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Is Self-Other Overlap a Malleable Predictor of Willingness to Work with People with Disability?
… demand for professionals who are interested in working with people with disability (PWD). However, many people are uncomfortable working with PWD, or are unwilling to put in the additional effort that may be necessary to meet their needs. As a result, PWD face many barriers when seeking …
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Teacher knowledge, skill. and willingness to work with students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
… teachers possess the knowledge and skill needed to assist students with ADHD with meeting academic success in their classrooms. Surveys were distributed to all teachers within a pre-kindergarten through sixth grade district in rural Southern New Jersey. An e-mail correspondence specifying the …
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The Effects of Attributions for Success and Failure on Willingness to Work for Delayed Rewards
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DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF HOGAN’S RAW MODEL OF EMPLOYABILITY: THE WILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD COMPONENT
<p>The following study attempted to operationalize the willingness to work hard component of Hogan’s RAW model of employability. <em>Willingness to Work Hard</em>, the W in the model, appears to be multi-faceted; a qualitative synthesis of themes suggests that the construct may be dispositional. I …
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DISPOSITIONAL EMPLOYABILITY AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO CAREER SUCCESS: A META-ANALYSIS
<p>This meta-analysis focuses on the willingness to work aspect of the RAW model of employability of Hogan et al. (2009), in relationship to career success. Willingness to work (W) can be defined as favorably disposed to work hard and take initiative at one’s job. The variables I used to structure …
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The Student Police Unity League and Intergroup Contact Theory
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Student Police Unity League as an effective program at fostering more positive views of the police from black citizens operating by the core tenants provided by Intergroup Contact Theory. It was expected that black students who participated in the …
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Accent bias towards nonnative accented counseling trainees
… favorably and evaluated less positively compared to those with native accents (e.g., Dragojevic et al., 2021; Giles & Rakić, 2014; Gluszek & Dovidio, 2010a). More importantly, accented speakers are often evaluated more harshly in formal settings (Fuertes et al., 2012). For instance, research has …
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Who's Driving? Structured Pairing in an Electronics Laboratory
… in computer science courses, has been found to increase student confidence, satisfaction, and persistence in computer science courses. I developed a similar method of structuring student groups, called “structured pairing,” which I implemented in an engineering laboratory. I compared …
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An experimental study of the effect of shared information on pilot/controller re-route negotiation
Air-ground data link systems are being developed to enable pilots and air traffic controllers to share information more fully. The sharing of information is generally expected to enhance their shared situation awareness and foster more collaborative decision making. An exploratory, part-task …
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Factors Influencing Female Labor Force Participation in Urban, Rural and Kuchi Regions of Afghanistan
Female labor force participation and the factors influencing it are issues that have always attracted the attention of researchers. Given the importance of this issue, the study first examines the female labor force participation rate of Afghan women over the last few decades. Then, the study …
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Transit extraboard operator scheduling
In addition to operators who pick scheduled service duties, transit agencies have a separate group of operators to cover work that becomes open due to absence or other unexpected situations. This group of operators are referred to collectively as the extraboard. Another way to cover the open work …
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The Use of Noncooperative Games to Determine Strategic Bidding in Centralized Electricity Markets
… of market conditions over time, it might lead to the playing of similar, repeated games (or supergames) by the participants. This repetition of games tempts participants to walk away from the best-response equilibrium strategies provided by Nash solutions. Although Nash solutions make …
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The waiting game : a survival analysis of unemployment duration in South Africa 2001-2004
… worst labour market prospects in South Africa? To answer this pertinent question I will use panel data from the biannual Labour Force Survey composed by Statistics South Africa, to estimate time spent unemployed by respondents. Survival analysis is then used to untangle the characteristics and …
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Constructing, Construing, and Communicating: Intercultural Communication in La Paz, Bolivia
… will use different discourse cues to signal social meaning and that these differences will sometimes result in miscommunication. Although I find instances where differences in the discourse cues could have led to misunderstanding, it is not always that clear-cut whether they did or …
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Fire fighters' ability and willingness to participate in a pandemic
… This thesis analyzes fire fighters' ability and willingness to participate in a pandemic through a comprehensive survey of fire fighters within the twelve National Capital Region fire departments. Issues that may influence fire fighters' ability and willingness to work include childcare, concern …
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Investing in the post-foreclosure housing market: how neighborhood characteristics and real estate actors affect recovery
As the housing market continues to recover from the foreclosure crisis, an opportunity arises to examine how different hart-hit neighborhoods have managed to recover. This is a two-part study that examines real estate investor activity among REO properties in the Chicago region. The first part …
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Attitudes of secondary vocational and pre-vocational teachers in Virginia toward integrating visually and hearing handicapped students into regular classes
This study's major purpose was to examine attitudes of Virginia's pre-vocational and vocational teachers toward integrating visually and hearing handicapped students into their regular classes. The research questions consisted of five inquiries into the nature of attitudes toward: (1) selected …
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DNA: Diplomacy, Negotiations, and the Arctic: An analysis of the friendliest land border dispute in the world, the Hans Island conflict
This master’s thesis aims to analyze the Hans Island conflict through the lens of constructivist theory in international relations with the help of a case study as a method. The thesis explores the reasons why this conflict took over 50 years to be settled, how it was solved, and what was the …
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Poverty and Work Experiences of Roma in Romania : A Study Through the Lens of Field, Habitus, Capital, and Anomie in a Roma Community in Romania
… study analyzes the experiences of poverty and work among Roma in the context of post-socialist Romania through the lens of Merton´s modes of adaptation to anomie and Bourdieu´s concepts of field, habitus, and capital. The purpose is to investigate Roma remembrance of work in the former …
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TRANSITION OF STUDENTS FROM A SPECIAL CENTER TO SELF-CONTAINED CLASSES IN GENERAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS: PARTICIPANTS' EXPERIENCES
… disabled students from a special center to self-contained classes in regular schools was investigated through case study research. The purpose of the study was to determine how different participants experienced the transitions and how their roles affected their experiences. The …
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