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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Self-description"”.
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SmartVideo : a universal architecture for video content self-description
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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The effects of labeling on self-esteem, self-description, and behavior
… effects that labeling a person has on his/her self-esteem, self description and behavior. Two conditions of labeling were studied: the valence of the label (positive vs. negative) and the focus of the label (personality vs. behaviorally focused label).Ten hypotheses were developed from three …
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Do shifts in self-descriptions occur when the concept of self-image is mediated to teenage learners through creative movement?
… lens through which to understand the concepts of self-image, mediation, identity and adolescence. An eight week programme was devised by the researcher in which eight volunteer participants at two local South African secondary schools used improvised Creative Movement in various activities …
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The University as a social system: Niklas Luhmann on the problem of self-descriptions
… is undertaken to investigate whether the self-description provided by the University of Cape Town (UCT) regarding its race-based affirmative action in admissions is responsible for the heated debate that it continues to elicit. It begins with a close examination of Luhmann's "Social …
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The Construct of Personality and Hemispheric Usage
… Swenson (in preparation) have shown that certain self-description questionnaires may serve to discriminate subjects who characteristically utilize one hemisphere over the other, regardless of the relative adaptiveness of the cognitive strengths of that hemisphere for the task at hand.</p><p>This …
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Place Settings: Social Aspects of the Body Image /Eating Relationship
… and group differences by gender, body self-description and diet history and, to a lesser degree, by age, race, and income. Early socialization messages concerning bodies and eating were also found to affect body image and eating behavior. Implications for public policy addressing …
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Effects of Social Support on the Social Self-Concepts of Gifted Adolescents
… between social support and the social self-concepts of gifted adolescents. Participants include 245 gifted students who had completed the fifth through the tenth grade during the previous academic year. Social self-concept was measured using the Self-Description Questionnaire II (Marsh, …
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Demographic Variables and Their Relation to Self-Concept in Children with and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
The proposed study examined differences in self-concept between ADHD (n = 61) and non-ADHD boys and girls. Participants included 108 children between 6 and 11 years old. Children completed the Self Description Questionnaire-I, and teacher reports of child competence were obtained. Girls reported …
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The Application of Personality Assessment to Suggest Appropriate Employment in Various Fields Within Economic Development
… were asked to complete the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (Thompson, 1996) after distinguishing within which of the two realms they were employed. Results show no significant difference on any of the four Jungian personality preferences between groups indicating false …
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Effects of a Summer Program on the Academic, General, and Emotional Self-Concepts of Gifted Students
Academic, general, and emotional self-concepts were measured among 140 gifted students at a residential academic summer program. The literature is conflicting concerning the positive (Humes & Campbell, 1980; Kolloff & Moore, 1989) and negative (Olszewski, Kulieke, & Willis, 1987) effects of the …
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Relationships of student teachers' self-concepts and their needs in teaching to their perceptions of the student teaching experience
… to find out relationships of student teachers' self-concepts and their needs in teaching to their perceptions of student teaching. The subjects were 230 student teachers at the Bukidnon State College, Philippines, grouped into Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education (BSE), Bachelor in …
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The Relationship Between Patterns of Relating and Academic Self-Concept
… of relating to both parents and academic self-concept. Also, this study examined the differences between academically high-achieving college students and academically at-risk college students in patterns of relating and academic self-concept. One hundred sixty one college students …
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Media representations of the New Zealand economy: an exercise in critical theory
… Mike Emmison’s delineation of 'the economy' as a self description of modern capitalism. To examine the dynamics of economic discourse my approach draws upon Habermas' early attempt to reconstruct repressed social meanings. He sought to mediate the objectivity of historical processes wit the …
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The Christian Theology of Religions Reconsidered: Alan Race's Theology of Religions, Hans Frei's Theological Typology and 20th Century Ecumenical Movements on Christian Engagement with Other Faiths
… (Type 1) to theology as quarantined, Christian self-description (Type 5). It is suggested that the more basic question posed by Frei’s typology of how Christian theology is understood in relation to philosophy and other external discourses, provides a better means of accounting for the different …
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Autoconcepto, personalidad y su relación con la tartamudez en estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria
… en fluidez verbal, Escala de autoeficacia, Self-Description Questionnaire II (versión breve) (Ellis et al., 2002) para evaluación del autoconcepto, y 16PF-APQ Cuestionario de personalidad para adolescentes (Schuerger, 2005).
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Marginal bodies: actualising trans Utopias
… the ‘natural body’, but it is the unique form of self-description it carries within itself which retains the potential of opening up a new narrative and alternative possibility for the very notion of gender and for all LGBT advocacy and its relations to space. My theoretical framework is …
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English as a second language (ESL) student self-concept : its relation to teacher perception and academic achievement -- an exploratory study
… To examine the relationship between ESL student self-concept and teacher perception of student self-concept and to examine the extent to which student self-concept and teacher perception of student self-concept relate to academic achievement in reading and mathematics. The Self-Description …
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Professor Who? A Phenomenological Exploration of Working Professionals Who Feel Called to Teach as Adjunct Faculty
… themes include (1) consistency of identity and self-description across contexts, (2) belonging, (3) spirituality, and (4) impact of identity on teaching practice.</p> <p>The findings associated with this study have the potential to impact a variety of stakeholders including adjunct faculty …
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Bogota's river basin hydrologic digital data library
… of persistence, scalability, independence and self-description. This could be a first step in building a Hydrologic Information System for the basin. In the first chapter of this thesis, the importance of Hydrologic Information Systems in general and the Hydrologic Data Library for the Bogotá’s …
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