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Frontiers in PsychologyDrawing on the control-value theory and the individual-environmental model of writing, this study investigated the predictive effects of various individual difference factors (i.e., L2 writing grit, enjoyment, anxiety, motivation, and working memory) on ...
Zihan Gao, Zihan Gao
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Gendering, courtship and pay equality: developing attraction theory to understand work-life balance and entrepreneurial activity [PDF]
, 2008 Objectives: This paper examines one of the most intractable problems of the last 40 years: the difficulty in closing the pay inequality gap. Current wisdom is that the pay gap exists because of men's power to control the workplace, and men's dominant ...
Ridley-Duff, R.
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Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2018 Background Boredom is a prevalent experience in school. Findings indicate that students are bored in a notable amount of instructional time with negative consequences for learning outcomes.
Kristina Kögler, Richard Göllner
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Foreign studies of learning motivation: XXI century [PDF]
Современная зарубежная психология, 2018 The article provides an overview of foreign (Western) researches in the field of academic motivation conducted in the United States, Europe and Canada over the past two decades.
Nikitskaya M.G., Tolstykh N.N.
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Synergetic theory for jamming transition in traffic flow
, 2000 The theory of a jamming transition is proposed for the homogeneous car-following model within the framework of Lorenz scheme. We represent a jamming transition as a result of the spontaneous deviations of headway and velocity that is caused by the ...
Khomenko, A. V., Olemskoi, A. I.
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Students as Co-Authors: Achievement Emotions, Beliefs About Writing, and OER Publishing Decisions
Open PraxisFaculty interest in open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy has grown over the past several years. The current study examined how achievement emotions and beliefs about writing influenced students’ decisions to publish their work in an OER ...
Alison E. Kelly +2 more
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The Reproductive Value as Part of the Shadow Price of Population [PDF]
The reproductive value (see Fisher 1930) arises as part of the shadow price of the population in a large class of age-structured optimal control models.Reproductive value, distributed optimal control theory, McKendrick equation, shadow price, indirect ...
Alexia Prskawetz +3 more
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On the Smoothness of Value Functions [PDF]
We prove that under standard Lipschitz and growth conditions, the value function of all optimal control problems for one-dimensional diffusions is twice continuously differentiable, as long as the control space is compact and the volatility is uniformly ...
Strulovici, Bruno, Szydlowski, Martin
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Controlling ultrafast currents by the non-linear photogalvanic effect
, 2015 We theoretically investigate the effect of broken inversion symmetry on the generation and control of ultrafast currents in a transparent dielectric (SiO2) by strong femto-second optical laser pulses. Ab-initio simulations based on time-dependent density
Christoph Lemell +6 more
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Strategic Positioning Under Agricultural Structural Change: A Critique of Long Jump Co-operative Ventures [PDF]
This study utilizes strategic management theory to analyze the recent proliferation in non-commodity vertical integration producer-owned businesses in the US.
Goldsmith, Peter D., Gow, Hamish R.
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