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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"stepping stones"”.
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Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a compilation of essays, non-fiction short stories and poems.
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Scalability of Stepping Stones and Pathways
… both for direct or indirect relationships. The Stepping Stones and Pathways (SSP) retrieval methodology supports retrieval of ranked chains of documents that support valid relationships between any two given concepts. SSP has many potential practical and research applications, which are in need …
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Stepping Stones and Pathways:Improving Retrieval by Chains of Relationships between Documents
The information retrieval (IR) field has been successful in developing techniques to address many types of information needs. However, there are cases in which traditional approaches to IR are not able to produce adequate results. Examples include: when a small set of (2-3) documents is needed as …
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Stepping Stones to Self-Change: A Narrative, Psychosocial Mapping of the Desistance Journey
… these limitations, the present research mapped stepping stones in desistance, exploring self-change as a multiphasic process with varying support needs. Two studies explored narratives of self-change throughout the desistance process, applying a holistic approach to the self-concept interpreted …
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Lived Experiences of Men in Nursing: Chickadees, Stepping Stones, and Muddling Through Maternity
<p>The profession of nursing is facing an imminent shortage of health care providers within its discipline. Registered Nurses comprise the largest group of health care professionals in the United States. The profession of nursing has experienced cycles of worker shortages in the past but this …
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Stepping stones between two conflicting worlds: the experience of interpersonal communication amongst self-identified problematic internet users
In the 21st century, we use the Internet to communicate at a level unprecedented in human history. As a result, parallel to worldwide growth in Internet use, there are emerging concerns of its impact on our lives, with much research highlighting social implications. There is controversy within the …
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Stepping Stones to Resiliency in Families: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Study Following a Two-Generation Preschool Program
… moved through CUPS One World. The core category, Stepping Stones to Resiliency, included four categories: Perceptions of Family; Moving Forward; Achieving Goals; and Completely Different. Perceptions of Family included the categories of CUPS Like Family (for recent immigrant families), and CUPS in …
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Korean families of a child with a disability: Parenting programme preferences and effectiveness of the Stepping Stones Triple P Program
… manage. The evidence-based parenting programme, Stepping Stones Triple P, has demonstrated effectiveness for reducing child behaviour problems, parental stress, and improving parenting practices. However, no research has investigated the parenting support needs and the effectiveness of Stepping …
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Advancing Verbal Communication Skills Through Transcript-Based Feedback : Designing an AI-Assisted Language Learning Application, “Stepping Stones, ” to Support ESL Students in Academic and Professional Contexts
… These insights informed the development of Stepping Stones, an AI-powered learning application that provides context-aware feedback based on learners’ actual spoken interactions. While many conventional language learning tools often emphasize grammar instruction and scripted practice, this …
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Larval dispersal and population connectivity: implications for offshore renewable energy structures
… been suggested that MRED arrays could provide stepping-stones for larval dispersal, mediating species range expansions or invasions. As common members of hard-substrate fouling communities and likely colonisers of MREDs, the larval dispersal processes of barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracia) in the …
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Indigenous worldviews meet Western paradigms: a path to renewal of human/non-human relationships
… of utilising, and progressing from, familiar stepping stones on a journey towards understanding of the unfamiliar on its own terms. Indigenous and Western academics’ own journey of “The Dialogues”, a series of conferences, is retraced, exploring parallels between quantum theory and Indigenous …
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MyTri: encouraging participation in a project-based social network
… examples are useful, they are here to be used as stepping stones for future development of social networking websites (particularly when concerned with encouraging participation within these sites) rather than as a definitive guide.
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High-throughput methods for characterizing the immune repertoire
… We hope that these projects will serve as stepping-stones towards filling the gap left by low-throughput methods in the development of antibody technologies.
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An argument of the overwhelming: architectural forms in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
… a plaza, a "passeggiata," many benches, and stepping stones are the elements that are collaged with a "greensward, " a "hilly land covered with plantations, " and a " low plain mainly occupied by a lake. " Three acts are proposed : the elements, all strict geometric forms , are placed to …
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Image and video analysis techniques for cellular microscopy
… quantitative analysis. These algorithms are the stepping stones in bioimage informatics to turn the image data into biological knowledge. Unique challenges posed by different imaging modalities and cell dynamics require a combination of accurate detection, segmentation, classification and …
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The British New Right and the Problem of Public Opinion, c.1965-1987
… efforts, John Hoskyns and Norman Strauss’s ‘Stepping Stones’ project, constituted an ambitious and systematic effort to transform voters’ ‘Mental Sets’. While they had some success initially in converting the party to their perspective, ultimately they were marginalized by changes in …
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Disembodied characters
… characters that may become important incremental stepping stones on the way to complex artificial intelligence. In order to explore the space between metaphors - the human mind as a collection of interconnected mindless agents, and the superorganism as a unitary whole that exhibits functional …
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Rocks in the American landscape
… the landscape they may be used as ground covers, stepping stones, natural featured sculptures, retaining walls, space dividers, focal points, screens, in dry streams, in bodies of water, as complements for plant materials and in numerous other exciting ways.
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Management of Crises in Tanzanian Secondary Schools
… They should be used as challenges and a stepping-stones to success.
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Blue Gold – The Utilisation of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System in Light of Islamic Norms and its Impact on the Emerging Law of Transboundary Fossil Aquifers
… specific Islamic provisions could provide stepping-stones towards an innovative utilisation framework for the NSAS that adequately addresses the need for precaution and intergenerational equity, which, inter alia, could instil new impetus for a refined set of Draft Articles. An alternative …
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