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Wanless, Jennifer H. F., and n/a. "Questacon explainers : a study of the role of explainers at Questacon Science Centre, Canberra." University of Canberra. Education, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.173533.
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The first participatory or inter-active science centre
in Australia was Questacon, which operated in Canberra for
the eight years, 1980-1988. Its very success lead to its
demise: it became the inspiration for the National Science and Technology Centre which opened in late 1988. Questacon,
in common with many of the World's new breed of science
centres and museums, was modelled on San Francisco's famous
Exploratorium. These new institutions have copied ideas and
even actual exhibits from the Exploratorium, but most of
them have failed to copy the Exploratorium's use of
Explainers, a feature which Exploratorium staff think is
integral to the whole concept. Questacon is one of the
institutions in which an explainer system was established,
although it differed in some significant respects from that
at the Exploratorium.
Participatory science centres have been seen as part of
the answer to the problem of increasing public awareness and
understanding of science. There is a growing body of
literature which is concerned with the learning of science
in informal educational settings, such as in these centres,
but there has been very little work done on the role of
museum docents or their equivalents in this learning. One
study of the Exploratorium's Explainers concentrated on the
value of their work as explainers for the people involved in
the system, in terms of their own personal development.
The aim of the present study was to compare the two
explainer systems and to investigate the work of Questacon
Explainers both in terms of their own personal development
and in their interaction with visitors to the centre.
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Richardson, Anne E. "Explainers' development of science-learner identities through participation in a community of practice." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1327711877.
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Kamolpattana, Supara. "Science museum explainer training : exploring factors that influence visitor-explainer interactions." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2016. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/28534/.
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There is currently minimal understanding as to how explainer training in Informal Science Institutions (ISIs) incorporates socio-cultural contexts. This thesis investigates this gap in the literature by examining the role of socio-cultural context in explainer training programmes within Informal Science Institutions, through the examination of three research questions. The research employs a mixed methods approach comprising 21 interviews, three international case studies, a questionnaire survey of 600 visitors and 41 explainers, in addition to observations of explainer-visitor interaction. From the international perspective, fifteen experts from 13 countries were interviewed. From the international experts’ viewpoint it was found that socio-cultural context influences the main roles of ISI explainers, and the knowledge and skills associated to success (knowledge of visitor, communication skills and knowledge of scientific content). Additionally, training programmes that provide opportunities for explainers’ active participation and collaboration were highlighted as important. The three case studies incorporated observation of eleven types of training session and questionnaires for explainers (n=55) over three ISIs: the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in the USA, Petrosains – the Discovery Centre (Petrosains), in Malaysia and the Natural History Museum (NHM) in the UK. The three case studies reveal detailed information on how socio-cultural context can support explainers’ active participation and collaboration within a training context, as well as the role of techniques such as exploring theory, being an observer, practicing communication, being observed and feedback, and coaching by others within training settings. The case studies also expose the multiple participants who may be involved in training; educators, experienced explainers, peers and visitors, as well as the role of training delivery through discussion and interaction. In the specific context of Thailand 600 visitors and 41 explainers completed questionnaires, six Thai educators were interviewed, and ten explainer-visitor interactions were observed. The Thai educators indicated the role, knowledge and skills required of explainers in the Thai socio-cultural context, and how training supports the personal skill development of explainers. The Thai interview and explainer data also highlights some gaps in Thai explainer training at present, whereby interaction appears mainly between educators and explainers, overlooking the role of experienced explainers or peers. Additionally, organisational policy support directed at ongoing training more strongly featuring social interaction is discussed in terms of its potential shortcomings. At the specific at level of explainer-visitor interaction, visitors are evidenced to have positive attitudes towards explainers in general, though the social interaction between explainer and visitors suggest multiple perceptions of the explainers’ role; activities that are seen to be more likely to generate interaction and that the explainer-visitor relationship is developed through local activities and tools which could be more widely considered in the context of all explainer training. The thesis concludes that socio-cultural context shapes the explainers’ role, the conception of knowledge and skills required for explainers, and the design and delivery of training programmes for explainers in ISIs. The research contributes new knowledge in analysing a range of training practices for explainers in international ISI settings, and how these may be relevant to and potentially include a socio-cultural perspective. It is argued that the role of socio-cultural context in explainer training programmes raised by this thesis should be further explored by ISI educators, in order to divert from a set of practices that may be unduly influenced by a transmission approach.
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Kindborg, Elofsson Alice. "Hur skiljer sig populärvetenskapliga framställningari två olika medier, e-bok och video? : En jämförande analys av Introducing books och Explainer videos. Explained* och Introducing – Graphic guides." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18787.
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Denna studie undersöker hur populärvetenskapliga framställningar gestaltas för e-bok och video. Resultatet visar de mediespecifika skillnader som medierna e-bok och video för med sig. Detta görs i en studie med två exempel genom jämförande visuell analys av två olika typer av medium som båda förklarar samma fenomen med olika multimodala förutsättningar. Analysen gör det möjligt att se och dra slutsatser kring vad mediumet för med sig för skillnader. Ämnet är intressant för producenter av populärvetenskap. Syftet med studien är att undersöka, genom visuell analys, hur samma ämne gestaltas i e-bok och video. Beroende på medium har producenter av populärvetenskap, och designers med intresse för pedagogiskt material, helt olika förutsättningar och begränsningar i produktionen. Efter att studien är gjord har det framgått vad populärvetenskapliga framställningar i e-bok och video har för designlikheter. I det första exemplet behandlas multimodaliteter i e-boken Introducing Mind and Brain, A Graphic Guide, (Gellatly och Zarate 2018) och videon THE MIND explained: Memory (Netlfix 2019). För att avgränsa materialet används den sekvens från vardera medium som förklarar hur känslor kan bidra till att förstärka minnen. I det andra exemplet behandlas multimodaliteter i e-boken Introducing Aesthetics, A Graphic Guide (Kul-Want 2010) och videon Explained: Beauty (Netlfix 2019). För att avgränsa används den sekvens från vardera medium som förklarar att skönhet är subjektivt. Resultaten av den jämförande analysen diskuteras avslutningsvis för att besvara forskningsfrågan: Hur skiljer sig populärvetenskapliga framställningar i två olika medier, e-bok och video? Sammanfattningsvis gestaltas ämnet på olika vis beroende på medium men med designlikheter. Resultatet visar på att populärvetenskapliga framställningar i olika medium delas in i kortare pedagogiska sekvenser. De innehåller ofta verkliga exempel på situationer som mottagaren kan koppla informationen till, och tydliga visuella ledtrådar som guidar mottagaren genom materialet. Medierna har också gemensamt att de innehåller element som förstärker materialets legitimitet.
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Bracchi, Luca. "I-eXplainer: applicazione web per spiegazioni interattive." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20424/.
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Lo scopo di questa tesi è dimostrare che è possibile trasformare una spiegazione statica relativa all'output di un algoritmo spiegabile in una spiegazione interattiva con una maggior grado di efficacia. La spiegazione cercata sarà human readable ed esplorabile.
