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Mecum, Mark M. "Solving Alliance Cohesion: NATO Cohesion After the Cold War." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1180549294.
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Dropp, Anthony Henry. "Unit cohesion and the Navy: does cohesion affect performance?" Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27319.
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Silva, Bruno Carreiro da. "Understanding Software Cohesion Metrics: Experimental Assessment of Conceptual Cohesion." Instituto de Matemática, 2015. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/22845.
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Coesão tem sido reconhecida como um importante atributo de qualidade em design de software ao longo de décadas. Coesão é definida como o grau em que um módulo está focado em um único interesse do software. Entretanto, medir coesão não é trivial, pois é difícil capturar os interesses realizados por módulos de software. Métricas de coesão bem conhecidas dependem da estrutura do código fonte, pois elas avaliam como métodos dentro de um módulo acessam atributos em comum. No entanto, coesão nem sempre é bem representada pela estrutura internade módulos. Há situações em que métricas de coesão estrutural falham em representar a coesão de módulos de software. Sabendo desta limitação, pesquisadores têm proposto métricas de coesão conceitual, que consistem em formas alternativas de medição de coesão baseadas em quais interesses cada módulo realiza. Entretanto, falta evidência empírica para compreender como métricas de coesão conceitual se encaixam entre diversas métricas de coesão estrutural que têm sido propostas e bem estabelecidas nas últimas décadas e incorporadas em ferramentas de medição de software em escala industrial. Neste contexto, realizamos uma série de estudos empíricos a fim de explicar coesão conceitual como uma diferente forma de medir coesão quando comparada com coesão estrutural convencional. De modo geral, nossa pesquisa envolveu oitenta desenvolvedores de software de nove países, assim como seis sistemas de médio a grande porte, com código aberto e amplamente utilizados na indústria por diversos anos, incluindo um conjunto de aproximadamente trinta mil revisões no código fonte. Como resultado, nós pudemos explicar que coesão conceitual é ortogonal a coesão estrutural, por representar uma dimensão adicional na medição de coesão. Nós encontramos também que tal dimensão adicional é mais próxima de como desenvolvedores raciocinam sobre coesão de módulos e que coesão conceitual é um potencial indicador de propensão a mudança. Mais ainda, através de um estudo adicional, nós demonstramos e explicamos que a seleção de uma estratégia de mapeamento de interesses não deve ser negligenciada, pois isso impacta significativamente nos resultados de medição de coesão conceitual. Entre as estratégias estudadas, o mapeamento manual leva a melhores resultados. Entretanto, como isso requer muito esforço, uma das estratégias de mapeamento automático investigadas pode também ser considerada quando a estratégia manual não é viável. Nós disponibilizamos na web todos os nossos dados e materiais de estudo, incluindo um novo mapeamento manual de interesses sobre um sistema real, e três extensões de ferramenta para computar uma métrica de coesão conceitual. Esses materiais podem ser utilizados ou estendidos por pesquisadores em estudos futuros. Em resumo, nossos resultados podem ser diretamente usados por engenheiros de software quando estiverem planejando ou executando medição de coesão em suas tarefas e quando estiverem construindo ferramentas de medição para ambientes de desenvolvimento. De forma geral, isto justifica esforço adicional para continuar melhorando as tecnologias e o corpo de conhecimento sobre medição de coesão.
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Šimoliūnaitė, Justina. "COHESION IN HANSARD." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100902_234433-28426.
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It is widely acknowledged that political activities can not exist without language. Both politics and language are interrelated concepts. The relation between politics and language are widely investigated in terms of textual analysis based on language of politics. As Paul Anthony Chilton and Christina Schäffner state in the book Politics as text and talk: analytic approaches to political discourse: “<…> Aristotelian view <…> for language would have evolved to perform social functions – social functions that would in fact correspond to what we understand as ‘political’.”(Chilton and Schäffner 2002:2) Furthermore, Adrian Beard wrote how both language and politics are interrelated in his book The Language of Politics (2000:18). The author provided textual analysis of language in political discourse.
The bachelor thesis explores how cohesion is used in political discourse. In this Research, Hansard, official reports of British Parliamentary debates, have been used to investigate the phenomenon of cohesion. In this paper the term “Hansard” is applied to refer to an official report of British Parliamentary debates. To be precise, two dictionaries have been chosen to define the term “Hansard”. Oxford Guide to British and American Culture for Learners of English provides the following definition of the concept “Hansard”: “the informal name for the Official Report of everything that is said in the British parliament, and in its committees.” (Oxford Guide to British and American... [to full text]VISUOTINAI PRIPAŽINTA, KAD POLITINĖ VEIKLA NEGALI EGZISTUOTI BE KALBOS. TIEK POLITIKA, TIEK IR KALBA YRA TARPUSAVYJE SUSIETI KONCEPTAI. RYŠYS TARP POLITIKOS IR KALBOS YRA PLAČIAI ANALIZUOJAMAS PAGAL TEKSTO ANALIZE PAREMTA POLITIKOS KALBA. ANTHONY CHILTON IR CHRISTINA SCHAFFNER SAVO KNYGOJE "POLITIKA KAIP TEKSTAS AR KALBĖJIMAS: ANALITINIS POŽIURIS POLITINIAM DISKURSUI", TAIP PAT IR ADRIAN BEARD SAVO KNYGOJE "POLITIKOS KALBA" PATEIKĖ PAVYZDŽIUS BEI ILIUSTRAVO POLITIKOS IR KALBOS SVARBA.ŠIAME BAKALAURO DARBE YRA ANALIZUOJAMA KOHEZIJA OFICIALIUOSE DIDŽIOSIOS BRITANIJOS PARLAMENTO PRANEŠIMUOSE.
