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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Social importance"”.
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Social importance of recognizing the victimization for mothers of school shooters
… addition to examining if they are subjected to social labels. By studying secondary victims of crime and the labels imposed on them, this study may be able to understand why such individuals suffer from mental illness and/or sociological drawbacks. The results of this study indicate that the …
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The artisanal fishing fleet in Asturias: characterization and quantitative analysis of its economic and social importance
La pesca artesanal es aún una importante fuente de alimento, empleo y renta en Europa, así como un activo cultural y de identidad. Sin embargo, la información disponible sobre las flotas artesanales es escasa, lo que dificulta el diseño y evaluación de medidas de gestión y ordenación sostenibles. …
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The Social Importance of a Small-town Theater: A Case Study of the Pulaski Theatre, Pulaski, Virginia
… for the residents of Pulaski and the theatre's social importance to the town. The following research objectives directed this study: 1) to document the theatre's history from the time it was built in 1911 until the present day, 2) to uncover memories or feelings associated with the theatre, and …
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Teachers' Perspectives on Positive Behavior Support in Secondary Schools
… to evaluate teachers' perspectives regarding the social validity of the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) model implemented at a middle school and a junior high school. Qualitative data were collected through teacher focus groups and categorized then analyzed in order to summarize teachers' opinions …
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The Makings of a Peer: Evidence on Within-Classroom Heterogeneities in Peer Effects
… <p>The first chapter proxies for the social network using a set of shared characteristics (homophily). In this coauthored work, we are not interested in measuring the classroom peer effect, but rather we estimate and then rank each network's effect on academic spillovers. This answers …
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Scripting the Docufiction: Combining the Narrative and Documentary Modes in a Social Issue Film
… with non-fiction to engage with issues of social importance</em>, is answered in analysis, and through practice. Traditional analysis is focused on films that blur the line between the documentary and the narrative-- the "hybrid film" or "docufiction." Analysis through practice is presented …
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The Workers' Educational Association : a study in social change and resistance in Canadian working class culture
… Educational Association of Toronto (WEA) on social change in Canada between 1917-1945. This study attempts to establish the social importance of this organization in the history of adult education in Canada. The WEA was an educational organization that attempted to provide a link between …
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The Response of the Voluntary and Statutory Sectors to the Problem of Domestic Violence
… Domestic Violence is clearly an issue of social importance as it infringes on the victims’ basic human rights. It concerns the use of intentional physical mental or verbal abuse in a way that causes injury or suffering to the individual by an intimate or ex-intimate partner. However, it …
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The Interdisciplinarity of Tourism Education as an Opportunity for Emancipation
… professionals about their ethics and their social importance in the world around them.
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Comprehending counterfactuals
… or listening. This is remarkable given the social importance of understanding counterfactuals and the wealth of psychological research that has focused on the production of counterfactual statements. In this thesis, I present eight experiments that investigate how a counterfactual discourse …
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The role of public open space in the transformation of the American suburbs
Since the 1950s the economic and social importance of the suburban phenomenon in America has been rapidly increasing. Despite the radical transformations of metropolitan life over the past two decades, little attention has been paid to the contemporary suburban-metropolitan phenomenon by the …
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Remote Control of Hydraulic Equipment for Unexploded Ordnance Remediation
… construction equipment is of prime economic and social importance in today's marketplace. A human operator can be replaced or augmented with a robotic system when the job is too dull, dirty or dangerous. There are a myriad of applications in both Government and Industry that could benefit from …
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Family, Feud, and the Conduct of War in Anglo-Saxon England
… Given constant warfare and the cultural and social importance of feuding, it would appear logical that warfare was essentially feud writ large, that conflicts pitted one kin group against another and vengeance for the dead was a major, if not the only, reason for making war. However, royal …
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Border fusion / Fusión en la frontera : integrating industry, habitation and exchange in a divided city
… and activity centers and their economic and social importance as sites for border crossings, these communities are sites of contention which have tended to attract a mixture of conventionally undesirable development programs. The critical interface connecting the US and Mexican halves of the …
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Psychologists' Volunteering: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Toward Psychotherapy Research
… of volunteering for the study, and perceived social importance of the study. The therapist variables of gender, age, and years of experience were also studied in order to determine if volunteerism might result in biased sampling across these variables. Three mailings were sent resulting in an …
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Examining the psychobehavioural features of effective talent development
Given sport’s increasing political, economic, and social importance, there is an obvious need to develop sporting talent in an efficacious and efficient manner. However, despite their widespread adoption, many talent development systems suffer from poor predicative validity, with a lack of …
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Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Warp Weighted Loom
… on the loom because of the economic and social importance of weaving. Modern scholars can study textile production by focusing on the translation and possible implications of literary references, recorded archaeological finds, or representations of the weaving process on pottery. This …
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Dreams of Europe: The professionalisation of women’s football in Finland
… gender equality but where football is of less social importance than much of the rest of Europe. Drawing on a methodological framework inspired by the figurational approach to the sociology of sport pioneered by Norbert Elias, the macro-level of women’s football in Finland is explored through …
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Teaching, activism, and the purposes of education: Toward an integrated vision of teachers' work
… through a conceptual comparison to the work of social activists. The author developed a four-part analysis of the work of activists through a reading of the social movement literature and compared that analysis to the work of teachers according to four contemporary approaches to teachers' work …
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