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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Knowledge formation"”.
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Impact of HIV and AIDS on intergenerational knowledge formation, retention and transfer and its implication for both sectoral and summative, governances in Namibia.
… including but not limited to the process of knowledge formation, retention and transfer. The thesis suggests that the evolution of governance from nascent to fully institutionalised mechanisms of control is in itself a product of the evolution of knowledge. Notwithstanding, HIV and AIDS …
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Infrastructure, Production, and Archive: American and Japanese Video Art Production of 1960s and 1970s
… relationship between artistic inspiration and knowledge making, the occurrences and the writing of its history. In the case of the comparative study of the emergence of Japanese and American video art, common artistic technique employed may indicate motivations derived from the technical …
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The politics of scientific practice in Taiwan: the hepatitis B control program
… the social contingencies of scientific knowledge and the role of government in medical science. The history of Taiwanese hepatitis B control program from 1980 to 1993 provides a valuable case study to investigate these issues. The controversies over the safety of the hepatitis B plasma …
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The intersection of power, knowledge, shared perspectives, and participatory processes in organizational direction-setting: a study of a church
… was to explore how power intersects with the knowledge formation process, shared perspectives, and participatory processes within organizational direction setting. The study used an ethnographic case study approach to focus on a church that went through a yearlong direction setting process. …
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Planning families in Kaduna: an investigation into the information-behaviours of parents, frontline and religious information providers in northern Nigeria.
… feelings and experiences when in contact with information. For this reason, the provision of objective, accurate and open information in public health initiatives is crucial to knowledge formation and essential for engaging in high-quality decision making on the premise of trust. Despite efforts …
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Performative counter-memory: A Foucaultian-based theory of dramatic discourse analysis for verbatim theatre
… it as a dialectical means of historical knowledge formation. This dissertation then conducts a Performative Counter-memory analysis of four veteran-oriented verbatim plays produced between 2007 and 2014.
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The Prester John Legend and European conceptions of Alterity before 1800.
… that exhibited a different category of knowledge to that of the ‘known’ world, from the European perspective. As Europeans expanded their knowledge of the World, through travel and exploration, figures of curiosity were pushed further to the margins of geographical ignorance. This study …
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Designing representational architectures in recognition
… category names. Images exhibit a great deal of information that cannot be conveyed with a list of name tags. The main focus of this thesis is to produce richer descriptions for images. Inspired by how human describe images, our goal is to describe images with sentences. This thesis introduces a …
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Collaborative learning utilizing a domain-based shared data repository to enhance learning outcomes
… of learning paradigms have postulated that knowledge formation is a dynamic process where learners actively construct a representation of concepts integrating information from multiple sources. Current teaching strategies utilize a compartmentalized approach where individual courses contain …
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Emile Durkheim: the narrative of a liminal subject
… full recognition with the effect they limit knowledge formation around Durkheim’s identity. Additionally, it is to explore the situation whereby Tiryakian’s particular offering triggered Durkheim’s identity and this narrative to incur a state of liminality (Van Gennep, Turner) while more …
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Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with "Artificial Intelligence"
… and accept the importance of certain kinds of knowledge— the social, experiential kinds of knowledge— remains an ongoing struggle. Similarly, religious scholarship is still very often missing from these conversations because many in the STEM fields and the general public feel that religion and …
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Analysis of endogenous D-amino acids in the central nervous system and endocrine system via capillary electrophoresis with biochemical sample treatment
… sample treatments provide complementary information to help D-amino acid analysis via CE separation and detection. Using these approaches with emerging new knowledge, formation and function of these enigmatic molecules have been uncovered. Overall, various chiral CE separation modes have …
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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology
… the formulation and assessment of archaeological knowledge: bringing new understanding of knowledge formation in archaeology and how to deal with competing interpretations of the past (specifically with political and ethical ramifications). The second aim is to assess these epistemological …
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Memory for Positive, Negative, and Comparison Ads: Studying Semantic Associations Between Candidates and Issues Using EEG
… that these ads offer citizens substantive information about political candidates. Furthermore, survey and experimental research indicates that individuals acquire information from political advertisements. A controversy remains over which types of ads are most likely to instill knowledge …
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Ghosts, Imagination and Theatre: re-enacting the futural past through documentary film
… of authenticity and indexicality in Western knowledge formation. Starting in 1942 with the murder of a Roma family in a small village in Poland, the film aims to bring these events into the present by employing strategies such as the use of ghosts, fantasy and theatre within a documentary …
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Social Network Analysis using Cultural Algorithms and its Variants
… a problem of population adaptation through knowledge migration in real-life social systems has been identified to model and study through the proposed method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work in the field which is exploring this concept through this approach. In this …
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Desarrollo de un modelo de evaluación de la gestión del conocimiento en empresas de manufactura
… de la GC para Empresas Manufactureras KME (Knowledge Management Evaluation), constituido por cinco módulos: crecimiento del conocimiento, proceso de desarrollo del conocimiento, aporte de la GC al cliente, impacto de la GC en los resultados e indicadores del modelo, todos relacionados entre …