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New understandings of surface diffusion
Surface diffusion is of fundamental importance in a variety of industrial kinetic processes, including surface reactions, crystal growth and sintering. However, surface diffusion parameters are rarely used to model industrial processes, resulting from three deficiencies in the literature. First, of …
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Ethical and science understandings in school science : a conceptual framework of classroom practices and understandings
… both ethical and conventional science understandings within a single conceptual framework. In order to illustrate and explore the strengths and limitations of the conceptual framework developed, an exploratory case study involving 7 science classes was conducted at 2 schools. The …
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Undergraduate Developmental Mathematics Students' Fraction Understandings
… I share second-order models of the fraction understandings, fraction schemes, and mental operations that Vivian and Sofia demonstrated as they worked through their clinical interview tasks. I include mathematics thinking shared by Vivian and Sofia that is productive toward the measure …
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The Language of Pain: New Understandings
Chronic pain is a prevalent and costly condition associated with a wide range of comorbidities such as depression, anxiety, substance misuse, and suicidality. Although near universal, pain is an inherently private and subjective experience. In the absence of objective assessment measures, people …
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Elastic design. Tools for alternative understandings
… measuring devices called Tools for Alternative Understandings, which use elasticity as a material and conceptual agent to provoke unconventional models of thought. With the intention to reconfigure established modes of knowledge production the toolkit provokes a shift towards material and …
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TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS INTEGRATION
… identified and described three science teachers’ understandings of science and mathematics integration. The teachers were enrolled in a master’s program that focused on the integration of science and mathematics, reflective practices, and the integration of technology into instructional practices. …
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Understandings of attachment theory for clinical practice
… in empirical work pertaining to practice-based understandings and behaviour, with respect to attachment theory. It draws on theories and models of professional knowledge to contextualise the forthcoming study; framed as an evaluation of attachment theory’s intelligibility. Chapter 2 reviews a …
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Australian meat consumers’ understandings of farm animal welfare
… investigates Australian meat consumers’ understandings about farm animal welfare and explores their underlying values associated with meat production. Focus groups and interviews were the primary sources of data used to capture how Australian meat consumers conceptualise the issue of farm …
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Indecent Traffic: Shifting Understandings of the U.S. Commerce Clause
This paper focuses on the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution and explores how its scope has expanded throughout history. This paper, organized chronologically, evaluates the alterations to the scope of the Commerce Clause through the American Industrial Revolution, anti-vice and purity …
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Mortality and regeneration: Bebelibe understandings of life after death.
The Bebelibe of northwestern Benin are experiencing rapid socio-cultural change following the arrival of modern institutions. People’s views about what happens following death are based on the cyclic flow of kɛbodikɛ (vital force) and mtakimɛ (agentive purpose). Death occurs when kɛbodikɛ and …
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Middle School Principals’ Understandings and Practices of Instructional Leadership
… capacity of others, (d) share beliefs and understandings, and enact practices of instructional leadership that are strongly influenced by a specific body of leadership literature that is promoted through district-led professional learning initiatives, (e) believe there are contextual …
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Same but Different: Exploring Young Children's Understandings About Disability
The ecological framework is revisited in the discussion as a way to address issues related to school and classroom organization and structure and how they affected children's relationships with and perspectives about peers with disabilities. Furthermore, study findings are linked with existing …
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Analysing understandings of 'rough sleeping': managing, becoming and being homeless
… events. Furthermore, the research suggests that understandings of rough sleepers’ lives presented in policy and service provider discourses which see these lives as ‘chaotic’, ‘off track’ and ‘failed’ are in stark contrast to rough sleepers own accounts, which entail elements of order, success, …
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Political and Economic Understandings of Democracy in the Middle East
<p>This dissertation addresses the paradox of high public support for democracy in one of the least democratic regions of the world, the Middle East/North Africa. It proposes that the cross-national surveys used to identify this democracy paradox contribute to the apparent misalignment of public …
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Distant places and television news: A phenomenology of viewers' understandings
Empirical studies of place perceptions have until now been limited. Projects have focussed on places which are immediately present to the perceiver, such as urban landscapes, and have used methods such as sketch maps or distance estimates. These projects place unnecessary limits on the study of …
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Mass media and public understandings of nature in interwar Britain
This dissertation explores British non-fiction films and radio broadcasts about the natural world from the 1920s to the 1930s. During the years between the First and Second World Wars, natural history films and radio programmes flooded into Britain’s cinemas and its airwaves, at a moment when the …
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Students' Mathematical Understandings of Fraction Division with an Ethnomathematics/STEM Framework
… was to investigate students' mathematical understandings of fraction division with an ethnomathematics/STEM framework. A small group teaching study (Cobb et al., 2003) was conducted using design research methodology to examine how students interacted with the curriculum. The researcher …
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