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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"research assistants"”.
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Expanding the research horizon in higher education : master's students' perceptions of research assistantships
This study explores how effectively current research assistantships impart research methods, skills, and attitudes; and how well those experiences prepare the next generation of researchers to meet the evolving needs of an ever-expanding, knowledge- based economy and society. Through personal …
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Learning experience and identity development as a research assistant /
What research learning experiences do current students have as research assistants (RAs) in the Faculty of Education at Brock University? How do the experiences of research assistants contribute to the formation of a researcher identity and influence future research plans? Despite the importance of …
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The development of interpersonal relationships in individuals with schizophrenia: A transactional framework
Three student research assistants spent six weeks at an inpatient psychiatric facility. The research assistants were instructed to form two-week long relationships with 15 patient participants. Students were assigned to no more than six patients during any one two-week period. At the beginning and …
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Intervening to Influence Fast-Food Choices: Assessing Response Generalization in Nutrition-Related Behavior
… A--A--B, and Restaurant 3 received A--A--A. Research assistants distributed discount coupons on a new healthy sandwich to consumers during Condition B in Restaurants 2 & 3. This sandwich was available in a healthy combo including salad and water, and a regular combo including soda and fries. …
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Pink and Dude Chefs: A Nutrition and Culinary Intervention for Middle School Students
… knowledge and culinary ability. Trained research assistants from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) led middle school boys and girls in lessons ranging on topics including macronutrients, real-world application of USDA MyPlate guidelines, and meal planning and budgeting. …
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Exploring Thriving of Inuit Youth Through an Engagement Lens: A Strengths-Based Focus on Factors Related to Nunavummiut Youth's Participation in a Psycho-Educational Mental Health Project
… participants engagement in two mental wellness research initiatives: the Making I-SPARX Fly in Nunavut [I-SPARX] and the Virtual Qaggiq projects. For Inuit youth leaders/ research assistants, this was explored through semi-structured interviews. For Inuit youth testers in the I-SPARX game …
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Evaluation of mental preparation strategies for the 200 meter run: A controlled outcome study
… of three conditions: (1) statements delivered by research assistants related to technical skills and motivational statements, (2) questions related to what the participant is experiencing, and (3) statements expected to inhibit optimal performance. As compared with the aforementioned questions, …
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Classifying Laughter: An Exploration Of The Identification and Acoustic Features of Laughter Types
… de-escalative, and power. Consulting with research assistants, this paper then classifies 113 instances of laughter from 62 Congressional Committee meetings published on C-SPAN. The interrater classification agreement suggests individuals can identify and categorize the different types of …
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Leisure involvement and the subjective well-being of young adults with mental retardation
… were proposed to affect subjective well-being. Research questions were also addressed on differences suggested in the literature among associations with personal and social adjustment dimensions of subjective well-being, gender of subjects, and severity of mental retardation. The study was made …
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Assessment of prescribing practices in community pharmacies in Windhoek, Namibia: a focus on antibiotics
… Data was retrospectively captured by the researcher and two trained research assistants using two data collection forms adapted from WHO-validated tools. Data analysis was conducted using the latest version of IBM’s Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM/SPSS/Statistics/28.0) to …
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Youth Adjustment to the Impact of the Sierra Leone Civil War
… questions administered face-to -face by trained research assistants in Sierra Leone from April through May of 2014. MANOVA test revealed similar adjustment status for civilians and former recruited youth twelve years after the end of the civil war. In Hierarchical and Logistic Regression …
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Person-Oriented Versus Task-Oriented Spin Instruction: Differential Impact on Participants' Mood and Sociability
… has been shown to improve mood (Stöhle, 2009). Research has explored how exercise instructors can affect class participants' mood (Edmunds, Ntoumanis, & Duda, 2008). One style of instruction that is less understood relates to task-oriented vs. person-oriented instruction. The primary aim of this …
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Effects of Anxiety Treatment Using Coping Cat on Problem Behaviors in the Classroom
… emotional regulation. The current single subject research study was implemented to evaluate the effect of an anxiety reduction intervention, Coping Cat, on participants’ anxiety symptoms and behavior problems. The design included a baseline phase, an intervention phase, and a maintenance phase …
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A Case Study of Doctoral Research Assistantships: Access and Experiences of Full-Time and Part-Time Education Students
Graduate students’ development as researchers is a key objective in higher education. Research assistantships provide distinctive spaces where graduate students can be nurtured and shaped as novice researchers as they develop theoretical and methodological knowledge. However, few scholars have …
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Prompt Injection Generation Using Small Language Models with Reinforcement Learning with Artificial Intelligence Feedback
… many fields from customer support automation to research assistants. However, despite their growing adoption, they face significant challenges, particularly when it comes to safety in sensitive contexts. Existing methods like Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) and keyword filtering …
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A study of the relationship between anxiety and co-operative behaviour
… of the first and second aims of the study. The researcher constructed his own Co-operative Behaviour Scale to achieve the objectives of aim four. Research assistants helped with the construction of the Academic Performance Scale. The findings according to the first aim of the study, that is, the …
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The relationship between exposure to community violence, social support, parenting attitudes and child behavioural adjustment
… questionnaires in their homes by trained research assistants . Children completed the Survey of Exposure to Community Violence, the Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale and the Social Support Scale for children. Caregivers completed a demographic questionnaire, the South African Child …
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A Comparison of Feedforward versus Feedback Interventions for Safety Self-Management in Mining Operations
… not complete any self-monitoring forms. Trained research assistants made a total of 10, 905 obtrusive behavioral observations on three target behaviors (ear plugs, dust mask, and safety glasses) and five non-target behaviors (gloves, hard hat, boots, knee position during lifts, body position …
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Prompting safety-belt use with a positive versus negative prompt: Comparative impact on the target behavior and relevant body language
… two student parking lots of a large university. Research assistants identified an unbuckled driver, flashed one of two signs, and recorded whether the driver buckled after the prompt, as well as the driver's facial reactions and hand gestures. Of the unbuckled drivers, 34% buckled following the …
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Assessing Children\'s Restaurant Menus in a Health Disparate Region
… in a rural health disparate region. Two trained research assistants conducted systematic audits of all food outlets offering a children\'s menu in the Dan River region using the Children\'s Menu Assessment (CMA) tool. A composite score for each outlet for was calculated from the 29 scored items …
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