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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"social outcomes"”.
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Essays in public policy and social outcomes in Brazil
… voting. Chapter 3: Electronic voting and Social Spending: The impact of enfranchisement on municipal public spending in Brazil This article studies the effect of political participation on municipal level public spending. We use the gradual introduction to electronic voting in Brazil, …
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NOx control and environmental regulation : techniques and discriminatory social outcomes
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Engineering better social outcomes through requirements management & integrated asset data processing
… has now been linked to poor perception and social outcomes. This research has developed and instantiated a methodology which uses data from the delivery and operational phases of a built asset and with the aid of understanding the user community’s perceptions creates intelligence that can …
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Enhancing Limited-Resource Farmers' Economic, Environmental, and Social Outcomes Through Extension Education
… farmers realize economic, environmental, and social outcomes through its 1890 Extension education program. Since1990, there has been little research on recent contributions of 1890 Extension programs for this audience. This inquiry described educational collaborative efforts among the North …
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Social Outcomes of Students with Language Impairment: An Eight-Year Follow-up Study
This study re-examined the language and social skills of four females with language impairment who were initially studied eight years ago (Brinton, Fujiki, Montague, & Hanton, 2000; Fujiki, Brinton, Isaacson, & Summers, 2001). Language measures included the Clinical Evaluation of Language …
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Translating social motivation into action: The contributions of need for approval to social outcomes in elementary school
… need for approval from peers influenced their social behavior (prosocial behavior, overt and relational aggression, and avoidant behavior) as well as how peers respond to them (popularity, victimization, and exclusion) across a one year span. Need for approval was conceptualized as either the …
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Self-concept as a moderator of the relationship between body mass index, achievement, and psycho-social outcomes of adolescents
… Index (BMI), academic achievement, and psycho-social outcomes of depression and anxiety. The study includes 15-year-old female and male participants from the database of the Study of Early Child Care (SECC) by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The research …
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Gender Double Standard of Aging: How Perception of Age and Related Social Outcomes are Modulated by the Gender of the Perceived
… of group labeling (e.g., gender, race, age) on social processes is one of the most important objectives of social psychology. Research in this tradition often studies the influence of one group label at a time; very little research has examined how multiple group labels (e.g., gender and age) …
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The Social Life of Privately-Owned Public Spaces: Investigating the history and social outcomes of POPS—one of the most powerful tools for creating public space in modern American cities.
… policies result in well-functioning, vibrant social spaces. Using the framework created by William Holly Whyte for assessing social space, it investigates the social life of three plazas in the South Lake Union neighborhood in order to reach its ultimate conclusions about what works, what …
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The Business of Education: Organizational Capacity In School Districts
… organizations in that they both deal in social outcomes and can be perceived as being ineffectively managed because social outcomes are exceptionally difficult to measure. Therefore, final organizational outcomes for nonprofits and school districts are difficult to report upon because …
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Assessing Associations Among Interpersonal Closeness, Fear Of Intimacy, Secure Attachment, And A Maternally Warm Rearing Style
… suggest that maternal warmth contributes to prosocial outcomes later in life. This survey study examined specific social outcomes in 241 college students and found that, while their perceived maternal warmth was correlated with a number of social outcomes, the relationships were not as strong as …
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Cognitive predictors of aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance across early childhood: the role of cool and hot executive function and theory of mind
… of mind (ToM) have been linked to children’s social outcomes, including aggression, prosocial behaviour and peer acceptance. However, understanding of these relations is limited by the focus of research on broad behaviour categories and on cool-cognitive EF skills, to the neglect of …
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A hybrid framework for social and financial investment decisions
… of natural resources and degradation of social outcomes. To accommodate for these preferences, this study proposes a theoretical framework to be used by such managers to inform their investment decision making. It incorporates discussion on the motivations for managers to embrace such …
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Social Information Processing and Working Memory Following Pediatric Stroke
There is a dearth of research examining social competence following pediatric arterial ischemic stroke (AIS). Previous studies suggest that working memory (WM) and social information processing (SIP), two related individual characteristics that are critical for this construct, are compromised …
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Risk, Vulnerability, and Hazards: The Industrial Canal and the Lower Ninth Ward
… study is to identify, analyze, and describe the social outcomes that may be affected by the environmental risks generated by infrastructure projects; to examine the ways in which vulnerability and exposure to hazards may increase risk in neighborhoods over time; and to examine the implications of …
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Grandmothers' and mothers' emotion socialization through intergenerational reminiscing in underrepresented families in the U.S.
Emotion socialization is defined as how socializers teach children about emotions, and one way socializers do this is through reminiscing about past emotional events. In the current study, I build on prior research on maternal emotion socialization by examining grandmothers' role in socializing …
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Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder and parent-child affective congruence in middle childhood
… is a developmental disorder associated with both social cognition differences (i.e., differences in facial affect categorization) and long-term detrimental social outcomes (i.e., difficulties with employment) among those with the disorder relative to those without it. However, few studies have …
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The Impact of the User-It Artifact Interaction on Technology Implementation and Value: Mobile Social Networking and Mobile Social Capital
… a conceptual model of the impact of mobile social capital on mobile networks of practice usage and benefits from the usage to understand what makes people use mobile technology. To do so, this study utilizes social network theories to introduce the concept of "mobile social capital" for …
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