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Showing 1 to 20 of 413 for “"field experiment"”.
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Field experiment to improve perforation efficiency, A
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A Classroom Field Experiment in Mastery Learning
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ACTING AS THERAPEUTIC SUPPORT IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE. A FIELD EXPERIMENT
In passato l'approccio clinico alla malattia di Parkinson si concentrava essenzialmente sulla sintomatologia motoria: l'attuale tendenza invece sottolinea l'importanza dei sintomi non motori e pertanto si orienta verso un tipo di assistenza più complessa, tesa a potenziare le capacità residue di …
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Communication Effectiveness in University Executive Management Programs: A Field Experiment
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Incentives to Improve Economic Conditions: A Field Experiment in Medellin, Colombia
… momentum in the United States, we designed a field experiment to measure the impact of incentives on goal achievement and economic conditions as well as the overall impact of the FII model. We enrolled close to 200 small business owners in four experimental treatments (group, no-group, …
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The refugee rate: evidence from a field experiment of discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers
… to success with self-reliance. I perform a field experiment to measure discrimination against foreign and displaced persons in the labour market in which fake inquiries, each signaling different statuses, are sent to job postings. The results show significant discrimination against foreign …
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Three essays on social influence in social advertising using a large-scale randomized field experiment
… networking app for a large-scale randomized field experiment on its social ads. In the experiment, the presence and the number of social cues were randomly assigned among 57 million ad-user pairs (more than 37 million subjects and across 71 products in 25 product categories). Integrating the …
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A Field Experiment to Test the Effects of Automated Feedback and Monetary Incentive on Speeding Behavior
<p>This field experiment tested the effects of two systems on speeding, mental workload, and driver acceptance of the systems. Using GPS technology integrated with GIS referenced speed limit information, eight vehicles were instrumented in a manner that allowed real time knowledge of vehicle speed …
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Social norms, social distance, social approval and household electricity consumption: A field experiment in Cape Town
This research tested whether households in Cape Town would respond to reported social norms of electricity consumption in a manner consistent with theory and earlier studies.
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Predation effects of benthivorous fish on stream food webs – a large scale and long term field experiment
… ecosystems. For that purpose a reach scale field experiment was set up using an experimental stretch with benthivorous fish and a fishless reference stretch. A wide range of effects of the fish predators on their stream invertebrates prey was studied. To discriminate between lethal and …
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The Hawaii carbon dioxide ocean sequestration field experiment : a case study in public perceptions and institutional effectiveness
… wrote about the planned carbon sequestration experiment in a March 18, 1999 front-page article in the local newspaper, West Hawaii Today. As a result, some members of the community started organizing an opposition to the project, culminating in the creation of the "Coalition Against CO2 …
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Making Ice Cream in Tehran: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Attendance Incentives for Street Working Children
… This study reports the results of an experiment conducted with children usually working in the streets of Tehran (Iran) on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on school attendance and related behaviors. My within-subject design (dictated by severe restrictions in terms of …
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Do Self-Help Groups Work on Achieving Economic Goals? New Evidence from a Field Experiment in Medellin, Colombia
… This research is the first study to introduce an experimental setting to test the implication of a poverty alleviation model inspired by the Family Independence Initiative (FII) in a developing country. The FII is a poverty alleviation approach that has shown remarkable results in improving the …
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A longitudinal field experiment of post-training interventions and transfer of training of the McGill model of nursing
… prevention and transfer enhancement, in a 2 x 2 experimental design. The two interventions were designed to increase transfer of training by increasing self-efficacy for the training task, or a person's belief in his or her ability to perform the training task. Subjects were 147 nurses from one …
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Group Problem Solving as a Method for Developing Values of Democratic Citizenship in Family Life Education: A Field Experiment
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Building capacity of rural youth and extension workers in agriculture as a business: evidence from a field experiment in Malawi
This thesis examines the effects of agri-business entrepreneurship training on the business skills, entrepreneurial propensity, and expected wages of youth in rural Malawi. Historically, the role of youth in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa has been severely limited due to a variety of political, …
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An In-Field Experiment on the Effects of Hearing Protection/Enhancement Devices and Military Vehicle Noise on Auditory Localization of a Gunshot in Azimuth
… in comparison to the open ear in an in-field test environment with ambient outdoor noise and in 82 dBA diesel truck noise with nine normal and four impaired hearing participants. Statistical analysis showed worse localization accuracy and response time with the Com-Tac II earmuffs …
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