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Bitter, James. "Awareness & Contact: Developing Social Interest in Individual Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6127.

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Paez, Karen N. "Diversity awareness, diversity climate, and individual career outcomes : a counseling psychology perspective /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1276405611&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-119). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Grant, Gordon J. "Ascertaining the Relationship between Security Awareness and the Security Behavior of Individuals." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/167.

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Security threats caused by the inappropriate actions of the user continue to be a significant security problem within any organization. The purpose of this study was to continue the efforts of Katz by assessing the security behavior and practices of working professionals. Katz conducted a study that assessed whether the faculty and staff at Armstrong Atlantic State University had been performing the simple everyday practices and behavior necessary to avert insider threats to information security. Critical in understanding human behavior is in knowing how behavior varies across different groups or demographics. Because a user's behavior can be influenced by demographic groups, this study adapted Katz's study by examining the influence on the security behavior of four demographic groups identified by gender, age, education, and occupation. Like Katz, this study used a 5-point Likert scale quantitative self-administered, closed-ended questionnaire to assess the participants' security practices and behaviors. The questionnaire was developed in two sections: Section 1 used a binary scale to gather the participants' demographics data while Section 2 used a 5-point Likert scale to measure the participants' security behaviors. The sample population was derived from working professionals at the General Dynamic and Program Manager Advanced Amphibious Assault (GD & PM AAA) Facility in Woodbridge, Virginia. The total population at PM AAA Office was 288, of which 87 or 30% completed the survey. Results of the demographic survey indicate that (a) women were more security aware than their male counterparts, (b) younger participants were more security aware than their older counterparts, (c) participants who did not attend college were more security aware than their college-educated counterparts, and (d) participants in nontechnical positions were more security aware than their counterparts in technical positions. The results indicate that a relation exists between the participants' security behaviors and their levels of security awareness.
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Cassano, Christina Marie. "An examination of growth in vocabulary and phonological awareness in early childhood: an individual growth model approach." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/10955.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University
The present study used individual growth modeling to examine the role of specific forms (i.e., receptive, expressive, and definitional vocabulary and grammatical skill) and levels of oral vocabulary skill (i.e., 25th, 50th, or 75th percentile) in phonological awareness growth during the preschool and kindergarten years. Sixty-one, typically-developing, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds, all from middle- to upper-income families, participated in the year-long study. A comprehensive battery of standardized and unstandardized measures was used to assess phonological awareness, oral vocabulary (i.e., receptive, expressive, and definitional) and grammatical skill at baseline, and at 3, 6, and 9 months later. Receptive vocabulary was the strongest predictor of growth in phonological awareness for the sample as a whole, followed by expressive vocabulary and grammatical skill, respectively. In the full model, definitional level vocabulary did not make a significant contribution to growth in phonological awareness. Receptive vocabulary accounted for additional phonological awareness growth in the 3-year-olds, but not in 4- and 5-year-olds, while expressive vocabulary accounted for additional phonological awareness growth in 4- and 5-year-olds, but not in 3-year-olds. Post hoc analyses were conducted to explore the change in relations between phonological awareness and receptive and expressive vocabulary that was identified by the individual growth models. The post hoc results suggested that higher levels of expressive vocabulary (i.e., higher scores on the measures) are likely required to complete phonological awareness tasks with the most difficult operations and highest task demands, even if the linguistic unit involved is large. The theory of lexical reorganization attributes the origin and protracted development of phonological awareness to increases in vocabulary size (Metsala & Walley, 1998). The present study's results suggest that increases in vocabulary size might be necessary, but not sufficient, as a foundation for phonological awareness development. Expressive level vocabulary might also be needed to hold words in memory to perform complex manipulations required in higher level phonological awareness tasks.
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Yi, Alaynnase N. "Autistic awareness support group for foster parents in DCFS| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527767.

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The purpose of the project was to design a program, identify potential funding source, and complete a grant to fund an educational and supportive program for foster parents who care for autistic foster youth. The services would be offered at SHIELDS a non-profit agency serving the Compton and Watts communities of South Los Angeles. The awareness supportive program will be design to provide educational workshops for foster parents and caregivers who provide care for County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services autistic children. The Weingart Foundation was chosen as the best applicant for submitting this grant proposal based on the population they serve and their interests to provide services to disadvantage communities. Research supports the high need for autistic awareness support services for foster parents and caregivers who care for the youth. The submission of a tangible grant application was not required for the completion of this project.

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Nilsson, Ida, and Magnus Svensson. "The viral makes you aware : how is brand association affected by viral marketing through individual networks." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, School of Health and Society, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-5930.

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Nowadays the internet has become more and more important in today’s technology addicted society. Consumers of today use the internet as a tool to communicate, do shopping and search for information. Hence, the internet has become a convenient way for organizations to reach out to consumers in an easy and cheap way, specially through the tool viral marketing. In this paper we research the phenomenon brand awareness and brand association affected by viral marketing. This is done through two research questions: How does a commercial affect consumers to create a network Viral marketing campaign? And Why do consumers purchase a brand when they are reacting negatively on a commercial?.

 

To answer the research questions we chose a well discussed Swedish commercial from Apoliva as an example, especially since the commercial has received many negative reactions. Based on the commercial, we made a survey on the internet community site Facebook to measure how and why users reacted to the commercial and spread the reactions further; if and how their opinions changed toward the commercial and if and why consumers buy from the brand.

 

The conclusions we draw from the research questions are that consumers tend to buy a brand although they do not like the commercial related to the brand, since the commercial itself is not of importance and in most cases the consumers do not relate the commercial with the brand. Furthermore, consumers tend to discuss a commercial if it is not a mainstream commercial. Although consumers discuss with their network on the internet, most of the discussion tend to be mouth-to-mouth and the spreading of opinion on the internet is mostly to vent their feelings.

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Wiita, Nathan Ellis. "Differential framing of situational strength: an individual differences-based conceptualization of work contexts." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44701.

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"Strong situations" have been shown to decrease behavioral variability, thereby attenuating the criterion-related validity of non-ability individual differences for criteria such as job performance (Barrick&Mount, 1993; Meyer, Dalal,&Bonaccio, 2009). However, it has been suggested that individuals, based on individual differences in implicit motives, may impute discrepant psychological meaning to social stimuli like situational strength--a process sometimes known as differential framing (James&McIntyre, 1996). If different psychological interpretations are attached to strong situation stimuli (e.g., Meyer, Dalal,&Hermida, 2010), an interesting behavioral "double-edged sword" is possible. On the one hand, behaviors pertinent to "primary criteria" (i.e., criteria for which external situational influences and pressures lead to targeted behavioral homogeneity) may occur among those who would not normally engage in them. But, at the same time, behaviors pertinent to "secondary criteria" (i.e., unintended, unforeseen, and potentially reactionary behaviors and/or attitudes) might also increase for some individuals (i.e., those with certain implicit motive characteristics). In other words, high situational strength may simultaneously constrain behavioral variability in primary criteria while serving as a stimulus for differential framing, thereby expanding variability on secondary criteria. The purpose of the present dissertation was twofold: 1) to explore the degree to which situational strength is differentially framed, and 2) to ascertain how the differential framing of situational strength may lead to unintended secondary outcomes. Study 1 findings indicate that, to a partial extent, situational strength is differentially framed by individuals with different implicit motives. Study 2 findings are largely consistent with extant situational strength theory, though partially inconsistent with study predictions.
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Holstius, Laura J. "Examining the impact of a little book intervention on the early literacy skills of children in Head Start via the individual growth and development indicators /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131458618.pdf.

