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Harris, Scott R. "What Is Family Diversity? Objective and Interpretive Approaches." Journal of Family Issues 29, no. 11 (April 1, 2008): 1407–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x08318841.
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This article differentiates two ways of understanding family diversity— objectively and interpretively. The search for objective diversity is rooted in the assumption that there are many different kinds of families in the United States and around the world; the search for interpretive diversity is rooted in the assumption that any given “family” may be described in different, often contradictory ways. These divergent assumptions can lead relatively objective or interpretive scholars to produce divergent analyses, even as they use seemingly identical concepts to address similar explanatory concerns. Recognizing the difference between objective and interpretive family diversity can help illuminate the distinctive contributions of existing scholarship and open up potential avenues for future research.
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Salemink, Elske, Marcel van den Hout, and Merel Kindt. "How Does Cognitive Bias Modification Affect Anxiety? Mediation Analyses and Experimental Data." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 38, no. 1 (December 8, 2009): 59–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352465809990543.
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Background: There is overwhelming evidence that anxiety is associated with the tendency to interpret information negatively. The causal relationship between this interpretive bias and anxiety has been examined by modifying interpretive bias and examining effects on anxiety. A crucial assumption is that the effect of the procedure on anxiety is mediated by change in interpretive bias rather than being a direct effect of the procedure. Surprisingly, this had not previously been tested. Aim: The aim is to test whether altered interpretive bias, following Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretations (CBM-I), affected anxiety. Method: Mediational path analyses were conducted to test the hypothesis that changes in anxiety are due to changes in interpretive bias. A separate experiment was conducted to test which elements of the procedure could be responsible for a direct mood effect. Results: Results from mediation analyses suggested that changes in trait anxiety, after performing CBM-I, were indeed caused by an altered interpretive bias, whilst changes in state anxiety appear to be caused by the procedure itself. The subsequent experiment showed that state anxiety effects could be due to exposure to valenced materials. Conclusions: Changed state anxiety observed after CBM-I is not a valid indicator of a causal relationship. The finding that CBM-I affected interpretive bias, which in turn affected trait anxiety, supports the assumption of a causal relationship between interpretive bias and trait anxiety. This is promising in light of possible clinical implications.
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Hill, Steve, and Ted T. Cable. "The Concept of Authenticity: Implications for Interpretation." Journal of Interpretation Research 11, no. 1 (April 2006): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109258720601100104.
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Although the concept of authenticity has received considerable attention in tourism literature, it has received little in interpretation literature despite its importance to practitioners and administrators involved in planning, marketing, and managing interpretive sites. Interpreters may seek to provide authentic experiences at their sites regardless of whether they are interpreting natural resources or cultural heritage. However, many interpreters may not realize that what constitutes an authentic experience for visitors is difficult to define and that authenticity is a complex concept. A framework showing three key types of authenticity—the objective, the constructed, and the personal—can be applied to interpretive sites. Doing so can help interpretation researchers and practitioners understand the indicators of authentic experiences and to provide authentic interpretive experiences to visitors. In exploring the varying meanings of authenticity for interpretation, we also expand prior analyses of such variation to little-examined issues such as birding, hiking, or other outdoor recreation.
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Abu Bakar, Norsuhaily, and Ahmad Puad Mat Som. "A Sociocultural Theory to Learning: Malaysia’s Experience." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.34 (December 13, 2018): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.34.23578.
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The study explores and analyses some of the challenges inherent to incorporating play into classroom practice, which occurs in two types of preschool classroom settings in Malaysia. It investigates the implementation of play in each of these settings. This study builds an understanding of the processes involved. It demonstrates a theory of learning that supports analysis of participation in social activity where participants work towards social goals within a view of learning being based on a cultural and collective foundation. The discussion is designed to convince the reader the value of the underpinning theory for this study and to explain the interpretive lens on learning through play that emerges. The approach recognizes that this interpretive lens offers a particular way of guiding the data collection and interpreting the data. In developing a conceptual framework for this study, it provides not only a way to interpret what is learning through play, but also to report the research findings within a sociocultural frame.
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Ji-Hye Kim and Lee,Yong-hun. "Statistical Analyses of Interpretive Properties of Korean Multiple Subject Constructions." Journal of Studies in Language 32, no. 4 (February 2017): 665–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.18627/jslg.32.4.201702.665.
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Frost, Mervyn. "Ethics, Interpretive Social Science and War." European Review of International Studies 7, no. 2-3 (December 17, 2020): 252–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21967415-bja10023.
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Abstract This chapter explores radical interpretivism as an approach to understanding contemporary war and the implications that flow from its application to questions about what ought to be done in contemporary asymmetrical wars. It argues that the currently dominant version of the relationship between just war theory and the world to which it is to be applied is misguided. It is widely held that policymakers facing ethical decisions about war and peace, have first to ascertain the empirical state of affairs in which they find themselves, and then, in a second step, consider what it would be ethical to do, given the circumstances. On this view, questions about the justice of going to war arise only after the completion of an empirical analysis about how things stand in the world. Radical interpretivism denies the possibility of determining a given “state of affairs” in social relations in purely empirical terms that do not involve engaging with ethical considerations from the outset. A central strand of the argument is that in the analyses of the circumstances that precede wars, what must be understood are the histories of actions and reactions of the parties involved. These, as is the case with all actions, can only be understood within the social practices in which the actors are participating. Such understandings involve an ethical engagement at every point. This interpretive approach is particularly important for a proper understanding of asymmetrical wars.
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Ham, Sam H., and Betty Weiler. "Isolating the Role of On-site Interpretation in a Satisfying Experience." Journal of Interpretation Research 12, no. 2 (November 2007): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109258720701200202.
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The role of interpretation in tourist experience is widely acknowledged. However, little research has been conducted to directly document or precisely quantify the influence that the interpretive dimensions of experience have on tourist satisfaction. A purpose of this study was to determine whether these dimensions could be isolated and quantified in the experiences of 727 national and international tourists in the Panama Canal Watershed (PCW). Results revealed that the global satisfaction of PCW tourists was due primarily to their satisfaction with the interpretive dimensions of their visit, as opposed to other services and setting attributes. Respondents’ satisfaction with five interpretive services correlated more highly with a global satisfaction measure than did any of six non-interpretive services and explained nearly half the variance in global satisfaction. Respondents’ satisfaction with non-interpretive services explained only 23% of the variance. These findings suggest that the interpretive dimensions of tourist experience can exert a positive influence on global satisfaction. This relationship was especially strong for visitors traveling as part of a guided tour. Factor and reliability analyses confirmed validation of a single “interpretive satisfaction” construct, providing evidence that an interpretive dimension of tourist satisfaction can be empirically isolated. Practical implications and suggestions for further research are offered.
