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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"operational definitions"”.
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A semantic contribution to verbal short-term memory: a test of operational definitions of ‘semantic similarity’ and input versus output processes
Baddeley and Hitch (1974; Baddeley, 1986, 2000) propose that coding in verbal short-term memory is phonological and that semantic codes are employed in long-term memory. Semantic coding in short-term memory has been investigated to a far lesser degree than phonological codes and the findings have …
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Mediating identity, 'mobile-ising' culture : the social impact of MXIt in the relational lives of teens
… and lower-income (Khayelitsha and Cloetesville) operational definitions.
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A Description of the Employment Patterns of Persons Released From Virginia's Correctional Institutions Between July 1, 1998, and June 30, 2002
… and educational completion, as defined in the operational definitions of the study, are detailed, and the researcher's observations are noted.
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Professional Role Attitudes and Decision-making in Medication Administration
… of the study, the significance of the problem, definitions of terms pertinent to this study, variables and their operational definitions, and a summary statement.<br> The objectives of this study are to examine five selected role attitudes of nurses that may affect the specific decisions …
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Risk and Vulnerability Analysis of Complex Systems: a basis for proactive emergency management
… in a societal emergency management context. Operational definitions of vulnerability and emergency response capabilities are suggested and two methods for analysing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure networks, based on the suggested definition, are presented. An empirical study of …
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An ethnographic study of cultural influences on the responses of college freshmen to contemporary Appalachian short stories
… literature generally has not been based on clear operational definitions of the term "culture." More often than not, researchers appear to be using the term synonymously with the reader's race, nationality, or social class, rather than including specific anthropological explanations. Moreover, …
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Campus community: students' search for an operational definition
… achieve their educational goals. Historical definitions of campus community often are vague in their characterizations and difficult to use to structure learning experiences. This study was concerned with creating definitions of campus community with greater specificity and utility than has …
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Return to Work and Employment Income After Stroke
… vary in the literature, and it is not clear how operational definitions have affected these estimates. Finally, Ontario healthcare and social service providers and planners could benefit from population-based estimates of return to work and poststroke employment income. Purpose and Objectives: …
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Early intensive behavioral intervention for autism: Is it actually more "intensive" than a typical child's day?
… were gathered and coded for rates of behavior. Operational definitions of what constituted a single behavioral interaction were developed, and those samples were used to calculate behavior rates. The results suggest that the rate of behavior exhibited by typical children exceeds the rate of …
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Tax payment-based liquidity effects: using historical evidence of a tax-based January effect to investigate a new seasonal
… and (2) as partitioned, using two different operational definitions of the pre-/post-tax period. Additional, contemporary period-based analyses were conducted for the 1918 and 1930 through 1994 periods, using both DJIA and Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 Composite daily indexes, respectively. The …
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Traditional Chinese medicine tongue inspection : development and evaluation of a standardised inspection tool
… that IRR could be improved by developing operational definitions for the different tongue characteristics and a standardised protocol for observing the tongue. To this end this thesis documents the development and evaluation of a reliable tongue inspection tool and protocol. Aim: To …
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Support for Gestalt Versus Business-As-Usual Theories of Insight Depends on Operational Definition of Insight
… theories by comparing different methodology and operational definitions that have been used in previous research to investigate the nature of “Aha!” experiences and impasse in insightful problem solving. One hundred two undergraduate psychology students from Old Dominion University completed …
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A content analysis of battering interventions: Development of a unified framework for treating relationally violent men
… regarding treatment, and corresponding operational definitions of interventions were identified in the BIP literature focused on treatment interventions. From this content analysis, a unified model of treating RVM was developed. The resulting unified approach for treating RVM may help to …
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An exploratory analysis of ideological and organizational secularization
… in ideological and organizational terms, and operational definitions were developed conducive to sociological analysis. The remainder of this study considered the utility of the secularization reconceptualizations. The sacred-secular model of ideological secularization was applied to major …
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A Descriptive Case Study of the Perceptions and Use of Adventist EDGE : An Initiative Developed in Response to the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists' Document, "Journey to Excellence"
… The purpose of my study was to develop two operational definitions or Innovation Configurations for the Adventist EDGE teacher and the Adventist EDGE School. This would identify the core components of the Adventist EDGE and provide descriptions of behaviors ranging from Ideal to Unacceptable …
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Parental alienation and targeted parents: loss, coping, and social support
… researchers coded the transcripts based on the operational definitions. The researchers coded a subsample of 45 interviews with these alienated parents. The researchers tested correlations between physical contact and emotional connection between the alienated parent and child, as well as …
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Constructing the Cornerstones for C.A.T.E.S.
… (NANNP) core competency domain; 3) define the operational definitions for the novice to expert performance subscales, and 4) determine the essential scenarios to assess multidimensional competency of NNPs. The approach was a Real Time Delphi (RTD) Method, a technologically based single round …
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An examination of the structure and predictability of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator preferences using a job component validity strategy based on the Common-Metric Questionnaire
… tests directly to a job's elements. Three main operational definitions exist for synthetic validity, but only one, job component validity (JCV), actually specifies minimum scores for a given job. In an era of minimum cutoff scores, having an empirical procedure to determine requisite scores can …
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SOCIAL CONTEXT & ITS INFLUENCE ON PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL
… and individual student behaviors. Methodology Operational definitions of “high achievement” and “low achievement” based on a set of responses selected directly from the NELS dataset. Analysis A comparison, of measures of home, school, behavior descriptive and correlations. I will also use a …
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ACCULTURATION AND THE PREVALENCE OF DIABETES IN ADULT LATINOS: NHANES 2007-2010
… prevalence among Latinos have used diverse operational definitions of acculturation and have reported conflicting results. Objective: To examine the association between two acculturation measures--country of birth and predominant language spoken--with the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) …
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