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Motivation

In 2007, the National Orientation Directors Association reprinted Cassandra B. Whyte's research report allowing readers to ascertain improvements made in addressing specific needs of students over a quarter of a century later to help with academic success.

Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy

Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy is a non-fiction book written by the economist Julian Le Grand.


1988–89 Los Angeles Kings season

Gretzky himself was considered a "traitor" by some Canadians for turning his back on his adopted hometown, his home province, and his home country; his motivation was widely rumoured to be the furtherance of his wife's acting career.

Amotivational syndrome

It may be more parsimonious to regard the symptoms of impaired motivation as symptoms of chronic cannabis intoxication rather than inventing a new psychiatric syndrome.

André Kagwa Rwisereka

The party chairman Frank Habineza was among opposition leaders who called for an independent international investigation into the murder, which may have had a political motivation.

Athymhormic syndrome

The existence of such symptoms in patients after damage to certain structures in the brain has been used to support a physical model of motivation in human beings, wherein the limbic loop of the basal ganglia is the initiator of directed action and thought.

Behavioral activation

Behavioral activation owes its basis to Charles Ferster's Functional Analysis of Depression (1973) which developed B.F. Skinner's idea of depression, within his analysis of motivation, as a lack of reinforcement.

Cavity opto-mechanics

The motivation for research on cavity optomechanics comes from fundamental effects of quantum theory and gravity, as well as technological applications.

Censorship in Japan

Their motivation has been attributed to the outcome, in a "chilling effect".

Charles Edward Barns

Though claiming little motivation for public life, Caleb Barns served in the Wisconsin State Assembly (1850 and 1855).

Chegemskaya Pravda

The direct motivation for the threat was said to be the critical article Беспрограммная любовь (Love without programme) published on 3 February in Chegemskaya Pravda about the congress of United Abkhazia held on 27 January.

Dual containment

Troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia, an area that many in the region regard as "holy soil," which offended many locals and is cited by Osama bin Laden as one reason for his hatred against the United States policies and part of his motivation for the September 11 attacks.

EEG-fMRI

The initial motivation for EEG-fMRI was in the field of research into epilepsy, and in particular the study of interictal epileptiform discharges (IED, or interictal spikes), and their generators, and of seizures.

Egaro

The Mohun Bagan Captain Sibdas Bhaduri is shown to be a fiery and emotional man who leads by example and motivation.

John Basedow

He is a recurring guest on the popular Sirius XM Radio program Covino & Rich, where he answers listener questions on nutrition, exercise, and motivation topics each month.

John L. Spivak

Though he cited opposition to fascism as his primary motivation as a journalist, Spivak cooperated with the Soviet KGB in the 1930s, perhaps from as early as 1932.

John William Atkinson

Effects of ability grouping in schools: Related to individual differences in achievement-related motivation, final report, By John W. Atkinson and Patricia O'Connor, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Dept. of Psychology (1963)

Jonathan Reckford

"My motivation is best summed up by the desire to live out the great commandment, expressed by Micah as a call to 'act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God'" (Micah 6:8).

Julio César Cáceres

In October 2008 Cáceres had a very public conflict with Boca teammate Juan Román Riquelme, when in an interview on a Paraguayan radio station in Asunción, where he was training with his national team, Cáceres questioned Riquelme's motivation.

Linus's Law

In the book The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (2001), Torvalds introduces his law in the prologue "What Makes Hackers Tick? a.k.a. Linus's Law", suggesting that every motivation that makes a man do something can be classified under "survival", "social life" or "entertainment".

Los Tres

The popularity achieved by La Espada y La Pared, was an important motivation for the MTV network, who invited Los Tres to perform an Unplugged session in Miami.

Martin How

Martin has spent most of his career with the Royal School of Church Music where he was known principally as a choir trainer specialising in the training and motivation of young singers.

Maurice Bavaud

In 1976, Rolf Hochhuth idealized Bavaud as a "new William Tell", while in 1980 Klaus Urner relativized Hochhuth's heroic picture, analyzing psychological aspects of Bavaud's motivation.

Mibe architecture

MIBE architecture is based on the belief that autonomy is grounded on motivation and autonomy should arise from superimposition of synergetic activities in response to multiple drives.

Mitsubishi Debonair

The motivation to introduce a modern looking, executive level luxury sedan also took place in what has become known as the Japanese asset price bubble period that began after the Plaza Accord agreement in 1985.

