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Anderson, Craig Graham. "Framing employment research using behavioural science." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26373.

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The main aim of this thesis is to explore the structured use of behavioural science in helping to frame employment research. This structured framing intended to help stimulate more interdisciplinary interaction between sub-disciplines that study employment and behavioural science, setting out new empirical and theoretical applications to the study of employment decision-making. Firstly, the application of specific behavioural science concepts to employment scenarios, structured around the core facets of behavioural science, introducing the types of bias studied in behavioural science in turn.

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Taj, Umar. "Improving medication adherence : a behavioural science approach." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/101740/.

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It is commonly assumed that the people who are making poor decisions about their health are indeed making an active decision to do so. This means that people are consciously and intentionally making poor decisions about their health. We often compute intention from action and conclude that these people are either unwilling to change their behaviour or that they are unable to do so. The default solution to changing people‘s behaviour therefore has been that since people act in their rational self-interest if we only tell people about the adverse consequences of their misbehaviour they would cha

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Bi, Weilong. "Rehumanizing science: Three studies on behavioural scientometrics." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/180852/1/Weilong_Bi_Thesis.pdf.

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This PhD project explores the relationship between scientists' self-esteem, physical appearance, and writing style, on the one hand, and their scientific achievement, social recognition, and collaboration opportunities, on the other hand. The studies employ an empirical method and address loosely related topics. In each, distinct behavioural measurements for the items has been investigated. The thesis presented the research questions that are relevant to the understanding of scientists' psychological and social characteristics, with methodological approaches drawn from new developments in data

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Hendry, Christopher N. "The utilisation of social and behavioural science through consulting." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1985. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19783/.

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The thesis is concerned with organisational consulting, and the 'theories' which guide social and behavioural consultants in what they do. To preserve the 'integrity of the phenomena' the research has utilised an interviewing methodology to obtain accounts which reveal 'personal theories'. The aim has been to achieve an adequate phenomenology of consultants' ideas, rooted in their personal lives and organisational role situations, and not just to treat consultancy as the disembodied application of skills and knowledge. Consultants' ideas and practices can thereby be viewed in relation to their

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Weidlich, Matthias. "Behavioural profiles : a relational approach to behaviour consistency." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5559/.

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Business Process Management (BPM) emerged as a means to control, analyse, and optimise business operations. Conceptual models are of central importance for BPM. Most prominently, process models define the behaviour that is performed to achieve a business value. In essence, a process model is a mapping of properties of the original business process to the model, created for a purpose. Different modelling purposes, therefore, result in different models of a business process. Against this background, the misalignment of process models often observed in the field of BPM is no surprise. Even if the

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Sewry, David Andrew. "Behavioural model debugging in Linda." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006697.

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This thesis investigates event-based behavioural model debugging in Linda. A study is presented of the Linda parallel programming paradigm, its amenability to debugging, and a model for debugging Linda programs using Milner's CCS. In support of the construction of expected behaviour models, a Linda program specification language is proposed. A behaviour recognition engine that is based on such specifications is also discussed. It is shown that Linda's distinctive characteristics make it amenable to debugging without the usual problems associated with paraUel debuggers. Furthermore, it is shown

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Kaczmarek, Haiko. "Human behaviour and energy demand : How behavioural science can be used to reduceenergy demand in the residential sector." Thesis, KTH, Energiteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-174307.

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The threat of human induced climate change is imminent. The reason is an everyincreasing demand for energy and products, producing more and more greenhousegas emissions. Everybody needs to take responsibility now. The estimations are thatwith 2% annual energy savings from residential households 12TWh and 3.3 billionmetric tonnes of CO2 can be saved per year. Greenely, a startup from KIC InnoEnergy,wants to engage residential households to change their energy behaviour athome. They combine a smartphone application with the smart meter infrastructureto reduce households energy demand. Changing b

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Al-Hammadi, Yousof Ali Abdulla. "Behavioural correlation for malicious bot detection." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11359/.