Per dimostrare la tesi userò la spiegazione di uno degli algoritmi spiegabili del toolkit AIX360 e andrò a generarne una statica che chiamerò spiegazione di base. Questa verrà poi espansa ed arricchita grazie a una struttura dati costruita per contenere informazioni formattate e connesse tra loro. Tali informazioni verranno richieste dall'utente, dandogli la possibilità di costruire una spiegazione interattiva che si sviluppa secondo il suo desiderio.
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Skoog, Samuel. "What Curiosity Taught Us About Life on Mars : And What We Used to Think." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-126223.
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Mitt examensarbete är en video på drygt sex minuter. Videon är animerad i Adobe After Effects. Den har för avsikt att på ett informativt, enkelt och snyggt sätt förklara NASAs Curiosity-uppdrag på Mars, samt summera planetens roll i popkultur genom tiderna. Målgruppen är människor som hellre får information via internet än via papperstidningar, och som gärna vill få en övergripande bild av olika fenomen (i det här fallet Mars och Curiosity). Den är utformad med mobilt tittande i åtanke, vilket också speglas i målgruppsanpassningen. Denna reflektionsrapport är ett komplement till videon, och här har jag för avsikt att berätta om hur (och varför) jag gjort videon. Den kommer även diskutera fenomenet explainer-journalistik. Vad är explainer-journalistik, och varför är det ett viktigt fenomen att förstå för samtida och framtida journalister?
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Riddle, Steve. "Viewpoints in practice : explanations explained." Thesis, University of Bath, 1997. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338404.
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Hughes, Malcolm K., Peter Ian Kuniholm, Jon K. Eischeid, Gregg Garfin, Carol B. Griggs, and Christine Latini. "Aegean Tree-Ring Signature Years Explained." Tree-Ring Society, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/262557.
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As a long master tree -ring chronology for the region around the Aegean approaches completion, timbers from monuments and archaeological sites as far as 2,000 km apart, and as far back as 7000 BC, are being dated. The patterns used in this dating are characterized by signature years, in which trees at the majority of the sites have smaller or broader rings than in the previous year. We show that the signature years are consistently associated with specific, persistent, circulation anomalies that control the access of precipitation- bearing systems to the region in springtime. This explains the feasibility of dating wooden objects from widely dispersed sites, and opens the possibility of reconstructing aspects of the climate in which the wood grew.
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Ayars, Alisabeth. "What Explains a Semantic Unmasking Effect?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/603535.
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Sanguinetti and Peterson (2013) found that masked words (e.g., "telephone") followed by a semantically related familiar silhouette (e.g., a silhouette of a telephone) were more likely to be perceived than words followed by an unrelated or novel silhouette, even though the words appeared prior to the silhouettes. This indicates that semantically related items can produce recovery of, or "unmask," earlier masked items. Sanguinetti and Peterson (2012) interpret their result in a framework proposed by Di Lollo, Enns, & Rensink (2000) which specifies feedback processing to play a role in hypothesis confirmation. According to Di Lollo et al., feedback processing in the visual system constitutes an iterative-loop system, directed at verification of hypotheses about perceptual stimuli. Sanguinetti and Peterson propose that the familiar silhouettes are able to confirm the hypothesis in the visual system that a semantically related word is present, via reentrant processing. At least two alternative explanations are available for the results. One alternative is that the semantically related silhouettes simply allow for retrieval of the episode of previously seeing the words (which is forgotten upon mask presentation), rather than causally contributing to their phenomenal consciousness. Another alternative is that the semantically related silhouettes allow participants to consciously infer what the word had been from a degraded perception. In Experiment 1, we showed that an attended feature of the words (i.e., their font) is not unmasked along with the semantics of the words—unmasked words appear in no identifiable font. This is evidence against the episodic retrieval hypothesis and supports Sanguinetti & Peterson's original interpretation, since the font of the words would be a component of the original episode of seeing the words. In Experiments 2a and 2b, we show that conscious recognition of the objects in the silhouettes is insufficient for the unmasking effect—reduction in silhouette exposure duration reduces the unmasking effect (Experiment 2a) even though silhouettes are equally recognizable (Experiment 2b). This rules out the inference explanation for the unmasking effect, since on this explanation unmasking would depend on whether the silhouettes are recognized and can therefore be employed in conscious inference. Independent theoretical contributions of these findings are discussed.
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Wright, Brian. "Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Explained through Student's Narratives." Thesis, Nova Southeastern University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10238974.
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This applied dissertation will provide a deeper understanding of how high school students with nonverbal learning disabilities perceive themselves. Persons with nonverbal learning disabilities are defined primarily through performance measures with less qualitative information available. In this study, high school students identified with nonverbal learning disabilities will have the opportunity to voice their feelings about their disability.
The researcher developed open-ended questions about nonverbal learning disabilities and how it has impacted the students. Information was gathered through a narrative format and transcribed. Information was coded for important themes.
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Heussen, Daniel. "Property explanations : When one property explains another." Thesis, City University London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514486.
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Yang, Ang Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "A networked multi-agent combat model : emergence explained." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38823.
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Simulation has been used to model combat for a long time. Recently, it has been accepted that combat is a complex adaptive system (CAS). Multi-agent systems (MAS) are also considered as a powerful modelling and development environment to simulate combat. Agent-based distillations (ABD) - proposed by the US Marine Corp - are a type of MAS used mainly by the military for exploring large scenario spaces. ABDs that facilitated the analysis and understanding of combat include: ISAAC, EINSTein, MANA, CROCADILE and BactoWars. With new concepts such as networked forces, previous ABDs can implicitly simulate a networked force. However, the architectures of these systems limit the potential advantages gained from the use of networks. In this thesis, a novel network centric multi-agent architecture (NCMAA) is pro-posed, based purely on network theory and CAS. In NCMAA, each relationship and interaction is modelled as a network, with the entities or agents as the nodes. NCMAA offers the following advantages: 1. An explicit model of interactions/relationships: it facilitates the analysis of the role of interactions/relationships in simulations; 2. A mechanism to capture the interaction or influence between networks; 3. A formal real-time reasoning framework at the network level in ABDs: it interprets the emergent behaviours online. For a long time, it has been believed that it is hard in CAS to reason about emerging phenomena. In this thesis, I show that despite being almost impossible to reason about the behaviour of the system by looking at the components alone because of high nonlinearity, it is possible to reason about emerging phenomena by looking at the network level. This is undertaken through analysing network dynamics, where I provide an English-like reasoning log to explain the simulation. Two implementations of a new land-combat system called the Warfare Intelligent System for Dynamic Optimization of Missions (WISDOM) are presented. WISDOM-I is built based on the same principles as those in existing ABDs while WISDOM-II is built based on NCMAA. The unique features of WISDOM-II include: 1. A real-time network analysis toolbox: it captures patterns while interaction is evolving during the simulation; 2. Flexible C3 (command, control and communication) models; I 3. Integration of tactics with strategies: the tactical decisions are guided by the strategic planning; 4. A model of recovery: it allows users to study the role of recovery capability and resources; 5. Real-time visualization of all possible information: it allows users to intervene during the simulation to steer it differently in human-in-the-loop simulations. A comparison between the fitness landscapes of WISDOM-I and II reveals similarities and differences, which emphasise the importance and role of the networked architecture and the addition of strategic planning. Lastly but not least, WISDOM-II is used in an experiment with two setups, with and without strategic planning in different urban terrains. When the strategic planning was removed, conclusions were similar to traditional ABDs but were very different when the system ran with strategic planning. As such, I show that results obtained from traditional ABDs - where rational group planning is not considered - can be misleading. Finally, the thesis tests and demonstrates the role of communication in urban ter-rains. As future warfighting concepts tend to focus on asymmetric warfare in urban environments, it was vital to test the role of networked forces in these environments. I demonstrate that there is a phase transition in a number of situations where highly dense urban terrains may lead to similar outcomes as open terrains, while medium to light dense urban terrains have different dynamics
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Alotaibi, Refah Mohammed N. "Explained variation for survival and recurrent event data." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3510.
