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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Patterns of interaction"”.
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Traditional patterns of interaction in the Arab-Islamic realm
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Geography, 1968
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Change and Identity: Patterns of Interaction in an Indian-White Community
… in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:54:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114685.pdf: 10394413 bytes, checksum: 504811229670bccf7bccc07d52b1f9e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Expanding the figurative continuum to multimodal settings. Patterns of interaction of multimodal metaphor and metonymy in advertising
… el tipo de producto y modo de representación), ofreciendo de esta manera correlaciones estadísticas entre las dimensiones conceptuales, discursivas y comunicativas de la publicidad. Por último, esta tesis presenta los resultados de un experimento de corte psicolingüístico que relaciona la …
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Mentoring relationships : patterns of interaction in mentorships in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Africa programme
The purpose of this study was therefore an in-depth exploration of relationship processes in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Africa programme, attempting to link these with some of the qualities identified by previous research as associated with strong relationships or positive outcomes. The …
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Predicting Patterns of Interaction Between Parents and Children Based on Parent Reports of Stress and Potential for Child Maltreatment
… Fiscal Year 2006, an estimated 3.3 million cases of maltreatment were reported nationwide involving 6 million children. Preventing child maltreatment is of paramount importance due to the long term consequences and negative outcomes for children who have been abused. Traditional methods of …
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Belonging to the West Coast : an ethnography of St Helena Bay in the context of marine resource scarcity
… as a means to examine how multiple-scale patterns of interaction between social and ecological systems as they manifest locally in St Helena Bay. The growing integration of the West Coast has brought rapid change in the form of industrial production, urban development and in-migration. The …
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Using Persistent Homology for Topological Analysis of Protein Interaction Network of Candida Antarctica Lipase B Molecular Dynamic Simulation Model
In this work, we aim to examine the activity of one of the most efficient and commonly used lipases, Candida Antarctica Lipase B (CalB), from the perspective of multiple computational techniques. To this end, we first conduct a series of Molecular Dynam- ics Simulations on CalB in different …
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Creating better pairwork: Salient cultural variables in adult TESOL classroom interaction
… classroom. Two instructors paired students and offered their rationales for having done so. They created 71 dyads, which were examined and categorized according to Storch's four patterns of interaction. Results showed that the instructor who created pairs according to certain student cultural …
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Patient Safety As An Interactional Achievement: Conversational Analysis In The Trauma Center Of An Inner City Hospital
<p>In this dissertation, I apply the methodology of Conversational Analysis to highlight the informal communication of an emergency room work group with the objective of discovering recurrent patterns of interaction and the inherent relational work necessary to accomplish the safe medical care of …
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Economic structure and social order development in Post-Socialist Europe
This study examines the role of economic structure in explaining the different trajectories of social order development across the post-socialist region. Social orders are shown to differ according to the extent to which competitive tendencies contained within them – economic, political, social and …
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Community college-local church relationships: the variables of interaction
… appear to have an impact upon the relations of community colleges with local church congregations in their service areas, a case study was carried out within a single community college district. Data were gathered from personal interviews with administrators from several levels within the …
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Peer feedback in an integrated, process-oriented ESL writing placement test
… While most research focused on the effectiveness of peer feedback, relatively few studies took interest in what L2 students actually do during a peer review. Moreover, there has been a growing awareness of and interest in paired and group oral assessment, especially in examining interactional …
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Across mountains and deserts: Patterns of movement and interaction in fourth and third millennium BC south-east Iran
The valleys of south-east Iran are ideally situated to investigate patterns of interaction among the communities of this part of the Indo-Iranian borderlands, and their connections with regions as far flung as Mesopotamia, Turkmenistan and the Indus River Basin in the Late Chalcolithic and Early …
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Learning to Negotiate Difference: Narratives of Experience in Inclusive Education
This narrative inquiry examined how a small group of general educators constructed three essential understandings of themselves as teachers within the context of inclusive education: (a) To move past their fear of disabilities and negative perceptions of students with disabilities, they had to …
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Interaction Design Principles for Interactive Television
… an umbrella term used to cover the convergence of television with digital media technologies such as computers, personal video recorders, game consoles, and mobile devices, enabling user interactivity. Increasingly, viewers are moving away from a "lean back" model of viewing to a more active …
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Familiarity with task and its effect on the way children negotiate for meaning, and provide and use implicit negative feedback
This research involves an examination of the effects that familiarity with a task may have on the way young ESL children negotiate for meaning, and provide and use implicit negative feedback to each other. The focus of this research is the interactions that occur between pairs of young primary …
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Developing Mathematical Knowledge Through Class Discussion: One Teacher's Struggles in Implementing Reform
The purpose of this case study was to examine the experience of one secondary mathematics teacher during his efforts to facilitate mathematical discussions in a secondary algebra class. Class discussions and interviews were documented and analyzed to investigate the patterns of discussion, the …
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Orchestration : the movement and vocal behavior of free-ranging Norwegian killer whales (Orcinus orca)
Studying the social and cultural transmission of behavior among animals helps to identify patterns of interaction and information content flowing between individuals. Killer whales are likely to acquire traits culturally based on their population-specific feeding behaviors and group-distinctive …
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The use of wait-time as a conversational management strategy in second-language conversations
Successful management of conversations can bind human beings together in linguistic communication. Learning how to manage conversations in a second language is as important as learning the language’s grammatical structures. Among the conversational management strategies commonly employed is the use …
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A Wholistic Model of Cancer Care for Nursing Practice
… the beliefs and values underlying the delivery of health care services. Though nursing theory development, nursing has embraced a new paradigm in which the scientific medical model is being replaced by a model based on the concept of wholism. Key ideas representing a wholistic paradigm of health …
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