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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Compliments."”.
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Compliments and politeness among Mexican and Puerto Rican couples.
… Rican. Following Holmes (1986), it examines compliments according to their form, function, and topic. Results are compared with previous studies in the field. The results show that dialect, education level and gender of the speaker influence the style and delivery of compliments. In addition, …
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A contrastive study of compliment responses in American English and Thai including the effect of gender and social status
… factors that affect the way people respond to compliments. The goal of this study is to determine the extent to which the gender and social status of the complimenter as well as the gender of the receiver account for the choice of strategy Americans and Thais use to respond to compliments.
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An evaluation of the effectiveness of the Preschool Life Skills program on Icelandic first-grade elementary students
… giving instructions and giving descriptive compliments. The students' behaviors observed included instruction following, problem behavior, and hand raising. The results showed that the teacher of the experimental group waited more frequently until a child looked up before giving instructions …
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Mind over Matter: Exploring the Power of a Positive Body Image
… commentary and the effect elicited from those compliments. Only body appreciation produced indirect effects, as the frequency of appearance compliments only impacted the effect felt from those comments through body appreciation as the processing mechanism. In study 2, women were interviewed …
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Teacher-student interaction in one-on-one ESL writing conferences
… turns are delayed, often prefaced by compliments. Advice-giving is also accompanied by justifications and often mitigated. It is further shown how conditionals can be used to characterize dispreferred responses in this context. In addition, the problem-solving sequences, in which the …
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Optimal Time and Temperature for Maximum Moment and Springback and Residual Stress Relief of Stainless Steel Wire
… to be of definite benefit and it certainly compliments what is known about sensitization phenomena. There was no uniform increase in springback as the temperature was increased. Springback and stress relief appear to be maximum at relatively low temperatures (650° to 750°F.) for 11 minutes. …
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Evaluation of 2+2 Alternative Teacher Performance Appraisal Program in Shanxi, People's Republic of China
… interesting to note that teachers produced more compliments than suggestions, which may indicate that unlike professional evaluators, teachers tend to be more willing to offer compliments rather than suggestions in the 2+2 setting. Over 60% of the respondents characterized 2+2 feedback as …
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River Edge Retreat
… rhythm of heavy timber framework contrasts and compliments the delicate and translucent southern facade; the existence of the two perpetuates the perspective of balance and harmony. The intention of balance and harmony was not successful the first couple of tries. Trying to manipulate the …
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Nelvana Animation: Shifting Labour Conditions, Digital Tools and Their Influence on the Design of 2D Children’s Animated Series
… The short film Bob and Anice Go To Corpo Hell compliments this research as an exercise in animation labour and an expression of the alienation of being a self-entrepreneur. Together, the works argue the value of human creativity within commercial animation production by linking the creative …
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Vieques Cancer Treatment Center: Applying evidence-based design strategies
… any further impacts. Essentially, this proposal compliments any current conditions found in the site which in turn becomes a facility that does not imitate a typical clinic; its focus is to make the user feel at home. Benefitting the patient's health through a healthy building.
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A functional-interpretive approach to information systems security e competencies development in the higher education institution: a comparativ e case of four South African higher education institutions
… security ecompetencies across their full staff compliments. It used a mixed research methodology and multiple case study research design in which four Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) participated. A total of 26 in-depth interviews were conducted and 385 questionnaires were completed. The …
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Developing Bottom-Up, Integrated Omics Methodologies for Big Data Biomarker Discovery
The availability of highly-distributed computing compliments the proliferation of next generation sequencing (NGS) and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) datasets. These data sets are often complex, poorly annotated or require complex domain knowledge to sensibly manage. These novel datasets …
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A class of weighted Bergman spaces, reducing subspaces for multiple weighted shifts, and dilatable operators
… that the compression of the Bergman shift on two compliments of two invariant subspaces are unitarily equivalent if and only if the two invariant subspaces are equal.
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Opportunistic, collaborative and synchronized, proximal device ecology
… both friends and strangers; proximal networking compliments the well-established client-server model with a more society like device ecology. This thesis is centered on the design, implementation, and evaluation of CoSync. CoSync is architected to be platform independent and an Android specific …
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Family empowerment: the use of online parent discussion groups following diagnosis of ASD in young children
… and sympathy) and esteem supportive-compliments in their discussions. New subthemes of Sharing Statements-Information, Sharing Statements-Questions, and Building Relationships through Humor emerged. Mothers found the online discussion groups more useful than fathers, but both …
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Birkett log house and addition
… the prominence of the original log structure and compliments its dog-trot configuration. The shapes of the addition masses, freestanding studio/utilities building, deck area and pool also respond to the vehicular path which culminates in a circle. The second goal, the positioning of this structure …
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A qualitative examination of the motivations behind participating in KU basketball camping
… in rituals has been sparsely examined, and it compliments past research which has found the benefits of ritualistic behavior in sport. This study is impactful, especially as the study of ritualistic behavior involving sport is in its infancy.
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Relating the biogeochemistries of zinc, cobalt, and phosphorus to phytoplankton activities in the sea
… at low phosphorus concentrations. This trend compliments a shipboard incubation where alkaline phosphatase activities increased after cobalt addition. The presence of measurable alkaline phosphatase activity indicated that the phytoplankton community in the Sargasso Sea was experiencing …
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The Early Assessment of System Performance in Distributed Real-time Systems
… This performance assessment model and animator compliments the existing 'fix-it-later' approach, reducing the chances of performance failure detected late during the system development process when they are most expensive to fix.
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