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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"wait time"”.
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Wait time in the classroom
… study was to evaluate the effects of increasing wait time, the time interval after a teacher poses a verbal question to students and when a teacher calls on a student, as it affects the amount of class participation. There were two phases of the study: phase one was teaching using unmodified wait …
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Wait Time- Is True Science Understanding Worth the Wait?
… way of knowing about the natural world. From the time they are born, humans have a natural curiosity about everything they observe. Teachers need to foster this desire in their students as well as provide them with a vehicle in which they can discover the natural world. For this reason, teachers …
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Wait-learning : intelligent systems for making productive use of wait time
… or completing a project. Yet, in our busy, time-crunched world, most have difficulty making progress towards these goals. Despite this lack of time, there are numerous moments in a day when people wait, such as waiting for the elevator or waiting for an instant message reply. These fleeting …
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Improving the estimation of platform wait time at the London Underground
… automatically collected data until they have the time and resources to implement new data collection systems. This thesis focuses on improving the analyses undertaken with the currently available data. The primary objective of this thesis is to improve the accuracy of the estimation of platform …
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Wait Time: A Contributing Factor in Sex-Related Differences in Mathematics Instruction
… of Georgia served as subjects for this study on wait time. The students were identified as high, medium, and low academic achievers on the basis of their performance on the math portion of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Wait time was measured from the video camera-recorded teaching sessions. …
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The use of wait-time as a conversational management strategy in second-language conversations
… commonly employed is the use of pauses to buy time keeping conversational channels open, organize thoughts, or search for a suitable response. This study described and compared these pauses, called wait-time, as they were used with other conversational management strategies by first- and …
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The Impact of Increased Number of Acute Care Beds to Reduce Emergency Room Wait Time
Reducing ED wait times is a top health care priority for the Ontario government and hospitals in Ontario are incentivised to meet provincial ED wait time targets. In this study, we considered the costs and benefits associated with increasing the number of acute-care beds to reduce the time an …
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Reducing Wait Time of Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Administration to Inpatients by Increasing the Numbers of Chemotherapy Providers
… is to decrease the chemotherapy administration wait-time for adult oncology patients by increasing the numbers of certified providers. Unfortunately as an oncology unit, about 44% of the providers are not active chemotherapy providers. As a CNL, we must constantly evaluate our microsystems to …
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Applying Canadian patient wait time benchmarks to diagnostic CT examinations for non-small cell lung cancer in American healthcare
According to Byrne et al. (2015), longer wait times for procedures that utilize computed tomography (CT), such as imaging and guided biopsies for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), resulted in larger and more advanced stage tumors. In this study, patients had to wait approximately 81 days between …
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THE EFFECTS OF MUSIC AMPLITUDE AND CONSUMERS' SEX ON
… music's influence on subjective perception of wait time. Subjective perception of wait time is defined as the perceived duration of a time interval. A convenience sample of forty-one undergraduate and graduate college students (N=41) participated in the study. The participants were divided into …
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Sensitivity Analysis of Optimum Tutor Staffing Schedule Using Discrete Event Simulation
… and with the students experiencing a minimal wait time. Data was collected by videotaping four weeks (or 20 nights) worth of evening tutoring sessions, held Sunday through Thursday between 6-9pm. Two models, the General Study Room and the Physics & Chemistry Lab, were validated by comparing …
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Price implications and bidding strategies for electronic computerized markets
… Electronic markets are unique since they set bid wait time intervals and identities of bidders remain anonymous. Both the bid wait time interval and the anonymity feature significantly influence improvements in price during the auction process. Bid wait time intervals are necessary in developing …
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응급 중증도 지표를 이용한 응급실 진료 프로토콜의 평가
… increases, it leads to leading to long wait times, crowded conditions, low quality care and even fatal outcomes. To identify patients’ conditions promptly and increase their satisfaction, an adequate clinical process is necessary for care. One wide regional emergency center started new …
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PREDICTING METRICS FOR NAVAL SUPPLY SYSTEMS COMMAND WHOLESALE INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION MODEL
… rate (FR), documents required (DOCS), demand wait time (DWT), and demand wait time for backorder (DWTBO) can be accurately predicted using machine learning models instead of repeated simulation runs. We examine two machine learning approaches: k-nearest neighbors (KNN) and Extreme Gradient …
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Quantifying the impact of care team discontinuities on medically unnecessary delays in inpatient flow
… on inpatient length-of-stay (LOS) and admission wait time within Massachusetts General Hospital's Department of Medicine (DOM). The DOM is the hospital's largest clinical department by inpatient volume and supports a highly diverse patient population. Like many Academic Medical Centers, the DOM …
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Improving the transfer experience at intermodal transit stations through innovative dispatch strategies
… hold light system on total passenger wait time and other relevant measures of transfer performance. The application of the two models to the cases of Alewife and Wellington Stations in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system and to 79 Street Station in the Chicago …
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Experimental investigation of subcooled flow boiling using synchronized high speed video, infrared thermography, and particle image velocimetry
… site density for a given wall superheat. Wait time and frequency models did not reproduce the data accurately, and underestimated wait time by an order of magnitude. A new mechanistic model for calculating the wait time was developed that split the wall heat flux into the component that is …
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Enhancing the customer service experience in call centers using preemptive solutions and queuing theory
… property protection. Customer satisfaction via wait time reduction, first call resolution, and cost minimization are key drivers of success to players in this market. Most companies invest heavily in customer service systems including call centers. Our client, AlarmCo, a top provider of property …
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An investigation into the relationship between speaking-in-class anxiety with instructor behaviour and classroom practices among Chinese ESL (English as a Second Language) first year undergraduates in a Hong Kong university
… being corrected when speaking, inadequate wait-time and not being allowed to use the first language in a second/foreign language class were also indicated by this group of first-year Chinese ESL university students as important elements leading to SA.Results suggested that teacher behaviour …
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Analysis of a hospital network transportation system with discrete event simulation
… that has low operation costs, little or no wait time for patients and drivers, and meets demand 100% of the time. Furthermore, complexities of operating a healthcare system have side effects on the transportation system, such as the inconsistencies in the patient scheduling system. Past …
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