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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Breadth and Depth"”.
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School Suicide Prevention: A Breadth and Depth Perspective
The present study provides a breadth and depth perspective of the current landscape for school suicide prevention (SSP). Despite an increase in SSP programming, practices, and policy, there remains a gap in understanding of how widely these activities are disseminated and implemented. Additionally, …
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Changes in Literacy Beliefs and Practices of a Kindergarten Teacher: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study
The study will add much-needed breadth and depth to literacy professional's understanding of literacy beliefs, practices, their relationship, as well as to our knowledge of literacy instruction for diverse learners in regular classrooms in changing classroom contexts.
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An investigation into what role anti-Americanism plays in attracting Middle Eastern Arab Sunni men to Islamist extremism, in the contemporary era
… research question at the appropriate length, breadth and depth, it has necessitated the use of texts and academic debates across ‘time and space’, both ancient and modern, crossing a range of disciplines and encompassing Western and Middle Eastern academic sources.
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Development of Systematic Knowledge Management for Public Health: A Public Health Law Ontology
… of Medicine has stated that legal structures and the authority vested in health agencies and other partners within the public health system are essential to improving the public's health. Variation between the laws of different jurisdictions within the United States allows for natural …
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High Performance Network Intrusion Detection: A New Paradigm is Needed
Fast data rates and complicated protocols have outpaced network intrusion detection systems. Administrators are forced to choose between breadth and depth: systems either deeply analyze traffic for a small handful of vulnerabilities, or search for many in parallel using more primitive (and easily …
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Reading, Writing and Pedagogy: The Impact of Ontario Education Faculties' P/J Programs on Graduates' Knowledge and Ability to Teach
… preparation programs on graduates’ knowledge and ability to apply what they know about literacy education. The research examined the content of the programs, the extent to which this content reflected evidence-based components of literacy instruction, and the degree of variability across …
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USING ATTACHMENT THEORY TO STUDY MOTHER-DAUGHTER COMMUNICATION ABOUT SEX
… to examine the influence of attachment styles and breadth and depth of communication on mother-daughter communication about sex. Daughters (N = 75) ages 19 to 68 completed an online questionnaire asking about their previous conversations about sex with their mothers. The results showed that …
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Teachers learning to teach: Stories teachers tell
… taught as they did. Each teacher was interviewed and observed to inform the question of how teachers' beliefs, knowledge, and experience influence their actions or practice. Two scholarly paths--teacher thinking and learning-to-teach--were used as guide posts for constructing a framework to …
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Advocacy Networks in the Marcellus Shale Area: A Study of Environmental Organizations in Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania
This research identifies and analyzes the breadth and depth of the network of non-profit environmental organizations, sportsmen-oriented conservation groups, county conservation districts and state parks that advocate for or against Marcellus Shale drilling within northeastern and southwestern …
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Growth strategies of small nations : with special reference to Ireland, Finland and Singapore
… prosperity. They have a small domestic economy and are more dependent than larger economies on international trade. Smallness typically entails a lack of breadth and depth in the national supply of capital, talent and knowledge. The development paths of three successful small nations - Ireland, …
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A Living Authentic Assessment Third Grade Program: A Descriptive Study
… Assessments, in which students demonstrate a breadth and depth of knowledge as opposed to a shallow recitation of facts, is becoming an alternative evaluation of students, able to give specific information about students’ strengths, weaknesses, areas of mastery, and areas in need of …
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Somewhere between Rabun Gap and Tybee Light
… the Appalachian Mountains in northern Georgia, and flows eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. Where the river opens out to the sea, the Tybee Island Lighthouse stands. A few miles inland, the city of Savannah, Georgia rests on the shore of this river. Part One of this book, Beginning of the New, …
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The Triumvirate Woman: Reconceptualizing Academic Career Messages for African American Women in Engineering
<p>The purpose of this study was to understand the importance of access, equity, inclusion, and diversity in engineering by intentionally focusing on academic career messages for African American women who are tenured and tenure-track in engineering through the lens of Critical Race Theory, Black …
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Distributed Monte Carlo Tree Search With Applications To Chip Design
… builds up a search tree asymmetrically using random rollouts on a game tree. The work detailed in this thesis expands upon traditional implementations by allowing the capability of fully distributing each node onto different physical machines while enabling them to keep in constant …
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Creating and capturing value in the biopharmaceutical sector
… of traditional pharmaceutical companies and biopharmaceutical start-ups. The theoretical approach draws on the modern theory of the firm and related concepts, to define and develop the concept of the business model. This is employed to guide the empirical analysis, which utilises a …
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Developing Emotional Competence in Young Children: Teachers as Socializers
… associated with children’s success both socially and academically. Emotion knowledge and emotion regulation, the components of emotional competence, help children navigate interactions with peers and teachers in order to reach their goals while respecting the needs of others. An abundance of …
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Enhancing biomedical terminologies to include behavioral health: a prerequisite to improving the quality of healthcare
… systems capable of supporting research and clinical care in behavioral health requires the existence of robust clinical terminologies and information models. These terminologies and information models must be capable of representing the same breadth and depth of constructs in the …
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Organizing coercion in authoritarian Chile
… how well principals monitor agents' operations and performance. Principals can monitor from within their own organization (internal monitoring), or from information sources outside their direct control (external monitoring). Measuring levels of internal and external monitoring, using various …
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Institutionalizing Service-Learning as a Best Practice of Community Engagement in Higher Education: Intra- and Inter-Institutional Comparisons of the Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification Framework
Service-learning, with a longstanding history in American higher education (Burkhardt & Pasque, 2005), includes three key tenets: superior academic learning, meaningful and relevant community service, and persistent civic learning (McGoldrick and Ziegert, 2002). The Carnegie Foundation for the …
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The Contribution of Microfinance Institutions to Poverty Reduction at South District In Zanzibar
… of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Zanzibar and determine their effectiveness in reducing poverty. The problem behind this study was that, there was no adequate MFI’s contribution to SMEs in Zanzibar. The study used a mixed methods approach in data collection and analysis. It was conducted in …
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