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Schuurman, Shelley D. "An exploration of the individual characteristics and abilities that contribute to competent professional performance in social work practitioners." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Schnaubert, Lenka Verfasser], and Daniel [Akademischer Betreuer] [Bodemer. "Providing cognitive and metacognitive awareness information to support regulation in individual and collaborative learning settings / Lenka Schnaubert ; Betreuer: Daniel Bodemer." Duisburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1191708284/34.

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Chedjou, Jouontso Willy Francis. "Environmental awareness in the workplace : a study of employees' environmental knowledge, perception and behaviour from an individual and organisational perspective." Thesis, Abertay University, 2013. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/c7a88645-2cd8-49b4-ba6f-1588388d5d32.

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The study attempts to assess employees’ environmental awareness at a personal and organisational level as well as their perception of their organisations’ environmental policies in order to propose a theoretical model on environmental awareness. The research focuses on employees’ knowledge, perception and behaviour toward the environment. The respondents (composed of 43% males and 53% females) are employed in a variety of industries in the United Kingdom. The objectives of the study are: (1) to demonstrate how employees’ environmental awareness and behaviour differs according to their sociodemographic characteristics (i.e. gender, age, parental status, education level, income); (2) to investigate organizations’ environmental awareness and actions, as well as factors influencing organisations’ environmental decisions; (3) to evaluate the environmental actions of organisations, and to determine if organisations’ environmental policies influence employees’ environmental knowledge and behaviour; (4) to identify ways of how to improve and promote environmental awareness in the workplace; and (5) to make recommendations for the improvement of environmental awareness and behaviour and hence environmental management in organisations. A quantitative research approach is adopted by the study and data was collected through the use of questionnaires. The analysis of 93 questionnaires (response rate was 31%) revealed that no association exists between people’s gender, age, earnings (employment), and parental status and environmental awareness. However, a correlation exists between employees’ education level and their environmental knowledge and behaviour. Furthermore, tests revealed that an association exists between employees’ parental status and their perception of their organisations’ environmental actions. There was also an association between people aged 35 or under and those aged over 35 years old and their environmental knowledge and perception of environmental issues. It is hoped that the research will contributes to knowledge by developing a theoretical model representing the development process of environmental awareness and behaviour. Such model enables employees to acquire sufficient environmental knowledge so that they can engage into pro-environmental initiatives and organisations to fully embrace environmental management policies and practices.
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Schnaubert, Lenka [Verfasser], and Daniel [Akademischer Betreuer] Bodemer. "Providing cognitive and metacognitive awareness information to support regulation in individual and collaborative learning settings / Lenka Schnaubert ; Betreuer: Daniel Bodemer." Duisburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1191708284/34.

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Backåberg, Sofia. "Video-supported Interactive Learning for Movement Awareness : a learning model for the individual development of movement performance among nursing students." Doctoral thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap (HV), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-52413.

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Aim:  The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the development of a video-supported interactive learning model for movement awareness among nursing students. Methods:  Study I was a cross-sectional survey regarding prevalence and impact of musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS) among nursing students. In the remaining three studies a learning model was developed and explored; II - the inter-personal interaction (qualitative content analysis), III - the students’ experiences of using the learning model (phenomenological hermeneutics), IV - the students’ learning processes (hermeneutic approach). Results: 143 of the 224 respondents in study I reported MSS during the previous 12 months and of those 91 reported impact on physical daily life activities. The odds ratio for reporting MSS study year 3 was 4.7 (95% CI: 2.1 – 10.7). Study II shows that the students’ movement awareness and self-analysis developed when encountering their own movement through video feedback. Studies III and IV show that the facilitator’s reflective and responsive approach appears to be essential in creating interaction and a permitting learning atmosphere. The students became emotionally and cognitively challenged and personally engaged, were motivated to change by discovering details in their movements and gained a greater understanding of the relationship between their own movements and current or risk for future MSS. They also experienced emotional, cognitive and bodily confusion, which was interpreted as a necessary step in the changing process. Conclusion: MSS among nursing students appears to be a problem and education regarding ergonomic movements and principles is suggested to be emphasized in the nursing curriculum. The video-supported learning model enabled encountering and discovering one’s own body and movement in different ways, which facilitated reflection and motivation for change, which was supported by the facilitator’s reflective approach. The learning model, which could contribute to multifactorial ergonomic interventions, could also support movement awareness and learning in practical learning situations within education and rehabilitation. Further research needs to study the model in different contexts and in relation to MSS prevention.
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Muellenberg, Martha. "The effectiveness of parental involvement on achievement and multicultural awareness at the middle school level in a visual arts program." Thesis, University of South Dakota, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3629803.

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In the past few decades, parental involvement has increasingly become more noted in a child's educational journey. More administrators and teachers are recognizing the value of parental involvement. Parental involvement benefits include increased student achievement and stronger school-family partnerships. Implementing parental involvement practices is often required for schools to receive federal support such as Title I funds. Although there is supporting research that shows the positive effects of parental involvement in elementary school settings, there is limited research as to how it can affect students at the middle school level. In addition, other effects of parental involvement that stretch beyond student learning, such as multicultural awareness, have received much less attention.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not parental involvement at the middle school level has an impact on students' multicultural awareness and learning. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed to identify statistical significance and emerging themes to be used to enhance classroom practices at the middle school level. An instrument adapted from the Civil Rights Project (CRP) was used to collect data from middle school students to measure multicultural awareness. Four and five-point Likert scales were used to measure respondents' levels of awareness. A researcher-created summative assessment was used as an instrument to evaluate student learning. Additionally, qualitative questions were used to elicit students' perceptions regarding culture and family involvement.

Quantitative findings from this study did not reveal statistical significance between the control and parental involvement groups regarding student learning and multicultural awareness. Practical significance was shown in two of the survey questions, which indicated small to medium effects between group and time and small to medium effects of interactions. Practical significance was also evident in the interactions between groups based on grade level in three of the survey questions. Qualitatively, the majority of middle school students felt they were open to learning about cultures different from their own. Most students believed their parents would enjoy hearing about what they learn in visual arts classes. Other themes emerged including the misconception that culture is exclusively related to peoples of the past and the notion that cultural topics are only discussed in terms of the oppression of others. The majority of fifth and sixth grade respondents believed that art class was a venue for learning about different cultures and could recognize the benefits of learning about people from different parts of the world.

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Malmgren-Olsson, Eva-Britt. "Health problems and treatment effects in patients with non-specific musculoskeletal disorders : a comparison between Body awareness therapy, Feldenkrais and individual physiotherapy." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Fysioterapi, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100580.

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Cak, Serkan. "Effects Of Working Memory, Attention, And Expertise On Pilots&#039." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613464/index.pdf.

