Efficient Conservation in a Utility-Maximization Framework
Ecology and Society, 2006 Systematic planning for biodiversity conservation is being conducted at scales ranging from global to national to regional. The prevailing planning paradigm is to identify the minimum land allocations needed to reach specified conservation targets or ...
Frank W. Davis +2 more
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Current Practices in Undergraduate Student Mentoring
Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention, 1999 Mentoring, though defined differently in various fields of study, has become an important tool for college and universities to ease the transitioning of first year students.
Derek Jeske, Denise Rode
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Water retention of rigid soils from a two-factor model for clay [PDF]
The Open Transport Phenomena Journal 2 (2010) 90-102, 2014 Water retention is one of the key soil characteristics. Available models of soil water retention relate to the curve-fitting type. The objective of this work is to suggest a physical model of water retention (drying branch) for soils with a rigid matrix.
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Student Success in Face-To-Face and Distance Teleclass Environments: A matter of contact?
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2006 Learning from a distance continues to gain popularity. An influx of traditional, and even on-campus students attest to its flexibility, but are they equipped to succeed in a low-contact distance environment versus a face-to-face, on-campus environment ...
Teddi S. Deka, Patrick McMurry
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Understanding Factors That Support Community Health Worker Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Performance in Three Ugandan Districts: Opportunities for Strengthening Uganda’s Community Health Worker Program [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 Background Uganda’s community health worker (CHW) program experiences several challenges related to the appropriate motivation, job satisfaction, and performance of the CHW workforce.
Shivani Pandya +6 more
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International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018 Prior to undertaking a descriptive study on attrition and retention of students in two online undergraduate health administration and human service programs, a pilot test was conducted to assess the procedures for participant recruitment, usability of ...
Joy Fraser +3 more
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Investigating lupus retention in care to inform interventions for disparities reduction: an observational cohort study. [PDF]
, 2020 BACKGROUND:Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) disproportionately impacts patients of color and socioeconomically disadvantaged patients. Similar disparities in HIV were reduced through a World Health Organization-endorsed Care Continuum strategy targeting
Ahmad, Umber +8 more
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Reinforcing User Retention in a Billion Scale Short Video Recommender System [PDF]
The Web Conference 2023 Industry Track, 2023 Recently, short video platforms have achieved rapid user growth by recommending interesting content to users. The objective of the recommendation is to optimize user retention, thereby driving the growth of DAU (Daily Active Users). Retention is a long-term feedback after multiple interactions of users and the system, and it is hard to decompose ...
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Retention capacity of correlated surfaces [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 89, 062141 (2014), 2014 We extend the water retention model [C. L. Knecht et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045703 (2012)] to correlated random surfaces. We find that the retention capacity of discrete random landscapes is strongly affected by spatial correlations among the heights.
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ON THE TREATMENT OF RETENTION. [PDF]
The Lancetn ...
Gourley, D., Gourley, J. W. S.
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