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Over the past few years, IRC bots, malicious programs which are remotely controlled by the attacker, have become a major threat to the Internet and its users. These bots can be used in different malicious ways such as to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to shutdown other networks and services. New bots are implemented with extended features such as keystrokes logging, spamming, traffic sniffing, which cause serious disruption to targeted networks and users. In response to these threats, there is a growing demand for effective techniques to detect the presence of bots/botnets

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Sharvia, Septavera. "Integrated application of compositional and behavioural safety analysis." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:4473.

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To address challenges arising in the safety assessment of critical engineering systems, research has recently focused on automating the synthesis of predictive models of system failure from design representations. In one approach, known as compositional safety analysis, system failure models such as fault trees and Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs) are constructed from component failure models using a process of composition. Another approach has looked into automating system safety analysis via application of formal verification techniques such as model checking on behavioural models

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au, mwise@westnet com, and Michael Wise. "Mad Science: Discourses of Schizophrenia and Therapy for Hearing Voices." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20041221.95451.

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People who are diagnosed with severe mental illness experience some of the most extreme and pervasive prejudice of all groups in Western society. How can this still be so? Although the term mental illness is typically reserved for the most serious of cases, psychiatrys medical model is expanding into increasingly everyday realms. Thus, in concert with efforts to reduce social stigma, mental illness is becoming normal. Nevertheless, abnormality is a requirement of biopsychiatry and its offshoots; professionals require some thing to remedy. How do clinical professionals manage

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Brown, Sylvia M. "Teaching #behavioural science' to business undergraduates : delivery of qualifications or enabling concept mastery?" Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385184.

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Medhat, Saad Sabih Ahmed. "High level behavioural modelling of boundary scan architecture." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 1993. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/324/.

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This project involves the development of a software tool which enables the integration of the IEEE 1149.1/JTAG Boundary Scan Test Architecture automatically into an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) design. The tool requires the original design (the ASIC) to be described in VHDL-IEEE 1076 Hardware Description Language. The tool consists of the two major elements: i) A parsing and insertion algorithm developed and implemented in 'C'; ii) A high level model of the Boundary Scan Test Architecture implemented in 'VHDL'. The parsing and insertion algorithm is developed to deal with ide

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Bachmann, Sven Oliver. "Behavioural and molecular phenotypes of mouse models for ASD." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/116925/.

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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are more prevalent in male than in female individuals and are characterised by clinical core symptoms such as impaired sociability, verbal communication and ritualistic behaviours. The gene encoding the cytoplasmic FMR1 interacting protein 1 (CYFIP1) has been associated with ASD in humans. At the molecular level, CYFIP1 has been demonstrated to negatively regulate protein synthesis and actin remodelling. At the neuronal level, Cyfip1 haploinsufficiency leads to defects in synaptic plasticity associated with alteration of dendritic spine morphology, two pathophys

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Basu, Anirban. "A reputation framework for behavioural history : developing and sharing reputations from behavioural history of network clients." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2458/.

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The open architecture of the Internet has enabled its massive growth and success by facilitating easy connectivity between hosts. At the same time, the Internet has also opened itself up to abuse, e.g. arising out of unsolicited communication, both intentional and unintentional. It remains an open question as to how best servers should protect themselves from malicious clients whilst offering good service to innocent clients. There has been research on behavioural profiling and reputation of clients, mostly at the network level and also for email as an application, to detect malicious clients.

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Baddeley, Hilary Ann. "Physiotherapy students' learning strategies and worries : their relevance for behavioural science teaching and learning." Thesis, University of East London, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293365.

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Gagné, Pierre-Yves. "Reverse engineering of user interfaces : inference of structural and behavioural specifications." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55446.

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Many older systems, especially in the data processing domain, have a character oriented user interface. Reengineering these old interfaces to make them more user friendly would extend the life of the systems in which they are embedded.<br>This thesis specifically addresses the issue of user interface reverse engineering. It attempts to define a method and to develop tools to assist programmers in obtaining structural and behavioural specifications of existing user interfaces. These specifications can be used to redesign new interfaces, generate new ones and integrate them into the old systems.

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Keirstead, James. "Behavioural responses to photovoltaic systems in the UK domestic sector." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f4da2e2c-c118-482f-aa57-44fdd0afbc4f.

