for ductile systems, BRBFs tend to develop drift concentration that is intensified by P-Δ effects and may lead to dynamic instability through the formation of story mechanisms. Furthermore, large residual drifts have been observed during numerical and …
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Admiralty law in South Africa: section 6 of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Act - an analysis, comparison and case law examination
… law the Courts are to apply two different systems of law depending upon whether the matter could have been heard under the old jurisdiction held by the Colonial Courts of Admiralty as at 1890. If the matter does involve this old jurisdiction then English law as it was in 1983 must be …
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Integrating land administration systems in peri-urban customary areas in Ghana
Dual land administration systems operate in many peri-urban customary areas in subSaharan Africa (Burns, 2007), yet the rationality behind them is different, and possibly conflicting (Watson, 2003). The conflicting rationalities between the dual systems have created binaries in land administration …
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A public health conflict : traditional medicinal practise and the bio-medical health norms and values at a time of HIV and AIDS in Swaziland
… co-existence of a variety of different medical systems within a chosen context are common features in southern Africa as in the rest of the developing world. How do the different systems or practices interact? How does the dual systems of healing impact on the HIV and AIDS national mitigation …
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Testing times: New Zealand’s clinical laboratories under the 1990s health sector reforms
… clinical laboratory service, particularly the dual systems for laboratory remuneration that hinge on specimen origin, were thrown into strong relief by the 1990s reforms. Furthermore, evidence gathered in this study suggests the reforms became counter-productive, even in their own terms. Thus, …
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Critique of a dual-system model of category learning
… to novel ones using multiple learning systems (Ashby & Maddox, 2011). To the extent that this claim is true, it is due in no small part to work investigating the predictions of the dual-system model COVIS (COmpetition between Verbal and Implicit Systems; Ashby, Alfonso-Reese, Turken, & …
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The Development of Reward Sensitivity- Exploring the Role of Culture and Parental Education on Adolescent Development
… by reward-seeking. However, there are individual differences in the extent to which adolescents respond to rewards. One individual difference may arise from the socioeconomic context in which youth develop. Life-history (LH) theory suggests that exposure to early childhood adversity (e.g., …
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Emotion Regulation: Is it More Taxing for Adolescents than for Adults?
The capacity to regulate emotions appears to improve with age across adolescence; but adolescence is also a time of heightened emotional intensity (Fjell et al. 2012; Larson & Ham, 1993; Shulman et al., 2016; Steinberg 2008). The coexistence of immature emotion regulation and heightened emotional …
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Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Issues in Theory of Mind Development
… in cognitive science. In Chapter 4 I explore dual systems theories of cognition (and ToM in particular). In Chapter 5 I solve the Perner-Povinelli Problem—the claim that no empirical test can decide whether subjects are using mentalist rules to pass ToM tasks, or merely using behavioral rules …
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An evaluation of the profile of characteristics of the population of State patients admitted to Valkenberg Hospital's Forensic Unit from December 1964 to May 1997
… both psychiatric and legal services. Due to the dual systems involved, it is not always clear who is serving what sector of the criminal population. Changes in provision of resources calls for ongoing evaluation of the patients being served. Before one can consider the kinds of changes that need …
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Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster
… practice. In this dissertation, I referenced the dual systems theory of the human mind to conceptualize evaluative thinking as paradoxically fast (automatic) and slow (deliberate), and I characterized the COVID-19 pandemic as a disaster laden with societal games. Derived from game theory, societal …
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A mixed method examination of racial disproportionalities among youth who cross over from the child welfare to the juvenile justice system: child welfare and juvenile justice professionals' perspectives and racial attitudes
… to the juvenile justice system. During individual, semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews, 33 experienced child welfare, law enforcement and court professionals first described their perspectives on why youth cross over from the child welfare to the juvenile justice system, in general, and …