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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"anecdotes"”.
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Crowdsourcing health discoveries : from anecdotes to aggregated self-experiments
Nearly one quarter of US adults read patient-generated health information found on blogs, forums and social media; many say they use this information to influence everyday health decisions. Topics of discussion in online forums are often poorly-addressed by existing, clinical research, so a …
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Assessing the Performance of Public-Private Partnership Highway Projects: From Anecdotes to Comprehensive Evidence
Over roughly the last three decades, governments worldwide have implemented public private partnerships (P3s) to mobilize both private funds and public resources to develop transportation infrastructure, which has provided private entities contemporary opportunities to design, finance, construct, …
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Conscious of Her Own Power: Hester Piozzi's Character Creation in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life
… of Hester Piozzi’s approach to biography in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL. D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life in order to analyze her use of accumulated cultural and social capital. I highlight similarities between Anecdotes and Samuel Johnson’s model for biography given in …
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B'Seder : the design of a social medium for Polish and Jewish communities
… begins with a photograph of an empty room. Anecdotes are collected from readings, films and conversations with community participants. These anecdotes are then transformed into mnemonic objects, which are depicted in the image. This process of accumulation of object/stories continues as the …
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Neo-Raconteur: Allocating Southern-Gothic Symbolism into Design Media.
… meaning: somebody who tells stories or anecdotes in an interesting or entertaining way. In the past a Raconteur's anecdotes were verbally volleyed, ever voluble, yet quip. Neo-Raconteurs may decide not to speak at all choosing their anecdotal expression to manifest itself through …
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Work is What I Want
… between ideas, historic precedents, and anecdotes. Among some of the discussed thing are: necessity, labor, leisure, Olduvai chopping stone tool, making, human hand, brain, body, pineal gland, third eye, speculation, materiality, Dixie cup, objecthood, sign, imagination, ENIAC, …
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And there were green tiles on the ceiling
… looking at and being with my art, I hope these anecdotes and stories give some insight into my motivations and actions as an artist. In these stories I shall use my own voice; I am Scottish and will tend to use local vernacular.
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The Animal Life
… biological observations, and historical anecdotes. These chapters seek to prove that animals have much more to offer us than milk and meat.
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Safe at Home: My Journey from Student to Teacher
… of my three focus students. Through personal anecdotes and the examination of assessment data, I have tracked my student’s progress throughout the year, noting both the successes and failures of my teaching practices.</p>
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The examination of assumptions in clinical nursing practice
… in their clinical practice. The analysis of the anecdotes that were generated from the critical incident exercises revealed ten assumptions held by the Registered Nurses about their nursing practice. The ten assumptions were reflected back to the study participants to determine their level of …
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Framing, Advice-Seeking, and Medical Trust in the r/Keto Community: An Analysis of the Medical Flair on r/Keto
… the ketogenic diet and shared positive personal anecdotes were the most likely to receive positive engagement from the community. These findings are in line with similar studies of both online medical communities and online diet and weight loss communities and the positive social effects those …
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Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative
… and verse and in sequences of digressions and anecdotes. Poetic form becomes specific to a given text as poets adapt techniques from other fields, such as the visual arts, and integrate a wide array of media into literary works. In recent pieces, poets such as Emmanuel Hocquard and Olivier …
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Perpetual Movement: Brief Forms in Latin America
… to capture experience in language. From the anecdotes that write a life, to the sentences that inscribe the language of prison-spaces, to the fictions that tell and retell old fables. Most importantly I examine the movement between these forms which are at once anachronic, synchronic and …
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Proverb lore in Shakespeare's comedies.
… As instruments of ornamentation they provide anecdotes and allusions to historical personages, highlight classical mythology, and point up superstitions and popular beliefs reflecting manners and customs; they also depict character types and delineate character. As elements in the dramatic …
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Women Superintendents In South Carolina: Numbers and Perspectives
… to the quantitative findings through personal anecdotes, perceptions, and experiences. Along with prior research, to provide context, the findings of the quantitative and qualitative research are discussed. Implications of the research findings and implications for further researchers and …
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从“心智习性”看《世说新语》中魏晋士人的人伦鉴识活动 = The Habits of Mind Manifested in "Shi Shuo Xin Yu": A Study of Character Appraisal of the Wei-Jin Intellectuals
… Shuo Xin Yu. Shi Shuo Xin Yu is a collection of anecdotes, short conversations, and pithy observations on personalities who lived in China between late Han and Wei-Jin. In the chaotic era of Wei-Jin, the Intellectuals were under challenging conditions that demanded strategic reasoning, …
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The Social Reproduction of Education Inequality: Still Separate Still Unequal
… setting. By comparing reflective teacher anecdotes and current literature, the success of European American teachers when they teach poor minority students is explored. What Milner (2003) calls "racial and cultural mismatch" is scrutinized, and an attempt is made to connect this "mismatch" …
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Success in Written Expression: A Case Study
… reported their own personal observations and anecdotes regarding Tim's performance as a student in their classrooms. In addition, the researcher's contact with Tim in a teacher/student relationship was also utilized. As his teacher, the researcher also had access to Tim's cumulative record …
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Reporting, assessment and accountability : a genre study of writing center reports
… assumptions about in our scholarship through anecdotes and lore. My project complicates these assumptions and encourages writing center scholars to revisit the assessment has been discussed, including articulating more firmly the differences and intersections among accountability, assessment, …
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Joe Chambers: musical style and concept, 1964 — 1973
… by Chambers’ personal insights, historic anecdotes and critical evaluations, predominately obtained from a series of interviews with the author. The unique perspectives Chambers revealed in these conversations were vital for the validity of this study, as they shed light on a legendary …
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