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Situation Awareness (SA), is defined as perception of environmental entities, comprehension of their meaning, and estimation of their status in the near future (Endsley, 1995a). The general aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between SA and individual cognitive dierences. Specifically, the predictive value of working memory and attentional capacity measures on SA measures, taken from pilots of different expertise levels, is of interest. In the literature, SA has mostly been studied from an applied perspective. The present study therefore aims at providing the necessary cognitive underpinnings of these more applied studies. Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, individual dierences and SA measures have been taken from thirty-six pilots. Automated Operation Span, Stroop Task, and Choice Reaction Time Task with Dichotic Listening were used for measuring working memory capacity (WMC), inhibition, and divided attention, respectively. Online and offline SA measurements were employed together for tapping on different aspects of SA in a cognitively demanding flight scenario. Results showed that WMC and expertise explain 58% of variability in offline scores while inhibition, divided attention, and expertise explain 52% of variability in online scores. In Experiment 2, the aim was to find correlates of eye movements in terms of individual differences. Scan patterns were studied across four SA-related visual tasks with ten expert pilots. Results showed that more expert pilots produced less fixation durations but no other eects of individual dierences on the eye movements were observed. It was also observed that expert pilots deploy some scan strategies while performing these tasks.
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Plew, Melissa S. "Facebook Friendships between College/University Instructors and Students: Deciding Whether or Not to Allow Students as Friends, Communicating with Students, and the Individual Differences that Influence Instructors' Impression Management on Facebook." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/26.

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This research examined Facebook friendships between college/university instructors and students. Based on the development of instructor-student dual relationships, this study described instructors’ Facebook use with students. This included explanations for allowing/not allowing students, communication with students, and ethical concerns. Rooted in the theories of impression management, self-monitoring and role conflict, plus the concept of ambient awareness, hypotheses predicted relationships between instructors’ individual differences and Facebook use: (1) self-monitoring would be positively related to role conflict; and (2) self-monitoring, (3) role conflict, and (4) ambient awareness would be positively related to instructors’ self-presentation, impression management behaviors, and privacy management. Emails were sent to faculty at 270 colleges/universities throughout the U.S. and 331 instructors completed the online survey. Of these, 56.2% allowed students as friends. Open-ended answers revealed that instructors allowed students as friends to communicate, to facilitate learning about each other, and because it was difficult to decline requests. Some instructors did not allow certain students (e.g., problematic students, undergraduates). They communicated by commenting on and liking posts on students’ pages, and had ethical concerns about negative consequences. Open-ended answers revealed that instructors did not allow students as friends to maintain the professional divide and avoid favoritism, which explained their ethical concerns. Hierarchical regression analyses tested the predicted relationships. Results revealed that self-monitoring approached significance as having a positive relationship with role conflict and a negative relationship with privacy management, but was not related to self-presentation or impression management behaviors. Role conflict was not related to impression management. Awareness of students was positively related to self-presentation and impression management behaviors, but unexpectedly, perception of students’ awareness of instructors was negatively related to privacy management. A partial correlation analysis tested high/low self-monitors separately and not only replicated the results, but also revealed that high self-monitors’ perception of students’ awareness was positively correlated with self-presentation and impression management behaviors. These findings indicate that ambient awareness is related to online communication and should be studied further. This is especially intriguing since the two types of ambient awareness related differently to the three types of impression management studied in this research.
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Salygienė, Audronė. "Sociodemografinių charakteristikų bei organizacinių veiksnių reikšmė darbuotojų seksualinio priekabiavimo supratimui." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120611_161522-78634.

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Tyrimo tikslas: įvertinti sociodemografinių charakteristikų bei organizacinių veiksnių sąsajas su darbuotojų seksualinio priekabiavimo supratimu. Tyrime dalyvavo 195 tirimieji: 136 moterys ir 59 vyrai, nuo 17 iki 75 metų amžiaus (amžiaus vidurkis (28,98). Seksualinio priekabiavimo vertinimui buvo naudojama Mccabe, Hardman, (2005) adaptuota, Mazer, Percival (1989) kurta požiurio į seksualinį priekabiavimą skalė (Sexual Harassment Attitude Scale, SHAS), kuri Mccabe, Hardman, (2005) buvo pritaikyta darbuotojams, bei pervadinta darbuotojų požiūrio į seksualinį priekabiavimą skale (Sexual Harassment Attitude Scale for Workers SHASW). Seksualinio priekabiavimo supratimas buvo matuojamas seksualinio priekabiavimo apibrėžimų klausimynu (Sexual Harassment Definitions Questionnaire SHDQ; Foulis, McCabe, 1997). Seksualinio priekabiavimo patirtis buvo vertinama seksualinės patirties klausimynu (Sexual Experience Questionnaire), sukurtu Fitzgerald et al. (1988). Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, jog su seksualinio priekabiavimo supratimu susiję skirtingos aukos – priekabiautojo situacijos: moterysdažniau nei vyrai visas situacijas įvardina kaip seksualinį priekabiavimą. Taip pat dažniau seksualinį priekabiavimą įvardina: su aukštuoju išsilavinimu, išsilavinimu; patyrę seksualinį priekabiavimą; vyresni, dirbantys organizacijose, kuriose dskirtingas lyčių santykis. Su geresniu seksualinio priekabiavimo supratimu nėra susiję darbuotojų: vedybinis statusas, darbo stažas; darbovietės tipas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
The aim of the study was to assess how socio-demographic characteristics and organizational factors are related to employees perception of sexual harassment. 195 subjects participated in the study: 136 of them were women and 59 – men. They age raged from 17 to 75 years (mean age (28.98). Sexual harassment attitude were messured by Mazeros, Percival (1989) created sexual harassment attitude scale, which McCabe, Hardman (2005) was adapted to workers, and renamed Sexual Harassment Attitude Scale for Workers (SHASW). Perception of sexual harassment was measured by Sexual Harassment Definitions Questionnaire (SHDQ, Foula, McCabe, 1997). Sexual harassment experiences were measured by sexual experiences questionnaire (Sexual Experience Questionnaire), which was created by Fitzgerald et al. (1988). The results showed that the perception of sexual harassment related to different victims - harasser situations: women more often than men tend to identifyas sexual harassment in all situations. Sexual harassment are percieved more often when worker was with the higher education, experienced sexual harassment, older workers, working in organizations with diferent gender ratio. Perceptions of sexual harassment are not related workers: marital status, work experience, job type, gender ratio indepartment.
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UnKauf, Kristen. "A Personal Counseling Experience for Master's Level Counseling Students: Practices and Perceptions of Counselor Education Program Directors." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1154.

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There exists a strong endorsement in the literature of the effectiveness of an individual counseling experience as an influence in the personal and professional development of counseling students, yet few counselor education programs seem to require that students complete such an experience. Thus, the question arises as to why the required individual counseling experience as a client is not being required by a large proportion of counseling programs. The purposes of this descriptive, exploratory study were to determine the prevalence of the required experience as a client in individual counseling, examine the opinions of counselor education program leaders regarding the risks and benefits of experiential training components, determine the modalities used to deliver experiential training components, obtain counselor education program coordinators' views on the various modalities, and explore policies and procedures used in counselor education programs with respect to experiential training components. Finally, this study attempted to determine the level of satisfaction of those program directors who do utilize a required individual counseling experience, as well as their policies and procedures with regard to outcome measurement. Results of the study showed that there were some significant inverse relationships between counselor education program directors' opinions regarding potential benefits for counseling students and their policies regarding a required individual counseling experience. Additionally, although respondents did not strongly endorse the potential risks associated with the exercise, it is still not required by the majority of the counselor education programs surveyed. However, those program directors who do endorse a required individual counseling experience reported on its many benefits, and offered qualitative insights into how the requirement is implemented. The results of this study have implications for the counseling profession by offering empirical evidence regarding the prevalence of a required individual counseling experience for master's-level counseling students. The results of this study contribute to the counseling profession's knowledge base by determining counseling program directors' opinions of the potential benefits and risks of a required individual counseling experience, and by establishing that program directors whose programs require this exercise are overwhelmingly satisfied that the experience accomplishes the purposes for which it is intended.
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Burbey, Ingrid. "Predicting Future Locations and Arrival Times of Individuals." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27551.

