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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"practice-based approaches"”.
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An investigation of the relationship between typography and audio-based communication in the urban environment, with particular regard to pedestrian wayfinding
This practice-based study explored the relationship between text-based messages and audio-based communication within the contemporary urban environment. Issues relating to signage overload and urban movement were identified at an early stage in this study, and pedestrian wayfinding was then …
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Urban densification, social capital, and domestic energy demand: Neighbourhood restructuring in Jinan City, China
… shaped and what influences them. Drawing from a practice theory perspective, this research aims to bridge this gap by capturing the households’ lived experience and energy use, in a restructured high-rise, high-density neighbourhood. This research focuses on the role of materiality in shaping …
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Thinking and creativity in learning mathematics teaching
… of teachers’ integration of knowledge and to practice-based approaches to teacher learning. Unlike previous studies on teachers’ professional knowledge, this research provides a micro-perspective on teachers’ responses to student utterances. Using extended dialogues from the classrooms of two …
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Reconsidering Similarity in an Agent-oriented Account of Scientific Modeling
… the stability and generalizability of static approaches with the flexibility and practical relevance of diachronic approaches. In this account, modeling is characterized by the use of a similarity relation for the purpose of surrogate reasoning. Many criticisms of similarity are based on the …
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Organizing Digital Innovation in Healthcare
… the healthcare sector, by drawing on process and practice-based approaches and by utilizing comparative field and longitudinal ethnographic methods, at three different hospital sites. Health care systems across the globe are under pressure, and digital innovation is seen as having tremendous …
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Learning in Contract Work: An Actor-Network Theory Study of the Solar Photovoltaic Industry
… unanticipated challenges emerging in everyday practice. However, much of the existing research on learning and contract work explores learning as individual acquisition or sociocultural participation. Few studies have investigated learning as enacted in practice; far fewer still have paid …
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A Travellers' Sense of Place in the City
… the camp’s Traveller inhabitants. It builds on practice-based approaches to place, centred on the notion of dwelling, but also critically departs from previous uses of this notion by demonstrating that ‘dwelling’ can occur in an intensely politicised and insalubrious environment. Therefore, I …
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Relationship Between Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Cancer: A Nested Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Study
… reporting standards and non-standardized practices, with a net consequence of low sensitivity. Publication bias commonly plagues medication safety reporting. Investigators are more likely to publish in scientific journals results that show safety concerns and suppress findings with …
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MULTIFUNCTIONAL EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF PRACTICES, TOOLS AND INNOVATIVE MODELS FOR THE LANDSCAPE AND AGROECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS: TRADE-OFFS AND SYNERGIES IN THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES FRAMEWORK
… ecosystem functions. Among the agroecological practices, agroforestry is a recognised, viable, multi-purpose rehabilitating strategy to reduce current environmental externalities of agriculture. To properly address these issues, the monitoring of the effectiveness of mitigation and …