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Showing 1 to 20 of 729 for “"conceptualisation"”.
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Building a model to improve front end project conceptualisation: introducing the Project Conceptualisation Canvas
… this research is an artefact called, the Project Conceptualisation Canvas. The Project Conceptualisation Canvas represents a process to be followed to ensure that the conceptualisation phases of potential projects are adequately performed. The Project Conceptualisation Canvas was developed using …
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Customer engagement : conceptualisation, measurement and validation
… scale that exhibits the multi-dimensional conceptualisation of the construct. Second, it applies the new measure to examine the relationships between customer engagement with potential antecedents and consequences. Third, managers can use the newly developed scale to measure the customer …
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(Re-)conceptualisation in autism spectrum disorders
… abilities of forming concepts (conceptualisation) and of switching between concepts (reconceptualisation) in individuals with varying degrees of ASD and in typically-developed (TD) individuals. Further aims were: (i) Examine whether the animate or inanimate nature of the concepts …
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The conceptualisation of sustainability by tomorrow's managers.
Abstract: The conceptualisation of sustainability by tomorrow’s managers by Christine Parkin Hughes. Sustainability is an emerging field, a knowledge frontier. However, the conceptualisation of what sustainability is, and what it means in theory and practice remains unsettled. Scant attention has …
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Processing events : investigating event conceptualisation in aphasia
… of six people with aphasia and their conceptualisation of events. Following a range of preparatory assessments, so individuals were hypothesised to have some difficulty in conceptualising events for language. Three novel tests were then devised to explore the skills of these …
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Contemporary understanding of Gregorian chant - conceptualisation and practice
… performerâ��s realisation of his or her personal conceptualisation. This study observes both conceptualisation and practice of the repertoire through the answers of 127 respondents to an online sociological questionnaire and 35 solo recordings of the Gradual Haec dies. The study also involves a …
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An interdisciplinary approach to the conceptualisation of retail environments
The focus of this thesis is on the internal and external environments of retail stores, and their contribution to retail branding from marketing and design perspectives. The retail industry in the postwar period and in particular since the 1980s has grown rapidly creating new store formats, new …
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Resilience in leaders: conceptualisation and changes brought about by coaching
… Secondly, the broad scope of definitions and conceptualisations of resilience can mean that coaches seeking to work with resilience lack a coherent model appropriate for coaching. These two gaps give rise to a lack of common understanding about resilience between coaches and their leadership …
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Sensory brand experience: conceptualisation, measurement, and impact on performance outcomes
… Furthermore, this research addressed the lack of conceptualisation of sensory brand experience in the existing literature by first conceptualising sensory brand experience as an independent construct. This research also provided a new definition, defining sensory brand experience as the internal …
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Conceptualisation of mental illness among Christian clergy in Harare, Zimbabwe
Background: More than 13% of the global burden of disease is estimated to be due to neuropsychiatric disorders, with over 70% of this burden in low- and middle-income countries. Characterised by severe shortages of human and material resources, formal mental health services alone are inadequate to …
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Exploration of a new conceptualisation of leadership, utilising an appreciative inquiry approach
… in leadership approaches, to develop a new conceptualisation of leadership and then, by utilising an Appreciative Inquiry methodology, explore the relevance of this approach to gain new insights into how leaders within health and social care communities consider that they will lead as they …
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A conceptualisation of psychological access to the Internet : adolescents, gender and attitudes
This thesis describes the conceptualisation of a construct proposed here as <i>Psychological Access to the Internet</i> and presents the development and testing of an instrument to measure the construct amongst adolescent children in informal voluntary contexts at home and school. The rapid growth …
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A Socio-History and Genealogy of Dementia Thought and Conceptualisation in Western Society
Background: Debates concerning the conceptualisation of dementia in Western society, including its framing as a specific type of disorder (such as neuro-psychiatric, part of the natural aging process, cognitive, and so on) are important in understanding how it has come to be problematized. The …
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Geometric and Extra-Geometric Spatial Conceptualisation: A cross-linguistic and non-verbal perspective
… in the factors that underlie our verbal conceptualisation of space across three classes of spatial relations/terms: 1) topological relations (e.g., in/on), 2) vertical axis projective terms (e.g., above/below), and 3) horizontal axis projective terms (e.g., in front of/behind) and their …
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The conceptualisation and operationalisation of talent management : tyhe case of European internationally operated businesses
… dimensions. Thus Phase Two explored the conceptualisation and operationalisation of TM from the perspective of management, on the one hand and talented employees, on the other. This was a highly significant step in the understanding of TM, because most empirical studies have tended to …
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Circular Supply Chain Management: Conceptualisation and Empirical Investigation of Performance and Barriers in China
This thesis conceptualises a new frontier in supply chain sustainability research, namely Circular Supply Chain Management (CSCM), which integrates the Circular Economy (CE) concept in Supply Chain Management (SCM). Building on the newly-established CSCM definition, this thesis investigates the …
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Time gestures : time conceptualisation in English with evidence from gestures in a multimodal corpus
… first large-scale, corpus-based analysis of time conceptualisation using multimodal ‘big’ data. It exploits the NewsScape Library, an extensive television database, to investigate co-speech gestures for temporal expressions in English. This research investigates time conceptualisation by studying …
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