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Parsons, Gerald L. "Measuring cohesion in English texts : the relationship between cohesion and coherence." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294518.
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Burnett, Jonathan Kingsley. "The genesis and implementation of community cohesion in Bradford : from cohesion to coercion?" Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446396.
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Ilori, Oluwakemi Atanda. "Social capital and community cohesion : the role of social housing in building cohesive communities." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5655.
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Despite its imprecision, social capital is a powerful tool for examining how and why particular forms of social interaction lead to the health and well-being of communities, organisations, and even businesses. Community cohesion as a policy prescription emerged in the UK, following the social disturbances in certain northern cities and towns in the summer of 2001. The official reports into these disturbances identified lack of social interaction between different ethnic groups as a principal cause. Furthermore, social housing was seen as a key factor that could be used to prevent future disturbances. Accordingly, this research focuses on how the assets and forms of social capital act as good predictors of community cohesion, in the context of the New Labour government's aim to use social housing to build cohesive communities. Unless otherwise specified, references to 'the government' throughout this thesis apply to the New Labour administration that came to power in the UK on 2nd May 1997 and ended with the Coalition administration led by the Conservatives on 11th May 2010. This thesis makes use of the linearity between the goals of social capital and the policy aims of community cohesion to match forms of social capital to specific forms of social interaction, in six selected social housing schemes in Bradford. Bradford was one of the cities affected by the disturbances in 2001. Analysis of the forms of social interaction in the case study housing schemes shows that bridging and linking forms of social capital, which could lead to enduring cohesive communities, were mainly latent in the schemes. This suggests that the peaceful co-existence in the case study housing schemes today is, possibly, postponed social conflict in the long term.
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Ilori, Oluwakemi A. "Social Capital and Community Cohesion. The Role of Social Housing in Building Cohesive Communities." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5655.
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Despite its imprecision, social capital is a powerful tool for examining how and why particular forms of social interaction lead to the health and well-being of communities, organisations, and even businesses. Community cohesion as a policy prescription emerged in the UK, following the social disturbances in certain northern cities and towns in the summer of 2001. The official reports into these disturbances identified lack of social interaction between different ethnic groups as a principal cause. Furthermore, social housing was seen as a key factor that could be used to prevent future disturbances. Accordingly, this research focuses on how the assets and forms of social capital act as good predictors of community cohesion, in the context of the New Labour government¿s aim to use social housing to build cohesive communities. Unless otherwise specified, references to ¿the government¿ throughout this thesis apply to the New Labour administration that came to power in the UK on 2nd May 1997 and ended with the Coalition administration led by the Conservatives on 11th May 2010. This thesis makes use of the linearity between the goals of social capital and the policy aims of community cohesion to match forms of social capital to specific forms of social interaction, in six selected social housing schemes in Bradford. Bradford was one of the cities affected by the disturbances in 2001. Analysis of the forms of social interaction in the case study housing schemes shows that bridging and linking forms of social capital, which could lead to enduring cohesive communities, were mainly latent in the schemes. This suggests that the peaceful co-existence in the case study housing schemes today is, possibly, postponed social conflict in the long term.
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van, Well Lisa. "Institutional Capacity for Territorial Cohesion." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-45063.
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Territorial cohesion has its legal basis in the Treaty of Lisbon and is one of the overarching goals in the 2007-2013 Cohesion Policy instruments. Still the definition of territorial cohesion can be characterized as a ‘moving target’ - each EU Member State and region conceptualizes the policy goal in as befits the specific regional challenges and opportunities of the territory. The thesis examines the concept of territorial cohesion as a normative goal that is intended to be implemented at various territorial governance levels. The point of departure of the thesis is that it is important for institutions, as formal and informal ‘rules of the game’, to have the capacity or potential mobilization resources to plan for and achieve territorial cohesion and regional development. Institutional capacity is operationalized by use of a general framework consisting of knowledge resources, relational resources and mobilization capacity. The thesis is built on six papers that each deal with an issue (EU enlargement, climate change adaptation and mitigation, innovative capacity and cores and peripheries) that has territorial impact at three levels - the international or EU level, the transnational or macro-regional level and the local/regional level. The papers use primarily qualitative methods and each paints a very different picture of the potential role of institutions in understanding territorial cohesion. A cover essay links the articles analytically, building the question of how territorial cohesion is conceptualized on multiple levels through different theoretical and policy ‘lenses’. Synthesized results of the papers confirm that there are two quite different logics of action informing the way territorial cohesion is used as a goal or a means at the three levels. Applying the institutional capacity framework to cases working towards territorial cohesion at different levels has concluded that knowledge-building resources are most important for EU-level institutions, relational resources are most important at the transnational or macro-regional level, and mobilization capacity is key for local/regional institutions in efforts towards place-based development. The thesis has shown that there is added value in using the same framework of analysis at very different territorial levels. Scaling up or scaling down analytical levels appears to provide some added substance to a coherent picture of territorial cohesion even if there is a risk that it increases complexity.QC 20111026
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Siddharthan, Advaith. "Syntactic simplification and text cohesion." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407014.
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MuΣnoz, Jorge Alberto. "Unit cohesion and social structure." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/7513.
