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Showing 1 to 20 of 537 for “"social life"”.
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The lion in Chinese space and social life
… images of the lion motif in Chinese space and social life. Drawing on textual, linguistic and archaeological sources, it addresses the fundamental problem inherent in the study of the lion motif in China, that is, why a foreign import was adopted, transformed and assimilated into an existing …
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Social life-styles in caterpillars: Behavioral mechanisms and ecological consequences
… and behavioral mechanisms connected with sociality in larval Lepidoptera. Data on social thermoregulation, larval communication, developmental benefits, and advantages of survival are presented to contribute to a better understanding of the evolution and maintenance of social systems in …
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Dogs’ participation in human social life: Furniture design for dogs
"A growing number of study has shown that dogs are considered as close family members and sometimes are embraced as surrogate children. With that, people like to provide them with the best affordable products in the available market. Before adopting a dog, the first thing that comes in one's mind …
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Collective innovation spaces in Shanghai : spatial patterns and social life/
… spatial pattern and made an impact on urban life. However, few systematic studies have been carried out to understand this spatial pattern and the mechanisms behind it. This thesis takes Shanghai as the study site. Using statistical model and spatial analysis, the study identifies several …
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How The Public Perception Of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life
… polarization for the quality of America’s social fabric. Specifically, I focus on two factors that are essential for social cohesion: social trust (generalized trust in fellow citizens) and cross-cutting contact (interactions across group boundaries). They serve as a social glue that binds …
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Social life in middle school: Peer rejection, behavioral style, and loneliness
… not only in behavior, but in loneliness and social concerns. Sociometric nominations, peer behavioral assessment data, loneliness and social dissatisfaction information, and responses to a newly-developed social concerns measure were obtained from 450 seventh- and eighth-grade middle school …
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The consequences of shift work : job performance, job satisfaction, and social life
… effects on the physical, psychological, and social well-being of the worker. In this thesis I examine the impact of shift work on 23 hospital female switchboard operators and 23 male porters in two different hospitals. Each of the 46 respondents in the study were interviewed in depth and …
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The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island
… offer an analysis of influences from political, social and economic factors or an improved understanding of the dynamics of capitalistic production expansion. The origin and transformation of tradition is invoked in attempts to explain the pervasiveness and power of historical temporality and …
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The impact of Covid-19 on social life in a traditional Maltese town
… at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on social life within the parish community of Saint Sebastian in Ħal Qormi. The issue was addressed through the perspective of community-based organisations which are active in the area, and associate themselves in some way or another with the parish. …
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The social life of adaptive development management: How CSOs turn policy into practice
Contains fulltext : 241538.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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A Social Life of Water: Water, Ownership and Society in a Himalayan Village
… at the overlap of Tibetan, Nepalese and global social spheres. A study of Tangshet therefore offers insights not only into the social life of Tangshet itself, but also into the social life of each of those societies, in different ways. The thesis describes aspects of Tangshet’s social life …
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Travelling objects, masking commerce : the social life of African objects in Cape Town
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 244-258).
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Constructing Community : class, privatization and social life in a Boston mixed income housing development
Social interaction among friends and neighbors is generally considered an informal process. Consequently, we often think of the structure of personal social networks as an expression of people's individual preferences. The observed homogeneity within social networks is often treated as a near …
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Disorganized Intimacy: Disability, Sexuality, and Social Life at a Disability Service Centre in Montreal, Quebec
… disabled people with independent living and social integration programs. Emerging from a deficit-model of disability, these programs are designed to mitigate the presumed social impairments of intellectually disabled people. Social skills training programs facilitate inclusion, purportedly …
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The Social Life of Death: Mortuary Practices in the North-Central Andes, 11th-18th centuries
… their dead, scholars can track changes in the social and cultural practices of ancient groups. This research has a multi-disciplinary approach that combines archaeological and ethnohistorical data. It investigates the ideology related to the use of tombs, within a framework of changing social …
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Food and Social Life in Puglia: A Comparison Family Food Worlds in Northern and Southern Italy
This thesis explores the role of food in northern and southern Italian culture. My goal is to point out the cultural differences between northern and southern Italy through the lens of food. This thesis also explains the geographical, historical and economic factors that have shaped modern Italian …
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The influence of madrasa education on the social life of ulamā : a case study of Islamabad, Pakistan
… contribute to the development of various social and political ideologies. The madrassa system is the most significant, directly impacting the socialization process. Therefore, the current study explores the impacts of madrasa education on the social lives of Ulamā in Islamabad, Pakistan. …
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Working at Home and Being at Home: The Interaction of Microcomputers and the Social Life of Households
<p>Not until the recent upsurge of interest in microcomputers and home work has attention been devoted to the household as a setting for technical learning and invention, or organizational and independent work. Drawing upon theoretical implications of research on industrial technology and the …
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