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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"means-end"”.
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Botanic Garden User Outcomes: A Means-End Investigation
… <p>Botanic Garden User Outcomes: A Means-End Investigation</p> <p>Christopher Lee Wassenberg</p> <p>This study explored the outcomes that <em>Leaning Pine</em> Arboretum users experience from visiting the botanic garden. Understanding visitor motivations and benefits has been a focus …
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Backcountry adventure as spiritual experience: a means-end study
… of informant subgroups was conducted based on gender, age, years of backcountry experience, type of activity leading to spiritual experience, and level of skill associated with that activity. A total of 18 HVMs were generated for analysis, two for the overall data and one for each of the 16 …
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Infants reason about functional information embedded in means-end sequences
… 1 shows that infants can reason about complex means-end sequences involving tools; and Experiments 2 and 3 both show that under some circumstances, infants can take into account functional information about the tool when making these sorts of inferences. Together, these studies extend previous …
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Taking the Spread... Values Guiding Sportsbook Mobile Application Choice: A Means-End Analysis Among Ontario Young Adults
… is increasingly important. This study applies Means-End Chain theory and uses qualitative laddering interviews to examine how sportsbook features connect to underlying consumer values among Ontario young adults. Through this approach, the research identifies the relationships between specific …
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The influence of occasion on consumer choice: an occasion based, value oriented investigation of wine purchase, using means-end chain analysis / by Edward John Hall
… of occasion as part of the theoretical model of means-end chain analysis is investigated, as well as the feasibility of occasion in the Olsen and Thach (2001) conceptual framework of consumer behavior relating to wine.
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Automated goal model generation from user stories using Large Language Models
… but struggles with intricate relationships like means-end and contribution links. Despite limitations, LLMs show promise in automating labor-intensive aspects of goal modeling, making the process more efficient. This research highlights their potential to support requirements engineers and …
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Relationships Between Religious Orientation and Academic Attitudes
… pursue higher education. The three dimensions (Means, End, and Quest) extracted from the Religious Life Inventory were compared to the six subscales (Intrinsic, Instrumental, Personal Development, External Pressure, Social Interest, No Better Option) of the Academic Attitude Scale to determine …
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Means to an end : marketing research on Icelandic cosmeceutical brands and consumers' motivations for purchase
… cosmeceutical industry. Study 2 applies the means end chain (MEC) theory to cosmeceutical purchases, and uses the laddering method to interview skin care consumers and explores what motivates them to buy Icelandic skincare brands in particular. A hierarchical value map (HVM) is constructed to …
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A Longitudinal Study of the Outcomes from Participation in Wilderness Adventure Education Programs
… and inspired, and develop a sense of independence. Participants developed a sense of growth and maturity from their experiences, which upon reflection led to a sense of accomplishment. This sense of accomplishment led to transference of program benefits and values into participants’ lives, …
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The impact of prescriptive planning models on preservice English teachers' thought and on the classroom environments they create: an ethnographic study
… planning model used. One used a rational means-end planning model -- the model most commonly taught to prospective teachers when they are first introduced to unit planning. This model encourages the teacher to develop a written unit plan with a rationale, objectives, activities, and …
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Does Collaboration Matter? A Paradigm for Practical Educational Research
… police trainers' thinking was characterised by a means-end rationality and a coyness about public debate of their values. Their practices of both teaching and policing had taken-for-granted aims. underpinned by a faith in certain knowledge and a piecemeal, technical understanding of competence. My …
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Orientation et croyances religieuse des parents catholiques ayant un enfant atteint d'un handicap
… et de l'orientation religieuses (« Quest, Means, End ») sur le processus d'adaptation à la naissance d'un enfant handicapé. Cent quarante-neuf parents des deux sexes (âge moyen : 40,1 ans) ont été invités à remplir certains questionnaires. Les parents d'enfants handicapés (N = 97), qui …
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Autonomy through real-time learning and OpenNARS for Applications
… usually captured by Reinforcement Learning, and means-end reasoning (such as Belief-Desire-Intention models with planner) to effectively utilize knowledge expressed by a designer.
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Beyond Episodic Memory: Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions to Problem-solving and Semantic Fluency Tasks
… in completing non-episodic tasks that are open-ended in that no algorithm or procedure can be applied to obtain task-relevant information. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were administered the Means-End-Problem-Solving (MEPS) task, an open-ended test of social problem solving. People with …
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Users' understandings of the virtual economy in social virtual worlds: consumption and entrepreneurship of virtual goods
… for users. The research consists of two independent essays. In the first essay about virtual consumption, I examine users’ understandings of virtual consumption through core-periphery analysis of its social representation. 154 Second Life users participated in the web-based survey for this …
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A Study of the Out-Of-Class Experiences of Saint Mary's College Students Studying in Maynooth, Ireland
… culture. As demonstrated through Spradley's means-end domain of semantic relationships, their roles as participant observers, interacting sojourners, and travelers afforded them opportunities to learn about the Irish culture.</p> <p>Contact with former participants in the Ireland Program …
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The values of ethical and responsible tourists
… in several areas – not only has it extended what is known and understood about ethical and responsible tourist’s motivation but it has also underlined the utility of the values concept to understand their holiday choice behaviour. Further contribution derives from the application of the …
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System-Theoretic Safety Analysis for Teams of Collaborative Controllers
… provides the necessary foundation to extend the state-of-the-art in hazard analysis, System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), to systematically address collaboration. First, a mechanism is developed to incorporate the nine collaborative control dynamics into STAMP control structure …
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Brand Defence: Consumers’ Word-of-Mouth Behaviour Towards a Loved Brand
… word-of-mouth, and/or brand advocacy to defend their loved-brands against criticism?’ In achieving the research aim, the study involved exploring, conceptualising, and measuring a novel construct in branding, namely ‘brand defence’ through the empirical study of consumers’ word-of-mouth …
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The University in the Knowledge Society: A Neo-Institutionalist Approach to the ‘Idea’ of the University
… reduces knowledge in the university to means-end and economic propositions. An alternative conceptualisation is proposed which offers an optimistic approach to the university in the KS, one conceived through presumptions by the neo-institutionalist school and coined ‘Knowledge …
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