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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"interdisciplinary work"”.
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Lived Experiences of Psychological Safety: A Phenomenological Study of Interdisciplinary Work Team for Sports Programs at a NCAA Division I University
… lived experiences of psychological safety for interdisciplinary work teams of different sport programs within an athletic department at a NCAA Division I university. The aim of this study was to gain a deeper understanding regarding the nature of psychological safety as a complex phenomenon in …
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Is gestalt therapy compatible with feminist theology?: a study of "practical-values"
Interdisciplinary work is of the essence of pastoral theology, most obviously where theology and the human sciences interact. Such work carries with it a number of risks that are not always addressed or even recognised. The principal risk is that a facile attempt to forge links between disciplines …
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The Discipline of Identity: Examining the Challenges of Developing Interdisciplinary Identities Within the Science Disciplines
… and examine the obstacles to successful interdisciplinary work. It is argued that identity provides a useful lens into the process of scientific investigation, because as a construct, it has been shown to influence the way one sees oneself, others, and the practice of “good science.” It …
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The Discipline of Identity: Examining the Challenges of Developing Interdisciplinary Identities Within the Science Disciplines
… and examine the obstacles to successful interdisciplinary work. It is argued that identity provides a useful lens into the process of scientific investigation, because as a construct, it has been shown to influence the way one sees oneself, others, and the practice of “good science.” It …
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Investigations linking the philosophy and psychology of mathematics
… practice, make for a great opportunity for interdisciplinary work that brings together the cognitive science of mathematics and philosophy of mathematics. This dissertation seeks to add to recent examples of such interdisciplinary work. I discuss three somewhat self-contained topics. In …
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Learning Spatio-Temporal Correlations from Dynamic and Sparse Data
… discipline, besides computer science, in this interdisciplinary work. The large extent of the world's oceans, and the limited communication of instruments, compared to more manageable urban settings, form a challenging environment in which nowadays drifting and floating autonomous instruments …
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Data-driven optimization with behavioral considerations : applications to pricing
… pricing strategies in practice, drawing from interdisciplinary work of current OM, behavioral theories and recent machine learning advances. In chapter 2, we integrate a consumer purchase experiment and an analytical model to investigate how consumers' price-based quality perception, expected …
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Text and Image in Contemporary Mexican Narrative: The Effect of Interdisciplinarity in Six Novels
… temporal frame for the selection of the literary work stems from a growing attention to the visual arts; in Mexico specifically it is based on the important promotion given to interdisciplinary work since the creation of the National Fund for Culture and Arts (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las …
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Imaging and Imagining the Jew in Medieval England
… viewer, and the structure of an image, draws on work by Stanley Fish and Gabrielle Spiegel that is complemented by recent studies of the Jew as a necessary construct by Gavin Langmuir and Jeremy Cohen. Situating visualized Jews within each community's unique visual culture provides the …
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Imagine Another World: A Philosophical Approach to Black Speculative Arts and Literature
… Black cultural and theoretical projects. This work reads into the expressed conditions of Blackness that yearns for and that builds other material or immaterial realities. Worldbuilding is a way for collective Black imaginations to experience another world that is at the very least different …
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On the threshold of adult life: Dis-course and life course of mental retardation in American culture
… life course approach based on (a) ethnographic work with twelve individuals, parents and school or agency personnel, (b) historical research of mental retardation, and (c) life transition. Through interdisciplinary work, the study adds to a dynamic anthropological approach to life transitions by …
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Heroics and humanism: A study of intra-genre divergence within modern French fantasy literature
… re-imagined the fantasy realm by deliberately working in opposition to the tropes of high-fantasy. The following work is split into two segments–the first of which analyzes how this high-fantasy divergence manifests within the evolved role of the hero, as it pertains to Jaworski, Pevel, and …
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A Place of Happy Retreat: Benefiting Locals and Visitors Through Sustainable Tourism Practices at Beale Street, Graceland and the National Civil Rights Museum
This interdisciplinary work examines Beale Street, Graceland, and the National Civil Rights Museum through the lens of sustainable tourism. It specifically examines the value of integrating the culture and history of the host community into the attraction, and using tourist attractions to provide …
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A history of the Breakwater Prison from 1859 to 1905
… The project arose out of my interest in the interdisciplinary work of Michel Foucault and its application to the history of Africa. This has been broadened into an interest in post-structuralist theory, and has been particularly focussed on the "institution". A prime example of Foucault's …
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Creating a spark: A practice-as-research project integrating science and theatre to arouse curiosity about the natural world
… is the analysis of interviews with professionals working at this nexus, conducted by the researcher, and a workshop built to test strategies for exciting artists about science. The fourth section details the devising of a plant science and mycology inspired theatre production designed to re-excite …
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The design and construction of interactive architectural environments : the digital mile, Zaragoza, Spain
… this thesis will also demonstrate the ability of interdisciplinary work to enrich the design process.
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Mildred Trotter: A Biography and Alternative History of Physical Anthropology
… Physical Anthropology.” As a unified whole, this interdisciplinary work brings together a biography of a prominent woman in the history of science with an account of the social and scientific context in which she operated. It provides previously unpublished historical details of Trotter’s life and …
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Monetary Effervescence: A Sociological Theory of Religion Applied to Money
… viewing money as a technical concept. This is an interdisciplinary work between religious studies, economics, and sociology and draws heavily from Emile Durkheim's <em>The Elementary Forms of Religious Life</em> as well as work related to heterodox theories of money developed by Geoffrey Ingham, …
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Systems to Transform Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: An Ecological Systems Analysis of STEM Graduate Students' Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Identity-Based Motivation
… that solving complex global challenges requires interdisciplinary approaches, traditional academic structures continue to create significant barriers for STEM graduate students attempting to pursue interdisciplinary work. To address these barriers, this dissertation examines how academic systems …
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Promoting autonomy for language learning powered by data-driven methods and learner-centred design
… autonomy in language learning. While it presents interdisciplinary work, the main focus is exploring the learner-centred design of three applications aiming to promote self-regulated behaviours among language learners. The following projects are presented: (1) H-Matrix offers a visualization tool …
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