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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"apprehensions"”.
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A study of selected racially-related apprehensions of teachers
Many driving forces, among which are customs, traditions, habits, confusion and bigotry, have loomed as obstacles to integration in the United States since the Supreme Court decision of 1954. Those in the schools affected by these forces include administrators, teachers, counselors, students and …
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Analysing prerequisites, expectations, apprehensions, and attitudes of university students studying Computer science
… is to analyse prerequisites, expectations, apprehensions, and attitudes of students studying computer science, who are willing to gain a bachelor degree. The research will also investigate in the students’ learning style according to the Felder-Silverman model. These investigations fall in …
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The cognitive apprehensions regarding drinking water among educated Americans and Arabs living in Middletown
… study described and compared the cognitive apprehensions regarding drinking water quality (DW) in Muncie, Indiana, USA. The comparison was between two different, culturally elite groups using constructive-grounded theory. Eighteen semistructured interviews were conducted with both Arab (n=9) …
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A study of apprehensions of black and white faculty members toward teaching in Virginia community colleges
… significant differences existed among selected apprehensions concerning work, church, social, and family life of sample groups drawn from the black and white faculties in selected Virginia Community Colleges where student population are no less than 10 percent black. The subjects consisted of …
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A study of selected apprehensions of teachers toward working in schools predominately of the opposite race
… significant differences existed among selected apprehensions of black and white teachers in twelve Illinois School Districts with operative staff desegregation programs. The major assumption of this study was that both black and white teachers have apprehensions related to teaching in schools …
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Cognitive and emotional barriers to colorectal cancer surveillance: Increasing screening rates within the community
… to screening, in addition to cognitive-emotional apprehensions.</p> <p>Objectives: This study examined whether cognitive-emotional apprehensions are barriers to screening despite physician recommendation. Moreover, it examined what particular cognitive-emotional barriers inhibit participation and …
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Fending off feminization : erecting gender/ed boundaries and preserving masculinity in 1930s British fiction
… inhabitants. These three pivotal events fueled apprehensions about the breakdown in traditional, patriarchal structures and heightened sensitivities to and furthered the use of masculine/feminine dichotomies within public discourse.The aim of my dissertation is to explore the ways in which …
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An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America
… increase in the flow of Central American apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol. Explanations for this surge in apprehensions have been split between two leading hypotheses. Most academic scholars, immigrant advocates, progressive media outlets, and human rights organizations identify …
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After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010
… following the Second World War. Orwellian apprehensions over totalizing systems and theories serve as a common thread for otherwise wide-ranging novelistic engagements with politics in the postmodern, multicultural, and globalized contexts of postwar England.</p>
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Critical Narrative of Multiracial Women's Personal Journey: Negotiating the Intersectionallity of Race and Gender Issues in a Monoracial Paradigm
… choices, provided a more significant set of apprehensions than the concerns these three women had for their own gender and racial identity issues. Data was collected through semi-structured open ended interviews.
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The Representation of Natives in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
… the views of several critics, whose conflicting apprehensions point to one of the central features of the text--its ambiguity. Contents: Introduction -- Reader-response : basic moves -- The critical handling of race -- Conrad's art in Heart of Darkness. The effects of delayed decoding ; The …
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Utilizing the Signaling Theory in order to enhance minority recruitment in law enforcement
… ideas, messages conveyed to applicants, testing apprehensions, discrimination, and utilization of police recruiters were discussed. The viewpoints expressed by each of the interviewees was open ended and information was garnered in an attempt to add to the knowledge in this area.</p>
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Design Solutions for Cultural Sustainability: A Case Study of Vernacular Residential Interiors from Northern and Central Jordan
… obstacles including access limitations, safety apprehensions, and disruptions due to COVID-19, thirteen case studies were meticulously documented and analysed. The results indicate that Jordanian vernacular architecture exemplifies a distinctive equilibrium of functionality, cultural heritage, …
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Property Analysis of Silylamine Type Reversible Ionic Liquids for Use as a Thermal Safety Switch in Batteries
… battery system has also brought about safety apprehensions. Uncontrollable runaway reactions are a big concern in these systems; these reactions are the result of in situ heat generation and very much increase the risk of explosions and device failures. The concept of this work is to provide a …
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Collaboration to Support ESL Instruction
… as well as teachers’ understandings and apprehensions about using technology to support literacy instruction for ELLs. Overall, the findings indicate that ESL teacher participants expressed a desire to collaborate, and took initial steps to facilitate collaboration with educational …
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“Just Like Math”: Parents’ Perspectives on Sexuality Education in Primary Classrooms
… instruction in schools. Notably, they had apprehensions about potentially conservative values that may be taught in schools, while at the same time recognizing that sexuality education in schools is challenging for many elementary teachers.
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Dust: Exploring the relationship between contemporary modes of viewing the printed photographic image
… of reading space and bringing about new apprehensions of temporality and mortality. Theoretical and philosophical context is considered through two contrasting notions of pictorial orientation, the vertical (Alberti, 1435), and the horizontal plane (Steinberg, 1972)and of the …
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NEGOTIATING PRIVATELY FOR AN EFFECTIVE ROLE IN PUBLIC SPACE: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN IN PANCHAYATS OF ORISSA
… intervention of the State. Concerns and apprehensions were raised, questioning its practicability, such as the fear that quotas on such a large scale could never be filled or there would never be large enough numbers of women candidates, and if they came at all, they would be prevented …
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Stress: the physiology and psychology of a training situation.
… suggested that subjects suffered from pre-course apprehensions that may have caused elevations in anxiety scores during the course. It was also found that subjects with high urinary free cortisol values on day 1, had relatively higher heart rates later in the course. Despite variation between the …
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Measuring the implications of Vicarious Liability under the Protection of Personal Information Act in Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises in South Africa
… they understand how it worked. There were clear apprehensions regarding general awareness of the Act on the part of both businesses and the general public. Many SMMEs are in the process of developing new standard operating procedures in the wake of this legislation, but there is still notable …
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