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Makhubele, Patricia. "Implementation of Natural Sciences and Technology practical activities by novice and expert teachers." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60956.

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The importance of practical activities has been outlined in many articles and research studies. This study presents the way in which two novice and two expert teachers conduct practical activities in their intermediate phase in Natural Sciences and Technology (NST) classrooms and the challenges they face. This study was conducted in primary schools because researchers such as Mihret (2014, p.2) believe that "primary level science education is a cornerstone to lay a foundation to get young citizens interested in science". This study utilised a qualitative case study approach. The data was coll

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Sheehama, Felisia Nauyele. "An investigation into Science teachers’ conceptions of and dispositions towards the implementation of ‘assessment for learning’ (formative assessment) during science practical activities." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/50166.

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Assessment is an integral part of the teaching and learning process. Research by the Assessment Reform Group (ARG) (1999) and others has shown that assessment for learning, or formative assessment, is one of the most powerful educational tools for promoting effective learning and improving performance. Assessment for learning (formative assessment) and summative assessment form part of most national education policies and is advocated in the Namibian curricula. However, most of the focus of official programs in Namibia has been on summative assessment resulting in assessment for learning being

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Kotela, Beauty. "The use of practical activities to address grade 11 learners' conceptual difficulties in electricity and magnetism." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85788.

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Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study investigated the use of a practical activities-based approach to Physical Sciences teaching using TRAC equipment to address learner conceptual difficulties in Electricity and Magnetism (E&M). TRAC uses practical activities based on the school curriculum to complement the theory through the utilisation of data logging equipment linked to a computer. The participants in this study were a group of black Grade 11 learners (n=47) from a township school in the province of the Western Cape, South Africa. Their

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Asheela, Eva Ndagwedha. "An intervention on how using easily accessible resources to carry out hands-on practical activities in science influences science teachers’ conceptual development and dispositions." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/8330.

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The reform and transformation of education systems in terms of enhancing Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in the schooling systems is gaining momentum in different parts of the world. It is argued that there is a need to enhance science education, particularly in Africa, because science education is considered to be the main vehicle through which the greater objectives such as national development and improvement in the quality of life can be realised. Namibia as a country is no exception. A key way through which science education can be enhanced is through carr

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Ullah, Malik Imran, and Waqar Ali Zaidi. "Quality Assurance Activities in Agile : Philosophy to Practice." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2145.

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Quality assurance activities, in software development, are the backbone of whole project. These activities are not only responsible of product quality, but also for process quality. In conventional software development QA is a separate group of QA experts. As the trends of software development moved towards agile development, QA activities also got changed. In agile development most of these activities are performed by developers. Close people collaboration, onsite customer and Test Driven Development are the approaches in agile development to achieve better product quality. In this thesis we

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Brandes, Aaron Andre 1955. "Seeds of science practice : parallels between the science thinking and activities of sixth-grade children and professional scientists." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61093.

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Palmer, Thane R. "A Profile of Professional Activities and Practice Patterns for Marriage and Family Therapists in Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 1998. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2545.

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This research project presents data on practitioner profiles and practice patterns for marriage and family therapists living in Utah . A sample of 77 clinical members and six associate members of the American Association for Marriage and ramily Therapy living in Utah gave descriptive facts on their demographics , training , years of experience , and specific information about their practice of marriage and family therapy. The findings indicate tha t marriage and family therapists in Utah are a mostly male , Caucasian , and highly educated group of practitioners compared to marriage and family

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Maselwa, Matole Reuben. "Promoting learners' conceptual understanding of electrostatics through use of practical activities in conjunction with prior knowledge of lightning : a case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003600.

