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Showing 1 to 20 of 238 for “"conceptual frameworks"”.
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Conceptual frameworks for discrete event simulation modeling
… with digital computers which concern the use of conceptual frameworks (CFs) for the design and implementation of a model. A literature review of CFs which are in common use is conducted. These CFs are applied to a complex modeling problem, a traffic intersection system. A comparative review of …
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Gender, Sexuality, And LGBTQ+ Identities In General Education Literature Courses: Three Major Conceptual Frameworks
This thesis examines how three major conceptual frameworks can allow instructors of literature courses to explore, define, and utilize their understanding of queerness. For instructors who possess little experience in queer discourse, the three major conceptual frameworks – LGBTQ+ identities, …
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Postretirement benefits other than pensions : recommendations based on a study of relevant standards, conceptual frameworks and current trends
… a literature review was conducted on the conceptual frameworks that have been issued by the FASB, TASC, TCAEW, CTCA and the AARF. This was done so as to ensure that OPEB do in fact meet the definitions of liabilities and the recognition criteria as contained in the various frameworks. The …
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An exploration of the lived social, emotional, and academic experiences of obese adolescents within three conceptual frameworks using mixed methods research
The primary purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the experiences of obese adolescents and to investigate middle and high school students' attitudes toward obese students. During phase one, quantitative data was collected through the Attitude Toward Obese Persons (ATOP) survey. The …
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A study of kindergarten reading instruction
… investigated the relationship between teachers' conceptual frameworks about kindergarten reading acquisition and teachers' instructional behavior during reading in kindergarten. The study proceeded in two phases.
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Conceptualizing Integration: Resettlement Experiences of Bhutanese Refugees in Pittsburgh, PA
… to understand the extent to which prevailing conceptual frameworks can explain the experience of integration for refugees. It also seeks to incorporate the perspectives of refugees and resettlement professionals, as well as provide recommendations for policy and further research. I pursue …
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Sustainable urban infrastructure : the prospects and relevance for middle-income cities of the global South
… embedded within institutional practice. Two conceptual frameworks, developed from the literature, have guided the empirical research and the analysis. The first is a heuristic device that enhances our understanding of sustainable urban infrastructure knowledge and discourse. The second offers …
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An Enhanced notion of power for inter-state and transnational hydropolitics: An Analysis of Turkish- Syrian Water Relations and the Ilısu Dam Conflict between the Opponents and Proponents of the Dam
… The theoretical framework includes the conceptual frameworks that critically look at the role of power in transboundary water basins in terms of material and discursive power capabilities of actors. It also enhances the existing conceptual frameworks by demonstrating the following key …
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The Architecture of Analogy: An Inquiry into Aldo Rossi's Theory of the City, the Discipline, the Type, and the Analogue
The aim of this dissertation is to put forward conceptual frameworks to inquire into and update the following theoretical categories of Aldo Rossi’s architectural production: the city as an artefact, the idea of type, architectural autonomy, history understood as collective imagination, and the …
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Idea Generation in New Product Development: A Cognitive Framework of the Fuzzy Front End
… organizational cognition constructs and frameworks. Second, the two guiding conceptual frameworks used to build the integrative theory (market interpretation modes and organizational cognition mechanisms) are empirically tested and result in newly developed and tested measures. And …
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Assessment of the Value Propositions of American College of Surgeons-accredited Education Institutes
… effectively. The survey questions were based on conceptual frameworks from surgical, medical, and health professions education and from business and healthcare. The response rate was 54.2%. Almost all respondents agreed that creation of new value by ACS AEIs for their organizations is important. …
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Collaborating for children's mental health : a study of the experiences of health and social care practitioners and managers working within different models of service integration
… and inter-professional relationships and the conceptual frameworks that could improve our understanding of the behaviours of people working within, and across, health and social care. This research focuses upon understanding how collaboration is organised at the level of teams, concentrating …
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He aha kei tua atu o te kohu kawata? What lies beyond the silvery mist? Epistemic agency at the intersection of mātauranga Māori and biological science knowledge worlds
… in two urban Auckland secondary schools. Three conceptual frameworks were developed for the thematic analysis of participants’ written and verbal data: 1) Biological science knowledge, 2) Mātauranga Māori knowledge, and 3) Epistemic learner agency. The findings from this research have identified …
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Rethinking the aceramic neolithic: Insights from an ethnoarchaeological study on Cyprus
… analysts were identified, posing an analogical conceptual dilemma of contemporary phenomena. The presentation and discussion of the ethnoarchaeological results from the perspective of economic uncertainty, however, demonstrates that these strategies are in fact effective responses to …
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"Canada's toughest neighbourhood" : surveillance, myth and orientalism in Jane-Finch
… representations of the community through conceptual frameworks based on the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Edward Said. The question it attempts to answer is: What knowledge and power relationships are embedded within depictions of lane-Finch in popular Canadian newspapers in …
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Designing economic democracy Boston Ujima Project's participatory allocation process
… Alegre and New York City, this paper provides conceptual frameworks and recommendations for the institutional design of Ujima's participatory allocation process.
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Teaching Diversity through Multicultural Children's Literature: A Guidebook for Korean English Elementary School Teachers
… in mind, a literature review of established conceptual frameworks for multicultural education is presented, along with an exploration of ways in which students benefit from multicultural literature. Results of recent studies and surveys of Korean teachers are presented, illustrating the need …
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Towards a Language Acquisition Pedagogy of Performance
… Premised on principles embedded within two conceptual frameworks, Gibbons's (2015) Mode Continuum and Boal's (1973/2008) Theatre of the Oppressed, it aims to illuminate the benefits of an integrative performance approach. I bring these two disparate frameworks together in a way that is …
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THREE ESSAYS ON CONDITIONS OF INNOVATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR
… organizations is still at a formative stage. Conceptual studies on the topic are not empirically substantiated while empirical studies are poorly informed by conceptual frameworks. Furthermore, studies on public sector innovation has mostly focused on the behavioral drivers of innovation and …
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Constructing ourselves : women, eating and identity
… intrinsic to such behaviour. Relying on the conceptual frameworks offered by certain social constructionist sociologists of the body, this study explores the relationship between body, eating and identity. Emphasizing the element of choice which is intrinsic to the particitants' bulimic …
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