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Multimodal E-assessment: An Empirical Study
… effectiveness and user satisfaction. The empirical research described in this study consisted of three experiments of 30 participants each to evaluate the effect of description text, avatars and images individually, avatars, description text and recorded speech in combination with images, …
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Multimodal e-feedback: An Empirical Study
… and on the users’ engagement to learning. The empirical research described in this thesis consists of three experimental phases. In the first phase, an initial experiment was carried out with 40 users to explore and compare the usability and users’ engagement of facially animated expressive …
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Programming language trends : an empirical study
… are described and evaluated by using these data. Empirical research attempts to capture observed behaviors by empirical laws. In this dissertation, statistical methods are used to describe historical programming language trends and predict the evolution of the future trends. Several statistics …
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An Empirical Study of Value Argument
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An empirical study of hedge funds
… of Hedge Funds by researching academic and empirical studies available in the public domain. It traces the dramatic growth of the Hedge Fund industry in recent times as well as the regulatory environment governing the industry. The findings of this study assess a variety of Hedging styles …
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Empirical Study of MacroBIM and Conceptual Estimation
… tools, such as Revit, has also surfaced in the study.
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Phonetic transcription: a methodological and empirical study
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_170795853.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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An Empirical Study of Alias Analysis Techniques
<p>As software projects become larger and more complex, software optimization at that scale is only feasible through automated means. One such component of software optimization is alias analysis, which attempts to determine which variables in a program refer to the same area in memory, and is used …
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Empirical study of unstable leaders in Paxos
This thesis studies the effect of unstable leaders in Paxos protocol. Paxos algorithm is one of the most popular solutions for distributed consensus, and is often used for building replicated state machines. Safety is guaranteed by Paxos algorithm regardless of various machine and communication …
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Syntactic variation in Afrikaans : an empirical study
… of apartheid). The selection of a sample for the study is informed by these realities and the sample is kept deliberately homogenous (following Barbiers, Cornips and Van der Kleij, 2000): participants (N=34) are White middle-class speakers of Afrikaans who are under 36 years of age and have been …
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An empirical study of automatic document extraction
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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An empirical study of the double bind
The purpose of this experiment was to empirically study and document the double bind. Twenty outpatient clinical and twenty matched non-clinical adolescents between the ages of 13 and 19 were studied. Three research questions were investigated. The first was the nature of the bodily responses in …
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International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program: an empirical study
… (IBMYP) provides a rigorous academic course of study for students. The IBMYP concentrates on the interrelatedness of language, math, science, geography, history and the arts. The IBMYP provides students with the prerequisite skills to enter the IB Diploma Program (IBO, 2003). This study of the …
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EVA and shareholder value creation: an empirical study
… in academia and business communities. This study investigates the general hypothesis that EVA is more highly associated with shareholder wealth and firm values than are traditional performance measures. Two commonly used value-based performance metrics namely, Total Shareholder Return (TSR) …
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International Tourism in Developing Nations: An Empirical Study
… tourism in developing nations, does not provide empirical measures necessary for rigorous hypotheses testing. While there have been ample studies on volume of tourism among developed nations, very little has been done regarding developing nations. Several theories from the dependency school, …
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An empirical study of Malaysian firms' capital structure
… main objective of this research is to examine empirically the determinants of the capital structure of Malaysian firms. The main additional aim is to study the capital structure pattern following the 1997 financial crisis. Empirical tests were conducted on two different data sets: the first …
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The Quality of Work Life: An Empirical Study
… Sciences (SPSS) programme. The findings of the study indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between the employees' perceptions of their quality of work life and; their perceptions of the degree of participation in decision-making available to them, and their perceptions of …
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Stewardship Responsibility and Financial Reporting--an Empirical Study
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