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The research presented in this thesis is situated within an interpretivist paradigm. Within this paradigm, a qualitative case-study research approach was adopted. This seemed most appropriate in my research project since the main focus is on elicitation of prior knowledge and incorporation of such knowledge into 'hands-on' and 'minds-on' practical activities with a view to improving conceptual development. For the purposes of this research project, I designed an interactive teaching and learning unit in electrostatics as an attempt to put into practice a learner-centred approach. This approach

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Oliveira, Tânia Marisa Batista de. "Atividades práticas em ciências na educação de infância : A escala de envolvimento da criança como ‘reguladora’ do processo." Master's thesis, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre - Escola Superior de Educação, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/6537.

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Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar<br>A educação em ciências tem assumido um papel cada vez mais preponderante na educação pré-escolar. As orientações curriculares apontam para a importância da área do Conhecimento do Mundo para o desenvolvimento pleno da criança, através da sensibilização para a literacia científica consubstanciada na atitude e metodologia própria das ciências. Para que se possa percecionar o impacto das atividades práticas na aprendizagem de ciências optou-se por avaliar o envolvimento através da Escala de Envolvimento para Crianças (Laevers, 1994) integrada no referencial d

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Jakobson, Britt. "Learning Science Through Aesthetic Experience in Elementary School : Aesthetic Judgement, Metaphor and Art." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för matematikämnets och naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8160.

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This thesis considers the role of aesthetic meaning-making in elementary school science learning. Children’s aesthetic experiences are traced through their use of aesthetic judgements, spontaneous metaphors and art activities. The thesis is based on four empirical studies: the first two examining children’s language use, i.e. the role of aesthetic judgements and the significance of spontaneous metaphors while learning science and the latter two dealing with how art activities mediate what elementary school children learn in science and what a variety of art activities with different purposes a

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Triadafillidis, Triadafillos A. "Practical activities in mathematics learning." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14578.

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The effectiveness of activity-based learning has been discussed by many authors over the past 4,000 years. Despite the suggested strength of a 'hands-on' approach, learning in secondary school mathematics classes has become abstract and analytic. Students are taught out-of-context and seldom are given the opportunity to act upon their educational experiences. To evaluate the effectiveness of practical activities in classroom situations, materials were developed by the author. These concerned areas from the mathematics syllabus of the first and second years of secondary school. Data were collec

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Gouveia, Raimundo Valcemir Sabóia. "As atividades práticas e experimentais no ensino de ciências da natureza no ensino médio em uma escola estadual do Amazonas." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2017. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/5943.

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Nicoletti, Elenize Rangel. "EXPLORANDO O TEMA ÁGUA ATRAVÉS DE DIFERENTES ABORDAGENS METODOLÓGICAS NO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2013. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/6670.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>The water, substance essential to life, stands out as a theme present in many moments of elementary school. The National Curriculum suggested at various times that water theme be addressed. Since content that address subjects about biodiversity of the planet to matters related specifically to the human health and wellness, the list of issues related to water is large and diverse, allowing teachers to select the information according to needs and interests of their school community. The objective of this study was to investigate stu

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Dalgren, Sara. "Förskolans pedagogiska praktik som interaktion : Frågor och svar i vardagliga förskoleaktiviteter." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-110208.

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The overarching aim of the present study is to elucidate how preschool teachers and children in their interaction accomplish institutional everyday activities in preschool. What is analyzed, more specifically, is how the preschool teachers and children use certain interactional phenomena as resources when they organize their social interaction. The study is a video-based study and ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspectives are taken as theoretical and analytical points of departure. This means that parts of the video recorded material has been transcribed in detail and micro an

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Redfern, James. "Development and evaluation of innovative microbiological laboratory practical activities for secondary schools." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/48/.

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Microbiology features in the school curriculum being noted in a range of topics, for example, antibiotics, aseptic technique, pathogens and genetic mutation. Support material for the delivery of practical activity is relatively plentiful, but no material could be found in the literature that described their development or evaluation. The aim of this work was to produce a new educational resource for secondary school teachers in support of practical microbiology. The resource would be designed so that it fulfilled particular objectives of the science specifications, and also satisfied teachers'

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Younes, Rabih Halim. "Toward Practical, In-The-Wild, and Reusable Wearable Activity Classification." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83503.

