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A Qualitative Approach to Agile Hardware Design
… designs. This thesis presents a comprehensive approach to Agile Hardware Design through three tools: BSG Pearls, BlackParrot, and ZynqParrot. All three projects are open-source, silicon-proven, and available for immediate use under a permissive BSD-3 License.Hardware designers can leverage …
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Exploring problematic online gaming: A qualitative approach
… their online gaming experiences. Consensual qualitative research was used to analyze the data. Eleven domains emerged from the data analysis: (a) antecedents to involvement in online gaming, (b) gaming activity, (c) character creation, (d) functionality, (e) perception of problematic gaming, …
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A Qualitative Approach to Rigid Body Mechanics
In order for a program to interact with the world as well as people do, we must provide it with a great deal of commonsense about the way things work. Reasoning about the geometric interactions and motions of objects is an important part of that commonsense. Some of the most complex problems we …
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Women's perceptions of birth centre care: A qualitative approach
The purpose of this exploratory study was to describe women's perceptions of the care they received in a birth centre, compared to their previous experiences in a hospital. Australian statistics indicate that five percent of childbearing women now choose to receive care in a birth centre setting. …
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Automatic Behaviour in Individuals With Narcolepsy: A Qualitative Approach
… journal (completed on minimal medication). Using qualitative methodology, a number of important features of automatic behaviour were identified. The current study provided an in depth analysis of the loss of recall associated with episodes of automatic behaviour and was able to define the types of …
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Design Thinking Across Different Design Disciplines: A Qualitative Approach
… literature proposed (Kimbell, 2011). This qualitative study explores the design process of professionals from different design disciplines, in order to understand the similarities and differences between their process and the design activities proposed by the design thinking literature. …
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A qualitative approach to understanding the study abroad experience
… abroad experience on selected students, using a qualitative approach. The participants in this study consisted of six full-time Rowan University students, during the spring 2012 semester. All six students had studied abroad for a full academic semester, within the last calendar year. Three …
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Pregnancy-Related Anxiety in Mwanza, Tanzania: a Qualitative Approach
Pregnancy-related anxiety is defined as fears and worries related to the health of the woman, the baby, the pregnancy, and delivery; it is a strong determinant of preterm birth and other maternal and infant outcomes. There is limited research on the mental health of pregnant women residing in low- …
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Empathetic Consultation Skills in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Qualitative Approach.
… to document these communicative acts, deductive approaches have generally been prevalent. This thesis reports on an inductive approach used to explore how empathy is perceived to be expressed in undergraduate medical education. The methodology used consisted of two phases. The first phase is …
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What makes a successful REIT? : a quantitative and qualitative approach
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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The Preparation of Faculty to Teach Online: A Qualitative Approach
This study used a qualitative approach to explore how faculty were prepared to teach online at institutions of higher education. Six participants, including experienced (with three or more years of experience teaching online) and non-experienced (with less than two years of experience teaching …
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Understanding nonresidential fathers’ involvement in their children’s education : a qualitative approach
Grounded theory methodology was used to study the involvement of eleven nonresidential fathers in their school-aged children’s education. Semi-structured interviews were utilized to gain information about nonresidential fathers’ involvement in their children’s education. The results of this study …
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Physician - Jewish family communication about futile medical treatment : a qualitative approach
The purpose of my research is to see how hospital physicians and Jewish families perceive their communication when further aggressive treatment of the patient is considered futile. Today's hospital physician has little time to get to know the patient and finds it easier to communicate with the …
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Wildlife value orientations: construct validity and a qualitative approach to measuring determinants
… studies, one quantitative in nature and one qualitative. Both studies revolve around the values people hold toward wildlife. Chapter I introduces the concepts surrounding wildlife values, provides a literature review, theoretical and methodological background, and organizational information. …
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Forgiveness in Northern Ireland : a qualitative approach to building a theoretical model
The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical understanding of the relationship between empathy, cross-community contact, and religiosity and the impact on forgiveness for Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Based on the existing literature, three distinct guiding questions …
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Perspectives of Catholic Latina mothers on female adolescent depression: A qualitative approach
… present study was a semi-structured interview qualitative study with self-identified Catholic Latina mothers with daughters between the ages of 8-18 years old. A moderator guide was used to ask questions related to yoga and depression using SCT domains, such as environmental, behavioral, and …
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A Qualitative Approach Toward Understanding the Transition from Career to Fulltime Motherhood
… an explanation of the methodological approach utilized in the current study is provided, in addition to the overview of a pilot study which exemplified potential themes, obstacles, and assets anticipated within the actual research. The case studies of four women chosen to represent …
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Exploration of the Meaning of Depression Among Psychologists: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach
<p>While depression is considered the most common mental illness regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, compared to research on the general population, depression among psychologists has received little attention. However, as they are one of the major mental health care …
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