The relation between elementary students' recreational and academic reading motivation, reading frequency, engagement, and comprehension : a self-determination theory perspective [PDF]
, 2012 Research indicates the need to further examine the dimensions of reading motivation. A clear theoretical basis is necessary for conceptualizing reading motivation and considering contextual differences therein.
De Naeghel, Jessie +3 more
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A competitive environment for exploratory query expansion [PDF]
, 2008 Most information workers query digital libraries many times a day. Yet people have little opportunity to hone their skills in a controlled environment, or compare their performance with others in an objective way.
Milne, David N. +2 more
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Disrupted Social Hierarchy in Prenatally Valproate-Exposed Autistic-Like Rats
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired socio-communicational function, repetitive and restricted behaviors. Valproic acid (VPA) was reported to increase the prevalence of ASD in humans as a consequence of its use during pregnancy ...
Péter Pelsőczi +8 more
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Maternal Characteristics and Child Problem Behaviors: A Comparison of Foster and Biological Mothers [PDF]
, 2007 The purpose of this exploratory study was to compare the parenting behavior, stress and support of foster mothers and biological mothers of young children.
Byrnes, Judith B. +2 more
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Mixed Data and Classification of Transit Stops
, 2016 An analysis of the characteristics and behavior of individual bus stops can reveal clusters of similar stops, which can be of use in making routing and scheduling decisions, as well as determining what facilities to provide at each stop.
Handley, John C. +2 more
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Validation and Adaptation of the Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Sport Scale to the Spanish context of Physical Education [PDF]
, 2020 Physical education (PE), by its own characteristics, is a subject where social communication is especially promoted. However, it is necessary to have tools that evaluate the social behaviour of students during PE classes.
Aguilar Parra, José Manuel +4 more
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Effects Of Ferulic Acid On Exploratory Behavior And Locomotor Activity In Rats [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical & Clinical Research, 2014 Ferulic acid (FA), called also hydroxycinnamic acid, is a polyphenol compound found in many foods such as coffee, apples, rice, oats and wheat. It acts as an antioxidant but its other activities in vivo have not been well studied as a whole.
Stefka Valcheva-Kuzmanova +3 more
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Fundamental diagrams for kinetic equations of traffic flow
, 2013 In this paper we investigate the ability of some recently introduced discrete kinetic models of vehicular traffic to catch, in their large time behavior, typical features of theoretical fundamental diagrams.
Fermo, Luisa, Tosin, Andrea
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L\'evy flights and self-similar exploratory behaviour of termite workers: beyond model fitting [PDF]
, 2014 Animal movements have been related to optimal foraging strategies where self-similar trajectories are central. Most of the experimental studies done so far have focused mainly on fitting statistical models to data in order to test for movement patterns ...
Aegerter, Christof Markus +5 more
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Insects, 2021 The world-wide, rapid urbanization is leading to substantial changes in environmental and habitat conditions. These changes, as well as disturbances accompanying urbanization have considerable effects at various levels of the biological organization on ...
Tibor Magura +6 more
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