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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"whole-systems"”.
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The tailoring and implementation of evidence-based multi-component weight management interventions for adults with intellectual disabilities who are obese: a whole systems approach
… support and barriers associated with complex systems-related issues, rather than poor lifestyle choices or a lack of motivation, which inhibits this population from managing their weight if they want to. A whole systems approach is needed to address the systems-related issues and barriers …
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Private wilderness playgrounds : understanding the competitive effects of environmentally oriented master-planned communities
… and otherwise, that one can capture through a whole-systems approach to master-planned community development. A whole-systems approach to residential development is defined by taking the three primary drivers for decision-making, economics, community and environment, and actively considering …
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The lived experience of gaming and gambling: guiding practitioners' understanding for supporting children and young people.
… for CYP are addressed by health and social care systems in the UK. Research Methodology: Four 90-minute focus groups were conducted online with practitioners and people with previous lived experience of gaming and gambling harm in the UK. Two focus groups included 4-5 practitioners working with …
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Graph-Based Simulation for Cyber-Physical Attacks on Smart Buildings
… physical (or cyber) intrusions to smart building systems(SBS), it is still unknown (1) how one type of intrusion facilitates the other, and (2) how such synergic attacks compromise the security protection of whole systems. To investigate both research questions, the author proposes a graph-based …
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Arctci-tecture for the global commons
… Operating in the spirit of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog -- a 1970s counterculture bible for "whole systems" thinking -- this thesis examines Antarctica as a testing ground for an expanded mode of architecture. Antarctica, with its extreme environment, scientific value, and legal …
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Assessing leadership capacities in societal systems
… of society, from the individual through to the systems that we are governed by. It causes individuals to pursue careers that cause irreparable harm to their personal relationships; corporations to focus on short-term profits instead of building long-term, sustainable businesses that serve …
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Complexity theory and fuzzy logic in strategic management : searching the pattern that connects
… practical implications are important, and this whole thesis can be seen as an action research programme, with practical interventions enriching the theoretical perspective, which in turn has fed back into practice.</p> <p>This discussion begins by considering methodology, and identifies three …
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Managing Sustainability Value in Design: A Systems Approach
… a gap in the capability of the team to adopt a whole systems approach in order to make explicit the values of sustainable prosperity and develop a unified vision. This provides the basis for the second research question - how can design teams gain an understanding of the systemic nature of …
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Device-level composition in ReWire
… be a productive source language for developing whole systems in the form of single, monolithic monadic specifications. To achieve scale, modularity and reusability, some form of modularity principle must be identified and realized within ReWire. What are the basic units of a ReWire specification …
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Sustainable community : seeking sustainable potentials in an urban community in Kobe, Japan
… heading toward destruction of not only their own systems, but also whole systems on the earth. In the context of the modern society, how can sustainability in communities be regained to promise the future of humankind, the earth, and the universe. The intent of this thesis is to investigate the …
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A re-connection : modeling built works after natural systems
… operations of centralized, unintelligent systems. This inefficient organization encourages the destructive processes of production and consumption to remain unaccountable, broadening the disparity between the built environment and the natural ecosystem. Similarly, there is an increasing …
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Leaning into Love and Compassionate Care in my Early Years Practice.
… ever. Our policies favour terminology such as ‘whole systems approach’ and ‘economicus’. The standardisation of children’s learning is facing a worldwide crisis of outcome-driven goals. Emphasising literacy and numeracy with the effect of pushing down ‘schoolifcation’ on our young children. The …
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The Braided Way: Deep Democracy and Community
… roles, dimensions of rank and power, belief systems, and phenomenological experience within the analytical structure of deep democracy and eldership. Data is collected for the case studies from workshops, interviews with practitioners and participants, relevant texts and field experiences. …
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Consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods in Europe : structure and changeability
… model of the structure, function and dynamics of whole systems of attitudes is developed. The predictions of the model are empirically tested based on an attitude survey (N = 2000) and two attitude change experiments (N = 1400 and N = 750). All three studies were conducted in parallel in four EU …
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To what extent are Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services engaged in Trauma Informed Practice: an Irish study
Background: Children and adolescents attending the mental health services are likely to have experienced childhood or intergenerational trauma. International and national mental health policy recommends that services integrate TIP into mental healthcare provision. A lack of research studies …
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A hero's tale of childbirth: An interpretive phenomenological study of traumatic and positive childbirth
… This model offers the basis through which a whole systems salutogenic orientation to maternity care can be achieved. Original insights into the transformative, cathartic and self-validating nature of a redemptive birth are also presented. The practical implications of these findings and …
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Decarbonising the English residential sector: modelling policies, technologies and behaviour within a heterogeneous building stock
… the residential sector in England using a whole systems approach. It is only when the interaction between social, psychological, regulatory, technical, material and economic factors are considered together that the behaviour of the system emerges and the relationships between different …
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Valstybės taupymo politikos poveikis: Lietuvos atvejis /
… might give biased results because of the whole systems’ interdependency. The second part of the thesis – methodology – introduced to the concept of unit root tests, VAR, impulse response functions and the VECM. The third part – the research – was mainly conducted of 3 parts. In the first, …
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