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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Practice approaches"”.
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Examining the practice approaches used by registered dietitians in Canada when working with higher weight adults
… (RDs) was conducted to explore the various practice approaches used when working with higher weight adults. Specifically examined was the use of non-weight focused approaches (NWFAs), and the barriers and facilitators for implementation. NWFAs deemphasize the importance of body weight with …
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Predictors of practice approaches and activitives of Louisiana school social workers : toward a model of practice
… gained was used to develop a conceptual model of practice and a job description for Louisiana school social workers. In addition, predictors of the types of practice approaches and practice activities used in the different school employment settings and with different caseload sizes were also …
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Developmental Pedagogy in Marriage and Family Therapy Education
<p>New practice domains are opening up for practitioners of family therapy in the medical, organizational, and human relations fields. In this new environment, family therapy educators and supervisors are required to cross the epistemological spaces of scientist-practitioner, postmodernism, and …
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Reassessing strategic pay : testing relationships between organisational contingencies, pay and HR performance outcomes
… study investigates the relationships between pay practices, organisational contingencies (business strategy, workforce employment groups, industry sector and organisation size) and human resource (HR) performance outcomes in the United Kingdom (UK) private sector. It tests the propositions of the …
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An Evaluation Of College Students’ Use Of Social Media In Nutrition Education For Lifestyle Behavior Changes
… is warranted to continue to develop best practice approaches for nutrition education using social media and its intended audiences for the promotion of healthy lifestyle behavior changes.</p>
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Indigenising post-war state reconstruction. The Case of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Current approaches to post-war state reconstruction are primarily dominated by the liberal peace thesis. These approaches tend to ignore the indigenous institutions, societal resources and cultural agencies of post-conflict societies, although such entities are rooted in the sociological, …
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Managing business change projects: a social practice perspective
… methods underpinning conventional ‘best practice’ approaches to managing business change projects. The call is for better understanding of the reality of business change projects as experienced by the people working on them, and for improved theory based on that. This research seeks to …
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The influence of international clinical placement experiences on careers of healthcare students: graduate and employer perspectives
… analysis of the data identified four key themes: practice culture, communication in clinical practice, approaches to employability and career management. The attitude of participants towards the value of ICP for developing cultural competencies was largely positive but it was difficult to …
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A critical review of the approaches and attitudes of South African property valuers towards the valuation of hotels under a contemporary management agreement
This paper looks at the attitudes and approaches of South African property valuers to the valuation of hotels as an asset class. The paper focuses on the impact in a shift towards management agreements in the sector. Management agreements are a relatively new tenure agreement in South Africa's …
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Understanding Deep Learning with Noisy Labels
… and time-consuming or even infeasible in practice. Approaches to addressing this issue include: acquiring labels from non-expert labelers, crowdsourcing-like platforms or other unreliable resources, where the label noise is inevitably involved. It becomes crucial to develop methods that …
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Characteristics of Neurodiversity-Affirming Paediatric Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review
… to adopt an NDA perspective to therapeutic practice. A scoping review was completed to provide an overview of the available evidence concerning NDA paediatric Occupational Therapy practice. Inclusion Criteria: To be included, articles needed to discuss Occupational Therapy, NDA practice, and …
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Policing Children in Street Situations in São Paulo, Brazil: Relations of Violence and Exclusion in the City
… ways these connections are shaped by everyday practices within participant’s life contexts. The fieldwork took place in the city centre of São Paulo city, Brazil, where the concentration of children in street situations is at a historic high. The increase of this population coupled with the …
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A theory evaluation of action volunteers Africa's career guidance programme
… derived from social science research or best practice approaches. The client wanted to assess whether the theory of their programme was plausible, compared to other successful career guidance programmes, and whether any improvements were necessary to strengthen the causal logic between their …
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Becoming Tangata Tiriti
… is little discussion about non-Māori ethical practice on a day-to-day basis outside of research. This thesis looks to Māori and Indigenous leadership for guidance to stimulate widespread equitable engagement from non-Māori in the work of decolonisation at the personal and community level. As …
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Vulnerability Identification Errors in Security Risk Assessments
… vulnerability identification errors do occur in practice. In particular, false positive vulnerabilities were identified by participants. In information security (IS) risk assessments, security experts analyze the organisation’s assets in order to identify vulnerabilities. Methods such as …
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Constructing validated clinical tools to enable the development of a new evidence base for personalised nutrition practice in obesity management
… for obesity management in personalised nutrition practice. A mixed methods research design including surveys and interviews was used. A collaborative Delphi survey method was undertaken with purposefully selected stakeholder participants, who then contributed to the construction of four new tools. …
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The slow uptake of PMP in South Africa described and explained using grounded theory methods
… by revealing potential future studies on best practice approaches to inquiry into both adopters and non-adopters, technology changes in the PMP market and contextual factors unique to South Africa which may influence PMP adoption.
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Towards a Smart City Model for South African Metropolitan Municipalities : the case of Gauteng-based Metropolitan Municipalities
… Furthermore, cities apply their own models and approaches in an uncoordinated and silo fashion. This causes city governance related challenges, such as limited interoperability of systems and hampered sharing of statistics, data and information. Joint planning, strategic programme alignment, and …
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Cultural Influences on Diagnostic, Treatment, and Research Perceptions of Parents Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Three-Article Dissertation
… concurrent attention to both research and practice approaches, yet much work is needed to realize this goal. Only by helping researchers and practitioners better understand socioeconomically, culturally, and linguistically diverse (SCLD) parents’ distinct experiences can disparities in ASD …
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