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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"free time"”.
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Urban Factors in Free-Time Behavior
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Children's Physical Self-Efficacy and Free-Time Physical Activity
… on their physical self-efficacy and free-time physical activity. Results from this survey were analyzed using ANOVA to examine differences in free-time physical activity between groups based on physical self-efficacy, transport to school, access to facilities, and gender. Physical …
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Matrix-free time-domain methods for general electromagnetic analysis
… problems. If a computational method can be made free of matrix solutions, then it has a potential of solving very large scale problems. Among existing computational electromagnetic methods, the explicit finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is free of matrix solutions. However, it requires …
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Adolescent free time activity participation and its relationships with perceptions of parenting and intrinsic motivation
… role that parents play in what youth do in their free time by articulating how youth internalize and value specific free time behaviors through autonomy supportive practices. Autonomy supportive parenting practices are those that allow youth to experience freedom and control in free time. …
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Juvenile delinquency in Saudi Arabia : with special reference to the use of free time among delinquent youth in Riyadh City
This study examines the impact of free time activities and companions on juvenile delinquency in the city of Riyadh, in the context of social change in Saudi society as a whole, as new forms of leisure and recreation seem to have arisen as a result of the process of urbanization taking place in the …
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Impact of increased technology use in the free-time choices of fifth and seventh grade students in a southern school district
… if increased technology use affects the free-time choices of students. While technology options have grown exponentially, time remains a fixed commodity. Therefore, it is suggested that students who increasingly use technology must draw time from more traditional childhood activities. …
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An Evaluation Of The Effects Of A Leisure Education Curriculum On Deliquents' Motivation, Knowledge, And Behavior Changes Related To Boredom
… today have more unsupervised and unstructured free time than ever before. Poor decisions by youth during periods of free time may lead to substance abuse, teen pregnancy and juvenile delinquency. The highest frequency of juvenile crime, a major social problem, occurs during the 2-4 hours …
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Justice for Grasshoppers
… engages with the question of how much access to free time citizens should enjoy in a just society. A sophisticated liberal egalitarian approach holds that social justice requires protecting at least the freedom to work no more than 8 hours per day. It is unclear whether this approach supports …
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Geografiese aspekte van rekreasie en vryetydsbesteding in Bellville-Suid
The way in which people utilize their FREE TIME [that is time left after all commitments (social and physiological) have been met] forms the Howl theme of this study. An important aspect of this theme for the geographer is the interaction between supply and demand of Recreational facilities, …
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Killing time: the effect of boredom during unstructured leisure time on men's health
… of Australian men's structured and unstructured free time use were examined using time-use methodology. The direct and indirect relationships between age, marital status, the objective and subjective aspects of men's unstructured free time use, the social contexts of alcohol consumption, problem …
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A Comparison of the Perceptions of Leisure Opportunity Between Behavior Disordered and General Education Adolescents
… leisure resources and more negative feelings in free time. Data were collected in a structured interview composed of rating scales and situation protocols. As hypothesized, the groups did not differ in patterns of activity preference and free time feelings were significantly higher for the …
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Leisure boredom and risk behaviour in adolescence
… experience leisure and boredom in their free time, and how this is associated with risk behaviour - specifically substance use, sexual risk behaviour and premature school leaving (dropout). The thesis comprises five interrelated studies.
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Work/Non-Work Balance: Broadening the Conceptualization of Work and Life
… as work/non-work balance with non-work being time spent on activities that are not work-related - be it family or non-family activities. To this end, the present study developed a scale to measure work/non-work balance in terms of (1) perceived personal free time, (2) perceived organizational …
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from urban and rural Niagara
… the self-report Participation Questionnaire (free-time and organized sport activities), and teacher's evaluations of student activity. Overweight (overweight and obesity combined) was measured both as a continuous (BMI) and categorical variable (BMI category), to evaluate the prevalence by …
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ΤΟ ΚΑΝΑΛΑΚΙ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΕΒΕΖΑΣ. ΜΕΤΑΒΟΛΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΙΚΗ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΩΝ ΜΙΑΣ ΗΠΕΙΡΩΤΙΚΗΣ ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΙΚΟΣΑΕΤΙΑ 1965-1985
… ACCOMODATION, HEALTH-EDUCATION, 6. FREE TIME: SOCIAL RELATIONS, ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURAL LIFE, CONCLUSIONS
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Dwell Time for Import Transit Containers at Dar es Salaam Port: An Analysis of the Role of Free Storage time
Dwell time is the principal indicator of the Port’s efficiency. Dwell time can be broken into three components: operational dwell time, transactional dwell time and discretionary dwell time. All customs and terminal inefficiencies are absorbed in the first two components above. The aim of this …
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Exploring a Dispositional Conceptualization of Leisure in Early Adolescence: An Examination of the Self-as-Entertainment Construct
… a personality disposition specific to the use of free time and leisure behavior. Self-as-entertainment reflects individual differences in the capacity or ability to fill one's free time in a manner that is personally satisfying and appropriate. A convenience sample of 7th-grade students completed …
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Mokinių laisvalaikio organizavimo edukaciniai ir socialiniai aspektai /
… their parents and teachers and at the same time to define the peculiarities of organization the recreational activities. There was given the following hypothesis: in a modern school there is paid too little attention for organization the recreational activities; i.e. means which stimulates a …
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Engaged Reading in Third Grade: A Magical Kingdom
… male) who were chosen because they read if given free time. Observations were used to find out how the children interacted, what reading opportunities they were given, and what a teacher does to cultivate engagement. Qualitative research methodology was used. The data were collected by …
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Probing charge motion in next-generation semiconductors with scanned probe microscopy
… potential, and electric fields with better time resolution. We demonstrate the measurements on organic and perovskite semiconductors. First, we present a new method for measuring photocapacitance transients. We demonstrate the ability of this indirect, ``phase kick'' technique to record …
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