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Psychological Momentum: Why Success Breeds Success

Review of General Psychology, 2014
Whether trying to win Presidential primaries, trading stocks, or playing sports, performance-enhancing effects of psychological momentum (PM) are widely accepted. But, does initial success (S1) lead to subsequent success (S2) in and of itself due to increased know-how on one's and opponents’ performance or because it creates psychological force ...
Seppo E. Iso-Ahola, Charles O. Dotson
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MANGO BREEDING: RESULTS AND SUCCESSES

Acta Horticulturae, 2004
The mango industry in South Africa is mainly based on five commercial cultivars. Numerous problems with these cultivars induced the start of a breeding programme in 1990 by the Agricultural Research Council's Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops (ARC-ITSC).
C.F. Human, S. Rheeder
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Success Breeds Success: Jacksonville State University’s Learning Services

European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 2003
Since 1977, Learning Services, formerly the Center for Individualized Instruction, at Jacksonville State University has combined developmental studies and advanced skills building courses in the Department of Learning Skills with academic support services to encourage all students to develop their academic skills.
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Compatibility Breeds Success

2003
This book shows how to evaluate a partnership for its compatibility potential, how to nurture a smooth working relationship, and more.
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The success‐breeds‐success phenomenon and bibliometric processes

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981
AbstractSuccess‐breeds‐success phenomenon is described by single‐and multiple‐urn models. It is shown that these models lead to a negative binomial distribution for the total number of successes and a Zipf‐Mandelbrot law for the number of sources contributing a specified number of successes.
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Recovery of breeding success in wild birds

Nature, 2000
We have found that the breeding success of two insectivorous forest passerines, the great tit Parus major and the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca, has markedly improved in the vicinity of a copper-smelting plant during the seven years since it reduced its emissions of heavy metals.
T, Eeva, E, Lehikoinen
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INNOVATION BREEDS SUCCESS

The Engineer
Babcock International’s Global Technology Director, Andrew Munday, on this year’s C2I winners and the power of innovation
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TQM Breeds Success at STMicroelectronics

Journal of Organizational Excellence, 2001
AbstractThe semiconductor industry is one of the fastest changing and most competitive in the world. STMicroelectronics has successfully ridden those waves, and it largely credits its measureable success to a corporate TQM culture. Their TQM effort permeates every level of their functioning—even extending to the communities in which they operate ...
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Breeding Success of the Cowbird

1963
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Failure breeds success.

Health visitor, 1994
In Oxford a multi-agency joint breast feeding initiative group provides an effective forum for co-ordinating activities to improve midwifery and health visiting support for local breastfeeding mothers. Beverley Stokoe and colleagues describe the group's role in identifying new ways to support mothers in the critical first weeks.
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