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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"dual nature"”.
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Beyond Cyberpessimism and Cyberoptimism: The Dual Nature of Social Network Site Interaction.
… viewed as social exchange reveals that individuality is often promoted though can occasionally be hindered; while most exchanges are ill-suited for sustaining interpersonal value, they ironically facilitate enhanced trust; and finally, the unique structure of site-based exchange generally …
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The duality of practices and its organizational implications: Adoption of new HR practices and consequences on innovation in Korean firms following the 1997 Asian financial crisis
… outcomes. The questions are important given the dual nature of practices: They have both technical and institutional characteristics and serve as both tools and symbols. Such dual nature of practices has also been recognized to be accountable for unintended negative consequences of technically …
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Strategies of self-disclosure in the first-person narratives of Gabrielle Roy
… self-disclosure. This can be explained by the dual nature of the ""I;"" both self-character and narrating persona are fused in the first person narratorial voice chosen for Roy's semi-autobiographical works. Roy affirmed the importance of an explicit first person narrator in certain texts to …
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One Flu East, One Flu West, One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Pandemic Influenza Paradoxes in Epidemiology
… found that these paradoxes endure because of the dual nature of science " the known and the unknown elements of current knowledge " and assumptions made between the two. The dual nature of science describes both the information that has been codified and information that has not been codified and …
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Rappahannock River Edge
Inherent in river is a dual nature: it is a dynamic, flooding entity which never moves but causes movement. This cord which ties the lands and towns along its edges also ties the individual town to the water. The river's character becomes apparent through the life of the town and the provision …
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The Paradox of the Christian Poet: George Herbert's Problematics
… poems as interconnected expressions of Herbert's dual nature as Christian-Poet. The thesis discusses over sixty of Herbert's poems, concentrating on close readings and intratextual connections. Chapter One reviews critical approaches to Herbert's poetry and outlines the study. Chapter Two examines …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… system from an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates characters that fall on either side of this divide, and he shows humanism triumph over animism when Henry deposes …
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A Binary Within the Binary: Machinima as Digital Agency and Growing Commercial Incorporation
… three approachesculminate to reveal machinima's dual nature as an expression of fandom agency and corporate expansion.
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Milwaukee and the Great Red Scare of 1919 - 1920
… is traced to its origins. The fact of the dual nature of the allied intervention in Russia was the clearest evidence for the common national spirit that dominated the United States between 1914 and 1921. The original anti-German intentions of maintaining a second front soon evolved into a …
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Efficient Travel for the Flâneur: Intermodal Station and Central Library for Ottawa
… and wandering, opening a space to reflect on the dual nature of urban movement.
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Narcissistic illusions : an empirical typology
… to further delineate whether claims of a dual nature of narcissism are well founded and to examine the mental health implications of "positive illusions." Subjects were 251 college students at a large Midwest University. The mean age of the participants was 21 years. Self-report measures …
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The impact of augmented reality on body image perceptions in digital media
… critical factors. The research highlights the dual nature of AR: while it can enhance user experience, it also has the potential to intensify beauty standards, thus affecting self-perception negatively. Future studies are recommended to investigate both the positive and negative effects of AR …
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The Mother-Daughter Dyad as Modernized Archetypal Mythology in The Last House On The Left and Carrie
… the shadow, the feeling function, the dual nature of the mother archetype, and specifically, its constellation as the negative mother complex of the daughter. It examines the mother-daughter relationship as female-specific and a unique psychological experience, asserting how the sexual …
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Beyond the Numbers: Gaining Perspective on the Mathematics Problem Towards The Successful Transition of Students into University Mathematics
… found that participants view mathematics with a dual lens, which creates unique problems in mathematics lecture halls. Moreover, participants perceive that the dual nature of mathematics in combination with a lack of communication between high school teachers and university professors and …
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The Girls Who Had to Grow Up: Reflections on Motherhood and Dual Identity in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Neverland
… within the texts, primarily in the characters' dual roles as dictated by the gendered expectations of Victorian society. While in the imaginary world, both Alice and Wendy experience mini-versions of their future lives. They exist as girl and mother simultaneously. Carroll, by creating a hostile …
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The duality of innovation : implications for the role of the university in economic development
… the innovation as a social process that has a dual nature: analytic and interpretive. From an analytic perspective innovation is a problem-solving activity. From an interpretive perspective innovation is an ongoing conversation. I find that in neither case is the university's most important …
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Lightness of Being and the Burden of Gravity
… Through my writing and research, I explore the dual nature of being, and the transient natures of both the intellectual and physical self. In my thesis exhibition, The Lightness of Being and The Burden of Gravity, I employed the medium of video installation in order to provide a space that …
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Exciton-polaritons in thermal equilibrium : from Bose-Einstein condensation to exciton-polaritonics
… optical field in the cavity. The light-matter dual nature allows direct control of polaritons through either their excitonic or photonic components. By utilizing the fact that polariton-exciton and polariton-polariton interactions are repulsive, all-optical control of polaritons was realized. …
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Baiyun guan: the Development and Evolution of a Quanzhen Daoist Temple
… an exemplary case study demonstrating the dual nature of the site: the enduring presence of religious sectarianism contrasted with constant transformation of the temple. Baiyun guan, still an active center of Quanzhen worship in the present day, continues to respond to shifting trends in …
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Recovering a Classically Oral Homiletic
… preceded documentation. Scripture displays this dual nature in its revelation, expression and transmission. But with the technologizing of the word in typographic literacy, sermons became increasingly conditioned by the literate sensorium and lost many of their oral psychodynamics. Character, …
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