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Showing 1 to 20 of 1081 for “"Informants"”.
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How informants report about interorganizational relationships
… perspectives to investigate how organizational informants report about interorganizational relationships within an industrial channel of distribution. There is currently a growing interest among both practitioners and scholars in understanding the determinants of successful interorganizational …
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Use of Multi-Informants in Predicting Adolescent Treatment Dropout
… study examined archival data from multiple informants who enrolled in a 16-week intensive outpatient treatment program for self-harming youth. The purpose of this study was to assess potential predictors of treatment dropout. Preliminary analysis indicated that adolescents who dropped out of …
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Assessing Vocational Interests: Convergence and Divergence of Inventories and Informants
Two studies evaluated the agreement among assessments of vocational interests. Study 1 evaluated the agreement among four interest inventories designed to assess John Holland's (1997) RIASEC vocational types (Strong Interest Inventory, SII; Self-Directed Search, SDS; O*Net Interest Profiler, IP; …
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Key informants for peadiatric eye disease case finding in Madagascar
… interventions. Surveys, mostly utilizing key informants (KI), have suggested that the prevalence of blindness in children in Sub Saharan Africa ranges between 2 -8 per 10,000 children. Childhood eye disease is rare and conditions are difficult to detect; thus, surveys to estimate the …
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Local Informants and British Explorers: the Search for the Source of the Nile, 1850-1875
… of sources: ancient, Arab, Portuguese, and local informants. In order to replace these sources with precise observation, the RGS provided some prescriptive instructions to explorers based upon the techniques of celestial navigation and surveying available for field research in the 1850s. The …
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Patterns of (Dis)Agreement Among the Emotional Reports of Borderline Personality Disorder Individuals and Their Informants
… who reported being happy were perceived by Informants as being significantly more angry and irritated. Additionally, BPD informants appeared to mistakenly perceive happiness as another nominally different emotion, namely, excitement. The implications of such findings along with suggestions …
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Minority students' perception of the high school-to-college transition process and the views of selected informants to the process: a qualitative study
… theory approach. Additionally, five other informants were interviewed or observed for the study. They were either named directly by the students as having an impact on their transition experience, or the informants' positions in the educational system placed them in contact with …
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Black Deaf or Deaf Black? An investigation of identity in the British Black Deaf community
… disability, a finding also echoed in the informants own accounts of interacting within the Black hearing community. The main study with the informants was conducted using qualitative methods. This explored the informants' childhood family experiences, education, employment, and …
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A qualitative study of the leadership practices of eight women in student affairs administration
… was used for this current research. Eight informants were purposively selected from a population of 26 women administrators employed in student affairs at Ball State University. Three interviews were conducted with each of the eight informants. Retrospective, structured, and semi-structured …
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Culture care values, beliefs, and practices of Mexican American migrant farm workers related to health promoting behaviors
… guide developed by the researcher.Sixteen key informants and three general informants participated in the study. Informants were purposefully selected for knowledge of migrant farm life and willingness to share this knowledge with the researcher. Key informants were Mexican American migrant …
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Discovering the Culture Care Meanings and Care Expressions of Men with a Spinal Cord Injury from the Appalachian Region of West Virginia: An Ethnonursing Study
… method, was successful due to the promotion from informants participating in the study, and the researcher's continued presence at the monthly SCI support group meetings. Data collection and data analysis were conducted concurrently. Entry in to the field was accomplished via an established spinal …
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An ethnographic study of international students' transition from an intensive English program to mainstream university courses
… examines the articulation process of six informants, three undergraduate and three graduate students, as they made the transition from an intensive English program into mainstream university courses at a medium-sized Midwestern university.The research attempted to determine what needs …
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Variation in the Educated Spoken Arabic of Iraq : A sociolinguistic study
… with sex and regional differences in a group of informants. The informants are a number of educated Iraqis who are available in the U. K. In the study of language attitude the methods used involved a questionnaire on attitudes and an analysis of subjects' reaction to samples of ESA containing the …
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A description of the linguistic characteristics of the careful speech of recent high school graduates in entry-level positions of job categories of large employment in selected counties of Southwest Virginia
… analysis, (3) interviews with five selected informants, (4) coding of the transcripts of the interviews in relation to the items on the postal survey and (5) analysis of the findings. The pretext of the interview with the five informants was the relevance of high school education to career …
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Making Connections: Adolescent Girls' Use of the Internet
… technology was an effective match for the informants' developmental tasks. Specific inferences included: (1)Online technologies offered the informants multiple ways of negotiating social relationships; (2) Internet use supported the informants' engagement in personalized, self-directed, and …
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Exploring and Conceptualising the Interrelationships between Self and Possessions, through Hong Kong Chinese Consumers' Narratives.
… of narrative inquiry, 20 Hong Kong Chinese informants were interviewed. The interviews generated 115 stories about their important possessions and these were used to explore how informants revealed their sense of self and how they constructed the meanings of possessions and the …
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Discovering why adults do not participate in formal adult education
… in formal education for adults.The informants in this study answered the question clearly. They did not participate in formal education for adults because they found no need for, or value in, additional formal education. Furthermore, they had no interest in exploring potential …
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Affective And Motivational Components Of The Flow State: Rock Climbing Revisited
… the present study purposefully sampled fifteen informants representative of the range of characteristics found in the setting. Questioning techniques and analysis methods used in this study sought to retain the individual meaning perspectives of informants and to address concerns with the …
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Sexual identity and health of young gay men and lesbians
… was gained using a snowball technique; all informants were aged between 18 and 25 and identified themselves as gay or lesbian. Thirteen people were interviewed using a recursive in-depth technique. Through these in-depth interviews, six major themes emerged from the data collected: (i) …
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Yellow in White Suits: Race, Mobility, and Identity among Grown Children of Korean Immigrants
… Second, the community contexts where my informants grew up diversify their perception of race relations, leading them to have divergent ideas of social incorporation. The ethnic communities function to refract the influence of the larger society's racial categorization on the informants, …
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