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Showing 1 to 20 of 1159 for “"cohesion"”.
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Unit cohesion and the Navy: does cohesion affect performance?
… study was undertaken to discover whether unit cohesion is systematically related to unit effectiveness in a Navy context. To this end, correlation analysis was conducted on personnel turnover rates and several measure of effectiveness (MOE) variables from various tests and inspections on ships …
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Methods to Enhance Team Cohesion
… of team-building can enhance the perceptions of cohesion. It is believed that being achieving high perceptions of team cohesion can positively influence results. The purpose of this synthesis was to review the literature on methods to enhance team cohesion.
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Regulation of Sister-Chromatid Cohesion
… replication in a process termed sister-chromatid cohesion. Timely establishment and dissolution of sister-chromatid cohesion is a prerequisite for accurate chromosome segregation, and is tight regulated by the cell cycle machinery and cohesin-associated proteins. Errors in this process can lead to …
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GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN WRITTEN ENGLISH
… of key terms and concepts in the study of cohesion, various schemes of text analysis and relevant theoretical assumptions. The next chapter deals with design methodology which comprises the method of Jata collection and a description of the text analysis scheme and notation used. The …
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Pension benefits and social cohesion
… the poor in developing democracies affect social cohesion? I address this question by examining Bolivia's central government run, non-contributory pension program, Renta Dignidad. Using a regression discontinuity design as well as a novel difference-in-discontinuities design, I find that …
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Family cohesion in remarried families
… FACES III, a widely accepted measure of family cohesion. The purpose of the study was to examine family cohesion in remarried families. Specifically, family cohesion in remarried families was compared with cohesion in a norm group of intact families, as well as investigated in light of the …
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Impacting Cohesion on New Virtual Teams
… a team coach practitioner has on feelings of cohesion on a newly formed virtual team. The study is focused on the experience of seven participants, all members of a senior leadership team in a regional financial services company, who participated in a three-month long team coaching …
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Structural cohesion in Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger trilogy
This paper will demonstrate how Bennett’s “circumstantial” history of his age, as it streams by the reader, is controlled, analyzed, and interpreted. The framework of characters and events stand firm, their foundations solid in the systematic working-out, through symbolism and irony, of Bennett’s …
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Cohesion and coherence in Chinese ESL writing
Cohesion and coherence are important features for effective writing. Studies in contrastive rhetoric and text linguistics suggest that cohesion and coherence may vary across languages and cultures. This study examined cohesion and coherence features of Chinese ESL writings, explored the …
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Family adaptability and cohesion in remarried families
Adaptability and cohesion were studied in a sample of thirty-nine remarried families, using the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES III). The purpose of the study was to add to the growing body of empirical research dealing with the remarried family as a unique family form. …
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Construct Validity Analysis of the Organizational Cohesion Scale
<p>Organizational cohesion is a multifaceted construct that has been defined and assessed in a multitude of ways. For the purpose of this study, the researcher has defined organizational cohesion as the extent to which employees within an organization feel a sense of unity with one another. …
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Explaining cohesion, fragmentation, and control in insurgent groups
… and demobilize, but the causes of insurgent cohesion and fragmentation have not been systematically or comparatively examined. This study offers a theory to explain why some armed groups are more cohesive and controlled than others. It argues that the trajectories of insurgent organizations …
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Adolescent career development, family adaptability and family cohesion
… dynamic, family dimensions of adaptability and cohesion. Drawing from Super’s career development model, Tiedeman and O’Hara’s vocational decision-making model, Haren’s career decision-making paradigm and Olson et al’s. Circumplex Model of Marriage and Family Systems, curvilinear relationships …
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Relationships Between Personality and Individual Perceptions of Social Cohesion
… explored personality correlates of social cohesion. Groups of two were given a task to perform that required cooperation between the two team members. This task exposed each team member to the other's personality. Upon completion of the task, the individual perceptions of social cohesion …
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Education and Multi-cultural cohesion in Belize, 1931 - 1981
… hierarchies within education and multi-cultural cohesion, not yet been fully attempted in any of the secondary literature. This is a proposition argued through substantial and original primary research, employing a mix of comparative empirical research and theoretical Sights influenced by …
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CULTIVATING COHESION: BRINGING IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS TOGETHER THROUGH NATIONAL SERVICE
… States can use national service to strengthen cohesion between citizens and immigrants. Following a comparative analysis of one international and two domestic national service programs, this thesis finds that national service by itself does not necessarily bring diverse people together and …
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Aspects of cohesion in web site translation: a translator's perspective
This dissertation investigates the nature of cohesion on a web site and the implications for the web site translator. It approaches the subject from the perspective of the freelance translator. Cohesion traditionally refers to the network of grammatical and lexical items in a text that combine to …
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