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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"multiple meanings"”.
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Understanding heritage: multiple meanings and values.
… of the non-expert view of heritage and the multiple meanings and values that heritage represents within this context. The rationale for this research is based on the increasingly important role heritage plays within the wider visitor economy and the recognised interrelationships between …
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The Multiple Meanings of Domestic Violence: A Constructivist Inquiry
… responding.This inquiry is an exploration of the multiple understandings of the social problem domestic violence as understood by those who participated in the inquiry. The tentative findings, or lessons learned, are not to be understood as generalizable findings, but as the unique, co-created …
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The social construction of Jenolan Caves: multiple meanings of a cave tourist site
… thesis explores the relationships and resultant meanings that people have for the place of Jenolan Caves, the most visited cave tourist site in Australia. The aim of the research project was to: further our understanding of the social dimensions of caves tourism in order to comment on issues and …
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Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
… Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) carry many meanings, but by definition, they represent an intercultural encounter. This history of this encounter is often lost, overlooked, or obscured, and yet it has bearing on how the objects in the collection have been interpreted and understood. This …
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The Multiple Meanings of San Diego's Little Italy: A Study of the Impact of Real and Symbolic Space and Boundaries on the Ethnic Identities of Eight Italian Americans
<p>The literature suggests that identifying with a particular place can promote a sense of ethnic identity. This study focused on eight Italian American community members’ perceptions of San Diego’s Little Italy as both a container and creator of ethnic identity. The study addressed a) how the …
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Understanding the Meaning of Community Engagement for Aging in Place within a Social Capital Framework
… high concentration of active, older adults. The multiple meanings of community engagement within the creation of a place of age were investigated using concepts derived from a social capital framework. A place of age is where older adults are integral to family life, participate in community …
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A Constructivist Inquiry of Church-State Relationships for Faith-Based Organizations
… thoroughgoing manner.This research inquires into meanings assigned to opportunities and risks related to the public funding of faith-based organizations, as articulated by a variety of stakeholders, from government officials to the leaders of faith-based organizations. The guiding research …
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SCIENCEFRICTION: OF THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT, ABJECTION, AND THE BREACH IN MIND/BODY DUALISM
<p>This thesis investigates the multiple readings that arise when the division between the biological and technological is interrupted--here abjection is key because the binary between abjection and gadgetry gives multiple meanings to other binaries, including male/female. Using David Cronenberg’s …
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Indigenous Professionals' Experiences of Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Contexts
… findings highlight Indigenous ways of knowing; multiple meanings of the term professional; dynamics of power and status; relationships required for collaboration; policy and program factors impacting collaboration; and the suggestions offered by study participants to create a way forward. This …
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The Severed Son and other poems (Original writing)
… poem come, with all its sounds, plays on words, multiple meanings. I let it form into its own mode and tone, and then I look at it, listen to it. Sometimes a poem requires little revision, sometimes it requires much revision, but in the process, I attempt to allow the poem to become its own …
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Akteursperspektiven auf Beteiligung an der Stadtteilentwicklung
… participation in neighbourhood development, the multiple meanings und operationalisations of the term may cause misunderstandings. The objective of this study is to analyse and compare perspectives on informal participation in neighbourhood development in both theory and practice. Methods applied …
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On the disambiguation of meaning: the effects of perceptual focus and cognitive load
… (or exhaustive) account of activation whereby multiple meanings of a word are initially activated (as discussed in Degani & Tokowicz, 2009). But what happens to the non-selected meaning of an ambigious word (e.g., bark) and how is the decision made to select one meaning over the other? A great …
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Living reading: The mutual construction of spirituality and reading
… Reading Council, the author explores the multiple meanings of reading that emerged from the group's practice, to develop the notion of ""living reading."" The dissertation provides background on the historical contexts from which the reading councils developed and an overview of current …
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Word sense disambiguation in clinical text
… the ambiguity arising from a string with multiple meanings, is pervasive in language of all domains. Word sense disambiguation (WSD) and word sense induction (WSI) are the tasks of resolving this ambiguity. Applications in the clinical and biomedical domain focus on the potential …
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Competing Cues in Ambiguous Speech Comprehension: The Role of Visual Competition and Linguistic Context
… information to correctly comprehend words with multiple meanings. While it is well established that more common meanings are accessed more easily and that strong context supports disambiguation, less is known about how these cues interact, particularly when relevant visual information is …
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Rediscovering Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem
… and unconventional, because one sign may have multiple meanings. Compounding this complication are the many editorial errors in the published editions. David Rosen, in his critical edition, corrected many of these errors, and made additional editorial suggestions, but there are still numerous …
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Religion and Political Behavior: Studies of Political Tolerance, Voting, and Public Opinion
… a methodology that can adequately untangle the multiple meanings of religion. Using the technique of propensity score mathching, this dissertation breaks apart the three B's in a number of analyses in order to properly understand how behavior, belief, or belonging operates in isolation from the …
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The monumental turn: metonymic synergy between the Statue of Liberty and 'The New Colussus"
… to both artifacts, the study concludes that the meanings embodied in the Statue of Liberty’s structure have remained stable over time. The sonnet modifies the rhetorical intent of the statue and adds layers of meaning to the entire monument, including the concept of welcoming refugees to our …
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The Role of Medicinal Plants in New Zealand's Settler Medical Culture, 1850s-1920s
… was more diffuse and highly complex, moving in multiple directions, and adapting and incorporating multiple meanings
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