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Explained variation measures are used to quantify the amount of information in a model and especially how useful the model might be when predicting future observations. Such measures are useful in guiding model choice for all types of predictive regression models, including linear and generalized linear models and survival analysis. The first part of this thesis considers explained variation for survival data and we investigate how individual observations in a data set can influence the value of various proposed statistics. Influence of a subject is a measure of the effect on estimates of deleting him/her from the data set. Influence on regression coefficients has had much attention but there has not been work in influence for explained variation for survival data analysis or other measures of predictive accuracy. Generally in reasonable size data sets the deletion of a single subject has no effect on conclusions. However, examination of distance between measures with and without the subject can be useful in distinguishing abnormal observations. In the second part of the thesis we investigate how measures of explained variation for survival data can be extended to recurrent event data. We describe an existing rank-based measure and we investigate a new statistic based on observed and expected event count processes. Both methods can be used for all models. Adjustments for missing data are proposed for the count measure and demonstrated through simulation to be effective. We compare the population values of the two statistics and illustrate their use in comparing an array of non-nested models for data on recurrent episodes of infant diarrhea. There is evidence that the rank-based method is robust to ignored random effects and also to the presence of unusual observations. The count-based method more directly compares observed and expected intensities. We assess influence of individual observation on these measures.
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Boberg, Markus, and Markus Karlsson. "”It’s not properly explained”- Hjärtinfarktsdrabbade patienters upplevelser av information." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Vårdvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20037.
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Hjärtinfarkt är en av de vanligaste diagnoserna och varje år insjuknar cirka 40000 personer i Sverige. En hjärtinfarkt innebär en stor förändring i livet och patienten måste ibland lära sig att leva ”ett nytt liv”. Det är sjuksköterskan som har till uppgift att ge dessa patienter den information de behöver för att känna sig någorlunda trygga och ge dem en chans att bemöta de förändringar som uppstått. Forskning visar att det finns brister vid informationsgivning. Denna, enligt Forsberg och Wengström (2008), systematiska litteraturstudie syftar till att beskriva patienters, med diagnostiserad hjärtinfarkt, upplevelser av information given av sjuksköterskan relaterad till sin sjukdom. Artiklar söktes i databaserna Cinahl, Medline, PubMed och Scopus. Artiklarna är analyserade enligt Evans (2003) modell. Resultatet består av två huvudteman och fem subteman. Det första huvudtemat är ”Upplevelser av informationens hur och när” som innehåller subteman ”Informationens baksida”, ”Ej individanpassad information” samt ”Tillfällets betydelse”. Det andra huvudtemat är ”Att uppleva framtidstro” med subteman ”Information inger hopp” och ”Information inger trygghet”. I diskussionen diskuteras båda huvudtemana med hjälp av bakgrunden i studien samt ny forskning, dock läggs mest vikt vid huvudtemat: ”Upplevelser av informationens hur och när”.Program: Sjuksköterskeutbildning
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Haley, Andrew Allerton. "An obedient participant in late capitalism explains art." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5490.
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Art making is silly. This is why it should not be taken so seriously. When topics are addressed with too much seriousness they become stagnant and rigid. This thesis addresses topics I find crucial to the process of making Art. I use popular culture references because of their communicable potential. Nothing is argued in the duration of this work. On the contrary, thoughts are shared in hopes to inspire the reader to question what type of journey and practice they involve themselves.
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Hamstra, Roy. "Does Competition in Banking explains Systemic Banking Crises?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-277249.
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This paper examines the relation between competition in the banking sector and the financial stability on country level. Compared to previous research, it takes a different approach in that it uses realized systemic risk in the form of systemic banking crises instead of the total systemic risk. Theory provides us with two opposing theories regarding the role of competition on stability. Previous studies presented mixed results which leaves us with unresolved questions which this paper tries to answer. The results show that there is evidence for both views, but without giving an all comprehending answer.
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Braekhus, Sissel. "Grafiska element i förklaringsvideor - En kommunikationsteoretisk analys av SVT Nyheter Förklarar." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21189.
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Genom en kommunikationsteoretisk analys diskuteras grafiska element i förklaringsvideor publicerade av Sveriges Television. Vi har i dagens samhälle ett allt kortare koncentrationsspann då information har blivit mer lättillgängligt genom teknisk utveckling. Det ligger därför i designutvecklingens intresse att undersöka hur format som förklaringsvideor kan användas för att presentera ett ämne utan att tappa mottagarens intresse. Resultatet av analysen visar att alla Sveriges Televisions förklaringsvideor hjälper mottagaren att förstå innehållet med hjälp av gester, pilar, färg- och storlekskrontrast samt skriftliga nyckelord. Däremot finns det en problematik kring statistisk presentation som bryter mot matematiska konventioner. Det blir tydligt att de grafiska element som används i dessa videor är beroende av den verbala informationen för att skapa mening.Rollen för Sveriges Television och public service i ett digitalt medielandskap problematiseras i en avslutande diskussion.
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Pitches, Ceri Louise. "From explosions to explaining : a new historiography of the Science Museum Group Explainer role." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15867/.
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This thesis explores the role of the UK Science Museum Group Explainer, a public-facing role with responsibility for engaging visitors and enhancing their experience of the museums within the Group. Arguing for new recognition of the performative complexity of this role, the research is driven by the view that its significance is currently undervalued within the science museum context. The thesis offers an original perspective on the contemporary Explainer, positioning it as the latest vital iteration in a performed science communication tradition that is here traced first, to the practices of Science Museum Guide Lecturers dating from 1924, and second, further back in time to nineteenth- century lecture demonstration practices at the Royal Institution, London. In so doing, it re-evaluates the role, challenging commonly held museum industry assumptions that the current iteration is simply a late twentieth-century customer service and education construct, and proposes a new history of its development and practice. The interconnected Performance Studies theories of embodied knowledge transmission and intertheatricality are utilised in conjunction with the performer-training concept of vertical transmission, to inform a new interpretation of the ways in which scientific public presentation practices can be seen to have been inherited or passed on. In this way the thesis suggests a line of performance transmission from the early nineteenth to the early twenty- first century. Highlighting performance elements within the contemporary role and its various suggested antecedents, the thesis proposes use of a new term, ‘performed explaining’, to uniquely describe their presentational forms, appropriately distinguishing them from the more ubiquitous twentieth-century museum industry term ‘live interpretation’. As a collaborative doctoral project the findings of this research are intended to be of particular significance to the SMG, but also the broader science museum and science centre industry. The thesis therefore concludes with recommendations for improving future practice in relation to the development of the Explainer role.