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Fried, Mirjam. "Constructions and frames as interpretive clues." Framing 24 (December 10, 2010): 83–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.24.04fri.
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Drawing attention to a rather neglected domain in Construction Grammar analyses, this paper examines the multi-layered nature of speakers’ linguistic knowledge and its manifestation in the emergence of new linguistic structure. In particular, I show that the emergence of certain discourse-sensitive grammatical patterns can be systematically captured by appealing to an intricate interaction between fairly abstract constructional meanings based on metonymic transfer, lexical meanings of words (‘semantic’ frames), and particular discourse-pragmatic functions (‘discourse’ frames, understood as pragmatically grounded schematizations of communicative and discourse-structure conventions). It is the knowledge of all three dimensions that aids speakers in their interpretive tasks. The theoretical issues are demonstrated on a subset of discourse-functional and modal uses of the word jestli ‘if/whether’ in conversational Czech, as attested in the Czech National Corpus.
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McQuarrie, Edward F., and David Glen Mick. "Visual Rhetoric in Advertising: Text‐Interpretive, Experimental, and Reader‐Response Analyses." Journal of Consumer Research 26, no. 1 (June 1999): 37–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/209549.
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Reisfield, MD, Gary M., Roger Bertholf PhD, Robert L. Barkin, MBA, PharmD, Fern Webb, PhD, and George Wilson, MD. "Urine drug test interpretation: What do physicians know?" Journal of Opioid Management 3, no. 2 (March 1, 2007): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/jom.2007.0044.
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Objective: To determine the level of urine drug test (UDT) interpretive knowledge of physicians who use these instruments to monitor adherence in their patients on chronic opioid therapy.Methods: A seven-question instrument consisting of six five-option, single-best-answer multiple choice ques¬tions and one yes/no question was completed by 114 physicians (77 who employ UDT and 37 who do not) attending one of three regional opioid education confer¬ences. We calculated frequencies and performed %2 analyses to examine bivariate associations between UDT utilization and interpretive knowledge.Results: The instrument was completed by 80percent of eligible respondents. None of the physicians who employ UDT answered all seven questions correctly, and only 30 percent answered more than half correctly. Physicians who employ UDTperformed no better on any of the ques¬tions than physicians who do not employ UDT.Conclusions: Physicians who employ UDT to monitor patients receiving chronic opioid therapy are not profi¬cient in test interpretation. This study highlights the need for improved physician education; it is imperative for physicians to work closely with certified laboratoryprofes- sionals when ordering and interpreting these tests.
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Hall, David Patrick, and Ivano Caponigro. "On the semantics of when-clauses." Semantics and Linguistic Theory, no. 20 (April 3, 2015): 544. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v0i20.2566.
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This paper is about non-interrogative temporal embedded clauses introduced by when (temporal when-clauses), their semantic interpretation and their syntax/semantics mapping. Our goal is to provide a fully compositional account of temporal when-clauses that accounts for their formal identity with interrogative clauses and their difference in meaning. The main idea is that temporal when-clauses are syntactically and semantically free relative clauses. Previous syntactic analyses (Grimshaw 1977, Bresnan and Grimshaw 1978, a.o) have provided robust support to the syntactic side of this claim. On the other hand, the semantic proposals for temporal when-clauses that we are aware of (Bonomi 1997, Vikner 2004, Moens and Steedman 1988) have ignored these syntactic conclusions and have argued for analyses that are problematic for the syntactic/semantic mapping. These semantic analyses are also not fully adequate in handling the interpretative properties of these clauses. We provide evidence from the distributional and interpretive properties of when-clauses as well as from the temporal alignment of the matrix clause with the when-clause that supports our analysis.
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Hall, David Patrick, and Ivano Caponigro. "On the semantics of when-clauses." Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20 (August 14, 2010): 544. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v20i0.2566.
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This paper is about non-interrogative temporal embedded clauses introduced by when (temporal when-clauses), their semantic interpretation and their syntax/semantics mapping. Our goal is to provide a fully compositional account of temporal when-clauses that accounts for their formal identity with interrogative clauses and their difference in meaning. The main idea is that temporal when-clauses are syntactically and semantically free relative clauses. Previous syntactic analyses (Grimshaw 1977, Bresnan and Grimshaw 1978, a.o) have provided robust support to the syntactic side of this claim. On the other hand, the semantic proposals for temporal when-clauses that we are aware of (Bonomi 1997, Vikner 2004, Moens and Steedman 1988) have ignored these syntactic conclusions and have argued for analyses that are problematic for the syntactic/semantic mapping. These semantic analyses are also not fully adequate in handling the interpretative properties of these clauses. We provide evidence from the distributional and interpretive properties of when-clauses as well as from the temporal alignment of the matrix clause with the when-clause that supports our analysis.
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Winiharti, Menik. "English Participial Clauses Aand The Strategies Applied In Their Indonesian Translations." Lingua Cultura 1, no. 1 (May 31, 2007): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v1i1.256.
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This study analyses the English participial clauses and how they are translated into Indonesian as appearing in Sidney Sheldon’s novel Morning, Noon and Night (1995) which is translated by Hendarto Setiadi as Pagi, Siang dan Malam (1996). This study tries to find out the distribution of the types and the syntactic functions of the participial clauses appearing in the novel and answer the question of what the strategies applied in the translations are. To reach these objectives, this study employs an exploratory-interpretive design since the data are collected nonexperimentally, the type of data collected is qualitative, and the type of analysis is interpretive.
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Farmakopoulou, Ignatia, Maria Theodoratou, and Evgenia Gkintoni. "Neuroscience as a Component in Educational Setting. An Interpretive Overview." Technium Education and Humanities 4 (January 6, 2023): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/teh.v4i.8236.
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In recent years, considerable advancements have been made in the field of educational neuroscience research. Researchers commend its existence and influence on educational procedures. This effort was intended to illustrate the educational applications of Neuroscience. In particular, research articles, quantitative and qualitative analyses, meta-analyses, and articles of critical inquiry on Neuroscience in Education were examined. In addition, a review of recent literature was attempted. From these studies, conclusions can be derived that can prove useful in the fields of research and teaching. Thus, best practices, methodologies, perspectives, attitudes, and perceptions that support the significance and value of Neuroscience in the field of education are offered.
