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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"visual methods"”.
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Exploring place identity within a primary school: a case study using visual methods
… thesis gives an account of a case study using visual methods to explore pupils’ perception and experience of place within an upper primary school in southern England. The theoretical framework is based on Breakwell’s four place identity principles; distinctiveness, continuity, self-efficacy, …
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Intellectual Property Management in Innovation Ecosystems: Developing Visual Methods for Mapping Dynamics, Uncertainties, and Risks
… sense-making and decision-making abilities. Visual methods have seen increasing popularity in the management sciences for the capture and analysis of complexity and dynamic phenomena. However, a systematic review of the current state-of-the-art of visual methods for ecosystem research …
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Stigma and African genomics research: An exploration of stigma associated with the genetic attribution of rheumatic heart disease
… discussion in focus groups. Many studies include visual methods and justify the use of visual method based on the assumption that visual methods are more effective at stimulating discussion and generating richer data in qualitative research. In addition to explore the impact of genetic attribution …
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Use of High Pressure Liquid Chromatography to Detect and Quantify Oxytetracycline Marks in Walleye Otoliths and Dorsal Spines
… vitreum fry and fingerlings. Current visual methods for detection of these marks are subjective, and biologists are unable to quantify the amount of OTC in a sample. The goal of this study was to determine if high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a feasible and superior …
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Methods for visualising complex water quality data
… to the relevant monitoring data is essential. Visualisation is a powerful method for analysing these data and communicating the results, because it unloads complex cognitive processes from the fairly restricted human numerical processing structures onto the highly developed visual perception …
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Scientific visualization of stress tensor information with applications to stress determination by X-ray and neutron diffraction
The visual analysis of mechanical stress facilitates physical understanding of the tensor quantity which is concealed in scalar and vector methods. In this study, the principles and techniques of scientific visualization are used to develop a visual analysis of mechanical stresses. Scientific …
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Strings of Hope: The Meanings of the Violin in Jewish and Holocaust History
… to photographs utilizing textual, material, and visual methods of analysis.
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The Intersection of Academia and Identity: A Phenomenological Inquiry on the Ethnic and Racial Identity of Hmong American Students in Higher Education
… three-phases which included interviews and a visual methods activity. A total of 10 participants completed the process. Data analysis was employed through initial, focused, and axial coding and constant comparison for the interviews. For visuals, data was analyzed using Serafini's (2010) …
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CodeSkimmer: a novel visualization tool for capturing, replaying, and understanding fine-grained change in software
… ways to aid in interpreting the playback. A visualization shows users, graphically, the types of changes that occurred while social, textual, and temporal filters are provided to mark points of interest in the set of recorded operations. These interesting operations are then highlighted …
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Aesthetics and automatic layout of UML class diagrams
In the last years, visual methods have been introduced in industrial software production and teaching of software engineering. In particular, the international standardization of a graphical software engineering language, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) was a reason for this tendency. …
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A Critical Analysis of Harms Experienced by Transgender Individuals
… environment. Through ethnographic interviewing methods that produced thick-data from 11 trans individuals, identifying variously within the broad umbrella term of ‘trans’, the data presented has been drawn from multiple interviews and subsequent discussions which were supplemented by …
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The in vitro effect of a tooth bleaching agent on coffee and wine stained teeth
… and not by the usual subjective, visual methods. Methodology: Twenty specimens of human teeth will be collected, polished and divided into two groups. A baseline color measurement by the CIE L* a* b* with a spectrophotometer against a white background will be taken before one group …
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Action Sport for development in the Philippines: Exploring the Surfing, Well-Being and Environment Nexus
… action research project (PAR) utilized visual methods, semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and reflexive journals to investigate how the Siargaonon NGO participants, volunteers, and staff experience its activities on well-being and local environmental efforts. The findings …
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Black girl gaze: A visual (re)membering of black girlhood as an act of resistance
… specifically, the engagement of Black girls and visual methods, thus an important and necessary contribution of this research. The following research questions guide this research project: 1. What negatively constructed images of Black girls as community members and middle school students have …
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Visually Re-membering the Eastside: Trajectories of Belonging and Displacement in Austin
… of residents who are most vulnerable through visual and anthropologically-informed methods. Through the visual approaches of photovoice and social mapping, this research challenges traditional photographic practice as a means of providing a ‘voice to the voiceless’ by facilitating community …
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'Like a playground should be?' Experiencing and Producing Bi Subjectivities in Bisexual Space.
… results of two studies which used creative and visual methods (photography, mapping, and modelling) to elicit discourse about lived experiences of bisexual subjectivity in a bisexual space, and how these related to everyday life. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was taken to the analysis …
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Visual analytics of location-based social networks for decision support
… analysis of the data. The emerging field of visual analytics has been introduced to tackle such challenges by integrating the approaches from statistical data analysis and human computer interaction into highly interactive visual environments. Based on the idea of visual analytics, this …
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Understanding the hidden experience of head and neck cancer patients: a qualitative exploration of beliefs and mental images
… beliefs has typically involved written or oral methods, yet recent studies have suggested that patients’ beliefs about their illness may be embodied in visual form, in their mental images of the disease. Beliefs embedded in mental images may not be captured via traditional modes of assessment, …
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Young people, identity and the media: a study of conceptions of self identity among youth in Southern England.
… lived experience. A discussion of creative and visual methods within social research introduces the methodology undertaken as part of this study. Young people aged 13 to 14, of contrasting class and ethnic backgrounds, drawn from schools across Dorset, Hampshire and London were invited to create …
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