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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"transfer effect"”.
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Quantification of first language transfer effect on second language acquisition
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Transfer Effect of Trust, Satisfaction and Loyalty Link: Building Loyalty Relationships through an E-Contact Center
… The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of consumer trust in information and communication technology on the trust, satisfaction, and loyalty that customers develop with e-contact centers and to provide an integrated model to assess the effect of a trust-satisfaction-loyalty link …
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Three Essays on The Cost of Debt Capital
… </p> <p>Chapter 2 analyzes the information transfer effect of bond rating adjustments among firms competing in the same industry. Specifically, I investigate the impact of a bond credit rating change with respect to one firm in an industry on the corporate bond yield spreads of rival firms. …
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The Effects of Employees Transfer on Secondary Schools Performance in Zanzibar: A Case Study at South District, Unguja
This paper attempts to investigate the effects of employees transfer on secondary schools performance of Zanzibar case study south district. Where schools like Makunduchi Secondary School, Jambiani Secondary School and Kitogani Secondary School were investigated, to find out schools performance. …
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Chemical Kinetics and Heat Transfer in Polyurethane Foam and Resin Composites
… the physics, the chemical kinetics, and the heat-transfer properties of the materials.</p> <p>For this work, the chemical kinetics of the polyurethane foam and the fiberglass-reinforced resin is investigated individually. An adiabatic method, which is commonly used by many investigators, is used …
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Attitude Change in Inductively and Deductively Organized Ethical Belief Structures
… of abortion and euthanasia, and to explore the effects of structure on attitude change. The first experiment explored these issues from a pro-life perspective and the second experiment from a pro-choice perspective. Deductive and inductive logic were proposed as ways to organize beliefs in these …
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Exploring possible coupling between phonons and internal nuclear states
… internal nuclear states, leading to excitation transfer between nuclei. The aim of this Ph.D. thesis is to experimentally test Hagelstein's theory. In this research, we used Co-57 as the sample to investigate the nuclear excited states. Unexpected non-exponential decay was seen in the first …
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Novel applications of pulse pre-pump Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis for behavior evaluation of structures under thermal and mechanical loading
… (1) develop an analytical model for the strain transfer effect of distributed fiber optic sensors in a uniform or non-uniform stress field; (2) develop a measurement approach to monitor strains in concrete and detect damage (e.g. crack and delamination) in bonded and unbonded concrete overlays; …
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Intra-Industry Information Transfers Associated With Management Earnings Forecasts
… firms in its industry (an information transfer) and proposes tests of the proposition that management forecasts of earnings generate such transfers. Cluster analysis procedures are used to construct homogeneous industries for which the transfer effect is hypothesized. Parametric tests …
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The production and perception of Libyan Arabic stress patterns by English speaking learners: A comparison with native speakers
… system in Chapter 3. It is found that structural effects (e.g. syllable structure, vowel quality, syllable position or class) have consequences on how the learners perceive and produce stress and on how they use this information in assigning stress. The study found that if the stress patterns …
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Improving heat transfer in spent nuclear fuel disposal packages using metallic void fillers
… spent nuclear fuels (SNF) require improved heat transfer to keep the peak cladding temperature from going above the tolerance limit. Filling the accessible void spaces between the container and the SNF with a high heat conducting metal is a potential solution. In metal casting, it is well known …
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The Effects Of Depth Jump Implementation Of Sprint Performance In Collegiate And Club Sport Athletes
… power output. Muscular strength and power have a transfer effect to sprint speed; however, few have examined if implementing DJs into training can increase sprint speed. Purpose; The purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of DJs into a sprint training program would increase …
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Teaching Older Adults How to Fall Safely
… severity parameters following training (aim 1), transfer of the falling strategy to the untrained side (aim 2) and 1-week retention (aim 3). 17 healthy older individuals participated (age: 64.3±4.4 years, 14 males). Participants were randomly assigned into either training group (n=9) or active …
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COVARIANCE STRUCTURAL MODELS FOR MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF SEX DIFFERENCES AT THE LEVEL OF COLLEGE CALCULUS USING FACTORIAL MODELING
… confidence, perceived usefulness of mathematics, effectance motivation, and locus of control. Measures of previous academic achievement and participation in mathematics and science, and future academic plans, as well as achievement in the calculus course itself were recorded. The sample was then …
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How to Ask for a Favor: An Exploration of Speech Act Pragmatics in Heritage Russian
… finite modal (due to incomplete acquisition and transfer) and to orient their requests to the speaker (transfer effect). Combination of linguistic material leads to the emergence of new pragmatic conventions, specific to HR, which involve možno + požalujsta for requests addressed to peers and …
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Playing for a Good Cause: Investigating Consumer Perceptions of Sport Brands in Cause-Related Marketing Campaigns
… (MacInnis & Jaworski, 1989), and brand image transfer (Simonin & Ruth, 1998), the author aimed to advance the study of cause-related marketing (CRM) strategy by (1) investigating brand traits (i.e., perceived warmth, perceived competence) as potential processing elements for consumer brand …
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Interpretation and processing of overt pronouns in Korean, English and L2-acquisition
… with a focus on possible first language (L1) transfer. Using offline tasks and eye-tracking measures, the dissertation seeks answers to three primary research questions (RQs): 1) How are overt pronouns in Korean interpreted? 2) How are overt pronouns in Korean processed? 3) How do the …