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Showing 1 to 20 of 263 for “"Non-western"”.
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The Effect of Repeated Listening Experiences on Upper Elementary Students' Tolerance Toward Non-Western Music
… on upper elementary students' tolerance toward non-western music. Intact music classes were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. During the pretest, students indicated their degree of liking for nonwestern musical excerpts. Following the pretest, experimental subjects (n=303) …
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Prostate cancer incidence and mortality among immigrants in Finland between 2000 and 2017 – a register-based cohort study
… in cancer burden between immigrant groups and non-immigrants across the world. Despite its prevalence, little research has focused primarily on prostate cancer among immigrants. Patients/material and methods We utilized individual-level data on all immigrant men who had lived in Finland for …
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Hieroglyphic, Oral, and Performative: (Re)Evaluating Resistance to Colonialism in the Works of Melville
… Cereno” (1855). By focusing on his depictions of non-alphabetic literacies, I revisit Melville’s engagements with colonialism, evaluating their efficacy and limitations. Tommo’s refusal of the Typee facial tattoo, Ishmael’s fear of Queequeg during the Monkey Rope scene, and Amasa Delano’s …
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Bridging the Gap in Human Protection: Contesting the Responsibility to Protect through the Protection of Civilians Norm: A Comparative Study of Brazil, China and South Africa
… protection through R2P is still contested, with non-Western states claiming that the concept has been used by Western states to pursue their own agendas. Non-Western rising and regional powers like Brazil, China and South Africa have taken the lead in raising these concerns. This thesis explores …
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Competencies, capabilities, and relational factors in buyer-supplier Business-to-Business networks
… is grounded on studies conducted in so-called western countries. Recently some researchers have started to question the validity of concepts, ideas and measures conceived in developed markets to explain business marketing phenomena in non-western contexts. Moreover research has attributed this …
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Unveiling the Headscarf Debate; A Study of Multiculturalism
… it reviews the difficulty in integrating non-western norms into western culture. As I will discuss in greater detail, I hypothesize that even though in some situations non-western culture seems threatening to western culture, this should not serve as a pretext for the abrogation for human …
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Stigma and mental illness: are there cultural differences?
… stigma research to date has been completed in western cultures. Not much is currently known about stigma towards mental illness in non-western cultures. Limited research has also been conducted with young people. Given that adolescence is a critical stage in the development of attitudes and …
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Investigating culturally competent reflective practice in diabetes healthcare
… of diabetes healthcare with patients from non-Western cultural groups.
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Music preferences, music and non-music media use, and leisure involvement of Hong Kong adolescents.
… The preferred genres, in descending order, were Western pop/rock, Cantopop/rock, Western classical; the disliked genres were jazz, Chinese, and non- Western/non-Chinese. Preference correlated strongly with genre familiarity. Pop genres were the most familiar to all adolescents. The students' …
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Politeness in context: the case of apologies and requests of a South African isiZulu speaking community
… the study investigated which of the existing Western/non-Western models of politeness are relevant for describing the politeness phenomena in the target community. This study was conducted through the realisation of the speech acts of requests and apologies focusing on the variables of age, …
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The determinants and outcomes of user commitment to mandatory information system change
… to a mandatory information system change in a non-Western environment.
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Characteristics of principal leadership influencing school culture.
… and the International Division; gender; and Western and non-Western nationalities. A mixed methods study was conducted for this research. The design included an electronic survey, focus groups, and individual interviews, and data were gathered through qualitative and quantitative methods. …
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Japanese 'civilisation' and ideas of progress in Britain, c. 1880-1945
… unique historical significance as the first non-Western nation to win recognition by the West as a modern ‘civilised’ society and a major imperial power. This dissertation examines the significance of this rise for ideas of human difference and world order in British intellectual life and …
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Aspects of Linguistic Interaction and Gender in South Asia
… language use and language structure within the non-Western context of India. It especially focuses on the relationship between gender and communication in two languages: Hindi, and Indo-Aryan language of India, and Indian English. Primarily examining the creative fiction writings of Indian …
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Fostering virtue among autorickshaw drivers in Sri Lanka: a case study of an urban sharing institution
… Framework and Institutional Work strategies in a non-western context among autorickshaw drivers transiting to roles in a prominent ride-sharing app company in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This research builds on the empirical studies conducted by Moore (2012), Fernando and Moore (2015), and Chu and Moore …
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From the Movement to the Post -Movement: Rethinking Anti-Hegemonic Discourses in Chicana Feminist Thought
… of the role of academic postmodernism and non-Western anti-hegemonic theories in the writing of decolonization by Chicana author-activists includes an examination of (1) the mutual influence of Chicana feminism and Second-wavefeminism which results in the articulation of US third-world …
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An Exhibition Proposal for Contemporary Art in India
… as much, if not more, as it reveals about non-Western cultures. It is an exercise in social justice, that condemns the museum's function as a microcosm of Empire and advocates for the right to self determination on national, community and personal levels.</p>
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An investigation into the use of the person-centred approach to counselling in a Syrian context
… counselling is largely inappropriate for use in non-Western contexts due to the collectivist and hierarchical nature of many such societies. There is however little available case material through which to substantiate this claim and examine how issues of culture relate to the theoretical …
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Japanese Perspectives on Supporting the Well-Being of Maltreated Children in State Care: The Concept of Ibasho
… that social work research conducted in a non-Western country can contribute to the expansion of the knowledge base of American social work. This study has implications for social work practice and policy in supporting the well-being of maltreated children both in the U.S. and Japan.
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