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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"sub-culture"”.
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The impact of sub-culture behavior patterns in urban renewal
Thesis (M.U.P.)--Michigan State University. School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, 1965
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The management of stringency and the nature of organisational sub-culture.
… itself were found to be inadequate.Additionally sub-cultures and contextual features were identified as significant determinants of responses to stringency. Subculture is defined as collective, taken for granted, values and behaviours of a management team. These included management style and role …
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A cinematographic survey of a selected alternative sub-culture in various locations
Submitted for the Degree of Master of Technology: Graphic Design, Durban Institute of Technology Durban, South Africa, 2005.
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Proteomic Analysis of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Aging during serial sub-culture
… Previous studies have shown that long term culture of hMSCs results in the decrease in proliferation rates, changes in genomic expressions, increase in cell sizes, and other morphological changes. Currently the mechanisms of hMSC aging and biomarkers associated with it have not been well …
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A cross-cultural study of accounting concepts applied in international financial reporting standards
… a different approach to examine the influence of culture on accounting practice by adapting Schwartz’s (1992) universal structure of individual-level human motivational values to the domain of accounting. A mail survey was conducted on accountants in Malaysia to obtain their attitudes, beliefs and …
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Service behaviors and time preferences of rural and urban restaurant customers
… researchers have stressed the importance of sub-culture and made the call for empirical research, few studies have incorporated sub-culture into their research, especially within the hospitality industry. Empirically measuring the differences in sub-culture, may be especially important for …
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The Trash Birder's Guide
… experience with birds and the bird watching sub-culture. The author grapples with obsession, exploration, and human-animal relationships. Essays include the search for peregrine falcons and ‘u’aus, navigating “The Biggest Week in American Birding,” and tending to owls and geese at a bird …
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Football, violence and working class culture
… have been involved. Issues of class and culture, especially the sub-culture of the young and the sub-culture of violence are also examined with special reference to young males and their occupation of the football terraces. Statistics on arrests and ejections at football matches are …
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Flamenco in South Africa: outsider in two places
… of the existence of a legitimate flamenco sub-culture in South Africa would add gravitas to the practise of flamenco by South Africans (as well as other outsiders across the globe), helping to shift the unspoken parameters governing who has the right to teach and perform flamenco, and which …
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DRINKING, DESPAIR AND THE STATE AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF A BREWING SUBCULTURE IN RURAL KENYA
… stories and daily lives of people within this sub-‐culture which would inform us about the social and political contexts of alcohol. This thesis is a description of the sub-‐culture of home-‐made fermented beers in a rural, geographically isolated and politically marginalised region of …
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The growth of homosexual identity : an empirical study from a social work perspective of crisis in sexual identity experienced by a sample of homosexual persons in Cape Town, with special reference to cultural factors
… by the interaction between self, society, and sub-culture. Homosexual identity is strongly linked to the gay sub-culture which presents a classic double-bind; it acts as a symbolic family for the homosexual person but it also perpetuates the expression of behaviours and emotions which are …
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Ethnomathematics : new approaches to its theory and application
… mathematics, which are specific for each (sub-)culture. First, the author gives a detailed description of a new historiography of ethnomathematics, showing that this field of research has been studied and practiced since the 1920s, when Ewald Fettweis pursued his first research on this …
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Morality and money: a look at how the respectable community battled the sporting community over prostitution in Kansas cowtowns, 1867-1885
… it, literally, the “evils of the trade,” a whole sub-community of brothels, saloons, and dance halls. The arrival of that vice fostered immediate and often outraged citizen protests. Much of the history of cattle towns in Kansas is therefore the story of “respectable” citizens fighting the vice in …
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THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MEASURE OF COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE INTEGRATION
… is attending. Student athletes are a unique sub-culture within the general student population (Carodine et al., 2003; Melendez, 2007). Further, research on college student athletes indicates that athletes entering with certain individual characteristics are at a greater risk for academic …
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The reservation adolescents' self-concept
… of reservation adolescents is attributable to a culture on the reservation which precludes any ethnic or socio-economic sub-culture of the reservation Indian. Extensive research into self-theory and self-concept correlates for a more predictable knowledge pertaining to the self-concept is needed.
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Conversations with Farmers: Agri-cultural practice change and the 'eco-innovator'
… farmer emerged from within the farming sub-culture. This thesis documents the ‘eco-innovator's’ change journey into regenerative farming practice, and ultimately, a new story for agriculture. The future of farming in Australia requires the integration of production and conservation, via …
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The Rise of China's Hacking Culture: Defining Chinese Hackers
… of the Chinese hackers collectively, as sub-groups, and as individuals. I will do this using sources ranging from basic news coverage, interviews with experts and industry veterans, secondary reportage, leaked documents from government and private sources, government white papers, legal …
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The cultural-distance perspective: an exploratory analysis of its effect on learning and intelligence
… Approach</i>, briefly stated is that a sub-culture's distance from the major culture, on which test questions of a test are based and validated, will determine that sub-culture’s group sub-score pattern in relation to the sub-score pattern of the norming population. Therefore minority …
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Countering Kidnapping in a Globalised World: a critical analysis of the production, transfer and application of high security knowledge
… I discuss the effects of the specific police sub-culture which hinders the transfer and application of the relevant knowledge. In the final part I review the so-called risk management companies, which represent a fairly new private field responding to kidnapping risks, both preventatively and …
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