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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"cultural model"”.
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Beyond Shock City : towards a new cultural model of riverfront development
… unique global identity for the city via a modern model of riverfront development. Today, as the decade long effort comes to fruition, it has expanded the outlook of its inhabitants but can also be critiqued as a heavy handed approach that has marginalized the lower rungs of society In order to …
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Risk Environment Framework: A Patient Centered Approach to a Cultural Model of Recovery
… the features and domains that make up a cultural model of recovery. This study took place at a treatment center in Metro-Portland, Oregon among 13 emerging adults, 18-25 years of age. The emerging adults’ population are a high risk, understudied group with significantly lower rates of …
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The Home-School Relations: An Exploration Into the Perspectives of Parents and Schools on Asian Indian Cultural Model of Schooling
… of them. The study portrays the Asian Indian cultural model of schooling, which is shaped by the group's cultural values and orientation toward education in general and also by parents' individual patterns of incorporation into the dominant culture. Findings suggest that most parents in the …
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"A Content Analysis of a Sample of Articles Written on Education in ""The New York Times"
… newspaper articles would be able to construct a cultural model of American education. However, it was determined that what was present in these New York Times articles may more appropriately be labeled an information model of American education rather than a cultural model. However, it is …
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Investigating sources and modes of communication through which rural raised drivers learn and experience cultural models of driving and their impact on driving safety
… these gaps, the present research explores the cultural models of driving in Saskatchewan and how these models are transmitted to young drivers so that they develop either safe or unsafe driving mental models. A survey questionnaire of rural-raised university undergraduates who drive estimated …
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Cultural sensitivity and health promotion: Assessing influenza pamphlets designed for African Americans in Champaign, Illinois
The purpose of this study was to examine cultural sensitivity in the pamphlets provided for African Americans regarding influenza shots within the Champaign community and review whether the materials are culturally appropriate with promoting uptake of influenza vaccinations among the African …
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The spatial organization of culture, economics and politics: The architecture and political economy of Fordism and global Fordism
Cultural Studies has developed a coherent set of analytical methods and political assumptions which are articulated to one another at the site of the text. The author disputes this articulation, arguing that in both method as well as assumption Cultural Studies duplicates early-modern political …
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Machi, Machinami, Machiya : a context for people's places in Japan
… This section develops a framework and conceptual model for the later parts: a presentation of six towns in different parts of Japan; an analysis of these places as town, house, and street as they rela·te to this conceptual/ cultural model; and, the development of a language of form and structure …
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The Relationship of Individualism and Collectivism to Perceptions of Interpersonal Trust in a Global Consulting Firm
… to further investigate its relationship with cultural syndrome. Finally, researchers must continue to explore a cultural model for trust especially by re-examining the global implications of several of the outcomes of trust already established in the literature.
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Mapping Cultural Models of Authority
… becomes more diverse, the incidence of cross-cultural supervision will increase. Cross-cultural supervision is a workplace situation in which the culture of the supervisor and of the subordinate differ. Anecdotal evidence and cross-cultural psychological theory suggest that cultures may differ …
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What we can learn when we teach Retrospective Miscue Analysis to young, adult, incarcerated males
… developed a collective composition of their cultural model of reading, responded to the oral approach of the RMA method and utilized miscue analysis as a tool of assessment for reading.
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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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Peer support trumps drug cocktails: cultural views of treatment options for persons with bipolar and depressive disorders
… for depression and bipolar disorder cognitively "model" their conditions in culture-particular ways. Specifically, I suggest that these patients embrace a particular clinical storytelling process that helps them to regulate their daily personal habits and bodily states, while seeing as ineffective …
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Bodily Autonomy and Stress Management in Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Populations Through Body Modification in Alabama
… and to identify a preliminary, explanatory cultural model for bodily autonomy in this population. To develop this model, I explored the intersection of gender identity, bodily autonomy, body modifications and stressors as experienced by TGD individuals living within a legislatively hostile …
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"Nice ink, man": a biocultural, mixed methods approach to tattooing as costly honest signaling among southern women
In this thesis I examine the influence of a cultural model of tattooing on psychological and biological stress in a sample of Southern tattooed women. The handicap principle of sexual selection states that a high risk ornament is utilized by a mate to show high-quality health. The handicap …
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Internal Audit, Internal Control and Organizational Culture
… audit. The study will use an organizational cultural model to see if operational internal audit has identical cultural to the organization, and if not what differences exist, and how these differences might be seen to mean that the operational internal audit with a particular cultural profile …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of the Influence of Personal Cultural Orientation on Brand Loyalty
This thesis investigates a generalisable cross-cultural model for brand loyalty by integrating extant theories of personal cultural orientation (of individualism and collectivism), self-congruity (actual, ideal, social, and ideal social self-congurity), customer satisfaction, attitudinal brand …
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Being a Composer in the Andes during the Age of Revolutions. Choices and Appropriations in the Music of José Bernardo Alzedo and Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado
… and styles, and with Europe as a cosmopolitan cultural model; but they also learned, composed and performed in a specific set of historical conditions that differed from those in contemporary Europe. In that sense, my interest is in the specific agency composers -as literate urban citizens- had …
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Experiencing Higher Education in Louisiana through a Native American Lens
… experiences of Native Americans be explained in models of persistence? This dissertation reviews the literature concerning persistence and departure of minority students. Development of ethnic identity is reviewed. The focus of this phenomenological qualitative research study was to examine the …
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Impact of culture on stock market development and corporate governance
… to explore the dynamic relationship between cultural values and stock market development in the United Kingdom, during the period 1991- 2004. Cultural values are represented by the cultural model of Hofstede (1980) which consists of five dimensions, which are: power distance, uncertainty …
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