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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"environmental context"”.
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Influence of environmental context on affect recognition of stylized movements
… of stylized movement trajectories in varied contexts and (2) three user studies that explore the effects of environmental context on a human’s perception of stylized movement. First and foremost, the results from all of the user studies indicate that environmental contexts and stylized …
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The environmental context of later prehistoric human activity in Orkney, Scotland
… the response of human populations to changing environmental conditions in prehistoric Orkney. Archaeological remains from the Orcadian Bronze Age are less visible than those from the Neolithic and Iron Age, leading to suggestions that the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition represents a cultural …
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Environmental Context Effects on Impulsivity and Subjective Craving in Caffeinated Alcohol Users
… these individuals. It has been suggested that environmental cues may trigger craving and drinking through the influence on impulsivity. Thus, a bar context may elicit greater impulsivity, which in turn, increases one’s craving for alcohol or CAB. Consequently, the present study sought: (1) to …
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Outdoor education : an environmental context for the promotion and maintenance of well-being
… in enhancing and sustaining wellbeing within an environmental framework, a subject of increasing importance in youth and community initiatives. It explored the necessity of comprehending how nature-based learning experiences facilitated overall well-being. The study sought to investigate the …
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Environmental Context and Aggression: An Experimental Demonstration of the Role of Alcohol Expectancies
… test the influence of an alcohol-relevant context (i.e., simulated bar vs. neutral context) on forms of aggression (i.e., direct and indirect aggression), while controlling for dispositional aggression, 2) to test alcohol-related aggression expectancies as a mediator of the influence of …
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A Comprehensive Solution to Predict Short-term and Long-term user Intention with Environmental Context
… of interest scores. At the same time, we take environmental context into consideration to explore the occurrence environment of user behavior. To detect long-term intention, we use a combined topic modeling method to extract aspects from user reviews with an unsupervised method. Our research …
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Exploring the Socio-environmental context in the Prevalence and Management of Asthma at Scottish General Practices
… to explore the nature and role of the socio-environmental context in relation to the prevalence and management of asthma at Scottish General Practices located in areas of dissimilar deprivation levels. The key focus of the research is the way that health professionals (and related …
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Environmental Context in Child Behavioural Difficulties: Exploring the role of Executive Function (EF) and Emotion Regulation (ER)
… evidence also indicates that emotionally salient contexts have a negative impact on such processes which allow a person to control their behaviour. Therefore, efforts to examine how these control processes are impaired in different situations or contexts are presented in this thesis.<br/><br/> …
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The Influence of Multiple Scales of Environmental Context on the Distribution and Interaction of an Invasive Seagrass and its Native Congener
… species impacts is complicated by the variable context in which they occur. Furthermore, species invasion is an inherently multi-scale process, war- ranting examination at multiple spatial scales. In its introduced range, the invasive seagrass <italic>Zostera japonica</italic> often grows at …
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Context dependencies for younger and older adults in learning a 4-key motor sequence
The role environmental context has on performance level may change based on the skill being learned and the performer of that skill. The present study was designed to examine the role of environmental context in the learning of a 4-key motor sequence task. The present study had two primary …
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reBURB: Redefining the Suburban Family Unit Under a New Construction Ecology
… typically are built with little regard to the environmental context. By designing for the immediate goal of separation from the elements, they do not provide for convenient spatial expansion or adaptability, using material assemblies that do not lend themselves to be recycled, reused, or …
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Interactions of Parent and Adolescent Temperament Dimensions in Relation to the Emotion Regulatory System
… of an individual (i.e. temperament) fit with the contextual demands of their environment. Thus, temperament should only affect developmental outcomes as a function of their environmental context. The current study proposes that parent temperament may serve as an environmental context that …
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Addressing the uncertain geographic context problem by advanced spatial analysis approaches based on GIS and GPS for environmental health studies
… the relationships among human movement, environmental context, and their effect on health outcomes. Considerable research has been conducted to advance our understanding of how environmental exposures affects health behaviors and outcomes. In many of these studies, however, environmental …
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A History and Assessment of Jonathan Larson's Rent
… 1896 operatic predecessor La Bohème, and the environmental context in which Rent was created. Additionally it analyzes the artistic merits of Larson’s Rent through the use of Aristotle’s Poetics. The purpose of this thesis is to provide contextual information for future productions of Rent, as …
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Physical activity and fitness of Vietnamese adolescents : cultural, environmental, and socio-economic factors
… PA in adolescents is shaped by cultural and environmental context, such a study is necessary to establish a comprehensive understanding of PA and fitness in adolescents. To date no measure of PA suitable for use with the Vietnamese adolescent population has been developed and no study on the …
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Invertebrate mediated biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships : lessons from tropical forest dung beetles
… secondary seed dispersal, and the role of environmental context in modulating relationships. Here I reveal positive relationships between dung beetle functional diversity and both the probability of seed burial and the dispersion of seeds throughout the soil profile. However, these patterns …
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A Determination of the Association of Competition and Regulation With Hospital Strategic Orientation
… across the country on which model provides the environmental context for hospitals, and there is no resolution of the issue on the horizon. It is clear that the dichotomy of a competitive environment or a regulated environment and the wide variation from market to market will continue to be …
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Strategy and performance in a volatile environment: a study of the electronic computing industry
… following different strategies within a given context? The intention of this study was to show that firms within a given environmental context could follow different strategies and be successful provided the strategy was related to a specific performance objective. The implication of this …
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Bridging
… of connectedness between architecture and context. The question is probed through a mixed architectural program situated in the interstice of an urban downtown and residential neighborhood. The architecture originates from singular or hybridized combinations of these characteristics: …
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An exploration of family-centered, strengths-based social work practice in early intervention programs
… their practice with families, and to explore the environmental context in which the social workers practice. In addition, the educational and training background of the social workers and their directors was examined.
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