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This work has two objectives: a) to predict people's future locations, and b) to predict when they will be at given locations. Current location-based applications react to the user's current location. The progression from location-awareness to location-prediction can enable the next generation of proactive, context-predicting applications. Existing location-prediction algorithms predict someone's next location. In contrast, this dissertation predicts someone's future locations. Existing algorithms use a sequence of locations and predict the next location in the sequence. This dissertation incorporates temporal information as timestamps in order to predict someone's location at any time in the future. Sequence predictors based on Markov models have been shown to be effective predictors of someone's next location. This dissertation applies a Markov model to two-dimensional, timestamped location information to predict future locations. This dissertation also predicts when someone will be at a given location. These predictions can support presence or understanding co-workers’ routines. Predicting the times that someone is going to be at a given location is a very different and more difficult problem than predicting where someone will be at a given time. A location-prediction application may predict one or two key locations for a given time, while there could be hundreds of correct predictions for times of the day that someone will be in a given location. The approach used in this dissertation, a heuristic model loosely based on Market Basket Analysis, is the first to predict when someone will arrive at any given location. The models are applied to sparse, WiFi mobility data collected on PDAs given to 275 college freshmen. The location-prediction model predicts future locations with 78-91% accuracy. The temporal-prediction model achieves 33-39% accuracy. If a tolerance of plus/minus twenty minutes is allowed, the prediction rates rise to 77%-91%. This dissertation shows the characteristics of the timestamped, location data which lead to the highest number of correct predictions. The best data cover large portions of the day, with less than three locations for any given timestamp.
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Clary, Pamela Carlson. "“You never know who’s watching”: how technology is shaping practice for social service professionals." Diss., Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18687.

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Department of Family Studies and Human Services
Melinda S. Markham and Karen S. Myers-Bowman
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the phenomenon of social networking sites (SNSs) and its impact on practicing human service professionals. In this exploratory study, 33 interviews, comprised of family life educators and social workers, were conducted in order to gain the perspective of how SNSs were being used in practice. A phenomenological approach was used to get at the lived experiences of these professionals. In addition, a Johari Window lens provided a way to understand the level of transparency professionals had when interacting with the digital culture. Themes found described how SNSs were being utilized in practice. These centered on benefits to the agency, clientele, and to the professional. The changing technological climate was shown to be impacting the delivery of services, yet professionals were underutilizing SNSs in practice. Regardless if the professional was on or offline, being recognized as a professional was extremely important. As a result, professionals were cognizant of potential consequences of using SNSs for professional and personal use. This awareness not only led professionals to want to safeguard their privacy, but also provided an opportunity for these professionals to develop guidelines for ethical digital behavior. Implications for research include exploring how a person’s digital status should be defined, if at all, how do privacy and ‘connecting’ influence each other, and what is the impact of viewing others’ posts on the ego strength of the person. The biggest implication for practice was the need for specific policies designed around professional digital behavior. In the absence of specific guidelines, professionals established their own set of rules to guide their practice. However, as more agencies and professions begin to see the need for and develop policies for SNS use, professionals will need to assimilate these new guidelines into their practice.
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Boone, Rebecca Jane. "Awareness of Diabetes Risk Associated with Individuals 18 and Older." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1594.

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The risk of developing Type 2 diabetes is increasing at epidemic proportions, and is 12-17% higher in Marion County Florida than it is across the state, based on Florida Department of Health statistics. The purpose of this DNP project was to determine if awareness of individual risk of developing Type 2 diabetes through a questionnaire would result in high-risk participants agreeing to attend a diabetes prevention program (DPP) at a local medical clinic. The health belief model and Rosswurm and Larrabee's model for change were used as frameworks. The review of the literature showed that prevention programs were highly effective in reducing the risk of developing diabetes. A validated diabetes risk questionnaire was placed at reception desks at 3 clinic sites. Forty-four anonymous participants completed the questionnaire. The convenience sample obtained from the questionnaire provided a score that categorized individuals into a high-risk and a low-risk group. Quantitative data from the participants were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Twenty-one of the participants indicated they were at high risk of developing diabetes. Ninety-five percent of those who received a high-score on the diabetes risk questionnaire responded that they would be interested in participating in a DPP at a local medical clinic. As a result of the DNP project completion, a DPP with the goal of reducing the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes will be implemented in the Marion County medical clinic. Future collaboration with health care and community organizations will assist to expand DPP's, bring awareness of diabetes risk, and promote social change.
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Harr, Rikard. "Striking a balance managing collaborative multitasking in computer-supported cooperation /." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Institutionen för informatik, Umeå universitet, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-29945.

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Salisbury, Michelle. "Sexual awareness, body image, and self-esteem of individuals who have ostomies." Connect to full-text via OhioLINK ETD Center, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=mco1121701377.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Medical College of Ohio, 2004.
"In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Nursing." Major advisor: Dianne Smolen. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: vii, 75 p. Title from title page of PDF document. Bibliography: pages 54-56.
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Salisbury, Michelle Lynn. "Sexual Awareness, Body Image, and Self Esteem of Individuals Who have Ostomies." University of Toledo Health Science Campus / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=mco1121701377.

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Fowler, Elizabeth Amy. "Self-monitoring in stroke patients and healthy individuals : predictive factors and methodological challenges." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25740.

