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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"refusals"”.
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English
Using the speech act of refusals and formulaic language as focuses of analysis, this thesis aims to explore whether or not grammatical proficiency and development is distinct from pragmatic proficiency. The data were collected from 36 Thai EFL learners at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, …
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Requests and refusals in English and Chinese
… of power and distance, except for the fake refusals. I have proposed the approach of liräng/giänräng/ciräng along with Spencer-Oatey's (2005) explanation for the fake refusal phenomenon. In the analysis of cultural influences, I draw on Kroeber and Kluckholn (1952) and Triandis' (1994) …
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Indirectness in request refusals : differences between Americans and Japanese
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Communication, 2005
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Township refusals (for containment): engaging the cultural production of Sepitori s Amapiano through a Black (Sonic) Studies curatorial lens
… ontologies is investigated through township refusals read in the innovations of Amapiano, embedded within Pretoria's sociosonic cultural character.
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Cultivating Agricultural Resistance: Alternative Farming as Slow Modernity
… an understanding for how consumption centered refusals can be co-opted by corporate interest. Part III seeks out contemporary refusals that go past \'green consumerism\' and foster a "new sensibility" that is grounded in a sense of place, ecological cooperation with nature, and refuses …
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Talking about rape: a discursive study of convicted adult rapists' accounts of rape
… articulation and appreciation of sexual refusals and negotiations through their ability to ‘hear’ sexual refusals which did not involve the word ‘no’ - reinforcing the subtle nature of sexual communication. These findings highlight that ‘knowledge’ of rape myths needs to be contemporised …
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The Effects of Graduated Exposure, Modeling, and Contingent Social Attention on Tolerance to Skin Care Products with Children Who Have Autism.
… in a step independently, without excessive refusals. A changing criterion design and a multiple baseline were employed to evaluate effects of this treatment package. Children demonstrated more positive and fewer negative responses as they completed the graduated steps. Effects maintained in …
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Addressing adolescent religious manifestations within medical decision-making
… with parental authority to override competent refusals if it appears that such refusals are not in the best interests of the minor. <br/><br/>This research project is concerned with the extent of judicial recognition of adolescent decisional autonomy, the adequacy of consideration of a child’s …
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Characterization, drivers, and outcomes of picky eating behavior in the STRONG Kids 2 longitudinal birth cohort study
… patterns of mealtime behaviors and food refusals; 3) determine the relationship between longitudinal patterns of picky eating behavior, as it is perceived by caregivers, and their potential driving factors including age of introduction to solid foods (ISF), parental feeding practices, and …
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The Effective Educator: Reshape the Quality of Teachers' Instructional Practices with the Implementation of Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching
… to the quality of teaching and learning. Excuses/refusals to own the data indicated that teachers experienced difficulty making the critical connection between their instructional practices and its impact on students’ learning. Danielson’s Framework for Teaching was implemented to determine if …
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Mommy's Tired
… five years of marriage, and despite his initial refusals, she convinces her husband Jeremy to get a vasectomy. Consumed by questions of what she really wants, Odette decides soon after to get artificially inseminated, because though she doesn't want a child with Jeremy, she wants something to …
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Lying: Strategies to Manage Undesirable Communicative Situations in Japan and New Zealand
… by focusing on specific situations involving refusals, what types of lies—or untruthful excuses—people use, how lies are employed between different cultural groups, and how culture influences the use of lies in conversation. For this purpose, lies used in refusal conversations—one …
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Measurement of Adolescent Psychopathy: Construct and Predictive Validity in Two Samples of Juvenile Offenders
… violations (fighting, seclusions, and treatment refusals) and community supervision (probation contacts, drug testing, and re-arrests) are operationalized and measured in order to examine the predictive validity of adolescent psychopathy. Results of construct validity offer modest support for the …
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Utilizing near-infrared technology to assess changes in corn silage dry matter and the effects of feeding a starling resistant supplement to dairy cattle
… was recorded daily. Feed ingredients, TMRS, refusals, and milk samples were collected the last 3 d of each period for analysis. TMRs and refusals were analyzed for particle size distribution with a Penn State Particle Separator. The pelleted supplement had a higher (P<0.05) percentage of DM …
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The Effect of a Study Abroad on Acquiring Pragmatics
… speakers in the US. Especially in regard to refusals, what is acceptable in America is rarely acceptable in Arabic speaking countries. There are very few occasions when refusal of an offering of food or other hospitalities is acceptable. Arab culture requires one to provide family members …
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Isililo sikaNandi: imagining dithyrambic dirge to performatively score the precarity of blackwomnhood
… experiences of ruptures, reckonings and refusals.
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… projects that centre various forms of labour and refusals of labour within different kinds of art institutions. By examining forms of labour that retain gendered connotations such as security and janitorial work, I interrogate and complicate gendered labour conditions and experiences of gender …
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Building Reliable AI under Distribution Shifts
… introduce new vulnerabilities. We analyze false refusals in safety-aligned LLMs, demonstrating that misaligned decision boundaries lead to excessive conservatism at test time. We also explore retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models, showing that despite their promise, they can introduce new …
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Valerie Desmore s refusal(s): art practice as biomythography
… of a visual trajectory marked by a series of refusals and her own avant-garde style. Using ‘encumbered methodology' the thesis centres the artist's agency as well as her legacy, as prerequisites for any meaningful undertaking of art-historical writing. As such, the methodology and theoretical …
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Role of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in reducing injecting drug use-related harm: evaluating accessibility, utilisation, coverage and selected health impacts
… The MSIC service model was accessible, with few refusals of entry, high levels of client satisfaction and limited non-use for reasons relating to the model. MSIC engaged high risk IDUs - regular injectors, sex workers, and those injecting in public places and shooting galleries - who were also …
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