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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"research tool"”.
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Vixen: a games user research tool for collection and interactive visualization of usertesting data
… there is a need for an interactive visualization tool that can adjust data representation based on the nature and detail level of data required from different members of a development team. This thesis reports development efforts on a tool that assists data collection and provides a dynamic and …
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Misinformation as Material: Towards the use of cognitive psychology as a research tool for artists
… towards a PhD by Publication outlines research projects that draw on a personal fascination in the effects of the fictive - both its cathartic potential and its tendency to slip into darker territories that can cause harm to others. By exploring what happens when a fiction is believed …
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The Role of Autoethnography within Anthropology (How Self Narrative is a Useful Research Tool in Social Science)
… explores the potential of Autoethnography in researching and representing social and cultural phenomena with the self as central. Its primary contribution to the extant literature is to provide a robust analysis of literature and texts, which fall broadly under the Autoethnography heading in …
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Out of the box, into the bottle: an example of documentary film as a new research tool in the South African wine industry
… ways, including in the illustration of research in academia and as an educational tool in corporate contexts. Generation Wine is a feature-length research documentary created by Gosia Podgorska and myself between 2012 and 2013 and submitted as a Master's in Media Creative Production at …
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The nature and effectiveness of management control in small family businesses/
… matters for debate because the area is not well researched. This study is an interdisciplinary effort, drawing upon existing work in accounting and business management, as well as kinship relations and group process (social psychology). It views the small family business owner-manager as a …
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Examining and promoting mathematical connections with concept mapping
… and the efficacy of using concept mapping as a tool for promoting connections explicitly during instruction. Nineteen students in an elementary mathematics methods course constructed group concept maps for five topics covered in the course. In this study, concept maps were used as a research …
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UNM Shock Tube Modernization
… aspects and data quality aspects of this research tool have been found. To further advance the state of the art, it was necessary to address these limitations to allow the research to continue to push boundaries and discover new science.
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Seeking improvements in detailed design support for software development projects
… during software maintenance tasks. Existing tool support neglects important aspects of detailed design documentation for software systems. This work proposes a design for a novel research tool which provides improved support for the detailed design and documentation of software systems and …
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Placing the dead: the spatial distribution and spread of HIV in a major South African city
… the HIV infected and AIDS sufferers. Innovative research techniques such as the use of GIS (geographic information systems) as a research tool contributed to disclosing the patterns of the HIV pandemic in the Nelson Mandela Metropole that were not obvious or visible before. GIS involved …
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The questing spirit: listening to the silent voice of gay clergy in the Church of Scotland
This research arises from personal experience. The thesis is divided into two parts in order to reflect and symbolize the dichotomy which the subject of homosexuality, in general, and gay clergy, in particular, creates within the Church of Scotland. This thesis seeks to explore this dichotomy The …
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Instrumentation for Acquisition of Mechanical Evoked Potentials From the Hard Palate.
… the primary application of ERs remains as a research tool. 
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Identification of Novel CYP2E1 Inhibitor to Investigate Cellular and Exosomal CYP2E1-Mediated Toxicity
… potent DAS analogs which can replace DAS as a research tool or as potential adjuvant therapy in CYP2E1-mediated pathologies.</p>
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Design of an Automated, High-Throughput Optical Characterization Tool for Photovoltaics
… where performance improvements can be made. Researchers typically perform multiple measurements on each device using various manual characterization tools. This practice is ultimately time-intensive, inefficient, and expensive. This thesis documents the development of an automated, …
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A social representations approach to the comparison of three textual corpora using ALCESTE
… ismade of the method and its prospects as a research tool.
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Layout design for interactive zones in longwall multiple seam mining
… stress analysis is used as a powerful research tool to analyze complex multiple seam entry systems. Yield pillar use is also examined, in anticipation of their widespread application for ground control. Case examples support the research findings, and specific conclusions aim to assist …
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Effects of the Antiandrogen Cyproterone Acetate on Maturing Male Mice.
… made of antiandrogens, both clinically and as a research tool. They have been used for hirsutism and related problems in women (Cittadini and Barreca, 1977), diseases of the prostate, precocious puberty (Gräf et al., 1974), male contraception (Hammerstein, 1977) and the treatment of male sex …
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The Documentary imagination: an investigation into the performative application of documentary film in scholarship.
The aim of the research has been to discover new ways in which documentary film might be developed as a performative academic research tool. In reviewing the literature I have acknowledged the well-established use of observational documentary film making in ethnography and visual anthropology …
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Agriculture and Settlement in Medieval Husthwaite and Baxby, North Yorkshire
… Husthwaite’s court roll is used as the principal research tool in determining the field systems.
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