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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Cultural Practice"”.
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Establishment Method and Cultural Practice Effects on Sports Turf
… establishment methods and post- establishment cultural practices on the infiltration rate, moisture content, divot resistance, root mass, and overall turfgrass quality of hybrid bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. x C. transvaalensis Burtt-Davy), zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica Stued.), and …
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Landscape and food in contemporary Thailand: gathering as cultural practice
In Thailand, the present state of the cultural landscape is the result of the recent period of development influenced by foreign cultures, especially the industrial development under the paradigm of the capitalism. This incorporation of the foreign cultures conflicts with the traditional culture …
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Networks Of Users And Powers: Blackboard Software Roadmap As Cultural Practice
<p>With the rapid growth of eLearning applications - the software providing for learning through the Internet - it has become commonplace to describe those technologies as both simple tools and user-friendly. These two vague yet suggestive terms make the operating of the technology appear as social …
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Conversations with Farmers: Agri-cultural practice change and the 'eco-innovator'
… change journey into regenerative farming practice, and ultimately, a new story for agriculture. The future of farming in Australia requires the integration of production and conservation, via eco-innovation, for sustainable farming systems to be realised. Sustainable change requires …
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African Americans and mobile video: exploring Black cultural practice on Vine
This study explores Black cultural practice on the mobile video platform Vine, a six-second micro-video editing mobile application. The purpose of this research is to critically examine how African Americans embraced social video through Vine and how Black cultural practice is enacted within the …
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Recogimiento for women and girls in colonial Lima: An institutional and cultural practice
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Morroccan classroom discourse and critical discourse analysis : the impact of social and cultural practice
… through the analysis of their discursive practices. The work focuses specifically on interaction within Moroccan classrooms at the secondary school level, involving students aged between 12-14 years old. The data source consists of transcripts of audio-recordings of classroom lessons in …
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Attitudes of parents, teachers and adolescents on the cultural practice of physical punishment for behaviour management of Solwezi District
… of parents, teachers, and adolescents on the cultural practice of physical punishment; and parents and teachers’ practices in the behaviour management of their children. The research design used two questionnaire scales; the first was employed to measure the attitudes of parents, teachers and …
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Attitudes of parents, teachers and adolescents on the cultural practice of physical punishment for behaviour management of Solwezi District
… of parents, teachers, and adolescents on the cultural practice of physical punishment; and parents and teachers’ practices in the behaviour management of their children. The research design used two questionnaire scales; the first was employed to measure the attitudes of parents, teachers and …
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Genealogy as theatre of self-identity: a study of genealogy as a cultural practice within Britain since c. 1850
… is worth investigating; genealogy is a diverse cultural practice with its own history, historical agents and situated communities. The second chapter, ‘Archivization of Genealogical Knowledge’, explores the development of genealogy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by investigating …
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South African teenagers reading about themselves in fiction : their response within the cultural practice of reading in South Africa
The Young Africa Awards Series (YAA) was commissioned as a competition challenging South African writers to produce novels for teenagers that were relevant to their lived reality in South African society today. All the novels examined in this dissertation can be defined as realism. In this study …
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Last night a DJ queered my life : disrupting the mythologies of a popular media practice
DJing is an important cultural practice that emerged in the United States in the 1970s. The development of its craft, techniques, and technologies over the past five decades has made DJing into a formidable performed cultural practice and art. The metaphors for a disc jockey, or DJ, are many: beat …
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Nunavut Nursing Sustainability
… skill development within an expanded scope of practice and cultural experiences, struggles with understaffing, challenges with organizational support, and gaps in cultural practice onboarding undermined retention. Recommendations include establishing robust onboarding and orientation programs …
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Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
… is the vernacular of the contemporary Yiddish cultural scene, creating the space for a subjective, relative, and contingent relationship with Yiddish cultural practices, and that this context necessitates that critical thinking be integrated into the pedagogy and transmission of cultural …
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Growth Effects of Light and Plant Competition in a High Yield Environment (Soybeans; Zea Mays)
… was experimented with as a possible cultural practice that would allow greater light penetration into corn canopies.
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Aphid movement and aphid-borne virus spread in mixed cropping systems of legumes and cereals
… with non-hosts of legume viruses is a cultural practice that has been observed to suppress aphid-borne virus epidemics in indigenous farming systems. This study was aimed at unraveling the physical and biological relationships that affect aphid dispersal and the consequent spread of …
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The development of kaupapa Maori : theory and praxis
… notion of 'utopian' idealism within emancipatory practice; it tests critical theory understandings against the practical circumstances derived from the lived experience of Maori; finally this thesis repositions Kaupapa Maori not just as a cultural practice, but as a structural intervention which …
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Roadside Memorial Practices: An Examination of Landscapes of Commemoration in Warren County, Kentucky
… the Kentucky landscape. This persistent cultural practice contains symbolic elements oftentimes indicative of religious connotations. Because there is a constitutional separation of church and government in the United States, these memorials can prelude controversy if located on …
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Stories worth telling: How one school navigates tensions between innovation and standards
<p>This dissertation examines the cultural practice of assessment at King Middle School, a grades 6--8 school in Portland, Maine. I trace this school's reform efforts over 23 years, within the current development of school-wide practices over time, in relation to making work public.</p><p>I used a …
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