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Unit cohesion at the primary-group level has been an enduring concern of the Department of Defense since the Viet Nam conflict. This effort studies the antecedent causal factors impinging on the primary-group cohesion within the context of a political mov
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Moses, John. "Cohesion prediction using information flow." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387492.
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von, Zimmermann Jorina Helena. "The mechanics of group cohesion." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10041803/.
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Human history is inherently social and the study of groups is fundamental for understanding what it means to be human. Why do we form groups? How do we make sure that groups remain cohesive social entities and do not fall apart? It is the central aim of this thesis to explore the relationship between individuals and groups with a focus on the mechanisms which produce group cohesion. Researchers from different disciplines agree that studying group cohesion is paramount for understanding group dynamics. Here, group cohesion is not approached in relation to its structural properties, but the focus is directed towards its affective and social components. One of the premises is that cohesion plays a crucial role in the process of group formation. While group cohesion is often discussed in relation to social identity and other higher order cognitive processes, findings from the behavioural coordination literature suggest that there is also a physical dimension to group cohesion. Synchronous actions experienced between pairs or small groups of people have been reported to have pro-social consequences, such as increased liking or cooperation, and to create feelings of unity and similarity between people. However, to this date not many researchers have analysed the role of behavioural coordination or synchrony for the emergence and maintenance of cohesion in larger groups. This thesis aims to contribute to a now growing field, looking at this relationship. Novel data is presented, which shows that synchronous behaviour can have positive effects on levels of intragroup affiliation and unity. Group synchrony is portrayed as an important mechanism, which can enhance and signal cohesion in groups. The positive and negative social consequences of group cohesion are discussed and a novel and innovative research paradigm is presented, which has been developed to aid with the scientific investigation of intra- and intergroup dynamics.
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Andronescu, Cristina Gabriela. "Pension benefits and social cohesion." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107533.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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How does the expansion of social protection programs to the poor in developing democracies affect social cohesion? I address this question by examining Bolivia's central government run, non-contributory pension program, Renta Dignidad. Using a regression discontinuity design as well as a novel difference-in-discontinuities design, I find that recipients of pension benefits are overall more likely to display increased support for the central government and that in provinces where both territorial tensions and class tensions are most acute, support for the central government is significantly greater. This is consistent with a theoretical argument that expansion of social protection to the poor can mitigate opposition on active dimensions of social conflict that intersect the socio-economic dimension.
by Cristina Gabriela Andronescu.
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Smith, Thomas Alton. "Family cohesion in remarried families." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49832.
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Bayraktar, Hasan. "The Role Of Lexical Cohesion In L2 Reading Comprehension." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613145/index.pdf.
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This study aimed at discovering the role of lexical cohesive links in L2 reading comprehension. For this purpose, the researcher carried out lexical cohesion analysis of two TOEFL reading tests consisting of six texts. First, prior to the reading comprehension tests, the students were administered &ldquoa vocabulary familiarity task&rdquo
. Second, the TOEFL reading tests were administered to fifty upper-intermediate and advanced level EFL students at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Third, after each test, a post-reading &ldquo
Lexical links recognition task&rdquo
was given. Finally, the data were analyzed comparing reader performance on each item, both within and across the groups. The researcher analyzed the reading test results besides the results of the accompanying lexical cohesive links tasks to see if there is a &ldquo
significant relationship&rdquo
between the three factors: vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension level and recognition of lexical cohesive links. The results have indicated that awareness of lexical cohesive links noticeably contributes to reading test scores in L2 and that recognition-level vocabulary knowledge alone may not guarantee better reading comprehension scores. Finally, it is suggested that reading and writing teachers can develop some pedagogic exercises to teach lexical cohesive devices and in this way improve students&rsquo
knowledge of lexical cohesive sub-types, thus enhancing their reading performance.
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Ahlm, Daniel, and Johanna Lindgren. "Game, Set and Cohesion : A case study of sport for social cohesion in Timor Leste." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-29109.
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This thesis addresses how sports can encourage social cohesion amongst youth in Dili, Timor Leste. It is a case study, conducted in Timor Leste and is based on interviews with staff working at organizations that offer sport for peace programs as well as with other interested parties. The sport for peace programs involves youth in and around Dili and were initiated as a peace-building method. The communication aspect is analyzed through a participatory communication approach. The thesis investigates sports effect on social behavior from a sport pshycology perspective. It brings up both challenges and improvements for the sport for peace programs. The thesis also show the positive aspects of using sports as a tool for social cohesion.
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Young, Robert J. "Building cohesion in church leadership a cohesion enhancement-empowerment-training model for leadership team building /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Baig, Imran. "Measuring Cohesion and Coupling of Object-Oriented Systems Derivation and Mutual Study of Cohesion and Coupling." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för programvarusystem, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-6010.
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Cohesion and coupling are considered amongst the most important properties to evaluate the quality of a design. In the context of OO software development, cohesion means relatedness of the public functionality of a class whereas coupling stands for the degree of dependence of a class on other classes in OO system. In this thesis, a new metric has been proposed that measures the class cohesion on the basis of relative relatedness of the public methods to the overall public functionality of a class. The proposed metric for class cohesion uses a new concept of subset tree to determine relative relatedness of the public methods to the overall public functionality of a class. A set of metrics has been proposed for measuring class coupling based on three types of UML relationships, namely association, inheritance and dependency. The reasonable metrics to measure cohesion and coupling are supposed to share the same set of input data. Sharing of input data by the metrics encourages the idea for the existence of mutual relationships between them. Based on potential relationships research questions have been formed. An attempt is made to find answers of these questions with the help of an experiment on OO system FileZilla. Mutual relationships between class cohesion and class coupling have been analyzed statistically while considering OO metrics for size and reuse. Relationships among the pairs of metrics have been discussed and results are drawn in accordance with observed correlation coefficients. A study on Software evolution with the help of class cohesion and class coupling metrics has also been performed and observed trends have been analyzed.
