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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"levels of meaning"”.
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Visual perception in relation to levels of meaning for children: An exploratory study.
This study explores distinct levels of meaning from images of picture books perceived by 3- to 5-year-old children and investigates how the certain visual perception factors influence children's meaning making and if these factors are correlated. The literature review supports associations among …
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Fifth graders' conceptualization of basal reader vocabulary
Determining the effect of pupils' levels of conceptualization of words on reading achievement was the purpose of this study. Levels of conceptualization was measured ona multiple-choice test using three categories of word definitions: abstract, functional and verbalism. The abstract category was …
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The Relationship Between Meaning in Life and the Occurrence of Drug Abuse: An Epidemiological Retrospective Study
… related to drug abuse have occurred in the areas of health, social issues, family relations, legal systems, and economic productivity. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between meaning in life and drug abuse. An epidemiological, retrospective study was performed to compare …
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Deconstruction's Place in Western Thought: Philosophic and Figurative Language
… texts, showing the ways in which the language of those texts turns against itself, usually by playing on the contradictory relationship between the literal and figurative levels of the text. The history of the uneasy relationship between the literal and figurative levels of Western texts is …
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GLOBOCRACIA La Torre como Infraestructura de Esfericidades Entrelazadas
… Venturi: “An architecture which includes varying levels of meaning breeds ambiguity and tension”. La multiplicidad de significados es algo propio de la ciudad que el Hyperbuilding aspira a mantener, por lo que la tesis busca estudiar la tipología a partir de pares de opuestos que tensionan la …
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
The poetry of the Middle High German vernacular poet Heinrich von Meißen, better known as Frauenlob (ca. 1250/60–1318), is infamous for its hermeneutic difficulty, derived from the poet’s linguistic novelties and erudite use of intellectual source material. Recent scholarship has rescued the poet …
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Recontextualistion in the police station
… and change; it is central to police work. Officers routinely transform the words of the legal institution by explaining them to lay people and they routinely transform the words of lay people for institutional use. This thesis explores police officers’ transformations of written and spoken …
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Cruciform runes in the manuscripts of some Old English poems
<p>The point of view of the present study presupposes that OE runes—in their genesis a product of pagan Germanic times, replete with established phonetic and lexical levels of meaning—ought to be considered from the further perspective of their literal configuration as found in MSS, as well as in …
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Meaning and Function of Charles Stewart Parnell in the Writings of James Joyce
To any reader of Ulysses or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it is obvious that James Joyce makes extensive use of mythological patterns to organize his material and supply it with deeper levels of meaning. Why Joyce employs this method is explained by T. S. Eliot: | "In using the myth, in …
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Action identification in chronic pain: how do people construct meaning in action?
… Theory holds that every action has different 'levels' of meaning. High levels confer greater meaning and are preferentially sought but when the action is interrupted lower level identities with reduced meaning are elicited. The primary aim of this research was to develop a measure of action …
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Battling the Sophomore Slump: Involvement and Religious Participation
… the difference in means between a University of South Carolina sophomore students' level of involvement and levels of self-efficacy, meaning-in-life, and intent to re-enroll. Sophomore college students have less support than in their first year while struggling to develop purpose and declare a …
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Rewriting to reproduce beauty: a comparative case study of Hong Lou Meng
… is marked by aesthetic features that have often no direct equivalent in Anglophone literature. Delivering the beauty of a Chinese text to English readers is therefore challenging. This thesis uses the Chinese classical fiction Hong Lou Meng and its two translations – The Story of the Stone …
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Urtiin duu: performing musical landscapes and the Mongolian nation
… and especially common among mobile pastoralists of the central Gobi steppe. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2001, 2004, and 2006 in Dundgovi province and Ulaanbaatar, this thesis focuses on urtiin duu as a marker of regional and national identity. Urtiin duu signify various levels of meaning for …
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Drawing questions
… in are those that begin with our experience of the world. Specifically, the connections between an embodied subject, the environment and the different roles the senses play on the temporality of consciousness. Other enigmas that have occupied my mind are those regarding the relationship …
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Accurate and discernible photocollages
… images according to some tiling arrangement, often a regular grid, so that the combination of images, when viewed as a whole, resembles some input target image. Other techniques, such as Autocollage of Rother et al.[78], seek only to combine images in an interesting and visually pleasing …
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What is entrepreneurship? A phenomenological enquiry into the venture creation processes of a rapidly growing firm: The archaeology company
… and the empirical. This is both a reflection of the complex nature of entrepreneurship itself as well as the various levels of meaning that the research question ‘what is entrepreneurship?’ may have. The thesis argues that entrepreneurship research needs an alternative paradigmatic framework …
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The Memory of the Body and Other Stories
<p>This thesis is a collection of short stories written over the years 2002 to 2006. The short story is a genre that requires brevity. The short story writer, instead of treating the totality of human life, is forever, as Frank O'Connor suggests, selecting the point at which he can approach it. For …
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The impact of the joy in practicum education module series : a mixed-methods pilot study in identifying and cultivating joy as a social work practicum instructor.
… can cultivate joy within their roles in the professional development of student interns. Expanding on previous research of joy in various professions, the study examines both quantitative and qualitative aspects of joy in social work practicum education. The quantitative component address three …
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The Role Of Study Strategy Use, Meaning In Life, And Grit On The Academic Success Of University Students
… students perceive that they have a greater sense of meaning in their lives compared to poorly performing students. Additionally, students with greater perceived meaning in life de-value pleasure, value intelligence, responsibility, discipline, perceive that they use their time in a structured and …
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The Prehistoric rock art of Morocco.
This study aims to examine all aspects of Moroccan rock art and place it in an archaeological and environmental context. Almost 300 sites are now known but few have been studied fully. This work is the first overall analysis to be attempted. Data on climatic changes during the Holocene period, …
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