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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Environment/ Context"”.
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The lived experiences of patients who are diagnosed with hypertension in the Oshana region in northern Namibia
… was qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual in nature. The population consisted of participants who were treated for hypertension and a purposive sampling method was utilized. A total number of ten participants were interviewed and the data collection ended only when data …
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A Task Execution Framework for Autonomic Ubiquitous Computing
… perform various kinds of tasks. However, these environments are highly complex, dynamic and fault-prone. Besides, different environments have different resources, architectures and policies. Hence, developers find it difficult to program new applications and services in these rich environments. …
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An adaptive modelling infrastructure for context-aware mobile computing
Context provides information about the present status of people, places, things, network and devices in the environment. Context-awareness refers to the use of context information for an application to adapt its functionality to the current context of use. Development of context-aware applications …
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The possibility conditions of narrative identity.
… our physical, social or inner, affective-mental environment (context) and projects the path through this environment towards a physical destiny, social accomplishment or resolution (direction). With the tools of classic Husserlian phenomenology and its radicalization in Heideggerian existential …
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An educational museum for atmospheric phenomena
… and their effects on both the natural and built environment. CONTEXT The museum will be located between northeast Florida's lower St, John's and Nassau Rivers, approximately an hour and a half from Jacksonville on the south end of Black Hammock Island, The proposed site is located at Cedar Point …
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Factors Hindering Parents’ Participation in School Activities in Tanzania: A Case of Arusha District
… to review curriculum to reflect peoples’ actual environment context like that of Maasai tribe.
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Extended Adolescence: The Ecology and Endocrinology of Facultative Paedomorphosis
… plasticity is an adaptation to unpredictable environments whereby an organism of a single genotype may express more than one phenotype under differing environmental conditions. Phenotypic plasticity can manifest as polyphenisms, which is an extreme form of phenotypic plasticity that produces …
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Intersectoral policy approaches to healthy cities with a focus on built and food environments
… to substantial changes in both built and food environments, with resultant changes to housing and diet, respectively. These changes interact with factors that influence risk of disease and healthcare access, and may contribute to, and exacerbate, inequities in health outcomes. Increasing global …
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Responses to representations of the built environment: the influence of emotion, attention and perspective-taking.
The main aim of this thesis is to investigate how environmental preference for the built environment, either in-situ or based on visual representations (e.g. visualisations of final architectural design), may be affected by three distinct variables. One of them is emotion, operationalised as the …
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Understanding the role of culture in the post disaster reconstruction process: the case of tsunami reconstruction in Tamilnadu, Southern India
This thesis is developed in built environment context on the premise that integrating cultural aspects in development produces sustainable ways of living for communities affected by natural disasters. It employs a conceptual framework to validate the argument that cultural dimensions of the …
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Assessing the development of voluntary internet financial reporting and disclosure in Egypt
… suitable for companies working in the Egyptian environment context. This index could be used by other researchers to investigate internet financial reporting and disclosure for companies working in other Arab countries that are experiencing similar economic changes.
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The Use of the CAfFEINE Framework in a Step-by-Step Assembly Guide
… Framework, which was created by Dr. Saha, is a context-aware affective feedback loop in an intelligent environment. For the research described in this thesis, the focus will be on analyzing a user's physiological response to the service provided by an intelligent environment. To test this …