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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"socio-cultural dimensions"”.
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Variation in Standard Persian: A Sociolinguistic Study
… in Tehrani Persian (Standard) in relation to its socio-cultural dimensions. The primary objective is to investigate stratification of glottals and glides and the general tendencies of these features towards linguistic change, as well as the social mobility of speakers. The secondary objective is …
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Subcultural Acculturation: A Dialectic approach to consumer acculturation of second generation British Pakistani Men
… the intersection of consumption and larger socio-cultural dimensions. As opposed to the “individualistic” consumer identity projects described in the literature, I find that consumer acculturation is subcultural among these youths. I find two distinct subcultures, which I name as …
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Fashion in an Age of Transindividual Disruption: Feeling the fashion milieu through fashion media and mobile phone technology
… entanglement between embodied experience and socio-cultural dimensions of fashion media consumption. This framework, coupled with Simondon's notion of transindividuation, illuminates the dynamic tensions between individual and collective identity formation in digital spaces. The findings …
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New views on how to stop the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment. Constructing a theory grounded in the perspective of care-experienced parents
… interpretation, recognizing the socio-cultural dimensions inherent in parenting experiences. My research contributes to the debate on how to break cycles of maltreatment by introducing novel concepts, such as that of the “zero family”, whose implications for both theoretical …
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A Working Model towards Understanding and Enhancing House Design in Saudi Arabia
… the architectural practice and the associated socio-cultural phenomena; and 3) to develop a model for designing privately built houses. The aim of the developed model is to improve the design process and thus enhance design outcomes physically and socio-culturally in the context of Saudi …
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Military band musicians on the border: crossing over musical genres in the transnational space of the Korean War
… audiences, crossing over the national and cultural borders between the two countries. Locating their experiences within the South Korean and US military music systems and more broadly within their socio-cultural, historical, and transnational context, I demonstrate that military agents …
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Bridging the gap between Apprentice Schemes and Traditional Qualifications within the United Arab Emirates’
This research evaluated the historical and socio-cultural dimensions between academia and vocationally driven qualifications with an emphasis on apprentice schemes within the UAE. Based on this, critical research was carried out to identify how the cultural dimensions of the UAE have shaped how …
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Conversations with Farmers: Agri-cultural practice change and the 'eco-innovator'
… in contrasting tones by academics and agriculturalists alike. This research, via a participatory rural appraisal and a micro-ethnographic study, identified then (re)defined peer and self-acknowledged ‘eco-innovators’ who were practicing successful, regenerative and adaptive farming …
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A unified computational framework for modeling health policy adoption in complex real-world environments
… capture the complex, uncertain, and socio-cultural dimensions of human decision-making. Traditional approaches often treat behavior as static, rule-based, homogeneous input and overlook the dynamic interaction of beliefs, social influences, and personal contexts. Furthermore, these …
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An investigation of everyday entrepreneurship in a resource-constrained context.
… businesses as key drivers to the growth and socio-economic transformation of nations. Recent entrepreneurship discourse has focused on entrepreneurial behaviour and motivation; this includes what entrepreneurs do, why and how they do it, and their decision-making logic, particularly at the …
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Developing responsible nature-based tourism in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya: integrated approaches
… a destination's economic, environmental and socio-cultural challenges. This research therefore focuses on integrating approaches to the tourism development process and the implications of such an approach for the triple bottom line. The Mount Elgon region of Kenya comprise two protected areas …
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A mixed-method approach to low energy availability in elite track cyclists
… the quantitative physiological and qualitative socio-psychological aspects of LEA (Chapter 4). Data were collected at two time points (T₁ and T₂, respectively), from 15 (10 female, 5 male) members of the Cycling New Zealand (CNZ) elite endurance track cycling high-performance programme. …