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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"social components"”.
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Hunting for leisure: The social components and historic foundations of American sport hunting
This project explores the place of sport hunting in human history, especially as it came to be expressed in the United States. Basic assumptions of cultural studies are pursued; it is assumed that human endeavor is marked by cryptic paths of power, that artifacts and behavior might usefully be read …
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Effective coordination of technical and social components during the design and launch of a new lean manufacturing work system
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Measuring the Effects of the TYC Gainesville Resocialization Program on Juvenile Offender Resiliency Levels
An analysis of the effects of resocialization programming on juvenile offender resiliency levels was conducted with 220 juveniles committed to a maximum security facility. Data were examined on the subjects' age, race/ethnicity, length of time at the facility, level of resocialization, and …
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EXTENDED LEARNING TIME THROUGH AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS:
… ASP including academic, enrichment, and social components. This study opens the opportunity for practitioners and researchers to further examine the relationship of attendance and grades (GPA) through documented time in specific treatment (activities).
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Teacher activist perceptions: should teacher education programs do more to encourage activism?
… teacher preparation programs ignoring critical social components that help new teachers navigate and succeed as professionals in a rather volatile environment? A single instrumental case study was utilized to examine the perceptions of teacher activists who participated in the Indiana Red for Ed …
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Racial distancing and sensitivity to stigmatization among future black professionals
… This mobility has historically been tied to both social and economic advancement. Whether advancement was subjective or objective, there was some form of distancing from the broader Black community. The three studies of the present dissertation used national and regional samples to test the …
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Human Dimensions of Young Forest Conservation Programs: Effects of Outreach, Post-Program Management, and a Coupled Systems Perspective
… an understanding of both the ecological and social components of these programs. Landowner program experiences and management decisions after program participation are important for long-term conservation, but these aspects of conservation programs are not well understood. To address this …
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Towards the development of culturally and contextually relevant model of coping for low income, urban, African American adolescents
… coping model based on cognitive, behavioral and social elements of coping. Cognitive components included cultural strategies such as prayer to accept problems and religious reframes. Cognitive components related to context include perspective taking in relationships with neighbors. The behavioral …
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Place Attachment as an Interactional Process: A Case Study of Isle au Haut, Maine
… Park. The purpose of this study is to uncover social components of both place attachment and place identity among island residents as well as explain the process by which those residents form attachments. Twelve interviews were conducted both on Isle au Haut as well as nearby Mount Desert …
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Scripts for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
… construction in e-learning scenarios. A social script aims to support specific interactions of learning partners. An epistemic script aims to facilitate specific task-related activities. In a 2×2-design the factors “social cooperation script” (with vs. without) and “epistemic cooperation …
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A Model of Workplace Anger Response Cycles
… focus, however, doesn't capture the significant social components of emotions including how their expression shapes the emotions, thoughts and behaviors of others (Hareli & Rafaeli, 2008; Parkinson, Fischer, & Manstead, 2005). The goal of this dissertation is to advance understanding of the …
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Explaining the India-U.S. Strategic Partnership: The Impact of Middle-Class Identity
Social-Cognitive identity is at partnership’s core. My dissertation explores an empirical puzzle of how and why did India and the United States form a strategic partnership in 2008. This bilateral relationship is puzzling because it appeared inconceivable to practitioners and theorists of …
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Using a practice lens to explore the social dimensions of biodiversity conservation
Consideration of the ‘social dimensions’ is increasingly gaining currency within the conservation community. A growing body of literature indicates the importance and influence people and societal practices have on the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation. As such, conservationists and their …
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Clothing satisfaction and self-concept of older women
… was utilized to measure physical, personal, and social components of the self. A frequency distribution was used to tabulate the data. A correlation analysis determined the relationships between clothing satisfaction variables and self-concept variables. The results of this study indicated that …
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Tourists' satisfaction with services
… complex phenomenon, with economic, technical and social components. Various typologies exist, which have implications for tourism planning.A survey (n=553) and qualitative interviews (n=24) contextualized by participant observation were conducted to explore internal tourists' value perceptions and …
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Advancing Sustainable Business Models For Social Enterprises: Conceptual Development And Empirical Insights [before doctoral defense]
Social enterprises with their dual value creation currently play a vital role in tackling social and environmental problems while contributing to economic development and fostering innovation. Although a substantial body of research exists on this subject, insufficient attention has been given to …
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Examining the Ecological and Social Implications of Parklets and Plazas Across Multiple Urban Scales
… of parklets and public plaza? And what are the social and environmental outcomes of constructing parklets and public plazas at a site-specific level and across larger urban scales? Previous research has examined the dynamics and components of public spaces in cities. This research builds upon …
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The effects of a structured educational human sexuality program on moral development and self-concept and the interrelationships between moral development and self concept
… program consisting of cognitive, emotional and social components. The control group was a general studies course on natural resources. Both classes met during the Winter quarter, 1981-1982. Pre- and posttesting was done during the first and tenth week, respectively. The evaluators entered the …
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Wocante Tinza : a history of the American Indian Movement
… was examined to determine its validity as a social organization within Indian society. To accomplish the task, the movement's social roles were assessed on four levels: the individual level, the social group level, the Indian societal level and the greater American societal level. Two main …
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The Elkins Distress Inventory : development of a brief biopsychosocial battery for the assessment of pain and psychological distress in a chronic pain population.
… reduced quality of life, and impaired social relationships. Thus, thorough assessment of pain should encompass physical, as well as emotional, cognitive, and social components of a patient's experience of pain. Such a comprehensive, biopsychosocial approach to the assessment of pain is …
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