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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Functional Value"”.
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Principals and the Phenomenon of Neoliberal Audit Culture
… explore the extent to which principals perceive functional value in the neoliberal School Assessment Culture Phenomenon comprised of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System that is used to evaluate student, educator, and school success in these specific contexts: 1) student growth required in …
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Understanding Modern Art.
… of being questioned as to the everyday functional values of modern art and its purpose in relation to the betterment of individual and group living. The inability to present reasonable and concrete factors in a saleable capacity instigated a desire to conduct research in the interest of …
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Perceptions of value consumption of digital business platforms by informal sector Traders in South Africa
… quantitative enquiry focused specifically on the value consumption of digital business platforms (DBP's) in relation to how informal sector traders (IST's) are using them to buy, sell and market their product and services in their daily trade functions. This study has adopted the approach of …
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INTERNAL CUSTOMER VALUE CREATION AND COMMUNICATION CHOICES
… and modeling their communication behaviors as value exchanges. Communication choices were hypothesized to be based on the perceived values of available communication options, deriving influence from both employee internal characteristics and situational variations in the decision context. This …
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Exploring the factors that influence student tertiary institution choice at Prestige Academy by applying the SNG model
… Gross (SNG) consumption model which consist of functional value, conditional value, social value, emotional value and epistemic value on a student’s decision to attend or not to attend the institution in question. This study followed descriptive research and employed a quantitative research …
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Epistemological obstacles in coming to understand the limit concept at undergraduate level: a case of the National University of Lesotho
… are over-generalising and taking the limit value as the function value. For example, in finding the limit value L for f(x) as x tends to 0, 46 subjects out of 251 subjects said that they would calculate f(0) as the limit value. This method is appropriate for calculating the limit values for …
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PolarEyez: A Radial Focus+Context Visualization for Multidimensional Functions
… by a large number of parameters on which the functional value depends. They are commonly used in engineering problems such as image analysis and system modeling. Multi-dimensional function spaces are very difficult to understand due to their multi-dimensional nature and the presence of a large …
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Academic literacies in policy and practice
… practices are also constructed in terms of their functional value, and I find that reading, not writing, is seen as responding to broader demands since it is ubiquitous in all the four policy documents. Alongside the emphasis on reading in the policy documents, writing is constructed as a skill …
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A Search for Meaning in Politically Motivated Music: Rhetoric versus Pragmatics in the Zambian Political Soundscape
This study investigates the functional value of music in Zambia's political soundscape in the context of political rhetoric. It evaluates the meaning and influence of music in the political processes on the choices citizens make for supporting their preferred political parties. The study identifies …
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Positional competition: from low-number license plates to McMansions
… a "positional good" as a good that derives its value from a social consensus regarding its desirability relative to other goods in its category. My thesis examines two positional goods: Delaware low-number license plates, and luxury houses, sometimes referred to as "McMansions." First, because …
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Cultural diversity and indigenous peoples' land claims: argumentative dynamics and jurisprudential approach in the Americas
… proposes a new approach focused on the equal functional value of each culture vis-à-vis the cultural producer and beneficiary (the individual). Therefore, it is argued that multiculturalism plea for equal ethno-cultural partition of the public societal space is based on political aspirations …
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Environmental assessment for wetland management in Sri Lanka
… availabilityand expertise.Eight functions and values are used to characterize wetland environments and thebaseline conditions are evaluated by the capacity to perform each function.Questionnaire checklists were used to screen the potential functions of wetlands.Environmental parameters …
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Luxury value perceptions in an emerging economy: A comparative analysis of luxury products and services in Thailand
This research aims to clarify what values constitute the meaning of luxury and set luxury products and services apart from non-luxury ones based on the perceptions of consumers in Thailand. Underpinned by the theory of psychological ownership, it proposes that consumers’ sense of possession and …
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Mechanistic modelling of bioavailability: putting soil microbiology in its pore scale context
… between the physical soil structure and related functional characteristics. The use of CT scanning technology provided a means of obtaining high-resolution digital reconstructions of the internal soil structures in three dimensions thus allowing, for the first time, the internal architecture of …
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Examining the Effects of Bundling Strategies on Travelers' Value Perception and Purchase Intention of a Vacation Package
… to contract consumer surplus, and to create value for consumers. Consumers purchase a package based on the trade-off between the perceived benefits and costs involved in purchasing the package compared to assembling different products/service. In other words, the perceived value of the …
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Product attachment in the context of gender differentiation and marital relationships
… tended to prefer objects with a functional value serving a consumer experience, particularly those that they could interact with and/or express the masculine desire to be independent and take an active role.<br/><br/>Women were more variable in their preferences, but most became …
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Supervisor Unforgiveness in the Workplace: A Risk Protection Framework
… the conditions in which unforgiveness may be a functional response to a transgression. An exploratory qualitative study of supervisor narratives of subordinate transgressions systematically analyzed the nature of workplace unforgiveness, how it differs from forgiveness, and its functional value …
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The impact of patient-centered care on physician job satisfaction and patient satisfaction: the influence of physician and patient characteristics
… including patient involvement, existential value and functional value were positively related to patient satisfaction. U-PCC did not moderate the relationship between patient characteristics and patient satisfaction. This study has both research and practical implications. For research, the …
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Genomic Organization of Fatty Acid Desaturase-2 (Fad2 ) and Fatty Acid Desaturase-6 (Fad6) ESTs in Maize
… of oleic acid may enhance the nutritional and functional value of corn oil. The biochemical pathway for fatty acid biosynthesis indicates that a single enzyme, the delta12 desaturase, converts oleic (18: 1) to linoleic (18:2) by inserting a double bond at the delta-12 position. Fatty acid …
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Epistemological obstacles in coming to understand the limit concept at undergraduate level: A case of the National University of Lesotho
… are over-generalising and taking the limit value as the function value. For example, in finding the limit value L for./{x) as x tends to 0, 46 subjects out of 251 subjects said that they would calculate ./{O) as the limit value. This method is Within the context of a sequence everyday …
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