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Predictors of medical staff's knowledge, attitudes and behavior of dysphagia assessment: A cross-sectional study.

PLoS ONE
PurposeThis study aimed to explore the predictors of medical staff's Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior of dysphagia assessment, to provide reference suggestions for constructing the training program and improving the rate of dysphagia assessment ...
Juanhui Chen, Wenqiu Ye, Xingyun Zheng, Wenna Wu, Yuebao Chen, Yinjuan Chen   +5 more
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Toward the Evaluation of Large Language Models Considering Score Variance across Instruction Templates [PDF]

arXiv
The natural language understanding (NLU) performance of large language models (LLMs) has been evaluated across various tasks and datasets. The existing evaluation methods, however, do not take into account the variance in scores due to differences in prompts, which leads to unfair evaluation and comparison of NLU performance.
arxiv  

Accounting for the Language Variance in Executive Function [PDF]

, 2016
Language is considered an important precursor for executive function (EF) development, with advantages shown for bilinguals. The current study explored the impact of early bilingual language experience (spoken and sign language) on executive functions ...
Contreras, Jessica
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The processing of non-anticipated information in financial markets: Analyzing the impact of surprises in the employment report [PDF]

This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on mean and variance of the intraday return process by including appropriate variables accounting for the news flow into both the mean and the variance function.
Dieter Hess, Nikolaus Hautsch
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Effects of stress on burnout among infection control nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating effects of social support and self-efficacy

BMC Nursing
Background This study investigated the mediating effects of self-efficacy and social support on the relationship between stress and burnout among infection control nurses (ICNs) during an emerging infectious disease pandemic.
Su-jin Lee, Ju-Young Park, Seo-Hyeon Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of exchange rate shock on prices of imports and exports [PDF]

This study examines the significant impact of exchange rate shock on prices of Malaysian imports and exports. In methodology, the study adopts vector error correction (VECM) model using monthly data of nominal exchange rates, money supply, prices of ...
Duasa, Jarita
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Unifying area and unit-level small area estimation through calibration [PDF]

arXiv
When estimating area means, direct estimators based on area-specific data, are usually consistent under the sampling design without model assumptions. However, they are inefficient if the area sample size is small. In small area estimation, model assumptions linking the areas are used to "borrow strength" from other areas.
arxiv  

The Impact of Grade Incentives and Gender on Student Performance: An Experiment

The Lahore Journal of Business, 2015
This experiment was conducted to determine the impact of grade incentives and gender on student performance at the university level. We perform a two-way analysis of variance on a sample of three groups of students taking a first-year core mathematics ...
Mehreen Amjad Furqan, Sohnia Salman, Sohail Zafar   +2 more
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Regression discontinuity design with covariates [PDF]

In this paper, the regression discontinuity design (RDD) is generalized to account for differences in observed covariates X in a fully nonparametric way. It is shown that the treatment effect can be estimated at the rate for one-dimensional nonparametric
Markus Frölich
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Job separations, heterogeneity, and earnings inequality [PDF]

Changes in the fraction of workers experiencing job separations can account for> most of the increase in earnings dispersion that occurred both between, as well as> within educational groups in the United States from the mid-1970s to the mid-> 1980s ...
Pedro S. Amaral
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