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Effect of Spasticity on Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury
(2013-12)The basic goal of any rehabilitation program is to restore function and to improve quality of life. In patients with spinal cord injury, spasticity is one of the major complications which affects quality of life. The use ... -
Effective Identity Management on Mobile Devices Using Multi-Sensor Measurements
(2015-05)Due to the dramatic increase in popularity of mobile devices in the past decade, sensitive user information is stored and accessed on these devices every day. Securing sensitive data stored and accessed from mobile devices, ... -
Effectiveness of an English intervention for first-grade English language learners at risk for reading problems
(Elementary School Journal, 2006-02)A first-grade reading and language development intervention for English language learners (Spanish/English) at risk for reading difficulties was examined. The intervention was conducted in the same language as students' ... -
Effectiveness of an undergraduate core curricula physical activity and obesity course on students’ health behaviors.
(2016-08)With more than half of college students falling short of government guidelines for exercise and nutrition (ACHA, 2009), effective interventions targeting young adults during this transitional time are critical. Research ... -
Effectiveness of Cache Pollution Attacks in ICN Cache Services
(December 2)Information-centric networking is a new technique for future Internet. The current Internet architecture was designed based on a host to host communication. In recent years there have been several efforts to replace the ... -
Effectiveness of Computer Based Safety Training versus Face-to-face Safety Training in Veterinary Clinics
(2013-05)This study found no significant difference between short term learning of safety topics in veterinary clinic regardless of whether face-to-face (FTF) instruction or computer based training (CBT) were used. The significant ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF GIST REASONING TRAINING IN IMPROVING DISCOURSE, VERBAL REASONING, AND GENERAL COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN AN ADULT WITH RIGHT-HEMISPHERE DAMAGE
(2016-05)There is limited research investigating treatments targeted at remediating cognitive-communicative deficits associated with right hemisphere damage. This single case study investigated the efficacy of using a gist-based ... -
Effects of a multitier support system on calculation, word problem, and prealgebraic performance among at-risk learners
(Exceptional Children, 2015-01)The focus of the present study was enhancing word problem and calculation achievement in ways that support prealgebraic thinking among second-grade students at risk for mathematics difficulty. Intervention relied on a ... -
Effects of Adult Volunteers' Presentations on High School Students' Engagement and Intent to Stay in School
(2011-05)Education is a key component to building a successful life and completion of high school is a critical part of that education. The issue of students dropping out of school is one that is growing, despite many attempts by ... -
Effects of Angry Rumination and Distraction in Partner Violent Men
(2016-05)Although the tendency to ruminate is related to the frequency of intimate partner violent (IPV) perpetration (Sotelo & Babcock, 2013), it is unclear how intimate partner violent men react emotionally and physiologically ... -
Effects of Board Composition on Pricing of Charity Care among Nonprofit Hospitals
(August 201)In recent years, nonprofit hospitals have been steadily raising listed prices for patient care, primarily due to competitive pressures from for-profit hospitals, increasing costs, and regulatory pressures. Prior literature ... -
Effects of catastrophic blowdown on headwater streams of the Routt National Forest, Colorado
(2012-08)My study focuses on the effects of a severe storm event on headwater mountain stream morphology. In 1997 the Routt Divide Blowdown felled 13,000 acres of trees in the Routt National Forest, Colorado, causing massive amounts ... -
Effects of chemical substitutions and magnetic fields on multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials
(2013-08)We studied the interaction of the magnetic order or magnetic field with polarization or dielectric properties of solids, the so-called magnetoelectric (ME) effect. In this work, we particularly consider three different ... -
Effects of Compensatory Mutations on Evolved Strains of Antibiotic Resistant E.coli
(2017)Pathogens that are exposed to antibiotics acquire mutations that confer resistance. In the absence of antibiotics resistant mutants have a lower fitness relative to their sensitive ancestral strain. Fitness costs associated ... -
Effects of Distance and Grouping on Visual Attention for Static and Dynamic Displays
(2013-12)Naturally, our visual system receives a staggering amount of information from the environment. Mechanisms are needed to filter irrelevant information and select the most significant for our task. Since the static stimuli ... -
Effects of fact retrieval tutoring on third-grade students with math difficulties with and without reading difficulties
(Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2009-02)The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of fact retrieval tutoring as a function of math difficulty (MD) subtype, that is, whether students have MD alone (MD-only) or have concurrent difficulty with math and ... -
Effects of Immigration Status and Maternal Health Behaviors on Gestational Weight Gain and Adherence to Institute of Medicine Gestational Weight Gain Recommendations
(2018-05)Gestational weight gain (GWG) is an important consideration during pregnancy as excess weight gains could lead to adverse health conditions in both mother and the child. Immigration status is a potential risk factor of ... -
Effects of individualized and standardized interventions on middle school students with reading disabilities
(Exceptional Children, 2011-07)This study reports the effectiveness of a year-long, small-group, tertiary (Tier 3) intervention that examined 2 empirically derived but conceptually different treatments and a comparison condition. The researchers had ... -
Effects of normative feedback for drinkers who consume less than the norm: Dodging the boomerang
(Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2014-06)A number of alcohol interventions designed for college students attempt to correct exaggerated perceptions of alcohol use on college campuses through the use of personalized normative feedback. Personalized normative ... -
EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND CULTURE ON EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION BEHAVIORS IN CHINESE ORGANIZATIONS
(2011-12)Organizations realize the importance of employee communication behaviors (ECBs) in public relations contexts. Recently scholars conceptually advanced two types of ECBs-Megaphoning and Scouting. This empirical study examined ...