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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"scale validation"”.
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Socio-Economic Status Scale Validation Study
… validity and reliability of a new socioeconomic scale called the Wiseheart Socioeconomic Scale (WSESS). This new scale measures socioeconomic status (SES), as well as sociodemographic factors, including wealth, social supports and life stressors through the addition of eight novel WSESS …
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Scale Validation Of American Exceptionalism Index
… blind eye. This thesis sought to validate a new scale called the American Exceptionalism Index. The current study draws from instruction and examples from academics and professionals who have experience with scale validation – a primer was developed and available to guide future scale …
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Vietnamese Resilience Assessment: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Scale Validation
<p>This study examines the validity of the Vietnamese Resilience Assessment (VRA), the Vietnamese-translated version of the Resilience Youth Development Module (RYDM), which is considered to be a reliable and reasonable instrument to survey the levels of external and internal assets for American …
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Live coding the Communication Complexity Scale: Validation of a clinically relevant observation tool
… rating tool, the Communication Complexity Scale (CCS), was examined through three participant variables and one assessment variable: communication level of the participant, age of the participant, severity of autism of the participant, and assessment task function (joint attention or …
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Measuring Purposeful Engagement in Leader Self-Development: A Scale Validation and Pathway to Leader Adaptability
… motivation and self-regulation. To validate a scale of leader self-development and test its ability to predict leader adaptability, I conducted four studies that built on one another. The first study utilized a panel of experts to generate initial items. Studies two through four used a sample …
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The Level of Service Inventory (Ontario Revision) scale validation for gender and ethnicity : addressing reliability and predictive validity
Previous investigations of the Level of Service Inventory – Ontario Revision (LSI-OR) have examined individual subgroups of offenders (e.g., women, Aboriginal offenders), which has made comparisons of its predictive validity between specific offender groups suspect. This study was conducted on a …
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Experienced high performance work system in the public healthcare sector: Conceptualisation, scale validation and examination of its “dark side"
Recently there has been considerable evidence that high performance work system (HPWS) has garnered scholarly interest in the public healthcare context. Despite this growing interest, there remain a number of gaps that need to be addressed. First, human resource (HR) scholars have criticised the …
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Developing and Validating a Measure of Transformational Followership
… validity of the transformational followership scale using two separate samples of leaders (N = 295 and N = 327) recruited online through Prolific Academic. Finally, Phase 3 entailed a prospective design whereby leaders filled out the transformational followership scale with reference to one of …
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Evaluating Employee Positive Functioning and Performance: A Positive Work and Organizations Approach
… of a new Employee Positive Functioning (EPF) scale with more than 1,000 full-time employees. The ability of the EPF Scale to predict important work outcomes was also examined. Taken together, these studies show that PPIs implemented at work can be effective at improving employee well-being and …
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Validation of the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale in a group of black South African students
… validate the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) in a group of black South African students. In order to do so, the research objectives were: to investigate the internal consistency reliability of the DSES; to investigate factorial validity of the DSES; and to investigate the …
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A large-deformation thermo-mechanically coupled elastic-viscoplastic theory for amorphous polymers : modeling of micro-scale forming and the shape memory phenomenon
… we have performed a variety of macro- and micro-scale validation experiments involving complex inhomogeneous deformations and thermal processing cycles. By comparing some key features, such as the experimentally-measured deformed shapes and the load-displacement curves from various validation …
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Wastewater Carbon Diversion and Recovery via Primary Sludge Production, Thermal Hydrolysis, and Anaerobic Digestion
… biosolids odor emission. The two rounds of bench-scale aeration studies indicated that aerating the sludge in holding tanks reduced peak emission concentrations of sulfurous odorous compounds. Further full-scale validation confirmed that aeration can be used by utilities as a simple means for …
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Predicting motif mimicry in viruses
… techniques have been applied at large-scale in an attempt to characterise the interactomes of various organisms. However, the PPI networks identified by these high-throughput experiments have low resolution as compared to low-throughput technologies, such as protein co-crystallization. …
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The role of emotional intelligence in the quality of leader-follower relationship
… in an online survey questionnaire for scale reduction and validation. Factor analysis was employed for the purpose of scale reduction. Meanwhile, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed with Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS) for the purpose of scale validation. The second …
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Validation and application of the MERIS Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index.
… variables driving ecosystems at local to global scales. How and to what extent vegetation responds to climate variability is a challenging topic for global change analysis. Earth observation provides an opportunity to study temporal ecosystem dynamics, providing much needed information about the …
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Assessing the Relationship Between Empathy Climate, Motivation to Empathize, Network Ties, and Leader Engagement in Pursuit of Validating an Empathy Climate Scale
… definition of empathy climate and a validated scale to measure it. Over three studies, this dissertation directly targets this gap by completing the scale validation for a previously proposed empathy climate scale by assessing the scale’s test-retest reliability and incremental and predictive …
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Cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) enrichment for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): a comparison of molecular techniques
… platform for NIPD. However, further large scale validation studies using actual maternal samples are required.
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Phenologic Assessment of Western South Dakota Rangelands
… areas were degrading practices were occurring. Validation of remotely sensed observations with field data is critically important to any remote sensing study. Remotely sensed phenology and biomass data for western South Dakota rangelands was determined using MODIS normalized difference …
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Quantifying structural change in UK woodland canopies with a dual-wavelength full-waveform terrestrial laser scanner
… clouds into leaf and wood on a tree and plot scale using dual-wavelength lidar, and (3) the examination of the seasonal dynamics of vegetation structure in a range of UK forest types. To address these objectives, two field campaigns were conducted. SALCA measurements of artificial reflectance …
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Individual differences in interpersonal dependency in older adults: Development of a measure and its evaluation in health care services
… needs. A review of the literature found that no scale for the measurement of interpersonal dependency of older adults had been developed. This research, therefore, developed a measure of interpersonal dependency for use with older adults and evaluated it in a home-care service setting. The …
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