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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Continuous engagement"”.
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Essays on Craft and Communities
… motivations of individuals and collectives for continuous engagement with the social structures they are part of. Paper 1 investigates how historical dependence on an institution due to local hardship played an important role in the continuous participation in and long-term vitality of a …
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Tracing the Grain: Locating the life of the tree in the woodblock
… practices based in Japan and Mongolia, I locate continuous engagement with woodblocks as communicators of agentic enaction and as sacred records. Woodblock printmaking is investigated as an exploratory vehicle to illuminate the unseen histories of material remnants as stories that matter as a …
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Tracing the Grain: Locating the life of the tree in the woodblock
… practices based in Japan and Mongolia, I locate continuous engagement with woodblocks as communicators of agentic enaction and as sacred records. Woodblock printmaking is investigated as an exploratory vehicle to illuminate the unseen histories of material remnants as stories that matter as a …
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Enacting (Re)Actions: Affect Theory and Embodied Resonance in Improvisational Contemporary Dance and Compositional Pedagogy
… demonstrates the pairing of mind and body in continuous engagement and responsivity from actions to reactions, and results in creativity in dance choreography. Affect theory is shown to be valuable in analysing the core of improvisation; it supports observations on the creative value and …
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A Critical Reflection on the Persistence of Electoral Instigated Violence in Zimbabwe (2000-2018)
… elections, the study suggests the country’s continuous engagement with the international community.
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Integrating Pandemic through Preparedness: Global Security and the Utility of Threat
… implicated in the framing of preparedness as a continuous engagement with the process of emergence. Next, I explore how the delineation and regulation of boundaries simultaneously constitutes bodies and territories as distinct. Third, I describe the discursive construction of a particular kind …
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Organizational Barriers to and Facilitators of Patient Engagement Processes For Persons Living With Hiv/Aids: A Case Study Analaysis of An Oral Health Services Program
… characteristics that facilitate or prevent continuous patient engagement in oral health services.</p> <p>DISS_para>The health services program that was evaluated in this study utilized a fully staffed mobile dental unit to provide services to PLWHA at a primary medical service organization …
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Studies of Enzyme Kinetics and Inhibition Through Capillary Electrophoretic Enzyme Assays
… be presented, including transient (plug-plug), continuous engagement, and a mixed format for quantitative studies of inhibition. In the first study, the activity of ADH is monitored through NADH production in the presence and absence of inhibitors. The next two chapters explore a novel EMMA …
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Building interactive distributed processing applications at a global scale
Along with the continuous engagement with technology, many latency-sensitive interactive applications have emerged, e.g., global content sharing in social networks, adaptive lights/temperatures in smart buildings, and online multi-user games. These applications typically process a massive amount of …
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Patterns of HIV care prior to antenatal care, and the impact on later outcomes, among pregnant women living with HIV in Gugulethu, South Africa: A retrospective cohort
… antenatal care (ANC) are at high risk of disengagement from antiretroviral therapy (ART). Increasing numbers of women conceiving are already on ART, but little is known about their patterns of care before ANC. We described ART history patterns before ANC among WLHIV and the association with …
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An Online Peer-Assessment Methodology for Improved Student Engagement and Early Intervention
… student performance. Formative assessment is a continuous, student-oriented form of assessment, which focuses on helping students improve their performance through continuous engagement and constant measurement of progress. One assessment practice that has been in use for decades in such a …
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Learning in the videoconferencing context: examining L2 learner engagement in speaking tasks during private English-law lessons
… were used to identify the type of learner engagement that occurred during eight different speaking tasks. These methods were also used to determine the type of thinking that occurred and to capture the learners’ views about the law lessons and learning on Skype more generally. The analysis …
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What to Make of Strategic Narratives in International Relations? – An Integrated Framework for Strategic Narrative Analysis and the Study of France’s Protracted Military Intervention in the Sahel
… frames underlining the need for France’s new or continuous engagement even amid progressing operational realties; and gain frames were preferred when operational realities challenged prospects of France’s position in the region. While diagnostic frames were consistent, clear and focused in the …
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Transfer and persistence of spiritual values as institutional logics in post-founding social ventures
… values within the venture: Contemplating, continuous engagement and inculcating. The persistence of spiritual values as institutional logics begins with self-reflection, grounded in self-awareness and consistent, often unintentional interactions that promote a commitment-driven life in …
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Credibility and scale as barriers to uptake and use of seasonal climate forecasts in Bobirwa Sub-District, Botswana
… recommendations from the study include continuous engagement with farmers to understand their decisionmaking context in order to tailor the information to their local context as much as science permits. Government programmes should be designed to integrate SCF to build farmers' …
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Towards active ageing: A comparative study of experiences of older Ghanaians in Australia and Ghana
… of creating avenues for older people’s continuous engagement in activities that allow social interaction. Finally, the study also illustrates how optimum ageing occurs as a culmination of life course events, making it imperative for social policies to facilitate sound human capital …
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Shaping Shakespeare: How American Shakespeare Festivals Adapt Shakespeare’s Texts in the Twenty-First Century
… adaptation, institutional stewardship, and continuous engagement connect early modern literature to modern culture through Shakespeare festivals. These collaborative systems keep the canon historically grounded, while supporting adaptations for contemporary life and sustaining Shakespeare’s …
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Writing the Name: Sergii Bulgakov and the Discipline of Speculation
… how the whole of Bulgakov’s corpus represents a continuous engagement with the perennial philosophical concept of unity. I show how Bulgakov is continually preoccupied with the unity of the subject with the world (a theme bequeathed by German Idealism), the unity of the subject with other …
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Exploring Irish rural social enterprises as neoendogenous development actors
… localities were conducted. During 15 months of continuous engagement with the two rural social enterprises, 36 semi-structured interviews with diverse stakeholders, 321 pages of field notes from participant observations and other complementary materials were gathered. These data were …
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Performance management : a case study of the emergency medical and response services in Limpopo province
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Sciences Specialising in Public Administration in the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023.