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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"equifinality"”.
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Exploring equifinality in a landscape evolution model
Model equifinality is the property by which very similar model outputs can be generated by many different combinations of model inputs. It is known in numerical models used in other disciplines, and is thought to be likely in landscape evolution models (“LEMs”) also, as they incorporate many …
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Stability and instability in the coordination of multijoint limb movements
… These findings demonstrated the existence of equifinality in multijoint limb movements. Changes in movement form in relative limb motions in configuration space and joint phase planes, as measured by pattern recognition techniques, showed deviations from nonperturbation patterns at low levels …
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An Analysis of Hydrological Model Uncertainty at the Local Stage of a Climate Change Impact Assessment in the Suir Catchment
… structural uncertainty and uncertainty due to equifinality of parameter sets are evaluated, in addition to uncertainty due to GCMs and emissions scenarios. The Suir catchment is employed as a case study area to analyse the changes in catchment hydrology and in future flood magnitude and …
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Probabilistic approach to modeling under changing scenarios
… that acceptably represent the system (i.e., equifinality). As a result, converting model outputs into important environmental decisions become challenging. The main objective of this study was to define a framework that facilitates model development while evaluating uncertainty to assess the …
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A kontingenciatényezők hatása a termelési gyakorlatok használatára és a működési teljesítményre = The effect of contingencies on the use of manufacturing practices and operations performance
… konfigurációk. H5: kimutatható az egyenvégűség (equifinality) állapota, azaz léteznek olyan egymástól eltérő, stabil kontingenciatényező – termelési gyakorlat konfigurációk, melyek ugyanolyan magas szintű működési teljesítményhez vezetnek.
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Socioeconomic Differences In Body Mass Index, Neighborhood Satisfaction, Stress, And Perceived Racism Among African Americans In Metropolitan Detroit
… there is no support for the idea that there is equifinality in becoming obese based on income. However, this study supports previous observations that SES no longer has an influence on the distribution of obesity. In addition, it reveals that a combination of a person's sex and income level may …
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Modeling the exchange of energy and matter within and above a spruce forest with the higher-order closure model ACASA
… to only a few parameters while the problem of equifinality was revealed for many parameters. Equifinality is a common problem for complex process-based SVAT-models. The calculated uncertainty bounds showed the ability of the ACASA model to well reproduce the fluxes for two periods with …
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Functional Interplay Between Neurocognitive Decline and Risk Factors in Older Adults: A Multivariate Latent Growth Curve Model of Risk
… multiple interacting risk factors, suggesting equifinality. Research indicates that the pathophysiological processes involved in AD are evident years prior to disease onset with significant variability in neurocognitive functioning being apparent during preclinical stages. Identification of …
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The drumlin problem : streamlined subglacial bedforms in southern Sweden
… deliberate and important. This is because due to equifinality there are many landforms that researchers can split into different categories, e.g. rock drumlins, clone drumlins, emergent drumlins, downwards emergent drumlins or obstacle drumlins. These are all valid divisions as there are different …
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Understanding the Role of Non-federal Funding Match on the Effectiveness of a U.S. Strategy to Strengthen Academic Research Competitiveness Nationwide
… outcome and describe multiple causal pathways (equifinality) to state success. It specifically allowed for testing for necessary and sufficient conditions and combinations of conditions. Only one condition tested here was found to be necessary for success – minimizing budget cuts to higher …
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Conditional and Differential? Locating the Role of Civil Society in Anti-corruption Policy Outcomes
… high perceived corruption. Given the pretext of equifinality and multifinality in QCA, the third study extends the second but in the context of 30 democracies that did not experience substantial autocratization episodes in the same given period. The results are interesting although not surprising …
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Enhanced Soil Moisture and Streamflow Estimation in Ungauged or Data-Scarce Watersheds
… and integrative nature, the issue of equifinality, where multiple parameter sets yield similar streamflow, but divergent internal process estimates, can lead to significant uncertainty. This dissertation addresses these challenges by introducing new and improved techniques for …
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Estimación de la distribución espacial de la precipitación en zonas montañosas mediante métodos geoestadísticos
… must assume the principles of Parsimony and Equifinality. Historical series of meteorological variables are recorded in ground networks which faces problems like a low density of records in altitude and lack of models to represent the complex relationship between rainfall and orography. A …
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Institutional pressures and decoupling in projects: The case of BIM level 2 and coercive isomorphism in the UK’s construction sector
… and presents characteristics of conjunction and equifinality. These insights demonstrate that combinations of multilevel institutionalised structures and organisation-level variables shape how projects respond to environmental pressures. By exploring how projects interact with institutional …
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Reconstructing Past Population Dynamics and Movements from Genomic and Environmental Data
… demographic history for tigers (an example of equifinality despite a large genomic dataset). I then used CISGeM, which combines genetics, ecological niche models and paleoclimates, to reconstruct the demography of tigers. I found that, similar to African leopards, the structure of extant tigers …
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Institutionalizing Performance Management: Lessons for Government Leaders from the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 2010
… conjunctural causation, causal asymmetry, and equifinality are common patterns of causation in organizational settings and in management scholarship; research designs that fail to account for these limit themselves to simple correlations (Furnari et al. 2020; Marx, Cambre, and Rihoux 2013). …
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Geographic scope, isolating mechanisms, and firm performance: antecedents and consequences of isolating mechanisms
In this dissertation, I examine the antecedents and consequences of isolating mechanisms or the barriers to imitation, focusing on the role of geographic scope of knowledge acquisition. I address the following four questions concerning the antecedents and consequences of isolating mechanisms with …