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Motivation

Known as: Motive, motivations 
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives… 
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2013
Review
2013
Motivation of American College Students to Study Arabic
This paper explores the motivations of American college students to study Arabic. A sample of 229 students enrolled in Arabic… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
A model of goal directed vegetable parenting practices
Review
2005
Review
2005
“A Theory of Coalitions and Clientelism: Coalition Politics in Iceland 1945-2000”
This article serves a dual purpose. First, it provides detailed information about coalition formation and termination in Iceland… 
2005
2005
Four renditions of doing female drag: Feminine appearing conceptual variations of a masculine theme
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
What motivates adolescent smokers to make a quit attempt?
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Smart antenna system analysis, integration and performance for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs)
This paper focuses on the interaction and integration of several critical components of a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) using… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
IP-based access network infrastructure for next-generation wireless data networks
Next-generation wireless network standards are currently being defined. The access network architectures have several specialized… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
The motivations and effectiveness of hospital volunteers.
The effectiveness of volunteers was examined in a sample of 98 volunteer workers at a community hospital in central North… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Smoking patterns and cessation motivations during adolescence.
With increased knowledge of effective prevention of adolescent smoking, there is a concomitant lack of research on effective… 
1994
1994
Connectionist syntactic parsing using temporal variable binding
Recent developments in connectionist architectures for symbolic computation have made it possible to investigate parsing in a… 
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