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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Wholistic"”.
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A Wholistic Model of Cancer Care for Nursing Practice
… the concept of wholism. Key ideas representing a wholistic paradigm of health appear with increasing frequency in the nursing literature, demonstrating the diffusion of a new and different perspective of the practice of nursing. The purpose of this study was to develop a wholistic model of cancer …
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Understanding the Patient Experience With Alternative Health Care: The Example of The Wholistic Health Center
The focus of this research is the patient experience at and use of services in a (w)holistic health care setting. Although generally acknowledged to be increasing, there is little documentation of the patient experience and patient understanding in a whole person care setting. This research …
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Philosophy and Practice of Wholistic and Physical Student Development at Select Seventh-day Adventist Higher Educational Institutions and Work Colleges
… how colleges and universities that promote wholistic student development incorporate each of the human dimensions into an integrated educational experience. There is, therefore, a need for scholarship that compares and contrasts how separate and distinct higher educational systems having a …
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A content analysis of battering interventions: Development of a unified framework for treating relationally violent men
… addressing men’s violence to develop a more wholistic and unified psychotherapy approach for treating RVM. Propositions related to the causes of IPV, hypotheses regarding treatment, and corresponding operational definitions of interventions were identified in the BIP literature focused on …
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A Descriptive Analysis of Creation Concepts and Themes in the Book of Psalms
… analysis provides a comprehensive and wholistic view of Creation in the Book of Psalms. It is viewed in the background of the rest of the Creation material found in the Old Testament and the ancient Near Eastern religious records. Hermeneutics and analytic induction have helped to …
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Re-thinking Information Literacy in a postgraduate Information Systems class at the University of Cape Town
… with students the study sought to provide a wholistic picture of the various perspectives and experiences. Findings showed that students and lecturers had a very narrow perception of IL, although IL is a skills set that helps students to acquire competencies for a lifelong learning journey in …
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The 'Circular' Piazza : landscape and history as architectural material : Constanta, Romania
… mandates that single events be approached from a wholistic perspective. The method by which to deal with the complexity of information gathered through this wholistic process is to act according to feeling by feeding the subconscious with analytical information and translating that information …
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Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect Through a Parent Education and Support Center
… contributing to its success: family atmosphere, wholistic approach, affirmation and empowerment, and commitment to change. The caring and accepting environment at PT provides the conditions parents need to change their unhealthy, damaging behaviors.
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Integration of Structural Methods to Characterize the Dynamics of Macromolecular Complexes
… of this relationship have grown broader and more wholistic. Our comprehension of protein structure has shifted from static globular structures towards dynamic ensembles of folded and unfolded states. Despite this paradigm shift, existing methods for the characterization of large macromolecules …
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An integrated big data framework utilizing stream computing to support real-time clinical decision-making in the field of space medicine
… travel on humans. This thesis proposes a novel wholistic approach to the human-technology ecosystem, enabling integration of the various components to address existing challenges of fragmented, retrospective discontinuous file-base data acquisition, in-batch data processing, extensive data …
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The effects of early intervention on young handicapped children who are nonverbal or have limited expressive language skills
… that provided services noncategorically using a wholistic and transdisciplinary approach; The findings from this study confirmed that each of the sixteen children made gains in all developmental areas. By implementing Wolery's (1983) formula gains were shown to be a result of early intervention …
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Defining interactions between Mycobacterium leprae and Langerhans cells
… cleared tissue. These observations indicate that wholistic insight of bacteria/innate immune cell interactions can be gleaned using experimentally infected tissues or human skin biopsies. Chapter 3 presents the contributions from multiple cell surface receptors present on Langerhans cells in …
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Lived Experiences of First Nations Girls: Exploring the Developmental Processes of Identity Formation Through Narrative Interviews
… of themselves. The results point to a wholistic and integrated model of Anishinaabe girls’ processes of identity development in which their personal and relational selves were integrated, there is an understanding of the continuity of the self, and a recognition of the key influences …
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Assessing Knowledge Structure: The Development and Try Out of a Mapping Technique
… (b) it has diagnostic value since it provides a wholistic profile of student's performance, (c) it can be useful when selecting instructional strategies and teaching materials, and (d) it can be used to help students focus their learning or note-taking strategies.
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Enduring Wisdom for Leaders: Bringing a Biblical Worldview to Leadership and Management
… enable the conceptual model to be utilized as a wholistic perspective on leadership and management. Recommendations for future study are proposed, building on the three research questions. The study seems to validate the initial thesis: The Bible lays a foundation for effective leadership and …
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Evaluation of an eddy resolving HYCOM simulation in the South Atlantic Ocean
… periods. Models form useful platforms for the wholistic study of such regions where long term datasets are not available. However, it is important to first gauge to what extent the model deviates from available observations. In a detailed analysis, this study evaluates an eddy resolving 1/12° …
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Implementation of a Mathematical Approach to Rip Saw Arbor Design and Scheduling
… plant and situation and we incorporate it into a wholistic arbor design and scheduling model. Finally, we discuss the challenges of implementing this complex model and ensuring that it is used after my internship. Along the way, we will discuss the challenges faced throughout research and …
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Grisilience: An Interpretivist Qualitative Case Study Of Indigenous Employees’ Success In Reaching Management And Professional Positions Within The Gaming Industry In Canada: Contributing Factors And Barriers
… is transferable to any environment where a wholistic approach to management, relational accountability, and community benefit are central to making a difference. <br/><br/>By extending TribalCrit into workplace contexts, reinterpreting positive psychology through Indigenous Wholism, and …
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Anishinaabe Learning Places: Teaching and Learning through Gift, Relational, Movement and Spirit Pedagogies
… forms of colonization, but fosters kin-making, wholistic wellbeing, and the learning of Anishinaabewin through coming to understand teachings about kinship through roles and responsibilities. Powwow families expressed the need to nurture the ‘spirit’ of the learner, a notion rooted in wholism …
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The Nexus of Climate Change and Human Rights: An examination of how social, political, and environmental impacts of climate change jeopardize the protection of human rights in the African Sahel
… to be addressed through more proactive, wholistic approaches, centered on human rights, which bind climate adaptation and conflict prevention together as a collective aim. Such approaches include development of cross-cutting multisectoral policies and building localized systems of …
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