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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"The Heart of the Matter"”.
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The Heart of the Matter: Nonpositional Leadership and Psychological Safety in Cardiothoracic Programs
… team performance, and patient quality of care. This study asked, “How might I foster psychological safety as a frontline healthcare professional in a nonpositional leadership role within the context of a cardiothoracic program?” I applied a first-person-focused action research …
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Getting to the heart of the matter: Understanding relational satisfaction in modern-day couples
<p>This mixed-methods study is the first of its kind to collect large-scale qualitative and quantitative data from diverse couples. The purpose of the research was to determine what factors (Internal, Relational, or External) most impact relational satisfaction in modern-day couples. Four hundred …
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The Heart of the Matter: The Function and Relational Effects of Humor for Cardiovascular Patients
This study examined the possibility that cardiovascular patient health is enhanced by the intentional communication of humor and associated increases in relationship satisfaction. In an effort to study the relationship between these variables it was predicted that relationship satisfaction mediates …
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The Heart of the Matter: The Function and Relational Effects of Humor for Cardiovascular Patients
This study examined the possibility that cardiovascular patient health is enhanced by the intentional communication of humor and associated increases in relationship satisfaction. In an effort to study the relationship between these variables it was predicted that relationship satisfaction mediates …
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Getting to the heart of the matter: conceptualizing character education and using children's literature to promote values in schools
This is a study of how character education was conceptualized and enacted by two participating classroom teachers, especially through the use of children's literature to promote values. Data were collected through observations and interviews and analyzed using an inductive, qualitative, case study …
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The body and the blood: Graham Greene’s incarnational imagination
<p>The Christian doctrine of the Incarnation is central to the “Catholic novels” of modern British author Graham Greene, as can be seen through a close reading of how he ties the physical nature of experience to a spiritual understanding of God. Indeed, Greene writes of a God who not only exists, …
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Pax Ecclesia: Globalization and Catholic Literary Modernism
<p>The transnational turn in literary studies has brought new rubrics and critical vocabularies to the study of cultures experiencing the destabilizing effects of globalization. It gives special attention to the ways cultural forms, including literature, must be reformulated in the absence of the …
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Technology on the Trail: Using Cultural Probes to Understand Hikers
The definition of technology may have changed quite a bit over the years, but people have been bringing technology to remote, natural locations since long before concepts like recreational hiking or national parks existed. Nowadays, "digital" is usually implied before the word technology, and …
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An investigation into the use of construction delay and disruption analysis methodologies
… and disruption (DD) to contractors’ progress, often resulting in time and cost overruns, are a major source of claims and disputes in the construction industry. At the heart of the matter in dispute is often the question of the extent of each contracting party’s responsibility for the delayed …
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Capturing the psychological well-being of Chinese workers and understanding its relationship with factory performance.
Capturing the psychological well-being of Chinese workers and understanding its relationship with factory performance Media reports of workers losing their lives in factory disasters indicate the failure of audit-based regimes to protect even physical well-being in global supply chains, while …
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Evaluation of kindness tourism adopted from Chinese philosophy and its impact on sustainable tourism.
The importance of tourism has been well recognised and a range of far-reaching impacts come with the booming trends of the tourism industry. Except for the widely recognised positive effects such as economic booms, tax revenues and increases in employment rates, unfortunately, there are lots of …