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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Triangulation of Methods"”.
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The Effectiveness of Homeschool Collegiate Preparation: Four Alumni's Perceptions
… study seeks to assess the effectiveness of homeschool collegiate preparation through the eyes of homeschool alumni. Four alumni who are current college students participated in the study. A triangulation of methods, which included surveys, open-ended questionnaires, and interviews, …
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Volunteer recruitment and retention: a case study of the Vancouver Planned Parenthood Clinic
The purpose of this project is to conduct a detailed evaluation of the Vancouver Planned Parenthood clinic volunteer program. The primary focus of this study is volunteer recruitment and retention. The simplicity of individual perspectives commonly employed in volunteer theories and research is …
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Evaluating small business performance : a matched pair analysis of African Caribbean owned businesses in the UK
… the aspiration behind this study is one of ratifying the existence of performance differentials between ACOBs and White Asian Owned Businesses (WAOBs), by using a triangulation of methods and matched pair analysis. Every ACOB was matched along firm specific characteristics of age, size, …
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Contribuições da Psicologia Hospitalar em um hospital do Interior baiano: uma avaliação de serviço
This dissertation, developed within the Professional Master's Program in Health Psychology (IMS-UFBA/CAT), aimed to evaluate the quality and operating conditions of the Hospital Psychology Service of a general hospital in the interior of Bahia, using Donabedian's triad (structure, process, and …
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Making Crime TV: Producing Fictional Representations of Crime for Canadian Television
… interested in studying media representations of crime in popular culture. They have studied representations using content analyses, often examining their “accuracy” against academic research. Alternatively, these scholars have also studied media effects. In contrast to these studies, I focus …
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The role of community radio in the preservation and transmission of culture: A case study of Mazabuka community radio station
… but challenging future. Clearly, their role of complementing the mainstream broadcasting station cannot be over emphasised. Community radio stations claim to be closer to the people, but little is known on how effective they have been in promoting, preserving and transmitting the culture of …
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“Wildfire" as an effective preventative intervention for HIV/AIDS among secondary school learners.
The aim of the study was to conduct a formative investigation into the effectiveness of "Wildfire" as a preventative intervention for HIV/AIDS. "Wildfire" is an experiential activity-based psycho-educational workshop/game that guides participants through the process of 'exposure' to HIV/AIDS, …
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A psychotherapeutic perspective of the lived experience of leaders during a period of transition
… inquiry to explore the lived experience of leaders during ongoing change and transition, their underlying processes as they developed within their contextual changes, the managerial skills which enhanced organisational change and which skills were required to further enhance the process, …
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Looking behind the Writing: The design and implementation of a framework to provide transitional support for the development of written articulacy at PG level – a University of Cambridge Case Study
… than simply writing – it is a complex process of knowledge creation. Yet despite its importance within academia, there seems to exist what has been referred to as a ‘non-pedagogy of osmosis’ when it comes to supporting the development of written academic articulacy for the novice postgraduate …
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Socio - cultural investigation of visual dyslexic cognition
The thinking approaches of dyslexic visual artists in their creative production have been little analysed, either in isolation or in comparison with non-dyslexic artists. This research investigates the nature of visual dyslexic cognition and tests for cognitive differences between dyslexic and …
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Heritage tourism and English national identity
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the influence of heritage tourism on the creation and maintenance of English national identity. How this industry utilises the material and symbolic resources of this nation's cultural heritage is thus a primary focus of this work. More specifically, it is …
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Ethics, X-Phi, and the Expanded Methodological Toolbox: How the Think Aloud Method and Interview Reveal People’s Judgments on Issues in Ethics and Beyond
… their judgments into dialogue with those of philosophers in order to make sense of agreement, disagreement, and the consequences of each. Experimental philosophers facilitate this dialogue uniquely by capturing laypeople’s judgments and analyzing them in light of philosophical theory. They …
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The development of electronic resources in libraries : effective marketing and communication
… arising from this change. The specific elements of the research programme focused primarily on changes in academic libraries and secondly in public libraries. The implications of changes in different countries were investigated. The research programme evolved over time, as its applicability and …
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Enhancing and developing sustainable tourism through landscaping in Nigeria
… backward and forward linkages with the rest of the economy, it has proved to be a significant foreign exchange earner and a major source of employment and income in many developing countries. Given Nigeria’s many tourist attractions, tourism has the potential to attract huge internal capital …
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The national corporate human resource development strategy in the Sultanate of Oman: the integration process of young Omanis into the labour market
<p>This study is concerned with the integration of young Omanis into the labour market. The aim is identify the factors that hamper their efforts to gain access into the labour market.</p> <p>The year 1970 marked the beginning of a new era in the history of Oman. This hitherto backward and …
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Male values and male violence
The present study is an investigation of the relationship between male value systems and male interpersonal conflict, with particular emphasis upon inter-personal violence. The study adopts a naturalistic methodology (Archer 1995) and draws on concepts drawn from a range of disciplines that are …
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Participatory approaches in support of the decision-making processes. The ambivalence of participation
The dissertation concerns the analysis of participatory practices in support of the decision-making processes. In particular, the research work is based on an important consideration, according to which, traditional participatory processes do not work in practical terms. Indeed, the evolution of …