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Microgeneration technologies, such as solar photovoltaics (PV), have recently been cited as a potential solution to energy policy challenges such as climate change and security of supply. International evidence suggests that the benefit of a PV installation will depend on both the amount of electricity generated and the technology’s influence on energy consumption behaviour. This study seeks to quantify and explain this ‘double-dividend’ effect by examining photovoltaics in the UK domestic sector. Questionnaire and interview data were collected from owner-occupier PV households, revealing that

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Heuer, Andreas. "Behavioural analysis of 6-hydroxydopamine rodent models of Parkinson's disease." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/47537/.

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The aims of this thesis were to characterise further lesion-induced impairments in unilateral rodent models of Parkinson’s disease (PD) on a more cognitive level and to investigate the effects of cell replacement therapies on these tests. Chapter 3.1 deals with the effects of dopamine depletion on a lateralised choice reaction time task in the Skinner box as this apparatus is more widely available than the 9-hole boxes on which initial studies have been based. Unilateral near complete lesions of the nigro-striatal pathway induced a stable side bias that was comparable to the lesion-induced def

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Anderson, Gabrielle. "Behavioural properties and dynamic software update for concurrent programmes." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/353281/.

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Software maintenance is a major part of the development cycle. The traditional methodology for rolling out an update to existing programs is to shut down the system, modify the binary, and restart the program. Downtime has significant disadvantages. In response to such concerns, researchers and practitioners have investigated how to perform update on running programs whilst maintaining various desired properties. In a multi-threaded setting this is further complicated by the interleaving of different threads' actions. In this thesis we investigate how to prove that safety and liveness are pres

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Pretorius, Christiaan Johannes. "Artificial neural networks as simulators for behavioural evolution in evolutionary robotics." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1476.

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Robotic simulators for use in Evolutionary Robotics (ER) have certain challenges associated with the complexity of their construction and the accuracy of predictions made by these simulators. Such robotic simulators are often based on physics models, which have been shown to produce accurate results. However, the construction of physics-based simulators can be complex and time-consuming. Alternative simulation schemes construct robotic simulators from empirically-collected data. Such empirical simulators, however, also have associated challenges, such as that some of these simulators do not ge

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Wadden, Katie P. "The behavioural and neural science of motor skill learning in healthy individuals and people with stroke." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63346.

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Background: Due to a high occurrence of motor impairment following stroke, motor learning is fundamentally important for stroke rehabilitation. Motor learning interventions can be difficult to deliver by clinicians and researchers due to individual differences in motor abilities that are compounded by neural changes associated with an ischemic insult. To enhance motor learning, interventions must be grounded in understanding patterns of performance change, both behaviourally and neurologically. Methods: In Chapters 2 and 3, performance data were fitted to exponential curves to measure perfo

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Al, Zaidi Mazin M. "Cyber security behavioural intentions for trade secret protection." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/108526/.

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Trade secrets have become an important aspect of competitive advantage for new and established businesses in the new digital economy. This is particularly true in corporate venturing, where most corporates rely on new entrepreneurial ventures with creative ideas to drive innovation and fuel growth. In this manner, these corporates run corporate venturing units such as corporate accelerators to support entrepreneurs creating new ventures. During the accelerated pace of venturing, trade secrets become the core intangible asset that requires protection for any new venture. Yet, people remain the

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Chrysikos, Alexandros. "Mapping behavioural-related retention factors using a learning community lens : a mixed methods approach." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2016. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/28704/.

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This study investigated the experiences of undergraduate learning communities in a UK Higher Education Institution and the causes that may lead to low retention rates amongst first year undergraduate computing students. Using learning communities as a lens, the authors examined students’ perception of teamwork experiences, academic and social integration issues, and knowledge and characteristics that might help students to be successful. Four research questions guided the current study: (1) How do first year undergraduate computing students perceive their university experience? (2) To what dep

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Yinka-Banjo, Chika Ogochukwu. "Development of cooperative behavioural model for autonomous multi-robots system deployed to underground mines." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15612.

