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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Interdisciplinary perspectives"”.
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Word Identification and Eye Movements in Reading Chinese: A Modeling Approach
… the usefulness of creative methodologies and interdisciplinary perspectives in investigating complicated cognitive processes such as word identification and eye movements in reading Chinese. This study has also set a new direction and established a new framework for reading research in Chinese.
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Design of a Mechanically Divinatory I Ching Split-Flap Display Device
… project served as an experiment in incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives of engineering, design, art, and anthropology to engineer an aesthetically rich, mechanically interesting, and immersive human experience. This work followed a mechanical engineering design process including …
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Relational Interreligious Dialogue: Interdisciplinary Arguments from Creator/Creature Theology and Quantum Entanglement
… Creator/creation relationship. Placing interdisciplinary perspectives from science and religion in dialogue essentially instantiates the project’s methodology, it validates relational ontology as an effective method for improving the effectiveness of interreligious dialogue.</p>
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
… and Indigenous poets. I draw on a wide array of interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to examine lineages of poetic practice in the Americas through their interrelated literary, historical, material, spiritual, and social contexts of production, circulation, and reception in a …
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Ars rhetorica et sacrae litterae: St. Patrick and the Art of Rhetoric in Early Medieval Briton and Ireland
… of St. Patrick. This analysis, informed by interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, contributes to our understanding of the rhetorical nature of St. Patrick's writings, as well as the nature of rhetorical education in early medieval Britain and Ireland The literary significance of …
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What Do They Say? Students from a Private, Faith-Based, Four-Year University Share their Perspectives on College as a Mentoring Environment
… as well as informal activities. In recent years, interdisciplinary perspectives on traditional undergraduate students have been converging around the idea that the functions and characteristics of mentoring students could be shared across the institution, creating what Daloz Parks (2000) has …
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Ganzheitliche Bewertung der Einsatzfähigkeit von hochdynamischen Technologieinnovationen aus dem Bereich der Produktionstechnik - Entwicklung einer Methodik zur Entscheidungsfindung für das Technologiemanagement
… are implications for the management to consider interdisciplinary perspectives, to use qualitative attributes and to combine the assessment with technology maturity levels. Based on these theoretical findings, the development of a holistic technology assessment method takes place. It consists of …
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Productively Undoing a Doctoral Study: Ethically Researching Early Childhood Education and Care in the Majority World
… I then view them from different theoretical perspectives (Jackson and Mazzei; 2012) and interdisciplinary perspectives, before gently, and with productive intention, attempt to put them back together to offer possible insights and considerations for more ethical possibilities when researching …
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How to Participate: A Multi-Genre Coming-of-Age Story of a Student Anthropologist
… negative affects). While this project draws on interdisciplinary perspectives such as decolonial, feminist, and queer theory—especially work that pays attention to affect and to the researcher’s subjectivity—it builds on the turn toward critiques of representation and reflexivity in anthropology …
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Dogged Optimism: Striving and Waiting in Rural Chinese Students’ Negotiations of Social Mobility
… rural youth in contemporary China. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from Global South youth studies and the sociology of education, this dissertation focuses on the role of education in shaping rural students’ life trajectories. It also investigates these students’ strategies to …
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Rethinking Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reforms
… Chapter 4 approaches its problem by introducing interdisciplinary perspectives. The chapter starts by identifying different methods of ADR such as mediation, negotiation, conciliation, and forms of dispute boards. It further distinguishes investment ADR from other contexts, such as domestic and …
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Multilingual preschool learners: a collaborative approach to communication intervention
… and structured assessment, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The results of the empirical research was used to propose a service delivery model for the acquisition of ELoLT in the research context. This proposed model may be an effective approach to provide supportive …
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A human-centered design approach to empowering obesity patients in self-supervised rehabilitation post-bariatric surgery
… addressing emotional barriers, and coordinating interdisciplinary efforts. This thesis investigates the pivotal question: How might we help obesity patients aged 20-70 in the U.S. promote and actively engage in self-supervised home-based rehabilitation for diet management during their …
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Heterogeneity and Female-Headed Households in Sri Lanka: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Transitional Development Society
… that the present research addresses. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives especially from demography, gender studies; particularly gender and development, risk and vulnerability studies, as well as scholarship on social capital, this thesis employs a ‘heterogeneity’ lens to specifically …
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From High School to Creative Work: Cumulative Inequalities in Creative Arts Opportunities to Learn
… to early adulthood, this dissertation draws from interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives of cumulative inequality theory, fundamental cause theory, and opportunity-to-learn in a novel conceptual framework. In three interrelated studies, this dissertation follows a nationally representative …
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La relación entre las prácticas contables y el medio ambiente
A través del análisis de un estudio de caso se pone de manifiesto que la contabilidad no es neutral en la relación entre la empresa y la sociedad y el medio ambiente. El estudio también revela que la contabilidad tiene amplios orígenes sociales e institucionales, por lo que estudiarla fuera de …