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Showing 1 to 20 of 1369 for “"skilled"”.
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Context-Free Word Recognition of Skilled and Less-Skilled Spellers
A group of intermediate-grade dysgraphic children, defined as demonstrating adequate reading comprehension but performing below grade level in spelling, was matched for reading comprehension with a group of children who performed adequately in reading and spelling. On a test of context-free word …
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Training Program for Occupational Therapists Working with Skilled Caregivers in Skilled Nursing Facilities
… with dementia (IwD) are often referred to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) for around-the-clock care to receive support for their everyday challenges brought on by dementia symptoms. Although certified nursing assistants (CNAs) help IwD with everyday self-care tasks, they frequently lack …
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Kinematics of drop punt kicking in Australian rules football - comparison of skilled and less skilled kicking
… that have compared the difference between skilled and less skilled kickers in Australian Rules football have found that the difference in performance is the result of 1) the position of the shank at the end of the backswing is higher above horizontal (further in the clockwise direction) for …
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The effects of questioning during and after reading on inference generation between skilled and less-skilled comprehenders.
… generation, during and after reading between skilled and less-skilled comprehenders. Additionally, other cognitive factors may influence skilled and less-skilled comprehenders' inference generation, and working memory (WM) may be a potential factor. A review of the adult-focused and …
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Enhancing memory access for less-skilled readers
<p>Ericcson and Kintch (1995) suggested that less-skilled readers often have an impoverished representation of text. The results of five experiments demonstrated that the addition of causality enhanced the text representation of less-skilled readers. Experiments 1-3 showed that the addition of …
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Skilled Behaviour and Bilateral Motor Map Expression
… seizures to motor map alterations and impaired skilled forelimb movement was studied using the electrical kindling model and short-duration intracortical microstimulation (SD-ICMS). Forelimb motor map movements changed considerably from contralateral in sham-kindled rats to ipsilateral and …
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Learning Teamwork in a Skilled Psychomotor Task
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The effects of fatigue on the mechanics of forward maximum velocity power skating in skilled and less-skilled skaters.
… velocity power skating, 16 subjects (eight skilled, six less-skilled) were videotaped using two cameras while subjects performed a maximum exertion test covering 380 metres. Subjects were assigned to the skilled or less-skilled group based on their individual task times. Mean task times were …
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The Construction of the Skilled and Healthy Immigrant
The purpose of this study is to explore how skilled racialized immigrants (SRIs) make sense of their well-being when they immigrate to Canada under the Federal Skilled Workers Program (FSWP). To fulfill this purpose, I used an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to conduct 12 qualitative …
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The skilled coachee: An alternative discourse on coach
… theoretical insights into the concept of a skilled coachee, providing an alternative discourse to that which is dominant in the coaching literature. Despite the emphasis on coachee benefits as an output of coaching, the prevailing discourse of coaching privileges the skills of the coach in …
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Skilled Migration and Remittances: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses
This dissertation investigates the impact of skilled migrants' remittances and import tariffs of migrant-sending countries on skilled migration. The first chapter builds a model that predicts the positive association between emigration of skilled individuals and the proportion of remittances from …
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Post-Secondary Education Influence: College VS. Skilled Trades
… directed at a particular field and its skills. A skilled trade is any occupation that requires a specific skill set, knowledge, or ability. It is usually a hands-on job, but skilled trades are found in every career cluster. Vocational education helps create future professionals who need education …
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Skilled Birth Attendant Assessment In Haiti: A Pilot Project
… evaluate a cohort of graduates from a grassroots skilled birth attendant training program in Haiti to determine if they meet global standards of competency established by the International Confederation of Midwives. </p> <p>Design and setting: A testing instrument that included both a 50-question, …
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Improving skilled workers' performance in construction projects in Nigeria
Skilled workers’ performance is one of the crucial aspects of labour productivity that requires proper attention for effective projects delivery in the construction industry. The level of skilled workers’ low performance has been seen to be a major factor which contributes toward inefficient …
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FIRST GRADERS AS SENSITIVE SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLED READERS
This mixed methods dissertation is guided by a sociocultural framework and a pragmatist stance to contribute to early literacy scholarship about minority children. In particular, I explore the relationship between low socioeconomic status Puerto Rican children’s reading experience and their social …
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An Evaluation of Skilled Immigration in the United States
This dissertation examines skilled immigration in the context of labor and health economics. The research focuses on the high-skilled labor market, whereas previous studies either treat all immigrants as a homogeneous group or focus on the low-skilled. The first essay investigates the wage …
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Essays on the youth and low-skilled labor market
… consists of three chapters on the youth and low-skilled labor markets. In Chapter 1, I show that teen employment is significantly more responsive than adult employment to immigration, and that growth in low-skilled immigration appears to be a partial explanation for recent declines in teen …
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