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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"information control"”.
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Exploring the Relationship between Patron Type, Carnegie Classification, and Satisfaction with Library Services: An Analysis of LibQUAL+® Results
… how faculty and students responded to the Information Control section of the LibQUAL+® survey at two libraries with different Carnegie Classifications. As one of the institutions being studied was considering a shift from a research institution to one more focused on teaching and learning, …
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Student Perceptions and Expectations of Library Services Quality and User Satisfaction at Walters State Community College.
… are the following: Affect of Service (AS), Information Control (IC), and Library as a Place (LP). Responses of 666 students at Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee, indicated the students' perceptions of acceptable minimum level of service, perceived levels of service, and …
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Online and Offline Identity Gaps: Cross-Contextual Predictors and Psychological Outcome
… social anxiety, online disinhibition, and social information control on individuals’ psychological well-being.</p>
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Alternative models of information provision with special reference to the International Research and Information Group and the Education Resource and Information Project
… (NGOs) to the provision and delivery of information in South Africa. A brief analysis of the role of information in impacting on and/or reproducing social formations is undertaken to provide an understanding of the way in which information has been used in the South African context to …
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Constructing Community : class, privatization and social life in a Boston mixed income housing development
… a formal structure -- including rules and control of physical space, as well as more subtle measures such as information control and resource distribution - that substantially negatively influenced interpersonal relations. Larger structural realities too shaped the actions of the management …
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Fit Freshmen: A mixed methods approach to developing weight control strategies for 1st year college students
… intervention (Fit Freshmen; FF) or a health information control group and completed baseline and 3 month follow-up measurements. When compared to controls FF participants experienced higher improvement in self-regulatory skills for portion control, fruit and vegetable consumption and physical …
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Diversionary Repression in Electoral Autocracies: Crisis Onset, Loss-Domain Conditions, and State Escalation
… and institutional setups that allow for tighter control without fully dismantling electoral competition.</p> <p>To test this, the research uses an explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach. The quantitative section analyzes a panel of 179 countries from 2009 to 2024. Using two-way …
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Predicting Motivation, Exercise Behavior And The Reciprocal Relationship With Obesity Perceptions In College Students
… of exercising. Participants were provided with information regarding obesity implications and benefits of exercise (experimental group) or benign information (control group), and intent toward and actual behavior change after two weeks were assessed. High self-efficacy and the perception of low …
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An exploration of user intention and behaviour in the context of the economic development of technology-supported online social networks
… beliefs and motivation to comply included information-sharing, resistance to ‘assumed profiles’, self-setting of norms, and attitudes to personal data. Factors affecting control beliefs and facilitation included ‘Ultimate Control’, ‘Program Control’, 2-way information/control exchange …
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A Trojan dragon? CCTV news in English and the battle for global influence: 2014-16
… Chinese reporters dare push the boundaries of information control. In the BBC World News output, the comparative methods reveal weaknesses in the Corporation’s professed tenets of balance and impartiality, and highlight the difficulties of telling nuanced, non-pictorial stories from distant …
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Privatumo samprata Lietuvos visuomenėje /
… alone, limited access to self, concealment of information, control of personal information, protection of parenthood, intimacy is presented to explain different aspects of privacy. The empirical part of the research is carried out by completing 9 in-depth interviews with individuals whose age …
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Social Networking Sites as Intermediaries of Authoritarian State Propaganda: How Facebook and VK Disseminated Predominantly Kremlin-Friendly Political Content Before and During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
… differ in the level of the Kremlin’s control over information flows, and how the activities of novel Russian disinformation production organizations support this reach. In my dissertation, I addressed these gaps in the extant research literature in the fields of political …
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Making Meaning Together: Information, Rumor, and Propaganda in British Literature of the First World War
… and John Buchan, this dissertation examines information as a category as it exists under conditions of modernity, and how the contours of and changes in definitions and understandings of modern information become more visible, and are likely accelerated by, the complex information challenges …
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Development of a Personalized Feedback Intervention Targeting Pain-Related Anxiety for Hazardous Drinkers with Chronic Pain
… anxiety/alcohol PFI (PA-PFI) to a health information control condition. assessment only among a sample of 130 hazardous drinkers with chronic pain. The primary aims focused on examining the effects of the PA-PFI on alcohol use, intention/motivation to reduce drinking, pain-related anxiety, …
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Digitalization, Marketization and Authoritarianism in Ethiopia: Towards New Political Economy of Power [védés előtt]
… commodified not only labor and land but also information and behavior. As the state aggressively promotes market-oriented reforms and technological modernization, commodification of information continues to subordinate society to market and surveillance logic without social safeguards, …
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A More Updated Union: A History of New Liberals and Their New Computers in the New New South
… Verification Eligibility Reporting and Information Control System (MAVERICS) more than evidenced a new liberal ideology; they enabled and enacted it. From 1968, when the state of Mississippi founded an agency to centralize government computing, to 2001, when a related state agency …
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The media in transition: The rise of an "independent" press in Post-Invasion Iraq and the American role in shaping the Iraqi press 2003 - 2005
… as the main contractor was oriented more towards information control, and lacked experience in building media organizations. As a result of this the U.S plans for the Iraqi media in general stumbled, and did not make the expected progress. - American intervention in the Iraqi press was not limited …