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King, Heather. "Supporting natural history enquiry in an informal setting : a study of museum explainer practice." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594238.
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Haukaas, Torgeir. "Rate Adaptive Video Streaming over Wireless Networks : Explained & Explored." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Telematics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-8763.
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In the search for improved methods of transporting real time video and VoIP over the Internet, new rate control mechanisms need to be developed and standardized. Ongoing research in the field has led to several new protocol suggestions. This thesis covers simulations of rate adaptive video transfers over wireless networks using one of them, TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC). It is known that both TCP and TFRC have performance issues in wireless networks because their rate controllers react to random packet error as if it were congestion. On the other hand, UDP as used today for many real-time services, endanger the health of the network with unfair occupation of network resources. Moreover, the shared medium topology of many wireless networks add significant delay to the data transport. Through the use of ns-2 and Evalvid-RA, several simulation scenarios have been formed to illustrate how these problems affect real-time video as perceived by a wireless end user. The simulations illustrate the missing inter- and intra-flow fairness of UDP, reveal protocol and implementation vulnerabilities of TFRC, and show a remarkable delay caused by the IEEE 802.11b networks. The thesis also includes a study of past and current protocol refinement proposals and suggestions to novel re-design. The study reveals that the variety of proposals form an information stream that is difficult to follow, a scarcity of problem domain overview and decisive variations in the problem definition.
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Kleber, Michaela. ""The Pretended Riot Explained": Citizen Sovereignty and the Mashpee Revolt." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626798.
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Humphreys, Deborah Maria. "Discourses of educational leadership the under-explained influence of context." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4421/.
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The aim of the this small scale empirical research study was to shed a discursive light on the leadership that was experienced within two primary school settings in the North West of England and the constraints of context that shaped the discourses of leadership within those schools. Contextual factors have been defined as being on three levels: institutional, cultural and governmental. So using this framework as a sorting category for posing situated questions of the participants and Gee’s (1999; 2005; 2011) interconnected one to explore and question the data and the taken-for-granted assumptions, it has been possible to garner an understanding of how these contexts interacted in framing an individual’s understanding of the leadership they were experiencing and implications for their practice. The research questions which this study addressed were: What are the contextual factors that shape discourses of educational leadership? What does the discursive analysis reveal of how stakeholders talk about ways of becoming in the leadership they are experiencing within a socially situated practice? What are the implications of this analysis for the practice of leadership within school? The research was influenced by two particular approaches to discourse analysis, a ‘practice approach’ and a ‘critical approach’. As educational practices are communicative events, this study has adopted a critical discourse analysis in making visible the ways that individuals talk about leadership they are experiencing within their settings. Through a Foucauldian lens it was possible to question the basis for the assumptions and norms of educational leadership in school and examine the ways in which individuals within school were both constructed and shaped by that discourse. This study takes the view that the school as an organizational context for leaders is both complex and under explored as it is in a constant state of flux. Various complexities are acknowledged concerning the contextual nature of leadership; it is complex, context specific, socially constructed, negotiated and hierarchical. Analysis of 18 in-depth semi-structured interviews and 18 cognitive maps reveals a range of Discourses of contextual factors of leadership such as the Discourse of the pivotal role of the headteacher; Discourse of leadership activity; Discourse of identity-work; Discourse of power relations and Discourse of commodification of education all made visible by the individuals within the school to which they endeavour to belong.
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Xu, Dan. "What Explains Performance Persistence of Corporate Bond Mutual Funds?" Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1034%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Jemstedt, Andreas. "Can the testing effect, in part, be explained by organizational benefits?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-89815.
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The testing effect refers to the phenomenon that, relative to restudying, being tested on a previously learned material leads to better retention. The present study investigated the hypothesis that part of the testing effect in free recall, can be explained by increased memory organization due to testing. Forty-one participants learned either semantically related or unrelated words. The words were either repeatedly studied six times, or recalled from memory three times and studied three times, with each test trial following a study trial. Following the learning session, all participants conducted two free recall tests, one after five minutes and one after seven days. The study did not replicate the testing effect and therefore no conclusions could be drawn about the hypothesis. The results did, however, indicate that the related material facilitated later retrieval, relative to the unrelated material. Furthermore, opposite to what was predicted, restudying lead to higher rates of category clustering compared to testing.
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Min, Hyun-Suk. "Strategies for network cities explained with the example of South Korea." Karlsruhe : Univ.-Verl. Karlsruhe, 2006. http://www.uvka.de/univerlag/volltexte/2006/172/.
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Gibbons, Ben John. "The Veblen hierarchy explained via Mahlo hierarchies in constructive set theory." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250920.
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McDaid, Christopher Ludden. "Justification: How the Elizabethans Explained their Invasions of Ireland and Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625918.
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HOSSELL, MARCIA CEZIMBRA HOWARD. "PSYCHOLOGY AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRACTICES EXPLAINED BY THE NEW NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCHES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29211@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O objetivo desse trabalho é refletir sobre o lugar do psicólogo nas práticas restaurativas da Justiça a partir das perspectivas das descobertas da neurociência, especialmente a teoria polivagal de sutorregulação do sistema nervoso autônomo (SNA), elaborada pelo neurocientista Stephen Porges. Especificamente, o trabalho pretende avaliar em que medida a teoria polivagal explica os bons resultados dos processos restaurativos da Justiça Restaurativa de Porto Alegre com adolescentes em conflito com a lei. A teoria polivagal apresenta uma nova psicofisiologia dos comportamentos violentos e desafia a psicologia a criar novas abordagens de reparação de danos e prevenção da violência. A idéia é avaliar a possível contribuição que a psicologia poderia oferecer aos novos paradigmas de resolução de conflitos da Justiça e da cultura da paz.
The aim of this work is to reflect on the place of the psychologist in restorative practices of Justice from the perspectives of the discoveries of neuroscience, especially the theory of polivagal sub regulation of autonomic nervous system (ANS), developed by neuroscientist Stephen Porges. Specifically, the study aims to evaluate the extent the theory polivagal explains the goods results of the restorative process of Restorative Justice in Porto Alegre with adolescents in conflict with the law. The theory polivagal presents psychophysiology of violent behavior and challenges the psychology to create new approaches to repair of damage and violence prevention. The whole idea is to evaluate the possible contribution that psychology could offer to new paradigms of resolution of the conflicts of Justice and the culture of peace.
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Kazemi, Baharan. "Evolution of Mimicry and Aposematism Explained: Salient Traits and Predator Psychology." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Zoologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148488.
