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Showing 1 to 20 of 9904 for “"Construct"”.
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Construct by Contract: Construct by Contract: An Approach for Developing Reliable Software
This research introduces “Construct by Contract” as a proposal for a general methodology to develop dependable software systems. It describes an ideal process to construct systems by propagating requirements as contracts from the client’s desires to the correctness proof in verification stage, …
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Buber's I-Thou/I-It Construct And Gilligan's Connected/Separate Self Construct: A Theoretical Creative Inquiry
… with the Stone Center. Yet these two theoretical constructs have never been critically and formally compared. This study proposes to help fill that gap by critically comparing and contrasting the dialogical and relational constructs.</p> <p>Seven questions will be addressed. (a) What is Buber's …
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Construct validation of a language inventory
<p>Language is the all-encompassing term used in many places and having various denotations. For this reason language has uses, too. Oral language is used as a principal factor to determine cultural disadvantage and is the primary medium of instruction in the school setting. Language operates as …
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Teaching competence : A personal construct view
… SPACed-FOCUSed repertory grid and their personal constructs of teaching competence at the end of a four year B.Ed course were elicited. A further reiterative process of review reflection and structures of meaning exercises resulted in the production of an initial set of criteria of competence that …
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VOCATIONAL INTERESTS: CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND MEASUREMENT
… the ORVIS scales were reliable and showed good construct validity. The purpose of Study 3, using the ORVIS along with the HEXACO-PI and tests of cognitive ability, was to examine the individual difference characteristics of students in different academic majors, and to use the congruence between …
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The Construct Development of Spiritual Leadership
… The goal of this study was to delineate the construct of spiritual leadership and to provide theoretical guidelines for future research. A conceptual definition of spiritual leadership is offered in addition to a list of behaviors relevant to a spiritual leader. This study was the first of …
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Intolerance of ambiguity: Measurement and construct validation.
Intolerance of ambiguity: Measurement and construct validation.
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A Decision Making Construct for Complex Situations
… processes, indicating a need for a construct for decision making in complex situations. A review of the literature on systems, complexity, and paradigms indicates that such a construct must be internally consistent with well-defined philosophical foundations and further that systems …
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The Construct of Personality and Hemispheric Usage
<p>Studies on the differential contributions of the cerebral hemispheres to human experience and behavior have demonstrated that the hemispheres are lateralized for cognitive strategies and, possibly, for emotional valance. Recently researchers have demonstrated that the hemispheres may also be …
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Examining Construct Stability Across Career Stage Cohorts
<p>The purpose of this study is to evaluate construct stability of the same certification test taken at different points in a test taker's career, taking into account changes is experience over time. A single medical certification exam administration was used to analyze the construct stability of …
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Work of Breathing: Development of a Construct
<p>Critical care nurses are often required to assess a patient’s work of breathing and make clinical decisions based on their findings. There is currently no objective work of breathing assessment tool available. The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover how nurses conceptually describe …
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Contingency of Work as a Psychological Construct
… showed that the measure represented the four constructs well; the measure also demonstrated measurement equivalence across the temporary and non-contingent samples. Additionally, construct validation was begun by embedding the new measure in a model representing part of the nomological network …
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"""Judgable"" persons: Personality characteristics and construct validation"
"The social interactions that people have with one another often yield a belief that some people are open and knowable and that others are closed and enigmatic. The current study investigated this individual difference characteristic, termed ""judgability,"" and its personality and behavioral …
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Problem structuring: a personal construct theory perspective
… a cognitive process, and George Kelly's personal construct psychology is adopted as the theoretical basis to develop a problem structuring method. The method developed uses Kelly's repertory grid technique in a particular form that is modified for the specific needs of problem structuring in …
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A dialectic construct for the urban environment
… orientation for his world. The individual act of construction that occurs within the larger framework that we call city has a responsibility to that institution of man. The city is the manifestation of man’s aspiration for order in a mutable world. Architecture as a primary element in the urban …
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Church Organizational Culture: Construct Definition and Instrument Development
… of this research was to operationalize the construct, church organizational culture (COC), and to develop an instrument to measure the construct. In order to accomplish this goal, the researcher undertook a six-phase, mixed-methods study following accepted protocols for construct validation. …
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Construct Validity Analysis of the Organizational Cohesion Scale
<p>Organizational cohesion is a multifaceted construct that has been defined and assessed in a multitude of ways. For the purpose of this study, the researcher has defined organizational cohesion as the extent to which employees within an organization feel a sense of unity with one another. …
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Orthorexia nervosa: real construct or newest social trend?
… of orthorexia nervosa as a psychological construct. Specifically, this study evaluated the potential overlap between orthorexia nervosa and existing DSM disorders to which it has been compared in the emerging literature. Data included self-reported responses to paper and pencil …
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Organisational spirituality : towards a construct for organisational ethics
… organisational spirituality as an emerging construct and recognised phenomenon within organisational theory and ethics. More specifically the purpose of this study is to posit that (a) organisational spirituality is a better-suited construct and phenomenon to provide a holistic framework for …
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Work-Life Role Integration: A Construct Validation Study
… conducted to define and validate the theoretical construct, role integration. Study 1 focused on producing a theoretical definition and a psychometrically sound measure. Content, convergent, and discriminant validity evidence was collected. Study 2 provided further validity evidence for the role …
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