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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"sub-disciplines"”.
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Visualizing Interdisciplinary Collaborations within Exercise Science: A Pilot Study
<p>Exercise science is a growing field with sub-disciplines exploring various aspects of physical activity. Diverse perspectives allow the field to answer complex research questions, but little is known about the collaborative nature of exercise science today. Research practices have implications …
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Rape as a tool of war: a critical study
… of rape as a "tool of war" in various academic disciplines and approaches including Anthropological Studies, Feminist Studies and Historical Studies. The analysis also includes Political Studies and its various sub-disciplines, case studies of African conflicts and more specifically studies of …
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The Future of Physical Education in Higher Education: A Delphi Investigation
… undergraduate degree programs, and the research sub-disciplines. The results of quantitative descriptive statistics and qualitative content analysis reveal an ever-changing higher education environment in the postmodern information age, which presents a complicating future for the academic …
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Analysis of noun + noun sequences in discipline-specific published research articles
… the frequency of noun+noun sequences vary across disciplines (Gray, 2015). However, there is a lack of research documenting other characteristics of noun+noun sequences in discipline-specific writing and no pedagogical list of noun+noun sequences. This study aimed to explore the use of noun+noun …
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ADVANCING YOUNG PEOPLE?S METHODOLOGIES: ARTICULATING CITIZENSHIP DISCOURSES WITHIN ?SAFE SPACES? THROUGH THEATRE
… HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE OF THE SUB-DISCIPLINES IN TERMS OF METHODOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTATION. THESE INNOVATIONS ARE DESIGNED TO CHALLENGE THE INEVITABLE POWER RELATIONS THAT EXIST BETWEEN ADULT RESEARCHERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS. THIS THESIS AIMS TO PUSH THESE …
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Gene Expression and Phenotype Response of <em>Drosophila melanogaster</em> to Selection.
… of paramount interest in a diverse field of sub-disciplines. Salience is placed by all fields in describing the interaction of selection and phenotypic plasticity and the consequence of this interaction more broadly on evolution. Lacking in the discussion is substantial empirical description …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of female Engineering students at selected Universities in Zambia
… study took an ontological stance that reality is subjective and not fixed but varies from person to person. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used because this method focuses on understanding lived experiences of participants from the participants themselves. A sample of 14 …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of female Engineering students at selected Universities in Zambia
… study took an ontological stance that reality is subjective and not fixed but varies from person to person. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used because this method focuses on understanding lived experiences of participants from the participants themselves. A sample of 14 …
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Engineering novel tandem reactions using organometallic catalysts and metalloenzymes
… and bioinorganic chemistry are two prominent sub-disciplines of chemistry. Complexes of the transition metals are prominent components of both disciplines. On the one hand, considerable efforts in transition-metal catalysis have culminated in practical and efficient transformations such as …
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Divine Deliberation: Possible-Worlds Modality and the Divine Will-To-Create
… regularly discuss both theology proper and such sub-disciplines as apologetics or the doctrine of providence. A great gap, therefore, exists in explicit Christian theological engagement with the doctrine of God and contemporary modal metaphysics. This dissertation presents key instances of this …
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The Relationship Between Recollection, Knowledge Transfer, and Student Attitudes Towards Chemistry
… students to recognize the relationships between sub-disciplines in chemistry. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between student attitudes towards chemistry and their abilities to recollect and transfer knowledge of IMFs, a foundational concept, to their daily lives as …
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Game engine architecture : A comprehensive view
… It is difficult to isolate the different disciplines in game development since every aspect of the game is co-dependent on everything else. Even in the programming domain there are a number of sub-disciplines that a game can require such as physics programming, environmental programming, …
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DNA based networks, nanostructures, and meta-stable states
… or atomic level. Non-biotechnology is one of the sub-disciplines of nanotechnology. Materials used for nano-biotechnology are macromolecular materials found in nature with specific mechanical and biological functions. One of the most important materials is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA has …
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Comparisons of Design Thinking for Engineering Education
… design thinking ability between the design disciplines of engineering and architecture. To draw design thinking comparisons between these groups, a survey with a nine item design thinking instrument was distributed nationally to freshmen engineering students (n= 2,158), senior engineering …
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MACH: A model for explaining molecular and cellular mechanisms
… by examining how experts from different biology sub-disciplines explain a mechanism they study. A literature review was performed to develop an initial model and then to determine the model's validity, it was tested against explanations made during interviews by life scientists who work on …
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Human-Environment Geo-Capabilities As Actionable Criteria for Student Evaluation At the University Level
… has yet to see the practice honed into specific sub-disciplines of geographic study. This study seeks to continue expanding the geo-capabilities model by creating a new set of human-environment specific geo-capabilities with the intent of using them as a set of actionable evaluation criteria in a …
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Understanding Control of Metabolite Dynamics and Heterogeneity
… is a fundamental issue across many biological sub-disciplines since metabolism is a central feature of cellular behavior.The goal of this dissertation is to elucidate how the architecture and parameters of a MRTF-based control system shape metabolite dynamics and heterogenous metabolic response …
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Die wetenskapsteoretiese grondslae van die verkeersveiligheidsopvoedkunde
… field of education, covering all acknowledged sub-disciplines of education; whether it is an independent discipline; or whether it is a component or a theme of socio-education. As indicated in the introductory chapter, this research basically covers three sections, Le. the anthropological …
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Freshwater inflows to estuaries : organic carbon and microbial food webs in south-east Australia
… that allochthonous carbon and bacteria can subsidise zooplankton production following the input of DOC during FWI events. Zooplankton density increased following a flooding event on the Bega River and stable isotope analysis indicated allochthonous terrestrial carbon was the dominant source …
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The Experience of Teaching in Art, Design and Communication
… the communities of practice associated with the subject context. It also aims to further investigate how approaches to teaching relate to the concept of communities of practice. The qualitatively different ways that teachers of creative practices experience their teaching is explored The study …
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