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  2. Radio Research Laboratory (Harvard) - Wikipedia

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    The Radio Research Laboratory (RRL), located on the campus of Harvard University, was an 800-person secret research laboratory during World War II.Under the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), it was a spinoff of the Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab) at MIT and set up to develop electronic countermeasures to enemy radars and communications, as well as electronic counter ...

  3. Academic buoyancy - Wikipedia

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    More specifically academic buoyancy is defined as ‘the process of dealing with isolated poor grades and patches of poor performance, typical stress levels and daily pressures, threats to confidence due to poor grades, low-level stress and confidence, dips in motivation and engagement and the way in which learners deal with negative feedback ...

  4. Temporal motivation theory - Wikipedia

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    The theory states an individual's motivation for a task can be derived with the following formula (in its simplest form): = where , the desire for a particular outcome, or self-efficacy is the probability of success, is the reward associated with the outcome, is the individual’s sensitivity to delay and is the time to complete that task.

  5. Self-worth theory of motivation - Wikipedia

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    The self-worth theory of motivation commonly applies to students in the school context where frequent evaluation of one's ability and comparison between peers exist. The self-worth theory of motivation , which is adapted from the original theory of achievement motivation, describes an individual's tendency to protect their sense of self-worth ...

  6. Motivation - Wikipedia

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    Many other types of motivation are discussed in the academic literature. Moral motivation is closely related to altruistic motivation. Its motive is to act in tune with moral judgments and it can be characterized as the willingness to "do the right thing". [101] The desire to visit a sick friend to keep a promise is an example of moral motivation.

  7. Motivation in second-language learning - Wikipedia

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    The desire to learn is often related to the concept of motivation. Motivation is the most-used concept for explaining the failure or success of a language learner. [ 1 ] Second language (L2) refers to a language an individual learns that is not his/her mother tongue , but is of use in the area of the individual.

  8. RRL - Wikipedia

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    RRL may refer to: Regional Rail Link a new regional railway line in Victoria, Australia; Regional Red List; Rich Representation Language a computer language used for multi-agent animation; Russian Rugby League Federation; Regional Research Laborotaries, under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in India

  9. Rich Representation Language - Wikipedia

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    The Rich Representation Language, often abbreviated as RRL, is a computer animation language specifically designed to facilitate the interaction of two or more animated characters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The research effort was funded by the European Commission as part of the NECA Project .