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To Feel Competent or Not to Feel Competent. Unter Welchen Umständen Schüler*innen Sich im Unterricht Kompetent Fühlen
Um im Unterricht eine hohe Motivationsqualität zu unterstützen, gilt es neben den im Schulkontext zu erwerbenden Kompetenzen auch unterschiedlichen Wahrnehmungen der eigenen Kompetenz durch die Schüler\*innen zu begegnen (Ryan & Deci, 2017, 2020; Vansteenkiste et al., 2020). Wer Unterricht …
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Changes in Eating Habits Among Eating Competent and Non-Eating Competent College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Introduction: Recent studies have illuminated changes related to dietary quality and eating behaviors that U.S. university students experienced during global coronavirus lockdowns. Limited qualitative research has been published on this topic. This study aimed to describe eating- and …
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Steps Towards Creating Socially Competent Game Characters
… approaches towards creating more socially competent NPCs by means of natural language dialogues. The aim is to provide hands-on solutions for game developers who want to offer interactions with the NPCs in the game that are socially driven rather than functionally motivated and that …
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Investigating culturally competent reflective practice in diabetes healthcare
Cultural competence is a relatively recent term describing appropriate ways of working with increasingly diverse cultures in society. By interviewing diabetes practitioners, this study sought to investigate the interaction between scientific knowledge and the practice of diabetes healthcare with …
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Competent or Not? Young people's accounts of sexual readiness
… sex to ‘get it over with’, whether they are competent or not. Four main constructs, i) rights, ii) respect, iii) responsibility and iv) resilience, emerged that are worthy of further investigation. These could prove useful to inform a more context-based sexual health promotion strategy and …
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A kinetically competent thiyl radical intermediate in ribonucleotide reduction
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, 1998.
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Perceptions of culturally competent practice behaviour by newly qualified nurses
… aimed to explore NQNs’ perceptions of culturally competent practice during the first 9 months post qualification. Methods: A qualitative longitudinal study was conducted with a volunteer sample of 14 NQNs recruited from 3 Higher Education Institutions in the north of England. Data was collected …
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Social Equity for the Long Haul: Preparing Culturally Competent Public Administrators
Each year, over 6,000 students complete Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in over 200 university accredited programs. Many of these graduates commit to a career in the public service in one of thousands of public sector organizations at all levels of government or in the non-profit …
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Phenomenological study of student nurses’ preparedness for delivering culturally competent care upon graduation
Cultural competence is an essential requirement for delivering appropriate care to patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. An analysis of the literature revealed notions of cultural competence was mainly from the United States (US). In contrast, the number of publications in this field from the …
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The dental vocational training experience : a transition from novice dentist to competent practitioner
… of independent practice. Novice dentists became competent practitioners. Progression in VT is a complex issue. As an expansion of the models of Eraut (1994) and Dreyfus and Dreyfus (1986), VT advances a relational model of progression. Trainers have developed a well-grounded notion of VDP …
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Catching up to multiculturalism: Bilingual and cultural competent practices in speech-language pathology
<p>The rapid rise of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) clients has resulted in an increased demand for bilingual speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in schools and health care settings. Yet little is known about the experiences and the training needs of these bilingual service providers. …
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
Since the 1970s, a number of critics have given critical attention to sentimental fiction. In 1977 and 1985 respectively, Ann Douglas and Jane Tompkins set the terms for almost all subsequent arguments about antebellum female authors. What critics have not done is given particular attention to the …
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Are the U.S. children motor-competent, physically active, and fit? A comprehensive analysis
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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The Competent Church Planting Pastor in Southern Baptist Convention Churches: A Mixed Method Study
There is a strong and growing emphasis on church planting in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Simultaneously, church membership, attendance, and baptism are on the decline. The increase in church planting and the need for church revitalization have become the focus of much of SBC life. A …
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Globally competent leadership : comparison between U.S. American and mainland Chinese conceptualization of effective leadership
<p>This project was conducted with the objective of measuring differences between U.S. American and Chinese preferences for specific leadership characteristics and behaviors. An online survey was administered to U.S. American and Chinese nationals working in U.S.-based multinational corporations …
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Lesbian Couple Dynamics and Heterosexist Stressors: Building a Foundation for Culturally Competent Relationship Interventions
<p>Lesbian relationships are severely underrepresented in the couples and family literature (Hartwell, Serovich, Grafsky, & Kerr, 2012). The current study sought to expand the basic science on lesbian couples with the overarching goal of informing evidence-based relationship interventions. The …
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Catholic Elementary School Principal Induction: An Investigation of Diocesan Supports for Competent, Confident Leadership
… challenges, and more than ever require stable, competent and confident leadership at the site level. At the same time, demographics, attrition and turnover are producing a high number of novice principals in the Catholic school ranks. In addition, challenges and stresses of the principalship put …
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A statistical framework for culturally competent inflammation assessment: Interactions between culture, geography, and biology
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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An immune-competent microvascularized human lung-on-chip device for studying immunopathologies of the lung
… and circulatory immune cells. The immune-competent lung tissue model comprises of a 3D, perfusable microvascular network underneath a mature, differentiated epithelium at an air-liquid interface. With this model, we demonstrate that a conventional lung-on-chip (LOC) that lacks immune cells …
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