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The phenomenon whereby people suffering from an illness or disability seem to be unaware of their symptoms was termed anosognosia, by Joseph Babinksi in 1914 (Langer & Levine, 2014). Originally described as a specific inability to recognise or acknowledge left-sided hemiplegia after lesions to the right hemisphere of the brain, the term now incorporates unawareness of a range of post-stroke impairments, such as hemianopia (Bisiach, Vallar, Perani, Papagno & Berti, 1986), hemianaesthesia (Pia et al., 2014), aphasia (Cocchini, Gregg, Beschin, Dean & Della Sala, 2010) and unilateral neglect (Jehkonen, Ahonen, Dastidar, Laippala & Vilkki, 2000). Anosognosia has also been observed in association with several other disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (Agnew & Morris, 1998) and traumatic brain injury (Prigatano, 2010a). While advances have been made in understanding anosognosia, there are still many contradictory findings in relation to the nature and expression of impaired self-awareness (Prigatano, 2010a), which are partly attributable to diverse methodological approaches. Furthermore, research into anosognosia frequently rests on the assumption that neurologically intact individuals have accurate insight into their own abilities, particularly in regard to motor skill. The experiments reported in this thesis highlight that this may be a false assumption. Through a series of interrelated studies, I demonstrate that the type of questions typically asked of anosognosic patients may be inappropriate to elicit the manifestations of chronic stage unawareness after a stroke, that underestimation may be just as prevalent as overestimation, and that healthy individuals are not always able to monitor whether their executed movements match their intended movements. Moreover, those with poorer motor skills are less able to judge movement successes and failures than their more skilled counterparts, suggesting a mechanism analogous to the anosognosia observed in clinical populations. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the main neuropsychological models that have been proposed to account for anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP); unawareness in the context of other impairments is discussed in the introductions to individual chapters. Chapter 2 presents some background research investigating stroke clinicians’ knowledge of the lateralization of right hemisphere cognitive symptoms, and their judgements of the impact of selected symptoms on the lives of patients and caregivers. While the clinicians were equally able to identify cognitive symptoms associated with left or right brain damage, they were far more likely to misattribute symptoms to right brain damage, suggesting a lack of confidence in their knowledge of the cognitive functions of the right hemisphere. They also regarded anosognosia as having relatively low impact on the lives of patients and caregivers, in stark contrast with the highly negative impact reported in the literature (Jehkonen, Laihosalo & Kettunen, 2006a). Chapters 3 and 4 present two experimental studies investigating different facets of awareness in two groups of stroke patients. Chapter 3 reports the development and testing of a tool designed to measure chronic unawareness of functional difficulties, the Visual Analogue Test of Anosognosia for impairments in Activities of Daily Living (VATA-ADL), with preliminary data from a group of chronic stroke patients. Approximately one third of the patients exhibited mild or moderate levels of overestimation of their ability to carry out day-to-day activities. This contrasts with previous reports that anosognosia is rare in the chronic stages, a discrepancy that may be explained in part by the inappropriateness of the measures typically used to measure it. Overestimation was observed in both right-brain-damaged and left-brain-damaged patients, and was not associated with higher levels of cognitive impairment. The study reported in Chapter 4 examined whether acute stage stroke patients who under- or overestimated their motor skills, similarly under- or overestimated performance on cognitive tasks in the domains of language, memory and attention and executive function. Contrary to the many dissociations between unawareness of different impairment reported in the neuropsychological literature, this study found that patients classed as overestimators of motor ability were also overly optimistic about their cognitive abilities. Overestimators were more likely to have right hemisphere lesions, higher levels of general cognitive impairments, and specific deficits in attention and executive function. Furthermore, by including patients with a range of functional ability, this study revealed that participants were just as likely to underestimate as overestimate their abilities. This unique finding presents a challenge to anosognosia research, suggesting that there may be factors other than neurological damage that predispose stroke patients to over- or under-estimate their abilities and that a baseline of accurate self-insight among control populations cannot be assumed. Chapter 5 reports three different experiments conducted with younger and older, neurologically healthy adults. Using a target-directed reaching task, these experiments investigated whether the participants’ ability to monitor the success of their movements, on a trial by trial basis, depended upon their motor skill level, and whether participants with lower skill were inclined to overestimate their ability, in line with a famous observation from cognitive psychology that people who perform worst in a given task tend to be unaware of how poorly they are performing (Kruger and Dunning, 1999). Overall, the results demonstrated an association between higher accuracy levels and faster movement times, and better ability to monitor success and failure. To my knowledge, this represents that first evidence of a relationship between motor performance ability and self-monitoring ability in healthy individuals, highlighting that some of the mechanisms underpinning anosognosia may also be evident in neurologically intact populations. However, contrary to the findings from cognitive psychology, poor performance was not associated with a specific bias toward overestimation. A similar relationship between task performance and self-monitoring ability was also observed for a visual memory task. Chapter 6 discusses the implications of the results of the clinical and self-monitoring studies for neuropsychological models of anosognosia, particularly those based on motor planning and control, and considers potential ways forward for research in this field.
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Hildebrandt, Brent J. "Auditory Training and its Effect on the Phonemic Awareness Development of Individuals with Dyslexia Who Have a Deficit in Phonological and Phonemic Awareness." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363278802.

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Mast, Alissa. "Public Eating and Stigma Awareness in Eating Disorder Development of High- Risk College Aged Individuals." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors158886480432168.

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Kelsey, Daniel J. "The Development and Exploratory Validation of the Awareness of Social Justice for Individuals with Disabilities Scale." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1409.

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Individuals with disabilities (IWDs) continue to experience stigma, prejudice, and discrimination that result in social injustice. Counselors of all specialties and theoretic orientations provide services to IWDs. However, there is little discussion about disability-related social justice in the counseling and psychology literature. Counselors, psychology professionals, rehabilitation counselors, and society as a whole, must first be aware of the social injustices that IWDs experience and the role that society has in maintaining them; otherwise, counselors risk perpetuating these social injustices. However, there are no instruments that measure the awareness of social justice issues as they relate to IWDs. By creating and validating an instrument that measures awareness of social justice issues as they relate to IWDs, counselors may be able to increase their sensitivity, and develop both curricula and empirical research designed to address the social injustices faced by IWDs. This research focused on the exploratory development and validation of a new instrument, the Awareness of Social Justice for Individuals with Disabilities Scale (ASJIDS). Five domains were identified that underlie disability-related social justice, (a) equity, (b) access, (c) participation, (d) the effects of the biomedical model of disability, and (e) sympathy and lowered expectations for individuals with disabilities. Items for the ASJIDS were grounded in these five domains and evaluated by expert reviewers. The ASJIDS was administered to 503 undergraduate students at a Midwestern state university, of which 436 completed every item. Internal consistency of the ASJIDS was found to be high; however, Cronbach’s alpha for each of the five domain-grounded subscales did not meet the accepted 0.70 cutoff. The values obtained from Bartlett’s test of sphericity and Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin’s measure of sampling adequacy met the criteria needed for exploratory factor analysis (EFA). However, interitem correlations were low, suggesting a weak factor solution. A five-factor solution accounted for 30.33% of the variance. The limitations of this research, implications for theory, practice, and training, and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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Watford, Tanya S. "Altered Cognitive and Psychophysiological Components of Psychological Flexibility in Individuals with Overweight/Obesity." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1589379857844245.

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Novick-Kline, Paige M. "Level of emotional awareness as a differentiating variable among individuals with generalized anxiety disorders, severe worriers, and controls." View full text, 2004.

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Stroup, Elizabeth Suzanne. "Locus of control, awareness of deficit, and employment outcomes following vocational rehabilitation in individuals with a traumatic brain injury." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/NQ41362.pdf.

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Guselin, Mathias, Sebastian Johansson, and Joakim Jörgensen. "Brand Equity for E-recruitment companies : A quantitative research on individuals´ intention to use e-recruitment websites." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-55586.

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Background: Internet has brought radical changes in the recruitment industry where individuals are increasingly turning to the Internet when seeking jobs. The increased use of e-recruitment is partly because it is considered to be the most effective way to reach the target group of applicants, and partly because of the cost savings and competitive pressure in the market. Therefore, is the brand a crucial factor for online companies such as e-recruitment websites thus having a strong brand can lead to competitive advantage in the market. The role of branding in e-marketing is increasingly getting more important. Previous research has used intention to purchase as an outcome of brand equity. However, this research studies brand equity towards intention to use as most e-recruitment websites offer free services. Purpose: To describe the determinants of brand equity of e-recruitment websites and how they affect individuals’ intention to use such websites. Methodology: A quantitative research was chosen to collect the data using an online questionnaire to be able to describe the variables relationship in this research. Conclusion: The findings of this research suggests that brand equity as a whole increases individuals’ intention to use an e-recruitment website. The determinant of brand equity; brand awareness, perceived quality and brand loyalty gave a positive and significant relationship towards individuals’ intention to use. The findings involving the moderator were found to be significant when using brand equity as whole, while being rejected when involving the determinants of brand equity.
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Kigin, Melissa Lee. "At-Risk Individuals' Awareness, Motivation, Roadblocks to Participation in Premarital Interventions, and Behaviors Following Completion of the RELATionship Evaluation (RELATE)." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1072.pdf.

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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.

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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science. The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do. Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process. It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact. The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail. A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported. It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact. On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment. The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency. Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches. Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
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Daly, Marwa El. "Challenges and potentials of channeling local philanthropy towards development and aocial justice and the role of waqf (Islamic and Arab-civic endowments) in building community foundations." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16511.

