Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"environmental support"”.
-
The Effects of Environmental Support and Age on Visuospatial Rehearsal
Although there is substantial evidence supporting the functional distinction between verbal working memory and visuospatial working memory, most research focuses on the verbal domain, and much is still unknown about how people maintain and manipulate visuospatial information. Previous experiments …
-
Career counseling as an environmental support: Exploring influences on career choice, career decision-making self-efficacy, and career barriers
… individual career counseling could play as an environmental support to help students explore options, make choices, set goals, and take the necessary steps to implement their choices and persist to their goals. The research questions examined both the outcomes of participating in individual …
-
Environmentalism and Environmental Constitutional Ballot Initiatives in Florida: The Elements of Support for Amendment One in 2014 in the Context of Current Environmental Attitudes.
Americans express support for “the environment” with environmental support cutting across political and demographic differences and cleavages. In the past 15 years, however, period effects, political sorting, and the emergence of a powerful anti-environmental movement have lessened the generalized …
-
Models of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior
… that there were direct influences of environmental support, intrapersonal factors, parental modeling for physical activity, and physical health to levels of adolescent physical activity. Sedentary behavior was influenced by parental modeling for sedentary behavior and parental …
-
Factors affecting technology integration: A K-12 Inland Empire profile
… to skill deficiency, motivation, lack of environmental support or a combination thereof.
-
Work groups and the physical environment: The combined influence of environmental stimuli and task complexity on group process and effectiveness criteria
This study examined how the environmental support of group boundaries influences group behavior by regulating two forms of environmental stimuli (i.e., acoustical and visual stimuli). Competing hypotheses developed from two theoretical frameworks (i.e., the environmental stimulation and absorption …
-
A prototype climate information system
… climatic data as part of the Navy's Tactical Environmental Support System (TESS). The CIS reduces the time and effort required to locate, ingest and analyze climatic data. The CIS remedies accessibility problems of existing climatologies by using a Data Base Management System (DBMS) to manage …
-
Usefulness of an Expanded Health Belief Model With Added Constructs (Self-Efficacy And Ecological System Measures) in Modeling Compliance With Healthy Lifestyle Recommendations in Women With a Recent History of Gestational Diabetes
… behavior, health beliefs, self-efficacy, environmental support, diabetes-related variables, and socio-demographics. Five multivariate logistic regression models were used to test the utility of the Health Belief Model with added constructs in predicting diet and exercise behavior. The …
-
Assessing the Effect of a Learning Organization on Change in Levels of Developmentally Supportive Care in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit
… on an increase in levels of developmentally supportive, family-centered care (DSC). The intervention occurred in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. Clinical nurse leaders (N = 9) were encouraged to model research-based, developmentally supportive …
-
Job satisfaction, strain and stress of conscience among nurse assistants working in residential care for older people
… personalizing care, amount of organizational and environmental support and, leadership also contributed to positive as well as negative aspects of their wellbeing. Furthermore, health complaints showed to be related to negative affectivities of work. The psychometric properties of the instruments …
-
East of the Tracks: Grassroots Environmentalism in South Mississippi
<p>Environmental justice literature challenges the disparity and oppression regarding the quality of life associated with residential environments among communities of color. Recent disasters, such as hurricane Katrina, the Tennessee coal sludge disaster (December 2008), and the BP Oil Spill (2010) …
-
Preventive Environmental Strategies in Eastern European Industry: An analysis of donor support for cleaner production
… the benefits of a preventive approach to environmental protection, and to train people within the industry to perform the cleaner production assessments that constitute the core element of the preventive approach. The large merit of the preventive approach is the contribution to economical …
-
A Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health: Understanding Student Engagement and School Performance Using a Person-Centered Approach
… in student engagement, academic achievement, and environmental support for learning were investigated. Results demonstrated the existence of a traditionally neglected group of adolescents (low subjective well-being and low psychopathology) who are nonetheless at risk for academic and behavior …
-
Programming a paintable computer
… "process self-assembly" is viable, robust and supports a variety of useful applications on a paintable computer. We describe a hardware reference platform as an initial guide to the application domain. We describe a programming model which normatively defines the term process fragment and which …
-
In Search Of Transformative Music Learning Experiences: Voices From The Margins In Northeastern Brazil
… between the individual’s own agency and environmental support; how transformation has the potential to affect one’s consciousness and behaviours; how individual behavioural transformations might affect other people, thus creating the possibility of social transformation as a ripple …
-
Promoting Positive Development Among Rural, Left-Behind Youth in China: A Mixed-Methods Approach
… for assessing the individual strengths and environmental supports that enable a positive developmental trajectory for rural, left-behind youth (LBY) in China, a vulnerable group of youth who are endangered by prolonged parent-child separation. This newly developed instrument contains two …
-
New Active Green Environments (New Age): Older Adults' Perceptions About Physical Activity Opportunities in Their Local Environment
… which differ substantially with respect to environmental support for physical activity, this project was be able to identify a diverse sample of older adults who vary with respect to how they value both individual physical activity participation and the environment in which they live. …
-
New active green environments (new age): Older adults' perceptions about physical activity opportunities in their local environment
… which differ substantially with respect to environmental support for physical activity, this project was be able to identify a diverse sample of older adults who vary with respect to how they value both individual physical activity participation and the environment in which they live. …
-
Psychosocial variance in the outcomes of pediatric HIV
… Form (PSI-SF), Pediatric Review of Children's Environmental Support and stimulation (PROCESS), and a questionnaire about parent health were entered as predictors. Age differed across groups and was entered as a covariate. Group membership did not contribute significant variance to any …
-
Team performance: Using financial measures to evaluate the effect of support systems on team performance.
… High-performing teams require training and other support systems to gain the skills they need as well as to create and maintain an environment conducive to their success. The challenge for managers is to make resource allocation decisions among investment alternatives to maximize team …
Page 1 of 2