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Wearable activity classifiers, so far, have been able to perform well with simple activities, strictly-scripted activities, and application-specific activities. In addition, current classification systems suffer from using impractical tight-fitting sensor networks, or only use one loose-fitting sensor node that cannot capture much movement information (e.g., smartphone sensors and wrist-worn sensors). These classifiers either do not address the bigger picture of making activity recognition more practical and being able to recognize more complex and naturalistic activities, or try to address th

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Morris, Quaid Donald Jozef 1972. "Practical probabilistic inference." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29989.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in Computational Neuroscience)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-163).<br>The design and use of expert systems for medical diagnosis remains an attractive goal. One such system, the Quick Medical Reference, Decision Theoretic (QMR-DT), is based on a Bayesian network. This very large-scale network models the appearance and manifestation of disease and has approximately 600 unobservable nodes and 4000 observable nodes that represent, respectively, the presence and measurable manif

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Barsky, Eugene, and Kevin Lindstrom. "Podcasting the sciences – a practical overview." ALA, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3848.

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University science education has been undergoing great amount of change since the commercialization of Internet a decade ago. Mobile technologies in science education can encompass more than the proximal teaching and learning environment. Podcasting, for example, allows audio content from user-selected feeds to be automatically downloaded to one’s computer as it becomes available online, and then later transferred to a portable player for user’s consumption at a convenient time and place. Enjoying a phenomenal growth in mainstream society, podcasting are asynchronous and could be provided at a

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Peters, Benjamin J. "Practical pin tooling." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100891.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70).<br>A high resolution reconfigurable mold has been sought after for over 150 years. An ideal reconfigurable mold would be capable of producing detailed surfaces for use in molding and be capable of fast surface reconfiguration. Such a device would combine the fast speed and repeatability of formative processes, like injection molding, with the flexibility of additive proc

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Tricoglus, Gillian. "The practical activities and mental processes of planning : a study of two primary school teachers." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264419.

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Khorgami, M. H. "A conceptually innovative and practical approach to the modelling of household activities and travel behaviour." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1477519/.

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Operational activity-based models have been developed, and are being used, in North America and some mainland European cities, for policy analysis; in the UK the practical application of activity-based modelling is much more limited, despite the fact that available sources of travel and activity data enable such models to be developed. An extensive review of the literature reveals that most operational models do not fully embody the principles of an activity-based approach. In particular, (i) the models mainly concentrate on out-of-home activities, (ii) there is no explicit trade-off between t

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Bobwski, Benny R. "Rangeland Resources Monitoring: Concepts and Practical Applications." DigitalCommons@USU, 2001. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6585.

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How does one person manage and monitor a half million acres of rangelands towards a sustainable future? Through a journey that begins with the understanding of sustainability, I explore the monitoring concept, two -of its applications, and summarize with an emphasis on the art and science of management. Sustainability is a concept that confuses many managers because it is so complex. However, if one considers adaptability as the complement to sustainability, and realizes that an adaptable organism is a sustainable organism, then a manager can relate because the emphasis shifts from that of sta

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Stone, Michael H., and Margaret E. Stone. "Resistance Training Modes: a Practical Perspective." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4677.

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Deng, Zhenyue. "Practical secure information flow in programming languages." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2771.

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If we classify variables in a program into various security levels, then a secure information flow analysis aims to verify statically that information in a program can flow only in ways consistent with the specified security levels. One well-studied approach is to formulate the rules of the secure information flow analysis as a type system. A major trend of recent research focuses on how to accommodate various sophisticated modern language features. However, this approach often leads to overly complicated and restrictive type systems, . making them unfit for practical use. Also, problems essen

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Isaksson, Charlotta. "Uthålligt lärande om värmen? : Domesticering av energiteknik i passivhus." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-51876.

