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Literature review to characterize the empirical basis for response scale selection in pediatric populations
... little empirical basis for the type of response scale selected or attributes of the response scale including, number of response options, visual orientation of the scale (for example, vertical ...
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A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for family carers of palliative care patients
... the empirical basis for discerning the types of stra- tegies that help carers has improved slightly over the last ...that empirical inquiry regrading effective ways to provide psychosocial support to ...
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A Study About The Nature Of Science’s Effect On The Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Informal Reasoning About Global Warming
... Case study, one of the qualitative research designs was used for this study. This study was carried out by two steps. First it was revealed that pre-service science teacher’ conceptualizations about specified elements of ...
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Implementation of an Improved Watershed Algorithm in a Virtex 5 Platform
... Watershed transform, as was described by Vincent and Soille, is a segmentation algorithm based on a flooding process of the gradient image, which is observed as a topographic surface. Watershed transform aims at finding ...
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The long memory story of real interest rates Can it be supported?
... It has been widely acknowledged that unit root tests have low power to dis- tinguish between near unit root and unit root processes. Our intention in this paper is to use new techniques to test for stationarity of real ...
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The Protection of Gas Turbine Blades94-105
... As far as the authors are aware the com- mercial platinum aluminide coating systems have been developed on an empirical basis, and involve the use of a platinum[r] ...
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Spatial Methods for Modeling Extreme and Rare Events.
... In this chapter, we provide a basic overview of our contributions to solving some of the current issues in EVA. The first contribution explores the use of the skew-t distribution for modeling spatial extremes. This ...
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Soft Paternalism and Nudging Critique of the Behavioral Foundations
... and empirical basis for deriving knowledge about the “true” preferences, (ii) it is doubt- ful whether utiity theory is an adequate normative basis for a behavioral economist, (iii) the perception of ...
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Subjective well being of teachers in modern Russian universities
... The empirical basis of the study is the results of 8 focus groups with the participation of over 60 university employees and the data of a mass survey of 246 teachers from federal ...
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The university as intermediary for the creative economy: Pedagogues, policy-makers and creative workers in the curriculum
... The empirical basis of our investigation is organised largely through the reflective accounts by students participating in three postgraduate awards launched in 2009 as part of the Birmingham School of ...
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The Canada economic action plan as electoral tool
... the empirical verification provides evidence for the fact the key assumption of the model: government spending brings an electoral benefit to the district ...
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The Policy Effects of Multilevel Regulation in Europe. Insights from the Energy and Postal Sector
... electricity sector. There was clearly a regulatory gap on cross-border issues related to market integration, but regulatory oversight also proved difficult at the national level. The third legislative package seeks to ...
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Handling user needs: methods for knowledge creation in Swedish transport planning
... While there are few studies that have charted planning authorities’ chosen methods in a context where users are viewed as “customers”, there are several of methods used to gather information on users in other ...
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Capital Budgeting Methods Used in Some European Countries and in the United States
... 12 empirical research studies on corporate investment decisions, with special attention to capital budgeting methods applied in the decision-preparation phase of investments between 1966 and 1989 in the ...the ...
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Development of programme theory for integration of service user and caregiver involvement in mental health system strengthening: protocol for realist systematic review
... Given the complexity of SU/CG involvement, a real- ist review can offer key methodological tools and the theoretical basis to facilitate the exploration of learning, accumulation of evidence and the transfer of ...
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Attachment security as a basis for gratitude: an empirical investigation
... OVERVIEW Problem Statement Gratitude is a positive higher order affect with strong links to multiple indicators of well-being evidenced by correlational e.g., Wood, Joseph, & Maltby, 200[r] ...
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Actual factors to determine cross currency basis swaps: An empirical study on US dollar/Japanese yen basis swap rates from the late 1990s
... of basis swap market: (a) Issues in JPY by foreign fundings, (b) Asset swaps from foreign currency to JPY, (c) Issues on foreign currency by Japanese fundings, (d) Assets swaps from JPY to foreign ...
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Wage premia in the British labour market
... The basis to the empirical analysis in Chapter 6 is the argument that efficiency wage theory predicts a positive wage effect in a product market performance equation... Results provide s[r] ...
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Overpressure Identification and Pressure Prediction in Yinggehai Basin
... 2) The overpressure prediction model of the eastern blocks in the Yinggehai Basin mainly adopts the Eaton method, and the Ledong block mainly employs the Bowers method. The empirical parameters of different models ...
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Research on P2P Credit Risk Assessment Model Based on RBM Feature Extraction—Take SME Customers as an Example
... judgment basis for financial credit approval of P2P lending platform, have become the core of credit risk model system construc- How to cite this paper: Yang, ...
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