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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"video observations"”.
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Laboratory studies on the feeding behaviour of juvenile Cape horse mackerel, Trachurus trachurus capensis
… tanks provided estimates of prey concentration. Video observations were used to examine feeding behaviour and to investigate the feeding response of horse mackerel to various food types and prey sizes.
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An exploration into young children's embodied engagement with storyworlds through curated storyworld play
… perspective is used to generate video observations of 4- and 5-year olds’ embodied engagement within two classrooms over five months. Observations are subjected to a fine-grained multimodal analysis, focusing on the characteristics of movements. Analysis of video observations …
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Understanding the motions of the cheetah tail using robotics
… novel tailed robot, Dima I. Inspired by cheetah video observations, the tail motion in the pitch axis during rapid acceleration and braking manoeuvres is also investigated. Once again modelling and experimental testing on a tailed robot are performed and the tail is shown to stabilise rapid …
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Professional dialogues to foster dialogic pedagogy in mathematics: Design and test of a school-run teacher professional development programme
… Data consists of pre-post lessons, pre-post video observations, interviews and teacher session recordings. Regarding viability, the programme was appreciated by participants, but two schools dropped out at different points in time. A tentative explanatory model indicated that these variations …
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The Relationship between an Affective instructional Design, Children's Attitudes Toward Mathematics, and Math Learning for Kindergarten-Age Children
… and baseline and intervention non-participant video observations of math learning and math attitudes, during 13 math lessons were coded and analyzed. As hypothesized, a significant positive correlation (r = 0.936, p = 0.000) was found between attitude and math learning. Additionally significant …
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Inferring Structured World Models from Videos
… agents to learn a variety of board games and video games at superhuman levels. Unlike humans - which can generalize to a wide range of tasks with very little experience - these algorithms typically need vast number of experience replays to perform at the same level. In this thesis, we propose …
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Improving aviary designs by observing laying hen locomotor development and determining navigational preferences
… hens in a complex three-dimensional system. Video observations of chicks (1-9 weeks of age) showed that chicks performed more locomotor events on the ground than on elevated surfaces and performed more locomotive and perching events on leveled surfaces than inclined surfaces (ramps/ladders). …
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Examining Middle School String Students' Sight Reading Processes
… through field notes, interviews, tests, and video observations. The results show a significant difference in test scores from the pretest to the posttest. The qualitative data show each student's progression throughout the unit in musical language, strategies and techniques used, and the …
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Using Personality Traits to Predict Pectoral Fin Contact Initiation Role in Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… selected from previously recorded underwater video observations of a bottlenose dolphin group under human care at the Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences (RIMS) between 2014 and 2017. Personality assessments were conducted by experienced trainers for dolphins using rating questionnaires that …
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Patterns in Gray Wolf Pup Survival and Recruitment in Northern Minnesota
… I used a combination of litter counts and video observations from a large remote camera array to estimate annual wolf pup survival and recruitment and to evaluate intra-annual patterns in pup survival and recruitment within the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, MN, USA. Mean annual pup survival …
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Naturalists’ Perspectives on the Use of Mobile Technology During a Nature Hike
… collect and analyze data. Data sources include video observations and field notes taken during the hikes, and semi-structured interviews conducted after the hikes. found that overall the naturalists would use the tablets as a reference and to introduce each part of the hike to the children. I …
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Diasporic movement practices: African/Afro/Black embodied translineages and contemporary migrations in dance
… through face to face interviews, participant observations, and video observations that emerge as a collection of philosophies and practices of integrity in black/African diasporic movement cultures.
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Children with autism: towards an understanding and description of their play in the naturalistic environments of two inclusive preschool settings
… week long blocks spanning six months, including video observations and semi-structured interviews with staff and parents. Analysis was supported by Computer Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software (Atlas ti).<br/><br/>Analysis of the detailed empirical evidence from the two settings showed that …
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Exploring opportunities for children’s creativity and imagination in ‘real world’ and ‘fantasy’ play in the Reception setting.
… general scoping survey and non-participant video observations. Within the six- phase approach three early years settings are observed. This thesis shines a light on the lack of engagement that children are afforded in the role play but also how they have a sense of resilience and …
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Investigating National Curriculum Implementation in Papua New Guinea (PNG)
… was employed to generate data, using interviews, video observations and documentary analysis as data gathering tools. The data were analysed inductively and grouped into themes around the key research questions. The findings of the study were underpinned by theoretical frameworks of behaviourist …
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Play and playfulness among hospitalized children: A mixed method analysis
… play occur among hospitalized children? Multiple videos were taken of three participants throughout the course of their hospitalization and analyzed. Thematic analysis revealed 25 themes that emerged related to the environment, physical, social, toys, and pleasure categories. Overall, the children …
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Children’s Knowledge, Identity and Right to Participation in Driving Curriculum Decision-Making
… Services, 2008) and through the analysis of video observations taken of the children during everyday classroom experiences. Then, two curriculum intervention activities were implemented with the children in the focus group in order to obtain information about their funds of knowledge and …
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A quantitative examination of team leadership, team behavior, and patient outcomes at a Level I trauma center.
… United States. Expert physician reviewers scored video observations using the surgeons' team leadership and team behavior model. Using descriptive statistics, I summarized case characteristics, including patient age, Injury Severity Score (ISS), and 30-day mortality. I confirmed good inter-rater …
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Lecturers’ Humour in English Medium Instruction (EMI): Insights from Indonesian EMI and non-EMI Contexts
… methods encompassed questionnaires, interviews, video observations of lecturers’ humour in teaching, and supplementary online materials. The analysis approach combined the applied thematic analysis with descriptive statistics. This study's original knowledge contributions stem from four main …
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Fostran i förskolan
… years old) at the four different sections was video-recorded. The data was comprised of video observations and interviews using the method of stimulated recall (Caldehead, 1981). In the analyses conducted three themes emerged. The first theme that emerged is The preschool teachers wish to …
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