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The number of disasters that occur in underground mine environments monthly all over the world cannot be ignored. Some of these disasters for instance are roof-falls; explosions, toxic gas inhalation, in-mine vehicle accidents, etc. can cause fatalities and/or disabilities. However, when such accidents happen during mining operations, rescuers find it difficult to respond to it immediately. This creates the necessity to bridge the gap between the lives of miners and the product acquired from the underground mines by using multi-robot systems. This thesis proposes an autonomous multi-robot coop

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Mummah, Sarah. "Integrating behavioural science and design thinking : development and evaluation of a mobile intervention to increase vegetable consumption." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/276478.

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Poor diet including inadequate vegetable consumption is among the leading causes of death in the US and UK. Mobile applications (apps) have been heralded as a potentially transformative tool for delivering behavioural nutrition interventions at scale, but most have yet to incorporate theory-based strategies known to drive changes in health behaviours or undergo systematic testing to demonstrate their effectiveness. Moreover, published frameworks to guide the development of such technologies have yet to integrate best practices from academia and industry. The aim of this dissertation was theref

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Dattakiran, Jagu <1979&gt. "Enhancing customer participation in smart energy systems through behavioral science and economics." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15562.

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This doctoral dissertation is inspired by the need to explore the human dimension of the clean energy transition for climate change mitigation and adaptation, through the application of behavioural science and economics principles. The first chapter systematically reviews behavioural intervention studies that targeted encouraging of energy conservation and adoption of energy efficiency measures. A total of 56 studies, primarily from the fields of behavioural and social sciences, were evaluated for the effectiveness of behavioural interventions to produce long-term changes to energy consuming b

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Bishop, Joanna Kelly. "Predictable feeding in zoos : research methods and behavioural effects." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1580.

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The behaviour of zoo animals can come to anticipate temporally predictable feeding times. However, there is a lack of consensus over the effects of such routines on behaviour and welfare. Few studies have been published in this area, perhaps in part due to methodological challenges. The current programme of work therefore aimed to extend knowledge on the effect of predictable feeding routines, and to develop a suitable methodology to overcome challenges. Prior to predictable feeding, tigers showed patterns of increased ‘active’ behaviours such as locomotion and pacing, and decreased inactivity

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Porr, Bernd. "Sequence-learning in a self-referential closed-loop behavioural system." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2582.

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This thesis focuses on the problem of "autonomous agents". It is assumed that such agents want to be in a desired state which can be assessed by the agent itself when it observes the consequences of its own actions. Therefore the feedback from the motor output via the environment to the sensor input is an essential component of such a system. As a consequence an agent is defined in this thesis as a self-referential system which operates within a closed sensor- mot or-sensor feedback loop. The generic situation is that the agent is always prone to unpredictable disturbances which arri

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Openshaw, Rebecca Louise. "Behavioural and molecular characterisation of mice haploinsufficient for Map2k7, a schizophrenia risk gene." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8890/.

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Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric disorder characterised by a breakdown in thought, emotion and perception, which leads to alterations of normal behaviour and feelings, a withdrawal from reality and an impression of mental defragmentation. Of the positive, negative and cognitive symptoms, the positive symptoms are perhaps the most striking. However, it is the severity of cognitive deficits that are most closely associated with a patients’ functional outcome in the long-term. Despite this, the successful treatment of the cognitive deficits has been met with difficulty, partly due to a lack

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Nicolson, Moira Lindsey. "Using behavioural science to increase consumer adoption of time-of-use electricity tariffs : evidence from survey and field experiments." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10044460/.

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A challenge for realising the benefits of smart meters, promoting energy security and decarbonising electricity is encouraging domestic consumers to switch from flat-rate electricity tariffs to a new generation of time of use (TOU) tariffs. However, a greater challenge is how to ensure that the right consumers sign up and that consent is informed: not all consumers will save money on a TOU tariff and evidence shows that a sizeable minority could be financially worse off. In a marked departure from the existing literature, this thesis argues that opt-out enrolment (a type of ‘nudge’) is unlikel

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Campbell, Shawna. "At the Junction of Developmental and Clinical Science: Youth Identity Processes and Disturbance as Related to Emotional, Behavioural and Borderline Symptoms." Thesis, Griffith University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/384920.