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Kazmierczak, A1eksandra Ewa. "Urban green spaces and social cohesion." Thesis, University of Salford, 2010. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26750/.
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Green spaces provide numerous environmental, economic and social benefits to residents of urban areas. One particular notion is that green spaces contribute to social cohesion of urban communities. However, the extant evidence for this contribution is patchy and the mechanisms connecting social cohesion to green spaces are not well recognised. The aim of this thesis is to provide a conceptual framework linking urban green spaces and social cohesion. The critical literature review identified three hypothetical mechanisms that link green spaces to social cohesion: their role as free and accessible amenities; as social arenas enabling interactions between people; and as places relieving stress and aggression by providing contact with nature. These functions were investigated in a multi-method manner with the use of Geographical Information Systems, ecological surveys, questionnaire surveys, focus group discussions and statistical analysis of secondary data. Greater Manchester, UK, was used as a case study area. The results suggest that while green spaces were abundant in the area investigated, their accessibility was limited by unequal geographic distribution, problems with physical access and perceptions of their usability. They functioned as social arenas but this role was dependant on the presence of recreational facilities, qualities of the neighbouring area and personal characteristics of visitors. While contact with nature was valued by users, it was not seen as a priority and intensely managed settings were preferred by respondents. In conclusion, the research identified that a number of criteria need to be met for urban green spaces to contribute to social cohesion. The results have been combined into a conceptual framework of interrelated social and environmental factors affecting the potential of green spaces to provide this contribution. The thesis includes suggestions for further investigations into the socio-ecological functioning of urban green spaces and provides recommendations for green space planning and management.
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Friggeri, Adrien. "A Quantitative Theory of Social Cohesion." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00737199.
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Community, a notion transversal to all areas of Social Network Analysis, has drawn tremendous amount of attention across the sciences in the past decades. Numerous attempts to characterize both the sociological embodiment of the concept as well as its observable structural manifestation in the social network have to this date only converged in spirit. No formal consensus has been reached on the quantifiable aspects of community, despite it being deeply linked to topological and dynamic aspects of the underlying social network. Presenting a fresh approach to the evaluation of communities, this thesis introduces and builds upon the cohesion, a novel metric which captures the intrinsic quality, as a community, of a set of nodes in a network. The cohesion, defined in terms of social triads, was found to be highly correlated to the subjective perception of communitiness through the use of a large-scale online experiment in which users were able to compute and rate the quality of their social groups on Facebook. Adequately reflecting the complexity of social interactions, the problem of finding a maximally cohesive group inside a given social network is shown to be NP-hard. Using a heuristic approximation algorithm, applications of the cohesion to broadly different use cases are highlighted, ranging from its application to network visualization, to the study of the evolution of agreement groups in the United States Senate, to the understanding of the intertwinement between subjects' psychological traits and the cohesive structures in their social neighborhood. The use of the cohesion proves invaluable in that it offers non-trivial insights on the network structure and its relation to the associated semantic.
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Mažeikytė, Agnė. "Grammatical Cohesion in E. Hemingway's Works." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120831_102832-07788.
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Main feature of the cohesion is connection between sentences in the text. It describes the ways in which components of sentences of a text are mutually connected (grammatically and lexically). Cohesion is non-structural text forming relations because cohesion depends not on structure but on semantic relations and it makes the text a semantic unit.Pagrindinis kohenzijos tikslas yra ryšys tarp sakinių tekste. Ji apibūdina abipusį ryšį kuris jungia sakinius(gramatinį ir leksinį). Kohenzija yra nestruktūrinis teksto formavimo ryšys, ji nepriklauso nuo struktūros, tai semantinis ryšys ir tuo pačiu jis nurodo, kad tekstas yra semantinė dalis.
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Halsall, Jamie Phillip. "Ethnic Minorities,Segregation and Community Cohesion." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526876.
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Mendez, Carlos. "Governing cohesion in the European Union." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607446.
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The European Union's (EU) Cohesion policy accounts for a major share of the EU budget and is central to socio-economic development in many EU Members States, yet it is also one of the most complex and misunderstood EU policies. The collection of articles presented in this PhD by Publication aim to advance understanding on EU Cohesion policy while contributing to wider theoretical agendas on the EU policy process and governance. Based on a decade of research and employing qualitative methods, the collective contribution of the articles to the state of the art is three-fold. First, mainstream accounts of EU Cohesion policy development and governance are revised. Second, new insights and understanding of Cohesion policy and EU governance are provided, particularly through the use of theoretical lenses and concepts that have not been previously applied to this policy. Third, new lines of research for developing EU Cohesion policy and governance scholarship are suggested.
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Tondl, Gabriele. "Can EU's cohesion policy achieve convergence?" Forschungsinstitut für Europafragen, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1995. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1536/1/document.pdf.
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In this paper I would like to raise the question at which extent the Union's cohesion policy can promote convergence within the Union. I will discuss major aspects of an analysis on the justification and of the design of the Union's cohesion policy. For this purpose recent empirical data and policies will be investigated. The paper will focus on the weaker Member States of the European Union. (author's abstract)Series: EI Working Papers / Europainstitut
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Mbufong, Paul K. "Cohesion in the language of law." Thesis, University of Reading, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357389.
