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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"multi-dimensionality"”.
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‘It’s just so much work for our little hands’: Exploring the multi-dimensionality of pre-school children’s lived experience in shaping expressions and perceptions of learning.
This thesis creatively explores the multi-dimensionality of pre-school children's lived experience in shaping expressions and perceptions of learning within Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Concepts of ECEC practice within England continue to be shaped by the lasting legacies of those …
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Some fundamental issues in item response theory with applications
… 4, explores procedures for assessing latent test dimensionality. In Chapter 2, the structure and theoretical properties of conditional item pair covariances given a latent composite are thoroughly investigated. Such information is useful because estimates of such conditional covariances form the …
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The nature and outcomes of work-family enrichment
… 336). Exploratory factor analysis evidenced the multi-dimensionality of work-family enrichment, its bi-directionality, and its distinctiveness from work-family conflict. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that work-to-family enrichment explains a significant proportion of the …
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Sustainability index for integrated urban water management (IUWM) in southern African cities : case study applications : Greater Hermanus region and Maputo City
… developing the Sustainability Index (SI) for a multidimensional assessment of urban water systems. In this research, an analysis of the current problems facing developing cities, particularly in Sub-Saharan countries, was undertaken. This was done so as to provide some insight into the current …
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A Comprehensive Ordinance: A Biblical, Theological, and Formational Case for Threefold Communion
… best, and most beautiful way to picture the multi-dimensionality of the triune God’s redemptive work in history, his ongoing refining work in our lives, and his promise of coming renewal and consummation. Threefold Communion gives us the best practice because it contains past, present, and …
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Organizational legitimacy of nonprofit service organizations engaged in HIV prevention among women
… and Pfeffer, 1975). This study oxamines the multi-dimensionality of organizational legitirnicy in a comparative case study of nonprofit service organizitions (NSO’s) which provide HIV education and support services for women. Processes of seeking organizational legitirnacy are identified and …
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Beyond the notion of performance anxiety: a phenomenological exploration of the lived experiences of anxiety for elite Egyptian tennis athletes
… These four themes reveal the complexity, multi-dimensionality and individuality of the anxiety experience for these athletes that opens up the rite de passage for incorporating counselling psychology using an existential approach to meet the existential needs of athletes. Its implications …
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Positivity preserving solutions of partial integro-differential equations
… large range of variables, non-local phenomena, multi-dimensionality, and physical constraints. All of these issues ultimately determine the accuracy and solution time for a given problem. Typical solution techniques are designed to handle every system using the same methods. And often the …
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Maternal Guilt: An Existential Phenomenological Study of the Early Experiences of First-Time Mothers
… of responsibility, feelings of being divided, multi-dimensionality of guilt with other emotions, pre-verbal miscommunication, anxiety over the unknown in the beginning, and social expectations and comparisons. The findings suggest that the process of embodied reflection regarding a new mother's …
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DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCT VALIDATION OF HOGAN’S RAW MODEL OF EMPLOYABILITY: THE WILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD COMPONENT
… Hard</em>, the W in the model, appears to be multi-faceted; a qualitative synthesis of themes suggests that the construct may be dispositional. I examined proactive personality by using the G ProACT scale to help understand the multi-dimensionality of <em>Willingness to Work Hard</em>. …
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Lesbian adolescents' narratives of identity : a participatory photovoice project
… a risk paradigm is problematic, as it erases the multi-dimensionality of lesbian lives and identities. This study aimed to shift away from a risk paradigm and allow young lesbian adolescents to represent their own lives and identities. This study therefore investigated how young lesbian and …
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Using diffractive activity to (re)configure parental choice of pre-compulsory education
… methodology facilitated an exploration of the multi-dimensionality of each parent’s lived experience. It allowed for flexibility within the research process that used open interviews to follow the narratives of six sets of parents while they were thinking about and making different educational …
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Multi-dimensional personhood and the welfare state
… with welfare will recognise and seek to honour a multi-dimensional understanding of human personhood. Thus, a theological understanding of human persons will recognise their created, material, agential, sinful, relational, transcendent, and creative nature, as well, in particular, as their …
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The Social Cognitive Model for Computer Training: An Experimental Investigation
… The data were analyzed using a combination of multivariate and univariate analyses of variance and a structural equation modeling software package, AMOS©. Five of the original nine hypotheses from the Compeau and Higgins study were fully supported; however, none of the task complexity and only …
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Modelling prognostic trajectories in Alzheimer’s disease
… is a long and protracted process that involves multiple pathways of disease pathophysiology. Predicting these dynamic changes has major implications for timely and effective clinical management in AD. There are two reasons why at present we lack appropriate tools to make such predictions. First, …
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On Strategy and Manufacturing Flexibility
… appears to transcend disciplinary boundaries, a multi-disciplinary perspective is also advocated. Thirdly, due to the multi-dimensionality of the concept of strategy as well as flexibility, a multi-methodological approach appears to be advantageous in the pursuit of research within this field.
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Identification of natural TSC-Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (TAND) clusters
… Neuropsychiatric Disorders) to capture the multidimensional concerns seen in TSC, and recommended that each person with TSC should be screened for TAND every year. To facilitate the process, a TAND Checklist was designed. Many professionals and families feel overwhelmed by the complexity of …
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Powered Mobility Devices in a Nordic Context: Service Delivery, Effectiveness and Methodological Development
… frequency scales of the NOMO 1.0 identified unidimensionality for the first scale and multi-dimensionality for the other. However, further psychometric testing is required for the NOMO 1.0 regarding the validity. As for the SATS, the instrument needs to go through a basic investigation of its …
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A Reference Model and Architecture for Future Computer Networks
… fashion out of CORM NCs. CORM addresses the multi-dimensionality of computer networks by modeling the network structure and behavior using a network structural template (NST), and an information flow model (IFM), respectively. Being developed according to a complex system paradigm, CORM …
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Seven dimensions of consumption
… of the integrative, context-sensitive, and multi-dimensional Consumer Motivation Scale (CMS). The CMS is based on the three higher-order master goals of goal-framing theory: the gain goal (“to guard or improve one’s resources”), the hedonic goal (“to feel better right now”), and the …
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