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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Individual Experience"”.
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Lessons learned for managing projects in a Higher Education environment: organisational and individual experience
This study explores the experience of lead academics undertaking externally funded projects within HEIs in the United Kingdom through qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews. It had been expected that the study would reveal that many HEIs had adopted formal project management practices …
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big space, little place and 11 retro-fit, future-fit strategies for emerging airports
Air traffic has experience worldwide exponential growth which has in turn sparked off another chain reaction of new expanded facilities for air travel. Although the individual's radius of action continues to expand, space itself is being steadily reduced to a zone that is traversed, an interval in …
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Art as Occupation: A Phenomenological Study of Art as a Means of Self-Expression for an Individual Recovering from Severe Physical, Sexual, and Ritual Abuse
… study presents an in-depth exploration of one individual's retrospective account of using art over approximately ten years in Occupational Therapy (OT) intervention while recovering from severe abuse with a diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). After an extensive literature review, …
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How do clients experience a preordained ending in medium-term psychotherapy? A phenomenological enquiry
… study explored eight client-participants’ experience of a preordained ending in medium-term psychotherapy (average length 12 months) in charitable service settings. The aim was to investigate the experience of ending therapy, in particular when the ending was a ‘given’. Interviews were …
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"Fit objects for an asylum": The Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum and its patients, 1852-1899
… social welfare<br/>contexts it focuses on the experience of individuals and their families and the part<br/>played by the HCA in their lives. The perspective and methodology of the research<br/>reflect the recognition of the importance of individual experience in the construction<br/>of …
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Looking within: a grounded theory study of the internal socialization of recently promoted leaders
… socialization and reveals the transition experience of recently promoted leaders. The research results led to the development of a model of internal socialization, which is presented and discussed. Looking within the individual experience of internal socialization brings deeper insight …
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A history of the Jewish community of Potchefstroom and environs
… century to 2008. Beginning with the immigrant experience the processes of assimilation, acculturation and secularization are explored. The Jewish community developed in parallel with the fortunes of the town until external factors prompted the departure of individuals and families to other …
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Accomplished space: the Italian piazza
Inspired and subject to individual experience, an in depth study of eleven piazzas yielded a set of Architectural elements, characterizing each piazza. Clearly, "intention" supplements their unique evolution, and the layered symbolism over time, throughout the urban fabric, emits a specific …
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“All This Was My Life”: Constructing Textual Self-Identity in Diaries
<p>The ordering and control of experience through fictive selves, constructed in consideration of an audience of the self and others, is part of the diary’s identity-building and meaning-making function. This thesis analyzes the process by which the diaries of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and …
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Communicative Design: Transit Architecture for Growing Cities
… of the relationships between station form and individual experience may lead to the identification of specific design objectives with implications for increased public transit riderships. Data is collected through research on sensory perception in architecture, spatial organization, and …
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The Transition to Adulthood: Experiences of Young Adults with Asperger Syndrome
… insight into the unique, daily struggles of individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) as they transition into adulthood. The majority of research available regarding individuals diagnosed with AS focuses on childhood experiences. What happens when these individuals age out of high school? What …
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Qualitative Study Of Taiwanese Students Studying Abroad: Social Interactions, Navigating Us Culture, And Experiences Learning English Language
… phenomenological research was to investigate individual experience of Taiwanese students studying abroad in Michigan in the United States. Sakurai et al. (2010) study is divided into three models of studying abroad learners' social network: "co-national, multinational and local" (p. 177). …
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An investigation into how youth ice hockey coaches learn to coach and their use of the Internet
… formal training programs as well as informal experiences in which youth ice hockey coaches are involved with. This study also attempts to present how coaches use the Internet, which is currently a timely topic. Semi-structured interviews with 59 male youth competitive (A, AA, AAA) ice hockey …
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A Comparison of the Origins, Goals, and Techniques of Storytelling and Literary Journalism.
… are related by the common goal of celebrating individual experience, the life of the common folk, and the birth of interactive communities that offer an alternative to mass media and mass culture. Overlapping techniques include the use of simple slots, the personal "voice" of the narrator, …
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Tracing the Trend from Public Piety to Private Devotion in Western European Reliquaries of the Middle Ages
… these are important signs that suggest that an individual, private devotional experience was available and perhaps even common long before personal prayer books first became popular with the laity in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. The emergence of the individual as seen in the …
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"""Music that makes holes in the sky"": Georgia O'Keefe's visionary romanticism"
… O'Keeffe was a modern romantic, emphasizing individual experience, intensified emotional responses, an interest in the sublime, music, synaesthesia, and the irrational forces of nature, including human nature, much as nineteenth-century Romantic artists did."
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The Inescapable Quest for Happiness: Exploring How the Ideology of Happiness Shapes the Contemporary Consumer Marketplace
… as a positive psychological state, emphasizing individuals’ experience (Layard 2005; Thin 2014; Veenhoven 2015). Building on the sociology literature (Cabanas and Illouz 2019; Davies 2015), this study posits that happiness can also be understood as an ideology associated with different values …
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Color of Music: An Investigation of Musical Timbre and Color Association
… timbre as well as assessing the level of musical experience and training of each subject who participated. Three experiments were utilized including instrument images and sounds with the resulting duty of choosing a color on a color wheel. Findings contributed to the popular knowledge base of …
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Photography as Therapy: Reducing Chronic Stress in Women Experienceing Role-Overload
… to test if the use of photography can help an individual experience stress reduction, personal insight, and personal stress reducing skills. The artwork and reflections were also evaluated thematically regarding the process, content, and emotions. Quantitative results determined significant …
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Transition into Kindergarten: A Collaboration of Family and Educational Perspectives
… of a child's transition to kindergarten is an individual experience, there are some universal factors of influence in any transition. These factors include communication among teachers and parents and establishment of relationships among the three protagonists: child, parent, and teacher. …
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