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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"levels of support"”.
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Perceived barriers and minority stress in college ecosystems as factors of support for LGBTQIA+ students’ utilization of campus resources
… experiences when deciding to use resources; levels of support throughout their educational ecosystem; and their feelings and attitudes toward the institution regarding support for resource utilization. The study uses Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory model (1979) and the minority …
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Interactive Voice Response Polling in Election Campaigns
… (IVR) has become a widely popular method of conducting public opinion surveys in the United States. IVR surveys use an automated computer voice to ask survey questions and elicit responses in place of a live interviewer. Previous studies have shown that IVR polls conducted immediately …
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Student success in higher education : an analysis of the effects of support and community.
Student success is the goal of every higher learning institutions in America. How these institutions choose to measure success looks different from university to university. The current study investigates how to increase student success in high-achieving, low-income, minority students through …
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Organisational responses to students' mental health needs : social, psychological and medical perspectives
This research examines the support offered to students with mental and emotional problems in Oxford, based on a theoretical model which distinguishes between social, psychological and medical/biological approaches. Although there has been a long-running debate about the contribution of each of …
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An Examination of the Moderating Effect of Proactive Coping in NICU Nurses
… unique in that the patient population consists of critically ill neonates. Research has revealed that there are increased levels of depression, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout in nurses. Problem solving and support seeking coping strategies have been shown to be associated with lower …
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The Experience of LDS Women Receiving Community Support and Caring for Themselves in the Stages of Divorce
… phenomenological study examined community support and caring for oneself as Latter-day Saint (LDS) women navigated the stages of divorce. Six divorced LDS women participated in semi-structured interviews. Data was analyzed through Creswell's modified version of Moustakas' phenomenology and …
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An Examination of Experimentally-Manipulated Enacted Support Upon Cognitive Performance and Cognitive Interference
This study examined the effects of enacted negative, neutral, and positive support and gender on cognitive performance, cognitive interference, and task attribution. An experimenter explained to participants how to perform the anagram task, gave a stress-arousal statement and a statement of …
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Adult new readers: the impact on family
The purpose of this research was to explore the changes that occurred in marital, child and family of origin relationships when an adult who was previously illiterate became literate. Eleven adult new readers participated in in-depth interviews. The results indicate that learning to read is not an …
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Testing The Marshall Hypothesis: A Survey Among Justice And Safety College Students
… Justice Thurgood Marshall postulated that levels of support for capital punishment are associated with the amount of knowledge about the death penalty process. He suggested that exposure to information about capital punishment produces sentiments in opposition to capital punishment except …
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Manager characteristics and support for worksite health promotion programs that target women in small, blue-collar worksites
… study examined the relationship between manager support for health promotion programs and perceived benefits of health promotion activities, organizational health climate, and personal health behaviors among managers in small, blue-collar textile and light manufacturing worksites in eastern North …
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Support for Social Programs: Effects of Class, Race, Political Ideology, and Poverty Beliefs
This paper examines the main factors affecting support for social programs: class, race, political ideology, and beliefs about poverty. Using ordinary least squares regression (OLS) and bivariate correlation models, I examine how racial priming influences blacks' and whites' support for social …
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The impact of information technology on knowledge creation in Woolworths
The impact of Information Technology (IT) on knowledge creation (KC) in companies is both an interesting and challenging topic. This study investigated what the use of IT does to support KC and how it works to bring about that support. Two case studies on the development of Woolworths Financial …
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Implementation and utilization of security assistance: a multi-country analysis
… assistance encompasses a broad assortment of tools to include the sale or transfer of military equipment, grant funds, and education and training, all of which aim to build partner nation capacity. This project examines trends among the U.S. Foreign Military Sales, Foreign Military …
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Utilizing Full-Time Release Mentors in a Suburban Elementary School District: A Change Leadership Plan
… an important role for teachers entering the profession. To support them, most school districts currently use site-based mentors who teach full-time, and in addition to their teaching responsibilities, they mentor new teachers part time. The first part of my 3-part dissertation was a program …
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The Examination of Attendance Support Teams in Urban Middle Schools
… research study was conducted to analyze effect of an attendance support team in urban middle schools. The study utilized a six-month time window using students in three middle schools that accumulated five unexcused absences. The attendance support team was comprised of a school social worker, a …
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Neuroverso Escolar: um podcast para educadores
This memorial describes the process of producing, recording, editing, distributing and promoting the podcast’s “Neuroverso Escolar” first season. The project is about neurodiversity in the educational environment, and has educators and education students as its target audience. The first season …
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The effects of parental resiliency on children’s health adjustment
The purpose of this study is to explore maternal resiliency patterns regarding family health behaviors and outcomes in vulnerable populations. With increasing rates of Hispanic childhood obesity and disproportionate health disparities, this is an issue that must be better understood. Altogether, …
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Managing agricultural contamination of ground water: the institutional framework
… amendments, the states have been given various levels of support with which to attack this contamination problem. However, these federal acts have not provided enough protection for groundwater from agricultural chemicals. The states must develop their own management programs for groundwater …
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Sexuality demographics and the college admissions process: Implications of asking applicants to reveal their sexual orientation
… the various positive and negative implications of quantifying sexual orientation? To address this question, this study utilized a descriptive design and looked at a national LGBT organization of educators, a non-generalizable population of approximately 700 members, in order to identify, …
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When love hurts: the mediating effects of internal attribution, perpetrator forgiveness, and current perceived interpersonal support on the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and adult intimate attachment
<p>The purposes of this exploratory study were (a) to provide support for the relationship between childhood and/or adolescent maltreatment, especially sexual abuse, and adult intimate attachment, (b) determine mediating factors of the relationship between childhood and/or adolescent maltreatment …
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