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Contemporary conceptualisations describe identity development as a process of in-depth exploration of one’s identity, making firm commitments, and possible reconsideration of these commitments, which youth engage in when forming their educational and their friendship identities (i.e., three-factor model; Meeus 1996, Crocetti, Rubini & Meeus, 2008b). Forming an identity, when defined in this way, is a prominent task of adolescence and young adulthood. During these years, the central identity question, "Who am I?", becomes especially relevant as a young person transitions from childhood to adult

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Fahy, Nicholas. "Incorporating psychological theory into the model of diffusion of innovations in healthcare." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ef195cf3-24a0-4ad7-83ca-8d4c5fbf6145.

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Evidence-based medicine calls for the use of current best evidence (together with individual clinical expertise). Guidelines aim to distil such evidence, yet clinical practice often fails to follow guidelines, for multiple reasons that are still not well understood. One under-researched aspect of the gap between guidelines and practice is psychology. My literature review found that the application of psychology to implementation research has been limited, and such research is not well integrated into wider implementation research. In this study, I sought to a) systematically apply psychologica

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O'Donovan, David, and Alexandra Marshakova. "Overcoming the security quagmire: behavioural science and modern technology hold the key to solving the complex issue of law firm cyber security." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21216.

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While all industries that handle valuable data have been subject to increasing levels of cyber attack, there is a set of inter-related factors in the law firm cyber security ecosystem that makes such firms more susceptible to attack and also serves to prevent them from taking action to counteract attack vulnerability. As a result of the inter-related external and internal factors affecting law firm cyber security, the human element of firm security infrastructure has been neglected, thereby making humans, at once law firms’ greatest asset, their main cyber security weakness. 1There has been so

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Gok, Abdullah. "The Concept Of Behavioural Additionality Of Public Support For Private R&amp." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607391/index.pdf.

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The changes in the behaviour of the innovating firm that would not have been the case in the absence of the public support, behavioural additionality, is investigated in this thesis. The theoretical foundations of the concept along with the existing evaluation attempts worldwide are analysed. The need for evaluation in Turkey is established. The design of the T&Uuml<br>BiTAK-TEYDEB programme in question along with the related policy context is described to form a basis for the evaluation of the behavioural additionality. It is revealed that the need for an evaluation of behavioural additionali

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Andersson, Mika. "The Inhumane." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21285.

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The emergence of biopolitic during the foundation of the modern nation-state resulted, amongst other things, in a fusion between law and behavioural sciences. In law concerning human rights there is a figure who is referred to as the inhumane human, this figure is dehumanized through the laws and institutions claiming to protect the human value as such. The fact also remain that persons who were persecuted for these acts during the Nuremberg Trials have come to represent the mass-murdered that never killed, as the defendants was mainly administers. The legal paradox were the sovereign perform

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Espie, Colin A. "Behavioural sleep medicine conceptualisations and associated treatment of clinical insomnia disorder in adults." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4620/.

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This thesis summarises a selection of forty-two studies [1-42], published by the author during the period 2000-2012, investigating the conceptual basis of Insomnia Disorder, and its evaluation and treatment, principally using cognitive and behavioural interventions. The work reflects a range of research methodologies including experimental, psychometric, qualitative and population-based studies, and randomised controlled trials. Important theoretical contributions to the literature published in this period are also included and reference is made to major textbooks, position papers, and influen

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Andersson, Peter. "Implementation of website for cognitive behavioural therapy using the development framework Symfony." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-54722.

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<p>This report follows the process of developing a website for cognitive behavioural therapy using the web development framework Symfony. The purpose was to find out if it is appropriate to use Symfony to ease development and maintenance of a website for therapy. For this to be true the framework had to be able to help create a website that was secure, user-friendly and easy to maintain.</p><p>The website was developed using several features of the framework including database abstraction, automatic code generation and URL-rewriting. A plugin was used to enhance the security by adding a comple

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Daarstad, Eva, and Ann-Christine Johansson. "Munvård till äldre : En enkätstudie till vårdpersonal på särskilt boende." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-2165.