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Den vanligaste lösningen på problemet att för mycket energi används i den byggda miljön är implementering av energieffektiv teknik. Men installation av teknik räcker sällan för att nå förväntad energibesparing: det är människor som i sin vardag använder tekniken och de använder den inte alltid på det sätt som teknikutvecklarna har tänkt sig. I avhandlingen behandlas människors vardagliga användning av energiteknik. Det innebär att fokus skiftas från produktutvecklarnas och experternas intentioner och syn på teknikens användning, till det sociala sammanhang där människor lever sitt vardagsliv.

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Wold, Lina. "Tillsynsarbete i frisörbranschen." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-30789.

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Rapportens syfte är dels att belysa om frisörbranschens miljöpåverkan genom kemikalieutsläpp, att undersöka hur kommunens tillsynsrutiner ser ut på frisörsalonger runt om i Sverige. Samt undersöka hur dessa rutiner skulle kunna förbättras för att minska farliga utsläpp och utifrån ett miljöperspektiv skapa mer hållbara arbetssätt. Det slutgiltiga syftet för rapporten är att den ska fungera som ett informationsunderlag till kommunernas tillsynsmän och även till de myndigheter och organisationer som de samarbetar med. Genom kemikalieutsläpp och otillräcklig avfallshantering har frisörbranschen s

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Almeida, Franciele Almeida de. "A importância das aulas práticas de ciências para alunos com transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FURG, 2012. http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/4782.

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Vilaythong, Thongloon. "The role of practical work in physics education in Lao PDR." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för fysik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-42134.

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The aim of this thesis is to get a better understanding of the role of practical work in physics education in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). The Lao PDR is one of least developed countries in the world with a weak base for science, and poor market opportunities for science graduates. The rapidly expanding educational system has many problems concerning quality of the infrastructure and staff competence. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used in the study in order to assure reliability of the results. Data was collected through questionnaires, interviews

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Burkemper, Mary Catherine. "Practical Pain Management Options for Piglet Castration." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1554933259376819.

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Vercoe, G. Scott. "Moodtrack : practical methods for assembling emotion-driven music." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39923.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2006.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-88).<br>This thesis presents new methods designed for the deconstruction and reassembly of musical works based on a target emotional contour. Film soundtracks provide an ideal testing ground for organizing music around strict timing and emotional criteria. The approach to media analysis applies Minsky's ideas of frame-arrays to the context of film music, revealing musical and emotional cue points of a work. Media deco

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Drake, Adam C. "Practical Improvements in Applied Spectral Learning." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2546.

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Spectral learning algorithms, which learn an unknown function by learning a spectral representation of the function, have been widely used in computational learning theory to prove many interesting learnability results. These algorithms have also been successfully used in real-world applications. However, previous work has left open many questions about how to best use these methods in real-world learning scenarios. This dissertation presents several significant advances in real-world spectral learning. It presents new algorithms for finding large spectral coefficients (a key sub-problem in sp

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Lively, Jason. "Assessing Individual Contribution in Online Collaborative Activities." NSUWorks, 2007. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/679.

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Online education through the use of an asynchronous learning network is playing an increasingly important role in higher education. The conveniences of time and place independent learning have added to the popularity of online education. Online education offers more than simply a digital representation of a traditional course. Instruction has the potential to be enhanced through the use of Internet based tools. When students are grouped and charged with a common goal, online collaboration can also result. Collaboration in itself offers many benefits to students during and beyond their academic

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Kulik, Stephanie. "Purchasing practice in SMEs : Practical Impressions about the Purchasing Activities of Small and Medium sized Enterprises in the Manufacturing Industry." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12327.

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<p>Small and medium sized companies are important to the European economy and considered as the true backbone of the European economy, being primarily responsible for wealth and economic growth. Further, the purchasing function of small and medium sized companies had become more and more important to firms within the creating of competitive advantages. Additional, former research emphasizes the need of companies to engage in closer relationships in order to survive in nowadays business environments.</p><p>These three issues, - SMEs, its purchasing performance and the relationships the small an

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Connolly, Mark R. "Exploring cases of practical wisdom (phronesis) in postsecondary teaching." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3167788.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2005.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1289. Adviser: Thomas A. Schwandt. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 9, 2006)."

