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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Life projects"”.
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Real Life Projects with a Focus on the Principles of Realistic Mathematics Education
… curriculum project incorporates RME into real-life projects to engage students in learning mathematics and encourage more problem-solving and student reflection in 7th grade and Algebra 1 mathematics. This curriculum project includes four non-sequential lessons focusing on the 7th-grade topics …
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The Internal Conversations and Social Networks of Care Leavers at University
… of individuals within this group who develop life projects and are able to put plans into action. Some manage to succeed educationally and take up places on university course. This research seeks to explore the reflexivity, internal conversations and social networks of young people who had …
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Migrants and the Brazilian boom-city: Manaus from 1850 to 1940
… In Manaus, migrants engaged in daily activities, life projects and processes that (re) imagine the capital of Amazonas. In their ongoing engagement in producing the urban center of a large swath of Brazil’s Amazon, they also contributed to the social and commercial configuration of the entire …
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Towards a Political Economy of Corporate Governance: A Critical Realist Analysis
… shaped by the actions of reflexive agents whose life projects bring them into contact with pre-existing structures that create dispositions to act in a particular way. It is through the internal conversation (exercising the reflexive power of deliberation) that agents decide their ultimate course …
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Engineering Adaptive Model-Driven User Interfaces for Enterprise Applications
… opinions of industry experts and data from real-life projects. Usability studies showed the approach’s ability to significantly improve usability in terms of end-user efficiency, effectiveness and satisfaction.
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In Defence of the Realm : Mobility, Modernity and Community on the Camino de Santiago
… in the company of others engaging in similar projects of existential re-invigoration. This study asks whether authentic experience can be possible in a world characterised by alienation and fragmentation and what role religion can play in this instance. By combining classic notions of gift, …
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Simulation-Aided Performance Evaluation of Input/Output Optimizations for Distributed Systems
… that could later be implemented in real-life projects. The main focus of this thesis lies on comparing existing client-side optimizations and newly implemented server-side optimizations like Server-Directed I/O, which provides server-side optimizations for both read and write operations. …
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Scheduling and Resource Efficiency Balancing: Discrete Species Conserving Cuckoo Search for Scheduling in an Uncertain Execution Environment
… of the RCPSP that considers optimisation of projects in an uncertain environment where resources are modelled to adapt to their environment and, as the result of this, improve their efficiency. Secondly, modification of a novel evolutionary computation method Cuckoo Search (CS) is proposed, …
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Between Shadow and Solace: The Spiritual Lives of Street Children in Bukavu, The Democratic Republic of Congo
… intentionality, aspirations and the pursuit of life projects that are constituted in time and place.
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A critical systems thinking approach for the planning of information technology in the information society
… will contribute to the improvement of the way of life of societies. The outcomes in different countries and problems encountered make necessary to explore the possibility of an alternative view in planning that could be more inclusive and participative regarding people involved and affected by …
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Equitable Access to Assisted Reproduction: Designing regulation for efficacious realisation of the right to reproductive health
… and indistinguishability of ARTs from other life projects.
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THE POLITICS OF BELONGING AND YOUTH WORK IN MILAN
… horizon of singularity centred on individual life projects. However, this delegitimization of national categories appears as ambiguous and situated, as such categories re-emerge in more indirect or subtle forms in specific interactional contexts. Finally, by giving voice to the lived …
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Constructions of 'gendered agency' : Perspectives from a multi-ethnic Sure Start programme.
… agents', we must choose from an array of lifestyles and assemble our own 'life projects'. This emphasis on active agency is reflected in constructions of welfare users in 'Third Way' and New Labour policy in the UK. Policy discourses depict welfare agents as aspirational and responsible …
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Communication and Control in Power Electronics Systems
The demands of a modern way of life have changed the way power electronics systems work. For instance, the grid has to provide not only the service of delivering electrical energy but also the communication to enable interactions between customers and enable them to be producers of electrical …
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Os jovens do Assentamento Poções em Rialma-GO e o campo de possibilidades para os seus projetos de vida
O jovem do Assentamento Poções se relaciona e convive com seus diferentes papéis e funções, ou a partir deles, nos diferentes grupos, vivendo sua própria história de vida, enquanto parte de relações sistêmicas com o local e o global. Essas relações os fazem sonhar, idealizar e construir seus …