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Showing 1 to 20 of 422 for “"interruption"”.
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Managing developer interruption
The high frequency of interruptions during cognitively-intense activities can be annoying and detrimental to deadline-driven work, such as software development. When developers are interrupted they not only lose productivity from the time spent attending to the interruption but also from the time …
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Risk-based interruption cost index based on customer and interruption parameters
… This can be done by calculating the expected interruption costs. Interruption costs evaluation, however, cannot be done correctly in all cases by methods that are based on the commonly used average values. It is the objective of this thesis to find a new way of calculating interruption costs …
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Arbitrating modalities of interruption using ambient displays
… the effect of different modalities when used as interruptions. A multimodal interface explores the use of ambient displays in the context of interruption where visual and thermal ambient displays acted as external interruption generators. This works shows and demonstrates that interruption …
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Assisting interruption recovery in mission control operations
Frequent interruptions are commonplace in modem work environments. The negative impacts of interruptions are well documented and include increased task completion and error rates in individual task activities, as well as interference with team coordination in team-based activities. The …
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Evaluating the Undesired Outcomes of Response Interruption and Redirection
… determine if the punishment procedure, response interruption and redirection (RIRD), is effective in reducing stereotypy during natural environment training without demonstrating other undesired behaviors that are associated with punishment procedures, including aggression, avoidance of staff, …
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Anointing as the Iconic Interruption of the Loving God
… of anointing as an experience of iconic interruption of the loving God within the context of the suffering, vulnerability, and dying of a member of the Christian community. </p><p> Liessjen, writing on a postmodern understanding of the sacrament of anointing , has proposed an outline, a …
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Analyzing the Effect of Causation in Covid-19 Business Interruption Insurance Claims: A Black-Letter Law Analysis of Causation within Business Interruption Insurance Cases
… around the world triggered a bevy of business interruption insurance claims. One of the key issues considered by the courts in adjudicating refuted claims was the question of causation. The question in its simplest form was this: did the virus or the government response cause the losses …
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Protection from Dangerous Emotions: Interruption of Emotional Experience in Psychotherapy
… elements in depressed clients process of self-interruption of emotion (SIE) in an experiential therapy session. Research Design: A two-study, multi-method research design was used to examine both the overt performance and subjective experience of SIE. Methods: The first study involved a task …
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Corporate Social Responsibility To-Come: A Derridean Interruption of Transparency
<p>This study investigated the relation between rhetorics of transparency and organizational action. Digging into CSR literature from a philosophy of communication perspective, this project seeks to determine if corporate social responsibility delivers on the promises it makes of a better …
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DC thyristor circuit breakers: An investigation of current interruption ability
… DC Thyristor Circuit Breaker (TCB) current interruption and appraise the current interruption performance in simulated systems. A generalized analysis was developed which enabled succinct assessment of the current interruption performance of different thyristor circuit breaker …
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Cost of Electricity Interruption to Commercial and Industrial End-Users
The question ‘what is the cost of electricity interruptions?’ is fraught with lots of complexities as electricity interruption is not a tradable commodity. A closely associated question is ‘from whose perspective should this cost be assessed – the electric utility or its customers?’ Extant research …
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Mitigating the Effects of Interruption on Audit Efficiency and Effectiveness
This dissertation examined the effects of interruption on auditor efficiency and effectiveness for one simple and two complex tasks within the audit domain. I evaluated these effects for novice and experienced auditors. In addition, I considered two ways in which the negative effects of …
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Violence Interruption And The Epidemiological Approach: A Systematic Review Of Cure Violence
… key approach to violence prevention is violence interruption. This approach focuses on interrupting violence like a communicable disease and stopping the transmission of violence in dangerous communities globally.</p> <p>This research explored studies that have evaluated violence interruption to …
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Simulation of the human inferior vena cava for evaluating IVC interruption devices
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1980.
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Resolution of Self-Interruption in Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Model of Client Processes
… how clients overcome Aversion to Emotion/ Self-Interruption (AESI) over the course of a session of emotion-focused therapy. The study employed task analytic methodology and consisted of two phases: a Discovery Phase and a Validation Phase. In the Discovery Phase of the study, a model of the …
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Possibilities for patchwork eportfolios? Critical dialogues and reflexivity as strategic acts of interruption
… by an electronic portfolio as a strategic act of interruption of essayist norms. The eportfolio system, pebblePAD, was piloted with a group of 15 PGCE (PCE) students in 2004-5. The system was used for teaching, learning and assessment and as a data collection tool. The data was generated from …
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Spiritual Care as Creative Interruption: Exploring a Generative Metaphor for Intercultural Healthcare Chaplaincy
… over engaging difference. <em>Creative interruption</em> as a theological metaphor for spiritual care can serve as a generative framework for engaging the cultural and religious other in the context of healthcare chaplaincy and education, building on the recent work of pastoral …
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A multidimensional dynamic framework for handling simple interruption phenomena, anaphoric pronouns and definite descriptions
… system for handling nested discourses with interruptions from a semantic point of view developed on the insights of Groenendijk and Stokhof's (1991) system which deals with anaphoric pronouns occurring in a non-nested discourse, i.e., in a linear sequence of sentences. The key is the insight …
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Interruption events and sensemaking processes: A narrative analysis of older people's relationships with computers
… community made sense of the computer as an interruption event, a technology not yet routinised as part of their everyday taken-for-granted reality, and needing to be consciously considered and evaluated to make it understandable. Members' sensemaking is studied as a narrative process in …
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