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Aposematic species have evolved conspicuous warning signals, such as bright colors and striking patterns, to deter predators. Some edible and harmless species take advantage of this deterrent effect by mimicking their appearance. Mimicry is a great example of how natural selection produces remarkable adaptations. However, while some species evolve a very close similarity to their models to effectively avoid attacks, others are successful in doing so despite an incomplete similarity, i.e. imperfect mimicry. In some cases, it is surprising how such a crude disguise can fool predators. Why and how imperfect mimicry can persist has been much discussed and considered as a problem for the theory of natural selection. It is therefore of great interest to understand what makes it possible. Predator psychology is an important factor in the evolution of aposematism and mimicry. In the past decades it has been suggested that certain components of prey appearance are more important to predators than others during prey assessment. We developed this idea by incorporating concepts from associative learning, and presented a new approach to explain imperfect mimicry. Our general hypothesis is that prey traits have different salience to predators. Certain traits are perceived as highly salient and are thus used primarily in the discrimination and generalization of prey, while traits with low salience are overshadowed and not used in the assessment. The salience of a trait can depend on how conspicuous or discriminable it is in the particular context, and can vary due to for example previous predator experience. We tested our ideas with wild blue tits and domestic chickens as predators, and artificial and semi-natural prey stimuli. In paper I we found that the trait that was perceived as most salient (color) was the one used to discriminate and generalize between prey. Mimics of that specific trait were highly avoided, despite differences in the other traits. We also found that salience is relative and context dependent (paper II). In a context where two traits were perceived as similarly salient, mimicry of a single trait offered intermediate protection, while mimicry of both offered high protection. In another context, the traits were perceived differently salient, and mimicry of one trait was enough for high protection. In paper III we tested a proposed scenario for the initiation of mimicry evolution in the edible butterfly mimic Papilio polyxenes asterius to its noxious model Battus philenor. The results showed that a partial similarity with the model in the salient black wing color offered intermediate protection from attacks, despite a general dissimilarity. This thesis investigates the major questions of imperfect mimicry: the initial step of mimicry evolution, the persistence of imperfect mimicry, and variation in mimic-model similarity. We conclude that mimicry evolution can begin in a non-mimetic species that acquires similarity to a model species in a high-salience trait. When multiple traits have similar salience, multi-trait mimicry is needed for higher protection. Mimicry can remain imperfect if the differences are in traits with low salience, and therefore under low or no selection pressure to change. To complete the picture, we showed that predators can have a biased generalization toward a more pronounced version of a salient trait (paper IV). The evolution of aposematism could therefore be explained by gradual enhancement of salient traits.At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Accepted. Paper 4: Manuscript.
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Jezkova, Tereza, and John J. Wiens. "What Explains Patterns of Diversification and Richness among Animal Phyla?" UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623200.
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Animal phyla vary dramatically in species richness (from one species to >1.2 million), but the causes of this variation remain largely unknown. Animals have also evolved striking variation in morphology and ecology, including sessile marine taxa lacking heads, eyes, limbs, and complex organs (e.g., sponges), parasitic worms (e.g., nematodes, platyhelminths), and taxa with eyes, skeletons, limbs, and complex organs that dominate terrestrial ecosystems (arthropods, chordates). Relating this remarkable variation in traits to the diversification and richness of animal phyla is a fundamental yet unresolved problem in biology. Here, we test the impacts of 18 traits (including morphology, ecology, reproduction, and development) on diversification and richness of extant animal phyla. Using phylogenetic multiple regression, the best-fitting model includes five traits that explain approximate to 74% of the variation in diversification rates (dioecy, parasitism, eyes/photoreceptors, a skeleton, nonmarine habitat). However, a model including just three (skeleton, parasitism, habitat) explains nearly as much variation (approximate to 67%). Diversification rates then largely explain richness patterns. Our results also identify many striking traits that have surprisingly little impact on diversification (e.g., head, limbs, and complex circulatory and digestive systems). Overall, our results reveal the key factors that shape large-scale patterns of diversification and richness across >80% of all extant, described species.
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Erastus-Obilo, Bethel. "The place of the explained verdict in the English criminal justice system." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14349.
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Lay participation in the criminal justice process in the form of a jury is a celebrated phenomenon throughout the common law jurisdictions. While not claiming credit for its origin, England, as the latent cradle of the modern jury, disseminated this mode of trial to a great part of the world through colonization. Yet, trial by jury does not enjoy constitutional protection under English law. The system has been under severe criticism, curtailment and considerable pressure in recent times, perhaps far more than in other countries. Critics have demanded reform or outright abolition and supporters have opposed the demands just as vehemently and any reform achieved has been piecemeal and reluctant. The furore has helped to galvanise robust and extensive intellectual debate on the subject. It has also spurned extensive academic research. Trial by jury remains central to a tiny but significant part of the Criminal Justice System. Yet, the jury, unlike other decision-making bodies, retains the power to deliver a verdict that is unique by its lack of an explanation. The issue does not sit comfortably with those who would have the system abolished or pray fair trials. The matter is traced to antiquity and the modern democracy struggles to articulate jury accountability. This paper, the first to investigate the place of an explained verdict in the English Criminal Justice System, explores the competence of the jury to articulate an explanation for its verdict. In that pursuit, the paper engages in an analysis of the current state of jury trials in relevant legal and academic literature. It also engages in a comparative analysis of other jurisdictions and finds it instructive and prudent to draw extensively from the legal and social scientific experiences and experiments in selected parts of the world including the new quasi-jury systems in Europe. It explores the literature of legal scholarship and the social sciences and investigates the human psychology of decision-making based on selected text. Finally, it articulates the argument embodied in the hypothesis and the challenges facing its findings. The thesis concludes by examining the implications for its conclusions and sets the stage for areas of further research.
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Kneifer, Christopher John. "A Comparison Study on Violent Video Games: Explained by the Gamers Themselves." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5250.
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This qualitative focus groups analysis examines the harmful effects of violent video games on emotions and behavior by comparing violent video game player's responses to that of non-violent video game players of the same age group. Research on the effects of video games has been done since the 70s, yet more research is needed to better understand the potentially harmful emotional and behavioral effects of playing violent games, especially from the gamers' perspectives. This thesis presents a qualitative analysis of data obtained from focus group sessions among undergraduate college students. Results of the analysis supports the presence as well as absence of violent video game effects, according to violent and non-violent video gamers' personal experiences and in their own words.
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Schulthess, Pascal. "Thermodynamic modeling explains the regulation of CYP1A1 expression in the liver." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17454.