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Radiushyna, Svitlana, and Maryna Tkachenko. "Pedagogical conditions for the development of future Music teachers’ interpretative skills in the process of choral and conductorial training." Scientific bulletin of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky 2020, no. 1 (130) (February 7, 2020): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2617-6688-2020-1-12.
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The article analyses the essence, content and specificity of future music teachers’ interpretive skills. The purpose of the article is to substantiate pedagogical conditions favourable for effective development of future music teachers’ interpretive skills in the process of their choral and conductorial training. These methods of theoretical research are used: analysis, generalisation, synthesis, extrapolation, deduction, systematisation. Interpretation is seen as the basis and the necessary condition for understanding a piece of music, the subjective (personal) attitude and creative imagination of a teacher of music being of great importance. The essence of interpretation in the context of the activity of the Musical Arts teacher lies in the interpretation of an artistic text which reflects the content of the author's message in key note symbols. In the activity of the Musical Arts teacher, there are two forms of interpretation: performing and verbal-pedagogical. The interpretation of the choral work is considered in the article as an artistic-performing conception of the conductor which is based on his/her artistic and imaginative ideas, knowledge; it is realised in his/her creative interaction with the choral team. The list of specific interpretive skills to be demonstrated by the future Music teachers in the context of choral and conductorial training has been clarified. A system of interrelated pedagogical conditions has been offered, it includes these constituents: increase of future specialists’ motivation for the choral and conductorial activities through realisation of the axiological potential of choral music; the implementation of the coaching pedagogical technologies into the choral and conductorial training intended for the future Music teachers; a systematic widening of future specialists’ thesaurus of artistic and imaginative ideas. Further research involves the development of a step-by-step methodology for the development of future Music teachers’ interpretative skills in the process of their choral training.
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Khajuria, Himanshu, Biswa Prakash Nayak, and Ashish Badiye. "Toxicological hair analysis: Pre-analytical, analytical and interpretive aspects." Medicine, Science and the Law 58, no. 3 (April 22, 2018): 137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0025802418768305.
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Background and aims Hair analysis for drug detection is one of the widely accepted imperative techniques in the field of forensic toxicology. The current study was designed to investigate the efficacy of chromatography for detection of drugs of abuse in hair. Method A comprehensive review of articles from last two decades on hair analyses via PubMed and similar resources was performed. Issues concerning collection, decontamination and analytical techniques are summarised. Physiochemical nature of hair, mechanism of drug incorporation and its stability in hair are briefly discussed. Furthermore, various factors affecting results and interpretation are elucidated. Result A hair sample is chosen over traditional biological samples such blood, urine, saliva or tissues due to its inimitable ability to provide a longer time frame for drug detection. Its collection is almost non-invasive, less cumbersome and does not involve any specialised training/expertise. Recent advances in analytical technology have resulted in better sensitivity, reproducibility and accuracy, thus providing a new arena of scientific understanding and test interpretation. Conclusion Though recent studies have yielded many insights into drug binding and drug incorporation in hair, the major challenge in hair analysis lies in the interpretation of results, which may be affected by external contamination and thus lead to false-positives. Therefore, there is a need for more sensitive and selective analysis methods to be developed in order to minimise factors that induce the effect of melanin, age and so on, and this would certainly provide a new dimension to hair analysis and its applications.
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Newell, James L. "Interpretive approaches and the study of Italian politics." Modern Italy 9, no. 2 (November 2004): 247–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1353294042000304983.
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This article asks why, despite their doubtful utility, the categories used in accounts of contemporary Italian politics are almost universally negative in character. It is suggested that at least part of the explanation has to do with the ontological and epistemological assumptions informing the accounts, together with the social circumstances that have given rise to their production. More fruitful, less uncritically negative analyses require the adoption of approaches informed by alternative ontologies and epistemologies, that is, interpretive approaches. These seek to account for social phenomena by rendering intelligible the meaningful action in which the latter are rooted and, as the example of corruption shows, yield less negative accounts by allowing researchers to imagine themselves acting, given similar circumstances, in ways similar to those they study.
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Cobb, Paul, Melissa Gresalfi, and Lynn Liao Hodge. "An Interpretive Scheme for Analyzing the Identities That Students Develop in Mathematics Classrooms." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 40, no. 1 (January 2009): 40–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.40.1.0040.
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Our primary purpose in this article is to propose an interpretive scheme for analyzing the identities that students develop in mathematics classrooms that can inform instructional design and teaching. We first introduce the key constructs of normative identity and personal identity, and then illustrate how they can be used to conduct empirical analyses. The case on which the sample analysis focuses concerns a single group of middle school students who were members of two contrasting classrooms in which what it meant to know and do mathematics differed significantly. The resulting analyses document the forms of agency that students can legitimately exercise in particular classrooms, together with how authority is distributed and thus to whom students are accountable, and what they are accountable for mathematically. In the final section of the article, we clarify the relation of the interpretive scheme to other current work on the identities that students are developing in mathematics classrooms.
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Trauth, Eileen M., and Leonard M. Jessup. "Understanding Computer-Mediated Discussions: Positivist and Interpretive Analyses of Group Support System Use." MIS Quarterly 24, no. 1 (March 2000): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3250979.
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Connor-Greene, Patricia A. "Observation or Interpretation? Demonstrating Unintentional Subjectivity and Interpretive Variance." Teaching of Psychology 34, no. 3 (July 2007): 167–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00986280701498541.
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People often make interpretations when they believe they are providing factual descriptions. To demonstrate unintentional interpretation, I showed a brief ambiguous video clip and asked students to write descriptions of what they saw and heard. When students evaluated their responses, they discovered that 96% of the class wrote interpretations rather than strictly factual descriptions. Furthermore, the content of students' interpretations varied widely. Analyses of a qualitative measure of 3 dimensions of student learning (subsequent behavior, success at articulating the purpose of the exercise, and self-reported personal impact) supported the effectiveness of this exercise in increasing students' understanding of unintentional interpretation.
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McGrath, Brian. "Environmentalism and Property Rights: The Mullaghmore Interpretive Centre Dispute." Irish Journal of Sociology 6, no. 1 (May 1996): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/079160359600600102.
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This article applies recent work on the relations between property rights and public policy to the recent dispute about Mullaghmore in Co. Clare. In this dispute, State policy attempted to define the Burren landscape primarily in terms of its potential to generate revenue. The protesters of the Burren Action Group, however, succeeded in redefining the issue to lake account of a more complex intersection of social, political, economic and environmental issues. The article analyses the complexities involved in this protracted process, connecting them with contemporary theories of property and its uses. Seeing the heritage industry as resources-led, it argues for a more holistic approach to the plight of rural areas.
