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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"previous experiences"”.
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Risk perception: how previous experiences influence the assessment of risk by immigrants in South Africa
… intended to answer was: “How do immigrants’ previous experiences in their countries of origin, as well as their experiences in transit to and on arrival in South Africa, influence their risk perception?” A qualitative study involving 36 immigrants drawn from the rest of Africa and the Indian …
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An Analysis of Differential Responses to Racism
… groups. Contrary to my prediction, the amount of previous experiences did not influence the response chosen. Although members of different ethnic groups encountered different types of racist situations, there were no between group differences in the amount of similar previous experiences. Also, …
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Jacksonian Nationalist: Joel R. Poinsett's Role in the Nullification Crisis
… in South Carolina within the context of his previous experiences abroad. The work will analyze Poinsetts occupations before his role as leader of the Unionists in South Carolina to better understand his actions during the crisis. The work will also examine how his experience in the …
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A Library of Emotions
… an emotional reaction to a space based on previous experiences. This project is a discovery of how to engage the senses and the memory in order to evoke an emotive response.
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Designing digital storytelling for rural African communities
… By integrating ethnographic insights with previous experiences of designing these kinds of systems, we implement a method using cell-phones to localize storytelling and involve rural users in design activities– probing ways to incorporate visual and audio media in storytelling. Our mobile …
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Relationships Among Prospective Elementary Teachers' Beliefs About Mathematics, Mathematics Content Knowledge, and Previous Mathematics Course Experiences
… the constructs content knowledge, beliefs, and previous experiences of prospective elementary teachers. The 36 participants in the study, 35 females and one male, were recent graduates from a five-year Elementary Education licensure program at a major university located in the Mid-Atlantic …
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The behavioral effects of nonnutritive sucking on infants of differential fetal growth
… been hypothesized to both reflect the effects of previous experiences on behavioral organization and affect the infant's future behavioral development. In particular, the infant's pattern of sucking activity may not only reflect the integrity of the infant's nervous system, it may also alter the …
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A measure of the perceptions of students in elementary teacher education expressed in responses to filmed elementary classroom episodes
… Test with (a) overall grade point average, (b) previous experiences in teacher-learner activities, (c) a self-concept scale, (d) a classroom teacher's observation rating, and (e) final grades received at the completion of the teaching semester; and (3) comparing two different methods of scoring …
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Solidification and Stabilization of Contaminated Soil
… based on their advantages such as availability, previous experiences, costs and quality assurances. S/S has been found to be an effective method of remediation according to the various past and present Superfund projects. The study plan for this thesis involved bulk analysis and leachability …
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An Exploration of Change, Progression and Transition in, Through and Beyond Community Education.
This thesis sets out to examine the experiences of adult learners in, through and beyond community education. To interrogate this question a qualitative study was carried out using semi structured interviews with five adult learners at and two adult guidance counsellors were carried out. This …
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An investigation into the educational experience of students wtih a learning difficulty in a college of further education
… out and opinions elicited regarding current and previous experiences of college and school. It is contended that the experience of the students will initially have been constructed in an exclusive educational system where the individual/medical model of disability remains dominant. Key issues are …
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The Culture of the Reader, the Origin of the Text, and How Children Predict as They Read
… what the reader brings to the page in terms of previous experiences which are stored and structured as knowledge. Cross-cultural studies, particularly of children, are few, and generally focus on the subject's recall of text. This is a study in which four groups of children, Americans in the …
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Drawings and their media : means of architectural design exploration and expression
… of ideas stemming from the imagination and previous experiences, and are always mediated from the mind to the physical through representational means which include sketches, drawings, three-dimensional models, and verbal explanations. There have been studies of each of these means, and their …
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Resilience In Arab American Couples in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks on New York City: A Family Systems Perspective
… phenomenological method of inquiry to gather the experiences of Arab American couples in order to understand the protective processes of resilience. Couples reported fear and caution because of incidents of threats and violence against Arabs in the United States. Some couples described incidents …
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The Effectiveness of Social Plan Sharing in Online Planning in POMDP-type domains
… can be improved through the group-sharing of previous experiences and plans. Individual agents make use of a cache to map between beliefs and appropriate actions. Cache entries are shared between two types of agents using three different protocols: fullBlast, singleQuery, and nonExpert. Expert …
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Adaptive capacity & resilience to natural disasters in Latin America : a case study on the 2007 Ica, Peru earthquake
… from the co-evolution process may derive from previous experiences, preparedness, education, the development of previous relationships, and the capacity of improvisation. Furthermore, solidarity, self-organization and adaptation of agents in a community may further influence the ability to deal …
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The Effects of Caffeine and Expectancy on Short Term Memory
… to take into consideration the participant's previous experiences in using the drug as well as expectancies regarding their own performance when under the influence of caffeine. The results are examined and recommendations for future research are discussed.</p>
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Using a Three-Dimensional Model to Understand Age Differences in the Framing Effect
… to use their gut feelings, or to use their previous experiences to respond to two decision-making scenarios pertaining to treatment for lung cancer and a vaccination for a flu virus. Results revealed that, overall, the framing effect was present in the lung cancer scenario, but not the flu …
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Modeling the technical means to produce nuclear weapons for providing accurate decision-making timetables
… industrial strength, educational strength, and previous experiences with nuclear fuel cycle technology to assess that state’s capabilities and estimate a timeframe for that state to complete a nuclear weapons program. This body of research designates a governing equation for the model, discusses …
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