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Die vorliegende Studie präsentiert eine Analyse der Integration der AhR und Wnt/beta-catenin Signalwege in den CYP1A1 Promotor sowie den regulatorischen Einfluss der Promotorlogik auf die Genexpression. Experimentell wurde diese Analyse mithilfe 29 mutagener Reporterkonstrukte des humanen CYP1A1 Promotors durchgeführt. Ein mathematisches Modell, welches eine Repräsentation des Crosstalks der Signaltransduktionswege mit einer statistisch mechanischen Beschreibung der kombinatorischen Promotorbelegung kombiniert, komplementierte den experimentellen Ansatz. Unter zusätzlicher Zuhilfenahme von gut kontrollierbaren synthetischen Promotorkonstrukten fand ich heraus, dass nur jenes Dioxin-responsive Element das sich am nächsten am Transkriptionsstartpunkt befindet, die Promotorbelegung an die RNA Polymerase kommuniziert. Außerdem beobachtete ich, dass Transkriptionsfaktoren alleine mit Transkriptionsfaktoren interagieren die mit benachbarten Bindestellen assoziieren, d.h. Interaktionen überbrücken keine größeren Entfernungen. Der Modellierungsansatz ermöglichte zudem die erfolgreiche Vorhersage einer UND-Gatter-ähnlichen Integration der beiden Signalwege in den Promotor. Für die genomische Architektur des CYP1A1 Promotors konnte ich die Signifikanz der Zielbindestelle des Wnt/beta-catenin Signalwegs innerhalb des cis-regulatorischen Region demonstrieren. Mithilfe des Modells fand ich heraus, dass diese Bindestelle am stärksten und vielfältigsten mit den restlichen Transkriptionsfaktoren interagiert. Zusätzliche konnte, im Vergleich zu dem alles-oder-nichts UND-Gatter der synthetischen Konstrukte, eine sehr viel graduellere Antwort auf die Integration der beiden Signalwege aufgezeigt werden. Abschließend wurde das physiologisch zu beobachtende Expressionsmuster von dem Modell vorhergesagt und experimentell validiert.The study at hand presents an analysis of the integration of the AhR and the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathways into the CYP1A1 promoter as well as the regulatory influence of the promoter logic on gene expression. Experimentally, this analysis was conducted with the help of 29 mutant constructs of the human CYP1A1 promoter. I complemented this experimental approach with a set of mathematical models that combined a representation of the signaling crosstalk with a statistical mechanics description of the combinatorial promoter occupancy. With the help of well controllable synthetic promoter constructs I found that only the dioxin responsive element closest to the transcription start site communicates the promoter occupancy to the RNA polymerase. Furthermore, transcription factors only interact with transcription factors that associate with nearby binding sites, i.e., no long-distance binding was observed. The modeling approach subsequently enabled the successful prediction of an AND-gate-like integration of the two signaling pathways into the promoter. For the genomic architecture of the CYP1A1 promoter, I could demonstrate the importance of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway target binding site within the cis-regulatory region. The model uncovered that this binding site is the strongest and most promiscuous interaction partner of the remaining transcription factors. In addition, a less switch-like response to the integration of the two signaling pathways as compared to the all-or-none AND-gate within the synthetic constructs could be demonstrated. And lastly, the physiological expression pattern in liver lobules could be successfully predicted by the model and experimentally verified.
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Ford, Gabrielle. "The extent to which occupational commitment explains variances in ERP success." Thesis, Open University, 2012. http://oro.open.ac.uk/54518/.
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The objective of this research was to investigate the relationship between Occupational Community of Practice Strength of Commitment and Perceived Usefulness of ERP systems, as mediated by the barriers to the knowledge transfer process, adaptation and perceptions of work practice compatibility. A Relativist approach was chosen, using a questionnaire as the primary data collection method, and PLS-SEM as the primary data analysis method. A survey instrument that was designed to measure the relationships between these variables was administered. The results led to the conclusions that Occupational Strength of Commitment had little effect on Work Practice Compatibility, but that Compatibility with Preferred Practices had a significant effect on Perceived Usefulness. It therefore became evident that in order to enhance ERP success, it was necessary to focus on the variables that influence perceptions of Compatibility with Preferred Practices when implementing ERP systems. These variables were identified based on the results of the data, and then synthesized into a conceptual model of ERP success in order to meet the research objective. Due to the limitations of the study, further research is recommended to test this conceptual model. The hypothesized relationships that could not be supported by the data are also identified for further research.
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Malik, Shaheen 1974. "Barriers to the adoption of telemedicine as explained by the disruptive innovation framework." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16605.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2003.Includes bibliographical references.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Despite its development and suitability to many specialties of medicine for the past forty years and the driving demands of an aging population, telemedicine has not made significant progress in deployment or commercialization. Why is this? Three case studies of health networks were used to identify the barriers to the widespread use of telemedicine in home healthcare and other applications of medicine. These barriers were further described and analyzed using the framework for disruptive technologies presented in Clayton Christensen' s The Innovator' s Dilemma. Although many studies assert that the slow adoption rate of telemedicine is explained by questions of efficacy and cost, this analysis proposes that the change in value networks posed by telemedicine technology is the greatest reason for its anemic implementation. Telemedicine changes the structure of the healthcare sector changing the organizational dynamics and values of the many players. The changes in structure are explored using the case studies and the successes and failures experienced by the health networks when implementing telemedicine across medical specialties. In order to harness this technology, recommendations are directed at organizations that need to evaluate new technologies differently and change their behavior with respect to competitors. Public policy needs to recognize the need for a greater thrust in long-term investments in telemedicine research, greater awareness of telemedicine in medical education and in taking the lead in developing standards, guidelines and protocols for telemedicine networks. Research also needs to be encouraged in newer clinical areas and existing standards and technologies in mature telemedicine application areas such as teleradiology and telepathology may be used in medical specialties where telemedicine is not yet a mainstream application. Moreover, the technology needs to become more 'human-centered' , to reduce technology barriers for both providers and patients amongst whom the elderly may be predominant.
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Cain, Darrell L. "The Explained Effects of Computer Mediated Conferencing on Student Learning Outcomes and Engagement." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26746.
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There has been an increasing growth in the use of technology resources in traditional classroom styled higher education courses. This growth has received with both optimism and criticism. One of the issues critics have posed is that the use of technology resources does little, if anything, to improve student learning. As a result, this research examined if the use of technology contributes to student learning outcomes and student engagement activities, above and beyond student demographic variables. Specifically, this study investigated if the use of computer mediated conferencing (CMC) tools (i.e., email and electronic discussion boards) and computer aided instructional (CAI) resources (i.e., use of the computer and the Internet) contribute to student learning.
Included in the sample were 2000 college students, which were randomly drawn from the 2003 College Student Experience Questionnaire database. The survey included 53 Likert scale items with reliability ranges from .78 to .88 on each of the composite scales. For the data analysis, eight multiple regressions were conducted on student learning outcomes and student learning engagement. Student learning outcomes included four composite scales, measuring students' personal and social development, general education gains, intellectual development, science and technology gains, and vocational preparation. The student engagement scale was comprised of three composite scales, which included faculty interactions, social, political and scientific discussions, and diversity and social interactions.
The findings revealed that the use of technology resources does contribute to student learning, above and beyond student's background variables. The model inclusive of technology variables explained 4% to 7% of the gains in student learning, while student background variables contributed .03% to 2% of the gains. The findings suggest incorporating the use of technology can aid students in the learning process, though the effect size was fairly modest in most cases. The use of computer mediated conferencing and computer assisted learning tools should be used in combination with traditional classroom instructions to have the best effects.Ph. D.
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Maourina, Alexandra, and Nicole Kalinowska. "The Long-Run Performance of Swedish IPOs : Explained in terms of Firm Maturity." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325202.