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Stark, Patricia Pullin. "An investigation into social cohesion in workplace meetings : issues concerning communication and social cohesion in the workplace." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442639.
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The aim of this study is to explore and describe linguistic strategies that help to create and maintain social cohesion in the workplace. Recent changes in the workplace have resulted in greater diversity within the workforce and changes in working patterns. This has led to nascent recognition of the importance and value of interpersonal communication at work. Many studies focus on miscommunication and pre-defined, normative notions of culture are often referred to in explaining communication difficulties. I argue that focus on effective communication and the individual's use of language is of greater value. Individuals are viewed as multifaceted rather than as adhering to one culture, whilst the notion of dynamic, emergent cultures within specific contexts replaces that of essentialist cultures. The study deals with native speaker and non-native speaker discourse in meetings. It draws on the roles of politeness, solidarity, affect and relational and transactional language in creating a suitable working atmosphere for goals to be achieved effectively. Module 2 deals with methodology and the pilot study, based on discourse analysis and a grounded approach. Module 3 focuses on exploring and analysing a narrow range of linguistic features relating to social cohesion in the workplace.
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Cai, Yunhong. "The Use of Cohesive Devices in the Compositions of Chinese College Students." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-8237.
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Writing plays an important role in people's daily communication. But for Chinese university students, writing an English composition constitutes a tough task, in which the use of cohesive devices is one of the major problems. Though cohesion has a lot to do with the quality of a composition, the empirical study of their relationship from the perspective of quantitative research is rarely done.
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Soszyński, Robert Marian. "The formation and properties of coherent flocs in fibre suspensions." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27544.
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Fibres in concentrated suspensions are in continuous contact with other fibres and may interlock through elastic bending to form coherent networks. Such interlocking is termed Type-C cohesion. The process by which Type-C cohesion forms among fibres and the resulting structure and tensile strength of individual floes of fibres have been examined in experimental study in which relatively straight, smooth nylon (6-6) fibres of aspect ratios from 65 to 189 were suspended in aqueous-sugar solutions. The fibres were in most cases neutrally buoyant. The suspensions were caused to flow in a partially filled, inclined-to-the-horizontal or horizontally-oriented cylinder rotated about its principal axis to produce a recirculating and moderately unsteady flow. At a well-defined and reproducible "threshold concentration" Type-C coherent floes formed. The floes were verified to be of Type-C by heat treatment. The heat treatment caused stress relaxation in elastically bent fibres resulting in reduced floe strength. Visual observations of floe formation and velocity measurements with Laser Doppler Anemometer indicated that the floes originated in the zone in which flow decelerated. In this zone floes formed by compaction of crowded fibres. The threshold concentration depended on fibre geometry and viscosity of the suspending liquid. Below an aspect ratio of approximately 50 and above a suspending liquid viscosity of approximately 0.013 Pa‧s, Type-C coherent floes did not form at any concentration of fibres. Under the test conditions of this work, the threshold concentration was unaffected by the cylinder rotational speed, cylinder diameter, and angle of incline to the horizontal, provided that sufficient shear was induced in the cylinder to create recirculating flow. The structure and strength of Type-C coherent floes were examined. The number of contact points per fibre was less than values estimated from theoretical, statistical models in the literature. The tensile strength of individual Type-C floes measured in a tester with a unique comb support showed values larger than strengths reported in the literature for either man-made or wood-pulp fibre networks. A mathematical model developed to describe tensile strength based on frictional fibre-to-fibre interaction accounted for only a part of the total floe strength.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Giorgianni, Anthony Peter. "Assessing the European Union's prospects for cohesion." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA302833.
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Jönsson, Andreas. "Learning cohesively : Cohesion in Second Language Learning." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8537.
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This essay concerns itself with the importance of learning English as a second language cohesively. The research focus is on student responsibility to learn English and if as well as how this responsibility contributes to have students' perceptions of learning the language cohesively. The applied research method consists of a student questionnaire and two teacher interviews. The questionnaire produces a description of students' relationship to, and view of, the English language and how they understand their learning process in acquiring it. The two teacher interviews establish if and how the teachers influence the students' cohesive understanding of the English language.
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Lanchbury, Maeve Sarah. "Cohesion and shared education in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Ulster University, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726838.
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The vision of a shared future is clouded by shared education. No matter how laudable, shared education is an abstract concept. There is no fixed, one-fits-all model for shared education. The research reveals that the case for shared education may not be quite as straightforward as some commentators have suggested. Drawing on literature from Europe and Britain a dual typology of cohesion provided the cornerstone for this research. A mixed methods case study supported an objective examination of the shared education narrative. Dealing with violent conflict, cultural diversity, and economic inequality is an ongoing concern for Britain, Europe and beyond. Thus the conviction that shared education helps to foster good relations in a divided society has captured the attention of academics, educationalists and political leaders in other parts of the world. There are many reasons why parents, pupils, teachers and communities may resist the opportunity to engage with ‘others’ as a distinct religious, racial, or political group. But the opposite also holds true. What really matters in a democratic society moving out of conflict is that government ensures that local communities are provided with choices and residents are able to make decisions free from fear.