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Melendez-Torres, G. J., A. O'Mara-Eves, J. Thomas, G. Brunton, J. Caird, and M. Petticrew. "Interpretive analysis of 85 systematic reviews suggests that narrative syntheses and meta-analyses are incommensurate in argumentation." Research Synthesis Methods 8, no. 1 (November 17, 2016): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1231.
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Levine, Sarah, and William S. Horton. "Using affective appraisal to help readers construct literary interpretations." Scientific Study of Literature 3, no. 1 (May 31, 2013): 105–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.3.1.10lev.
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Students can readily engage in summary and literal sense-making when reading poems, short stories, and other literary texts, but are often unable to construct inferences and thematic interpretations of these works. This paper discusses the results of an instructional intervention built on an affect-based model of literary interpretation. Students in the intervention group spent four weeks reading and writing about popular and canonical texts, with a focus on poetry. As they read, they identified valence-laden language, made appraisals of valence, and then explained or justified their appraisals. Analyses of pre- and post-test results show that the intervention group made significant gains in the level of interpretive responses to poems compared to a control group of students who were not explicitly taught to engage in affective appraisal. This work sheds light on ways in which affect-based interpretive strategies can support novice readers’ interpretive practices.
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Boldyrev, N. N. "GRAMMATICAL SCHEMAS OF SECONDARY LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION." Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki, no. 4 (2021): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.20916/1812-3228-2021-4-22-34.
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The author analyses grammatical forms of linguistic cognition which are used for primary and secondary interpretation of the world in the process of its mental construal in language, i.e. cognitive schemas of direct interpretation of variety of objects, events and of their characteristics as they are perceived in the world around (primary interpretation), on the one hand, and those of interpretation of previously gained and verbalized conventional knowledge about the world, on the other. He argues that structuring world and world knowledge in the processes of conceptualization and categorization is always interpretative and follows some general, or conventional, and specific, or individual, cognitive schemas. This argument is derived from the author-suggested three-member pattern of language functions, claiming ‘the interpretive function’ to be a basic one along with the cognitive and communicative functions. It is the interpretive function of language that requires a broad choice of schemas to structure the world and the world knowledge and to trigger basic processes of linguistic interpretation. Among the conventional grammatical schemas employed in these processes are certain types of concepts and categories, propositional, metaphoric, and metonymic models represented by different types of syntactic structures, simple or complex, as well as the structure of various types of texts. Individually specific can be human particular systems of conceptualization and categorization, complex propositions, newly-construed metaphors, and modified conventional schemas which are specifically represented in language.
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Gioia, Dennis A., Anne Donnellon, and Henry P. Sims. "Communication and Cognition in Appraisal: A Tale of Two Paradigms." Organization Studies 10, no. 4 (October 1989): 503–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/017084068901000403.
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This research explores the basic question: Are there shared cognitive structures (scripts) underlying common organizational events'? Linguistics and social cognition were used to fashion a framework for the interpretation and analysis of videotaped appraisal interviews, which were coded via speech act analysis and then computer-mapped to create a graphic display of each appraisal interaction. Interpretive analyses of these maps revealed a common behavioural script, which implied the existence of a consensual cognitive script for enacting the appraisal interviews. Additionally, the approach and findings of this study, which is based on an 'interpretive' research paradigm, are contrasted with a companion study (Gioia and Sims 1986), which was based on a 'positivist' paradigm. The comparison of two studies investigating the same set of events from alternative paradigmatic perspectives reveals not only convergent and divergent findings, but also suggests that when one adopts different 'lenses' with which to view ostensibly the same organizational phenomena, one simply 'sees' different things.
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Mills, Barbara J. "From the ground up. Depositional history, memory and materiality." Archaeological Dialogues 16, no. 1 (June 2009): 38–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203809002785.
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Archaeologists often take stratigraphy for granted, using it for building chronologies, recognizing various natural and cultural formation processes, and understanding relations between features and settlements. But for the last few decades there has been a subtle shift in the way that we approach stratigraphy – in terms of both the kinds of techniques that can be applied (residue analyses, micromorphology, Harris matrices and so on) and the interpretive frameworks that can be employed. Perhaps it is not stratigraphy that we are talking about per se, but rather depositional practices – the many ways in which people make and alter archaeological deposits – in addition to the different interpretive frameworks that we apply to these physical accumulations.
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Ali Ammar, Tayabba Batool Tahir, and Abdul Razaque Channa. "Identity Construction through Cultural Heritage of Folklore." Progressive Research Journal of Arts & Humanities (PRJAH) 3, no. 1 (March 3, 2021): 36–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.51872/prjah.vol3.iss1.81.
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The great diversity in Pakistani folklore is evident from the distinguishedvariety of cultural folk assets of each province of Pakistan. The current paperexplores and analyses the most popular folklores, in the genres of both proseand poetry from the perspective of quest for identity. The paper tries to findout the answer to the question if Pakistani cultural heritage of oral traditioni.e., folklores have quest for identity or go beyond that. The paper alsoexplores the motives behind the search for identity. The translated folkloresare then analyzed qualitatively using interpretive method, particularly throughthe perspective of hermeneutic-interpretive research based on performancetheory of folklores. Hermeneutic-interpretive research technique is chosenhere because the folklores are based on the ideological and cultural traditionsof a specific region, and the proper understanding requires the study in thespecific relevant domain of hermeneutics. This research is important for thepropagation, preservation and revival of Pakistani culture as presentedthrough folklores. This research aims at developing the interest and draw theattention of researchers on cultures and traditions to revive and enliven therichness and fertility of varieties in Pakistani culture
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Ladik, Daniel, Francois Carrillat, and Mark Tadajewski. "Belk’s (1988) “Possessions and the extended self” revisited." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 7, no. 2 (May 18, 2015): 184–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-06-2014-0018.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit Russell Belk’s (1988) landmark paper “Possessions and the extended self”. The authors provide a prehistory of related ideas and then examine the controversy it triggered regarding the different paradigms of research in marketing (Cohen, 1989) some 26 years ago. Design/methodology/approach – This paper takes Belk seriously when he argues that his work is a synthesis and extension of prior studies leading to the novel production of the “extended self” concept. Via a close reading of the history of self-constitution, the authors highlight a number of thinkers who were grappling with similar issues now associated in our disciplinary consciousness to the idea of the “extended self”. To assess the contribution of Belk’s work, the authors engage in citation and interpretive analyses. The first analysis compared scholarly citations of Belk (1988) with the top ten most-cited Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) papers published in the same year. The second citation analysis compared Belk (1988) to the top ten most-cited JCR papers in the history of the journal. The authors follow this with an interpretive analysis of Belk’s contribution to consumer research via his 1988 paper. Findings – Belk (1988) had the most citations (N = 934) of any paper published in JCR in 1988. When compared to all papers published in the history of JCR, Belk (1988) leads with the most overall citations. Moreover, Belk (1988) is the most prominent interpretive paper that appeared in JCR and one of the top three, regardless of paradigm. The analysis illustrates diversity in topic and methodology, thus indicating that Belk’s contribution impacted a wide variety of scholars. Interpretive analysis indicates the importance of Belk’s work for subsequently impactful consumer researchers. Originality/value – The authors offer a prehistory of the “extended self” concept by highlighting literature that many consumer researchers will not have explored previously. With citations spanning over three decades, consumer behavior scholars recognize Belk (1988) as an important paper. Our analysis reveals that contrary to received wisdom, it is not only important for interpretive researchers or scholars within the consumer culture theory, but it is significant for the entire discipline, irrespective of paradigmatic orientation. The research presented here demonstrates that Belk’s (1988) paper is arguably one of the most influential papers ever published in JCR.