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<p>Antalet äldre ökar i Sverige. Åldrandet medför ökad risk att drabbas av sjukdomar vilket kan påverka munhälsan negativt. Äldre med stort vård- och omsorgsbehov flyttar ofta till särskilt boende. Många av dem behöver hjälp med munhygienen. Munvården till äldre i särskilt boende är ofta bristfällig med dålig munhälsa som följd. Syftet var att beskriva vårdpersonalens attityder och beteenden avseende den egna samt de äldres munhälsa och munvård, samt undersöka om munvårdsutbildning kan relateras till munvårdsinsatser på särskilt boende. En tvärsnittsstudie med kvantitativ ansats genomfördes oc

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Nayeri, Charlie, and Maja Nilsson. "Legitimerade tandhygienisters yrkesroll ur ett patientperspektiv : En kvalitativ intervjustudie." Thesis, Tandhygienistprogrammet, Karlstads universitet, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4279.

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<p>Tandhygienistyrket grundades i början av 1900-talet och idag finns tandhygienister i över trettio länder och det är ett kvinnodominerat yrke. Den första tandhygienistutbildningen startade i Sverige 1968. År 1991 blev tandhygienistyrket en legitimerad profession. <em>Syftet </em>var att undersöka vilka kunskaper patienter i åldersgruppen 50 - 65 år har om legitimerade tandhygienisters yrkesroll samt patienternas attityder till tandhygienistbehandling. Frågeställningarna var "vilken kunskap har patienter i åldersgruppen 50 - 65 år om legitimerade tandhygienisters yrkesroll?" och "vilka attity

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Christie, Warren James Alexander. "The biodynamics of knowledge creation : an archaeological, behavioural and neurological account of the creation of human knowledge." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2716.

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Thesis (MPhil (Information Science))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>This thesis explores phenomena surrounding the creation of knowledge, employing a multidisciplinary approach. To start with a view on the physical location of knowledge is discussed. This helps highlight the problem of defining knowledge and simultaneously introduces a set of fundamental and conceptual questions about the phenomena surrounding the creation of knowledge . The set of questions are then focussed on the process of knowledge creation. The investigation starts in the field of archaeology, in particular at

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Ehrén, Zara, and Åsa Karlsson. "Munhälsopromotion bland barn : Tandhygienisters hälsofrämjande arbete på individnivå." Thesis, Tandhygienistprogrammet, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4292.

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<p><p>Tandhygienisten har en stor roll när det gäller att introducera barnet till tandvården och att arbeta med pedagogik och empowerment, en process där patienten lär sig ta större kontroll över beslut och handlingar, som påverkar barnets orala hälsa.</p><p><strong><em>Syftet</em></strong> var att beskriva hur legitimerade tandhygienister arbetade kliniskt med munhälsopromotion till barn, hur pedagogiska strategier användes och vilka teorier strategierna grundades på.</p><p><strong><em>Metoden</em></strong> var en kvalitativ intervjustudie, som genomfördes som pilotstudie vilket innebar att s

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Dempster, Michael Andrew. "An information analysis of the interaction between sensory signals and ongoing cortical activity using a novel mechanistic cortical model, behavioural and MEG studies." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4223/.

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In this work I present a novel mechanistic cortical model derived from the most current cortical anatomical data. The model is built at the cellular level representing the mean laminar distribution and connectivity of the neo-cortex. From this model I derive an extracellular field potential signal and simulate ongoing cortical activity using top down, local and bottom up sensory input. An information theoretic analysis is applied to the simulation data in the context of a bottom up input. This identifies a relationship between cortico-cortical oscillatory activity across a number of frequencie

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Dutton, Paul. "Does forage enrichment promote increased activity in captive capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)?" Diss., Lincoln University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/779.

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In their native habitat of Central and South America, capuchin monkeys (Cebus) spend 45% to 55% of their day foraging and a further 20% travelling. Once these monkeys are introduced into captive environments their diets are selective, seasonal and presented to them by their keepers. The captive environment often leads to various behavioural abnormalities and compensatory behaviours or stereotypies. To address this issue, environmental enrichment can be employed to reduce, cure or prevent such an occurrence. Enrichment can reduce stress, while increasing animal well-being and health in captivit

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Davis, Jacqueline Topsy Mengersen. "The role of culture in children's sex-typed preferences for colours, toys, and affordances : a systems theory approach." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289913.

