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Organizations, Occupations, and Inequality
… inequality. It explores how organizations and occupations contribute to and can help address patterns of social inequality. Each paper investigates a different aspect of social inequality within the workplace – from the micro-dynamics of social inequality in daily interaction (Paper 1) to how …
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The spatial clustering of occupations
Workers in similar occupations cluster, much like firms in similar industries. This may be due to firm clustering, but I propose a supply-side mechanism that may also provide an explanation. When workers face a risk of separation from a particular job, they will consider the other jobs available in …
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Confidence and mastery in mothering occupations
RESEARCH QUESTION Which mothering occupations are mothers of infants participating in when they notice feelings of confidence and mastery in their mothering abilities? ABSTRACT AIMS This study aimed to explore everyday mothering occupations that evoke feelings of confidence and mastery, with …
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Office occupations/word processing curriculum guide
… is to design a new course outline for the Office Occupations/Word Processing course for high school and adult students. Specifically, the course outline will serve students who are at least 16 years old. The content of the course consists of interpersonal and communication skills, …
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Contingent [re]occupations : residual urban morphologies
… thesis. Titled by this proposal as "secondary occupations," it is into the site of Boston's Back Bay as a collective prototype that these proposals of domesticity are placed. The basis of research is a mapping of the development of the Back Bay in terms of the "individual". This rationalization …
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Math requirements to perform selected occupations
… used in the performance of four selected occupations. This was compared to the mathematics levels generally required during the education and training for these selected occupations. The four occupations selected for this inquiry were: (1) family practice physician (2) finance officer (3) …
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Portability of Technical Skills Across Occupations
… of the study was to determine whether different occupations have portable technical skills, which graduates of workforce development programs can carry with them as they transfer from one occupation to another. Although in the literature the importance of portable skills has been recognized, …
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The measurement properties of the inventory of reading occupations: An assessment tool of children's reading occupations
… and clinical utility of The Inventory of Reading Occupations (IRO). The IRO is a self-report and interview questionnaire that aims to measure participation in reading occupations of children from kindergarten to third grade. This dissertation was comprised of two studies. The quantitative Rasch …
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Transition in Occupations of Refugees During Resettlement
… the impact of the refugee experience on the occupations of refugees as they transition to living in the U.S. Smith (2012) explored the adaptation of cultural weaving among Karen refugees to maintain their previous occupations and the impact of daily weaving on their lives within Western …
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Assistive Technology and the Impact of Occupations
<p><strong>Objective:</strong> The purpose of this research was to empirically examine the occupational impact of assistive technology - AT (with a specific focus on word prediction, text to speech and speech recognition) from the perspectives of the end user, family and school personnel (e.g. …
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Artificial intelligence impact on occupations and workforce
… without human intervention may transform occupations across the economy. My research seeks to assess how and where ML will affect the workforce. I extend the ideas of Brynjolfsson, Mitchell, and Rock (2018), who assess each task in the economy for its Suitability for Machine Learning …
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Automation and its impact on occupations and employment
Automation technologies such as industrial robots, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics threaten to dislocate a large number of workers, given their ability to perform many work activities. This thesis aims to give a complete overview of the effects of automation on employment and …
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Learning to Care: Adult Education and Gendered Occupations
This study concerns second chance education initiatives and gendered employment. The focus of the research is on women re-engaging in adult education who chose professional childcare as a vocational option. Childcare as a gendered, low pay, low status occupation yields poor rewards for women who …
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Engagement in occupations in persons with Multiple Sclerosis
… was to increase our knowledge of engagement in occupations in persons with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in order to develop client-centred occupational therapy and rehabilitation. In study I, observations of the performance of self-care and household occupations were pursued in 44 participants, and …
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Virtual Visitation: Promoting Social Occupations in Dementia Care
… PLwD residing in SNFs in meaningful social occupations.</p> <p>Reminiscence has potential to remediate effects of isolation and sensory deprivation among PLwD. (Nakamae et al., 2014) (Lohda & De Sousa, 2019). Ouslander & Grabowski (2020) have looked to virtual visitation as a potential …
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Regional employment change - task change, occupations and industries
… change and in understanding industries versus occupations as categories for analyzing the evolution of regional economies.
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Critical Requirements for Secondary Level Health Occupations Teachers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:48:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511868.pdf: 9932229 bytes, checksum: d100fb8f1acb3ef6edf198564fd6809e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Communications as a Factor in Agriculture Occupations Employment
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Exploring the impact of rape on women's occupations
… to describe the impact of rape on the occupations of women who have been raped. Data were gathered from participants who were clients at Rape Crisis, Observatory, through 4 unstructured focus groups and analyses to explore changes in their occupations. What emerged was that the …
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Playful Occupations: Mobile Creative Coding for Critical Consciousness
The transformative potential of technology is often championed as a catalyst for societal progress, offering pathways to address challenges and create more inclusive futures. Despite this optimistic perspective of technology as a force for positive change, it often falls short of expectations. As …
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