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Santos, Hermilio, and Priscila Susin. "Relevance and Biographical Experience in Urban Social Research." Schutzian Research 13 (2021): 51–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/schutz2021134.
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This paper analyses how the epistemological foundation proposed by Alfred Schutz, especially his notion of system of relevance, can adequately inform interpretive social research that adopts biographical narrative interviews and the method of biographical case reconstruction. We exemplify this adequacy between Schutz’s theory and the interpretive biographical approach by exploring a research project conducted in favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We claim that social research on urban development and social inequalities can greatly benefit from this type of phenomenologically based perspective because it offers a longitudinal and in-depth understanding of individuals’ life courses and experiences in urban everyday life and how they unfold always intertwined with a wide range of different historical and cultural experiences, contexts, and meanings.
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Unsworth, Len, Alejandra Meneses, Maili Ow González, and Guillermo Castillo. "Analysing the Semiotic Potential of Typographic Resources in Picture Books in English and in Translation." International Research in Children's Literature 7, no. 2 (December 2014): 117–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2014.0127.
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Picture books frequently make use of distinctive typography to indicate emphasis or evaluative expression, distinguish particular characters and contribute to the interpretive possibilities of the narrative in a variety of ways. However, the potential significance of typography is not always taken into account in discussion of the interpretation of children's literature or in picture book translation. In this paper we investigate the influence of typography in interaction with language choices on the interpretive possibilities of Oliver Jeffers' picture book STUCK (2011) and discuss the interpretive impact of the different typography and language choices in the Spanish translation, ATRAPADOS ( Jeffers, 2012 ). Our investigation is informed by recent semiotic work on typography and accounts of evaluative resources in English, drawing on systemic functional linguistics and its application to researching the literary narrative techniques of picture books. Our analyses illuminate the relationships among the narrative genre, grammar, typography and thematic interpretation of the texts and how the latter is influenced by translation. The importance of further exploration of typography in picture books and extension to the ‘animated’ typographical resources in electronic versions of picture books is briefly noted.
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O’Toole, Leah, Claire Regan, and Agnieszka Nowak-Łojewska. "„To learn with” as an alternative voice for children’s education. Introduction to a European Project: Teaching for Holistic, Relational and Inclusive Early Childhood Education (THRIECE)." Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny 64, no. 1(251) (April 24, 2019): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.1858.
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Th e issue of the text focuses on the category of learning. The analysis of the term “learning” in the behaviouristic, humanistic and the interpretive aspects serves as a point of departure. The latter approach is exploited for further analyses in order to select the category “to learn with…”. This category is described in terms of the European Project THRIECE – Teaching for Holistic, Relational and Inclusive Early Childhood Education and presents its potential for children’s education in cognitive, emotional and social aspects.
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Deline, Mary Beth. "Framing Resistance: Identifying Frames That Guide Resistance Interpretations at Work." Management Communication Quarterly 33, no. 1 (September 14, 2018): 39–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0893318918793731.
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Programs aimed at implementing change in organizations regularly experience high failure rates. Exploring resistance to change is one promising way to better understand what might be done to improve these rates. Resistance to change has often been envisioned as employee noncompliance with one-way change messages. This study instead conceptualizes resistance as an interpretive system between implementers and employees. The project developed a grounded typology of the interpretive structures that employees and implementers used to interpret others’ behaviors as resistance or not. Four frames (or cognitive schema) that guide resistance interpretations were identified: (a) disagreeability, (b) protecting role performance, (c) conflicting stakes, and (d) habitual environment. Analyses examined patterns in these frames. This work develops a map of resistance frames that researchers studying resistance to change, communication campaigns, and implementation communication will find useful.
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Stern, Marc J., and Robert B. Powell. "What Leads to Better Visitor Outcomes in Live Interpretation?" Journal of Interpretation Research 18, no. 2 (November 2013): 9–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109258721301800202.
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We conducted a study to empirically isolate the factors that are most consistently linked with positive outcomes for the attendees of live interpretive programs. We examined the relationships between interpreter and program characteristics and three visitor outcomes—visitor satisfaction, visitor experience and appreciation, and intentions to change behaviors—across 376 programs in 24 units of the U.S. National Park Service. The analyses revealed a list of 15 characteristics associated with these outcomes across a wide range of program types and contexts. Some of these characteristics constituted commonly promoted practices in the interpretation literature (e.g., thematic communication, Tilden's principles, and appropriate organization). However, certain characteristics of the interpreter, in particular their confidence, passion, sincerity, and charisma, were also strongly correlated with positive visitor outcomes. We discuss the study's implications for both interpretive practice and future research.
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Zeyer, Albert, and Wolff-Michael Roth. "Post-ecological discourse in the making." Public Understanding of Science 22, no. 1 (February 23, 2011): 33–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662510394949.
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This article analyses the discourse of 15- to16-year-old Swiss junior high school students in order to understand public discourse on the environment and environmental protection. Discourse analysis reveals four interpretive repertoires as the building blocks for the so-called post-ecological discourse, which can be used to describe important aspects of current ways of talking about ecological issues in Europe. We show that 10 theoretically identifiable dimensions of this discourse can be understood in terms of a mutual interplay between the four interpretive repertoires. Post-ecological discourse in today’s (Swiss) society appears to be at its core a loss-of-control-discourse, which leads (in our students) to a latent eco-depression. Thus, the public understanding of science can be affected by unintended consequences of the talk itself (in this case an unintended environmental depression), that is, by the inherent characteristics of the involved repertoires, here especially the so-called folk science repertoire. Fostering public understanding of science is thus not merely a question of providing the public with scientific ‘facts’. It is also an issue of paying attention to the available discursive repertoires. If necessary, viable alternative repertoires may have to be offered. In school, for example, conversations about the nature of science, and about complexity and applied ethics might help students learn new interpretive repertoires and how to mobilize these in talking about the environment and environmental protection.