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Asbjørn, Sörensen Charlotte. "A Material Framework for Product Design." Licentiate thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7446.

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A new paradigm is slowly making its way into society, affecting our material practice as designers. Materials selection in design and product development has for a long time been dominated by a purely technical approach, mainly focusing on properties and performance. With the increasing evidence of climate change, waste and pollution, environmental effects, we are slowly realizing that unsustainable consumption of materials is no longer an alternative. Previous studies of material practices, both within design educations and the design profession, has primarily dealt with the development of ma

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Travassos, Willer. "A practical face recognition system using a game with a purpose." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92359.

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A facial recognition system is a computer application built to automatically identify or verify the identity of a person from a digital source. The quality of the source and environment from which digital information is retrieved pose problems to a face recognition system (FRS) that lead to erroneous results. Even though there is a necessity for systems that are capable of performing facial recognition on the fly, current systems, in order to be accurate, try to completely or partially control the environment of its digital sources. In this thesis, we approach the problems that afflict these s

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Mothokwa, Sekgopo Sydney. "The integration of practical tasks in teaching Natural Sciences in Grade seven." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46166.

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The study was carried out to investigate how teachers integrate practical tasks at school level. The main aim was to explore the manner in which the teachers who participated in this study assisted the learners to develop 21st century scientific skills through the teaching of Natural Sciences in Grade 7 classes. The study was conducted in three districts of the Department of Education in the Limpopo Province. The study was qualitative in nature and used a case study research design. The techniques used to collect data included document analysis, lesson observations, semi-structured interviews

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Bisbey, Tiffany. "Toward a Theory of Practical Drift in Teams." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1574.

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Practical drift is defined as the unintentional adaptation of routine behaviors from written procedure. The occurrence of practical drift can result in catastrophic disaster in high-reliability organizations (e.g. the military, emergency medicine, space exploration). Given the lack of empirical research on practical drift, this research sought to develop a better understanding by investigating ways to assess and stop the process in high-reliability organizations. An introductory literature review was conducted to investigate the variables that play a role in the occurrence of practical drift i

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Kashfi, Hamid. "Evaluation of Current Practical Attacks Against RFID Technology." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-37766.

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that has been around for three decades now. It is being used in various scenarios in technologically modern societies around the world and becoming a crucial part of our daily life. But we often forget how the inner technology is designed to work, or even if it is as trustable and secure as we think. While the RFID technology and protocols involved with it has been designed with an acceptable level of security in mind, not all implementations and use cases are as secure as consumers believe. A majority of implementations and products that a

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Carati, Daniele. "Large-eddy simulation for turbulent flows :from mathematical foundations to practical applications." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211625.

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Durbin, Donna. "Distribution of Sexual Activities Within Estrus of Dairy Cattle." TopSCHOLAR®, 1991. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2279.

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Previous studies of dairy cattle have indicated that heifers and cows in hot, cold and moderate weather had different patterns of sexual activities. The purpose of this study was to compare distribution of sexual activities within estrus of dairy cattle. Three groups of lactating cows in hot, cold and moderate weather and a group of heifers in cold weather were observed. Estrus for each individual was divided into 12 equal periods. Sexual activities for 3 and 6 hours before and after estrus were also observed. The numbers of mounts and distribution of total sexual activities was analyzed. Moun

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Henriqueto, Sofia Isabel Costa. "A componente prático-laboratorial de Física e Química A - Ano I e a formação dos alunos do ensino secundário." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18229.