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Lascar, Elisabeth Ramirez, of Western Sydney Macarthur University, Faculty of Education, and Division of Languages and Linguistics. "Shifts of cohesion as manifested in translation." THESIS_FE_DLL_Lascar_E.xml, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/377.
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One of the aims of this study is to identify shifts of cohesion in translation from Spanish into English, with a view to validating Blum-Kulka's proposal that explication is a universal strategy in translation. The study uses the translation work of ten advanced translation students using narrative texts of approximately 250 words in length. Some of these students are native speakers of Spanish and others native speakers of English. Another aim of the study is to examine how cohesive devices are deployed across an ability range of students and to establish whether there are systematic differences in their deployment. The study will also attempt to establish whether the levels of language competence of informants account for specific shifts of cohesion in translation and whether certain shifts of cohesion are motivated by the style of the source and target texts.Master of Arts (Hons)
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Cormier, Marc. "Coaching and cohesion in university coacting sports." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106513.
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Cohesion has been cited as a crucial component contributing to increased levels of enjoyment, adherence, and in most cases, performance in intercollegiate sport (Carron, Coleman, Wheeler, & Stevens, 2002). Coaches are believed to play an instrumental role in the development and maintenance of cohesion due to their organizational skills in creating a stable and positive environment for cohesion to develop within their teams (Bloom, Stevens, & Wickwire, 2003). To date, the majority of cohesion research has focused on interacting sports (i.e., hockey, basketball) and has overlooked coacting sports (i.e., cross-country running, swimming). Similarly, media attention and fan support has been predominantly directed towards interacting sports, despite 40% of intercollegiate sports being classified as coacting. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify and explain elite coaches' perspectives of cohesion in coacting sports such as cross-country running. A case study design was used to interview six Canadian university cross-country running coaches using a semi-structured open-ended interview format. Côté, Salmela, and Russell's (1995) guidelines were used to inductively analyze and interpret the data. Results revealed three higher-order categories, which were called coach personality and experiences, athlete personality and characteristics, and team development. Despite the idiosyncratic nature of the coaches' career progression, several common themes emerged, including the different ways coaches acquired knowledge, interpersonal characteristics that shaped their career, adapting to athletes with different characteristics, and general thoughts and beliefs regarding the development and maintenance of cohesion. More precisely, the majority of coaches appear to believe that cohesion played a role in athlete satisfaction and enjoyment.. This, in turn, may have influenced performance outcomes such as overcoming intrateam competition and rivalry, and enhancing teamwork during competition. Furthermore, a number of strategies were utilized throughout the season to enhance cohesion such as structured and unstructured team building exercises, setting and monitoring team goals, and planning social events. Overall, these findings have provided a greater understanding of the influence of coaching on cohesion while also expanding the body of literature on coacting sports.La cohésion est reconnue comme étant une composante importante qui contribue au niveau de satisfaction, à l'adhésion, et souvent, à la performance au sein des sports universitaires (Carron, Coleman, Wheeler, & Stevens, 2002). Grâce à leurs habiletés organisationnelles, les entraîneurs jouent un rôle critique dans le développement et la maintenance de la cohésion en créant un environnement stable et positif qui favorise le développement de la cohésion au sein des équipes (Bloom, Stevens, & Wickwire, 2003). La majorité des recherches existantes sur la cohésion concernent les sports interactifs (ex. : hockey, ballon-panier) sans examiner les sports co-actifs (ex. : courses cross-country, natation). Dans le même ordre, l'attention des médias et l'appui des amateurs de sports ont été principalement dirigés vers les sports interactifs, en dépit du fait que 40% des sports universitaires soient de type co-actifs. Cette étude visait à identifier et à expliquer les perspectives des entraîneurs d'élite à l'égard de la cohésion dans les sports co-actifs, tels que la course cross-country. Une méthodologie d'étude de cas a été utilisée dans un format d'entrevues semi-structurées et ouvertes auprès de six entraîneurs universitaires canadiens en course cross-country. La démarche de Côté, Salmela, et Russell (1995) a été sollicitée afin d'analyser et d'interpréter les données de façon inductive. Les résultats révèlent trois catégories à ordre élevé : personnalité et expériences de l'entraîneur, personnalité et caractéristiques de l'athlète, et développement de l'équipe. Malgré la nature idiosyncrasique de l'avancement professionnel des entraîneurs, plusieurs thèmes communs émergent comprenant les différentes façons avec lesquelles les entraîneurs acquièrent leurs connaissances, les caractéristiques interpersonnelles qui ont formé leur carrière, l'adaptation aux différents athlètes et les idées et croyances générales à l'égard du développement et la maintenance de la cohésion. Selon les entraîneurs, la cohésion avait joué un rôle déterminant dans le développement des réussites et de la satisfaction de l'équipe, notamment en surmontant des obstacles, telles que la compétition et la rivalité au sein de l'équipe. Afin d'améliorer la cohésion pendant la saison sportive, plusieurs stratégies ont été privilégiées : les exercices structurés et non structurés de formation d'équipe, l'établissement et le suivi d'objectifs et la planification d'événements sociaux. Globalement, ces résultats nous permettent de mieux comprendre l'influence de l'entraînement sur la cohésion et ajoutent aux connaissances actuelles sur les sports co-actifs.
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Mehamsadji, M. "Cohesion and text development in written Arabic." Thesis, University of Salford, 1988. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/2200/.