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This paper examines the long-run aftermarket performance of Swedish IPOs between 2000- 2016, including two market downturns (the burst of IT and housing bubble). The main objective is to investigate whether performance is explained in terms of firm maturity, which is the main contribution to existing literature. Hence, the final sample of 96 IPOs is ranked by the level of RE/TA ratio, a categorization defined by the life-cycle theory of dividend payouts proposed by DeAngelo et al. (2006). To assess the long-run performance of the different IPO portfolios, two methodologies are applied: BHAR and the Fama-French Three Factor regression. The main finding is that the Swedish IPOs underperform their benchmark reference portfolios 12, 24 and 36 months after the offering. Young IPOs, with low RE/TA, outperform on a one- year basis while no significant results were found for old IPOs with high RE/TA. On a longer term, young IPOs underperform their benchmarks while old IPOs outperform three years after the initial issue. There is no support that younger IPOs exhibit a higher level of underperformance in comparison to older IPOs in the long-run.
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Le, Maux Benoît. "Local public choice in representative democracy : which theory best explains the data ?" Rennes 1, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006REN1G004.
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Cette thèse teste le modèle de l'électeur médian contre des modèles rivaux basés sur les théories des politiciens partisans, de la bureaucratie, des groupes de pression et de l'incrémentalisme budgétaire. Les quatre dépenses de fonctionnement des départements français sont utilisées comme variables expliquées : (i) l'aide sociale, (ii) les services économiques, (iii) la voirie et (iv) les collèges. La conclusion générale est que le modèle de l'électeur médian n'est pas le modèle qui explique au mieux les comportements des gouvernements locaux. Si le revenu et la part fiscale de l'électeur médian ont ensemble un impact significatif sur les dépenses publiques, les résultats des test économétriques pratiqués dans cette thèse indiquent que d'autres facteurs influencent les politiques des départements. Cette thèse suggère par conséquent que l'on ne peut pas être entièrement optimiste en ce qui concerne le fonctionnement des démocraties représentatives localesThis Ph. D. Thesis tests the power of the median voter model against the respective strengh of alternative models based on partisan politicians, bureaucracy, interest group and budgetary incrementalism theories. To execute this comparison, the four principal per capita operating expenditures of the French departments are used as dependent variables : (i) social assistance, (ii) economic services, (iii) maintenance of the road network and (iv) secondary schools. The overall conclusion made is that the median voter model is not the best model for explaining local governments' behavior. While the income and tax share of the median voter have together a significant impact on public expenditures, numerous econometric tests suggest, that other factors significantly influence the French departments' policies. In other words, we cannot be entirely optimistic about the workings of local representative democracies
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Elnaggar, Sameh hasan. "Egyptian Diaspora Explains the Meaning of its Political Engagement in Washington, DC." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7636.
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Available literature showed that the Egyptian diaspora (e.g., emigrants who share a common situations and work for the same cause) has been developing and engaging politically in the United States during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. The diasporas’ role was of interest to researchers and policymakers; however, the literature concerning diasporas has underexamined the Egyptian diaspora regarding its proliferation and active political engagement. Using the conflict and climate theories of Truman, and Cigler and Loomis in conjunction with the political engagement factors theory of Jang as the theoretical foundation of the study, the purpose was to explore how members of the diaspora explain and perceive their political engagement in Washington, DC. In this qualitative study, the key characteristics of diaspora and political and social factors of home and host countries that enable and inhibit that engagement regarding particular issues were addressed through 16 in-depth, face-to-face interviews with Egyptian-Americans. Maxwell and Miller’s doubled-strategy and Yin’s case study steps approach were used for analysis. The findings indicated that the engagement of the diaspora except Coptic and some Islamic groups are passive most of the time because of the political home culture; despite that fact, the diaspora became active for a short time because of the Egyptian revolution. Future research should exam those aspects to better understand the mechanism of building an Egyptian lobby to work continuously and effectively on Egyptian interests in the United States. The diaspora and policymakers may use the study results to help improve the role of this diaspora to impose positive social changes in Egypt and the future political engagement of Egyptian younger generations.
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Murrow, Jimmie L. (Jimmie Lorraine). "Threat to Health or Exuberant Well-Being: Which Best Explains Wellness Behavior?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279152/.
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Because of the high and rapidly increasing cost of health care, wellness has become a significant issue for both health care practitioners and the general public. This research examines the issue of wellness and seeks to develop a model that identifies the factors that are most significant in explaining why people engage in wellness activities. A questionnaire was mailed to a sample (n = 499) randomly selected from the general population of the United States. Predictor variables are the demographic variables of age, income, education and gender together with the cognitive variables of self-actualization, benefits of wellness behavior, health locus of control and threat to health. Dependent variables are the health-seeking behaviors of exercise, stress management, nutrition, health responsibility and social support. Canonical correlation, t-tests, regression and analysis of variance are used to analyze the data. Chapter one presents two existing health models. The first presents prevention or threat to health and the second proposes self-actualization as motivating wellness behavior. The research model combines the two models. Chapter two presents relevant studies in the literature regarding use of multivariate models in consumer behavior, dimensions of wellness and empirical findings of wellness-related research. Chapter three presents the research hypotheses, research design and techniques of analysis. Chapter four presents analysis of the data and results of statistical tests. Conclusions and limitations of the research are discussed in chapter five along with recommendations for further research. The study finds threat to health as the strongest driver of wellness behavior followed closely by self-actualization thus supporting the study model. Results indicate that older persons and females perform more wellness behaviors than do younger individuals and males. Two 3-way interactions were found: (1) Income, age and marital status; (2) Education, age and marital status. Internal locus of control was not found to influence wellness behavior.
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Chamberlain, Faith. "Effectiveness of the Commander's Emergency Response Program explained by Afghan perceptions of reconstruction outputs." CONNECT TO ONLINE THESIS, 2008. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4439.
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Pollock, L. C. "Community psychiatric nursing explained : An analysis of the views of parents, carers and nurses." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381405.
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Allen, Ralph Gregory. "Mechanical properties of selectively degraded cartilage explaints : correlation to the spatiotemporal distribution of glycosaminoglycans." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10690.
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Ishihama, Kanako. "Triangles of Soul—Schubert the “Wanderer” and His Music Explained by Neo-Riemannian Graphs." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23148.
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In Schubert’s music, the theme “wandering” is used frequently, closely related to human life and death. I presume that, being stricken by serious illness and facing challenging relationships, Schubert lived his short life with agony and dismay, confronting the life theme “death.” In that sense, Schubert himself was probably the wanderer who kept trudging throughout his life journey. In 1822, Schubert composed the allegorical tale “My Dream,” and in that tale, he writes as follows; “when I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me” (Deutsch 1977, 227). Schubert lived his life, struggling between love and pain, and between life and death. Human life and death conflict with each other, but exist together in the same place. In other words, death is a root of life. If one can perceive that life and death both exist at the root of one’s life, the form of life should be represented by a circular path, not by a linear formation. This notion accords with Schubert’s musical style, where the same material comes back again and again in a circular formation. I assume that the notion—death as a root of life—is the essential conception of “wandering” that Schubert’s music expresses. In this dissertation, I would like to offer several Neo-Riemannian analyses and graphs of Schubert’s piano compositions; Impromptus D. 899, Moments Musical D. 780, Sonata in C-minor D. 958, and the “Wanderer” Fantasy D. 760. For each work and movement, I will map out the harmonic structure and key progressions on a Tonnetz graph, and suggest a new way to comprehend the nature of “wandering” that Schubert’s music portrays. Through the configurations and harmonic motions on the Tonnetz graphs, I will establish a way to comprehend Schubert’s concept of circular “wandering” visually and geometrically.
