Sentences with phrase «theoretical bases of this study»

The theoretical bases of this study are the principle of resource exchange, the principle of mental accounting and prospect theory.

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The individual papers provide the theoretical and empirical bases for the discussions of the study group.

By investigating the specific impact freezing had on these gluten proteins within the dough, and thus the procedure of gluten deterioration, the researchers said the study provided, «a theoretical basis for better preservation of frozen dough».

Studies were included if: (a) they were RCTs, (b) the population comprised parents / carers of children up to the age of 18 where at least 50 % had a conduct problem (defined using objective clinical criteria, the clinical cut - off point on a well validated behaviour scale or informal diagnostic criteria), (c) the intervention was a structured, repeatable (manualised) parenting programme (any theoretical basis, setting or mode of delivery) and (d) there was at least one standardised outcome measuring child behaviour.

«We have a lot of theoretical papers that sort of hint at how parasites could have been fought off, but here we have a lab - based study that shows a potential mechanism,» says Niles Lehman, a chemist at Portland State University in Oregon who wasn't part of the study.

Until now, most estimates of how many species are threatened by climate change have been based on theoretical studies that look at the climatic and environmental conditions that species need to survive, and overlay this with estimates of how much suitable habitat will remain as the world warms.

Additionally, since ribosomal RNA has been shown to have specified controlled of cellular fate, this study provides a theoretical basis for disease therapy and neuroscience research and may lead to future advances in treating degenerative diseases or even brain cancers.

He and Halas said Manjavacas, a theoretical physicist in the group of LANP researcher Peter Nordlander, conducted work in the new study that offers a fundamental insight into the underlying physics of hot - electron - production in plasmonic - based devices.

Based on a number of theoretical studies, WIMPs were thought to be the likely main constituent of dark matter.

The MISI is based on a number of studies that indicated the theoretical existence of the instability... The most fundamental derivation, that is, starting from a first - principle ice equation, states that in one - dimensional ice flow the grounding line between grounded ice sheet and floating ice shelf can not be stable on a landward sloping bed.

«In their opinion piece, Simopoulos and DiNicolantonio call upon public health bodies to establish nutrition policies based on science, but they justify their criticisms by advancing an unproven hypothesis on the adverse effects of omega - 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, derived largely from theoretical arguments and animal studies, as if it were established fact.

A joint experimental - theoretical paper based on the results of the calculations entitled «Photofragment slice imaging studies of pyrrole and the Xe... pyrrole cluster» has been accepted in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

Researchers from the Theoretical Physics and Cosmos department of Granada University (UGR, Spain) lead a study which gives new details about the formation process of the structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way.This study is based on data obtained at Calar Alto.

While they could theoretically increase breast cancer risk, at this point the risk is just that — theoretical — «and based on animal and other lab studies,» says Janet Gray, PhD, director of science, technology and society at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who researches environmental impacts on breast cancer.

Some authors have calculated a theoretical period of two fertile days, based on estimates of the survival of sperm and eggs.1, 2 A multicenter study by the World Health Organization estimated that there are 10 presumably fertile days per cycle, on the basis of the characteristics of the cervical mucus.3

Cambridge, MA About Blog We use experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of cognition.

A detailed and comprehensive multi week scheme of work on music videos focusing on Formation and Riptide for A Level Eduqas Media Studies component 1 section A. All elements of the theoretical framework are covered as well as practice exam questions based on SAMS material.

A detailed and scheme of work on music videos focusing on the set product Vance Joy's Riptide for A Level Eduqas Media Studies component 1 section A. All elements of the theoretical framework are covered as well as practice exam questions based on SAMS material.

A detailed and comprehensive multi week scheme of work on music videos focusing on Formation for A Level Eduqas Media Studies component 1 section A. All elements of the theoretical framework are covered as well as practice exam questions based on SAMS material.

On the other hand, from the Multi-Institutional and Multidisciplinary Doctorate in Dissemination of Knowledge (DMMDC), located in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), we work the triple theoretical, epistemological and methodological area which study the knowledge from their construction, translation and distribution processes, aiming at the understanding of languages, frameworks and processes specific to different disciplines with the aim of making these specific bases for the construction of the ballast of understanding inter / transdisciplinary and multi-referentiality, with the commitment of production and socialization of knowledge in open perspective to dialogue between these different disciplines / sciences, and other modes of knowledge organization, in order to make private knowledge of cognitive or epistemic communities in public.

District and school leaders should implement turnaround strategies based on evidence from rigorous studies of turnaround efforts in North Carolina and other states, or well - conceived, innovative strategies with sound theoretical foundations.

After the interviews were transcribed verbatim, we met to discuss how to code for themes and findings that were emerging based on the theoretical framework of our study (Merriam 2009).

The essay is a written work, which describes briefly the study of any problem based on examining and processing of theoretical material or personal experience.

