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Showing 1 to 20 of 408 for “"social groups"”.
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The economics of social groups
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Visual perception of social groups in zebrafish
Many animals live in groups and often make decisions based on the behaviour of others, integrating information coming from multiple social partners. The number of conspecifics performing a given action is often a key determinant of individual behaviour. Accordingly, the nervous system must extract …
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Language: A Bridge or Barrier to Social Groups
… acts as either a bridge or a barrier to social groups dependent upon the individual’s effective use of a social group’s language. The individual uses the language of the group in order to join the group and to be understood by the group. This suggests that language is behavioral in part …
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Human social groups: A cybernetic account of stability and instability
… were: i) to show that some informal htiman groups are stable; ii) to discover the processes underlying this stability. A third, implicit, aim was the adaptation of cybernetic methodology to small group studies. It was felt that a systems approach would provide a formal, but flexible analytic …
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Social Network Size: The Effect of Construal Priming on Social Groups
… their relationships with other people and how social groups are structured. Study 1 provided a baseline for the number and types of social groups that individuals construct as their social network. Studies 2 and 3 examined whether construal mindset changes the way people sort their …
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Facilitating Giving and Receiving Support in Existing Social Groups with a Journaling Chatbot
… giving and receiving support within existing social groups. Surveys and interviews were conducted to evaluate the suitability of journaling prompts for use by the chatbot. A 2-week in-the-wild study was conducted with 4 groups of 4-6 friends (n=20). Twice a week, the chatbot asked a personal …
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Inter-individual variation within social groups: how metabolic rate shapes the pace of life
… rate might play in shaping division of labor and social evolution. Building on this work, we leveraged the well-characterized differences in MR associated with 'F' ('fast') and 'S' ('slow') malate dehydrogenase (MDH) alleles to breed homozygous genotypes of bees expressing high (FF) and low (SS) …
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Rebels, Wanderers, and Castaways: Characterizing Small Social Groups in the Literature of Empire, 1849-1914
… argue that literary representations of small social circles create distinct narrative shapes and modes of characterization. The small groups that shape these texts generate an ambivalent dynamism of small circles that offers modes of resisting, renegotiating or extending models of authority in …
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Capacity Building in Income Generating Activities among Old Aged Social Groups in Ngarenaro Ward, Arusha
… irresponsible drinking of local brews and other social ills. The implementation of this project managed to strengthen MWANGA group members through community sensitization, training of group members in various intensive vocational skills and expanded market for selling traditional handmade items. …
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The use of traditional weather forecasting by agro-pastoralists of different social groups in Bobirwa sub-district, Botswana
… agro-pastoralists of different age and gender groups. Interventions by the government can be redirected to traditional leaders or elders who bear extensive knowledge on traditional weather indicators to create awareness and facilitate knowledge exchange especially in aiding agro-pastoralists to …
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The impact of social groups and content on the maintenance of health behavior practices over a one-year period
… prior research indicates that being part of a social network or having access to social group support can help individuals decrease the level they practice negative health habits and increase the level they practice positive health habits. Thus, an understanding of social group support on the …
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How Does Sport Team Identification Compare to Identification with Other Social Institutions?
As social beings, people naturally form identifications with various social groups within their environment. Individuals gain benefits by forming identifications with groups, such as increased self-esteem and psychological support. Past research has examined the identification people form with …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… for nation building and the survival of cultural groups that have always depended on those environmental areas accessed for commercial development. This thesis is about social groups and their relationship with natural resource development projects. It hopes to contribute to the understanding of …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… for nation building and the survival of cultural groups that have always depended on those environmental areas accessed for commercial development. This thesis is about social groups and their relationship with natural resource development projects. It hopes to contribute to the understanding of …
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A sociographic study of student groups
The present investigation is one of social groups and not of the individuals who make up the groups. The aim was to obtain information about a fairly large number of groups and to attempt to express differences between groups, in quantitative terms. The small, selective sample of students are of no …
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The Psychological, Sociological, and Cultural Aspects of Professional Wrestling as Soap Opera.
… audience by allowing the participants to form social groups that include specific cultural elements as well as social support.</p><p>Gender differences, violence in society, social groups, and crossing racial and income barriers are also examined.</p>
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Construction of Hong-dae cultural district : cultural place, cultural policy and cultural politics
… Seoul has involved the mobilisation of various social groups and triggered the (re)institutionalisation of the meaning of "the cultural". It seeks to explicate how a cultural policy project can stimulate the emergence of social groups, which challenge existing policy provisions and laws and lead …
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Diet and Behavior of Ancient Maya: Using Dental Wear Patterns
… access to both resources and food. Ancient Maya groups from the Upper Belize Valley during the Classic period (700- 900 years ago) demonstrated distinct social stratification and possibly differential food access. Although direct dietary observations are not possible for past populations, because …
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Bioacoustic classification of Hainan gibbon call types using deep learning
… and deforestation. The Hainan gibbons live in social groups and the ability to discriminate between the group is useful for tracking migration patterns, population management, and identification of new groups. Currently, there has not been any study which attempts to distinguish between the …
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A Digital Field of Dreams: The Social Construction of Distance Education Programs at Public Universities
… they are designed and implemented within a social environment which affects the program's design and ultimate achievements. This would imply a need for a better understanding of how different social groups involved in distance education program design and implementation interact during the …
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