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Fink, Edward J., and Walter Gantz. "A Content Analysis of Three Mass Communication Research Traditions: Social Science, Interpretive Studies, and Critical Analysis." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 73, no. 1 (March 1996): 114–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909607300111.
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This study assessed the extent to which researchers conform to the assumptions associated with the social scientific, interpretive, and critical traditions of inquiry. For each tradition, a set of ten variables was examined: ontology, epistemology, nature of the research question, theory, hypotheses, sampling, data collection, verification, data analysis, and generalization. Content analyses of 245 journal articles indicate that researchers conform highly to expectations associated with ontology, epistemology, data collection, and data analysis, but less so with the remaining variables. These data suggest that scholars are strongly guided by the expectations associated with these traditions. Occasional deviations suggest some convergence of attributes.
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Niazi, Abdul Aziz Khan, Tehmina Fiaz Qazi, and Abdul Basit. "An Interpretive Structural Model of Barriers in Implementing Corporate Governance (CG) in Pakistan." Global Regional Review IV, no. I (March 30, 2019): 359–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(iv-i).39.
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The purpose of this study is to structure a model of relationships among barriers in the implementation of CG in Pakistan. It also points out a key barrier in embarking on the regime of CG. The design of research consists of a literature review, data collection and analyses. Modeling methodology entails ISM coupled with MICMAC. Findings revealed that “lack of investigation about the rights of minority shareholders” is the most critical barrier since this occupies the bottom of the model. Whereas, barriers namely “basic shareholders rights are not often protected, minority shareholders rights are often violated, lack of autonomy on the part of the auditors and rules requiring equity ownership disclosure are not followed” are least critical since they occupy the top of the model. MICMAC analysis revealed that three barriers fall in the independent quadrant, six in the linkage, six independent and two in autonomous. This study is helpful to regulators and corporations to successfully embark on the regime of CG.
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VanderKaay, Sandra, Bonny Jung, Lori Letts, and Sandra E. Moll. "Continuing competency in ethical decision making: An interpretive description of occupational therapists’ perspectives." Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy 86, no. 3 (May 15, 2019): 209–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008417419833842.
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Background. Competency in ethical decision making is a criterion for ethical practice, and it is expected to advance with ongoing professional development. However, research exploring continuing competency needs of occupational therapists regarding ethical decision making is limited. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to explore potential gaps and directions for development related to continuing competency in ethical decision making from the perspective of practicing occupational therapists. Method. Interpretive description informed secondary data analysis of professional narratives from a grounded theory study regarding ethical decision making. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 18 occupational therapists. Data analyses focused on identifying gaps and future directions regarding continuing competency. Findings. Two main themes regarding gaps were identified: “I didn’t have the knowledge” and “I don’t have anybody.” Education, tool development, and ethics mentorship were identified directions for development. Implications. Findings advance understanding of continuing competency needs of occupational therapists regarding ethical decision making.
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Horton, Steven V., and Thomas C. Lovitt. "A Comparison of Two Methods of Administering Group Reading Inventories to Diverse Learners." Remedial and Special Education 15, no. 6 (November 1994): 378–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/074193259401500606.
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This study examined the level of agreement between two methods of administering group reading inventories, computer and pencil and paper, leading to placing 72 secondary students, 38 males and 34 females, into three instructional groups—teacher directed, dyadic, and independent. The students, 13 with learning disabilities, 16 remedial, and 43 normally achieving, were enrolled in science and social studies classes in middle school and high school. In one condition, students read textbook passages presented on computer, completed study guides, and took 15-item tests on computer. In the other condition, the same students read passages from their textbooks, completed study guides, and took 15-item tests with pencil and paper. An equivalent time samples design was arranged, with four computer assessments and four pencil-and-pape r assessments randomly assigned. The dependent measures consisted of two types of test items, factual and interpretive. The results of group analysis significantly favored the computer overall on factual questions, with individual analyses indicating few significant differences resulting from the two types of group reading inventories. On interpretive test items, the results of group analysis revealed no significant difference between the two assessment methods, a finding generally corroborated by the individual analyses. Correlation coefficients substantiated significant positive relationships between the dependent measures and the group reading inventories. Overall, the placement of students in three instructional groups was identical for each type of group reading inventory in 72% of individual comparisons. Several recommendations for teachers are presented and discussed.
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Soni, Gunjan, Surya Prakash, Himanshu Kumar, Surya Prakash Singh, Vipul Jain, and Sukhdeep Singh Dhami. "An interpretive structural modeling of drivers and barriers of sustainable supply chain management." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 31, no. 5 (February 25, 2020): 1071–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-09-2019-0202.
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PurposeThe Indian marble and stone industry has got the potential to contribute well to the development of the emerging economy. However, unlike the other Indian industries, stone and marble industries are highly underrated sectors, which may become a critical factor for development. This paper analyses the sustainability factors in supply chain management practices.Design/methodology/approachA literature review is used to identify the barriers and drivers in sustainable supply chain management practices. Interpretive structural modeling has been used to obtain a hierarchy of barriers and drivers along with driving power and dependence power analysis. Further, MICMAC analysis is used for segregating the barriers and drivers in terms of their impact on sustainability.FindingsThe findings of the work of this research are that the attention of society, government, and commercial banks should be more toward the unorganized condition of stone and marble sector. There should be an increase in the commitment of stakeholders to reduce pollution and install safety, by enforcing more relevant laws and regulations and creating the importance of environmental awareness.Originality/valueThe main contribution of this research is to identify the barriers and drivers of sustainable supply chain management in a stone and marble industry. The paper proposes a sound mathematical model to prioritize the critical factors for responsible production and consumption of resources from sustainability perspectives of stone industry.
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Bietenbeck, Andreas, and Thomas Streichert. "Preparing Laboratories for Interconnected Health Care." Diagnostics 11, no. 8 (August 17, 2021): 1487. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11081487.
