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Showing 1 to 20 of 905 for “"Accommodation"”.
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Language of Accommodation
… and semantics. The syntax of a language of accommodation is a series of design gestures made within the building, whereas the semantics are the meaningful moments created by these gestures. This thesis is an exploration of the language of accommodation in design. Accommodations in the …
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Online accommodation of regional accents
… and contextual cues to talker identity in the accommodation process. Listeners interpreted the speech of a male talker with an unfamiliar regional dialect of American English, in which the /æ/ vowel is raised to /eɪ/ only before /g/ (e.g., bag is pronounced /beɪg/), and a female talker without …
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The Relationships Among Disability Type, Religious Orientation, Awareness and Accommodation Type and Perceived Reasonableness of Accommodation
… orientation, awareness of disability issues and accommodation type and perceptions of the reasonableness of specific accommodations. One hundred seventy seven introductory psychology students (87 men and 90 women) participated in the study. Ninety four subjects completed a survey regarding …
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Numerical modelling of ocular accommodation process
The ocular accommodation mechanism, as the main apparatus in the eye responsible for maintaining required vision quality when looking at objects at various distances to the eye, is one of the most vital mechanisms of the eye. Ocular accommodation is simultaneously a mechanical and an optical …
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Assessment of Ocular Accommodation in Humans
Accommodation is the change in the dioptric power of the eye altering the focus from distance to near. Presbyopia is the loss of accommodative function that occurs with age. There are many techniques used to measure accommodation, however, there is little consensus as to how clinical data should be …
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Eye Accommodation, Personality, and Autonomic Balance
… situations. It also controls visual accommodation for near (PNS-dominant) and far (SNS-dominant) focus. The balance between these physiological systems has been linked to individual differences in personality characteristics, especially introversion (PNS-dominant) and extraversion …
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The performance of accommodation cooperatives in Australia
… study was to determine whether the Australian accommodation cooperatives have been successful in meeting the objectives of their constituent members. A questionnaire was sent out to a sample of accommodation cooperative members, and the results obtained were supplemented by information received …
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Backpack travellers using commercial backpacker accommodation in Queensland
… long periods of time, make use of less expensive accommodation, use low cost transport and engage in tours and activities that will meet the travel experience they are seeking. The aim of this minor research thesis is to investigate the size of the Backpacker market in Queensland and to identify …
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The Political Economy of Private Credit Money Accommodation
… monetary system. To understand how and why such accommodation occurred, it develops an ideal-typical model of private credit money accommodation and applies it on three cases in the respective centres of the global financial system: the 1797 Bank Restriction in England that accommodated bank …
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Visual Accommodation, the Mandelbaum Effect, and Apparent Size
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Accommodation in email and the influence of organizational culture.
… culture on members' behaviors. Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) recognizes communication as a dynamic process between individuals and explores the intersection of language, identity, and context. Organizational culture defines the context in which organizational members learn to thrive …
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The Beowulf Poet's Accommodation Of Pre-Christian Germanic Culture
This thesis argues for the Beowulf poet's more accommodating perspective on pre-Christian Germanic culture, when examined in comparison to other, later Germanic authors of works such as Icelandic sagas and Danish pseudo-history. The primary components of Beowulf I address to argue for this point …
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Health at sea: with special reference to crews' accommodation
A revolution in shipbuilding took place during the second half of last century; wood gave way to iron, and steam replaced wind and sails. For the first time in history naval architects were able to construct great vessels able to forge their way across the trackless ocean in face of raging storms. …
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An Analysis and Rejection of Arguments for Religious Accommodation
… analysis of six main arguments for religious accommodation, with a specific focus on fundamentalist religious groups and the accommodation of their practices within liberal democratic societies. This analysis reveals that the types of practices that these arguments aim to accommodate primarily …
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INQUIRY ON FORENSIC INTERVIEWER ACCOMMODATION OF NON-/PARTIAL DISCLOSURE
Children who have experienced trauma, have contact with child protective services, and/or who have experienced sexual abuse could have potentially impairments in their ability to articulate clear details about any sexual abuse they endured. Forensic interviewers who collect information from these …
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From Shelter to Home: Flexibility in Post-Disaster Accommodation
… most cases, the process of achieving permanent accommodation takes years for various reasons, such as the removal of debris and finding available land on which reconstruction can take place. During this time, affected families are housed in interim accommodation, where they attempt to return to …
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Estimation Of Tangential Momentum Accommodation Coefficient Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation
The Tangential Momentum Accommodation Coefficient (TMAC) is used to improve the accuracy of fluid flow calculations in the slip flow regime. Under such conditions (indicated by Knudsen number greater than 0.001), the continuum assumption that a fluid velocity at a solid surface is equal to the …
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Accommodation of religious and cultural differences in medical school training
… This thesis looks at the requirement for accommodation (as established in human rights legislation) and the rights of individuals entering into medical school training (as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) and attempts to balance these individual rights against the …
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Recession as an agent in the restructuring of tourist accommodation
… strategies adopted by small scale, family-run accommodation establishments. This sector is particularly significant for traditional resort areas in the UK. For example, in Torbay, Devon (as in most seaside resorts), there is an absence of large chain hotels and small-scale accommodation …
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Characterization Of Charge Accommodation In Biologically Important Hydrogen-Bonded Clusters
… cluster ions to condensed phase spectra. The accommodation of excess charge plays an essential character in a number of biochemical processes involving peptides, nucleobases, aerosols, etc. A time-of-flight mass spectrometer was constructed to isolate discrete numbers of solute and solvent …
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