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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Normative Approach"”.
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A normative approach to the evaluation of industrialized building systems
… become more of an appropriate tool to do so. One approach to dealing with this subject is the systems approach, focusing on systems as related to the processes of building, industrialization and evaluation. This, in a sense, exposes the notion of "systems" as a dynamic tool in the planning of …
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A normative approach to designing for evolvability : methods and metrics for considering evolvability in systems engineering
As engineering endeavors become larger, more complex, and more expensive, the advantages of evolvable design and redesign grow. Cost and complexity are not the only factors driving the need for evolvability; changes in requirements and context can also lead to the need for redesign. This research …
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The Normative Approach of the Catholic Tradition in the Ethical and Religious Directives for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas Regarding Medical Technology
… Catholic Health Care Services</em> to provide a normative approach for resolving ethical dilemmas regarding pivotal breakthroughs in medical technology.</p> <p>This normative ethical approach has two components: a normative framework for Catholic health care ethics that adopts practical ethical …
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A multiple goals/normative approach to family communication surrounding young adults' substance use problems: explicating parents' and siblings' communication challenges and strategies
… and siblings, the current study developed normative theory regarding parents’ and siblings’ experiences, specifically focusing on challenges that may arise from communication processes surrounding alcohol and/or drug use. Further, the present study explicated parents’ and siblings’ …
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Normative perspectives in manufacturing
This research proposes a normative approach in two infrastructural manufacturing decisions: quality and product development. Quality, as employed in the research, is defined as satisfying customer needs given a market segment. Product defects lead to customer dissatisfaction and have a negative …
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"""It was part of the water we were moving in, the air we were breathing:"" parent and adult-child communication across a mother's breast cancer trajectory"
… cancer diagnosis. The current study employed a normative perspective of communication to better understand how adult children negotiate involvement in a parent’s breast cancer experience. In-depth qualitative interviews with thirty adult children provided insight into the specific challenges …
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A socio-cultural and comparative analysis of the doctrine of mistake in crimes requiring intention
… upon the advantages of the reception of the normative approach to criminal liability in South Africa, and they have been iterated elsewhere l by the writer in the context of, inter alia, the defence of necessity. The submissions that constitute the core of this paper must, however, be …
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Understanding the Development and Implementation of Heuristics and Biases in Design
… how heuristics are used may lead to a more normative approach to heuristics, through determining how one heuristic may add more value to the design process over another. This justification should lead to more effective decision making in design. To do this, the heuristics and their …
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Still Dispersed and Decentralized? Evaluating the Influence and Implementation of Smart Growth in Mid-Sized Canadian Cities
… policies for growth management have become the normative approach within the planning discipline, there is little evidence to suggest its actual impact on growth patterns in mid-sized Canadian cities. Through a series of spatial analysis methods, this research examines whether the emergence of …
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Stakeholder management in university fundraising projects
… education institution. A qualitative, case study approach was adopted, with semi-structured interviews used to obtain the data. Thematic analysis was used for identifying and analysing patterns or themes within data. The University of Cape Town (UCT) was selected as the case. The research …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… rationality that has epistemic (knowledge) and normative (belief) characteristics which restrict how landowners can be known. To assess the assertion, thirty-two research reports were analysed from within the landowner literature using insights from epistemology (theory of knowledge) and …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… rationality that has epistemic (knowledge) and normative (belief) characteristics which restrict how landowners can be known. To assess the assertion, thirty-two research reports were analysed from within the landowner literature using insights from epistemology (theory of knowledge) and …
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Territory and history: the justification of detachment from the land as a stage in the development of human agency
… rights. Rather than establishing a new normative approach to the issue of the allocation of territories to subjects, my work focuses on a descriptive conceptual analysis of the origin of our need to normatively justify attachment to the land. The main questions I seek to answer are: why …
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Examining the fakability of forced-choice individual differences measures
… FC measures have been proposed as a valuable approach to reduce score inflation in high-stakes assessments, but their effectiveness has not yet been examined in a meta-analysis. In my dissertation, I conducted two studies to examine the fakability of forced-choice personality and vocational …
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Coloniality and the Courtroom: Understanding Pre-trial Judicial Decision Making in Brazil
… decision making at this stage. The research is approached through a decolonial lens to foreground legacies of colonialism, overlooked in mainstream criminological scholarship. This is an interview-based study, where key court actors (judges, prosecutors, and public defenders) and subject matter …
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Corporate responsibility reporting in the foodservice sector in the UK: a critical realist perspective
… for reporting existed, ranging from a normative approach to a strategic or managerial approach. There are not, however, agreed underlying principles determining report content and so it is possible for the report content to be inconsistent with the declared motivations. The study …
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"""We don't like to call it lying, it's just therapeutic communication"": Understanding the influence of social support on coping with illness uncertainty"
… Alzheimer’s disease. Using Goldsmith’s (2004) normative approach to frame this study, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 32 nurses and care assistants about the role of communication in the context of Alzheimer’s nursing. Each interview was transcribed verbatim and analyzed using …
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Oppression to Empowerment: The Role of Education in Facilitating the Right to Self- Determination of Indigenous Peoples
… and empowerment. Utilising a descriptive-normative approach, this work explores these themes, analyses examples of their occurrence both past and present, and offers recommendations on how this right to self-determination can be advanced both currently and in the future through education …
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Multi-dimensional personhood and the welfare state
… the thesis explains the justification for a normative approach to the welfare state that grounds itself in anthropological considerations. It then proceeds to analyse the theological anthropology of each of the four thinkers in question and to explore how these have informed and shaped each’s …
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A study of state-based social assistance provision and its influence on the developmental character of the South African State: the case of the child support grant
… of race. I hold the view that the developmental approach to social policy should be of great assistance in a country such as South Africa where there is mass poverty by meeting people's needs in a short to medium term but also enabling them to depend on themselves in a long term. The history of …
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