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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"forms of evidence"”.
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How and why are different forms of evidence used in policy-making in the South African health sector? A case study of the National Core Standards and the Prevention Of Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV policies
… and nationallyadopted system through which evidence is infused into policy-making processes. It is, therefore, unclear what evidence informs policy formulation and why and how this evidence is used. The main goal of this study was to examine why and how different types of evidence are used …
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Evidence in Neurophenomenology
… the term ‘neurophenomenology’, the assimilation of neuroscientific and phenomenological forms of evidence has become increasingly prominent in the cognitive sciences. Over the past quarter-century, neurophenomenological approaches have facilitated several notable successes and have been …
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Development and Validation of the Sense of Competence Scale-Revised (SCS-R)
The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure the sense of competence of traditional age college students across the dimensions that define the construct. The Sense of Competence Scale-Revised (SCS-R) was developed to provide a measure of Chickering’s (1969) first vector, an …
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A sea of contested evidence: Disputes over coastal pollution in Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
The City of Cape Town's (CoCT) wastewater management system discharges effluent from households, industries and other sources into the Atlantic Ocean through deep-water marine outfalls in Green Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay. At total capacity, these three outfalls discharge 55.3 megalitres (Ml) …
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Systematically and proactively testing variant effects for AIRE and SOD1
… genomic medicine, clinical geneticists are often unable to determine the pathogenicity of rare variants in disease-associated genes. Under current guidelines, one of the strongest forms of evidence for variant annotation comes from (often cell-based) functional assays of variant impacts. …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
This thesis explores the emergence of recovery in/from serious mental health problems as a conceptual frame, and as a set of practices and policy orientations. I provide a specific empirical account of recovery in practice. “Recovery” has multiple meanings and is enmeshed in on-going challenges to …
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The political economy of co-ordination challenges in the National Health Service: a postpositivist evaluation of diabetes policy and governance
… evaluative methodology suited to the evaluation of policy and governance in complex policy areas. While extensive literatures exist on the topic of policy evaluation, governance evaluation has received less attention. At the level of governance, policymakers confront choices between different …
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The Curiosity that is Curiosity: A Psychoanalytic Conceptual-Clinical Study
… endeavour, yet there has been little development of it as a psychoanalytic concept. As an internal experience it is not readily objectively identified. Alternatively it is possible to identify and operationalise defences against it. My approach is based on a model in which curiosity is a dimension …
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The Missing Link: Examining the Supraregional Role of Mleiha in the Realm of the Seleucids Following the Anabasis of Antiochus III.
Ptolemy’s map provides a range of coastal settlements on the Gulf of Oman that have not yet been located with the port of Cryptus being of interest to this dissertation and likely to be located either at Kalba or Dibba al Hisn. Hellenistic material provides evidence for Dibba but as I argue Kalba …
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Examining the Credibility of Story-Based Causal Methodologies
<p>The purpose of this study was to explore how evaluators justify using story-based methodologies when examining causality. The two primary research questions of the study included: 1) what arguments are made by evaluators to justify the credibility of story-based causal methodologies to …
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Teaching competence : A personal construct view
Attempts to incorporate all the views of competence and quality in teaching into definitive check lists of behaviours are doomed to failure, despite the current political pressure to constrain the assessment of teaching. The reflective process in education, expressed through PCP and …
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Exploring diachronic changes in activity, diet and health on the prehistoric Baltic coast
… own unique transition to agriculture because of their close proximity not only to forests and fertile soils, but also to rivers, lakes and coastlines. This thesis studies the biological implications of coastal living on transitioning communities by examining skeletal variation, dental disease, …
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Development of the Research Paradigm Inventory to Measure Views About Research Practices and Beliefs
The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure the views of educational researchers across the dimensions that comprise research paradigms. The development of the instrument, entitled the Research Paradigm Inventory (RPI), was conducted in the hope of providing a mechanism for …
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The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period
<p>This study focuses on the city of Ancient Corinth, an Archaic polis in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, and its purpose is to determine if archaeological remains reflect the processes by which the city’s inhabitants constructed and manipulated notions of community, memory, and identity. …
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"""Passport Please"": The United States Passport and the Documentation of Individual Identity, 1845--1930"
This dissertation uses the emergence of the passport in the United States to explore the social and cultural origins, development and deployment of the documentation of individual identity in the United States from the 1840s to the 1930s. Specifically this history asks how did a piece of paper come …
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Thematic research collections: Libraries and the evolution of alternative scholarly publishing in the humanities
… across disciplines is changing in the face of digital methodologies, novel forms of evidence, and new communication technologies. In the humanities, scholars are confronting and often pioneering innovative modes of viewing, reading, interacting with, collecting, interpreting, …
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Building a Specialized Model of Care for Youth at Risk of Sexual Exploitation in the Child Welfare System: A Systematic Review and Exploratory Program Evaluation
… is a global issue with the true prevalence of this crime being unknown. Youth are at heightened risk for sexual exploitation due to normative developmental vulnerabilities such as the desire for romantic relationships and their developing cognitive abilities. Child welfare samples indicate …
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Tracing ‘paper', discovering people: three ethnographic case studies exploring the use of health information to improve health services in Gugulethu
… and programmes and strengthen other components of the health system. To date, most research in this area has focused on the production of health information and the technical challenges that appear when developing and implementing HISs. Much less is known about how health information is used in …
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Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity, 300-700
… It was a public activity involving all classes of Roman society. Baths dotted the landscapes of cities across the empire, and even villages, military forts, monasteries, and villas contained public (or semi-public) baths. After an introductory chapter, chapter two provides an introduction to the …
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Exchange rate regime and exchange rate performance: evidence from East Asia
This thesis is intended to be part of a vigorous debate currently going on in the international community of exchange rate regime, monetary policy and related core issues in East Asian economies. From different angles and aspects, this thesis contributes to the related literature, and provides …