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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"unanticipated events"”.
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Supporting knowledge-based behavior through ecological interface design
… activities associated with unfamiliar and unanticipated events. According to EID, to properly support such knowledge-based behavior, an interface should display the physical and functional properties of the work domain in the form of a multilevel representation based on Rasmussen's …
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Queue scheduling the Alan Cousins Telescope
… for target-of-opportunity observations of unanticipated events, such as gamma ray bursts, and anticipated events such as occultations. Ultimately the telescope is intended to be a fully robotic telescope with limited operational support needs. Some advance toward this goal has been made by …
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Understanding and Mitigating Sources of Teacher Dissatisfaction
… management, interpersonal, financial, and unanticipated events. The modified frame analysis was used to help empower teachers to solve problems that affect their performance and motivation, to prevent burnout, attrition, as well as help build and maintain a positive school climate. This …
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Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange
… reach common interpretations of cooperation when unanticipated events inevitably occur. I then provide theoretical clarification for the prevalence of long-term exchange, by demonstrating the causal primary of shared frameworks in actors’ decisions to exchange with long-term partners. I validate …
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Adaptively prestressed concrete structures
… can deal with multiple loading conditions and unanticipated events at the same time. Truly adaptive civil structures do not exist. Concrete structures can be made adaptive through variable prestressing. Design concepts for an adaptive prestressed concrete girder are formulated in this research. …
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Making kin and taking care: intra-active learning with time, space and matter in a Johannesburg preschool
… that change and are changed by ongoing and unanticipated events. Photographs and video clips produce new ideas about and with the data created through the project and rather than reflecting reality, these visual forms diffract with time and space to offer the researcher and the participants …
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Harmonising Social Considerations in Firms Transitioning to a Circular Economy
… while operationally enabling rapid response to unanticipated events - addressing temporal complexity that existing frameworks inadequately accommodate. Second, the multi-level social value integration framework demonstrates how organisations progressively embed social considerations through …
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SURVIVING SURPRISE: HOW FIRMS WERE AFFECTED BY - AND RESPONDED TO - UNEXPECTED, DISRUPTIVE, DISCONTINUOUS CHANGE IN THE MARKETING ENVIRONMENT
… which is defined as disruptive, discontinuous events that result in unexpected changes to the environment. Some authors have suggested that organizations have tended to overestimate their ability both to predict and to control calamitous environmental events, resulting in relatively little …