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    of ‘self-talk’ in creating empowerment in an individual, which will enhance the resistance to temptation and motivate goal directed behavior (Patrick & Hagtvedt, 2012, P. 372). In the prior study, quantitative analysis was performed using ANOVA, Chi-square, and binary logistic regression (Patrick & Hagtvedt, 2012). The original study was performed without mention of participant recruitment, demographic data, debriefment, as well as informed consent;

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    Survey (CHIS) 2011–2012 dataset. CHIS is the largest and most comprehensive state-based health survey in the United States. It is a population-based telephone survey of California’s population. CHIS is conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (UCLA-CHPR) in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health, the Department of Health Care Services, First 5 California, The California Endowment, the National Cancer Institute, and Kaiser Permanente (UCLA-CHPR, 2013). CHIS data

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    In Medieval science lab, everything was about what people believed was not always right by science. Many historical movements such as alchemic rituals performed by old scientist, crude surgeries performed by plague doctors and many of the other cases were considered primitive, which was against what we believe because of science today. However, some of these primitive sciences, called “pseudoscience” (Molumby and Murray, 2007, p.28), have persisted the scientific method, in other words people still

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    EVALUATION OF STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS IN SALEM DISTRICT-TAMIL NADU 1 Introduction Stress is the body’s General response to any intense physical, emotional or mental demand placed on it by on self or others. Anything can be stressor if it last long enough is perceived as stress. Stress is any situation that evokes negative thoughts and feelings in a person. Being a student can be the most interesting time of one’s life. New friends, new places, new challenges can make a student

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    [Example: Expected value for the Low-Climb category is calculated as (Low Total * Climb Total / Grand Total) = (14 * 25)/61 = 5.74] Climb Cruise Descent Low 5.74 1.84 6.43 Medium 11.89 3.80 13.31 High 7.38 2.36 8.26 Chi Squares Table: Recorded Value (R) Expected Value (E) (R - E)^2 (R - E)^2 /E 6 5.74 0.069 0.012 18 11.89 37.390 3.146 1 7.38 40.667 5.513 2 1.84 0.0269 0.015 3 3.80 0.645 0.170 3 2.36 0.409 0.173 6

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    Over the years various researchers have raised concern about the relationship between playing musical instruments and performance in math. Performing well in math is a significant requirement in passing an examination. For this reason, extensive research has been conducted on some of how students can improve their performance in math. According to Cindy Zhan, playing music instruments engages the right hemisphere of the brain. On the other hand, tackling math problems involves the left hemisphere

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    The first Chi Square analysis I ran is to determine a relationship between Body Mass Index(BMI) and Gender. The P-Value is 0.202744 while the level of significance is 0.05. This led to non-significance. The second chi- square analysis I ran is to determine a relationship between being on a sports team or with BMI. The P- Value is 0.574058 while the level of significance is 0.574. This means the data was non-significant. The third chi square analysis I ran is to determine if there is a relationship

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    During the course of the study, it was found that the growth of new business had not been very consistent from 1981 to 2005. During pre reforms period, individual business, all group insurance and total business were Rs. 2896.95 crore, Rs. 5899.36 crore and Rs. 8796.31 crore respectively in 1981. During post reforms period, individual business, all group insurance and total business amounted to Rs. 179481.39 crore, Rs. 117745.60 crore and Rs. 297226.45 crore respectively in 2005. Growth rate of

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    machine learning algorithms for classifying the sentiment of movie reviews which uses a chi-squared feature selection mechanism for training. I show that machine learning algorithms such as Naive Bayes and Maximum Entropy can achieve competitive accuracy when trained using features and the publicly available dataset. It analyse accuracy, precision and recall of machine learning classification mechanisms with chi-squared feature selection technique and plot the relationship between number of

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    Ethics, deriving from the Greek ethos meaning character (Jennings, 2010), are the “moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity” (Oxford Dictionary, 2015b) and establish the foundation of present-day research (Cropley, 2008; Flick, 2006). They are the “norms of conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour” (Resnik, 2011) and establish the values essential for the collaborative work between the researcher and the research subject (Jennings

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