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Diese Arbeit bietet eine solide theoretische Grundlage zu Philanthropie und religiös motivierten Spendenaktivitäten und deren Einfluss auf Wohltätigkeitstrends, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und einer auf dem Gedanken der sozialen Gerechtigkeit beruhenden Philanthropie. Untersucht werden dafür die Strukturen religiös motivierte Spenden, für die in der islamischen Tradition die Begriffe „zakat“, „Waqf“ oder im Plural auch „awqaf-“ oder „Sadaqa“ verwendet werden, der christliche Begriff dafür lautet „tithes“ oder „ushour“. Aufbauend auf diesem theoretischen Rahmenwerk analysiert die qualitative und quantitative Feldstudie auf nationaler Ebene, wie die ägyptische Öffentlichkeit Philanthropie, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Menschenrechte, Spenden, Freiwilligenarbeit und andere Konzepte des zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements wahrnimmt. Um eine umfassende und repräsentative Datengrundlage zu erhalten, wurden 2000 Haushalte, 200 zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen erfasst, sowie Spender, Empfänger, religiöse Wohltäter und andere Akteure interviewt. Die so gewonnen Erkenntnisse lassen aussagekräftige Aufschlüsse über philanthropische Trends zu. Erstmals wird so auch eine finanzielle Einschätzung und Bewertung der Aktivitäten im lokalen Wohltätigkeitsbereich möglich, die sich auf mehr als eine Billion US-Dollar beziffern lassen. Die Erhebung weist nach, dass gemessen an den Pro-Kopf-Aufwendungen die privaten Spendenaktivitäten weitaus wichtiger sind als auswärtige wirtschaftliche Hilfe für Ägypten. Das wiederum lässt Rückschlüsse zu, welche Bedeutung lokale Wohltätigkeit erlangen kann, wenn sie richtig gesteuert wird und nicht wie bislang oft im Teufelskreis von ad-hoc-Spenden oder Hilfen von Privatperson an Privatperson gefangen ist. Die Studie stellt außerdem eine Verbindung her zwischen lokalen Wohltätigkeits-Mechanismen, die meist auf religiösen und kulturellen Werten beruhen, und modernen Strukturen, wie etwa Gemeinde-Stiftungen oder Gemeinde-„waqf“, innerhalb derer die Spenden eine nachhaltige Veränderung bewirken können. Daher bietet diese Arbeit also eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Grundlage, die nicht nur ein besseres Verständnis, sondern auch den nachhaltiger Aus- und Aufbau lokaler Wohltätigkeitsstrukturen in Ägypten ermöglicht. Zentral ist dabei vor allem die Rolle lokaler, individueller Spenden, die beispielsweise für Stiftungen auf der Gemeindeebene eingesetzt, wesentlich zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung beitragen könnten – und das nicht nur in Ägypten, sondern in der gesamten arabischen Region. Als konkretes Ergebnis dieser Arbeit, wurde ein innovatives Modell entwickelt, dass neben den wissenschaftlichen Daten das Konzept der „waqf“ berücksichtigt. Der Wissenschaftlerin und einem engagierten Vorstand ist es auf dieser Grundlage gelungen, die Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) zu gründen, die nicht nur ein Modell für eine Bürgerstiftung ist, sondern auch das tradierte Konzept der „waqf“ als praktikable und verbürgte Wohlstätigkeitsstruktur sinnvoll weiterentwickelt.
This work provides a solid theoretical base on philanthropy, religious giving (Islamic zakat, ‘ushour, Waqf -plural: awqaf-, Sadaqa and Christian tithes or ‘ushour), and their implications on giving trends, development work, social justice philanthropy. The field study (quantitative and qualitative) that supports the theoretical framework reflects at a national level the Egyptian public’s perceptions on philanthropy, social justice, human rights, giving and volunteering and other concepts that determine the peoples’ civic engagement. The statistics cover 2000 households, 200 Civil Society Organizations distributed all over Egypt and interviews donors, recipients, religious people and other stakeholders. The numbers reflect philanthropic trends and for the first time provide a monetary estimate of local philanthropy of over USD 1 Billion annually. The survey proves that the per capita share of philanthropy outweighs the per capita share of foreign economic assistance to Egypt, which implies the significance of local giving if properly channeled, and not as it is actually consumed in the vicious circle of ad-hoc, person to person charity. In addition, the study relates local giving mechanisms derived from religion and culture to modern actual structures, like community foundations or community waqf that could bring about sustainable change in the communities. In sum, the work provides a comprehensive scientific base to help understand- and build on local philanthropy in Egypt. It explores the role that local individual giving could play in achieving sustainable development and building a new wave of community foundations not only in Egypt but in the Arab region at large. As a tangible result of this thesis, an innovative model that revives the concept of waqf and builds on the study’s results was created by the researcher and a dedicated board of trustees who succeeded in establishing Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation (WMCF) that not only introduces the community foundation model to Egypt, but revives and modernizes the waqf as a practical authentic philanthropic structure.
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Chiang, Binsu, and 江秉書. "「Individual Sesne」:Scenario-based Digital Design for Enhancing Users’ Awareness." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80431092610707940239.

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While designing an space to enhance living conditions, the privacy is an issue that is never been neglected. In the information era, through the leap of technology, information flows not only in a virtual space, but is displayed in physical spaces. Much personal information is revealed in information flow. The privacy issue is more concerned comparing with the old days. Privacy is not only about a visual factor in physical space, but also the capability to access individual information physically and virtually. Therefore, the aim of this research paper is focusing on maintaining users’ privacy in a smart space which is adaptive to different users for enhancing the user’s awareness in his/her daily life. With the help of smart materials, sensory technology, and the human-computer interaction, a space is no longer a concrete building only. Smart interface design integrates the development of smart space design, and it becomes the bridge of users and a space. By the help of a smart interface, users are able to keep the own privacy and to be aware of not only the context of a space itself but also the existences of other users. In this research paper, the “Individual Sense”, a smart interface design which is individualized and adaptive to the different users, is presented as the integration of smart detection and sensory technology and also the solution of privacy control. “Individual Sense” will assist the users to obtain keen awareness of others’ existences and the condition of the living space. This study conducts in-depth exploration of privacy issue in spatial design by examining design alternative, the conflicts, and the interaction between users and space. The findings include: (1) Individual Sense can aware individual activities for activating smart devices and interfaces, (2) privacy issues are important in accordance with user background, activities, and information, and (3) functionality of smart device and accessibility of information as well as physical objects are critical for future spatial design in respond to privacy concerns. User behaviors, interface evaluation, discussion, and further development will be reported. The behavioral and interface evaluation, discussion, and further development will be reported.
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YO-JIN-MIN and 游家銘. "「Type-Shaped」 Self overall and individual awareness of the various stacked under." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/aev72m.

