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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"multiple goals"”.
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A multiple goals/normative approach to family communication surrounding young adults' substance use problems: explicating parents' and siblings' communication challenges and strategies
… on the nature and presence of interactional goals and meanings. Although there was some overlap between parents’ and siblings’ challenges and strategies, in some respects, parents and siblings experiences were also distinct. Results have implications for clinicians involved in family …
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U.S. patients’ evaluation of international medical graduate physicians’ verbal and nonverbal strategies to manage their lack of comprehension: A multiple goals perspective
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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"""Daddy's Girl"" and ""Big Man on Campus"": Turning Points in the Development of Parent-Adolescent Relationships"
These findings are discussed from a multiple goals perspective. A multiple goals perspective highlights the idea that as parents and adolescents move towards more autonomy, that task is made challenging by other salient identity and relationship goals. From a normative perspective, it is useful to …
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Interpersonal influence attempts: The effects of construct differentiation and interactional goals
… of interpersonal influence attempts from a multiple goals perspective. It seeks to understand the factors which influence communicators' strategies as they produce and interpret messages created in such interpersonal influence situations. Analyses of message style revealed a limited …
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Family conversations about end-of-life health decisions
… end-of-life decisions matters. In this study, a multiple goals theoretical perspective was used to explain how different ways of attending to interaction goals in end-of-life decision making can yield more or less favorable outcomes. Members of 121 older parent-adult child dyads (N = 242) …
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Reasoning about Goal-Plan Trees in Autonomous Agents: Development of Petri net and Constraint-Based Approaches with Resulting Performance Comparisons
… the agents are often asked to achieve multiple goals individually or within teams where the distribution of these goals may be negotiated among the agents. It is expected that agents should be capable of working towards achieving all its currently adopted goals concurrently. However, in …
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"""Daddy's Girl"" and ""Big Man on Campus:"" Turning Points in the Development of Parent-Adolescent Relationships"
… to them. These findings are discussed from a multiple goals perspective. A multiple goals perspective highlights the idea that as parents and adolescents move towards more autonomy, that task is made challenging by other salient identity and relationship goals. From a normative perspective, it …
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The transition to extended family: examining the links between turbulence and children-in-laws' goals, topic avoidance, and relational outcomes
… relational turbulence model and a multiple goals perspective—the current study sought to uncover how the experience of uncertainty during the transition to extended family was linked to interaction goals, topic avoidance, and relationship satisfaction. In addition, the present …
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Magellan : a robust executive enabling long horizon multi-agent campaigns
… of agents with continuous dynamics to achieve multiple goals over long horizons and often occur in hazardous environments that can change unpredictably. Campaigns are specified by hybrid activity plans, featuring both finite domain and real-valued variables. This thesis introduces a robust, …
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Monitoring in laboratory and real-world tasks
… two PM tasks and performance during the UTC Multiple Errands Test (UTC-MET), a naturalistic measure of executive function. A sample of 8 healthy older adults was compared to 9 older adults diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. While accuracy on an eye-tracking PM task was a significant …
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Importance sampling for reinforcement learning with multiple objectives
… the partial observability of the domain, and the multiple objectives of the agent to cause serious problems for existing reinforcement learning algorithms. We employ importance sampling (likelihood ratios) to achieve good performance in partially observable Nlarkov decision processes with few …
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Clean energy investments in an uncertain future
… and new market design. To help fulfill multiple goals and limit the necessary tradeoffs among them, industry and policymakers alike are looking to new technologies. However, uncertainty regarding the challenges, the solutions, and the behavior of the energy system, make it difficult to …
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A Portable Approach to High-Level Behavioral Programming for Complex Autonomous Robot Applications
… high-level action selection in the presence of multiple goals of dynamically changing importance, and noisy, incomplete perception data. In this thesis, an approach to behavioral programming is presented that provides the designer with an intuitive method for building contextual intelligence …
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Motivational influence on the attentional processes of competitive golfers
… level there is contention as to whether multiple goals can be adopted during performance. Performing under pressure in sport presents opportunities and threats to goal striving, therefore, the goal that a sportsperson engages in during skill execution may elicit attentional processes that …
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Cancer Survivorship: Couples' Communication and Adjustment After Treatment Is Complete
… talk. The results are discussed in terms of the multiple goals and multiple meanings inherent in couples' communicative and uncertainty management efforts. The findings from this study demonstrate how the dyadic context creates distinct coping demands and imply that there are better and worse …
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A computer-based DSS for funds management in a large state university environment
… it provides a framework for the inclusion of multiple goals that may be conflicting and incommensurable. The goal programming model allocates funds from sources to uses based on a priority structure associated with the goals. The DSS, which runs interactively, performs a number of tasks that …
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Cape Verdean Students’ Perceptions of their English Language Preparation for Higher Education in the US
… are learning English as a foreign language with multiple goals including job opportunities, education and so on. More importantly, many of them study English with the goal of pursuing their higher education in a foreign country, and the US is one of the main destinations. Studies have revealed …
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Investigating and Characterising the Impact of Vehicle Interfaces on Situation Awareness
… hosts a complex environment where competing goals challenge the act of driving. Drivers may pursue Non-Driving Related Activities (NDRAs), resulting in multitasking. How NDRAs are achieved will depend upon whether In-Vehicle Information Systems (IVIS) are available. If not, alternative means …
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A Reconfigurable Random Access MAC Implementation for Software Defined Radio Platforms
… parameters to meet specific cellular coverage goals. In response to these enhancements, industry leaders in cellular (such as Lucent, Nortel, and Motorola) have embraced the cost advantages of implementing SDRs in their cellular technology. In the future, there will be a need for more capable …
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“When do I get to see the dog?”: The communicative environment during animal assisted speech therapy sessions for adults with acquired cognitive-communicative disorders
… individual departmental and clinician-specific goals. Ten primary participants and fourteen secondary participants were recruited across 10 total weeks of data collection, and data sources included interviews, video-recorded observations of Animal-Assisted Speech Therapy sessions and Traditional …
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