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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"style analysis"”.
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LIFE STYLE ANALYSIS OF HOSPICE HOME CARE NURSES
… was concerned with examining, in Adlerian life style terms, the personality characteristics of one segment of that corps--the hospice home care nurse. The subjects used in this study represent the population of nurses (N = 6) who provide the care within the framework of the home care program of …
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Simplification of the Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA) model
… the environmental impacts of specific lifestyles is a critical part of moving to reduce those impacts. However, this process is often complicated and tedious. This study strives to simplify that process by improving upon the Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA) model put forth by …
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Identifying and correcting misclassified South African equity trusts using style analysis
The concept of style analysis is rapidly spreading in the money management business. In addition to it's use in the areas of benchmarking, portfolio structuring, risk control and performance attribution, style analysis has also been shown to be a powerful tool for identifying and evaluating the …
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A Style Analysis of the Choral Music of Kenneth Leighton Using Representative Works
… works are examined to look for consistencies of style and technique. Since pieces from different years are employed, changes in style from the early to the later works are also traced.
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A cross-sectional study of behavioural style and associated work- related stress in the South African context
… of the behavioural dimensions measured by the Style Analysis Instrument. Research previously conducted in the USA is compared with the South African data collected. The distribution of the dimensions, Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance (DISC) in the South African genders and the …
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Dramatism, Feminine Style and Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking in the E-Public
… (1969) dramatism with Campbell's (1989) feminine style to describe and critique three women's political blogs. The pentad highlighted an argument derived from each blogger's master narrative, while feminine style analysis revealed subtle differences among the women's persuasive tactics.
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A Correlative Study of Gender and Social Style.
This study examines the concepts of social style and gender to determine if a relationship exists between the two constructs. The hypotheses suggested a direct relationship between the categories of the BSRI (masculine, feminine, androgynous, and undifferentiated) and the Social Style Analysis …
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Understanding and Optimizing Nanophase Separation Sintering
… more complicated. For this reason, a Kissinger style analysis for sintering dilatometric data was derived. This allowed us to understand how different temperature dependent mechanisms, represented by densification rate peaks, facilitate the different stages of NPSS. First, however, the Kissinger …
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Style adjusted performance of South African general equity unit trusts
… are able to add value after adjusting for style exposure. The analysis is performed from January 2003 to December 2012 using three alternative methodologies including unconstrained regressions, returns-based style analysis and return decomposition. The results indicate that the majority of …
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Movement and Shape in the Choral Music of Roger Sessions
The study identified significant style characteristics of the choral compositions of Roger Sessions, by an extensive analysis of Session's major choral work, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, a cantata based on the poem by Walt Whitman. After providing information on the composer's life, …
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Jazz Recordings by Ed Bickert and Problems of Stylistic Analysis
… After a lengthy review of stylistic and musical analysis concepts, the categories in Jan LaRue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis provided an heuristic framework that enabled an exploratory examination of Bickert’s style. The problems of stylistic and musical analysis are many and varied. Primarily, …
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With good intentions: Appalachian service providers in human services and community mental health
… has been given in the form of an Adlerian life style analysis, a psychological assessment for individuals modified as assessment of a group. The reflected impression provided its own image for change and an opportunity for the participants to assess what impact, if any, their jobs might be …
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Markov Chains as Tools for Jazz Improvisation Analysis
… an exploratory application of a statistical analysis and modeling technique (Markov chains) for the modeling of jazz improvisation with the intended subobjective of providing increased insight into an improviser's style and creativity through the postulation of quantitative measures of style …
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Value versus growth in the Asian equity markets
There has been considerable empirical research on style investment in the United States and a fair amount in Europe but relatively little published research in the Asian markets. It is commonly believed that fundamental stock valuation and style analysis works only in developed markets like the …
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An investigation into the style and asset class adjusted performance of South African multi-asset funds
… unit trusts in order to determine their style and asset class exposure over time. The objective is to ascertain whether South African multi-asset fund managers can realise outperformance, that exceeds what can be realised through exposure to representative, investable, style and asset …
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The Potential for Repurposing Disturbed Mining Properties in Nevada as Utility-Scale Solar Facilities
… installations. A more detailed least cost path style analysis is also performed on mine sites within The Carlin Trend mining district in northeastern Nevada to estimate the potential return on investment from a subset of potential sites. Nuances to this proposal are also explored from a …
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The mirror and the square : a study of ideology within contemporary art systems with special reference to the American avant-garde in the period 1933-1953
… of a seemingly apolitical abstract art style. Analysis of the demise of the Artists International Association and the American Artist's Congress supports the conclusion that the figurative tradition lost prestige as a result of the stigma attached to Socialist Realism and the idealised …
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An analysis of Johan de Meij's UFO concerto for euphonium and wind orchestra through the lens of conductor and soloist, with a list of original euphonium solos accompanied by wind band (2007-2014)
This study provides an analysis of Johan de Meij’s UFO Concerto for Euphonium and Wind Orchestra based on the analytical method in Jan LaRue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis. The performance concerns of the soloist and issues of importance for the conductor are also discussed. Additionally, I …
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