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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Social approach"”.
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Depressive Symptoms in the general population: a multifactorial social approach.
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Decisions Dynamics in ICT systems: the influence of a context-aware and social approach on the multiple criteria decision making processes
… more complicated considering the concepts of social networking. In fact, taking into consideration the mechanism of social influence and social contagion as well as the capability and knowledge of each individual, the network node is affected, in a positive or in a negative way, not only by …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Microcredit and Integrated Asset Building as a Social Approach to Poverty Reduction in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
… that eliminating poverty requires a holistic approach that is attentive to promoting pro-poor growth, creating opportunities for employment, ensuring that the fruits of growth reach impoverished communities, and protecting vulnerable segments of the impoverished population. This study looks …
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The human dimension of domestic energy use : an integrated approach
… phenomenon which is dependent on both the social and technical characteristics of domestic households. In this thesis it is argued that such a phenomenon is best understood using an integrated approach, combining both the physical and social theories of energy use. Such an integrated …
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An infrastructural ecology for Lima
… development, and favor a multi-scalar shared social approach to infrastructural production. Infrastructure needs to be civic and social, 'micro' and 'macro', hard and soft. Housing, the single, most powerful drive of Lima's growth needs to be reconsidered as an essential component of this …
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Is there anybody there? An Archaeology of Empty Places in the Mesolithic Neolithic Transition of England
… this debate? Historic changes in the theoretical approaches archaeologists apply to their data have involved the embrace of more scientific enquiry, followed by a move away from it; favouring a more social approach. Is it possible that by using a multi-disciplinary approach we may achieve a more …
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Devaluation of Sucrose Caused by Social Instability Stress in Adolescent Male Long-Evans Rats in the Presence of an Unfamiliar Peer
Rats that undergo the Social Instability Stress procedure during adolescence (SS: daily 1-hour isolation + re-pairing with an unfamiliar cage partner for 16 days) display changes in reward-related behaviour. Specifically, SS rats spend less time in social interaction but more time in social …
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“He’s always in my head, always in my mind.” A psycho-social study into the emotional experience of teaching a child at risk of exclusion.
… at risk of exclusion. It utilises a psycho-social approach in order to explore the personal, social and relational factors involved in this experience and offers insights into unconscious processes. Six mainstream primary school teachers from six different schools were interviewed using the …
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Entrepreneurial networking, trust process and virtual interactions.
… Sized Enterprises). Employing a phenomenological approach, two data collection techniques were used; participant observation within a small biotechnology firm provided a preliminary study and was followed by 16 in-depth interviews with bioscience entrepreneurs in SMEs in Scotland. The results …
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Young people’s reflections on engaging with youth offending services. A psycho-social exploration
This exploratory, psycho-social study examined young people’s reflections on their experiences of engaging with a youth offending service (YOS). There is a paucity of research that explores this. Five participants were recruited from a YOS in the UK. Free association techniques were used; five …
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"What if I get it wrong?" A psycho-social enquiry into SENCOs' experiences of learning, doing and teaching maths
This research applies a psycho-social approach to explore how SENCOs think about children with learning difficulties in mathematics, their feelings when performing mathematics tasks, and their own experiences of mathematics learning. Four SENCOs from different schools were interviewed twice. These …
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The Negotiation of Midlife: Exploring the Subjective Experience of Ageing
… their lives would be like. I highlight how the social experiences and cultural expectations which influence attitudes and pragmatic reactions to ageing are necessarily intertwined with unconscious psychic processes, conflicts and ambivalence. My method involves interviewing twenty-two men and …
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Towards a model for exploring the relationship between managerial decision problems and decision support opportunities
… on the one hand, and on the other hand, a social approach focusing on understanding what decision making is about and how developers and users should interact. This research project considers a combined approach that endeavours to understand the thinking behind managers’ decision making, as …
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Professional development of ICT integration for secondary school teachers in Hong Kong: Towards a peer support enhanced model
… Hong Kong. The study utilized peer support as a social approach to professional development and employed action research to examine the experiences of ten secondary school teachers who worked in five peer support groups for sixteen months. A peer support model was introduced to the participants …
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Atypicalities of social functioning in children with Williams syndrome
… syndrome (WS) are often reported to show a hyper-social phenotype which can pose implications for their interactions with strangers and peers. The present thesis aimed to obtain an in depth examination of two key areas of social difficulty in children with WS: social approach behaviour (SAB) and …
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Analysis of the performance challenges affecting state-owned refineries in Nigeria: a systems thinking approach.
… categorised within a political, economic, social, technical, environmental, and legal (PESTEL) framework. A mixed methods approach incorporating the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), validated through interviews, was applied using a multi-case study research strategy to prioritise and …
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Negotiating space: routes of communication in Roman to British Colonial Cyprus
Offering a social approach to landscape through the systematic study of communication routes, this study redresses the balance between previous social, historical and data driven archaeological studies of roads, paths and communication routes, while providing landscape survey projects with the …
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Hospitality Versus Patronage: an Investigation of Social Dynamics in the Third Epistle of John
… This investigation focuses on social dynamics in the third epistle of John. In the context of 3 John hospitality and patronage seem to be opposed as two non-compatible models of behavior. In what sense they are different and what makes them non compatible in a church setting is …
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A Relational Analysis of the Writing Cafe: Social Learning, Participant Experiences and Tensions in Higher Education
The Writing Café is a social learning space designed to support the development of academic writers within one Higher Education institution. The relationship between learning, space and practices is an emerging area for researchers and this thesis makes a productive contribution to knowledge by …
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… Rome, this study takes a broad geographic and social approach. The geographic focus for this study spans from Rome to include Francia and Anglo-Saxon England in order to emphasize the extent of Rome's appeal, and also to demonstrate women's involvement in the widespread travel networks that …
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