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Reversed item bias: an integrative model [PDF]
, 2013 In the recent methodological literature, various models have been proposed to account for the phenomenon that reversed items (defined as items for which respondents' scores have to be recoded in order to make the direction of keying consistent across all
Baumgartner, Hans +2 more
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The “Zhang Xuefeng Effect”: Information Intervention and the College Admission Problem in China
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Information regarding the quality of colleges and labor‐market prospects of majors plays an important role in parents' and students' school‐choice decisions, particularly when these decisions are crucially relevant to the students' long‐run career choices and life earnings.
Yutong Huo, Yun Wang
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AN IMPROVED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE BASED ON FLAME DETECTION IN CCTVS
ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2018 CCTV is an important part of the surveillance systems. While a person observes the screens with the naked eye in existing CCTV monitoring systems, it is possible that the flame and events are not detected opportunely due to eye fatigue and human ...
ChangYong Ri +3 more
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What do education students think about their ability to write essays ? [PDF]
, 2018 The present study reflects the results obtained from a diagnosis carried out with Education students concerning the writing of academic essays. The objective was to identify the perceptions that Comprehensive Education students have about their ability ...
Quintero, Gisela Consolación
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Major Cybersecurity Breaches: Shaping Corporate Cybersecurity Policies and Closing the Gaps
Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As digitalization accelerates, cybercrime has intensified in both scale and impact over the past two decades. This study aims to critically examine major cybersecurity events, assess them through the lens of routine activity theory, examine insight from three other established criminological and organizational theories, and address central ...
Laura K. Rickett, Deborah Smith
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Quality Management in the Determination of Safety Characteristics
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2019 Safety characteristics for a substance from different sources may differ significantly. Round robin tests have shown that in nearly all cases this is not due to negligence or carelessness by the laboratory staff.
Christoph Cesana +2 more
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INTRACULTURAL VARIABILITY IN THE COGNITION OF DANGER AMONG SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND FISHERS [PDF]
The costs of the dangers of commercial fishing are very high, yet fishing vessel safety regulations are frequently met with lack of enthusiasm or even rejection by fishers. Why would fishers reject regulations designed to increase their safety?
Poggie, John J., Jr. +2 more
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Setting a Good Example in Pride and Prejudice [PDF]
, 2014 Although most readers of Pride and Prejudice think that the book centers on the romance between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, I argue that the central message is a warning about romantic fulfilment gone awry as illustrated through Lydia and Wickham.
Colmery, Joanna L
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Adolescence is marked by increased vulnerability to sleep disturbances and mood disorders. Understanding how day‐to‐day changes in sleep and mood are linked within the same individual is crucial for clarifying sleep's role in emerging internalizing disorders. However, the extent to which an adolescent's fluctuations in sleep predict
Konstantin Drexl +4 more
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