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Showing 1 to 20 of 460 for “"LISTEN"”.
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EML - Ask, Tell and Listen
… KQML performatives) but also perform an active "listen" allowing agents not just to receive messages but to interpret them in light of context proactively. This shift supports interoperability among diverse agents, enhances explainability by making all knowledge exchange explicitly representable, …
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Listen Like This: Audiovisual Argument in Rockumentary
… arguments, how they encourage us not only to listen <em>to </em>this, but listen <em>like </em>this.</p>
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Gracious encounters: listening to women who listen for God
This research explores how older women have been empowered by their religious faith to survive losses and crises in their lives. Using triangulated methodology, a feminist perspective and a theoretical orientation based on symbolic interactionism, the researcher conducted focus groups and in-depth …
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Building data storage and analytic backend services for listen online
… above. The system has been integrated in Listen Online, or Lion for short, to handle the real problems. For convenience, we call the system Lion Backend. Lastly, by building upon some existing libraries, Lion-Backend provides graphical interfaces to users to help them easily build their …
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If I Tell Them, Will They Listen? Voices of Former Teachers
The Problem: The problem of this qualitative study was to identify reasons teachers may be leaving teaching early in their careers. Procedures: Twenty former Des Moines Public School (DMPS) Des Moines, Iowa, elementary, secondary, classroom, and special education teachers agreed to participate in …
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Listen to me : experiences of recovery for mental health service users
… their clients' lives by failing to properly listen to their narratives, grievances, experiences and perceptions. This study suggests further inclusion of consumer's views and participation in services to foster collaborative, recovery-oriented practices.
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Listen to the River: Dolores, Ophelia, and Female Resistance in Opera
<p>The music of female characters in the great masterpieces of opera often demonstrates resistance to and undermines the abuse they have historically received in opera plots. The Mexican folktale that my opera, <em>The Tragedy of La Llorona</em>, draws inspiration from plays on many of the same …
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Jane Addams and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Learning to Listen with the Other
<p>This dissertation is an attempt to explain how listening functions in ethical and political contexts. I put forward a three-fold way of listening that begins in selfishness and ends in empathy. These three ways of listening I refer to as: “listening-for,” “listening-to,” and “listening-with.” I …
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Learning to listen differently: Witnessing survivor testimony and implications for ethical responses
… affective learning, critical empathy, listening with humility and vulnerability. Witnessing testimony abroad increased these settler participant’s capacity to become more relational towards Indian Residential School survivor testimony as they continue to interrogate their …
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“We” Listen to Algorithms: How Cultural Identity Influences Acceptance of Algorithmic Recommendations
<p>Companies have increasingly deployed artificial intelligence (AI) systems to analyze vast amounts of data and make product and service recommendations to consumers. Despite the global prevalence of algorithmic recommendation systems, surprisingly little research explores the distinct tendencies …
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Listen Without Prejudice: Queer Masculinities in the Popular Music Cultures of Thatcher’s Britain
This thesis brings into academic discourse the first substantial, periodised investigation into the role of British popular music in catalysing a rise in mainstream gay male visibility during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership (1979-1990). I examine how popular music afforded a radical space within …
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Antenatal clinic: Using ethnographic methods to listen to the voices of pregnant adolescents
Aim: This research aims to explore the motivating reasons and external influences that affect pregnant adolescents’ reasons for attending an antenatal clinic. Background: Pregnancy during adolescence has been researched from perceived ‘poor’ decision making during pregnancy and postnatal …
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Lion: Listen online. Using GraphQL as a mediator for data integration and ingestion
… In this thesis is described a system called”Listen Online”, or Lion for short. Lion utilizes the GraphQL specification to provide integration for querying of web services. Lion provides a general structure by which arbitrary mediators can be used within a query. Lastly, by building on top of …
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I'LL TALK, YOU LISTEN: WRITING CENTER TUTORS READING ALOUD IN SESSIONS WITH L2 TUTEES
<p>Writing center tutors work in a field with a long tradition of fostering meaningful interaction between tutor and tutee. However, as university demographics change and more and more international students and second language users utilize writing centers, our long-held notions of meaningful …
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Music Speaks, We Listen: A Teacher's Guide for Using Music in the Adult ELL Classroom
… have an imbalance of skills—lacking speaking and listening skills. When students’ affective filters are high and their motivation is low they are less open to learning. Students need authentic, culturally-relevant material to stimulate learning and activate their multiple intelligences. The …
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Listen to the Teacher: The Voice of Excellence. A Biographical Study of Excellence in Teaching
In analyzing their own careers through this biographical study, these six teachers found the reflective process of this project to be both powerful and cathartic. From this qualitative research project of exceptional teachers and their stories, this study sought to give a view into the lives of …
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Do You Listen to Girl in Red? A Thematic Analysis of Queer Symbolism on TikTok
This thesis investigates how queer women on the social networking site (SNS) TikTok are expressing their cultural identity and building community. Previous research has shown that self-expression and self-presentation are important parts of defining one's identity and building community for queer …
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"Listen to the Wild Discord": Jazz in the Chicago Defender and the Louisiana Weekly, 1925-1929
<p>This essay will use the views of two African American newspaper columnists, E. Belfield Spriggins of the <em>Louisiana Weekly</em> and Dave Peyton of the <em>Chicago Defender</em>, to argue that though New Orleans and Chicago both occupied a primary place in the history of jazz, in many ways …
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Listen to me: The learning and experience of adults with intellectual disabilities using autobiographical digital narratives.
The research question explores the learning and experience of adults with intellectual disabilities using autobiographical digital narratives. The thesis uses a case study approach to apply the research question. A teaching and learning process was designed and developed for adult learners with …
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