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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Contextual understanding"”.
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Childhood Fire-Setting: A Contextual Understanding
Previous research on fire-setting has been either totally theoretical or has been based on limited contact with individuals who set the fires. This dissertation accessed fire-setting through interviews with three male adults who set fires as children. Background information was acquired from the …
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Race, place, and sexuality: a contextual understanding of LGB identity salience
This study used feminist intersectionality and identity theories to examine the association between residential context (racial exposure and community climate) and identity salience among 375 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) survey respondents. I hypothesized that LGB identity salience would vary …
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Long-term Follow-up Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Contextual Understanding and Technology-led Solutions
… of play of long-term TBI follow-up in LMICs, the contextual challenges associated with it, and potential technology-led solutions to improve the delivery of services. This led to the second project, a comprehensive scoping exercise to map the current evidence base for follow-up technologies used …
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From the ground up : understanding how teachers and administrators make sense of tension
… teachers' and administrators' experiences and a contextual understanding oftension was generated from inductive analysis of the data. The study found that tension was a phenomenon situated in the context in which it arose. A contextual understanding of tension revealed the interactions between …
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Difficulty in Facial Emotion Recognition in Children with ADHD
… recognition on emotional differentiation and contextual understanding compared with normal controls (N=24). There was no statistically significant difference in the recognition of positive facial emotions (happy and surprise) and negative facial emotions (anger, sadness, disgust and fear) …
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Rethinking the book
… perceptual abilities, improve navigation and contextual understanding of complex written documents. This thesis shows that graphic displays can be combined with physical interfaces to create interactions with purely typographic information that are rich, tactile and humane.
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Functional Unexpectedness: Reframing the role of predictability in language comprehension
… then were tested on their contextual understanding of each story. Using a novel contextual alignment metric and neurophysiological markers of individual differences, the findings of this thesis provided evidence for specific processing conditions which supported greater …
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Magical rings in Middle English romance: an interdisciplinary study in Medieval literature and material culture
… approach, and that this lack of contextual understanding has led to interpretations that do not take into account the importance of medieval belief and practice in literary manifestations. The focus of study to illustrate this point is the tradition of magical rings and stones in …
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A COMPARISON OF THE CULTURAL/ETHNIC PERCEPTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL BELIEFS OF KOREAN IMMIGRANT AND NON-IMMIGRANT FAMILIES
… meanings of education, a deeper contextual understanding of Korean immigrant parents' cultural/ethnic perceptions in relation to educational beliefs should be central to culturally responsive education designed to support Korean immigrant families. It is necessary for educators to …
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Corridors in Conservation and Philosophy
… Jean-Luc Nancy's idea of being-with is explored. Understanding the complex network of relations in which an entity exists leads to an awareness of its ambiguous nature. To facilitate judgment with such ambiguity, one needs a contextual understanding of a situation.
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Illness models of relatives of African psychiatric patients : implications for a family-based service
… were elicited with a view to developing a more contextual understanding of disorder, and to obtaining an indication of interest in family-based services. The sample was selected from relatives who visited patients at the hospital over a 3 month period. Face-to-face interviews of approximately an …
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SMARTGUIDE: Revolutionizing the Depth and Dependability of Vision-Impaired Navigation
… support but lack the sophistication to provide contextual understanding, precise navigation, or real-time hazard alerts. This project presents SmartGuide, a mobile app designed to enhance the independence of visually impaired users through AI-driven features. SmartGuide offers three main …
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Combating decision fatigue and optimising decision-making in Information Technology (IT): The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing cognitive outcomes for IT professionals
… of this, such as trust, security and lack of contextual understanding. Finally, strategic approaches were identified, such as automating time-consuming and routine tasks, delegating repetitive decisions, and reducing complexity by processing large amounts of data. The research provides new …
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Women of the big house families in Ireland and marriage, 1860-1920
… analysis, allowing for a collective and contextual understanding of their experiences during what was a remarkable period of decline and upheaval. Using the central theme of marriage, important insights can be achieved in better understanding the unchanging roles and obligations of such …
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Challenges in implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in large organizations : similarities and differences between corporate and university environment
… The results from this study contribute to contextual understanding of distinctive challenges in ERP implementation between corporate and university environment.
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Parents' Perceptions of Teenage Pregnancy
… that this study seeks to provide an understanding of parental perceptions which may influence teen pregnancy, qualitative methods with a phenomenological approach were used. Focus group discussions were conducted with Latino/a parents at a public high school in Chicago in order to …
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Effects of a Green Chemistry Laboratory Design on First- Semester General Chemistry Students' Transformative Experiences in Chemistry
… (MU). Process data were also included to provide contextual understanding of the impact data. Results indicate that each lab supported students’ transformative experiences and there is evidence to suggest that students’ TE increased modestly across the 6-week green chemistry laboratory experience. …
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Facilitating Multidisciplinary Team Functioning in Child and Youth Advocacy Centres using Shared Mental Models
… focus groups to support the interpretation and contextualization of the results. This research presents preliminary findings that show that a shared mental model framework can be an important facilitator for MDT functioning in CYACs. The concept alone, however, is not enough to improve MDT …
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Contextual Practices in City Infrastructure Planning in the US and Indonesia
… study discusses the role of the state in the contextual understanding of economic zones as alternatives to traditional urban and infrastructure planning. Specifically, the study compares, in terms of a make or buy decision, the rationale for Seattle's institutional arrangements for public …
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Developing a Therapeutic Alliance In Counseling African American Women Experiencing Domestic Violence
… to improve cultural competency and gain a contextual understanding of the factors that influence this population’s help-seeking behaviors. The purpose of this research was to examine counselors’ experiences with and understanding of multicultural competence in developing a therapeutic …
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