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Showing 1 to 20 of 318 for “"Individualistic"”.
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Kaleido : individualistic visual interfaces for software development environments
… in this thesis I argue that incorporating individualistic visual elements into the interface of our programming environments can make the creative coding process more intuitive. I present Kaleido as one implementation of a programming environment that augments traditional textual …
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Undergraduates' Attitudes Toward the Causes of Poverty and Homelessness: Individualistic or Structural
… to test whether undergraduate students support individualistic, structural or mixed explanations in explaining the causes of poverty and homelessness. The study was undertaken with the assumption that undergraduates would be more likely to use individualistic explanations, rather than …
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Crime Propensity in Collective and individualistic Societies: A cross-culture comparison between China and the UK
Are the causes of youth crime the same in Western and Eastern countries? Western research based on Situational Action Theory (SAT) has demonstrated that young people’s crime involvement varies by their law-relevant personal morals and ability to exercise self-control (seen as the main sources of …
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A comparison of self-help lower-income housing in community-based and individualistic settlements in urban Mexico
… help settlement types -- community-based and individualistic -- in two contemporary Mexican urban settings: Mexico City and Tlalnepantla. The research investigates differences in housing design preferences of occupant-builders, reflections of these preferences in built environments, and …
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The Effects of Cooperative and Individualistic Learning Structures on Achievement in a College-level Computer-aided Drafting Course
… resulting from out-of-class cooperative and individualistic learning structures. The research design was a counterbalanced, repeated measures, nonequivalent control group design. During the first half of the semester, one course section served as the experimental group (cooperative learning) …
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Variations in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultural Orientation and the Protective Factors that Contribute to Resilience: Comparisons from Jamaica, Rwanda, and the United States
<p>Problem</p> <p>Despite the advancement in resilience research, and although mental health professionals are encouraged to become culturally competent, it is still unclear how I/C cultural orientation influence various protective factors that contribute to resilience. Individualists emphasize …
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The effects of interpersonal competition versus individualistic-progress learning structures on the achievement attributions, motivation to practice, and affect of sixth grade band students
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Music Education, 2006
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Cultural Values Reflected in Chinese Advertisements: Self -Construal and Persuasion Implications
… individualism and modernity values. Second, individualistic advertisements shift individuals' cultural orientations (self-construals). And third, such value-shifting influences individuals' attitudes, thoughts, and behavioral choices. Three studies were conducted focusing on the Chinese …
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MULTI-AGENT SOURCE LOCALIZATION USING PASSIVE SENSING
… systems can be achieved from a mix of simple individualistic and social behaviours of an agent. Social behaviours are the basis of cooperation in multi-agent systems and are fundamental in achieving collective behaviour. Practical implementation of conventional social behaviour models require …
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A study to assess motivational factors in pursuing higher education: a multicultural perspective
… played a part in them choosing collective or individualistic reasons to attend. One hundred students were surveyed. Each student was given a survey of 16 questions, eight questions measured individualism and eight measured collectivism. A one-way MANOVA found that the students from Camden …
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AUDIENCE TARGETING IN CHINESE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF WOLF WARRIOR RHETORIC
… communication strategies, known for their individualistic and aggressive rhetoric on Western media platforms like Twitter. This communication strategy, however, is not conducted in the same way across all countries. With that in mind, this study analyzes the tone PRC diplomats use in their …
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Individualism and collectivism: Its implications for cross-cultural advertising
… that advertisements in the U.S. utilized individualistic appeals to a greater extent, and collectivistic appeals to a lesser extent, than did Korean advertisements. These differences emerged strongly among high involvement products, but much less so among low involvement products. These …
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Three Essays on Foreign CEOs
… we find that firms managed by foreign CEOs from individualistic cultures have higher leverage. We next examine the channels through which individualistic CEOs impact a firm’s capital structure and find that individualistic CEOs are more likely to issue debt than equity and adjust their target …
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FOLLOWERS' REACTIONS TO FEMALE LEADERS: LEADER'S ORIENTATIONS, PROTOTYPICAL CATEGORIZATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
… orientations reflect either a collectivistic or individualistic personal style. Collective orientations indicate that the leader is group or team oriented, whereas an individual orientation signifies higher identification with the self and enhancing competition. Organizational cultures also …
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Parental Opinions of Cooperative Learning in Elementary Schools
… learning in comparison with competitive and individualistic learning structures. An analysis of the data collected during this study indicated much agreement in favor of cooperative learning, and opposition towards competition. Parents were undecided about individualistic methods and group …
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POSTTRAUMATIC CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TRAUMA-CENTERED IDENTITY AND SELF-CONSISTENCY
… be positively associated with PTSD symptoms in individualistic cultures, but not in collectivistic cultures. Cultural differences have also been observed in levels of self-consistency. Individualistic cultures value high levels of consistency, whereas collectivistic cultures promote identity …
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PRIVATE ACTS, PUBLIC PROBLEMS: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS A POLICY CASE STUDY
… this project. It then examines four states - an individualistic, resource-rich state; a moralistic, resource-average state; and two traditionalistic, resource-poor states. States were chosen based on their full compliance with the National Incident-Based Reporting System, their categorization as …
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Individualism in education reform
… their agenda is that our society is highly individualistic. The individualistic nature of society in the U.S. provides fertile ground for reform that not only harms our present vestiges of democracy but also endangers the possibility of a democratic society for future generations. A critical …
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Individualism-collectivism and relationships in distributive negotiation: An experimental analysis
… would follow communal relationships rules, while individualistic dyads would follow exchange relationship rules. Communal rules are characterized by concern for the needs of the other party. Exchange rules are characterized by immediate reciprocation of benefits received by another. In the current …
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