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Scientists say all the material world as early as the presence of more than ten billion years ago, and then there will not be freshmen or destroyed, the scientists said this is the law of conservation of matter, if it is true, that civilization only but the matter will be repeated or mixed already exist, and these are just thrown away will return to its original place fills, but it presents a whole heap of individuals, there is another individual with each different symbol is worthy if used material, individual existence and millisecond, respectively, is so important, but know that they are thrown away Shique had no difference, you can use the original state it is only an easy to use external shape. Some substances fall somewhere even years, never to be used again people, but there has been people here can not be ignored, the same material again continuously repeated again and again, constantly overlapping and relative increase in weight, Just as there are buildings, people to increased functionality or space, additional upward from the horizon constantly, when the horizon is not enough, they would be stamped around the world appears to be the majority of the buildings are occupied, but also the so-called haunted house ruins, or a few, so these building lifetime is just a beneficial use existing form. However, such a useless and unnecessary duplication of feelings as we think, has not been described in finishing off the language, full of Repeat with broken words, something has been around the circle again, if you understand that this is a true copy before finishing inside the language, as I mentioned earlier, so that the language and inner feelings are real but only an easy to understand the total surface finishing so as to is the language of the language.
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Chen, Ching-Hua, and 陳敬華. "A Study on Agent Self-awareness for Individual Performance and Collaborative Behavior." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51938760048319513309.

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The approach of this research, how intelligent agents learn, is to deal with a core problem of Machine Learning. The problem of traditional artificial intelligence lies in the flaw that learning agents are designed on the basis of World Model. To endue agents with Self-Learning ability, in other words, the ability similar to self-awareness of human beings, we proposed a new cognitive learning model, which includes both external learning and internal cognition compatible with the former structure, for agents, called Agent Cognition Learning Model (ACLM). In order to prove this model is robust, reliable, and extensively applicable for real situations such as E-commerce or social science simulation systems, we will simulate and experiment the conflict between the societal and self-interested goals of agents with Iterative Prisoner’s Dilemma on Social Networks. Through an analysis on personalities of agents, we proposed a Self-Awareness Model in Superego Level for agents. With the experimental results, we will analyze how individual performance and collaborative behavior of learning agents would be affected. 　　The results of the experiments would demonstrate that the self-awareness model aim for superego level could certainly improve the performance of learning agents and expedite the emergence of collaborative behavior. Further simulation and analysis would show that as few of the agents are capable of self-awareness, the whole social benefits of agents would be enriched. These results also very strong the agent cognitive learning model proposed by our research. Finally, we hope this research could make people reconsider the importance of self-awareness in the design of self-learning agents.
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Janse, van Vuuren Danica. "'Self-awareness, living ethicality, and the primordial unjustifiability of torture'." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24571.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Philosophy), 2017
This study seeks to investigate whether torture is fundamentally wrong and, if so, whether its status is a question of morality or of that which is prior to morality. According to the thought of Jacques Derrida, the play of différance makes it syntactically impossible for any term to signify meaning outside of the interplay of mutually opposing signifiers. Since Deontological and Utilitarian moral principles unfold within this differential play, they are syntactically incapable of signifying a concrete and constant moral status for torture. Even though différance is the syntactic possibility of being, I argue that there is a second and distinct category of experience. Drawing on the writing of Emmanuel Levinas and Bernard Lonergan, I contend that this category is our subjectivity as self-awareness, which always-already unfolds anterior to, as the primordial possibility of, and as otherwise than both différance and being. As an irreducibility constitutive of each person, the alterity of such self-awareness constitutes an absolute and singular relation of otherness between persons; this proximity functions as an absolute obligation and, in fact, constitutes ethics itself. Each subject therefore becomes an individual living ethicality. On this basis, it is always-already incoherent to identify any subject with any idea that we might have of him/her, including the idea of a person as a means to our ends. Since torture intentionally violates the living ethicality of the victim, it follows that torture must be ethically unjustifiable by primordial necessity under any and all possible circumstances. The ethical unjustifiability of torture therefore precedes all moral structures, although I suggest that torture may become permissible under certain practical circumstances, if saving human lives is at stake. Keywords: Torture; self-awareness; alterity; living ethicality; otherwise than being; différance; Emmanuel Levinas; Jacques Derrida; Bernard Lonergan.
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Pun, Carson. "In and Out of Consciousness: Sustained Electrophysiological Activity Reflects Individual Differences in Perceptual Awareness." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31395.

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Examining the neural correlates associated with the moment a stimulus enters or exits conscious awareness is one way to potentially identify the neural mechanisms that give rise to consciousness. In the present study, we examined neural activity using electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings while participants observed a bilateral shape-from-motion (SFM) display. While the display is in motion, the observer perceives an object that is immediately segregated from a noisy background. After the motion stops, the observer’s experience of the object remains momentarily in awareness, before it eventually fades out of consciousness back into the noisy background. Consistent with subjective reports of perceptual experience, we observed a prominent sustained posterior contralateral negativity (SPCN), but only in conditions associated with sustained awareness. Importantly, the amplitude of the SPCN was correlated with individual differences in visual awareness, suggesting that this activity plays a significant role in the maintenance of objects in consciousness.
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Chou, Hsueh-pei, and 周學珮. "Developing Individual Guidance Program on Affective Self-awareness in Leisure for Junior High School Students." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56516452721832442180.

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Developing Individual Guidance Program on Affective Self-awareness in Leisure for Junior High School Students Hsueh-pei Chou Abstract This study was chiefly to explore the different dimensions of affective self-awareness in leisure and then to design an individual guidance program for junior high school students. The study used Focus interview method and Questionnaire investigation method and found seven dimensions of affective self-awareness in leisure. The theory of counseling interview on the processes of helping clients to be aware was Carl R. Rogers''s person-centered therapy method. Based on the dimensions found, the individual guidance program was designed by applying Tinsley & Tinsley''s holistic mode of leisure counseling created by the techniques of person-centered therapy, and the approach of leisure lifestyle awareness suggested by McDowell. To initially implement the individual guidance program, the researcher helped the client to complete nine activities, including leisure satisfaction、leisure feelings、external influence、leisure interest、leisure attitudes、leisure motivation and leisure constrains from seven dimensions. A school counselor was the supervisor in monitoring and evaluating the program. Generally speaking, the processes and the outcome of applying the program were going very smoothly and further suggestion was provided for deviated students and group counseling. Keywords：leisure education、leisure counseling、person-centered therapy focus interview、questionnaire investigation
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Chien-YuLin and 林倩瑜. "The Influence of Employees’ Awareness of Organization Climate on Individual Innovative Behavior and Job Performance." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24424513078922823574.

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Chrzan, Karina Ewa. "The influence of uncertainty, anxiety and self-awareness on an individual´s preferred leadership style." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29292.

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This thesis describes the quantitative research that aims to find out whether a high level of perceived uncertainty by an individual is correlated to one’s preference for autocratic leadership. This relationship is hypothesised to be mediated by the variable Anxiety. This study also attempts to research whether there is a moderating effect of the variable (Low) Self-Awareness on the relationship between Anxiety and the Preference for Autocratic Leadership. The study is conducted using an online cross-sectional survey research among 105 individuals from mainly European and North-American countries. The quantitative results, analysed using the programs SPSS and Macro Process, showed that the only hypothesis supported in this study confirms a relationship between Uncertainty and Anxiety. However, the output displayed other interesting information and relations that will be discussed at the end of this study, together with considerations for future research in this area. Furthermore, suggestions and implications for managers and those involved in leadership and communication in organisational settings are being made.
A presente tese descreve uma investigação quantitativa que visa descobrir se um elevado nível da perceção de incerteza por um indivíduo está relacionado com a sua preferência por uma liderança autocrática. Esta relação é pressuposta de ser mediada pela variável de Ansiedade. Além do mais, este estudo tenta investigar se há um efeito mediador da variável de (Baixo) Autoconhecimento na relação entre Ansiedade e na Preferência por uma Liderança Autocrática. Este estudo foi conduzido usando um questionário online de investigação transversal entre 105 indivíduos, maioritariamente de países Europeus e Norte Americanos. Os resultados quantitativos, analisados através do uso dos programas SPSS e Macro Process, aferiram que a única hipótese suportada pelo estudo confirma a relação entre a Incerteza e a Ansiedade. Contudo, o resultado apresentou outra informação interessante e outras relações que serão discutidas no final deste estudo, juntamente com as considerações para uma futura investigação nesta área. Além disso, serão feitas sugestões e implicações para gestores e para os envolvidos na liderança e comunicação das configurações organizacionais.
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Arends, Jillian. "Formative evaluation of the team effectiveness programme on individual and team level within a development finance institution." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20809.

