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Purpose This study aims to investigate the differences in participation patterns between children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and children with typical development (TD) in Jordan. Design/methodology/approach The study used a cross-sectional comparative design and convenient and snowball...
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internal auditors, namely, compensation, activity and expertise, based on 1,340 firm observations from 2009 to 2010 using …
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using a tripartite heuristic framework comprising categories of Dispositional, Activity and Telic. Each category explains …
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Many animals have two basic traits for avoiding being killed by a predator: behavioral modification and morphological defense. We examined the relationship between antipredator behavior and morphological defense in larvae of three closely related dragonfly species within the genus Leucorrhinia....
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Whilst research indicates that happiness-enhancing activities can boost happiness, the measurement of intentional happiness-enhancing activities has thus far been inadequate. This paper describes the development and initial empirical testing of the Happiness-enhancing Activities and Positive...
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In this paper, we investigate how activity of complex neural networks depends on random long-range connections. Network … the nearest-neighbor neural network, occur. The spiking activity becomes stronger in intensity and higher in frequency as … activity of neural networks. Furthermore, the possible mechanism behind the action of random long-range connections is also …
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activity and popularity, and find that the distributions of both of them follow a stretched exponential form which interpolates … of user activity the fat tail becomes more and more irregular, indicating different behavior patterns for users with …
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of human activity as measured from forearm motion in subjects undergoing their regular daily routine. We demonstrate that … features. These patterns remain stable from one subject to another and are unaffected by changes in the average activity level … protocols, we demonstrate that they cannot account for the observed scaling patterns in activity fluctuations. We attribute …
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attraction patterns of old ones, different heavy-tailed distributions for popularity and activity which have been observed in … feature of individual popularity and activity in online social systems and point out the potential simple mechanism underlying …
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’s activity, and the interevent time all follow heavy-tailed distributions. (2) There exists a strongly positive correlation … between user’s activity and the total number of user’s actions, and a significantly negative correlation between the user …’s activity and the width of the interevent time distribution. We further study the rescaling method and show that this method …
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