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Supporting meaningful social networks
… novel algorithm, called ActiveLink, to identify meaningful online social connections. The innovation of the algorithm lies in the combination of preferential attachment and assortativity. The algorithm can identify long-range connections which may not be captured by simple reciprocity algorithms. …
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Building Meaningful Relationships with Students
<p>Elementary school classrooms are becoming more diverse and there is a growing need for educators to be culturally responsive to students and to understand what that means. The challenge we face is to support educators in implementing strategies to acknowledge student names, welcome students into …
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Meaningful Circular Economy Jobs: Does Circular Economy Awareness Enable the Experience of More Meaningful Work?
… of jobs in the CE with a specific focus on meaningfulness. The research questions explore the key factors contributing to job meaningfulness in CE roles, the impact of heightened awareness of the CE on workers' perceived meaningfulness, and the mechanisms through which such awareness affects …
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Creating Meaningful Literacy Instruction with ELLs
… guides this research is: how can teachers create meaningful instruction to develop literacy skills with ELLs? The three challenges teachers face when promoting literacy with ELL students are: how to effectively scaffold instruction without diluting content for their native English speaking peers, …
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Meaningful daily activity and chronic pain
… how CP inhibits daily functioning, however the meaningfulness of daily activities is not evaluated. The aim of this research was to determine whether CPP who engaged in meaningful daily activity (MDA) reported less severe pain, disability and psychological distress. To test this observation a …
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A Phenomenological Analysis of Meaningful Existence
… is diverse such that what one experiences as meaningful varies from one individual to another, in virtue of what shared characteristics are those distinctive experiences each an instance of meaning in life? The answer to this question, I suggest, lies in the existential structures of …
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Meaningful Reading: Broadening Perspectives Through Literature
… forms, students learn to make connections in a meaningful way. Through literature, rather than textbooks, the learner can obtain a wide range of information.</p>
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Civic Dignity and Meaningful Political Participation
… I highlight how these opportunities for</p> <p>meaningful political participation are indispensable to individual civic dignity, and by extension, individual liberty and well-being.</p> <p>Second, civic dignity is viewed through a different lens, namely the role it can play when incorporated …
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The healthy organisation: is it meaningful?
In the thesis we have defined what is understood as a high health organization, and this in comparison with what is commonly known as a high performance organization. While much research is undertaken around high performance organizations, little or no research is undertaken around high health …
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Outdoor Education and Meaningful Learning: Finding the attributes of meaningful learning experiences in an outdoor education program
… sought to identify the common attributes of meaningful learning experiences as found in an outdoor education program. The pragmatic educational philosophy of John Dewey provides the rationale for the essence of meaningful learning in our schools and this research identifies the attributes of …
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Integrating Meaningful Literature in the Third Grade
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Meaningful materialism : collectors relationship to their objects
The shared language, attitudes, practices and patterns of those who participate in “collecting" in the lower mainland area of British Columbia are described. Recurring themes and patterns emerge in the analysis of data obtained through interviews with thirty collector-informants. The …
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Participatory Action Research for Emotionally Meaningful Stories
… and the UK in order to generate emotionally meaningful stories. The work was conducted as part of the practice-led TOTeM research project and aspires to be associated with such works that have been able to make a methodological contribution by introducing theoretical insights, innovative …
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Towards a Hermeneutic of Meaningful Social Action
… integrity of, a correct view of the nature of meaningful social action. My analysis is inspired by Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Following these thinkers, I castigate the Neo-Kantian/Phenomenological tradition's preoccupation with the cogito and epistemological issues and present an …
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The Delay-Retention Effect With Meaningful Materials
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MeMo: Meaningful, Modular Controllers via Noise Injection
Robots are often built from standardized assemblies, (e.g. arms, legs, or fingers), but each robot must be trained from scratch to control all the actuators of all the parts together. In this paper we demonstrate a new approach that takes a single robot and its controller as input and produces a …
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Towards meaningful computational descriptions of architectural form
Computers have irrupted in the domain of architectural design, still with uncertain results. The impetus are driven by two major forces: First, the momentum originated by extensive application of computational tools to any imaginable human activity, not necessarily related to design. Second, the …
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Understanding the predictors and outcomes of meaningful work
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