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In an increasingly interconnected health care system, laboratory medicine can facilitate diagnosis and treatment of patients effectively. This article describes necessary changes and points to potential challenges on a technical, content, and organizational level. As a technical precondition, electronic laboratory reports have to become machine-readable and interpretable. Terminologies such as Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), Nomenclature for Properties and Units (NPU), Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM), and SNOMED-CT can lead to the necessary semantic interoperability. Even if only single “atomized” results of the whole report are extracted, the necessary information for correct interpretation must be available. Therefore, interpretive comments, e.g., concerns about an increased measurement uncertainty must be electronically attached to every affected measurement result. Standardization of laboratory analyses with traceable standards and reference materials will enable knowledge transfer and safe interpretation of laboratory analyses from multiple laboratories. In an interconnected health care system, laboratories should strive to transform themselves into a data hub that not only receives samples but also extensive information about the patient. On that basis, they can return measurement results enriched with high-quality interpretive comments tailored to the individual patient and unlock the full potential of laboratory medicine.
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Li, Dana, Lea Marie Pehrson, Lea Tøttrup, Marco Fraccaro, Rasmus Bonnevie, Jakob Thrane, Peter Jagd Sørensen, et al. "Inter- and Intra-Observer Agreement When Using a Diagnostic Labeling Scheme for Annotating Findings on Chest X-rays—An Early Step in the Development of a Deep Learning-Based Decision Support System." Diagnostics 12, no. 12 (December 9, 2022): 3112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12123112.
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Consistent annotation of data is a prerequisite for the successful training and testing of artificial intelligence-based decision support systems in radiology. This can be obtained by standardizing terminology when annotating diagnostic images. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the annotation consistency among radiologists when using a novel diagnostic labeling scheme for chest X-rays. Six radiologists with experience ranging from one to sixteen years, annotated a set of 100 fully anonymized chest X-rays. The blinded radiologists annotated on two separate occasions. Statistical analyses were done using Randolph’s kappa and PABAK, and the proportions of specific agreements were calculated. Fair-to-excellent agreement was found for all labels among the annotators (Randolph’s Kappa, 0.40–0.99). The PABAK ranged from 0.12 to 1 for the two-reader inter-rater agreement and 0.26 to 1 for the intra-rater agreement. Descriptive and broad labels achieved the highest proportion of positive agreement in both the inter- and intra-reader analyses. Annotating findings with specific, interpretive labels were found to be difficult for less experienced radiologists. Annotating images with descriptive labels may increase agreement between radiologists with different experience levels compared to annotation with interpretive labels.
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Iranowska, Joanna. "One mobile app – seven art museums. A case study of Kunstporten." Nordisk Museologi 29, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nm.8443.
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As digital media change our society, museums are trying to rethink their mission and benefit from the possibilities digital tools afford. First, this article provides a historical background for the development of mobile apps as digital interpretive media in Norwegian museums between 2005 and 2020. Second, it analyses a specific case – the app Kunstporten – one of the most interesting apps to have emerged in the Norwegian cultural sector in recent years. The app was developed between 2012–2013 by seven Norwegian art museums, and the first museum app in Norway targeted explicitly at children. This small case study is based on interviews with museum educators and digital walkthroughs exploring the affordances (Gibson 1978) of Kunsporten. The article seeks to answer two questions: what have education departments learned from introducing this digital interpretive media? And why is the app more successful in some museums than others?
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Onaka, Fumiya. "Comparative Sociology of 11 to 18 Examinations in Thailand, England, and Japan." Comparative Sociology 14, no. 1 (April 29, 2015): 4–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341337.
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This study compares 11 to 18 examinations and the changes they have undergone in Thailand, England, and Japan. Using socio-cultural network analysis supported by the interpretive understanding of local newspaper articles and interview transcripts, this study will reveal a process that has not been detected by previous single-case studies. First, there are three compounds across time periods and countries. Second, the analyses of local newspapers show that there is a tendency toward interconnection among the three compounds. Third, the analyses of interview transcripts that are selected as interconnected show that this type can be found in various kinds of people, especially among education administrators and business persons. These results enable us to predict the future of examinations in these areas.
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Verhaegen, Soetkin, Claire Dupuy, and Virginie Van Ingelgom. "Experiencing and supporting institutional regionalization in Belgium: a normative and interpretive policy feedback perspective." Comparative European Politics 19, no. 2 (February 9, 2021): 248–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-020-00235-0.
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AbstractRegionalization has been a defining feature of European politics since the 1970s. Previous work has studied political drivers of the movements of competences to the subnational level, including the role of citizens’ preferences. Yet, we still know little about how these new divisions of competences between government levels have impacted the development of public opinion about this division. The article builds on the literature on policy feedback and argues that institutional regionalization may both directly and indirectly affect support for regionalization through normative and interpretive effects. To empirically qualify these expectations, the article uses eight cross sections of the Flemish and Walloon populations in Belgium (1991–2019). This approach explains differences in support for regionalization between citizens that were socialized in different institutional and regional contexts. The analyses show that Walloons who came of age in the context of more institutional regionalization tend to be more supportive of regionalization. In Flanders, in contrast, support for regionalization is most consistently and substantially explained by regional and Belgian identification. However, our analyses show no support for the expectation that coming of age in a more regionalized Belgium is associated with a greater sense of regional identification.
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De Loo, Ivo, Stuart Cooper, and Melina Manochin. "Enhancing the transparency of accounting research: the case of narrative analysis." Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 12, no. 1 (April 20, 2015): 34–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qram-02-2013-0007.
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Purpose – This paper aims to clarify what ‘narrative analysis’ may entail when it is assumed that interview accounts can be treated as (collections of) narratives. What is considered a narrative and how these may be analyzed is open to debate. After suggesting an approach of how to deal with narrative analysis, the authors critically discuss how far it might offer insights into a particular accounting case. Design/methodology/approach – After having explained what the authors’ view on narrative analysis is, and how this is linked with the extant literature, the authors examine the socialisation processes of two early career accountants that have been articulated in an interview context. Findings – The approach to narrative analysis set out in this paper could help to clarify how and why certain interpretations from an interview are generated by a researcher. The authors emphasise the importance of discussing a researcher’s process of discovery when an interpretive approach to research is adopted. Research limitations/implications – The application of any method, and what a researcher thinks can be distilled from this, depends on the research outlook he/she has. As the authors adopt an interpretive approach to research in this paper, they acknowledge that the interpretations of narratives, and what they deem to be narratives, will be infused by their own perceptions. Practical implications – The authors believe that the writing-up of qualitative research from an interpretive stance would benefit from an explicit acceptance of the equivocal nature of interpretation. The way in which they present and discuss the narrative analyses in this paper intends to bring this to the fore. Originality/value – Whenever someone says he/she engages in narrative analysis, both the “narrative” and “analysis” part of “narrative analysis” need to be explicated. The authors believe that this only happens every so often. This paper puts forward an approach of how more clarity on this might be achieved by combining two frameworks in the extant literature, so that the transparency of the research is enhanced.