Motivation EP

It was released after the launch of the single "Motivation" to the public mainly to push the popularity of their single and to include the song "What We're All About" into the discography of the band.

N. Leonard Smith

He describes this as being his "major motivation" for being a candidate because Republican Thomas Kean, Jr. and Democrat Bob Menendez both support abortion rights.

Neuroscience of gender differences

Opioid peptides are known to play a role in emotion and motivation.

Organizational orientations

Organizational orientation is defined as an individual's predisposition toward work, motivation to work, job satisfaction, and ways of dealing with peers, subordinates, and supervisors on the job (Papa 2008).

Overjustification effect

However, a study of the Pizza Hut program, Book It!, found that participation in the program neither increased nor decreased reading motivation.

Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya

Spending his senior years in Gujarat University, he initiated state wide efforts to revolutionize mathematics and science education - his motivation being "I am the highest paid mathematics teacher in Gujarat. It cannot be (limited) for teaching M.Sc. classes."

Quickselect

However, contrived sequences can still cause worst-case complexity; David Musser describes a "median-of-3 killer" sequence that allows an attack against that strategy, which was one motivation for his introselect algorithm.

Regio Centurion Private School

Dr. Calitz's studies in the work of Dr. Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner and Erikson strengthened her view that young children have incredible potential and the will and motivation to find answers for themselves and take control over the exploration of the world they live in.

Regulatory mode theory

Regulatory Mode theory, along with Regulatory focus theory was developed by E. Tory Higgins who is interested in the development of goal-pursuit as well as motivation.

This theory is part of E. Tory Higgins research in motivation theories and goal pursuit theories.

Reinforcement sensitivity theory

Gray's biopsychological theory of personality was informed by his earlier studies with Mowrer on reward, punishment, and motivation and Hans Eysenck’s study of the biology of personality traits.

Self-determination theory

Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan later expanded on the early work differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and proposed three main intrinsic needs involved in self-determination.

Seller financing

To a seller, this is an investment in which the return is guaranteed only by the buyer's credit-worthiness or ability and motivation to pay the mortgage.

Sentimentality

However in sociology it is possible to see the "sentimental tradition" as extending into the present-day - to see, for example, 'Parsons as one of the great social philosophers in the sentimental tradition of Adam Smith, Burke, McLuhan, and Goffman...concerned with the relation between the rational and sentimental bases of social order raised by the market reorientation of motivation'.

Shane Dunphy

The respected book One Child by author and child psychologist Torey Hayden was Dunphy's first motivation to work in child protection.

Stephen T. McClard

Stephen T. McClard (born September 18, 1967 in Farmington, Missouri) Band Director, Furniture Designer, Professional Musician, 3rd Generation Piano Technician, Luthier and Author of the book, The Superior Educator: A Calm and Assertive Approach to Classroom Management and Large Group Motivation.

Talented 10th

In another interview on the Wade-O Radio Show, Sho Baraka explained that his motivation for the album was frustration not just with Christian music but with Christendom and the issues that are ignored and not addressed.

Tree of Knowledge System

David C. Geary noted the similarities between his "Motivation-to-Control" hypothesis and Henriques' Behavioral Investment Theory, which were developed independently of each other.

Vahid Soroor

Vahid gets his motivation for the music of Afghanistan from the earlier legend Ahmad Zahir, Farhad Darya and Amir Jan Sabori who have employed energy, emotions, creativity and professionalism to represent their art and their country.

Valeria Puig

That same year she received a full scholarship based on academic excellence, professional development and personal motivation to go do an MA in Script-Writing and Producing for Film and Television at the University of Westminster in London where she worked with producers such as Nick Goldsmith.

Vilfredo Schürmann

Vilfredo manages the feasibility of the Schurmann Family projects and also lectures to companies on topics such as strategic planning, organization, motivation, quality of life and team work.

War on Gangs

In addition, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign criminologist, Jun Sung Hong in his 2010 study about the Bronfenbrenner ecological approach to understanding Vietnamese gangs in America states that “after-school programs and activities for youths, such as sports or job training opportunities might enhance pro-social behavior and reduce motivation to join a gang.”

What a piece of work is a man

In the Reduced Shakespeare Company's production The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), the more famous solliloquy, "To be, or not to be," is omitted from the Hamlet portion of the production, not for time constraints, or because the speech is so well known, but because the group states that they dislike the speech for momentum and motivation reasons.


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