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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"contextual aspects"”.
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Some structural and contextual aspects of W.M.B. Mkhize's short stories
… momentum. We are also tackling the structural aspects of Mkhize's short stories. Mkhize is one of the prolific authors of short stories. He has written the following anthologies of short stories: Ezomhlaba Kazipheli (1972) Emhlabeni Mntanomuntu (1977) Ngiyeke Ngezomhlaba (1980) Uyothi Wabonan* …
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The Influence of Contextual Aspects on New Zealand Muslim Males' Environmentally Ethical Behaviour
… study's aim was to investigate the strength of contextual aspects' influences on environmentally ethical behaviour (EEB). A survey method with a selfadministered questionnaire was used and a cross-section of the Muslim male population of New Zealand was taken. The qualitative interviews and …
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The music teaching and learning process in an African-American Baptist church
… process, music literature and materials, and contextual aspects such as the following: (a) spatial relationships/physical placements, (b) performance practices, (c) reactions to the performances, and (d) spiritual/expressive aspects. A second purpose was to draw implications for the use of the …
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A context-aware approach for handling concept drift in classification
… are limited in terms of the extent to which the contextual aspects are explicitly identified and utilised. Instead, existing approaches mostly rely on monitoring the effects of drift (in terms of the degradation of the classifier’s performance). Given this, to achieve more effective concept drift …
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Intercultural communication and adaptation: A longitudinal study of Taiwanese graduate students' sojourning experiences in a Midwestern American university
… and identity issues, and (d) ecological and contextual aspects of the sojourn. The study explored the relationship of various pre-existing factors and events specific to the Taiwanese graduate students' adjustment in each of the four major domains, the nature and extent of the Taiwanese …
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Facilitating collaboration: exploring a socio-technical approach to the design of a collaboratory for Library and Information Science
… describe the process exploring social and contextual aspects of LIS; developing requirements and designing a working prototype collaboratory; and evaluating how the prototype collaboratory was perceived by LIS professionals. Overall, the results show that whereas the benefits of an LIS …
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A dual-route model of proactive interference in working memory and its application in schizotypy
… the content of encoded information, the other to contextual aspects of encoded information. Context-related interference was altered by a manipulation of context, and was related to a quadratic serial position curve. This type of interference was related to the process of recollection, and was …
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Exploring algorithmic realism in the data economy
… framework cognizant of political, porous, and contextual aspects of the social world. I design, evaluate, and deploy algorithmic interventions aimed as anticipatory and mitigation measures against ethical issues of different domains of the data economy using three case studies. In each case …
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Considering community engagement for remote and rural healthcare design in Scotland: exploring the journey from rhetoric to reality
… being done well.<br/>This study considered the contextual aspects of remote and rural Scottish communities that may impact on health care-related engagement, and examined current understanding of what constitutes a ‘good’ engagement process. It then went on to consider a two-year action research …
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Filling in the gaps | Reimagining underutilised city space to promote sustainable intensification
… adds to the urban fabric by picking up key contextual aspects and increases the functionality of the site, and wider city. Ultimately, the research demonstrates how context-driven densification can lead to high quality urban development, offering a viable model to address New Zealand’s …
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Mind the Skills Gap: A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Technology-mediated Learning in People-centric Production Systems
… integration. The seven dimensions include the contextual aspects of a) technology, organisation, environment, and learning, as well as the processual dimensions of b) decision-making, implementation, and evaluation. In doing so this thesis contributes a managerial end-to-end perspective on …
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Analysis and Construction of Engaging Facial Forms and Expressions: Interdisciplinary Approaches from Art, Anatomy, Engineering, Cultural Studies, and Psychology
… In order to gain a broad perspective of all aspects of a face, theories and methodology from the fields of art, engineering, anatomy, psychology, and cultural studies have been analyzed and implemented. The computer generated facial customization and action model were designed based on the …
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A Framework for Adoption of Challenges and Prizes in US Federal Agencies: A Study of Early Adopters
… for this study, but does not directly address contextual aspects regarding the type of innovation and the type of organization. The guiding framework uses concepts drawn from three literature streams: organizational innovation, open innovation, and public sector innovation. </p> <p>Research was …
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The social perception of accountants: insights from Portuguese past and present
… interpretation of the results are supported by contextual aspects and literature from the field of accounting, psychology and sociology. The study identifies dimensions in the social image of early and modern accountants and highlights the closeness of their stereotypes. The overall …
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HOW CONTEXT MATTERS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY USE
… library use. It also explains how some of the contextual aspects can outweigh the technical capabilities of digital libraries leading to certain use patterns.</p>
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Syntaktisk variation och förändring : En studie av subjektslösa satser i fornsvenska
… and on the other hand theories that regard contextual aspects as crucial. Chapter 4 presents the second part of the thesis and consists of an empirical study of subjectless clauses in the history of Swedish. A corpus of about 193,400 words was collected from 12 Old Swedish texts, and on the …
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The Effects of post-training strychnine treatment of the long term retention of discrimination training by mice
… the memory of specific rather t han more general-contextual aspects of the training situation. Stry chninetreated mice exhibited significantly greater impairment of initial test performaT-ce than saline-treated mice, VThen both cues were reversed during retention testing. Secondly, strychnine was …
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A Gendered Faust : the portrayal of gender in the opera Faust (1859) by Gounod (1818-1893)
… how gender is represented in the opera. Hence, contextual aspects, as well as Gounod’s own interaction with, and exhibition of gender are analysed in order to establish their influential extent on Faust. A deconstruction of the opera as three different texts – libretto, score and DVD productions …
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Looking through the kaleidoscope: perspectives on the lived experiences of sport event volunteering.
… with exploring rather than merely describing contextual aspects and structures of lived experiences. A total of eighteen semi-structured interviews involving volunteers who helped with the World Firefighters Games 2008 in Liverpool, were conducted. The interviews were audio-recorded and …
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A cognitive stylistics study of the Nama-Herero genocide in Kubuitsile’s the scattering, Utley’s lie of the land, Tjingaete’s the weeping graves of our ancestors and Van Den Berg’s parts unknown
… beyond the reader and text to include specific contextual aspects. Considering the extent of the Nama-Herero genocide where an estimated 80% of the Ovaherero and about 20% of the Nama populations were wiped out, the study concluded that ordinary human beings do not take pleasure in killing …
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