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Showing 1 to 20 of 446 for “"vignettes"”.
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Vignettes on robust combinatorial optimization
In this thesis, we design and analyze algorithms for robust combinatorial optimization in various settings. First, we consider the problem of simultaneously maximizing multiple objectives, all monotone submodular, subject to a cardinality constraint. We focus on the case where the number of …
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Mother’s Little Helper: A Memoir in Vignettes
Mental illness debilitates the afflicted and impacts friends and family members. The collage of scenes in this memoir reveal the ways family members developed survival strategies and coping mechanisms to manic depression. Over a 30-year period, Betty Jane Cooksey had more than 40 recorded suicides …
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John Dimond - the wizard of Marblehead a miniature opera in five vignettes
Throughout history, one trait of the Opera genre has been to bring to life and further illuminate fantastical subject matter. As part of this trend, composers often seek to highlight their own national heritage through their choice of subject matter. The Opera presented herein, John Dimond - The …
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Prompting meaningful analysis from pre-service teachers using elementary mathematics video vignettes
Learning from video vignettes is a theoretically grounded and popular professional development activity. In online professional development communities, however, responses to video are often shallow and lack meaningful commentary about the issues that surround teaching and learning mathematics. …
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Life scraps/a patchwork quilt: Vignettes from the lives of Brenda and Jim
… the interpretative biographical methodology, vignettes were written in a journal by the mother. Applying the interpretative interactionism perspective, this dissertation describes the meaning of the problematic everyday life with interacting humans. The experience of the individual is …
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Vignettes in string theory : using geometry to probe the worldsheet and strongly coupled physics
In this thesis, we construct hybrid linear models in which the chiral anomaly of a gauged linear sigma model is canceled by the classical anomaly of a gauged WZW model. Semi-classically, this corresponds to fibering the WZW model over the naive target space of the sigma model. When the gauge group …
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Vignettes for educating the non-Arab non-Muslim reader : subversion and survival of Hakawati figures
This study highlights the strategies Arab American authors use to forge empathetic bonds and create community among Arab American and non-Arab and non-Muslim readers. These diverse texts—ranging from memoirs and novels to comic books and ethnographic studies—illustrate Arab Americans’ struggles and …
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Using Vignettes to Develop Higher-Order Thinking and Academic Achievement in Adult Learners in an Online Environment
This case study investigated the use of vignettes as a teaching strategy and learning activity of the Generative Learning Model in a hybrid online course. The Generative Learning Model, which consists of five main components: attention, motivation, knowledge, generation, and metacognition …
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Unveiling Gender Bias: An Examination of Healthcare Provider Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries. Insights from Case Vignettes
… with randomly assigned gender-based patient vignettes. Physicians rated the likelihood of mTBI based on symptoms in the vignette, showing no significant difference in diagnosis between the genders of the presented vignettes (female: M = 2.19, SD = 0.47; male: M = 2.17, SD = 0.51). …
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An exploration of the factors involved in lifestyle decisions in young people with cystic fibrosis using decision making vignettes, and the role of perceived risk in infection
This study explored the factors involved in lifestyle decision making in young people with Cystic Fibrosis, specifically the role of infection risk. Certain pathogens present a high risk of infection to people with Cystic Fibrosis, and can significantly affect their health. It is therefore …
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Evaluation of the diagnostic and management accuracy of closed fractures of forearm and wrist using validated vignettes as a reference standard by emergency centre clinicians in the Cape Town metropole
… accuracy of EC clinicians using validated vignettes (also used as the reference standard) of adult patients with closed fractures of the forearm or wrist. Methods This is a prospective, cross-sectional study in the form of an electronic questionnaire to address the study aim. A set of …
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Causal attributions, self-monitoring, and gender differences among four virginity status groups
… attributed significantly more internality to vignettes of males than Potential Non-virgin subjects did to vignettes of males. 4) Subjects attributed significantly more controllability to vignettes of female Regretful Non-virgins than to vignettes of female Adamant virgins. 5) Regretful …
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Big City
… four sections. It consists of sets of twelve vignettes with the same titles that are interspersed within their sections, as well as longer poetic prose pieces, and twelve short stories. The first section contains twelve vignettes, each under the title of “People in the city are alone in their …
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Professional development in elementary science teaching using video technology
… actual classroom practices demonstrated in vignettes. The vignettes used in this study demonstrated how teachers engage students in manipulating materials to discover scientific principles. A qualitative design was used to collect data on how teachers responded to these vignettes. The data …
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Stereotypes and Perceptions of Child Witness Credibility
… Participants were presented with one of six vignettes, based on a 2 (training condition: counterstereotype affirmation training, control) by 3 (vignette type: positive, negative, neutral) between subject design. It was hypothesized that participants receiving training would experience reduced …
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Mayberry Days
This memoir consists of a series of short vignettes, each of which is a standalone story. These vignettes tell about the writer's childhood: the experience of growing up in the Deep South in the 1960s and 70s.
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Reliability and validity of the South African Triage Scale in low-resource settings
… assigned triage ratings to a set of 42 reference vignettes (written case reports of EC patients) under classroom conditions. Inter-rater reliability was assessed by comparing these triage ratings; intra-rater reliability was assessed by asking the nurses to re-triage ten 12 random vignettes from …
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On Nature's Prototypes: Character Design and Worldbuilding
… and bioengineering, to imagine action-centric vignettes, where animalistic to monstrous characters become the predominant actors in a post-dystopian worldscape. Throughout these vignettes, these characters are subjected to the trials and tribulations of the catalysts and flux that are imposed …
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Middle school students' willingness to participate in a school-based conflict management program
… process was used to carefully construct written vignettes depicting different types of school-based conflict management programs (e.g., Skillstreaming, Peacemaking, and Outdoor Adventure) and different types of program leaders (e.g., teachers, school counselors, social workers, and youth care …
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Preservice Teachers' Analysis of Appropriate Teaching Practices in Physical Education: A Qualitative Comparison of Two Programs
… included 17 males and 13 females. Eight video vignettes were created from the Developmentally Appropriate Practices document developed by NASPE (1992). Two vignettes depicted appropriate practices and six portrayed inappropriate practices. Participants viewed the vignettes during scheduled …
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