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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"power differential"”.
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Willingness to Influence Indication-Based Off-Label Prescribing: an Investigation of Hospital Pharmacists
… medication order. Based on the extended social power typology originally proposed by French and raven (1965), the study examined the role of relative expert power, perceived appropriateness, and perceived negative relational consequences on pharmacist's willingness to influence using rationality …
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Analysis of sourcing & procurement practices : a cross industry framework
… importance of the inputs and the supplier/buyer power differential. Lastly, this thesis identifies the factors that affect these options. Key Words: Procurement, Sourcing, Organizational Architecture, Corporate Strategy.
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Power management of series connected photovoltaic sub-modules using the element-to-virtual bus differential power processing architecture
State-of-the-art solutions to photovoltaic power management track the maximum power of a solar installation at the cost of processing 100% of this generated power. Differential power processing (DPP) has demonstrated maximum power point tracking (MPPT) of a photovoltaic system by processing a small …
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Knowing in Childbirth
… may want to include instruction on negotiating power differential in relationships encountered during childbirth, and to assess the expectant mother's view of birth and her expectations for birth. Schools of nursing should consider the inclusion of women-centered care curricula in schools of …
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Experimental and Computational Study of Roughened Surface For PWR Rod Bundles
… measurements of volumetric flow rate, electrical power, differential pressure, water and heated rod wall temperatures across the smooth and the ribbed surfaces. The team also developed and validated a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model using the Finite Element Method (FEM) to simulate the …
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The urbanization of insurgency : shifts in the geography of conflict
… of the ability of states, particularly great powers, to defeat insurgencies. During the same period, the world has become both more populous and more urban. As people have taken to the cities, so too have insurgents increasingly made battlefields out of urban areas. This study has sought to …
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Beyond Binary Digital Embodiment
… meaningless. In order to examine how this power differential between physical and virtual came to be, I engage with Katherine Hayles' evaluation of information as a disembodied entity. I argue that Hayles' humanist principles prevents her from fully understanding the experience of bodies …
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Taiwanese International Students in Clinical Supervision: A Phenomenological Study
… analysis led to four primary themes: <em>layered power differential, invisibility, language salience in acculturation, and humanizing practices</em>. Participants shared in-depth reflections about the challenges they confronted when their unique cultural identities were often overlooked in …
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(In)visible Systemic Injustice: A Qualitative Inquiry into Women’s Experiences of Gender Discrimination in the Canadian Military
… systemic issues relating to the gender power differential and systemic discrimination, lack of integration, and sexually inappropriate behaviour from members within the Canadian military. A total of 55 interviews were conducted with women who once served in the Canadian military to gain …
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GATEKEEPERS TO THE THIRD SPACE: AUTHORITY, AGENCY, AND LANGUAGE HIERARCHY IN FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
… in interaction, and the emergence of this power differential that inhibited the validation of multilingualism, and hybridity. Implications for mitigating instructor authority and promoting student agency in interactions with multilingual students are discussed.</p>
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An Examination of Power Differentials and Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian Relationships
… (Ristock, 2003). The current study examined power differentials and their associations with reported physical and psychological violence in lesbian relationships. Additionally, the study sought to determine whether power differentials predict physical and psychological violence within the …
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Deliberation as an Epistemic Endeavor: UMunthu and Social Change in Malawi's Political Ecology
… dominates others. By advocating for “the power of the better argument” Habermas (1984, 1998a, 1998b, 2001) provided room for adversarial debate which is not encouraged in the Malawi local governance system. This study analyzes the departure from the ideals supposed to inform development …
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Acquiring New Knowledge Through Art Self-Exploration and Collective Journaling to Enhance Cultural Humility in Art Therapy
… of art therapy. Cultural humility addresses the power differential and encourages the individual and institution to examine privilege within social constructs.</p>
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Clinical psychologists’ experiences of accessing personal therapy during training
… the supervisory relationship. This includes the power differential between a supervisor and supervisee, such as whether a trainee fears negative evaluation if they raise concerns or difficulties. Implications for training courses are discussed, including recommendations for supervisor training …
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Troubling creativity discourses: A Foucauldian feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis of the idea of ‘creative subjects’ in public texts and in the context of A level decision.
… and unchallenged in schools. This sets a power differential between masculine/powerful subjects associated with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) careers and feminine/less powerful subjects associated with the arts and humanities. Through a Foucauldian feminist …
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Full-Duplex Infrastructure Nodes: Achieving Long Range with Half-duplex Mobiles
… appears at its own receiver with very high power, desensitizing the receiver electronics and precluding the reception of a packet from a distant node. Recent research has demonstrated that full-duplex can indeed be feasible by employing a combination of analog and digital self-interference …
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"Believe Me!" : An Ethnography of Persuasive Interaction at the Farmers' Market
… the expert and the customer as the student. This power differential further encouraged customers to trust farmers' credibility and expertise. However, when farmers presented statistical and scientific claims, customers displayed more skeptical attitudes. In cases where customers were not simply …
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Trading in sexual currency: Transactional sex, sexual coercion and sexual behaviours among young people in Uganda
… along with unsafe sex and sexual coercion due to power differential in such relationships. The general aim of this thesis was to gain a detailed understanding of the range of ecological factors that influence HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among the youth in Uganda, with a special focus on …
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Integrating Play Into Work: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Building Work Engagement Through Play
… overall more pronounced than leaders, indicating power differential may be a factor in perception of play at work. The combined results from Study 1 and Study 2 provides an overview of how play is perceived by leaders and organizations (top-down) and how play is experienced and perceived by …
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Effect of Unequal Sample Sizes on the Power of DIF Detection: An IRT-Based Monte Carlo Study with SIBTEST and Mantel-Haenszel Procedures
… effect of unequal sample sizes on statistical power of SIBTEST and Mantel-Haenszel procedures for detection of DIF of moderate and large magnitudes. Item parameters were estimated by, and generated with the 2PLM using WinGen2 (Han, 2006). MULTISIM was used to simulate ability estimates and to …