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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"temporal perspective"”.
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Plant community assembly and biodiversity: a spatio-temporal perspective
… loss. In this thesis, I focus on spatial and temporal changes in different aspects of plant biodiversity and examine the driving forces that generate and maintain observed biodiversity patterns. Multiple facets of biodiversity (taxonomic, phylogenetic, functional) were characterized in …
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Emotions and Leisure Experience Evaluations: Investigating Relationships From a Temporal Perspective
… satisfaction judgments, and suggest that temporal aspects of emotions are important for understanding the relationships between emotions and leisure experience evaluations.
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The changing face of the Constantia Valley a temporal study of land use change in a heritage landscape
… urban landscapes. This study will provide a temporal perspective on land use change in the Constantia Valley, a high income suburb on the outskirts of Cape Town. It will contextualise the efforts to conserve its heritage and, furthermore, attempt to explain the factors underlying the observed …
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The Institutional Environment for B2B E-commerce Adoption
… environment of e-commerce, especially from the temporal perspective. The research also offers empirical evidence to industrial practitioner and public policy-makers to develop e-commerce strategies.
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Artistries of interior time : the subjective experience of time and art therapy, focussing on schizophrenia
… thesis explore theoretical and developmental perspectives on the subjective experience of time as formulated in the schools of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and existential psychotherapy. While each school ultimately deals with a client's experience of time as a whole, each is shown to …
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IN FLUX: Land, Photography and Temporality
… of the concepts of place and space from a temporal perspective. The principal theme is how the moving and changing environment can be interpreted through the stasis of photography and what this implies about the individual’s relationship to it. The research methodology is a Rhizomatic …
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Resilience in leaders: conceptualisation and changes brought about by coaching
… felt resilience was relevant. Together these perspectives shed new light on the concept of resilience in the leadership coaching context. Existing definitions of resilience often emphasise recovery or ‗bounce back‘ yet leaders in this study saw resilience as vital to dealing with the future, …
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Ancient DNA from pre-Columbian South America
… with the added bonus of having a direct and temporal perspective. This thesis aims to explore human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity from a large number of pre-Columbian samples in a diachronic transect through time in order to refine our understanding of the genetic structure and …
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Ephemeral Art: A Philosophical Proposition about the Nature of Time and Being
… art is inevitably determined by a dualistic temporal perspective. It introduces a variety of other ephemeral practices which uncharacteristically appear to disrupt this perception of time. By appropriating key features from these examples, I develop a hybrid ephemeral artwork; a …
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The role of coaching in supporting team leader development and team performance : skippers of a global sailing race as a microcosm of organisational team leadership
… socially embedded contexts and understanding the temporal dimension of development. Gaps exist between leader and leadership development and between leadership and team coaching in both the sport and organisational contexts. There is also a gap between individual leader development and …
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Spatial ecology of food webs : herbivore-parasitoid communities on the pedunculate oak
… study herbivore-parasitoid food webs from a new perspective: I construct multiple, quantitative food webs in a spatially explicit setting, at two different scales. Focusing on food webs consisting of specialist herbivores and their natural enemies on the pedunculate oak, Quercus robur, I examine …
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Multisensor Multitemporal Fusion for Remote Sensing using Landsat and MODIS Data
… rich data record suffers from relatively low temporal resolution due to the 16-day revisit period of each Landsat satellite. To estimate Landsat images at other points in time, researchers have proposed data-fusion approaches that combine existing Landsat data with images from other sensors, …
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Dispersion of agglomeration through transport infrastructure
… of the New Economic Geography theories with the temporal perspective of the growth theories; (2) extends the scope of agglomeration effects by highlighting a city's access to external resources as a partial substitute for its own endowment; and (3) bridges the spatial discontinuity between …
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A social networking-enabled framework for autonomous robot skill development
… relationship, the spatial relationship and the temporal relationship between the robot and a possible object. The new representation takes a spatial-temporal perspective similar to that found in RoboEarth, and uses the concepts of “agent space” and “object space” from the CST approach. The …
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On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic
… aims to contribute to the understanding of temporal interpretation of epistemic modals in Palestinian Arabic (PA), and develop a cross-linguistic analysis. The epistemic necessity modal <em>akeed</em> and the epistemic possibility modal <em>yimkin</em> in PA exhibit similar temporal …