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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"global communities"”.
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AN ARCHITECTURE FOR END-USER DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTING GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
… technologies lead to an upward diffusion of global communities, geographically distributed, that collaborate asynchronously on the same design projects. The members of global communities belong to different cultures, therefore cultural boundaries need to be transcended. The mantra "making all …
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The relationship between personal cognition, social context, and knowledge sharing in global communities of practice
… as they influence knowledge sharing behaviors in communities of practice. Based on the existing literature, ten hypotheses and a conceptual model built on the basis of the social cognitive theory were developed regarding the interrelationships of the five constructs: self-efficacy for knowledge …
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New numeracies: the social practice of functional skills and social justice
… to socio-cultural issues in both local and global communities.
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Silos to symphonies: social work and its contribution to student wellbeing programs within a Victorian Catholic School
… and cultural life of their local, national and global communities. Alongside a vocational role schools have another role. This role is to provide a health promoting setting within which students can develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to live healthy lives both in the short and …
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Experimental Perspectives on Intergenerational Altruism: A Study on Public Good Dilemmas
… goods has wide-ranging externalities to local or global communities (think of vaccination programs, for example). This Doctoral Thesis is a collection of three essays on the topic of long-run, across-the-border public goods, from the vantage point of Experimental and Behavioral Economics. The …
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Investigating the factors affecting revenue collection: A case study of Erongo Regional Electricity Distributor company
… is happening in other Africa countries and in global communities. It would also be research worthy to establish if other REDs in Namibia experience the same challenges as far as revenue collection is concerned.
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Public Relations and Community Support: Assessing Fortune 500 Web Sites
… support presence at local, national, and global community levels. Results supported corporate rank as an indicator of community support on corporate web pages; however, results did not support corporate industry as an indicator of community support or the increase of community support …
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"Doing" Theory and Practice: Steps Toward a More Productive Relationship Between Science and Technology Studies and Nontraditional Science Education Practices
… it is, in fact, our obligation to our local and global communities to adopt an interventionist strategy and to use our work — without apology — for directly political ends. Challenging the technoscientific-political context in which we live always involves a level of real risk — but it is also …
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Maiden’s Fashion As Eternal Becomings: Victorian Maidens and Sugar Sweet Cuties Donning Japanese Street Fashion in Japan and North America
… aided by the Internet, Lolita style has become a global phenomenon. Wearers of the style are known as Lolitas, and local, national, and global communities can be found around the world outside Japan from North American to Europe. This study is a cross-cultural comparison of Lolita fashion wearers …
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Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
… for electronic mass surveillance systems globally proliferated today. Second, surveillance experiences in the former colonial zones have been marginalized, and little explored, so my research helps fill in this gap in our knowledge. Lastly, my ultimate goal is to contribute to bringing …
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Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B
… capability suggests a limited commitment to the global communities invoked by information technology. The history of American industry produced corporations determined to control and exploit every detail of their affairs. In the process, industrial corporations used immigration as a labor …
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Gestures and Acclamations: some assembly required Contextualising curating and exhibtion practices in Southeast Asia for Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong
… curators assume a role in a larger production of global discourse, global communities, global audiences. In Southeast Asia, the presence of indigenous culture and civilisation is sometimes overlooked and disregarded in favour of a larger post-colonial discussion concerning artistic production of …
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"Eolas to Ma:" Construction of Postnational Space in the Interstitial Visions of Heaney, Carson and Morrissey
… as the interplay between the local and global communities. After all, Kearney asserts, "Irish culture rediscovers its best self...in its encounter with other cultures...." (101). My study will argue that this postnational sense of Irish identity is a preoccupation of three waves of …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
… folk cultures, while symbolising ‘Korea’ to global communities. By foregrounding these nationalist agendas, I draw on a multiplicity of perspectives to complicate these narratives, excavating new material relations between jogakbo as a wrapping cloth, patchwork fashions and the corporeal …
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The democratic vision of teaching literature: preschool bilingual children's reading of literature with social justice
… such as (1) the prevailing attitudes of their communities, (2) white-dominant surroundings, (3) media and parental influences, (4) negative images of the color black, and (5) difficulty in identifying themselves with the main characters. This study also found that, while exchanging responses …