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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"social relationship"”.
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Family networks and life in Southeastern China
This thesis examines social relationships and patterns of social interaction in contemporary rural China with a network perspective. Based on first hand data collected in southeastern China by the method of anthropological fieldwork, it tries to understand peasants' social behavior in the context …
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Social and Occupational Attitudes of High School Guidance Counselors Toward Physically Handicapped Individuals (Illinois)
This study examined relationships between social and occupational attitudes of high school guidance counselors toward physically disabled, plus effects of referring to specific disabilities (blindness, amputation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy) upon those attitudes. From a pool of 1501, 357 Illinois …
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The root of all evils: creation science and the fundamentalist mission
This work examines creation science and its relationship to American Protestant fundamentalism. The thesis argues that scientific creationism is inextricably linked to American Protestant fundamentalism. More specifically, this thesis demonstrates that creation science is a direct historical …
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Physically animated desktop computer for ergonomic & affective movement
… motion, RoCo can now also begin to build a social relationship with the user and affect his affective state. This thesis describes the workings of RoCo and the results of an initial user study to produce affective movement.
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SOCIAL NETWORK INFLUENCE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING BEHAVIORS: THE ROLE OF PROXIMAL AND DISTAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ON TEXTING WHILE DRIVING
… messages while driving during the last 30 days. Social Norms Theory suggests that individuals are influenced by perceptions of how their social groups act; however, a gap in the literature persists for what degree different types of social relationships influence TWD. This dissertation included …
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Can Kids be too Happy in School? The Optimal Level of School Satisfaction
… levels of SS across academic achievement and social-relationship outcomes using archival data collected in a one-year longitudinal study of middle school students. Several regression analyses similar to that of Oishi, Diener, and Lucas (2007) were conducted. The analyses demonstrated that …
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Talking to Strangers: The Use of Stories as Guides to Intercultural Encounters by the Archaic Greeks and the Hudson’s Bay Cree
… a world without writing, sharing and maintaining social memory through oral storytelling. Since both were enterprising, well-travelled peoples, they became involved in meetings with other groups of completely unfamiliar language and culture: strange others. To manage these intercultural …
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An algorithmic approach to social networks
Social networks consist of a set of individuals and some form of social relationship that ties the individuals together. In this thesis, we use algorithmic techniques to study three aspects of social networks: (1) we analyze the "small-world" phenomenon by examining the geographic patterns of …
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Contexts of Exchange and the Pricing of Art
… examines the pricing of visual art, the social process through which people arrive at a price for a work of art. The emerging literature on pricing suggests that a diversity of approaches to pricing exist even within the same firm or industry. Through interviews and field observation with …
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The relationship between enjoyment and ongoing participation in A Grade dancesport
… theme that emerged from the data was that of "social world". Participation in this world creates enjoyment and whilst they are enjoying their sport they wish to continue competing. Enjoyment sources were related to the physical (increased fitness), mental (the challenge of competition), and …
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Necessidades de familiares da pessoa internada em unidade de terapia intensiva: uma perspectiva compreensiva para a humanização do cuidar
… me the opportunity to establish professional relationship with ICU patients' family members. Those acquaintances allowed me to experience situations that led me to the accomplishment of this study. I sought to understand the assistance needs of ICU patients' family members in order to analyze …
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Becoming a father / refusing fatherhood: how paternal responsibilities and rights are generated
… of genetic relatedness within the father/child relationship. In doing so I utilise a novel ‘empirical bioethics’ approach, in which I use specifically gathered qualitative data to inform the philosophical debate. I present qualitative data, gathered over 12 focus groups, which explores men’s …
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The relationships among the socialization behaviors used by supervisors, socialization outcomes, organizational commitment, and work outcomes among newcomer employees in three large companies in Korea
… within the organization. Newcomer organizational socialization (NOS) is the key process for integrating new employees into the social context of a workplace. It encourages new employees to be fully functional in the organization. Previous research suggests that the nature of interactions with …
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Synthetic social relationships for computational entities
Humans and many other animals form long term social relationships with each other. These relationships confer a variety of benefits upon us, both as individuals and as groups. Computational systems that can form social relationships like those formed by animals could reap many of the benefits of …
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Land tenure and agrarian social structure in Ethiopia, 1636-1900
… of private property in land exclusively held by social elites) and zéga (a hitherto unrecognized serf-like laborers), I explore the economic and social relationship between rulers and ruled that defined political culture in premodern Ethiopia. As a norm rim derived from confiscated peasant …
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Art and Architecture: Democratising and Conceptualising Artistic Space in Cape Towns De Waterkant
This investigation focusses on the relationship between art and architecture, as investigated through conceptual and social lenses, to culminate in the design of an inclusive arts centre in Cape Town's De Waterkant, as a gentrified, layered urban context. Firstly, the relationship between art and …
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Stress And Social Relationships: The Role Of Corticosterone In The Formation And Maintenance Of Pair Bonds In The Monogamous Zebra Finch (taeniopygia Guttata)
<p>Stress and affiliative social relationships are bi-directionally related. It is well understood that social relationships can buffer the physiological response to a stressor. Conversely, there is some evidence to suggest that stress can affect the propensity to form a pair bond. Data from humans …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… I explore the cultural resonance of the social metaphors Lucretius uses to explain atomic movement, particularly in Books 1-3, and I argue that Lucretius presents the atomic world as built on cooperative relationships. In light of my findings regarding Lucretian atomic movement, I propose …
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Health care experiences of low-income South Indian women: using social relationships to negotiate physical, financial and informational constraints
… and health system frameworks as well as social relationship literature across disciplines to explore how low-income Indian women residing in Tamil Nadu understand and navigate their health care landscape. A convenience sample of 23 low-income women residing in Tamil Nadu, India were …
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