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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"empirical grounding"”.
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The Relationship Of Romantic Attachment To Intimate Partner Violence Victimization And Perpetration: An Examination Of Individual Mediation And Moderation Variables
… theory may provide strong theoretical and empirical grounding for guiding IPV prevention and intervention efforts (Magdol et al., 1998; Schwartz et al., 2006; Scott, Wolfe, & Wekerle, 2003). The present study evaluated a variety of social and emotional risk factors as potential mediators …
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TASK- AND DOMAIN-DEPENDENT NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR SUPPORTING SPOKEN DOCUMENT USE
… resource consumption without sacrificing empirical grounding.
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Barcelona's Public Market System: Bridging the Gap Between the Global and the Local
… a thriving future based on their theoretical and empirical grounding and commitment to both global influences as well as the local traditions of trade and consumption. This global/local balance keeps the markets relevant to contemporary consumers and allows them to have a well-rounded experience …
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The Development of a Conceptual Framework for Hybridity and Sustainability in Social (Micro-) Franchises
… expert interviews and ranking exercises; and (4) empirical grounding through event history analysis (EHA) of selected South African social franchise. The resulting Conceptual Framework for Hybridity and Sustainability in Social (Micro-) Franchises comprises three interlinked layers. The Franchise …
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Understanding the trust relationships of the web PKI
… new ecosystem visibility, it also provides an empirical grounding for trust management specification and evaluation. Furthermore, our findings point to many instances of questionable, and sometimes broken, security practices such as improperly identified CAs, inadvertent and overly permissive …
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New perspectives on instrumentalism : stratagems, subversion and the case of cultural diplomacy
… and binary terms, rather than being investigated empirically or a more nuanced approach taken. Questions are raised as to the empirical grounding of cultural policy studies and a disconnection between theory and practice is identified, which proves to be a recurrent theme.</p> <p>The focus then …
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A comparison of how selected two- and four-year sectors of higher education are contributing to the progress of high-risk students
… of high-risk students. However, there are few empirical indicators of the differential effectiveness with which the two- and four-year collegiate sectors are helping high-risk students to attain their goals. Therefore, this study was designed to provide an empirical grounding for the …
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Performing the role of Chief Risk Officer: Reconceptualising Enterprise Risk Management in Search of Better Decision Making
… the decision support function of their roles. Empirical grounding was provided by a detailed, longitudinal case study of the implementation of ERM by the Corporate Risk Manager at Watercare Services Ltd. The case study was significant because of the CRM's principal focus on how ERM could …
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Simulating the Human in Human-Centred Design: Increasing Efficiency in Design Activities
… is time-consuming; DS-I and PS struggle with empirical grounding when user access is limited; and DS-II is inconsistently executed, particularly in domains requiring long-term validation. These issues are compounded in the era of generative AI, where user needs and technological implications …
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Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: Experimental case studies using a novel application of the subsumption architecture
… robotics, and builds upon insights from empirical psychology pertaining to the attribution of intentionality. A distinguishing characteristic of free improvisation is that no over-arching framework of formal musical conventions defines it, and it cannot be positively identified by sound …
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An exploration of the mind-body connection in executive coaching : a key feature of coaching and change?
… et al, 2023), the need to address the lack of empirical research underpinning this fast-growing area of practice (Bachkirova, 2022), my desire to learn more about it, and to contribute to evidence-based practice (Grant, 2016). Insights from my own executive coaching practice, and the …
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Approaching Disaster Vulnerability in a Megacity: Community Resilience to Flooding in two Kampungs in Jakarta
… still need further theoretical underpinning and empirical grounding. The vulnerability context of urban poor can be approached from different angles, such as urbanism or development studies. My thesis has the aim to contribute to a better understanding of resilience within vulnerability research. …
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Abstraction and application: complementary perspectives on sociotechnical systems
… continually grounded in real-world contexts and empirical insights inform new abstractions. It also outlines avenues for integrating these methodological perspectives and highlights the importance of addressing the tradeoffs inherent in building technologies and theories that are both principled …