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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"group composition"”.
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Influences of group composition on physical activity in young children
… current study was to experimentally manipulate group composition and assess its influence on children’s MVPA. A second purpose was to assess the influence of activity contexts on MVPA. Results indicated no differences between group and solitary conditions. However, responding did vary within …
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The joint effects of group composition and instruction in consensus-seeking on decision quality
… purpose of this study was to investigate whether group performance could be significantly improved by forming groups with members heterogeneous in information-processing preferences, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and by providing those groups with instructions’ to facilitate …
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Social Contextual Influences on Consumer Behavior: The Impact of Group Composition and Coviewing Context on Recall of and Attitude toward Placed Brands
… aspects of social context were examined in a 2 (group composition: friends versus strangers) x 2 (coviewing context: interactive versus passive) experimental design. Data were collected during a laboratory experiment in which participants in dyads first viewed a 22-minute Seinfeld sitcom episode …
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The Effect of Phospholipid Polar Head Group Supplementation on The Microsomal Cytochrome B5 System
… of the bilayer is determined by the lipid composition. The lipid composition can be described in terms of the phospholipid polar head group composition, the fatty acid composition and the sterol content of the membrane. This study concerns the influence of the phospholipid polar head group …
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Dialogues on the Net - Power structures in asynchronous discussions in the context of a web based teacher training course
… the interaction processes that occur in group dialogues when teacher students work in small groups, using net based asynchronous dialogues to solve a problem in the area of environmental sustainability. More specifically, the interest is to determine whether students’ net based dialogues …
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End-Group Modified Hyperbranched Polyetherimides and Their Blends With Linear Polymers
… blends, the HBP domain size was based upon end-group composition and Tg. Increasing the length of alkyl chain increased compatibility with a polyolefin matrix (PE). While no processing advantage was observed by the incorporation of HBPs, polyethylene tapes were toughened at very low loading …
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The Impact of Poverty on Comparable Improvement Ranking for Elementary Campuses in Texas
… 2.) the TLI average growth for the comparison group, 3.) the award eligibility, and 4.) the changes in comparison group composition. No practical significant difference was found for research questions 1 and 3, however, a practical significant difference was found in group average TLI growth …
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Towards stable principles of collective intelligence under an environment-dependent framework
A large body of work has shown that a group of individuals can often achieve higher levels of intelligence than the group members working alone. Despite these expectations of group advantage, many examples of collective failure have been documented--from market crashes to the spread of false and …
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A Church-Based Health Promotion Program for Older Adults: Impacts on Participants' Religiosity, Spirituality, and Social Support
… research using longitudinal data and a control group is needed to determine if the program provided protective effects for social support, religious motivation, and spirituality. The second aim of the study determined 1) the participants' overall descriptions of the benefits related to the …
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Using Branching and Endgroups to Control the Physical Properties of Macromolecules: Systematic Studies of Etherimide Polymers
To survey the effect that end-group composition and constitution have on macromolecular physical properties, end-group modified hyperbranched polyetherimides were prepared by a one-pot, two-step reaction sequence. General synthetic techniques were developed to prepare both mono-functional …
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Changing Ideological Boots: Adaptive Legislator Behavior in Changing Districts
… redistricting, I use issue specific interest group scores from the ADA, NFU, and COPE. This exploits the bias in the selection of the issues that interest groups utilize to rate U.S. representatives, by using them to reflect changes in response to significant demographic fluctuations in the …
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Effects of an Exercise Program on Mentally Impaired Older Adults in a Long-Term Care Facility
… a long-term care skilled nursing facility (SNF). Group composition was 7 males, mean age 83.29 and 17 females, mean age 88.71; mental and physical function levels varied from supervised to total dependence of care. Six variables were tested: right and left shoulder flexibility, right and left hand …
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Combined effects of water chemistry, canopy cover, and stream size on benthic macroinvertebrates along a Central Appalachian stream continuum
… richness, community taxa similarity, feeding group composition, and metric composition. I quantified these components to determine if localized variation in alkalinity and canopy cover would modify stream continuum predictions. Localized variation in alkalinity and canopy cover significantly …
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Does personality affect competition, social organization, and fitness? a study using a small social mammal, Octodon degus
… can play a large role in the interactions among group-living animals. I studied the common degu (Octodon degus), a social and group-living rodent, to evaluate whether three personality traits (aggression, boldness, and activity level) play a role in shaping competitive interactions and …
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Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Albian to Santonian (Cretaceous) of Bornholm, Denmark
… integrated with published data from macrofossil groups. Palaeoecological data is presented utilising foraminiferal group composition through the succession. An event synthesis is proposed for the study interval combining palaeoecology, biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and basin events. …
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Phytoplankton Abundance and Species Composition in Relation to Environmental Paramenters in Coastal Mississippi Waters
… the spatial and temporal distributions and composition of phytoplankton communities. Concentration of phytoplankton pigments were analyzed using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and the compositional changes in phytoplankton communities were determined with CHEMTAX 1.95. Surface …
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Writing Apprehension: Can Sentence Combining Help?
… about writing than students who were taught composition in the traditional mode. The subjects were four intact classes of seventh-grade students whose average IQ of 99, who were 12.2 years of age, and who were in classes for students who worked on or near grade level. Each teacher …
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Assessing Organic Matter Breakdown and Associated Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Headwater Streams: Effects of Hydrologic Gradients and Upland Timber Harvesting
… differences in the functional feeding group composition. Temporary reaches contained higher shredder, gathering-collector, predator, and total macroinvertebrate abundances. Shredder and total macroinvertebrate biomass was also higher in the temporary stream reaches. Gathering-collector …
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Fundamental studies of pH-sensitivity in polyelectrolyte multilayers
… of the assembled multilayers - functional group composition and layer growth. In the first part of this thesis, with respect to the composition control of the functional groups, the assembly conditions to create surfaces that were dominated by specific functional groups were investigated, …
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Optimal agent cooperation with local information
… importance to determine the optimal agent group composition, which involves a trade-off between the cost and performance increase per additional agent. Further, truly autonomous agents solely rely on on-board environment measurements, the design of which requires quantifying the multi-agent …
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