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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Source Use"”.
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The Effects of Recruiting Source and Employee Demographic Similarity on Employee Outcomes: Is Recruiting Source Merely a Proxy for Employee Demographic Similarity
Research on recruiting sources has found that the use of employee referrals is positively related to employee tenure and performance. However, it is unclear whether a relationship exists between recruiting source used and applicant gender and race. Research has also found that organizational …
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Patterns of Plagiarism Behavior in the ESL Classroom and the Effectiveness of Instruction in Appropriate Use of Sources
… After receiving instruction in appropriate source use, students' plagiarism behavior changed in the following ways. They included more source use in their post-diagnostic essays, reduced the percentage of plagiarism and undocumented source use, and incorporated a variety of documentation …
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Sources of information for New Zealand knowledge workers : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Studies at Massey University
… workers in New Zealand organisations presently use and prefer to use both interpersonal and print sources of information. This study examined the sources employed by 318 knowledge workers in 17 organisations, comprising a mixture of private sector, public sector and quasi-governmental …
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Obsidian procurement in the Gallinas Mountains of west central New Mexico
… the surrounding regions. The following research uses in-field X-ray fluorescence to analyze the surface obsidian assemblages of ten late Pithouse and Pueblo period sites in the Gallinas Mountains in order to determine source use and ultimately provide a narrow but precise indication of …
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Complexities and Dynamics of Korean Graduate Students' Textual Borrowing in Academic Writing
… as the integration and documentation of reading sources and carried out with summaries, quotes and paraphrases. Second language (L2) English students are likely to use sources inappropriately and consequentially are accused of plagiarism based on a moral judgment. A body of research on textual …
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Later Stone Age Lithic Raw Material Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya
… of obsidian artifacts from GvJm62 identified the source localities of raw materials. Differences in typology and raw material source use among the Lukenya Hill sites show that the sites differed in function, size, and duration of occupation. Earlier assemblages are based on the expedient …
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Elite and non-elite sourcing in civic and traditional journalism news projects
This project consists of two studies used to analyze "elite," media-savvy, and "non-elite," non-media savvy, sources in civic and traditional journalism. For the first study, four newspaper series about mining and aging, 22 articles total, examined source use in the practice of civic journalism. …
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What makes an argument effective? Triangulating task characteristics, essay performances, and rating processes in an L2 integrated argumentative writing test
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Scholarly Use of Internet-Based Electronic Resources
The longitudinal analysis of e-source citations shows that there has been a notable increase in the number and proportion of authors who cite e-sources in their research papers over the past eight years, although at the time of this study, e-sources were still cited much less frequently than print …
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Practical application of the Information Seeking and Communication Model (ISCM) in Higher Education - Westminster Business School Module Leader practice
… indepth (Teams) semi-structured interviews were used to elicit academic practice in relation to the proposed Information Seeking and Communication Model in Higher Education. Participants to the interviews comprised of 13 full time academics who were also Leaders of small, medium, and large …
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Resident fish community impacts on stocked rainbow trout ecology in 15 eastern Washington lakes
… fish communities and lake habitat on energy source use and trophic position of stocked rainbow trout. Stable isotope analysis was used to accomplish this goal, with stable carbon isotope ratios indicating the source of carbon, pelagic or littoral, in each species' diet and stable nitrogen …
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Factors influential in the coverage of environmental issues by the South African press
… that despite differences in editorial bias and source use, the newspapers on the whole displayed the same news values in covering the issues. The main news values operating were a focus on the dangerous and controversial aspects, a preference for 'hard news' events, the relevance of an issue for …
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Open Source Hardware for Human Development
Human Development is not a term used in casual conversation, it describes the current approach used by large aide international development organizations like the United Nations; but most people are familiar with the terms “emergency relief” and “humanitarian intervention”. Emergency relief focuses …
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Energy Use Caps under Scrutiny: An Ecological Economics Perspective
… for environmental sustainability. Since energy use contributes significantly to carbon dioxide emission, I analysed already developed energy capping schemes from an ecological economics perspective. Due to the fact that energy capping schemes are more deeply developed for the residential sector, …