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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"time series design"”.
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Positive psychology intervention for girls with conduct problems: a single-case time-series design
… Psychology Intervention (PPI; Salekin, 2010) was designed to fulfil this purpose. The current study aimed to examine the effectiveness of PPI in reducing psychopathic traits in a sample of female juvenile offenders. Method: The participants were eight 15-18-year-old adolescent girls with conduct …
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Reduction of stuttering in adult males using relaxed breathing and EMG biofeedback : a masters thesis ...
… breathing and a-x; biofeedback. A one group time-series design with 2 treatments was used. After an initial baseline phase (A) all 3 subjects received a relaxed breathing procedure (B), followed by a combined procedure featuring relaxed breathing and EMG biofeedback (BC). Results indicated …
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Who Benefits? The Effects of Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investment on Human Rights
… standard errors on a pooled cross-sectional time series design incorporating 127 countries from 1976 to 1996. While my results are not significant, it is important to observe that there is a tendency toward negative relationships for the majority of the analyses.
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Patterns of revenues for public elementary and secondary school education derived as a result of state lotteries: a case study of Michigan and New York
… are included in this research. An interrupted time-series design was employed to research the stability, reliability and yield of revenue from the state lotteries of Michigan and New York. Resultant data indicated that although in absolute dollars net lottery figures are impressive, they …
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A Treatment Feasibility Study of an Attention Retraining Approach for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
… a modified dot-probe paradigm. A single-case time-series design was employed with a treatment and post-treatment period, following baseline. Results indicated significant reductions in trauma-related symptoms, attention to threat cues, state anxiety and depression, along with a significant …
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The effects of an eight-hour affective education program on fear of Aids and homophobia in student nurses
… the education intervention; A quasi-experimental time-series design (pretest/posttest I/posttest II) with a control group was used. Instruments to measure homophobia and fear of AIDS were the Homophobia Scale and the Fear of AIDS Scale developed by Bouton and colleagues (1987); Within group …
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The Effects of Noise Reduction on Social Behaviors
… studies were obtained by utilizing interval time sampling measurement procedures as opposed to continuous recording. Procedure. Electro-mechanical equipment was wired to a stereo in the recreation room of a juvenile shelter care facility. The equipment continuously measured the frequency and …
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Changes in salaries, related benefits, and salary rankings of Tennessee K-12 instructional employees from 1977-1978 through 1980-1981
… Act was implemented on January 1, 1979. A time-series design was used to historically describe and compare changes in the salaries, benefits, and rankings over a pre-contract era and a contract era. Average teachers' salaries, minimum state salaries, local supplements, retirement and social …
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First Thirty Days of Life: Examining Calf Behavioral Development in Beluga Whales (<i>Delphinapterus leucas</i>) and Pacific White-Sided Dolphins (<i>Lagenorhyncus obliquidens</i>) at One Zoological Facility
… 30-day period, of both species. A single-case time series design analyzed developmental pattern differences within the 30 days for the successful calves. Overall, beluga whales and Pacific white-sided dolphins exhibited similar developmental trends; however, beluga whale calves had …
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An examination of alternative theoretical approaches to understanding consumer opinions of complex and controversial technologies
… ambiguous, attitude polarization will shift over time in the direction of a valued group norm. Additionally, diffusion theory predicts attitudes regarding innovative technologies will, over time, become more positive and should move in the direction of trusted opinion leaders. The body of this …
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Impact of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4 and 6 Inhibitors on Chemotherapy Utilization and Overall Survival in Women with HR+/HER2– Metastatic Breast Cancer in the United States
… States (US). Methods: Using an interrupted time series design, patients with a confirmed diagnosis of MBC aged ≥ 65 years initiating systemic therapy during 2010-2019 were selected from the SEER- Medicare database. The proportion of chemotherapy use was summarized quarterly based on the date …
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Cinematherapy as a Clinical Intervention: Theoretical Rationale and Empirical Credibility
… 2001). Using a single-subject interrupted time-series design (Glass, 1997) the subject completed the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS; Beck & Steer, 1993) and an adapted sentence completion task for 11 weeks in order to assess the effect that the cinematherapy intervention had on the subject's …
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The efficacy of personal initiative training for academic and career success as a stress management intervention for university students
… university students. A quantitative experimental time-series design was used, with N = 60 students initially recruited and N = 25 completing both time points. Participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group, which received a three-day PI training, or a waitlist control group. They …
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Reentry adjustment of short-term student sojourners: A test of the U-curve hypothesis
… for sojourner reentry adjustment by using a time series design with 6 biweekly time waves during reentry. Study abroad students (n = 62) returned to their US homes and then to college after 3 months overseas. A US-based control group (n = 21) returned to college on the same time schedule. …
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A Grocery Store Intervention Designed to Increase Fruit, Vegetable, and Healthy Snack Purchases among Parents of Young Children
… pod, comprised of food items from the kiosk. Design: An observational uninterrupted time-series design was used in one intervention grocery store. The intervention consisted of two components, a Healthy Kids Kiosk and food sampling. Subjects/Setting: Patrons of Ukrop's Inc. Grocery store in …
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Evaluating an Actively Caring for KIDS Process: A Behavioral-Community Program to Reduce Child Safety-Seat Misinformation and Misuse
… discount store and evaluated with an interrupted time series design and a similar control site for comparison. Key components of the KIDS Process included a) training of sales associates to act as behavior-change agents at the point-of-purchase, b) the use of in-store awareness and supportive …
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Toward a transformational roadmap to end pj paralysis: A mixed-methods impact study on patient ambulation initiative at hospitals in Alberta
… discharge abstracts, based on the Interrupted Time Series design. Thereafter, we interviewed 19 healthcare providers to understand their experiences and examined the resulting transcripts using thematic analysis. Results: The analysis results, averaged per unit per month, showed the length of …
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Aligning Practice with Vision: Leadership for Developing Character and Employability Attributes
… was to investigate the leadership necessary to design and implement an intervention process to develop character and employability attributes in secondary school students. The work habit mark was the means of assessing the degree of success to which a student demonstrated the attributes. The …
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Effects of the Deep Meditative Relaxation Technique (DMRT) On Nocturnal Self-Awakening Sleep/Wake Quality Among University Students
… increase the frequency of waking before alarm time, (2) decreasedifficulty waking from sleep, and (3) decrease difficulty falling asleep. Students werethe target population because of the student-lifestyle: A common set of behaviors thatinclude staying up very late into the night while …
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Using the Outcome Questionnaire 45.2 in Obesity Treatment
… The study employed a non-experimental time series design. Seventy-eight participants were recruited from the three local obesity treatment programs, which varied in length from 8 to 12 weeks. Participants were asked to complete the OQ-45 and report their current weight at the beginning …
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