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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Sojourn"”.
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Ecocultural Adjustment: A Peace Corps Sojourn
… greater-than-human) elements in the process of sojourner adaptation. I utilize journal and blog entries along with my own memories through performative autoethnography to explore a 26-month sojourn with the US Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, as well as the departure, travel, and return to the …
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Have Pen, Will Travel: A Professional Writer's Sojourn
Professional writing.
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Traffic processes and sojourn times in finite Markovian queues
… results on various traffic processes and on the sojourn time distribution for a class of models which operate as Markov processes on finite state spaces. The arrival and the service time processes are assumed to be independent renewal processes with interval distributions of phase-type. The queue …
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Constructing the "perfect" voyage: Nicolas Baudin at Port Jackson, 1802.
… This thesis examines what occurred during the sojourn at Port Jackson, as well as the circumstances that led up to it, in order to determine in precise terms why and how this episode came to be a turning point in Baudin's voyage. It asks: was the second campaign just an extension of the first …
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Estimation of physical activity using accelerometry in adult populations: Using the Sensewear Armband and the ACT24 as comparison tools for the estimation of energy expenditure and physical activity intensity by the Sojourn method
… A machine-learning technique known as the Sojourn method has demonstrated promise for improving the accuracy of accelerometer-based physical activity monitors, such as the widely used Actigraph. However, fewer studies have validated this method under free-living conditions. Purpose: The …
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Intercultural communication and adaptation: A longitudinal study of Taiwanese graduate students' sojourning experiences in a Midwestern American university
… approach was adopted which conceptualized sojourner adaptation as an intercultural experience involving different temporal stages and multiple adaptational domains. The temporal stages explored included the predeparture, process, and assessment phases. The adaptational domains investigated …
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Exploring the reasons for student ethnic groupings: The case of Chinese students at the University of Windsor (Ontario).
… literature on Chinese international students' sojourn experiences on Canadian university campuses. A portion of the findings of this study lends support to the findings of some previous research on the sojourn life of Chinese international students in Canada. A considerable portion of the …
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Language, identity and parenting in acculturation: A case study of Saudi Arabian mothers sojourning in New Zealand
… returning home at the end of their study. These sojourning students are typically accompanied by their spouses and children, causing a noticeable influx of Saudi families in educational institutions as well as society at large. Sojourning students have been the focus of research in the United …
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Non-Poissonian statistics, aging and "blinking'" quantum dots.
… a later time ta>0, the distribution of the first sojourn times in each of the two states depends on ta, the age of the system. It is shown that this aging property in the fractional derivative formalism forces to introduce a fractional index depending on time. It is shown also that, when a …
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Some aspects of time-dependent one-dimensional random walks
… new. Special emphasis is placed on the two-state sojourn problem in which it is assumed that at any time t, S(t) belongs to one of two possible states, A and B. The distribution of the sojourn time σ<sub>B</sub>(t) in a given state B during the arbitrary time interval (0,t) is given. The general …
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Shifting personal brandscapes: young sojourners’ consumer acculturation
… acculturation agents and forces for young sojourners. In particular, this research focuses on how individual sojourners’ consumer-brand relationships and personal brandscapes shift as result of temporary mobility. In addition, the impacts of the individual’s sojourn on home and host others …
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Home Abroad
… tells of the family’s unexpected but rewarding sojourn in Germany after losing everything to Hurricane Katrina. The subsequent essays display a broader range of experiences and cultural observations upon the family’s return to Germany four years later. These include a narrative of the family’s …
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Dorothy West's Re-imagining of the Migration Narrative
… ground by documenting a Black female migrant's sojourn from South to North in an era in which such narratives were virtually non-existent. West seemingly rejects both a separation between North and South as well any sentiment of condemning the North or South in totality. Instead, West chooses to …
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Nature in Scott and Longfellow
… that God bestows upon man during his earthly sojourn.
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The adjustment journey of international postgraduate students at a university in England.
… its height in the initial stage of the academic sojourn; this was caused by the struggle to cope with the challenges of foreign language use and an unfamiliar academic and sociocultural environment at a time when students were beset with homesickness and loneliness. An association was made …
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An analytical model of MAC protocol dependant power consumption in multi-hop ad hoc wireless sensor networks
… process (SMDP) wherein the node's states, sojourn times, and transition probabilities are controlled by a virtual node controller. The overall operation of a communication protocol is viewed as a randomized policy for the SMDP, and the long-run average cost per unit time measures the energy …
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Optimal Screening for Preclinical Diseases
… is maximized. We make mild assumptions about the sojourn times of the individual in the healthy and preclinical states, and we consider the possibility of fallible screening tests. We show that a unique optimal sequence of screening times exist for our model, and that it can be quickly found by …
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Does intervening in the learning of study abroad students facilitate the development of intercultural competencies?
… learning of study abroad students during their sojourn positively impacts their overall levels of intercultural competency and they also supported the contention that multiple assessment methods should be used to assess study abroad learning outcomes.</p>
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Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling Under Variable Cost Functions
… CIC-VCUA statically computes worst-case sojourn times of tasks, selects tasks for execution based on their potential utility density, and completes them at specific times, in polynomial-time. We establish that CIC-VCUA achieves optimal timeliness during under-loads. Further, we identify …
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The oriental flâneur : Khalil Bey and cosmopolitan experience
… details his diplomatic career, his three-year sojourn as an art-collector and his evolving egalitarian and reformist ideals. The aim here is to offer a critical interpretation of the figure of Khalil Bey, and in so doing, complicate the terms in which nineteenth-century masculine identity is …
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