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Based on the intersection of visual phenomena, critical studies, and creative production, the program combines aspects of a studio - based program and theoretical study, and can include art history, criticism, the general liberal arts, and studio pracBased on the intersection of visual phenomena, critical studies, and creative production, the program combines aspects of a studio - based program and theoretical study, and can include art history, criticism, the general liberal arts, and studio pracbased program and theoretical study, and can include art history, criticism, the general liberal arts, and studio practice.

Born in Nüremberg, Germany, to Polish - Jewish parents, Metzger was evacuated to England with his brother as part of the Kindertransport in 1939 (his parents disappeared in 1943); 20 years later, after a period of study with the painter David Bomberg, he would abandon painting to seek ways of working that would recognize the destructiveness of the twentieth century: «artists have a special part to play in opposing extinction, if only on a theoretical, intellectual basis,» he wrote.

However, research into art and design in the twenty - first century does more than simply provide those subjects with an art historical and theoretical context, which is why Stedelijk Studies is also open to other, sometimes more practice - based forms of research that are conducted in the museum and the university (such as studies into the presentation, mediatization, commodification, and teaching of art and dStudies is also open to other, sometimes more practice - based forms of research that are conducted in the museum and the university (such as studies into the presentation, mediatization, commodification, and teaching of art and dstudies into the presentation, mediatization, commodification, and teaching of art and design).

Her dissertation is based on the theoretical projects of Italian architect Rinaldo Semino which contextualizes Semino's work in a larger milieu of megastructural design, cybernetic studies, and radical political events in Italy from 1958 - 1973.

The artist carved out new aesthetic and theoretical territory based on his study of the mystical sect Rosicrucianism, philosophical and poetic investigations of space and science, and the practice of Judo, which he described as «the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.»

It invites theoretical as well as practice - based perspectives and close readings of case studies.

On the first sentence stating that the WGI report considers evidence of past and future climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes, and simulations using climate models, Saudi Arabia proposed clarifying that evidence of future climate change is based on models and simulations only.

(BTY: theoretical claims of high nuclear death rates are based on extrapolating high dose fatality rates to extremely small doses — a concept that has been falsified by every actual study done on it.

To meet condition 1, there needed to be some theoretical basis (> 1 model study) for expecting a system to exhibit a critical threshold (ρcrit) at a subcontinental scale, and / or past evidence of threshold behavior.

Previous theoretical and model - based studies of the relationship between ocean bottom pressure (pb) and sea level (ζ) suggest primarily barotropic variability at mid to high latitudes for scales greater than a few hundred kilometers and periods less than a few months.

While the earlier study was based entirely on historical records of past hurricanes, showing nearly a doubling in the intensity of Atlantic storms over the last 30 years, the new work is purely theoretical.

Theoretical studies (e.g., Killworth, 1997) suggest somewhat different formulations based on down - gradient mixing of potential vorticity.

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Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Based on prior empirical and theoretical work, this study investigated the following hypotheses: (1) maternal exposure to IPV will be associated with higher odds of obesity at age 5 years in their children; (2) maternal exposure to IPV will be associated with feeding practices and behaviors that elevate risk for childhood obesity; and (3) maternal perception of lower neighborhood safety will increase the effect of IPV on childhood obesity risk.

While there are several theoretical models describing positive, strength - based processes in therapy, there is a scarcity of rigorous scientific studies about how to use positive therapeutic processes in psychological treatment.

Given the theoretical and componentry crossover between resilience and other intervention approaches (such as strengths based, social competence, social influence, skills focused, affective focused, social and emotional learning / well - being, mental well - being and psychosocial50 — 53), a study will be included irrespective of the stated overall intervention approach if it specifically aims to address at least one internal and one external resilience factor as defined above.

On the basis of reviewing the existing literature, a theoretical framework of leadership task behavior and relational behavior, work alienation and job performance had been proposed in this study by using leadership behavior theory.

The theoretical framework for this study was based on the conceptual theory of Bronfenbrenners ecological and environmental model, Coles social capital theory and Stowers theory of optimum social distance.

Studies were included if they evaluated the effectiveness of infant massage, irrespective of the theoretical basis or cultural practice underpinning the massage.

Hence, the primary aim of the present study was to examine how well the proposed theoretical model predicted APP in young adulthood, in a large, community - based sample assessed in early childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood.

For over 30 years, The Journal of Early Adolescence (JEA) has provided researchers and practitioners in developmental psychology, educational psychology, human development and family studies, psychiatry, public health, social work, and sociology with the latest work concerning original theoretical work, empirical research as well as science - based practices regarding the early adolescent developmental period (10 through 14 years of age).

Items were based on both theoretical hypotheses related to the social context of adolescents and measurements that had been validated in other studies or previous WHO - HBSC surveys.27 Measures were pretested.

The guiding theoretical orientation of our study of emotion regulation is based on principles derived from the organizational perspective on development (Cicchetti, 1990; Cicchetti & Aber, 1986; Cicchetti & Sroufe, 1978; Sroufe & Waters, 1976).