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Showing 1 to 20 of 1396 for “"negative impact"”.
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Can jury instructions reduce the negative impact of pretrial publicity?
… limit these effects. Participants (N=100) read negative PTP articles about a defendant. A week later, they were randomly assigned to jury instruction conditions (notetaking, question-posing, or standard) and watched a trial video about the case. Mock jurors who took notes and asked questions …
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Trait Emotional Intelligence: Protecting Health from the Negative Impact of Stress
This thesis explored the ability of two trait EI subscales [Emotional recognition and expression (ERE), and Emotional control (EC)] to explain significant amounts of unique variance in health variables. It asked first, whether the relationship between trait EI and health was mediated by coping, …
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Why Oil Production has a Negative Impact on Socioeconomic Development in Chad?
… The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of oil production on socioeconomic development. It will demonstrate that oil production has done little to improve the living conditions of the Chadian people."
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TV Casualties: The Negative Impact Of Political Messages In Non-News Programs
… or ideological cable news channels, can impact viewers. However, precious little scholarship in the field of political science has been devoted to examining how non-news programming, the lion's share of what is shown on television, can shape and mold viewers' outlooks and opinions. …
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The Negative Impact of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Working Memory of Icelandic University Students
Working memory is a complex cognitive system essential for everyday living. It is important for all kinds of cognitively demanding activities such as reading, writing and carrying out conversations. Working memory capacity has been compared to a resource that ,,feeds'' working memory. Is the …
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The negative impact of learning in English on the cognitive development of second language learners of English
This study focuses on the negative impact of English on the cognitive development of second language learners of English. The study was conducted in Empangeni District (Ngwelezane Ward) in KwaZulu-Natal. The negative impact of English on the cognitive development of second language learners of …
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Job Satisfaction Among Psychologists in a Managed-Care Environment
… study was to investigate how managed care has impacted career satisfaction among professional psychologists.</p> <p>The method. The present investigation examined 21 factors in the prediction of job satisfaction among licensed psychologists. A sample of 1,000 licensed psychologists located in …
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Rehabilitation for deafened adults: A puzzle with missing pieces
This study explored the psychological and social impact of adventitious deafness, and the rehabilitation services that were offered to individuals who acquired this condition in adulthood. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a sample of eight deafened adults, who were recruited from across …
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Politics, power, and decision-making in faith-based organisational change
… the extent to which political drivers impacted decision-making within the organisation. When exploring the political themes surrounding decision-making, this paper adopted a qualitative approach, using networked thematic analysis. The ‘cultural web’ tool was used as a framework for this …
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Impact of Computerized Accounting on Performance of Payroll Accounting: Case Study of Urban Water and Sewerage of Authorities
The study examined the impact of computerized accounting system on performance of payroll accounting in Urban Water and Sewerage Authorities. The study aims to assess the performance of payroll accounting after adoption of Computerized Accounting system and to identify the positive and negative …
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The impact of green finance, renewable energy, and economic growth on energy transition in African countries
… towards limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The impact of green finance, renewable energy, and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions has been assessed, however, limited to developed countries and China. The study poses the question whether green finance, renewable energy, and economic …
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Determinants of Bond Market Development in Emerging and Developing Economies
… in general and specific controls on bonds have a negative impact on the development of LCBM. In addition, a continuous supply of government local currency bonds supports the development of private sector LCBM. However, government foreign currency bonds were found to have a negative impact on …
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Vertical City
… research focuses on strategies to reduce the negative impact of urban sprawl on these groups. The case of Amaravathi, a new capital city being constructed in Andhra Pradesh, India, highlights the concern about using valuable agricultural land for urban purposes. To mitigate horizontal land …
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Molecular characterisation of XvVTC2, a gene coding for a GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase from Xerophyta viscosa
Climate change is predicted to have a negative impact on world food security in the next 40 years. Resurrection plants can withstand highly variable and harsh climatic conditions. This makes them ideal candidates to elucidate possible mechanisms which can be used to adapt crop plants to tolerate …
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Resolution of Self-Interruption in Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Model of Client Processes
… of Purpose of Interruption, Realization of Negative Impact of Interruption, Reduction of Fear of Emotion, Desire to Allow Emotion, and Resolution of AESI. Rating scales were developed to measure each component, so that they could be used to verify the model in the Validation Phase of the …
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Habitat ecology of the native subtidal snail, Lacuna vincta, in the Gulf of Maine and the impact of two introduced species
… subtidal ecosystems of the Gulf of Maine. The impact of the introduced bryozoan, Membranipora membranacea (L.), and the green alga, Codium fragile (Sur.) Hariot subsp. tomentosoides (van Goor) Silva, on Lacuna vincta was investigated. Results from field samplings, reciprocal transplantations, …
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Community Colleges and the Internet: Uses and Impacts
… moderate and strong in the direction of positive impacts, and potential negative impact was rated between weak and moderate.
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A Union Contract-Level Analysis of the Impact of Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions on Wage Bargaining Outcomes
… vertical integration have a more positive impact on union bargaining outcomes than do those transactions which affect greater product diversification. Mergers or acquisitions which lead to greater forward (or downstream) vertical integration appear to have the most negative impact on …
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The Effect of Data Breaches on Share Prices
… cybercriminal acts. This paper studies the impact data breaches have on stock prices. I use the findings to make a public policy recommendation which I believe will facilitate future cybersecurity improvements. The impact of a data breach on stock prices is not well understood. The existing …
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Optimizing Virtual Machine I/O Performance in Virtualized Cloud by Differenciated-frequency Scheduling and Functionality Offloading
… of virtualized hosts in the cloud is the negative impact it has on the I/O performance of the applications running in the VMs.
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