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Showing 1 to 20 of 5387 for “"cultures"”.
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A culture for science in early childhood education: Where cultures meet cultures
In recent years there has been an increase in literature advocating for and describing early childhood science education; however, little attention has been given to the complex interplay of cultural communities of practice that influence science learning and teaching in a play-based curriculum. …
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Empowerment effects across cultures
… an indigenous and multinational bank in the two cultures, achieving a total of 626 fully usable responses across the four samples. Rigorous scale development for all samples was undertaken and measurement invariance examined. Following this, the conceptual model was tested using latent variable …
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The meeting of cultures
… together people from different backgrounds and cultures, and if so then what type of architecture does this? And how does it do this? I believe the city is a psychological as well as physical reality. The city exists as a series of doubles; having official and hidden cultures, it is both a real …
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Of Water Cultures: Finding an Architectural Approach to Revitalizing, Supporting and Creating Water Cultures
… Within this inquiry I will be researching Water Cultures to understand our current development of the built environment and how we have designed to accommodate, manage and treat water. I will investigate ways that we can endure the overwhelming vastness of the natural environment within our …
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Approach-avoidance motivation across cultures
… conception of “ideal” differs importantly across cultures. In Western societies, the ideal self entails the possession of high self-esteem, whereas in East Asian cultures the ideal self entails maintenance of “face,” or successful performance of social roles and obligations. Within each cultural …
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Understanding school cultures : developing participation
… thesis I examine the relationship between school cultures and participation. I start by describing the three methodological approaches I have taken to explore these two key concepts. First, I discuss the reading I have undertaken for the study. Second, by reflecting on my existing experiences of …
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Republican Nationalism: Nations, Cultures, and Politics
… deals with the ongoing importance of nations, cultures, and politics in the modern world, and with the complex and layered relationships between them. Despite the expanding phenomenon of globalization, which promises to open up borders and tear down the boundaries between peoples, nations …
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Intercultural Explorations: Writing Effectively Across Cultures
Intercultural writing.
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Contextual Relationship Model Across Four Cultures
… seemed to show unique patterns in the various cultures.
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Meme transmission in artificial proto-cultures
"I daresay you haven’t had much practice," said the Queen. "When I<br/>was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes<br/>I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."<br/>Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice …
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Glyphosate Resistance in Plant Cell Cultures
In the second study, five carrot DHL lines were studied in order to identify the mechanism underlying glyphosate resistance. Uptake experiments, using radiolabelled glyphosate, showed higher or similar absorption levels in the resistant lines compared to the unselected control. Such results exclude …
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Scrapbooking cultures in twentieth-century Britain
This thesis offers the first study of scrapbooking in Britain during the twentieth century. By adding newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera into their scrapbooks, Britons fashioned unique records of the world in which they lived. During the twentieth century, scrapbooking …
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Merging corporate cultures : a case study
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1986
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Growth in mixed cultures of microorganisms
… the number of the microorganisms grown in mixed cultures. Size distribution curves were prepared and used as a means for determining the Coulter Counter settings for counting each organism. Coulter Counter counts were compared with Petroff-Hausser counts; the results showed approximately 20 per …
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A Comparison of Cheddar Cheese Yields and Composition Using Conventional Bulk Set Cultures and Superstart Concentrated Cultures
… yield when using direct-to-the-vat concentrated cultures (44). Supporting this is the fact that the whey generally contains a lower level of solids when these cultures are used. The reason for a possible increase in yield may be higher pH during ripening, renneting, and cooking of the cheese curd …
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Verbal Aggression Across Cultures: A Classroom Assessment
No abstract prepared.
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Working across cultures in indigenous science education
The research in this thesis considers the ability of westerners, primarily teachers, to work cross-culturally with indigenous students in four of the settler states, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. It looks particularly at identity learning as a way in which westerners enhance their …
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Cultures of Resistance in Pre-Famine Ireland
… relationships between elite and popular cultures. Collective identity principally refers to the use of a common set of symbols across many letters, especially when such symbols are particularly associated with another time and place, i.e. with an earlier movement or with a movement in …
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