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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"no-choice"”.
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‘A beggar has no choice' A Mixed Approach Exploring Blended Finance for Africa's Infrastructure
… infrastructure development needs and require innovative solutions to finance their infrastructure gaps. The African Development Bank noted that Africa's infrastructure needs can be estimated between USD130 and USD170 billion per annum with an estimated financing gap of USD68 billion to USD108 …
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"""A Choice Among No Choice"": Exploring Taiwanese Mother's Agency and Identity Along the Blurred Boundaries Between Leisure, Work, and Consumption"
… successfully represents the importance of this ""choice among no choice"" situation of mothers, in relation to the multiple functions and varied enjoyments shopping carries in the public sphere that has been engendered by women themselves. Mothers' daily consumption, long ignored in leisure …
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The effects of taste quality and spatial location on the potentiation of an aversion to a non-gustatory stimulus
… potentiation--Spatial and temporal contiguity--No-choice suppression of ingestion--Palatable and unpalatable tastes--Distal auditory stimulus--Variant distal locations.
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The effects of taste quality and spatial location on the potentiation of an aversion to a non-gustatory stimulus
… potentiation--Spatial and temporal contiguity--No-choice suppression of ingestion--Palatable and unpalatable tastes--Distal auditory stimulus--Variant distal locations.
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The relationship of coping and choice to verbal memory and behavioral reactivity
… experimentally that allowing subjects to make a choice about outcomes also leads to enhanced perception of control in individuals. To test the hypothesis that perceived control will lead to better performance on a stressful memory task, and that individuals who believe they are in control will …
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Tests of Reproductive Isolation Between the Fishes Fundulus heteroclitus and F. grandis
… region where their ranges overlap in coastal northeastern Florida. Hybrids of these species are rare in frequency within the contact zone, suggesting the presence of relatively strong reproductive isolation between these species. The objective of this study was to elucidate barriers to …
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Is It Choice or Is It Interest?: The Effect of Choice and Interest on the Cognitive and Affective Engagement of Elementary Students Performing a Reading Task
… & Stevens (2004) that examined the effects of choice, topic interest, and situational interest on reading engagement, attitude, and learning in college-age students. The study was replicated using fourth and fifth graders as subjects. The study was extended to examine the effects of gender and …
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The role of psychological sense of community in the life adjustment of 'coloured' South African immigrants
… of community (PSC) related to a group that had no choice in group membership. In the first stage of the study the PSC model was used to build a profile of a politically constructed group. The second stage of this project investigated the extent to which a PSC developed in South Africa has been …
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Interaction Between Insects and Apple (Malus X Domestica Borkh.): Insect Behavior, Genotypic Preference, and Plant Phenolics With Emphasis on Japanese Beetle (Popillia Japonica Newman)
… fruit of nine apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) genotypes were evaluated for insect injury in 1998 and 1999. Foliar and fruit injury from 12 insect species was inconsistently affected by genotype. Spraying trees with oil affected neither fruit insect injury nor fruit phytotoxicity. In choice …
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Hexaflumuron Efficiency and Impact on Subterranean Termite (Reticulitermes spp.) (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Gut Protozoa
… mode of action. Hexaflumuron consumption in no-choice and choice tests was evaluated at 2d and 5d. Total diet consumption was not different between the treatment groups. Hexaflumuron consumption was reduced by a factor of 3 in the presence of a competing control diet and reduced by a factor …
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The Relationship between Motor Skill Activity Choice and the Acquisition of Skill and Attitudes Toward Physical Education in Seventh Grade Boys
… by seventh grade boys who were provided with choice during a basketball unit to those of seventh grade boys who were not provided with choice. The subjects were pre and posttested using portion of the AAHPER Basketball Skills Test Manual for Boys and the Kneer Attitude Inventory. The data were …
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Surrendering supremacy in the Western Hemisphere Anglo-American relations, 1895-1905
… from a superior position. Britain, thus, had no choice except yielding to American demands.
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The King's Apothecary
… nearly consumed. With his master dead, he has no choice but to embark on a journey to find a new home and a new purpose. His journey north towards the king’s city comes with consequence; the king has dedicated his time to ridding the land of magic users, such as the apothecary, and turning to …
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SPECIES RECOGNITION IS DRIVING EVOLUTION OF THE ACOUSTIC MATING SYSTEM OF SHIELD BACK KATYDIDS (ORTHOPTERA: TETTIGONIIDAE: AGLAOTHORAX): BEHAVIORAL AND PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE
… number and interpulse interval, the former with choice tests on a Y-maze and the latter with no-choice tests on a locomotion compensator. Females of two coexisting Transverse Range species each discriminated against the interpulse intervals of the other. Phylogenetic relationships inferred from …
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Triumph Over Fear: Is the Experience of Fear Essential to Courage?
… of the COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest, and economic hardships, we are living in a time of unprecedented uncertainty and vulnerability—a time where we have no choice but to confront the physical, emotional, and psychological toll that the pandemic is exacting on us. The understanding of the …
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A game-theoretic model for repeated helicopter allocation between two squads
… a routine mission. Because the commander cannot verify the mission type beforehand, a selfish squad would always claim a critical mission to compete for the helicopterâ which leaves the commander no choice but to assign the helicopter at random. In order to encourage truthful reports from the …
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Curriculum Based Measurement-Written Expression: Effects of Choice and Interest on Third Graders’ Writing
… one study was found that examined the effects of choice in story starters on students’ writing performance, and a few studies examined the effects of interest level of writing topics, although none using CBM as a measure. Past research has indicated girls score significantly higher on CBM measures …
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Human population control and environmental law
… to future generations, where the failure to make choices today leaves no choice for tomorrow,
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Environmental Influences on Subterranean Termite Foraging Behavior and Bait Acceptance
… shadows than control areas. In a multiple choice bioassay, mean consumption was higher for paper baits treated with fructose, galactose, glucose, raffinose, sucrose, trehalose and uric acid than for control baits. In a multiple choice bioassay, mean consumption was significantly lower for …
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Use of natural enemies to achieve biological control of the severe and persistent glasshouse pest, the potato-tomato psyllid : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
… The experiments were as follows: a) Laboratory no-choice and choice-feeding assays to investigate the consumption and preferences of E. nicotianae on different TPP life-stages; b) Two greenhouse cage-experiments with whole tomato plants to assess the potential of E. nicotianae as a TPP …
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