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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Ground rules"”.
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Ground rules in online psychotherapy
… of online psychotherapy and the role of ground rules in creating a secure frame for the therapeutic relationship in this new medium. Chapter 1 presents the history of online psychotherapy and a description of the main modalities for therapeutic interaction, namely, e-mail therapy and chat …
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Examining interview ground rules in formal interviews with children
… protocols for interviewing children establish ground rules to encourage children to, for example, say “I don’t know,” “I don’t understand,” or correct interviewer mistakes as necessary. Interview ground rules are intended to facilitate children’s success during formal questioning. Despite …
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The News Media, Environmental Collaborations and Accountability: A survey of the EPA's Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals
… the most important finding may concern Media Ground Rules (guidelines that govern how collaborations interact with the news media). With Media Ground Rules in place, 74% of collaborations reported the press had a positive impact. In contrast, a negative press impact was reported by 60% of …
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Degrees of Access: Factors Preventing Wide-Scope Coverage of the Iraq War by Embedded Reporters--From "Shock and Awe" to "Mission Accomplished" (March 21 - May 1, 2003)
… soldiers, informal self-censorship based on "ground rules," and technological capacity for real-time visual transmission of reportage. These and other factors such as travel restrictions and post-9/11 editorial bias prevented "embeds" from seeing anything but a narrow slice of the war.
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Exploration of the fractal dimension
… pure and applied topics. After establishing the ground rules, we look at ways to calculate the fractal dimension of fractal interpolation functions and we end the study with an experiment consisting in the estimation of the fractal dimension of two graphs representing the activities of two …
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Examining the efficacy of joint investigative interview training through analysing the quality of interview conducted with role-play actors
Best-practice guidelines, grounded in psychological theory, are important for interviewers who engage with a vulnerable group such as children who allege abuse (reviewed in Chapters 1-6). Prior to conducting interviews, Scottish investigative interviewers must complete a JIIT (Joint investigative …
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Modular Approach to Spintronics
… contribution of this thesis is to establish the ground rules or protocols for a modular approach that can build a lasting bridge between materials scientists and circuit designers in the field of spintronics and nanomagnetics.</p>
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Attributes of Successful School Improvement Teams: Participants' Perspective
… learning, clearly defined roles on the team/ground rules, and longevity working together. Important, yet secondary, attributes were identified as: approachability, strong communication skills, and having a vision of the future.
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Telling tales together : A study of children's collaborative oral story-making and performance
… skills of creating, understanding and applying ground rules, of turn taking, listening and building on previous contributions; the social skills of interacting with peers and with an audience; the learning skills of memorising and of evaluating their own and others' performances; the linguistic …
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Global leadership: An Analysis of three Leadership Competency Models in Multinational Corporations
… in a cross-cultural context, and to set the ground rules for the development of multinational LCMs in the future
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Redundancy reduction for computational audition, a unifying approach
… heuristic set of the gestalt auditory grouping rules, down to one efficient and formal rule. We successfully apply the same elements once again to form an auditory scene analysis foundation, capable of detection, autonomous feature extraction, and separation of sources in real-world complex …
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Aural image and the language of electroacoustic music
… transformation, experiential rhythm and some ground-rules for a 'phonoscopic' approach to composition. Part Two of the text (chapters Six to Ten) shows how the author's approach to composition works in practice, by describing the making of the five pieces which form the main part of the …
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Normative consensus and regional orders: Saudi reaction to systemic crises in the Middle East
… normative consensus (i.e: alternative sets of ground rules for the system) acts as the efficient cause. To verify if such an explanation is correct, I focus on foreign and domestic politics of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during three episodes of crises: Arab Nationalism, Iranian Revolution, and …
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An Evaluation of English Crown Courts with and without Special Measures Implemented in Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act
… and Criminal Evidence Act implemented mandatory Ground Rules Hearings, during which the judge, lawyers, and intermediary (if applicable) discussed appropriate accommodations to be made for child witnesses, following which the cross-examination could be pre-recorded. Analyses examined 43 cases …
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Mathematical quantification and statistical analysis of bombus (hymenoptera:apidae) dorsal color patterns
… scheme of the pattern elements and developing ground rules to explain how the pattern changes among individuals. The results of my coding and statistical analyses of the color patterns of 175 species of Bombus indicate that their color patterns are composed of developmental elements. The …
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A Nonlinear Dynamic Method for Supporting Large-Scale Decision-Making in Uncertain Environments
… decision process. They are dynamic because the ground rules affecting those interrelationships are constantly changing. Uncertainty cannot be treated probabilistically, since identification of a full set of outcomes and factors of influence is not possible.</p> <p>The venue for the investigation …
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Improving secondary students' revision of physics concepts through computer-mediated peer discussion and prescriptive tutoring
… required the students to follow basic “ground rules” for computer-mediated problem-solving of physics questions with other students, while the PT portion saw the teacher prescriptively addressing students' misconceptions, misunderstandings, and other problem-solving difficulties as …
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Professional development and beyond: a participative study of a self-facilitated learning group
… sustenance for its members. The significance of grounding, ground rules and group composition are highlighted, as is the need to contemplate how members will leave a group during its formation. Alignment between participants in a group is identified as important for its continuation but not …
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Discursive interactions in a Brazilian primary school: an exploratory case study
… that the students did not appropriate the use of ground rules for talk effectively. Although statistically significant, only small effects were found on students’ learning (knowledge tests). This result was discussed in relation to the role of different teaching modalities, talk formats, and …
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The child sexual abuse interview: an exploratory evaluation of recommended interview components and Tennessee Department of Human Service interviews
… testing, good/bad touch competency testing, ground rules/warning, free narrative, abuse questions, use of props, and closure. Each transcript was further assessed according to the number of utterances produced by the interviewer( s) and the child. Overall, the interviews used in this study …
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