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A componente prático-laboratorial (PL) faz parte dos currículos de Física e Química do Ensino Secundário e é considerada fundamental por diversos autores e professores. Com este trabalho pretende-se conhecer as características da realização da componente PL, a importância que alunos e professores lhe reconhecem e os contributos que pode trazer para o desenvolvimento dos alunos. Deste modo, importa clarificar os conceitos de prático, laboratorial e experimental e compreender se sempre que alunos e professores opinam sobre esta temática conhecem, efectivamente, o currículo e a oferta formativa e

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Florez, Omar Ulises. "Knowledge Extraction in Video Through the Interaction Analysis of Activities Knowledge Extraction in Video Through the Interaction Analysis of Activities." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1720.

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Video is a massive amount of data that contains complex interactions between moving objects. The extraction of knowledge from this type of information creates a demand for video analytics systems that uncover statistical relationships between activities and learn the correspondence between content and labels. However, those are open research problems that have high complexity when multiple actors simultaneously perform activities, videos contain noise, and streaming scenarios are considered. The techniques introduced in this dissertation provide a basis for analyzing video. The primary contrib

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Bosco, Joseph A. "Liability for outer space activities : a United States' perspective." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65375.

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Ghomi, Emilien. "Designing expressive interaction techniques for novices inspired by expert activities : the case of musical practice." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00839850.

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As interactive systems are now used to perform a variety of complex tasks, users need systems that are at the same time expressive, efficient and usable. Although simple interactive systems can be easily usable, interaction designers often consider that only expert practitioners can benefit from the expressiveness of more complex systems. Our approach, inspired by studies in phenomenology and psychology, underscores that non-experts have sizeable knowledge and advanced skills related to various expert activities having a social dimension -such as artistic activities-, which they gain implicitl

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Pinard, Genevieve. "Cytotoxic activities of murine decidual macrophages in early embryo loss." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30829.

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Early embryo losses are characterized by a large infiltration of cnacrophages and NK-cells in the decidua surrounding resorbing embryos. This infiltration is combined with a high expression of interferon gamma (IFNgamma), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha), and inducible nitric oxide mRNA in the maternal tissue. After receiving proper priming (IFNgamma) and triggering signal (lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or TNFalpha), decidual macrophages can secrete TNFalpha, nitric oxide (NO) and other cytotoxic molecules that could potentially damage placental cells and consequently compromise embryo surviv

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Uitto, T. (Teemu). "Detection and recognition of daily activities by utilizing novel technologies." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201711093088.

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This thesis studies novel outdoor and indoor positioning technologies enhanced with wearable or body worn motion sensors to recognize daily activities. In gerontology and geriatric medicine, it is fundamentally important to be able to detect changes in physical, psychosocial, and cognitive outcomes over time. In this thesis, intelligent systems for assessing aging changes were discussed. By utilizing novel technologies and methods, efficiency of home care services can be improved. The studied concept enables early detection of changes in functional ability and daily performance. As a research

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Sommerich, Carolyn Marie. "A biochemical analysis of repetitive finger motion during typing activities /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148785810611707.

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Daja, Mirella Maria. "Enzyme activities associated with gonadotropic hormones." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2311.

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A structural relationship between gonadotropic hormones and certain types of enzymes has been suggested in previous studies and an investigation into the possibility of enzymatic activity associated with the gonadotropic hormones has been the primary focus of the research presented in this thesis. Partial sequence homology between human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and α-chymotrypsin prompted the recent proposal of a tertiary structure of hCG using α-chymotrypsin as a folding template, which suggested the possibility of intrinsic peptidase activity associated with hCG. Highly purified hCG (CR1

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Oakes, Bentley. "Practical and theoretical issues of evolving behaviour trees for a turn-based game." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119721.

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The concept of evolving components of an artificial intelligence (AI) has seen increased interest in recent years as the power and complexity of AI has grown. In entertainment software, this AI can impact the player's experiences and enjoyment through elements such as the level of difficulty of the player's competition. Therefore AI development is an important research topic, especially as development is considered difficult by the video game industry. This work applies the evolutionary computing paradigm to a turn-based domain by evolving team strategies. These strategies are represented as b

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