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Showing 1 to 20 of 4174 for “"Encourage"”.
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Spaces that encourage Communication: Design for a Public Library
… I am exploring how to design spaces which can encourage communication between people. According to Jan Gehl's book, Cities for People, watching, listening and experiencing others is the beginning of social communication. After studying precedents, I summarized basic space prototypes which …
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Scalable distributed router mechanisms to encourage network congestion avoidance
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Does CEO Compensation Encourage Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from FTSE350.
This thesis investigates the effect of CEOs remuneration components on company risk-taking activities. The primary aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of the link between the Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs) compensation packages and their effects on the company volatility. …
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Cuban Embargo: An Insufficient Measure to Encourage US Foreign Policy Interests
This major paper examines the Cuban embargo as an ineffective hard power policy and explores the potential of soft, hard, and smart power as alternative approaches to resolve the failures of the 60-year-old blockade. The paper analyzes the historical context and rationale behind the embargo and …
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Examining Correctional Leadership Styles That Encourage Cooperative Compliance From Federal Offenders
<p>Since its inception in 1930, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has experienced tremendous growth in its inmate population. Concluding 1930 with 14 federal prisons, the Bureau of Prisons now maintains 122 federal prisons, and is accountable for over 180,000 federal offenders within federal prisons …
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Using multicultural literature in the classroom to encourage tolerance and respect
… in a positive way. Additionally, it helped encourage the students to search for similarities between their own lives and the lives of members of diverse cultures around the world. Lastly, this study supported the idea that read-alouds are an effective way to present multicultural literature …
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Peer support to encourage adoption and maintenance of a Mediterranean diet
… populations. To date, interventions that have encouraged individuals to adopt a MD have used intensive dietary change methods that would be expensive and time consuming to roll out. Peer support (PS) is a potential novel and cost effective strategy for achieving dietary change towards a MD. …
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Redefining South African Government School Typologies to Encourage Lifelong Learning Potential
This document serves as a mini dissertation in the professional Master of Architecture degree in the Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria. It focuses on the educational ecosystem within the context of South Africa, with emphasis placed on the economically distressed environment …
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Gamification to encourage increase on healthier physical activity in younger users
… first part of a greater project with the aim to encourage increase in physical activity in different groups of population. The main goal of this part of the project was to develop a cross-platform mobile application that would use gamification elements and to focus on younger group of population. …
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Can virtual reality encourage repeat visitation? The mediating role of nostalgia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Teacher activist perceptions: should teacher education programs do more to encourage activism?
This study explored whether teacher activists’ perceptions of teacher preparation programs suggest a need to address more than just content and pedagogy. In other words, are teacher preparation programs ignoring critical social components that help new teachers navigate and succeed as professionals …
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Examining factors that facilitate and encourage research activity in female counselling psychologists
… factors from the in-group’s experiences could encourage female counselling psychologists’ research attitudes and activity through the knowledge gained and visibility of research achievability and success.
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Designing a social website to encourage networking among women students at conferences
The percentage of women participating in computer science has been disturbingly low, and the number of computer and information science degrees earned by women has been on a downward trend. Several conferences have been put in place to address this issue, but networking at these conferences is …
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Evaluating and understanding how interventions work to encourage shifts towards active travel
… characteristics of effective interventions to encourage shifts towards active travel. The first part of my research involves a systematic review comparing the effectiveness of carrot, stick, and a combination of the two, or carrot-and-stick transport interventions. Interventions with a stick …
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Telling tales : a new way to encourage written literacy through oral language
This thesis presents a new approach and a new interface to let children practice written literacy skills using oral language. Specifically, I argue that language composition is learned by practicing a set of cognitive skills that are independent of the medium in which the linguistic meaning is …
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Comparison of Three Teacher-Training Approaches in Nonverbal Behaviors Which Encourage Classroom Interaction
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:45:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7207026.pdf: 4551582 bytes, checksum: ba87827a8fe459fe198a7a68b21c3748 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Fostering innovation : designing technological solutions to proactively encourage informal communication in the workplace
… designed, built, and evaluated three devices to encourage informal interactions in the workplace. Previous research has found that such interactions can lead to increased idea cross-flow, creativity, productivity, and innovation at large, though few attempts to design architectural, …
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Developing A Strategy To Encourage The Animation Industry Life Cycle Evolution In Saudi Arabia
… and developed recommendations for a strategy to encourage its evolution. The model could also be applied to other developing animation industries.
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