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Showing 1 to 20 of 737 for “"new information"”.
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Organisational factors that can affect employee acceptance of new information technology.
… acceptance of organisational change involving new information technology. Five studies were undertaken using organizations that had implemented new information technology systems.
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Extracting new information from the shape of the blood pressure pulse
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Effects of Examples as Context on Learning New Information From Expository Materials
… effects of context on reading comprehension and information gain of fifth graders using expository materials. In Experiment 1, the simple physical science principle of pulleys was presented in three different forms. For the subjects in the no-context condition, the principle was explained with no …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship Between Perceived New Information and Delayed Attitude Change
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New information technologies in public participation : a challenge to old decision-making institutional frameworks
Given the progress in information technology (IT) in the past 30 years, I hypothesized that new conditions exist for considerable improvements in public participation in decision-making. In order to test my hypothesis, I developed a prototype of an Intelligent Multimedia System to support public …
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The combined influence of new information and communication technologies and gender on self-esteem and social support
This study discussed the effect of new information and communication technologies use on adolescents. The research also assessed whether gender and frequency of use of new information and communication technologies would interact to influence self-esteem and social support from family and friends.
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On the establishment of a new information order in Africa: a study of PANA, Nigerian newspapers and journalists
The global information and Communications debate has not only grown in importance but has also carved out a new area of international relations and study, i.e information diplomacy. In the past most attention and studies have been devoted to the imbalance in the flow of news, data and information …
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Dispersed concentration of high-tech jobs in the new economy : the paradox of new information and communication technologies
… business over long distances due to the use of new information and communication technologies (ICT). However, regional scientists articulate that geographic proximity is still important, at least, to the high-tech industry and the knowledge-related business activities. My research offers a …
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The Impact of Soft Costs Associated with the Implementation of New Information Technology in United States-Based Small to Medium Businesses on Productivity
… of "soft costs" on the productivity impact of new information technology (IT) implementations in US-based Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). Soft costs, distinct from "hard costs," encompass factors such as resistance to change, training, decision-making processes, and error analysis …
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New information technologies in the old political economy : an exploration of community-based GIS for improving basic services for the poor in New Delhi, India
… explore the role of community-based geographic information systems (GIS) in improving service provision to the poor. These participatory GIS applications focus on collecting neighborhood-level information directly from residents and providing this information to government for more need-based …
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Two Essays: “Does Corporate Governance Affect the Adjustment Speed towards Target Capital Structure?” and “Do Option Traders on REITs and Non-REITs React Differently to New Information?”
… second chapter explores investors’ reactions to new information on REITs and non-REITs option markets. The real estate market can be fairly volatile; what remains unclear is whether price changes are excessively volatile relative to fundamentals. This study attempts to examine the latter by using …
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The Differential Effects of Unexpected Permanent and Transitory Earnings Changes on Equity Returns
This study characterizes the new information contained in an earnings announcement based on the degree to which the new information perturbs expectations of earnings. New information is categorized as either permanent or transitory, depending on the degree to which the new information is associated …
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Essays on the Role of Informed Trading in Stock Markets
… to hold the stock because they perceive a new information uncertainty risk when short-sale constraints are binding and informed trading is absent. Stock prices become less informative when short-sale constraints keep informed investors out of the market. The less informative prices create a …
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Age differences in search during self-regulated learning
… in that domain. By manipulating the amount of new information and conceptual overlap across texts within a topic, we created three types of text environments to generate different trajectories of two cues to perceived learning, new information (measured by rating of perceived new information) …
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Rational expectations, money announcements, and the bond market
… unless the central monetary authority holds an information advantage over the general public. In defining rational expectations, John Muth wrote that "public predictions" or announcements do not affect markets since no new information is provided. This paper examines the question of whether …
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An Empirical Investigation for Patterns of Belief Change in Human Reasoning
… drawn conclusions can be retracted when adding new information. The latter refers to the operations of revising and updating a set of beliefs, respectively, when presented with new information. The operation of revision assumes the world has remained the same and that only our knowledge about …
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The re-examination of extant human skeletal remains from excavated earlier neolithic long barrows and chambered tombs in southern Britain
… papers are detailed. The papers present new information concerning Ecirlier Neolithic mortuary assemblages and their formation and subsequent taphonomic histories, new information concerning the extent of interpersonal violence in the Earlier Neolithic and new chronological data and …
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A human rights violation during the South African transition: documenting narratives of the 1993 Highgate attack in a support group context
… was to help group members come to terms with new information that had emerged concerning the identity of the perpetrators of the Highgate attack. Since the attack itself, and during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, at which some of the survivors gave …
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Digital Synesthesia : using mobile technology and sensory substitution to interact with our world
… use their senses and enables the perception of information that is outside of our sensory spectrum. Modern technology already offers the ability to detect this information, but what has not been achieved is a way for our brains and body to incorporate this new information as a part of our …
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