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Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
, 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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in the decision-making process at school, that they are told to improve more often, and that they are disciplined much more Although several studies from both the motivation and dropout literatures support the different parts of the motivational model, only one, to the best of our knowledge, has focused
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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reliance on networks as the key feature of social morphology. While networks are old forms of social organization, they are now empowered by new information/communication technologies, so that they become able to cope at the same time with exible decentralization, and with focused decision
Party over Policy: The Dominating Impact of Group Influence
- on Political Beliefs.’’ Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
, 2003
"... Four studies demonstrated both the power of group influence in persuasion and people's blindness to it. Even under conditions of effortful processing, attitudes toward a social policy depended almost exclusively upon the stated position of one's political party. This effect overwhelmed th ..."
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the objective features of the object alone, for these features are, to a large extent, inferred on the basis of in-group judgments and have no intrinsic merit independent of the decision-maker's values He or she will construct the attitude object to fit its assigned social meaning, by ascribing it value
Decision Making under Uncertainty in a Decision Support System for the Red River
"... Abstract: Decision support systems (DSSs) are increasingly being used in water management for the evaluation of impacts of policy measures under different scenarios. The exact impacts generally are unknown and surrounded with considerable uncertainties. These uncertainties stem from natural randomne ..."
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Abstract: Decision support systems (DSSs) are increasingly being used in water management for the evaluation of impacts of policy measures under different scenarios. The exact impacts generally are unknown and surrounded with considerable uncertainties. These uncertainties stem from natural
SPECTATORS ’ PARTICIPATION DECISIONS IN THE BASKETBALL MATCHES
"... Understanding the motives of spectators to participate in a basketball match is important for increasing the number of spectators. Main purpose of this study was to analyze the selected variables that affect on spectators ’ participation in basketball matches. Supporters of two Turkish professional ..."
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basketball teams formed the sample of the study (n = 259). Spectators ’ Participation Decision Scale was used to assess the factors that make participants decide to attend a match. Descriptive and Factorial MANOVA analyses were used in data analysis process and the analyses were conducted by IBM SPSS 22
Introduction to Decision Analysis
"... The three papers of the proposed session, "Aspects of Sustainability in Digital Humanities", examine the increasingly important topic of sustainability from the point of view of three different fi elds of research: library and information science, cultural heritage management, and linguis ..."
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, and linguistics. Practically all disciplines in science and the humanities are nowadays confronted with the task of providing data collections that have a very high degree of sustainability. This task is not only concerned with the long-term archiving of digital resources and data collections, but also
Engineering a Programming Language: The Type and Class System of Sather
- Programming Languages and System Architectures
, 1994
"... Sather 1.0 is a programming language whose design has resulted from the interplay of many criteria. It attempts to support a powerful object-oriented paradigm without sacrificing either the computational performance of traditional procedural languages or support for safety and correctness checking. ..."
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Computer Science Institute [22]. It has a clean and simple syntax, parameterized classes, object-o...
AN INVESTIGATION OF DECISION ANALYTIC METHODOLOGIES FOR STRESS IDENTIFICATION
"... Abstract- In modern society, more and more people are suffering from some type of stress. Monitoring and timely detecting of stress level will be very valuable for the person to take counter measures. In this paper, we investigate the use of decision analytics methodologies to detect stress. We pres ..."
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Abstract- In modern society, more and more people are suffering from some type of stress. Monitoring and timely detecting of stress level will be very valuable for the person to take counter measures. In this paper, we investigate the use of decision analytics methodologies to detect stress. We
A Requirements Analysis Report for a Regional Decision Support System EPA Cooperative Agreement: Task 4.6
, 1994
"... Subtask 4.6 of the EPA Cooperative Agreement involves the design and prototype of an integrated framework of tools that will provide the decision support services as part of the Great Lakes Regional Environmental Information System (Task 4). This decision support system will provide interactive data ..."
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1 Introduction 4 2 Needs Identification 5 2.1 A Target User Group : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 6 2.2 Decision Support Problems : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 6 2.2.1 Assessments and Prioritization
Intelligent Decision Support System Applied to Environmental Pollution Caused By Swine Manure
, 2001
"... In the past years, swine production in Brazil has been growing rapidly, 2 competing with cattle and poultry in meat production. The West of the State 3 of Santa Catarina (SC), a region with 30 000 km 2 , has the most technically 4 advanced swine production in Brazil. Within this region live 80% of ..."
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pollution caused by swine waste depends on 9 its capacity to evaluate the current situation, and to anticipate pollution risks, in 10 order to choose which technology to use. This paper describes the development 11 of a decision support system (DSS), using as reference the data base of swine 12 producers
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