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Impact of Ignoring Nested Data Structures on Ability Estimation
The literature is clear that intentional or unintentional clustering of data elements typically results in the inflation of the estimated standard error of fixed parameter estimates. This study is unique in that it examines the impact of multilevel data structures on subject ability which are …
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Ignoring the obvious : women's roles in environmental management in Papua New Guinea
This thesis examines relationships within and between women's issues and environmental management issues in Papua New Guinea. These relationships are social, environmental and economic in nature and are impacted by the dynamics of the development process. The analysis used in the research is based …
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The attentional cost of feature-based inhibition: When ignoring distraction impairs selection
The thesis investigates the inhibitory processes of visual selection across time. While distractor inhibition can improve current selection, this mechanism can also impair later selection when the new and important information shares features with the old inhibited information. I extend previous …
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Various Effects at Maturity of Shocking, Ignoring, or Gentling Rats During Infancy
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The consequences of ignoring assessment date heterogeneity within waves for latent growth models
… illustration of assessing the consequences of ignoring time-point variability within a wave using the Math Item Response Theory scores from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study for Kindergarten (ECLS -- K). By comparing latent growth change and prediction models for time invariant and time …
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On the Effect of Ignoring Within-Unit Infectious Disease Dynamics When Modelling Spatial Transmission
… framework. Here, we test the effect of ignoring within-unit (e.g., city) infectious disease dynamics when we model spatial transmission. We do this by generating our epidemic data sets from a true model which considers within unit dynamics. It is often hard to get individual-level data …
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Impacts of Ignoring Nested Data Structure in Rasch/IRT Model and Comparison of Different Estimation Methods
This study involves investigating the impacts of ignoring nested data structure in Rasch/1PL item response theory (IRT) model via a two-level and three-level hierarchical generalized linear model (HGLM). Currently, Rasch/IRT models are frequently used in educational and psychometric researches for …
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Non-religious and religious minority international students at an evangelical university : politely ignoring what is positively uncomfortable
… Separation, in the form of politely avoiding or ignoring religious topics and activities, was the dominant acculturation attitude and strategy of the students. Most students focused primarily on their identity as students although the ubiquitous evangelical mindset was often uncomfortable and …
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Attitudes of working and nonworking mothers toward preschool children
… three attitudes; dominance, possessiveness and ignoring. A two sample t-test was used to analyze the data. No differences were found in maternal attitudes between working and nonworking mothers conce:cning possessiveness, dominance or ignoring.
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The robustness of multilevel multiple imputation for handling missing data in hierarchical linear models
… multiple imputation, multiple imputation ignoring the multilevel structure, and listwise deletion). The comparison of these methods was made under conditions known or believed to influence both the performance of missing data methods and multilevel modeling. The results suggest that …
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Incentives for Adoption of Site -Specific Technologies Under Uncertainty: Economic and *Environmental Implications
… impacts. The theoretical model shows that ignoring the input availability uncertainty and risk preferences of farmers results in misleading estimates of impacts of SSCM on input use and yield, and overestimation of the impacts on quasi-rent differentials. Application of the model to …
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Change of collaboration over time: A case study of college students in discussion sections of a mathematics course
… convergence, explanation, regulation, and ignoring. Results were mixed regarding if the quality of collaboration improved across time. There was an increase in evidence for knowledge convergence from Week 4 to Week 7. However, results showed a decrease in total explanatory moves and no …
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Advertising distractor devaluation under perceptual and cognitive load
… However, recent research demonstrates that ignoring (passive avoidance) is also a common strategy used by Internet viewers when they encounter a distracting ad. The act of ignoring due largely to our limited processing capacity (Lang, 2000) induces unconscious processing of ads, which are …
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Conflict Resolution Among Terminally Ill Cancer Patients and Their Families: How Nurses Intervene
… 2) turning conflict over to physician; 3) ignoring the conflict by taking the side of the caregiver; 4) ignoring the caregiver's perception; and 5) facilitating conflict resolution. The sample consisted of ten home health nurses who had a baccalaureate degree in nursing. The results suggest …
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Speciated Local Aerosol Characteristics and Radiative Forcing at a Rural Midwestern Site
… mass percentage of EC may be low at rural sites, ignoring the presence of EC aerosol leads to an over estimation of the aerosol forcing.
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Control Charts with Missing Observations
… the EWMA control statistic are investigated: (1) ignoring missing samples; (2) adding the weights from previous consecutive missing samples to the current sample; and (3) increasing the weights of non-missing samples in proportion, so that the weights sum to one. Integral equation and Markov chain …
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Maintaining Religious Identity in the Wake of Interfaith Dialogue
… Common ground approaches focus on similarities, ignoring or discounting the differences which both make us who we are and make conversations difficult to have. In ignoring differences, participants are forced to relegate salient aspects of their beliefs to a private (unseen) arena, where they may …
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Model-Based Dynamic Resource Management for Service Oriented Clouds
… a simplified model of the system, either ignoring the software components altogether or ignoring the relationship between individual software services. This thesis considers the following resource management problems for cloud-based service providers: (i) how to estimate the parameters of …
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Optimal Land Use for Watershed Management—a Case Study in the Feitsui Watershed
… is above the profit of agricultural output. Ignoring this amenity value could result in an inappropriate watershed resource allocation. For the best land allocation of the Feitsui Watershed, I argue that the public good nature of land should not be overlooked; all the externalities along with …
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Water droplet growth enhancement through thermal radiation
… to believe either the theoretical model is ignoring another growth mechanism or there is a limiting assumption being implemented in the model. Droplet growth is shown, theoretically and experimentally, to be in agreement with the time scales of droplet growth observed in nature. The time for …
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