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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Conceptual background"”.
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What Makes Apple Consumers Brand Loyal? The Effects of Brand Personality, Reputation, and Brand Identity On Brand Loyalty
… with the social identity theory as the conceptual background. The results found that through regression these variables have a significant positive effect on brand loyalty.</p>
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An analysis and exposition of form in the discipline of easel painting
… of Form" and "Form and Silence" constitute the conceptual background to the field of enquiry. The third chapter "The Work" deals with the specific concerns and categories of form which pertain to the cycle of paintings. This is followed by "The Conclusion" which serves as a brief and personal …
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The algebraic spin liquid of a possible model description for the normal state of underdoped high temperature superconductors
… of the tJ model proposed by Wen and Lee. The conceptual background is rooted in Anderson's proposal of spin charge separation as the key emergent phenomenon in cuprate physics. After a brief motivation we look at single particle tunneling into the cuprate's superconducting state from the …
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Agile Knowledge Management; A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension to Military Applications
<p>The purpose of this research is to explore the conceptual background of agility in knowledge management, re-conceptualize it and extend it to military applications with a special focus on Counterinsurgency (COIN).</p> <p>An initial qualitative exploration of agility in knowledge management was …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
… I then argue for the necessity of this conceptual background for coming to grips with his conception of the ‘transhistorical’ grounds of historicity in emptiness (śūnyatā), as outlined in the later chapters of Religion and Nothingness.
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Health decisions for others : an extension of the Health Belief Model
… making health-related decisions for others. The conceptual background for this study is in the context of prenatal/pregnancy health. Maternal and infant health research is the investigator’s focus and fits well in to the idea of making health decisions for others and the potential expansion of …
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Promoting Proportionate Justice: A Study of Case Management and Proportionality
… a general principle of law. This establishes a conceptual background against which to consider the principle in an English procedural context. After reviewing the introduction and development of both proportionality and active case management in English civil procedure, case management …
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The Origins of Writing, and its Relation to Art on Bronze Age Crete
… identified system is argued to have provided the conceptual background against which later writing emerged. The thesis subsequently discusses the Archanes Script, the first accepted ‘true’ writing to appear west of Egypt, which has been severely understudied and highly ill-understood. Redefining …
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Codes as Constitution: The Development of the Biblical Law-Codes from Monarchy to Theocracy
… decisive stage in the study of biblical law, and conceptual and methodological problems have been imported from each field. The current interpretative models of the texts, in terms either of legislative, or of non-legislative functions, fail to provide a coherent explanation for their formation. …
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Why Gauge? Conceptual Aspects of Gauge Theory
This thesis is about conceptual aspects of gauge theories. Gauge theories lie at the heart of modern physics: in particular, they constitute the standard model of particle physics. At its simplest, the idea of gauge is that nature is best described using a descriptively redundant language; the …
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Do Water Access Inequalities Matter for Child Mortality? A perspective from low-and-middle-income countries
… this gap by clarifying the theoretical /conceptual background of both child mortality and water access inequality, and by generating robust empirical evidence on whether water access inequality is a significant determinant of child diarrhea mortality in the context of low …
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If We Make It, We Can Change It
… tool. These theoretical underpinnings form the conceptual background for the different experimentations developed by microsillons with common modes of thinking, organizing and producing. I will analyse the way microsillons developed its art practice in common with non-artists. Each of these …
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Transnational audiences and the reception of television news: a study of Mexicans in Los Angeles
… in a context of contemporary globalization. This conceptual background is the result of empirical research conducted in Los Angeles which investigated the television news reception of 67 informants of Mexican origin during three months in 2006. Relying on a range of qualitative research methods …
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The language of love: the style of Thomas Traherne's poetry
… The next chapter therefore explores the conceptual background of the style. First, I shall investigate the theme of communication in relation to the doctrine of circulation. Second, I shall discuss language as a specific form of communication--one which is an appropriate background for a …