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Many English teachers posed the problem that their Arab students were able to construct grammatically correct sentences, but were frequently unable to form them into paragraphs or cohesive texts. In my attest to investigate this problem, I started from the assumption that differing patterns of cohesion in English and Arabic probably account for many difficulties Arab students have in writing English. Sane attempts to look at this, based on a contrastive approach, have already been carried out. For my part, I felt the time had came to look at the systems of Arabic in their own terms, which has not yet been done. For this I followed two avenues of study: Functional Sentence Perspective as developed in the Prague School and Halliday and Hasan's work on textual cohesion. For my purpose I selected four lengthy Arabic texts belonging to different text-types which I first analysed from the Functional Sentence Perspective point of view. For this, I followed Dane's (1974) study of thematic progressions, in order to find out what theme-rheme patterns the different Arabic text-types use. In the next step, I investigated the cohesive ties used in written Arabic Halliday and Hasan's model of textual cohesion (1976). I also compared my texts in order to discover if there is a difference in textual cohesion between text-types in Arabic. My analysis of textual cohesion and text development suggests that: 1. Arabic descriptive texts tend to reiterate the same there in successive sentences. 2. Arabic instructive texts favour the use of the linear thematization of rhemes. 3. Arabic makes inter-clausal relationships explicit. 4. Repetition and parallelism are favoured cohesive devices in all text-types. The thesis consists of an introduction followed by a chapter reviewing various approaches to discourse analysis, a chapter on the text-typological approach which has governed my selection of texts; followed by an account of my methodological approach and my analysis.
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Chung, Ming-wai Dacy, and 鍾明慧. "Residents cohesion and participation inside gated community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42555395.
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Beverton, S. L. "Some aspects of cohesion in school texts." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382551.
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Neste, Ray Van. "Cohesion and structure in the Pastoral Epistles." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394455.
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This thesis seeks to further the scholarly discussion of the coherence of the Pastoral Epistles by providing the most thorough analysis to date of the cohesion of each letter. The need for such a study arises from two sources. First, the previous works on coherence of the Pastorals, which have turned the tide of scholarship, focused on thematic coherence of the corpus. While this has been extremely helpful, there is still a need to examine each letter individually and to examine thoroughly the use of language to bind together each discourse unit and the various ways in which the discourse units connect to each other. Second, a renewed and even more extreme argument for incoherence has recently been published (James D. Miller, The Pastoral Letters as Composite Documents) which begs response along the lines just suggested since it analyzes connections and lack thereof within and between the discourse units. In the thesis two chapters are devoted to each letter. In the first chapter on each letter, the letter is examined to determine the boundaries of each discourse unit using cohesion shift analysis (drawing from the work of G. H. Guthrie). Then the cohesion of each unit is analyzed noting common devices from the ancient epistolary genre, rhetorical devices, lexical and semantic repetition and symmetrical patterns. The second chapter on each letter focuses on connections between the units in the letter- connections between contiguous units, semantic chains (drawing from the work of J. T. Reed), and the grouping of units into larger sections. Thus the variety of connections across and throughout the letter are highlighted. A structure is argued for each letter which reflects, as much as possible, these connections and the development of thought in the letter. The thesis concludes that there is a high degree of cohesion in each of the Pastoral Epistles at both the micro and macro levels.
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Benbrahim, Mohamed. "Automatic text summarisation through lexical cohesion analysis." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309200.
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Gulma, Usman Lawal. "The impact of community cohesion on crime." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/22639/.
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Community cohesion generally acts to increase the safety of communities by increasing informal guardianship, and enhancing the work of formal crime prevention organisations. Understanding the dynamics of local social interactions is essential for community building. However, community cohesion is difficult to empirically quantify, because there are no obvious and direct indicators of community cohesion collected at population levels within official datasets. A potentially more promising alternative for estimating community cohesion is through the use of data from social media. Social media offers an opportunity for exploring networks of social interactions in a local community. This research will use social media data to explore the impact of community cohesion on crime. Sentiment analysis of tweets can help to uncover patterns of community mood in different areas. Modelling of community engagement on Facebook is useful for understanding patterns of social interactions and the strength of social networks in local communities. The central contribution of this thesis is the use of new metrics that estimate popularity, commitment and virality known as the PCV indicators for quantifying community cohesion on social media. These metrics, combined with diversity statistics constructed from "traditional" Census data, provide a better correlate of community cohesion and crime. To demonstrate the viability of this novel method for estimating the impact of community cohesion, a model of community engagement and burglary rates is constructed using Leeds community areas as an example. By examining the diversity of different community areas and strength of their social networks, from traditional and new data sources; it was found that stability and strong social media engagement in a local area are associated with lower burglary rates. The proposed new method can provide a better alternative for estimating community cohesion and its impact on crime. It is recommended that policy planning for resource allocation and community building needs to consider social structure and social networks in different communities.
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Prevatt, Bruce C. "Family adaptability and cohesion in remarried families." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49927.
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Adaptability and cohesion were studied in a sample of thirty-nine remarried families, using the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES III). The purpose of the study was to add to the growing body of empirical research dealing with the remarried family as a unique family form. Comparisons were made between family members and between the remarried and norm group families.
The results both support and fail to support existing literature. Age of children was a factor in levels of both family adaptability and cohesion with levels being lowest during adolescent years. When pre-adolescent children were involved, remarried family adaptability was higher than in the intact norm families. This was not true when adolescents were present. Also, stepparents with no natural children scored higher in adaptability than parents with natural-born children.
Remarried family satisfaction was positively correlated with adaptability but negatively correlated with cohesion. Also, family adaptability varied according to the complexity of the family.Ph. D.
