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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Chasm"”.
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Bridging the Diffusion of Innovation Chasm for Green Housing
… prevents green homes from crossing the chasm into the mainstream market. As lenders and appraisers are the gatekeepers of the mainstream mortgage markets, they will be key stakeholders in any strategy for green homes to cross this chasm. The missing transaction and attribute data creates …
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Crossing the Chasm: a Qualitative Analysis of Cross-Sex Friendship
This is an exploratory study of cross-sex friendship specifically utilizing a qualitative method of research to examine how individuals define friendship, the satisfactions gained in cross-sex friendship, and the maintenance strategies used in order to keep the friendship platonic. While there has …
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'A Bridge Over the Chasm': Rhetoric and Reflexivity in Housing Advocacy
As we cast housing in the language of crisis, development, shortage, and units, we lose sight of its value in the context of social relations and human wellbeing. The rhetoric that has evolved to explain gaps in housing access intersects powerfully with homelessness policy and advocacy, and ideas …
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Crossing the Energy Efficiency Chasm: An Assessment of the Barriers to Institutional Investment at Scale
Significant savings in CO2 emissions can be won from fabric upgrades, and improved forms of heating. An increase in the number of building retrofits and installations of energy efficient plant such as biomass boilers or CCHPs must be the aim if the UK is serious in meeting its commitment to CO2 …
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Concept-Oriented Design in Chasm: Conversational Domain Language Inspired 3D User Interface Design and Development
… in the theory of Concept-Oriented Design and Chasm, a prototype realization of the theory. The key feature of Concept-Oriented Design is its use of developer-centric representations to create a multi-tiered implementation, ranging from an envisioned behavior expressed in conversational …
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Losing Schools to the Economic Chasm: A Multiple Regression Analysis of Family Income and School Performance Profile Scores
… new awareness to the persistence of the economic chasm that separates school districts, schools, and students and their families.
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Urban co-existence : a new typology for transit exchange in an automobile dominated city
… These residual urban voids intensify the spatial chasm between vehicle and pedestrian. As an exploration of co-existence, this thesis seeks to reconcile the prevalent chasm and create a new urban typology for transit exchange in the automobile dominated context of downtown Los Angeles. Out of the …
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Super-Colossal Titan Warfare
… was later named CORE which is an acronym for Chasm of Rivalrous Elements. The game was developed using Unity and C# following the methodology of Scrum.
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Advertising, Consumer Culture, Youth Cultures, and Media Technologies: A Cultural -Historical Approach to MTV
… is offered as a solution to overcome the deep chasm between cultural studies and political economy in theorizing the relations between the cultural and the economic.
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The 1956 Suez Crisis: A Study in Allied Conflict
… among the "Allies." This fissure widened into a chasm in the 1956 Suez Crisis.
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Looking Through Their Lens: The Decisions about Reading Instruction Made by Experienced 2nd, 3rd and 4th Grade Teachers
… in reading instruction created a gap, or chasm in the decisions made about reading instruction in these grades. The chasm appeared to be based on the dissonance of purpose for grade levels. The emphasis on passing the SMT greatly affected the purpose of teacher decisions on the third and …
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One Hospital’s Journey to Create a Culture of Safety
… Health System and 2001, Crossing the Quality Chasm sought to transform the culture of American hospitals. The culture of blame needed to become a culture of safety if we were ever to reduce and prevent errors and create a system of care organized around patient not provider needs. Abington …
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Music in Theatre A portfolio of compositions and accompanying commentary
… and general popularity of the art forms. The chasm in the reception of these two examples of music in theatre is made all the more interesting given the fact that they are (seemingly) very similar genres. The following dissertation details the research that I have completed prior to completing …
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Disaster Communication Networks: A Case Study of the Thai Red Cross and Their Disaster Communication Response to the Asian Tsunami
… case study gives great insight into the cultural chasm between policy making and practical application and also reveals the value of personal initiative. A proposed model of disaster communication is offered. Significantly more research is needed in the area of disaster communications.
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Effects of Upward Football Reclassification on Revenues, Football Attendance, and Enrollment
<p>With an ever increasing chasm between the have and have nots in college athletics, athletic directors and university administrators view reclassification as a way to increase financial standing and gain valuable exposure for their school despite mixed findings by recent studies. The process of …
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Communicative 2.0 : video games and digital culture in the foreign language classroom
… learning materials that hope to bridge the chasm between education and foreign popular culture. In the process, I outline a series of example applications that apply these concepts to developing rich foreign language materials -- starting with more experimental/long-term approaches such as …
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A thematic analysis of the obstacles faced by student and intern psychologists whilst conducting their first therapy sessions
… indeed linked to clinical inexperience and the chasm between theoretical academic knowledge and practical, clinical application needs to be bridged. Another facet of this investigation analysed the strategies, techniques and methods employed by the participants to overcome or minimise the impact …
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The Sociopolitical Construction Of Race And Literary Representations Of The Biracial Subject
… theme in literature is a dive into the chasm between margin and center, the enunciative split between the binary racial signifiers black and white. Therefore, representations of biracial subjectivity provide a unique vantage point for surveillance of the complexities of the human …
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From Crisis to Empowerment: African American Women in Community Colleges
… the African American woman. She exists in a chasm of overt circumstances which heavily influences her successes. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that motivated seven female African American community college graduates to persist throughout crisis and to ultimately reach their …
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Alternative fuels : how can aviation cross the "Valley of Death"
… development and deployment, and bridging the "Chasm" between the early adopters and the early majority of users are explored and a series of evaluation frameworks, tools, models, and recommendations are presented. The suggestions and recommendations provide potential actions that the military …
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