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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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revealed a significant main effect for school motivation, F(3.20, 14000) = 895.27, p < .0001. Newman-Keuls post hoc analyses revealed that the seven motivational subscales were significantly different from one another. The most important forms of motivation for participants in this sample were
Clusters and how to make it work: Cluster Strategy Toolkit
"... Clusters as the magic answer to regional economic development; firms in clusters have been proven to be more innovative; cluster policy dominates EU policy; 'top-sectors' and excellence are the choice of national policy makers; clusters are 'in'. However, clusters are complex, & ..."
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different facets of clusters in their development. The cluster strategy toolkit supports strategy development from a deeper understanding of principles and patterns in cluster dynamics. The cluster strategy toolkit was developed as part of a larger research project. This policy brief is an adaptation
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"... A lifeline to treatment: the role of Indian generic manufacturers in supplying antiretroviral medicines to developing countries Brenda Waning 1,2 * , Ellen Diedrichsen 1, Suerie Moon 3 Background: Indian manufacturers of generic antiretroviral (ARV) medicines facilitated the rapid scale up of HIV/ A ..."
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A lifeline to treatment: the role of Indian generic manufacturers in supplying antiretroviral medicines to developing countries Brenda Waning 1,2 * , Ellen Diedrichsen 1, Suerie Moon 3 Background: Indian manufacturers of generic antiretroviral (ARV) medicines facilitated the rapid scale up of HIV
Open Forum
"... In performing any modernization task, there are typically four questions that must be answered: “Where am I now; what is my current as-is architecture?” “Where do I need to be; what is my target to-be architecture? ” “What is the gap or differences between the two? ” and “How do I get to the to-be s ..."
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is the key facilitating ingredient providing a holistic view and a mechanism for enabling the design and development as well as the communication and understanding of the enterprise. The overarching goals of enterprise architecture are to manage the complexity of the enterprise, align business strategies
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"... In performing any modernization task,there are typically four questions that must be answered: “Where am I now; what is my current as-is architecture?” “Where do I need to be; what is my target to-be architecture? ” “What is the gap or differences between the two? ” and “How do I get to the to-be st ..."
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is the key facil-itating ingredient providing a holistic view and a mechanism for enabling the design and development as well as the communi-cation and understanding of the enter-prise. The overarching goals of enterprise architecture are to manage the complexity of the enterprise, align business strategies
Flexible Open Caching for the Web
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE
, 1997
"... Caching plays a vital role in the performance of any large-scale distributed system and, as the variety and number of Web applications grows, is becoming an increasingly important research topic within the Web community. Existing caching mechanisms are largely transparent to their users and cater fo ..."
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. We present 'open' caching within an object-oriented framework, an approach to solving these problems which, instead of offering caching transparency makes the caching mechanism highly visible allowing great flexibility in caching choices. Our implementation is built upon the W3Objects
Active Mask Framework for Segmentation of Fluorescence Microscope Images
"... m]]l]]s¶D]]¿÷mB]iv]b]oD]m¶¨]iv]§]iv]r]j]t¿rv]]irj]]t]]m] / | ap]]r¿]ÎNy]s¶D]]mb¶r]ix} Û]Ix]]rd]mb]} p—N]t]o%ism] in]ty]m] / || Û]Is]¡uÎc]rN]]riv]nd]p]*N]m]st¶ I always bow to Śri ̄ Śāradāmbā, the limitless ocean of the nectar of compassion, who bears a rosary, a vessel of nectar, the symbol of ..."
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facilitated the task of understanding complex sys-tems at cellular and molecular levels in recent years. Segmentation, an important yet dif-ficult problem, is often the first processing step following acquisition. Our team previously demonstrated that a stochastic active contour based algorithm together
STUDY PROTOCOL Open Access FIRE (Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence): a study protocol
"... Background: Research evidence underpins best practice, but is not always used in healthcare. The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework suggests that the nature of evidence, the context in which it is used, and whether those trying to use evidence are helpe ..."
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people and reduce the costs associated with providing incontinence aids. Objectives: This study aims to advance understanding about the contribution facilitation can make to implementing research findings into practice via: extending current knowledge of facilitation as a process for translating research
Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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to make the concept of centrality more precise. 3 Consider the network illustrated in In graph theory, a network such as the one illustrated in 6 Networks are not static. Relationships may change, and entry to and exit from the network may change each actor's centrality. We therefore construct our
Online) An Open Access
"... ABSTRACT Introduction and goal: done investigations show that in spite of importance of Islamic life style , to date little studies have been done about it. The goal of this research has been to investigate relation of Islamic life style with social adaptation (adaption ) among the young. Methodolo ..."
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in three directions:economy and livelihood that he/she should try to obtain it. Also, a step that he/she takes it to secure his/her hereafter and third, attention to enjoyments that God has allowed them to be obtained. This noble hadith places a suitable strategy to draw Islamic life style for researchers
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