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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Heterogeneous groups"”.
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The Effects of Cultural Training on Situational Favorableness and Leader Behavior in Culturally Heterogeneous Groups
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Brief Heterogeneous Inpatient Groups: A Process-Oriented Psychoeducational Model
… Diagnostically homogeneous therapy groups outperform therapy groups with mixed symptoms, however, due to managed health care, psychiatric hospitals typically run brief duration, diagnostically heterogeneous groups. A review of the research literature was conducted in order to locate …
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The relationship between formal and informal employment in South Africa
… compliment to formal sector employment because heterogeneous groups exist within the informal sector. This study contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence that heterogeneous sub-sectors do exist within South Africa’s informal sector, and that the Structural Articulation …
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Social networks and the embeddedness of affective organizational commitment
… of commitment; and (c) individuals in homogenous groups have higher levels of commitment than individuals in heterogeneous groups.
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Effects of ability level compositions in cooperative learning settings
… on the type of students that compose these groups. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of homogeneous and heterogeneous ability created groups on individual student performance. Through the use of two problem solving activities, students were exposed to cooperative …
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Reciprocity and Prejudice: An Experiment of Hindu-Muslim Cooperation in the Slums of Mumbai
… more with and discriminate less against the groups expected to reciprocate cooperative behavior. Conditional cooperators rationally update their group stereotypes based on their experience with the groups' individual members. This change in turn reduces prejudice and discrimination. I tested …
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The internet and deliberative democracy in South Korea
… given to the deliberation quality of process and heterogeneous groups. To overcome the limitations, this study attempts to explore the potential of the Internet for deliberative democracy in the South Korean context by looking at the quality of the online deliberation process. In addition, a …
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Processes in the formation of publics: A design case study on dyslexia
… is aligned with Dewey’s view, which refers to heterogeneous groups of people concerned about an issue who organize themselves to address it. This thesis aims to contribute to this corpus of research by investigating the following research questions: what design processes can contribute to the …
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Troubling Literacy in the "Contact Zone" of a Rural High School English Class
… classrooms, as "contact zones," can represent heterogeneous groups of students whose literacy practices are hybrid and intercultural, grafting together often reactionary, oppressive sociopolitical intentions with officially sanctioned literacy goals. This inquiry raises questions about literacy …
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What Difference Does One Academic Year Make? Features And Development Of International Foundation Students’ Academic Lexis In Assessed Writing At A UK University
… studies of assessed writing produced by heterogeneous groups of students at a foundation level. This study seeks to fill this gap by investigating the most prevalent examples, features and development of academic lexis used in UK-based international foundation students’ written …
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Narrative identities and self-constructs of individuals with histories of sexual and violent offences
… identifying shared perspectives among heterogeneous groups. It also highlights how social constructions of this population can distance professionals, and individuals themselves, from personal narratives thus inhibiting meaningful considerations of risk and rehabilitation. The research …
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Enclave : testing city for Korean reunification
… city and architecture be a tool through which heterogeneous groups of people can live together despite serious political conflict? This thesis explores strategies to establish social relations between two heterogeneous societies, North Korea and South Korea, in Kaesong, a jointly run small …
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Does Homogenous Ability Grouping for High School Honors English Instruction Benefit the High Achiever?
… is a rise in achievement inequality between the groups (Gamoran & Mare, 1989; Hoffer, 1992). The purpose ofthis study is to determine ifthere is a tangible, measurable academic benefit to homogeneously grouping high school honors English students in a diverse, suburban school district in …
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Home, health and participation for community living people with disability
… people with disability and identify different groups with different needs for interventions. Study I used focus groups to explore aspects of importance for participation. Twenty-nine people with Parkinson’s Disease participated in nine focus groups. Studies II-III utilized baseline data from an …
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The effects of self-esteem, locus of control, and exposure to nontraditional occupations on the employment interests of women in poverty
… were that the poor women in the sample were heterogeneous, had relatively high education and employment aspirations, and had low self-esteem. These women need more exposure to nontraditional occupations and they expressed a willingness to consider such careers. Poor women such as those in …
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Evaluation of Myogenic Differentiation Potential of BMD iPSCs in vitro and the Effect of Ubiquitination Inhibitors on Dystrophin Stability in vivo
<p>Background: Muscular dystrophies are heterogeneous groups of inherited diseases leading to progressive muscular weakness and degeneration. In the case of Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD), non-disrupting mutations of the DMD gene reading frame is the causative defect. By the age of 30s, about 60 …
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Addressing the learning of chemistry at undergraduate level: towards the development of independent learning
… a small group teaching environment for large heterogeneous groups of students.
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Diversity in Programming Education: Effects of Topic and Group Constellation on Young Programming Novices
… this domain has created an urgent need for more heterogeneous groups in software engineering. This lack of diversity not only hinders underrepresented groups from entering the field but also prevents them from gaining initial programming experiences, which are a core component of software …
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Determinants of Elite Rowing Performance: Implications for Developing Rowers
… has rarely included the analysis of different groups or their longitudinal development. Elite rowing traditionally adopts a ‘squad based’ approach to training which often fails to recognise the potential benefits of individualised training. To date, limited data exist examining the …