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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"meta-study"”.
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Community Resilience: A Meta-Study of International Development Rhetoric in Emerging Economies
… & Short, 2008; Walker et al., 2004). This meta-study seeks to shed light on how the large body of international development literature addresses, measures, and operationalizes community resilience. This analysis uses two resilience frameworks to understand and codify dominant themes in …
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An Exploration of How Age and Aging Shape Caregiving Experiences in Oldest-old Spousal Caregivers of People with Dementia
… I conducted two studies. In the first, I used a meta-study methodology to explore existing qualitative research on the experiences of this caregiving subgroup. The meta-study revealed a critical lack of research exploring issues of age and aging in the caregiving role, and illuminated numerous …
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Essays on human capital
… education and cognitive abilities. The first study follows a macro approach and assesses the impact of various human capital measures on productivity. The main finding of this chapter is that human capital quality has a larger impact on economic growth than human capital stock, while the …
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Long Term Durability of Glass Reinforced Composites
… the post-cure regime isolates and allows the study of other time-dependent effects, such as fatigue or hygrothermal degradation, and aids designers by establishing an unchanging base set of initial (undamaged) material design properties. The second portion of this dissertation discusses the …
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The Production and Evaluation of Evidence in Experimental Economics
… first present our replication of Engel's (2011) meta-study of dictator game experiments. Using his data and statistical models, we determine his results to be robust with one important exception. In Engel's report, the effects of the take-option on giving are statistically insignificant. By …
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Essays on statistical economics with applications to financial market instability, limit distribution of loss aversion, and harmonic probability weighting functions
… is upheld empirically with data from a published meta-study on loss aversion; published data on cross-country loss aversion indexes; and macroeconomic loss aversion index data for US and South Africa. The latter results provide contrast to Hofstede's cross-cultural uncertainty avoidance index for …
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Investigating and Modeling the Effects of Task and Context on Drivers' Attention
… context. To do so, we first conduct a meta-study of the behavioral literature that documents an overwhelming importance of the top-down (task-driven) effects on gaze. Next, we survey applied research to show that most models do not necessarily make this connection and instead establish …
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Determination of the Critical Moisture Level for Mould Growth on Building Materials
… an inhomogeneous material and it was shown in a meta-study in this work that several characteristics of wood affect its susceptibility to mould growth; surface structure, wood species, sawing pattern and if the surface was recently planed or sawn. It is therefore not possible to predict the …
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Rescaling Capital: The Potential of Small-Scale and Mass-Produced Physical Capital in the Energy and Materials Processing Industries
… or large based on the number of end consumers, a meta-study concludes that small-scale technologies learn substantially faster. In fact, comparing the two empirical formulations of cost reductions that typically accompany scaling up in size and scaling up in numbers reveals almost identical levels …
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Investigating the Junior-to-Senior Transition in Sport: Interventions to Support the Transitional Process
… UK context. To help achieve the overall purpose Study 1 provided a systematic review of literature focused on the junior-to-senior transition. Specifically, this Study: (a) provided an overview and critique of methodological and theoretical decisions which underpins current junior-to-senior …
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Usos de Lengua Materna (L1) y Lengua Meta (L2) en un Contexto de Inmersión Real
The study of L1 and L2 uses by graduate students in a genuine immersion context or study abroad has not been widely explored. This study is an attempt to provide new insights from the perspective of the interactional and sociocultural sociolinguistics while maintaining constant links with studies …