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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"poor-performing"”.
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Characteristics of poor performing schools within Tshinane Circuit in Vhembe District
… rate with seven out of ten secondary schools performing below the provincial norm. Hence, the circuit was declared dysfunctional. The aim of this research was to investigate the characteristics of poor performing schools within Tshinane Circuit in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province. The …
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The Construct of Substance Abuse Enabling Applied to Poor Performance Management: How Managers Deal With Poor Performing Employees
… attributions and responses that managers make to poor performance using the construct of enabling from the field of substance abuse. Approximately 200 government and 55 non-government managers responded to a three-part questionnaire exploring managers' enabling behaviors, attribution of the causes …
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Effect of pre-stressing on the durability of portland cement concrete
… rejected aggregate which cannot be used for its poor performance under natural weathering, it has become of paramount importance that further efforts be made to evaluate the effect of prestressing on the durability of concrete. The purpose of this thesis was twofold: 1) To study the durability of …
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Characterization of Treatment Planning System Photon Beam Modeling Errors In Iroc Houston Phantom Irradiations
… errors have been identified as a major cause for poor phantom irradiation performance, which may also mean that patients are treated suboptimally. The purpose of this work was to investigate the TPS beam modeling developed by the radiotherapy community to understand where inconsistencies may …
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Building conditions and students' attainment in Jamaica
… fast growing populations, low GDP, and where a poor performing economy is the norm. The aim of the study was to examine the findings of previous researchers to determine if the same variables they found that were associated with student attainment were also associated with students’ low academic …
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The Quality of Corporate Governance and the Length it Takes to Remove aPoor Performing CEO. Does performance of the former firm affect a CEO's ability to find an identical with a subsequent firm?
… takes to remove a CEO after the initial sign of poor firm performance. We find that firms that have a better quality of internal corporate governance are quicker to remove poor-performing CEOs. This result persists after controlling for other factors that might influence the CEO removal …
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Machine learning for selecting parallel I/O benchmark applications
… and to guide the performance optimization of poor performing applications, is therefore an important problem. We investigate the use of submodular function maximization as a way to select a set of I/O benchmark applications using measures of similarities between applications computed from I/O …
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Interpretable Deep Image Denoiser by Unrolling Graph Laplacian Regularizer
… As a result, they frequently converge to poor-performing local minima. This thesis proposes an image denoising neural net constructed by unrolling an iterative algorithm solving a maximum a posteriori (MAP) optimization problem regularized using a graph Laplacian prior. To guarantee a …
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Factors Influencing Teachers’ Motivation and Job Performance in Kibaha district, Tanzania
… factors of motivation that are available at good performing schools and that are not available at poor performing schools and to document suggestions for improving teacher’s job satisfaction and performance. The study employed a descriptive survey research design. Research techniques employed were …
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Learning organization principles and processes : UK construction organization experiences
… research question, "To what extent do excellent performing UK construction contracting organizations demonstrate and employ recognized Learning Organization processes?" It utilized a case-study based approach as that approach was seen as being most useful for exploring the processes that may or …
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INTERNAL CONTROL QUALITY AND INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN THE SECONDARY LOAN MARKET
… firms with reported ICDs are generally small, poor performing, financially weaker, and characterized by higher market risk than firms with effective internal control system.</p>
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Wealth Effects of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on Financial Services Industry
… merger related hypothesis. The result shows that poor performing firms and larger firms gain more form this deregulation. In the third and fourth chapter I investigate the wealth effects of the GLBA on international banks and foreign insurance companies. I find that the events leading to the …
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UK mutual fund performance
… ability among a relatively small number of top performing UK equity mutual funds (i. e. performance which is not solely due to good luck). At the negative end of the performance scale, the analysis strongly rejects the hypothesis that most poor performing funds are merely unlucky. Most of these …
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Why South Africa's energy-poverty policy ignores female well-being : a case of non-decision-making?
… well-being as women are dissatisfied with poor performing cooking and lighting fuels which negatively impacts young children's health, including inadequate options for food storage due to limited appliance use in the un-electrified informal settlement. Recommendations for the Free Basic …
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Sustained rents in imperfect labor markets : essays on recruitment, training, and incentives
… incentive to retain and adjust quotas for poor performing subordinates, permitting me to distinguish managers' interests from those of the firm. I parametrically estimate the model using detailed person-transaction-level microdata from 244 firms that subscribe to a "cloud"-based service for …
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Increasing the success of community transfer when creating species-rich meadows using green hay strewing
Methods of increasing the number, diversity and evenness of plant species establishing in species-rich meadows created or enhanced with green hay from a semi-natural source meadow were studied. Three experiments were conducted on grasslands in Birmingham and Herefordshire: (i) Comparisons of …
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Factors influencing grade 12 learners' performance in English second language in two selected senior secondary schools in the Omusati education region
… for 2007 to 2011, Namibian students performed poorly in the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary level (NSSCO) ESL examinations. The poor performance of Grade 12 learners in the ESL NSSCO examinations in the Omusati education region (OER) has been noted in the DNEA reports. The number …
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Psychological correlates of injury, illness and performance in Ironman triathletes
… is a strong predictor of injury, illness and poor performance, but inherent personality traits have failed to show a constant association with these parameters. Advances in validated psychometric instruments of personality and resilience show promise in their application to further the …
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The Potential Of Rethinking The Teacher Observation And Evaluation Model
… teacher growth, endorse success, and hold poor performing teachers accountable.</p> <p>Participant teachers and administrative leaders from one rural school district in Maine embraced the idea of creating a culture in which autonomy and accountability could coexist through the process of …
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Design, verification and validation of a dynamic model for an intramuscular autoinjector
… process, an incorrect model would result in poor-performing autoinjectors that fail to deliver the desired dose of medication into the intramuscular layer at the required injection time. This research has proved that it's possible to inject highly viscous drugs and large doses using an …
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