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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"cultural effects"”.
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Psychological and socio-cultural effects of forced and coerced sterilization of women living with HIV (WLHIV) in Namibia: Implications for intervention
… understanding of the psychological and socio-cultural effects of forced and coerced sterilisation on WLHIV in Namibia, in order to ascertain the implications for further intervention. A qualitative approach was applied, using semi-structured interview schedules to acquire comprehensive …
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The effects of culture on banking strategy : a study of three banks in three countries
… being in the same industry. I believe cultural issues have a significant effect on each bank's strategy. The diverse strategies among banks have evolved from the various ways of thinking, sensing, and doing, which are formed based on deep-seated cultural values or assumptions in each …
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An Analysis of the Influence of Cultural Backgrounds of Individuals upon their Perspective towards Privacy within Internet Activities
… an individual’s perspectives about privacy are culturally relevant when using the Internet. This research used a survey in the form of a questionnaire in two countries, namely, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia to compare online privacy perspectives of young and mature (male and female) Saudi and …
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Family Relational Dialectics: A Systemic Model for Explaining Relational Factors Contributing to Adolescents' Faith Maturity, Life Values, and Commitment to Christ
… studies have been conducted on the psycho-socio-cultural effects of family systems functioning on individuals’ developmental outcomes, there is limited discussion on the direct correlations between family relational encounters and adolescents’ development of faith and life values. The effects of …
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Culture and E-Commerce: Culture Based Preferences for Interface Information Design
… for different cultures is still very difficult. Cultural models can be used to identify differences between cultures that may have an effect on how people make decisions. Geert Hofstede (1980, 1997) has defined a cultural model with five dimensions. One of these dimensions, individualism vs. …
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Students' attitudes towards first-year university mathematics: a comparison between Australian and Asian born students
… mathematics learning and relationships to their cultural effects and educational effects. The findings indicate that attitudinal differences toward mathematics learning are found between students who studied year 12 in Australia and those who studied in Asia. These differences occurred in items …
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Oscar Wilde's Contribution to the Comedy of Manners
… its flashes of universal truth. It had definite cultural effects on the life of the people of England at the time covered by this present study. |In keeping with its prevailing spirit comedy substitutes for strong emotional excitement a pleasurable sense of amusement and well-being or graceful …
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Post-atomic Auralities: A practice-based study of sound and atmospheric effects
… remain active sites with complex and unique cultural heritages. The practice I present navigates a path from a series of experimentations with Geiger counters within my workshop space, to citizen data projects and remote sensing, to the development of a ‘nuclear archive’, where …
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Contemporary Cinematic Portrayals of Female Sexuality in Top-Grossing R-Rated U.S. Films (2000-2009)
… its wide and varied incorporation in film to its cultural effects on women and societal standards for women’s gendered sexual representation and acceptable sexual behavior. Feminist scholars have also examined an alternative spectator position, i.e. the feminine gaze, on women’s perspective and …
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Garciá Márquez, magic realism and language as material practice
… regarded as a third world reflection of its own cultural dominant, postmodernism, without an acknowledgement of the alternative material realities which inform it. I investigate these ideas through an analysis of the work of two novelists, namely, the Colombian, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the …
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A state-of-practice survey of health and environmental assessment in the Canadian north
… for identifying and managing potentially adverse effects. The World Health Organization states “health depends on our ability to understand and manage the interaction between human activities and the physical and biological environment. We have the knowledge for this but have failed to act on it”. …
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The role of ecological barriers in the development of cultural boundaries during the later Holocene of the central Alaska peninsula
… eruptions to effect widespread ecological and cultural change. It focuses on the proximal and distal effects of the Aniakchak volcanic eruption that took place approximately 3400 rcy BP on the central Alaskan Peninsula. The research is based on archaeological and ecological data from the Alaska …
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Hysteresis and urban rail : the effects of past urban rail on current residential and travel choices
… and people. This dissertation examines the effects of one of these assets, urban rail, on residential location and travel behavior, from the era of horsecars and streetcars to the present in Boston. It explores the hysteretical effects of past access to rail--the extent to which the urban …
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Burial Chronological Sequencing of the Colonial Maya Cemetery at Tipu, Belize Using Fluoride Ion Analysis
… Belize in order to explore demographic and other cultural effects associated with European contact. The cemetery at Tipu in west central Belize, dating from within the first century of Spanish contact, has provided one of the largest and best preserved Maya skeletal series, with over 500 burials …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… many puzzling textual ambiguities as the cultural effects of the reified abstraction of labor. Reification’s relation to labor frames the dissertation’s four chapters, appearing in the opening chapter as unconscious forgetting and in the final chapter as deliberate remembering. In the …
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‘Oil that harvests culture’: state, oil and culture in petrosocialism (Venezuela, 2007-2013)
… of the analysis of the material and cultural effects of oil to demonstrate that within the extractive logic of the Petrostate and the oil industry, territory, oil, and culture become indivisible. Mainly, it explores how the material and immaterial flows of oil traverse space, …
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Enhanced, Between Leading the Nurture and Awakening the Nature within Nations: Focus on projects made to lead Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Kingdom of Bahrain
… nation of the Kingdom of Bahrain around the effects of various political, economic, cultural effects and social influences within the entrepreneurial ecosystem of this nation. Results have been achieved by analysing and exploring these portfolio projects that hold few empirical evidence on …
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Social Support Seeking Processes in Japan and the United States: A Multi-layered Approach
The current study investigated cultural, familial, and individual differences in social support seeking processes between Japan and the United States by applying face negotiation theory (FNT). The application of FNT contributed to understanding social support seeking processes by utilizing such …
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Rooting for the Home Team: Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and Root Traits in Native and Invasive Woody Shrubs
… in particular exhibit ecological, economic, and cultural effects on contemporary issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem processes and global food security. Understanding the factors governing both the invasion process and the species that become invasive are important tools for lessening the …
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The Medium of Instruction in Zambian Primary Schools
… Educational Psycholinguistic, Psycho-social and Cultural effects of the use of heterogeneous student populations' foreign language as a medium of instruction. The study set out to deal with two basic issues:should English be the medium of instruction immediately a child enters school in Zambia or …
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