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Pleasures and pounds: An exploratory study

Addictive Behaviors, 1982
This study investigated the hypothesis that overweight college students and normal weight "restrained" students, particularly those susceptible to stress related overeating and binge episodes, have a restricted range of pleasurable activities available for positive reinforcement of behaviors other than eating.
S R, Doell, R C, Hawkins
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Configurations and Couplings: An Exploratory Study

2013
This is an exploratory study to see if configurations that were coupled to an output variable could be found in data. The focus in this study was on the modal configurations, which are profiles of best fit for clusters, and their average cluster scores for an output variable.
Warwick Graco, Hari Koesmarno
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Transition to Fatherhood An Exploratory Study

JOGN Nursing, 1983
An exploratory study of the transition to fatherhood for 50 first-time fathers is described. Subjects completed questionnaires within three weeks of their infant's birth and again three to five weeks postpartum on the topics of infant feeding, lifestyle changes, depression, fathering activities with their own father and those planned with their own ...
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An exploratory study on reuse at google

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practices, 2014
Software reuse is a challenging and multifaceted topic. Significant research effort has been spent to address technical and organizational aspects. However, adoption of proposed practices and novel approaches often proceeds slowly. Additionally, little is known on how reuse is currently effected in practice and which solutions have proven useful.
Veronika Bauer, Jonas Eckhardt, Benedikt Hauptmann, Manuel Klimek   +3 more
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Versioning for Mashups – An Exploratory Study

2011
End users with little software background are developing numerous software applications using devices such as spreadsheets, web mashups, and web macros. Web mashups are particularly popular because they are easy to create and there are large public repositories that store them and allow their reuse.
Sandeep Kaur Kuttal, Anita Sarma, Amanda Swearngin, Gregg Rothermel   +3 more
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Victimization and diabetes: an exploratory study

Child Abuse & Neglect, 1999
In recent years, researchers have documented higher rates of health problems in adult survivors of abuse than in the general population. These problems include diffuse soft tissue pain (Boisset-Pioro, Esdaile & Fitzcharles, 1995), irritable bowel syndrome (Leserman, Drossman, Li, Toomey, Nachman & Glogau, 1996), and chronic pelvic pain (Walling, Reiter,
K A, Kendall-Tackett, R, Marshall
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Studies on exploratory eye movement

Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2009
This paper describes the pioneering studies on eye movements by Prof. Takuya Kojima, which clarified the scarcity of adjustability of alertness level in schizophrenia. Shimazono first thought that closed-eye eye movement may provide objective and physiological indicator for brain activities during awake state. Prof.
Tsuyoshi, Akiyama, Takuya, Kojima, Masao, Tsuchiya   +2 more
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No Place of Their Own: An Exploratory Study

Nursing Science Quarterly, 1994
The purpose of the research reported here was to explore with mothers and children the experience of having no place of their own. The researcher used Parse's theory of human becoming as a framework in this exploratory descriptive study. For the participants in this study the experience of living without a place of their own is: a sense of gratitude ...
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Dysfunctional Groups: An Exploratory study

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2016
In the digital age, teams are becoming the new norm. Many groups become productive over time, but some groups also become dysfunctional over time. This paper examines groups that work together and ultimately become dysfunctional to the extent that they have to be reassigned or dismantled. We use a three stage study to explore why this happens.
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An exploratory study of the miscarriage experience

Health Care for Women International, 1986
The purpose of this exploratory study was to begin to specify the significance attached to the miscarriage experience, and to determine how this significance related to subsequent decisions and actions. Two white, middle‐class, married women were subjects. Both had experienced a miscarriage within the previous year. One subject was a primigravida.
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