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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Most Significant Change"”.
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The Future of Community Health Center Executive Leadership A Mixed-Method Formative Evaluation
… surveys and qualitative data collected using the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique. Findings demonstrated that the Leadership Equity Program successfully reached its immediate goals and objectives in the first year of implementation to impact change at the individual level and build capacity …
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Writer's workshop: the results when iPads are used by kindergarten students
… data. Upon analyzing the data, the factors that most affected data in this study were related to using new technologies, multiple modes of writing, and attitudes about writing. The data analysis suggested that students' skills increased while composing stories on the iPads. Students' positive …
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Decisions regarding coeducation at two pairs of same-sex institutions
… to admit women, and that this fact was the most significant change to occur. After tabulating the result, it is clear that all four Catholic institutions and the two comparison institutions are all successful and moving forward in the twenty-first century.
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Outsourcing IT Services and service level agreements in South Africa's retail sector
… IT services were outsourced, and which were most likely to be outsourced amongst large South African retailers; • Whether outsourcing IT services has given South African retailers a competitive advantage; • Whether SLAs have been used in conjunction with outsourcing IT Services; and • What …
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The Hard Road to Renewal: Media Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
… to different social strata in the present. The most significant change in the media representations of the Cultural Revolution lies in the collapse of the common sense of modernization centred on economic development in the 1980s. Moreover, what is embodied in the changing narratives is the …
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The influence of COVID-19 contextual factors on information security policy compliance
… on information security policy compliance. The most significant change resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has been a shift to working from home. Hence, this study aims to understand the impact that telecommuting has had on organisations' information security rules and procedures and how these …
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All that is carried
… accompanies the hung paintings. Migration is the most significant change of my life. Visiting my family home in Iran, while living in Rome, was like stepping back in time, but into a timeline that I no longer belonged to. I was a visitor in my parent’s house. Everything that remained behind: my …
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Potential impact of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment Bill on investment in South Africa's upstream oil and gas industry
… and gas industry. This study examines the key changes brought about by the Bill, South Africa's fiscal terms, how the fiscal terms are impacted by the Bill and current activity in South Africa's upstream oil and gas sector. The report then focuses on the most significant change made by the …
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The economic impact of COVID-19 in Iceland : how did COVID-19 affect the economic growth in Iceland?
COVID-19 had a significant impact on the Icelandic economy. We looked at substantial and credible data on Iceland's GDP factors to assess how hard the virus hit the economy. Consumption, investment, government expenditure, exports, and imports are all variables that construct Iceland’s gross …
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Enrollment, Attainment, and Occupational Outcome Patterns of Subbaccalaureate CTE Business Students: A National Analysis
… System. Within subbaccalaureate CTE, one of the most popular programs is business. Although data is collected on subbaccalaureate CTE business students, and even though there are some reports that have specifically included findings regarding these students, very little extensive research has …
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Unveiling the Masculinity of Science: A Journey into the Reactions and Reflections of Female Science Teachers to the Nature of Science
… students in the classroom. Prior to the video most participants believed the nature of science to be objective, but may contain some subjectivity and biases in it. Seven of the eight teachers recognized that science is not free from social constraints. After the video the most significant …
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Psychosocial rehabilitation for people with mental illness in the South African context : an evaluation from a service-users perspective
The aim of this study was to explore perceived significant changes in the quality of life of people with mental illness accessing psychosocial rehabilitation programmes. Furthermore a comparison was drawn between the outcomes experienced by these service-users and the vision and aims of Cape Mental …
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Comparative Analysis of Mature Travelers on the Basis of Internet Use
… demographics of the U.S. population, the most significant change being the growth in size of the mature segment of the population. In terms of market size, there are currently 73 million people age 50 and older, comprising nearly one-fourth of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau 2000). …
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"Building a comprehensive framework of African migration patterns: the case of migration between Senegal and Europe"
… dichotomous categorizations. In particular most research has been guided by assumptions conceiving migration primarily as: 1) a one-off move from a departure country “A” to a destination country “B”; 2) directed to Europe (revealing a strong Eurocentric bias); 3) entailing a permanent …
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Household food security and dietary diversity in the context of an agricultural and market development program in Guatemala
… a cross-sectional design and mixed-methods. Most Significant Change (MSC) methodology was used to characterize participants' experiences in a subset sample of 57 households (46 P4P; 11 control). Education level (EL), number of children (NC), household quality (HQS), food security (FSS), …
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The effect of environmental temperature on health outcomes and match play characteristics in professional tennis matchplay
… consults, the occurrence of heat illness and changes in matchplay performance at the Australian Open (AO). To do this, whole match and set-by-set match characteristics data from the first four rounds of the 2014 - 2016 AO men’s and women’s main draw was collated. From this data set, whole …
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Culturally safe management of aggression and violence in mental health care institutions
… makes care not culturally safe or appropriate. Most of the research done in this regard focusses on pure management of aggression and violence and the effect of training programmes in the European context. This research project, however explored the methods used by indigenous healers and …
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A world of possibilities: an exploration of experiences of children with disabilities participation in a surf therapy programme in South Africa
… in a surf therapy programme. - Determine the changes experienced by children with disabilities who participated in a surf therapy programme and by their parents, guardians, and professionals. - Identify the experiences of individuals delivering a surf therapy programme for children with …