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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"partial replication"”.
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Valued Spaces of Adolescents in a Rural Community
… be a place that they enjoy. This study was a partial replication of a study Venues and Values conducted by Patsy Eubanks Owens (1987) in which the valued spaces of suburban teens in California were explored. Rather than studying suburban adolescents, this study focuses on rural adolescents in …
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The DSM and Social Work: Twenty Years after Kutchins and Kirk
<p>This study is a partial replication of a quantitative study of social work clinicians’ attitudes toward the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) conducted by Herb Kutchins and Stuart Kirk in 1988, when the sway of the DSM was rapidly expanding. The present study also …
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Work-Life Role Integration: A Construct Validation Study
… its contribution to the existing literature. Partial replication and expansion of prior research on the work-family conflict model were demonstrated. Significant relationships were found among the role integration factors and various aspects of stress, work-family conflict, and satisfaction. …
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Diverse partial memory replication
… for automated program diversity called Diverse Partial Memory Replication (DPMR), aimed at detecting memory safety errors. DPMR is an automatic compiler transformation that replicates some subset of an executable's data memory and applies one or more diversity transformations to the replica. …
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Optimizing Data Layouts for Evolving Cloud Table Storage
… data skipping. Next, we propose CopyRight, a partial replication strategy that selectively replicates subsets of data and optimizes each replica differently, efficiently serving heterogeneous query patterns. Finally, we describe Self-Organizing Data Containers (SDCs), a practical table storage …
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Job attribute preferences in a downward economy
The current study is a partial replication of Jurgensen (1978) and Johnson (2008) studies that examined job attribute preferences. The reasoning for a replication so soon after Johnson (2008) study is research how the current economic environment may influence these variables. The job attributes …
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Rape in America: an empirical test of two theories
… the most recent state-level data available, a partial replication and modification of Baron and Straus's (1989) Four Theories of Rape in American Society was conducted employing several measures of pornography consumption (i.e., sex magazine circulation rate and household broadband access), …
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Demographics, Experiences, and Management Preferences of Backcountry Campers in Yellowstone National Park
… two weeks after their trip. The survey was a partial replication of a study by Tim Oosterhous conducted in 1999 and results for both years were analyzed and compared to identify any changes in backcountry use and demographics. The response rate for the questionnaire was 50.9% for a total of …
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Creativity differences between open-ended and well-defined tasks in a virtual environment
… (CAT). The findings of this study suggest a partial replication in Minecraft of the original Lego study. Specifically, the study concludes (1) participants in an open-ended task receive significantly higher creativity scores than the well-defined problem-solving group, and that well-defined …
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The Proverbial Ticking Biological Clock: A Symbolic TMT Perspective on Mate Perception
… mortality salience observed in past studies. In partial replication of a study conducted by Vaughn, Bradley, Byrd-Craven, and Kennison (2010), the current study included 151 heterosexual female participants who self-identified as falling within cyclical high fertility or low fertility categories, …
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Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: a test of New Public Management
… context of this paradigm shift in management. Partial replication of the IRS’s 1990 Taxpayer Opinion Survey showed taxpayers’ perceptions of the IRS have not improved. In fact, the IRS’s receipt of top quality service evaluations universally decreased. Analysis of selected …
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Teachers' attributions and beliefs about girls, boys and mathematics : a comparative study based on 40 Afrikaans-speaking secondary mathematics teachers in the Western Cape
… girls and mathematics. The present study is a partial replication of a study conducted by Fennema et al (1990) and the results are compared. The present study extended the work of Fennema et al (1990) through an exploration of the structure of the data. Forty female teachers in the Western Cape …
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Device-transparent personal storage
… specify flexible placement rules to guide Eyo's partial replication of object contents across devices. Eyo's application interface provides first-class access to object version history. If multiple disconnected devices update an object concurrently, Eyo preserves each resulting divergent version …
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An examination of psychological stress and its effects on the mitochondrial DNA
… to the progression of existing studies as a partial replication that employs a different experimental stress protocol (based on the International Affective Picture System) (IAPS), a younger student population and similar blood sample analyses. Specifically, the relationship between cell-free …
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Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Measure of Bias Towards Pupils with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
… for the trainee teacher group. Study 2 was a partial replication of Study 1 with a convenience sample of adults (n=41). The rationale was that there was no implicit stigma shown in Study 1 because the participants were highly qualified and familiar with individuals with ADHD and thus failed to …
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Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Measure of Spider Fear, Approach and Avoidance
… of the IRAP in terms of the BAT. Study 3 was a partial replication of Study 2 but using a live house spider instead of a moult for the BAT. A similar pattern of results was obtained across the two IRAPs but one specific trial-type (Spider-Approach) predicted approach responses on the BAT. The …
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Confabulation and mood: a programme of studies
… were followed up for 9 months.<br/>In partial replication of previous findings (Schnider, 2008), TCC scores were<br/>raised in confabulating patients compared with healthy individuals. However,<br/>TCC was not good at discriminating between confabulating and other brain<br/>injured …
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Optimizing Graph Neural Network Training on Large Graphs in A Distributed Setting
… careful trade-off between data partitioning and partial replication. I evaluate Distributed SALIENT on the Open Graph Benchmark (OGB) and show that Distributed SALIENT achieves good speedup compared to SALIENT’s well-optimized single-node code while only using replication factors of roughly 5%. …
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IRAP Attitudes and Alcohol
… role BIRRs play in alcohol use behaviour. Partial replication of research by Ostafin, Kassman, deJong, van Hemel-Ruiter (2014) demonstrates the advantage of the availability of IRAP trial type DIRAP data as well as overall DIRAP scores in results analysis.
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