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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"situational context"”.
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Exploring the situational context of criminal assaults and batteries
… significance of examining crime events and the situational context of crime. This paper extends that research by exploring the physical and social aspects of assaults. Guided by research on masculinity, status threats, and character contests, this study uses police data to examine the …
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The social and situational context of employment interview decisions
… interview, by suggesting that the social context has been largely neglected, and proposing and testing a model of social and situational influences on employment interview decisions designed to expand our knowledge base.
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The effect of situational context on playful behaviors of young preschool children
This study was designed to assess the effect of Situational context on the playful behaviors of young preschool children ages 18 to 24 months. Playfulness was defined as a psychological construct involving the disposition of play (Rogers, Meeks, Impara, & Frary, 1987). Playful behaviors were …
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Visual Experience in Temporal Situational Context: Method of Matching and Modeling in Design
… nature. Recognizing that the temporal situational context, or an individual’s perceived environment over time, can provide insights into their cognitive state and yield a more consistent visual experience than static contexts, I argue that by incorporating temporal situational context, …
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Situational Context and Personality Influences on Motor Performance: A Test of Self-Determination Theory
… of motivation through priming a specified situational context. The effect of the personality orientation and situational prime on self-handicapping was also analyzed. Hypotheses were derived from key concepts of self-determination theory, specifically causality orientation theory, and …
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An experimental inquiry into the effects of the amount of information, attributed source of the information and situational context on perceived risk in the selection of an attorney
… examines the relationship between the situational context of a decision, the amount of information, attributed source of the information and perceived risk in a professional service setting. Perceived risk theory, the dichotomy of goods and services, and factors unique to professional …
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A Study of the Syntactic and Sociolinguistic Development of Korean Children in *America
… develop CS patterns that follow the rules of the situational context. As a result, CS develops depending on the individual selection of interaction and communicative experiences. As a result, the children did not show a uniform developmental sequence in their functional use of CS. Also different …
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The effects of gender, socioeconomic status, and situation specificity on thinking, feeling, and acting
… on gender, socioeconomic status, and the situational context. The Hutchins Behavior Inventory was used to assess the TFA orientations of 172 resident counselors at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The effects of gender and socioeconomic status on thinking, feeling, and …
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A Software Framework for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
<p>By combining context awareness and analytical based relevance computing software, the proposed Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) framework aims provide a foundation to create communication systems to dramatically increase the words available to AAC users. The framework will allow …
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Designing Educational Video Games and Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Drill-Based Training
… tools have two main problems: (1) not providing situational context for training, which limits learners' ability to apply previously learned knowledge and skills to real-life situations; (2) not designed for learners with specific learning disabilities (i.e., dyslexia, dyscalculia, and …
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The Moderating Effects of Personality Traits on Stressor--Symptom Contingencies in Borderline Personality Disorder
… moderate contingent relationships among proximal situational stressors and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The main question of interest was whether personality traits explain why people with BPD experience stronger symptom reactions to proximal situational stressors, relative …
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The affordance-based concept
Natural language use relies on situational context. The meaning of words and utterances depend on the physical environment and the goals and plans of communication partners. These facts should be central to theories of language and automatic language understanding systems. Instead, they are often …
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A study of the leadership approaches of principals heading National Strategy Learner Attainment (NSLA) schools in the metro central education district in the Western Cape province
… preferred style of leadership and that the situational context must be taken into account for leadership to be effective. The study was guided by the qualitative methodological paradigm which is embedded in the interpretivist approach in order to develop rich and in-depth descriptions and …
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A mixed method investigation to develop a specialised occupational therapy theory based intervention manual for use with young people with emerging mental health issues
… perception of this process in relation to their situational context and mental health, and to inform the co-development of an occupational therapy theory-based intervention for young people aged 16 to 17 years experiencing emerging mental health difficulties. Methodology: Informed by the …
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Warriors of choice : the (Re)articulation of militarized masculinities in private and public special forces
… is associated within a particular political/situational context and therefore should be understood in its plural--as militarized masculinities. However, there is limited scholarship focusing on how masculinities vary in Special Forces and private security firms. This lack of scholarship …
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The iLog methodology for fostering valid and reliable Big Thick Data
… many useful variables describing the person's context (e.g., where she is, with whom she is, what she is doing, and her feelings and emotions) are still unavailable. Therefore, people are, at best, thinly described. A former solution is to collect Big Thick Data via blending techniques, …
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Adaptive heterogeneous parallelism for semi-empirical lattice dynamics in computational materials science.
… efficiency and fault tolerance depends on the situational context. This thesis presents a case study in the application of both Mattsons prescriptive pattern-oriented approach and the more principled structured parallelism formalism to the computational simulation of inelastic neutron …
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A comparison of forensic populations using the validity scales on the MMPI-3
… validity of self-reports in clinical assessment contexts. Specifically, individuals undergoing an assessment can be impacted by non-contentbased response bias, overreporting, and underreporting of psychological impairment and/or distress. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) …
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Maternal Sensitivity, Maternal Mind-mindedness, and Infant Socioemotional Functioning: An Examination of Concurrent Associations
… as a function of task type suggest that the situational context of mother-infant interactions may influence the nature and strength of the relationship between sensitivity, mind-mindedness, and infant socioemotional functioning.</p>
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Formality Style Transfer Within and Across Languages with Limited Supervision
… also conveys important information about the situational context and purpose of communication. When editing an article, professional editors take into account the target audience to select appropriate word choice and grammar. Similarly, professional translators translate documents for a …
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