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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"testing performance"”.
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Do Concussion History and Gender Influence Neurocognitive Testing Performance
… report greater symptom severity at baseline testing compared to athletes without a prior SC. In addition, it was hypothesized that female athletes with a previous SC at the high school level would show more impairment on baseline neurocognitive measures than college athletes with prior SC and …
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The Effect of Testing Location and Task Complexity on Usability Testing Performance and User-Reported Stress Levels
<p>Usability testing is becoming a more important part of the software design process. New methods allow remote usability testing to occur. Remote testing can be less costly and allow more data to be collected in less time in many cases, provided the user can still provide meaningful data. However, …
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An Identification of Student Summer Activities and Their Relationship to Mathematics Testing Performance Measured From Spring to Fall
… exists between the activities and mathematics testing change scores measured from spring to fall. This current effort built upon research conducted by Heyns (1978), Burkam et al. (2004), Downey et al. (2004), and Alexander et al. (2007). The commonality in findings that existed among all of …
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Self-installation of drip irrigation emitters for prototype emitter testing
… and I selected three combinations for further testing. Performance similar to factory-installed drip emitters was achieved at low pressure, but the necessary watertight seals repeatedly burst at higher water pressures. Alterations to the drip emitter and installation procedure are recommended …
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Guardian Cap Effectiveness on Reducing Impact Accelerations and Enduring Player Health at the Collegiate Football Level
… the Prism Neuro System and conducting impact testing, the study looked to evaluate the effectiveness of Guardian Caps. The Prism Neuro system gave us the ability to test proposition and visual skills of MIT Football players in season and out of season, and analyze their performance. We …
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Embedded avionics with Kalman state estimation for a novel micro-scale unmanned aerial vehicle
… isolation with incremental simulation and field testing. Performance is evaluated against commercially available inertial navigation system solutions. The result is a capable navigation system that, by its structure, trades a small measure of accuracy in order to be easily adapted to the embedded …
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Optimizing cybersecurity knowledge graph question answering: a framework for performance and generalization
… improving ForensiQ's entity detection speed, and testing performance on rephrased questions. Towards this goal, a Django web application was developed to visualize KGQA reasoning, aid KG exploration, and facilitate the creation of custom KGQA datasets. We also replaced ForensiQ's …
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Realities of the First-Year of Teaching Research on the Inspiration Behind, Reality of, and Effects of a First-Year Teacher.
… city itself which affect school wide culture, testing performance, student and staff retention rates, and the overall student classroom experience. A final review of the individual teacher experience concludes that student growth directly relates to an increase in teacher understanding of …
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Essays on Public Economics and Spatial Econometrics
… study examines how cluster size affects the testing performance greatly. The standard asymptotic theory requires the identical size of the clusters. Carter, Schnepel, and Steigerwald (2017)[1] relaxed this assumption and analyzed the effects of the cluster heterogeneity on testing …
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Feigning Cognitive Deficits on Neuropsychological Evaluations: Multiple Detection Strategies
… on five detection strategies: symptom validity testing, performance curve, magnitude of error, response time, and floor effect. Each was employed during both verbal and nonverbal tasks. Significant differences were revealed among groups when subjected to ANOVA. Classification rates from …
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The auto assist bar system for disabled people
… work will be performed during this project is testing performance of the sensors, design for the entire system either on mechanical parts and use the PID controller by using Arduino to control of dc motor. PID parameter values of Kp, Ki and Kd is obtained which is suitable to enable a dc motor …
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The Impact of Gamma Stimulation on Neurological Phenotypes of Alzheimer's Dementia and Down Syndrome
… cerebral atrophy, and improved behavioral testing performance in mouse models of AD. This thesis work focuses on the translation of this intervention into human patients with AD. Initial pilot studies assessed safety, compliance, entrainment and exploratory clinical outcomes in patients …
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A Quantitative Study of Career and Technical Education Curricula and Student Achievement
… to improve the student achievement. High-stakes testing performance is a central method schools utilize to demonstrate adequate student achievement and school quality. This quantitative study analyzed high school students undergoing Career and Technical Education (CTE) curricula and student …
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Improved State Estimation for Miniature Air Vehicles
… components while retaining and even enhancing performance requires more sophisticated processing of sensor data in order for the UAV to accurately determine its state and thereby allow the use of feedback in controlling the aircraft automatically. This work presents a three-stage …
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Investigating test anxiety and the effects of supportive messages
… of supportive messages affects the anxiety and performance of students completing open-ended programming questions. The results show that 23% of students experience high test anxiety when taking computer based programming exams and 22% of students have no method of coping with it. They also show …
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Supervised Classification of Imbalanced Bidding Fraud Data
… optimal SB classifier exhibits very satisfactory testing performance for detecting and misclassifying shill bidders. The hybrid sampling method SMOTE-ENN combined with the SVM has turned out to be the most performing classifier. Also, every sampled SB dataset greatly improved the classification …
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Antifouling and Antithrombogenic Ultrathin Surface Chemistry for Bioanalytical and Biomedical Applications
… signal from the biological matrix). Clinical testing performance was successfully demonstrated through the detection of bacterial endotoxin - a potent pathogen associated with the highly-incident, deadly condition of sepsis. EMPAS measurements performed in full human blood plasma (and in a …
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Strength and durability of steel to composite joints for marine application
… of the work is to understand the long-term performance characteristics of hybrid<br/>connections to allow for improvements to the design of hybrid structures. Two joints were<br/>investigated in the present research. The first was a full-scale connection suitable for<br/>application in …
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Intra-individual variability in adult ADHD: an exploration of the viability of distinct purely inattentive condition
… variability (IIV), or variation in cognitive testing performance within an individual across a measure or group of measures, may be an endophenotypic marker of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, not all studies have consistently demonstrated significant differences in …
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Promoting the Development of an Integrated Numerical Representation through the Coordination of Physical Materials
… the task, unintentionally reducing learners' performance in recall and transfer tasks. This reduction in testing performance may be mitigated by embedding physical incongruencies in the design of instructional materials. The effort of resolving this incongruency can foster a richer …
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