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Showing 1 to 20 of 210 for “"rank-order"”.
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An investigation into the validity and clinical usefulness of the five-element rank order repertory grid with children
… and prognostic validity of the five-element rank order repertory grid (REP 5). This has been attempted at various levels of analysis with 48 nocturnal enuretic boys, aged 8 to 14, undergoing highly standardized hypnotherapy. REP 5, with neutral elements (photographs) and supplied constructs, …
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Pharmaceutical powders in experiment and simulation : towards a fundamental understanding
… of excipients. In all of the flow cases, the rank order of interparticle or intermaterial adhesion forces measured with AFM was exactly predictive of the rank order of ease of flow. Similarly, in all of the blending case studies, the rank order of adhesion force between the active …
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A study of the effects of psychotherapy on client-perceived power as a dimension of personality
… a result of psychotherapy (.02 level). Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient (Rho) statistical procedures were applied to determine if a rank-order relationship existed between the amount of change in the internal direction on the Rotter I-E Scale and the amount of fulfillment of client …
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Stability and change in values: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
… and change in values across the life span. Both rank-order stability and mean-level change were investigated for all four different value categories. Results of rank-order stability indicated that values are rather stable individual differences and that this level of stability increases as …
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A replicative study of the measurement of marital strain utilizing the rank-ordering technique
… and through the technique of allowing spouses to rank-order roles comprising role-sets of both their own and that of their spouse. Thus, the basic instrument of the study was the Marital Roles Inventory which listed roles in each spouse's role-set in random order, and which yielded two sets of …
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An item analysis of Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale form I subtests
… between bright, average, dull normal, borderline, and mentally defective groups; and (2) indicate the rank order of difficulty in the total population for each item.
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Comparative Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Drinking Water Disinfection by -Products
The quantitative rank order of the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of the DBPs showed that brominated haloacetic acids were more genotoxic than their chlorinated analogs in mammalian cells. The difference in the responses to DBPs by bacterial and mammalian cells suggests that the relative risks based …
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A pilot study on the effects of brief-ACT on college student drinking, correlates of drinking, and cognitive fusion.
… who were high in BL cognitive fusion had greater rank order stability between BL and FU negative alcohol-related consequences and those low in BL cognitive fusion had less rank order stability in negative alcohol-related consequences from BL to FU. Results provide initial support for the …
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The Relationship of Passage Independent and Passage Dependent Test Items to Each Other and to Cultural Item Bias
… ANCHOR Test Study (Bianchini and Loret, 1974) to rank order the test's 60 items according to three major context independence indices, Pyrczak's I, Tuinman's PDI, and Hanna-Oaster's CDI. A fourth index was also developed based on maximum likelihood theory, the MLI, and used to rank order the …
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A comparison of parents' and teachers' preferences for managing different levels of stereotypic behavior
… were compared through examination of the rank-order differences among eight intervention strategies for the total sample, between respondent groups (parents, teachers) across three case description vignette groups (mild, moderate, serious), and all pair-wise comparisons for intervention …
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The Effect of Ethnicity and Generation on Cultural Values
… Here and Now world views but no difference in rank order. Coefficient alphas for the subscales ranged from (.42) to (.67) with an overall value of (.82) for the scale. A confirmatory factor analysis was also calculated for the scale. The potential applications for therapeutic relationships are …
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Initial settlement of marine invertebrate larvae : the role of passive sinking in a near-bottom turbulent flow environment
… trap designs. A priori predictions regarding the rank order that the various traps would collect larvae in the field were dictated from laboratory flume experiments to determine the relative particle collection efficiencies of traps. The flume flow was seeded with particles having fall velocities …
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Variability in north temperate dung beetle assemblages at different spatial and temporal scales
… pitfall trapping were compared. Generally, the rank order of abundance of dung beetle species was significantly correlated between pitfall catches and cohort pad samples. Across different dung sizes, in both pitfall catches and cohort pad samples, the relative abundance of species was frequently …
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Exploring the sense of coherence and psychological symptomatology of teachers in under-resourced schools in Cape Town
… Descriptive statistics and the Spearman Rank Order Correlation was utilised to meet the aims of the study. Of the nine sub-dimensions of psychological symptomatology measured on the SCL-90-R, results revealed that the teachers scored high in the three dimensions of obsessive compulsive, …
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The relationship between study habits, study attitudes and intellectual achievement responsibility in a group of learning disabled adolescents
… in a group of learning disabled adolescents. In order to investigate this relationship, all of the grade 8 students at a remedial high school were required to complete the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, as well as the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale. Rank order correlations …
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Problems confronting contemporary public schools as perceived by Black school superintendents
The purpose of the study was to: 1) obtain rankings by black school superintendents of seventeen problems culled from the 1982 Gallup Poll, 2) ascertain commonality of agreement among respondents, 3) compare rankings of respondents with rankings of the public as identified in the 1982 Gallup Poll, …
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Training needs of pre-venture female entrepreneurs
… than did white women No difference was found in rank order comparisons of requested training needs between the two groups.Significantly more males than females requested information on bidding, sources of finance, advertising, government procurement, accounting/record keeping, and personnel. …
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Player performance evaluation in rugby using Stochastic Multi-Criteria Acceptability Analysis with simplified uncertainty formats
… experiment is used to assess (a) how closely a rank order of alternatives based on partial information and SMAA can approximate results obtained using full-information multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT), (b) whether a number of 'simplified' SMAA models which make use of summarised measures of …
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A study of expressed barriers, and their comparative strengths, to conducting a health ministry in selected seventh-day Adventist churches in Idaho, Oregon and Texas
… states of Idaho, Oregon, and Texas, provided the rank order of the barriers. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in the selected barriers between the groups tested, nor in the relative strength of each barrier within the groups tested. Results were obtained by …
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