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Showing 1 to 20 of 424 for “"reflexivity"”.
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Reflexivity: A first demonstration
<p>Currently, the emergent relation of reflexivity after training a set of baseline relations has not been demonstrated with any animal—human or nonhuman. True reflexivity can only be demonstrated if no identity (i.e., physically matching stimulus) relations are trained. In six experiments, the …
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Reflexivity, elementary operators and cohomology
… introduce a new concept called "bounded reflexivity" for a subspace of operators on a normed space. We explore the properties of bounded reflexivity, and we compare the similarities and differences between bounded reflexivity and the usual reflexivity for a subspace of operators. We …
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Stable invariant subspaces, reflexivity, and BMO
… some new results in Hadwin's general version of reflexivity and apply them in the classical cases. We prove that the image of any C*-algebra under any bounded unital homomorphism into B(W) is approximately reflexive, where W is a Banach space. We also introduce two new versions of reflexivity, …
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Democratizing Refugee Governance Through Critical Reflexivity
… to investigate how the practice of critical reflexivity can lead to the creation of democratic spaces for refugees/IDPs to enact protection preferences. The first case analysis argues that Sarvodaya Shramadana's Deshodaya initiative in Sri Lanka has enabled IDPs in that nation to embrace …
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Reflexivity and whole brain thinking : An exploration.
… exploring the synergistic combination of reflexivity and whole brain thinking. The two theories are not competing theories but nor, at this time, are they seen as mutually synergistic theories. In the thesis these two theories that have been used before by others as separate entities are …
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Subjectivity and reflexivity in an 'exemplary' virtual team
This thesis discusses the findings of a 'virtual' ethnography of a 'virtual team' of teleworkers called 'FlexiTeam'. The concept of teleworking refers to workers who use Information and Communication Technologies to work flexibly in time and space. A 'virtual team' is a group of teleworkers …
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Examining One's Own: Reflexivity and Critique in STS
The principle of reflexivity, as laid out by David Bloor (in Knowledge and Social Imagery) poses serious challenges to STS - while STS analysts attempt to show the partiality of scientific claims, they simultaneously offer those analyses via authoritative pronouncements in scientific language, …
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Exploring audience responses to self-reflexivity in television narratives
Self-reflexivity refers to "the process by which texts, both literary and filmic, foreground their own production, their authorship, their intertextual influences, their reception, or their enunciation" (Stam, 1985, p. xiii). This paper expands Olson's (1987) framework for discussing self-reflexive …
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Animating Community: Reflexivity and Identity in Indian Animation Production Culture
Animating Community examines the cultural practices of animators in India, and particularly the role of practitioner testimony in conceiving and negotiating social structures underpinning the nascent Indian animation industry. Recognizing a tendency in practitioner accounts towards theorization of …
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Reflecting team supervision (RTS): reflexivity in therapy, supervision and research
… become less critical as supervisors develop reflexivity and incorporate these two phases into their typical supervision process.
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"Very Sumba": New Forms of Regional Cultural Reflexivity in Eastern Indonesia
… also necessitates being aware of others - self-reflexivity is just a part of the story. In an account about fame related to kula, Nancy Munn wrote, “When shells are lent out to be worn by someone else, the owner's self-decoration is, in effect, detached from him and made public by another. The …
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'A Bridge Over the Chasm': Rhetoric and Reflexivity in Housing Advocacy
… homelessness arena. Through a lens of critical reflexivity, I identify interlocking structural conditions, or “blueprints,” that constitute housed rhetoric and relations. I propose adapting a series of existing action-based tools to unpack these blueprints and support inclusive, collaborative …
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The human lefts series: postmodern self-reflexivity and post -independence Singaporean theater
… significant contribution to the study of self-reflexivity.<br/><br/>More relevant issues to the postmodern Singapore include the current political situation, alternative sexualities (homosexuality and transexualism explored in the Human Lefts Series), and the effect of 'cloning' and …
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Making our way through multilingualism – reflexivity and decision-making of language students
This thesis investigates reflexivity and decision-making of language students by examining the interplay between what students care about (their multilingual ‘concerns’), and how they understand and act on their structural environments (through multilingual ‘projects’). The research is based on a …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
… brief outline of critical treatments of Fowles's reflexivity, identifying two broad approaches. The first of these suggests that a reflexive aesthetic is a means, for Fowles, of remaining within a realist frame in an age of epistemological scepticism about the validity of its premises. The second …
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Possibilities for patchwork eportfolios? Critical dialogues and reflexivity as strategic acts of interruption
As a stratified social space Higher Education’s linguistic ‘habitus’ (Bourdieu, 1991) or ‘everyday use’ of literacy valorises and legitimates essayist literacy and its monologic addressivity, a discursive arena where, “it is the tutor’s voice that predominates, determining what the task is and how …
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Organizing for knowledge: tales of reification, resilience, and reflexivity in knowledge production management
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