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Zhu, Hong. "Cohesion and coherence in Chinese ESL writing." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40410.
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Роєнко, Л. В. "Text coherence and cohesion as linguistic categories." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2017. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/7405.
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Chung, Ming-wai Dacy. "Residents cohesion and participation inside gated community." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42555395.
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Lascar, Elisabeth Ramirez. "Shifts of cohesion as manifested in translation." Thesis, [Milperra, N.S.W. : The author], 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/377.
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One of the aims of this study is to identify shifts of cohesion in translation from Spanish into English, with a view to validating Blum-Kulka's proposal that explication is a universal strategy in translation. The study uses the translation work of ten advanced translation students using narrative texts of approximately 250 words in length. Some of these students are native speakers of Spanish and others native speakers of English. Another aim of the study is to examine how cohesive devices are deployed across an ability range of students and to establish whether there are systematic differences in their deployment. The study will also attempt to establish whether the levels of language competence of informants account for specific shifts of cohesion in translation and whether certain shifts of cohesion are motivated by the style of the source and target texts.
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Lascar, Elisabeth Ramirez. "Shifts of cohesion as manifested in translation /." [Milperra, N.S.W. : The author], 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030707.132350/index.html.
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Kesar, Purushottam. "Interpretations and applications of the EU objective of Territorial Cohesion: An analysis of EU Cohesion Policy Programmes 2014-2020." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för fysisk planering, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-10505.
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“Territorial Cohesion” has been a topic of intense debate within the EU Policy lexicon. This has been partly because it’s still in cycles of interpretations and is in a quest for an acceptable and a discreet operational framework. However, parallel to ongoing discourses, Cohesion Policy for the period 2014-20 has been rolled out. The thesis is an attempt to examine and suggest, as to what extent, the current architecture of Cohesion Policy is contributing to achieve “Territorial Cohesion”, a Treaty objective, in its programmes, particularly the transnational programmes under the European Territorial Co-operation objective. “Territorial Cohesion” has been analyzed in specific Cohesion Policy regulations, programmes and validated by stakeholder inputs. A suitable theoretical outline, i.e. “conformance” and “performance” framework and a qualitative research approach have been employed to arrive at the conclusions. Cohesion Policy in its current cycle is focused on delivering Europe 2020 strategy’s priorities of “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”. The articulation of “Territorial Cohesion” objectives therefore is inadequately done in the scope and theme as well as in “programming” of Cohesion Policy. Interventions are proposed in its architecture to finesse Cohesion Policy-Territorial Cohesion interface, key to meeting Cohesion Policy goals.
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MacDonald, Linda Franklin. "The relationship of task cohesion and social cohesion to the performance of women's intercollegiate division I field hockey teams." Scholarly Commons, 1991. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2211.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between task cohesion and social cohesion and performance of women's intercollegiate Division I field hockey teams. Twenty-six teams (n=26) from the 1989 season participated in this study, representing 32% of the total number of NCAA Division I teams. Specifically, team task cohesion and social cohesion measures from mid-season were compared to performance measures at the end of the season. The Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) developed by Widmeyer, Brawley, and Carron (1985) was used to measure cohesion. Performance was measured by percentage of games won, and also by a power rating developed by the NCAA field hockey committee. The GEQ consists of four cohesion constructs, two task and two social. Each of the four scales was compared to each of the performance measures, as well as both task scales combined and both social scales combined. Median values for each teams' cohesion measures were correlated with performance measures using the Pearson Product Moment coefficient of correlation. The results indicated that task cohesion was significantly related to team performance. Social cohesion variables when compared to power rating, and the Group Integration-Social construct when compared to win/loss percentage were significantly related to performance. Although significant, the social cohesion results were considerably lower than the task cohesion results.
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Que, Norbert S. Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Identification of cohesive crack fracture parameters using mathematical programming." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/19189.
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This thesis is concerned with the characterisation of the parameters governing the tension-softening relations of the cohesive crack model. Parameter identification is an important area in fracture mechanics as it enables the use of a fracture model for the simulation of fracture processes in structures. Research, however, has shown that such a task is not trivial and continues to pose challenging problems to experimentalists and analysts alike. This dissertation presents general and efficient indirect methods for the characterisation of mode I fracture parameters defining the cohesive crack model. The identification problem is formulated as a special type of inverse problem. The formulation is in the form of a constrained optimisation problem known as a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints characterised, in the present instance, by complementarity conditions involving the orthogonality of two-sign constrained vectors. The solution of such a mathematical program is computationally challenging as it is disjunctive and nonconvex by nature. A number of nonlinear programming based approaches are proposed, after appropriate reformulation of the mathematical program as an equivalent nonlinear programming problem. Actual experimental data are used to validate and determine the most suitable algorithm for parameter identification. It was found that the smoothing-based method is by far superior than other schemes. As the problem is nonconvex and the nonlinear program can only guarantee a local or stationary point, global optimisation procedures are introduced in order to verify the accuracy of the solutions obtained by the algorithm. Two evolutionary search methods capable of finding the global optimum are implemented for parameter identification. The results generated by the evolutionary search techniques confirm the reliability of the solutions identified by the best nonlinear programming algorithm. All computations carried out in the thesis suggest the suitability and robustness of the selected algorithm for parameter identification.
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Tse, Cheung-yin Sharon. "Cohesion in Cantonese-speaking children's picture-elicited narratives." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36209521.
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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 1997."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, April 30, 1997." Also available in print.