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A comprehensive programme evaluation can provide rational, credible data to support the decision to implement a new programme, to improve an existing one or to discontinue an ineffective one. The main aim of a formative evaluation is to offer suggestions for programme improvement. A qualitative study was conducted to explore how the introduction of a team effectiveness programme provided a process that individuals in the organisation were exposed to that linked the constructs of self-awareness and interpersonal sensitivity as a way to empower individuals with tools for effective team communication and collaboration. The main findings indicate that individuals who are more self-aware make an effort to understand and adapt their behaviour to accommodate others. By contrast, there are individuals who use this as a defence mechanism or as an excuse for not adapting their behaviour. The polar opposite results in a breakdown of trust, team cohesion and communication that counteracts the effectiveness of the programme. In the absence of effective leadership to drive and continually reinforce desired behaviour, the individual tends to revert back to old behavioural practices.
Industrial and Organisational Psychology
M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)
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Fraser, Christine M. "An Exploration of Levels of Phonological Awareness as Predictors of Word Reading in Korean Children Learning English." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5912.

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Until recently, the majority of research in the area of English phonological awareness has centered on segmental phonology as predictors of reading. Current research, however, has expanded the concept of phonological awareness to include prosodic sensitivity⎯the awareness of suprasegmental information. The present study explores the role of five segmental and suprasegmental levels of English phonological awareness as predictors of individual differences in word reading in Korean children learning English. 104 native Hangul speaking children in Grade 3 were assessed on English levels of stress, syllable, rime, simple phoneme, and consonant cluster awareness, as well as, English and Hangul word reading. Hierarchical regression models indicated that awareness of syllables, onset/rime units, and phonemes within consonant clusters were uniquely predictive of individual differences in L2 English word reading after accounting for cognitive ability, English background variables, and L1 word reading. Awareness of stress-timed patterns contributed to common variance in English and Hangul word reading, but was not uniquely predictive in final regression models. No level of phonological awareness was predictive of Hangul word reading. Results support the notion that segmental phonological elements not present in L1 may be predictive of individual differences in L2 word reading. Furthermore, cross-language transfer of PA may be weak in the direction of English (L2) to Hangul (L1).
Thesis (Master, Education) -- Queen's University, 2010-06-30 18:10:10.564
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Yen, Hui-Ling, and 嚴惠玲. "The Effects of Individual Awareness of Changes in External Environment, Competency, HR Responsive Practices on Job Insecurity—The case of bank employees." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33243583085794868876.

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立德大學
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Under the recent drastic changes and impacts from financial institutions, bank employees are the emerging groups who suffer the greatest degree of threats. Using bank employees throughout Tainan and Kaohsiung areas as the study sample, 359 valid questions were collected. The empirical results indicated the following: 1.The higher the individual awareness of external environment change, the higher the job insecurity; 2.Human resource practices are significantly related to job insecurity; 3.The higher the competencies, the lower the job insecurity; 4.Moderating effects of compencies were found in the relationship between HR responsive practices and job insecurity. Conclusions, recommendations, as well as limitations were also addressed in accordance with the results.
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Vogel, Jacoleen. "Exploring temperaments in the mother-child relationship: an educational-psychological perspective." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/753.

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The mother-child relationship is the first basic relationship with which any human being is confronted. The temperaments of mother and child play an important role in this relationship. The aim of this study is to explore the perception of mothers with regards to temperaments. This study uses a qualitative approach, which is explorative and descriptive, to gain insight into the influence of temperaments in the mother-child relationship. Seven mothers were selected by purposeful sampling to participate in the group work as research process. Group work progresses through the following three phases: awareness, exploration and personalisation. Naive sketches were used to determine the perception of the mothers during the awareness and personalisation phases. A focus group interview was utilised in the exploration phase. Finding showed that the mother-child relationship plays an important role in the optimal development of the child and his or her mother. This study confirmed the importance of understanding temperaments in the mother-child relationship.
Educational Studies
M. Ed. (Specialisation in Guidance & Counseling)
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Maguraushe, Kudakwashe. "Development of a diagnostic instrument and privacy model for student personal information privacy perceptions at a Zimbabwean university." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27557.

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Orientation: The safety of any natural being with respect to the processing of their personal information is an essential human right as specified in the Zimbabwe Data Protection Act (ZDPA) bill. Once enacted, the ZDPA bill will affect universities as public entities. It will directly impact how personal information is collected and processed. The bill will be fundamental in understanding the privacy perceptions of students in relation to privacy awareness, privacy expectations and confidence within university. These need to be understood to give guidelines to universities on the implementation of the ZPDA. Problem Statement: The current constitution and the ZDPA are not sufficient to give organisations guidelines on ensuring personal information privacy. There is need for guidelines to help organisations and institutions to implement and comply with the provisions of the ZDPA in the context of Zimbabwe. The privacy regulations, regarded as the three concepts (awareness, expectations and confidence), were used to determine the student perceptions. These three concepts have not been researched before in the privacy context and the relationship between the three concepts has not as yet been established. Research purpose: The main aim of the study was to develop and validate an Information Privacy Perception Survey (IPPS) diagnostic tool and a Student Personal Information Privacy Perception (SPIPP) model to give guidelines to universities on how they can implement the ZDPA and aid universities in comprehending student privacy perceptions to safeguard personal information and assist in giving effect to their privacy constitutional right. Research Methodology: A quantitative research method was used in a deductive research approach where a survey research strategy was applied using the IPPS instrument for data collection. The IPPS instrument was designed with 54 items that were developed from the literature. The preliminary instrument was taken through both the expert review and pilot study. Using the non-probability convenience sampling method, 287 students participated in the final survey. SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were done. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to validate the instrument while confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and the structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to validate the model. Main findings: diagnostic instrument was validated and resulted in seven new factors, namely university confidence (UC), privacy expectations (PE), individual awareness (IA), external awareness (EA), privacy awareness (PA), practice confidence (PC) and correctness expectations (CE). Students indicated that they had high expectations of the university on privacy. The new factors showed a high level of awareness of privacy and had low confidence in the university safeguarding their personal information privacy. A SPIPP empirical model was also validated using structural equation modelling (SEM) and it indicated an average overall good fit between the proposed SPIPP conceptual model and the empirically derived SPIPP model Contribution: A diagnostic instrument that measures the perceptions (privacy awareness, expectations and confidence of students) was developed and validated. This study further contributed a model for information privacy perceptions that illustrates the relationship between the three concepts (awareness, expectations and confidence). Other universities can use the model to ascertain the perceptions of students on privacy. This research also contributes to improvement in the personal information protection of students processed by universities. The results will aid university management and information regulators to implement measures to create a culture of privacy and to protect student data in line with regulatory requirements and best practice.
School of Computing
Ph. D. (Information Systems)
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