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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"experience and impact"”.
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Gestures for Human-Machine Interaction. Design Aspects, User Experience and Impact on Driving Safety
… höchste Anzahl an Gesten (6) in Bezug auf User Experience und Akzeptanz am besten ab. Ebenso das Gestenset, das an die menschliche Kommunikation angelehnt war. Im Unterschied zur Bedienung eines Touchscreens gibt es bei Gestensteuerung kein direktes haptisches Feedback. Aus diesem Grund wurde in …
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A phenomenological exploration into the personal experience and impact of therapist self-disclosure on the therapist
… regarding their unresolved deficits, traumas and emotional injuries as a result of their shared self-disclosures. Researching this topic highlighted a potential gap in this area, namely what was the impact and personal experience of therapist self-disclosure on the disclosing therapist? A …
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Creating defining moments: A study examining the experience and impact of corporate diversity and inclusion training
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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The experience and impact of mindfulness lessons introduced in upper primary school, on pupils and teachers: a mixed methods investigation
… investigates the experimental evidence on the impact of mindfulness-based interventions in clinical settings. There is also a growing body of literature which explores theoretical propositions on the components of mindfulness as a construct for measurement and postulates about the potential …
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AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE REHABILITATION OF PHYSICAL DISABLED ADULTS IN A GROUP SETTING WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION
… the patients’ other needs. While more holistic and bio-psycho-social rehabilitation models have been developed, these are generally not recognized and as a result multiple needs are unlikely to be addressed. This qualitative investigation of a rehabilitation in group setting explored the …
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Women and World War One: Perspectives on Women's Role in WWI Literature
… war defined the changing role of women during and after the war in several crucial ways: 1) the general expectations of women’s gender role, 2) how women perceived and acted in motherhood, and 3) how women constructed and maintained heterosexual, homosocial, and platonic relationships. Using a …
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The Lived Experience of Couples Navigating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Dyadic Interpretative Phenomenological Study
… disorder (BPD) is associated with distress in and dissolution of romantic relationships. BPD is a relational disorder. The complex interaction between BPD and romantic relationships continues to warrant further attention, as decreased BPD symptoms are associated with increased relational …
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Conceptualizations of Sexual Health from the Perspectives of Asian Indian American Women
… Indian women who are brought up within the U.S. and the contextual factors which play a role in their views on sexual health is lacking. Even less is known about the experience and impact of navigating two sets of cultural beliefs (i.e., that of their heritage culture and that of the dominant …
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Classification of customer complaints using machine learning algorithms
Poor handling of customer complaints leads to bad customer experience and impact brand reputation. With an ever-increasing volume of complaints facing customer services team(s), handling customer complaints by service desk agents becomes tedious, especially when pressed with time. For these …
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Breaking the sound barrier: Explorations in experimental sound, art, soundscape research and interactive systems
… of sound art, interactive systems and soundscape research as the basis for the creation of a series of unique interactive sound installations and related projects. These works, created and presented by Interactive Agents, the author’s production company, explore aspects of the sonic …
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The maternal experience of having a child with night-time sleep difficulties
… aim of this research was to add depth of understanding and a human voice to existing research on the maternal experience of having a child with night-time sleep difficulties. It was hoped that this increased understanding could be used by counselling psychologists, not only in their own clinical …
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Exploring Teachers' Experiences with the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute
This qualitative study explored the experiences of ten teachers who participated in the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute (CWTI) during an 11-year period. The researcher used in-depth interviewing to identify why these teachers participated in this institute, what they experienced and learned …
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The Benefits of a Person-centered Social Program for Community-dwelling People with Dementia and Caregivers: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
This qualitative study aimed to explore the experience and impact of a person-centered, social program on community-dwelling people with dementia and their caregivers. I conducted semi-structured interviews with five dyads, each with a person with dementia and that person’s caregiver, 7-8 months …
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Exploring the impact of sexual addiction and compulsive sexual behaviour on couples’ relationships
… The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity (NCSAC, 2007) claims that nearly six per cent of the general population has a problem with Sexual Addiction and Compulsive Sexual Behaviour (SA&CSB). What further complicates this issue is that the fifth edition of the Diagnostic …
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Behind the silence: A critical exploration of the sexual harassment of women in the hospitality workplace
This study provides a unique insight into the experience and impact of sexual harassment on female employees working in the hospitality industry. The evidence suggests that sexual harassment is a pervasive problem in hospitality settings; however, it continues to be a silenced phenomenon. …
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Football, Femininity and Muscle: An exploration of Heteronormative and Athletic Discources in the lives of elite-level women footballers in South Africa
Normalised constructions of masculinity and femininity within a heteronormative social structure have shaped beliefs about women's capacities, characteristics and bodies, and have constructed a hegemonic feminine ideal that has historically excluded the possibility of being simultaneously feminine …
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Developing Leadership in Middle Managers
… in leadership development across both public and private organisations. The focus of the research was a case history on a large engineering company and the journey of four cohorts of middle managers from a wide range of different specialist sections within that international …
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Queer(y)ing the Politics of Offence: An Exploration of the Phenomenological Texture of Feeling in Higher Education
Amidst the contemporary ‘War on Woke’ in the UK and elsewhere, increasing concern has been focussed on the ‘offendability’ or ‘sensitivity’ of students on university campuses – a concern that has largely been captured in the notion of an ongoing ‘culture war’. Critical voices within the media and …