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Showing 1 to 20 of 374 for “"theoretical perspectives"”.
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Electromagnetic Railgun Launchers: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives
Railguns are highly complex multi-disciplinary engineering systems that use electricity to launch projectiles at very high speeds. This dissertation investigates new technologies, models, and theories necessary for the development of practical systems to bring the railgun out of the lab and into …
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Alternate theoretical perspectives on the literacy documents of a teenage mother
… outside the web of realities. The study examines theoretical models of the learner in alternate perspectives: (a) feminist theory in terms of the premise that all women are simultaneously the same yet different; (b) critical theory in terms of the process of her voicing concerns and experiences, …
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Towards sustainable agriculture in the developing world: Theoretical perspectives and empirical insights
… The objective of this dissertation is to offer perspectives to contextualize sustainable agriculture in relation to two societal contexts beyond farm and watershed: (1) the developing country context, and (2) the fresh fruit and vegetables (FFV) sector (with special reference to the agri-food …
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Flexible Work Arrangements in Greece: Theoretical Perspectives and Evidence from Employers and Employees
… (FWAs) in the Greek labour market and theoretical perspectives that may explain employers’ and employees’ perceptions of flexible working in Greece. Its objectives are: (1) to contribute to the sociology of work and labour economics literatures, by revisiting theoretical perspectives, …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
The ambiguity of marijuana law in the United States is creating a true state of social anomie for U.S. citizens. Using survey data from the General Social Survey from the University of California, Berkeley, binary logistical regression is employed to find which of the independent variables …
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Up in Smoke: Two Theoretical Perspectives on the Future of Marijuana Law in the United States
The ambiguity of marijuana law in the United States is creating a true state of social anomie for U.S. citizens. Using survey data from the General Social Survey from the University of California, Berkeley, binary logistical regression is employed to find which of the independent variables …
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Evaluating competing theoretical perspectives on cooperation: the case study of Asean in the post-cold war era
… of the post-Cold War periphery, as well as its theoretical underpinnings. At its simplest, the neorealists' world is characterized by conflict and the constant possibility of war. Neorealists do acknowledge the likelihood of cooperation in such a conflictual world. Yet they usually hold that, …
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Escalation: Explorative studies of high-risk situations from the theoretical perspectives of complexity and joint cognitive systems
… situations, with an investigation of both theoretical and practical implications. From the platform of an explorative approach, this study makes use of naturalistic research in the domain of health care and experimental simulation studies, in order to establish a broad theoretical framework …
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The effects of computer-based training with multiple theoretical perspectives on the analysis of cases of reading errors
… learners to explore problems from multiple perspectives, but further empirical evidence is needed for this assertion.
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A study of factors associated with selective response patterns on the semantic differential scale
… shift in psychic structure proposed in the theoretical perspectives of Lewin, Werner and Kaplan, and Piaget. Data for the present study were obtained from 305 interviews conducted in Roanoke, Virginia. These data revealed that as age increases, there.is a decrease in the tendency to select …
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Emosionele eenwording by pasgetroudes : 'n pastorale studie
… used was as follows: In Chapter 2, basic-theoretical perspectives were formulated on how the Word of God explains the importance of leaving, cleaving and becoming one in the process of becoming emotionally one. The basic-theoretical perspectives were constructed based upon detailed …
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Display, interpellation and interpretation: on the development of an artistic gossip practice, in the context of audience interactivity with Nottingham's lace heritage
… field, and guided by poststructurally informed theoretical perspectives, it confronts these approaches. Moreover, this thesis claims to establish a unique, interactive and practical autoethnographic approach to artistic research, which supported by its theoretical perspectives, generates …
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A crise financeira atual: origens, dinâmica, impactos e propostas de reforma do Sistema Financeiro Internacional
… of the current financial crisis, we make use of theoretical perspectives of Keynesian and post-Keynesian, while critically present the theoretical perspectives of classical/neoclassical nature. Treat well to describe and analyze the origins and the course of the current financial crisis, …
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CSR and the Development of CSR Reporting in the Chinese Banking Sector
… from 2005 to 2009.<br/><br/>There are four theoretical perspectives which have been considered in relation to CSR, which are stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory, institutional theory and political economy theory; and in this order, these four theories could be viewed as progressively …
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Female Agency in Religious Disassembly of Culture: Where Do Women Fit In?
… how that was impacted by Christian viewpoints. Theoretical perspectives from Homi Bhabha and Chandra Mohanty emphasize the role of so-called "third world women" in world politics and feminism. </p>
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Science and religion in 21st century America : a sociological perspective.
This study addresses empirical gaps and theoretical miscalculations in the understanding of science, religion, and their connections from a sociological perspective. Although this topic has been of great interest to classical and contemporary theorists in the social sciences, and has been examined …
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The role of reading and writing in the acquisition of knowledge: A study of college students' self-directed engagements in reading and writing to learn
… of reading and writing were studied from several theoretical perspectives: a composing model of reading and writing; the view of writing as a way of thinking and learning; studies of the influence of reading and writing upon thinking critically; recent theories of knowledge acquisition in complex …
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