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LIFE EXPECTANCY
<p>When someone walks into an insurance company and wants to purchase life insurance, the insurance company has to consider an important question: How long will this client live? His date of death is not exactly predictable, so the insurer does not know exactly when the life insurance benefits will …
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Alternatives to Reading Expectancy Formulas
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709023.pdf: 5819472 bytes, checksum: 7bc043f6f20bea7cb12c826b91655ff6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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The Statistical Learning Of Musical Expectancy
… investigated the statistical learning of musical expectancy. As a secondary goal, the effects of the perceptual properties of tone set familiarity (Western vs. Bohlen-Pierce) and textural complexity (melody vs. harmony) on the robustness of that learning process were assessed. A series of five …
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Analysis of the Impact of Air Pollutants, PM2.5 and O3, on Life Expectancy and Quality Adjusted Life-Expectancy in Canada
… infarction (AMI). The outcome measures are life expectancy and quality-adjusted life years. The methodologies used include: life tables, discounting, concentration-response function (CRF), quality of life scores and Monte Carlo simulation. The highest estimates of impact due to ozone and PM2.5 …
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Three studies on life expectancy and lifespan inequality
While life expectancy is a key indicator in public health and demography, it may obscure unequal experiences of different population groups. By contrast, lifespan inequality captures variations in age at death, offering a broader view of health disparities. Focusing on lifespan inequality enables …
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Expectancy-Value Models of Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:08:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317195.pdf: 8811385 bytes, checksum: c2ba03a175105a68f67a9b9b421b138c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Expectancy and the Effects of Confirmation and Nonconfirmation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:01:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6711943.pdf: 1934337 bytes, checksum: e4b2d2d8851780e8776a5d8752aa36c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Reciprocal Negative Disclosures: An Application of Expectancy Violations Theory
… itself (Burgoon, 1978). This study utilized Expectancy Violations Theory (EVT) to examine graduate students' expectations of reciprocal negative disclosures with their peers. Within the academic context it is important to better understand the disclosure expectancies that graduate students …
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Information Technology Professionals as Citizens: An Expectancy Theory Perspective
… model that explains OCB, this research utilized expectancy theory to examine how an IT professional's cognitive forces affect the valence of a job outcome and how the valence of the job outcome influences his or her OCB. The hypotheses were tested using partial least squares and multiple …
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The Expectancy Theory: Teachers' Perspectives Of Motivation And Compensation
… in this study examined the application of the Expectancy Theory and how it can be used to obtain a better understanding of teachers' perceptions about motivation and compensation. There were 198 teachers invited to complete the survey, representing the elementary, middle-school, and high-school …
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A Colorimetric Anxiety Measure of Stuttering and Expectancy Adaptation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:51:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0023306.pdf: 7393105 bytes, checksum: 94bf5ad80a1e7293f62f40a4aab0587b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1957
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The Effects of Caffeine and Expectancy on Short Term Memory
… the lack of studies accounting for participant expectancy surrounding caffeine. This study examined the effects of caffeine dosage (0mg, 200mg, and 400mg) and expectancy related to past caffeine use (positive, negative) on short term memory span task. A two-way Analysis of Variance showed that …
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Life Expectancy as a Development Indicator: Liaoning Province, China, 2000
… indicators, namely, GDP per capita and life expectancy. The thesis shows, furthermore, that in China the HDI has no meaningful policy implication, because its numeric value disguises differences in education, economics, and health. It is likely for this reason, as well as due to the expense …
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An Investigation of Cognitive Structure Within Expectancy-Value Response Models
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:08:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405517.pdf: 7330082 bytes, checksum: 8b69a307f91d49b0de98fd664cc4d381 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Satisfaction and Motivation as Functions of Expectancy, Valence, and Goalattainment
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219946.pdf: 8553608 bytes, checksum: bb9a8987bb74c66e1f1a2e42a3ee73c9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Motivations for Studying French: Language Orientations and Expectancy-Value Theory
… the subscales within the orientations and expectancy-value scales. The foreign language orientation subscales used were: travel, knowledge, relationships, instrumentality, and the sociocultural orientation. For the expectancy-value scale, the subscales included: expectancy, intrinsic value, …
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Simple Expectancy Violations Lead to Negative Affect: Tests of Dissonance Theory
Leon Festinger described cognitive dissonance broadly as psychological discomfort resulting from a cognitive inconsistency. Revisions to the theory have narrowed the interpretation, research focus, and application of this idea. However, dissonance processes can be applied broadly, and could inform …
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