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Showing 1 to 20 of 15689 for “"Working"”.
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Still Working: Re-examining America’s Urban Working Waterfronts
… of work. It expands the definition of urban working waterfronts to include sites of industry, production, and economic activity, thereby aligning with these sites’ historic and ongoing uses. This thesis examines four working waterfronts in the Northeastern United States, a region with over …
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Working Space
… exposing and distorting its hidden inner workings and structures. Sometimes my walls grow so fat that they need immediate and temporary structural solutions. They may even slump over in a pathetic heap under their own perceived mass.Using everyday wall building materials like 2x4s and …
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Working Remains
Working Remains grapples with colonial legacies and their remnants inscribed on the cultural, socio-political, and topographical contemporary Cape landscape. The remnants suggested by the project's title pertain to concerns about self, place, labour, and culture that permeate personal, and …
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A Working Life
… My paintings represent my observations of working people at a transitional point in my own personal work history. Can I successfully transition into a new career? How and where will I fit in? The answers are yet to come but I believe pursuing the goal with a strong faith and a solid work …
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The Role of Working Memory Resources in Mind Wandering: The Difference Between Working Memory Capacity and Working Memory Load
… is no consensus on the relationship between working memory resources and mind wandering. The purpose of the current study is to investigate whether mind wandering requires working memory resources to be sustained. The resource-demanding view is that mind wandering requires working memory …
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Defining Affective Working Memory
Some recent studies of working memory have led to the proposal of a new WM maintenance component specialized for maintaining emotions. The crux of the evidence for affective WM is the finding of differential selective interference effects on the maintenance of negative emotions compared to the …
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Space: Working and Living
what is architecture? what defines space? how do you define separation and integration of spaces? what is the relationship of human scale to space elements? how can architecture be studied? Architecture is an combination of science and art to make spaces for human needs and activities. What can an …
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The portrayal of the working-class and working-class culture in Barry Hines’s novels
… Hines’s representation of contemporary British workingclass and working-class culture. The corpus includes the writer’s nine novels: The Blinder published in 1966, A Kestrel for a Knave in 1968, First Signs in 1972, The Gamekeeper in 1975, The Price of Coal in 1979, Looks and Smiles in 1981, …
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Loners : working from a pattern
MFA Thesis for Shanell B. Papp on Loners, textiles, video/film, re-purposing and pattern breaking. w/ work from Marcel Duchamp, Edward Keinholz, Rene Magritte, Joseph Beuys, Eugene Atget, Arthur Fellig (Weegee), David Hoffos, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Madonna, Weird Al.
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Education and the Working-Class
No abstract available for this thesis
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Working in a Second Language
<p>Research on the perceptions that native Mandarin speaking employees have about their personal ability to communicate with their native English speaking co-workers and the perceptions the native English speaking employees have about the native Mandarin speaking coworkers' ability to communicate …
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The Working Poor: Negotiating Life
… salient part of the negotiation process that the working poor use to bring balance and control to their lives. This work challenges those who explore the contexts of people in poverty to recognize leisure as a significant life domain. It also challenges leisure researchers to recognize the …
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Working memory for spatial relations
… areas of study in cognition, the capacity of working memory (WM) is widely agreed to be roughly 3-5 items: 3-5 objects (i.e., bound collections of object features) in the literature on visual WM, or 3-5 role bindings (i.e., objects in specific relational roles) in the literature on memory and …
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An exploration of the impact of working individually versus working collectively on stress and performance
… the present study was to examine the impact of working alone versus working with others on stress and performance. Gender was also looked at as a variable affecting stress and performance as well. The Block by Block design, a building game consisting of seven different shaped blocks, was used in …
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How does practice affect working memory? : The efficacy of adaptive-difficulty working memory training programs
Working memory refers to a mental ’workbench’ whereby new or goal relevant information is held in a readily accessible state in order to achieve success with cognitive problems. Working memory has been shown to be relevant to individual differences in many aspect of cognition including fluid …
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Partnership working in local electronic government
… emphasis on public sector organisations working together in local partnerships. Partnerships can potentially encourage the delivery of joined-up services to citizens, promote democracy and improve public policy making, but partnership working is not always easy and can be challenging for …
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Hollywood's image of the working woman
Hollywood's Image of the Working Woman examines the stereotypes presented of working women in main stream Hollywood films. The thesis compares films portrayals of working women from "women's films" of the 1930s and 1940s with more contemporary films from the 1980s and 1990s. The paper explores the …
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