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The Participation Decision Study [PDF]

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2014
The 2011 participation decision study involved exploration into the impact of the external education environment on the decision for private school participation in Federal funding, one deliberately declining player in the No Child Left Behind Act of ...
Margaret Y. Ficaj, Judith A. Tanner
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: An Ethnographic Study of Researcher Discretion in Practice [PDF]

open access: yesScience and Engineering Ethics, 2023
AbstractThis paper is a study of the decisions that researchers take during the execution of a research plan: their researcher discretion. Flexible research methods are generally seen as undesirable, and many methodologists urge to eliminate these so-called ‘researcher degrees of freedom’ from the research practice.
Tom van Drimmelen   +4 more
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Negative consequences of failing to communicate uncertainties during a pandemic: an online randomised controlled trial on COVID-19 vaccines

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objective To examine the impact of the government communicating uncertainties relating to COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness on vaccination intention and trust after people are exposed to conflicting information.Design Experimental design where participants ...
Eleonore Batteux   +3 more
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Comparison of G and Phi coefficients estimated in generalizability theory with real cases

open access: yesInternational Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
This study aims to compare the G and Phi coefficients as estimated by D studies for a measurement tool with the G and Phi coefficients obtained from real cases in which items of differing difficulty levels were added and also to determine the conditions ...
Kaan Zulfikar Deniz, Emel Ilıcan
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A study of architectural decision practices [PDF]

open access: yes2013 6th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), 2013
Architectural decisions shape a software architecture and determine its ability to meet its requirements. To better understand architectural decisions in practice, we interviewed developers at two organizations. The results revealed that architectural decisions often become technology decisions, which are in turn influenced by both technical and social
Thomas D. LaToza   +2 more
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Ancient visual channels have a causal role in arithmetic calculations

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Humans exhibit complex arithmetic skills, often attributed to our exceptionally large neocortex. However, the past decade has provided ample evidence that the functional domain of the subcortex extends well beyond basic functions.
William Saban   +3 more
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Eliciting Psychological Ownership of Object by Marking Organizational Name: The Role of Belongingness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Psychological ownership critically entails the need for home (a place in which to dwell or a place of belongingness). However, the question of how an individual’s need for belongingness within an organization affects their psychological ownership of ...
Wenhua Wang   +6 more
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Preconception and early-pregnancy risk prediction for birth complications: development of prediction models within a population-based prospective cohort

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Suboptimal maternal health already from preconception onwards is strongly linked to an increased risk of birth complications. To enable identification of women at risk of birth complications, we aimed to develop a prediction model for birth ...
Rama J. Wahab   +6 more
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The Impact of Decision Types on Revenue Management Decisions: An Experimental Study [PDF]

open access: yesDecision Sciences, 2017
ABSTRACTIn the standard two‐class revenue management model, the decision maker allocates a fixed resource between two customer classes with hierarchical prices and uncertain demand. The normative (i.e., expected revenue‐maximizing) allocation is given by Littlewood's Rule, but little is known about how decision makers actually form these decisions.
Ayse Kocabiyikoglu   +2 more
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Evolution trends and structural decomposition of China's green value-added over 40 years of reform and opening-up

open access: yesChinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment, 2020
China's 40-year history of reform and opening-up includes rapid economic development as well as pollution and environmental governance. Using a four-stage division, this study explores the evolution trend and structural decomposition of China's green ...
Jin Fan   +3 more
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