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Children's sex-typed preferences for colours and toys are well-established, and often function as markers of sex-typicality in research on the development of sex-typed behaviour. However, children's sex-typed colour and toy preferences have not been tested cross-culturally, or in remote unindustrialised cultural settings. The present thesis tested children's preferences for sex-typed toys in four cultural settings: Shipibo villages in the Lake Imiria region of the Peruvian Amazon; kastom villages in the mountains of Tanna Island in Vanuatu in the South Pacific; children attending school in Len

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Mbele, Zuko. "Organisational culture and structure as mechanisms for the reduction of human behavioural variability at the Merged Faculty of Education of the University of Kwazulu Natal (UKZN)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2009.

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Thesis (MPhil (Philosophy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.<br>The merger of organisations has been extensively utilised in many industries. This has occurred globally and locally. Some mergers have become successful while others have failed to achieve their goals. The failure of mergers could be attributed to insufficient attention to certain organisational elements. When institutions merged, they become vulnerable to diversity and conflict. They also experience human variability. Organisational mergers present challenges that could be associated with humanity. This could be precipit

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Erceg, Vicki Heather. "Detection of behavioural and cognitive dysfunction in mucopolysaccharidosis IIIA affected dogs : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Veterinary Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1053.

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This study investigated whether behavioural and cognitive dysfunction caused by mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) IIIA can be detected early in affected dogs’ lives, and to describe the behaviours of these dogs. No other scientific papers have been published on this topic and the population of dogs examined in this study are the only MPS IIIA affected dog colony available worldwide for study. Three main tests were performed on the population of MPS IIIA affected dogs. Physical behavioural assessment tests were performed at six and eight weeks of age and from twenty weeks of age a cognitive function

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Chappell, Esta Monique. "Morphology, phylogeography and drumming behaviour of a New Zealand ground weta, Hemiandrus pallitarsis : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/828.

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Species are one of the fundamental components of biology and the accurate delimitation of species is important in evolutionary, systematic and ecological studies, yet there is still confusion over how species can be recognised. Examining different characters allows multiple lines of evidence for successful and accurate species delimitation and identification. In this thesis, morphological, genetic and behavioural variation is investigated within an endemic species of ground weta, Hemiandrus pallitarsis, in the North Island, New Zealand. Twelve morphological characters were measured, and mitoch

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Crowe, Laura Majella. "Social support in later life : the influence of retirement and marital status : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment for the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1320.

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The study explored the relationship between retirement and marital status and objective and subjective measures of social support. A secondary analysis was conducted on a sample of 6,662 men and women aged 55-70 years of age. Results of a series of 2-way ANOVAs revealed greater interaction with friends amongst retired individuals than those who were employed. Marital status was shown to be associated with interaction with family and levels of perceived social support. An interaction between retirement and marital status was also shown to influence levels of perceived social support. The result

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Manson, Jennifer Margaret. "Person-job fit and its relationship with work attitudes: a study of Christian missionaries from Australasia : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand." Massey University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/998.

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Do Christian missionaries who exhibit good person-job fit, (‘aligned’ with host nation colleagues and ‘in harmony’ with expatriate colleagues), experience more positive work attitudes? Personjob fit was conceptualized in terms of competencies. Perspectives on what competencies the role of missionary requires were obtained from 3 groups of subject matter experts: host nation colleagues, missionaries, and mission agency leaders. In Study I, subject matter experts (host nation colleagues, n=22, missionaries, n=25, and agency leaders, n=23) rated the ‘Universal Competency Framework’ (SHL) 20-level

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Newall, Philip W. S. "Household financial decision making." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24473.

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Households are nowadays required to make financial decisions of increasing complexity in an increasing number of domains. This thesis explores psychological mechanisms, behavior change interventions, and potential inhibitory factors underlying wise household financial decisions in the domains of gambling advertising and mutual fund investing. In-depth investigations of these two domains were chosen to balance the depth of topic coverage versus the wide breadth of modern financial decision making. UK soccer gambling advertising was investigated via two observational studies and a range of onlin

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