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Cordeiro, Marcio Pereira, João Garibaldi Almeida Viana, and Vicente Celestino Pires Silveira. "Influence of Meso-Institutions on Milk Supply Chain Performance: A Case Study in Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil." Agriculture 12, no. 4 (March 29, 2022): 482. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12040482.
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The objective of this study was to analyze meso-institutions, and their effect on the performance of the dairy farms in the regions along the western border of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Exploratory and descriptive research was conducted using a mixed-methods approach. The data collection techniques included documentary research, interviews, self-reports, and questionnaires administered to a sample of 96 milk producers. Interpretive analysis was used to process the qualitative data, and the Mann–Whitney U test and multiple linear regression were used to analyze the quantitative data. The results of the analyses led to the identification of the meso-institutions and their role in interpreting, implementing, and monitoring rules in the milk supply chain. The findings indicated that the meso-institutions do not operate uniformly in the various milk-producing regions. The regression results indicated that effective monitoring by the meso-institutions positively influences the milk producer’s perception of performance. Therefore, to maintain the sector’s competitiveness, meso-institutions are necessary for interpreting, implementing, and monitoring the implementation of rules in the organizational arrangement in the dairy supply chain. The research brings advances in the field of knowledge of meso-institutions, a research frontier of the new institutional economics. Provide subsidies for public and private policies to consolidate the milk supply chain in emerging countries, especially highlighting the importance of meso-institutions as interlocutors between the macro level and the economic and social problems of producers.
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Basthomi, Yazid. "EXAMINING RESEARCH SPACES IN DOCTORAL PROSPECTUSES." TEFLIN Journal - A publication on the teaching and learning of English 20, no. 2 (August 29, 2015): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.15639/teflinjournal.v20i2/140-158.
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Genre analyses and contrastive rhetoric studies have dealt with quite a number of genres of writing. However, genre analysts and contrastive rhetoric researchers have not carried out adequate analyses of doctoral prospectuses. This paper will, subsequently, address this issue by analyzing a genre of texts of doctoral prospectuses. The analysis will be focused on the sub-genre of "Background of the Study" of the prospectuses. Limitations of accessibility, however, have led this study to only focus on analyzing fourteen doctoral prospectuses written in English by Indonesian students of EFL accessible from the Graduate Program, State University of Malang, Indonesia. This situation suggests that the present study is preliminary. Preliminary, notwithstanding, the study will contribute to filling the gap of the underresearched issue of doctoral studies in Indonesia, particularly, those pertinent to the area of ELT. The analysis shows a tendency that the texts of Background of the Study do not show research spaces. Relevant to this, the article provides an interpretive explanation of the possible factors attributable tothis issue.
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Barber, Michael. "Motivation and phenomenological foundation: A Schutzian response to a current dilemma in African-American studies." Philosophy & Social Criticism 45, no. 5 (November 8, 2018): 597–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453718808082.
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Two philosophical approaches are prominent in race studies: (1) an interpretive phenomenological method, utilized by Sartre, Fanon and Schutz, that describes how Blacks and non-blacks interpret each other and (2) Marxist methodologies, wielded by Sartre, Fanon and Stephen Ferguson, that investigate the economic structures underpinning race relations. Schutz’s theory of motivation accommodates these often antagonistic approaches. Future-oriented ‘in-order-to motives’ constitute a domain of lived, subjective meanings, operative in the interpretive interrelations the first method thematizes. Because motives, an ‘objective category’, include the historical, social-structural factors that the second methodologies focus on, that influence actors ‘behind their backs’ and that are discoverable to reflective observers. Further, Schutz’s situating of economic science with reference to his phenomenological psychology of the everyday lifeworld permits scientific-type analyses that provisionally omit the freedom of social actors that is, however, recovered in the subjective meaning of everyday actors that some Marxist economic reductionists neglect.
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Alshamari, Murdhy. "Derivation and Interpretation of Expressiveness Devices in North Hail Arabic: Minimalist Account." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 5 (August 30, 2020): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n5p351.
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This paper investigates the interpretive properties of what are termed expressiveness devices, characterised as clitic, pronoun and demonstrative. In what seems to be cases of multiple expression of a single argument, the proposed investigation involves generative syntactic analyses to the interaction of a set of expressiveness devices with an associate DP, accounting for their interpretation at both LF and PF interfaces (Chomsky, 1995 et seq). Exploration of a set of North Hail Arabic (henceforth, NHA) data containing expressiveness devices, all of which agree in φ-features with the associate DP, it is shown that the expressiveness devices maintain rigid order in the left periphery of the clause, each generated for certain discourse-interpretive property expressing a distinct value of information structure, through establishing an Agree relation (Chomsky, 2001) with the associate DP. Amongst the insights the analyses show is that NHA allows for multiple probes agreeing with a single goal. In this way, a probing head probes through another c-commanded probing head, in which case the goal is visible to the upper probing head. Movement is therefore shown to be triggered in case where goal’s visibility, related to feature valuation, is not available, hence, movement presupposes agreement.
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Ingram, Keisha LaRaine. "Competitiveness of the Shared Economy Model for Sustainable Management of Logistics Systems." Applied Business: Issues & Solutions 1 (August 31, 2022): 10–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.57005/ab.2022.1.2.
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This paper analyses the shared economy model to sustainably manage the tangible and in- tangible resources of logistics systems. A critical review of literature on the current supply chain management policy and technological platform in current use that supports it was done to suggest a new conceptual framework for logistics processes' sustainable management on a shared economy platform. This was examined according to how the concepts of new technologies influence logistics and the role of sustainable management platforms of the shared economy in enabling greater improved logistics processes. The inductive methodology approach was applied using multi-criteria analysis interpretive research method. The impact of the shared business model on each stakeholder and beneficiary varies according to how resources are consumed and its adoption according to the core business models requirements of each. Current scientific literature does not identify the impact this phenomenon has on companies in different sectors, as there is a lack of detailed analysis and evidence to fill this gap, particularly as the Internet of Things (IoT) monetize digital assets autonomously through the Economy of Things (EoT) marketplaces. From the analysis conducted, the findings provide a concept of the prototype framework required for the shared economy in the e-logistics' ecosystems rather than traditional ones, modelled using multi-criteria analysis interpretive methods as a strategic resource within the shared economy of supply chain management systems.