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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Adaptation: Theory"”.
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Shatterpoints: An adaptation theory on Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Development and Validation of an Assessment Tool Grounded in Occupational Adaptation Theory
… Capacity (MAC) tool based on occupational adaptation (OA) theory for use with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. The psychometric properties were examined for implementation of the MAC tool in occupational therapy practice via a three-phase instrument development …
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The adaptation and demolition of existing buildings on masterplan sites
This thesis extends current adaptation theory by considering the practical realities of adaptation and demolition decisions at the masterplan scale. As existing adaptation theory mainly focuses on individual buildings or the city level, it is not sufficient for explaining decisions on large …
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Remixed, Remastered: Investigating Organizational Adaptation in Higher Music Education
… This study was grounded in organizational adaptation theory, drawing upon nine well-established theories: population ecology, life cycles, strategic choice, isomorphism, symbolic action, resource dependence, cybernetics, and network theory. Critical concepts of the turbulent environment, …
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Distress and Caregiver Appraisal in Pediatric Critical Care Unit Nurses when Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment
… terminally ill patients. Guided by Cognitive Adaptation Theory, this study explores distress and caregiver appraisal patterns in nurses who provide LST in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) setting.
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Comparison of Optimism Levels and Life Stress Levels Among NCAA Division I Athletes and Non-Athletes
… Argyropoulou, 2007). Moreover, the cognitive adaptation theory suggests that optimistic individuals are more likely to make appropriate cognitive adaptations to stressful situations (Lightsey, 1994; Alloy & Clements, 1992). Results concerning athletic status, gender, optimism, and stress are …
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Beyond Fidelity: The Translation Process in Two Adaptations of Juan Marsé’s El embrujo de Shanghai
… literary translation, can enrich the study of adaptation theory. An application is made to the case of Spanish novelist Juan Marsé’s work El embrujo de Shanghai, which has been adapted to film by Fernando Trueba and to screenplay by Victor Érice. Rather than taking a hierarchical approach to …
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Participative water demand management as an adaptive response within complex socio-institutional systems: a case study of Cape Town, South Africa
… of improved and adapted strategies. However, adaptation theory is proving difficult to implement. A range of serious practical issues are emerging as adaptation moves from theory to implementation. One of these is that the implementation of water demand management strategies are not aligned …
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The Comic(s) Shakespeare: <i>Kill Shakespeare</i> and Audience Experience in Adaptation Studies
… that she briefly outlines in her book <i>A Theory of Adaptation</i>. Hutcheon suggests that when experiencing an adaptation, one may be a knowing audience member, someone that knows the adapted work, or an unknowing audience member, someone who is not familiar with an adapted work. Hutcheon …
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Adaptation vs selection: an examination of the impact of deregulation on strategic change in U.S. banks
… of financial institutions in the early 1980's. Adaptation theory suggests that the largest, oldest, and most powerful organizations have superior capacities for adapting to environmental circumstances and that organizational variability reflects changes in the strategy and structure of a firm in …
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Mediating identity through orality in West African films adapted from literature
… of oral tradition in films, I combine orality theory, adaptation theory, and postcolonial theory to develop a model that treats film theoretically as ‘secondary orality adaptation (SOA)', which is interpreted using textual analysis in films such as Xala (1975), Karmen Gei (2001) and Invasion …
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The educational visual "language" in graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare
… work surrounding Shakespearean graphic novel adaptations, graphic texts have long helped instructors, teachers, and other fellow educators, deconstruct and challenge how we view Shakespeare and the language of his plays. The graphic novels I have chosen for my study (Manga Classics Hamlet, Ian …
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Adaptations of Othello: (In)Adaptability and Transmedial Representations of Race
This thesis examines adaptations of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice (c. 1601–4) across media, comparing cinematic, televisual, musical, visual art, and online adaptations, among others, in an endeavour to determine its adaptability in various periods and cultural …
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Adapting poetics : a fusion of ideas in literature to film adaptation
… to formulate and test an original idea in adaptation theory, one that exploits theproductive aspects of the two main tendencies in adaptation studies, fidelity and intertextuality. Thequestion that is addressed here is how the prioritization of a novel's poetics as the focal point for …
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From Novel to Film: Claude Chabrol's adaptations of Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone (La Ceremonie) And The Bridesmaid (La Demoiselle d'Honneur)
… study aims to define technicalities of filmic adaptations through two specific examples. Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone and The Bridesmaid were both adapted by French director Claude Chabrol. Based on film theory by Keith Reader and Phil Powrie, Anne Goliot-Leté and Francis Vanoye, and …
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The Impact of Environmental Factors on Business Strategies in Selected Major U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Companies 1970-2005
… Weick, 1984; Milliken, 1990) and organizational adaptation theory (e.g., Miles & Snow, 1978; Zeithaml & Zeithaml, 1984). Qualitative analysis was conducted for data analysis. Part 1 of data analysis was the in-depth exploration of the business environment for the apparel manufacturing industry in …
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All for One: What The Three Musketeers Can Teach Us About Adaptation
This work looks at adaptations of The Three Musketeers, from the novel’s inception to the present day. This thesis has a double purpose: the first is to create a comprehensive analysis of the different ways in which The Three Musketeers makes an appearance in our culture, and the second is to offer …
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Finding oneself far from home: identity construction in contemporary US migrant women’s fiction
… narratives in terms of identity construction, adaptation to the host environment, and the resulting effects on the characters’ sense of home and belonging. The thesis also compares women’s immigrant narratives with expatriate fictions focusing on the experience of American women in the East. …
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Beyond Fidelity: Teaching Film Adaptations in Secondary Schools
… studying the relationship between film adaptations and their print source texts in secondary school. There are several important works that inform film study in secondary English classrooms. These include Alan Teasley and Ann Wilder's Reel Conversations; William Costanzo's Reading the …
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The Finest Entertainment: Conscious Observation on Film in Adaptations of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and Washington Square
… elucidate much of his meaning. In the field of adaptation theory, therefore, James presents somewhat of a problem for the film adaptor: how does one convey on screen James' delicate implications, which are formative to the text without actually existing on the printed page? This project not only …
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