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Showing 1 to 20 of 293 for “"Local context"”.
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Integrating local context and global cohesiveness for open information extraction
… current open IE systems focus on modeling local context information in a sentence to extract relation tuples, while ignoring the fact that global statistics in a large corpus can be collectively leveraged to identify high-quality sentence-level extractions. In this paper, we propose a novel …
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The impact of public housing interventions on a local context
… priorities. This study puts forward that, in the context of India, public interventions (which include governmental and other agencies) have not only had limited success in providing housing, but have tended to neglect the impacts the housing programs and projects have on a local area. The study …
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The role of local context in the local strategies of global brands
… understanding the factors that influence the localisation or standardisation of marketing programmes. The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the role of local context in the local strategies of global brands. This paper uses a qualitative case study design of two global …
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The Role of Reading Comprehension and Local Context Characteristics in Word Meaning Acquisition During Reading
… have examined vocabulary acquisition from context and the factors that might affect it (Carnine, Kameenui & Coyle, 1984; Jenkins, Stein & Wysocki, 1984; Nagy, Anderson & Herman, 1987; Schatz & Baldwin, 1986), the findings do not present a very clear picture as to the extent to which such …
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"Parent trigger" Legislation in the United States: A Key to Parent Empowerment in the Local Context
… supported the needs, values, and interests of local parent stakeholders. This qualitative study consisted of three ways in which to examine the legislative influence on parent empowerment: 1) a state-level document analysis of proposed and enacted parent trigger legislation; 2) interviews with …
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Therapy at the UCT Child Guidance Clinic : an investigation into the practice, utility and applicability of individual psychotherapy in the local context
… acknowledges the potential impact of social context on individuals' lives the present research's focus centres on the role of socio-economic class and sex differences specifically on work at the Clinic. The broader influence of shifting political, historical and pedagogical contexts on such …
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Policy at the chalk face : a case study of the implementation of the developmental appraisal system in a primary school
… to develop an understanding of the impact the local context of the school has on policy implementation. It does so by examining the implementation of the Developmental Appraisal System (DAS) in a primary school. Local context is conceptualised as the interplay between a schools structure, …
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Counterfactuals in Context: Felicity conditions for counterfactual conditionals containing proper names
… which the partition function f(w) serves as the local context of evaluation for the antecedent clause, while the set of worlds characterized by the antecedent serves as the local context for the consequent clause. In order for the felicity conditions to generate the right results, it is shown …
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“Canvassing the Context”: An exploration of the context of the Holding Hands Parenting Programme using principles of Realist Evaluation.
… order to explore and explain the nature of the local parenting context in which the Holding Hands Parenting Programme (HHPP) was both embedded and functioned. The research identified particular mechanisms that were pre-existing in the local context in its structural, cultural, agential and …
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The Harrison High School Walkouts of 1968: Struggle for Equal Schools and Chinanismo in Chicago
… Chicanismo to fit their unique circumstances and local context for urban school reform during the height of the civil rights era.
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Roles, Responsibilities, and Perceptions of Rural Community College Trustees: A Case Study in Illinois
The emphasis on local context and participant perspectives that underlined this study required a research method that would provide participants a voice. Thus, qualitative inquiry methods: interviews, document review, and observations were employed. This combination of methods expanded the depth of …
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Modelling and visualizing the spatial patterns in access mode choice and the potential for bicycle in access trips in Rio de Janeiro
… other results show some particularities from the local context.
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Corporate chaplaincy, spirituality and wellness : a post-foundational practical theological exploration
… stages of research: an acknowledgement of the local context through the dialogue with twelve co-researchers; a process of transversality that includes a discussion with nine interdisciplinary respondents and traditions of interpretation; and a response that explores a preferred alternative …
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Policy Imperatives and Local Circumstances: Sensemaking and Interpretation in the Prison Service
… organization-wide policy imperatives at a local level in the setting of HM Prison Service. Policy imperatives are defined as policy instructions or initiatives that require an action or event defined by policy makers as mandatory and to be achieved by a particular deadline, the outcome of …
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How important is the local when thinking global? : Internationalisation at a research-led university
This thesis examines the importance of local factors associated with a research-led university’s move toward greater internationalisation. The study explores the university’s rationales for internationalisation along with forces acting to enable and constrain successful internationalisation. …
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Sierra Leone`s post-conflict reconstruction: a study of the challenges for building long term peace
… era and their relevance for and impact on the local challenges for longer term peace. Continued corruption among the political class, the persistent disenfranchisement of important social groups, and emerging tensions along political party lines suggested that, ten years on from the Lomé Peace …
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Considering practitioner influence on student success: exploring community college faculty funds of knowledge
In the context of persistently low retention rates for underrepresented students of higher education, the role of the practitioner in the academic success scholarship is largely understudied. There is comparatively little scholarship on the ways in which the practitioner influences the student’s …
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A Historical Narrative on the Role of Mrs. Esther Brown in the Development of Desegregation Policy in Public Education
… the desegregation of public education, and the local context that led to the national fight against desegregation. The significance of this study is to highlight the struggles that activists, many of whom are unsung heroes, went through to navigate the struggles and processes that enabled the …
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