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2005
Chavez, K., Pillon, S., O'Brien, B.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate drug use and risk behaviors among students of the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador. To evaluate this issue, we used the questionnaire “Youth Risk Behavior Survey” (YRBS). The study sample consisted of 751 undergraduate students: 328 (44%) male and 423...
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Spring 2015
Personality has been documented in diverse taxa and growing attention is being directed towards the ecological implications of consistent variation in individual behaviour. These implications include the rise in habituation behaviour by wildlife living in human-disturbed areas, which has resulted...
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Emerging Adulthood in Chinese Young People: Does ego identity status moderate the relationship between transition features and burnout?
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Dramatic social changes in contemporary society have resulted in young people taking a longer time to transition into adulthood. In Western cultures, Arnett (2000) identified this transition period as emerging adulthood. Individuals may experience this period differently, depending on their...
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Emotional and Social Engagement in a Massive Open Online Course: An examination of Dino 101
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Lia M. Daniels, Catherine Adams, Adam McCaffrey
Broadly defined as the connection between the learner and his or her learning, student engagement is a motivational construct involving behavioral, cognitive, emotional (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, & Paris, 2004) and social (Klassen, Yerdelen, & Durksen, 2013) components. Although all four components...
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Fall 2014
Capital markets play an important role in the modern economy. This thesis consists of two essays on capital markets. In the first essay (Chapter 1), I study the effect of systematic news on a prominent capital markets anomaly, post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD), and use the effect to...
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Spring 2013
Gradient-TD methods are a new family of learning algorithms that are stable and convergent under a wider range of conditions than previous reinforcement learning algorithms. In particular, gradient-TD algorithms enable off-policy problems---problems where the distribution of the data is different...
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Finding hope in the darkness: Stories of two Chinese newcomers enrolled in Canadian high school
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Hope has been described as the ability to envision a future in which one wishes to participate. A burgeoning body of research consistently points to the vital role hope plays in learning and successful change. Employing narrative inquiry (Clandinin and Connelly, 2000), in this paper, we explore...
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Fall 2010
Non-Player Character (NPC) behaviors in today’s computer games are mostly generated from manually written scripts. The high cost of manually creating complex behaviors for each NPC to exhibit intelligence in response to every situation in the game results in NPCs with repetitive and artificial...
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2011-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2012: Verbs are harder than nouns for children to learn. This research project will test two central hypotheses about verb learning in children: First, in experimental situations, children benefit from co-speech gesture as shown by enhanced verb learning. Second, in everyday...