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Heiska, Sanna, and Jonas Vilhelmsson. "Selected career counselors - a study of their work situation can be explained by KASAM." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31469.
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Sammanfattning: Examensarbete belyser om det är möjligt att kategorisera studie- och yrkesvägledares upplevda arbetssituation i KASAM. För att kunna kategorisera utifrån KASAM vill vi veta hur studie- och yrkesvägledare upplever sin arbetssituation och hur deras kompetens tillvaratas inom deras arbetsorganisation. Dessutom har vi valt att ställa frågor om hur arbetsgivaren ser på deras profession och vilka möjligheter de har till kompetensutveckling. Examensarbetet är en kvalitativ studie med sex olika studie- och yrkesvägledare yrkesverksamma inom statlig, kommunal och privat arbetsorganisation i västra Sverige. Vi kontaktade studie- och yrkesvägledare för att höra om det fanns intresse att delta i en intervju. Därefter genomförde vi kvalitativa undersökningar på respondenternas arbetsplatser. För att förstå KASAM har vi fördjupat oss hur Antonovsky beskriver modellen. Den förklarar känslan av sammanhang och beskriver meningsfullhet, begriplighet och hanterbarhet. Grunden till KASAM modellen är hans teori om det salutogena arbetssättet som bl.a. har uppmärksammats inom vården. De sex olika vägledarna har samtliga genomfört den treåriga högskoleutbildningen och de har varit yrkesverksamma i minst två år. Vi bedömde att efter två år kan man känna om arbetsorganisationen ger den meningsfullhet, begriplighet och hanterbarhet som är viktig för den upplevda arbetssituationen. Vi hoppas att det här examensarbetet ska generera till fler arbeten och uppsatser om upplevd arbetssituation.Summary/Abstract Diploma work elucidates if it is possible to categorize study - and trade road worse experienced working situation in KASAM. For can to categorize on the basis of KASAM wants to we to know how study - and trade road conductors experience their working situation and how their competence to be safeguarded within their work organisation. Moreover, we have select to rearrange questions how the employer sees on theirs profession and which possibilities they have to skill development. The diploma work is a qualitative study with six different study - and trade road conductors professionally active within State, municipal and private work organisation in west Sweden. We contacted study - and trade road worse in order to consult if there were interests to attend an interview. Then , we implemented qualitative surveys on respondenternas workplaces. For understanding KASAM has we deepened us how Antonovsky describes the mock-up. It explains the feeling of contexts and describes meningsfullhet, begriplighet and hanterbarhet. The basis to KASAM the mock-up is his theory about it salutogena the approach that bl.a. has been noticed within the care. The the six different road conductors have all implemented it treåriga the college education and they have been professionally active in least two years. We assessed that after two years can one to know if the work organisation gives it meningsfullhet, begriplighet and hanterbarhet that is important for it the experienced working situation. We hope that this the diploma work will generate to more works and essays about experienced working situation.
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Leißner, Juliane [Verfasser], and Alarcos [Akademischer Betreuer] Cieza. "What explains health in persons with low vision? / Juliane Leißner ; Betreuer: Alarcos Cieza." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1140435558/34.
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Williams, Zoe Phillips [Verfasser]. "Risky Business or Risky Politics: What Explains Investor-State Disputes? / Zoe Phillips Williams." Berlin : Hertie School of Governance, Library and Information Services, 2018. http://d-nb.info/116535490X/34.
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Ačimovič, Jure, Sandeep Goyal, Rok Košir, Marko Goličnik, Martina Perše, Ales Belič, Žiga Urlep, F. Peter Guengerich, and Damjana Rozman. "Cytochrome P450 metabolism of the post-lanosterol intermediates explains enigmas of cholesterol synthesis." NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/618983.
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Cholesterol synthesis is among the oldest metabolic pathways, consisting of the Bloch and Kandutch-Russell branches. Following lanosterol, sterols of both branches are proposed to be dedicated to cholesterol. We challenge this dogma by mathematical modeling and with experimental evidence. It was not possible to explain the sterol profile of testis in cAMP responsive element modulator tau (Crem τ) knockout mice with mathematical models based on textbook pathways of cholesterol synthesis. Our model differs in the inclusion of virtual sterol metabolizing enzymes branching from the pathway. We tested the hypothesis that enzymes from the cytochrome P450 (CYP) superfamily can participate in the catalysis of non-classical reactions. We show that CYP enzymes can metabolize multiple sterols in vitro, establishing novel branching points of cholesterol synthesis. In conclusion, sterols of cholesterol synthesis can be oxidized further to metabolites not dedicated to production of cholesterol. Additionally, CYP7A1, CYP11A1, CYP27A1, and CYP46A1 are parts of a broader cholesterol synthesis network.
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Farstad, Fay Madeleine. "From consensus to polarisation : what explains variation in party agreement on climate change?" Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16621/.
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The thesis seeks to explain variation in party agreement on climate change, i.e. why there is cross-party consensus on the issue in some countries whilst there is party polarisation over it in others. The analysis thus provides a bridge between the literatures on comparative climate policy and party politics. The investigation employs a nested research design as a mixed methods strategy, joining the study of the wider universe of political parties and developed countries through large and medium-N analyses with intensive and qualitative case study analysis through a controlled comparison of Australia and Norway. These countries share significant similarities, yet Australia experiences party polarisation over climate change whilst there is strong cross-party consensus in Norway. In explaining this divergence, the thesis finds that parties will polarise over climate change if there is a presence of fossil fuel interests, multiple veto points, pluralist institutions and a majoritarian electoral system in the country. However, fossil fuel interests will not have a polarising effect if combined with few veto points and corporatist institutions. Countries that have few veto points, corporatist institutions and a proportional electoral system experience strong cross-party consensus. These findings challenge the common assumption that consensus will automatically be difficult in states with fossil fuel dependency. Rather, it demonstrates that the institutional context is critical, as it moderates the effects of fossil fuel interests and shapes the behaviour of parties. Although the thesis argues that parties’ ideology and levels of public concern also affect whether or not they embrace the issue and create agreement on it, institutional factors are demonstrated to have a relatively larger impact. Thus the thesis argues that party agreement on climate change is more an outcome of party strategic behaviour within the context of domestic party competition than it is a result of ideology or societal factors.
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Min, Hyǒn-sǒk [Verfasser]. "Strategies for network cities explained with the example of South Korea / von Hyun-Suk Min." Karlsruhe : Univ.-Verl. Karlsruhe, 2006. http://d-nb.info/98228215X/34.
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